{"556091":{"#nid":"556091","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"This Badminton Academy in a Favela Will Give You Hope for the Rio Olympics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKirk Bowman, associate chair and Jon Wilcox Term Professor of Soccer, Global Politics, and Society from the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs was quoted in\u0026nbsp;\u201cThis Badminton Academy in a Favela Will Give You Hope for the Rio Olympics\u201d for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Washington Post\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBack then, Ygor was \u201cjust a little kid, dreaming of the Olympics,\u201d said Kirk Bowman, a professor in soccer and global politics at Georgia Tech, who runs Rise Up \u0026amp; Care with Jon Wilcox, a banker from Orange County, Calif.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBrazilian filmmaker Katia Lund, a co-director of the hit film \u201cCity of God,\u201d is making documentaries about the Rio projects she works with, including Miratus, which will be shown in Rio on Aug. 6.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe news from Brazil is like the seven plagues,\u201d Bowman said. \u201cBut there are positive stories as well, especially in the favelas.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/olympics\/this-badminton-academy-in-a-favela-will-give-you-hope-for-the-rio-olympics\/2016\/07\/26\/7d3a9e98-4912-11e6-acbc-4d4870a079da_story.html\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"32716","created_gmt":"2016-07-27 10:15:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:16","author":"Hayden Russell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"graduation 2023","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/olympics\/this-badminton-academy-in-a-favela-will-give-you-hope-for-the-rio-olympics\/2016\/07\/26\/7d3a9e98-4912-11e6-acbc-4d4870a079da_story.html","dateline":{"date":"2016-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"405631":{"id":"405631","type":"image","title":"Kirk S. Bowman","body":null,"created":"1449254135","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:35:35","changed":"1475895129","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:09","alt":"Kirk S. Bowman","file":{"fid":"76090","name":"kirkbowmanweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/kirkbowmanweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/kirkbowmanweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":36256,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/kirkbowmanweb.jpg?itok=zbbT5M6z"}}},"media_ids":["405631"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1747","name":"Kirk Bowman"},{"id":"169213","name":"Reimagine Rio"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}