There is a bit of explicit content in the podcast you are about to hear.

Thursday, February 22nd, 2018, from Slate, it's the Gisdai Mike Pesca, Olympian Stripped.

Okay, I'm listening. Yeah, but it all goes down from there.

Olympian Stripped of a metal, hmm, gets worse.

And the Olympian who was stripped was a Russian male curler.

Thanks, clickbait. You know what? Let's go to the truly inspiring.

The US Women's Hockey team. They had a shootout win over Canada.

Their big rival. Amazing. They haven't won a gold medal in 20 years.

Now, before the match, Jimmy Roberts of NBC did one of those

gauzy features on a player from the rival teams.

There was Alex Rigsby of Canada and Blair Turnbull of the US.

These two were college roommates and by Roberts account, BFFs.

She's someone who's always there for me, whether I'm having a good day or having a bad day.

She's one of my best friends.

Here's that one of my best friends, but then the reporter, Jimmy Roberts, pushes them a little

further together than they themselves admit. And of course, wraps it all up in the triumphant

over-cancer angle, which is what we've come to expect from Olympix hype.

So when Rigsby's mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in the summer of 2012,

the first person Alex turned to was her best friend.

Rigsby's mom's breast cancer is in remission, by the way, which Roberts, I think, told us.

Can't quite remember out of the piece. But what he did at the end of the piece was marvel at their

friendship. And then he tipped off a bunch of the other friends on the USA and Canada.

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