Speaker 1: Mais Welcome to Stories for Kids by Lingo Kids, where
Speaker 1: we discover fascinating facts about the world around us and
Speaker 1: the fun of play learning. Today is the final episode
Speaker 1: of the Mystery of the Missing Torch. The Lingo Kids'
Speaker 1: friends are in a race against the clock to catch
Speaker 1: the thief who stole the Olympic Torch and save the
Speaker 1: Paris twenty twenty four Olympic Games. Right now, huge crowds
Speaker 1: are gathering and boats full of Olympic athletes are arriving
Speaker 1: for the opening ceremony. Will the friends make it through
Speaker 1: the crowd to catch the thief? Let's find out, Alons,
Speaker 1: do you see that thief?
Speaker 2: Not yet? There are so many boats.
Speaker 1: Billy says that this must be the Parade of Nations parade.
Speaker 2: I love parids, but I've never got to see a boat.
Speaker 1: You're not the only one, Elliott. This is the first
Speaker 1: time in Olympic history that the Parade of Nations is
Speaker 1: actually a boat parade. Every nation or country has its
Speaker 1: own boat with Olympic athletes on it.
Speaker 2: There are so many people.
Speaker 1: You're right, Elliott. More than ten thousand athletes will compete
Speaker 1: in the Paris Olympic Games. We even met some of
Speaker 1: them and more than forty five thousand volunteers help to
Speaker 1: make it all happen.
Speaker 3: Hey, everyone is getting off the boats that these must
Speaker 3: be in this crowd.
Speaker 2: Come on, are you excuse me? Pardon hi? Hei, excuse me?
Speaker 2: Concociation coming through? Hi? Hi, Hello, Biky coming through? Hello?
Speaker 2: What is everyone saying?
Speaker 1: They are saying hello? Remember Elliott, Olympic athletes come from
Speaker 1: where they two hundred different countries, so they speak many
Speaker 1: different languages.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, hello, Hi? What's up? Please pass?
Speaker 4: You must have a pass to get any closer to
Speaker 4: the opening ceremony.
Speaker 2: We are sitting in the Olympics, so.
Speaker 5: Sorry, but everyone needs a pass.
Speaker 2: I have a nice there. Oh no, now what will
Speaker 2: we do?
Speaker 1: Lingo Kids listeners, do you have any ideas how the
Speaker 1: friends can get through the gate?
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: We need to find an Olympic handley who can help us.
Speaker 1: Billie says he thinks he recognizes someone in the crowd.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, are you my chance? Stefan Uday?
Speaker 6: Indeed, I add.
Speaker 1: Billy is very excited. He is a big tennis fan
Speaker 1: and says that he has watched you play in the
Speaker 1: US Open. Lingo Kids friends meet a Stefan Uday a
Speaker 1: professional wheelchair tennis player. He competed in several Paralympic Games
Speaker 1: and was on the Paralympic podium five times.
Speaker 3: Wow, we met a Paralympic swimmer, remember, yeah.
Speaker 2: Jamal Hill. But I didn't know there were other sports
Speaker 2: in the Paralympics.
Speaker 1: There are twenty two different sports in the Paralympics this year, Lisa,
Speaker 1: there's archery, fencing, swimming, basketball, wheelchair tennis.
Speaker 4: That's right, I we'd be competing on the tennis team.
Speaker 1: Billy would like to know if he should call you
Speaker 1: a world champion or a wheelchair tennis player, or a
Speaker 1: Paralympian medal win or monsieur.
Speaker 4: Whud I would say, called me to Stephan.
Speaker 2: And that's true.
Speaker 5: I'm a chi tennis player, I am a triple Paralympic champion,
Speaker 5: I am a father of six, husband, and I hope friend.
Speaker 1: Billy says he definitely wants to be friends Stefan, and
Speaker 1: also he has a question, did you always know you
Speaker 1: wanted to be a tennis champion?
Speaker 4: Well, actually I was a tennis player as a kid,
Speaker 4: maybe the same age as you have now. But then
Speaker 4: I became a veterinary doctor and I've been working as
Speaker 4: a vet for nine years before I had an accident,
Speaker 4: a motorbike accident, and my body was different because I
Speaker 4: lost a leg in an accident, and it gave me
Speaker 4: this opportunity to try to be a tennis pro differently
Speaker 4: in a which but I was thinking, maybe I can
Speaker 4: try and if I can't make it, I will go
Speaker 4: back to be a vet. But I'm still at tennis
Speaker 4: proof for so many years now.
Speaker 2: WHOA is it hard? How do you do it?
Speaker 4: So I'm playing now with a wheel chair and I'm
Speaker 4: using a prosthetic to walk all over the world. And
Speaker 4: it changed my life, it changed my job. But it's very,
Speaker 4: very positively because I have found a new word.
Speaker 1: Billy is asking if you are extra excited to be
Speaker 1: in the Olympics in your home country.
Speaker 7: I'm very happy to welcome the world in Paris for
Speaker 7: the Paralympics in twenty twenty four, especially because I want
Speaker 7: to share with the world the culture of the French culture.
Speaker 2: Oh, we have seen a lot of French culture.
Speaker 3: We will what's here and a cheese an art and
Speaker 3: you'll never believe what we saw from the Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 2: The Dorge.
Speaker 3: We have to buy the a litmit dodge, Gray sir,
Speaker 3: we'll never find it.
Speaker 2: You should just give up. Cow is right. I think
Speaker 2: we're losing.
Speaker 4: This game most of the time, especially in tennis, the
Speaker 4: difference between the winner and the loser is only one point.
Speaker 4: But that's why you mustn't give up. You always have
Speaker 4: a chance.
Speaker 2: Did you hear that? We can't give up? There is
Speaker 2: still a chance, Stephan. We need to get through the gate.
Speaker 4: Oh this gate. I cannot appee with that. You care, yes, you,
Speaker 4: I have some guests passis follow me as please, here
Speaker 4: you go for me and my friends.
Speaker 8: Mercy have a great day.
Speaker 3: It worked, Mercy said, then good luck at the Paralympics.
Speaker 2: Enjoyed the games.
Speaker 1: Carvin.
Speaker 2: Dancing? Excuse me, what have you seen a torch? Torch? Hmmm?
Speaker 2: I think the breakers have one breakers? What's a breaker?
Speaker 2: The breaker crew is over there. See for yourselves. Breakers
Speaker 2: are dancing? Wait, is they're dancing in the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Breaking or what some people call break dancing, is a
Speaker 1: new sport in the Olympics this year. Billy says. Those
Speaker 1: be girls and bee boys have super fresh moves.
Speaker 3: Bay, how do you know about breakdancing?
Speaker 1: Billy says, he does some popping and locking from time
Speaker 1: to time.
Speaker 2: We really can except for fresh. Look at them all
Speaker 2: drop and spend except lat one in the back.
Speaker 6: He's just standing there holding.
Speaker 2: The torch. Stop, Jean Pierre, what are you doing here?
Speaker 2: Who more, Jean Pierre? But you're Cowie's cousin. Who are
Speaker 2: you holding the torch? H?
Speaker 8: Hello, friends of Kobe. Isn't this how do you say? Awesome?
Speaker 8: Sous I'm helping to break your crew is lighting it?
Speaker 2: Check it out, Jean Pierre.
Speaker 6: I can't believe you are the torch tee sief?
Speaker 8: Why do you say this? No, no, I am not
Speaker 8: a thief, but you.
Speaker 3: Still be a little bit torch. We have been looking
Speaker 3: all over friends for it.
Speaker 8: But I just borrowed it. I'm bringing it back.
Speaker 2: See borrowed. It's not a library book.
Speaker 9: Well, you know, I'm a climber, and so I was
Speaker 9: climbing a big rock in a cell.
Speaker 2: Oh the rock way the torch was.
Speaker 9: Stolen, borrowed, and I saw the torch just lying there,
Speaker 9: and then I had an Olympic idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, climber. And John thinks it.
Speaker 1: Wasn't a gymnas it was a climber.
Speaker 9: What idea I decided to take the torch climbing up
Speaker 9: the coolest pots in Paris. Look, I got some great
Speaker 9: selfies here. I'm climbing at the Louver, the Eiffel Tower,
Speaker 9: a boat on the Seine.
Speaker 2: Awesome, right, not awesome, jump Pierre. Olympics is all about selfiees,
Speaker 2: It isn't.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: Olympics is about humor.
Speaker 6: Everyone works together to do their best as a team.
Speaker 3: That torch was supposed to go from person to person
Speaker 3: in a relay all the way to Paris.
Speaker 2: But you took it for yourself.
Speaker 8: Oh I didn't think about it that way. I guess
Speaker 8: I got a little.
Speaker 6: Carried away, a lot carried away.
Speaker 2: And now there's no time left. It's time to light
Speaker 2: the cauldron. We need to get the torch there. I'm
Speaker 2: too crowded. We'll never get through.
Speaker 8: I am so sorry. I love the Olympics. I want
Speaker 8: your help, please. What can I do?
Speaker 1: Billy has an idea. He says, we can start a
Speaker 1: torch relay. If everyone works together, we can pass the
Speaker 1: torch through the crowd all the way to the cauldron.
Speaker 2: Good idea, Billy. Just like we didn't move the baguette,
Speaker 2: I got this.
Speaker 8: Bardon everyone. We need your help. Please? Can you help
Speaker 8: post past the tour we.
Speaker 2: It's taking everyone is helping.
Speaker 10: The George is almost to the cauldron. We did it.
Speaker 2: It's so beautiful.
Speaker 8: Now that's what's USA. Welcome to the twenty four Games.
Speaker 2: Good team.
Speaker 1: Today, the Lingo Kids' Friends finally caught the thief who
Speaker 1: stole the Olympic torch. Cowie, Lisa, Elliott and Billy followed
Speaker 1: a trail of clues, met real Olympic athletes along the
Speaker 1: way and work together to solve the mystery and just
Speaker 1: in time to light the cauldron for the opening ceremony.
Speaker 1: We hope you enjoy the Paris twenty twenty four Summer
Speaker 1: Olympic Games. What sports event are you most excited to
Speaker 1: see and why? Let us know by sending an email
Speaker 1: to podcast at Lingo Kids dot com.
Speaker 6: Jean Pierre, do you still have saw that stinky but
Speaker 6: delicious cheese?
Speaker 2: You butt?
Speaker 9: Epusta Bolgunn. I always have something for my friends, Pierre