Hang Up and Listen - Olympics Extra: The Brazil After the Games Edition
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🗓️ 9 August 2016
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Slate’s sports podcast talks to Franklin Foer about what will happen in Rio when the Olympics are gone, and David Epstein about the USA vs. Russia breaststroke dramatics.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Hangup and Listen is brought to you by Rocket Mortgage from Quicken Loans. |
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| 0:16.5 | All right, here we go. |
| 0:18.8 | Hi, this is Josh Levine. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm Slate's sports editor and the host of Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen. |
| 0:25.6 | It is August 9th, 2016. |
| 0:28.6 | This is the first episode of our daily podcast on the Rio Olympics. |
| 0:32.7 | We're calling it the Hang Up and Listen Olympics Extra. |
| 0:35.1 | I hope you give us the maximum point value for execution |
| 0:38.2 | on that name with just a few small deductions for artistry. On Monday in Rio, American gymnast |
| 0:45.0 | Dinell Leva, who is competing in Rio despite being bitten in the left calf while breaking |
| 0:50.5 | up a fight between his family's two bulldogs, fell off the high bar in the last rotation, |
| 0:56.2 | and the U.S. men finished in fifth place in the team competition |
| 0:59.1 | well behind winner Japan. |
| 1:01.1 | Australia beat New Zealand to win the first ever gold medal in women's rugby sevens. |
| 1:06.0 | An outcome that Matthew McConaughey, who is in attendance for multiple women's rugby matches in Rio, correctly predicted, saying the Aussies were faster and better organized than the Kiwis. |
| 1:18.1 | At a press conference for the apparel company Puma, Yusain Bolt was asked the following quote-unquote question. |
| 1:25.2 | I don't really have a question. I just want to say, I really love you, ma'am. |
| 1:28.6 | And, yeah, and so I just want to say, you sing both. |
| 1:34.7 | You're my favorite guy. |
| 1:36.3 | I'm loving your moves and your feet and your style. |
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