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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we virtually

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Speaker 1: attended the funeral Simone Biles held for the Yurchenko double

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Speaker 1: pike rip. On today's show, we'll shed light on a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of success at the Paralympics. Put you in

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Speaker 1: a suite at the US Open and reveal a footy

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Speaker 1: name twin submission from one of your slices. It's all

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Speaker 1: coming up right after this. Welcome back, my little slices.

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Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know today. A lot of

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Speaker 1: Paralympic news. In para equestrian American Rebecca Heart, a five

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Speaker 1: time Paralympian, won her first individual medal and get this,

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Speaker 1: it's the big one. Heart earned a gold in Grade three,

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Speaker 1: which is for athletes with severe impairments in both legs

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Speaker 1: but minimal or no trunk impairment per the AP. After

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Speaker 1: the event ended, Heart took a moment to soak it

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Speaker 1: all in. She said, quote, it's been twenty five years

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Speaker 1: of trying to get to this point and being close

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Speaker 1: many many times to actually get it. I feel like

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Speaker 1: It feels like a dream. End quote. Doesn't that just

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Speaker 1: pull out your heart strings some more para Equestria for you.

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Speaker 1: Twenty five year old American Fiona Howard made the most

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Speaker 1: of her Paralympic debut, winning gold with a personal best

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Speaker 1: score in the Grade two individual competition. That's for folks

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Speaker 1: with severe impairment of the trunk and minimal impairment of

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Speaker 1: the upper limbs or moderate impairment of the trunk, upper

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Speaker 1: and lower limbs. Howard's not done either. She's got two

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Speaker 1: more chances to medal this week. Today, she and her

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Speaker 1: USA counterparts compete in the team event, and on Saturday

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Speaker 1: she's in the freestyle competition. And three time Paralympian Rock

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Speaker 1: Sane Toronto won a silver medal in the Grade one

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Speaker 1: equestrian competition for athletes with severe impairments affecting all four

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Speaker 1: limbs in trunk. This is her third medal. She previously

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Speaker 1: won two golds in Tokyo. So much success for the Americans.

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Speaker 1: In at You Love It. On the Track, Susanna Scaroni

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Speaker 1: earned bronze in the women's fifteen hundred meter T fifty four.

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Speaker 1: It was a thrilling race. A crash in the last

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Speaker 1: Scarni herself hit the inside rail on the last curve,

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Speaker 1: but she was able to recover. Switzerland's Catherine de Brunner

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Speaker 1: in a Paralympic record, and Great Britain Samantha Kinghorn took

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Speaker 1: silver to the pool, where Christy Roley Crossley won gold

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Speaker 1: in the one hundred meter backstroke S nine final, finishing

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Speaker 1: in the process. Raleig Crossley adds that medal to the

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Speaker 1: silver they won in the fifty meter freestyle. Team USA's

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Speaker 1: LeAnn Smith also added to the metal hall, winning gold

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Speaker 1: in thee hundred meter freestyle S three. Smith had an

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Speaker 1: especially tough road to reach Paris. Two years ago. She

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Speaker 1: was forced to spend seven months out of the pool

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Speaker 1: after she was admitted to the ICU with a collapse lung.

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Speaker 1: Congrats to her on quite a comeback. In sitting volleyball,

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Speaker 1: the US swept Italy in three sets and now advances

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Speaker 1: to the semi final for the sixth straight time. Set

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Speaker 1: Set three was all USA. The quest for a third

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Speaker 1: straight Paralympic gold medal in the sport continues against Brazil

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Speaker 1: on Thursday, and in wheelchair basketball, US is onto the

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Speaker 1: knockout round. They faced Great Britain in the quarterfinals today

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Speaker 1: at ten a m Eastern. The US duo of Rose

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Speaker 1: Hollerman and Courtney Ryan have led the way for Team

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Speaker 1: USA so far, both averaging exactly thirteen point seven points

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Speaker 1: per game. To Hockey News, PWHL, Minnesota announced that Melissa

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Speaker 1: Caruso will take over as general manager. Crusoe, a Saint

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Speaker 1: Paul resident, spent fifteen years working in the American Hockey League.

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Speaker 1: She began as an intern right out of college and

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Speaker 1: eventually worked her way into a role as the league's

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Speaker 1: Vice president of Hockey Operations and Governance. Crusoe fills the

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Speaker 1: According to the Athletic Minnesota parted ways with Darwit's due

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Speaker 1: We're going to take a quick break. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: move a muscle, Welcome back. If you listen to yesterday's show,

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Speaker 1: hang in a suite with our friends at ELF Cosmetics.

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Speaker 1: ELF has entered a long term partnership with Billy Jean

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Speaker 1: the top international team competition in women's tennis, kind of

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Speaker 1: like the Women's World Cup of Tennis. ELF is also

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Speaker 1: But back to Tuesday, some pretty incredible former tennis grades

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Speaker 1: that they shared. And one thing you'll notice, Billy Jean

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Speaker 1: King is a common thread in all of these bits,

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Speaker 1: I always call Billy Jean King the Forest Gump of

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Speaker 1: women's sports because every story you hear she eventually pops up.

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Speaker 1: It's like women's hockey. We weren't sure what to do.

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Speaker 1: We called Billy Jean King women's soccer. We weren't sure

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Speaker 1: Jean King. She's absolutely the best, and you'll hear her

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Speaker 1: Slam winner Lindsay Davenport talking about being a young player

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Speaker 1: putting herself in the mindset of winning first at the

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Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety six. I was twenty years old.

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Speaker 3: We were at the Olympic Games in Atlanta. Billy was

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Speaker 3: And long story short, I found myself in the final

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Speaker 2: I was gonna be playing for the gold medal.

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Speaker 3: Obviously really heavy stuff like a day before the final

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Speaker 3: The other story that is really funny with Billy is

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Speaker 3: Billy Jean King Cup Finals. Renee was there actually with us,

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Speaker 1: Mad That is some breaking news, y'all. Pressure is a

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Speaker 1: privilege is basically Billy's best bar and Lindsay was the

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Speaker 1: one who inspired it, which is too cool. And now

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Speaker 1: Lindsay's in a position to duel out similar words of

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Speaker 1: wisdom as she is the new US captain for the

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Speaker 1: time Grand Slam winner and host of the Renee Stubs

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Speaker 1: tennis podcast right here and I Hurt Women's Sports talked

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Speaker 1: to the crowd, and here's Renee sharing her own fond

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Speaker 4: Billy Jean Kingcup for me, it was literally my favorite

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Speaker 4: I was a great teammate all week, you know, playing

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Speaker 4: But it was honestly, the joy I got from winning

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Speaker 4: Sell to players about getting out there and playing Billy

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