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🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Alyssa Rona, come on saver, my moussel, I can hear the busy Paris life behind you. |
| 0:06.5 | How are things? |
| 0:07.5 | Things are good. |
| 0:08.5 | I actually pivoted to track and |
| 0:13.0 | for the track stadium for the first time. |
| 0:15.0 | You spent the better part of two weeks watching Simone Biles |
| 0:18.0 | and what we're going to presume is her Swan song in terms of the Olympics. |
| 0:21.0 | Take us inside Bercia Arena and just what it was like to witness history. |
| 0:25.6 | It was really an incredible, I mean it was electric, it was emotional. One of the things that I think is really remarkable about an Olympic crowd is you have all these |
| 0:41.8 | fans from all over the world and they're not just |
| 0:44.2 | gymnastics like you might get at a world championships or you know at a national |
| 0:48.3 | meet and yet you just could tell that they understood the story they they understood the history, they understood that they were |
| 0:54.9 | watching an athlete who, you know, once in a generation, maybe once ever, and there was just, you know, |
| 1:01.8 | when her name was announced every time, every time. |
| 1:05.8 | If it was announced four times, five times, six times and all around the placement |
| 1:10.1 | wild and it was, you know, especially that team competition man it was just I |
| 1:14.3 | barely have had time to process all of it but it was a the whole team the entire |
| 1:20.6 | 13 days at the arena it, it was really incredible. Paris's women's gymnastics events were flooded by Olympics fans looking to get one last |
| 1:42.2 | peak at Simone Biles on the sports biggest |
| 1:45.1 | stage. But her ultimate legacy will likely go far beyond what took place in |
| 1:50.4 | this competition or any other for that matter. |
| 1:55.0 | Today, our Alyssa Ronek draws on her years of reporting on Biles |
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