As the Paris Olympics near the finish, what will we remember?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
From polluted waters to gender policing - it’s been an eventful 2024 Olympics. We jog through the highs and lows as the city starts to lower the Olympic flame.
In this episode:
- Shireen Ahmed (@_shireenahmed_), Sports Journalist
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Sarí el-Khalili, Ashish Malhotra, Khaled Soltan, and Sonia Bhagat, with Amy Walters, Veronique Eshaya, Duha Mosaad, and me, Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Alexandra Locke is the Take’s Executive Producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:11.1 | Today, the Olympics are nearing the finish line. |
| 0:16.8 | The hits and misses in the games through the eyes of one sports journalist. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm Malika Bilal and this is The Take. |
| 0:31.0 | A couple of things that I loved. |
| 0:37.9 | One was Snoop Dog. |
| 0:39.0 | It's a collab nobody saw coming. |
| 0:41.8 | Rapper, producer, and actor Snoop Dog and the Summer Olympic Games. |
| 0:46.6 | The Snoop Dog content for me was fantastic. |
| 0:50.1 | And the big Snoop Dog is here. |
| 0:52.6 | Secondly, Flava Flav sponsoring water polo. |
| 0:57.0 | Lastly, Mongolia's uniforms. |
| 0:59.4 | What? |
| 0:59.9 | I want to buy those. |
| 1:02.4 | You and everyone else. |
| 1:06.6 | I'm Shereen Ahmed. |
| 1:08.3 | I am a multi-platform. |
| 1:10.4 | Sports journalist, so you contribute with CBC Sports. I'm alsoireen Ahmed. I am a multi-platform sports journalist, senior contributor with CBC Sports. |
| 1:13.9 | I'm also a university instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University, and I won awards. |
| 1:21.3 | That is a very modest way to say. You are really good at what you do, and we're really happy to have you back on the take. Welcome, |
| 1:27.9 | Shereen. So the Paris Olympics, 2024, are coming to an end, and a lot has happened. |
| 1:35.1 | You wrote recently that feeling joy for athletes and frustration at officials is part of the job. |
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