The Sports Moment: Your passport to the Paris Olympics
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The Washington Post
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🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
There are a lot of questions heading into the Summer Olympics: Is Paris prepared to host the Games? Who are the star athletes this year? What exactly is a “horsey passport”?
The Washington Post’s Ava Wallace speaks with Post sports columnist Jerry Brewer and sports feature writer Rick Maese about those questions and more in the first episode of The Sports Moment which we're sharing with you this morning. After you listen, look up the show and hit follow to hear more from Ava and the rest of our team in Paris.
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Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Joe Tone, Allison Michaels and Renita Jablonski.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Hannah. I'm back today to play you the first episode of a new show from the Washington |
| 0:07.8 | Post called The Sports Moment. You may have heard me mention this before. This podcast is your ticket to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. |
| 0:17.0 | My colleague sports reporter Ava Wallace is the host, and she launched the show this morning with a conversation with a couple other posties who are also in Paris. |
| 0:25.6 | It's a great way to get up to speed before the opening ceremony on Friday. |
| 0:29.8 | So take a listen and as you do, search for the sports moment and hit follow so you don't miss an episode. |
| 0:36.0 | Here it is. |
| 0:40.0 | You guys have been to Paris together before, is that that right I've seen a picture of you |
| 0:45.0 | guys pointing at the Eiffel Tower we have been to Paris together what year was that I |
| 0:48.5 | was the third wheel it was 2024 wow Wow. No. |
| 0:53.0 | I mean, I mean, it was 2024. |
| 0:54.0 | It was 2004. |
| 0:55.0 | 2004. |
| 0:56.0 | It was 2004. 2004. |
| 0:57.0 | This is the 20 year anniversary of our first Paris visit. |
| 0:59.0 | That's beautiful. |
| 1:00.0 | How has it changed since? |
| 1:01.0 | Well, we got a little more money now. I met Paris, not you. |
| 1:06.0 | No, we got a little more money now so we can actually like... Oh, go and see things. Yeah, like we don't have to do it on a budget |
| 1:11.2 | anymore. It is Wednesday, July 24th, I'm Ava Wallace, a sports reporter at the post, and this is the very first episode |
| 1:25.6 | of the Sports Moment, the Washington Post's new pop-up podcast, and your ticket to the Summer Olympics. |
| 1:31.2 | I'm here in Paris, along with many other colleagues, two of whom are my very first |
| 1:35.0 | guest. Jerry Brewer is a sports columnist. Thank you for being here, Jerry. |
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