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Elaquent - Parallel (EP), Seattle sports, and more
Interview Recorded: February 18

Guest: Elaquent (@Elaquent) – Born in Ottawa, Canada. Older brother, Es, put him onto Jay Dee & Pete Rock. Age 12, tried rapping. Got discouraged after Mom told him he had a “geek’s voice”. Hung up the mic for good. Accidentally stumbled upon beat-making exactly one year later… Ended up paying for books in college by flipping tracks to rappers and such. Started getting frustrated with buster ass rappers f#cking him over and the focus then moved to instrumentals for good. Things changed after he started dropping these mixtapes and opened for Talib Kweli.

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The Toronto Raptors represent!

Ross had FOUR incredible dunks:
1. Behind-the-back in mid-air
2. 360 off a bounce
3. 360 off backboard pass in Vince Carter jersey
4. Through the legs over ball boy

Final dunk highlight:

This celebration of the Games was held from 26 January to 5 February 1956. The city was originally slated to host the 1944 event but that was cancelled due to World War II. The Cortina Games were unique in that all of the venues except one were within walking distance of each other.

Thirty-two nations—the largest number of participating Winter Olympic countries to that point—competed in the four disciplines and twenty-four events. The Soviet Union made its Winter Olympics debut and won more medals than any nation. Austrian Toni Sailer became the first person to sweep all three alpine skiing events in a single Olympics. The figure skating competition was held outdoors for the last time at these Games. Logistically, the only problem encountered was a lack of snow at the alpine skiing events. To remedy this, the Italian army transported large amounts of snow to ensure the courses were adequately covered.

These are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1956 Winter Olympics:

1 — Soviet Union: 7 Gold, 3 Silver, 6 Bronze = 16 Total
2 — Austria: 4 Gold, 3 Silver, 4 Bronze = 11 Total
3 — Finland: 3 Gold, 3 Silver, 1 Bronze = 7 Total
4 — Switzerland: 3 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze = 6 Total
5 — Sweden: 2 Gold, 4 Silver, 4 Bronze = 10 Total
6 — United States: 2 Gold, 3 Silver, 2 Bronze = 7 Total
7 — Norway: 2 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze = 4 Total
8 — Italy: 1 Gold, 2 Silver, 0 Bronze = 3 Total
9 — Germany: 1 Gold, 0 Silver, 1 Bronze = 2 Total
10 — Canada: 0 Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze = 3 Total

The previous record was 9.85 held by Leroy Burrell of the United States.

Video Donovan Bailey 100m Run (9.84)

The Atlanta Flames were a professional ice hockey team based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA from 1972 to 1980. The team, a member of the National Hockey League (NHL), was relocated to Calgary, Alberta, Canada for the start of the 1980–81 NHL season and were renamed the Calgary Flames. The NHL returned to the city with the Atlanta Thrashers for 1999–2000 NHL season. The Thrashers left the city for Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 2011 to become the second incarnation of the Winnipeg Jets, making Atlanta the only NHL city in the modern era to lose 2 franchises.