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Guaranteed Human.

Hey, this is Annie.

And Samantha.

And welcome to Stuff I Never Told You, a production of IHeart Radio.

And the 2026 Winter Olympics are in full swing, and the Paralympics will be coming soon in March.

I was like, oh, when is this happening?

So we had to do a feature on one of the athletes who is representing the United States, as well as making history as one of the first.

You know, we love those titles, even though we're like, why did it take this long?

But, you know, whatever.

We'll go with it for our activist around the world.

And we are talking about hockey player Layla Edwards.

And again, she has done a few firsts, but we are specifically talking about the Olympics right now. So Layla Edwards has made history being the first black player to suit up for the U.S.

Olympic hockey team and playing and actually playing. She is a 22-year-old who's been playing

hockey for years, like years and years and years and years, you know. Apparently,

she kind of figure skating for a little bit and decided to change that up for herself.

And for this episode, we'll be using a bit of information from her feature from ESPN, who's done a

great job in telling her story. Like, it is a very lengthy article. I love that. I don't think we

have enough

of those features for specifically, like, our marginalized athletes who have done some amazing

things. So I love to see it. So kudos and shout out to that because it is a great article.

You should read it. Feels like a good five-minute read. Wonderful, though. So much like many of the other successful athletes and

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