Hey everybody, I'm Olympian Kerry Tullifson and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast.

Today I bring you a fun little episode, which I'm calling the recap show of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

I was so thrilled to be there.

And instead of having a guest this week,

I thought I'd give my guests a break

and hopefully a nice couple weeks of just relaxing

and just give you a little bit of recap

on what it's like to be a broadcaster there.

So hope you enjoy the show.

And let's get after it.

What an amazing trip, everybody. I didn't know if I really wanted to go on it, to be honest.

Doesn't that sound crazy? I'm not quite sure that I understand why at first the anxiety that I actually had was as legit as I was letting it be.

Yes, I am a mother of three. Yes, I am a wife. And yes, I work a million different jobs.

But this was sort of a once in a lifetime opportunity. You see, in 2021, when the Tokyo Olympic Games

were being held, and some of you know this, because if you've listened to the podcast,

you know that I have shared this story, but I said no. I said no to the Olympic broadcast service

to be a broadcaster in Tokyo, not because I didn't want to, but because it was a five-week trip due to the pandemic.

So we need to go over there and we needed to quarantine and do all the things and then do

the almost three-week broadcast that we did here in Paris. So when they came back and asked me

to do the Paris games, I said yes right away. But leading up to it,

I really was at a point where I was like, I don't need to go. Like, I've been there as an athlete.

It was an awesome experience, a dream come true. But I think my mama heart and my wife heart

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