The Sports Moment: Your passport to the Paris Olympics
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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 | Hey, it's Elahay. I'm so excited because today, Wednesday is the launch day of our new |
| 0:07.6 | podcast about all things Olympics. I've already shared the trailer of the sports moment with you. |
| 0:14.0 | The opening ceremony of the summer games in Paris kick off at 1.30 PM Eastern time on Friday. |
| 0:20.4 | So today we're going to let our team in Paris take over and share with you the first episode of the sports moment. |
| 0:28.0 | Again, be sure to look up the show wherever you're listening and hit follow. |
| 0:32.0 | My colleague Sports writer Ava Wallace wherever you're listening and hit follow. |
| 0:32.6 | My colleague Sports Writer Ava Wallace is the host of the sports moment. |
| 0:37.0 | And the podcast is going to be a great way to stay on top of the Olympics from experts |
| 0:41.9 | on the ground, |
| 0:43.3 | and without you having to worry about |
| 0:45.0 | catching all of the events live. |
| 0:47.0 | All right, Ava and Company will take it from here. |
| 0:51.8 | You guys have been to Paris together before, is that right? I've seen a picture of you |
| 0:57.0 | pointing at the Eiffel Tower. We have been to Paris together before. What year was that? |
| 1:00.9 | I was the third wheel. It was. Wow no I mean it's 2024 it was |
| 1:06.3 | 2004. 2004 you did I like to do it. This is the 20 year anniversary of our first |
| 1:10.5 | Paris visit. That's beautiful how has it changed? Well we got a little more money now. |
| 1:14.6 | I met Paris, not you. No, we got a little more money now so we can actually like... Oh go and see things. |
| 1:21.5 | Yeah, like we don't have to do it on a budget anymore. |
| 1:23.7 | It is Wednesday, July 24th. |
| 1:31.2 | It is Wednesday, July 24th. I'm Ava Wallace, a sports reporter at the post, and this is the very first episode of the Sports Moment, |
| 1:38.5 | the Washington Post's new pop-up podcast and your ticket to the Summer Olympics. I'm here in Paris along with many |
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