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How the world looks through American eyes, and the myriad and unexpected ways that the world influences the United States.

Boston Calling: I’m on Your Team

I’m on Your Team

08/07/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Boston Calling, I’m on Your Team

The US might never have gained its independence without help from Russia.

Russia, it turns out, accidentally helped the US win its independence. 

Also: we meet two sisters who will go to the Olympics together but on competing teams; we remember when North and South Korea teamed up to beat China at table tennis; we go a few rounds with a boxer who’s inspiring young women in Jordan; we learn why an all-girl robotics team from Afghanistan is going to be competing virtually in a US competition; and we get the backstory to a popular baseball podcast hosted by three fans of the sport who also happen to be blind.  

(Image: People watch fireworks as they celebrate US Independence Day on July 4, 2017 in Washington, DC. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/Getty

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