Well Played: Olympics Preview, Swimming the Seine, Biles Bounces Back, and Opening Ceremony Ft. Allyson Felix & Sam Mewis

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In the first ever episode of Well Played, presented by theSkimm, hosts Amanda Duberman and Blake Lew-Merwin preview the biggest Olympic stories dominating your feeds ahead of the opening ceremony kicking off the games tomorrow. In this episode of Well Played, we cover: Swimming in the river Seine: yay or nay? Team USA denim outfits, and the singular reason Amanda is all about them How the opening ceremony looks different this year (spoiler alert: it’s floating) What to expect from the US women’s soccer team with former USWNT member, Sam Mewis Why we’re hyped for the return of the GOAT, Simone Biles How the Olympics are becoming more inclusive for mom athletes with guest Allyson Felix Subscribe to Well Played on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you’re listening now.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Well played presented by The Skim, the only podcast dedicated to
0:09.0	treating the sports world like the bingeable TV it actually is. Each week on well played, we do what the skim does best.
0:16.0	Provide gold metal takes and detailed breakdowns of the biggest sports stories and
0:20.0	controversies you care about the most.
0:22.0	I'm Amanda Doberman and I'm Blake
0:23.8	Lumerwin and for the next three weeks Manda and I will be talking about the
0:27.4	biggest sports event of the summer, the 2024 Paris Olympics, every Tuesday
0:32.0	and Thursday from now until the closing
0:33.8	ceremonies will bring you the latest news. Keep you up to date on the
0:36.9	medal count and preview the upcoming events everyone's talking about.
0:40.3	Before we get into today's topics be sure to hit follow on Spotify, Apple Podcast, or wherever you're
0:46.1	listening right now.
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0:50.7	And if you're listening to this exclusive Olympics preview episode of Well played on the skim this podcast feed, please be sure to search for Well played on your favorite podcast app because the show has its own shiny new feed.
1:01.0	So do us a favor and go follow well played right now.
1:04.0	All right Amanda every episode of well played starts with the press box a round up of our
1:08.4	favorite stories dominating your feeds this week it's time for the press box.
1:14.0	All right, so we have to start with the ambitious plan everyone's been poo-pooing for the
1:19.4	last several weeks leading up to the Olympics. Did Paris do enough to fix its pollution problem
1:24.0	before the Olympics begin? Olympic organizer selected the iconic
1:27.2	River Send to serve as the site for all open water sewing events,
1:30.3	including the triathlon which is just famously quite a long event.
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