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Women Around the World: Olympics Wins for Women Part II · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Steph.
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  Speaker 1: I never told you production. I heart radio. And now
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  Speaker 1: that the Olympics is officially over, and as we promised,
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  Speaker 1: we are taking another look at the women who have
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  Speaker 1: pushed boundaries, created history and just to celebrate with them
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  Speaker 1: and their wins. And because again this is obviously very
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  Speaker 1: relevant quote unquote to this year, go ahead and time
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  Speaker 1: stamp this today is August one, and yeah, the Olympics
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  Speaker 1: was the year behind. Just in case people didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what was saying. We're not saying wow, you think somebody's
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  Speaker 1: listening like a hundred years from now, and it's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, people have been picking up random like I've
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  Speaker 1: definitely seen features. Even when we talk about our our
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  Speaker 1: podcast from like five years ago, even though we're like
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  Speaker 1: whoa wow, because it's they've had ten years of episodes.
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  Speaker 1: It's true, we've had twisters so that you never know,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm hoping for another ten What does at the
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  Speaker 1: helm of course? Of course, so you know I'm just saying,
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  Speaker 1: but yes, it is August twelve one. For all your
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  Speaker 1: future listeners. We're going to start with soccer. So Canada
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  Speaker 1: took home the gold after defeating Sweden with a game
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  Speaker 1: winning penalty kick. Just in case you were able to
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  Speaker 1: witness this, and with their gold medal, they also was
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  Speaker 1: able to take home a first as their midfielder became
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  Speaker 1: the first openly transgender and non binary athlete to win
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  Speaker 1: an Olympic gold medal. Quinn was able to celebrate with
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  Speaker 1: their team after their historic win and has been able
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate and become a really big representative for all
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the lgbt Q plus who have broken
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  Speaker 1: a lot of boundaries this year. And yeah, I had
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  Speaker 1: one of the highest numbers of LGBTQ plus athletes in
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  Speaker 1: this Olympics. So congratulations to Canada, yes, and to Quinn
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  Speaker 1: and doing so many amazing things. And just to put
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  Speaker 1: it out there, this may Sweden the silver medalists and
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  Speaker 1: the US to calm the bronze. Yes. Yes. And also
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  Speaker 1: we've got to talk about track, because, as we said,
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  Speaker 1: I I was amazed at how into track I got,
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  Speaker 1: Like every almost every Olympic event I watched, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: why am I so tense right now? Look, I can't
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  Speaker 1: watch it like that. Because we were sitting watching diving
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, because there was one diver who
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  Speaker 1: poor thing like misbounds and you know it was just like,
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  Speaker 1: oh heartbreaking. I can't watch it because it makes me nervous.
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  Speaker 1: It's really intense. But these women rose up the challenge.
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  Speaker 1: So first let's talk about American track runner Alison Felix Legend,
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  Speaker 1: who won her eleventh medal on the final race of
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  Speaker 1: the Games, making her the winner of the most medals
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  Speaker 1: in the US. She passed record holder Carl Lewis, and
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  Speaker 1: it's just one medal behind the Olympic record holder Pava Nurmi,
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  Speaker 1: who won twelve between nineteen twenty and nineteen. But she
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  Speaker 1: is obviously not the only one making history near Rush
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  Speaker 1: Chopra to comb India's first gold medal after winning the
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  Speaker 1: javelin throw, which was thrown eight seven point five eight meters.
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  Speaker 1: You know, in our our back oart Olympics that we
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  Speaker 1: held this summer, we had a it was a shot
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  Speaker 1: put and I came in second. But let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you it was not very far through, very far at all.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I did watch those and watching them, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: how do they control it like that? Because they're just
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  Speaker 1: trolling to get the momentum and then it goes perfectly
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  Speaker 1: into place, and I'm like, someone have gotten a bruise
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  Speaker 1: because they would have went into the audience if it
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  Speaker 1: goes people trained for it or something. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what you were talking about.
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  Speaker 1: And then we need to talk about Sufan, whose son
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  Speaker 1: who is one of the few to complete a triple
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  Speaker 1: in the distance medals in track. She was able to
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  Speaker 1: win three different medals in these long distance runs. I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you, after doing a tin k, I couldn't walk
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  Speaker 1: for a week, so I cannot imagine doing this. She
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  Speaker 1: was able to beat the current record holder for the
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand meter race. Let us in bet giddy, and
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  Speaker 1: she was able to run twenty four thousand, five hundred
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  Speaker 1: meters and was in pain through the last race, to
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  Speaker 1: the point that she couldn't move her neck. She collapsed,
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  Speaker 1: she couldn't see. She really really was confused and disoriented,
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  Speaker 1: and but she made it. And she didn't even realize
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  Speaker 1: she won until I think she got up because it
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  Speaker 1: was neck neck. And she has become the second woman
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  Speaker 1: to win three individual track medals in one Olympics in history,
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  Speaker 1: So congratulations. We also wanted to join in the celebration
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  Speaker 1: of the Jamaica's podium sweep win for the one final.
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  Speaker 1: The winners Elaine Thompson Hurrah who won gold, Shelley and
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  Speaker 1: Frey surprize silver, and Sharika Jackson bronze. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: the first podium see for Jamaica or for phrase of
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  Speaker 1: Price who competed in one in two thousand eight and
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  Speaker 1: she took the gold at that point in time, right um.
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  Speaker 1: And then if we look at golf, US golfer Nelly
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  Speaker 1: Korda won a gold medal in the Golf Olympics competition
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  Speaker 1: and she is the second to win for the US,
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  Speaker 1: the first of which happened one hundred years ago and
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  Speaker 1: nine we talked about that in our history of the Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: Korda is the number one ranked golfer currently so definitely
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of pressure to win and she rose
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  Speaker 1: to the challenge when she did. And then swimming, congrats
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  Speaker 1: to Katie Ladecki who won the first ever women's hundred
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  Speaker 1: meter final. She won the two fift Olympic gold medal
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  Speaker 1: for the US swim team and Australian swimmer Mmm mcne
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  Speaker 1: set the record for the female athlete with the most
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  Speaker 1: medals at a single Games. With seven medals for gold
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  Speaker 1: and three bronze. She tied with the Soviet gymnast Maria Gorokasfia,
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  Speaker 1: who she got her medals in two and for diving
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  Speaker 1: up Chian Hon Chun, who is now a superstar in China.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently she and her family have been mobbed by fans,
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  Speaker 1: with them trying to take selfies with them as well
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  Speaker 1: as at her home. So how to get like police
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  Speaker 1: all up in there? One gold after scoring two perfect
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  Speaker 1: scores out of five and the ten meter dives. The
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  Speaker 1: fourteen year old is the second youngest on the team
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  Speaker 1: and is in a class all her own, even to
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the silver medalist, who was also part
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  Speaker 1: of the China national team, was like, yeah, I don't compare.
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  Speaker 1: She is gone beyond me, so congratulations. The little picture
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  Speaker 1: of her victory was super cute. And then going on
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  Speaker 1: to gymnastics. After much conversation and controversy which is still ongoing,
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  Speaker 1: Simone Biles came back to win a bronze medal on
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  Speaker 1: the balance beam, but China's guand Chin Chin one gold
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  Speaker 1: and tangxia Jing one silver and twenty one year old
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  Speaker 1: j Kerry won US's third consecutive gold four floor exercises,
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  Speaker 1: with the previous winners being Simone Biles and Ali risman
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  Speaker 1: Um and the overall winner for all around went to
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  Speaker 1: the Russian team to r O C, with the US
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  Speaker 1: following winning silver and Great Britain with bronze. And then basketball,
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  Speaker 1: the US women's basketball team earned gold, beating out Japan,
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  Speaker 1: which led to supers and Diana Tourassi's fifth gold medal
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  Speaker 1: in the Olympics. And they have like a dynasty they
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  Speaker 1: like consistently win. So congrats on keeping that street going.
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  Speaker 1: So with all the good and we just are still
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  Speaker 1: celebrating with the following women, but came with some controversy
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  Speaker 1: and we did definitely want to talk about that before
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  Speaker 1: we close this all out. Yes, starting with archery, So
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  Speaker 1: South Korean archers made a huge wave as they won
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  Speaker 1: several awards in the archery competition at these Olympics. On
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  Speaker 1: Son of South Korea won three gold medals, including the
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  Speaker 1: first mixed team archery competition. She, however, has also been
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  Speaker 1: hit with controversy in South Korea. As a specific group,
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  Speaker 1: I've targeted her for being a feminist. Oh no m M.
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  Speaker 1: In one online platform, a group of men decided to
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  Speaker 1: post complaints about on Son, even stating quote she has
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  Speaker 1: short hair and goes to women's only college, she reeks
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  Speaker 1: of feminism. In fact, a chauvinistic web forum started defamation
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  Speaker 1: campaign against on and when as far as going under
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  Speaker 1: her Instagram account to Harasser and this is not a
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  Speaker 1: new thing, but has now made the controversy international. And
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot that we want to talk about with
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  Speaker 1: the underlying issues here and we will return one day,
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  Speaker 1: but definitely something that we didn't want to ignore, right.
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  Speaker 1: It was really interesting following some of the incidents because
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  Speaker 1: she never claims to be they just assumed she is,
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  Speaker 1: and they've made uh, pretty kind of like in the US,
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  Speaker 1: how every day's kind of gone with the back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: In it's in South Korea at this point in time,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of back and forth of is feminism terrorists?
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  Speaker 1: Like they've gone that far. So we're definitely come back
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  Speaker 1: and talk about it. But we also wanted to talk
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  Speaker 1: about the shooting competition, which quite hilarious to me because
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  Speaker 1: it could not be anymore of like, yeah, Twitter, what
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? Vitelina Baderashina, sorry about the pronunciation. A
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  Speaker 1: literal Olympic champion became one more woman to be man
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  Speaker 1: explained about her profession. Yes, in the world of good God,
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  Speaker 1: why the gold medalists is seen in a picture shown
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  Speaker 1: in a specific stance, that is the instructed position to
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  Speaker 1: shoot for the sharpshooter competition, and a man had to
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  Speaker 1: come in to explain why, in his not so humble opinion,
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  Speaker 1: this was wrong. Again, the stance which he criticized was
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  Speaker 1: the regulated standards in the competition. The rule books is
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  Speaker 1: one handed, and because they are trying to be as
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  Speaker 1: easy as possible, sometimes they stick in their pockets. They
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  Speaker 1: have straps that will put their hand in so that
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  Speaker 1: they they're able to kind of just concentrate and go
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  Speaker 1: to the side a little bit. Yeah, that's in the
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  Speaker 1: rule book. Uh. And he decided to say, oh, the
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  Speaker 1: recoil blah blah blah blah blah, in which the quick
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  Speaker 1: response was, you know, she's a golden medalist, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I believe his account. The dude who decided to do this,
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  Speaker 1: and there's many more who came after because I saw
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  Speaker 1: this unfold and I was like, what is happening right now?
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  Speaker 1: But many people like it was hilarious. But his account
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  Speaker 1: was actually suspended and I don't know why that's what
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  Speaker 1: the one the first dude who had to you know, well, actually, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that comment. And she did go on to win three
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  Speaker 1: medals in this competition. So I think she's just fine
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  Speaker 1: and knows how to do that. I suspect, so I
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  Speaker 1: think she got the receipts for this. This reminds me
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  Speaker 1: of one of my I think I've told the story
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  Speaker 1: before on this show. One of my favorite man's planning
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  Speaker 1: incident slash awful man's planning incident was this guy who's
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  Speaker 1: telling me how to run a half marathon and he
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  Speaker 1: had never run a half marathon. Um, he didn't really run.
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  Speaker 1: I had run many and also a marathon at this point.
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  Speaker 1: And I, you know, I'm always down for pointers. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not an expert on one olympian never won a meddle,
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  Speaker 1: but it'd never run a damn right, and he wants
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  Speaker 1: to tell you how to do it. He did, he did,
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  Speaker 1: He had so many pointers. Were and if you're a
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  Speaker 1: fellow listening to this who are interested in girls, this
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  Speaker 1: is not a way to us. No work. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: strategy does not work. Okay, tip for the episode. And
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  Speaker 1: then we did want to talk about BMX. Yes, so
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  Speaker 1: this was also a controversial but celebratory moment. The UK
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  Speaker 1: BMX athlete Bethany Shreever is the person we're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: After UK Sport decide that they would only financially support
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  Speaker 1: male BMX writers for the Olympics, Shreever had to resort
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  Speaker 1: to crowdfunding in order to reach the Olympics. She was
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  Speaker 1: able to raise over fifty pounds or sixty nine thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars to get to compete, and thankfully, after UK Sport
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  Speaker 1: moved the clause which stated female writers could not be
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  Speaker 1: invested in, she was able to get backing by British
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  Speaker 1: Cycling and she was able to bring home the gold
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  Speaker 1: medal and the men's team brought home a metal to
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  Speaker 1: with her teammate bringing home the silver. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean that's bad things changed, but that's pretty ridiculous. She
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  Speaker 1: had like crowdfug right, So essentially they had that clause
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  Speaker 1: and then the last minute it was like okay because
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  Speaker 1: she started getting attention with like why not helping her?
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  Speaker 1: What is happening? So they took away the clause so
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  Speaker 1: they didn't necessarily funded themselves, right, the British Cycling did,
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  Speaker 1: so I was kind of like, dude, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's got to be some dudes to feel like, look
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  Speaker 1: what you did, and now everybody's staring at you, probably
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  Speaker 1: making fun of you. Yep, yep, it's like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: people are paying attention. We gotta changes, right. Not only that,
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  Speaker 1: we know that things are changing with the uniforms and
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  Speaker 1: or dress codes. Uh yeah, the handball Federation, they are
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  Speaker 1: very quickly changing some things and have already announced that
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  Speaker 1: there would be changes to come have thus stated what exactly,
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  Speaker 1: but things are happening as well as the swim teams
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  Speaker 1: and or regulations with the caps. I know there's conversation
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  Speaker 1: about that as well. So uh, it takes hundreds of years,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe some changes will happen. Yes that's the saying
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  Speaker 1: of the Olympics in life in general. But congratulations to
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  Speaker 1: all of these people for winning. It really was just
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  Speaker 1: thrilling to see the heights people were able to push
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  Speaker 1: themselves to. Right, And yeah, obviously we are very limited, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to find all of the news international only
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  Speaker 1: because we're in the US and not surprisingly very US centric.
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  Speaker 1: So if you have a win that we missed, please
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  Speaker 1: please please email us because we want to know all
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  Speaker 1: about them, or if we are not highlighting the person
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  Speaker 1: that you think should be recognized, let us know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I will say watching these Olympics, I was struck by
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  Speaker 1: how many times somebody would an announcer would say this
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  Speaker 1: is the first time a woman has won a question
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, and I'm like, what there were so many
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  Speaker 1: first from different countries, but also just yeah when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to women or LGBTQ plus folks, and I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those we always say, this is I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad to see that and hear about that, but damn right,
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  Speaker 1: um and into skateboarding like I have seen these like
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  Speaker 1: twelve year old thirteen year old girls just really kicking
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