It’s Day 6 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, and we’re having new adventures! Jill learned some scary new Italian words trying to get out to the Tesero Cross-Country Stadium to see TKFLASTANI Bruna Moura compete in the 10K freestyle race.
She made it to the stadium, but more importantly, did she make it back to Milano in time to record the episode? Listen to find out!
Meanwhile, Alison had a full day in Milano and hit up nearly every venue.
Sports on today’s program:
- Alpine skiing
- Cross-country skiing
- Curling
- Freestyle skiing
- Ice hockey
- Luge
- Short track speed skating
- Skeleton
- Snowboard
- Speed skating
Plus, what did we forget to tell you yesterday and many mascots!
Keep our Flame Alive! We podcast about the Games all year. If you appreciate the independent voice that we provide, please consider supporting us today. Go to our Support page to learn about our one-time and ongoing patronage options (as well as the bonus content for our patrons).
Thanks so much for listening, and until next time, keep the flame alive!
TRANSCRIPT
Note: This is an uncorrected machine-generated transcript and may contain errors. Please check its accuracy against the audio. Do not quote from the transcript; use the audio as the record of note.
Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics-Day 6
Jill Jaracz: [00:00:00] Bonjourno and welcome to Keep the Flame Alive. Day six, coverage of the Milano Corina 2026 Winter Olympic Games. I am your host, Jill Jaracz, coming to you from Shukla Don House joined as always by my lovely co-host, Alison Brown. Alison. Ciao. Commo sta
Alison Brown: My toe hurts.
Jill Jaracz: Oh, no. What happened?
Alison Brown: Nothing happened. I’m just realizing it as I’m sitting here because I, as I’ve mentioned to you, I didn’t bring enough shoes to rotate through.
Jill Jaracz: Mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: So I’ve been wearing the same shoes. Too many
Jill Jaracz: mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: Too many times. So I think that’s why my [00:01:00] toe hurts.
Jill Jaracz: I’m, I’m,
Alison Brown: now it’s gonna make me cranky.
Jill Jaracz: Oh, don’t be cranky for the listeners. I have blisters all over the place. Oh, you do again? Oh, yes. Yeah. I have some more blisters that showed up, so that’s what’s great.
But I’ll, I’ll get through it. It’s all right. So first segment.
Alison Brown: Stuff we forgot.
Jill Jaracz: Uh, immediately I can. So, uh, you, you took a walk yesterday and I’m, I meant to learn about, hold on a second. Uh, while you tell the listeners about this, I, I desperately need to put some padding in this room,
Alison Brown: our echo chamber of an apartment.
So, yes, I forgot to say I took a walk in, uh, Sansoni Park, which is probably why my toe hurts and passed the Coke Peak experience. Thank you for my padding and the esono house and the fan zone, and it was crowded.
Keep talking. [00:02:00] I don’t know what else to tell you about it. Well, what were you tell me yesterday? It was crowded, it was busy, it had lots of action. So I think people in the city are getting the feeling of the Olympics. It’s, it’s not quite so remote and isolated as we feared it might be.
Jill Jaracz: Sorry about the interruption. It sounds a little bit better. Okay,
Alison Brown: good.
Jill Jaracz: We have a very tall ceilinged. Bare walled apartment and stuff, just the noise just bounces off. And I feel so bad every day that we don’t have like hooks on the walls that we can just drape stuff from.
Alison Brown: Yeah.
Jill Jaracz: But we’ve draped and clothes around and that seems to help a little bit.
If you really wanted the behind the scenes and Jill’s tired.
Alison Brown: I know, I’m,
she
Jill Jaracz: doesn’t wanna edit a whole lot or restart the show.
Alison Brown: No, that’s fair. Jill had a very long day, but we’ll get to that after the stuff we forgot about [00:03:00] yesterday’s.
Jill Jaracz: Okay. The state of getting, oh, the state of getting and trading for Milano 2026 pins.
I noticed this.
Alison Brown: Yes. Milan, 26 pins are. Few and far between and hard to come by and people trading only will trade a Milan pin for a Milan pin.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. If they will trade a Milan pin because there are pins around. We have not yet been to the trading center, although that is on my list to do in the very near future.
But pins are really expensive, I have to say.
Alison Brown: Yeah,
Jill Jaracz: they’re somewhere between 12 and maybe upwards of 20 Euros. And when you’re talking about a pin, that is a lot to spend money on. There is a city pin scavenger hunt, which, uh, the Yes Milano people put together, which is a brilliant idea. And if you’re in a Facebook group, keep the Flame Alive.
Uh, podcast on Facebook. Um, I posted a [00:04:00] picture of the Panton pin, which is like the end all, be all
Alison Brown: adorable
Jill Jaracz: and yes, so cute. But they. Post on their website every day, a new neighborhood or element of the city, and you go and find where the pin is, they’ll post the address, you go and find it. And if you can collect enough pins, you get a a, a gift.
Except for the lines for the, these pins have been so long
Alison Brown: and each is very limited. They told us that, that they did not, they only produced a few thousand pins overall, nevermind. Of each. Right. So there’s probably a few hundred of each, because there were several in this set.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. And, uh, it, it’s, it’s a fabulous idea.
The pins are adorable. But, uh, we talked with someone yesterday who was. The last person to not, it was like the person in front of them got the last pin of the day.
Alison Brown: Yeah.
Jill Jaracz: And he was not [00:05:00] thrilled about that.
Alison Brown: No.
Jill Jaracz: So people are waiting in line and so it’s nice for the city because they’ve created some buzz and excitement about something.
But it, it’s a, it’s a tough haul out there. And like, because the pins are so expensive, people don’t wanna give ’em up.
Alison Brown: No, no.
Jill Jaracz: I mean, I,
Alison Brown: not just for an ordinary pin that they would’ve seen before, they will only trade if trading for something really special.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. Because, yeah, because a lot of traders aren’t super great, but they’re fun to trade and they’re fun to talk to people.
So good luck on those balon pins. If you get some, let us know the, oh, the opening ceremony’s bracelet up there. Still
Alison Brown: going.
Jill Jaracz: Still going. It’s, it’s dying though. It
Alison Brown: is, it is. Dimming was,
Jill Jaracz: but
Alison Brown: I still see a little flash of light. It’s over here in the corner. It’s, it’s slowing. It’s speeding up. And now it gives you like three quick flashes and then it stops.
Then I might give you, it’s almost like it’s doing morse code now. It’s calling Kristy Coventry to sh Liston [00:06:00] house. Yeah. But come save the Olympic movement from these crazy women.
Jill Jaracz: So that’s that. It’s still going. Um, men forgot to mention yesterday, uh, USA’s, Jordan Stoltz broke a 24-year-old record Olympic record in the thousand meter speed skating event last night.
Which I thought was really cool because Yeah. A,
Alison Brown: a record older than he is
Jill Jaracz: Yes. Which the, the very excited announcer kept talking about. It was, it was quite funny. And, uh, I forgot to mention that gymnast Fred Curley was at ice hockey for the game. I saw USA versus Canada and he did a back flip for everyone.
Alison Brown: Nice. Yeah. Hopefully not on the ice though.
Jill Jaracz: No, not on the ice. Oh, okay. They ’em off on the side. Do you know when they’re doing all the hosty stuff? ’cause they’re the Zambonis on the ice.
Alison Brown: Okay, good.
Jill Jaracz: Although it would be cool if he could flip from Zamboni to Zamboni.
Alison Brown: Yeah, let’s not try that.
Jill Jaracz: Hmm. Alright. What officiating a volunteer jump job would you want [00:07:00] today?
Alison Brown: I wanna be an Omega man.
Jill Jaracz: Oh, that guy. I saw that guy. I know exactly who you mean. So
Alison Brown: this is the man who actually puts the devices on the ice for the finish line for long track speed skating. But here was the thing today, he seemed to have a fan club because he was out there when they were doing the Zamboni and mm-hmm.
And protecting his, his timers and a bunch of people started yelling and waving at him and he waved back and took their picture as they were taking a picture of him. So, I don’t know, it was a, it was a group of Dutch fans, so I don’t know if this is the same Omega man for a lot of speed skating races. So he’s kind of developed a following.
Or they knew him somehow. But I wanna be that Omega man that just ’cause I like to imagine it’s just that people love him because they’ve seen him so much and he also had the cloth to gently wipe off his timers
Jill Jaracz: and you
Alison Brown: like, he loves
Jill Jaracz: you like cleaning.
Alison Brown: I do [00:08:00] like some cleaning. And he was, he babied those things and I appreciate that.
You would’ve liked it though. ’cause he also had some tools.
Jill Jaracz: Uh, yeah I saw him ’cause I sat right by the finish line when I went to speed skating,
Alison Brown: which is where I sat today.
Jill Jaracz: Okay. Stuck a stuck in an non table press seat that you can’t touch the ground on. Right.
Alison Brown: But I just put my seat, my feet in the seat in front of me and I said, dared people to sit there.
Jill Jaracz: Okay. I sat in front of the press table in that very first row. Nobody was sitting in front of me. Because I didn’t want a blocked view. If I had to have no table, I was not having a blocked view.
Alison Brown: Yes.
Jill Jaracz: So there you go.
Alison Brown: And how about you? What are you
Jill Jaracz: doing this week? Well I, I went out to cross country, so I have new jobs.
Yes. And I think I would like to be snow patch filler. And this was a poor volunteer who back in the mix zone and where athletes and press and coaches and everybody have to walk around the snow got very soft in places. So he was kind of frantically trying to build it back up so that people didn’t sink [00:09:00] and maybe twist an ankle.
Alison Brown: So was he trying to make it like pound it down or?
Jill Jaracz: Yeah, yeah. He was like filling it in so it had more volume. I don’t know if it helped, ’cause the snow was kind of watery in a way. But we’ll get to that. All right. You had a cultural moment.
Alison Brown: I did have a cultural moment. So, but it wasn’t Italian culture, it was Dutch culture.
Mm-hmm. So today on the train, I ended up chatting to this very nice Dutch man on our way to speed skating. And I mentioned how last night I was inundated by the Dutch on the way to, to, uh, team Netherlands house. And I made a comment about how American and how short I felt I was standing up. He was sitting down, he was clearly of Dutch height because we were looking at each other in the eye as he was sitting and I was standing and he said to me, we are long, but we mean no harm.
Which I think should be their [00:10:00] national motto.
Jill Jaracz: Totally agree with you on that one. I had to take a fast train today as part of my journey out to, to sorrow, and they had service in first class. Food and beverage service. And so for the train out there, you could get the sandwich or the bi squi and I don’t know what the bi squi was, but the sandwiches were two teeny tiny, like three bite sandwiches.
They were something though.
Alison Brown: Yeah.
Jill Jaracz: Why did, did you get
Alison Brown: first class?
Jill Jaracz: That is what we get with her.
Alison Brown: Wow.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah, so I was in the car with like people from Malta, my new friend Diego,
I think like the president of the Thai National Olympic Committee and was there and we were just [00:11:00] sitting and enjoying a beverage. I, he had some Coke Zero I think at that point because it was plenty of, plenty. It was early, but boy did I need it at that point. And then on the way back, Prosecco in the car.
Alison Brown: Nice. Mm-hmm. So is this, do we only get first class on this particular train?
Jill Jaracz: Have no idea.
Alison Brown: Okay. Find out.
Jill Jaracz: We’ve only only been on one train like this.
Alison Brown: Fair enough.
Jill Jaracz: So, yes, it’s a high speed rail. That new high speed rail that they put in was quite nice. I, I thought so. We’ll see how that, how that goes with other trips.
we have been having the TV on tonight and we’ve discovered that the wrap up show for rye, the local Italian channel is called ti and that’s trademarked. So be careful, but it’s no ksu.
Alison Brown: Yeah. There’s, as you said, there’s no audience. There’s no laughing. There’s no laughing, there’s no fun.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. And you would think they’d have fun because by golly the Italians are just [00:12:00] sweeping up.
Alison Brown: They’re just, you would think they would be a little happier. There was a man standing there with a stick at one point. Right. And just yelling at people. And I did not understand why he was so upset. ’cause I, he was talking about what will get to Brioni. He was talking about a, a an an Italian medal and yet he seemed so angry about it.
Jill Jaracz: Maybe they were subdued tonight because there was somebody in uniform there. Like one of the police type people.
Alison Brown: I know. Are you some Carbonie who’s just there to monitor the, the rye broadcast? ’cause they’ve been doing illegal things. I, I don’t know what was happening.
Jill Jaracz: other news that has happened, a figure skating coach Rimu Ryan slu.
Figure skating Coach Relu, who he’s Estonian, but he coaches Lithuania’s mea mea ti, and he’s been banned from the games while he’s being investigated for [00:13:00] physical and psychological abuse alleged by a former skater. So there’s been appeal, an appeal to the band has been upheld, and as of now, Meda will not have a coach.
Alison Brown: Oh
Jill Jaracz: yeah. So we’ll see what happens. Maybe there’s other people in her team, but you know, Lithuania is pretty small in terms of figure skating prize. I
Alison Brown: mean, at the very least, there are ice dancer here who are now done with their competition, who are very experienced skaters.
Jill Jaracz: Mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: Who I would hope would at least step in and be with her on the side, just so she’s not on her own.
Jill Jaracz: Tough, tough stuff.
Before we get to today’s results, we’d like to take a moment to thank everyone who donated to our fundraiser to get us here to Milan. We’re here for the duration of the Olympics and Paralympics producing daily episodes, and that is, uh, a very expensive endeavor. So we appreciate everybody who chipped in to get us here, because we wouldn’t be here [00:14:00] without you.
that said, we go year round, so we need some help keeping our flame alive throughout the year. And leading up to LA 2028, go to flame alive pod.com. Uh, you’ll see a donate button, or there’s gonna be a pop-up. We have options for one-off donations if you’d like to become an ongoing patron. We’ve got some exclusives going on there, and, uh, we really appreciate all the support that we’ve had since the Daily Games have started, since the daily episodes have started.
So. You’re keeping us going when we’re getting no sleep. So we appreciate that
Alison Brown: the, the, when those little emails come up that, oh, you’ve received a donation that that’ll keep us going. We live on that for a little while. Right? We ride that for a day or two.
Jill Jaracz: All right. Let’s look at some results. Uh, we start with alpine skiing today.
Alison Brown: Yeah. Women’s super. GI was watching this this morning and it was quite a race. The mountain won a little bit.
Jill Jaracz: Hmm.
Alison Brown: The 17 [00:15:00] skiers did not finish.
Jill Jaracz: Whoa.
Alison Brown: Yeah. It was a lot of skiers who went out, including some big names like Breezy Johnson, uh, Sophia Goia, Emma Iker, and Esther Eska, who made her way over from snowboarding.
You know, she, yeah. Couldn’t do the downhill, but she could do the Super J that worked in the schedule, and she ended up not finishing this race. Oh. Crash yet. Doesn’t tough
Jill Jaracz: game
Alison Brown: doesn’t seem like anybody. They got off course, but nobody truly crashed out.
Jill Jaracz: Oh, that’s
Alison Brown: great. So I don’t think there’s any injuries on this for anyone who’s now gonna go on to the more technical races.
Jill Jaracz: Well, breezy Johnson might have a finger injury from her engagement ring, learning how to lift it. She got engaged at the finish line, which was quite nice.
Alison Brown: What’s she gonna knit for that? Maybe she’ll just knit her whole dress. Knit A special wedding headband.
Jill Jaracz: There you go. [00:16:00]
Alison Brown: So medals in that, uh, race gold went to Italy’s Federica, Brioni Silver went to, uh, France, uh, Romani, Meli and Bronze to Cornelia Ter from Austria.
Jill Jaracz: Excellent. Uh, then we have cross country skiing, which I went to, and I will tell you, it was a long day of transportation. I left Milano Central at 8 35 in the morning, and I got to Tesaro at 1:20 PM three 19. Left Truro like four 20. Got back at 9 45 to centrally, and then I still had to make our way, my way back here.
Alison Brown: How you doing?
Jill Jaracz: I’m tired right now. I learned some new vocabulary when I was looking at the departures board. Gusto Odd failure to,
Alison Brown: oh, no, [00:17:00]
Jill Jaracz: cancel.
Alison Brown: Oh no.
Jill Jaracz: Canceled
Alison Brown: what? Was any of yours canceled?
Jill Jaracz: No, it wasn’t good. It wasn’t because the hard thing was there was a train that was disabled, so it just completely destroyed the whole schedule.
And it also destroyed the departures board because there were so many trains that were late. And by late, I mean now, hours late because of this disabled train that they couldn’t keep putting new trains on the board. And I kept standing there going, my train’s going soon. What? What platform are we going on?
Come on, come on, let’s go. So we did, and then I met my new friend, uh, Sergio, who was a photographer from Argentina, and he was going out to take, uh, some Argentinians were, uh, competing and uh, he’s been at 18 games.
Alison Brown: Wow.
Jill Jaracz: And I guess the record is 22. [00:18:00] And Well, he’s, he’s getting there. Well, the, the guy. The guy.
’cause I’m assuming it’s a guy who’s got 22. He’s older than Sergio. That is what I learned.
Alison Brown: But is he still going? Is that I, I, is that 22 numbers still expanding?
Jill Jaracz: I don’t know. Okay. I didn’t, I didn’t get a word in edgewise Really. But Sergio was lovely and sent me some pictures, which was great. Um, and, and took pictures of what we were out there for.
Uh, the, the, no, it’s not funny, but it was funny to me. Um, the deal is that you take this high speed train, lovely ride, very nice, very comfortable. You take it to Trento and then you get on a, uh, Milan, Corina shuttle provided shuttle, which is a big coach bus, and that takes you up and it’s a two hour bus ride up into the mountains and you’re going pretty slow and you’re going through little towns and stuff.[00:19:00]
Um, left right on time, easy to find, no big deal, except for the fact that the timetable that they constructed for this meant that you got to cross country 20 minutes after it started. Which was not fun. But at that point I was just like, whatever, I will get there. And I think what really helped was that, uh, I was going to see, uh, our shuk, Ani, Bruno Mora, it helped that she had been bib number 95.
So she started after I got there. Perfect. And I, I appreciated that. So he was not having it. Sergio was not, because he, as a photographer, he’s gotta like run and find positions and stuff and you’ve got part of the race already over with and that is not good for him. He kept talking to the driver and saying, can’t we just go?
Let’s go now. Let’s go faster. I’ve gotta get there. And the driver [00:20:00] was having none of that. So it was kind of fun to watch this interplay and just go, well this is Italian. Uh, the bus drops you off right at the front gate. That’s helpful, which is awesome. But then you have to walk through, um, mud. I mean, I brought some of the mountain back with me because my pants are covered with mud.
My boots are covered with mud. It’s semi snowy up there, which ain’t great. The, the, I did touch the snow and it was really watery, like
Alison Brown: just wet,
Jill Jaracz: wet, but not just, it would melt kind of quickly.
Alison Brown: Gotcha.
Jill Jaracz: But you picked it up. It was, it was kind of chunky. It wasn’t like fluffy flakes or anything, but it was definitely had been.
Like most snow water at one point, but, but you looked like somebody created this, to be quite honest. So, um, that was that part of it. I [00:21:00] did get there in time to get yelled at because I stood in the Olympic family section. Oh. In trying to find the Press Tribune, because again, we’re getting, I found the media center and I had brought a lot of stuff because I was actually very, very paranoid about being able to get back.
Alison Brown: Yes, you were very
Jill Jaracz: worried. So I brought a microphone and headphones and a change of underwear and extra food. You know, I just had a big lunch and a big bottle of water. ’cause we were gonna be a little bit elevated and I didn’t know how. That was gonna help in terms of dehydration. So I’m running around and literally I’m running to try to get to where I need to go.
I find the venue Media center fairly quickly, find a place, dump my stuff and go wander to find the Press Tribune, which I don’t think I ever, oh, I, no, I did find it. But the Press Tribune was really like in seeding, because I was around some Swedes. I was not that far from the Jesse, one of the Jesse Diggins contingents.
And, uh, I had been standing in front of the [00:22:00] Olympic family and I was told absolutely not. You do not, you, you
Alison Brown: do not stand near the Olympic family. Right. With your cooties.
Jill Jaracz: Yes, exactly.
Alison Brown: Especially your press cooties. Forget
Jill Jaracz: that. Right, right. So I did get to see Jesse Diggins finish the, the thing is, I saw the 10 kilometer interval start freestyle ski.
And that’s just kind of chaos, kind of like biathlon because you’re, you’re leaving it timed intervals. There’s skiers on the track all the time. And I was asking, uh, one of the Americans, Hailey Sw was coming through the mixed zone and I got some tape with her and some other reporters too, and I asked like, what, what about this? Do people watching it at home, this race, what do, if you’re watching at home, what don’t you?
Get when you’re here. Well, they do like three loops, but it’s different courses for every loop. And so you’re crossing [00:23:00] things, you’re turning weird and if you don’t get it right, if you turn the wrong way, which Hailey said she almost did in warmups, like, your race is over ’cause you went the wrong direction.
So it’s very confusing and it’s, it’s logistically hard. And it does look like there are skiers just everywhere and you don’t know where to look. The course is huge. You’re in the mountains, but you’re,
Alison Brown: it’s like a Hunger Games.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. Yeah. You’re still at tree line, so you’re not super high up, but you’re, you’re definitely surrounded by mountains.
It’s really pretty up there. And the, the stadium is like it for right there. There’s didn’t seem to be anything else around. They did have a couple of different, uh, concession stands. One was supposed to be local stuff, which might have been interesting, but I. I got there late. Um, and I also didn’t go into the, the media one e the media concessions either.
’cause [00:24:00] I brought all my own food
Alison Brown: along with your underpants.
Jill Jaracz: Right. And um, so I did get to see Jesse Diggins finish and Jesse Diggins was fighting for bronze. What you don’t see on TV is how amazingly fast she is. And she was hauling and hauling and hauling and you could tell she was in a world of pain.
Alison Brown: But she knew she was close.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. She knew she was close, she was pushing, she knows how to take the pain better than anybody else. And then collapsed at the end and Hailey was there helping her out. ’cause she, I guess she, not a huge fan of being touched, but like they got her skis off so she could at least.
Wry the round of pain. So you, you say move pump comfortably. I say Ry the round of pain ’cause that’s what it was. Fair enough. Uh, but she eventually got up and cleaned the bronze, which was awesome. And uh, then Bruno Mora, I saw her start [00:25:00] and then, ’cause I was in the mix zone, did not see anything else. And the poor announcers are trying to keep things going and keep you informed on what’s happening.
Alison Brown: But with interval starts, that’s gotta be almost impossible.
Jill Jaracz: It’s really, really difficult. But they were trying to keep an eye on the top people and figure out where they were. Um, huge, huge Swedish contingent that of course stayed till the end appropriately. So, which is, it’s kind of sad because the people in bibs like low 80 or high eighties to the hundreds, you know, the stands cleared out a little bit before they left.
But Bruno, who was bib number 95. Uh, she did not have a good race because her, uh, something’s up with like her lower legs and, um, this was really hard, but she wanted to race and she wanted to finish and that was very, very important to her. So she didn’t matter if she did it slowly, she was gonna finish.
Well, the three winners went [00:26:00] to the finish line and welcomed all the finisher, you know, all the, the people down the bottom and between Bruna and the skier from Mexico who was just in tears over that. It was really, really something. They were so excited and it, it just really meant a lot to them to, you know, be seen as equals with these phenomenal skiers.
And I think they understand how hard it is for the people from really small, you know, not necessarily small countries, ’cause Brazil’s big but small, but
Alison Brown: certainly small winter programs.
Jill Jaracz: Yes, exactly. So, um, I. Gold went to Frida Carlson from Sweden, that is her second gold. Uh, silver went to Ava Anderson, her second silver, I guess there were lots of people fighting for silver and now she’s got a medal to replace or go along with the broken one that she has.
Alison Brown: One, one is [00:27:00] fixed and nice and one broken.
Jill Jaracz: Right. Um, and then Jesse Diggins got bronze and she said she was so thrilled to get that and it was so hard fought. And I heard her say, and it might have been when she was going through the mix zone, ’cause she was actually on a mic. There were so many people around that this, because of the crash she had where she bruised a bunch of ribs and they got an ultrasound.
Nothing’s broken, but it really hurts. Um, this game is not going the way it’s supposed to because of that,
Alison Brown: because she’s in pain,
Jill Jaracz: she’s in a lot of pain and. Dealing mentally with that element of this isn’t going the way it’s supposed to. How do you change that and work with it? That’s just, that’s been really challenging for her too, on top of it.
So that’s a, that’s a real bummer
Alison Brown: though, you know? It’s [00:28:00] something she can pull through.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah.
Alison Brown: She is that resilient and strong of an athlete. And she’s been through it. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So this is not the first challenge that she has ever faced.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah.
Alison Brown: So though I wish she didn’t have to.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. And she, she said, you know, it’s easy to feel sorry for herself, but she knows she is lucky to still get to be there.
So just, you know, her attitude is amazing. Her approach is amazing. It was great to see the crowd who wa they were just waiting for her to get through the medal ceremony and through doping and all that stuff. And she came by for some hugs and it was great. Um, I saw the whole lineup. Of the met, not the lineup of people, the lineup of signs and the order that people job stand in.
That was cool. That was very cool. Uh, Frida met the king and apparently every time a Swede wins a medal, he gets one too. Maybe [00:29:00] not an Olympic medal, but he gets some kind of medal.
Alison Brown: He gets some sort of recognition that one of your citizens has done a great thing.
Jill Jaracz: Right?
Alison Brown: King Carl Gustav.
Jill Jaracz: Um, and that, that’s about it.
I mean, I stuck around for a long time and I talked to Bruna and was great to meet her. I met her partner and and his family, and. Uh, got us pins. Oh, nice. Yes. Special Brazilian pins. So they’re, I don’t, I think those are kind of hard to come by. So they go in my take home pile.
Alison Brown: It’s funny ’cause when we were at Casa Brazil yesterday, somebody was asking one of the workers there about trading for a Brazil pin.
Mm-hmm. And she’s just said no. She said, we got these special, these are the only, this is the only one I have. So no, no one’s getting my Brazil pin.
Jill Jaracz: Do not blame her. Um, but then I had popped into the press conference, which was for the medalist. I was there for a little bit and I’m [00:30:00] like, oh, you know, maybe I should try to go to the bus early and take, uh, I had two options for bus and take the earlier one.
So I did, I had to hustle. Not easy, but um, with
Alison Brown: your underwear bag,
Jill Jaracz: don’t call my backpack. The underwear bag. I had gear in it. The underwear weighed nothing next to the microphone. It’s much more fun calling it the underwear bag. Um, so haul my butt to the bus, get there, get on, look at the transport app, and it suddenly says that there are no other buses after this.
Like you couldn’t get in another bus. Like, oh, okay, I guess I did good. Got got my Prosecco to celebrate on the way home. Well, I’m very glad to have you home in one piece. So it was a great day. It was a really fun day. It was fun to see that the ride was, the ride on the bus was beautiful. It was slow because you’re going windy [00:31:00] roads, but you’d go through these little villages that would, some of them would have.
Olympic stuff, and we, I don’t know if we went through somebody, some town that had a collection, a connection to Stia, uh, and Amos Ner,
Alison Brown: well, STIA is from the Corina area.
Jill Jaracz: Okay. So that’s not, so maybe it’s, so it’s not
Alison Brown: her. So maybe
Jill Jaracz: there was a, a banner with their picture on it. And then somebody had like, spray painted a banner that was like, go Stephania.
Go Amos. And had little curling stones on it. It was really cute. And so there were other little things that popped up here and there that helped you feel like it was Olympic, but it was really weird to have this, like, everybody comes together and you’re plopped in the stadium
Alison Brown: and
Jill Jaracz: then you’re out.
Everybody
Alison Brown: goes away.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. In the
Alison Brown: bus.
Jill Jaracz: So yeah, I’m excited that I got cross country checked off the list. And you know what, I figured out what my problem is with the day and the date confusion
Alison Brown: tell me
Jill Jaracz: is because I keep thinking February is one of those perfect [00:32:00] months that we’re the first, I believe was on a Sunday. And the 28th is like, it’s a perfect month that fits all on one calendar.
Well, I keep thinking that because we’re on day six, it should be like the 6th of February. So when I see the 12th, I think we’re almost done,
Alison Brown: right? We’re not,
Jill Jaracz: no.
Alison Brown: We have 10 more days to go.
Jill Jaracz: Wow, that’s impressive. This, this show is pretty good. Alright, let’s move over to curling. The Men and Women’s Round Robins got underway today for the women USAB, Korea, eight to four Japan, or lost to Sweden, also eight to four Switzerland, beat Italy.
Seven four. Canada beat Denmark, 10 to four, China beat Great Britain, seven to four. Korea beat Italy, seven to two. Denmark beat Japan, 10 to seven and extra ends. And Denmark’s, Madeleine DuPont said, well, that’s what the people want. They want the drama, [00:33:00] which I loved. And then Sweden beat the US nine to four.
So it looked like everybody had two games today.
Alison Brown: Yes,
Jill Jaracz: men’s round robin had very.
Alison Brown: One session.
Jill Jaracz: One session. So Germany beat Norway five four, Switzerland, beat the USA eight to three. And so as they were losing USA put their alternate rich hon in so that rich could become the oldest American to compete at a, at an Olympic games winter, Olympic games.
Alison Brown: So all he ever wanted, he said, was to throw a stone at the Olympics.
Jill Jaracz: There you go. And he’s 54. So good on you, rich. You may, you got your dream. And then Great Britain and Sweden played. That was a rematch of the Beijing 2022 final last time Sweden won this time. Great Britain won six to three. Moving over to freestyle skiing.
We had the men’s moguls Today. Gold went to Cooper Woods from Australia. Silver went to, uh, Michael Kingsbury from Canada and Bronze [00:34:00] went to Japan’s Hiroshima, Kuma.
Alison Brown: This I did also watch.
Jill Jaracz: Okay. And.
Alison Brown: The conditions were not great. Oh, it seemed to be that there was snow going on all over the mountains this morning.
It was true for Alpine, it was true for, uh, freestyle and I think it was also true for, we’ll get to snowboard cross, so,
Jill Jaracz: oh, and halfpipe. It was snowing too tonight.
Alison Brown: Yeah, so today was definitely foggy and snowy and that makes it a little crazy. But here was the fun thing. Fun, the cool thing Kingsbury and Woods Tide and the tiebreaker goes to the turns score.
I know what a strange thing to go for the tie. Like I thought the tiebreaker was going to be who maybe adding things or jumps or, or time even. But no, it’s the turns Score and Woods received a 48.4. Kingsbury received a [00:35:00] 47.7, so that de that decided it.
Jill Jaracz: Wow.
Alison Brown: And this is Kingsbury’s third silver medal. In this event, he did win gold and Pyeongchang, so he’s medaled now four times in this event.
Jill Jaracz: Wow. So Sochi, then BJ and now Milano Cortina,
Alison Brown: yes.
Jill Jaracz: Wow. Impressive. And ice hockey, the men started playing today, so
Alison Brown: I, I did not see this. I did not venture out to the hockey arena. I lied to you, but I did do a lot of stuff, so it’s okay. I did a lot of other stuff. I just didn’t get to men. What other
Jill Jaracz: stuff?
Alison Brown: I went to women’s hockey.
Oh, I went to speed’s. Skating. That’s different. And I went to short track.
Jill Jaracz: Okay, so in men’s ice hockey it was Group a Switzerland, beat France four zero and Canada beat Czechia [00:36:00] five zero. And in group C, the USA beat Latvia five one and Germany beat Denmark three one. So then the women’s hockey match, we had that postponed, uh, norovirus situation match where Canada beat Finland five zero.
Alison Brown: So I got to hear Bubba baby
Jill Jaracz: oh boy,
Alison Brown: a few times. You ain’t seen nothing yet, Jill. You ain’t seen nothing yet,
Jill Jaracz: but you just saw something that’s a horrible choice. You just saw a goal, you saw something. Not nothing. They should talk to IA melanin about that because his free skate is his own. We’ll get to figure skating tomorrow, but his free skate is his own.
Lyrics. He wrote some poetry for it. And it’s, there’s a line in there as like
Alison Brown: you are something something, but not nothing.
Jill Jaracz: There we go. So we saw something. You saw something. A lot of something.
Alison Brown: I did see a lot of something just not men’s [00:37:00] hockey.
Jill Jaracz: Um, so the quarterfinals are set?
Alison Brown: Yes. And they’ll be starting tomorrow and on Saturday.
So we’re gonna have Canada versus Germany, Finland versus Switzerland. Czechia versus Sweden. And the USA will take on Italy
Jill Jaracz: in luge we had the team at Relay.
Alison Brown: Yes. Gold went to Germany again, again. With the luge relay. Silver went to Austria, bronze went to Italy. So the nice job for Italy to get on there.
Our, uh, Americans finished in fifth, that’s Ashley Farguson. And Sivan Forgan and Sophia Kirkby were the women’s single and women’s double portion of the relay respectively.
Jill Jaracz: One of our listeners, listener Brian, uh, he tracks repeat gold Oh. And really concentrates on like the four Ps because that’s really, really rare. And so, [00:38:00] uh, if Germany had one gold, which they did it, it’s a four peak for Tobias Al and Tobias Vendel, the doubles team. But. You could make an argument that this relay now, because there’s also women’s doubles added into it, not the same event as it was before.
Alison Brown: Huh.
Jill Jaracz: Moving on to skeleton. Oh, skeleton. Hey, now that luge is over. Skeleton’s the next one to take the track. So we had the men’s, uh, first and second heats. So we’ve got standings.
Alison Brown: Yes. Great. Britain’s Matt Westin. Set a track record on run one and then decided to break it on run two. So he is in the lead, followed by Axel Yung, uh, from Germany and Christopher Grier, author from Germany.
Jill Jaracz: Oh boy. Oh, I’m sorry. Listeners. We’re, we’re gonna be in rare form tonight.
Alison Brown: But the cool thing for me was, [00:39:00] uh, American Austin Florian set a new start record on the track and then he also broke it on his second run. ’cause there’s a start record. Yes.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. I
Alison Brown: Versus the track record. So there’s a start record that he broke twice.
Um, he stands in 13th Place.
Jill Jaracz: Very
Alison Brown: nice overall. And runs three and four will be tomorrow.
Jill Jaracz: And there has been kind of a little controversy in skeleton going
Alison Brown: on. Yes. The political issue of Rule 50 and displays of, of political protests on the fields of play, which we’ve talked about in many contexts. But this was a helmet for Vlav Harris.
Jill Jaracz: Good on for taking that one.
Alison Brown: Figured I’d give it a shot. So he had a helmet that, uh, he’s from Ukraine. He had a helmet that include included images of athletes who have been killed in the Ukraine, Russia war. And because that was considered a political statement, he was told he could not wear that helmet during the races.
He [00:40:00] has worn it during training. He said, I wanna wear it. The IOC said, you can’t, he said, I’m going to wear it. They said, you’re gonna be d queued.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. That’s the, the long and short of it, he’s upset because. He has said other people have had displays like this and mentioned Maxi Nama, the American figure skater who has a picture of his parents and the kiss and cry, which I would argue is not necessarily a political statement because it’s just Oh, because he’s in mourning.
So he is mourning the death of the, the, the athletes. So Maxim is mourning the death of his family and, uh, uh, Israeli Jared Firestone war Kipa with the names of the Israelis killed at Munich 1972 to the opening ceremony. So, uh,
Alison Brown: again, but neither one of those are fields of play right’s. The difference, it’s, it’s fields of play because they did tell, uh, him that he could bring the [00:41:00] helmet to the mixed zone.
Mm-hmm. Immediately after this is the same person, uh, who actually held that sign up, no war.
Jill Jaracz: Oh, that’s
Alison Brown: right. At Beijing, at the end of his run. And they kind of let that go. Even though that was pretty iffy. So he’s been pushing the limits on this for at Beijing and now again,
Jill Jaracz: right. And Kirsty Coventry even had a one-on-one with him,
Alison Brown: right?
Because what she said was she didn’t want him not to participate, she wanted him to compete. Can we come up with a compromise?
Jill Jaracz: Right? They said you could wear a black armband, you could do other things. But he said, no sticking with a helmet. And she was very sad. She cried about that
Alison Brown: and I can understand where she’s coming from because she just, I could see in her face in this, in this press conference.
She just wants to look at him and said, give an inch. We’re trying to come up with a compromise here. Please give an [00:42:00] inch and go race and honor the people that you are trying to honor that way. And we will come up with a way for you to mourn and mourn publicly and have your political statement just not on the track.
Jill Jaracz: Right. Because,
Alison Brown: and he wouldn’t budge.
Jill Jaracz: And that, and that is really sad because, uh, and Kirsty Coventry, if you recall from listening a couple years ago when she was president of the Athletes Council around Tokyo, they did a huge survey of, but what do the athletes want in terms of protests? Because they were trying to figure out what could be done, where athletes get the right to say things that they really believe in because athletes aren’t just athletes.
They have other interests and have other passions. But where does that cross the line into? Taking away the moment from others. And so they came up with a, a [00:43:00] huge survey results. Athletes really got into this one, and they said, athletes said, we don’t want protests on the field to play on the podium or in the village.
Let us be there. And Coventry also said like, we gotta keep it safe for everybody. Not everybody mourns in the same way. So we need to respect everybody’s differences.
Alison Brown: And you always have to turn it around with what if this was a Russian athlete doing the same thing?
Jill Jaracz: Right.
Alison Brown: I don’t know if a Ukrainian athlete would be too excited about that.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. I mean,
Alison Brown: and you have to always, whenever there’s these issues, you can’t look at it as it’s just the Ukraine conflict. Because once you set a precedent like that and you go down that slippery slope, then every conflict. Game and every side of every conflict is game. And now all of a sudden you’re gonna have, uh, Russian athletes if and when they return, [00:44:00] making political statements on the podium.
Jill Jaracz: Mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: And it’s fine when it’s Ukraine, but I can tell you right now, it’s not gonna be fine when it’s Russia and you can’t have double standards.
Jill Jaracz: Right. So it, it’s a really tough situation and I I’m really sorry that he did not want to compromise.
Alison Brown: I agree.
Jill Jaracz: And, and I will say this about Kirsty Coventry.
She seems to be a person who looks for comp, like, listens to all sides and like tries to find a compromise and make everybody happy because you’re not gonna get your way all the time and you have to learn to do what’s the, the best for the situation at hand. And it’s really sad that he didn’t want to, to find a way to make it work.
Alison Brown: Right.
Jill Jaracz: And still be able to get his message out. Now, on one hand, he is standing up for something he believes in, but he also frankly looks like a petulant person [00:45:00] who doesn’t. If, if you don’t wanna compromise on this thing, what does that mean for the rest of what you do? You know what I mean? Are you gonna be the person that always has to have their own way?
Alison Brown: Right. It, it, it comes across. I agree. Petulant is, is quite the, the right word. And I understand where he’s coming from, that his country is being attacked.
Jill Jaracz: Mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: And we’ve talked about this and we’ve talked about the banning of, of Russian athletes as appropriate response. Mm-hmm. To breaking of the truce.
But there comes a point where you say, am I hurting my own cause?
Jill Jaracz: Yes.
Alison Brown: And I think that’s what he’s doing at this point.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. Let’s move over to snowboard. We had men snowboard cross today. Did you say you watched this?
Alison Brown: I did watch this. Okay. I was having fun watching all kinds of people do crazy things on boards and on sticks and going very fast.
To me, the fun part of this was Nick Baumgartner, who’s 44 years old,
Jill Jaracz: love it
Alison Brown: back again. He [00:46:00] won the gold last time, the team event with Lindsay JEAs, he finished seventh.
Jill Jaracz: That’s amazing.
Alison Brown: They apparently, they all call him dad. Because he’s old enough to be their father on most of the rest of the team, which I, I think is really fun.
But for results, uh, Alessandro Hammerly from Austria won gold. He is a repeat gold medalist, uh, for silver was Elliot Grandin, uh, from Canada. And, uh, Austria’s, Jakob Dusik won the Bronze and Grande led most of the way in that final run.
Jill Jaracz: Mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: And you really thought he was gonna win, and then all of a sudden Hammerly was just like, Nope.
Mine scooped it up in that last little stretch,
Jill Jaracz: putting it on my list, putting it on my list.
Alison Brown: And again, the conditions were, they probably loved it. Mm-hmm. Because it’s the kind of thing that if you’re a crazy mogul skier or a snowboarder Oh yeah. The, the conditions were gnarly, man. These were gnarly conditions.[00:47:00]
Jill Jaracz: Uh, we also had the women’s halfpipe tonight,
Alison Brown: speaking of gnarly conditions. Oh. And actually quite dangerous for them.
Jill Jaracz: I, I wondered about that because I was watching it on the train home, but I had the sound down and, um, it was, frankly, I forgot that I had my headphones with me and I could have plugged them in.
And I was also too lazy to dig out my headphones because I did not see Sergio seeing my underwear bag.
Alison Brown: See, it’s the underwear bag. But yes, the conditions could have made this quite dangerous. And I think there was some discussion of do we go, do we not go? But then it was a go. ’cause you never wanna not go,
Jill Jaracz: right?
Because, uh, it’s tough. Everybody’s pumped,
Alison Brown: you’re ready to go. Everybody’s there. The fans are there, the athletes are set in their whole cycle. So it wasn’t bad enough to, to push it that far.
Jill Jaracz: And Chloe Kim from the US was looking to get a threepeat in gold. She had a clean [00:48:00] run in her first run. That was enough to lead until the end where her second two runs were.
Did not. Did not finish that. And, Choi Gaon from Korea laid down a banger on that last run and, and just snatched it away. But,
Alison Brown: and it’s all Chloe’s fault.
Jill Jaracz: Why?
Alison Brown: Because she arranged for Gaon to come to the United States to train
Jill Jaracz: Aw.
Alison Brown: And has been a real mentor to her.
Jill Jaracz: Oh, that’s nice though. And, and, and, and Chloe Kim said that, uh, Cho’s the same age that she was when she won her first gold.
So that’s really nice.
Alison Brown: And it was, Chloe was the first one to congratulate her Aw. When she won. So it was That’s sweet. It was a really great moment
Jill Jaracz: and, and. To put it all in perspective ’cause Chloe Kim really was a favorite going in. She said she was really happy and proud to land a run and to get a medal.
’cause she’s got shoulder issues right now. She’ll have to have surgery on her labrum. And she said she’s only been on snow about eight days this [00:49:00] winter. So she is very pleased with how she did. So it’s not rag on the US not getting gold
Alison Brown: and bronze. Went to Japan’s Ono Mitsui
Jill Jaracz: over to Short track.
Alison Brown: I was there,
Jill Jaracz: yeah.
Times
Alison Brown: I was there. It was so good.
Jill Jaracz: How crazy was the audience?
Alison Brown: I did not realize I was gonna see Arianna Fontana until I got there and she raced the first quarter final. And I said, oh, this is gonna be a good day. The crowd lost its mind. The minute they announced her name lost its mind. And then the other half of the crowd was there for the Netherlands, who equally lost their minds because in the semi-final Zandra, SBAR broke the world record
Jill Jaracz: in the semi-final
Alison Brown: in the semis.
She needed it. Man, those semis were tight,
Jill Jaracz: man. Oh [00:50:00] man. But
Alison Brown: it was a very nice day for Netherlands
Jill Jaracz: winning gold. Sandra Velor and uh, Ariana Fontana from Italy won silver. And then Courtney Ro from Netherlands.
Alison Brown: From Canada, excuse me, I mistype that
Jill Jaracz: from Canada, won the bronze
Alison Brown: and. I have never seen Ariana Fontana so excited to win a silver medal in my life.
She is enjoying these Olympics. Good. And just reveling in every race in every moment.
Jill Jaracz: That’s good. Especially when it’s your home games. ’cause there’s a lot more pressure when it’s your home games. I mean, you get the crowd behind you. ’cause they’re, you get a lot more locals, which is awesome, but it is a lot more pressure.
So I’m glad she’s having fun.
Alison Brown: She, they, and they were having a lot of fun on the, uh, podium.
Jill Jaracz: But wait, there’s more.
Alison Brown: But wait, there’s more. And there’s more. Netherlands Gold in the men’s 1000, uh, Netherlands took gold. Uh, van TW [00:51:00] and China won silver, uh, sun long and Korea took the bronze rim. JG Yung
Jill Jaracz: what, what, what is this note about the pregame entertainment?
Alison Brown: Oh my goodness. So there was a woman, her name was Elsa Violinist. Who You won’t believe it. She was a violinist and her violin was neon and, and clear so you could see it. And she sort of played classic music, but to like Punkish e, you know. Okay. EDM music in the background. Like
Jill Jaracz: Trans Siberian orchestra.
Alison Brown: Yes. Yes. That same. And she had sparkly pants and she sort of danced while she played.
Jill Jaracz: Oh my, that’s, that’s some entertainment.
Alison Brown: Well, we’ve been talking about that there isn’t enough pre-game entertainment, but we had Elsa violinist and I don’t know why she’s not at other places because she was awesome.
Jill Jaracz: Maybe she’ll show up.
Alison Brown: And the other thing that stressed me out was they did not set up the track. Like it was [00:52:00] just, it looked like we were gonna do figure skating, not all the cones and things and little markers.
Jill Jaracz: Mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: Until like 10 minutes before it started. I was getting so stressed out, like, isn’t this gonna take a little time to set everything up and be ready?
They just came out. No, no. Those volunteers just came out, boom, boom, boom. And we were ready to go.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. They got their little stack of cones,
Alison Brown: they got their stack stack of cones and they drop ’em. But the stress of those volunteers coming in and collecting the cones that get knocked off during the race, that was so’s
Jill Jaracz: amazing.
Alison Brown: It was so stressful to me.
Jill Jaracz: Well, and And it’s something you don’t see on tv? No. Like the first time I saw it in Beijing. I did not realize this existed because they do, when the cones get knocked outta line, they run in when everybody else is on the other side of the track. Right. And have to pick the cone up and they try to like put it back down if they can, but usually it’s like get the cone and get out so that it’s not in the way for the [00:53:00] skaters when they come back around.
Alison Brown: They had a whole system of a person who picked up the cone and then a person who put down an extra cone in the spot.
Jill Jaracz: Oh, nice.
Alison Brown: They had a two system there, so it was like ball boy picks up, but other ball boy delivers to the server and then those same people would do the minor ice repairs with buckets of water.
Jill Jaracz: That was, that was on my list of short list of, of jobs.
Alison Brown: They were human zambonis. They would, one guy came out with a bucket and he would pour the water and then the other guy came out with a double squeegee mop and would spread it out, but only one problem. At one point they left this little lump in the ice.
Oh. And I could see it the way the light hit it, but it must not have actually been as big as it looked from my vantage point. Oh, okay. ’cause it looked like there was a cave being formed in the ice, but I think it was just a little ripple ’cause nobody came out and fixed it. So if it was as big as I thought it was, I thought like they were gonna lose skaters in that [00:54:00] hole.
It’s very stressful.
Jill Jaracz: And then we end the night with speed skating.
Alison Brown: Yes. I was there too. See, I might not have gotten to men’s hockey, but I was everywhere else.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah, that’s pretty impressive.
Alison Brown: So it was the Women’s 5,000, another Gold for Italy, another gold for Francesca, Lola Brita, another crowd that lost their minds.
Jill Jaracz: As they should.
Alison Brown: As they should. She was on her in her last lap and she had been running second, almost the whole race, and then it switched over to first just as she crossed the line. So it was really a last second pulling into the lead. So that was, that was super exciting. Uh, silver went to Meryl Conan from the Netherlands and Bronze went to Norway’s Ragni Vic.
Oh, I have to tell you a story about a man with a bell in his pants.
Jill Jaracz: It’s always fun to look at the show notes [00:55:00] and just see bell in his pants.
Alison Brown: So. There was a, a mother and son who were walking from the train with me and they were cowering a cowbell. So each time that they walked, the cowbell would jingle.
And of course I looked at them and I started laughing and they laughed back and in and in her sort of half Italian, half English, she was letting me know that they had the cowbell for the race. And I said, I love a cowbell, but I also said, I’m not sure if cow cowbells are allowed. ’cause we had those issues with the cowbells.
So this young man just put it in his pants. He put the cowbell down his pants, figuring nobody would check. I don’t know if he got the cowbell into the race.
Jill Jaracz: Man. Man, I hope so. That’s a
Alison Brown: good move. I hope so. ’cause that was just, he didn’t even think twice about it. He just put it right in his pants when I said it.
Jill Jaracz: Nobody’s getting my cowbell.
Alison Brown: And I had to say to him, [00:56:00] good on you man. I hope it worked.
Jill Jaracz: I hope so too. So, uh, the last goal that Francesca, Lola Bridgette won, her son was there. Yes. And he’s like little 2-year-old boy. And, uh, tonight he was not there because it was the carnival party at his nursery school and he had a fire co fireman costume and she didn’t wanna make him come out of that
Alison Brown: as she should.
That’s
Jill Jaracz: because, yeah, being a fireman is more, is more important.
So that, that is the day today. It’s been a big day. Big day for you? Big day for me. And uh,
Alison Brown: big day for the kid with the bell down his pants.
And it would sort of ring every time he walked,
Jill Jaracz: but like, how do you make that work? I don’t, I mean,
Alison Brown: maybe he should talk to the ski jumpers [00:57:00] and how they had to alter their suits.
Jill Jaracz: Just a little wider.
Alright. And we have Shukla, dun Wa.
Alison Brown: Yes, Gus Schu Schumacher is running in the 10 kilometer, 10 kilometer interval start. And Sean do Daughty, excuse me, I can’t say anyone’s name all of a sudden. And the 10 kilometer sprint biathlon.
Jill Jaracz: Excellent. And, I have a special message for, uh, listener Stephanie. I found an answer to your question, so we’ll play your call tomorrow. I just didn’t get a chance to pull it off today. So why don’t you do, um, mascots while I pull shout outs?
Alison Brown: Yes, absolutely. We have three mascots. We’re like Sydney, 2000.
Tonight we have Abe, Millie, and Daisy who live with Brad and Lori Roethlisberger, our very good sh Lesi. And Abe is uncle to Daisy and Millie. And Millie is the unofficial pet of the Women’s Para Ice Hockey League. And she was the support dog for the [00:58:00] 2022 and 2023 Women’s World’s Para Ice Challenges in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
And let me tell you something, you have to go to our socials. You go to Instagram, we are ad flame Alive pod, and you have to see the costumes and faces of these dogs because they are perfect in every way.
Jill Jaracz: That they are. I’ve seen them. They’re adorable. I love them very much. Uh, shout out today is Tamma Jarris.
Oh, come
Alison Brown: on. We love
Jill Jaracz: you Ma
Alison Brown: Jarris.
Jill Jaracz: Thank you. Sadly, there are no Olympian Jes. Even though I told them when I graduated from college, I was gonna try to be an Olympian.
Alison Brown: Well, you are Olympian in your own endeavors,
Jill Jaracz: right? That is right.
And that’s gonna do it for this episode.
Alison Brown: Thank goodness, because there’s been another bell in the pants incident. We’re gonna be in trouble,
Jill Jaracz: right? It’s a long day. So if you want even more of the most fun coverage of the games, hit us up. We are@flamealivepod.com. That’s your go-to place for our [00:59:00] socials and newsletters and direct waste.
Contact us. Be sure to tune in tomorrow for what we forgot to tell you about today. ’cause I already know something that I forgot to mention and then I was going to interrupt and mention it and I said no, I’m tired this and I gotta say I’m tired, but I’m tired. I mean I went to bed at like three or four in the morning yesterday and got up at seven to get to the mouth.
No, I know you did. And took two little tiny naps and then woke up.
Alison Brown: You need some sleep
Jill Jaracz: and was afraid. I snored.
Alison Brown: Ser, Sergio and Diego would not have minded.
Jill Jaracz: No, not at, not at all. So, uh, yes, be sure to tune in for that tomorrow
Alison Brown: and until next time, chow And keep the flame alive.