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Women Around the World: Paralympic Wins of 2022 · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Stephane.
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  Speaker 1: Never told your protection of I Heart Radio. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to another edition of Women Around the World. And
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  Speaker 1: today I'm going to time stamp this because yes, it's
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  Speaker 1: the Olympics, so any current events, we want you to
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  Speaker 1: know when this is. You're not so confused if you're
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  Speaker 1: listening to this four years down the road. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Today is March thirty one, twenty twenty two, last day
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  Speaker 1: of March. Yeah, I wanted Gregor's birthday, so Twitter tells
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  Speaker 1: me who Mamma Gregor? Every one can be Oh, okay, sure, sure, happy, happy,
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  Speaker 1: give him some major points if he was listening to
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  Speaker 1: a feminist centric show out of nowhere. Still, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: see now that's out. Yeah, that's just casting that out.
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  Speaker 1: And today we were overdue in celebrating the women of
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  Speaker 1: the Paralympics before we start, and we are going to
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  Speaker 1: jump into it. And I do have a question for you,
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  Speaker 1: because we love these questions. Are you currently in any
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  Speaker 1: type of team sport activity? Not currently I had a
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  Speaker 1: brief dalliance with volleyball. Okay, A couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's probably more than a couple of years
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  Speaker 1: ago now because COVID feels like a player. But like
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  Speaker 1: I say, four years ago, I was on a it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a substitute player for a volleyball team, and
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  Speaker 1: that was fun. And then I played kickball for a
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  Speaker 1: minute even longer ago, kind of college years. Uh, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that's it. I guess I played cricket for
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  Speaker 1: a minute when I was in Australia. I played cricket. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: did you play in high school? Uh? I played, not really.
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  Speaker 1: I was really self conscious about my body in high school,
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  Speaker 1: but I did play. I played soccer with my friends,
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  Speaker 1: but not on a team. And I played basketball with
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  Speaker 1: my friends, but not on a team. Okay, okay, if
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  Speaker 1: you could be or if you had to be in
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  Speaker 1: a team activity, team sport activity, what would you do?
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  Speaker 1: Good question? I forgot to mention I played tennis for
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  Speaker 1: a long time. I did play tennis. I love tennis,
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  Speaker 1: so would probably be tennis or volleyball, Beau, I do.
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  Speaker 1: I really love volleyball, but I haven't played it in
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  Speaker 1: so long, so I'm kind of like, I wonder if
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  Speaker 1: I still have that same when was the last time
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  Speaker 1: you play tennis. So I don't think I knew that
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  Speaker 1: about you. Oh. I love tennis. I played it throughout
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  Speaker 1: high school, throughout college, and then for a while I
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  Speaker 1: played it pretty off and on with a friend of
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  Speaker 1: ours Chandler, and another friend of mine Katie Gosh, when
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  Speaker 1: was that twenty It's been okay. I still have my
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  Speaker 1: racket and my ball though in case. Yeah, so that
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  Speaker 1: is one of the sports I think I told I
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  Speaker 1: think we did talk about this before, because that was
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  Speaker 1: one of the sports that my crush at the time
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  Speaker 1: trying to teach me how to play. But I was
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  Speaker 1: so bad that he just put down his racket and
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  Speaker 1: walked away from me. The word I mean, it was bad.
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  Speaker 1: I kept hitting them out of the damn fence, which
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  Speaker 1: is like twelve ft high, and you're like, how, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm that good. We used to have what we called
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  Speaker 1: ford court tennis. As long as the ball was bouncing,
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  Speaker 1: you could still play it um and it was the
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  Speaker 1: best workout you could get because you you know, though,
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  Speaker 1: I really wish I could play it like the TV
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  Speaker 1: version where you're not actually playing and they just put
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  Speaker 1: the like c G I the ball in there, so
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  Speaker 1: you look cool. That's what I need to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Can you do this for me? No? Okay, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: actually had don't didn't participate in many sports either. I
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  Speaker 1: did do cheerleading and I considered that a sport. And
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  Speaker 1: I will fight you. We will fight because I was
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  Speaker 1: definitely the base or the person on the bottom throwing
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  Speaker 1: people up. People. I got injured, people got injured all
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  Speaker 1: the time we competed. We weren't great. I could barely
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  Speaker 1: get off the ground, my like five ft four self
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  Speaker 1: could not get off the ground very high. But I
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  Speaker 1: sure did try, did try. Um. I did have to
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  Speaker 1: stop after a while because I had to work to
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  Speaker 1: get money to my car and such. But it was
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  Speaker 1: really fun and I do miss that. I also played
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  Speaker 1: because we have to do. When I was in d
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  Speaker 1: j J, we would do the office or like state
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  Speaker 1: county championships, and we played kickball. I was not good.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, it's like I could kick the ball pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: I am not a fast runner. Could I steadily run? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: But am I good? No, you know it's fine, it's fine.
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  Speaker 1: I am who I am. I have other talents. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you definitely do. But I really wish like the
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  Speaker 1: thing that I wish I could have played is a
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  Speaker 1: soccer because I really think of like, well, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: very fast, but I have I did at one point
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  Speaker 1: like I could probably block this ball. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I can do this. But we didn't have the soccer team.
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  Speaker 1: La J Georgia had very few sports. It was baseball, softball, football,
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  Speaker 1: basketball in the story, so it was very very very little.
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  Speaker 1: They did have wrestling and wrestling. Of course they had
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  Speaker 1: wrestling oddly enough. But yeah, so I didn't get to
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  Speaker 1: do much. Also didn't get do much many sports because
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  Speaker 1: it was expensive. And that's a whole different conversation which
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  Speaker 1: probably should have with this about Olympics as well, who
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  Speaker 1: is afforded what? But yes, today we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about that down or kind of conversation. No, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to celebrate some of the women in the Paralympics.
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  Speaker 1: And please know we researched a lot to get these
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  Speaker 1: names and get at this moment to celebrate, but it
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  Speaker 1: was really difficult to get outside the US centric conversations
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  Speaker 1: and our articles. So for those of our international listeners,
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  Speaker 1: need your help because again my Google really thinks that
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  Speaker 1: all I care about is us, and that's not true. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I want to know what's going around the world. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: but anyway, so please help us out. But yes, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk about this amazing women today, But first we
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to talk about the fact that the two
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  Speaker 1: Paralympics in Beijing actually hit a marker for highest women
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  Speaker 1: athletes participating ever, with a hundred and thirty eight women
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  Speaker 1: competing versus the hundred thirty three that competed in at
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  Speaker 1: peong Chang. And by the way, though there is over
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  Speaker 1: like five hundred and seventy athletes that participated, so even
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  Speaker 1: though that's the highest number for women, that's still a
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  Speaker 1: low number. Yeah, to step with that out there. And
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  Speaker 1: though there were three less delegations that competed, there were
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  Speaker 1: a total of seventy eight medal events, thirty nine of
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  Speaker 1: them for men, thirty five for women, and four mixed events.
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  Speaker 1: So pretty good, pretty good chances, um and just f
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  Speaker 1: y I. China, the US, and Canada had the most
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  Speaker 1: women competing this year. Also, several countries had zero women competing.
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  Speaker 1: I will say there was a two countries I think
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  Speaker 1: that had zero men, so you know, some of them
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  Speaker 1: only had one athlete coming through. But if you want
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  Speaker 1: to go look at those numbers, you can. But overall,
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  Speaker 1: hey is an improvement, right, Yeah, It's still a place ago,
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  Speaker 1: but it is an improvement. Um. So yes, let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about some of these amazing athletes. Starting with Tuxana Masters,
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  Speaker 1: a Ukrainian board American athlete, started as a rower at
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  Speaker 1: the age of thirteen and one bronze in the twelve Paralympics,
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  Speaker 1: but moved on to cycling, winning two gold medals in Tokyo.
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  Speaker 1: But in the Paralympics, Masters has become one of the
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  Speaker 1: most decorated US Winter Paralympians today. Um Masters has won
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  Speaker 1: several medals and all her events, meaning seven medals from
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  Speaker 1: seven events in one Paralympics, and on the last day
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  Speaker 1: of the Paralympics on March thirteen, Masters led her mixed
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  Speaker 1: gender cross country skiing team to gold. With her teammates
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Peterson, Dan Canolson and Jake Adakoff. She has set
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  Speaker 1: a new record for the most medals won by US
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  Speaker 1: athlete at a single Games. She has won seventeen medals
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  Speaker 1: overall in both summer and Winter Paralympic Games. So it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty amazing. Yeah. Um. And one of the things I
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  Speaker 1: found interesting when she was talking about her athleticism is
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  Speaker 1: like how she has changed to kind of grow with
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  Speaker 1: our body essentially, so she loves cycling. But moved on
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  Speaker 1: and talking about how very different, even though you would
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  Speaker 1: you might not think so, how very different the two
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  Speaker 1: events were so very big, huge powerhouse. Go ahead, Oxana
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  Speaker 1: and do your thing. And let's talk about the women
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  Speaker 1: of Ukraine who have been racking up some wins as well.
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine was able to get the second highest medal count
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  Speaker 1: in the Paralympics, with a total of twenty nine medals,
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  Speaker 1: behind China, who got the most, and the athletes Erana Bouie,
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  Speaker 1: Alexandra kanaan Nova and Ludmila Leashinko have been a big
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  Speaker 1: part in adding to that medal count, including winning at
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  Speaker 1: least three medals in women's middle dista standing and Booie
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  Speaker 1: and Kanaova picked up medals for other standings as well.
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  Speaker 1: So they're killing it out there. And as the war
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  Speaker 1: in Ukraine continues, the victors couldn't deny the conflict of emotions.
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  Speaker 1: Booie told one news outlet quote, we would like to
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  Speaker 1: dedicate our results and medals to each and every Ukrainian
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  Speaker 1: and all the soldiers in the Ukrainian Army who protect us.
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  Speaker 1: With our performance, we represent the whole country and this
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  Speaker 1: is our battle here. Um And I will say, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's Buoie, maybe Bowie who It's like the day
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  Speaker 1: that she won a gold medal, her village had been bombed.
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  Speaker 1: Another one of the women had family members getting captured.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of emotion and um justin f
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  Speaker 1: y Russia was expelled from the Games, I believe, and
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  Speaker 1: was not allowed to participate. But yeah, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of mixed feelings for them, definitely. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Moving on to legendary Slovakian skier Henrietta for Kopsava. Um
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  Speaker 1: for Kopsava, who has been skiing since the age of seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: really made a name for herself in these Olympics. Paralympics
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  Speaker 1: makes her fourth competing um in the vision impaired classification
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  Speaker 1: of alpine skiing. She was the most decorative athlete in
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  Speaker 1: the Paralympics with four gold medals and one silver, but
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  Speaker 1: she topped that off with winning two gold medals in
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  Speaker 1: downhill and combined skiing, and not only is she a
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  Speaker 1: Paralympic champion, but a seventeen time world champion. Okay. Then
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  Speaker 1: we have Canadian athlete Natalie Wilkies, who was one of
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  Speaker 1: the youngest medalists in Canada, which by the way, she
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  Speaker 1: was also titled that in eighteen in the Pong Paralympics,
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  Speaker 1: which she competed at the age of seventeen, and at
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, she has risen to be one of the
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  Speaker 1: most watched athletes in the Paralympics. With seven medals under
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  Speaker 1: her belt. She is speeding ha ha to breaking records
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  Speaker 1: in Canada and will continue to be a force as
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  Speaker 1: she pushes onto the next competition. I see what you
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  Speaker 1: did there, Yeah, yeah, I did um. Then we have
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  Speaker 1: Chinese alpine skier gen Monk. China had the most medals,
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  Speaker 1: as you said, one in Paralympics, and it's no doubt
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  Speaker 1: that John was a big part of that, winning gold
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  Speaker 1: and women's Giant slalom standing and women's Super g and
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  Speaker 1: silvers and women's downhill as well as super combined. All
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  Speaker 1: these names, like I'll admit a lot of them go
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  Speaker 1: over my head, but they sound impressive, so yeah, yeah, um,
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  Speaker 1: and she is only beginning. She began her competitive track
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  Speaker 1: in twenty winning a gold and silver medal at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and was able to win medals and para alpine skiing
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  Speaker 1: at the Paralympics for China for the first time. Right,
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  Speaker 1: um and just enough. Why apparently there was this whole
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  Speaker 1: conversation because she kept changing up her hair to every
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  Speaker 1: time she would go on to the podium, which I
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  Speaker 1: didn't necessarily want to highlight because I was like that,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but something for her that was important
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  Speaker 1: and her esthetic was important and I love that. And
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  Speaker 1: if you look at us, the pictures of our hair
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  Speaker 1: does super cute, like all these cute little braids. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but I love that. I was like, okay, you do
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  Speaker 1: you she she's like all of her pictures are so happy.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about Momocha Maraoka. So sorry if I
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  Speaker 1: said this wrong, problems trying to get it, but she
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  Speaker 1: is the Japanese parent alpine skier who began her career
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  Speaker 1: inteen and yeah it continues to collecting medals. She was
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  Speaker 1: able to grab three gold medals and one bronze during
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  Speaker 1: the Beijing games, adding to her mini medals already, which
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  Speaker 1: she actually in pyeong Chain one gold medal and four
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  Speaker 1: other medals as well, So she's topping off all of
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  Speaker 1: her medals and winnings with these Paralympics. Yeah, she has
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  Speaker 1: been making headway for a long time and actually she
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  Speaker 1: was a flag bearer at the Winter Paralympics Parade of
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  Speaker 1: Nations in peong Chang. So yeah, people have been watching
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  Speaker 1: her closely and expecting big things from her continually as
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  Speaker 1: she competes more. Yes, So there's just just a few
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  Speaker 1: of the names, y'all. Like I said, we would love
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  Speaker 1: to mention more so if you have something that you
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  Speaker 1: want to mention or let us know about. I know
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  Speaker 1: we've had listeners right in about the Paralympics and we
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  Speaker 1: love it. There's definitely a lot of conversation when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to the Paralympics and making sure that we are
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  Speaker 1: being inclusive but also being mindful that we're not being
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  Speaker 1: able listen to what they have done and what they're
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  Speaker 1: accomplishing in these games. So there's a lot when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to the Paralympics, a lot of controversy, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of conversation and how to best be supports to the
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  Speaker 1: disabled community as well as the fact that we don't
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  Speaker 1: want to be ablest in any manner because obviously they
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  Speaker 1: are amazing and phenomenal athletes that should be celebrated for
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  Speaker 1: what they continue to do and just being given just
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  Speaker 1: as much attention and credit for all of the hard
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  Speaker 1: work as any athlete out there. So to those winners
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  Speaker 1: and to those who are competing, wow yes, wow um yeah,
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  Speaker 1: congratulations as always. Yes, if you have somebody you would
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  Speaker 1: like for us to highlight, If there is any aspect
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  Speaker 1: of the Paralympics or sports in general, or really anything
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  Speaker 1: that you want us to talk about, you can let
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