Hip hop meets the Olympic stage today, as breaking gets underway, and B-girl Talash from the Refugee Team makes a big splash in the opening battle with a field of play protest. Our TKFLASTANI Sunny pulls a tough draw in the round robin competition. Jill's there to see how she does. Plus, Alison nerves get tested by "Moulin Rouge" during the Rhythmic Gymnastics competition, and she wonders why ball and ribbon were paired for the team competition.

Sports on today's program:

• Artistic Swimming
• Athletics
• Basketball
• Beach Volleyball
• Boxing
• Breaking
• Canoe Sprint
• Diving
• Football
• Golf
• Handball
• Hockey
• Marathon Swimming
• Modern Pentathlon
• Rhythmic Gymnastics
• Sport Climbing
• Swimming
• Table Tennis
• Taekwondo
• Track Cycling
• Volleyball
• Water Polo
• Weightlifting
• Wrestling

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Our researcher for the Olympics is Annalee Deabel.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit http://flamealivepod.com.

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

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