Speaker 1: Are we in the right place, jem nay, gymnasium, we
Speaker 1: made it.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a really long word.
Speaker 3: Gymnasium is a long word, but it's really just a
Speaker 3: fancy way to say jim oh, like a.
Speaker 4: Gym where you practice in pasteboats exactly, Billy says, gymnasium
Speaker 4: comes from an ancient Greek word.
Speaker 3: That means naked, naked like no clothes yep. In ancient
Speaker 3: Greece where the Olympic Games began, all the athletes competed
Speaker 3: without clothes on. That is so silly.
Speaker 4: Well, I hope the athletes inside this gymnasium are wearing clothes.
Speaker 3: Don't worry, Lisa, that was quite a long time ago.
Speaker 3: Let's go in. Welcome to Stories for Kids by Lingo Kids,
Speaker 3: where we discover fascinating facts about the world around us
Speaker 3: and the fun of play learning. Today is part three
Speaker 3: of our Olympic Mystery series. The Lingo Kids' friends are
Speaker 3: trying to track down the thief who stole the Olympic torch.
Speaker 3: Last episode, they found a new clue, a chalk handprint
Speaker 3: that led them to the gymnasium, where there are plenty
Speaker 3: of gymnasts with chalk on their hands. Do you think
Speaker 3: they will find the missing torch there? Let's find out.
Speaker 1: I don't see the torch anywhere, do you tell me now?
Speaker 1: But I do see you love flipping and balancing and balancing. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's the biggest.
Speaker 3: Trampoline I've ever seen. Its like so fine it is.
Speaker 5: Want to give it a try?
Speaker 3: Really? I mean, is it okay? It's okay with me?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 2: Miss excuse me?
Speaker 3: But who are you? Elliott? This is laur Hernandez, Olympic
Speaker 3: medalist in gymnastics. You should have seen Lauri on the
Speaker 3: balance beam at the twenty sixteen Olympic Games. She was
Speaker 3: part of the Final five that's the nickname for the
Speaker 3: US women's gymnastics team that won the gold in Rio, Brazil.
Speaker 4: Wow, a real Olympic gymnast, Laurie.
Speaker 2: I tried doing gymnastics, but it was so hard. Is
Speaker 2: gymnastics ever hard for you?
Speaker 5: I think the hardest part growing up as a young
Speaker 5: gymnast was figuring out how to go backwards.
Speaker 3: I was stuck.
Speaker 5: I couldn't wrap my head around it.
Speaker 3: It terrified me.
Speaker 5: This idea that I would just do a flip and
Speaker 5: I would go backwards. So that was something that I
Speaker 5: struggled a lot with as a kid. But once I
Speaker 5: got over that fear and I figured out what my
Speaker 5: body does when I'm going backwards, then it became a
Speaker 5: lot more fun.
Speaker 3: Again. How did you know you wanted to be a gymnast?
Speaker 5: Well, I just remember watching two gymnasts on the balance
Speaker 5: beam and thinking, Wow, this isn't something that I see
Speaker 5: people do every single day. How cool would it be
Speaker 5: if I could be like them? And I thought about
Speaker 5: what it might be like to flip into be upside
Speaker 5: down and to enjoy being in the air and that
Speaker 5: freedom you might get, and that seemed like a lot
Speaker 5: of fun to me.
Speaker 2: What was your favorite part of being in the Olympics.
Speaker 5: The most special moment would probably be, Well, there's the
Speaker 5: feeling after team finals when we realized that we did it.
Speaker 5: We were looking at the score and some mobiles had
Speaker 5: just competed on the floor exercise, and we knew we
Speaker 5: needed a certain score to win, and we knew she
Speaker 5: would get it, and damn what happened. And it was
Speaker 5: just waiting for this score to pop up, and we
Speaker 5: were all holding hands and standing in front of this
Speaker 5: TV monitor that shows us the scores, and finally it
Speaker 5: popped up and we realized that we had won, and
Speaker 5: we won by ten points. I think it was. So
Speaker 5: it was a pretty pretty crazy experience.
Speaker 2: That sounds amazing but also scary.
Speaker 3: Were you nervous?
Speaker 5: I remember as a young kid not understanding what was happening,
Speaker 5: and I would get so nervous and I would cry
Speaker 5: and my hands would shake and I couldn't figure out
Speaker 5: what was happening. But my mom, she's a social worker
Speaker 5: and a therapist, and she was always telling me that
Speaker 5: if I pretended my.
Speaker 3: Finger was a candle and I blew on it.
Speaker 5: Not enough to blow the candle out, but I blew
Speaker 5: on it, just enough to watch the fire shake a
Speaker 5: little bit, that it might help me calm down a bit.
Speaker 5: So if you ever get nervous and you're feeling like
Speaker 5: your tummy is doing its own flips and your hands
Speaker 5: are shaking, just blow gently on your little birthday candle
Speaker 5: on your finger and everything should be okay.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 2: I have one more question. Can we still try jumping
Speaker 2: on the big trampoline?
Speaker 5: Sure? Just don't forget to stretch.
Speaker 3: I'm good, I don't need stretch. Let's go, Lisa, Stretching
Speaker 3: is one way athletes take care of their bodies. It's
Speaker 3: really important to stretch your muscles before you work them
Speaker 3: so hard. Lingo kids, listeners, you can stretch out too, ready. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you reach.
Speaker 6: Up high, touch your toes, stretch to the side, stretch.
Speaker 3: To the other side.
Speaker 2: Check it out.
Speaker 3: Woo, that did feel good?
Speaker 1: No, next jump you there?
Speaker 3: Whoa look at Laurie jump.
Speaker 2: She looks like she's flying.
Speaker 3: Billy says he can fly too. Watch Billy should be
Speaker 3: in the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the gymnast doesn't have wings like Billy.
Speaker 3: How does she do it? Lots of practice? Now?
Speaker 2: What are you on the tripoline at the Olympics?
Speaker 5: Thank you? But I wasn't actually competing in tripoline. It's
Speaker 5: just a great way to practice tricks. I was a
Speaker 5: part of the artistic gymnastics team.
Speaker 3: Oh, I love arts. Do you use paints? Tali? The
Speaker 3: women's artistic gymnastics team puts gymnastics tricks together in an
Speaker 3: artistic way to make routines. They don't use paints, but
Speaker 3: they compete on the balance being the uneven bars, the
Speaker 3: vault and the floor mat. That's right.
Speaker 5: Even though I'm not competing anymore, I can't wait to
Speaker 5: cheer on the gymnasts at the Paris Olympics. I can't
Speaker 5: believe it's almost opening day.
Speaker 3: Opening day the doors you find it?
Speaker 2: Excuse me, Laurie, but did you see anyone with a
Speaker 2: torch in here?
Speaker 4: Maybe someone with chalk on his hands?
Speaker 5: No, I didn't see a torch. But something kind of
Speaker 5: strange did happen this morning?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 5: Someone came into the gym and asked if he could
Speaker 5: take some chalk.
Speaker 6: To go that see.
Speaker 3: Oh, he didn't steal the chalk.
Speaker 5: I told him he could take as much as he wanted.
Speaker 5: We have a lot of chalk at the gymnasium.
Speaker 3: Billy is asking what he looked like. Ooh, sorry, I'm
Speaker 3: not sure.
Speaker 5: I was upside down on the uneven bars. He was
Speaker 5: gone before I flipped down.
Speaker 2: He's so sleeky.
Speaker 3: Billy says, to check the chalk bucket. Maybe there's a clue,
Speaker 3: good idea.
Speaker 2: Look what is it?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: He's covered.
Speaker 3: Blow it off. Looks like crumbled up paper. Uncrumble it,
Speaker 3: uncrumple it. Billy says, it looks like a map. It's
Speaker 3: a clue. It is a map, Billy, It's a map
Speaker 3: of Paris. Woo and look, something is circles. Good eye, Lisa.
Speaker 3: It looks like someone circled the Louverra the loo.
Speaker 2: Maybe the thief has to go to the bathroom, not.
Speaker 3: The lou Elliott, the Louverra. It's one of the most
Speaker 3: famous art museums in the world and it's right in
Speaker 3: the center of Paris. I don't get it.
Speaker 4: Why would the deep want to go to an art museum.
Speaker 3: Billy says that maybe he is going to steal art
Speaker 3: next Oh.
Speaker 2: No, we better go to the loo, I mean the
Speaker 2: louver Let's go, Alonzi.
Speaker 3: Good luck. Today the Lingo Kids friends met Olympic medalist
Speaker 3: Bory Hernandez. She taught them that it is very important
Speaker 3: for gymnasts and all athletes to stretch their muscles so
Speaker 3: they don't get hurt. They also discovered another clue buried
Speaker 3: in a bucket of chalk, a map of Paris with
Speaker 3: a circle around the Louverra. What is this thief up
Speaker 3: to join us? Next week, as Cowie, Billy, Elliott, and
Speaker 3: Lisa make their way to Paris in search of the
Speaker 3: torch thief Alonzi. Lingo Kids listeners, some of you liked
Speaker 3: our miniseries so much that you asked for another miniseries
Speaker 3: and guess what we listened. Join us this summer for
Speaker 3: a very special miniseries, the Mystery of the Missing Torch.
Speaker 3: We are going to search for clues, travel to a
Speaker 3: beautiful country ooh la la, meet real athletes and more.
Speaker 3: Now it's your turn to guess what the new miniseries
Speaker 3: will be about. Here is one clue for you. Prepare
Speaker 3: to sweat it out