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Speaker 1: especially in gymnastics and swimming, and adding new events like

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Speaker 1: flag football, across and cricket leaves more room for elite

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Speaker 2: Including the Stars and the Stripes.

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Speaker 1: Baby.

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Speaker 2: As we transition towards Los Angeles hype, here are some

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Speaker 2: of the top athletes to watch in the twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: eight Olympics.

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Speaker 1: We got Kitlyn Clark be sure to have taken away bo.

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Speaker 2: We've got Kaitlyn Clark.

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Speaker 1: That coin, the former number one overall WNBA draft pick,

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Speaker 1: missed out on the Paris Olympics team narrowly despite being

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Speaker 1: fresh out of college having a little pro basketball experience

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Speaker 2: That's what we forget. I mean, she's been such a

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Speaker 2: star for a while that like you're like, oh right,

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Speaker 2: she has technically not been pro for that long, right,

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Speaker 2: but she is now the face of the league becoming

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Speaker 2: it arguably whatever you want to say, I think she's

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Speaker 2: a damn star and for women's sports as a whole,

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Speaker 2: and has her track for a spot on the twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty eight roster.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm not talking about the actor from you are

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Speaker 1: when I say Anthony Edwards, listen up. The Paris Games

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Speaker 1: felt like a farewell tour for the lebron James, Steph

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Speaker 1: Curry and Kevin durant Era. If Team USA is turning

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Speaker 1: the page, this twenty four year old Edwards looks like

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Speaker 1: the centerpiece of the next chapter.

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Speaker 2: Keep an eye on him. Let's get French. Victor Wembinyama

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Speaker 2: was instrumental in taking his home country France all the

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Speaker 2: way to a silver medal at the Paris Games. Would

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Speaker 2: be no surprise for France to make another deep run

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Speaker 2: with him leading the charge, and of course, why wouldn't he.

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Speaker 2: He's seven foot three point five inches.

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Speaker 1: My Lord Sidney McLaughlin, Levrony gold medals and Sydney have

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Speaker 1: become basically synonymous. Already one of the most dominant track

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Speaker 1: athletes of her generation. Hmmm, we have a name that

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Speaker 1: sounds like an actor from the pit, but not. Noah

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Speaker 1: Lyles had a shortened time in Paris because he contracted

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Speaker 1: the disease known as COVID nineteen, but he still won

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Speaker 1: two medals. He won golden one hundred meter and bronze

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Speaker 1: the two hundred. He is on track to once again

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Speaker 1: proved he's indeed the fastest man alive. And I'm going

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Speaker 1: to change my name to Mondo Duplantis Olympic gold medalist

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Speaker 1: turned pole vault into a primetime event, and why should

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Speaker 1: we not expect it to happen again in twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: Representing Sweeten. Duplantis is one of the many international familytes

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Speaker 1: ready to bring their flair to the US movement to

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Speaker 1: start calling Sweden Sweeten, Sweeten from Sweden.

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Speaker 2: I have a cousin who lives in Sweden.

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Speaker 1: And you know who's back and pretty much the face

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Speaker 1: of the game's BO. That's Katie Ledecki. Uh huh, that's right.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, with fourteen Olympic medals, nine of which are gold,

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Speaker 1: four from silver, and one bronze. But we don't talk

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Speaker 1: about her. We're looking to add to that total. She's truly, truly,

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Speaker 1: truly coming for it again. She's the most decorated female

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Speaker 1: US Olympian.

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Speaker 2: Get into it.

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Speaker 1: All our cousins from around the world will be gathering

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Speaker 1: in the summer of twenty twenty eight for the Olympic

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Speaker 1: Games BO, this time under that California sun.

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Speaker 2: And they'll all be fighting a way mo because that's la.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Everyone's gonna be in the way most on the

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Speaker 1: way to the stadium, Like it's just gonna be a

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Speaker 1: total breakdown.

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Speaker 2: Either you're fist fighting the way mo from within or

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Speaker 2: you're in front of it, just punching the glass. Not good,

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Speaker 2: None of it not good.

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Speaker 1: So we look ahead to July twenty twenty eight, Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles will finish preparing, the Olympic stage will be set,

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Speaker 1: and the Olympic flame will once again light up the

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Speaker 1: City of Angels. And with that bow, looks like we

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Speaker 1: reached the end of season two of two Guys, five rings.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any final words, final thoughts?

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Speaker 2: I do. I am so grateful that we got to

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Speaker 2: do this again. First time around felt like a wonderful,

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Speaker 2: beautiful way in for the Olympics. With us, we have

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Speaker 2: an amazing team. Really, they are remarkable and not making

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Speaker 2: us feel like the idiots we are when it comes

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Speaker 2: to sports and many other knowledge areas in this world.

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Speaker 1: In fact, we just want to announce that they all

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Speaker 1: get gold medals. So thank you, Barb, thank you, Sean,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Vince, thank you, Jason, thank you, Kurt. Gold

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Speaker 1: medals all and gold medal.

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Speaker 2: To you, Bo, gold medal to you, Matt.

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Speaker 1: Thanks and.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to see what the next Winter Olympics, even

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Speaker 2: having stored the French Alps in twenty thirty. Now, what

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Speaker 2: about you, matt Any. Closing thoughts, I.

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Speaker 1: Just really so grateful to be able to have done

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Speaker 1: this and to have gotten to go to the Olympics themselves,

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Speaker 1: a true experience of a lifetime.

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Speaker 2: I will never forget.

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Speaker 1: And I do feel comfortable judging ice dancing now. So

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Speaker 1: I do want to say, like, unless we do this

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Speaker 1: podcast again and we're super super busy, I am available

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Speaker 1: to be a judge, and I will look at that

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Speaker 1: French judge in her eyes and I will say I

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Speaker 1: see you, mama. To avenge Madison and Oven, you could

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Speaker 1: say that that's that's a perfectly noble cause.

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Speaker 2: So that when someone asks.

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Speaker 1: You what inspired you to judge with the I sushire you.

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Speaker 1: What's a judge? I'll say revenge, revenge, Lily, I've been

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Speaker 1: looking for revenge because at the words, it's a wonderful

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Speaker 1: motivation to get in the rings. Revenge is the best medicine.

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Speaker 2: I'll show him. Revenge is the best medicine. She wanted

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Speaker 2: to say, revenge is the best revenge. I think.

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Speaker 1: Revenge. Revenge is the best medicine. Of laughter is the

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Speaker 1: best medicine. And there's a like a good life or

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Speaker 1: something is the best revenge or whatever. Revenge is a

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Speaker 1: dish best served cold. Like, there's a lot of revenge

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Speaker 1: and medicine and laughter all sort of dance around each other.

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Speaker 1: So but I've made something new when I say revenge

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Speaker 1: is the best medicine.

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Speaker 2: It's not a common expression, but I think you're just

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Speaker 2: combining to other common ones, and I really celebrate your alchemy. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: all right, thank you all for listening, and uh, maybe

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Speaker 2: we'll see you next time. Who knows, We'll see where

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Speaker 2: the state of podcasting is in two years.

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Speaker 1: Tell us in the comments if you think we should

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Speaker 1: come back.

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Speaker 2: Just kidding, don't, don't, don't. We've we've heard your cries

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Speaker 2: and protest. Well, signing off, This is Bell and Yang and.

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Speaker 1: Matt Rogers, and we end every episode with that familiar

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Speaker 1: year old song, Oh yeah, what inspired you?

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Speaker 2: Just kidding,