This is PEDYACAST.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome.

Once again to Pediacast, it's a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 496 for July 28th, 2021.

We're calling this one Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.

I want to welcome all of you to the program.

So the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo are finally underway after a solid year of delay, courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic.

And they promised to be an Olympics unlike any other in recent history. Today we're

going to consider the Tokyo Olympics and an event that will follow on its heels, the Tokyo

Paralympics, which features competitions among athletes challenged by physical disabilities

for many countries around the globe. Now, you may be wondering why is a pediatric podcast highlighting the Olympic Games?

Well, the answer is simple.

Every single athlete in the summer games was a student at one point in their past.

And many were student athletes who lived at home with their parents and families, and you,

the PDACast listener, may have a student athlete in your home, or perhaps you will have a student

athlete in your home at some point in the future. And you may be wondering how the athletes

currently on your television and computer screens made it from competing at the school or local level to the world stage that is the Olympics.

Your children may have Olympic aspirations or perhaps they don't really care, but you do.

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