Poolside in Rio: More from DBBC’s Patrick Kinas

As week one of the 2016 Summer Olympics draws to a close, DBBC’s Radio Announcer/Account Executive Patrick Kinas continues working hard in the radio booth, calling the swimming races for Westwood One. Kinas is kindly allowing us to share his pix and comments from social media on Capcom. See the slideshow below.

We’re sort of wishing Wool E. Bull were there to help Kinas celebrate the many U.S. swimming medals so far in the Rio games. Hey, NBC called up Saturday Night Live’s Leslie Jones, so anything is possible?

Men's 4x200 relay team — From DBBC’s Patrick Kinas: What else to do on a 35m bus ride back to BV1 than to post pics from an historic night at the pool and other adventures. Gold medal American 4×200 relay team with Conor Dwyer, Ryan Lochte, Townley Haas and the G.O.A.T. Michael Phelps.

Michael Phelps — From DBBC’s Patrick Kinas: Scoreboard view after Phelps claims his Olympic record 20th gold.

From DBBC’s Patrick Kinas: Katie Ledecky after taking down gold in a new distance, the 200 free.

Rio Olympics — From DBBC’s Patrick Kinas: Team USA gold medal women’s gymnastic team head coach Marta Karolyi and her staff. I was working at the next table and boom, here they come into the IBC commissary to do NBC tv hits with Bob Costas.

From DBBC’s Patrick Kinas: My broadcast partner Dara Torres doing her serious pre-broadcast prep.

From DBBC’s Patrick Kinas’ brother, Doug: While cruising out for lunch today, this shows up on the display of my XM dashboard… Siriusly ??? I pay $14.99 a month to listen to my brother… Btw… He is doing an incredible job of creating Olympic swimming final goosebumps… As the races and his calls are so exciting…

Patrick Kinas in Rio — From DBBC’s Patrick Kinas: Just in case you’re wondering what five months of prep boils down to before calling an Olympic final, here’s a sneak peek. This is a glimpse at the men’s 100m free final tonight with Nathan Adrian trying to become the first American since Johnny Weismuller to defend 100m Gold.

From DBBC’s Patrick Kinas: Just another incredible day in Rio. Day 5 of 8 in the pool complete: Now 8-time Olympic medalist Allison Schmitt, who won gold as the lead off leg of the 4×200 freestyle relay, anchored by Katie Ledecky. Allison also gave us the scoop in our one-on-one that this was her last Olympic race. She’s retiring.

From DBBC’s Patrick Kinas: Gold medalist isn’t the 100m freestyle Kyle Chalmers, who basically talked to everyone in the mixed zone after beating Nathan Adrian. I told him congratulations and the next thing you know, he’s hanging out with us for 5m, which is very rare. He was soaking in every minute.

Dara Torres, Hannah Storm & Patrick Kinas — From DBBC’s Patrick Kinas: Dara Torres and I with NBC sportscaster – and trailblazer in our industry – Hannah Storm. Hannah is the wife of Dan Hicks, who is the Olympic swimming PxP on NBC. Power broadcasting couple.

From DBBC’s Patrick Kinas: Spending the entire swim meet sitting next to major American sports journalist Alan Abrahamson, a fellow Northwestern Wildcat (note the toboggan). Today is our Northwestern day, so we’ll be wearing all things Northwestern for Day 6.

Hannah Storm & Patrick Kinas — From DBBC’s Patrick Kinas: One of my favorite pictures thus far. Getting reacquainted with Hannah Storm of NBC. She’s a total sweetheart, the wife of NBC’s Dan Hicks. She had a very tough day, for the second time in two years, had to break news on NBC that one of her dearest friends had died. ESPN’s John Saunders passed very unexpectedly on Wednesday. She had to summon the courage to announce the same news about Stuart Scott last year. The hugs last night were a little harder and longer.

WRAL-TV featured Kinas and his Olympic journey in a piece for the news on Thursday, August 12. Check out the story:

The swimming competitions continue through the end of this week. Listen for Kinas locally on 99.9 The Fan and follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PatrickKinas