The Sport Report - Para-Day 1 Oui-cap

Catch up with the event schedule before the first events kick off tonight.

Kristen and Nige caught up with Sylvia Jefferies who highlighted the buzz in Paris leading up to the Para-games.

Stay tuned tomorrow to keep up to date with event schedule and hear the highlights from our Aussie athletes overnight.

Catch ya then!

 

Kristen and Nige interview with Sylvia Jeffries: https://omny.fm/shows/kristen-nige-for-breakfast/daily-the-secret-to-long-life

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Sport Report unofficially the best way to follow the
Parisian action fiz CBR.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning and welcome back to the Sport Report. I'm
the voice inside your speak at Tanner and this is
the unofficial day one weekap and just like that, the
opening ceremony kicked off this morning welcoming the para athletes
to Paris, and Australia has over four thy four hundred
athletes representing our Green and Gold nation and will be
giving it. They're all in the competitions over the following weeks.

(00:26):
Our Oussie athletes jump straight into their competitions with the
men's four hundred meter freestyle S nine at five thirty pm,
with the final at one thirty am, The women's four
hundred meter freestyle S nine at five forty pm, with
the final at one forty am. The men's doubles table
tennis versus Japan at six pm, the men's one hundred
meters butterfly S fourteen at six twenty pm, with the
final to follow at two thirty am. The women's one

(00:46):
hundred meters butterfly S fourteen at six thirty pm, with
the final to follow at two forty am. The women's
fifty meter freestyle S ten at six fifty pm, with
the final to follow at three forty am. The men's
fifty meter freestyle S ten at six fifty pm, with
the final to follow at four thirty eight. Another round
of men's doubles table tennis versus France at seven thirty pm,
Wheelchair rugby versus Great Britain at seven thirty pm, Women's

(01:07):
doubles table tennis at six fifteen pm, Men's v four
thousand meters cycling individual purshoot at nine forty pm, with
the final starting at one am, Men's individual bocher versus
the Republic of South Africa at ten pm. Four sets
of mixed doubles table tennis, with the first against Great
Britain at one am, simultaneously against Chile also at one am,
then against Sweden at one forty five am, and another
match at three fifteen am against a winning team of

(01:28):
a previous round. Women's individual botcher versus South Korea at
four thirty am, and finally the men's wheelchair basketball versus
the Netherlands at three fifty am. A couple of days
prior to the opening ceremony, Kristin and Nige caught up
with Sylvia. Jeffries, who highlighted the buzz in Paris leading
up to the Paragames, made.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
We Sylvia greetings, salutations from down under. Lui WII has everything?

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Is it is bonsois o'clock in Paris right now?

Speaker 3 (01:57):
It's always in Paris.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Exactly, exactly, No, it's great. Look the vibe is really building,
the athletes are settling into the village. Everyone's getting really pumped.
And the opening ceremony now is only a couple of
days away, so it happens Wednesday night here Paris time,
Thursday morning, four am Australian Eastern time.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Are the athletes behaving themselves so far? Sylvia? We haven't
seen any sh no comment.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
I've only I've seen clips from ice bars and that's
all I will say.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
That's just science. It's fine, Sylvia. Who are some of
the posit athletes to watch? God?

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Where gosh, where do you even start? You know, the
swimming kicks off on the first night and that's massive.
All of Australia will remember Alexi Leary from the swimming
trials in Brisbane earlier this year with her breakout you know,
post swim interviews, bring on the crape. She's ready for
the crapes and she dives into her first potential medal

(02:58):
on the first day of action in Paris.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Going to be great, looking quite good. Indeed, at this point.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Sylvia tell me that her parents are there as well,
because I've seen you guys do quite a few interviews
with Alexa, and she's just a character and amongst herself,
but her parents too, who are just so proud, and
the backstory of her as well her trials.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah, she got knocked off her bike. She was a
former triathlete, got knocked off her bike on a training
run training bike ride with her father in the same peloton,
suffered really severe injuries, was not really expected to walk again,
and here she is now debuting at the Paris Paralympics,
a really strong metal chance. We saw the emotion of

(03:40):
her parents when she wanted the swimming trial, and I
do recall them saying as soon as she won, they
would be booking flights for themselves and all of their children.
And I'm pretty sure, if I'm not mistaken, Alexa is
one of six or seven children. The whole weary family
will be in toe.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah, we watch extrawdinary.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Watch out any of the pubs and or clubs in Paris.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Well the Olympics. For anything to go by, it will
be the Irish pubs that go off.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
You can catch the full discussion on the Kristen and
I podcast via the link in the episode description, on
iHeart listener or wherever you get your podcasts. And that
has been the day, one weekap Stay tuned tomorrow to
keep up today with the event schedule and hear the
highlights from our Aussie athletes overnight.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Catch it then amplify.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
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