Tokyo Olympics: The Good, The Bad, And The Just Plain Weird
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The Tokyo Olympics are in full swing, and already there have been a number of surprising developments from Japan, including Simone Biles deciding to withdraw from the women’s team gymnastics competition and the individual all-around competition, and Katie Ledecky losing for the first time ever at the Olympics — but rebounding to win gold. Today, we break down the stories that have captured our attention for a wide range of reasons, including 17-year-old Lydia Jacoby winning a gold medal for Alaska, a gymnast saying farewell at age 46, and an out-of-place boat derailing the start of the men’s triathlon.
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| 0:46.0 | The Olympics are in full swing and to no one's surprise, there has been a lot of drama. |
| 0:58.0 | The greatest female swivel of all time, Jadie Le Duckey to the wall, who will win dead? |
| 1:04.0 | Simone Biles had to pull out of the team final competition this morning. She barely landed her vault |
| 1:09.0 | in the first rotation before leaving the floor. |
| 1:12.0 | Today, the stories that have captured our attention for being wonderful, sad or just plain weird. |
| 1:20.0 | A bear was spotted inside the softball stadium and it's still on the loose. |
| 1:26.0 | From Wondry in the athletic, I'm Tiffany Oshinsky. |
| 1:29.0 | And I'm Anders Keltow. It's Wednesday, July 28th and this is The League. |
| 1:34.0 | So, Tiff, today on the show, we are checking in on this very obscure event known as the Olympics |
| 1:42.0 | and some of the stories that have captured our attention and you know, talked to our heartstrings. |
| 1:47.0 | And to help us, we're bringing in a hired gun, senior producer and Olympics veteran Matt Stroud. |
| 1:53.0 | Woohoo! |
| 1:54.0 | Hey guys, yes. So I've actually been at the last eight Olympics for work purposes. |
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