Well Played: Olympics Opening Weekend, Last Supper Slip Up, Canada Caught Cheating, and Gymnastics Takes the Floor (Routine) Ft. Molly Carlson

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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We’re back with our second episode of Well Played: Olympics Edition. Amanda and Blake dive into their thoughts on the opening ceremony. As it turns out, they worried too much about unsightly denim outfits and not enough about the potential for inclement weather that fell upon athletes stuck on boats. In this episode of Well Played, we’ll also cover: The cheating scandal shaking up the Canadian women’s soccer team The iconic viral swimmer who took over our feeds this weekend (no, not Katie Ledecky) Whether Simone Biles will be hampered her injury, and the bittersweet moment watching Suni Lee qualify for the team all-around finals The lore behind the “Boundary King” who scored the men’s US gymnastics team its first medal since 2008 Team USA literally towering over Team Japan in women’s basketball, plus what Diana Taurasi said to reporters about playing basketball at her age A convo with Canadian high diver Molly Carlson on her experience plunging in the Seine PS: Like what you hear? Subscribe to Well Played on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you’re listening now. Be sure to rate the show 5-stars too. We’ll be back in your feed on Thursday.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode two of well played presented by the skim the only
0:08.6	podcast dedicated to treating the sports world like the bingeable TV it actually is. Each week on
0:14.1	well played we do what the skim does best to provide gold metal takes and
0:17.3	detailed breakdowns of the biggest sports stories and controversies you care
0:20.6	most about. I'm Blake Flumerwin. And I'm Amanda Doberman. Today we are again
0:24.6	covering the biggest sporting event of the summer, the 2024 Paris Olympics.
0:29.4	Every Tuesday and Thursday from now until the closing ceremonies,
0:32.9	will bring you the latest news surrounding the games.
0:35.5	Keep you up to date on the middle count
0:36.8	and discuss the events that everyone is talking about.
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1:01.2	So Amanda, it's time for a medal count update. We are roughly five days
1:04.9	into these Olympic Games and as we're recording this episode here's where we stand with
1:09.0	the medal count. So the United States leads in total medals with 20, including three Golds.
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