Speaker 1: We made it to this.
Speaker 2: Looks like a lot of people made it to Paris.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like all those basketball players. How did they even
Speaker 3: fit on the subway car?
Speaker 2: They're so tall?
Speaker 4: Pass I'm over.
Speaker 2: Oh it's up, Lissa.
Speaker 5: What Welcome to Stories for Kids by Lingo Kids, where
Speaker 5: we discover fascinating facts about the world around us and
Speaker 5: the fun of play learning. Today is part four of
Speaker 5: our Olympic Mystery series. The Lingo Kids' friends have just
Speaker 5: arrived in Paris. They are trying to find their way
Speaker 5: to the louver to search for the thief who stole
Speaker 5: the Olympic torch. But when they come out of the
Speaker 5: metro station, all they can see is a group of
Speaker 5: very tall basketball players. Alonzi, I got it, I got it.
Speaker 4: Here you go. Nice throw.
Speaker 3: Thanks, I've been practicing.
Speaker 4: Keep it up.
Speaker 6: Maybe you'll make it to the Olympics someday.
Speaker 4: Like us is an Olympic basketball Keeay? Yeah, well sort of.
Speaker 6: I mean, we're all basketball players and we're all going
Speaker 6: to the Olympics, but we're on different teams.
Speaker 3: You are, but why are you all together? Aren't you
Speaker 3: like enemies?
Speaker 4: Don't you want to win enemies?
Speaker 7: No, we're just doing a little sight seeing before the games, Lisa.
Speaker 7: Competing for medals is a big part of the Olympic Games,
Speaker 7: but so is making new friends from all over the world.
Speaker 4: Oh, in fact, there's someone I want you to meet.
Speaker 5: Kim Gosher is a Canadian professional basketball player, an Olympian.
Speaker 4: And a basketball coach.
Speaker 5: She will be back at the Paris twenty twenty four Olympics,
Speaker 5: but this time as a coach of the Canadian women's
Speaker 5: three by three basketball team. That is so cool.
Speaker 3: Basketball. What's it like to be on a real basketball
Speaker 3: team so.
Speaker 6: Your team can help get the best out of you
Speaker 6: every single day? I would say your teammates almost become
Speaker 6: even closer than friends. They're like family. Lots of times
Speaker 6: you spend even more time with your team than you
Speaker 6: do with your family. When you're trying to become an Olympian,
Speaker 6: it takes a lot of hard work in practice, so
Speaker 6: your teammates are the ones that you're spending every single
Speaker 6: day with.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite thing about playing basketball?
Speaker 6: I knew I wanted to be an Olympian since I
Speaker 6: was like eleven years old and watched the senior women's
Speaker 6: national team practice. So I tried to qualify for the
Speaker 6: Olympics for twelve years before I actually made it there.
Speaker 6: It was on Canada Day, which is our national holiday,
Speaker 6: on July first, twenty twelve, and we won that game,
Speaker 6: and it was the most euphoric, prideful, insanely incredible feeling
Speaker 6: that I've ever had as an athlete. To have your
Speaker 6: childhood dreams finally realize my best basketball memory ever.
Speaker 3: Do you want to coot and holler and cheer you
Speaker 3: on when you're playing?
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I mean, first of all, it's so much
Speaker 6: fun to play in front of a big crowd, But
Speaker 6: when your teammates cheer you on, it means a little
Speaker 6: something more, I think because they're the ones that have
Speaker 6: seen your growth, and when you hear it from them,
Speaker 6: I think it gives you a little bit more of
Speaker 6: a boost because you want to be the best that
Speaker 6: you can be for your team.
Speaker 3: Wow, Kim, And is it fun to be a coach?
Speaker 6: I think one of the coolest things being a coach
Speaker 6: is having my daughter Sophie grow up around incredible role
Speaker 6: models and so every day she's able to come to
Speaker 6: practices and she's surrounded by these strong women who show
Speaker 6: her what you can be. And I love that for.
Speaker 4: Her how much noshe?
Speaker 3: What should I do if I want to be really,
Speaker 3: really good?
Speaker 6: I would say, chase your passion in life, find what
Speaker 6: makes you happy, find what makes your your heart smile,
Speaker 6: and work as hard as you can. Is it not
Speaker 6: everybody can be a professional, But there's so many different
Speaker 6: avenues in sport. To be surrounded by the things that
Speaker 6: you love to do.
Speaker 4: I want my heart to smile, me too.
Speaker 5: Billy has one more question for you, Coach Gosher. Which
Speaker 5: way to the Louver?
Speaker 4: It's that way. Hey, we're heading there too.
Speaker 6: Race you there?
Speaker 8: Ooh.
Speaker 1: I don't think we'll win this race.
Speaker 2: Me neither. Well, we might make some new friends on
Speaker 2: the way.
Speaker 8: Just to se.
Speaker 1: We made it.
Speaker 2: The Louver looks like a castle.
Speaker 4: It's beautiful.
Speaker 2: Hmmm, it looks more like a pumid to me.
Speaker 4: A puman may have class.
Speaker 5: Elliott, I think you are talking about the imp pyramid.
Speaker 4: That big glass pyramid in the courtyard of the Louver
Speaker 4: is actually a piece of art and the main entrance
Speaker 4: to the museum.
Speaker 3: There must be a lot of art inside the loover.
Speaker 4: It's enormous.
Speaker 3: Well, I know they have my painting in there.
Speaker 4: Lisa, do you have a painting? In the louver.
Speaker 3: Yep, the mona Elisa. Okay, but does anyone see a torch?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: But look all the arts painting outside.
Speaker 4: Paris is famous for its street painters. Cowi. In Paris, you.
Speaker 5: Can enjoy artwork inside and outside the museums.
Speaker 3: Paris is a city of art. Yet lots of it
Speaker 3: in here. But right now we need to find the torch.
Speaker 1: Look, there's painting has so many pre flowers in it, Cowie.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, and this one has a cute old dog
Speaker 1: under an umbrella. Elliot, here's one of the glass pyramids,
Speaker 1: if even has the fire on top.
Speaker 3: Wait what, Elliott, there's not a fire on the Iya
Speaker 3: Bay pyramid.
Speaker 4: That's so you like.
Speaker 2: The little flame on the pyramid, then you love my
Speaker 2: newest painting.
Speaker 3: Hold on, is that the Eiffel Tower?
Speaker 4: It is beautiful?
Speaker 2: No, Billy says, it's beautiful. But why is there a
Speaker 2: flame on that one too?
Speaker 4: Hmmm? I paint what I seek?
Speaker 3: Hmmm, something's fish?
Speaker 1: Are you thinking?
Speaker 4: When I'm thinking?
Speaker 2: Yes, HiT's a glue.
Speaker 5: Billy says that the thief was at the Louver. But
Speaker 5: he's not at the Louver anymore. He must have gone
Speaker 5: up the.
Speaker 1: High flu tower.
Speaker 3: But What is he doing there? I don't know, but
Speaker 3: we have to get there and get that torch hy
Speaker 3: on Zi.
Speaker 5: Today, the Lingo Kids' friends met a bunch of basketball
Speaker 5: players sightseeing in Paris, including Kim Gosher, an Olympic basketball
Speaker 5: player and coach from Canada. The basketball players helped them
Speaker 5: find the Louverra, but the Lingo Kids' friends spotted their
Speaker 5: next clue before they even got inside. Join us in
Speaker 5: the next episode as Cowie, Lisa, Elliott, and Billy head
Speaker 5: up the Eiffel Tower on their quest to find the
Speaker 5: missing Olympic torch and save the Paris twenty twenty four
Speaker 5: Olympic Games
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