She comes back and she is better than ever. I think we saw some experts say this week that the Brazilian gymnast who got silver, Rebecca Andraj, is better now than Simone Biles was when she won gold in the Olympics in 2016. That is how much the sport has progressed in the last eight years.

And the fact that Biles is still the athlete that's in front of that is incredible.

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's edition of the late sub I am your host

Claire Watkins we're doing something a little bit different this week it is

Sunday evening August 4th we're taking a deep breath we're talking first, you know, 10 or so days of Olympic competition,

some of the big breakout stars, some of the lessons learned, the golds won, the races loss. We're going to talk about team play that is still in progress and then we're going to dive a little bit deeper into the soccer tournament as we move into the crucial semi-final round on Tuesday. So much to get into. Let's dig in.

All right, so we thought this week might be a nice time to sort of reflect on the first week,

week and a half, if you count it of Olympic competition take a deep breath after some of these events are over I think people might know with the Olympic schedule you may be well for example you have one week of swimming and then one week of athletics.

So the swimming is over as of this recording.

Gymnastics team and all around is over, but they still are moving on on sort of the apparatus

events.

We've got the soccer tournament still going on, basketball still going on. We're in sort of the apparatus events. We've got the soccer tournament still going on,

basketball still going on. We're in sort of that transitionary period of the Olympics

where we have moved until the final week. Things are about to be wrapping up

this past weekend there was a ton of a ton of metal rounds a lot of gold metals

one by a variety of different athletes but this is a good chance I think for us to sort of like sit down

deep breath talk about the big moments of the first week of the games because I don't want this stuff to get lost.

We're probably going to be talking about some of the big picture stuff.

We're going to miss some things because there's so much going on and there is can probably be a

little bit of a US focus here just because that is sort of what we're all sort of

honed in on here in the states but I mean it's safe to say I've really enjoyed the Olympics so far. I think the peacock coverage

has been very good. The time zone has been very friendly for me here in Chicago, putting on

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