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Paris 2024 Paralympics: Day 6 Sep 04, 2024

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Can you spend an entire day in Paris Arena Sud at the Paris 2024 Paralympics? Alison lives to tell the tale of one location, three sports: boccia, goalball and para table tennis. Jill gets a taste of blind football before dashing over to the Team USA House to interview TKFLASTANIs and then head to watch Brian Bell and the US Men's wheelchair basketball team try to advance to the bracket stage.

Sports on today's program:

Blind Football
Boccia
Goalball
Para Archery
Para Athletics
Para Equestrian
Para Swimming
Para Table Tennis
Shooting Para Sport
Sitting Volleyball
Wheelchair Basketball
Wheelchair Fencing
Wheelchair Tennis

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Our researcher for the Paralympics is Elizabeth Emery.

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Paris 2024 Paralympics: Day 5 Sep 03, 2024

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Day 5 at the Paris 2024 Paralympics brings some highs and lows–and Alison got stuck on the low end of the spectrum. We also learned about Nike's efforts to develop more inclusive clothing and footwear, and Jill had a splash and dash to and from the splash and dash.

Nike has an initiative to develop athletes' careers post-competitive career, as well as hire more people with disabilities. To that end, they have an initiative called Game On, which is a 12-month program for employment seekers that will help Nike make more improvements in their products for disabled people. Learn more about it here.

Sports on today's program:

Blind Football
Boccia
Goalball
Para Archery
Para Athletics
Para Badminton
Para Swimming
Para Table Tennis
Para Triathlon
Shooting Para Sport
Sitting Volleyball
Wheelchair Basketball
Wheelchair Rugby
Wheelchair Tennis

Our researcher for the Paralympics is Elizabeth Emery.

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

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Paris 2024 Paralympics: Day 4 Sep 02, 2024

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Team Keep the Flame Alive collects more gold today, as Matt Stutzman competes in Para Archery. Alison's got all of the details of his amazingly close matches, plus an encounter that made her day better than wheelchair rugby can. Plus, she has a sensory experience that was like any other.

Meanwhile, Jill saw most of TKFLASTANI Brian Bell and Team USA's men's wheelchair basketball team. Then she headed to Team USA's High Performance Center for a Wheelchair Fencing lesson with Paralympian Byron Branch before ending the day at Roland Garros with Wheelchair Tennis.

Sports on today's program:

Blind Football
Boccia
Goalball
Para Archery
Para Athletics
Para Track Cycling
Para Rowing
Para Swimming
Para Table Tennis
Shooting Para Sport
Sitting Volleyball
Wheelchair Basketball
Wheelchair Rugby
Wheelchair Tennis

Our researcher for the Paralympics is Elizabeth Emery.

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Paris 2024 Paralympics: Day 3 Sep 01, 2024

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Another day in Paris, another load of World and Paralympic Records going down! Jill went to Wheelchair Rugby…and let's just say there may be a podcast fight over who covers the final. Meanwhile, Alison braved the chill of the Grand Palais to see TKFLASTAN bring home a medal in Para Taekwondo. Plus, an email from a TKFLASTANI upended evening plans for all the right reasons.

Sports on today's program are:

Boccia
Goalball
Para Archery
Para Athletics
Para Badminton
Para Cycling – Track
Para Rowing
Para Swimming
Para Table Tennis
Para Taekwondo
Shooting Para Sport
Sitting Volleyball
Wheelchair Basketball
Wheelchair Rugby
Wheelchair Tennis

Our researcher for the Paralympics is Elizabeth Emery.

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Paris 2024 Paralympics: Day 2 Aug 31, 2024

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The fantastic sporting action at the Paris 2024 Paralympics continues on, but the lovely weather doesn't. Jill managed a lot of venue issues, including rain at Invalides during the para archery competition. Alison got to the velodrome for a toasty day of para cycling track.

Sports on today's agenda:

Boccia
Goalball
Para Archery
Para Athletics
Para Badminton
Para Cycling Track
Para Rowing
Para Swimming
Para Table Tennis
Para Taekwondo
Shooting Para Sport
Sitting Volleyball
Wheelchair Basketball
Wheelchair Rugby
Wheelchair Tennis

Plus, we have mixed zone interviews with para track cyclist Samantha Bosco, para archer Matt Stutzman and sitting volleyball player Lora Webster.

Our researcher for the Paralympics is Elizabeth Emery.

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Paris 2024 Paralympics: Day 1 Aug 30, 2024

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It's the first full day of competition from Paris 2024, as the Paralympics get off to a great start. Jill went to para track cycling to see TKFLASTANI Samantha Bosco, and Alison had the best day of her life at wheelchair rugby. In the evening, Alison headed over to para swimming for Olivia Chambers' first final, while Jill wandered around Paris Arena Sud and eventually watched TKFLASTANI Melissa Tapper play para table tennis and Alison Levine play boccia.

The sports on today's program are:

Boccia
Goalball
Para Archery
Para Badminton
Para Cycling Track
Para Swimming
Para Table Tennis
Para Taekwondo
Shooting Para Sport
Sitting Volleyball
Wheelchair Basketball
Wheelchair Rugby

Our researcher for the Paralympics is Elizabeth Emery.

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Paris 2024 Paralympics: Opening Ceremonies Aug 29, 2024

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The Paris 2024 Paralympics are officially open! We attended the Opening Ceremonies...and we have opinions on the show, which in a first-ever moment for the Paralympics, took the Opening Ceremonies out of the stadium and put it in the heart of the city (in a temporary stadium, but let's not get too in the weeds with that detail).

The ceremony covered a lot of ground over a long span of time, and the athletes marched down the Champs-Élysées into the stadium to great fanfare, which was a lot of fun to see. The torch arrived, had a long moment on stage, and then torchbearers got it to the Tuileries to turn on the hot air balloon that took back its rightful place in the Parisian night sky.

We each had a cultural adventure today--Jill saw part of the torch relay, while Alison went to Team USA's High Performance Center. We report back on those trips. Also, mixed zone tape with Marcel Hug and Matt Stutzman from Jill's trip to the Paralympic Village round out the episode.

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Paris 2024 Paralympics Day -1 Aug 27, 2024

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It's one day to go until the Paris 2024 Paralympics! We are back in Paris, which means we have more (mis)adventures to share with you. We're in a new hotel, we have a new Main Press Center, and we've been to some interesting events. Alison saw a sneak preview of the Opening Ceremonies and has a full report. Meanwhile, Jill checked off another Olympic swimming pool with a visit to the Georges Vallerey Piscine, swimming venue for the Paris 1924 Olympics.

What's a Games without anyone to cheer for? We have a whole roster of Team Keep the Flame Alive members (past guests of the show), who compete for TKFLASTAN (our own country). We'll tell you who's on the roster and what sport/event they're competing in. Want to listen to their episodes? Here's a list:

Alison Levine – Boccia

Calahan Young – Goalball

Matt Stutzman – Para Archery

Jaydin Blackwell, Noelle Malkamaki, Justin Phongsavanh and Daniel Romanchuk – Para Athletics

Samantha Bosco and Dennis Connor – Para Cycling

Liana Mutia – Para Judo

Bobby Body and Louise Sugden – Para Powerlifting

Olivia Chambers, McKenzie Coan, Jessica Long and Jamal Hill – Para Swimming

Ian Seidenfeld and Melissa Tapper – Para Table Tennis

Evan Medell – Para Taekwondo

Grace Norman – Para Triathlon

Marco de la Rosa and McKenna Geer – Shooting Para Sport

Kaleo Kanahele Maclay and Lora Webster – Sitting Volleyball

Brian Bell – Wheelchair Basketball

Ellen Geddes – Wheelchair Fencing

Chuck Aoki – Wheelchair Rugby

David Wagner – Wheelchair Tennis

Be sure to look out for them and cheer them on!

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Paralympian Daniel Romanchuk on Wheelchair Racing Aug 22, 2024

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We're just a few days away from the start of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympics, and we have one more member of Team TKFLASTAN to introduce to you! Daniel Romanchuk is a two-time Paralympic medalist in wheelchair racing, both on the track and on the road.

Racing since he was four years old, Daniel came onto the Paralympic stage at Rio 2016, where he competed in the Men's T54 class in the 100m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, and 5000m. At Tokyo 2020, he won the gold medal in the men's 400 meters T54 event and the bronze medal in the men's marathon T54 event, and placed 4th in the 5000m and 5th in the 1500m.

We spoke with Daniel before the Team USA Para Track and Field Trials about the technical aspects of wheelchair racing, as well as being part of Team Xfinity. He made Team USA for a third time, and at Paris he'll be competing in the 100m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 5k and marathon at the Paralympics.

We're excited to watch Daniel compete at Paris 2024 and hope you'll follow along with our daily podcasts!

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