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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where I'm halfway

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Speaker 1: to Philly with unrivaled in my sights. If you're listening

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Speaker 1: to this on your way to the festivities, keep an

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Speaker 1: eye out for me and say hey. It's Friday, January thirtieth,

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Speaker 1: And on today's show, our new look Big Citrus is

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Speaker 1: celebrating exactly one week until the opening ceremony of the

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Speaker 1: Milan Courtina Olympics with PowerPoint Party number two. Now, if

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Speaker 1: you missed our Pride themed audio only PowerPoint presentations last year,

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Speaker 1: buckle up for a fact packed infolaid and ride through

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Speaker 1: all sixteen Winter Olympic sports. Oh yeah, this is the

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Speaker 1: Olympics one on one episode. We promised you get pumped.

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Speaker 1: Plus a legend retires, reputation rehab goes awry, and a

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Speaker 1: few final Friday fatopigos. It's all coming up right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, Slaicays. Here's what you need to know today.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with soccer and the news that an all

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Speaker 1: time great is hanging them up. Crystal dun a US

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Speaker 1: women's national team standout who also played professionally for six clubs,

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Speaker 1: most recently Paris sager Man in France has announced her

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to embrace the life that awaits me. On

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Speaker 1: the other side, I look forward to spending more time

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Speaker 1: with my family and being a more present mom. This

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Speaker 1: was not a decision made lightly, but was one made

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Speaker 1: with immense gratitude for everything I've experienced as a professional

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Speaker 1: soccer player end quote. Dunn's legacy goes way back. She

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Speaker 1: played college soccer for the North Carolina tar Heels, winning

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Speaker 1: best player in twenty twelve. A year later, in twenty thirteen,

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Speaker 1: went on to make one hundred and sixty appearances, scoring

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Speaker 1: sparingly last season for PSG. She also plays the damn

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Speaker 1: flute and has the cutest kid Honestly, there's just so

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Speaker 1: much I could say about one of the greats on

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Speaker 1: and off the field, and I highly recommend you read CAITLINN.

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Speaker 1: Murray's in depth ESPN piece on Done back in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one. She writes about her goals to inspire black

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Speaker 1: women players for versatility, playing forward at defense, and so

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Speaker 1: much more. We'll link to it in the show notes

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Speaker 1: so you could check it out. Congrats to Crystal for

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Speaker 1: an absolutely legendary career. We can't wait to see the

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Speaker 1: ways you managed to stick around and continue improving the

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Speaker 1: game to tennis. The Australian Open Singles final is officially set.

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Speaker 1: After historic run for the Americans. The final, US player

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Speaker 1: Jessica Pagula, was ousted in the semi finals by Elena Rabakina. Rebakkana,

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Speaker 1: She also took out world number two Egos Fayontec on

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Speaker 1: she'll face her toughest opponent yet, world number one Arena Sablenka.

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Speaker 1: The Sablenca Versus Rebakana final is the rematch of the

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Speaker 1: to hockey, Wednesday was the final night of PWHL action

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Speaker 1: your fave players because all eight PWHL teams will be

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Speaker 1: time for our first Big Citrus in Gosh. I don't

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Speaker 2: Hey Sarah, Hey Alex. I'm here because you guys hired

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Speaker 1: And I'm here because I'm getting paid.

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Speaker 2: I have been a sports journalist for the past about

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I'm to be here so excited for my

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say field hockey, it's it's got a little

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Speaker 1: of both. Bianca, you missed our first PowerPoint presentations. We

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Speaker 1: and we're back again for PowerPoint Party number two, this

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Speaker 1: one hour long, promised Olympics one on one episode where

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Speaker 4: I almost want to say, there needs to be a rule.

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Speaker 3: Once an Olympic researcher, always an Olympic research You're like

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Speaker 3: So Mikayla has won five of those in her career,

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Speaker 3: The title of this presentation is called Women can now

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Speaker 3: in Beijing. She was a really strong metal contender, was

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Speaker 3: doing well, especially in the one thousand meter distance, and

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Speaker 3: ended up getting taken out in a crash during the

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Speaker 3: final lap of the final of that race, and just

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Speaker 3: a really, really tough situation for her, but excited to

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Speaker 3: see her back and.

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Speaker 4: Hopefully things go well with her.

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Speaker 3: This is a sport personally that I don't think I

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Speaker 3: would sign my hypothetical kids up for because it just

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Speaker 3: seems like so much is out of your control with

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Speaker 3: all of the crashing.

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Speaker 4: But I can appreciate why people like it. I just

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Speaker 4: think it seems pretty rough on the psyche.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my imaginary kids are not doing short track speed skating.

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Speaker 1: Forget imaginary kids. I'm not doing any of these.

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Speaker 4: I have been.

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Speaker 2: Thinking that I would only do most of these sports

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Speaker 2: in a virtual simulation. That is my only touch point personally,

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Speaker 2: I would do it virtually.

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Speaker 4: But Banka's not getting on a loose doubletour otherwise, I

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Speaker 4: don't know.

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Speaker 1: The loose was the only one that sounded appealing to

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Speaker 1: me the way you described it. Now you were really

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Speaker 1: selling it.

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Speaker 2: I mean ice hockeys, So gay, I would go for it.

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Speaker 1: That's the only one. Amazing job, Alex. And also we

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Speaker 1: know that your brain contains so much more information than that,

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Speaker 1: so managing to rein it in and keep it nice

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Speaker 1: and tight, we really appreciate that. All right, Bianca, your

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Speaker 1: first ever big Citrus No pressure whatsoever. Perfect, I'm ready.

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Speaker 2: So I am going the opposite route of Alex. Perhaps

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Speaker 2: I'm going to try and describe some of these sports

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Speaker 2: with as few words as possible, because while I was

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Speaker 2: given five sports, the first one is kind of like.

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Speaker 1: Seven or eight sports in one.

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Speaker 2: So we're going to start with freestyle skiing and snowboarding,

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Speaker 2: and there's a ton of different events.

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Speaker 1: So let's go speed round.

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Speaker 2: First up is Moguls steep mountain with bumps and jumps,

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Speaker 2: a lot of speed, dual moguls. Knew this year at

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Speaker 2: the Games. Multiply what I just said by two. Next

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Speaker 2: to aerials, okay, acrobats on skis, big ramp, cool tricks, stick.

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Speaker 1: The landing following, yes, following.

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Speaker 2: Next to ski cross and also snowboard cross. To me,

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Speaker 2: this is like rainbow Road but.

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Speaker 1: Amazing.

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Speaker 2: Shout out Mario Kart okay.

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Speaker 1: Also fun fact, the voice of the X Games snow

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Speaker 1: Cross video game is me. So if you ever play

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Speaker 1: the snow Cross X Games video game and you get

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Speaker 1: on the little snowmobile thing and you're doing Rainbow Road,

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Speaker 1: it is I who is saying cool trick, neat jump,

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Speaker 1: way to go, Sarah.

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Speaker 4: Ever since you told me that fun fact.

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Speaker 3: I have it in my phone and whenever I go

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Speaker 3: to a new arcade, which I'm not an arcade person,

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Speaker 3: but basically, whenever I go to a bowling alley that

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Speaker 3: has an arcade, I go and check and see if

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Speaker 3: they have your game.

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Speaker 4: And I have not yet been successful.

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Speaker 1: I do too, and I've only found it once so far.

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Speaker 2: That is incredible and definitely worth interrupting. Freestyle skiing and snowboarding.

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Speaker 1: Okay, moving on is slope.

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Speaker 2: Style, which is kind of like an obstacle course, kind

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Speaker 2: of like ski and snowboard cross, but just turn the

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Speaker 2: volume way up to me. This is like what you

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Speaker 2: might see in Olympics street skateboarding, but on a.

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Speaker 1: Mountain and with snow.

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Speaker 4: That's my reference point.

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Speaker 1: Halfpipe.

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Speaker 2: I feel like we know this one. It's peak Winter Games,

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Speaker 2: possibly has the highest cool factor and this is where

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Speaker 2: you're gonna see Chloe Kim if she has kept her

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Speaker 2: shoulder in the sling and the brains yes, which we

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Speaker 2: can only hope.

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Speaker 1: I have faith.

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Speaker 2: And then lastly, here is big Air.

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Speaker 1: Okay, name really says it all.

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Speaker 2: Big Ramp, big air tricks, lamb done on skis and snowboards.

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Speaker 1: You nailed that Yeah, well, Yank.

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Speaker 3: I feel like you are a little bit of like

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Speaker 3: a cheat sheet that you want to bring into an

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Speaker 3: exam where it's like you don't want to write down

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Speaker 3: all of the words that you need, you just need

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Speaker 3: those like little reminders.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like a great, great legacy to me cheat sheet

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Speaker 2: for an exam. Moving on to snowboarding, So we covered

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Speaker 2: a lot of the snowboarding events there, but there is

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Speaker 2: one more called parallel giant slalom. Think of what Alex

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Speaker 2: was talking about with slalom, but it's two snowboarders racing

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Speaker 2: down parallel tracks at the same time. The US is

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Speaker 2: sending one woman for this event. It's her first time

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Speaker 2: going to the Games. Her name is Iris Flohm. And

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Speaker 2: I'm really excited about this, but I'm more excited about curling.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: This sport is one that I actually have personally tried

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Speaker 2: for the first time a couple of months ago, and

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Speaker 2: the basic goal is to get your team stones as

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Speaker 2: close to the target as possible. But the target is

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Speaker 2: really called a house and the center of it's really

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Speaker 2: called a button. But if you're watching on TV, it's

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Speaker 2: the thing that just looks like a bull sye.

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Speaker 1: Horizontal darts horizontal darts, and it's a very loud sport.

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Speaker 1: The leader of the team, called the skip, is often

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Speaker 1: yelling at the people and I love that energy.

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Speaker 2: I love that the US women's team skip is Tabitha Peterson.

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Speaker 2: She's the leader. She's gonna be the one you can hear.

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Speaker 2: It's called Team Peterson. And one fun fact that I

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Speaker 2: really want to talk about with curling is the stones themselves.

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Speaker 2: So all of the athletes that you see at the

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Speaker 2: Olympics will be using the same curling stones, just like

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Speaker 2: basketball players get basketballs provided that to them and stuff

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Speaker 2: like that. And these stones are so specific. They come

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Speaker 2: from an island off of Scotland called Elsa Craig, and

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Speaker 2: this island produces the perfect granite for curling stones. And

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Speaker 2: it is fascinating that they have discovered the most specific

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Speaker 2: source for this most specific purpose. Granted from this island

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Speaker 2: only goes to making curling stones. It's incredible. The sport

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Speaker 2: of curling is also from Scotland. Okay, that's a fun

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Speaker 2: fact that I would use to impress my friends with.

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Speaker 2: Whether it would impress them or not, it's up to them.

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Speaker 2: But moving on to skeleton, which I do think the

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Speaker 2: name is appropriate. It's as scary as the name suggests.

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Speaker 2: It's held on the same ice track as bob sled

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Speaker 2: and luge, but this is the one that's face first.

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Speaker 2: So athletes are sprinting, jumping onto their stomachs, going up

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Speaker 2: to eighty five miles per hour. Friend of the show,

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Speaker 2: Misty grow is the one to watch here. She's a

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Speaker 2: former track and field athlete and good to know. Last

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Speaker 2: year she became the first American in eight years to

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Speaker 2: win a medal at the skeleton World Championships when she

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Speaker 2: took home silver. It's also one of the oldest sports skeleton.

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Speaker 1: I did not know about that, and it was out

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Speaker 1: of the Olympics for.

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Speaker 2: Years because of the danger. It was reintroduced in two

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Speaker 2: thousand and two. And then lastly on my list, not

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Speaker 2: least making its Olympic debut, is ski mountaineering. I also

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Speaker 2: love the origin story of this one because it was

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Speaker 2: originally just a practical way to get around and get

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Speaker 2: through mountainous regions. And basically, athletes are going up and

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Speaker 2: down a mountain, and when they go up, they're putting

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Speaker 2: the skis on their back and trekking through the snow,

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Speaker 2: and when they go down. Of course, they put the

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Speaker 2: skis on their feet and ski down. There are individual

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Speaker 2: races and also mixed relays where a couple of athletes,

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Speaker 2: a man and a woman, do a couple loops of

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Speaker 2: the course. But just the fact that this did start

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Speaker 2: as such a practical thing and now is in the

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Speaker 2: Olympics made me think what other practical activities could be sportified.

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Speaker 1: And be in the Olympics. I've got one coming up.

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Speaker 2: You do just you wait, okay, well then I'll hand

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Speaker 2: it over you. That's it for me.

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Speaker 1: I have a final question about that. Are there trees

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Speaker 1: on the course?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: Is it a mountain full of all the regular mountainous

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Speaker 1: things like boulders and trees and stuff? And isn't that

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Speaker 1: freaking terrifying that you would be racing and trying to

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Speaker 1: win a medal while potentially just like guessing wrong on

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Speaker 1: how fast you're going and sunny Bonoit. It's core.

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Speaker 2: There's a course, so you're not just going up in

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Speaker 2: Uncleared Mountain. I would still only do this in a

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Speaker 2: virtual siling. Going down any mountain on skis is terrifying

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Speaker 2: to me. But I do not think anyone's going to

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Speaker 2: run into.

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Speaker 1: A tree okay, no trees. Good to know, good to

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Speaker 1: know an economy of words from Bianca. Well done. I

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Speaker 1: hope to achieve that. I doubt that I will, but

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try. I'm gonna start with biathlon. I start

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Speaker 1: with a little history, and then a little how, and

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Speaker 1: then a little who. So. Biathlon originated in Scandinavian the

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Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds, first in the Olympics in nineteen twenty four

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Speaker 1: as a demonstration sport called military patrol. This is how

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Speaker 1: I finally understood why we have an event with rifles

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Speaker 1: in the Olympics, because they had these officers and soldiers

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Speaker 1: doing it, and then it eventually became an official part

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Speaker 1: of the Olympics in nineteen sixty. Women have been included

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Speaker 1: since ninety two. Competition will take place at an International

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Speaker 1: Biathlon Center about an hour north of Cortina. Now the

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Speaker 1: sport combines two events, rifle shooting and cross country skiing

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Speaker 1: Fato figo. Fun fact. Sometimes when I say I do

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Speaker 1: have tathlon, people say the one with the gun. I say, no,

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Speaker 1: that's this biathlon, okay. Competitors race on a track and

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Speaker 1: then they stop for a shooting test during each lap,

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Speaker 1: where they fire at five different targets, sometimes standing and

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Speaker 1: sometimes lying down. They are not allowed to take off

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Speaker 1: their skis when they're shooting, and there are very strict

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Speaker 1: rules of how they have to carry the rifle throughout competition, obviously,

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Speaker 1: you know shooting up as for hitting the targets. In

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Speaker 1: some races, if you miss a target, you have to

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Speaker 1: race an extra one hundred and fifty meter penalty loop.

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Speaker 1: In some races you get an extra minute added to

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Speaker 1: your time. There are four main event formats, individual sprint, pursuit,

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Speaker 1: mass start, and relay, and the distances for the women

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Speaker 1: range from set and a half kilometers in the sprint

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Speaker 1: all the way up to fifteen kilometers in the individual race.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna link to the nitty gritty details of each

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Speaker 1: event in the show notes because there's way too much

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Speaker 1: for me to do in this PowerPoint presentation. Not so,

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Speaker 1: Figo Fato. The biathlon remains the only Winter Olympic event

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Speaker 1: that the US has never won a medal in. Yes, somehow, inexplicably,

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Speaker 1: we have come up short in the only Winter Olympic

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Speaker 1: sport with a fucking gun. Yeah, how America make it

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Speaker 1: makes sense?

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Speaker 3: Listen, We're not very good at the summer sport of

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Speaker 3: shooting either fair fair fair fair whole accuracy thing not

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Speaker 3: so great.

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Speaker 1: America's best hope to change that, dedra Irwin. She took

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Speaker 1: seventh place in the fifteen k individual event at the

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Speaker 1: Beijing Games. That's the best individual biathlon finish ever for

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Speaker 1: Team USA at the Winter Olympics. All right, Moving on

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Speaker 1: to Bob's sled also known as Bob's lay, we usually

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Speaker 1: call it bob sled. This was invented by the Swiss

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Speaker 1: in the late eighteen sixties and it got the name

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Speaker 1: because the way people like bobbed as they were trying

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Speaker 1: to get the sled started and get some power and

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Speaker 1: speed as they were taken off. Men have competed since

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Speaker 1: the very first Games in nineteen twenty four. Women's events

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Speaker 1: weren't added till two thousand and two. Wolf competition will

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Speaker 1: take place at the newly rebuilt Sliding Center in Cortina,

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Speaker 1: two women bobsled, which was introduced in two thousand and two,

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Speaker 1: breaking all on her own that debuted in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Now Olympic bobsled races take place over four heats across

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Speaker 1: two days. The times are all added together for a

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Speaker 1: total time. The lowest slash fastest time wins Fato Figo.

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Speaker 1: That first year of women's bobsled competition in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and two saw Jill Bochin and Vanetta Flowers of the

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Speaker 1: US win gold. You might remember us talking about Vannetta

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Speaker 1: Flowers before because she is the first black athlete from

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Speaker 1: any country to win gold at the Winter Olympic Games America. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Bob's led athletes steer by using ropes that are connected

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Speaker 1: to the front runners of their mostly enclosed sled. That's

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Speaker 1: different than say Lujins skeleton, where you're using your body

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Speaker 1: weight and stuff like that to try to maneuver. If

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Speaker 1: that will be used for all three of those events,

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Speaker 1: seventeen hundred and forty five meter track that they'll use

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Speaker 1: in Cortina, Ken Childs, who runs the great site Sliding

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Speaker 1: on ice dot com, posted a mildly terrifying video from

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Speaker 1: a skeleton racer's body cam going down the entire course,

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Speaker 1: with some details about the sixteen curves and their different

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Speaker 1: names and all that, so we'll link to Ken's thread

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Speaker 1: in the show notes. I also just want to quickly

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Speaker 1: point out that the Washington Post getting tons of credentials

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Speaker 1: for the Winter Games and then saying they're not sending

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Speaker 1: anyone and then deciding we will send a few people

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Speaker 1: resulted in people like Ken, who have covered multiple Olympics

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Speaker 1: and who focus on these events year round not getting

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Speaker 1: a credential. So few Washington Posts for using a bunch

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Speaker 1: of credentials that you're not actually sending people with. And

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Speaker 1: apologies to Ken because he does great work and thanks

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Speaker 1: for the year round work that he does do. Okay,

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Speaker 1: back to Bob's led, the US has had great success

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Speaker 1: in this this should be no different This year. Team

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Speaker 1: USA will be led by five time Olympic medal as

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Speaker 1: friend of the Show Alana Myers Taylor, three time Olympic

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Speaker 1: champion Kaylee Humphrey's Bombruster and monobob world champion Cash'll Love,

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Speaker 1: already the most decorated black athlete in Winter Olympics history.

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Speaker 1: With another medal at these Games, Myers Taylor would tie

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Speaker 1: Bonnie Blair, Yeah, Bonnie Blair for the most Winter Olympic

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Speaker 1: medals by a US woman ever, and if she medals

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Speaker 1: in both two men and monobob, she would stand alone

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Speaker 1: at the top with seven Olympic medals. Pretty sick, all right,

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Speaker 1: figure skating, y'all. There is so much to figure skating,

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Speaker 1: but I'm going to try to keep this as simple

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Speaker 1: as possible. This actually made its Olympic debut at the

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Speaker 1: Summer Games in nineteen oh eight and again in nineteen

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Speaker 1: twenty before joining the Winter Games for its first installment

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Speaker 1: in nineteen twenty four, making it one of the six

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Speaker 1: sports that have appeared in every Winter Games. Men's and

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Speaker 1: women's singles and pair skating have been competed at every edition.

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Speaker 1: Ice dance was added in nineteen seventy six. Team competition

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Speaker 1: introduced in twenty fourteen. This competition will take place at

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Speaker 1: the Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan, and alex and

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Speaker 1: I will catch a little bit of this. The men's,

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Speaker 1: Women's and Paris competitions feature two events, so you have

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Speaker 1: a short program there's some mandatory technical elements in there,

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Speaker 1: and then a longer free program with mandatory technical elements

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Speaker 1: but also more freedom in the execution of them, and

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Speaker 1: skaters get to choose their own music for both of

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Speaker 1: those events. Dance is a little different. Dance doesn't include

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Speaker 1: the certain technical elements like jumps and overhead lifts and stuff.

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Speaker 1: And also the competitions feature a rhythm dance and a

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Speaker 1: free dance. Now, the music genre for the short program

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Speaker 1: is chosen each year by the International Skating Unit, and

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Speaker 1: this year it is music, dance, styles and feeling of

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Speaker 1: the nineteen nineties. Let's go, this is going to be incredible. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Flato figo ice dancers have to compete a difficult set

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Speaker 1: of spinning one foot turns where they're moving across the

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Speaker 1: ice in unison, and they're called twizzles. This is my

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Speaker 1: new favorite word. Okay. The scores for each of the

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Speaker 1: figure skating events are decided by a panel that determines

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Speaker 1: the level of execution of the technical elements and then

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Speaker 1: a panel of nine judges who decide the quality of

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Speaker 1: the execution of those elements aka the technical element score,

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Speaker 1: And they also decide the quality of the other artistic

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Speaker 1: components of the program that's the artistry score. This is

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Speaker 1: where the Russian judge always comes in. Anyway, some of

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Speaker 1: the scores determines the winner at the end of the

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Speaker 1: two rounds. US has been dominant in figure skating, and

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Speaker 1: this year's team is stacked. Husband and wife ice dancing

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Speaker 1: duo Madison Chock and Evan Bates have won the last

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Speaker 1: three World Championships and the last five US Championships, but

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Speaker 1: an Olympic medal has eluded them fourth times. The charm

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Speaker 1: here's hopin they're also dancing to a Lenny Kravitz medley

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Speaker 1: for that ninety shit. I can't go wait. The trio

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Speaker 1: of single skaters that we got Amber, glenn isabel Leveto

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Speaker 1: and Alyssa Lou have named themselves the Blade Angels, and

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Speaker 1: they've already won the hearts of America with their support

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Speaker 1: of each other and how we're freshingly authentic they are

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Speaker 1: just the vibes are immaculate. Glenn is the US champ

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Speaker 1: three years running. Lou is the reigning World champ. She's

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Speaker 1: the first American women to win that event in nearly

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Speaker 1: two decades. For a fun look at these gals, super

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Speaker 1: fun it's in the format of a romcom trailer. Check

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Speaker 1: out the link to the US figure skatting video that

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Speaker 1: we put in the show notes. Definite must watch. Okay,

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Speaker 1: and then we have ski jumping. Men's ski jumping originated

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Speaker 1: in Norway in eighteen sixty. The sport was contested at

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Speaker 1: the very first Winter Games, but a women's event wasn't

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Speaker 1: added for can you Guess? Can You Guess? Ninety years

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and five. Two thousand and five, the

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Speaker 1: president of the International Ski Federation said ski jumping quote

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Speaker 1: seems not to be appropriate for ladies from a medical

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Speaker 1: point of view. Yep, the old uterus is falling out.

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Speaker 1: Excuse cool, cool, cool cool, So anyway, women's shorthill arrived

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Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen. The mixed team event made its to

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Speaker 1: Olympics debut in twenty twenty two, and knew this year

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Speaker 1: is the women's large hill. Now fliverers crossed that a

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Speaker 1: bigger hill won't be the thing that finally pops out

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Speaker 1: of womb after centuries of unfounded hysteria and exactly zero

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Speaker 1: reproductive organs strewn across the field to play fato figo.

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Speaker 1: The root of the word hysteria is esteria Greek for womb,

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Speaker 1: from the seventeenth century medical belief that being frantic, irrational,

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Speaker 1: and widely emotional was caused by dysfunctions of the uterus. Cool.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, all, am, My anxiety would be solved with a

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Speaker 3: little baby in my tummy.

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Speaker 1: A baby, or just get rid of that whole uterus.

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Speaker 1: Al clearly that's the problem, because men have never been hysterical,

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Speaker 1: not once in the history of time. Competition for this

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Speaker 1: is going to take place at the Pradazos Ski Jumping Stadium.

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Speaker 1: It's about two hours southwest of fourteen. Now ski jumping,

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Speaker 1: you've seen it. Athletes slides down a curved ramp and

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Speaker 1: at the bottom they fly into the sky, aiming to

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Speaker 1: land as far away as possible. But it's not just

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Speaker 1: the length of the jump that counts. Size does matter,

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Speaker 1: but so does style. Athletes are judged on things including

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Speaker 1: the stability of the skis during the jump, body position,

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Speaker 1: and landing, with a final ranking determining the winners. Women

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Speaker 1: could beat a normal hill individual, large hill individual, and

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Speaker 1: mixed team. Now, the US women have never meddled in

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Speaker 1: ski jumping, and this year's team, featuring all Olympic rookies,

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Speaker 1: would probably need a miracle to change that. Anaica Bellshaw's

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Speaker 1: the highest ranked American woman on the World Cup circuit

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Speaker 1: at twenty ninth. She'll be joined by Josie Johnson and

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Speaker 1: friend of the show page Jones.

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Speaker 4: I mean maybe they need a miracle or a souped

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Speaker 4: up suit.

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Speaker 1: Ooh, somebody hit the crotch machine. You know, if you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, somebody rigged the crotch machine. And let's get

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Speaker 1: a fucking.

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Speaker 4: Medal squirrel suit. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Finally, speed skate aka long track speed skating, what began

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Speaker 1: in the sixteen hundreds as a way to get across

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Speaker 1: frozen lakes Bianca scheme mountaineering shout out, eventually became a

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Speaker 1: competitive sport, and it made its Olympic debut at the

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Speaker 1: first Winter Games in nineteen twenty four, with women's speed

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Speaker 1: skating officially added in nineteen sixty. Now, if you didn't notice,

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Speaker 1: athletes wear these special skates with a really long blade,

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Speaker 1: and there's a hinge at the back that allows their

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Speaker 1: heel to raise up without the blade leaving the ice.

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Speaker 1: Long track speed skating takes place on a two lane

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Speaker 1: four hundred meters long track, so same size as an

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Speaker 1: Olympic track and field oval, and there are three kinds

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Speaker 1: of events, individual in which two athletes race at a time.

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Speaker 1: Fastest time once everyone has competed wins. Women race the

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Speaker 1: five hundred thousand, fifteen hundred, three thousand, and five thousand,

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Speaker 1: and then Team Pursuit. Two teams of three athletes race,

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Speaker 1: starting at opposite ends of the track, and their time

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Speaker 1: is marked by whenever the last of the three competitors finishes. Now,

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Speaker 1: remember there's two lanes, so they're not going to run

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Speaker 1: into each other at any point. They're just starting from

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Speaker 1: opposite sides, and they'll pass each other along the way

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Speaker 1: en route to the finish line. Finally, mass start to

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Speaker 1: twenty four competitors start at the same time and compete

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Speaker 1: in a sixteen lap race. Whoever crosses the finish line

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Speaker 1: first wins. Now leading the US are Aaron Jackson and

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Speaker 1: Britney Bow. Britney Bow, friend of the Show and girlfriend

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Speaker 1: to hockey great Hillary Knight, Skates and gay shit y'all,

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Speaker 1: hell yeah. This will be Bo's fourth Olympics, and the

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Speaker 1: thirty seven year old has already announced that this will

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Speaker 1: be her last. Over the course of her career, she's

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Speaker 1: won ninety one World Cup medals, twenty two national titles,

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Speaker 1: six world titles, and four world records. She's got two

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Speaker 1: Olympic bronze medals, one in the team pursuit and one

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Speaker 1: of the thousand meters. Can she finally get gold?

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Speaker 4: Don't put pressure on her, Sarah.

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Speaker 1: The whole Olympics is pressure, alex life is pressure. Pressure

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Speaker 1: is a privilege.

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Speaker 2: Ooh, pressure is a privilege. Shout out to that US

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Speaker 2: Woman's National team campaign.

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Speaker 1: Yes and originally BJK way back when everything goes back

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Speaker 1: to Billy Jean King just like Forrest Gump. Aaron Jackson

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two became the first black American woman to

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Speaker 1: win an Olympic speeds getting medal and the first black

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Speaker 1: woman to win an individual Winter Olympic gold. This will

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Speaker 1: be her third Games, and you all remember the heartwarming

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Speaker 1: story of Aaron Jackson failing to qualify and then both

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Speaker 1: giving her her spot in her race, and then that's

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Speaker 1: what she won Golden. Y'all. This team is amazing and

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Speaker 1: that's it. That's my presentation. Amazing sponsored by Micromachines.

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Speaker 4: Sarah. I have to say, I was talking to a

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Speaker 4: friend last night and she was.

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Speaker 3: Like, Sarah's one of the only voices that when I

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Speaker 3: listened to podcasts, I don't have to speed up. She

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Speaker 3: listens to you at normal speed because you just sound

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Speaker 3: sped up.

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Speaker 4: Already.

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Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, I don't think you can

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Speaker 1: do me at one and a half speed, but you

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Speaker 1: could try.

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Speaker 2: I think Sarah got through as much that Alex got through.

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Speaker 4: But in the time that I think, there we.

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Speaker 1: Go, they were all fine presentations. I feel so much smarter.

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Speaker 3: We are not going to conclude this though, by saying

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Speaker 3: that's everything you need to know about the Olympics, because

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Speaker 3: as a former slash current Olympic researcher myself, nothing bothered

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Speaker 3: me more than stories. I would say that, and then

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Speaker 3: I would open it and I'm like, no, it's not

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Speaker 3: There's so much more you need to know.

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Speaker 1: Alex.

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Speaker 2: Are you saying there's more to moguls than just bump

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Speaker 3: Are you questioning my knee separation, Bianca knee separation?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, great point, great point. There is never going

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Speaker 1: know about and that's an accurate statement, much like there

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Speaker 1: never will be a BuzzFeed quiz that actually does indeed

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Speaker 1: restore my faith in humanity, especially in the year twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six. But we did our best. You learned a lot,

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Speaker 1: and don't you worry because Alex and I are headed

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Speaker 1: over to Italy, where we will teach you so much

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Speaker 1: more about the magic of the Olympics, from events to

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Speaker 1: everything else. Who I'm spent. We gotta take a quick

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Speaker 1: break when we come back the final Friday Fought so

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Speaker 1: fieagle ben Tornado, speechee dranca. Welcome back, slices. It's time

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Speaker 1: for the final pre Olympics edition of our weekly segment,

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Speaker 1: Friday Fato Figo, which loosely translates by me to Friday

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Speaker 1: fun Facts. Now will of course be giving you an

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Speaker 1: endless amount of fun facts all games long. But this

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Speaker 1: is the last installation before Producer Alex and I are

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Speaker 1: in Italy, live in La delcha vita, never to be

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Speaker 1: confused with livin la vida loca. Today, with just one

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Speaker 1: week until the opening ceremony on February six, we're going

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Speaker 1: to pull at your heartstrings with a look back and

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Speaker 1: a look ahead. First, a moment for Bruno and Dario.

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Speaker 1: Now you remember in our first Fato Figo, I introduce

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Speaker 1: you to the adorable mascots for these Olympics, Milo and Tina,

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Speaker 1: a pair of qu little stoates too que. But I'm

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Speaker 1: now convinced that there's another duo better suited to serve

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Speaker 1: as the mascots for the upcoming Games, ninety three year

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Speaker 1: old Bruno Colli and eighty eight year old Dario Pivarado

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Speaker 1: Fato Figo. These tool Badgers recently participated in the Olympic

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Speaker 1: Torch relay for a third time. They each first carried

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Speaker 1: the torch in the Cortina Dempezo Olympics in nineteen fifty

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Speaker 1: six and again in the Turin Games in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and six, and now ahead of these twenty twenty six Olympics,

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Speaker 1: Still up and move in at ninety three and eighty eight.

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Speaker 1: Move over Milo and Tina, and I can't believe I'm

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Speaker 1: saying this. Move over Connor Story and Hudson Williams. These

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Speaker 1: games belong to Bruno and Dario. We'll link to some

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Speaker 1: photos and videos of the duo so you can get

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Speaker 1: a little emotional about the whole full circle nature of

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Speaker 1: it all. I mean, the history there so cool. And

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Speaker 1: if you're not crying after that, maybe a look to

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Speaker 1: the future we'll get you because starting with the Milan

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Speaker 1: Courtina Olympic Games, billionaire Ross Stevens is promising two hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars to every single US Olympic at Paralympic athlete,

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Speaker 1: even if they don't win a medal. Per a story

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Speaker 1: in the Wall Street Journal, quote half will come twenty

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Speaker 1: years after their first qualifying Olympic appearance or at age

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Speaker 1: forty five, whichever comes later, and the other one hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars will be in the form of a guaranteed

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Speaker 1: benefit for their families after they pass away. End quote.

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Speaker 1: Upon announcing his gift, which totals one hundred million dollars,

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Speaker 1: Stevens said, quote, I do not believe that financial insecurity

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Speaker 1: should stop our nation's elite athletes from breaking through to

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Speaker 1: new frontiers of excellence. End quote. The so called Stevens

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Speaker 1: Award is designed to last through at least the twenty

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Speaker 1: thirty two Brisbane Olympics. Just thinking about what that could

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Speaker 1: mean for athletes and their families, a whole generation of

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Speaker 1: the nation's best. Hell of a lot better way to

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Speaker 1: spend your pile a dough than on a Penis rocket

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Speaker 1: or a doomsday layer. Good for you, Stevens. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go ahead and not google you, though, so this good

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Speaker 1: feeling doesn't go away. When I learned how you made

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Speaker 1: all those billions of dollars. And that's the final Friday

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Speaker 1: fut do fiego. We look forward to bringing you so

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Speaker 1: much more from Italy. We always love to hear from you.

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Speaker 1: Hit us up on email, good game at Wondermedia network

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Speaker 1: dot com or leave us a voicemail at eight seven

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Speaker 1: two two oh four fifty seventy and don't forget to subscribe,

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Speaker 1: rate and review. It's easy watch the bell Alp which

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Speaker 1: is Downhill, rating five out of five stars, What a

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Speaker 1: Ghostly Scene review. About a week and a half ago,

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Speaker 1: the blattin bell Alp Ski resort in Switzerland held its

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Speaker 1: annual Bellalp Witch's Downhill, where skiers take to the slopes

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Speaker 1: and pointy hats and capes, some with their faces painted green,

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Speaker 1: all carrying brooms as they make their way down the mountain.

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Speaker 1: The annual race, which has been held for more than

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Speaker 1: forty years, is inspired by a local legend about a

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Speaker 1: woman accused of witchcraft centuries ago. Per the female quotient

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Speaker 1: quote depending on the telling, the witch was blamed for

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Speaker 1: everything from magical mischief to forbidden affairs and ultimately executed,

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Speaker 1: making her one of the earliest women accused during Switzerland's

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Speaker 1: witch trials. End quote. Now forty years later, maybe it's

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Speaker 1: a little icky to profit off the legacy of this

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Speaker 1: executed witch. But at the same time, the sight of

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Speaker 1: all these witchy women skiing down the mountain kind of

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Speaker 1: does make a smile. And as the female quotient mentioned,

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Speaker 1: hell of an option for a girls trip. Now it's

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Speaker 1: your turn, rate and review. Thanks for listening, See you

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Speaker 1: next week. Good Game Alex and Bianca, Good Game Bruno

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Speaker 1: Jesse Katz, Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder. Our editors are

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