Sports commentator Dana Johannsen - a podcast by RNZ

The Winter Olympics officially get underway tonight, with controversy over the IOC selecting China as host being criticised as being tacit endorsement of the country's human rights abuses. Will we see any political demonstrations from athletes? And on the action front, NZ goes into the Games in the rare position of being medal favourites in certain events, with 2018 heroes Zoi Sadowski-Synnott and Nico Porteous chasing history once more. NZ has never won a gold medal at the Winter Olympics - will this be the Games?

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