Well Played: Breaking Free, Skinner Sends an “SOS”, Olympic Bromances, and the Skateboarder Who Gives a Duck

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Sunday marks the end of the Olympics, and the vibes are big time sad. The US still has time to clinch more medals with team sports and track wrapping up this weekend, and the debut of the sport we’ve all been waiting for: breaking. In this episode of Well Played, we’ll also cover: If Simone Biles is responsible for taming the internet bullies coming for McKayla Skinner Why India’s woman wrestler, Vinesh Phogat, was disqualified and how much agency athletes have over their well-being This week’s track and field gold wins by Gabby Thomas, Cole Hocker, and Quincy Hall The offensive trio leading the USWNT to the gold medal match against Brazil this weekend The history behind biting Olympic gold medals, plus the secret ingredient in this year’s medals (hint: it might be making one Parisian landmark structurally less sound) Amanda’s (potentially?) hot take on proposing at the Games

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Well played presented by The Skim, the only podcast dedicated to
0:08.6	treating the sports world like the bingeable TV it actually is.
0:11.6	Again, we are giving you our gold metal takes
0:14.4	and detailed breakdowns of the biggest sports stories
0:16.9	and controversies you care about most.
0:18.9	I'm Amanda Doberman.
0:19.9	And I'm Blake Lumerwin.
0:21.0	Today we are talking about the final week of the 2024 Paris Olympics reactions.
0:26.2	Devastated. Same. The clothing ceremony is just a few days away so be sure to subscribe to our
0:30.6	podcast wherever you're listening and if you happen to be listening to this
0:33.7	Olympics episode of well played on the skim this podcast feed head on over and
0:37.7	search for well played on your favorite podcast app because the show has its own
0:41.2	shiny new podcast feed and we really don't want you to miss an episode.
0:44.4	We'll be back Tuesday with our final Olympics roundup of the summer.
0:47.6	All right Blake it is time once again for our final medal count update before the games conclude. We're roughly 14 days
0:55.1	into these Olympic Games and as we're recording this episode here's where the
0:58.4	medal count stands. The United States leads all nations in total medals with 95. China is in second
1:06.1	place I would say a fairly distant second was 67 medals and home country
1:11.0	France sits in third with 51.
1:13.4	The US also sits atop the gold medal leader board with 27 gold medals
1:18.2	followed by China with 26 and Australia who has 18 gold medals.
1:22.9	I feel like this changed pretty dramatically
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