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FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Monday August 12th, 2024

FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Kevin Manno

News, Society & Culture, Arts, Daily News

5.02.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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So much news! From the Olympics to D23... it was a busy weekend. Get caught up in 10 minutes! @FirstThingPod on Instagram || Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, all right. Stretch it out. Let's go. It's Monday, August 12, 2024. Hope you had a great weekend.

0:06.5

Welcome to a brand new week. It's first thing with Kevin Mano. Real quick, look at all the headlines. There's so much,

0:11.0

so let's get going it starts right now.

0:13.4

And we always start with the top story the 2024 Paris Olympics are in the books

0:21.3

more than 10,500 athletes from 184 different countries.

0:26.0

It's over. In the end, we tied China for most gold medals. We earn 40, they earn 40.

0:31.0

We definitely won the overall medal count though. We ended the games with 126.

0:36.2

54% of those medals were won by women. Nice job ladies.

0:39.7

The sports that got the most attention over the weekend were basketball and break dancing. That Australian break. that

0:44.0

Australian breakdancer went viral for not being very good,

0:47.0

but honestly it was cool to see the actual pros out there doing it.

0:50.0

And it was definitely cool watching Team USA on the basketball court. First, the men beat France 98 to 87 to get that gold.

0:58.0

Steph Curry is a machine. It's crazy. Kevin Durant is now the first player to win four gold medals in men's basketball history.

1:04.3

LeBron James was named the MVP.

1:06.7

Then yesterday on Sunday the women beat France by 1.67 to 66 as their 8th straight basketball gold. I love it.

1:15.6

One low point that came out yesterday.

1:18.0

Gymnist Jordan Childs was asked to return the bronze that she won. Apparently there were

1:21.8

some scoring errors that they later reversed.

1:24.5

The U.S. Olympic Committee said they are appealing this decision. But in the end, just

1:28.9

a great Olympics for America. Nice job everybody. The closing ceremony included a handover of the

1:35.0

Olympic flag to the host city for the next summer games which is Los Angeles

1:39.0

2028. If you miss that, Simone Biles and LA.A. Mayor, Karen Bass, gave the flag to Tom Cruise, who flew into the arena,

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