No Show This Week!
Mar 26, 2025
Hello TKFLASTAN!
Just a note that we won't be able to produce a show this week. Jill's been doing a lot of caregiving for her mother, which has taken a considerable amount of time and mental energy.
We'll be back next week with hopefully two shows - one on the new IOC president Kirsty Coventry and Alison's report from...
Jun 17, 2024
Team USA Wheelchair Basketball player Brian Bell joins us to talk about the ins and outs of this Paralympic sport. Brian has been part of Team USA for the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, both of which were gold-medal-winning performances. Brian and Team USA will be looking for the three-peat at Paris 2024.
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Jun 6, 2024
We're exploring team sports on this episode of Keep the Flame Alive. At Paris 2024, there will be 11 purely team sports: artistic swimming, basketball, basketball 3x3, beach volleyball, football, handball, hockey, rowing, rugby sevens, volleyball, and water polo. Athletes don't just have to be in top physical shape,...
Mar 21, 2024
At the LA 2028 Paralympics, the US will compete in blind football (aka blind soccer) for the first time--but a national team is still in development. Molly Quinn, CEO of the US Association of Blind Athletes (USABA) joins us to talk about the process of building an internationally competitive team.
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Feb 20, 2024
At the first Winter Olympics, medals were awarded to mountain climbers for scaling the greatest peaks in the world. It wasn't even an actual competition that took place during the Games, but these men got Olympic medals nonetheless.
Alison explains how and why the Olympics awarded medals in Alpinism, including the fact...