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Monday Mini: Listener Mail · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Stephma
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  Speaker 1: never told you a prediction of I Heart Radio. And
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  Speaker 1: today we wanted to start out with a very warm
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  Speaker 1: and fun shout out to Taylor. They're the real hero.
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  Speaker 1: They are. Once again, Taylor wrote us a letter that
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  Speaker 1: was pretty much a whole episode and we're gonna read
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  Speaker 1: it today and we love this so much, and thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Never apologize for long messages because we love them. And listeners,
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  Speaker 1: you've heard from Taylor before when we read Taylor's letter
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  Speaker 1: about the Olympics, and Taylor has followed up with a
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  Speaker 1: message about the Paralympics and the Winter Olympics, and we
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  Speaker 1: want to read it. So starting with the Olympics, Taylor writes,
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  Speaker 1: Esther led Ska of the Czech Republic made history in
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  Speaker 1: by being the first woman to win gold medals in
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  Speaker 1: the same Olympics using two different types of equipment. Her
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  Speaker 1: medals were one in the Super g and alpine skiing
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  Speaker 1: and parallel giant slalom in snowboarding. She did not finish
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  Speaker 1: the Super g in the Beijing two Olympics, but was
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  Speaker 1: able to repeat gold in the parallel giants, so solemn
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  Speaker 1: history that was made long page. Schwan last coma first
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  Speaker 1: was the first female loser for China. She posted her
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  Speaker 1: personal best on her third run and finished twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: in the competition, not bad for her first Olympics in
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  Speaker 1: her home country. I love it, They also write, Natalie
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  Speaker 1: Corliss of Canada finished in sixteenth in women's single luge
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  Speaker 1: this year. I'm mentioning hard because there's no women's double's
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  Speaker 1: luge at the Olympic level. No women's doubles luge team
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  Speaker 1: was even seen at the World Cup level until twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: and many articles stated that this was that there was
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  Speaker 1: actually no rule to be found that a doubles team
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  Speaker 1: should consist of two men. Corlas and her luge partner
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  Speaker 1: Caitlin Nash became the first female duo to compete at
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  Speaker 1: the World Cup that year, and the sixteen year olds
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  Speaker 1: competed with the men in place twenty two out of
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. More women's teams have been seen at the
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  Speaker 1: junior level in recent years, and there's been a movement
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  Speaker 1: to grow the sport to achieve gender parity in the
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  Speaker 1: sports with hopes of Olympic inclusion. Love that, yes, and
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  Speaker 1: Taylor continues, what's any Olympics without a little controversy. No,
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  Speaker 1: not the one you're thinking of. We're talking about ski jumping.
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  Speaker 1: Several athletes were disqualified during the mixed team ski jumping
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  Speaker 1: final due to suit violations. Uh, We're going to back
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  Speaker 1: up just a bit. After every jump, the skiers suits
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  Speaker 1: are examined to make sure they abide by the rules
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  Speaker 1: for suits. The commentators explained that the ski jumpers bodies
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  Speaker 1: can actually fluctuate a lot even during the event. The
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  Speaker 1: suits are custom made and for women, you can't have
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  Speaker 1: more than four centimeters of the suit come away from
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  Speaker 1: any point of your body. Per the commentators. During the event,
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  Speaker 1: if you get disqualified, what that means is that the
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  Speaker 1: jump the suit violation was found on won't count for
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  Speaker 1: that round zero points. Each skier gets multiple jumps, so
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  Speaker 1: disqualification doesn't mean what it does in the traditional sense,
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  Speaker 1: but can still be detrimental. This was the first time
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  Speaker 1: the mixed team event had taken place at the Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: The five skiers that were disqualified were all women and
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  Speaker 1: all from well performing countries expected to contend for medals.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could describe the outrage coming from the
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  Speaker 1: commentators when I was watching With this event, the women
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  Speaker 1: now had two events to compete in, while the men
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  Speaker 1: have at least four. Much of the outrage was out
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  Speaker 1: of concern for what it would do to the future
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  Speaker 1: of women's ski jumping. However, it looks like none of
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  Speaker 1: the affected countries asked for an inquiry after the event.
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  Speaker 1: Females ski jumping suits have been a sore subject in
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  Speaker 1: the past. For years, women were required to have extra
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  Speaker 1: hip panels sewn in which they were in which they
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  Speaker 1: were told, quote, were meant to fit a woman's body better.
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  Speaker 1: In an article from early February two before the suit
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  Speaker 1: violations on mass, former ski jumper Sarah Hendrickson USA states
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  Speaker 1: that it was really to accentuate their curves more. They
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  Speaker 1: were a hassle because more fabric means more sewing. This
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  Speaker 1: rule was removed from the f i S specifications in UH.
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  Speaker 1: The article is from NPR quote the fight for equality
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  Speaker 1: and women's ski jumping is about more than ski suits, right,
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  Speaker 1: which is fascinating because we've talked about a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things within ski competitions and how rigid it is for women,
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  Speaker 1: even like the hair and such. So that's cool. Thank you, Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: And again Taylor goes on, how about the referees. Short
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  Speaker 1: track saw its first woman to serve as chief referee
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  Speaker 1: in an Olympic Games. She wasn't able to find her name,
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  Speaker 1: schoolteacher from ask with Saskatchewan Sienna Leafer's sorry if I
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  Speaker 1: got that wrong. Got the call in December inviting her
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  Speaker 1: to referee women's ice hockey at the Olympics. This was
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  Speaker 1: a longtime dream of hers coming true. She not only
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  Speaker 1: got to take home memories of refereeing her sport at
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  Speaker 1: the highest level, but she also got a viral movement
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  Speaker 1: um During the Canada USA game in the preliminary round,
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  Speaker 1: she took a high stick to the base out. She
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  Speaker 1: left the ice for treatment and returned with a bandage
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  Speaker 1: on her cut lip and continue to referee the game,
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  Speaker 1: blood streaming down her face. No big deal, next to
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  Speaker 1: Wing to get Taylor on to read this for us, Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: You're welcome whenever. Yeah, I think we need to set
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  Speaker 1: this up. Yes, Taylor continues, I also have to include
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  Speaker 1: one very fun tradition. Members of the US women's cross
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  Speaker 1: country team walked into a German convenience store in and
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  Speaker 1: came out with the straight socks from a Pippi long
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  Speaker 1: stockings costume. The socks made their debut in two thirteen
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  Speaker 1: at the World Cup and they haven't left. The sprint
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  Speaker 1: relay team all were them for their race and the
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  Speaker 1: tradition is also honored at the junior level. Even Kickin
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  Speaker 1: Randall was wearing hers in the broadcasting booth for the
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  Speaker 1: occasion one calling the race for this Olympics as a
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  Speaker 1: sock enthusiast, this warms my heart mine too lost And
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  Speaker 1: of course Taylor also wrote about the Paralympics. Uh they write,
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  Speaker 1: sled hockey is one of my favorites to watch, so
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  Speaker 1: we start with that. Usene was the first woman on
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  Speaker 1: the Chinese sled hockey team this Paralympic Games. Sled hockey
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  Speaker 1: is a mixed gender sport at the Paralympic level, and
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  Speaker 1: this was China's first sled hockey team in its Paralympic history.
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  Speaker 1: Sled hockey was introduced to the Paralympics program in nine
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  Speaker 1: and was changed from a min's tournament to a mixed
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  Speaker 1: tournament in two um and women did not participate in
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  Speaker 1: twenty ten. You is the third woman to ever play
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  Speaker 1: on a Paralympic sled hockey team. Women's sled hockey is
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  Speaker 1: growing in popularity and the i p C s working
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  Speaker 1: to get more stationous events for women's sled hockey, with
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate goal to be in the Paralympic program. And
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  Speaker 1: then we have Sina Vaspi who became Israel's first Peria
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  Speaker 1: Olympian and I hope I'm not butchering that pronunciation. She's
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  Speaker 1: a member of the Shabbad movement of Judaism and where's
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  Speaker 1: the skirt? For religious reasons? In order to adhere to
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  Speaker 1: her religious beliefs, she incorporated a small skirt into her
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  Speaker 1: ski suit. She finished fifteenth in the Giant at Salam,
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  Speaker 1: but did not start in the Salam due to bad weather.
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  Speaker 1: The Salam was moved to a Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath.
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  Speaker 1: She chose to honor the Sabbath and said the decision
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  Speaker 1: was not easy. Vastly felt it was more important to
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  Speaker 1: represent her country as best she could, especially since she
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  Speaker 1: was not able to go into the army. She was
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  Speaker 1: excused from compulsory military service due to the loss of
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  Speaker 1: her leg when she was ten years old. In eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: Brianna Huckabee USA one gold in the l L two
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  Speaker 1: snowboard cross and Bait sloomn events and Secil Hernandez France
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  Speaker 1: one bronze and silver in the same events, respectively. However,
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  Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, the i p C eliminated the LLL
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  Speaker 1: two classification from the pre Paralympic program, citing there was
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  Speaker 1: not enough writers to compete sad The classification system is
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  Speaker 1: used in order to put athletes with similar impairments together
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  Speaker 1: so they can compete based on ability rather than degrees
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  Speaker 1: of disability. The higher the number, the higher the degree
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  Speaker 1: of impairment. Hugaby's right leg was lost due to bone
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  Speaker 1: cancer and Hernandez has multiple score roses, and both were
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  Speaker 1: classified as l L two. Many sports allow you to
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  Speaker 1: quote compete up in a classification with lower impairment. There's
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  Speaker 1: not a separate race for your classification. Swimming in track
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  Speaker 1: and field do this regularly. If you compete up, you
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  Speaker 1: have a disadvantage of competing with greater degree of impairment
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  Speaker 1: than the other athletes. Snowboarding is not one of those
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  Speaker 1: sports that allow this, so when Huckabee and Hernandez requested
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  Speaker 1: to compete up in the LLC classification or compete with
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  Speaker 1: the men in the LLL two classification, the request was
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  Speaker 1: denied by the I p C and World pair of
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  Speaker 1: snowboard I kid you not. There was a headline that
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  Speaker 1: read quote to disabled for the Paralympics out they filed
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  Speaker 1: an injunction with the German Court and one and they
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  Speaker 1: should be allowed to compete. So Brianna Huckabee was quoted
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  Speaker 1: with saying quote, I would rather compete with a disadvantage
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  Speaker 1: than not compete at all. In the Paralympics, both ladies
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  Speaker 1: competed in the LLL one classification for both events. In
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  Speaker 1: snowboard cross Hernande has won gold and Huggabee one bronze
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  Speaker 1: and in bad slalom Huggabee one gold. That's amazing m hmm.
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  Speaker 1: And Taylor goes on. Family says be together, go to
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  Speaker 1: the Paralymics together. There are five total in your siblings
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  Speaker 1: and three Johannes, Barbara and Veronica, who all have a
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  Speaker 1: congenital carteret condition competed and one Elizabeth served as guide
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  Speaker 1: to Veronica down ski slope. The siblings looked like they
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  Speaker 1: were having a great time, Barbara joking that they could
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  Speaker 1: be their own country. Altogether, they were responsible for nine
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  Speaker 1: out of Australia's thirteen medals. The guys medals don't count
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  Speaker 1: an official tally for each country, which means the family
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  Speaker 1: came away with eleven total medals. At one point, all
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  Speaker 1: three sisters got to share the podium. Quote. We are
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  Speaker 1: very fortunate to experience this because not everyone can say
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  Speaker 1: they went to the Paralympics, Elizabeth and your said, but
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  Speaker 1: to be able to share it with the whole family
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  Speaker 1: is incredible. Ps in c a A recently changed the
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  Speaker 1: rules on women's volleyball. They can now wear shorts or
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  Speaker 1: like games as long as the uniform matches the team colors.
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  Speaker 1: I found this one trying to find why the women
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  Speaker 1: were spandex and not the men. Might make for a
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  Speaker 1: good Monday. Many yes, so yeah. Taylor actually sent us
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  Speaker 1: an addendum about the violations, so let me read that
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  Speaker 1: off real quick. So the suit violations or a bummer.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't include a lot of the commentary stuff from
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  Speaker 1: the articles I found when checking if anything came of it.
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  Speaker 1: I remember one of the athletes saying that the only
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  Speaker 1: difference was how it was measured, but she was the
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  Speaker 1: only one that insinuated that, so I didn't include it.
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  Speaker 1: The only conclusion a lot came to was that they
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  Speaker 1: enforced the rules at the Olympics and not during the
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  Speaker 1: regular season, which I didn't find any actual evidence of
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  Speaker 1: either way. Maybe you'll have some international listeners right in
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  Speaker 1: with some update from their news please do. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of them came from what I watched, which is why
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  Speaker 1: I didn't source it this time, and I looked up
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  Speaker 1: how to spell names, locations and details on the legal stuff.
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  Speaker 1: With the pair of snowboard, I was really happy they
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  Speaker 1: both got gold medals, so we yeah. Uh. And then
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  Speaker 1: Taylor also added you should also take a look at
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  Speaker 1: Carson Pickett. I saw a story about her on the
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  Speaker 1: news this week. She became the first woman to play
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  Speaker 1: for the U s W n T with a limb difference.
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  Speaker 1: I never got the chance to find out why women
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  Speaker 1: wear spendex in volleyball and not men. After finding the
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  Speaker 1: rule change, I thought it was great news, and so
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  Speaker 1: did others. For the records, bandex is superior to regular
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  Speaker 1: shorts in my opinion for playing, so I don't see
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  Speaker 1: why men wouldn't want the advantage gained from wearing them.
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  Speaker 1: I suspect we'll see more lookings in the future. Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: You're amazing. Thank you so much for sending this to us.
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  Speaker 1: Even better information that we could hold for Yes, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, Taylor. Uh, we're so grateful and
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  Speaker 1: uh yeah, we're this kind of listener interaction, the kind
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  Speaker 1: of mail this is what we want, Like this is
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  Speaker 1: great because we know what thinking about and what you
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  Speaker 1: want to want us to talk about. And just thank
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  Speaker 1: you from the bottom of our hearts and yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of things we can follow
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  Speaker 1: up on here and in the meantime, listeners, if you
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