Speaker 1: Welcome to Stories for Kids by Lingo Kids, where we
Speaker 1: discover fascinating facts about the world around us and the
Speaker 1: fun of play learning. Today is part five in a
Speaker 1: very special Lingo Kids mystery series. Lisa, Cowie, Elliott and
Speaker 1: Billy are searching for the thief who stole the Olympic torch.
Speaker 1: A trail of clues have led them from a small
Speaker 1: French town to the tallest building in all of Paris,
Speaker 1: Eiffel Tower. Will they find the torch up there? Let's
Speaker 1: find out? It's so tall, Billy says, the Eiffel Tower
Speaker 1: was the tallest building in the whole world when it
Speaker 1: first opened.
Speaker 2: Wow, why did they make it so tall?
Speaker 1: It was built for the World's Fair one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty years ago. And guess what a small some iron
Speaker 1: from the Eiffel Tower will be in every metal for
Speaker 1: the Paris twenty twenty four Olympics.
Speaker 3: That's so cool. Yeah, but how do we get up there?
Speaker 3: No one will win.
Speaker 4: A minute if we can't find the torch.
Speaker 1: Billy says, it's easy. We just take the elevator.
Speaker 2: Uh uh oh is that the line from the elevator?
Speaker 1: I'm afraid so the Eiffel Tower is very popular. Sometimes
Speaker 1: the line for the elevator can be hours long.
Speaker 3: But we don't have time to wait.
Speaker 1: Billy says, we can take the stairs instead stairs.
Speaker 3: How many stairs are there?
Speaker 1: Approximately one thousand, six hundred and sixty five stairs, but
Speaker 1: only six hundred and seventy four to the second platform only.
Speaker 3: Will never make it.
Speaker 1: That does sound hard, but do you remember what we
Speaker 1: learned from all the Olympic athletes we met. They do
Speaker 1: really hard things every day to train for the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Lingo Kids listeners, do you have any ideas to help
Speaker 1: the Lingo Kids' friends make it to the top.
Speaker 2: Three?
Speaker 4: Like when we've learned how free like a swimmer yep
Speaker 4: home and train with the team.
Speaker 1: Friends, help you go faster?
Speaker 4: True? Oh oh, I thought of one stretch body, Yeah,
Speaker 4: we got this.
Speaker 3: Everyone, let's stretch and.
Speaker 4: Blind fifty seven, sixty eight, sixty nine, seventy we're doing it,
Speaker 4: two forty five, two forty six to forty seven.
Speaker 3: It's almost there. Dress to.
Speaker 5: Chukch hop four one four two four oh three out
Speaker 5: six seventy two.
Speaker 3: Six seventy three, six seventy four. We made it.
Speaker 4: Wait the coueam. Does anyone see the torch.
Speaker 1: Billy says he doesn't see the thief or the torch anywhere.
Speaker 3: Me neither. But look out the window. Wow, you can.
Speaker 2: See every sang from up here.
Speaker 3: I think I see the louver.
Speaker 2: Hey, we were just there, so beautiful. Look at all
Speaker 2: the flags everywhere.
Speaker 1: Those are Olympic flags, Cawi. From way up here, you
Speaker 1: have a great view of the Olympic sports field and
Speaker 1: stadiums all along the side.
Speaker 3: Cool. Wait, what's the sin?
Speaker 1: The Sin is the river that runs right through the
Speaker 1: center of Paris.
Speaker 3: Oh, there's sure are a lot of boats on it.
Speaker 4: Okay, everyone, terrace is beautiful, but we need to focus.
Speaker 3: We have a thief to catch. We don't have time
Speaker 3: for sight seeing.
Speaker 2: A Lisa's right.
Speaker 3: We have to keep looking. But I'm tired, My feet hurt.
Speaker 4: Your beef is too sneaky, Cowie. We can't give up now, Yeah, Calie,
Speaker 4: we have to dry.
Speaker 2: You try. I'm gonna just say here and Enjoyd's beautiful view.
Speaker 2: Ah hey, look at that.
Speaker 3: What what is it? Cowie?
Speaker 2: That oats?
Speaker 3: It has no frame on it.
Speaker 4: The fee he must be escaping across the sand river.
Speaker 4: Oh no, you don't, you sleeky thae to the sin
Speaker 4: alone sea.
Speaker 1: Billy says, that's the spirit Cowie.
Speaker 3: We made it. I see his boop. A thief is
Speaker 3: almost across the sand. Oh no, what will we do?
Speaker 3: Don't worry everyone, I have a plan.
Speaker 4: I'll swim across the end and catch the thief.
Speaker 3: I am a really good swimmer. Here, hold my shoes.
Speaker 6: I don't think that that that's a great idea. The
Speaker 6: ten is not a very safe place to swim. It
Speaker 6: isn't definitely not. There are too many boats, for one thing.
Speaker 6: Even I wouldn't swim here. And I swim a lot.
Speaker 3: By you. I swim.
Speaker 6: I I am, and I used to compete at the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Lisa, this is Missy Franklin. Missy competed in her first
Speaker 1: Olympics when.
Speaker 2: She was only seventeen years old.
Speaker 1: She won five gold medals.
Speaker 2: Wow, how long have you been swimming?
Speaker 6: So I've been swimming since I was six months old,
Speaker 6: and I just turned twenty nine, so I've been swimming
Speaker 6: for twenty eight years and six months.
Speaker 2: He was really loved swimming.
Speaker 6: I've loved swimming my whole life, and so even when
Speaker 6: I was five years old, I was drawing pictures of
Speaker 6: myself on top of an Olympic podium with the gold medals.
Speaker 6: So being a swimmer but also being an Olympian was
Speaker 6: a dream and goal of mine for my and.
Speaker 3: Your drawings came true.
Speaker 4: You actually did make it to the Olympic podium.
Speaker 1: Were you so happy?
Speaker 6: Being on the podium at the Olympic Games and winning
Speaker 6: a gold medal was one of the most special moments
Speaker 6: of my life. Being able to hear my national anthem
Speaker 6: and knowing that I had accomplished something not just for
Speaker 6: myself but for my team and for my country meant
Speaker 6: the world to me.
Speaker 3: You must be so fast, missy. How fast are you
Speaker 3: at swimming?
Speaker 6: I don't think anyone's ever just asked how fast I
Speaker 6: am at swimming. But the best way I could think
Speaker 6: to answer how fast I am at swimming is that
Speaker 6: at one point in the two hundred back show, which
Speaker 6: was my best event, I was the fastest woman to
Speaker 6: have ever swimmed that event in the history of this party.
Speaker 2: Oh ye, super fast.
Speaker 4: Well I've not quite that fast, but I am a
Speaker 4: good swimmer, So why can't I just jump in?
Speaker 6: Comes to safety around the water is there's no such
Speaker 6: thing as being totally water safe. Even I am not
Speaker 6: totally water safe. It is so important to make sure,
Speaker 6: especially as a kid, that you have an adult or
Speaker 6: guardian that is there that knows you're getting in the water,
Speaker 6: and that we'll be watching and paying attention to the
Speaker 6: whole time. Never ever, ever get in the water alone.
Speaker 2: I won't, Missy me neither.
Speaker 3: That makes sense.
Speaker 4: But if it's not safe for us to swim in
Speaker 4: the sin, how will we get across?
Speaker 6: I think I can help you with that.
Speaker 2: Oh, do you have your own boat or a helicopter?
Speaker 6: Even better, I have a bridge.
Speaker 3: Follow me.
Speaker 6: The bridge is just down the river. You can cross safely.
Speaker 3: There a bridge.
Speaker 4: That is a much better idea than swimming.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Missy Franklin.
Speaker 3: My pleasure.
Speaker 6: I hope you all enjoy the Olympic Games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we hope so too.
Speaker 1: Today the Lingo Kids' friends climbed six hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: four stairs to search for the thief in the Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 1: They didn't find the Olympic torch, but they did get
Speaker 1: a really good view of Paris and spotted the thief
Speaker 1: escaping across the Sene River. Olympic swimmer Missy Franklin helped
Speaker 1: them find a safe way across the river without getting wet.
Speaker 1: Will they finally catch the thief on the other side.
Speaker 1: Join us next time to find out