What a day at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics! We had some heavyweights pull out victories, some close competitions, and Lindsey Vonn had a tragic end to her Olympic run.
We’ve been multi-screening to try to take in as much as possible, and we’ve also got reports from what we’ve seen in person today. Jill also went to Korea House and had a fabulous time.
Sports on today’s program:
- Alpine Skiing
- Biathlon
- Cross-Country Skiing
- Curling
- Figure Skating
- Ice Hockey
- Luge
- Snowboard
- Speed Skating
Plus, we’ve discovered what our Milano Cortina-specific segment will be (and it doesn’t have anything to do with toilets)!
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Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics-Day 2
Jill Jaracz: [00:00:00] One journo and welcome to Keep the Flame Alive. Day two coverage of the Milano Corina 2026 Winter Olympic Games. I am your host, Jill Jarris, coming to you from Shuk Stan House in Milano. Joined as always by my lovely co-host, Alison Brown. Allison, ciao,
Alison Brown: ciao. I’m a little troubled that your LightUp bracelet from the opening ceremony is still glowing.
I’ve posted it everywhere and I just wanna let people know it is still going.
Jill Jaracz: It, it [00:01:00] blinks like every half second. And it’s just yellow, one color. I would love it if it was multiple colors. Um, listener Charlotte, who I went to the ceremonies with, said she had to pry hers open to take the batteries out, but we’re just gonna see how long it works.
’cause I, I tried to pry it open today and didn’t get too far and I just was like, I got time.
Alison Brown: I am imagining Kirsty Coventry is trying to drill those message of peace into our heads. Subliminally. Subliminally through the flashing light.
What did we forget to tell you yesterday?
Jill Jaracz: Oh man. What a day it has been here at the Olympics. Tons of stuff going on.
I think I found our segment for this edition of the games and it’s called what we forgot to tell you last night. ’cause invariably we turn off the recorder and about 30 seconds later, I remember about five things I forgot to mention.
Alison Brown: That’s okay. It’s, we’re working on a different schedule and. Every show has a segment we do not anticipate.
Jill Jaracz: That’s right. Um, [00:02:00] so yesterday, I forgot to mention that in the Olympic fan zone. Met a lovely couple, Barbara and Paul from Houston, who saw my lanyard with pins on it. And were like, are you trading? And I said, yes. And then they each pulled out a little pouch, a little like little tiny portfolio thing of pins so they could trade.
They were very excited. Uh, they were also in Paris and had very rough times, so they were excited to be in Italy and were having a good time. So
Alison Brown: are they, they’re seeing much more pin trading?
Jill Jaracz: Yes. Excellent. I, I think so. I mean, it’s, it was pretty non-existent in Paris and all the pin traders, everybody who likes trading pins, uh, you know, it’s, it’s good to have it back.
It really is. It’s, it’s so much fun to you. You meet somebody new and talk to them. I’ve got pin trading stories coming up. Uh, we did not talk about the podium. Mascots, yes. You or the metal ceremony.
Alison Brown: You do get a mascot. You don’t get any weird poster in a role.
Jill Jaracz: Not only do you get one mascot, [00:03:00] you get two mascots connected to each other somehow.
Oh, did you notice that is one unit? It’s a Tina and a Flo connected to each other.
Alison Brown: Do you remember that Hallmark used to have the kissing reindeer?
Jill Jaracz: Oh yeah. Well, the kiss, kiss bears.
Alison Brown: Yes. Yes. So maybe it’s a, a magnet inside each of them that are connected. So you can separate them and divorce them, or you can bring them back together.
Jill Jaracz: Well, I hope that they can be, I don’t know. I kind of want ’em to be taken apart, but it, you know, I haven’t seen them up close. I would like to know, can you take them apart? Um, have you noticed in Milan the prevalence of fur coats every,
Alison Brown: I, I honestly thought we talked about this, but I may have just talked about it with myself in my head because not only is, is fur coat everywhere.
A lot of them are not fake fur. There is real fur happening. And [00:04:00] in the little market that’s near our near Shuk Stan house, there is a whole stall.
Jill Jaracz: Is there a hole fur coat stall?
Alison Brown: Yes. So yesterday, I guess it was, the market was on when I left in the morning and there was an entire stall of furs.
Jill Jaracz: It, it’s incredible.
There are many, this is like smoking almost. I am not used to seeing so many fur coats
Alison Brown: on men.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. And it’s not even warm cold enough. Fur, fur coat. It really is not that cold here.
Alison Brown: Okay. So when I was growing up, the church that we went to on Christmas Eve, the first coats would come out. It didn’t matter what the temperature was, the women would break out their fur coats.
’cause it was Christmas Eve. That’s what this is like here. It doesn’t matter if it’s cold enough for a fur coat. They’re wearing the fur coat. It’s winter.
Jill Jaracz: Um, a conversation with Producer Ben. He’s like those, [00:05:00] those three guys with the big heads from the opening ceremony. That’s Puccini, Verdi and Rossini, which actually is in my little program.
Had I read it
Alison Brown: well, I knew I got one right.
Jill Jaracz: There you go. There you go. We have, uh, had listeners ping, I’ve had listeners ping me about, uh, protests going on here in Milan. CNN reported that there was a peaceful anti Olympics protest. That went into the vicinity of the athlete’s village. Then it turned not so peaceful because some of the people got a little violent and they threw firecrackers and smoke bombs towards the village, but nothing was close enough to any of the buildings there.
Uh, then they started throwing firecrackers and smoke bombs at cops who responded with tear gas and water cannons. And so that’s gonna make the news. Um, I, I don’t know what to say, just that it’s happening. We didn’t see any mention of this
Alison Brown: it, nor have we seen [00:06:00] any increased police presence at the venues or anything.
Jill Jaracz: No.
Alison Brown: Anything abnormal. I Right. If you hadn’t just told me, I would not have, have been aware.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. And I wouldn’t have known, uh, if it wasn’t for, uh, listener Anna.
Alison Brown: It’s funny what. We’re aware of here.
Jill Jaracz: Mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: And what people are aware of at home. You know what I’m very aware of here is JD Vance is getting booed everywhere he goes.
Jill Jaracz: Oh, really?
Alison Brown: Yes. Because I was once again at a hockey game yesterday. I forgot to, since we’re in the, I forgot to mention this. And whenever he comes in or goes out
Jill Jaracz: Oh, really?
Alison Brown: Booze raining down upon him. Wow. And this was at a, the US game? Of course. Wow. With a very heavy us, uh, presence in the stands. So these aren’t just Europeans who are booing him.
These are Americans here Wow. Booing him.
Jill Jaracz: And it’s [00:07:00] not like he’s got a name like Luke. And you could say, that’s a boo.
Alison Brown: No, there’s, there’s no doubt that he is being booed as he was booed at the opening ceremony when he went on the screen. The American athletes are not being booed in any way. It seems to be very directed at Vance or Marco Rubio who was here as well.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah, our secretary of state.
What officiating or volunteer job would we want to do?
Alright. We’ve got a new day of coverage. So that means we have a new job that we would want do. What officiating or volunteer job would you wanna do?
Alison Brown: So excited about my job, so was at figure skating this evening, and because it’s a team event, they have the country boxes for the skaters and, and coaches to sit in to cheer on their countrymen.
There’s a volunteer that. Kind of hangs around those boxes, which means there was a poor volunteer who had to wrangle Barbara Fusser Poey, who wasn’t an Italian eye dancer, now a coach, and is famed [00:08:00] for the look that she gave her partner at Turin after one of the, uh, original dances. So if you have never seen that meme, please go back, look it up.
All you have to search for is Barbara Otley face, and it will come up. It is a face that I aspire to be able to achieve one day.
Jill Jaracz: Uh, just go on YouTube and find her their free dance from Torino 2006, because I did come across that in, in figuring out the, the theme here for, uh, Milano Cortina. And oh, the commentary on that feed is delightful because they felt it, they, she wasn’t even looking at them.
Alison Brown: I, I am still afraid of Barbara for Chipotle because of that moment. So I, I give a lot of credit to that volunteer, but I would like to try.
Jill Jaracz: Alright, so I went to speed skating today and, uh, I would like to talk [00:09:00] about the, the prominent lack of table seating for media. Um, a small venues, uh, speed skating actually did not have a bad size crowd for what kind of sport it is.
So, okay, you’ve got decent amount of stands for what you’re putting on, but everywhere I’ve been there has been a. Big lack of tables. And I got a table at figure skating because I was there like two and a half hours early
Alison Brown: yesterday. I did not get a table and I was over an hour early.
Jill Jaracz: Yes, I was over an hour early to speed skating.
Not much over an hour, but I was, there’s hardly any tables. Most of them are already claimed in that. Um, different outlets, especially OBS, they have assigned seats at tables and commentary positions are there too. So I plot myself down right at the finish line for, uh, speed skating and what happens to be right at the speed right in front of me is a box with about seven [00:10:00] volunteers.
Two of them have clipboards, five of them have stopwatches, and they all time every lap and do splits, and they all compare times and they write, and then the two of the clipboards write them down. I wanna be in that bunch.
Alison Brown: Oh, that is, that is a job Taylor made for you. Clipboards and timers.
Jill Jaracz: It is awesome.
Jill’s review of Korea House
Um, a, a good chunk of my morning was cultural today.
Alison Brown: Yes. You went to houses.
Jill Jaracz: I went to Korea house. I had so much fun at Korea house. Oh, I’m glad Korea House Let’s, uh, um, Korea House is free. You have to register and get a ticket, but it is free. Now let me tell you what I got at Korea House. I have an entire little bag of stuff.
Wow.
Alison Brown: Started with
Jill Jaracz: you. I, there are two different pavilions and I did the far one first and then the, the main one, it’s in some kind of palazzo that has a lovely [00:11:00] courtyard with a little pool in it. And so I went to the back pavilion and you go in and the first thing you can do is decide what kind of traveler are you and therefore what kind of, uh, what places in Korea should you go to.
Oh. So that was lovely touchscreen thing, although I bet they all say the same stuff. ’cause I, I got like five, five or six cities I should go to. But you got, um. A little boarding pass thing. Cute. There’s a little booklet for a staycation. And then the next standover was, um, a food manufacturing company. And if you followed them on face on Instagram, you got,
Alison Brown: oh, did you get samples?
Jill Jaracz: The Ginger Ramen and then you got the spicy cup of ramen.
Alison Brown: Oh, you are so happy now.
Yeah,
Jill Jaracz: I know. Got got some dinners.
Alison Brown: Um, [00:12:00] well I was talking with producer Ben. He’s like, you be careful about that spicy stuff. You don’t know what spicy it is. I said, well, you know you can try it then. Yeah, level of spice varies apparently.
Jill Jaracz: And then the next booth over was, olive Young makeup. For all of young beauty. And if you went and you had to take a little quiz, which, which was, what’s the top makeup beauty provider in Korea?
Alison Brown: Is it Olive Young?
Jill Jaracz: Yes. That would be it. Yes. And I got a little pouch.
Alison Brown: Nice.
Jill Jaracz: And um, where is it?
Alison Brown: You got lot. This is more swag than we’ve gotten from anywhere.
Jill Jaracz: And, um, lip gloss, I believe. Nice. Yeah. Score. Then the next booth over from that was like scents of the different cities. They didn’t, they had like little bookmark type things that explained what the scent was and they had, uh, dishes with stones that had the, the scent, the smell, so you could smell everything.
Um, then they had a, a [00:13:00] stage. Okay. And they had a photo booth where you could put on some costumes and take photos. There was another little photo selfie station in there. And then they had a shop with, some team Korea stuff, some stuff from Korea and then like Korea house stuff. So I got a Korea house pin and uh, because I was having such a good time, then went outside and um, they had a food stand.
They also had a beer sponsor there, but they weren’t serving any beer too early. Well, I don’t even know if they pulled it out, but the beer sponsor had metal stickers, gold, silver, and bronze sheet of that. And then, um, I got some food. I got a little cup of, uh, chicken, a fried chicken that was a little, a little spicy, a little sweet with some peas on top.
And then they also had like, fish on a stick thing, like, but it was battered and, um, a sweet, and then a pork rice bowl. [00:14:00] They were sold out of beverages. And I, I was there maybe 12 o’clock, 1230. It was,
Alison Brown: hopefully the beverages became replenished at some point during the day.
Jill Jaracz: Then I went to the second building and that was about play.
So they had several different Korean games, like, uh, some, some kind of like pickup dice kind of thing, throwing arrows into a bucket, a little, their version of hacky sack. And there were a couple other things, a little mini curling. Sheet out that you could throw things on. And then they had another photo booth.
This one I did. And they give you, um, two little photo strips of four you can put little stuff on. So I have little, tiger, uh, ear headband, and then these funky like blocks, glasses on.
Alison Brown: Nice.
Jill Jaracz: That was sweet. And then I met Barbara and Bradford from Chicago, and I could guess they were from Chicago because[00:15:00]
I traded for the Chicago Pope pin that they had. Looks like a White Sox logo. Very proud
Alison Brown: of their Chicago Pope.
Jill Jaracz: Some, some other, uh, booklets in a map and stuff. And it was just like, oh, oh. And then I took the survey on the way out and I got another sheet of Korea house stickers. Yeah, I know Korea House for free.
This, it was, it was amazing. And it’d be fun to, it was fun because I talked with some Italian people while I was eating. ’cause they, you know, we were sharing a table, talked with, you know, Bradford and Barbara and just had such a great time and exploring everything. It was like, they put so much into this and there were so many things to do.
That was, it was just a lot of fun. And I didn’t even see any kind of performances.
Alison Brown: Was it busy?
Jill Jaracz: It was somewhat busy, but, okay, good. [00:16:00] But it wasn’t, it wasn’t packed. But if you, if you’re listening on the go and you go, well I would like to go to Korea house. I would say register online because you get a little QR code and then you, there’s a line for people who have already registered and a longer line for people who need to register.
So I got to skip the line.
Alison Brown: Nice.
Jill Jaracz: It was, I highly recommend it. So much fun. So. That was Korea house. I, I do recommend you go.
Alison Brown: I’ll think about it. ’cause I was going to do something today.
Jill Jaracz: Mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: I was gonna go over to, um, the cauldron.
Jill Jaracz: Mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: But I got myself a little lost on my way. So I saw a lot of streets and then I didn’t wanna be late for where I was actually going.
Jill Jaracz: Okay.
Alison Brown: And it was starting to get a little darkish. Mm-hmm. So I said, you know what, I’ll just go to figure skating. I see a metro. It was one of [00:17:00] those moments where I saw a metro station and I know that all the metros connect. Mm-hmm. So I said, it doesn’t matter what this metro station is, it’ll get me to M two, which will get me to
Jill Jaracz: figure skating,
Alison Brown: figure skating.
And it wasn’t, it was it, it did. So I got to where I was planning to go, but didn’t get to. Where I was trying to go, but I did walk the streets of Milan and I was singing in my head, Milano. Corina, okay. Oh, oh. I know. Nobody is singing the song.
Jill Jaracz: They put effort into creating the song that is supposed to be shoved on our throats at every venue, and I have not heard it since the opening ceremonies.
It is so much fun. Know. And there’s a
Alison Brown: dance.
Jill Jaracz: And there’s a dance. I don’t get what’s wrong with the lackluster pre-game entertainment or in-house entertainment. They should be singing this non-stop.
Alison Brown: Agreed. Oh, [00:18:00]
Jill Jaracz: come on, Milano Cortina. You have a fun song and a dance. Make it happen. Alright, so we got results next, but before we get to them, we would like to take a moment to thank everyone who has donated to our fundraiser to get here or to get us here.
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Daily results
results.
Feed beefs
You watched some feed in the morning?
Alison Brown: I watched a lot of feed in the morning. I watched
Jill Jaracz: a lot of feed at night.
I got beefs.
Alison Brown: Oh,
Jill Jaracz: oh my gosh. And I felt like it was the same guy doing Alpine and speed skating and figure skating. And I know they put pe. I know that there’s a lot of commentators who are just in a booth and they do whatever sport they’re assigned for the day. This guy was like old school and not old school in a good way.
Old school and that like. Oh, you, you got paired with a woman. And I really like it when the woman talks because he would say things like, I can’t even tell you what he said, but it was just [00:20:00] like, Ooh, should you say that kind of thing. Uh, he was talking a little bit about Lindsay Vaughan and everybody wanted the Hollywood ending, blah, blah, blah.
Um, and almost sounded like maybe she shouldn’t have been doing the downhill for Amber Glenn. He said they showed her at the, when they were on the metal podium, they showed the camera there and he said they all played a big part and the camera flicks puts on Amber, even you, amber. Oh wow. Yeah, stuff like that.
And it, I don’t think he meant it. I just think it’s, you’re a commentator and you just gotta talk and the stuff you don’t know that’s coming outta your mouth, like, I don’t know what’s coming outta my mouth on this microphone. So the thing, I don’t listen to it, but, um, [00:21:00] I’m sure there are plenty of listeners who are like, Jill, do you know what you just said?
And I would be like, no, but this guy really didn’t know what he said. I had issues in biathlon.
Alison Brown: Really?
Jill Jaracz: Yes. ’cause I watched some of the, oh, I actually remembered that. I forgot to tell you that. On the train from Korea House to speed skating. A guy next to me had his phone out and he was watching Biathlon and I’m watching Biathlon on my phone, not not the feed.
I’m watching the International Biathlon Union Union’s app, which plays the game out in real time. So as people shoot, you see the dots go and they do time checks a lot. So you can really follow along on your phone. And I love this app. That app crashed right at the beginning of the relay.
Alison Brown: I think a lot of people love that app.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah, they, yeah, they do. [00:22:00] So I see the guy next to me, he’s watching Biathlon and I start sneaking Peaks and then he is like sharing a screen. I’m like, oh, I love Doro. ’cause I do love Dorothy Vere. And she was racing today and uh, and all of a sudden we were at her stop.
Oh
Jill Jaracz: no. So we didn’t find out what happened, but, so I had to watch the rest when I got home because there was some, some things happened.
We’ll get to that in the results and I wanted to see how it went. The biathlon people were talking about Lindsay Vaughn.
Alison Brown: Oh, well it did, had it, it had just happened.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. But like it’s biathlon. I also had issues with the camera shots because once the top people that we had to relay today, once the top people finished shooting, uh, that was it.
They would show people coming outta the pen penalty loop and then they would show like a random shot of scenery. And I just wanna say, get back to the action.
Alison Brown: Yeah. The random scenery [00:23:00] shots are kind of classic in, in old school. I know
Jill Jaracz: for all
Alison Brown: the broadcasting and it is like, we know we’re in the forest.
Thanks.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. For all of the cool stuff that they’ve done, we gotta work on biathlon again.
Alison Brown: Okay.
Alpine skiing
Jill Jaracz: Alright. Anyway, we’re gonna start with alpine skiing.
Alison Brown: Speaking of Lindsey Vaughn.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. Oh man. What a day. The mountain got her.
Alison Brown: The mountain only got three people.
Jill Jaracz: Which is good.
Alison Brown: Which is good. But man, it really got Lindsay Vaughn.
Yeah, it was, it was so very quickly in, in the top of the hill. She got turned around, ended up back just,
Jill Jaracz: yeah. She
Alison Brown: horrific crash.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. She caught her arm through a gate and that twisted her body around and so she helicoptered out and crashed. Um, it was horrific to watch. And actually the feed announcer said after a couple times, like, I don’t think I need to watch this again.
Alison Brown: Yeah.
Jill Jaracz: Um, it was rough. You could hear her screaming. Um, they [00:24:00] had to helicopter her out of the, off the mountain. She’s fractured her left leg, same leg that her ACL blew out. So she has had surgery. She’s in stable condition. If she said, I will come back and do j and slalom, I would not be surprised she could try it one more time.
Alison Brown: You know, there is a lot of controversy happening in the American media slash on social media that I got wind of that she shouldn’t have raced because of that ACL to which I say she’s a grown woman.
Jill Jaracz: Mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: Keep your mouth shut. She knows what she’s doing. She can make a decision for herself. She knew the risk.
She has been through enough. Accidents and crashes and surgeries to know which she was getting into. And she is a grown woman who can make choices with her own body.
Jill Jaracz: [00:25:00] And it wasn’t necessarily her ACL, she just got caught up in a gate and stuff like that happens when you’re going 60, 70, 80 miles down an hour down a hill.
That’s, uh, I mean it’s just kind of a, a freak accident and stuff like this happens in downhill a lot. We, and it’s just a reminder of how dangerous the sport is and how much, how much risk they take. And, and that’s part of the sport and that’s part of what makes it exciting. And they, they all make it look so easy in a way, even though you can see like the edges are hard and they’re trying really hard on, on this hill in particular, ’cause it’s a tough one, but.
You forget, just like if you were on that hill going that fast, huh? It’s crazy.
Alison Brown: You think you would hear screaming? You think you heard screaming today with Lindsay? Apparently the [00:26:00] screaming and all that was cut out of the NBC broadcast.
Jill Jaracz: Oh, okay.
Alison Brown: So if you were in the United States and, and you hear us referring to this, that was in fact cut out, but on on our
Jill Jaracz: feed, our feed, which we get the HBO max discovery feed from Europe.
Alison Brown: Yeah. So we we’re watching Eurovision and they just let it go and let it run. Mm-hmm.
Jill Jaracz: Mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: Thank you so much, Eurovision. I’ll be hearing that in my dreams tonight.
Jill Jaracz: Um,
Alison Brown: but on a good note, let’s do the medalists.
Jill Jaracz: Okay. Uh, gold went to Breezy Johnson from the United States. Silver went to Emma IHE from Germany, and Bronze went to Sophia Goia from Italy, who now has a full set of medals
Alison Brown: and.
There was a question on our Facebook group about if Breezy had in fact knitted her headband, and yes, she did. She finished it last night and she made a point of saying she hopes she’s able to donate it to someone who can auction it off for charity, so yay on that. Breezy [00:27:00] Johnson.
Jill Jaracz: Right. And she has to do a new one for each major race.
And she said, I know that even if I did well in one of them, if I bring it back, it’s not lucky anymore. So she’s probably working on a new one for any of the race. She’s doing this for.
Alison Brown: Right. She’s doing giant slalom as, as well, rather Super G excuse me. And she also broke her metal already.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. And I was looking for that, but apparently she was jumping up and down and, uh, it fell off the, the ribbon and the metal detached from each other.
And she said, let’s get this quote. It’s definitely heavier than I expected. I think maybe that’s why it broke. I don’t know that the Italians are known for their engineering.
Alison Brown: Well, she showed the pieces in her press conference. So she has the ribbon, she has the metal, and then she had this small piece that seemed to be the, the clasp that attached it.
So when she jumped the weight of the metal, pulled at the [00:28:00] clasp and snapped it. I think it’s just a small piece of plastic or a small piece of metal. It, it’s, it’s not, yeah, it was not prepared for American enthusiasm.
Jill Jaracz: I, I guess so. And, and she also did say, because I’m sure people in the media were asking about it because she said, I mean, nobody in the media’s offered to fix it.
I assume someone will fix it, and I’m sure the organizing committee is gonna get on that too. Sweet. And probably send a message. Don’t jump in this thing. Let’s, let’s not jump around.
Alison Brown: No, jump around in your medal.
Jill Jaracz: Um, so the, the top two finishers were incredibly close together. Four hundredths of a second.
Uh, between them, um, beyond the fact that it was a really rough day and a long break to, uh, help Lindsay.
Alison Brown: Two long breaks for two crashes. So one for Lindsay. And then, and then, uh, there were two other [00:29:00] crashes. One of the skiers skied down on her own power. The other required assistance as well.
Jill Jaracz: Boy, boy, boy.
What a day. Mountain. Mountain. Got some people today. Let’s hope that, uh, the next few races are not as, uh, traumatic.
Biathlon
Let’s move over to Biathlon
Alison Brown: so you can complain some more.
Jill Jaracz: No, it was a good, it was, you know, it was good for the finish, for the top medalists. It was a surprising finish almost. And, uh, I think some jitters on team USA.
Alison Brown: Campbell Wright had a rough day.
Jill Jaracz: He, he did have a rough day. Um, uh, USA was in bib number five, I believe, and which means they were primed for, depending on how everybody shoots, they could have slipped into the medals. Not likely, because we’ve got some really brand new [00:30:00] Olympians. Deidra’s the only one.
Deidra Irwin is the only one who’s a repeat. Um, and I think this was, let’s get the nerves out, because of how they set up their race strategy. They, they did the two men first, then Deidra, then um, uh, Margie Freed, I believe, or Maggie Freed. And, uh, she was the anchor and brand, brand new. She’s a rookie. She is, she is a rookie.
And I think that was, uh, you know, nobody did horrifically bad, but Campbell did like drop a bullet. Had to scramble to get it and he did a couple penalty loops. So I just think that the, the magnitude of what their racing is is there and just they’ll, they’ll get it, they’ll get it back. Gold went to France.
Kenton feel May one of the best by athletes in France. He was missing targets right and left. It was [00:31:00] unbelievable. And thank goodness they have, uh, Lou Ano and uh, Julia Simone, who really clinched it for them. They just knocked it outta the park. Silver went to Italy.
Alison Brown: Gotta love that. Lisa Ozzi was a little bit happy at that
Jill Jaracz: finish line.
Oh, she did a little strategy apparently in the shooting, the last shooting. She’s like, I took it in a little slower ’cause it was neck and neck with, um, them and Germany and. The, uh, Germans, uh, messed up on the shooting stage,
Alison Brown: but Lisa Ozzi did not
Jill Jaracz: slide it in, so she was a solid silver and then bronze went to Germany.
That was solid as well. Norway was at the top early on and just faded. Fade. Yeah, faded. It was really something when, when I saw the beginning of the race versus the end of the race. Um, so my feed beast beyond this [00:32:00] is that
there’s an Italian by athlete named Lucas Hoffer and there’s a German by athlete named Francisca Proce, and I heard Lukey Hoffer and Frankie Price and maybe they’re buddies and can call them nicknames and stuff. I don’t know what the, what the deal is with that, although I heard that on the US feed, uh, they butchered a lot of names.
Alison Brown: Well, as someone who has butchered many a name
Jill Jaracz: right
Alison Brown: in, in our shows, I keep my mouth shut for this.
Jill Jaracz: They get paid.
Alison Brown: That’s
Jill Jaracz: more than we do. So they get paid more than we do and they get training. So, and it wasn’t, uh, Chad Samala and Crew. Oh, oh, he would never, yeah, I know he would never, but, uh, it was, it was a tough watch all around.
Cross-country skiing
Moving over to cross country skiing. Uh, the men had their 10 k uh, plus 10 K [00:33:00] Skiathon cold went to Norways Johannes host K who has been just a rock star for like three Olympics now.
Alison Brown: Yes.
Jill Jaracz: So he’s just still so dominant in the sport. Silver went to France, Matisse, deluge and bronze went to, uh, Martin Strom Nint from Norway.
Our Shuk Ani, Gus Schumacher, who’s representing Team Keith, the Flame alive, he finished 24th. A lot of curling going on today. I had triple screens going on here. I had figure skating. I had whatever else I was catching up on. So Alpine, then by Alon, then I had to see something on speed skating that I couldn’t see in the venue.
Curling
And I also had curling on the big screen TV here because one of the Italian channels was playing the mixed doubles. So,
Alison Brown: and you’re, and you’re in the city. So I think that’s, you know, quintuple [00:34:00] screening in some fashion.
Jill Jaracz: It was, it was a lot. It was a lot. Uh, but we had a lot of doubles curling today and a lot of things shook out in the standings.
Um, I did see a little bit of, uh, the Great Britain versus Italy match, which is on the last session of the day. Great. It was, it was a close one until the end and, uh, great Britain pulled it out nine to six over Italy. But, um, standing wise, great Britain’s eight and one US six and two, Italy’s five and three.
Sweden is five and four. All four of those teams have qualified on to the semi-finals. Uh, Switzerland is four and four. Canada and Korea and Norway are three and five. Cze is two and six as well as Estonia. And there is one more Robin session before. There’s one more round robin session before the semi-finals start.
So there’s been a lot of curling, [00:35:00] but boy golly, it’s gotta be over quickly
Figure skating
moving over to figure skating. It was the end of the team competition tonight. You were there. I was screening it.
Alison Brown: I was there. It was, I, I hope you got the excitement that we got in venue.
Jill Jaracz: Oh yeah.
Alison Brown: Because pairs were first and the US team, Ellie Cam and Danny O’Shea just lit it up. Wow. The standing, oh, people were screaming and this was the first program of the night.
They skated clean. They, it’s a beautiful program and it just got everybody going and that energy carried straight through. We were talking the other day, I. Or yesterday or maybe possibly three weeks ago, about how there wasn’t energy in the venue and that was not the case tonight at all.
Jill Jaracz: Well, yeah, and, and it, it’s different because the screaming [00:36:00] for and cheering for certain skaters.
You get some, like yays for some people maybe, you know, lower down on the mm-hmm. The pecking order. Then you get cheers for like a home crowd person and then like, Ilia melanin comes in the room.
Alison Brown: Right.
Jill Jaracz: And it goes crazy, crazy. Cowie Sakamoto or Alyssa Lou, just, you didn’t know that they could scream louder
Alison Brown: and, and they do.
And I don’t know if you could see this on the feed, Georgia had a bedazzled flag.
Jill Jaracz: Oh, did they Really?
Alison Brown: So every time they walked over to the kiss and cry, they would hold up this fully, fully bedazzled flag.
They deserve a medal just for whoever managed to pull that one off.
Jill Jaracz: Well, and okay, so you talked about Ellie Cam and Danielle Shape, which is amazing that they got Cheers so out because they were fourth out of five pairs. I mean, they’re not, they’re not the strongest pairs in [00:37:00] the, the pecking order of the world and the pecking order of this team competition.
So that could be expected, but for them to get that kind of cheering,
Alison Brown: that’s all they needed to do actually in, in terms of what was expected of them.
Jill Jaracz: Mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: Just skate, clean and beat somebody so that you get that little bump of points, which
Jill Jaracz: they needed.
Alison Brown: They needed
Jill Jaracz: boiler alert.
Alison Brown: So then we moved on to the women and Amber Glenn struggled.
Jill Jaracz: She struggled and she got it back.
Alison Brown: Yes.
Jill Jaracz: And you could see that on the feed in the program, like you could see nerves going on. ’cause when they, they, uh, closed up or did the close up on her, she looked a little nervous.
Alison Brown: And, uh, before her Anastasia, uh, ANOVA from Georgia skated and blew it out of the park.
Just, I haven’t seen her skate like that since probably 2022. [00:38:00]
Jill Jaracz: Wow.
Alison Brown: Just, well, probably maybe 24. But yeah, she, it was not only clean, but it was powerful and really, really beautiful. So she ended up beating Amber unexpectedly in that lineup. Cowrie, of course, comes out and just, it
Jill Jaracz: was beautiful.
Alison Brown: Did you cry?
Jill Jaracz: No, I think I would’ve cried more if I was in the, if you
Alison Brown: were there. Yeah, it
Jill Jaracz: was. And Cowrie was crying in the box all over the place.
Alison Brown: She does that. She cries and then she laughs that she’s crying. Mm-hmm. And then she’s cries some more ’cause she’s laughing at herself crying. It’s, it’s her, it’s her shtick.
It’s fabulous. And because the Georgians ended up ahead of the United States in that women’s division, it messed up everybody in a way, because then you go into the men’s section with the US and Japan tied. But because of the way the tiebreaker pans out, Japan is actually in the lead because [00:39:00] they had won two segments.
They had won the pairs and they had won the women’s. So they, even though the points was the same, were in the lead. So the US had to win the men’s and outcomes ilea and just with a toned down program and with a couple of step outs. Still outs, scores, everybody by a huge margin.
Jill Jaracz: And poor Hun Santo
Alison Brown: beautiful.
Jill Jaracz: Oh, what a beautiful program he had. Uh, I mean, IA has in both of these programs showed nerves maybe. Yes. Or because he is coming in and he looks like he’s skating with confidence and with authority, but there are some these little tiny errors or, or, and they kind of add up a little bit over time.
Alison Brown: Yes. It, it takes away those, those, um, quality points, the artistic points.
And he was [00:40:00] really making some great strides in that area where his technical and his artistic were matching up score wise. And that has not been the case in these two programs?
Jill Jaracz: No, no. He’s, he’s had a couple of flubs, which is uncharacteristic and. Today It looked like he didn’t know what to do with that because he’s so used to being Mr.
Reliable.
Alison Brown: He sort of laughed at himself at one point on the ice during the program. He made a face like, huh, I just screwed up. What do I do?
Jill Jaracz: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kind of like that. So weird. Because Sato also came to play.
Alison Brown: Yes, he did. Oh my gosh. His But who, who really came to play? Mateo Rizzo, the Italian. He just came out and so solid.
So much energy, so much [00:41:00] passion, and they were screaming Italia before he even finished the program from the box. Barbara Fuso Poli started that and he had finished his jumps and he’s pumping his fist during the program. ’cause he knows, he knows that if he ends up third. The men’s Italy’s gonna end up with the bronze medal and they did.
Jill Jaracz: It was nice. It was really, really nice.
Alison Brown: Yes, it’s nice to see. And, and Laura Nki Gutman also had a beautiful, uh, mm-hmm. Clean program. So it was nice to see the Italians doing so well with skaters that they did not expect to do quite this well. You know, they were counting on count, uh, Conti Achi, who struggled a little bit and were beat by the Georgians.
And then you had your two single skaters who you didn’t know where they were gonna shake out, really came through for them.
Jill Jaracz: [00:42:00] So yeah, by one point the US beat Japan and uh, took the gold. And, uh, you came home before the medal ceremony?
Alison Brown: I did. I was concerned about getting back ’cause it is a good hour. It’s
Jill Jaracz: a good hour.
Um, things I saw on the feed, Laura Noki Gutman got to talk to, uh, friends and family ’cause they still have a screen backstage with that connection like they did in the COVID era. Uh, so that’s nice. Our sh Lesi Spencer how was in team? He was in the house. Tea box. Yes. That was nice that he was cheering people on.
Alison Brown: Yeah. Several of the not skating members of the teams in general were in the box.
Jill Jaracz: That was nice. Uh, before the medal ceremony, we saw a little bit of backstage on the feed with instructions being given and then the commentators did say, you know, look, most of the crowd is gone. We’ve been waiting a long time for this medal ceremony.
Alison Brown: It was [00:43:00] very long from what I understood.
Jill Jaracz: Uh, yeah. ’cause they showed, um, clips and highlights from around the day. And one of the cool things, I will say, this was really cool with the feed, they would show, um, stuff happening in different languages. So they’d start luge and maybe it would be in English and that it’d switch to German, and then, uh, you know, maybe you’d go to another language.
So that was really fun to listen to those highlights. But yeah, it took a long time. Who gave out the gold medals?
Alison Brown: Anita De
Jill Jaracz: France. IOC member.
Alison Brown: I saw Kristen Klausner yesterday. Did you? Oh, was, hello, Mrs. Klausner.
Jill Jaracz: I, I forgot to tell you.
Alison Brown: It’s not part of the segment. We’re not in that segment anymore, Jill.
Jill Jaracz: Okay. I remember to tell you tomorrow. So that was really good. Uh, you know, people were crying. It was, it was emotional. And, uh, one of the things they said on the feed was like, [00:44:00] we gotta get this medal ceremony going because those ice dancers have practice in the morning and they have a rhythm dance tomorrow, so they need to get outta here and asleep.
No celebrating for them, but it was, it was a really good, uh, competition and the setting the tone for what the individual competitions are gonna be. Boy, we’re gonna have some good figure skating. I think
Alison Brown: this ice is, this Ice does not mean ice. It’s nice ice.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah, it’s nice. We didn’t see very many falls. I know Maddie skies fell Yes.
In her program, but like, so many clean programs or just tiny, tiny little errors,
Alison Brown: you know, a few step outs. A few spin outs, but not, you know, I, I not too many crash and burns and nobody had a disaster of a program.
Jill Jaracz: So that is good. Yeah,
Alison Brown: so that’s a nice thing in a team competition, especially.
Ice hockey
Jill Jaracz: Let’s move over to ice hockey.
There were two games today, a Sweden beat France four to zero, and then [00:45:00] Che beat Finland, two to zero. I’ve heard that the fins do not look very good, even though they’re back from, yeah. From being sick, so that is tough. Standings. Right now in Group A, US is two and oh, Zea is one and two. Canada and Switzerland are one and oh each.
And Finland is O and two and group B, uh, Sweden is three and O, Germany, Japan, and Italy are all one and one and France, o and three.
Luge
Over in Corina, they had the finals of the men’s singles luge and gold went to Max Longan from Germany. Silver went to, uh, Jonas Muer from Austria and Bronze went to Dominic Fish, naer from Italy.
Nice.
Alison Brown: Which were the standings, uh, as of yesterday as well. Nice. So there was, was no movement up there at top.
Jill Jaracz: Nice. The, uh, the host country’s pulling in some, some coins, some metal coins, so that’s good. Um, as you, I see you noticed here, noticed noted here, [00:46:00] uh, Felix Locke finished sixth in his fifth Olympics.
Alison Brown: That is ridiculous that he’s so close to the top still.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah.
Alison Brown: This, this man is a luge machine. He’s like one of those drones going down the luge track. Yeah. We also got some notes in the Facebook route that people are really liking the, the drones. He is cool in Alpine and in luge
Jill Jaracz: it. I will say the having the drones on Alpine makes it so much fun because you see so much more of the course and you, they’re doing a really good job at doing like a whole point of view, uh, before the, the competition starts.
So you see how. Treacherous is a, not a great word, but how difficult it is. And it’s fun to go down the luge run too. It’s fun to see the speed skating around the turns and hear the drone going and see and see all of the, all of the different robot cams. [00:47:00] It’s a
Alison Brown: lot. I do love all the robot cams.
Jill Jaracz: It is a lot. It’s amazingly impressive how they put this all together.
Snowboard
We’re gonna move over to snowboard. We had parallel giant slalom today, uh, in the women’s Esther Eska who made headlines in 2018 because she was the first person to win gold medal in two different sports. This was one of them. And she was also in, in, uh, downhill and uh, in the alpine category.
I can’t remember exactly what her, uh, other gold medal was in. She was. Having to choose what sport to do in Milan, Corina, because both of her events were on the same day and she could not make that work. Competit, timing wise, obviously
Alison Brown: championed two mountains at once.
Jill Jaracz: No. Um, so she ended up choosing snowboard and she, uh, made a mistake in the early part of a quarterfinal [00:48:00] run and could not make up the time lost by oh 0.06.
So no third gold medal for Esther Eska, uh, gold instead went to Czechia. Susanna Rova silver went to Sabina Pier from Austria and bronze went to Lucia del Maso from Italy. They’re raking in the bronzes. If, if you were doing a metal prediction, I hope you took Italy and bronze for a lot of things. Not they’re, they’re, they’re gonna get some silver and golds, but hope, hope you pick that.
On the men’s side, gold went to Austria’s Benjamin Carl, who ripped his shirt off after the win,
Alison Brown: as you will on a mountain. Right? That makes perfect sense.
Jill Jaracz: Uh, silver went to Kim San from Korea and Bronze went to, uh, Ville Za Firo from Bulgaria.
Speed skating
And speed skating, which is what I went to. Gold went, uh, we had the 5,000 meter for the [00:49:00] men tonight.
So long competition, everyone expected, uh, a Sonder ire from Norway to win because he was the first man to break six minutes in this, uh, event just a couple weeks ago. He slipped on the start.
Alison Brown: Oh,
Jill Jaracz: and still smashed the Olympic record by a good bit. Oh
Alison Brown: geez.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah, he was a machine. Wow. It took him like two or 300 meters to get it back, but when you got 5,000 meters, you, you got plenty of time.
You got some
time.
Jill Jaracz: So it was great. He was in the same pair with a silver medalist meadow, Desh angelic from Czechia. And uh, IC said he skated better because he was in this pair. I would, would not be surprised.
Alison Brown: Right. ’cause if you’re trying to keep up with the, uh, a record holder, that’s gonna push you even harder.
’cause you think when it’s in a pair, I gotta stay with this guy.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then bronze went to Italy’s, uh, Ricardo Loreo, uh, [00:50:00] Italy had a bunch of really good skaters in the mix and one of the early pairs, uh, was leading for quite some time. So Italy’s got some up and comings, I will say. That the speed scanning venue was a sea of orange.
Alison Brown: Yes.
Jill Jaracz: Little bit of Norway in one form. And
Alison Brown: then everyone always cheers. For Italy.
Jill Jaracz: Yes,
Alison Brown: but it’s, it’s orange. Orange and more orange, but, and I’m not, we haven’t said the Netherlands yet in either of these events.
Jill Jaracz: No, no, not at all. But they also cheered for Sander Etri because they understood how good he was.
How good he is. Yeah. So that was really, really nice. Um, we need to go back to this Ummah band that you mentioned.
Alison Brown: Yes.
Jill Jaracz: Did you see it? Did I see it? Undersell? Oh my gosh. They were amazing. I love a good brass band. So this was like. Maybe 10 people.
Alison Brown: It was big.
Jill Jaracz: It was big. And they [00:51:00] had like horns and trombones and a little baritone action going on.
Uh, cymbals, they had a guy with drums and, and like standup drum, kind of bass drum thing that, that they would march down the street with or something in a parade. And they did some, it was a
Alison Brown: parade band.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. And they did play all the hits, like Sweet Caroline. They played re they played Sweet Caroline, they played some Coldplay.
Um, they might’ve played saving, uh,
Alison Brown: living
Jill Jaracz: on a prayer. Prayer, yeah. Living on a prayer. And it just kind of kept going. The problem was they started like 45 minutes before the show, before the competition began. So when they were done, there was nothing really exciting.
Alison Brown: For a while. For a while. The other thing I noticed, and tell me if you notice this, that inner lane, the warm up and cool down lane mm-hmm.
Gets really crowded and I got nervous.
Jill Jaracz: They know what they’re doing.
Alison Brown: I know they know what they’re doing, but it looks, and I’m sure [00:52:00] it’s, it’s a trick of the eye. Visually. It really looks like they’re gonna crash into each other left and right.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I did see, uh, the job you wanted to do with a little catcher, a little
Alison Brown: bucket and
Jill Jaracz: catcher.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it was, it’s kind of like, pretend if you haven’t seen this, pretend you’re on skates and you have a, like a, a almost a rake, but instead of tines, the, the rake top is a, a mesh thing that catches all of the little red cones that are in the corners. I, I felt like you were, it was a, like a, a golf ball retrieval thing.
Alison Brown: Yes.
Jill Jaracz: When you go to a driving range. Just not motorized. You would be the motor. It was really cool like that.
Alison Brown: I can be a motor, but it’s the Olympics, so we don’t allow motors.
Jill Jaracz: Right, right, right. I did get chastised because somebody thought I was taking a video. I’m like, I know better. I [00:53:00] didn’t say I know better, but I’m like, no, it’s photo. I’m like, okay. A lot of people were getting kicked out of our little press seats because Yeah, because, and they had nowhere to sit.
Alison Brown: That has apparently become a huge problem because the press areas are so small, in fact, too small for the number of press that volunteers are having to kick people out of the press area if they’re not in fact press. Whereas usually the press area, some riffraff along with, with our riffraff, you know, volunteers and other people from the organizing committee will sit there.
But because there’s so few press seating, there isn’t enough seating for the actual press.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah, it’s, it’s really tight for that. And, and of course these were like, people affiliated with teams and they were like, well, where do I go? There’s no room left in our section either. So this is an issue. It’s not fun.
I’ll [00:54:00] tell you, it’s, I got really worried about not being able to, like, have my laptop open because I have no lap in, in these seats. I, I just can barely touch the ground with my feet. So if I wanna make a lap, I gotta get to, you
Alison Brown: gotta put your feet on the seat in front of you.
Jill Jaracz: Well this, I, there was nothing in front of me ’cause I was in the very front.
Oh. I was in front of the tables. Right on the,
Alison Brown: oh, see,
Jill Jaracz: there’s a right on the finish line,
Alison Brown: there’s a little section on the curve.
Jill Jaracz: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Alison Brown: Where there’s two rows, and if you sit in the back row, you can kind of balance your feet on the back of the seat, even if there’s a person in it.
Jill Jaracz: Oh,
Alison Brown: okay. And create a little knee table for yourself.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. This was, this is rough. I will say that. But that’s, that is not neither here nor there. The track looks nice.
Alison Brown: Yeah,
Jill Jaracz: looks good. They’re taking good care of it. Um, did see a metal ceremony. Did not like the metal uniforms.
Alison Brown: Really?
Jill Jaracz: No. I They blend into the [00:55:00] ground.
Alison Brown: Yes.
Jill Jaracz: They’re one note. I mean, granted, they’re blue and brown.
Both of those, they’re muted shades. I don’t like the pants. I, I don’t like them at all because they just look like they fade. The, the problem is they fade in with every other. Dignitary that is there. ’cause they’re wearing generally some winter coat kind of thing that’s dark and it’s really hard to distinguish these people.
It’s, I don’t like it.
Alison Brown: And we’re also coming off of Beijing and Paris
Jill Jaracz: and, and Pyeongchang, let’s not forget those.
Alison Brown: Right. So some really beautiful metal presenter.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. This is
Alison Brown: costumes. This, this is a disappointment. It’s not a vibe.
Jill Jaracz: It’s not a vibe. And it’s definitely, we got something from a fashion school.
Alison Brown: Yeah.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. So, I’m sorry to say that’s, I and I, I get going with the fashion school ’cause they did have like a little competition with the school. [00:56:00] That’s really cool. And somebody gets to win a competition and, uh, have that in their portfolio. But these were, they did look student project E. And they do really have that 1970s Italian movie vibe.
Alison Brown: They do have that seventies Italian vibe, and they kept playing that Italian song that’s fake English from the 1970s, I think, because someone would just subliminally wow. Twice in one show, and I can’t say the word either, time sees those uniforms and just immediately creates a 1970s vibe in their head.
It’s a seventies vibe.
TKFLASTAN in upcoming competition
Jill Jaracz: It’s not a vibe for me. Or this, this show. Um, team Keith, the Flame Alive is competing tomorrow.
Alison Brown: Aaron Jackson, skating in the thousands.
Jill Jaracz: That’s gonna be exciting. Just we should just go now.
Alison Brown: Well, here’s the thing. I don’t think either one of us can go to this tomorrow.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. ’cause I’m [00:57:00] going to, I, I’m excited about this.
I’m going on a, a cultural day trip out to the mountains tomorrow.
Alison Brown: I have an evening cultural event.
Jill Jaracz: Oh, that’s right. I’m glad you signed up for this evening cultural event, which does have an Olympic connection.
Alison Brown: Yes.
Jill Jaracz: So
Alison Brown: as does yours, I I think it does.
Jill Jaracz: Okay, we’ll, we’ll find that thread. So,
Alison Brown: because remember in Ilya’s song it tells us that the past is not a chain, it’s a thread.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah.
Shout outs
All right, and we have shout outs.
Alison Brown: So first up is Ross from Tennessee,
Jill Jaracz: there are not many Olympic rosses, but there is Ross Green who competed for Great Britain in Alpine skiing in the 2002 Winter Olympics. So there you go, Ross. He was born in Scotland. So, you know, he had a good accent.
Alison Brown: I’m not gonna complain.
Jill Jaracz: Um, he [00:58:00] competed in downhill, did not start 29th in the giant slalom and 15th in the combined.
Alison Brown: Not bad.
Jill Jaracz: That’s pretty good. And then our second shout out of the day
Alison Brown: is author Lee Addison Smith in southwest Michigan.
Jill Jaracz: And Smith is spelled with a y so we’re going with that ’cause there was no Lee Addison Smiths, but we’re close with an Eilish. Smith Smith, S-M-Y-T-H. all of all of those smiths were all summer Olympians.
I hate to say it, but eilish smith com is from Ireland and she competed at EO 1988 in athletics in the marathon. Got 46th. thank you so much to our shout out donors and we have a mascot.
Alison Brown: Yes. We’re talking to, talking about Jill’s mascot again today. Abby, who is a torty cat, and I didn’t know what that was, so I had to look it up and has to do with her coloring and she is incredibly beautiful.
Jill Jaracz: Yes, it’s like brownish orangeish here and there. Yeah, it’s really, it’s [00:59:00] a speck of like a tortoise. And that is gonna do it for this episode. If you want even more of the most fun coverage of these games, hit us up. We are@flamealivepod.com. That’s also your soc source for our socials and our newsletter where you could see a picture of Abby.
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Alison Brown: And until next time, chow and keep the flame alive.