E162: Patrick Nally’s Olympic diaries

This is the second instalment in a series of podcasts looking at how the sports business has evolved over the past half century in the company of Patrick Nally, one of a small handful of people who can lay a genuine claim to have created the industry as we know it today.This episode is devoted entirely to the business story of the Olympic Games, starting in the crisis torn era of the 1970s, a period in which the IOC faced an almost existential crisis, moving from the tragedy of Munich in ’72 ...