1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 1: Hey besties, Hello Sunshine. 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 2: Coming up on the bright Side, we have a very 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 2: special guest. Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame reporter Andrea Joyce 4 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 2: is here with us and with her impressive record covering 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 2: seventeen Olympic Games, she joins us straight from Paris to 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,119 Speaker 2: give us the inside scoop on what's really happening on 7 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 2: the ground and all the behind the scenes with the Olympians. 8 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 2: It's Thursday, August first. I'm Danielle Robe. 9 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 3: And I'm Simone Boyce and this is the bright Side 10 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 3: from Hello Sunshine, a daily show where we come together 11 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 3: to share women's stories, laugh, learn and brighten your day. 12 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: We we from Perry Simone. 13 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 2: Our guest is coming to us from Paris today. 14 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 3: This is so exciting. We are going to get the 15 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 3: news straight from the source. 16 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing better than talking to somebody boots on the ground. 17 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:59,639 Speaker 2: Andrea Joyce's reporting career has spanned nearly thirty years. She's 18 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 2: a vet in She's worked as a sports journalist at ESPN, 19 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 2: at CBS Sports, and now she's at NBC Sports. And 20 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 2: she's covered Olympic Games in South Korea, Japan, Norway and China. 21 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, this is her seventeenth time seventeenth time covering the Olympics, 22 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 3: so she's truly seen it all. But before all of 23 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 3: these amazing accomplishments, Andrea broke into sports broadcasting in the eighties. 24 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 3: This is the time when the industry was very much 25 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 3: a boys club. And look, the reality is it still is, Danielle. 26 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 3: According to the job research site Zipia, only sixteen point 27 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 3: five percent of sports broadcasters are women. 28 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 2: It's pretty wild statistic because when I watch TV or 29 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 2: I read people's writing, it seems like there's so much 30 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 2: more representation than there actually is. 31 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: This is still an issue. 32 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 2: And Andrea was one of the pioneers, but she wasn't 33 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 2: always a sports broadcaster. She got her start as a 34 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 2: weather reporter before going to work as a news and 35 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 2: sports reporter in Texas and Kansas and Michigan. She really 36 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 2: cut her teeth in local news and she made her 37 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 2: debut as a reporter for ESPN at the nineteen eighty 38 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 2: eight Summer Olympics in Seoul. So just last year, she 39 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 2: was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame. 40 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: It's a huge honor. 41 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 2: There was one moment from her speech that I think 42 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 2: is worth chatting about. She talked about one time having 43 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 2: to hide in the ladies room while the news station's 44 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 2: anchorman was informed that he was going to be sharing 45 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 2: a desk with a woman because people were afraid he 46 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 2: was going to storm out of the building. She then 47 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 2: called the movie Anchorman a documentary and not a comedy, 48 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 2: and she's not wrong. 49 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 3: That is hilarious. Anchorman is one of my favorite movies, 50 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 3: and I've never heard anyone refer to it that way. 51 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 3: But I can only imagine she knows how accurate that 52 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 3: statement is. Totally well. Just this year, Andrea published a 53 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:54,359 Speaker 3: book called Legends of Women's Gymnastics, which profiled twenty eight 54 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 3: gymnastics champions like Shannon Miller and her Magnificent Seven teammates. 55 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 3: All the way I have to present day superstars like 56 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 3: Sunny Lee and Simone Biles. 57 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 2: That's right, And now she's coming to us straight from Paris. 58 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 2: Andrea Joyce, Welcome to the bright Side. 59 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you. I'm so happy to be here 60 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 4: with you. 61 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 2: We're so excited. This is our first guest straight from Paris. 62 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 2: So tell us about what it feels like, what's the 63 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 2: energy like, what's your view? We need all the details, 64 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 2: do you. 65 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 4: Know I have to say, this is my seventeenth Olympics, 66 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:33,639 Speaker 4: and wow, the last two or pandemic Olympics. So this 67 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 4: feels like a gift from the gods. Not that it 68 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 4: was bad. It wasn't bad in Tokyo, and it wasn't 69 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 4: bad in Beijing. It was just different. It was so 70 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 4: incredibly different. In Beijing we were in a complete lockdown 71 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 4: bubble where we could not leave our hotel. We could 72 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 4: only go from the hotel to our venue, no place else. 73 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 4: In Tokyo we were quarantined for two weeks and then 74 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 4: we could go out. I had a fabulous time at 75 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 4: both places, still because I love the Olympics more than 76 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 4: anything other than my family. But to be in Paris 77 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 4: the first time the Olympics opens back up, I mean 78 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 4: it truly feels like a gift. 79 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 3: You've said that being at the Olympics still gives you goosebumps, 80 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 3: even considering that this is your seventeenth time there. So 81 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 3: what has been the biggest goosebump moment for you this year? 82 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 4: Well, so far here, I've had a couple. I won't lie. 83 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 4: Every time you walk out the door, it feels like 84 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 4: you have one. But I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it. 85 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 4: Being at opening ceremony was absolutely terrific. We kept thinking, oh, 86 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 4: this rain, people are going to be depressed. And my job, 87 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 4: along with Melissa Stark, who is the swimming reporter, our 88 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 4: job was to go out at the end of the 89 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 4: opening ceremony and we're standing right underneath the Eiffel Tower 90 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 4: where the athletes all exit, and Seline Dion has just 91 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 4: finished singing on the Eiffel Tower and the athletes come 92 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 4: pouring out, and we thought everyone would leave early. We 93 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 4: thought they'd get off the boat and go home because 94 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 4: if they were competing the next day, it's a long night. 95 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 4: It's emotionally and physically tough for the athletes, so some 96 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 4: don't go. The ones who did go, some left early. 97 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 4: But the athletes who stayed, they said that the rain 98 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:18,719 Speaker 4: almost made it feel mystical and magical, and they stayed 99 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 4: till the bitter end. And I stood there with the divers. 100 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 4: I'm covering diving, and they just were all beaming, you know, 101 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 4: just from ear to ear, so excited and just being 102 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:32,920 Speaker 4: able to meet athletes from other countries and just listening 103 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 4: to them talk about their experience. That was my first goosebump. 104 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:36,559 Speaker 2: Moment. 105 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 4: My second one really came the first day of diving, 106 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 4: which was the first day of competition last Saturday, and 107 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 4: that was when the Americans Cook and Bacon won the 108 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 4: silver medal in the three meter platform synchronized. I'm getting 109 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 4: goosebumps just thinking about it. They were so excited and 110 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 4: it happened to be the very first medal for Team USA, 111 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 4: which they did not know until I told them, and 112 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:03,679 Speaker 4: they just it's screaming, you know, how. 113 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 3: Cool to be able to deliver that news in that moment. 114 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 4: Oh, it was amazing. It was amazing. 115 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 2: Andrea, having covered seventeen of these, where do you think 116 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,119 Speaker 2: the goosebumps come from? Because I think of like big 117 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 2: sport moments in America, you know, like if somebody wins 118 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 2: the college national championship or any big moment, it's exciting, 119 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 2: but it's different when it's the Olympics. I think the 120 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 2: goosebumps are different. Where do you think that comes from? 121 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 4: Well, I'm just going to put a little asterisk on 122 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 4: this because I'm a University of Michigan graduate. I am 123 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 4: a very act of alum. 124 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:39,919 Speaker 1: And are you a Wolverine. 125 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 4: I'm a Wolverine, I believe. Oh, I bled a Maze 126 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 4: and Blue, and I was there for the national championship 127 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 4: game when we won in January, and that was truly 128 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 4: a goosebump moment. But you're right, it is different. It's 129 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 4: a different kind. It's a different sensation. You know, when 130 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 4: you watch athletes competing for their country, it's a completely 131 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 4: different feeling. I've been watching the tennis today and the 132 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 4: Americans are having the American women in particular are struggling 133 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 4: and having a bit of a tough time. And I 134 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,239 Speaker 4: think some of it ends up being about the emotion 135 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 4: that you're putting into it because you are competing for 136 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 4: your country, and I think that the stakes feel so different, 137 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 4: and then when you do win or lose, it's just 138 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 4: all magnified. We were saying that the other day that 139 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 4: everything feels bigger at the Olympics, the emotions feel bigger. 140 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 4: Earlier today, I was talking to Delaney Schnell and Jessica Prato, 141 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 4: who were the ten meter platform syncro team, and they said, 142 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 4: you know, when we got here, it seemed like it 143 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 4: was bigger. It seemed like it was taller. They knew 144 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 4: it was ten meters, but it seemed bigger because everywhere 145 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 4: you look their Olympic rings and you can't escape it. 146 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 4: So all of that factors into those emotions, I think, 147 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 4: and it just makes everyone feel everything on a different level. 148 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 2: Just this week, the women's US gymnastics team won the gold. 149 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 2: It was so exciting to watch. And you've been covering 150 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 2: gymnastics for years. What did it mean to you to 151 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 2: see the team win this year? What was the feeling? 152 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 4: I think I was so happy to see them come 153 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 4: back and do this because of what had happened in Tokyo. 154 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 4: Because let's not forget that even though it was Simone 155 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 4: who had the twisties and had to drop out, the 156 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 4: whole team was affected. Obviously. It was so emotional for everyone, 157 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 4: and for them to do as well as they did 158 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 4: in Tokyo was quite remarkable. For Sunny to step up 159 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 4: and win the all around, for the team to win 160 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 4: the silver team medal, it was incredible. But for them 161 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 4: to come back, you know, for Jordan and Jade and 162 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:44,440 Speaker 4: Simone and Sunny to come back and do what they did, 163 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:47,680 Speaker 4: I just thought that was extraordinary and I was so 164 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 4: happy for them because of what they had been through. 165 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 3: You, in addition to covering Simone Biles, you mentioned You've 166 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 3: covered so many legendary gymnasts in your new book, Legends 167 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 3: of Women's Gymnastics. I want to hear more about these women. 168 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 3: I've always been so inspired by these women, specifically dating 169 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 3: back to the Magnificent Seven. I mean that was such 170 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 3: a cultural touchstone for me. Are there certain traits that 171 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 3: you see across these gymnasts. 172 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 4: What do they all have in common. It's a quality 173 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:21,959 Speaker 4: that all of these women in the book, all twenty 174 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 4: eight of them, if somebody said no, you can't do this, 175 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 4: they said, watch me. And this goes back to women 176 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 4: who were trying to compete during World War Two when 177 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 4: they were there was a Jewish Hungarian woman, Agnes Coletti, 178 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 4: who has to flee the Nazis. She's right there in 179 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 4: the middle of the Holocaust, has to flee the Nazis. 180 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 4: Then she gets injured when she could finally compete, then 181 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,680 Speaker 4: something else happens. By the time she gets to be 182 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 4: in her first Olympics, she's like in her thirties. You know, 183 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 4: it's incredible, but she kept saying, no, I'm going to 184 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 4: do this. One of my other favorite stories and this 185 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 4: is way before all of our time, but from the 186 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 4: Soviet Union was Larissa Latinina and she was the most 187 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 4: decorated Olympian in history until Michael Phelps came along. Wow. 188 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:17,199 Speaker 4: And then she said, I'm gonna go to the swimming 189 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 4: event in London and she said, I'm gonna be there 190 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 4: when he wins the medal. That's going to break my record. 191 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 4: And she was there and she cheered him on and 192 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 4: she said something kind of funny like, well, it's nice 193 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 4: that a man could finally break my record. So it's 194 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 4: just you know, and then of course you know you've 195 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 4: got you know, Mary Lourettin in the book. And then 196 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 4: I covered gymnastics for the last four champions, the all 197 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 4: around champions for the US, Carly Patterson, Nacia Lucan, Gabby Douglas, Simone, 198 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 4: and then Sunni. Actually it's five and I was there 199 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 4: for all of those and it's just been remarkable to 200 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,319 Speaker 4: watch them what they've done. 201 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 3: So Simone is now the oldest gymnast take home gold 202 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 3: since nineteen sixty four. She has five skills named after her. 203 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 3: When I think about what she's accomplished, it makes me 204 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 3: think of where this sport started and how far it 205 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 3: has come and how much it has evolved specifically thinking 206 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 3: about the difficulty level. I came across this clip the 207 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 3: other day of the men's gymnastics team. I forget which 208 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 3: country they were competing in the nineteen twenty four Olympics, 209 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,560 Speaker 3: and they were doing pyramids where they were standing on 210 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 3: top of each other's backs. Like that's what gymnastics used 211 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 3: to be. So I'd love to hear you talk about 212 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 3: this a little bit, just how far the sport has 213 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 3: evolved in terms of the skills that the athletes are 214 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:40,840 Speaker 3: capable of. 215 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 4: So the evolution of gymnastics is truly remarkable when you 216 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 4: look at it, not just physically the skills that they do, 217 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 4: but how they look and how they appear. You know, 218 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 4: we went through the fifties and the sixties when the 219 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 4: women were elegant looking. They had you know, bubble hair, 220 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 4: and the were tall and thin, and it was more 221 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:08,959 Speaker 4: about this graceful, elegant appearance, and then it became more 222 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 4: athletic and merely really kind of brought that in. She 223 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 4: really for the United States. She really brought a more 224 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 4: athletic look and it was so fun for us in 225 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 4: two thousand and eight to see Sean Johnson and Nastia Lukean. 226 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 4: The two of them were completely completely different. Sean was 227 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 4: very powerful and very compact, and Nastia was more like 228 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 4: an old fashioned gymnast. It was long and artistic and tall. 229 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 4: So to watch them compete neck and neck for a 230 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:42,439 Speaker 4: couple of years and to see what they did, some 231 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 4: of it is preferenced, but what they both did was incredible. 232 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 4: And for them to be best friends and then to 233 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 4: end up one two. I mean, that was a remarkable 234 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 4: Olympics to watch two thousand and eight. But you're right, though, 235 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 4: when you look back and you see some of the 236 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 4: things that they did, it's just completely different. And I 237 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 4: think that there are things that simone that no one 238 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 4: ever ever expected to see. Tim Daggett covered Olympics for 239 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 4: NBC for gosh over thirty years, I think, and he said, 240 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,560 Speaker 4: I never ever in my life thought I would see 241 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 4: some of these things. I covered gymnastics and figure skating 242 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,560 Speaker 4: for a long long time, and figure skating is going 243 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 4: through the same kind of evolution. We're seeing things in 244 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 4: figure skating that we've never seen and no one ever 245 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 4: thought they would see. So I don't know where it ends, though, 246 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean, at some point like, can 247 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 4: you really do? How much more can you do? 248 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,079 Speaker 2: We have to take a quick break, but we'll be 249 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 2: right back with Andrea Joyce. And we're back with Andrea Joyce. 250 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 3: Okay, Andrea. I actually went to Paris about a month ago, 251 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 3: and it was so cool just to get to see 252 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 3: the rings emblazoned on all of these iconic mindnuments of 253 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 3: the city. I want you to paint a picture for 254 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 3: us of what your day to day is like on 255 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 3: the ground. 256 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 4: These games are spread out, and so I'm up at diving, 257 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 4: which is up in San Denis, right across the road 258 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 4: from where the track and field events are. So we're 259 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 4: up here. We're ways away. I can see the Eiffel 260 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 4: Tower from my room, but it's way way over. It's 261 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 4: several but I can see it when it lights up 262 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 4: on the hour at night. But we get up. We're 263 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 4: lucky because our events, our diving events, are all during 264 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 4: the day, so then that frees us up in the 265 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 4: evening to either go see other events eventually we haven't 266 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 4: done it yet, or we can go out to dinner, 267 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 4: which never happened for me. When I did gymnastics for 268 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 4: twenty years, the events were always that always took place 269 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 4: in the evening, so you prepared during the day. You 270 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 4: did your event, back to the hotel, had a glass 271 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 4: of wine, went to bed, and just repeat, rinse, and 272 00:14:57,120 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 4: repeat every single day. Diving is a little bit different, 273 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 4: a little spread out. The synchronized events that we start 274 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 4: with are short. They only last about an hour hour 275 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 4: and a half, and then we have work that we 276 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 4: have to do afterwards to clean up stuff and everything else. 277 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 4: But we generally go over first thing in the morning. 278 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 4: We're done sometime in the afternoon. I get back to 279 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 4: the hotel and I start preparing for the next event. 280 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:23,000 Speaker 4: I try to get a little bit of a leg up. 281 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 4: But we've been lucky. We've had some free time, and 282 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 4: I've taken the Metro, which is unbelievable. The Metro is 283 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 4: like the subway for Paris, and it's the easiest, easiest, 284 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 4: easiest system I have ever. I've lived in New York 285 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 4: for thirty five years and I still don't change trains 286 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 4: because a train and I say I'm going to walk 287 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 4: a mile if I have to, because I don't like 288 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 4: changing trains. I went out the other night and my 289 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 4: college friends were all here, and I changed trains three 290 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 4: times and got to dinner with them in a half 291 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 4: an hour. I mean, it was so wow. But the 292 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 4: great thing about it is that it's interesting to me 293 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 4: because people always say, oh, French people are so aloof 294 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 4: and they're not friendly. I don't know if somebody gave 295 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 4: them a refresher course or what. Because I haven't been 296 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 4: to Paris in many years. Everyone has been so unbelievably nice. 297 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 4: When I was down by the Truckadero where the Eiffel 298 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 4: Tower is, where the opening ceremony was, I stayed down 299 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 4: there for a couple of days because you couldn't get 300 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 4: anywhere near it if you were coming in that day 301 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 4: to work, So I had to stay at a different hotel, 302 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 4: and I was walking around and I had some free time, 303 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 4: and I sat at a cafe and I had an 304 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 4: April spritz. 305 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 3: It's europe aperol threads. I think it's the best cocktail 306 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 3: in the world. It tasted it tasted different. 307 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 4: Let me tell you come and have one here, did 308 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 4: you when you came and visited. 309 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I had way too many to count. Yeah, 310 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 3: they're so good. 311 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 4: It tastes better here. And I'm sitting outside, I'm seeing 312 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 4: all by myself. I'm looking around, I'm eating They always 313 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 4: bring you wallives. And I sat there and I thought, 314 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 4: how lucky am I? I mean, this is unbeltable. This 315 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 4: is a pinch me moment. It is it is. And 316 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 4: just walking around, you know, down in the metro and 317 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 4: I was looking at my phone and I was trying 318 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:08,280 Speaker 4: to find this one, making sure I was going the 319 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 4: right way, and two people stopped and said, can we 320 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 4: help you? Can we help you? I mean, it was 321 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 4: just it's been been lovely. It's been absolutely lovely. The 322 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,639 Speaker 4: weather has been beautiful until a couple of days ago 323 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 4: it got very, very hot, but I think it's cooling down. 324 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 4: It doesn't matter though. People are in great spirits. The 325 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,160 Speaker 4: thing about the Olympics is that, even though this one 326 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 4: is a little bit spread out, no matter where you 327 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 4: are in the city, as you said, there are Olympic 328 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 4: rings everywhere, and there is this sense, as corny as 329 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 4: it sounds, that you're all part of this world community 330 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 4: and you sort of remember that, you know, we're more 331 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:49,160 Speaker 4: alike than we are different, and you see people and everyone. 332 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 4: When I was talking to the athletes after the opening ceremony, 333 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 4: they talked about the athletes, they had met from other 334 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 4: countries and how that made them feel and how inspiring 335 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 4: it was for them to be around these people who 336 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 4: care as much as they do, who work as hard 337 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 4: as they do in any sport, whether it's fencing or 338 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 4: team handball or tennis or gymnastics, diving, it doesn't matter. 339 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,400 Speaker 4: They all have this commonality and it's just it's it's 340 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 4: it's hard to explain, but it's it's breathtaking. Really. 341 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:22,400 Speaker 2: I have so many random questions about day to day 342 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:26,160 Speaker 2: with these athletes. So if somebody trains for a marathon 343 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 2: or a triathlon, there's sort of protocol and like it's 344 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 2: different for everybody, but like you don't really train that 345 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 2: hard the week leading up to the race. When it 346 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 2: comes to these athletes, are they training. 347 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:39,719 Speaker 1: Once they get to Paris? 348 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 4: Oh sure, Oh sure. Gymnastics and gymnastics has well, they 349 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 4: all have specific times when they can train. So gymnastics 350 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 4: has what they call podium training, and that would be 351 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 4: like the day or two before they actually compete. And 352 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:55,640 Speaker 4: when they call it podium training, that means that they're 353 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,439 Speaker 4: actually on the kind of surface that they're going to 354 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 4: be on during the company petition. Because the training gym 355 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 4: doesn't have that. But for diving. I mean, there was 356 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 4: an open diving session right after our competition today and 357 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you that half of the people 358 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:15,880 Speaker 4: who were in the competition stuck around and took advantage 359 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 4: of that open open diving session. So they are training. Yes, 360 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 4: I know what you're talking about. I mean some people 361 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 4: I think that swimmers also taper off how much training 362 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:30,640 Speaker 4: they actually do close but I think that these divers 363 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:33,440 Speaker 4: are watching them one after another like they can't wait 364 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:34,440 Speaker 4: to get back out there. 365 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: Well, I saw part. 366 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 2: Of opening ceremonies and like the excitement when the Olympics started, 367 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:45,639 Speaker 2: was everybody gathered on that boat that Lebron waved the 368 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:50,880 Speaker 2: flag on. What is that called? Is that specific thing? 369 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 2: Was that part of opening ceremony? 370 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:53,360 Speaker 4: May he was the flag bear. 371 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: He was the flag bear. 372 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 4: So what they did they did they did a different 373 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 4: kind of thing. What we're all used to seeing at 374 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 4: the opening ceremonies that the athletes march into an arena, 375 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 4: they march into the stadium. Country Greece is always first, 376 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:10,120 Speaker 4: you know, so that's the way that they do it. 377 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,879 Speaker 4: But this time they decided to have all of the 378 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,879 Speaker 4: countries on boats. So a couple of boats had a 379 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 4: few countries if they only had a few athletes, but 380 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 4: they kept they keep them in alphabetical order pretty much. 381 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 4: And so the flag bearers were Lebron James and Cocoa Goff, 382 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:28,359 Speaker 4: the tennis player. So in any other Olympics, they would 383 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 4: have been the one leading the delegation. So they on 384 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:32,640 Speaker 4: the boat and they were at the front of the boat, 385 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 4: I think, with the flags. So they were the flag bearers. 386 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 4: And that's voted by your fellow athletes. So to get 387 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:41,919 Speaker 4: that honor is like the coolest thing in the world. 388 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 4: And what they did it was it was really I 389 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 4: love the way they do this. I mean, I'm such 390 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 4: a sucker for this stuff. Weep every time I see it. 391 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 4: So when Cocoa Goff, she had to be nominated by 392 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 4: someone to be the flag bearer. So she was nominated 393 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,359 Speaker 4: by another tennis player, Chris Hugh Banks, So he nominated 394 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 4: her and then she got it. So then what they 395 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 4: do is that they gather their team. Their team was 396 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 4: somewhere together, not all the athletes, but the tent all 397 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 4: the tennis players were all together, and Chris Eubanks gave 398 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 4: a speech and he talked about Coco and then he 399 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 4: revealed that she had been chosen to be the flag bearer. 400 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 4: I'm nice thinking about it. It was just so because 401 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 4: she was so shocked and so honored, and it's just 402 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 4: such an amazing thing and the way that they do it. 403 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 4: So NBC shot that, of course, and so you know 404 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,160 Speaker 4: everyone at home got to see it. You know during 405 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,200 Speaker 4: the opening ceremony that in five hours of coverage, it 406 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,240 Speaker 4: might not it might not have seen it. But the 407 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:40,880 Speaker 4: way they do it is so special. 408 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 2: But here's the thing, Okay, I so appreciate how special 409 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 2: it is, and I could feel the energy watching, But 410 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 2: as a warrior, I'm looking at all of these athletes 411 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 2: on a boat in close proximity, thinking what if they 412 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 2: get sick. They've been training for four years, what if 413 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 2: their immune system is like how are they around all 414 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 2: of these people? 415 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: Why aren't they isolating in their dorm room. 416 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:07,919 Speaker 3: Why can't you just take in the magic of the moment, 417 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 3: take it, enjoy the opening ceremonies. 418 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 4: Stop worrying. 419 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:13,160 Speaker 1: I'm very I. 420 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 2: Want them to be able to compete at their highest level. 421 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 4: Danielle, I'm with you. I'm a warrior. I'm a total 422 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:21,360 Speaker 4: worrier and you know, you do you look at them 423 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 4: all close together like that number one. A lot of 424 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:29,119 Speaker 4: athletes who were competing the next day decided not decided 425 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 4: not to go. They decided not to go. So are 426 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 4: our divers who won the silver medal. They said, we're 427 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 4: not going. 428 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 1: The right Lebron. 429 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 2: I get why Lebron goes because it's like he's been 430 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 2: there before, he's. 431 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 1: Been a USA. He can enjoy. 432 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,399 Speaker 2: If this is my first Olympics and I'm really trying 433 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 2: to go for it, I am not on that boat exactly. 434 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 4: So Cassidy and Sarah decided we're not going. So I said, well, 435 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 4: what are you going to do? I was in touch 436 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 4: with them that day and they said, we're going to 437 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 4: have our own opening ceremony at the athletes village with 438 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 4: all of these other athletes who aren't going to march. 439 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 4: So they put on their whole polo outfits, everything that 440 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,480 Speaker 4: they were supposed to wear for the opening ceremony, and 441 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 4: they kind of paraded around a little bit and they, 442 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 4: you know, they had their own little celebration and it 443 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:13,680 Speaker 4: was very cute. We used the video in our coverage. 444 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 4: But many of them decided not to go, and then 445 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 4: another big chunk of athletes decided after the boat because 446 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 4: once they got off the boat, they got into this 447 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,679 Speaker 4: It wasn't a stadium. It was a sort of a 448 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 4: makeshift stadium right at the truckadero there, and they all 449 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,160 Speaker 4: filed in and they sat in the seats for all 450 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 4: of the ceremonial stuff like the oath, the reading of 451 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 4: the oath, and the raising of the Olympic flag. And 452 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 4: then when they come in with the flame and they 453 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 4: light the torch and you know, and they do all 454 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 4: of that. That takes another couple of hours. So a 455 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 4: lot of athletes got off the boat and my right 456 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 4: or left and got off and went home and got 457 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,239 Speaker 4: onto a bus and went back. They only did the 458 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 4: parade on the boat and then they went home, but 459 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 4: especially because it was raining. But for those who stayed, though, 460 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 4: I have to say, it was a big chunk of 461 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 4: American athletes stayed. And we did a lot of interviews afterwards, 462 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,360 Speaker 4: and nobody was complaining. They all. 463 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:10,119 Speaker 2: You know. 464 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,919 Speaker 4: And it was funny though, too, because it stopped raining 465 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 4: second it was over. The second it was over, it 466 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,639 Speaker 4: stopped raining, and we're all standing out there, everybody's drenched. 467 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 4: We all look like wet rats, but there was not 468 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 4: one single complaint. Everybody was just grinning ear to ear. 469 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,919 Speaker 4: But I hear what you're saying. I mean, it's it 470 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 4: is taxing. It's taxing, not just physically to go to 471 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,360 Speaker 4: these things, to be on your feet for that many hours, 472 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 4: but it's also taxing emotionally because there's so much going 473 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,679 Speaker 4: on and you can either take that and let that 474 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,640 Speaker 4: feed you and be inspired by it, or you could 475 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 4: just basically go home and say I'm exhausted. I probably 476 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:43,919 Speaker 4: shouldn't have done that. So a lot of the athletes 477 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 4: who didn't go, like the gymnasts, the US women's water 478 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 4: polo team was competing the next day, so they left 479 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,440 Speaker 4: right after the boat, so they you know, they went home. 480 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,360 Speaker 4: A lot of them will be a closing and they'll 481 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,840 Speaker 4: all get that experience then from closing too, which is 482 00:24:57,880 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 4: pretty special. 483 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 3: I'm for another short break, but don't go anywhere because 484 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 3: we'll be right back with NBC Sports reporter Andrea Joyce, 485 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,479 Speaker 3: and we're back. You mentioned all the emotions that are 486 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 3: pumping through everyone's bodies during this time, and I want 487 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,400 Speaker 3: to ask you about those emotions because you do meet 488 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 3: these athletes in some of the most significant moments of 489 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 3: their lives, when they're recovering from a loss or celebrating 490 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,919 Speaker 3: a win. And I spend as a journalist, I spend 491 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:35,520 Speaker 3: you know, eighty percent of my career thinking of the 492 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 3: right questions to ask? How do you think of the 493 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,880 Speaker 3: right question to ask these athletes in those moments? 494 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 4: So I've been doing this for a really, really long 495 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 4: time before any of you were born. I mean, I'm 496 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 4: the oldest woman still doing sports on TV. I'm going 497 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,880 Speaker 4: to be seventy. I'm going to be seventy in August, 498 00:25:58,240 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 4: and I'm proud. 499 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 3: Amazy Kay longevity, Okay, career longevity. 500 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,879 Speaker 2: I should we should also mention you're a hall of famer. 501 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,359 Speaker 4: I am. I got inducted into the Sports Prodcasting Hall 502 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,359 Speaker 4: of Fame in December. And when people ask me, like, 503 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 4: what's the key to your longevity? I truly truly believe 504 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,719 Speaker 4: it's not that I wasn't ambitious, but I truly believe 505 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 4: that it a lot of it is because it never 506 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 4: ever ever was about me, and it was never about 507 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:31,199 Speaker 4: my desire to get some breaking news, you know, some 508 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 4: unbelievable quote from someone. It was truly about just talking 509 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,399 Speaker 4: to this person and trying to find out what's going 510 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 4: on for them? What is this like for them? You've 511 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 4: just watched some own biles for two hours, and you've 512 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 4: watched her compete, But what was it really? What was 513 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 4: it like? What was going on in her heart? What 514 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:49,720 Speaker 4: was going on in her head, her stomach? You know? 515 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 4: I mean, like you just you're trying to get inside 516 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,959 Speaker 4: and find out things that people at home wouldn't know 517 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:00,119 Speaker 4: unless you ask those questions. So I take a lot 518 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 4: of pride. I'm a little bit neurotic. Actually, I'm very 519 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 4: neurotic about how I prepare. And it's funny because I 520 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,360 Speaker 4: show up for events and I have stacks and stacks 521 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 4: and stacks of notes. And I've worked with some people 522 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 4: and they say, really, you're on for like a minute 523 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,679 Speaker 4: and a half, and I say, I know, but I 524 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 4: have to have the right question. I have to have 525 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 4: I need all of this because I need this background 526 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,639 Speaker 4: because it gives me some place to go. And I 527 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,879 Speaker 4: always make it about them, it's not about me, And 528 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,880 Speaker 4: I think that you get a richer story that way, 529 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 4: you get a more authentic story, and athletes are more 530 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 4: likely to tell you things. One of the things that 531 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 4: I've learned over the years is that if I've done 532 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,920 Speaker 4: that homework, they know it. And if they know that, 533 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,119 Speaker 4: they know that I care enough to spend the time 534 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,639 Speaker 4: to do the research, to do the homework, to be 535 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 4: able to say to them, you said last month that 536 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:55,679 Speaker 4: you were a nervous wreck. You know what was it 537 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,200 Speaker 4: like for you out there today? I rely on all 538 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,919 Speaker 4: of that information that I've gathered, and when they know 539 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 4: that you've done that work, you're going to get better 540 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 4: answers too, because they trust you. And you know, especially 541 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 4: for a sport like diving, that we don't cover until 542 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,879 Speaker 4: we get to tell the trials for the Olympics, so 543 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 4: you're covering it once every four years. Gymnastics we had 544 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 4: a few more events, figure skating we've got a couple 545 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 4: of events during the year. But a lot of these 546 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,679 Speaker 4: sports you don't cover it for four years and you 547 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,720 Speaker 4: show up and there has to be a trust, I think, 548 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:30,199 Speaker 4: to be able to get some kind of real answer 549 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 4: and real information. There are athletes who don't want to talk. 550 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 4: There are athletes who are closed books. But I think 551 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 4: that you can you can break through that wall if 552 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,760 Speaker 4: you ask the right questions in the right way, with 553 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 4: sensitivity and with curiosity, it's truly about being curious. That's 554 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,320 Speaker 4: the number one. You have to be curious. You have 555 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 4: to care of that person in order to do the 556 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 4: job right. 557 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,320 Speaker 2: Well, when I think about your work, two words come up. 558 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 2: One is curiosity and the other is compassion. And I 559 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 2: think that's part of the reason that people have loved 560 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:03,520 Speaker 2: watching you for so many years. 561 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 4: Oh you're nice. Thank you. 562 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 2: Well, when you think back on your career, is there 563 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 2: a period of time that stands out to you as 564 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 2: being really joyful? 565 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 4: Honestly, I wake up with a smile on my face 566 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 4: every time I'm working. I know that sounds so corny. 567 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,680 Speaker 4: I'm so annoying to the people I work with because 568 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 4: I'm a freaking and even at my age, like I 569 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,520 Speaker 4: show up and I'm like, you know that, let's do 570 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,160 Speaker 4: a show. I mean, this is so much fun. Who's listened. 571 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 4: I went to University of Michigan. Our former football coach, 572 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,480 Speaker 4: you know, Jim Harbaugh, always said, who's got it better 573 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,480 Speaker 4: than us? And that's my attitude. I show up for work, 574 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,040 Speaker 4: is who's got the work? I'm getting paid to do this? 575 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 4: I mean it's I feel like this has always been 576 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 4: joyful for me. And I almost feel like it's even 577 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 4: better now because you know, you get to a point 578 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 4: and you say, this could be the twilight of your career, 579 00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 4: you know. I mean you're of an age where you 580 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 4: may not wanted to. Well, I feel like I would 581 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 4: want to do it until I can't, but they may 582 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,280 Speaker 4: not want me to do it, you know. I don't know, 583 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 4: but I feel like every time I go in and 584 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 4: I've said this to myself for years, every time I 585 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 4: do an event, I say, you know what, this could 586 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 4: be your last one, you know, so you soak it in, 587 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 4: you soak it up, you enjoy every minute of it 588 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 4: because you don't know when you're going to get to 589 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,800 Speaker 4: do this again. And in that sense, I sort of 590 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 4: feel like, maybe that's the only thing I have in 591 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 4: common with the world class athletes, is that so many 592 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,600 Speaker 4: of them come to an event like the Olympics and 593 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 4: they say, this might be it for me. This might 594 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,120 Speaker 4: be the only Olympics I ever get to come to. 595 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 4: So I'm going to really embrace it and enjoy every 596 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,080 Speaker 4: minute of it. And so I have that in common. 597 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 4: That's about it. 598 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 2: Andrea, thank you so much for sharing your time with us, 599 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 2: particularly while your booths on the ground in Paris. 600 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:52,520 Speaker 1: We're really really grateful. This was really nice. 601 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 4: Oh, I'm so happy to talk to you both. This 602 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 4: is really fun. Thanks. 603 00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 3: Think of me when you have your next Apperall Spreads. 604 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 3: Andrea Joyce is a sports reporter for NBC, the author 605 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 3: of Legends of Women's Gymnastics, and a member of the 606 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 3: Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame. 607 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 2: That's it for today's show. 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