Special Edition: Countdown to the Olympics
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 19 June 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
We're less than five weeks from the start of the summer Olympics in Tokyo. Organizers are trying to keep things safe by keeping strict rules in place. We're talking about everything from daily COVID-19 testing to mandated mask-wearing and high-five bans.
Today we'll hear from the chief medical officer for U.S. Soccer, Dr. George Chiampas, who will be traveling to Japan. He spoke with our main host Erica Mandy about safety regulations and his own expectations ahead of the games.
Then we'll talk to skateboarding national champion Bryce Wettstein. This is actually the first time skateboarding has been included as an Olympic sport. She'll talk about what this historic moment means to her and how the pandemic impacted her training.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Saturday June 19th. We're less than five weeks from the start of the summer |
| 0:04.5 | Olympics in Tokyo. It's a long time coming since these games were originally supposed to happen |
| 0:09.8 | last summer. But even after a year long delay, there's still a lot of controversy over these |
| 0:14.4 | games because of COVID-19 still spreading around the globe. So organizers are trying to keep things |
| 0:19.5 | safe by having strict rules in place. We're talking everything from daily COVID testing to mandated |
| 0:24.9 | mask wearing and high five bands. Today, we'll hear from the chief medical officer for U.S. |
| 0:30.0 | Soccer, Dr. George Champus, who will be traveling to Japan. He spoke with our main host Erica |
| 0:34.8 | Mandy about safety regulations and his own expectations ahead of the games. After that, |
| 0:39.6 | an interview with skateboarding national champion, Bryce Westine. This is actually the first time |
| 0:44.9 | skateboarding has been included as an Olympic sport. So she'll talk about what this historic moment |
| 0:49.8 | means to her and how the pandemic has impacted her training. Here's Erica. |
| 0:55.6 | Welcome, welcome to The Newsworthy Special Edition Saturday. When we sit down with a different |
| 0:59.9 | expert or celebrity every Saturday to talk about something in the news. Don't forget to tune in |
| 1:03.9 | every Monday through Friday for our regular episodes when we provide all the days news in just |
| 1:08.4 | 10 minutes. It's fast, fair, fun, and on the go. I'm Erica Mandy. It's time for today's Special |
| 1:14.4 | Edition Saturday. You ready? Let's do this. Dr. Champus, thank you for joining us here on The |
| 1:22.4 | Newsworthy. Good to be with you, Erica. Thousands of doctors that are part of the Tokyo Medical |
| 1:26.8 | Practitioners Association have called for the cancellation of the Olympics this year. 83% of |
| 1:32.8 | voters in a nationwide survey in Japan also think that it should be postponed or canceled. |
| 1:37.8 | Do they have a point or do you think the Olympics should still go on? |
| 1:41.2 | Well, I think that those decisions should be left within Tokyo and the IOC and hopefully |
| 1:45.8 | they're making the best decision for their country, their public, and taking all of those variables |
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