#ICYMI - Figure Skating Physics, with Olympic Medalist Sasha Cohen

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🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The Winter Olympics are here! Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice kick off our series of episodes about Olympic sports with the physics of the most watched event: figure skating. Physicist John Eric Goff is back, along with figure skating analyst Jackie Wong, and Olympic silver medalist Sasha Cohen. Don’t miss an episode of Playing with Science. Subscribe to our channels on: TuneIn: tunein.com/playingwithscience Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/playing-with-science/id1198280360 GooglePlay Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iimke5bwpoh2nb25swchmw6kzjq SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/startalk_playing-with-science Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/startalk/playing-with-science NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/figure-skating-physics-with-olympic-medalist-sasha-cohen/ Photo Credit: Rich Moffitt (originally posted to Flickr as Opening pose) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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0:00.0	I'm Gary O'Reilly.
0:02.0	And I'm Chuck Nice.
0:03.0	And this is playing with science today, we glide with effortless grace.
0:09.0	Whilst dazzling you with a double, or maybe even a triple, we will most certainly
0:13.0	salco, and most definitely do it all whilst on the edge.
0:18.0	I think it's a salchal, isn't it?
0:20.0	No, a salco.
0:21.0	It's alcohol.
0:22.0	And it's a salchal.
0:23.0	And it's a salchal.
0:24.0	And it's a salchal.
0:25.0	And it's a salchal.
0:26.0	And it's a salchal.
0:27.0	And it's a salchal.
0:28.0	And it's a salchal.
0:29.0	It's alcohol.
0:30.0	It's a salchal.
0:31.0	Oh, really?
0:32.0	Well, no, okay.
0:33.0	Welcome to English language.
0:34.0	Thank you.
0:35.0	Yeah, that ain't English.
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