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We are now joined by Gary Zenkel, Molly Solomon
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and Rob Hyland key contributors in this large plan,
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we talked about with all the hours that we'll have,
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and all the many networks.
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So we'll get into those details here in a little bit.
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But Gary let's just start as...
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Was mentioned a moment ago by Pete,
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we have a lot of our teammates already
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on the ground in Tokyo,
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you have done maybe 500 different plans before the pandemic,
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During the pandemic.
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Now after, so here we are a month out, just operationally,
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where are we in terms of the planning,
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and the execution of that plan,
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and how ready are the folks over there in Tokyo
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to get this thing on the road?
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Thanks Mike and it's great to be here,
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and liked Jeff I've watched these videos a thousand times,
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and it's firing me up.
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(laughing)
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What is really firing me up though is talking to,
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and working with the team that's on the ground in Tokyo,
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and we are about 150 to 200 strong there today.
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We move people in in late March,
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and have gradually ramped up,
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and that obviously will continue to about
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a 1600 person team.
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Everything is going incredibly well smoothly.
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The adrenaline that we all have experienced at Olympics
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is starting to come through the team's calls
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that we're having daily with these folks.
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Their report is they probably have never been
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a smoother build out.
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The Japanese have done an amazing job.
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The government in Tokyo responding to
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obviously the disappointment of the postponement,
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figuring out over the course of these last 14 months,
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how are they are going to operate in Olympics safely
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in that environment,
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and what they had the true benefit of,
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is unlike some of their predecessors.
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The games were ready to be staged March of 2020.
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So their focus has been on health and safety.
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The protocols that we have been subject to and will continue
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to be are quite strict, but we're working within them,
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and we're quite confident given them,
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and given the protocols that we have applied to ourselves
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through 14 months of operating remotely,
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and operating in buildings like this,
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that it's going to be a very safe and very successful games.
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So that's a little bit of the structure here,
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we also have so many folks
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that are gonna be stateside as well for this experience.
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We do, we do,
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and actually when the postponement occurred,
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and it was clear to us that operating in Tokyo
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with a team of 2000 plus people was gonna be challenging.
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Given what we were learning
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about operating a COVID environment,
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we through a deep planning exercise moved 350 people home.
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Of course we already had 1500
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or so that were gonna operate from home.
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So that team swelled a bit,
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and so we then spaced out from Stanford into 30 Rock,
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and CNBC, and Telemundo and other parts of the
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NBCU infrastructure.
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Now set up again with a lot of learnings to operate
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in both places that's really effectively.
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So it will be a global games,
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not just in participation but also in covering?
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Absolutely.
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The games as well from our perspective,
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Molly Solomon has been a part of the
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NBC Olympic family since 1992.
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So this is something you are so close to passionate about.
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It's near and dear to your heart,
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but you will now step into the role here of
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Executive Producer of the games.
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So given your experience and all the games you've seen,
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and what we've talked about a lot of those experiences,
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how do you step back Molly
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and frame what Tokyo will be all about
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from your perspective.
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To me, I really believe that this is going to be the most
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meaningful Olympics of our lifetime.
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I mean, after everything the world's gone through,
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and as we begin to emerge from this pandemic,
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the world coming together
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is an incredibly impactful experience.
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And I do think that people are craving the shared experience
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and what better way to come together
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than through the stories of these athletes.
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'Cause I really think they show us what's best about us,
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and what's possible.
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What's better to unite this country,
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and what really can war than the athletes of team USA,
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and all the athletes of the international community
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because like to me they really embody persistence,
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resilience, grit.
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Imagine that you had your dream deferred for another year,
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but now we're finally in the countdown to that.
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And we've got a number of compelling storylines once in a
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generation athletes that you and I saw last week,
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and we'll talk about today.
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And in order to follow these stories,
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we really have put together the most ambitious
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coverage plan ever.
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And we've also adapted Mike to
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the changing consumption habits,
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and so our goal was to be everything for everyone.
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And let me take you through,
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we've got some slides to tell you
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how you're gonna watch the games from Tokyo.
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And it all begins with NBC.
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We talked about we'll kick off on July 23rd
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with a live opening ceremony.
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Primetime will be live across in Primetime and Prime Plus
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in all time zones,
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we're going to have eight total networks,
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USA and NBCSN will be dedicated to 24/7 coverage,
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long event form coverage.
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Peacock with some really unique viewing options.
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So we're going to talk about that a little later,
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and everything is always streaming on NBC olympics.com
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and the NBC Sports app.
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So this really is everything for everyone,
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and it's our most coverage we've ever had.
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So, you know, we're going to be using the metric
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that we pioneered in Rio,
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total audience delivery,
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'cause you can see from all of these networks,
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the cumulation of that is really the true measure
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about how the American public is consuming our media.
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So, it's a lot and we're really, really excited about it.
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there'll be things going on in different networks
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at the same time,
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and we'll be sharing that information with the audience
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and we'll be giving them a little bit of direction on that.
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There's another part of this guide, Molly.
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Yeah, I was gonna say Gary,
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we're not just limited to NBC universal platforms either.
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No, so clearly Mark mentioned this is well to
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reach the entire U.S. population.
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We know that media is consumed across many platforms,
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and Johnny if you could put up the slide just to
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illustrate that for you,
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we have been working with these groups with one addition
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that I'll talk about in a second...
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It looks like my kid's phone.
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And that's where we know your kids, and ours,
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mine and others spend a lot of their media consumption time.
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This is not, you know, typical posting.
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this is either in-house or working with partners
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or working directly with the platforms to
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develop content and coverage
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that is designed for the sensibility of these audiences.
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Every one of these with the exception of Twitch,
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which is the purple one to those you don't know,
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we have been working with for multiple games.
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Twitch is new to us and we're excited about it.
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They are extremely excited about the opportunity
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to present the Olympics on the NBC Olympics
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and sports handle on Twitch.
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And this is gonna be a day of programming on Twitch,
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and it's gonna be clip shows,
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and it's gonna be Twitch streamers,
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and gamers that are doing their thing,
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and talking about the games.
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which will happen side by side with the NBC Primetime show
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where they're talking about what's going on,
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what's coming up and energizing that audience.
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we're going to be there.
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they're going to move over to NBC which of course,
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we'll talk a lot about.
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I think one other point I wanna make,
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and John if you can change the slide,
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is that with 7,000 hours,
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and all of these platforms, including peacock,
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which I know Matt Strauss,
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will talk about back in a second.
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One thing that we have learned that is critical.
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If we want to truly reach the potential of people's
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appetites for Olympic content,
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is to make sure that they can find the content
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that they truly wanna watch.
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The inspiration, and really the path to succeeding at this
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came from Comcast.
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when Rick Cordella who's on the Peacock team
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also runs Olympic digital.
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who you're gonna hear from the second who leads Peacock.
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which was a cable operator.
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When somebody sits down to watch the Olympics is actually
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letting them know that the Olympics are on six channels.
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They're on CNBC, not intuitive.
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which was launched in 2016 and has obviously been enhanced
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and improved since we've seen 25% more viewing
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in a Comcast X one home for the last two Olympics
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than in non-con cast homes.
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Inspired by that, John if you switch the slide,
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we then went to the industry with that inspiration,
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with those numbers and said,
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"You can add more Olympic viewing
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if you create some form of Olympic navigation,
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an opportunity to search and discover."
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and this is probably a silver lining of a postponement
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none of us wanted,
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but it gave us more time to work with these distributors,
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and for them to develop various forms,
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you won't see X one type depth here,
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though you will on some Cox homes cause they use X one,
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but you will see some form of Olympic navigation.
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not on this list,
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'cause we're still working there
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that we'll have Olympic dashboard.
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So for those that are going in through
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the IP streaming platforms,
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they will find their way to all of the content
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that's available on NBC's digital platforms.
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and the Google OneBox,
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knowing that many people are going to figure out what to
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watch by going to Google.
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We are prominent in the Google OneBox with viewing
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information, with highlights.
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And so we are really excited that the net
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we have cast for these games to the American population to
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capture them when they are deciding what to watch is wide
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and deep, and really intuitive, and it's gonna help.
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That's pretty cool.
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That's a lot you can't avoid us.
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(audience laughing)
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is what we're saying pretty much, right?
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And my only question for Molly and Rob,
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we're gonna be responsible for my role in Tokyo,
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do I have to dance on TikToK?
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(Molly chuckles)
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will you get me to be ...
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I've seen your dance moves?
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We're gonna have to avoid them.
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You might drive us to 2 million subscribers.
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(Mike chuckles)
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On TikTok?
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Doubtful.
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let's talk about the way the games play out
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'cause as we've mentioned, it's two and a half weeks.
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There's so much competition going on there.
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There's so many different stories.
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Anytime you turn around you bump into one of the neatest
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things you've ever heard.
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But how do we lay it out, Molly,
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in terms of big picture thinking to take viewers
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from that opening ceremony with Savannah on that Friday,
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live on the really a today show window in the morning,
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and then curated again in Primetime,
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all the way through the very end.
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How do we lay that out as a roadmap almost
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for viewers to follow along?
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and I thought I'd just let you guys
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kind of pull back the curtain,
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how internally we view the Olympics,
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and how we balance all the storyline,
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and actually how it makes its way into our thinking
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for Primetime so John if you wanna go to the slide,
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we really attack the Olympics and look at it as three
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distinct chapters.
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it very much is about fast starts and big stars
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because the success in the pool
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where there's so many stars,
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and Mike and I experienced that last week in Omaha,
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you have legendary athletes like Katie Ledecky,
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but you also have a rising multi event superstar
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in Caeleb Dressel who we really saw emerge,
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and the throne in men's swimming had been abdicated
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and Caeleb jumped in there last week.
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who knows what she's gonna do.
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So that's going to be a huge part of week one,
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but I want you to look at the lower left corner
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because skateboarding is one of four really intriguing
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new sports that we're excited.
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the very first night.
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when it was introduced in 1998.
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I think there's some real potential there,
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and some really compelling stories.
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Alex and Alix were with the time zone.
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We're gonna be able to show a lot of live competition,
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not only swimming, but also beach volleyball,
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indoor volleyball, some track and field.
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John, you can go ahead on the slide.
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We like to say if week one is chapter one,
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then chapter two is the middle weekend.
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because here's where all the stars align.
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You've got the biggest stars in the Olympic core sports
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track and field begins.
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Swimming ends in event finals in gymnastics continue.
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She is really one of these emerging stars that we've seen
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come up through the Olympic trials.
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you see some of the best pro sport athletes
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in their respective sports come to Tokyo.
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that all of these other athletes are going for Olympic gold.
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So we've got men's golf, women's tennis,
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and we have Djokovic there,
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but gosh, I would like like Savannah,
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I hope that Roger Federer can show up.
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So really this could be the greatest weekend in sports.
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So we want you to sit on your couch,
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and we're hoping for rain all over the country that weekend.
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and this is really...
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We hope the storyline momentum continues,
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and we really have high hopes.
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"Bring it home," we say because the U.S. teams
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are so very strong,
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and these metals are all decided the second week,
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but I want you to see a lot of track and field there
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because this really is the strongest U.S. track team
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in a generation.
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So, we're looking forward to that.
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And then there's this empowering uplifting message
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of the U.S. women's teams who have been dominating
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the U.S. women's basketball team will go for it's
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seven straight Olympic gold medal in Primetime.
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And of course there's rowing
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and water polo is equally trying to cement their dynasty.
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back up that world cup win with an Olympic gold medal.
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So it really lays out to be something really,
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really fantastic but that it's overwhelming, right?
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There's 35 sports but this is how kind of,
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we start to think about it and sprinkling,
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and plan our shows around it.
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And a lot of these three chapters
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will be the spine through our Primetime broadcast
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every night and then Prime Plus,
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right after that, as Molly said,
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the West Coast in their Primetime from eight o'clock
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Pacific on they're getting live sports as well.
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So it's just an exciting part of what we did in Pyeongchang.
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And we'll continue to do here in Tokyo.
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And Rob Hyland is going to be responsible for a lot of that.
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It's a familiar face for us at NBC in a new role.
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my face is very familiar because we've worked together all
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year on the Triple Crown races, Football Night in America,
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Notre Dame football,
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and Rob's no stranger to the Olympics experience.
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He's been at two of our big venues in the
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winter figure skating and track and field during the summer.
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But now he's gonna be working on the opening ceremony
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in the Primetime show.
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So we've had a lot of conversations you can share with
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everyone what you think and how we're gonna lay this out
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and how we're gonna go about these 17 nights in Primetime,
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and Prime Plus as well.
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Sure thanks Mike.
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First off I'm so excited to be part of the Primetime team.
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This is my 10th Olympic games, as Mike said,
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I've been on the venue side.
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This is my first Olympic experience
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in the international broadcast center.
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So really excited to be a part of this tradition of
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best-in-class storytelling and excited to get going.
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So to begin, I'll highlight a few things
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that'll be new for this Olympics.
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Number one, your home,
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where you're gonna be hosting Primetime
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will be the first ever outdoor set.
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We really wanted to capture Tokyo live each morning,
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and have the bay behind you and the rainbow bridge,
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and showcase the environment that is Tokyo around you,
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and really cool set designs that Mike Sheehan,
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our Coordinating Director has come up with.
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And in fact for the first time ever,
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we're gonna have virtual reality graphics
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in primetime as part of our presentation to really bring
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some of the stories, and characters to life in a new way.
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And you're gonna be sharing this set
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with Savannah and company.
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You'll be there in the morning
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and in the evenings in Tokyo,
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the Today Show will take over.
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So really excited about the environment
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that you'll be in, in Tokyo.
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But this is just one of seven set locations
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we can put you anywhere throughout Tokyo,
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but we're really excited about this.
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It is 90 degrees over there and very humid, Right?
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We have an indoor outdoor area as well.
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Will we have a towel person
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just to wipe you down every second?
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It's gonna be fun.
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Maybe looking forward to being outside for sure
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There are other pieces to this as well.
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That's the location, but what we're gonna be doing
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'cause Molly just showed you all of the
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major storylines in each day,
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that's not all that's going on in the game.
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So how are we giving people a feel
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for what's going on as well?
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You've, you've heard the 7,000 hours mentioned
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and all of the content going on each morning in Tokyo.
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Well, we really want to bring the best of the games
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each morning in Tokyo, each night here in the states,
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to the viewers at home at Prime.
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So how are we going to do that?
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Well, Molly and I have actually rejiggered formats,
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and it included a new phrase called a short burst of energy.
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What can that be?
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That could be an athlete arriving to a venue.
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It could be a warmup shot.
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It could be a goal just scored in a soccer game.
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We really want to try to break up block programming
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if we're live with swimming,
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and get the viewer to that moment as quickly as possible to
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give them the tapestry that is the Olympics,
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and all the venues as Molly described 35 sports,
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we wanna make sure we're showing the best of that each
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morning in Tokyo, and for example,
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we have a new element called Tokyo NOW,
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where as Gary mentioned,
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we really want to showcase in Prime where the viewers
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can get what they're looking for.
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So here's an example of a morning where we started on soccer
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and USA, and on all of the platforms,
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you can get what you're looking for from hoops to swimming,
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to golf and tennis.
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There's one example where we have six boxes.
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Here's one with just four boxes,
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but we're really gonna integrate these into every morning
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of our primetime coverage to give the viewers the
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best seat in the house,
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or at least navigate for them where they should go.
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If this is not what they want,
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we have something for everyone as Molly said.
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That would be great.
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That'll be a lot of fun
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because there's so many different networks,
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and the ability to tell people what's on.
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Gives them the reminder that it's not just here.
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You can park on the...
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Please come back home to us on the Primetime show,
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but we're happy to share the wealth,
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and let you visit the rest of the family along the way
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as we're doing that.
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And one of the things we've talked about are the
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U.S. families, no international travelers to Tokyo,
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I know Molly, we were speaking with some families at the
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swim trials and they were so happy to see their kids,
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that's who they are,
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their kids performing in person.
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'Cause they're not gonna be able to be there
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in Tokyo to do it.
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But we are going to try to find the best way possible to
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connect the U.S. and Tokyo even if people from the
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U.S. can't in Tokyo.
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And Mike we've been working on this for months,
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even before the news was announced that international fans
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would not be allowed to travel to Tokyo.
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that we're calling friends and family.
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It has its own production wing,
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and the umbrella continues to get bigger and bigger.
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we really wanna bring those moments between families,
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and the Olympians together.
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One of which is a typical example.
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and sister Gracie from a couple of years ago
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at the World Championships reacting,
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we'll have cameras like this available throughout the games.
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shown in every platform.
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We had to film this,
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they couldn't believe either.
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So again, an example of a great raw moment
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between a family member,
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and their connection thousands of miles away
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but what I'm most excited about,
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and I think what we're all most excited about is connecting.
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That was a reaction.
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We think we're going to have interactions
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between family members and the athletes in Tokyo,
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perhaps in the mix zone after a competition is complete
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with mom and dad talking to their loved one
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and really excited about that.
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Yeah, something that there'll be missing out on
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'cause they can't be there,
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and they'll have to wait days until they get to see them.
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So there's all of that plus,
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as we've talked about Rob and I get to partner together,
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on Football Night in America and the Triple Crown as well,
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we've had a friend who's joined us along the way.
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And he said, "Such a good stay."
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Where he's coming to Tokyo with us as well.
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Right, so Football Night in America was a great success.
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And we actually brought him along to the
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Triple Crown this year.
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And Steve Kornacki our National news Correspondent
529
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actually hit the winner in the Derby.
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At least for now you did collect the check, correct?
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So Steve's gonna be with us in Tokyo
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explaining the makeup of team USA,
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highlighting some of the athletes and explaining trends,
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and Steve's gonna take it away for a little bit of a look
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back at Rio and to look forward at next month's Olympics.
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Thanks Rob, thanks Mike, thanks everybody.
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Yes, I did pick Medina spirit.
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It was a cash transactions.
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Nobody's getting any money back from me,
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(Mike chuckles)
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I don't think you can brag about that one for much longer.
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So anyway, look Olympic trials obviously still going on,
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team USA, still taking shape,
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but I thought we'd take a look here.
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Some of the building blocks that are in place,
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and in what is starting to come into focus
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when it comes to team USA, and the Tokyo games.
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let's start with where things landed in 2016 in Rio,
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558 members of team USA at the summer games in 2016.
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How about this though?
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We've been hearing a little bit about it today.
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A majority of the athletes, 53% in 2016 were women.
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This was the most women ever to compete for one country
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at any Olympic games, It was 53% in 2016.
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There's also an amazing stat there, I'm going to tease this,
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I'll get to it in a second.
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There's an amazing stat there
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I wanna share with you as well.
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You see some of the most popular sports for us athletes.
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How about this one?
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This was a great one, the age range.
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Now, again, this is 2016 from oldest to youngest
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on the U S teams.
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Excuse me there, from oldest to youngest on the USA team.
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There was a 36 year gap here.
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This one makes me feel really good as I start to
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age a little bit, but Philip Dutton,
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52 years old, you see him holding up his bronze medal.
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He won that thing from a venting.
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They call that the ultimate test of horsemanship.
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Well guess what?
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That was five years ago.
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He's back,
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(laughing)
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he's now...
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He's not 52, he's 57.
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He is oldest us athlete in any Olympics since 2008,
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the second oldest since 1952.
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And he's gonna go for the gold and eventing, by the way,
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Kanak Jha, table tennis phenom.
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He was the youngest in 2016.
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He's back in 2021 will not be the youngest anymore.
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One of the new skateboarders Brighton Zeuner is her name.
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She'll be the youngest,
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she's due to turn 17 in the next month.
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So a 40 year gap there, oldest to youngest this time around.
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This, here we go,
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every state you see colored in here is a state
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that was represented on the 2016 U.S. team,
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almost all 50, 46 of the 50 made way onto team USA.
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The most popular winner, California,
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no surprise the mother-load.
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But this is interesting,
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California 22% of all athletes on the team.
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It's a big state obviously it's only 12% of
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the U.S. population.
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So the golden state punching above its weight in 2016,
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when it comes to representation on the USA team.
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No surprise, Texas Florida also produced a lot of athletes.
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Good news for anybody from Montana,
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zero athletes on the 2016 team,
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already multiple athletes on the 2021 team.
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So there'll be represented Wyoming,
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North Dakota, West Virginia.
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You got a few more weeks if you can do it this time around,
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(mike chuckles)
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I take a look here almost 80% of the athletes in 2016
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were college athletes.
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What college produced the most athletes
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on the 2016 us Olympic team?
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Stanford.
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Stanford is the correct guess.
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The Cardinal with 29, those California schools always
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well-represented.
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What I always look for though is,
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how about the small school,
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that gets that one moment of glory in a sport.
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This year here's one to keep an eye on Georgia, Atlanta,
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Emory university, Home of the Eagles.
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Andrew Wilson is the name of the first ever division
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three athlete who will be participating in swimming
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at the Olympics.
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So there's a first for Emery.
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Of course it's all about the metals 2016.
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This is where things landed in Rio,
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121 total metals for the U.S. team.
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That was the most ever for United States team
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at any Olympics that weren't held in the United States,
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you know, LA '84, St. Louis 1904.
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Those were huge years outside of those years though,
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121 in 2016 was the most,
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the 46 gold medals that tied the
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record the U.S. set in 2012,
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most golds at a game not on U.S. soil.
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And then here, I teed it up a minute ago,
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that kind of wild stat I wanted to share.
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How about this?
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Let's zoom in on the gold medals, U.S. 46, Britain,
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China kind of left in the dust there.
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What if we took those U.S. female athletes and we said,
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you're your own country, U.S. women are your own country,
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You're competing against the world.
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How would they have done in 2016?
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Number one,
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they would have tied with Britain for the most gold medals,
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the U.S. women 27, everybody from great Britain in 27,
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China behind at 26.
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Yeah, Katie Ledecky coming back,
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You got to Simone Biles coming back.
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So keep an eye on that one.
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As those numbers come in this time,
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but the men were no slouch.
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They'd be number five in the world,
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but the women would be there tied for number one
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with Great Britain.
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So again, a lot of building blocks there from 16 for 21.
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Is this just a preview.
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(audience laughing)