24 min

Olympians On Hold Telescope

    • News

Olympic fencers Ysaora Thibus and Race Imboden were set to compete in the most important matches of their careers at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. But when the coronavirus postponed the Games until July 2021, the couple had to scrap their plans and make new ones. Now they have to figure out how to train while sheltering in place in Los Angeles, thousands of miles away from their training facility in Italy.

Host & Executive Producer: Jonathan Hirsch
Managing Producer: John Asante
Reporter & Producer: John Asante
Editors: Catherine Saint Louis, Vikram Patel
Engineer: Scott Somerville
Music by Matt McGinley & Blue Dot Sessions

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @neonhummedia. We want to stay connected with you during this unprecedented time in our history, so please don’t be shy. Share your stories with us. Our DMs are open. Email us your story. We’re also interested in hearing what life in isolation sounds like to you. We welcome your voice memo recordings. You can email them to pitches@neonhum.com. Also, you can join our Facebook group by searching for Telescope.
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Olympic fencers Ysaora Thibus and Race Imboden were set to compete in the most important matches of their careers at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. But when the coronavirus postponed the Games until July 2021, the couple had to scrap their plans and make new ones. Now they have to figure out how to train while sheltering in place in Los Angeles, thousands of miles away from their training facility in Italy.

Host & Executive Producer: Jonathan Hirsch
Managing Producer: John Asante
Reporter & Producer: John Asante
Editors: Catherine Saint Louis, Vikram Patel
Engineer: Scott Somerville
Music by Matt McGinley & Blue Dot Sessions

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @neonhummedia. We want to stay connected with you during this unprecedented time in our history, so please don’t be shy. Share your stories with us. Our DMs are open. Email us your story. We’re also interested in hearing what life in isolation sounds like to you. We welcome your voice memo recordings. You can email them to pitches@neonhum.com. Also, you can join our Facebook group by searching for Telescope.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

24 min

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