Beijing’s Smog Effect, Next-Gen Doping Tests & Fenway Park’s Scoreboard: Science of Sports PODCAST

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With the opening ceremony just days away, can Beijing clean up its air in time for healthy Olympic competition? We sit down with George Thurston—a professor of environmental medicine at NYU, a leading expert on airborne pollutants and a former athlete himself—to find out why every athlete may be in danger from the physiological effects of smog, and why neither USOC-supplied masks nor China’s emergency plans can stop them. Plus, Paul Strauss explains how independent tests could finally rid pro cycling of banned substances, and the low-tech scorekeeper for the Boston Red Sox takes us behind the Green Monster at baseball’s trading deadline.

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