Beijing 2022: Olympics - Day 10

It's Day 10 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, and TKFLASTAN has made the podium again! TKFLASTANI Erin Jackson competed in the Women's 500m long track speed skating event and won some hardware. What color is it, and (maybe more importantly) did she make Jill cry?

It's a winter wonderland at Beijing 2022, as all three competition sites got snow – which for some competitions, made for a very challenging day indeed. Did the mountain win again? Did the cold and the wind get to the competitors?

Today's sports schedule includes:

• Alpine Skiing – Men's Giant Slalom
• Biathlon – Men's and Women's Pursuit
• Bobsleigh – Women's Monobob
• Cross-Country Skiing – Men's 4x10K Relay
• Curling – Men's and Women's Round Robin
• Freestyle Skiing – Women's Aerials
• Ice Hockey – Men's Preliminaries
• Speed Skating – Men's Team Pursuit and Women's 500m
• Speed Skating – Short Track – Men's 500m, Women's 3000m Relay

At the end of the show, we feature tape from the mixed zone interviews with Erin Jackson's coach Ryan Shimbakuro and with Erin herself.

This show does cost money to produce, and while our listeners have been extremely generous in supporting us through the Kickstarter campaign that got us to Beijing and also through Patreon patronage, we're coming up on 2 ½ years until another Olympics, so to celebrate the Lunar New Year, we're asking for donations of at least $8 -- in China the number 8 is a lucky number symbolizing good fortune --  to help us get through to Paris 2024. Go to flamealivepod.com/support to donate.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit: https://wp.me/pbRtIx-1G6

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