The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. It seems that money comes before everything." And Lombi says that takes all the joy out of the World Cup.Ĭopyright © 2022 NPR. "We should have boycotted before and said we refuse to go to Qatar." But Lonni Lombi says this debate has made him think.īEARDSLEY: "When you learn how many people died building these stadiums, you feel revolted," he says. They all left amidst unrelated corruption scandals.īEARDSLEY: "It's too late now," says Jean Colombe. Not a single board member of the International Football Federation, or FIFA, that chose the country in 2010 remains. But he admits the World Cup choice of Qatar does pose a huge problem for the sports world. They're also extremely difficult to secure, so it suits to cancel them.īEARDSLEY: Guegan notes that Paris officials boycotting the Qatar Cup are often the very ones asking for tickets to see Paris Saint-Germain, a team owned by Qatar. JEAN-BAPTISTE GUEGAN: (Through interpreter) The reality is these fan zones are very expensive at a time when inflation and the price of electricity is skyrocketing. He says the mostly leftist and green mayors doing this are talking a noble game, but their actions will have no impact whatsoever on Qatar. PIOLLE: We see here a momentum where even people connected to sport and to football start to say that we cannot continue like this.īEARDSLEY: Jean-Baptiste Guegan is a specialist in geopolitics and sport. PIOLLE: We had the same year Winter Olympics and the World Cup in a place where you should not have large events, for both human rights and environmental reasons.īEARDSLEY: Piolle is referring to the Beijing Winter Olympics, where the snow had to be manufactured, and for the first time the World Cup changed seasons, moving from summer to late fall due to Qatar's intense heat. He says the canceling of fan zones is raising public consciousness. But this year, Paris and other French cities like Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Lille and Marseille say they won't promote the World Cup in public fan zones to protest Qatar's human rights and climate violations.ĮRIC PIOLLE: My name is Eric Piolle, and I'm the mayor of Grenoble.īEARDSLEY: Grenoble's mayor says his city wants no connection to a World Cup where more than 6,000 workers died building stadiums that are air-conditioned. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley tells us why.ĮLEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: When France beat Croatia to win the 2018 World Cup held in Russia, a hundred thousand fans went wild back in Paris under the Eiffel Tower in an official fan zone. France is the defending champ, but many French cities are refusing to broadcast the games on giant public screens. But his ideas weren’t always well-received in the field, he said.The FIFA Men's World Cup, the most widely watched sporting event on the planet, begins November 20 in Qatar. When the vile Bai Yue sect threatens to bring great suffering upon the world, three great martial arts masters, Bai Di (He Zhong Hua), Xue Gu (Wang Jiu. While studying at Columbia in the 1960s, Clauser became interested in designing practical experiments to put quantum mechanics to the test. Over the next nine minutes, Clauser recounted to the Swedish Academy the difficult road that eventually led to a Nobel-awarding phone call - albeit a few hours late. Can I talk to the guys from the Swedish Nobel Committee?” They’re on the phone right now,” he said. During this time, Xiao Yi Qing, the young master of Ting Xue Tower and Xiao Shi Shui. She takes her father’s sword and kneels for a while night besides her parents grave. And he shared his side of the notification and celebration. Xiao Shi Shui offers Shu Jing Rong to return to Ting Xue Tower with him and become a member, but she refuses because she doesn’t trust him. Thanks to a three-hour delay from a phone busy with congratulations and reporters’ queries, the call finally got through to him while he was on a live Zoom interview with The Associated Press. But for American physicist John Clauser, who was awarded the Nobel for his work on quantum mechanics, it rang a little different. It’s usually a dream-of-a-lifetime call that only the special few get in private. This is what it’s like to get “the call” - the Swedish Academy of Sciences ringing you up to say you won the Nobel Prize.
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