Well Played: Farewell to Women’s Gymnastics, Exes Competing Together, and Team USA Track & Field Wins

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We’re over halfway through the Paris Olympics and back with our fourth episode of Well Played: Olympics Edition. After learning about the pair of Czech exes that slayed the tennis doubles competition, listeners learn that Amanda has a Hallmark rom-com in the works about the famed Olympic couple. In this episode of Well Played, we’ll also cover: The bulge that prevented a French pole vaulter from winning (yes, that bulge) More poo problems in the Seine and its effects on athletes Why, in her expert track & field opinion, Amanda believes both Noah Lyles and Kishane Thompson won the 100m race Sha’carri Richardson’s first Olympic medal, plus the famed Jamaican athletes who bowed out of the 200m this week How Simone Biles torched reporters after copping her final medal of these games The bullying of Algerian women’s boxer, Imane Khelif

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Well played presented by the skim the only podcast dedicated to treating the
0:08.9	sports world like the bingeable TV it actually is. Once again we are back with the gold metal
0:14.1	takes and detailed breakdowns of the biggest sports stories and
0:16.9	controversies you care about most. I'm Blake Blue Merwin and I'm Amanda
0:20.5	Duberman and of course we are talking all about the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
0:25.0	If you've been enjoying the show be sure to hit follow on Spotify, Apple Podcast or wherever you're listening right now.
0:31.0	Go hit follow, hit subscribe, whatever's on offer. Check us out
0:34.4	please on YouTube as well. Today's episode is available to watch as a full
0:38.3	video and if you happen to be listening to this Olympics episode of Well played
0:42.1	on the skim this feed Go now and search for Well played on your favorite
0:46.2	podcast app because the show does have its own a dedicated podcast feed and we do not want you to
0:50.5	miss a single episode. Blake, welcome back to another episode. We are about a little
0:56.1	more than midway through these Olympic Games. How you feeling? Like personally or about the games,
1:01.4	because I have some personal for sure.
1:03.2	We don't go into that much.
1:04.6	Two things.
1:05.2	First, I just want to say for everyone watching,
1:07.0	I did watch my hair for this YouTube video.
1:09.1	So if you're listening just to the podcast version right now,
1:11.0	I actually recommend you go to the
1:12.8	YouTube channel check out my hair let me know if you like the watch look
1:15.9	better also in personal land I am having some tummy troubles this morning so
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