Faculty experts available to discuss 2024 Paris Olympics
Paris 2024 begins Friday, July 26! The following University of Colorado Boulder faculty experts are available to comment on everything from cannabis and exercise, to new Olympic competitions, to what it's like to work on the ground during the games.
Breakdancing competition
The Paris Olympics will include a (breakdancing) competition—the first dancesport discipline to appear in Summer Olympic history. Rennie Harris, an artist-in-residence and co-director of hip-hop studies, can discuss the significance of breaking being recognized on a massive global scale. He can also address the challenges and concerns this recognition poses for the practitioners and founders of breaking culture.
Allure of Paris
The Summer 2024 Olympic Games are taking place in Paris, which for centuries has captivated artists and scholars around the world. Aimee Kilbane, an assistant teaching professor of French, first went to Paris as a third-year undergraduate and over the past quarter century has returned for frequent visits and residencies. With an academic focus on the tourists, expatriates and subcultures of Paris, she can discuss the allure of Paris as a host for the 2024 Summer games.Read a Q&A with Kilbane on Paris 2024.
Nationalism and sports
Jared Bahir Browsh––an assistant teaching professor of ethnic studies and incoming director of the Critical Sports Studies program––recently taught a course on nationalism and sports. He can discuss how competitions in the Olympics often transcend athletic achievement to become arenas for national pride and international rivalry.
Marijuana and sports
Angela Bryan, professor of psychology and neuroscience, can discuss the impact cannabis has on various aspects of exercise, including sports performance. Bryan recently published a study exploring how cannabis impacts workouts.
Working at the Olympics
Michael Burns, a communication professor, will work with NBC’s "Today Show," his 8th Olympics with the network. While at the Olympics, he works with the production management and logistics team and oversees their team of “runners,” who are typically current students or recent graduates interested in learning more about news, sports, and production and event management. This year, Michael is excited to welcome recent CU graduate Lillian Wentworth to the Today Paris 2024 runner team.