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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, they're already calling it Olympics withdrawal syndrome. |
| 0:09.1 | You turn on the radio and Rachel Burden is there, but she's talking about other news rather than the Olympics but we're going to get her to talk about the Olympics for one day more. Hello. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm so pleased. You know I actually spoke to a friend this morning and she said what have you been doing the |
| 0:23.7 | last couple of weeks I said well the Olympics has been on not that I demand all my friends |
| 0:28.6 | and listen to me all the time and she was like oh it kind of passed me by. And I said to her, you have missed out on so much joy. |
| 0:35.8 | I actually felt sorry for her. |
| 0:37.7 | You know, it's just been such a glorious, like 16 days of sport. |
| 0:41.9 | I wonder, can you go back and watch it on I player |
| 0:44.1 | some of the best bits or does the evil discovery channel |
| 0:47.1 | mean that we can do that? |
| 0:48.7 | I think quite possibly but I tell you what we don't have rights issues in radio. No it's the whole thing. If you really want to go back and listen |
| 0:56.3 | to Olympic breakfast right from the start on BBC sounds. Anyway we thought to help people with their |
| 1:00.6 | Olympic withdrawal syndrome we'd introduce a few last minute |
| 1:03.3 | extra events to help us talk about some of the things that we went through. The first |
| 1:07.1 | event we've created is the Friends and Family Relay. It was a strange one the Olympics |
| 1:12.4 | because clearly friends and family couldn't really be there unless you had that |
| 1:16.4 | amazing kind of brother, sister, husband, whatever coach relationship. So they set up in Tokyo these sort of little portals, didn't they? |
| 1:25.0 | Whereby, you could almost immediately finish your event and if you were a medallist, then go and see the reaction from friends and family at home. |
| 1:31.0 | But we obviously tried to generate that as much as we |
| 1:33.5 | could anyway on Olympic breakfast just to give a bit of atmosphere and a sense of people being |
| 1:38.0 | there and getting really excited which of course they were but it was just in their own |
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