The Mystery of the Missing Torch: Opening Ceremony. Part 6

Little time left before the Opening Ceremony and the friends must navigate through the excited crowd. In the crowd Billy recognises a French tennis player Stéphane Houdet who shares his journey of becoming a professional athlete and the lessons he learnt from playing tennis🎾. How will it help our gang? In the thrilling final episode of "The Mystery of the Missing Torch," the Lingokids friends are in a race against the clock to catch the thief who stole the Olympic Torch and save the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Will they make it in time to catch the thief? Let’s find out - Allonsy!

Special Guest Appearance: Meet wheelchair tennis player and Paralympic champion Stéphane Houdet! Stéphane shares his inspiring journey of becoming a professional player and building a never-give-up mindset. He also helps the Lingokids friends get through the gate to the Opening Ceremony.
New Clue Uncovered: The Lingokids spot the thief escaping with the torch on a boat across the Seine River, leading to an exciting chase.
The Big Reveal: Who is the thief, and why did he take the torch? Tune in to find out!
About Stéphane Houdet:
Stéphane Houdet is a professional wheelchair tennis player who has competed in several Paralympic Games, winning multiple medals. He is passionate about promoting sports and sharing French culture with the world.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mais Welcome to Stories for Kids by Lingo Kids, where
we discover fascinating facts about the world around us and
the fun of play learning. Today is the final episode
of the Mystery of the Missing Torch. The Lingo Kids'
friends are in a race against the clock to catch
the thief who stole the Olympic Torch and save the

(00:23):
Paris twenty twenty four Olympic Games. Right now, huge crowds
are gathering and boats full of Olympic athletes are arriving
for the opening ceremony. Will the friends make it through
the crowd to catch the thief? Let's find out, Alons,
do you see that thief?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Not yet? There are so many boats.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Billy says that this must be the Parade of Nations parade.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I love parids, but I've never got to see a boat.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
You're not the only one, Elliott. This is the first
time in Olympic history that the Parade of Nations is
actually a boat parade. Every nation or country has its
own boat with Olympic athletes on it.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
There are so many people.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
You're right, Elliott. More than ten thousand athletes will compete
in the Paris Olympic Games. We even met some of
them and more than forty five thousand volunteers help to
make it all happen.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Hey, everyone is getting off the boats that these must
be in this crowd.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Come on, are you excuse me? Pardon hi? Hei, excuse me?
Concociation coming through? Hi? Hi, Hello, Biky coming through? Hello?
What is everyone saying?

Speaker 1 (01:55):
They are saying hello? Remember Elliott, Olympic athletes come from
where they two hundred different countries, so they speak many
different languages.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Oh yeah, hello, Hi? What's up? Please pass?

Speaker 4 (02:17):
You must have a pass to get any closer to
the opening ceremony.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
We are sitting in the Olympics, so.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
Sorry, but everyone needs a pass.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I have a nice there. Oh no, now what will
we do?

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Lingo Kids listeners, do you have any ideas how the
friends can get through the gate?

Speaker 2 (02:47):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
We need to find an Olympic handley who can help us.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Billie says he thinks he recognizes someone in the crowd.
Excuse me, are you my chance? Stefan Uday?

Speaker 6 (03:02):
Indeed, I add.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Billy is very excited. He is a big tennis fan
and says that he has watched you play in the
US Open. Lingo Kids friends meet a Stefan Uday a
professional wheelchair tennis player. He competed in several Paralympic Games
and was on the Paralympic podium five times.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Wow, we met a Paralympic swimmer, remember, yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Jamal Hill. But I didn't know there were other sports
in the Paralympics.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
There are twenty two different sports in the Paralympics this year, Lisa,
there's archery, fencing, swimming, basketball, wheelchair tennis.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
That's right, I we'd be competing on the tennis team.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Billy would like to know if he should call you
a world champion or a wheelchair tennis player, or a
Paralympian medal win or monsieur.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
Whud I would say, called me to Stephan.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
And that's true.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
I'm a chi tennis player, I am a triple Paralympic champion,
I am a father of six, husband, and I hope friend.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Billy says he definitely wants to be friends Stefan, and
also he has a question, did you always know you
wanted to be a tennis champion?

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Well, actually I was a tennis player as a kid,
maybe the same age as you have now. But then
I became a veterinary doctor and I've been working as
a vet for nine years before I had an accident,
a motorbike accident, and my body was different because I
lost a leg in an accident, and it gave me

(04:54):
this opportunity to try to be a tennis pro differently
in a which but I was thinking, maybe I can
try and if I can't make it, I will go
back to be a vet. But I'm still at tennis
proof for so many years now.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
WHOA is it hard? How do you do it?

Speaker 4 (05:15):
So I'm playing now with a wheel chair and I'm
using a prosthetic to walk all over the world. And
it changed my life, it changed my job. But it's very,
very positively because I have found a new word.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Billy is asking if you are extra excited to be
in the Olympics in your home country.

Speaker 7 (05:38):
I'm very happy to welcome the world in Paris for
the Paralympics in twenty twenty four, especially because I want
to share with the world the culture of the French culture.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Oh, we have seen a lot of French culture.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
We will what's here and a cheese an art and
you'll never believe what we saw from the Eiffel Tower.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
The Dorge.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
We have to buy the a litmit dodge, Gray sir,
we'll never find it.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
You should just give up. Cow is right. I think
we're losing.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
This game most of the time, especially in tennis, the
difference between the winner and the loser is only one point.
But that's why you mustn't give up. You always have
a chance.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Did you hear that? We can't give up? There is
still a chance, Stephan. We need to get through the gate.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
Oh this gate. I cannot appee with that. You care, yes, you,
I have some guests passis follow me as please, here
you go for me and my friends.

Speaker 8 (06:53):
Mercy have a great day.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
It worked, Mercy said, then good luck at the Paralympics.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Enjoyed the games.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Carvin.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Dancing? Excuse me, what have you seen a torch? Torch? Hmmm?
I think the breakers have one breakers? What's a breaker?
The breaker crew is over there. See for yourselves. Breakers
are dancing? Wait, is they're dancing in the Olympics.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Breaking or what some people call break dancing, is a
new sport in the Olympics this year. Billy says. Those
be girls and bee boys have super fresh moves.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Bay, how do you know about breakdancing?

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Billy says, he does some popping and locking from time
to time.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
We really can except for fresh. Look at them all
drop and spend except lat one in the back.

Speaker 6 (08:11):
He's just standing there holding.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
The torch. Stop, Jean Pierre, what are you doing here?
Who more, Jean Pierre? But you're Cowie's cousin. Who are
you holding the torch? H?

Speaker 8 (08:36):
Hello, friends of Kobe. Isn't this how do you say? Awesome?
Sous I'm helping to break your crew is lighting it?

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Check it out, Jean Pierre.

Speaker 6 (08:46):
I can't believe you are the torch tee sief?

Speaker 8 (08:50):
Why do you say this? No, no, I am not
a thief, but you.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Still be a little bit torch. We have been looking
all over friends for it.

Speaker 8 (09:00):
But I just borrowed it. I'm bringing it back.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
See borrowed. It's not a library book.

Speaker 9 (09:08):
Well, you know, I'm a climber, and so I was
climbing a big rock in a cell.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Oh the rock way the torch was.

Speaker 9 (09:16):
Stolen, borrowed, and I saw the torch just lying there,
and then I had an Olympic idea.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah, climber. And John thinks it.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Wasn't a gymnas it was a climber.

Speaker 9 (09:29):
What idea I decided to take the torch climbing up
the coolest pots in Paris. Look, I got some great
selfies here. I'm climbing at the Louver, the Eiffel Tower,
a boat on the Seine.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Awesome, right, not awesome, jump Pierre. Olympics is all about selfiees,
It isn't.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
No.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Olympics is about humor.

Speaker 6 (09:55):
Everyone works together to do their best as a team.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
That torch was supposed to go from person to person
in a relay all the way to Paris.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
But you took it for yourself.

Speaker 8 (10:08):
Oh I didn't think about it that way. I guess
I got a little.

Speaker 6 (10:12):
Carried away, a lot carried away.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
And now there's no time left. It's time to light
the cauldron. We need to get the torch there. I'm
too crowded. We'll never get through.

Speaker 8 (10:27):
I am so sorry. I love the Olympics. I want
your help, please. What can I do?

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Billy has an idea. He says, we can start a
torch relay. If everyone works together, we can pass the
torch through the crowd all the way to the cauldron.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Good idea, Billy. Just like we didn't move the baguette,
I got this.

Speaker 8 (10:55):
Bardon everyone. We need your help. Please? Can you help
post past the tour we.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
It's taking everyone is helping.

Speaker 10 (11:24):
The George is almost to the cauldron. We did it.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
It's so beautiful.

Speaker 8 (11:38):
Now that's what's USA. Welcome to the twenty four Games.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Good team.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Today, the Lingo Kids' Friends finally caught the thief who
stole the Olympic torch. Cowie, Lisa, Elliott and Billy followed
a trail of clues, met real Olympic athletes along the
way and work together to solve the mystery and just
in time to light the cauldron for the opening ceremony.
We hope you enjoy the Paris twenty twenty four Summer

(12:11):
Olympic Games. What sports event are you most excited to
see and why? Let us know by sending an email
to podcast at Lingo Kids dot com.

Speaker 6 (12:25):
Jean Pierre, do you still have saw that stinky but
delicious cheese?

Speaker 2 (12:30):
You butt?

Speaker 9 (12:31):
Epusta Bolgunn. I always have something for my friends, Pierre