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She skated the ramps at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954041/teens-helped-save-this-historic-bay-area-theater-by-making-it-their-own\">Phoenix Theater\u003c/a>, a downtown music venue and teen hangout, and got involved with skate contests put on by the California Amateur Skateboard League, even though they required long car rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An admirer of Brazilian-American skater Bob Burnquist and his skating style, Stess entered more amateur contests, winning her first by the time she turned eight. She turned pro around age 11, and soon started making appearances at some of the biggest contests around: the Dew Tour, the X Games and the USA National Championships. Along the way, she found herself drawn to park skating, a discipline which combines multiple styles like bowl, street and vert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like airing out of things and flying high,” Stess says. “Park is definitely my favorite. I prefer it to literally everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minna Stess, 18, poses for a portrait at her home in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. Stess is headed to the 2024 Summer Olympics to represent the U.S in women’s skateboarding. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Kickflipping Her Way to the Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Her career continued to take flight, too, as Stess was chosen for the USA Skateboarding Women’s Park National Team in 2019. In 2021, she won the USA National Championships’ Women’s Park competition, becoming its youngest champion at age 15. And though she didn’t get to compete, Stess was named as an alternate for Team USA in the 2021 Olympic games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stess’ path to the Olympics has been one filled with epic highs and lows. One of the lows came in May, when she entered an Olympic qualifier in Shanghai, China, and fell during all three of her runs. It was something she’d never done before, she tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Okay, I can’t do that again,’” says Stess. “I kind of like, cracked under pressure, I guess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961527\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S Olympic Skateboarder Minna Stess holds up her skateboard with slide marks in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her final Olympic Qualifier Series contest was held last month in Budapest, Hungary, and it quickly became just as nerve-wracking as her experience in Shanghai. She fell during her first two runs, and was feeling the pressure with just one run left. “I couldn’t watch anyone skate. I was like, pacing in circles,” reflecting back on her runs, she says. She had the support of the crowd and her competitors, though, who cheered loudly for her right before that fateful final run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even the Brazilians were hyped,” she says. “And if the Brazilians are cheering for you, you know you did something right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She made it through her final run without falling, and even though her score wasn’t as high as she’d hoped, it was enough. Stess had punched her ticket to Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961547\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-768x508.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-1536x1015.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-1920x1269.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S Olympic Skateboarder Minna Stess poses for a photo with her parents Andrew and Moniz at their home in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Family Affair\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For the duration of the Games, Stess will stay at the Olympic Village, sharing a room with a member of the street skating team. Her family will be close by in case she needs an escape; her parents, thinking ahead, booked a four-bedroom Paris home eight months ago for themselves, Stess’ brother, her uncle, her aunt and even her 87-year-old grandma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never plan this far ahead for anything,” says her mother, Moniz Stess. Due to skateboarding’s very on-the-fly nature, she explains, it’s hard to plan lodging and plane tickets in advance. They waited to book their plane tickets until Stess knew whether or not she was Olympics-bound, but they still booked the house, just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13899344']It was a hunch that paid off, and Stess’ parents couldn’t be more proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I drive Minna crazy using the word ‘journey,’ but it has been just that,” says her father, Andrew Stess. “It–” his voice breaks a little. “I can’t talk about it without getting teary-eyed. You see your kid loves something, and you want to–”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just then, his face suddenly softens as he spots Stess, who’s been half-tuned in from the other side of the skatepark. “She’s laughing at me,” he smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961545\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minna Stess, 18, takes a break from skating at her home in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. Stess will compete in the 2024 Summer Olympics, representing the U.S in women’s skateboarding. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Staying ‘In the Moment’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stess’ family has always been extremely supportive of her career, and have managed to find routine amidst the hectic nature of pro contest skating. “People probably thought we were nuts with, you know, us hopping in the car on weekends and driving the kids wherever, to go to whatever contest,” says Moniz. “But skateboarding for us is just normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stess, too, has learned to balance staying competitive while also avoiding burnout. “I’m lucky, because I live in Petaluma, and most of the skating stuff is down in Southern California,” she says. “It’s kind of like going back and forth between two worlds.” Her friends, too, are a big source of support. Some are skaters like her, others don’t skate at all. “Being with them is kind of like a refresher,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13931352']With the days counting down to her Olympic preliminary contest, the skater feels confident both mentally and physically. “I definitely feel better than I did when I got back from Budapest,” she says. “I’m excited to go.” As for how she processes all the emotions that come from being a pro athlete on the world stage, “I try not to think of the consequences of things and just like, be in the moment,” she tells me. “You want to land your run, but sometimes you gotta realize like, not everything’s going to go right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask if she’s prepared her runs yet, but she knows anything she plans on paper will likely have to be tweaked once she gets a feel for the park firsthand. For now, she’s looking forward to watching the street skaters practice and doing a bit of \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-olympics-i-traded-pins-with-simone-biles\">Olympic pin trading\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has one other hope, too. Her Olympic Village roommate had to buy blinds for their dorm, and they apparently keep falling down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I hope they stay up,” Stess says, “so I can get a good night’s sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Minna Stess competes in the \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/skateboarding/women-s-park?day=6-august\">Olympic Skateboarding Women’s Park Preliminaries on Tuesday, Aug. 6\u003c/a>. The event will be broadcast at 3:30 a.m. Pacific Time. The Women’s Final airs at 8:30 a.m. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>From the street, Minna Stess’ Petaluma home fits right in with the other houses on the block. Sitting in her backyard on a sunny Monday afternoon, dressed in a black T-shirt and shorts, purple socks and Vans, the 18-year-old looks like almost any other suburban skate kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s just one difference: Stess is about to fly to Paris to compete in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993783/paris-2024-olympic-games-san-francisco-bay-area-athletes-competing\">the 2024 Olympics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Paris, Stess will represent the United States in skateboarding, which became an Olympic sport just four years ago. To vie for the gold on the U.S. women’s team on a relatively new Olympic field, and on a global stage no less, the stakes couldn’t be higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961525\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S Olympic Skateboarder Minna Stess, 18, skates in her Petaluma backyard on July 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And yet when I meet with her, 24 hours before she gets on an airplane for the biggest competition of her young career, Stess remains easygoing and calm. Nonchalant, even. After all, she says, no matter how hard she tries, she can’t remember a time when she didn’t skate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Turning Pro at 11\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stess’ backyard is no ordinary backyard. The majority of it is taken up by a custom-built mini-skatepark, built in 2012. Back then, its three-foot transitions were plenty high for six-year-old Stess. Wanting to copy her older brother Finnley, she’d gotten into skating four years earlier, around age 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting on a bench seat on the backyard deck, Stess tells me her parents had a wooden ramp put in before the concrete park, but they got tired of throwing tarps over it every time it rained. The family celebrated the new concrete park’s completion by stepping their feet into the wet concrete before it dried. You can still see Stess’ tiny, classic Vans imprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961550\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-40_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S Olympic Skateboarder Minna Stess’s shoe imprints (at left) at her home in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Having her own backyard park was an asset in a city that didn’t have many skateparks while Stess was growing up. She skated the ramps at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954041/teens-helped-save-this-historic-bay-area-theater-by-making-it-their-own\">Phoenix Theater\u003c/a>, a downtown music venue and teen hangout, and got involved with skate contests put on by the California Amateur Skateboard League, even though they required long car rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An admirer of Brazilian-American skater Bob Burnquist and his skating style, Stess entered more amateur contests, winning her first by the time she turned eight. She turned pro around age 11, and soon started making appearances at some of the biggest contests around: the Dew Tour, the X Games and the USA National Championships. Along the way, she found herself drawn to park skating, a discipline which combines multiple styles like bowl, street and vert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like airing out of things and flying high,” Stess says. “Park is definitely my favorite. I prefer it to literally everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-7_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minna Stess, 18, poses for a portrait at her home in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. Stess is headed to the 2024 Summer Olympics to represent the U.S in women’s skateboarding. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Kickflipping Her Way to the Olympics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Her career continued to take flight, too, as Stess was chosen for the USA Skateboarding Women’s Park National Team in 2019. In 2021, she won the USA National Championships’ Women’s Park competition, becoming its youngest champion at age 15. And though she didn’t get to compete, Stess was named as an alternate for Team USA in the 2021 Olympic games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stess’ path to the Olympics has been one filled with epic highs and lows. One of the lows came in May, when she entered an Olympic qualifier in Shanghai, China, and fell during all three of her runs. It was something she’d never done before, she tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Okay, I can’t do that again,’” says Stess. “I kind of like, cracked under pressure, I guess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961527\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MINNASTESS_GC-41-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S Olympic Skateboarder Minna Stess holds up her skateboard with slide marks in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her final Olympic Qualifier Series contest was held last month in Budapest, Hungary, and it quickly became just as nerve-wracking as her experience in Shanghai. She fell during her first two runs, and was feeling the pressure with just one run left. “I couldn’t watch anyone skate. I was like, pacing in circles,” reflecting back on her runs, she says. She had the support of the crowd and her competitors, though, who cheered loudly for her right before that fateful final run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even the Brazilians were hyped,” she says. “And if the Brazilians are cheering for you, you know you did something right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She made it through her final run without falling, and even though her score wasn’t as high as she’d hoped, it was enough. Stess had punched her ticket to Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961547\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-768x508.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-1536x1015.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-12_qed-1920x1269.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S Olympic Skateboarder Minna Stess poses for a photo with her parents Andrew and Moniz at their home in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Family Affair\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For the duration of the Games, Stess will stay at the Olympic Village, sharing a room with a member of the street skating team. Her family will be close by in case she needs an escape; her parents, thinking ahead, booked a four-bedroom Paris home eight months ago for themselves, Stess’ brother, her uncle, her aunt and even her 87-year-old grandma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never plan this far ahead for anything,” says her mother, Moniz Stess. Due to skateboarding’s very on-the-fly nature, she explains, it’s hard to plan lodging and plane tickets in advance. They waited to book their plane tickets until Stess knew whether or not she was Olympics-bound, but they still booked the house, just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It was a hunch that paid off, and Stess’ parents couldn’t be more proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I drive Minna crazy using the word ‘journey,’ but it has been just that,” says her father, Andrew Stess. “It–” his voice breaks a little. “I can’t talk about it without getting teary-eyed. You see your kid loves something, and you want to–”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just then, his face suddenly softens as he spots Stess, who’s been half-tuned in from the other side of the skatepark. “She’s laughing at me,” he smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961545\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/20240722_MinnaStess_GC-2_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minna Stess, 18, takes a break from skating at her home in Petaluma on July 22, 2024. Stess will compete in the 2024 Summer Olympics, representing the U.S in women’s skateboarding. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Staying ‘In the Moment’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stess’ family has always been extremely supportive of her career, and have managed to find routine amidst the hectic nature of pro contest skating. “People probably thought we were nuts with, you know, us hopping in the car on weekends and driving the kids wherever, to go to whatever contest,” says Moniz. “But skateboarding for us is just normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stess, too, has learned to balance staying competitive while also avoiding burnout. “I’m lucky, because I live in Petaluma, and most of the skating stuff is down in Southern California,” she says. “It’s kind of like going back and forth between two worlds.” Her friends, too, are a big source of support. Some are skaters like her, others don’t skate at all. “Being with them is kind of like a refresher,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As a Gen-X kid, I have to admit there was particular poignancy to the news that, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/03/1084303033/hollywood-refuses-to-open-biggest-films-in-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Russia isn’t getting \u003cem>The Batman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s part of a much, much bigger and more important story, of course—several much, much bigger, much more important stories. NPR’s Anastasia Tsioulcas has reported on many \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2022/03/03/1084246378/arts-organizations-putin-supporters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">severed relationships in arts\u003c/a> in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909903']Most of these have been attributed not simply to being Russian in and of itself, but to ties to Putin, or to a refusal to repudiate him—and to funding that comes from the Russian government. Some artists have\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/28/1083496491/russian-performers-speak-out-putin-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> actively spoken against him\u003c/a> and against the invasion, but many have not. It’s in opera, it’s in classical concerts, but it’s affecting other things, too: Russia is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1083095335/eurovision-russia-banned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not being permitted to participate in \u003cem>Eurovision\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, where it debuted in 1994. Western musicians have been\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/02/1083981946/live-nation-entertainment-is-ceasing-business-with-russia-and-acts-cancel-dates-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> canceling Russian dates\u003c/a> ever since the war started. As Elizabeth Blair has reported,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/01/1083694731/u-s-russian-cultural-organizations-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Russian cultural organizations inside the U.S.\u003c/a> are anxious about possible effects on their own work.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Connections to Russia were once optimistic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>These boycotts are perhaps even more jarring if you remember past periods in which pop culture tried to paint a picture of deliberate, optimistic, post-Cold-War thaw. In the 1980s, particularly in the wake of the policies of glasnost and perestroika in the former Soviet Union—which encouraged openness and reform—artists went to places they wouldn’t have gone ten or even five years before. It was in 1987, 35 years ago this July, that Billy Joel brought a big pop-rock show to Leningrad and Moscow; 1989 when Billy Crystal traveled to find his Russian relatives in an HBO special called \u003cem>Midnight Train to Moscow\u003c/em>. That year also brought the Moscow Music Peace Festival, with Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, and Bon Jovi among the performers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/ap8908120226_custom-6b2dd48ee765ba6851550e657cdf4d6ea52753b6-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"An enthusiastic crowd sings along at a stadium concert, including one young woman on someone's shoulders, arms raised in joy.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, and Ozzy Osbourne played at the Moscow Music Peace Festival in August, 1989. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Robert Toning)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the time, all these things were presented through a lens of, for lack of a better word, a goal of international—and intentional—\u003cem>friendship\u003c/em>. Joel’s bond with an enthusiastic fan and circus clown named Viktor became one of the centerpieces of the\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0392424/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> documentary\u003c/a> about his trip and the basis for a later song called “Leningrad.” (“We never knew what friends we had until we came to Leningrad.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Putin became president in 2000, some of these events continued. Paul McCartney played in Red Square in 2003 and met with Putin personally. Putin\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/dec/14/popandrock.paulmccartney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> came to the show\u003c/a>. Even the popularity of the FX drama series \u003cem>The Americans\u003c/em>, which portrayed the Cold War through the eyes of KGB spies who felt just as righteous in their cause as Americans did in theirs, arguably continued this tradition of pop culture as pushing back against simplistic and antagonistic narratives of decades past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now all this.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Even Levi’s has halted sales in Russia\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This severance of sometimes longstanding relationships isn’t only happening in the arts. It’s happening just as rapidly in sports, both in the real world and virtually. Russian athletes were barred from the Paralympic Games by the International Olympic Committee. FIFA has banned Russian teams from participating in its soccer matches. Russian teams have even been removed from the popular FIFA 22 video game, and may be removed from other games, too. President Vladimir Putin is seeing symbolic ties to sports withdrawn:\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/2022/03/07/ukraine-russia-nuclear-plants-humanitarian#international-judo-federation-strips-putin-of-his-honorary-titles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The International Judo Federation\u003c/a> stripped Putin of honorary titles in that sport, and World Taekwondo withdrew an honorary black belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909675']Businesses that one might paint into a mural representing American consumerism have been suspending business in Russia: McDonald’s, Coke, Pepsi, Starbucks, Disney. Wall Street saw its first big withdrawal when\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2022-03-10#goldman-sachs-is-the-1st-major-wall-street-bank-to-pull-out-of-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Goldman Sachs\u003c/a> stopped operating there, and while that’s an economic move, it feels culturally significant, too. Hollywood studios, major music companies, all ceasing business in Russia—there are even ramifications for sales of one of the items that has often been referenced as a go-to symbol of American cultural presence in other countries:\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/2022/03/07/ukraine-russia-nuclear-plants-humanitarian#levis-halts-sales-in-russia-evoking-cold-war-scrambles-for-blue-jeans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> blue jeans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The impact of cultural boycotts\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Does all this matter? It probably depends on what you mean by “matter.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/03/ukraine-russia-culture-boycott-putin/623873/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As Yasmeen Serhan wrote in \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em> earlier this month:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It’s easy to see cultural boycotts as more of a symbolic act than a serious threat to Moscow’s geopolitical standing. But by suspending Russia from the world’s largest sporting and cultural arenas, these institutions are sending a clear—and, for Putin, potentially damaging—message: If Russia acts beyond the bounds of the rules-based international order in Ukraine, it will be treated as an outsider by the rest of the world.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The idea of culture and sports as stand-ins for the current political climate is obviously not new. I was an enthusiastic Olympics-watching kid during the boycott by the United States of the Moscow Summer Olympics in 1980 and the Soviet Union’s boycott of the Los Angeles Summer Olympics in 1984, both of which\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93334099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> cost athletes dearly\u003c/a>, and both of which carried a heaviness, a sense of a hostile closed door that was consistent with the political rhetoric of the time. And in the last couple of years, the controversies around Russian athletes in the Olympics and the workaround under which sanctions for doping meant they couldn’t compete for Russia but only for the “Russian Olympic Committee” brought out some of the grumbling that has soured international competition in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it goes back much farther than that: In the documentary about his trip to Russia, Billy Joel says he was inspired to go partly because he remembered how important it felt to him when he was young and American pianist\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87807262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Van Cliburn won\u003c/a> the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958. Joel says in the film that the event, and Russia’s embrace of Cliburn, changed his own sense of the country and its people, whom he felt he’d been taught to fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910588\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/ap290362078513_custom-4d83bf923b7ffd8c62022f550410d56d0a804b43-800x637.jpg\" alt=\"A young man, wearing a tuxedo, sits at a grand Steinway piano.\" width=\"800\" height=\"637\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pianist Van Cliburn performing in the final round of Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow in 1958. Cliburn’s triumph helped thaw the Cold War. \u003ccite>(AP Photo, file)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These crossovers of diplomacy and art can be fortuitous or commercial, but they can also be fully orchestrated by governments, and they can be complicated for the artists involved: the U.S. State Department\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/05/608802931/-the-jazz-ambassadors-cold-war-diplomacy-and-civil-rights-in-conflict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> sent jazz musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong\u003c/a>, around the world in the 1950s to present a positive image of the United States, even as the country utterly failed to treat them equally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The world has always done this—used culture and sports to communicate over and past and through and around politics and aggression—and the question of how important that is, and how productive it is, recurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The efficacy of cultural sanctions certainly remains an open question; Serhan argues that because of the particular shape of his chosen image, Putin will be far more personally bothered and functionally threatened by sports sanctions than by ones in the arts. But she says this, too: “If ordinary Russians can no longer enjoy many of the activities they love, including things as quotidian as watching their soccer teams play in international matches, seeing the latest films, and enjoying live concerts, their tolerance for their government’s isolationist policies will diminish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>By now, Russians have gotten used to global connections\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If that’s so, it may turn out that openness—not just concerts in the 1980s, but the growing presence of Hollywood films and the vibrancy of international competition in sports—is not just a cyclical opposite of this period of retraction we’ve so rapidly entered, but a logical predecessor to it. The idea of depriving ordinary Russians, as Serhan says, of sports and Hollywood films and live concerts by international performers would not be a potent threat had they not come to expect access to those things in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13910742']In other words, if bands weren’t going to Russia, if world sports leagues weren’t thriving, if Hollywood movies weren’t earning big money from big audiences in Russia, these arts and sports sanctions would be empty. If you’re not part of\u003cem> Eurovision\u003c/em>, you can’t be excluded from \u003cem>Eurovision\u003c/em>. If people don’t have expectations of a relatively open cultural and sports world, they can’t be disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is not the way this openness was pitched in the pop culture of the 1980s and 1990s, as something that might be withdrawn later as a result of an invasion; it was pitched as hope, as comity, and as perhaps a permanent realignment. And as a wildly naive teenager, I did find the idea that anyone could rock out at a concert transformative, capable of papering over what remained deep and troubling problems in world affairs that existed in both my own country and others. Even in 1987, Joel was asked whether he was afraid that his visit would be used as cover for human rights issues. His response, so familiar to people who have watched artists navigate these issues, was that he was not a politician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br1Ddw0tNAM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will likely be—there will hopefully be—at some time in the future, brought about by different conditions and an end to the war, another newsworthy return to Moscow for an American pop artist. There will be another reopening, another thaw in this cycle. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Most of these have been attributed not simply to being Russian in and of itself, but to ties to Putin, or to a refusal to repudiate him—and to funding that comes from the Russian government. Some artists have\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/28/1083496491/russian-performers-speak-out-putin-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> actively spoken against him\u003c/a> and against the invasion, but many have not. It’s in opera, it’s in classical concerts, but it’s affecting other things, too: Russia is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1083095335/eurovision-russia-banned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not being permitted to participate in \u003cem>Eurovision\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, where it debuted in 1994. Western musicians have been\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/02/1083981946/live-nation-entertainment-is-ceasing-business-with-russia-and-acts-cancel-dates-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> canceling Russian dates\u003c/a> ever since the war started. As Elizabeth Blair has reported,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/01/1083694731/u-s-russian-cultural-organizations-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Russian cultural organizations inside the U.S.\u003c/a> are anxious about possible effects on their own work.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Connections to Russia were once optimistic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>These boycotts are perhaps even more jarring if you remember past periods in which pop culture tried to paint a picture of deliberate, optimistic, post-Cold-War thaw. In the 1980s, particularly in the wake of the policies of glasnost and perestroika in the former Soviet Union—which encouraged openness and reform—artists went to places they wouldn’t have gone ten or even five years before. It was in 1987, 35 years ago this July, that Billy Joel brought a big pop-rock show to Leningrad and Moscow; 1989 when Billy Crystal traveled to find his Russian relatives in an HBO special called \u003cem>Midnight Train to Moscow\u003c/em>. That year also brought the Moscow Music Peace Festival, with Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, and Bon Jovi among the performers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/ap8908120226_custom-6b2dd48ee765ba6851550e657cdf4d6ea52753b6-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"An enthusiastic crowd sings along at a stadium concert, including one young woman on someone's shoulders, arms raised in joy.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, and Ozzy Osbourne played at the Moscow Music Peace Festival in August, 1989. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Robert Toning)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the time, all these things were presented through a lens of, for lack of a better word, a goal of international—and intentional—\u003cem>friendship\u003c/em>. Joel’s bond with an enthusiastic fan and circus clown named Viktor became one of the centerpieces of the\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0392424/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> documentary\u003c/a> about his trip and the basis for a later song called “Leningrad.” (“We never knew what friends we had until we came to Leningrad.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Hollywood studios, major music companies, all ceasing business in Russia—there are even ramifications for sales of one of the items that has often been referenced as a go-to symbol of American cultural presence in other countries:\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/2022/03/07/ukraine-russia-nuclear-plants-humanitarian#levis-halts-sales-in-russia-evoking-cold-war-scrambles-for-blue-jeans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> blue jeans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The impact of cultural boycotts\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Does all this matter? It probably depends on what you mean by “matter.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/03/ukraine-russia-culture-boycott-putin/623873/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As Yasmeen Serhan wrote in \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em> earlier this month:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It’s easy to see cultural boycotts as more of a symbolic act than a serious threat to Moscow’s geopolitical standing. But by suspending Russia from the world’s largest sporting and cultural arenas, these institutions are sending a clear—and, for Putin, potentially damaging—message: If Russia acts beyond the bounds of the rules-based international order in Ukraine, it will be treated as an outsider by the rest of the world.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The idea of culture and sports as stand-ins for the current political climate is obviously not new. I was an enthusiastic Olympics-watching kid during the boycott by the United States of the Moscow Summer Olympics in 1980 and the Soviet Union’s boycott of the Los Angeles Summer Olympics in 1984, both of which\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93334099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> cost athletes dearly\u003c/a>, and both of which carried a heaviness, a sense of a hostile closed door that was consistent with the political rhetoric of the time. And in the last couple of years, the controversies around Russian athletes in the Olympics and the workaround under which sanctions for doping meant they couldn’t compete for Russia but only for the “Russian Olympic Committee” brought out some of the grumbling that has soured international competition in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it goes back much farther than that: In the documentary about his trip to Russia, Billy Joel says he was inspired to go partly because he remembered how important it felt to him when he was young and American pianist\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87807262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Van Cliburn won\u003c/a> the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958. 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She took home gold in the 400-meter freestyle in her first three Games, and is looking to medal again in that event on Aug. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TTCIZjA8qc\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The six athletes responsible for legendary podium sweeps in Rio are back\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>U.S. athletes swept the podium three times in 2016: track stars McFadden, Amanda McGrory and Chelsea McClammer did twice, and Allysa Seely, Hailey Danz (nee Danisewicz) and Melissa Stockwell took all the medals in the inaugural paratriathlon event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All six are gearing up again for competition in Tokyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13901754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13901754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Hailey Danz (nee Danisewicz), Allysa Seely and Melissa Stockwell pose for photographers after sweeping the first three places in the women's triathlon PT2 at Fort Copacabana during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games on Sept. 11, 2016, in Brazil.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hailey Danz (nee Danisewicz), Allysa Seely and Melissa Stockwell pose for photographers after sweeping the first three places in the women’s triathlon PT2 at Fort Copacabana during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games on Sept. 11, 2016, in Brazil. \u003ccite>(Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Seasoned athletes are competing in new events this summer\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.teamusa.org/News/2021/August/21/History-Milestones-And-Medals-The-Team-USA-Paralympians-Leading-The-Way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twelve U.S. athletes\u003c/a> have competed in more than one Paralympic sport. Several are competing in new events this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendall Gretsch, a two-time Paralympic gold medalist in Nordic skiing, will compete with the U.S. paratriathlon team in Tokyo—alongside Brad Snyder, the legendary swimmer with five Paralympic gold medals in that sport. Snyder’s race is Aug. 28 and Gretsch’s is the following day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oksana Masters won a bronze medal in rowing in 2012, then seven more medals as a cross-country skier and biathlete. These are her second games as a handcyclist, and she hopes it will be her first medal in the sport. (Team USA notes that the only other U.S. athlete with three sports to their name is cross-country skier, biathlete and marathoner Aaron Pike—who is also her boyfriend.) \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2021-08-24#meet-olympic-power-couple-hunter-woodhall-and-tara-davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">There’s more than one power couple at this Olympics\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, U.S. athlete Blake Haxton will compete in two sports: rowing (as he did in Rio 2016) and sprint canoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2021-08-24#what-you-need-to-know-about-team-usa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more about Team USA here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story originally appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2021-08-24#some-of-the-paralympic-events-and-athletes-to-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> live blog\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Tokyo Paralympic Games are officially underway, and will run until Sept. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopefully you’ve gotten a glimpse of the opening ceremony—and if not, you can catch it again at 7 p.m. Tuesday on NBCSN, which will lead into live event coverage. All told, the Games will feature 539 events across 22 sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what should you be tuning into over the next dozen days? \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/all-sports/paralympic-schedule.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here’s the full schedule\u003c/a>, and a couple suggestions of events and athletes to watch:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Badminton and Taekwondo make their Paralympic debut\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>These are the first Games to include \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2021-08-24#badminton-and-taekwondo-make-their-paralympic-debut-in-tokyo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">badminton and taekwondo\u003c/a>, which is the Paralympics’ first full-contact sport ever. Badminton events start on Sept. 1, with medal events beginning Sept. 4. You can catch taekwondo starting on Sept. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Six-time Paralympian Tatyana McFadden will hit the track\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13901753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13901753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-1233527051-8c9477941cad6336ca1331ad0561cad832c82bce-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tatyana McFadden, center, and Jenna Fesemyer of the United States compete in the Women's 5000 Meter Run T53/54 Wheelchair final during the 2021 U.S. Paralympic Trials at Breck High School on June 18, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tatyana McFadden, center, and Jenna Fesemyer of the United States compete in the Women’s 5000 Meter Run T53/54 Wheelchair final during the 2021 U.S. Paralympic Trials at Breck High School on June 18, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. \u003ccite>( David Berding/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Team USA calls McFadden its “undisputed queen of the track.” The wheelchair racer is a 17-time medalist in several events, including Nordic skiing in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while she’s won many of the world’s Marathon Major races, she hasn’t yet claimed a Paralympic gold medal. She’ll be trying for it on Sept. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Highly-decorated U.S. swimmer Jessica Long looks to medal again\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Long has racked up 23 career medals since her Paralympic debut in 2004 (at age 12), \u003ca href=\"https://www.teamusa.org/News/2021/August/23/What-To-Watch-For-And-How-To-Watch-The-Paralympic-Games-Tokyo-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Team USA notes\u003c/a>. She took home gold in the 400-meter freestyle in her first three Games, and is looking to medal again in that event on Aug. 31.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/0TTCIZjA8qc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/0TTCIZjA8qc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>The six athletes responsible for legendary podium sweeps in Rio are back\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>U.S. athletes swept the podium three times in 2016: track stars McFadden, Amanda McGrory and Chelsea McClammer did twice, and Allysa Seely, Hailey Danz (nee Danisewicz) and Melissa Stockwell took all the medals in the inaugural paratriathlon event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All six are gearing up again for competition in Tokyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13901754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13901754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Hailey Danz (nee Danisewicz), Allysa Seely and Melissa Stockwell pose for photographers after sweeping the first three places in the women's triathlon PT2 at Fort Copacabana during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games on Sept. 11, 2016, in Brazil.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/gettyimages-602404478-2a0112d2b49257cbfa72b33770e72e913d4240a9-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hailey Danz (nee Danisewicz), Allysa Seely and Melissa Stockwell pose for photographers after sweeping the first three places in the women’s triathlon PT2 at Fort Copacabana during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games on Sept. 11, 2016, in Brazil. \u003ccite>(Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Seasoned athletes are competing in new events this summer\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.teamusa.org/News/2021/August/21/History-Milestones-And-Medals-The-Team-USA-Paralympians-Leading-The-Way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twelve U.S. athletes\u003c/a> have competed in more than one Paralympic sport. Several are competing in new events this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendall Gretsch, a two-time Paralympic gold medalist in Nordic skiing, will compete with the U.S. paratriathlon team in Tokyo—alongside Brad Snyder, the legendary swimmer with five Paralympic gold medals in that sport. Snyder’s race is Aug. 28 and Gretsch’s is the following day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oksana Masters won a bronze medal in rowing in 2012, then seven more medals as a cross-country skier and biathlete. These are her second games as a handcyclist, and she hopes it will be her first medal in the sport. (Team USA notes that the only other U.S. athlete with three sports to their name is cross-country skier, biathlete and marathoner Aaron Pike—who is also her boyfriend.) \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2021-08-24#meet-olympic-power-couple-hunter-woodhall-and-tara-davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">There’s more than one power couple at this Olympics\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, U.S. athlete Blake Haxton will compete in two sports: rowing (as he did in Rio 2016) and sprint canoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2021-08-24#what-you-need-to-know-about-team-usa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more about Team USA here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story originally appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/morning-edition-2021-08-24#some-of-the-paralympic-events-and-athletes-to-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> live blog\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>Like so many things connected to this year’s often-troubled Tokyo Olympics, NBCUniversal’s final viewership figures for its TV and streaming coverage have a definite good news/bad news quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news trumpeted by NBC: 17 nights of prime time coverage on the broadcast network ranked just behind \u003cem>Sunday Night Football\u003c/em> as the second-most-watched show of the 2020-21 TV season. Viewers streamed a record 5.5 billion minutes of events across social media and online platforms such as NBCOlympics.com, the NBC Sports app and the streaming service Peacock. Those figures make the Tokyo Games the most-streamed Olympics ever, giving Peacock its best two weeks of use since it debuted in April 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13900276']But there’s also bad news. The average prime time viewership each night across all of its platforms—online, cable and network—was just 15.5 million people, down from an average 26.7 million viewers for the Rio Games in 2016. That’s a 42% plunge. Similarly, just 150 million Americans watched the Games, compared with 198 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2016/08/23/491024790/nbc-declares-rio-a-media-success-though-tv-ratings-were-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who saw the events in Rio\u003c/a>. It was the lowest average primetime viewership for the Games on NBC, which began broadcasting the Summer Olympics in 1988.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figures show the uptick in viewing online doesn’t match the loss in audience on more traditional outlets such as cable TV and the broadcast network, though it does mirror the overall ratings drop for broadcast and cable TV in general over the past five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, NBC insists in its press materials that the Tokyo Olympics represent the largest media event in history. That’s largely due to the amount of material NBCUniversal presented across its assorted platforms—a record 7,000 hours of coverage across the broadcast network, cable channels like USA and Telemundo Deportes, and online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No single property has a greater positive effect on our company,” says Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBCUniversal television and streaming, in a statement. “Our Olympic presentation has provided unmatched promotion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Historic amount of coverage leads to confusion\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-08-06/tokyo-olympics-2021-nbc-peacock-how-to-fix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">critics complained\u003c/a> that the company didn’t do a great job helping viewers sort through the sometimes-overwhelming amount of coverage, especially regarding live events. 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"content": "\u003cp>The fascinating American playwright Lucas Hnath’s \u003cem>Red Speedo\u003c/em>, receiving its Bay Area premiere at Center Rep in Walnut Creek under Markus Potter’s scalpel-sharp direction, captures a strange quality about ethical thinking — it helps to not have any. Ethics, that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an awful proposition, and one we resist throughout the play’s lurid, 80-minute sprint to hell, even as scene after scene unfolds to demonstrate otherwise. In that, \u003cem>Red Speedo\u003c/em> is of the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hnath has a gift for burrowing into experiences containing an electric sense of reality. There’s a vivid stickiness to his characters and the situations that he puts them through. In \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/02/14/the-christians-isnt-so-much-a-play-as-a-strange-brilliant-sermon/\">\u003cem>The Christians\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (at the SF Playhouse last year), a sedate, Protestant church service becomes the unlikely scene for a rueful accounting of a pastor’s troubled marriage. Here, it’s a swimming club’s locker room on the eve of the Olympic trials that serves as the springboard for a brutal disquisition on the nature of sacrifice and identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13824150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13824150\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-800x444.jpg\" alt=\"(L to R) Ray listens to his older brother Peter explain the complexities of the swimming business to him in 'Red Speedo' by Lucas Hnath.\" width=\"800\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-800x444.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-768x426.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-1020x566.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-960x533.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-672x372.jpg 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-240x133.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-375x208.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-520x288.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L to R) Ray listens to his older brother Peter explain the complexities of the swimming business to him in ‘Red Speedo’ by Lucas Hnath. \u003ccite>(Photo: Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray, a swimmer with serious Olympic aspirations, sits on a bench incessantly eating carrots, while his older brother Peter, a lawyer and his kind of manager, begs Ray’s coach to take a mysterious stash of drugs and flush them down the toilet: “People hear that one of your swimmers has been doing performance enhancing drugs, and people start to think that the whole team, and then Ray, who’s always been clean… gets implicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a classic setup, so clear that a child could parse it: Ray is dumb but talented, Peter is sleazy but compelling, and Coach holds his ground for the good of the sport. Hnath has a keen sense of ritual, the way some situations demand that we take on certain qualities or behave in ways that have nothing to do with our actual beliefs and commitments. The stakes are real, but the players are detached — outside observers to their own dramas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13824152\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13824152\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RSO_108-e1518254650671-800x448.jpg\" alt=\"Ray tries to talk his ex-girlfriend Lydia into getting him some PED's for an important race in 'Red Speedo' by Lucas Hnath.\" width=\"800\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RSO_108-e1518254650671-800x448.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RSO_108-e1518254650671-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RSO_108-e1518254650671-768x430.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RSO_108-e1518254650671-1020x571.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RSO_108-e1518254650671-1180x660.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RSO_108-e1518254650671-960x537.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RSO_108-e1518254650671-240x134.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RSO_108-e1518254650671-375x210.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RSO_108-e1518254650671-520x291.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/RSO_108-e1518254650671.jpg 1444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ray tries to talk his ex-girlfriend Lydia into getting him some PED’s for an important race in ‘Red Speedo’ by Lucas Hnath. \u003ccite>(Photo: Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Peter’s frantic harangues have their own special geometry and life, while Ray is a canny cipher whose goals shift with jack-rabbit quickness, and Coach digs the privileges of playing and saying coach-like things, whether they make sense or not. And then there’s Ray’s ex-girlfriend, sports therapist and one-time drug connection (he is of course using PEDs) Lydia. By the time she enters the scene, you realize how stunning these stock characters can be when infused with actual, human desires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans of Kabuki Theater love the emotion that its elaborate masks and makeup both contain and release. \u003cem>Red Speedo\u003c/em> has a similar jolt. Everyone is perfectly what he or she is, and that allows for a freedom of spirit and a rather loose, amoral sense of ethics. Ray’s spiked blond hair, toned body and red speedo scream “Olympic swimmer.” His image is as controlled and defined as any Hollywood casting agent could ever hope for, and yet his soul is something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Confessing to his brother that he’s been using PEDs, Ray equates them to “affirmative action” for lesser athletes. He claims that he isn’t breaking the rules because the rules state that the drugs will harm him and he’s just fine, and then he tries to cap off that bit of argumentative jiu-jitsu with some Buddhist philosophy. And that’s just the start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13824155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 611px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13824155\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/920x920-1-e1518255261661.jpg\" alt=\"(L to R) Brothers Ray (Max Carpenter) and Peter (Gabriel Marin) share a moment of joy in 'Red Speedo' by Lucas Hnath.\" width=\"611\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/920x920-1-e1518255261661.jpg 611w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/920x920-1-e1518255261661-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/920x920-1-e1518255261661-240x138.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/920x920-1-e1518255261661-375x215.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/920x920-1-e1518255261661-520x299.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L to R) Brothers Ray (Max Carpenter) and Peter (Gabriel Marin) share a moment of joy in ‘Red Speedo’ by Lucas Hnath. \u003ccite>(Photo: Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s an idiot’s performance, exactly what we would expect of Ray, and yet it works. By the time he finishes explaining the difficulty of his situation — he has to dope up to have any chance of winning the next day’s race — Peter has essentially thrown his life over to him. And this is the beauty of \u003cem>Red Speedo\u003c/em>: that the fantasy of the most hackneyed clichés is more alluring than ethics, sense, or the actual living of a life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have to say one more thing: Center Rep is not known for producing daring plays, and I couldn’t help wonder after this sharp, smart production of \u003cem>Red Speedo\u003c/em> why they would fill their schedule with \u003cem>Shirley Valentine\u003c/em> and Disney’s \u003cem>Freaky Friday\u003c/em>. If you’re capable of fun and complexity and excellence, as Center Rep clearly is with \u003cem>Red Speedo\u003c/em>, it should be fought for and embraced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Red Speedo’ runs through Sunday, Feb. 18, at the Dean Lesher Center in downtown Walnut Creek. For tickets and information \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerrep.org/season1718/theliar.php\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The fascinating American playwright Lucas Hnath’s \u003cem>Red Speedo\u003c/em>, receiving its Bay Area premiere at Center Rep in Walnut Creek under Markus Potter’s scalpel-sharp direction, captures a strange quality about ethical thinking — it helps to not have any. Ethics, that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an awful proposition, and one we resist throughout the play’s lurid, 80-minute sprint to hell, even as scene after scene unfolds to demonstrate otherwise. In that, \u003cem>Red Speedo\u003c/em> is of the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hnath has a gift for burrowing into experiences containing an electric sense of reality. There’s a vivid stickiness to his characters and the situations that he puts them through. In \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/02/14/the-christians-isnt-so-much-a-play-as-a-strange-brilliant-sermon/\">\u003cem>The Christians\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (at the SF Playhouse last year), a sedate, Protestant church service becomes the unlikely scene for a rueful accounting of a pastor’s troubled marriage. Here, it’s a swimming club’s locker room on the eve of the Olympic trials that serves as the springboard for a brutal disquisition on the nature of sacrifice and identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13824150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13824150\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-800x444.jpg\" alt=\"(L to R) Ray listens to his older brother Peter explain the complexities of the swimming business to him in 'Red Speedo' by Lucas Hnath.\" width=\"800\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-800x444.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-768x426.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-1020x566.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-960x533.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-672x372.jpg 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-240x133.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-375x208.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953-520x288.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/1024x1024-e1518254294953.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L to R) Ray listens to his older brother Peter explain the complexities of the swimming business to him in ‘Red Speedo’ by Lucas Hnath. \u003ccite>(Photo: Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray, a swimmer with serious Olympic aspirations, sits on a bench incessantly eating carrots, while his older brother Peter, a lawyer and his kind of manager, begs Ray’s coach to take a mysterious stash of drugs and flush them down the toilet: “People hear that one of your swimmers has been doing performance enhancing drugs, and people start to think that the whole team, and then Ray, who’s always been clean… gets implicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a classic setup, so clear that a child could parse it: Ray is dumb but talented, Peter is sleazy but compelling, and Coach holds his ground for the good of the sport. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans of Kabuki Theater love the emotion that its elaborate masks and makeup both contain and release. \u003cem>Red Speedo\u003c/em> has a similar jolt. Everyone is perfectly what he or she is, and that allows for a freedom of spirit and a rather loose, amoral sense of ethics. Ray’s spiked blond hair, toned body and red speedo scream “Olympic swimmer.” His image is as controlled and defined as any Hollywood casting agent could ever hope for, and yet his soul is something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Confessing to his brother that he’s been using PEDs, Ray equates them to “affirmative action” for lesser athletes. He claims that he isn’t breaking the rules because the rules state that the drugs will harm him and he’s just fine, and then he tries to cap off that bit of argumentative jiu-jitsu with some Buddhist philosophy. And that’s just the start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13824155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 611px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13824155\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/920x920-1-e1518255261661.jpg\" alt=\"(L to R) Brothers Ray (Max Carpenter) and Peter (Gabriel Marin) share a moment of joy in 'Red Speedo' by Lucas Hnath.\" width=\"611\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/920x920-1-e1518255261661.jpg 611w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/920x920-1-e1518255261661-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/920x920-1-e1518255261661-240x138.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/920x920-1-e1518255261661-375x215.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/920x920-1-e1518255261661-520x299.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L to R) Brothers Ray (Max Carpenter) and Peter (Gabriel Marin) share a moment of joy in ‘Red Speedo’ by Lucas Hnath. \u003ccite>(Photo: Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s an idiot’s performance, exactly what we would expect of Ray, and yet it works. By the time he finishes explaining the difficulty of his situation — he has to dope up to have any chance of winning the next day’s race — Peter has essentially thrown his life over to him. And this is the beauty of \u003cem>Red Speedo\u003c/em>: that the fantasy of the most hackneyed clichés is more alluring than ethics, sense, or the actual living of a life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have to say one more thing: Center Rep is not known for producing daring plays, and I couldn’t help wonder after this sharp, smart production of \u003cem>Red Speedo\u003c/em> why they would fill their schedule with \u003cem>Shirley Valentine\u003c/em> and Disney’s \u003cem>Freaky Friday\u003c/em>. If you’re capable of fun and complexity and excellence, as Center Rep clearly is with \u003cem>Red Speedo\u003c/em>, it should be fought for and embraced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Red Speedo’ runs through Sunday, Feb. 18, at the Dean Lesher Center in downtown Walnut Creek. For tickets and information \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerrep.org/season1718/theliar.php\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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