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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Playing Dirty Sports Scandals.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Jay Harris.

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Speaker 1: I've had over twenty years of experience as a journalist

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Speaker 1: and sportscaster, hosting a variety of ESPN shows from SportsCenter

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Speaker 1: to Outside the Lines. Fun fact, I'm also a pie season.

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Speaker 1: But I guarantee that I'm not one of the big

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Speaker 1: fish getting tangled up in the net of scandal on

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Speaker 1: this show.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no no.

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Speaker 1: I'm just taking you on a deep dive way beneath

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Speaker 1: the waves of decorum, down in the dark abyss of

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Speaker 1: human scheming, to uncover what happened to the athletes at

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Speaker 1: the center of the scandals that shocked and sometimes forever

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Speaker 1: changed the world of sports. My go to disclaimer for

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Speaker 1: playing dirty people who play sports are still human.

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Speaker 2: Remember this, people.

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Speaker 1: Sure, it's natural to look up to legends like Tony

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Speaker 1: Hawk and Mia Ham, but at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: our sports idols are just like the rest of us

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Speaker 1: in the ways to count the most.

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Speaker 2: We all put our pants on one leg at a time.

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Speaker 1: We all have our good days and our bad days,

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Speaker 1: and we are all fallible. When giants fall. Say it

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Speaker 1: with me, it reverberates. There really is nothing quite like

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Speaker 1: the juiciness of a scandal, Am I right? Scandals really

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Speaker 1: shake things up, injecting our lives with zest and enabling

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Speaker 1: us to derive vicarious pleasure and the rule breaking of others.

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Speaker 1: We know it's wrong to crave that addictive scandal juice,

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Speaker 1: of course we do, but we just can't help ourselves.

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Speaker 2: It's like rubbernecking. We know that we shouldn't do it.

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Speaker 1: We try not to do it, but statistically most of

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Speaker 1: us do go down to look when there's.

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Speaker 2: A gruesome car accident.

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Speaker 1: It is horrible, but the fact that rubbernecking is estimated

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Speaker 1: to be responsible for fifteen percent of all car accidents

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Speaker 1: each year means that humans, for the most part, are

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Speaker 1: morbidly curious, and there's nothing quite like a mind blowing

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Speaker 1: down and dirty sports scandal to satisfy our inherent morbid curiosity.

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Speaker 1: We are a thirsty species, and I'm your juicing expert

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Speaker 1: here to quench your voracious human thirst to be in

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Speaker 1: the know. Yes, it's scandal time, so drake up and

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Speaker 1: let's tumble back into the action. At the end of

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Speaker 1: our last episode, the United States women's gymnastics team flew

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Speaker 1: the glory of the Magnificent Seven's gold in nineteen ninety six,

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Speaker 1: not all that beams is bronze. What happened in Sydney

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Speaker 1: began to unravel years after the final routine was over,

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Speaker 1: at Sydney. For US gymnastics, the two thousand Sydney Olympics,

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Speaker 1: smart turning point, America's team, once a symbol of triumph

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Speaker 1: pivotal members of the gold Magnificent seventeen in nineteen ninety

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Speaker 1: Sports psychologists claim that many athletes believe a fourth place

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Speaker 1: both Dominic DAWs and Amy Chow's decisions to retire. DAWs

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Speaker 1: team faltered in Sydney, they ultimately stuck their personal landings

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Speaker 1: the moment. The Chinese athletes weren't so fortunate following the

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Speaker 1: Sydney Olympic Games. For Dong Feng Chiao, the Chinese gymnast

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Speaker 1: the fallout was absolutely brutal for her in China. While

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Speaker 1: their government, the flip side is that once the Olympics

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Speaker 1: the ten years of media scrutiny that followed, Dong had

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Speaker 1: The Chinese government naturally wanted to distance themselves from the

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Speaker 1: China Daily reported Dong fang Xiao was diagnosed with femoral

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Speaker 1: The fact that Dong was grappling with femeral head necrosis

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Speaker 1: Daily continued reporting that since then, Dong has been struggling

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Speaker 1: Her situation worsened after the recent expose of the fake

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Speaker 2: Now you know why.

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Speaker 1: With the Sydney rumors swirling, the lives of young athletes

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Speaker 1: Olympic glory, Athens, Greece. The Athens Olympics was a redemption

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Speaker 1: opportunity for both countries. This much was clear. The US

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Speaker 1: and determined Carly Patterson. Patterson was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,

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Speaker 1: She got hooked on gymnastics after a birthday party at

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Speaker 1: the three years since the Sydney embarrassment, it look like

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Speaker 1: US Gymnastics was successfully developing a strong roster of excellent,

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Speaker 1: Athens in two thousand and four. The only thing I

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Speaker 1: one year after the Sydney Olympic Games in two thousand,

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Speaker 1: Marta Coroli was named national coordinator of the US women's

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Speaker 1: gymnastics team. You remember Marta, right, the wife and longtime

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Speaker 1: reported that the Coroles would strike minor child gymnasts, scratch

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Speaker 1: minor child gymnasts to hit their children, and require gymnasts

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Speaker 2: They were ill.

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Speaker 1: The fe L gymnasts competing for spots on the two

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Speaker 1: thousand and four Athens Olympics team would head to the

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Speaker 1: Coroli Ranch, a sprawling two thousand acre compound set in

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Speaker 1: the Sam Houston National Forest in Texas, to practice and

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Speaker 1: battle it out under the watchful eye of Martin Coroli.

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Speaker 1: Was she a more patient, less abusive coach than Bella

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Speaker 1: by all accounts, yes, but was moving the team's leadership

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Speaker 1: there from the Coroli Ranch, wrote reporter Holly Anne. To

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Speaker 1: get to the ranch, you must drive up a dirt

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Speaker 1: there is no cell service. It's completely isolated, and that's

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Speaker 1: no mistake. That's how the Corolis wanted it. Even more worrying,

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Speaker 1: no parents were allowed at Coroli Ranch. According to NBC

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Speaker 1: reporter Liz Clark, the gymnasts bunked in cabins six to.

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Speaker 2: Eight to a room.

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Speaker 1: They gave us choices, but Marta sees what you eat,

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Speaker 1: and if she doesn't like what you're eating or the

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Speaker 1: way you look, she'll tell you, said Courtney McCool, who

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Speaker 1: and implied their size meant they could not possibly have

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Speaker 1: been sixteen years old sometime in two thousand and eight.

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Speaker 1: For example, Leen Lindanng was just four foot six inches

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Speaker 1: and weighed only sixty eight pounds. Yu Yanjong was barely

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Speaker 1: bigger at four foot seven inches and only seventy pounds.

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Speaker 1: The average height and weight for the Chinese team was

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Speaker 1: four foot nine inches and seventy seven pounds. In comparison,

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Speaker 1: sixteen year old US gymnast Sean Johnson was a veritable

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Speaker 1: linebacker at four foot nine and ninety pounds. They're using

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Speaker 1: half people. Marta Corolei told the Associated Press, one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest frustrations is what arrogance these people think that

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Speaker 1: we're stupid.

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Speaker 2: We're in the.

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Speaker 1: Business of gymnastics, and we know what a kid of

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Speaker 1: fourteen or fifteen or sixteen looks like. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to be a gymnastics coach to know what they look

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Speaker 1: like at sixteen. During the competition itself, Coroli was overheard

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Speaker 1: to exclaim, what kind of slap in the face is this?

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Speaker 1: They are twelve fourteen years old, Max, and they line

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Speaker 1: them up for the world and are having the government

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Speaker 1: backed them. Investigation by US media into the claims of

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Speaker 1: China cheating at the Olympics again was fierce. Sportswriter E. M.

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Speaker 1: Swift specifically criticized the International Olympic Committee the IOC for

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Speaker 1: spending millions of dollars trying to ferret out drug cheats

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Speaker 1: while ignoring allegations of institutionalized cheating by the Chinese government

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Speaker 1: and with the finger heatedly pointed in its direction by

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Speaker 1: the press, the IOC finally acted by ordering the Federation

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Speaker 1: Internationality Gymnastique the FIG to investigate if, in fact, Leen Lean,

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Speaker 1: Dang or any other gymnasts on China's twenty eighteen had

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Speaker 1: only been fourteen years old at the time of the

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Speaker 1: Beijing Olympic Games. Andre Geisbueller, Secretary General of the PIG, said,

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Speaker 1: I would hope that the whole world in sport realizes

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Speaker 1: that the FIG is serious about these rules and the

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Speaker 1: ethics and moral questions. And yet FIG, the organization that

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Speaker 1: it kicked off an in depth review of practices in

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Speaker 1: gymnastics and which had punished North Korea with a severe

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Speaker 1: band for passport doping in Athens in two thousand and four,

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Speaker 1: now shocked the world just four years later by ignoring

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Speaker 1: the facts which journalists had independently uncovered. Suddenly FIG seemed

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Speaker 1: not to be the integral body with an ethical iron fist.

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Speaker 1: China produced a passport with the required dates for each

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Speaker 1: member of their twenty eight team, and FIG didn't investigate further. Instead,

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Speaker 1: they turned a blind eye to overwhelming proof of unfair play.

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Speaker 1: All passports are valid for all gymnasts competing in the

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Speaker 1: Beijing Olympic Games, FIG said in a nondescript statement. The

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Speaker 1: New York Times countered FIG's ruling with the headline athletes

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Speaker 1: only as old as China says they are oh Snap.

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Speaker 1: Marta Coroli was also crystal clear about what she thought

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Speaker 1: of the controversy. We are ready to take on any team,

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Speaker 1: She deadpanned overage or under age. The International Gymnastics Federation's

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Speaker 1: investigations and subsequent clearance of the Chinese gymnast fueled discussions

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Speaker 1: about the ethics of competition. Once again, the sport felt

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Speaker 1: marred by bad behavior. As the curtain fell on the

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Speaker 1: gymnastics events in Beijing. The two thousand and eight Olympics

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Speaker 1: left an indelible mark, a complex tapestry of triumph, controversy,

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Speaker 1: and the enduring pursuit of athletic excellence that defines the

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Speaker 1: world of women's gymnastics. Just because fig called curtains on

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Speaker 1: investigating the two thousand and eight Beijing Games didn't mean

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Speaker 1: that the curtains fell, however, Power to the people right.

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Speaker 1: A flurry of challenges emerged almost immediately. Bloggers stride Hacks

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Speaker 1: claimed to have uncovered proof suggesting that Hua Ku Shin,

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Speaker 1: of the Chinese gymnastics team in Beijing was only fourteen,

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Speaker 1: too young to have competed in the Olympics. Internet searches

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Speaker 1: and alleged web pages compiled by China's General Administration of

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Speaker 1: Sport seemed to support what stride Hacks had found. Age

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Speaker 1: falsification claims intensified, leading some to dig even further back

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Speaker 1: again into the age of the Chinese gymnasts. At the

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Speaker 1: Sydney Olympics in two thousand, the year they edged out

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Speaker 1: the US for the team bronze medal, this is the

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Speaker 1: moment when the national tide turned. An overwhelming evidence came

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Speaker 1: forward that Sydney team members Dong Fang Xiao in likely

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Speaker 1: Young Young as well, had been too young to have

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Speaker 1: competed there under the rules at the time. The New

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Speaker 1: York Times conducted its own investigation, producing results that aligned

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Speaker 1: with the suspicions raised by stride Hacks and other bloggers,

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Speaker 1: further fuelling the controversy surrounding the Chinese gymnastics team. Chinese

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Speaker 1: officials vehemently defended their team, asserting that their athletes adhered

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Speaker 1: to Olympic age regulations in every Olympics Games. The eligibility

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Speaker 1: of the athletes has already been investigated and authorized by

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Speaker 1: the International Federation, and if they hadn't been cleared, they

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have anticipated in the games, Statedhogwai, Executive Vice president

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Speaker 1: of the Beijing Olympic Committee. However, skepticism persisted and grew,

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Speaker 1: compounding the questions that had always lingered since two thousand

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Speaker 1: about the authenticity of the athlete documentation provided by China.

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Speaker 1: Dong fang Xiao, whose name I've burned into your mind

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Speaker 1: as being at the epicenter of this scandal, drew scrutiny

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight when she registered as a

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Speaker 1: technical official, not a competitor, at the Beijing Olympics, and

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Speaker 1: in an unexpected twist, listed her age. Her simple slip

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Speaker 1: up brought the whole house of cards tumbling down. Dong

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Speaker 1: fang Xiao's birthdate in the FIG database was recorded as

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Speaker 1: January twentieth, nineteen eighty three. However, the accreditation information she

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Speaker 1: provided for the Beijing Olympics listed her birthday as January

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Speaker 1: twenty third, nineteen eighty six, implying she would have been

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Speaker 1: only four during the Sydney Games and thus ineligible to compete.

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Speaker 1: In an interview, a flustered, hounded Dong feng Jiao slipped

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Speaker 1: up again, openly stating that she was fourteen during the

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Speaker 1: two thousand Sydney Olympics. However, when pressed further, during the

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Speaker 1: FIG's investigation, Dong refused to provide clarity, leaving more questions

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Speaker 1: than answers. In yet a third puzzling twist, on Dong's

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Speaker 1: own personal blog, she indicated she was born in the

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Speaker 1: year of the Ox in the Chinese zodiac, which spanned

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Speaker 1: from February twentieth, nineteen eighty five to February eighth, nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty six. This significantly boasted the claim that she was

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Speaker 1: only fourteen. In two thousand, FIG expressed dissatisfaction with the

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Speaker 1: explanations and evidence provided for Dong's age at the two

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Speaker 1: thousand Sydney Games, signaling a potential crack and the credibility

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Speaker 1: of the Chinese team's eligibility. And then the una expected

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Speaker 1: happened suddenly, swiftly, after so many years of rumors. FIG

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Speaker 1: nullified Dong feng Xiao's Sydney results, citing insufficient evidence to

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Speaker 1: prove she was actually sixteen that year. Consequently, the results

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Speaker 1: obtained by Dong fang Jiao the two thousand Sydney Olympic

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Speaker 1: Games had been canceled. FIG said in a statement. The

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Speaker 1: FIG Executive Committee decision was forwarded to the IOC Executive

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Speaker 1: Board with the recommendation to withdraw the bronze medal obtained

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Speaker 1: by the Chinese team, including the results of Dong fang

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Speaker 1: Jiao in Sydney. The fallout was swift and severe. Dong

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Speaker 1: fang Zhao's nineteen ninety nine World Championships and two thousand

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Speaker 1: Olympic results, as well as her other results in world

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Speaker 1: competitions in nineteen ninety nine and two thousand, were expunged

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Speaker 1: from the records. The IOC officially disqualified China, who had

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Speaker 1: originally won the bronze medal in the women's team event.

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Speaker 1: The IOC ordered China's National Olympic Committee to return the

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Speaker 1: team medals as soon as possible so they could be

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Speaker 1: reallocated to the US team. While many Chinese citizens were

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Speaker 1: relieved to put the issue to rest at last in

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Speaker 1: the spirit of fairness, some Chinese sports fans reacted with

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Speaker 1: anger to the news that gymnast Dong fang Jiao had

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Speaker 1: been stripped of her Olympic medal, but their ire was

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Speaker 1: directed at the Chinese government, not the International Olympic Committee.

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Speaker 1: Cry for Dong fang Xiao, victim of the sports system,

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Speaker 1: read the headline on a post by Li Jiayong, sports

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Speaker 1: columnist on the popular netes Web portal. Competing for her

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Speaker 1: local team in the Chinese National Games, she damaged her

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Speaker 1: knee permanently in order to win an Olympic medal for

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Speaker 1: the national team. Her age was hidden in't dare to

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Speaker 1: use the word falsify, which may cause trouble, Lee wrote,

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Speaker 1: And she has been humiliated. It's enough to make you cry.

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Speaker 1: Lie jiayog isn't wrong. Dong fang Xiao got ensnared in

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Speaker 1: a scandal that was almost certainly not of her making

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Speaker 1: orchestrated by Chinese officials with metal ambitions. I hope she's

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Speaker 1: found some peace and happiness in New Zealand at last.

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Speaker 2: As for the US.

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Speaker 1: Women's gymnastics team from two thousand, well, they were spread

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Speaker 1: out across America a decade after their.

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Speaker 2: Humiliating Sydney defeat.

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Speaker 1: When their mobile phones started pinging alerts, calls and emails

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Speaker 1: were coming in non stop congratulating them on the metal reversal.

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Speaker 1: They had won bronze after all. At least, Ray said,

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Speaker 1: I was in complete shock. We had gotten wind.

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Speaker 2: Of it a few months before that.

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Speaker 1: There was an investigation, right, I put it out of

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Speaker 1: my head when I heard.

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Speaker 2: The news, I couldn't believe it. I was so happy.

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Speaker 1: I never in a million years thought I'd be getting

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Speaker 1: a medal. In August twenty ten, nearly ten years after

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Speaker 1: the competition in Sydney, the now third place team from

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Speaker 1: the United States was awarded the bronze medal and a

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Speaker 1: ceremony held at the Excel Center in Hartford, Connecticut during

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Speaker 1: the twenty ten US National Championships. Dominic Dawes expressed the

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Speaker 1: collective sentiment of the US team justice prevailed. My teammates

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Speaker 1: are very well deserving of the bronze medal, and I'm

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Speaker 1: sure each and every one of us will be thrilled.

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Speaker 1: We will cherish it. That bronze medal, now rightfully in

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Speaker 1: the possession of the US women gymnasts, became a symbol

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Speaker 1: of rectified justice and a testament to the enduring spirit

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Speaker 1: of fair play in sports. This juicy scandal exposed not

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Speaker 1: only the complexities of age verification in gymnastics, but also

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Speaker 1: prompted a reevaluation.

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Speaker 2: Of historical results.

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Speaker 1: No one who fiddled with the rules to come out

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Speaker 1: on top, past, present, or future, is above justice because

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Speaker 1: cheating challenges the very essence of fair play and integrity

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Speaker 1: in Olympic competent TI. But has this age falsification scandal

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Speaker 1: and gymnastics been put to sleep for good?

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Speaker 2: I think not.

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Speaker 1: Scandal and human nature seemed to go hand in hand

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Speaker 1: after all, as far as China goes. In two thousand

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Speaker 1: and nine, news outlets reported that the Chinese Sports Ministry

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Speaker 1: and Guangdong Province had used X ray bone analysis to

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Speaker 1: determine the real ages of athletes competing in a variety

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Speaker 1: of sports in China. The procedure was performed on fifteen

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Speaker 1: thousand young Chinese athletes and revealed that twenty percent have

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Speaker 1: lied about their ages. Three thousand were older than they

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Speaker 1: claimed to be. That means that one fifth were outside

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Speaker 1: the eligible age range for the various sports, one out

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Speaker 1: of every five athletes. These findings indicate that age falsification

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Speaker 1: is a pervasive issue in China's state run sports system.

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Speaker 1: In China's success in sports is tied to funding, which

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Speaker 1: seems to have led to the winning at all host

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Speaker 1: mentality shared by early dominant state run systems like the

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Speaker 1: Soviet Union and East Germany. But for the USA the

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Speaker 1: outlook is brighter now with the award of the bronze

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Speaker 1: medal back to the rightful winners. The curse of two

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Speaker 1: thousand in Sydney was broken, and the US women have

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Speaker 1: dominated gymnastics ever since, Beginning with Carly Patterson and her

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Speaker 1: electrifying performance in two thousand and four in Athens. The

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Speaker 1: US women have won the individual all around gold medal

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Speaker 1: in every Olympic Games. Nastie Lucan in two thousand and eight,

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Speaker 1: Gabby Douglas in twenty twelve, Simone Bios in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: and Sonissa Lee in twenty twenty all won the gold

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Speaker 1: all around, and it looks as though Simone Biles isn't

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Speaker 1: finished as she prepares to compete with a whole generation

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Speaker 1: of fresh faces at the Olympic Games in Paris, France

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. May all the teams there put

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Speaker 1: forth gymnasts who meet the rules required, and may everyone

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Speaker 1: from coaches and athletes to team coordinators and administrators exemplify

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Speaker 1: all that is good and noble about the sport. Join

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Speaker 1: me your host Jay Harris for next week's episode of

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Speaker 1: Playing Dirty Sports Scandals. Playing Dirty Sports Scandals is a

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Speaker 1: production of Dan Patrick Productions, Never Ever Productions and Workhouse

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Speaker 1: Media from executive producers Dan Patrick Paul Anderson, Nick Panela,

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Speaker 1: Maya Glickman, and Jennifer Clary. Hosted by Jay Harris, Written

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