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F, S,is, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 5,

2024.

On this week's show, we'll take a little more than 9.784 seconds to talk about the

incredible 100-meter-meter dash finals that resulted in

gold for American sprinters, Noah Liles, and silver for Shakari Richardson.

Slates Christina Kauderucci will join us to discuss the two women boxers at the Olympics who have faced a worldwide wave of hatred and bigotry.

And finally, we'll chat about some of our favorite moments so far from the games.

I'm the author of Word Freak, a few seconds of panic and wild and outside.

I'm in Washington, D.C. so is Josh Levine.

He's the author of the Queen and the host of an upcoming Slow Burn series for

Slate on the rise of Fox News. Hey Josh. Hello. Welcome back. Oh, thank you.

Yeah, I'm here. Joel is not here on a day when we would all love for him to be here and he would love to be here.

So let's just all embody his spirit as we discuss the sprints.

In Joel's absence, it means we're going to have to talk about the 100

when he comes back.

But we've got another sprinting prodigy with us

for a third straight week from suburban Toronto. It's Morgan Campbell. He's a

senior contributor at CBC Sports and the author of a new memoir, My Fighting Family,

Borders and Bloodlines, and the battles that made us. Welcome again, Morgan.

Yeah, I think Sprinting Prodigy overstates it, but there is a chapter in the memoir that revolves around a picture that they took of me while I was running track in high school and that one

picture has just sort of followed me for the next 30 years and it just made me look like a much

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