So little happened before, around, and during Rio 2016 that it was barely worth talking about. Don’t believe us? Just listen to this 2-hour episode in which Les Filles find absolutely nothing noteworthy to discuss. Well, maybe some people did well in gymnastics and others swam really, really fast, but it’s not like there were green pools, doping scandals, and a government in turmoil.
We would like to have a header image for this episode, but the IOC and/or NBC would sue us. Instead, imagine in this space some number of geometric shapes in some variety of colour.
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First thing first, the Mongolian coaches stripping happened literally as we wrapped up recording. It was a strange yet fitting cap to what was a somewhat strange and unsettling Olympic games.
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