Team Newscast Goes To The Olympics

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Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re in Paris! Team GB are climbing up the medal table and there’s controversy in the boxing.

Adam runs around the Olympics host city to catch up on the sport with 5 Live’s Kelly Cates, hear from Team GB's gold medal winning rowers Lauren Henry and Georgie Brayshaw, and ask the Paris 2024 CEO Etienne Thobois how you organise such a massive event.

Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Miranda Slade. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, we are in Paris because I thought I'd come and check out the Olympics.
0:10.2	It being so rare that the Olympics is basically on your doorstep a two-hour train ride away
0:15.4	Although when I arrived I bumped I bumped into the Belgian judo team who were going home with their Olympic themed suitcases and they seemed quite grumpy.
0:23.6	Hi guys, Saddam from the BBC, which sport are you guys?
0:26.6	Judo.
0:27.6	Oh you're Judit, did you win?
0:28.6	Nope.
0:29.6	Have you had good games?
0:30.6	No.
0:31.6	Don't know if that's because they've not done very well in the Olympics or whether they've been a victim of the egg shortage in the
0:36.8	athletes village.
0:38.4	History will judge.
0:39.4	Anyway, right, where I am now is in one of the fan zones in a really nice park in Central Paris.
0:45.0	It's really hot.
0:46.6	There's a basketball court where some people are trying their hand at the hoops.
0:51.4	There's a little pitch and put part which the kids are doing.
0:54.0	Oh I'm quite jealous of them.
0:55.0	I'd quite like to have a go at that.
0:57.0	I think that's the only Olympic sport I could possibly ever qualify for.
1:02.0	Many of families,
1:04.0	loads of office workers actually because they're
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