We're heading into the home stretch of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, but some sports are just getting underway. Alison ventures back into the icebox that is the Grand Palais for taekwondo, while Jill watches the crystals fly at rhythmic gymnastics and discovers that the velodrome is really a sauna (on purpose). There's some controversy on the track, and a number of medalists in multiple sports successfully defended their medals, including a TKFLASTANI! Plus, a puzzling interpretation of good and bad toilet use, spotted at the velodrome.

 

Sports on today's program:

• Athletics
• Basketball
• Beach Volleyball
• Boxing
• Canoe Sprint
• Diving
• Football
• Golf
• Handball
• Hockey
• Marathon Swimming
• Modern Pentathlon
• Rhythmic Gymnastics
• Sailing
• Sport Climbing
• Table Tennis
• Taekwondo
• Volleyball
• Water Polo
• Weightlifting
• Wrestling

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Our researcher for the Olympics is Annalee Deabel.

 

For a transcript of this episode, please visit http://flamealivepod.com.

 

Thanks so much for listening, and until next time, keep the flame alive!

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