SPECIAL: The Paris Olympic Team Final (with Danusia Francis-Reid)

Blind Landing

Ari Saperstein

Documentary, Sports, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Throughout this week, we’ll be bringing you special episodes debriefing the gymnastics competitions at the 2024 Olympics. Today, we’re breaking down the women’s team final and with guest co-host Danusia Francis-Reed, a commentator and former Olympic gymnast who competed for Great Britain, Jamaica and UCLA. On this episode, we chat about the “redemption tour” by Simone Biles and the US women, the historic achievements by Brazil & Italy and the importance of leadership and group morale in team competitions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Ari here from Blind Landing. We have got a very special episode for you today, one of several that we're going to do this week.
0:09.0	It's something we don't normally do, which is a post competition discussion right after some of the
0:15.3	key final events at the Olympics. Today was the women's team final in Paris which
0:21.8	just wrapped up.
0:23.3	And joining me as my guest co-host today
0:25.4	is Danusha Francis Reed.
0:27.4	Hi, Danusha.
0:28.3	Hi, Ari.
0:30.6	So Danusha, you have been on the show before back when you were a gymnast competing at the last Olympics and now you're
0:37.0	commentating for the international broadcast on Discovery Plus in Eurosport and you came literally just from the studio reporting on the
0:45.2	women's team final live to join us here today. But just for a second would you
0:51.1	mind introducing yourself to our audience and a little bit more about your background?
0:55.6	Yes, I am an ex-gyumnast. I represented Great Britain until I was 19 and then was a member of the UCLA Gymnastics team and then
1:06.6	I represented Jamaica all the way until the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
1:11.8	Well I'm just so glad that you could be here today because a lot of things we've talked about this season on Blind Landing and a lot of the big themes that we're seeing at the Olympics,
1:22.0	collegiate gymnastics, switching nations, competing into your 20s.
1:26.4	These are all things that you, firsthand, have experience with.
1:30.3	Yes, I have experience with absolutely all of them.
1:33.0	Yeah, and I imagine these are all going to come up in our conversation.
1:36.3	So, okay, we're here on Vine Landing to break down the 2024 Paris Olympics Women's Gymnastics
1:41.7	team final.
1:42.4	And I feel like we should just begin
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