August 28, 2024 • 37 mins
The Paris Paralympics begin today! Sarah talks to Team USA track athlete Noelle Lambert about switching coaches, finding instant success in the long jump, and why she hasn't been able to so much as sniff anything coconut after competing on “Survivor.” Plus, producer Alex shares some Paralympic storylines you need to follow, we ask for some help with a soccer stat, and Sarah calls out a hated workplace phrase she wants to 86 by C.O.B.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're thinking
the New York Liberty should have their own sitcom all
of the office. Did y'all see the video of Cody
Vanderslut wishing Britta Stewart a happy birthday on the team
plane intercom? This is some charming chaos. Can you hear me? Hello?
Can you hear me? Okay? Round two?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah? No?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
How about now?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
This isn't going well?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Can I have your attention please? Eight years ago on this.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Day was born.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Here together to celebrate you?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Is Brianna Stewart? Happy, Happy, belated Stewie. On today's show,
we're going to talk to American Paralympic track and field athlete,
former college lacrosse player and survivor contestant Noel Lambert about
her prep for the Paris Games, plus a Paralympic need
to know, Alex's once to watch, and we just give
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up and settle for crowdsourcing. It's all coming up right
after this. Welcome back, my little orange slices. Here's what
you need to know today in WNBA news. Seattle is
keeping the hits coming. The city named one of its streets,
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Sue Bird Court, in a special ceremony on Monday to
honor the greatest point guard in Seattle Storm franchise history.
The street is right next to Climate Pledgerina, the Storm's
home venue. I guess Sue just couldn't let fiancee Meghan
Rappino have all the attention this week. JKJK. We love
you both, don't fire us Sue. Also, first she was
by You Barbie, then she was Shytown Barbie, and now
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she's also Podcast Barbie. Chicago Skyrookie Angel Reese will host
Unapologetically Angel, a new show dropping September fifth, with episodes
releasing every Thursday. If you haven't seen the show teaser yet,
we'll link to it in our notes. Per Angel, the
show promises to have celebrities, actresses, artists, and more as guests.
Since she's got ties to a lot of prominent folks
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in the culture sphere like rappers Lotto and Megan thee Stallion,
we can't wait to see who sits down with her
and co host Mayor Reese no relation, got to love
it when worlds collide. There are five WNBA games tonight,
so we'll put that full lineup in our show notes,
but here are a couple you definitely need to put
on your radar. Connecticut Sun at Indiana Fever. That's seven
Eastern on NBATV and League Pass. The Sun has already
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gotten a playoff spot, but the Fever are hoop and
trying to peak in the last month of the regular
season and make the playoffs for the first time since
twenty sixteen. Then you got Atlanta Dream at Seattle Storm
ten pm Eastern on League Pass. Seattle dropped a close
contest at the tenth seeded Washington Mystics on Monday night,
making the race for fourth place even tighter. Meantime, Atlanta's
looking to bounce back from a loss to the Fever
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on Monday, an inch a half game closer to the
final spot in the playoff picture onto the NWSL told
you a couple weeks ago that Orlando Pride midfielder Grace
Chando was put on the season ending injury list after
rupturing a quad playing for Zambia at the Olympics. Well,
Orlando Pride VP of Soccer Operations and general Manager Hailey
Carter has filed a formal grievance against the Football Association
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of Zambia, Faz with FIFA on Chanda's behalf for quote
failure to provide a reasonable standard of care for player
health and welfare. Carter's beef with Faz isn't new. Back
on August fourteenth, after Chanda's injury news was made official,
Carter posted a scathing message on x saying so disappointed
for grace, inadequate medical and performance resources, mismanaged loads, day
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long travel and economy to the Olympics, and asks of
her to continue training and play in the opening match
post injury totally unacceptable. We'll keep you updated as that
situation continues to unfold. In tennis, Coco Goff began her
US Open title defense with the win in her first
match at Attorney and today she'll face Germany's Tatiana Maria
in the second round, and Taylor Townsend, our wonderful guest
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from yesterday's episode, won her first singles round in straight sets.
She's playing in both doubles and singles today. Go Taylor,
go and make sure to keep and I and Amma
Navarro too. From a great New York Times story just
a couple of days ago, here's this quote. Navarro has
been one of the biggest surprises in women's tennis over
the last sixteen months. In January twenty twenty three, she
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was ranked one hundred and forty ninth and playing in
a twenty five thousand dollars tournament in Naples, Florida, which
she won. Now she's ranked thirteenth. She'll be seated at
the US Open for the first time. Pretty cool story.
All right, slices, it's time. Twenty twenty four Paris Paralympics
start today. Coverage kicks off at one pm Eastern with
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a preview show on USA Network, and the opening ceremony
begins at two Eastern on USA, with streaming on Peacock
and NBC Olympics platforms. The parade of Nations will move
down Lavenue de chals Lyse to the famous Place de
la Concord for the opening ceremony, which should be gorgeous.
The Paralympics get its own Gold Zone and multiview, both
of which were a hit at this year's Olympics, and
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the Paralympics will be broadcast in a record number of countries,
with all twenty two sports being shown live in some
capacity for the first time. All that in mind, here's
five facts you need to know about the competition heading
in number one. The first Paralympics took place in Rome
in nineteen sixty with four hundred athletes from twenty three countries,
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and has now grown into a global phenomenon, one that
puts front and center people who are sometimes not included,
not centered, or not celebrated. About sixteen percent of the
world's population and estimated one point three billion people live
with either mental or physical disabilities according to the World
Health Organization, and the Paralympics continue to challenge deeply seated
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beliefs and push for more social inclusion, accessibility, and consideration
of those folks, both in the places where they're held
and all the places where they're viewed. Number two. There
are twenty two sports competed at the Paralympics, including adaptive
versions of all the stuff you're familiar with, like swimming, track, basketball, badminton,
and soccer aka football, but with a twist. It's blind football,
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featuring two teams of five visually impaired athletes or outfield
players and one goalkeeper on each squad. They play on
a forty meter by twenty meter pitch with boards surrounding
the field to keep the ball from going out of bounds,
and there's a bell inside the ball that alerts players
to its location. Goalies have to be sighted or partially sighted,
and outfield players have been classified as completely blind, but
in the interest of fairness, everyone wears a face mask
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covering their eyes. There are a couple Paralympics only sports too,
like goalball, which pits two teams of visually impaired players
against each other as they try to bounce, spin, or
curve a ball into the opposing net, and BATCHA, an
offshoot of BATCHI, in which two teams compete either as individuals, pairs,
or trios to roll their balls closest to the jack
a white ball. The competitors use wheelchairs and can enlist
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the help of assistance and supporting gear depending on their
impairment classification number three. A great way to follow along
with the action and get to know the athletes is
the official TikTok account for the International Paralympic Committee, which
has four point five million followers. Some folks have questioned
whether the content, which is often sort of playful and cheap,
is making fun of the athletes, but para athletes have
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spoken out in support of it. And the folks who
run it say it's about approaching Paralympians the same way
we do Olympians, both showcasing their greatness and having a
little fun with their foibles and especially the moments where
things don't go quite right. In an interview with Front
Office Sports, internet culture writer Kate Lindsay said the Paralympics
TikTok has been seizing so much attention because of its
Quippi Internet savvy tone, and added that excluding Paralympics from
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Levity online would be another form of othering. US Paralympics.
Sprinter and skier Danny Erovich, who was born without her
left hand and forearm, goes by username the one Armed Dan.
Her bio says quote single handedly changed your life, so
she clearly knows a thing or two about Levity. She
posted the social and said, my biggest worry about the
Internet not latching onto the Paralympics is the potential fear
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of saying something wrong or offensive when it comes to disability.
While I, as a two time Paralympian, am here to
dismantle that fear. Post about it, ask questions about it,
don't worry about saying the thing. Make memes about the
funny moments, the sad moments, the moments of triumph, just
as you did for the Olympics. Also, gold medal winning
long jumper Tara Davis Woodhall's husband Hunter, who's the Paralympic
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track athlete, agreed, saying, quote, at the end of the day,
they're doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing, which
is building awareness of Paralympics sport. End quote. By the way,
are you still not following Tara and Hunter, because come on, y'all,
we already told you they're the cutest okay number four.
The Olympics at Paralympics are distinct, even though they've seemed
conjoined for decades. Beginning with the Soul Games in eighty eight,
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the Paralympics have been held in the same host city
as the Summer Olympics, but despite their associations, the IPC
and the IOC are distinct organizations with different staff, different bylaws,
and different logos. Yep, Those Olympic rings are technically for
the Olympics, while the logo for the Paralympics is a
swirl of red, blue, and green crescents known as the agitos,
which derives from the Latin definition of imove. For some time,
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paralympians with an Olympic Rings tattoo would have to cover
them for competition, as they were considered a third party advertiser.
But this week the IPC announced suddenly they've dropped that policy.
Athletes will no longer be required to cover those tattoos.
Number five. As of a few days ago, over one
point seven to five million tickets for the Paralympic Games
had been sold to folks for more than one hundred
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and forty four countries, and tickets for many sessions are
close to selling out. More than seven hundred thousand of
those tickets were sold after the start of the Olympic Games,
showing that the Olympic Fever and all those iconic Parisian
venues drove interest in the Para Games too. There's a
buzz online, there are tons of Olympians posting about watching,
and there's a great campaign going around with Paralympians saying,
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I have an announcement. I won't be participating in this
year's Paralympic Games. I'll be competing very powerful. It really
feels like this Paralympic Games will get more eyeballs, more attention,
more coverage and more respect than ever. So congrats to
Paris for crushing the Olympics and setting the stage for
what's sure to be an incredible Paralympics. And as you
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should know by now, Producer Alex is our resident Olympic
and Paralympic expert. So who else would we go to
to get us primed for these games? She was nice
enough to put together a list of five storylines to
watch for in this year's games.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Take it away, l All right, let's get this thing started.
Number one. Entering the Paris Paralympics. The three most decorated
members of Team USA have something in common, Sarah, Do
you know what it is?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
They all have a dog named Rufus. Nope, they're women.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
What are the chances to talk a good game with
Sarah Spain?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
We're talking women.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Jessica Long, a swimmer, leads the way thanks to her
twenty nine medals. She is followed by track and fields
Tatiana McFadden and cycling's Oksana Masters. Now, if you have
watched just one second of Paralympic coverage before, I am
sure that you already know about these three badasses. And
if you haven't, I am truly so excited for you
to get to know all three of them. I am
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personally so excited to see Oksana Masters compete because it
always feels like she shows up to the Games with
some big injury that she has to compete through. Just
three weeks before the twenty eighteen Winter Paralympics, she dislocated
and broke her elbow and still won five medals in
Bardic skiing, and I honestly don't know if I've ever
seen anyone fight through so much pain in order to
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keep competing. And then three years ago she had surgery
one hundred days before the Tokyo Paralympics to remove a
tumor in her leg, but went on to win gold
in both of her cycling events. As far as I know,
she is not dealing with anything like that this time around,
so knock on wood, I'm very psyched to see what
she can do in Paris. Moving on to wheelchair rugby,
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and this is big news, folks. So wheelchair rugby is
technically a mixed gender sport, but since it debuted at
the two thousand Sydney Paralympics, very few women have ever
been named to rosters. So three years ago in Tokyo,
there were ninety six athletes competing in the sport and
just four were women. But this year at the US,
for the first time ever, is going to have a
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woman on the team. Her name is Sarah Adam. She
actually got her start in the sport as a volunteer
back in twenty thirteen when she was studying occupational therapy
and wanted to find a way to become more involved
in the adaptive sports community. She started competing in the
sport a few years later after she was diagnosed with
multiple sclerosis. And in case you aren't familiar with how
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wheelchair rugby works, here's a quick primer. Each player has
a point value assigned to them between zero point five
and three point five, depending on the degree of their disability.
The sum of the four players on the floor at
any given time can't exceed eight points, so teams will
typically have a combination of players with low point values
and high point values. When a woman is competing, however,
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point five is subtracted from their sport class value. Now,
I'm sure we could have a big philosophical debate on
that approach, but in my opinion, it's a pretty innovative
way to incentivize teams to include women on their rosters,
especially given how male dominated the sport has always been anyway. Historically,
most of the women who have competed at the Parallels
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did so while playing defensive positions, which are typically filled
by athletes who are in the lower sport classes. But
Adam is actually one of the team's principal ball carriers
and I'm really excited to see her serve as one
of the leaders of the group. Just like at the Olympics,
the Paralympics also now feature a refugee team. This year's
delegation includes one woman, Zakia Kudu Dati, who competes in taekwondo.
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She actually made her Paralympic debut three years ago in Tokyo,
but under very different circumstances. Hailing from Afghanistan, it was
always her goal to represent her home nation, but when
the Taliban returned to power just days before the Paralympics
were set to open in twenty twenty one, she had
to go into hiding. She posted a video from inside
her house pleading for help. The International Paralympic Committee ended
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up helping her evacuate from Afghanistan, and she went on
to compete in Tokyo under the Afghan flag. She now
lives in Paris, and while she'll be competing at these
games under the refugee flag, she says her goal is
to send a message of strength to all the women
and girls in Afghanistan. Moving on to sitting volleyball, the
US women are looking for a third straight Paralympic gold
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medal in Paris, and one member of the team I
want to highlight is first time Paralympian Sidney Satchel. She
attended Howard University, where she was a member of the
lacrosse team, but in twenty fifteen, one year after she graduated,
she was in a car accident that resulted in her
left leg being amputated. During her rehab process, she decided
to try sitting volleyball, but she just missed the cup
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for the Tokyo roster. She was back in the gym
literally the next day and it paid off as she'll
make her Paralympic debut this year. Finally, I want y'all
to keep an eye on the US women's wheelchair basketball team,
and this is a group that has overcome a lot
since winning bronze in Tokyo back in twenty twenty one,
I interviewed several members of the team after they accused
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their then head coach of emotional abuse, which ultimately led
to his resignation and a Safe Sport investigation. In Pis,
the twelve member team will be led by Natalie Schneider,
who will be competing in her fifth Paralympic tournament. All right,
so those are my stories for now. I'm sure that
there are so many more that I just haven't heard
about yet, which is one of the reasons why I'm
psyched to see the Paralympics. Back in twenty twelve, after
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I worked my first Olympics, I remember missing the game
so much and I was like, Okay, I'm going to
try to fill this gap by watching the Paralympics. But
here's the thing. You could not watch the Paralympics on
TV in twenty twelve. There were just a few one
hour magazine style shows at the end of the games.
It wasn't like you were watching sports at all, and
so getting to work on the Paralympic broadcast for five
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games after that was truly a highlight. I cannot wait
to see how the coverage continues to evolve this year.
So make sure to tune in.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Thanks Al, I'm excited to watch those folks, also excited
to watch our next guests. We're going to take a break,
but when we come back, it's our conversation with Paralympic
athlete and former Survivor contestant Noel Lambert, who we caught
up with ahead of US Paralympic trials. Stick around, Happy
to have on Noel Lambert. She's an American Paralympian track
and field athlete, a motivational speaker, and the founder of
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the Born to Run Foundation. She was a contestant on
Survivor forty three and she's got twenty nine first cousins.
Her pet peeves are lazy people and slow drivers. Heard
on that one, Noel. Before we even get to anything else,
twenty nine first cousins. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Isiah very grateful to be here today? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
My dad's side of the family is huge. He has
nine brothers, sisters, So yeah, I mean, it wasn't until
after my accident where I met pretty much everybody Before
that it was like we.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Were all under under the dark, like under the dark
with each other.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
But yeah, it was crazy, and it was crazy to
learn how lacrosse was such a huge part of my family,
you know, being a Division one.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Collegiate lacrosse player.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I was finding out that I was playing against one
of my cousins and I had no idea she was
the head coach at one of at no at stone Hill.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Which was crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
So yeah, very very cool in the sense of but
you know, I am planning a wedding and these twenty
nine first cousins are getting.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I was going to say, I was gonna say, like
fun thing to be like close enough to keep in
touch once a year, but not so much of you
start buying all of them Christmas presents, Oh my goodness,
or having to invite them all to your wedding. Godspeed
on that, Noel. Yeah, level set for the Paralympics coming up.
You're heading into the trials. You haven't actually competed in
a bit, so tell us about the journey from the
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last Paralympics and the incredible performance you had there too.
Now and your goal at these trials.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Yeah, it's crazy to think that, you know, Paris was
only three years ago, because it seems like a lifetime ago.
I feel like I'm such, you know, a different athlete
in the sense of understanding the sport so much more
because going into Tokyo had only competed about six times.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I was very, very new to track and field.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I was just happy to have qualified to kind of
be there representing my country. But you know, now going
into Paris and spending these whole last three years focusing
and learning and getting better, it's like, I'm hungry for
that metal.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I'm hungry for.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Showing up and trying to be the best and come
home with gold. And you know, I mean it's been
a really incredible journey and I've you know, I've like
any athlete in any sport, I've had up to and
downs where you know, last season, I didn't have a
great season, and I you know, was at a crossroads.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
It was either you know, change everything up.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Or you know, go into Paris probably not being able
to qualify. So I actually like picked everything up I had.
I moved out to California, I started training with a
different coach, and I added a new event that I'm
also doing, the one hundred meter.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I'm still doing one hundred meter, but I'm also not
doing the long jump.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
So starting in January, I have been learning how to
long up and you know, right now I can say
that I am actually leading the world in my long jump.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I am number ranked number one, amazing, broke.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
The American record my third long jump collect going in,
so I'm you know, I credit that to having the
right team behind me and having the right coaching staff,
because I would not be a year if it wasn't
for them. But going in, I'm just extremely excited and
just need to continue to put in that work and
do the things that I know that I'm capable of.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
My advice to is a lifelong track and field athlete
Division one have tathlete, so you just need to get
five more, add five more and you could keep up
with me. But the beginners, that beginner's mindset is huge.
I actually broke like a three state Junior Olympic javelin
record the first time I competed in the event, and
then it was so hard to recreate that feeling of
just like oh whatever, like I don't know what's going
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to happen, and not overthink it. So the key is,
don't overthink it, just let your body and let the
prep and the reps that you do take over. On
the day of the EVENTU clearly already did in Tokyo
because you set an American record you just mentioned in
the long jop, but you also had the American record
in the one hundred meter T sixty three. You had
a time of fifteen ninety seven that you ran at
the Tokyo Paralympic Games. First, can you tell us what
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the T sixty three means and then take us back
to that race?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Absolutely? Yeah, T sixty three. So for the Paralympics, we.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Are divided up into different classification groups based on our disability.
So basically what T sixty three means is I am
a single above knee amputee, and so I will not
compete against bologney amputees. I will not compete against people
who are visually impaired, or who are in wheelchair, or
who have seubral palsy. It's completely separated, you know, for
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obvious reasons. So it's fair for everybody. And you know, obviously,
going into Tokyo, like I said, I knew it was
going to be very challenging to get a medal. So
I just wanted to go out there and do the
best that I could and just qualify for finals. That
was honestly, it was one step at a time, and
then once I qualified for finals, I was like, Okay,
I want to do that much better. I want to
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break sixteen seconds because I was fighting that sixteen second mark.
And you know, fast forwardy fast forward to now, you know,
all the work that I did with you know, moving
out to California, changing coaching, changing coaches. I also changed
a lot on my alignment for my prosthetic side and
for my one hundred meter. I am now running an
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entire second faster than I was last year, last season.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
So now I'm trying to break fifteen seconds.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
And I think just every time I go into a
race and then I can, you know, say and that
I hit a peb or say that I, you know,
broke the American record. It's always very special because I'm
always thinking of, you know, ways that I can improve
and get better. And it's great because we have so
many up and coming athletes for T sixty three in
the United States now where it's getting so much more competitive,
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and it's you know, when I go into a nationals
or I go into trials, I know that it's not
just going to be ak and I'm not just going
to beat everybody. Now I actually have to fight for
getting that number one place, and so I love it.
I think it's great for the sport. I think it's
great for you know, us as competitors.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
You mentioned lacrosse, you were a D one college lacrosse
player at University of Massachusetts Lowell. How much crossover for
game prep and race prep?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
It's I will say track and field is very different
in the sense of, you know, just solely being an
individual sport and just the mental prep of it alone
is crazy because you know, for the one hundred meter,
I only have one chance and I only have a
certain amount of seconds to do well, rather than in
a lacrosse game, you have, you know, sixty to ninety
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minutes where you can figure out your gameplay laun jump.
You know, I only have three to six jumps to
kind of figure out my rhythm. So just the mental
aspect of it, you know, I'm still learning, But in
the beginning it was like, oh my god, I'm I'm
alone in this. But that's when I started, you know,
relying on my coaching and.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Relying on my training partners.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
You know, I have a great training group out here
in Tulavisa, California, of all Paralympic athletes and we're all
different classification groups, different disabilities, but.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It's crazy how competitive we are with one another.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I'm jumping with a below knee mail who jumps eight meters,
you know, on a great day, and I'm like, okay,
I'm going to get to that point.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's great.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
That's the good and bad of track and field is
it's just a number. So it's like, there's no there's
no other subjectivity. You can't have a bad coach or
something that goes wrong, but it's just a number. So
if you have a bad day, you're like, well, that's it.
I know it is a bad day. Some seconds lower,
I didn't make the cut. Your first lacrosse game back
after losing your leg in a moped accident, you're on
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the field with your team again. Now you've got a
prosthetic limb. You're playing for the first time with this
new limb, and you score a freaking goal. I just
reading about it made me so happy, reading about your teammates,
like rushing onto the field, what is that feeling?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
You know, when I go back and I watched that
video of me playing again, the best part about it
isn't me scoring. It's honestly the reaction that I caught
from my teammates and coaches, because they were the sole
reason why that moment was even possible. I mean, they
were believing in me when I didn't believe in myself.
If it was up to me, I probably would have
quit that very first week. And you know, to have
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the support that I did for my teammates and coaches,
especially my assistant coach.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
She was the one every single day before and after practice.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
We were doing footwork drills, we were doing extra run
drills just to kind of get me ready to actually play,
and it was just extremely it was like it was
the best moment of my entire life to this day,
I mean just because I could share that and just
kind of say that I was able to do it.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
But it was.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
It was awesome, and I always, I'm always so appreciative
of my teammates in that moment because they were so
selfless to push their dreams aside to kind of help
my dreams come true. And it really just made that
moment that what it was.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Was it tougher physically or mentally to work your way
back to your team and learn to play with a prosthetic.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I would absolutely say, you know, it was fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
But mentally it was you know, getting over the hump
of you know, believing in other people or confiding in others.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I was always that person that put up a wall.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
That never really wanted to let people in or let
people know if I was having a difficult time, And
after losing my leg, I realized that I need to
rely on other people and kind of talk things out.
I mean, it was my first experience with dealing with
how important mental health is, you know, especially as an athlete, And.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
It was it was my assistant coach who kind of
got me to open up.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
And once I was able to do that with her
and realize how easy it was, it was like, Okay,
well why can't I do this with other people? And
so just getting over that battle of being stubborn and
trying to solve everything in my head myself. And that's
why I always talk about, and I'm a huge advocate
of you, if you're ever going through a difficult time,
never be afraid to, you know, rely on your loved
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ones or the people you have around you, because.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
You know they're the ones that love you most.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
In this world, and they want to see your dreams
come true just as much as you do, so.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Never be afraid.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I mean, I know a lot of people think that
they are so tough that they can get through things
on their own.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
But if you're ever going somewhere, never go alone. That's
what happened, and it really does take a village.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
You know. I've heard so many people who have gone
through traumatic incidents or suffered limb loss and have said
that that incident was the best thing that's ever happened
to them, And that's so hard for other people sometimes
to realize. But I wonder if you've seen your friends
and family be able to adjust their perspective on life
because of what you've gone through and being close to.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
You, absolutely, I mean I just think, you know, being
introduced to the disabled community as a whole has been
incredible for me and it just makes me so grateful
to be a part of it. But when you know,
my family, especially like my fiance and his family, like
having them be introduced to the Paralympics, and now they
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all love to watch and especially all my friends, like
they're so eager to watch the Paris Paralympic Games coming
up and They're all always asking, you know, which events
are are happening on which days? I have people wanting
to come to Paris actually watch. So I think it's
just great as as a whole to kind of spread
that message of you know, Paralympic athletes are badass athletes
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just as much as an able body athlete, and just
having that representation, I mean, I think it's I think
it's incredible, and you know, just going through that and
getting to realize and be grateful. I mean, you said it,
the act my accent is the best thing that's ever
happened to me. And I'm actually grateful for it because
and I wouldn't change a thing, and I look back
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on it and view it as such a positive now
because it just changed my whole outlook on life. You know,
it really is just a leg and you know, I'm
doing things now with my life that I never could
have even imagined, and I'm just I'm grateful for it.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
The first place I heard you say that was on
Survivor of all places. How did that experience of being
on Survivor match or differ from what you expected?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Oh my god, it was everything I could have envisioned
in more but I will say that I was scared
to death to do it, and it kind of fell
in my lap. I've been a huge Survivor fan because
of my mother. My mom is one of the biggest
diehard Survivor fans, never miss the season, never miss an episode.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
And when I was.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Actually in Tokyo, I received a DM on Instagram from
the head casting director of the show asking you know,
if I've ever thought about applying, and so I was
just like, this is insane, Like this has to be
a sign. I went through the whole application process, and
then when I figured out that I was actually going
to be on the show, I was terrified, just solely
of the fact that there's never been an above knee
APTM that show before. And I know survivors of Social Games,
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Everyone's going to want to vote me off because I
had this incredible story, and I just kept telling myself,
you know, if I don't do this, then who is
going to you know, who's going to show that positive representation.
But getting to just do the show, getting to see
how the show is actually done, I mean, as a
Survivor fan was insane, but going on it, you know,
I never really expected to meet.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
And love all these incredible people.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Like I thought that I was going to go on
and like, because it's a social game, hate everybody.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I love everybody I played with.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
I came home with, you know, seventeen new best friends,
you know, seventeen new people to invite to the wedding.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
There you go, adam, Yeah. I feel like most people
probably watched them. They were like, oh that the times
where you were like stuck in a net or the
mud was the worst. And I was like, no, bro.
The part what they like, haven't eaten for twelve days
is where I'm like, I'm not doing it. I'm not
doing it. I'm not going to be in the jungle
not eating food for twelve days. Like sorry I am.
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I mean after a couple hours.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Yeah, yeah, I can't even sniff coconut anything coconut.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
I mean yeah, because it was always it was all
we eight, but no, the worst part about it was
was the day were the days that we didn't have
anything like our off days where we didn't have a
competition or tribal console. Because that's when you really start
to like miss home and you're like, what's everyone doing?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Like you have no communication with the outside world. You
have no idea what everyone's doing.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I remember the Celtics were in the playoffs and I
was just I wanted to know how the Celtics were doing,
and nobody would tell me, Like nobody on production.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Like it's not important to the game. It's just important
to my life. I need to know.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
They won't let you know. Yeah, they won't let you
know anything that's happening in the outside world. And I
was just so upset. I was like, just let me
know how the Celtics blink once. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I was in the bottom of the Grand Canyon hiking
when the Bulls won one of their titles and we
got to the top and they were like John Paxson
hit a three and I was like, oh, I've got
to finally, like back in the day, PC arm like
did someone did? Yeah? Right. So part of the reason
that you're here is because you're part of this amazing
Cracker Jaill spotlight squad. We all know crackerd but the
last couple of years they're these amazing campaigns for Cracker
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Jill And this year they're spotlighting five Olympians and Paralympians
that Cracker Jill is sponsoring and you're one of them.
Tell us more about it, because they've been sending me
these awesome things that I've been giving to my niece
and showing to all these great young girls, and I
just love the messaging, especially the research from the Women's
Sports Foundation that they included with it about keeping girls
in sport. It's just it's such a badass activation. So
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tell me more about it.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah, I'm so grateful to be a part of the
Cracker Jill program, just solely because they're giving women, you know,
a voice, and I.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Think it's extremely important.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
And I know we're in an incredible time where women's
sports are on the uprise, and I think Crackerjill is
a huge part of that because they're trying to give
athletes like myself and the other four incredible athletes that
I'm doing this with, you know, just a voice in
a spotlight, but just showing the visibility of how badass
women can be is incredible.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
You know.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
The the statistic of you know, nearly off of US
teenagers cannot name a single professional women athlete, I think
is insane. You know, growing up, I was always a
huge Alex Morgan fan. I was always you know, Meghan Rappino.
I mean all soccer, all everything, and for even lacrosse
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like Taylor Cummings, one of you know, the monumental women's
lacrosse players that there are. And I think it's just
an incredible job that Cracker Jill is doing and I'm
just grateful to be a part of it and that
they can give me kind of a voice and to
just pave the way for younger the younger generation and
for women in sports right now to kind of show
what great athletes that they can be.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Love it well. Now we've got a whole bunch of
good game listeners that are going to know the name
Noel Lambert and we're all going to be rooting for
you so hard. Let me know when you need instruction
in those five other events for the heptach on and
will's good hop out on a field with the javel
and then get started. Thank you so well, so great
to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Good luck.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Break a leg, Oh, break a leg? Can say break
a leg?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah? Which or lose a leg? Either one or either one?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Keep the one, Keep the one, we need that one,
Keep the one.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Thank you so much, Sarah. It was an honor being
on here. And yeah, thank you so.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Much awesome stuff. Looking forward to watching Noel. We've got
to take another break. When we come back, we answer
a question about stoppage time during our stoppage time, don't
go anywhere. Welcome back, Slice is We got another great
question in our inbox. This one's from Moe O'Donnell, co
owner Paxton Pub in Salt Lake City, Utah. Moe's message reads,
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Hey Sarah, loving the good game pod keep crushing it.
A question came up while we were at the Utah
Royals game tonight that we need help finding an answer to.
After the fourth raft showed an absurd ten minutes of
stoppage time, we started wondering what's the most stoppage time
that's ever been added to a match. All we could
find was a men's game that had twenty eight minutes added,
but that was due to a power outage. So help
us out what's the most that's ever been added? And
(33:55):
bonus question, what's the most stoppage time that's been added
to a women's match. We're guessing that it'll be half
as much as the men's since we don't flop as much. Lol.
Thanks in advanced cheers.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
MO.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Well Mo, that twenty eight minute stoppage time game is
the longest ever in a men's match, according to our research,
but on the women's side, we're not sure because producer
Alex reached out to a trusted source, Jen Cooper, who's
a statistician and keeper of keepernotes dot com, about the
most stoppage time in an NWSL game, and she told
us the NWSL doesn't keep track of stoppage time stats.
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Sac la bleu. Why am I speaking in French? Because
zod'lore we need those stats. As for women's international play,
we couldn't find that either, so we're outsourcing this one.
Are you, dear listener, deep into stoppage time history? Are you,
dear listener looking for a research project? Think you know
or can find out which women's footy match had the
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longest stppage time in history? NWSL, International World Cup? Whatever?
Tag us on social let us know what you know
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want you to get in the game every day too,
So here's another good game play of the day. Make
sure you're following the Paralympics on TikTok and x at Paralympics,
and of course watch the games and follow your favorite
athletes along the journey. You had two weeks to call
them your nervous system. It's time to turn that shit
back up a notch. Find your inner patriot again, USA, USA, USA,
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and don't forget to subscribe, rate and review. That's right, slices.
You knew I was gonna say it. It's just too easy.
Why haven't you done it yet? Watch the phrase bio
break rating out of five stars review. Whoever invented this
phrase needs to take a long walk off a short peer.
(35:53):
What was wrong with just break? All right, everybody? Five
minute break?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Do with it?
Speaker 1 (35:58):
What you will get in some great making a phone
call absolutely expelling feces from your digestive track through your anus. Sure, fine,
you gotta do it, but I don't need to know
about it. And when I hear the words bio break,
not only do I think about each and every person
leaving that room to take a shit, I also think
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about corporate jargon. Gough you know, circle back, run it up,
the flagpool, pivot, ping, punt, put a pin in it
co O B E O D s O w oo
P t O r F p R O I T
L d R, I hate it. I'm sticking with RBI,
p R DQ and the like. Thank you very much.
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And if you must say something other than just break,
take it from Rebecca Welton on ted Lasso. When Keeley
asked what to tell people when she needed to go
take a dump. Remember, Rebecca said, I need to reapply
my lipliner. Men don't know what that means, and women
understand it requires time and focus. Now it's your turn,
rate and review. Thanks for listening. I'm on back tomorrow
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for a group chat with Paralympians Women's Sports Foundation. Badasses
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Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're thinking
the New York Liberty should have their own sitcom all
of the office. Did y'all see the video of Cody
Vanderslut wishing Britta Stewart a happy birthday on the team
plane intercom? This is some charming chaos. Can you hear me? Hello?
Can you hear me? Okay? Round two?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah? No?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
How about now?
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Can you hear me?
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This isn't going well?
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Okay?
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Can I have your attention please? Eight years ago on this.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Day was born.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Here together to celebrate you?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Is Brianna Stewart? Happy, Happy, belated Stewie. On today's show,
we're going to talk to American Paralympic track and field athlete,
former college lacrosse player and survivor contestant Noel Lambert about
her prep for the Paris Games, plus a Paralympic need
to know, Alex's once to watch, and we just give
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up and settle for crowdsourcing. It's all coming up right
after this. Welcome back, my little orange slices. Here's what
you need to know today in WNBA news. Seattle is
keeping the hits coming. The city named one of its streets,
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Sue Bird Court, in a special ceremony on Monday to
honor the greatest point guard in Seattle Storm franchise history.
The street is right next to Climate Pledgerina, the Storm's
home venue. I guess Sue just couldn't let fiancee Meghan
Rappino have all the attention this week. JKJK. We love
you both, don't fire us Sue. Also, first she was
by You Barbie, then she was Shytown Barbie, and now
(01:42):
she's also Podcast Barbie. Chicago Skyrookie Angel Reese will host
Unapologetically Angel, a new show dropping September fifth, with episodes
releasing every Thursday. If you haven't seen the show teaser yet,
we'll link to it in our notes. Per Angel, the
show promises to have celebrities, actresses, artists, and more as guests.
Since she's got ties to a lot of prominent folks
(02:03):
in the culture sphere like rappers Lotto and Megan thee Stallion,
we can't wait to see who sits down with her
and co host Mayor Reese no relation, got to love
it when worlds collide. There are five WNBA games tonight,
so we'll put that full lineup in our show notes,
but here are a couple you definitely need to put
on your radar. Connecticut Sun at Indiana Fever. That's seven
Eastern on NBATV and League Pass. The Sun has already
(02:24):
gotten a playoff spot, but the Fever are hoop and
trying to peak in the last month of the regular
season and make the playoffs for the first time since
twenty sixteen. Then you got Atlanta Dream at Seattle Storm
ten pm Eastern on League Pass. Seattle dropped a close
contest at the tenth seeded Washington Mystics on Monday night,
making the race for fourth place even tighter. Meantime, Atlanta's
looking to bounce back from a loss to the Fever
(02:45):
on Monday, an inch a half game closer to the
final spot in the playoff picture onto the NWSL told
you a couple weeks ago that Orlando Pride midfielder Grace
Chando was put on the season ending injury list after
rupturing a quad playing for Zambia at the Olympics. Well,
Orlando Pride VP of Soccer Operations and general Manager Hailey
Carter has filed a formal grievance against the Football Association
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of Zambia, Faz with FIFA on Chanda's behalf for quote
failure to provide a reasonable standard of care for player
health and welfare. Carter's beef with Faz isn't new. Back
on August fourteenth, after Chanda's injury news was made official,
Carter posted a scathing message on x saying so disappointed
for grace, inadequate medical and performance resources, mismanaged loads, day
(03:30):
long travel and economy to the Olympics, and asks of
her to continue training and play in the opening match
post injury totally unacceptable. We'll keep you updated as that
situation continues to unfold. In tennis, Coco Goff began her
US Open title defense with the win in her first
match at Attorney and today she'll face Germany's Tatiana Maria
in the second round, and Taylor Townsend, our wonderful guest
(03:51):
from yesterday's episode, won her first singles round in straight sets.
She's playing in both doubles and singles today. Go Taylor,
go and make sure to keep and I and Amma
Navarro too. From a great New York Times story just
a couple of days ago, here's this quote. Navarro has
been one of the biggest surprises in women's tennis over
the last sixteen months. In January twenty twenty three, she
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was ranked one hundred and forty ninth and playing in
a twenty five thousand dollars tournament in Naples, Florida, which
she won. Now she's ranked thirteenth. She'll be seated at
the US Open for the first time. Pretty cool story.
All right, slices, it's time. Twenty twenty four Paris Paralympics
start today. Coverage kicks off at one pm Eastern with
(04:33):
a preview show on USA Network, and the opening ceremony
begins at two Eastern on USA, with streaming on Peacock
and NBC Olympics platforms. The parade of Nations will move
down Lavenue de chals Lyse to the famous Place de
la Concord for the opening ceremony, which should be gorgeous.
The Paralympics get its own Gold Zone and multiview, both
of which were a hit at this year's Olympics, and
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the Paralympics will be broadcast in a record number of countries,
with all twenty two sports being shown live in some
capacity for the first time. All that in mind, here's
five facts you need to know about the competition heading
in number one. The first Paralympics took place in Rome
in nineteen sixty with four hundred athletes from twenty three countries,
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and has now grown into a global phenomenon, one that
puts front and center people who are sometimes not included,
not centered, or not celebrated. About sixteen percent of the
world's population and estimated one point three billion people live
with either mental or physical disabilities according to the World
Health Organization, and the Paralympics continue to challenge deeply seated
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beliefs and push for more social inclusion, accessibility, and consideration
of those folks, both in the places where they're held
and all the places where they're viewed. Number two. There
are twenty two sports competed at the Paralympics, including adaptive
versions of all the stuff you're familiar with, like swimming, track, basketball, badminton,
and soccer aka football, but with a twist. It's blind football,
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featuring two teams of five visually impaired athletes or outfield
players and one goalkeeper on each squad. They play on
a forty meter by twenty meter pitch with boards surrounding
the field to keep the ball from going out of bounds,
and there's a bell inside the ball that alerts players
to its location. Goalies have to be sighted or partially sighted,
and outfield players have been classified as completely blind, but
in the interest of fairness, everyone wears a face mask
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covering their eyes. There are a couple Paralympics only sports too,
like goalball, which pits two teams of visually impaired players
against each other as they try to bounce, spin, or
curve a ball into the opposing net, and BATCHA, an
offshoot of BATCHI, in which two teams compete either as individuals, pairs,
or trios to roll their balls closest to the jack
a white ball. The competitors use wheelchairs and can enlist
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the help of assistance and supporting gear depending on their
impairment classification number three. A great way to follow along
with the action and get to know the athletes is
the official TikTok account for the International Paralympic Committee, which
has four point five million followers. Some folks have questioned
whether the content, which is often sort of playful and cheap,
is making fun of the athletes, but para athletes have
(07:03):
spoken out in support of it. And the folks who
run it say it's about approaching Paralympians the same way
we do Olympians, both showcasing their greatness and having a
little fun with their foibles and especially the moments where
things don't go quite right. In an interview with Front
Office Sports, internet culture writer Kate Lindsay said the Paralympics
TikTok has been seizing so much attention because of its
Quippi Internet savvy tone, and added that excluding Paralympics from
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Levity online would be another form of othering. US Paralympics.
Sprinter and skier Danny Erovich, who was born without her
left hand and forearm, goes by username the one Armed Dan.
Her bio says quote single handedly changed your life, so
she clearly knows a thing or two about Levity. She
posted the social and said, my biggest worry about the
Internet not latching onto the Paralympics is the potential fear
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of saying something wrong or offensive when it comes to disability.
While I, as a two time Paralympian, am here to
dismantle that fear. Post about it, ask questions about it,
don't worry about saying the thing. Make memes about the
funny moments, the sad moments, the moments of triumph, just
as you did for the Olympics. Also, gold medal winning
long jumper Tara Davis Woodhall's husband Hunter, who's the Paralympic
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track athlete, agreed, saying, quote, at the end of the day,
they're doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing, which
is building awareness of Paralympics sport. End quote. By the way,
are you still not following Tara and Hunter, because come on, y'all,
we already told you they're the cutest okay number four.
The Olympics at Paralympics are distinct, even though they've seemed
conjoined for decades. Beginning with the Soul Games in eighty eight,
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the Paralympics have been held in the same host city
as the Summer Olympics, but despite their associations, the IPC
and the IOC are distinct organizations with different staff, different bylaws,
and different logos. Yep, Those Olympic rings are technically for
the Olympics, while the logo for the Paralympics is a
swirl of red, blue, and green crescents known as the agitos,
which derives from the Latin definition of imove. For some time,
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paralympians with an Olympic Rings tattoo would have to cover
them for competition, as they were considered a third party advertiser.
But this week the IPC announced suddenly they've dropped that policy.
Athletes will no longer be required to cover those tattoos.
Number five. As of a few days ago, over one
point seven to five million tickets for the Paralympic Games
had been sold to folks for more than one hundred
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and forty four countries, and tickets for many sessions are
close to selling out. More than seven hundred thousand of
those tickets were sold after the start of the Olympic Games,
showing that the Olympic Fever and all those iconic Parisian
venues drove interest in the Para Games too. There's a
buzz online, there are tons of Olympians posting about watching,
and there's a great campaign going around with Paralympians saying,
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I have an announcement. I won't be participating in this
year's Paralympic Games. I'll be competing very powerful. It really
feels like this Paralympic Games will get more eyeballs, more attention,
more coverage and more respect than ever. So congrats to
Paris for crushing the Olympics and setting the stage for
what's sure to be an incredible Paralympics. And as you
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should know by now, Producer Alex is our resident Olympic
and Paralympic expert. So who else would we go to
to get us primed for these games? She was nice
enough to put together a list of five storylines to
watch for in this year's games.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Take it away, l All right, let's get this thing started.
Number one. Entering the Paris Paralympics. The three most decorated
members of Team USA have something in common, Sarah, Do
you know what it is?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
They all have a dog named Rufus. Nope, they're women.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
What are the chances to talk a good game with
Sarah Spain?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
We're talking women.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Jessica Long, a swimmer, leads the way thanks to her
twenty nine medals. She is followed by track and fields
Tatiana McFadden and cycling's Oksana Masters. Now, if you have
watched just one second of Paralympic coverage before, I am
sure that you already know about these three badasses. And
if you haven't, I am truly so excited for you
to get to know all three of them. I am
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personally so excited to see Oksana Masters compete because it
always feels like she shows up to the Games with
some big injury that she has to compete through. Just
three weeks before the twenty eighteen Winter Paralympics, she dislocated
and broke her elbow and still won five medals in
Bardic skiing, and I honestly don't know if I've ever
seen anyone fight through so much pain in order to
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keep competing. And then three years ago she had surgery
one hundred days before the Tokyo Paralympics to remove a
tumor in her leg, but went on to win gold
in both of her cycling events. As far as I know,
she is not dealing with anything like that this time around,
so knock on wood, I'm very psyched to see what
she can do in Paris. Moving on to wheelchair rugby,
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and this is big news, folks. So wheelchair rugby is
technically a mixed gender sport, but since it debuted at
the two thousand Sydney Paralympics, very few women have ever
been named to rosters. So three years ago in Tokyo,
there were ninety six athletes competing in the sport and
just four were women. But this year at the US,
for the first time ever, is going to have a
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woman on the team. Her name is Sarah Adam. She
actually got her start in the sport as a volunteer
back in twenty thirteen when she was studying occupational therapy
and wanted to find a way to become more involved
in the adaptive sports community. She started competing in the
sport a few years later after she was diagnosed with
multiple sclerosis. And in case you aren't familiar with how
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wheelchair rugby works, here's a quick primer. Each player has
a point value assigned to them between zero point five
and three point five, depending on the degree of their disability.
The sum of the four players on the floor at
any given time can't exceed eight points, so teams will
typically have a combination of players with low point values
and high point values. When a woman is competing, however,
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point five is subtracted from their sport class value. Now,
I'm sure we could have a big philosophical debate on
that approach, but in my opinion, it's a pretty innovative
way to incentivize teams to include women on their rosters,
especially given how male dominated the sport has always been anyway. Historically,
most of the women who have competed at the Parallels
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did so while playing defensive positions, which are typically filled
by athletes who are in the lower sport classes. But
Adam is actually one of the team's principal ball carriers
and I'm really excited to see her serve as one
of the leaders of the group. Just like at the Olympics,
the Paralympics also now feature a refugee team. This year's
delegation includes one woman, Zakia Kudu Dati, who competes in taekwondo.
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She actually made her Paralympic debut three years ago in Tokyo,
but under very different circumstances. Hailing from Afghanistan, it was
always her goal to represent her home nation, but when
the Taliban returned to power just days before the Paralympics
were set to open in twenty twenty one, she had
to go into hiding. She posted a video from inside
her house pleading for help. The International Paralympic Committee ended
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up helping her evacuate from Afghanistan, and she went on
to compete in Tokyo under the Afghan flag. She now
lives in Paris, and while she'll be competing at these
games under the refugee flag, she says her goal is
to send a message of strength to all the women
and girls in Afghanistan. Moving on to sitting volleyball, the
US women are looking for a third straight Paralympic gold
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medal in Paris, and one member of the team I
want to highlight is first time Paralympian Sidney Satchel. She
attended Howard University, where she was a member of the
lacrosse team, but in twenty fifteen, one year after she graduated,
she was in a car accident that resulted in her
left leg being amputated. During her rehab process, she decided
to try sitting volleyball, but she just missed the cup
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for the Tokyo roster. She was back in the gym
literally the next day and it paid off as she'll
make her Paralympic debut this year. Finally, I want y'all
to keep an eye on the US women's wheelchair basketball team,
and this is a group that has overcome a lot
since winning bronze in Tokyo back in twenty twenty one,
I interviewed several members of the team after they accused
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their then head coach of emotional abuse, which ultimately led
to his resignation and a Safe Sport investigation. In Pis,
the twelve member team will be led by Natalie Schneider,
who will be competing in her fifth Paralympic tournament. All right,
so those are my stories for now. I'm sure that
there are so many more that I just haven't heard
about yet, which is one of the reasons why I'm
psyched to see the Paralympics. Back in twenty twelve, after
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I worked my first Olympics, I remember missing the game
so much and I was like, Okay, I'm going to
try to fill this gap by watching the Paralympics. But
here's the thing. You could not watch the Paralympics on
TV in twenty twelve. There were just a few one
hour magazine style shows at the end of the games.
It wasn't like you were watching sports at all, and
so getting to work on the Paralympic broadcast for five
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games after that was truly a highlight. I cannot wait
to see how the coverage continues to evolve this year.
So make sure to tune in.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Thanks Al, I'm excited to watch those folks, also excited
to watch our next guests. We're going to take a break,
but when we come back, it's our conversation with Paralympic
athlete and former Survivor contestant Noel Lambert, who we caught
up with ahead of US Paralympic trials. Stick around, Happy
to have on Noel Lambert. She's an American Paralympian track
and field athlete, a motivational speaker, and the founder of
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the Born to Run Foundation. She was a contestant on
Survivor forty three and she's got twenty nine first cousins.
Her pet peeves are lazy people and slow drivers. Heard
on that one, Noel. Before we even get to anything else,
twenty nine first cousins. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Isiah very grateful to be here today? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
My dad's side of the family is huge. He has
nine brothers, sisters, So yeah, I mean, it wasn't until
after my accident where I met pretty much everybody Before
that it was like we.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Were all under under the dark, like under the dark
with each other.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
But yeah, it was crazy, and it was crazy to
learn how lacrosse was such a huge part of my family,
you know, being a Division one.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Collegiate lacrosse player.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I was finding out that I was playing against one
of my cousins and I had no idea she was
the head coach at one of at no at stone Hill.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Which was crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
So yeah, very very cool in the sense of but
you know, I am planning a wedding and these twenty
nine first cousins are getting.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I was going to say, I was gonna say, like
fun thing to be like close enough to keep in
touch once a year, but not so much of you
start buying all of them Christmas presents, Oh my goodness,
or having to invite them all to your wedding. Godspeed
on that, Noel. Yeah, level set for the Paralympics coming up.
You're heading into the trials. You haven't actually competed in
a bit, so tell us about the journey from the
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last Paralympics and the incredible performance you had there too.
Now and your goal at these trials.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Yeah, it's crazy to think that, you know, Paris was
only three years ago, because it seems like a lifetime ago.
I feel like I'm such, you know, a different athlete
in the sense of understanding the sport so much more
because going into Tokyo had only competed about six times.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I was very, very new to track and field.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I was just happy to have qualified to kind of
be there representing my country. But you know, now going
into Paris and spending these whole last three years focusing
and learning and getting better, it's like, I'm hungry for
that metal.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I'm hungry for.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Showing up and trying to be the best and come
home with gold. And you know, I mean it's been
a really incredible journey and I've you know, I've like
any athlete in any sport, I've had up to and
downs where you know, last season, I didn't have a
great season, and I you know, was at a crossroads.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
It was either you know, change everything up.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Or you know, go into Paris probably not being able
to qualify. So I actually like picked everything up I had.
I moved out to California, I started training with a
different coach, and I added a new event that I'm
also doing, the one hundred meter.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I'm still doing one hundred meter, but I'm also not
doing the long jump.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
So starting in January, I have been learning how to
long up and you know, right now I can say
that I am actually leading the world in my long jump.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I am number ranked number one, amazing, broke.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
The American record my third long jump collect going in,
so I'm you know, I credit that to having the
right team behind me and having the right coaching staff,
because I would not be a year if it wasn't
for them. But going in, I'm just extremely excited and
just need to continue to put in that work and
do the things that I know that I'm capable of.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
My advice to is a lifelong track and field athlete
Division one have tathlete, so you just need to get
five more, add five more and you could keep up
with me. But the beginners, that beginner's mindset is huge.
I actually broke like a three state Junior Olympic javelin
record the first time I competed in the event, and
then it was so hard to recreate that feeling of
just like oh whatever, like I don't know what's going
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to happen, and not overthink it. So the key is,
don't overthink it, just let your body and let the
prep and the reps that you do take over. On
the day of the EVENTU clearly already did in Tokyo
because you set an American record you just mentioned in
the long jop, but you also had the American record
in the one hundred meter T sixty three. You had
a time of fifteen ninety seven that you ran at
the Tokyo Paralympic Games. First, can you tell us what
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the T sixty three means and then take us back
to that race?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Absolutely? Yeah, T sixty three. So for the Paralympics, we.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Are divided up into different classification groups based on our disability.
So basically what T sixty three means is I am
a single above knee amputee, and so I will not
compete against bologney amputees. I will not compete against people
who are visually impaired, or who are in wheelchair, or
who have seubral palsy. It's completely separated, you know, for
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obvious reasons. So it's fair for everybody. And you know, obviously,
going into Tokyo, like I said, I knew it was
going to be very challenging to get a medal. So
I just wanted to go out there and do the
best that I could and just qualify for finals. That
was honestly, it was one step at a time, and
then once I qualified for finals, I was like, Okay,
I want to do that much better. I want to
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break sixteen seconds because I was fighting that sixteen second mark.
And you know, fast forwardy fast forward to now, you know,
all the work that I did with you know, moving
out to California, changing coaching, changing coaches. I also changed
a lot on my alignment for my prosthetic side and
for my one hundred meter. I am now running an
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entire second faster than I was last year, last season.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
So now I'm trying to break fifteen seconds.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
And I think just every time I go into a
race and then I can, you know, say and that
I hit a peb or say that I, you know,
broke the American record. It's always very special because I'm
always thinking of, you know, ways that I can improve
and get better. And it's great because we have so
many up and coming athletes for T sixty three in
the United States now where it's getting so much more competitive,
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and it's you know, when I go into a nationals
or I go into trials, I know that it's not
just going to be ak and I'm not just going
to beat everybody. Now I actually have to fight for
getting that number one place, and so I love it.
I think it's great for the sport. I think it's
great for you know, us as competitors.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
You mentioned lacrosse, you were a D one college lacrosse
player at University of Massachusetts Lowell. How much crossover for
game prep and race prep?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
It's I will say track and field is very different
in the sense of, you know, just solely being an
individual sport and just the mental prep of it alone
is crazy because you know, for the one hundred meter,
I only have one chance and I only have a
certain amount of seconds to do well, rather than in
a lacrosse game, you have, you know, sixty to ninety
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minutes where you can figure out your gameplay laun jump.
You know, I only have three to six jumps to
kind of figure out my rhythm. So just the mental
aspect of it, you know, I'm still learning, But in
the beginning it was like, oh my god, I'm I'm
alone in this. But that's when I started, you know,
relying on my coaching and.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Relying on my training partners.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
You know, I have a great training group out here
in Tulavisa, California, of all Paralympic athletes and we're all
different classification groups, different disabilities, but.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It's crazy how competitive we are with one another.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I'm jumping with a below knee mail who jumps eight meters,
you know, on a great day, and I'm like, okay,
I'm going to get to that point.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's great.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
That's the good and bad of track and field is
it's just a number. So it's like, there's no there's
no other subjectivity. You can't have a bad coach or
something that goes wrong, but it's just a number. So
if you have a bad day, you're like, well, that's it.
I know it is a bad day. Some seconds lower,
I didn't make the cut. Your first lacrosse game back
after losing your leg in a moped accident, you're on
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the field with your team again. Now you've got a
prosthetic limb. You're playing for the first time with this
new limb, and you score a freaking goal. I just
reading about it made me so happy, reading about your teammates,
like rushing onto the field, what is that feeling?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
You know, when I go back and I watched that
video of me playing again, the best part about it
isn't me scoring. It's honestly the reaction that I caught
from my teammates and coaches, because they were the sole
reason why that moment was even possible. I mean, they
were believing in me when I didn't believe in myself.
If it was up to me, I probably would have
quit that very first week. And you know, to have
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the support that I did for my teammates and coaches,
especially my assistant coach.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
She was the one every single day before and after practice.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
We were doing footwork drills, we were doing extra run
drills just to kind of get me ready to actually play,
and it was just extremely it was like it was
the best moment of my entire life to this day,
I mean just because I could share that and just
kind of say that I was able to do it.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
But it was.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
It was awesome, and I always, I'm always so appreciative
of my teammates in that moment because they were so
selfless to push their dreams aside to kind of help
my dreams come true. And it really just made that
moment that what it was.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Was it tougher physically or mentally to work your way
back to your team and learn to play with a prosthetic.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I would absolutely say, you know, it was fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
But mentally it was you know, getting over the hump
of you know, believing in other people or confiding in others.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I was always that person that put up a wall.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
That never really wanted to let people in or let
people know if I was having a difficult time, And
after losing my leg, I realized that I need to
rely on other people and kind of talk things out.
I mean, it was my first experience with dealing with
how important mental health is, you know, especially as an athlete, And.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
It was it was my assistant coach who kind of
got me to open up.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
And once I was able to do that with her
and realize how easy it was, it was like, Okay,
well why can't I do this with other people? And
so just getting over that battle of being stubborn and
trying to solve everything in my head myself. And that's
why I always talk about, and I'm a huge advocate
of you, if you're ever going through a difficult time,
never be afraid to, you know, rely on your loved
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ones or the people you have around you, because.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
You know they're the ones that love you most.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
In this world, and they want to see your dreams
come true just as much as you do, so.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Never be afraid.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I mean, I know a lot of people think that
they are so tough that they can get through things
on their own.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
But if you're ever going somewhere, never go alone. That's
what happened, and it really does take a village.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
You know. I've heard so many people who have gone
through traumatic incidents or suffered limb loss and have said
that that incident was the best thing that's ever happened
to them, And that's so hard for other people sometimes
to realize. But I wonder if you've seen your friends
and family be able to adjust their perspective on life
because of what you've gone through and being close to.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
You, absolutely, I mean I just think, you know, being
introduced to the disabled community as a whole has been
incredible for me and it just makes me so grateful
to be a part of it. But when you know,
my family, especially like my fiance and his family, like
having them be introduced to the Paralympics, and now they
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all love to watch and especially all my friends, like
they're so eager to watch the Paris Paralympic Games coming
up and They're all always asking, you know, which events
are are happening on which days? I have people wanting
to come to Paris actually watch. So I think it's
just great as as a whole to kind of spread
that message of you know, Paralympic athletes are badass athletes
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just as much as an able body athlete, and just
having that representation, I mean, I think it's I think
it's incredible, and you know, just going through that and
getting to realize and be grateful. I mean, you said it,
the act my accent is the best thing that's ever
happened to me. And I'm actually grateful for it because
and I wouldn't change a thing, and I look back
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on it and view it as such a positive now
because it just changed my whole outlook on life. You know,
it really is just a leg and you know, I'm
doing things now with my life that I never could
have even imagined, and I'm just I'm grateful for it.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
The first place I heard you say that was on
Survivor of all places. How did that experience of being
on Survivor match or differ from what you expected?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Oh my god, it was everything I could have envisioned
in more but I will say that I was scared
to death to do it, and it kind of fell
in my lap. I've been a huge Survivor fan because
of my mother. My mom is one of the biggest
diehard Survivor fans, never miss the season, never miss an episode.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
And when I was.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Actually in Tokyo, I received a DM on Instagram from
the head casting director of the show asking you know,
if I've ever thought about applying, and so I was
just like, this is insane, Like this has to be
a sign. I went through the whole application process, and
then when I figured out that I was actually going
to be on the show, I was terrified, just solely
of the fact that there's never been an above knee
APTM that show before. And I know survivors of Social Games,
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Everyone's going to want to vote me off because I
had this incredible story, and I just kept telling myself,
you know, if I don't do this, then who is
going to you know, who's going to show that positive representation.
But getting to just do the show, getting to see
how the show is actually done, I mean, as a
Survivor fan was insane, but going on it, you know,
I never really expected to meet.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
And love all these incredible people.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Like I thought that I was going to go on
and like, because it's a social game, hate everybody.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I love everybody I played with.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
I came home with, you know, seventeen new best friends,
you know, seventeen new people to invite to the wedding.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
There you go, adam, Yeah. I feel like most people
probably watched them. They were like, oh that the times
where you were like stuck in a net or the
mud was the worst. And I was like, no, bro.
The part what they like, haven't eaten for twelve days
is where I'm like, I'm not doing it. I'm not
doing it. I'm not going to be in the jungle
not eating food for twelve days. Like sorry I am.
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I mean after a couple hours.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Yeah, yeah, I can't even sniff coconut anything coconut.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
I mean yeah, because it was always it was all
we eight, but no, the worst part about it was
was the day were the days that we didn't have
anything like our off days where we didn't have a
competition or tribal console. Because that's when you really start
to like miss home and you're like, what's everyone doing?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Like you have no communication with the outside world. You
have no idea what everyone's doing.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I remember the Celtics were in the playoffs and I
was just I wanted to know how the Celtics were doing,
and nobody would tell me, Like nobody on production.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Like it's not important to the game. It's just important
to my life. I need to know.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
They won't let you know. Yeah, they won't let you
know anything that's happening in the outside world. And I
was just so upset. I was like, just let me
know how the Celtics blink once. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I was in the bottom of the Grand Canyon hiking
when the Bulls won one of their titles and we
got to the top and they were like John Paxson
hit a three and I was like, oh, I've got
to finally, like back in the day, PC arm like
did someone did? Yeah? Right. So part of the reason
that you're here is because you're part of this amazing
Cracker Jaill spotlight squad. We all know crackerd but the
last couple of years they're these amazing campaigns for Cracker
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Jill And this year they're spotlighting five Olympians and Paralympians
that Cracker Jill is sponsoring and you're one of them.
Tell us more about it, because they've been sending me
these awesome things that I've been giving to my niece
and showing to all these great young girls, and I
just love the messaging, especially the research from the Women's
Sports Foundation that they included with it about keeping girls
in sport. It's just it's such a badass activation. So
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tell me more about it.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah, I'm so grateful to be a part of the
Cracker Jill program, just solely because they're giving women, you know,
a voice, and I.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Think it's extremely important.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
And I know we're in an incredible time where women's
sports are on the uprise, and I think Crackerjill is
a huge part of that because they're trying to give
athletes like myself and the other four incredible athletes that
I'm doing this with, you know, just a voice in
a spotlight, but just showing the visibility of how badass
women can be is incredible.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
You know.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
The the statistic of you know, nearly off of US
teenagers cannot name a single professional women athlete, I think
is insane. You know, growing up, I was always a
huge Alex Morgan fan. I was always you know, Meghan Rappino.
I mean all soccer, all everything, and for even lacrosse
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like Taylor Cummings, one of you know, the monumental women's
lacrosse players that there are. And I think it's just
an incredible job that Cracker Jill is doing and I'm
just grateful to be a part of it and that
they can give me kind of a voice and to
just pave the way for younger the younger generation and
for women in sports right now to kind of show
what great athletes that they can be.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Love it well. Now we've got a whole bunch of
good game listeners that are going to know the name
Noel Lambert and we're all going to be rooting for
you so hard. Let me know when you need instruction
in those five other events for the heptach on and
will's good hop out on a field with the javel
and then get started. Thank you so well, so great
to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Good luck.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Break a leg, Oh, break a leg? Can say break
a leg?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah? Which or lose a leg? Either one or either one?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Keep the one, Keep the one, we need that one,
Keep the one.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Thank you so much, Sarah. It was an honor being
on here. And yeah, thank you so.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Much awesome stuff. Looking forward to watching Noel. We've got
to take another break. When we come back, we answer
a question about stoppage time during our stoppage time, don't
go anywhere. Welcome back, Slice is We got another great
question in our inbox. This one's from Moe O'Donnell, co
owner Paxton Pub in Salt Lake City, Utah. Moe's message reads,
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Hey Sarah, loving the good game pod keep crushing it.
A question came up while we were at the Utah
Royals game tonight that we need help finding an answer to.
After the fourth raft showed an absurd ten minutes of
stoppage time, we started wondering what's the most stoppage time
that's ever been added to a match. All we could
find was a men's game that had twenty eight minutes added,
but that was due to a power outage. So help
us out what's the most that's ever been added? And
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bonus question, what's the most stoppage time that's been added
to a women's match. We're guessing that it'll be half
as much as the men's since we don't flop as much. Lol.
Thanks in advanced cheers.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
MO.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Well Mo, that twenty eight minute stoppage time game is
the longest ever in a men's match, according to our research,
but on the women's side, we're not sure because producer
Alex reached out to a trusted source, Jen Cooper, who's
a statistician and keeper of keepernotes dot com, about the
most stoppage time in an NWSL game, and she told
us the NWSL doesn't keep track of stoppage time stats.
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Sac la bleu. Why am I speaking in French? Because
zod'lore we need those stats. As for women's international play,
we couldn't find that either, so we're outsourcing this one.
Are you, dear listener, deep into stoppage time history? Are you,
dear listener looking for a research project? Think you know
or can find out which women's footy match had the
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want you to get in the game every day too,
So here's another good game play of the day. Make
sure you're following the Paralympics on TikTok and x at Paralympics,
and of course watch the games and follow your favorite
athletes along the journey. You had two weeks to call
them your nervous system. It's time to turn that shit
back up a notch. Find your inner patriot again, USA, USA, USA,
(35:32):
and don't forget to subscribe, rate and review. That's right, slices.
You knew I was gonna say it. It's just too easy.
Why haven't you done it yet? Watch the phrase bio
break rating out of five stars review. Whoever invented this
phrase needs to take a long walk off a short peer.
(35:53):
What was wrong with just break? All right, everybody? Five
minute break?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Do with it?
Speaker 1 (35:58):
What you will get in some great making a phone
call absolutely expelling feces from your digestive track through your anus. Sure, fine,
you gotta do it, but I don't need to know
about it. And when I hear the words bio break,
not only do I think about each and every person
leaving that room to take a shit, I also think
(36:19):
about corporate jargon. Gough you know, circle back, run it up,
the flagpool, pivot, ping, punt, put a pin in it
co O B E O D s O w oo
P t O r F p R O I T
L d R, I hate it. I'm sticking with RBI,
p R DQ and the like. Thank you very much.
(36:40):
And if you must say something other than just break,
take it from Rebecca Welton on ted Lasso. When Keeley
asked what to tell people when she needed to go
take a dump. Remember, Rebecca said, I need to reapply
my lipliner. Men don't know what that means, and women
understand it requires time and focus. Now it's your turn,
rate and review. Thanks for listening. I'm on back tomorrow
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for a group chat with Paralympians Women's Sports Foundation. Badasses
in All Around, Good Times, Elena Nichols and Scout Bassett,
Good Game, Noel, Good Game, Jessica Taziana and Oksana you
a lack of sophisticated stat keeping in women's sports. Good
Game with Sarah Spain is an iHeart women's sports production
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in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can
find us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever
you get your podcasts. Production by Wonder Media Network. Our
producers are Alex Azzi and Misha Jones. Our executive producers
are Christina Everett, Jesse Katz, Jenny Kaplan, and Emily Rudder.
Our editors are Jenny Kaplan, Emily Rutter, Britney Martinez and
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Grace Lynch. Production assistants from Lucy Jones and I'm Your
Host Sarah Spain
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