Hang Up and Listen - Olympics Extra: The Disappointed Gymnast Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Slate’s sports podcast talks to Megan Abbott about her new book "You Will Know Me," set in the high-stakes world of elite gymnastics.
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| 0:00.0 | Hang up and listen. Olympic Extra is brought to you by Rocket Mortgage from Quicken Loans. |
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| 0:19.0 | Hi, this is Mike Peska. I'm host of The Gist. |
| 0:21.8 | Abeloves Slate podcast. And right here right now, I am also hosting Slate's Sports |
| 0:26.6 | podcast, hang up and listen, the Olympics Extra. It's August 16th, 2016. Yesterday in Rio, |
| 0:34.6 | Sean A. Miller of the Bahamas hurled herself across the finish line, |
| 0:39.9 | thrust herself across the finish line, left her feet to cross the finish line in just under |
| 0:46.2 | 49.5 seconds. That was smart and legal because Allison Felix of the United States crossed that |
| 0:52.9 | finish line on her feet in 49.51 seconds. |
| 0:57.0 | So what are the physics of the leap? |
| 0:59.9 | We've always been told in baseball that you shouldn't dive into first base. |
| 1:04.2 | You slow down when you leave your feet. |
| 1:06.4 | That's true, except from everything I've been reading. |
| 1:09.2 | That very, very first moment when you thrust yourself |
| 1:12.9 | with your foot, you can get an extra, well, in Sean A Miller's case, 0.07 seconds. Legal and gold medal |
| 1:21.3 | worthy. Sadly, the United States women's field hockey team lost, and that was in the elimination |
| 1:26.7 | round. |
| 1:29.1 | Therefore, they were eliminated. |
| 1:33.7 | Germany beats the upstart United States women two to one. |
| 1:38.6 | Carly Lloyd's mom had her bag exploded. |
| 1:42.4 | She's staying on a boat next to the basketball player's boat. |
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