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Speaker 2: sometimes you do vision therapy in order to elevate their

432
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Speaker 2: game and reach new levels and improve their focus. And

433
00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:50,399
Speaker 2: to see Rory be able to be competing at the

434
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Speaker 2: elite level is just incredible.

435
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's incredible. She calls her left eye her bionic

436
00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,760
Speaker 1: eye now because she has like twenty fifteen in it,

437
00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,199
Speaker 1: because it's just even better from having to make up

438
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Speaker 1: for the loss of the right eye vision. Okay, quickly

439
00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:03,240
Speaker 1: back to Rory Gilday. It was really fun. Before both

440
00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:05,840
Speaker 1: of the hockey matches, I went over to this Corona

441
00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,199
Speaker 1: bar area in the conference center turned hockey rink and

442
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:11,439
Speaker 1: met a bunch of the families for the teams, and

443
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,720
Speaker 1: Rory Gilday's dad was one and when I was talking

444
00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:15,600
Speaker 1: to him, about the cutting Edge to see if he

445
00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:17,959
Speaker 1: knew that reference point. He had never seen it, but

446
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,560
Speaker 1: he says that he always uses the movie Young Bloods,

447
00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:24,040
Speaker 1: which is another movie where a hockey player loses eyesight

448
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:25,480
Speaker 1: and has to try to keep playing.

449
00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:28,880
Speaker 2: Wait, how many movies are there about hockey players losing

450
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Speaker 2: their vision?

451
00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:33,840
Speaker 1: Apparently at least two. This is a sport slash romance

452
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,560
Speaker 1: movie starring Rockell and Patrick Swayzey. I've never seen it,

453
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,320
Speaker 1: but I've heard a lot about it, so I added

454
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Speaker 1: it to my list. But he and I were trading

455
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Speaker 1: thoughts about that and Rory being like the third and

456
00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:46,320
Speaker 1: the trifecta of hockey players losing playing. But then I

457
00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:48,359
Speaker 1: was telling him about how it was nice that he

458
00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,480
Speaker 1: could share movie reference points because you had been missing

459
00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:53,840
Speaker 1: all of my inside jokes and pretty much every joke

460
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Speaker 1: I made. And then we started quoting Strange Brewe to

461
00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,479
Speaker 1: each other, which is like a deep cut, iconic hockey

462
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,119
Speaker 1: based Canadian movie. Sarah, do I know it? Do I know?

463
00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:06,320
Speaker 1: You definitely don't know it? But he and I were

464
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,200
Speaker 1: just trading famous lines like it's a beer truck, we

465
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,600
Speaker 1: won't crushity, and so that was really fun. We got

466
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Speaker 1: to talk to Hillary Knight's parents for a while. We

467
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,359
Speaker 1: both have ties to her because we both grew up

468
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Speaker 1: in the same hometown for a while. She has many hometowns,

469
00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,400
Speaker 1: but one of them is mine. And you guys went

470
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Speaker 1: to opposing boarding schools.

471
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Speaker 2: We did.

472
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Speaker 1: We did.

473
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Speaker 2: I still remember watching her in high school, and in fact,

474
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Speaker 2: I think my mom remembers watching her in high school.

475
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,520
Speaker 2: And so I'm sure people out there can relate where

476
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 2: your parents have no idea what your job is. But

477
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Speaker 2: whenever I go to hockey, I always tell my mom.

478
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Speaker 2: I'm like, Mom, I'm going to go see Hillary night play.

479
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:39,359
Speaker 2: And She's like, please tell Hillary that I am her

480
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Speaker 2: biggest fan.

481
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Speaker 1: I love it.

482
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Speaker 2: And so I told Hillary's parents that my mom is

483
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Speaker 2: Hillary's biggest fan, and they appreciated that.

484
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Speaker 1: It was really fun to talk to all the parents.

485
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Speaker 1: One minor plug for our show. It was really cool

486
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Speaker 1: to hear from some of the moms of players that

487
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Speaker 1: they had heard of our show. One of them was like, wait,

488
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,320
Speaker 1: is your last name Spain? I just wikipedia you'd yesterday

489
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,680
Speaker 1: to hear about your show. They had heard about it,

490
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:02,159
Speaker 1: and they were really grateful that there was going to

491
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,360
Speaker 1: be this audio archive of not as much the Olympics,

492
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,119
Speaker 1: but the early days of the PWHL. But Carolyn Harvey's

493
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,479
Speaker 1: dad did tell me that he had recently been watching

494
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Speaker 1: a documentary about Miracle and the best part was all

495
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Speaker 1: the old footage and how grateful he was that twenty

496
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,400
Speaker 1: years from now the PWHL footage will be looked back

497
00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:19,959
Speaker 1: at and you'll be able to see the players that

498
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,439
Speaker 1: got the league started and was thanking us for like

499
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Speaker 1: our kind of coverage adding to that, which is really

500
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Speaker 1: really cool.

501
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Speaker 2: Well, while we're on the topic of archival's footage, I

502
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 2: probably learned this at some point, got really mad about it,

503
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,719
Speaker 2: and then got so mad that I forgot about it,

504
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:37,880
Speaker 2: and then remembered it again this weekend, which is that

505
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 2: there is no complete database for USA hockey. If you

506
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 2: want to know who leads the country all time in

507
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 2: goals or games played or anything like that. Think about

508
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 2: US soccer. We know Christine Lilly with her cap stat

509
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Speaker 2: all of these things, And I'm like, why this is impossible.

510
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, Olympic records, but not career the USA words, which

511
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 1: is insane. As far as you checked, you couldn't even

512
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Speaker 1: find it for the men.

513
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Speaker 2: No, No, And I mean I think.

514
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, true, truly brutal. We had a chance to

515
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 1: talk to some players after that USA game again, and

516
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Speaker 1: this time we talked to Megan Keller, who had a

517
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Speaker 1: great game, and you remember when Angela Rigeri was on.

518
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Speaker 1: She told us that DJ Powers had been transferred from

519
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 1: Megan Keller to Tessa Janicky as sort of like a

520
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,199
Speaker 1: generational swap, And so I asked Megan Keller if it

521
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Speaker 1: was noticeable yet that a twenty one year old had

522
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Speaker 1: taken over take listen.

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Speaker 4: Well, I was the DJ Priory I have since retired. Yes,

524
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Speaker 4: you know, I needed my needed some time off. I

525
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,440
Speaker 4: passed it over to Tessa's. It's kind of similar, but

526
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Speaker 4: I'd say she's probably way more into now. I like

527
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,160
Speaker 4: the songs, but she plays to the locker room. She's

528
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Speaker 4: a good reader of the locker room.

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Speaker 1: Also, it's very depressing for me that a twenty nine

530
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Speaker 1: year old is able to recognize how a twenty one

531
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Speaker 1: year old is hearing things differently, because I would just

532
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:52,879
Speaker 1: be in there and being like, who is this again?

533
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Speaker 1: What's this one called? Speaking of keeping up with twenty

534
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Speaker 1: one year olds. Lindsay Vaughn Man, we did not witness

535
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Speaker 1: this person, but we were in the midst of our

536
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 1: lengthy travel day and we actually paused and got a

537
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 1: coffee at a shop in Toronto. Yeah, I believe that's

538
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 1: where we were, so that we could watch on streaming,

539
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,399
Speaker 1: and man, there wasn't much to watch Alex. It was

540
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 1: so quick and in typical Lindsay von fashion, she went

541
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Speaker 1: so hard, but I couldn't because there weren't that many replays,

542
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: and honestly, I haven't been of a mind to watch

543
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Speaker 1: it over and over again. We know that her poll

544
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:29,400
Speaker 1: got caught in a flag, but was she already out

545
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: of control in that moment? Did she go too hard

546
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 1: and then she was flailing as a result. Whatever it was.

547
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Speaker 1: The announcers and even Lindsay's sister Karen said afterwards like

548
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Speaker 1: that was just Lindsay being Lindsay, which is one hundred

549
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Speaker 1: and eighty percent, and maybe the knee wasn't there.

550
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, as of this recording, we're still kind

551
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 2: of waiting on an update about her health and her status,

552
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,639
Speaker 2: and it's just devastating. You know, I think you never

553
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 2: want to see an athlete go down like that, and

554
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 2: in alpine skiing, a lot of athletes go down, and

555
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:03,400
Speaker 2: you know, something I actually noticed when I was covering

556
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 2: winter sports was that the more dangerous the sport, the

557
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 2: more highly athletes talked about their competitors. So, for example,

558
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Speaker 2: in aerials, which I don't think we're going to see

559
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Speaker 2: this week, but the one where they hucked themselves off

560
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 2: of a really big ramp and they do a bunch

561
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 2: of flips and twists in the air, those athletes were

562
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 2: cheering for each other all the time because they recognized

563
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 2: how dangerous it was. And a very similar atmosphere exists

564
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 2: in the women's downhill because they recognize just how brutal

565
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Speaker 2: that event is in particular, and how dangerous it is.

566
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Speaker 2: And so you know, even just in reading quotes from

567
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 2: other athletes after Lindsay's crash, that set a tone on

568
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,439
Speaker 2: the day, you know, where of course there's still a

569
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Speaker 2: podium to celebrate, but no one wanted to see that.

570
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the announcers were talking about just how common it

571
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Speaker 1: is for their injuries, for their to be crashes. Yeah,

572
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,919
Speaker 1: for athletes like the one following Lindsay to have to

573
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Speaker 1: stay in the gates for a really long long time

574
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 1: while they tend to an injured athlete, that it's not

575
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Speaker 1: that abnormal and that just reminds you again, and you

576
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,680
Speaker 1: mentioned winter sports in general. There's like that meme where

577
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Speaker 1: it's like the Summer Olympics who can run the fastest,

578
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: and then the Winter Olympics is like who can make

579
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Speaker 1: it to the bottom of this ice slide of death

580
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,399
Speaker 1: and not perish? Or who can make it around the

581
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Speaker 1: rink without getting their hands sliced off by someone else's

582
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 1: feet blades? Like winter sports in these Olympics are just insane.

583
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Speaker 1: They're just incredibly dangerous and wild and sort of I

584
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Speaker 1: don't know, I blame the Swedes and the Nords and

585
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: whoever else invented most of them.

586
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, speaking at the injuries, Steve Preno, who's

587
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Speaker 2: a reporter for NBC Sports and was doing on site

588
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 2: reporting during this event, you know, he mentioned something about

589
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Speaker 2: how many athletes have ACL injuries among that group, and

590
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Speaker 2: it made me ask, okay, well, what about the top

591
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,399
Speaker 2: ten finishers here? And so I actually ended up crunching

592
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Speaker 2: the numbers. So if the women that finished in the

593
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Speaker 2: top ten of this downhill event on Sunday, at least

594
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Speaker 2: six have torn their ace once and some of them

595
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 2: have torn an ACL.

596
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Speaker 1: More than once.

597
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 2: Now a few of them have escaped an acl injury,

598
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 2: but that does not mean that they have steered clear

599
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 2: of any injury. For example, Norway's kis of vicoff Lee,

600
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Speaker 2: she ended up finishing seventh. Back in twenty twenty one,

601
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Speaker 2: she had an absolutely horrific crash and I'm gonna just

602
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Speaker 2: read a short quote from her Instagram. She wrote on

603
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Speaker 2: Instagram quote, I broke my tibia and my fibilla between

604
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Speaker 2: the two upper buckles in my boot. In addition, I

605
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Speaker 2: got a compression fraction in the tibia plateau that also

606
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 2: caused damage to my meniscus. Therefore, they had to take

607
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 2: a piece of bone from my hip to add to

608
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 2: the top of my leg, and so the meniscus. Furthermore,

609
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 2: one of my teeth got kicked and locked in the

610
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 2: wrong position for eight hours, So that leaves me with

611
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 2: three plates in my leg to hold the bones together,

612
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 2: plus a dead tooth. After three weeks, in new pictures,

613
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 2: we found a few small bone pieces under my knee

614
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 2: that made it impossible for me to fully straighten out

615
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 2: my leg. So this week I underwent a small surgery

616
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Speaker 2: and got them out. Just a pit stop on the way,

617
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Speaker 2: and I'll try to keep you guys more updated end quote.

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Speaker 1: Mom glad she escaped an ACL.

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Speaker 2: Injury wild and then Sane gets right back on the snow.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy. Yeah, I mean I was thinking about it,

621
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Speaker 1: and we were talking about this. I said, imagine this sport.

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Speaker 1: You have Lindsay Vaughn, who in the weeks leading up

623
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: to this was skiing some of the best she's ever

624
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: skied in this return, was on covers of magazine, was

625
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: doing deep dive profiles all over ESPN and other multiple outlets,

626
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: was doing sort of GQ type fashion show, combo interviews,

627
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: had even post ACL tear gotten this rally cry around her.

628
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: I saw, you know, famous folks like Reese Witherspoon and

629
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Speaker 1: other athletes posting this graphic of Lindsay next to Believe

630
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: Bee and then LV for Vaughan. And just what was

631
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: really hard was the quote still showed up in my

632
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: social media from ten to twelve hours ago when she

633
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 1: was raised today. People posted them last night and my

634
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: social feeds were still seeing them that were like, Lindsay

635
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 1: Vonn's gonna give everything she has, Lindsa Vaughn says she

636
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: can leave nothing on the slopes, you know, blah blah blah.

637
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: All these all these quotes and then for the result

638
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: to be seconds of a race, just seconds and not

639
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,239
Speaker 1: just mere seconds of the race. But it's not like

640
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: Megan Rapino yiating her achilles in the middle of the

641
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: final game, where then she waves to everyone on her

642
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: way off. Lindsay vonn went from I'm at the top

643
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: of the gates. Everyone is screaming my name at the bottom.

644
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: Two people are waving up at a helicopter that is

645
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 1: literally flying her away up into the mountains. That is

646
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: a wild sport, Like you're not just injured, You're in

647
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 1: a cocoon flying high above the crowd that was just

648
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: hoping to be greeting you at the bottom. Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think about how in a lot of sports,

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Speaker 2: right when somebody gets injured, you see them walk off

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Speaker 2: the field and people stand up in a plot, and

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Speaker 2: we saw some of that from the audience, but it's

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Speaker 2: it's different when you get helicoptered away. There's not that

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Speaker 2: kind of moment of closure of seeing them wave to you.

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Speaker 2: You know, you just feel for their families where they're

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Speaker 2: so helpless down in the stands as their family member

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Speaker 2: gets taken away, and you know, you just hope that

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Speaker 2: they're okay and that the people are looking out for

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Speaker 2: them and doing their best to help them.

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Speaker 1: And producer Bianco, I think you said that there was

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Speaker 1: like extra care for safety somehow at this Olympics.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there are new rules at this Olympics from FISS,

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Speaker 5: the global governing body, that have been implemented over the

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Speaker 5: past few years, because it unfortunately can get a lot

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Speaker 5: worse than acl tears when it comes to these sports.

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Speaker 5: There have been a couple of deaths in the sport

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Speaker 5: over the past couple of years. In twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 5: Italian alpine skier Matilde Lorenzi died after a crash, and

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Speaker 5: then just last year two more people died, French alpine

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Speaker 5: skier Margo Simon and Italian Mateo Franchoso. These were all

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Speaker 5: during training crashes, so not competition, but following the deaths,

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Speaker 5: FISS has made cut resistance in undergarments mandatory across all

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Speaker 5: events that will help protect against sharp skis in crashes,

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Speaker 5: help protect against possible nerve damage and bleeding that could

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Speaker 5: come from that. And then everyone in the speed events

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Speaker 5: so downhill and super g now has to wear smart

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Speaker 5: air bags.

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Speaker 1: Have you guys heard of these? Nope?

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Speaker 2: I have, actually, but it's been a few years, so

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Speaker 2: catch me up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So they fit like a vest underneath an athlete suit,

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Speaker 5: and then they inflate during or before a detected crash

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Speaker 5: based on GPS and motion sensors in the vest. And

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Speaker 5: Lindsay Vaughn was one of the first, actually years ago,

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Speaker 5: to start wearing these smart air bags. This told me

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Speaker 5: that thirty to sixty percent of athletes were wearing them

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Speaker 5: before they became mandatory. But this is the first Olympics

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Speaker 5: that they're mandatory. So those measures hopefully help prevent injuries

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Speaker 5: from going you know, past acl obviously acl is or

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Speaker 5: any of these injuries we're talking about. These are not

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Speaker 5: trivial injuries, but preventing the damage from going any further

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really fascinating, And again, it just adds to

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Speaker 1: the incredible bravery of these athletes that they take on

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Speaker 1: a sport where they're being told whatever risks you already

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Speaker 1: thought you had, we're thinking it's even worse, and we're

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Speaker 1: going to have to keep implementing even more safety measures

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Speaker 1: so that we can protect you and family and fans

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Speaker 1: and everybody else.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: One other aspect of this Alex that you brought up

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Speaker 1: almost immediately was just how hard this must be for

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Speaker 1: Breezy Johnson, who wins gold and has this incredible backstory,

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Speaker 1: but has to balance that with not just Lindsay Vaughn

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Speaker 1: not having the fairy tale ending so many we're hoping for,

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Speaker 1: but really having a traumatic, dangerous, nasty crash and no

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Speaker 1: outcome that Breezy could know on the slopes while she's

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Speaker 1: trying to be excited about her own performance.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I really feel for Breezy because I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: she has known Lindsay for a really long time, has

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Speaker 2: worked with Lindsay, has gotten advice from Lindsay, and Breezy

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Speaker 2: is an athlete who has had really hard journey herself.

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Speaker 2: I remember she first popped onto my radar about ten

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Speaker 2: years ago. And in downhill, it actually usually takes athletes

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Speaker 2: a little while to cook, right. You have to kind

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Speaker 2: of get used to the different courses, gain some experience,

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Speaker 2: and so it's typical that athletes have been on the

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Speaker 2: circuit for a few years before they really break through,

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Speaker 2: and for Breezy, she struggled with that. You know, she

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Speaker 2: made her Olympic debut back in twenty eighteen, and then

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Speaker 2: later that same year she partially tore her right ACL,

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Speaker 2: and then after returning she tore her left PCL and MCL,

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Speaker 2: and then in the lead up to the last Olympics

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, you know, she was going at

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Speaker 2: a pretty good rate, and then she got injured again

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Speaker 2: in January, just one month before the Games, and then

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Speaker 2: she ended up serving a fourteen month suspension due to

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Speaker 2: whereabouts violations related to like the anti doping system. And

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Speaker 2: she's just somebody where it's like, you've seen her career

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Speaker 2: a roller coaster, up and down and up and down,

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Speaker 2: and finally in the last year things have really come

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Speaker 2: for her, and I'm sure she wants to be so

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Speaker 2: happy for herself. And yet in the lead up to

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Speaker 2: a lot of it appropriate and well deserved given her

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Speaker 2: career and her legacy and what she was attempting to do.

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Speaker 2: But Breezy has been a metal condender all this time.

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Speaker 2: And you just feel for an athlete when they're at

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Speaker 2: the Olympics, on the world's biggest stage and they're maybe

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Speaker 2: not getting the spotlight that they should be getting, while

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Speaker 2: of course balancing it with the fact that this is

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Speaker 2: a huge story with what's happened to Lindsay Vaughn.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope Breezy gets to enjoy it and gets

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Speaker 1: interviewed about herself and her own journey, in addition to

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Speaker 1: of course the question she's going to get about Lindsay

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Speaker 1: Vonn and some really kind of sweet revenge for her

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Speaker 1: when it comes to this particular course, because Cortina is

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Speaker 1: where she suffered the knee injury just before the last

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Speaker 1: Olympics that prevented her from competing. So coming back to

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Speaker 1: this same place having an incredible run in winning gold,

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Speaker 1: I hope that's a story that gets talked about as well.

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Speaker 1: I know we'll also talk about Lindsay Vonn. Speaking of

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Speaker 1: the Alpine region. We have made it to a new

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Speaker 1: area of Italy. We're going to talk a whole lot

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Speaker 1: more about what's to come here in the Lavigno area.

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Speaker 1: We're staying in Valdadentro, very close by. We took a

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Speaker 1: train and two buses to get here, but lots more

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Speaker 1: on the area we're in to come. Just to say

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Speaker 1: that it's Super Bowl Sunday, here in Italy, and it's

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Speaker 1: pretty wild that, first of all, we've been so busy

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Speaker 1: we aren't eating meals, not to mention, like hanging out

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Speaker 1: on our phones and looking at pregame coverage or hearing

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Speaker 1: anything about it. The one message I got was from somebody,

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Speaker 1: an angel City owner who's out here, who asked if

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Speaker 1: I might try to meet up in the mountain somewhere

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Speaker 1: at midnight to watch. And I was like, I don't

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Speaker 1: think that's going to work. I don't think we're in

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Speaker 1: the same area. But yeah, Super Bowl Sunday, it's very weird.

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Speaker 1: It's definitely the weirdest Super Bowl Sunday I will have, Alex.

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Speaker 1: The Super Bowl is a game played at the end

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Speaker 1: of the NFL season, which is a football season, which

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Speaker 1: is a sport played by men.

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Speaker 2: I'm consuming about as much Super Bowl coverage as I

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Speaker 2: normally do. I bet that's the perfect amount for me

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Speaker 2: on our way out here.

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Speaker 1: I want to mention because we haven't been on our

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Speaker 1: phones very much. We've been at the events and doing work.

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Speaker 1: We haven't caught as much of the Olympic social media

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Speaker 1: posts that are coming through, either from you know, aggregate

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Speaker 1: sites or from athletes themselves. So this is where we

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Speaker 1: need your help, slices. And since we're on a completely

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Speaker 1: different continent, I think it's fair that we move the

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Speaker 1: good gameplay of the day to a different part of

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Speaker 1: the show. So here it is. We always love that

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Speaker 1: you're listening, but we want you to get in the

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Speaker 1: game two every day. So your good gameplay of the

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Speaker 1: day is to tell us who we should be following

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Speaker 1: that we might not be. Who are the athletes that

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Speaker 1: have emerged putting out good content. What are some of

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Speaker 1: your favorite videos and posts that you've seen so far

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Speaker 1: from these Olympics. Send them our way. You would be

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Speaker 1: surprised to hear how many we probably haven't seen over here.

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Speaker 1: So we would love that. All right, we have to

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Speaker 1: take a break when we come back, adopt a sexy plant.

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Speaker 1: subscribe a rate and review. It's easy watch Skater Madeline

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Speaker 1: Skiz is excellent upgrade of the dog Ate My homework

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Speaker 1: excuse rating one of one way to get out of

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Speaker 1: doing your assignment review. Twenty two year old Canadian figure

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Speaker 1: skater Madeleine Skeezes, who Alex and I saw compete on Friday,

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Speaker 1: isn't just a world class skater. She's also a senior

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Speaker 1: at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, and she's earning a BA

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Speaker 1: in environment in Society. On Saturday, she shared a screenshot

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Speaker 1: of an email she sent one of her professors, reading quote,

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Speaker 1: I am a student in your sociology to FF three course,

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Speaker 1: and I'm wondering if I could get a short extension

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Speaker 1: on this week's reflection. I was competing in the Olympic

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Speaker 1: Games yesterday and thought the reflection was due on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: not Friday end quote. She also included a link to

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Speaker 1: the press release confirming her participation in the Winter Games, which,

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Speaker 1: first of all, how big is this class, and how

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Speaker 1: is it possible that the professor doesn't know that she's

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Speaker 1: away for the Olympics and would already be like, yes,

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Speaker 1: I know your name and that you are an Olympian,

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Speaker 1: But thank you for the press release link. Secondarily, if

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Speaker 1: that excuse doesn't work these days, you're not getting away

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Speaker 1: with the old Oops. I accidentally stapled the cover page

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Speaker 1: for this class to an assignment for my other class

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Speaker 1: move which I never did, but plenty of my friends did.

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Speaker 1: Skiz has followed up on Sunday writing quote, since it

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Speaker 1: seems everyone was quite invested, I did get my extension. Lol.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe anyone cared so much good learning lesson

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Speaker 1: about the spotlight of the Olympics. End quote. Sure is Madeline,

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Speaker 1: And now that you know, use the attention to your advantage.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, ask for some free shit from your

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Speaker 1: favorite clothing brand, or try to get some backstage passes

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Speaker 1: to meet your favorite musician. Like you're an Olympian. You

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Speaker 1: gotta milk that shit. I know, why would oh? Also

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Speaker 1: one final note on Madeline. She's one of many athletes

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Speaker 1: who have adopted a plant from the Corona sh Alley

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Speaker 1: and the Athlete Village. We told you about that nice

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Speaker 1: relaxing space full of tons of like plants and yoga

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Speaker 1: mats and things to lay on while the athletes get

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Speaker 1: to take the plants while they're at the games and

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Speaker 1: take them back to the rooms and nurture them. And

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Speaker 1: then they also get a pack of seeds when they

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Speaker 1: leave to grow the same plant at home, and Madeline

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Speaker 1: named her plant Ilia in honor of heated rivalry. I

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Speaker 1: hope she grabbed a rigid pine. That's a real plant.

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Speaker 1: You'll get your heads out of the now. It's your turn,

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