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Well Played: Farewell to Women’s Gymnastics, Exes Competing Together, and Team USA Track & Field Wins
August 06, 2024
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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