Team USA 2024 Olympians-Team Sports

06/06/24 • 41 min

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We're exploring team sports on this episode of Keep the Flame Alive. At Paris 2024, there will be 11 purely team sports: artistic swimming, basketball, basketball 3x3, beach volleyball, football, handball, hockey, rowing, rugby sevens, volleyball, and water polo. Athletes don't just have to be in top physical shape, they also have to work well with their teammates in order to achieve success. As we read in If Gold Is our Destiny, if players can't come together and play as a team, they're going to fall apart.

At the Team USA Media Summit in April, we talked with a number of team players who are ready to make their contribution in order to achieve victory and stand atop the podium, and we bring you those interviews here (links to follow them on Insta):

3x3: Jimmer Fredette, Canyon Barry, Dylan Travis, Kareem Maddox
Field Hockey: Abby Tamer and Kelsey Bing
Rugby Sevens: Perry Baker
Football (Soccer): Emily Sonnett

We also have news from TKFLASTAN and:

Beach volleyball player Kelly Cheng
Wheelchair fencer Ellen Geddes
Speed skaters Erin Jackson and Ryan Shane
Equestrian Phillip Dutton
Pole vaulter Katie Moon - Get your ticket to the Katie Moon Pole Vault Classic!

Be sure to show your TKFLASTAN pride at Paris! Get your Keep the Flame Alive gear here.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit http://flamealivepod.com.

Thanks so much for listening, and until next time, keep the flame alive!

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3x3: Jimmer Fredette, Canyon Barry, Dylan Travis, Kareem Maddox
Field Hockey: Abby Tamer and Kelsey Bing
Rugby Sevens: Perry Baker
Football (Soccer): Emily Sonnett

We also have news from TKFLASTAN and:

Beach volleyball player Kelly Cheng
Wheelchair fencer Ellen Geddes
Speed skaters Erin Jackson and Ryan Shane
Equestrian Phillip Dutton
Pole vaulter Katie Moon - Get your ticket to the Katie Moon Pole Vault Classic!

Be sure to show your TKFLASTAN pride at Paris! Get your Keep the Flame Alive gear here.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit http://flamealivepod.com.

Thanks so much for listening, and until next time, keep the flame alive!

***

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Previous Episode

Para Dressage with Beatrice de Lavalette

We're hopping on a horse and riding along with Paralympian Beatrice de Lavalette on this episode of Keep the Flame Alive. Beatrice competed for Team USA at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics in para dressage, finishing 5th in Individual Championship Test - Grade II - Open) and 6th in Individual Freestyle - Grade II - Open.

We've talked about para dressage for visually impaired riders, so with Beatrice we were able to explore and better understand the sport for para classes that involve missing limbs. We also talk about choosing a horse and how they feel on competition day.

Learn more about Beatrice at her website and follow her on Instagram!

Jill recently went to her a conversation with boxer Morelle McCane, who's qualified for Paris 2024. You can watch that discussion here (which should include a familiar voice during the Q&A).

Also, Jill will be speaking at the Lakewood Public Library on June 5, 2024 at 7pm about Cleveland's Olympic History. Come out and see her!

In Paris 2024 news:

The International Boxing Association is going to pay all athletes who make it to the podium, plus also a little something for 4th and 5th places
Microsoft Threat Analysis Center released a report about Russian campaigns to influence the Games
The French Interior Ministry thwarted a planned attack on a football stadium
Free Opening Ceremonies tickets are being distributed
There will be 10 medal reallocation ceremonies at Champions Park to honor athletes all the way back to Sydney 2000 whose results were changed due to doping violations
More museum exhibits at the Pantheon and the National Museum of Australia

In news from TKFLASTAN, we hear from:

Artistic swimmer Jacqueline Simoneau
Race walker Evan Dunfee
Pole vaulter Katie Moon - get your tickets for the Katie Moon Pole Vault Classic here.
Former BMX cyclist Connor Fields
Superfan Sarah and Listener Meredith

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Paralympic Swimming with Jessica Long, McKenzie Coan and Olivia Chambers

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While you wouldn't think para swimming is much different from able-bodied swimming, the Paralympic classification system makes it a more complex sport to follow. Classification helps level the playing field (although we learn here that it's not the most perfect system), but the diversity of swimmers and abilities means that there are a lot of classes in this sport. Case in point, our three guests for this episode.

We talk with Jessica Long, 5x Paralympian; McKenzie Coan, 3x Paralympian; and Olivia Chambers, Paralympic hopeful about para swimming, nuances of their classifications, and how the Paralympics has changed over the years.

Follow Jessica, McKenzie and Olivia on Insta! Jessica and McKenzie also have websites to check out for more information. The 2024 U.S. Paralympic Team Trials will be on June 27-29, 2024 in Minneapolis.

There are less than 50 days until the start of the Paris Olympics, and to celebrate that milestone, the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee adorned the Eiffel Tower with the Olympic rings. We have that news and more from Paris 2024.

In our TKFLASTAN update, we have news from: