Keep the Flame Alive

In part 2 of our interview with visually impaired Paralympian Ness Murby, Ness talks with us all about how the sport of para discus works and whether his guide dog Lexington is good at fetching the discus after throws.

Ness and his assistant (and wife) Eva have qualified for Tokyo via the World Champs, but they have to get through team selection and hopefully automatic selection at the Canadian nationals this summer. Follow their journey at TougherThan.com and on Twitter and Insta.

Our visit to TKFLASTAN to see what our team is up to includes updates from:

• Ness Murby
• Nate Bartholomay
• Mallory Comerford
• Clare Egan
• Erin Jackson
• Chloe Kim

Throughout 2021 we're revisiting great stories from Atlanta 1996! For our Atlanta 1996 moment this week we have a story about cauldron lighter Muhammad Ali.

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

This week visually impaired Paralympian Ness Murby is back to talk about how visual impairments work in his para athletics event, the discus. Ness told about the classification process, the importance of having a sports assistant, and who was more popular at the Rio 2016 Paralympics, him or his service dog Lexington.

Ness and his assistant (and wife) Eva have qualified for Tokyo via the World Champs, but they have to get through team selection and hopefully automatic selection at the Canadian nationals this summer. Follow their journey at TougherThan.com and on Twitter and Insta.

Our TKFLASTAN Update includes news from: (don't forget links)

• Marnie McBean
• Nate Bartholomay
• Andrew Maraniss
• Nick Cunningham
• Lauren Gibbs
• Clare Egan (check out Clare in Down East magazine!)
• Shiva Keshavan

Throughout 2021 we're revisiting great stories from Atlanta 1996! For our Atlanta 1996 moment this week, we talked about the amazing story of Indian tennis player Leander Paes. When you're done listening to our show, go listen to The Tennis Podcast's revisit of Atlanta 1996 and their interview with him and other medalists.

We also have Games Updates from Tokyo 2020, Beijing 2022 and Paris 2024.

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This week we're kicking off our year of looking back at Atlanta 1996. Sarah Dylla is an Exhibition Curator at the Atlanta History Center, and she's curated the museum's new exhibit on the Atlanta Games called Atlanta '96: Shaping an Olympic and Paralympic City. We talked with Sarah about the exhibit, how the Games got to Atlanta and how they affected the city….and yes, we've got Izzy talk too.

Follow Sarah on Twitter and the Atlanta History Center on Twitter, Insta and Facebook!

We also take a visit to TKFLASTAN to check in with some Team Keep the Flame Alive members:

• Clare Egan
• AJ Edelman
• Erin Jackson

We also have Games Updates from Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022. Plus, doping news. Because......yeah.

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

2020's been a doozy for the Olympic and Paralympic world, so we put together a contributor roundtable with Book Club Claire and Superfan Sarah to talk about the biggest stories from this non-Olympic year.

Read Claire's blog and follow her on Twitter.

Follow Sarah on Insta and Twitter.

That wraps it up for this year -- here's to hoping for a great Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Thanks so much for listening this year - we really appreciate you keeping our flame alive!

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

We're on a boat! The last Lightning Round episode of the year features paddlers we've interviewed in 2020. First up is Andras Törő, 4x Olympian in sprint canoe. He's followed by kayaker Leslie Klein, who was chosen for the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team and competed at the 1984 Olympics. Finally we have 3x Olympian and canoe slalom competitor Luuka Jones, who's earned the fern to compete for New Zealand in her fourth Olympics at Tokyo 2020.

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

Every year we like to sprinkle in a few episodes about the history of the Olympics, and next year we're going to focus those episodes on just one Games. We asked you on social media which Games we should cover, and to announce the winner and talk about these Games are Ruth Fitzpatrick and Chris O'Reilly from the brilliant podcast Olympipod.

Find Olympipod on Insta and Twitter -- and be sure to listen to their LA 1932 Olympipod, featuring us!

Another big announcement: We're going to be removing our PyeongChang daily wrap-ups and bonus episodes from our feeds and putting them on our Patreon site, where they'll be available to our Bronze level patrons and above -- become a patron today to maintain your access!

Our TKFLASTAN Update includes news from:

• Slider AJ Edelman
• Biathlete Clare Egan
• USA Weightlifting's Phil Andrews
• Josh Williamson
• Brad Wilson
• Tony Azevedo
• Andrew Maraniss
• Jacqueline Simoneau

We also have Games Updates from:

• Tokyo 2020
• Milan-Cortina 2026

And there's a Rule 50 update, thanks to Team USA's recommendations on protests. International Olympic Committee's Athletes Commission Chair Kirsty Coventry has something to say about them too.

We have a new way to support us! Keep independent bookstores alive, and support the show financially by shopping through our affiliate link at Bookshop.org. Proceeds we earn go toward making the show a better experience for you!

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

This week we've got two conversations covering different elements of gender and sport. First up is Jackie Silva, 3x Olympian and gold medalist in beach volleyball, who is a driving force behind the #LetHerRun movement. This movement supports those women, including Caster Semenya and Dutee Chand, who've had their athletic careers cut short because they were deemed "not woman enough." Jackie talks with us about the irony of what these athletes would have to do in order to be allowed to compete again, and her own experiences with gender testing at the Olympics.

Next we talk with Paralympian Ness Murby, a para discus thrower, who recently came out as trans-masculine. During our conversation about the gender spectrum and athletes who are in various places on it, Ness talks about their own journey and why the sporting community should start discussing the gender spectrum. They also break Jill's brain in the process.

Plus, the International Olympic Committee's Executive Board has finalized and approved the event program for Paris 2024! What sports and events are in, and what's out? We've got the details (spoiler alert: it involves breakdancing)!

And, always the question with an IOC press conference: Did TBach wave good-bye? Listen to find out!

Follow Jackie on Insta and the #LetHerRun movement on Twitter.

Follow Ness on Insta and Twitter and check out their website TougherThan.com.

Our TKFLASTAN Update includes news from:

• Speedskater Erin Jackson
• Snowboarder Chloe Kim
• The dulcet tones of Jason Bryant
• Sports historian Dr. Victoria Jackson
• Biathlete Clare Egan
• Olympic travel expert Ken Hanscom

We also have Games Updates from Tokyo 2020, Beijing 2022, and Paris 2024.

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

The Velvet Voice of John Register returns, and this time we're talking about his Paralympic experiences. John tells us how he was on track to make the Olympic team until a horrific accident closed that door and opened a window into the world of the Paralympics.

John talks about learning how the other half lives when experiencing the Atlanta 1996 Games, and how good hosts can create an exceptional Games, like Sydney did in 2000. Plus, an Aretha Franklin encounter!

Check out John's website for more info and follow him on Insta, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

If you didn't hear the first part of John's interview, it's episode 157.

Our TKFLASTAN Update includes news from:

• John Register
• Clare Egan
• John Naber
• Roy Tomizawa
• John MacLeod
• Marnie McBean
• Meagan Duhamel
• Jake Dalton

We also have Games Updates from: Tokyo 2020, Beijing 2022, Paris 2024, Milan-Cortina 2026 and LA 2028.

And we've got an update on the International Olympic Committee's presidential election. Plus, an update on the Belarus situation.

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

We're celebrating U.S. Thanksgiving with an all-author edition of our Lightning Round series. Enjoy some hot takes from Stephen Wenn and Robert Barney, David Davis and Andrew Maraniss.

Stephen and Robert's book The Gold in the Rings: The People and Events that Transformed the Olympic Games is published by University of Illinois Press.

Learn more about David Davis' books, including his latest: Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from WWII Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation, at his website. You can also follow him on Twitter.

Andrew Maraniss wrote one of our Book Club books this year: Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany. Learn more about Andrew at his website, and follow him on Twitter.

You can find these authors' books and more at our new Bookshop.org store! Keep independent bookstores alive, and support the show financially by shopping through our affiliate link. Proceeds we earn go toward making the show better for you!

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

Film Buff Fran is back for the first non-English-language movie we're featuring in Movie Club: "Gold: The Dream that United Our Nation," on the 1948 Indian field hockey team that competed as an independent nation for the first time at the London 1948 Olympics. Will it move us? Will we break out into a Bollywood song and dance number? Will Alison show us her abs? You'll have to listen to find out!

Our next movie will be "The Other Side of the Mountain," about skier Jill Kinmont who learns how to live after a devastating skiing accident.

Our TKFLASTAN Update includes news from:

• John Register
• Erin Jackson
• Clare Egan
• Alex Diebold
• Chloe Kim
• Lauren Gibbs
• Josh Williamson
• Leah Fair
• The dulcet tones of Jason Bryant

TBach and Coatesy have also hit the road and made a visit to Tokyo. We have the latest updates from their meetings with the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Organizing Committee, Japan's prime minister and Tokyo's mayor.

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