Beijing 2022 Day 2 Review
A history making day in Beijing is behind us as we come to you to celebrate medals, sport and everything else in between as we discuss everything that happened on day 2 of the 2022 Winter Olympics and more! We celebrate a southern hemisphere bonanza of medals as New Zealand win their first ever Winter Olympic Gold and Australia win their first TWO medals of the Olympics. We also find out how Canada is coping after their GOAT failed to win another gold yesterday, and also try and work out what the hell happened with the curling today. Added to this we bring you more epic moguls commentary, bring you another special guest, plenty of BREAKING NEWS and make as many sounds and noises as we can to really try and make us cool like Tess Coady. It's one episode that will make you yeeeewwwwwwwwwwww and feel trippy, stoked and sick all at once! SAVAGE!!!!
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
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BEN WATERWORTH: It is Off The Podium, An Olympics Podcast coming to you for Day 2 of Beijing 2022, a historical day. Happy Waitangi Day to all our New Zealand listeners, and happy we've won an Olympic gold medal in the Winter Olympics, bro!
JARROD LOOBEEK: Cheers, cheers, bro!
BEN WATERWORTH: The hero of a nation, Zoe Sadowski-Sinott, is officially an Olympic gold medallist after 70 years. New Zealand know what gold feels like in the cold. How old is she? I know she does so well.
COLIN HILDING: 70 years to win this.
BEN WATERWORTH: Her name was Zoe, but it turns into Zoe every single time she goes there. But outside of that, Australia is celebrating at the time of recording this. We've got a bronze! We've got a bronze! Tess Coady, she's got a bronze. It's fully stoked. We're trippy. It's savage. It's sick. She missed out on the choc medal. All right, we've covered that. Just a good day for the Southern Hemisphere. Good day for Oceania. Gold and a bronze. And obviously, if you're listening to this, then we've finished this episode, so you would be aware whether or not we've created more history and added more medals. We've never won two medals in a day before, but at the time of recording this, we are literally watching the first final of the mobile. Just like last night, we'll be calling through that. But a big, big day in Beijing. My name is Ben, of course, and joining us, let's go to the COVID capital of the Podium. I was about to say the Oz network. That's a great show. You should download that as well. It is Colin Hilding in Winnipeg. Colin, I mean, sucks to be Canadian today. You could have nothing so far, so I don't know what to tell you.
COLIN HILDING: I mean, we could still claim success because following the example I set on Off The Podium, a COVID positive Australian athlete decided it's okay to compete still. So I'm glad that I could be an inspiration to Tina Talley.
BEN WATERWORTH: And we're about half an hour away from seeing if she gives John Morris and Rachel Holman COVID as well. So we'll see how that goes. And joining us is a man who is so you and sick and stoked. It's Jarrod Loobeek. Jarrod, we've got a bronze.
JARROD LOOBEEK: We've got a bronze baby. The park rat did it. No grommies today. What a legend. Hang Tern Surf's up. She did amazing. But wasn't that fun to watch when there was like seven athletes left or whatever, and you're just hoping that everybody crashes on their way down.
BEN WATERWORTH: I was telling Jarrod off air, I had the pleasure of watching this in a room at Channel 7, featuring a selection of Channel 7 Olympic personalities. And let's just say it would be very entertaining to be able to broadcast everything that was happening in that room at that point. But an experience that I will never forget.
COLIN HILDING: Orgies and cocaine everywhere.
BEN WATERWORTH: Home and Away Stars, Dancing With The Stars, SAS, all great Channel 7 shows by the way, check them out coming up after the Olympics. Yeah, it was very entertaining. But I'll start with you, Jarrod. I mean, as you said, entertaining to watch. This isn't one that I think any of us predicted. This wasn't in our middle tallies. I didn't pick Tess as winning one. And I mean, in all fairness, she was the reigning bronze medallist coming into this from the World Championship. So she was with it every shot of doing it. But yeah, I mean, what did you think of it in general? And also let's add Zoe in there too, because it's weird to think that as much as we're celebrating a bronze medal for Australia, I'm actually more excited for Zoe because you couldn't script this on my tangy day, gold medal for New Zealand.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I'm just happy somebody took like the three pete away from the Americans in the event. So it was just, it was interesting. I just love how the commentators kept calling back to how bad like the conditions were four years ago, this, that, whatever else. But then even this time, it was like so many people were like crashing. Like that last run, like barely anyone stuck it. So props to Zoe for being the last person down the hill and just nailing it. And then Tess, it was just, I just love how her first run would have won her the bronze medal. Like she did better on her third run, but that first run just submitted the medal. So she could have walked away at that point, and she still would have walked away with the bronze.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's, yeah, it was crazy to think exactly that. I mean, look, as an expert now, all of a sudden when we watch the Winter Olympics, I felt that her third run did deserve more, just saying. You know, I personally have nothing against America and the Americans, but let's be honest, we don't want an American to win three in a row. I mean, we've had the goat last night in the moguls not get the gold. And this time around, we've got the goat in the slope style, Jamie Anderson not even get a medal. So there you go, sad for the goat. But Zoe, I mean, like, and she's still only what, 20 years old. She's Australian. I mean, she was born in Sydney. So, you know, of course we're going to claim that.
COLIN HILDING: You're going to keep reminding people throughout this episode of that.
BEN WATERWORTH: Colin, we're Australian. This is what we do. Again, where was Dale Begg Smith born, Colin? If Brendan Corey for a night wins a medal for Australia, you're going to be saying exactly the same thing that he switched allegiance only a couple of years ago. But it's just, it is weirdly exciting. And look, I don't know if this comes from a fact that I've lived in New Zealand. I've been to her hometown several times. You know, that I'm, you know, four years ago, I wouldn't have given a shit. I'd have fucked up New Zealand. We were complaining about them winning too many bronze medals four years ago. But now it's just, it's just exciting. It really is. And we're going to speak to a special guest very shortly. And he will talk about how it is kind of a bit surprising, maybe, that they don't do as well, because they've actually got some decent snow in New Zealand. Go to Queensland, go to that part of the country. I mean, they had the New Zealand Winter Games, for God's sakes. I mean, that's where Italian Dean goes sometimes to fricking practise, because they got curling rinks in New Zealand. So it's strange that it has taken them 70 years, 70 years to get a gold medal. Now, I was looking this up. I wanted to get a little bit of history for our friends across the Dutch to try and see just exactly what was happening 70 years ago when it came to them being at the Olympics. And that was in 1952 in Oslo. Of course, Jarrod loves the 1952 Oslo Olympics, one of his favourites. They sent three athletes, all in Alpine skiing. Annette Johnson in the women's giant slalom, finished 39th. Annette Johnson in the women's slalom, finished disqualified. And in the men's, Herbert Familton, that's not Hamilton, that's Familton, was 65th, or as they would say in New Zealand, 65th in the downhill. In the giant slalom, Herbert Familton was 77th, while Bill Hunt in the giant slalom was 81st, and in the slalom was 75th after the first round. And did not advance to the second round. So that is how far New Zealand has come 70 years later. And boy oh boy, aren't New Zealand going off. I'm sure you heard at the very beginning of this episode, the reaction of Zoe's dad live on TV, a little F-bomb or two. Jarrod, I didn't realise New Zealanders were so sweary.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I feel like they're just trying to copy us.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, exactly. I mean, you know, copying just exactly the thing to say. And can I just point out one thing, actually? Just, this is related. Our man, Wally Wahlberg, sorry, we don't want to bring him up to your column. Are you still crying over Macau? News has emerged that basically as soon as he got off the slopes, he got handed a phone, and the Prime Minister of Sweden was on the phone to congratulate him on his victory. I don't know if you follow him on social media, but he shared many videos of fan reactions around Sweden, and there's this great clip of a Swedish commentator losing his shit in the mixed zone. It's fantastic. But I'm sorry, Jacinda, the world's leader, where's your message to Zoe? Like, come on. I mean, I know it's Y Tangy Day. It's your national day. But I've been there on Y Tangy Day. Not really much happens on Y Tangy Day if I'm being completely honest. So I'm sure Jacinda, you could have picked up the gram and go, oh, hey, Zoe, congratulations, bro. You got a gold. Go New Zealand. Like, it takes you two fucking seconds. We're doing it right now. We're spending one first five minutes talking about you, girl. Jacinda, Jesus Christ. I mean, Justin probably wouldn't have done it. He would have gotten COVID and ran, wouldn't he?
COLIN HILDING: Well, actually, I was going to say that. First of all, I just love that any time Ben talks about me, he, oh, Colin's going to be crying because literally after Wally Wahlberg won, I'm like, wow, good for him. Ben's like, Colin, you're still upset. But what's funny about that is that Kingsbury was being interviewed last night, and he was asked, you know, oh, and I understand that you got a message from the prime minister today, a message from the prime minister. And Kingsbury basically on live television goes, yes, yeah, he sent me a nice message on Twitter congratulating me. Four years ago, he called me on the phone, and we had a nice long conversation. And we talked about skiing, and yeah, that was really nice.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now Justin's embarrassed. He's probably just gone, silver, eh? Jesus, don't come home.
COLIN HILDING: Hashtag Team Canada.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jesus, Justin. I know you're like hiding a bit at the moment, but like, wow. In all seriousness, Colin, just on that topic, I actually really loved your reaction last night. Oh, and I saw Devin Haroo on Twitter saying, oh, I just interviewed Mikhail's parents, and they're so proud. Such a Canadian reaction. Like, it's just such, like, if this was anybody from Australia going into this, like, absolutely, I mean, we would be whinging and moaning, what went wrong? How are we going to analyse this? They should never come back to Australia. But as a Canadian, you've got the greatest of all time, and you see, like, oh, well, you know, he got a silver. Well done. Just, Colin, quickly, sorry, before I get your reactions on the Slope Style a bit more, and we'll get to Macau. Soph is on the course right now. Sophie Ash has qualified for the final. She's of the women's mogul. She's joined Brit, and she's joined Jakara. And we should say that both the deferral point, Colin's future wife, once he gets divorced from Jamie, are into the final. Oh, he's got the pitches. He's holding up. And the other attractive Canadian mogul skier that I can't remember her name. She's also...
COLIN HILDING: Sophie Anne.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, exactly. I've just seen Sophie Ash finish. She, can I just say, an esteemed animator. She actually is really into animation, and she produces films on her competing in the world stage. And one of her films actually has won awards and has gone on international film festivals. So, a little fun fact. So, yeah, Colin, we're going to soon...
COLIN HILDING: Well, we're going to soon join her as award winners. Just really quickly...
BEN WATERWORTH: You just changed it now, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: Well, I'm talking about a jigsaw, so I was just going to quickly touch on Kingsbury. I can't believe it didn't occur to me until after the show, but as I mentioned yesterday, Ben's infamous comment of, oh, there's no way where Dean and Talley aren't going to win their first two matches, five losses later. Thank you very much, as I again didn't want to say anything. And yes, I'm like, I'm not going to say Kingsbury's is going to be guaranteed to win. Ben's like, yes, he is guaranteed to win. So thanks for jinxing another one, Ben.
BEN WATERWORTH: You're welcome.
COLIN HILDING: Just stop predicting things.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, in all fairness, we know that Jakara is not going to win gold tonight because she was one of my two gold medals that I said Australia will win. So we know it's not going to happen. Although in all fairness, yesterday, I'll be honest, I don't actually remember saying it to Joanna Griggs, that I said apparently that Tess was going to win the bronze. So she texted me, oh, you said she would, so well done, you should buy a lotto ticket. And I'm like, well, should I?
COLIN HILDING: I was actually, when I was watching it, now, first of all, the previous day during the qualification, I mean, she was really, I mean, she qualified, but like barely noticeable. And then it was after the first run that I messaged you guys. I'm like, this is crazy. Like, we got New Zealand, Australia and Canada in the top three spots right now. And then I was actually wondering, like, I don't think I've even heard her name before from your guys' mouths. Because I don't think that it came up on a previous episode, but maybe I missed that yesterday. But she really did come out of nowhere. I think that I'll just say the whole event, the whole Slope Style event last night, I'm going to put in at least my top 10 favourite Olympic events I've ever watched. Like, it was so tense. It was so incredible. You had a lot of shuffling all over the place. A lot of the favourites. Kokomo, who was a big favourite coming into this, didn't really work out. Obviously, Jamie didn't work out. I love the Canadian commentators for that. They were almost building her up too much. She has never been beaten. She is the only person to ever win a gold medal. Yes, she's won two gold medals, but this isn't like she's got 20 years history as the reigning champion.
BEN WATERWORTH: It wasn't just there. Trust me, they did it here.
COLIN HILDING: When it's only the third time, but still, it's a big deal, and it was unexpected, I guess, that she didn't fare better than she did. The entire event was just spectacular, and I'm glad you guys won the bronze, especially because, Ben, I think you predicted, hey, I think we might get to six medals, and this being one that nobody expected, you have a better shot there.
BEN WATERWORTH: I said four.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, Jarrod said six. There you go. Jarrod's the smart one.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think you said six.
COLIN HILDING: No, I think I said five. I don't think I said six.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, neither of us said six. We're not dumb. All right.
COLIN HILDING: Well, then I'm closer. Good job, Colin. I've got Sophie Anne now at the top of the course. So, man, I think you are really far ahead right now.
BEN WATERWORTH: Sophie Anne just finished online, so...
COLIN HILDING: All right. But yeah, I mean, Slopestyle is a fun event, and I actually got Jamie to watch this, because I knew that this would be something she'd take a bit of an interest in. So we were both able to watch her last night, and I think I finally made her a fan of something in the Olympics.
BEN WATERWORTH: Which I just want to say, I think this is what we all probably thought that skateboarding was going to be like. This is what I thought, right? And I want people to think that, imagine if this Slopestyle was literally the first trick they did, it stopped. That's what skateboarding was in the Olympics. So that is our point, what we were talking about last year.
COLIN HILDING: And they wiped out even more, too. More white coats with one trick.
BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly. Laurie Bluean of Canada, fourth, got Canada's gold from the Summer Olympics, so she did well. So I was obviously hoping that she would get the bronze.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, she was silver last time.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, well, she should have done better. Did she get a text from the Prime Minister? Oh, Justin, he's Colin's girl. Justin Lutifera. She's on the hill. Just... Oh, God, Jesus Christ. Oh, shit, I don't think excuse me to go there. Oh, there's blood. Oh, her limb's falling off. Oh, Colin, she needs mouth to mouth. Quick, quick. Anyway, anything else we want to add on the Slope Style? New Zealand's record here?
COLIN HILDING: When I was trying to explain to Jamie how important this was last night, I was equating it to Penny, her breaking that record during the Summer Olympics and how big that was for Canada. And also, you know, with you guys and Stephen Bradbury, I mean, this is now their Bradbury, right?
BEN WATERWORTH: 100%. I mean, the difference is she earned it on merit. Shit, I know. The first reaction was a lie, but then the second one was genuine and I tried to mask it.
COLIN HILDING: Stephen, just shut up! Why did you do this to her?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I feel like Zoe is kind of a Bradbury, because so many people fell over before her, so really, it's very similar.
BEN WATERWORTH: And with a name like Zoe, you know. But the thing that we should add with Zoe is that this wasn't the event she won bronze in in Pyeongchang. That, of course, is the big air. And also, the other history-making moment for Zoe, she's the first New Zealander to ever win more than one Winter Olympic medal, so she is officially the most successful Winter Olympian of all time in New Zealand, and she's what, 20? So good for her, well done. And a Happy Y Tangy Day to her on New Zealand. And on that note...
COLIN HILDING: I keep hearing Y TD Day, and I'm just imagining Taika Waititi is like their, that's their national holiday.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I mean, when he won the Oscar, they were going to rename it, but I was going to say, you're going to hear me say something in this interview that I'm going to quickly play for you now, in which we might rename this Zoe Tangy Day, or something along those lines, because special guests again, we're apparently not doing commentary this time around, we're having special guests. We got everybody's favourite New Zealander on the show. No, again, Jacinda wasn't available. It was The Oz Networks, Nook Chista, who we had to get some New Zealand reactions of how he and the country of New Zealand is feeling right now, because he speaks for all four of them. Let's hear what Nick had to say about that.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm very excited to bring in an expert to the show today. We did this the other day, so why not do it again today? It's not a famous Australian TV host. This time around, it's a famous New Zealander, because who else would you want to talk to today on my tangy day in the greatest day in New Zealand sport? So excited for the first time ever on Off The Podium. It is New Zealand's number one slope style expert. And he literally had to take time out of his day to stop celebrating, because seriously, New Zealand is about to explode. Nick Chester is with us for the first time on Off The Podium. Nick, first of all, welcome to Off The Podium. And congratulations, New Zealand, you've done it. 70 years of Winter Olympic history, you've done it, Nick.
NICK CHESTER: I know, it's pretty exciting. I'm just looking at the middle table, and we're third equal on the middle table at the moment. So long may it continue.
BEN WATERWORTH: In the Winter Olympics, this is crazy. I mean, many people predicted that this would be your Olympics to get one, and you've done it on day two. Zoe, this isn't even the event that she won the medal in back in Pyeongchang. So did you watch it? Is this something that's on regular TV? I mean, how are you and New Zealand feeling right now with everything?
NICK CHESTER: I'm not sure if it's on regular TV, but I got the pay package so I could watch just the Olympics in general, because it's fun and you don't get to do this kind of stuff very often. So yeah, I watched it live. It was great. It was really cool to watch. And one of those cool, exciting events where she kind of took the lead in the first round and then got knocked out in the second round, and she kind of had a bad run in that second round, and then obviously came back and won it with a pretty amazing round. I mean, yeah, I'm absolutely not an expert in snowboarding. I know nothing about it, but you know what it's like with the Olympics. You become like an expert regardless of what sport it is. You suddenly, you know, it's like, oh, that person did shit and that person was great. And so yeah, I mean, it was really exciting. And I think that's one of the cool things about the Olympics is that you do get to see sports that you otherwise wouldn't watch, and especially when somebody from your country does well, it's really exciting. So yeah, I think everybody here was really excited. Yeah, I mean, on the news tonight, they're kind of showing down in Wanaka, which is where she's from, or where she's based anyway when she's here, like all her family and friends and everything celebrating. And yeah, so I think it's a big deal. It's really exciting.
BEN WATERWORTH: Beautiful place, Wanaka, being there a couple of times actually. As Australians, we're of course are saying, well, she's Australian, she was born here. So, you know, of course, we're going to steal that away, right?
NICK CHESTER: Always the way, always the way. She's the new far left.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, exactly, exactly. But also, like, I think what's also really great is that, you know, obviously New Zealand's first ever Winter Olympic gold medallist, but also New Zealand's first ever multiple Winter Olympic gold medallist. She has a gold and a bronze now. But is it something that, do you think that she's going to become like a household name? Is she now like a Lisa Carrington style person that everybody's going to know? I mean, kind of a double take question. Did she become a bit of a name after she won that bronze in Pyeongchang? This is now only going to add to her, I guess, recognition in New Zealand.
NICK CHESTER: I mean, I think she will now. I think it would be a really big deal. I mean, to be the first person to ever get a Winter Olympics gold, that's going to be a big deal. But yeah, I think it's one of those things where we have very short memories, and we were all really excited when she kind of won last time. And we got a couple of bronze last time, so a couple of people who had done really well. But yeah, I think taking out a gold is a different story altogether. When she was going up for that last run, I'm like, oh well, she's at least got a silver, so she's already the most successful Winter Olympian we've ever had, and now she's gone on and got a gold. So I think it's definitely going to lift her profile. And she's only 20, so she could easily be back here in four years' time doing it again. So yeah, I think definitely going to be somebody who's more known in the country, I think, after this.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, did Jacinda give her a call afterwards as we have stuff on the news? Because I know we had our Swedish moguls, Mr Wally got the phone call direct from the Swedish Prime Minister after he won. So was Jacinda straight on to the phone?
NICK CHESTER: Well, I'm not sure. I can do a quick search of what her Facebook thing says. I'm sure she put something up because, you know, that's what politicians do. But they did, one person, very important person that they did interview on the news who had a great reaction was her dad. And so on the six o'clock news, they basically pulled him in, you know, and were like, hey, how's it going? And he was quite obviously drunk. And so he dropped a couple of F-bombs on live TV. He's like, oh yeah, you know, this is great. It's fucking amazing. And I was like, did I just hear that right? And then he said it again. And I was like, OK, definitely. And so basically, the live interviewer is trying to push him out of the screen because he's like, yeah, I'd better cut away from this. And he keeps trying to butt his way back into the, it's great. It's a great 90 seconds of TV. So that was on News Hub. So yeah, it was really great. We find him. Yeah, I mean, it's kind of like Ruby Tooie levels. But yeah, it was just like who, A, let him on TV in terms of the news broadcasters? And B, why didn't his family go? Actually, I don't think we should let this guy get on TV. So yeah, pretty good.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's hilarious. That's so funny. The best thing about this, I mean, there's so many best things about this, but I mean, you couldn't script this any better. This is a fricking white hangy day, Nick. Like, I mean, it was like it was meant to be. This is literally on New Zealand's national holiday. I mean, could you have gotten a better thing happen on your national day?
NICK CHESTER: Yeah, well, exactly. I mean, it's really cool, I mean, for us to happen. I mean, obviously, it's not over there, right? Like, there are a day behind us, I assume. No, same day. So it's happening on the 6th there as well, right?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, because they're only three hours behind Sydney time, so they'll be five hours behind Auckland time, of course.
NICK CHESTER: Right, right. So, oh, no, that's cool. Yes, I mean, really, really cool that that's happening on our national day. So, yeah, I'm really excited to be able to kind of be able to look back on this in years gone by and remember it's the day we first won an Olympics gold medal.
BEN WATERWORTH: They might have to rename it to like Zoe Tangie Day or something like that. The one thing that I will say, which I think is great, you know, four years ago, we had a bit of fun bagging you guys out, like, stop winning bronze medals. This is silly in New Zealand. You shouldn't do it in the winters and all that kind of stuff. And I think, in all fairness, everyone that I've talked to or seen about this is so happy for Zoe. And Australia, we won a medal in this event. We're celebrating that we've won our first medal, and we're happy that we've got a bronze. But I think that pretty much everyone here is also thrilled that we got beat. And that's rare. We got beaten by a New Zealander. We should be shitty. And I don't know if that just comes down to the camaraderie that we saw between the three when they were on the podium and everything along those lines. Obviously, a tight-knit community. But I mean, did the fact that Australia got a medal make the news at all, Nick? I mean, God, you're too good for us now. You're winning gold.
NICK CHESTER: I don't recall seeing it, to be honest. But it was pretty cool to see. And I was kind of like in there, because I think her last one was her best one as well, wasn't it? So she kind of got into the podium in the last one. So yeah, I think that was... It's always quite cool when the two of us are together, but it's even better when we finish ahead of you guys, I've got to say.
BEN WATERWORTH: Not to brag, at least at the time of you and I recording this, we're a couple of hours away yet from the Women's Moguls Final. We've got two girls in there. One went in as the number one. So there's potential. For our history, we might win two medals in one day for the first time ever in Australian winter history.
NICK CHESTER: That's pretty impressive. And I mean, it's quite interesting because I think you and I talked before about why do we not do better at winter Olympics, given we should have great mountains for skiing and stuff. We should have more of that. And I don't know the answer to that, really. It's a bit of a mystery to me. I mean, you've spent a winter in Invercargill, so you know all about how cold it can get here.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, quite astounding in all fairness. It's a bit of a winter capital for a lot of people who do go there for a lot of snow sports. So you're right. It is very strange.
NICK CHESTER: Yeah, so I've never really been able to successfully answer that question. But yeah, it's cool that that's maybe going to, you know, it might be something that gets more of a profile now that we can actually win gold medals and the stuff.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think it will, because judging on what happened in Australia, once we left Salt Lake with two gold, we're 20 years later, and a lot of stuff has happened in winter sports in Australia, and we get a lot of facilities now, and it's taken a lot more seriously than it was even 20 years ago. So I can't see this not opening doors. And this is the thing. It's not like this is it. You guys shouldn't be just sitting back going, oh, cool, good job, so we got one gold, let's go home. Zoe's still got her event, the big air that she got, the bronze, of course, in Pyongyang. You got Nico yet as well, who's expected potentially to go. You could end up with like three or four gold medals here, Nick. I mean, you guys could be just getting greedy. So just saying, like, just don't stop now. I mean, God, you're going to be joining Norway at the top of the medal tally, so you're only one behind Norway.
NICK CHESTER: That's the problem, though. I used to have to be like, oh, yeah, it's nice that we got one, but let's get three or four. And I remember that even at the Summer Olympics last year, it's like, this is great, we're getting so many gold medals, but it's not enough, I want more. And then when we didn't get some that we probably expected we would, like in sailing and stuff, we're like, oh, hold on a minute. Like, we just kicked ass and won a whole lot of medals, and it's still not enough, still not enough.
BEN WATERWORTH: Bloody greedy, bloody greedy. Are you going to keep watching the Olympics? Like, is this going to be something now that you're hooked on and maybe watching a little bit more than you thought you'd be watching?
NICK CHESTER: Yeah, well, I mean, like I said, I'm somebody who just likes the opportunity to watch weird and wonderful stuff that I wouldn't normally watch, you know, or that you just don't see on normal TV. So, yeah, I'm just going to, I'm the kind of person that will try and do a bit of a scatter shot on as many sports as I can and try and see what interests me. And I'm really looking forward to the biathlon, you know, where they just ski along and then shoot some shit, you know.
BEN WATERWORTH: You got a Kiwi in it this year too, as well.
NICK CHESTER: Yeah, yeah. It feels like a sport the American should be quite good at actually, like ski along and then shoot something.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, you think so, wouldn't you? Political?
NICK CHESTER: Too political?
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm not touching that one. In all seriousness, biathlon and cross-country are two of these sports that, to me, it's kind of like archery and shooting at the summer games. You always know they're there, and you're kind of like, okay. When you actually sit down and watch them, they're actually weirdly entertaining. So, and you're like, wow, okay. I like this a lot more than I ever thought I would. So yeah, I know you've got a Kiwi in it this time. The first time since, and I can't even remember a name we had on the show. You're only New Zealand biathlete that you had about 10, 12 years ago, and I'm forgetting your name. I'm a great host, clearly. They should hire me as a researcher, shouldn't they? Because I'm really good at facts. Nick, congratulations. Again, I never thought we would be here celebrating New Zealand winning a gold medal, but I thought we'd have to do it, and happy Waiatangi Day. There you go, Zoe.
NICK CHESTER: Yeah, thanks very much. It's very exciting. Well done to her, and yeah, it may not even be the last for her.
BEN WATERWORTH: And I will just add with that, Sarah Snowsil is her name, by the way. Of course, I can never remember names on this show, and I want to send a big shout out to esteemed New Zealand biathlete Sarah Snowsil for not remembering her name. Meanwhile, Brit Cox is on the hill. Oh, I'm not there yet. I'm a bit distracted by Off The Podium.
COLIN HILDING: I just want to say, the only Justine de Ferle point can be crying and still look like super bubbly and happy. This woman is a walking cartoon character.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It looks like she just won the whole thing, actually.
BEN WATERWORTH: Is she the good or the bad de Ferle point? Which one is she?
COLIN HILDING: Well, I don't know.
BEN WATERWORTH: Was she the gold or the silver medallist in Sochi?
COLIN HILDING: She's the gold and the silver. She won gold in Sochi, and then she won silver in...
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, she won both in Sochi. I'm just saying, Sochi, which one was she?
COLIN HILDING: Yes, but she did win a silver in Pyeongchang. So when you say she's the gold or silver, yes, that is the answer, yes.
BEN WATERWORTH: But just all right, Mr. Technical, I've got COVID. I'm just going to be narky.
COLIN HILDING: Hey, don't knock Chloe for only winning the silver. Chloe's amazing.
BEN WATERWORTH: Which one do you prefer? Like if right now both of them walked into your house, Jamie was like, Colin, I've left you, and you're like, I don't care because I've got to choose. And they literally were like, either of us are yours. Which are you going with?
COLIN HILDING: I'm not going to answer it based on Ben's positioning of it. I'm just going to say, even though Justine is the more accomplished, Chloe is my favourite deferral point.
BEN WATERWORTH: Okay. All right. Good to see. Oh, look at little Brit. Give her a rub on the head. Can I just add one thing, and this might save this segment later on, do we even have to talk about Athlete of the Day today? No. No one's shaking their heads. No one's nodding. It's Zoe. Zoe is the Athlete of the Day. Unless Brit wins. That's all I'm saying. Do we replace her?
JARROD LOOBEEK: That run looked pretty good.
BEN WATERWORTH: But come on, if Brit wins, which is not what I'm just jinxing right now, she's Off The Podium's first gold medallist, which is better than freaking New Zealand. Come on. Anyway. Have you both seen Brit? Can I spoil it?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I haven't seen the score, but I've seen the run.
COLIN HILDING: I saw the score. And now I'm seeing Justine being hugged by Chloe.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, that's a video that Colin wants to see. Sixth place Brit's currently in. Soph's in eighth, by the way. And we've still got a few. So the top 12 go through, of course. So Brit on the cusp. She's just behind Chloe. Again, another video Colin would probably want to see. I don't know. Wow, Ben, you're doing really well. We'll talk about other results for the day for Canada and Australia and other major ones. I'll go through the medal winners in just a second. But the other one, before I go through those, should talk about weird fucking day for Tali and Dean. Like the weirdest day, because we got news breaking that basically Tali tested positive for COVID again. And bye-bye Australia, you are gone. So it was an outset. They're out, they will forfeit their games against Switzerland and Canada. They were on the first plane out of there. They both released like a little video, got a statement on Instagram. And it was sad because you're like, oh, well, you know, obviously not going to come away with a win. And then of course it's like, well, imagine if they were like in Italy's position, all this sort of stuff. Okay, whatever. And then kind of like last minute, it was an outset. No, just joking, you can stay. So I believe the AOC protested or something. And then the experts in China were like, well, you've got COVID, but it's not at a level that can affect people with, you know, effective social dislike. I didn't realise there was a scale of COVID. Like you've got a seven out of 10, so you're fine, go kiss people. Like, I mean, if that was the case, then why the fuck are we in lockdowns and wearing masks all the time? Jesus Christ, this should have been done for the last two years. Anyway, the point of the matter is they got to stay. The point of the matter is they fucking won, ladies and gentlemen, and they beat Switzerland, the reigning silver medallist. I think we just eliminated Switzerland. So I think Roger Federer won't be coming to the Australian Open next year, getting his vaccination. But an absolutely fantastic history-making result for Australia. It was a 9-6 win. Of course, Sharon and I were glued to the screens. Both of us, the first one I think we missed was the one that they fucking won, which I'm just saying right now, we've got the momentum going. Bye-bye, Canada, which I believe the match is starting in about 10 minutes, by the way. Sharon, I mean, this is awesome. Like, in all seriousness, like, we wanted them to get at least one. They deserved at least one win.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, this just adds to their story of leaving qualification to, like, the last possible event, then entirely testing positive and then being like, oh, they might not even be competing, then letting them compete and have testing positive again, then they're not competing, now they are competing again. It's amazing. I mean, if you want to, if you catch COVID, I feel like the Winter Olympics are the way to get it, because most of the events are fairly socially distanced. If anything, curling is kind of one of, I feel like, the less socially distanced events at the Winter Olympics. But yeah, amazing to get the win. So proud of them, and I hope that they can pull off the double, but either way now, like, Australia has made the Olympics in curling, and we won a match at the Olympics in curling, so great news.
BEN WATERWORTH: Such a history-making day for the Winter Olympics, isn't it? The Southern Hemisphere nations are going off, and of course, they're going to play their coach John Morris in literally nine minutes now. Colin, I mean, you would have probably no doubt been asleep with this, but were you happy to wake up to see that Australia had broken through for a win in an Olympic curling? Again, against the Swiss, your enemies from Pyeongchang, the neutral, no, like, no one has any feelings towards the Swiss, because that's just what they like.
COLIN HILDING: So, no joke, yesterday, I was thinking about the five losses they had, all Ben's fault again, gonna continue to say that. And I was imagining, as we were talking yesterday, as I was asking, you know, is this sort of like your cool runnings? And you said, literally, that's how it's being told here, is your cool runnings. And I was imagining five losses, how many left? I'm like, how does this become a movie? And I imagine to myself, well, it ends with them just getting one win. I'm a huge fan of the TV show Friday Night Lights. And in one of the seasons of Friday Night Lights, I won't spoil which one, in case Ben's playing in Watcher or Jarrod's playing in Watcher. 26. But in one of the seasons of, that's, well, almost, maybe in the early 20s. But there's a season where the entire thing is, they just need to win one game. And that's sort of like the big climax. And it's a more heroic story than you think it would be, and similar to like, you know, a lot of these sports movies, like Cool Runnings, they don't win in the end. And I was imagining what their story would be. But I don't think you could have written a better ending. You don't need to end the movie on Canada or Italy. You have the movie with them being great, qualifying for the Olympics, being the Cinderella story, the underdog story, and then losing five straight, cursing Ben Waterworth's name. There's your villain in the movie. And then all of a sudden, COVID, and what's going to happen? I can't believe this is going to end like this. No, I'm going to compete through COVID, and I am going to win, and you just end the movie there. We have now written the ending of the Dean and Tali film.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm in. Who's playing Dean? Who's playing Tali?
COLIN HILDING: Who's playing Ben?
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm playing myself. Come on, you know me.
COLIN HILDING: Willem Dafoe.
BEN WATERWORTH: Brad Pitt. Noah Groves as Ben Watworth. I'd watch it.
COLIN HILDING: Jai Courtney.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jack Smiggins as Dean Hewitt. And Jack Smiggins as Tali Gill. In Curling, A True Underdog Story. Featuring the music of Jack Smiggins. Double L7, great show. Jarrod gets a joke, he's laughing. Should mention the other results today in The Curling, just while we're on the topic. Canada got another win, so they beat the US last night. I don't think we were on air when that happened, so 7-2 spanked them, and they beat the Czech Republic today, 7-5 Italy.
COLIN HILDING: That was, I don't know if you saw that one, that one was like real down to the wire.
BEN WATERWORTH: Didn't actually see any curling today, sadly, but Italy are in the medal rounds, so I will correct myself. I've been saying that it's the top five. I thought that fourth and fifth had a play-in round, but they don't. It's just purely the top four go through to the medal rounds, so I apologise for my mistake. But yeah, it's the top four go through. It's Italy a lot. What a turn up for the books. You want a movie on a curling team, do it on the Italians. It's just crazy to think that. So really the contenders with sort of the game tonight and a couple tomorrow, obviously Britain, Canada and Sweden all on five wins. You would assume they're the ones, but Norway with a bit of a chance, they're on four. The US, Czech Republic, probably not, they're on three each. And I think we all but eliminated Switzerland. And sorry, China, you know, you're gone. So I look, I want Canada to go through the medal rounds, but I would like to beat them at the same time, because I think that would be then the real cool runnings. Like, that would be us like beating the best in the world, like Australia beating Canada in curling. It's like Canada beating Australia in cricket. Like, it would just be like, what the fuck's going on here? This is like, this is not on.
COLIN HILDING: Now, you get Italy the next day?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah. No, Canada's our last game. You're our last game.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, is it the last one? I thought you had one more after that.
BEN WATERWORTH: No, we've got no more tomorrow. This is our last day.
COLIN HILDING: Okay, then yeah, there you go. Let's bookend this. Let's have the only time they can win is when they have COVID. Yeah.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, that's what I'm thinking, because I want to get close. So just a quick update on the moguls. So there are four left to go in this final. I'm currently watching Olivia. Is it Giaccio? Giaccio? She's going down the hill right now. Brit is intent. Brit, not Britain. Britain's already gone. Brit is intent, and Soph is sitting in 12th. So Soph not looking good. Giacchara is basically going to look like, you know, should she not crash? I've done well tonight with that. But Brit, we just need two more to fail, and Brit's through. So how are you feeling, Gio?
JARROD LOOBEEK: What a familiar position for Australia to be hoping that people crash again.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Why two events in the same day? It's just all Australians just cheering on when people fall over.
BEN WATERWORTH: We want two Americans and a French to crash. And we don't want an Australian to crash out of the last four. So yeah, it's it's kind of what if it comes down to that? Brit's in 12th, Chikara is coming down. How do I cheer for that? Like, got to put the Off The Podium hat on there. I'm just seeing the score coming up now for Olivia. Okay. Well, spoiler alert, Sophie isn't making the final. I could have told you that and and Brit is in trouble. Brit, come on, Pierre Lafont, crash. You got yourself a gold medal. Stop being greedy. Brit doesn't, think of Brit, think of Brit. Just the medals that have been decided at the time of us recording this right now, a few will be decided potentially while we are on it. Obviously, the moguls will be. Obviously, we have talked about the women's slope style in snowboarding. To reiterate that, Zoe Sadowsky-Sinott gold for New Zealand silver. We should really, I feel the poor old American silver medallist, Julia Marino, of course, there's a Marino for a New Zealand winning gold. There's got to be a sheep connection in there somewhere from America. She took the silver and Tess Coady didn't realise she got the bronze. Good for her. And the other two medals that have gone today in the skiathlon, the men's, the cross-country skiing, the debutante nation of rock is still doing very well. Alexander Abolshinov, gold for rock, silver to Dennis Spitsov of rock and bronze goes to Ilvo Niskanen, that's the one, from Finland. So no Norway medal in the cross-country skiing today. But they made up for it in another sport today in the speed skating. It was bronze to Hauger Engelbraten, silver to Patrick Roest of the Netherlands and gold to Niels van der Poel of Sweden. So no Dutch gold medal. Actually a bit sad, Sven Kramer did not get a medal, did not do the record, the four in a row. So sadly for Sven, come on Sven, and Bart Swings. Bart didn't swing into a medal for Belgium, one of the best names in world sport there. So the other medals get to be decided, obviously the moguls are watching that right now. The luge, that will be decided very much later on. And we've got the men's normal heel individual ski jumping also happening with that at that moment. Colin, how you doing? Good? Yep. Great. Cool. Fantastic.
COLIN HILDING: And you?
BEN WATERWORTH: Are you good as well? Doing well. Jarrod, how are you? Just mid episode check, everyone. Doing right? Feeling gravy. Results from Canada's perspective today, Colin, you got any to share with us, or are you still glued to these moguls and you don't want me to interrupt you?
COLIN HILDING: I'm watching the moguls. If you've got results, you can share them. If not, just skip it. Nothing huge. We didn't meddle or anything.
BEN WATERWORTH: I've just seen Perrine Lafont get to the bottom of the hill. So maybe we'll just wait.
COLIN HILDING: So she got to the bottom of the hill. All right. That's the bonus.
BEN WATERWORTH: Maybe she did. Maybe she didn't. She is French after all.
JARROD LOOBEEK: So how has she got to the bottom of the hill?
BEN WATERWORTH: There may or may not be an ambulance on the course. I will go over some of these in just a moment. We've got to see J'Kara. Oh, geez, even I don't watch moguls, and I know that one will look good. What? Is a foot meant to twist that way?
COLIN HILDING: You know, I already see her at the bottom of the hill, right?
BEN WATERWORTH: Why is there a donkey on the course?
COLIN HILDING: For J'Kara?
BEN WATERWORTH: My humour is going over so well with Colin recently. Hakuna Matata, donkeys. Oh, Brit's out. Oh, well, there we go. Brit, you got robbed of the flag bearer, and you got robbed of making the next round. So it's all down to J'Kara now. She's literally going, oh, I don't know. I feel bad about this.
JARROD LOOBEEK: This would be a good story if we had three into the top 20 and all three missed out on top 12.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, thanks for that, Jarrod. That's going to go well now. Shit, I don't like being first to watch this.
COLIN HILDING: Come on, poker face. Don't spoil it.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's not going to react. I'm just going to pretend I'm staring.
COLIN HILDING: Let me ask Jarrod a question while Ben is.
BEN WATERWORTH: Please, you two talk.
COLIN HILDING: Jarrod, Jarrod, what do you think about the green?
JARROD LOOBEEK: The green in the uniform?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think the uniform's great. I'm just annoyed that the Swiss have the same uniform as us. It doesn't make sense.
COLIN HILDING: I mean, green is the new Swiss.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Like, I'm used to confusing the Australians with like the Brazilians or the South Africans. I've never confused them with the Swiss before.
BEN WATERWORTH: All those Brazilian skiers that we've seen so far.
COLIN HILDING: We saw a Brazilian already. Did you miss that?
BEN WATERWORTH: I don't want to know.
COLIN HILDING: She didn't make it through, but she was in the qualification. Although she's she's American who moved to Brazil to compete for them. But it's the first ever Brazilian moguls.
BEN WATERWORTH: Moguls. Right. Well, sorry. Forgive me that there are 15 different sports at the Olympics and 109 different events, and I automatically didn't think of moguls.
COLIN HILDING: How rude of me. How could you not have thought about the very one we're discussing and watching at this moment?
BEN WATERWORTH: I was blanking you two out because I was watching Chikara's head roll down the hill. Basically, literally going mogul mogul bouncing between each of them. So, Elissa Campland's love and life. Good to see that she's out doing a job as Deputy Chef de Michon. Okay, I nearly reacted there to Chikara's score, but Britt is not in the final. The next round, we'll just say that and neither is Soph. So is Chikara? I don't know. Tune in in the next five seconds when Colin says this. Good job, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: I'm still not there. We're a little bit further behind than you thought.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jesus, you like, what is the delay between Beijing and Canada? It was wasn't it, Jarrod?
COLIN HILDING: How have you ever taken it?
BEN WATERWORTH: She's first. Okay. Good. Good to see that's happening. Yes, she is first. So well done. Chikara through. No pressure then being first again.
JARROD LOOBEEK: She's taking Jess Fox.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah. Don't, Jarrod. Don't. Which Jess Fox is she?
JARROD LOOBEEK: That's the question.
BEN WATERWORTH: So other sports, other results, the men's slopes on the snowboard, the qualifying rounds for that happened today. Sadly for Matthew Cox, he has not progressed through into the final rounds. Matthew Fox. Matthew Cox. To Nicholas Page. All the actors are coming out to do this. Wait till you see what Jim Carrey does tomorrow in the Women's Skeleton. Brilliant, smokin. Matthew Cox was 26, no relation to Brittany, I think. It's been a bad day for Cox. The joke in there somewhere didn't go too well. Canada also did somewhat OK. They have three snowboarders through. I was going to say one didn't make it. God, Darcy Sharp, not too sharp today in 23rd, mate. Your other three snowboarders made it through. Mark Morris, he was your silver medallist, was he not, from Pyeongchang? He's in second again. Bronze? Bronze? Oh, Max Perot was your... Yeah. You're right. Mark Morris was bronze, Max Perot was silver. So they're through alongside Sebastian Touton. Touton? Touton? Touton? The French sounding Canadian is through in eighth. And number one was Su Yiming of China. Bit of a surprise there. Jarrod, you were not predicting that Su Yiming would go through in first, now were you?
JARROD LOOBEEK: That was a real shock.
BEN WATERWORTH: Like, I mean, do you think he can back it up, come the finals? I mean, do you think, you know, this could be China's golden day in the border of snow?
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, no way.
BEN WATERWORTH: Just that. Okay, simple, straight to the point. Cool. Great. I didn't see any of it, so I can't really comment on how that went. I'm sure they all tried their best.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Why am I laughing at my own jokes?
BEN WATERWORTH: It's really like I just Hakuna Matata. I'm still laughing at that. That was funny.
COLIN HILDING: Was it?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Jarrod laughed. It was an 8, 8 out of 10.
BEN WATERWORTH: Thank you. Thank you very much.
COLIN HILDING: I like that Jarrod laughed is now the equivalent of double R7's Colin nodded. Ben's like, oh, that joke went awry. But Jarrod laughed. We all, Jarrod's just like, nope, nope, nope, nope.
BEN WATERWORTH: That's not how it works. Cross country for Australia, we actually had two, I thought only Phil Bellingham was going in today. But Sev Dekampo also had a crack today at the skiathlon, probably just woke up, he's like, oh, Jesus, I might just ski some stuff today, go on the Olympics, all that kind of jazz. And I'm glad he did because he got a great result, 61st and was lapped. So good job, Sev. You tried your best, mate. And Phil Bellingham, I shouldn't say this, we're probably getting you on the show in a couple of months. Ben, stop bagging out the cross country skiers. You couldn't even get in skis for 10 seconds, you dickhead. Phil Bellingham, 65th and was also lapped. I think he was lapped twice. So that was a special achievement for an Australian in cross country skiing. Jarrod, to get lapped twice, that was good work there by Phil.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, I feel like the good thing with getting lapped is you confuse people. It looks like you're in the lead when they go to the shot of the leaders, right? You're on the screen, you're getting the exposure. I think it's a tactic.
BEN WATERWORTH: Take the photo, like put it on you all. This is me leading the Norwegians in cross-country skiing. Like you and I would believe it. Every Australian, well, they don't know what cross-country skiing is. They were just like, yeah, cool, I believe you. And Canada's representation in this one, Colin, just just give me a guess. What do you think your highest cross-country ski? What do you think Canada does in the men's ski athlon era? Are you a top 20, top 10, top 30? Where are you putting a guess out here?
COLIN HILDING: I'm going to guess in the 25 to 35 range.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, you would be correct for your highest. Well done. 31st in.
COLIN HILDING: I win, but they don't.
BEN WATERWORTH: Olivier Lavelle of Canada finished in 31st, beat his great rival of Vitaly Puchako of Kazakhstan. So he'll be very happy with that. He came home in 32nd. Other Canadians, Antoine Sia was 42nd and Remy Drolet, very disappointed, 55th, I expect a better of him. Pick your game up, Remy. Come on, mate. Like, I just not good enough.
COLIN HILDING: I want to make an update here. CBC is continuing to run replays of Chloe comforting Justine as they cry. I think that's getting more coverage than Kingsbury Silver.
BEN WATERWORTH: Colin, they're sisters. All right. It's illegal in most countries. If you want to know which countries, I will tell you afterwards. Also for Australia, what is wrong with me? Alex Falasso, of course, has two more runs to go on the luge. Now currently sitting in 19th place after two runs. And I can tell you that he has gone in his third run, currently sitting in 17th place. So still about 12 more to go. But Australia has never gotten a top 20 finish in luge. So I'm crossing all the fingers and toes for an Off The Podium top 20. So I will update you on that once we know a little bit more. That was all for the Aussie Continuance today. For Canada, when it came to the figure skating, you're not probably going to win a medal, Colin, in the team. You're fourth right now. So I'm not sure how you're feeling about that. Is this a talked up? Because of course, reigning gold medallist in the team, is this something that Canada are disappointed with?
COLIN HILDING: I know that it's a very different team than we had four years ago. There doesn't seem to be that expectation that we were going to repeat, although everybody's still, of course, talking up the fact that we are the reigning gold medallists. Really, if we had had more holdovers from the last Olympics, I think it would have been different. But it's getting a ton of TV coverage, regardless of where our position is.
BEN WATERWORTH: You're currently fourth. So you've moved up the ranking. I think you're about seventh after the first couple. So, oh, Colin's sighing. Like, what's going on here, Colin? Oh, Chloe's about to go. Oh, actually, this is who I'm watching right now. I just see red and white. All the uniforms, they're not distinguishable. Like, I mean, red and white could be the Japanese have the red and white, the Poles. Oh, she's pumped.
COLIN HILDING: What Ben is saying is he doesn't see colour.
BEN WATERWORTH: I don't. I definitely do not. But no, I see the Canadian, the Lululemon boring leaf on it. So yeah, but anyway, Canada, fourth place. You've got to get nine more points in the last three rounds to try and overtake Japan to get them, because in both the team events, the same countries have gotten the medals. Russia, USA and Canada. So Japan might be taking that place when it comes to that. I love Colin, that you're doing your job here and updating Canada and making me do it. Jesus Christ.
COLIN HILDING: I'm also trying to limit my talking over these next couple of days.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, do you have Canada's results for me right now? You want to do something, help Colin out here? I probably should have updated the Canadians in the luge too. Reid Watts is in 16th place. We're ahead of Alex right now. So good for Reid doing his job. In the speed skating in the 5,000 metres, Ted Jean Blomann was 10th.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, that was a big disappointment here. Like really, that was like one of our metal hopes where I think it was almost expected he was going to at least get something. And when it showed up on TV, I was watching it last night, it was basically like, oh, huge disappointment here.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, so it should be. I bet you he didn't get a text from Justin, did he? Like, fuck you. Like, I shouldn't say that. Maybe Justin's just very personable. Maybe he's got like every one of the 200 athletes' numbers. And he's just like, good job, looge guy for getting insert finishing place here. And then his assistant has to like change it, basically. So. And I will also say that the Men's Normal Hill individual final round has started. It is live right now as we speak. And I know we're all actually on our tender hooks here. Did Casey make it through to the final? It does not look like he has, which is a little bit unfortunate for Off The Podium's Casey Larson. He did not. He finished in 39th place. So he did not make the top 30, sadly for Casey. But you have a Canadian through 12th. Mackenzie Boyd-Klaus qualified through to the final. And another Canadian in Matthew Sukup, 45th. And they'll be of course teaming up with Abby and Ali tomorrow night in the mixed team jumping as well. Making its debut here at Beijing. So good there. I love how you've got an American called Hannah Saw in the moguls. Anything that flies with saw like that. Or she crashes as well. It works both ways. So yeah, there you go. Jokes are flowing. Off The Podium results.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, oh. I just wanted, I don't know if anybody was watching this, but China just beat Japan in hockey.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, really? In the women's hockey?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, China's been really fun to watch in women's hockey.
BEN WATERWORTH: That's their second win, if I'm not mistaken too, right? So they're undefeated. So actually, I'm glad you mentioned that, Colin. You reminded me to bring the standings up of the women's hockey right now. So looking at this, so it's an overtime winner, it looks like it. Yes, so Japan are on top of that. So it's a really weird format, the women's hockey, because basically you have group A, which everyone goes through to the quarterfinals. Even if you get beaten 12-1 and 11-1 by Canada, you are going through to the quarterfinals. It doesn't matter. And then group B, basically the top three go through and the bottom two, you're fucked. So group B, Japan on top, Czech Republic second, China third, Sweden and Denmark at the bottom. And group A, well, Canada and United States, oh my God, they're undefeated, both of them. What are you talking about? The goal difference, though, USA, 10 goals for, goals against two, Canada, goals against two, goals for 23. Which if I'm not mistaken, Canada nearly have more goals than the entire group B combined, nearly. So yeah. Like, is this still, I know we talked about this yesterday, Colin, but is this like, are you surprised that they're doing so? And actually it points to Anastasia Smunovia here for having a little bing duen duen on her helmet. I like Anastasia here from Rock. Good for you with the bing duen duen on the helmet.
COLIN HILDING: We haven't even talked about the fact yet that, not during the medal presentations, but during the podium finishes or whatever before the medal presentations, they're getting many, well, the flower ceremony, but they're not getting flowers. It's bing duen duens they're getting.
BEN WATERWORTH: In like a gold, like, what is it? Like a wreath jarot, is it? Like, what is it?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think it's a wreath in the colours that they finish in.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, which, I mean, Ken, wow. I mean, I just want to win a medal just to get a bing duen duen. Simply that. But yeah, hockey, right? Is Canada like, again, are you surprised at the dominance or is it just like business as usual for Team Canada?
COLIN HILDING: Like really, if anybody's followed women's hockey over the last couple of decades, you're not surprised that you've won. The amount of goals that are being scored is what's kind of catching people off guard. So most of the headlines are, you know, blowout, you know, dominant victory. But obviously, we're expect, this is one time where I could say, yes, we're expecting to win. But now that I've said that, we're probably gonna lose the next one.
BEN WATERWORTH: Breaking news in the curling, Australia versus Canada, traditional curling rivals, of course, so that's storied history. After one end, Canada, zero, Australia, three. Ooh, John Morris, what are you doing against your protegees? Come on, John.
COLIN HILDING: You know what? COVID's gonna become like the new secret doping for the Olympics. You want an edge? Just catch COVID.
BEN WATERWORTH: Damn straight. Meanwhile, we will call the final, it's not even a super final. I don't think they refer to them that anymore, but the final, sixth final, we're approaching the halfway point. And I can say that Chloe DeFurler Point is in fourth out of four people. So, Colin, what's going on there? Oh, my girls, I'm Sophie Anne. All right, here we go. Stuff to DeFurler Point, they're so 2014.
COLIN HILDING: You know, Sophie Anne Gagnon is one of the only Canadian mogul skiers I've never actually met. I did see her once, but she was quickly rushing and talking to her family. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna leave her alone. It was funny though, because during the qualification, why do you have that look on your face? Did she lose the limb?
BEN WATERWORTH: I can't say anything.
COLIN HILDING: All right. Let me finish what I'm saying here. Whatever the Olympic channel coverage was of the qualification, they said, Sofiane Gagnon from France, hailing from Whistler, BC. I'm like, what? Oh, come on!
BEN WATERWORTH: I didn't say I like anyone again.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I always have to look on the bright side. 11th mogul every time.
COLIN HILDING: I have to look on the bright side for everything. This means that Chloe will finish these Olympics as Canada's number one mogul skier. So there we go, Chloe.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, you're not going to have anyone in the super final.
COLIN HILDING: But she's still going to be number one for Canada, at least.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I mean, true. So we've still got our bronze medallist from Pyeongchang, Yulia Galasheva. Thank you. And then we've got three more Americans, Perrin Lafont, Anri Kamamu, thank you, and Yukara. So I know you talked up to me about the Japanese mogul skiers that they've got a pretty good team. So which was the one that you had a bit of a chat with about coming on the show. Did you not have a bit of a conversation?
COLIN HILDING: No, I haven't had a chat yet, but Anri is the one I said, we're going to, I'm saying right now, we're going to get Anri on the show.
BEN WATERWORTH: I actually just want to point out apologies to Soph, probably for not doing too well, because I actually had a bit of a brief conversation with Soph a couple of days ago, and that's probably why she's not made it through to the finals.
COLIN HILDING: You're really worrying me, Ben. Jarrod, I don't know if you're aware of this, but Ben has killed two James Bond actors.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah.
COLIN HILDING: Like legitimately has made jokes about them dying, and then by the next episode, we record they're dead.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, Jarrod, watch yourself. If you piss me off.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Got a real skill there.
BEN WATERWORTH: Um, yeah. Update in the luge, Johannes Ludwig is leading that one, and the great Felix Locke is actually dropped down to fifth. So, um, don't know what's going on there, Felix. Pick your game up. And I should mention, in the ski jumping, I obviously gave sort of the results of how it's going through the finals. Mackenzie Boyd-Klaus has not jumped yet, but leading that right now, Marius Lindvik of Norway. So, Colin, you predicted that, of course, didn't you?
COLIN HILDING: I mean, off air. I don't predict anything on air because I would have jinxed it. So if I had ever said it on air, then it never would have happened.
BEN WATERWORTH: And other curling games, I should mention Sweden beating Italy right now, Switzerland beating the USA and Norway beating Britain. So it's all over the shop, this mixed curling. You never predict anything. I hate to be a fucking Vegas gambler.
COLIN HILDING: Does anybody have a prediction of... I think we're almost at the stage now where we can sort of predict who the medal chances are going to be in mixed doubles.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm calling a Britain Canada final still, and I think Scotland will win the gold. Not Britain, Scotland. They are Scottish. And I think Italy will choke and get fourth. So Sweden for bronze, Canada for silver. And so we know clearly that Italy is probably going to win the gold now. Jarrah, what do you think?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think Sweden is going to win it. Oh. Italy, silver, the big bronze.
BEN WATERWORTH: We just want to see beautiful Oscar with the gold around it. We just want to look at that man with the gold medal. Can he get any more attractive with gold medal around his neck? Yes.
COLIN HILDING: As a Canadian, I'm happy that Ben said that Britain is going to beat Canada because that means Scotland is going to beat Canada because that means that Canada is now going to win. But I actually almost 100% agree with Ben. I was going to say Scotland is going to take it. Canada is going to get the silver, but I'm switching it around. I'm going to say Italy is taking the bronze, and unfortunately, Sweden is going to be the one who's out.
BEN WATERWORTH: No, don't give Oscar and our little pixie fairy a fourth place finish now.
COLIN HILDING: Do we expect, let's say, if Scotland wins, that they're going to struggle a little bit more in the team event because they're doubled up?
BEN WATERWORTH: I actually didn't realise that both of them, I thought only the female was going in. But I don't know how that works, Colin. Is that a thing that you get more tired? Like, I don't understand the athleticism of a curler.
COLIN HILDING: I would think, well, athleticism maybe aside, I would think more just the mental drain. It's basically like working for 16 days straight.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, what do you think, as Amy Plains, someone curling expert, what's your take on the mental strain of a curling competition?
JARROD LOOBEEK: See, I feel like it's all about the relationship between the two. So I think as long as both of them are going OK, and there's just not one person carrying the other, then it's probably right. But I think if you're constantly having to make up for your partner's mistakes and kind of save the ends, then it's probably fairly mentally draining.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, yeah, no, I agree. Yep, absolutely. Um, Kai Owens, meanwhile, has just gone into fifth place. So actually, Chloe Deferla Point is still in fourth. So she's had a couple of...
COLIN HILDING: How many cargo?
BEN WATERWORTH: Three, four?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Six.
BEN WATERWORTH: Five.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Five.
BEN WATERWORTH: So you're telling me there's a chance? Yeah, telling me there's a chance. I always forget that we should really open this, but I don't. Celebrating today... And Colin, I'm glad that you did do your homework, so I'm assuming you have a Canadian for this. But on the Australian perspective, we are celebrating Kennedy Day, the esteemed Ken Kennedy, Australia's first ever Winter Olympian, back in 1936, speed skater. I just love how we have this esteemed history in long track speed skating, which I don't think any Australian is actually ever aware of. He finished 29th in the 500 metres, which was his highest finish, which, Jarrod, looked respectable. First Winter Olympics, he had to travel to Germany for it. Look, I mean, we struggle to get long track speed skaters now. I can't imagine how the fuck he did long track speed skating in 1936 in Nazi Germany. I mean, Jesus. Why don't we talk about Ken Kennedy more?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I don't know, we should be. That's irrespective of... Yeah, that's a good result.
BEN WATERWORTH: You know what he deserves? He deserves that. You! From Tess Coady. So, happy Ken Kennedy Day, everybody. He's a fucking...
JARROD LOOBEEK: Not a grummy.
BEN WATERWORTH: He's sick. He's absolutely... He's trippy. He's just... He's up there. Colin, who are we celebrating in Canada's esteemed Olympic history today?
COLIN HILDING: Well, in honour of moguls and women's moguls today, it's going to be Jennifer Heil, three-time Olympian. She debuted in Salt Lake City, won the gold medal in Turin, and then won the silver medal in Vancouver. She later went on to actually commentate for the next two Olympics. So this is actually the first Jennifer Heil-less Olympics that Canada's experienced in 20 years. Interesting fact, I actually found out about her, and I thought this was an insane fact, is that due to the hysteria around Canada winning the first gold medal on home soil and the expectations that Jennifer Heil could have pulled that off Vancouver, she unfortunately didn't, but could have pulled it off. The amount of people who watched her win her silver medal in Vancouver was more than watched the Super Bowl that year. And that's in mogulski, and that's not even hockey, so huge deal back in Vancouver.
BEN WATERWORTH: Kind of appropriate you mentioned somebody with the name Heil after I just mentioned Nazi Germany, so it's like a segue that just worked really well in there. Okay, breaking news in the curling, after two ends, Canada, zero, Australia, five, we got the steal.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, Dean and Tully.
BEN WATERWORTH: John Morris, what are you doing? I think, is he just, you know, is he caving in, do you think, Colin? He just, he's like, he feels sorry for him.
COLIN HILDING: I actually wonder because with the Czech game that I mentioned, I was catching some of the end of that last night, and in the 8th end, they basically tied it right at the buzzer. Like so much at the buzzer that Mike Harrison commentary was saying, oh, there might have to be a review on that because you know how they have the clock that counts down, right? They're like, it may have crossed the line just after that. Like I don't think I've ever seen that curling before where it was an at the buzzer moment. They ended up going into an extra end and won it there. But yeah, maybe they're starting to get drained. Maybe that that physical and mental drain is starting to kick in.
BEN WATERWORTH: Breaking news in the ski jumping.
COLIN HILDING: Canada's this is going to be the rest of our episode.
BEN WATERWORTH: Canada's Mackenzie Boyd Klaus has jumped and he is currently sitting in a ninth place with about seven more to go. So look, I sadly don't have my history of Canadian ski jumping. I do believe you've never won a medal in ski jumping, so you're not going to now. But I don't know how high you finished before.
COLIN HILDING: So breaking news in the moguls, Corinne Lafont has buttoned her coat.
BEN WATERWORTH: Breaking news in Off The Podium, Colin lands a somewhat funny joke. Your turn, Jarrod, what have you got for us?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Breaking news, Colin scores a five on the Jarrod joke.
BEN WATERWORTH: The Jarrod joke meter, have we got a new segment? I like this. I like what's going on here. Corinne Lafont, she's just crossed the line.
COLIN HILDING: She's being very- Don't say anything.
BEN WATERWORTH: All I was going to say is she's showing no emotion. That's all I was going to say. She's very French right now. So Chloe, if Corinne does well here, I believe Chloe is out. She's out.
COLIN HILDING: If Corinne does well.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I mean, she could have died.
COLIN HILDING: It's almost happened twice already, thanks.
BEN WATERWORTH: You said for me not to react. So, you know, I'm not reacting. They still haven't showed a score yet. So all I said is she showed no emotion. That's all I wanted to say. What did we watch today, gentlemen? Colin, I'll start with you today. Did you watch anything? I mean, you're watching the moguls, but you've just gotten up.
COLIN HILDING: Yes, obviously the moguls. Slope style, watch that in its entirety. I mentioned the Canada check game. I didn't see any of the Australian one, sadly, but I'm going to be... Of all ones to miss, but I'll be checking out the Canada, Australia one once this moguls is over. I caught a little bit of the end of the cross country and some of the speed skating for the long track.
BEN WATERWORTH: Breaking news in the moguls, Paris Lafont is in third place with a score of 77.62, meaning Chloe de Ville-Appoint is pointing herself back to the dressing room. No Canadian representation. It's Colin's fault. The attractive photos are gone. Jarrod, what did you watch today?
COLIN HILDING: Ah, I just dropped... This is like bad luck, as soon as you said that, I dropped a picture and it almost broke.
JARROD LOOBEEK: End of an era. The slopestyle, I'm currently watching the moguls and the curling. And I caught a bit of the long track speed skating and the figure skating as well.
BEN WATERWORTH: So, this is a Japanese, Enri, Colin, you say? She's now... So, Jukara is about to come up in a moment. I watched the moguls, funnily enough, the slopestyle. I actually had in the background today while in studio, I was watching a replay of the Canada-Finland hockey game yesterday. And I still have no idea how they piled on like nine goals in like the last half of that game, because most of it was pretty tight from what I could see. I saw some of the long track speed skating as well, which I always thoroughly enjoy. And I look forward to watching more of this.
COLIN HILDING: I have a question about your viewing, Ben. We were all watching Slope Style, I think, at the same time, or I don't know if Jarrod was, but Ben and I were. And you sent me a picture and you're like, oh, I'm just watching. You said something about a two time Olympian. And I looked at the picture. I'm like, I have no idea who he's talking about. All I see is Ben's hairy leg. Who was the other person you got to watch that with?
BEN WATERWORTH: No, I'm allowed to say John O'Brow, who is a two time Australian alpine skier. He's doing the expert commentary for alpine skiing, funnily enough. And we should mention the downhill, the men's downhill today was cancelled or postponed. They are going to do it still to tomorrow. So he kind of ended up having a bit of a free afternoon. So he was he was watching it in the room.
COLIN HILDING: So he was he was he sitting around waiting, though, because they were postponing it like an hour or two at a time.
BEN WATERWORTH: It in all fairness, like he was like this was obviously they don't have the downhill at the same time. So he, you know, could have been called into studio at any point. They've got like assistants around the studio lot who basically their job is to find the talent like, hey, you're on air in like 20 minutes. You need to get in there and get miked up and everything as well. Don't make those faces, Colin. I don't know, Moguls. I'm trying not to react to this either. I don't know.
COLIN HILDING: Like she's not wiping out. I'm just, I'm not as optimistic about Jakara's score.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, I just saw the score live. Okay, never mind. I know the score. It hasn't come on the screen.
COLIN HILDING: I also want to say that what we were watching Akuma yesterday, and Mkhun Matata, yeah, we were all shocked that he had got, a lot of people are shocked, but when you actually look at the scores, like the thing is, is that the turns, which is your mogul, mogul, mogul, that counts for 60% of your score, which you can almost always assume you have to nail that. But his, he was the lowest scoring on that, but his speed and his tricks, his jumps were so good. That's how he got by.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, like, and this is what I don't get because, spoiler alert, Jakara is in first. And I'm watching that going, it looks messy. And like, this is where I don't understand it, because to me, that didn't look as good as some of the other ones I was watching.
COLIN HILDING: It would mean her tricks and her speed were probably top of the bunch.
BEN WATERWORTH: Right. Jarrod, what did you think? You look like you were agreeing there. It looked a bit messy.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I just thought... I understand, like, I suppose that the turns do count for the most. But I suppose in my head, I just do the same thing and put too much emphasis on that. I just think sometimes they look completely out of control. And then all of a sudden they get a great score. I'm like, okay.
BEN WATERWORTH: Breaking news in the ski jumping. There are two jumpers to go. And currently the top three are occupied by Austria's Manuel Fettner in the gold medal. He's got himself a medal. Austria will get a medal. And what colour will it be? I don't know. Poland's Dawid Kuvatchi is in second, and rocks Evgeny Klimov is in third. Disappointing for Kamil Stok, actually, that is disappointing, he's a bit of a legend of the sport. He's in fourth, so he will not get a medal. So a bit of a shock there. Oh, hang on, Slovenia's Pita Pravec has just jumped into bronze. So there's one jumper to go, Ryoa Kobayashi of Japan. Will he get a medal? We will find out very, very shortly. We'll do this commentary in a moment, because we're about to get into the final. Any fails, Colin, that you can talk about quickly, or have you got more that you want to save here for a little bit? You sound like you've got a list.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, yeah. I was going to say, breaking news, they have cut back to Chloe and Justine, and then they are now smiling and hugging. So improved moods. Yeah, I got a huge list here of the commentary fails. I already mentioned the one which is in the Canadian, it's like, sorry.
BEN WATERWORTH: You're talking about the Defiler points. I've got a huge list.
COLIN HILDING: Okay, I would love to say Ben paints me in a terrible light to my wife, but she's probably making the same jokes about me right now.
BEN WATERWORTH: She and I just do a joke about it all the time.
COLIN HILDING: We're on the same page. Every time I go to Calgary to watch the moguls, she'll be like, now Colin, you stay away from the Defiler points, sister.
BEN WATERWORTH: Meanwhile, she's surrounded by shirtless men, but it's okay. Oh, oh, hang on, Colin. Breaking news in the ski jumping. Raúl Kobayashi has just jumped himself into a gold medal. Japan have won the ski jumping. Congratulations, Raúl Kobayashi, gold for Japan. Manuel Fetner of Austria is in silver and bronze to Poland, Dawid Kubatschi. So that is the men's Normuhil ski jumping. The luge, third run, I'll update you once Colin is finished. Breaking news in the curling. After three ends, Canada a zero. Australia six. Canada in strife in the curling. We were thrashing them, Jarrod.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I feel like surely the Canadians are just sandbagging the results here to get their preferred draw for the semis, I think is what's going on.
COLIN HILDING: Maybe.
BEN WATERWORTH: Tanking. Yeah. All right, go Colin, sorry.
COLIN HILDING: First of all, I just want to say I'm very worried with how much my video is lagging. Now, I'm now going to be about seven minutes behind you guys in the commentary for... I'm also very worried.
BEN WATERWORTH: I hear noises outside the door, so I don't know if I want to get too loud because I'm probably going to get kicked off this thing and do 20 to midnight, so, you know, yeah.
COLIN HILDING: So our commentary for the snowboarding, as I mentioned yesterday, has gone into so bad, it's great territory at times. So the other guy, I don't even know what his name is, but the main commentator and Craig McMorris, our famous snowboarder, you know, basically the other guy made the terrible Orange is the New Finland joke yesterday. And it was almost like Craig McMorris wanted to top that this morning, or I guess morning for them, where when they were first coming on camera just previewing the event, he was talking about Jamie Anderson, he was saying some of them, she can compete and she can win medals when she's black and blue, so don't worry about her. And he goes, how does it go something going on? Absolutely that will impress me much that may not impress Shania Twain, but that will impress me a much. He added the adding of impress me a much. That was like, wow, that's terrible. My favourite commentary moment here, though, maybe of all the Olympics, I made sure that I recorded this one moment so I could save it forever, was the other commentary guy, Mr. Orange's, the new Finland guy, was at one point talking about something that happened on the course. And he says, that's kind of like when you and your brother Mark used to jump over the barrels and you got all out of control and ended up slamming into the neighbour's car. Craig McMorris goes, I literally have never done that, or am I following you at all?
BEN WATERWORTH: Wow, jeez, I really want you to just record these. I feel like we're missing out. Like I've got to see these, so I've got something to complain about because I can't exactly do that anymore. Did you have more? Did I interrupt you? Sorry, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: No, that's good.
BEN WATERWORTH: All right.
COLIN HILDING: Cool.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, what do you have today?
JARROD LOOBEEK: You know what? I didn't have much. I'm still on about the extended replays that we're just getting. Now we can expect Tess Coady for the next seven days. So hopefully, Jakara just picks up something. So there's a bit of variety there. I do hate, though, the commentators for the snowboarding, our friends from the skateboarding. They're not as annoying in this event, but still, they're just going for everybody. And it really bugs me. The whole of the rest of Australia is just cheering that everyone's falling. And they're like, Oh, Annika Morgan, she's really good. She's going to put down a good score. I really like her. She comes and she's friends with my mum, and she stays at our house. And this, that, whatever else. They're all mates. All the girls are mates. They blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, shut up and start bagging out all the other athletes, please. Tess is in third at this point, there's seven people left, no positive things about anybody else I want to hear at that stage.
BEN WATERWORTH: Just quickly before I comment, I do love how Jakara Anthony's family has a giant bing-dwen-dwen. He's everywhere. Come on, he's taking over. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about, Jarrod. Channel 7's coverage is perfect. Nothing is wrong. Seriously, those guys are fantastic. Everything is brilliant. It's on point. It's on deferl point. It's on point. Come on, Colin, how's that on the Jarrod Jokes scale, Jarrod? Come on.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I feel like it's in 6, but it doesn't land tonight because, I mean, is that your way of secretly saying that they're terrible?
BEN WATERWORTH: I don't know what you're talking about.
COLIN HILDING: I'm getting a replay of Chloe comforting Justine again. This is the equivalent of you guys and Tess.
BEN WATERWORTH: Colin, can you stop watching porn and concentrate on the podcast? Actually, like, in all seriousness, I don't know, Jarrod, if you saw Lydia Lassler's reactions of like that was pretty fucking epic. I did. I did love that. That was funny. And just one thing I just want to quickly comment on. I have seen the rundown for when I'm in studio tomorrow and there might be some tests being replayed tomorrow. Just a little bit. Just just just spoiler alert.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Things could change.
BEN WATERWORTH: I feel I need to complain about something. So the news.com today, you fail of everything. I just want to read some of the headlines that news.com today you go with on their day to live blog. Shock backflip gives Aussie duo whiplash Aussie trio chase moguls glory. Aussie duo make history after shock backflip again, Tali Dean, is this meant to be a freestyle skiing nod? Should I shut up? We're about to get to the final now. That's all my complaining. Do we know what order we're doing this in? The Americans going down. One of you can do it first because she's already started.
COLIN HILDING: I'm not seeing an American right now. I'm seeing Justine being interviewed.
JARROD LOOBEEK: You have to do the early ones because you're getting it first.
BEN WATERWORTH: She's halfway down the bloody hill.
COLIN HILDING: Justine still has tears in her eyes and Canada is no longer interested in moguls. This is all we need to watch.
JARROD LOOBEEK: She looks clean. She's at the top. There's a man with a clipboard.
BEN WATERWORTH: I really think there's something going on here with Bloody Canada and the fact that you're too concentrating on the people hugging, like it's just your entire country in love with these girls.
COLIN HILDING: Absolutely. Did I tell you they have their own TV show now?
BEN WATERWORTH: You did, but it's in French, right?
COLIN HILDING: It's in French, and the subtitles are only in French. I still watched an episode though, and I will watch more.
BEN WATERWORTH: Were you alone when you did it, and Jamie had gone out for the day?
COLIN HILDING: You know what I did is I actually watched it in shifts every time when Jamie and I watched something at night. I would put it on for like the five or ten minutes. I'm going to be like five or ten minutes just cleaning up in here. So I'd put that on and she'd come back in and then I'd turn it off.
BEN WATERWORTH: Absolutely.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, they're hugging again. That's the fifth time.
BEN WATERWORTH: Cleaning up in there is the motto of Colum watching Deferla Point TV. I've already seen the score on the run of Olivier Yacht Show.
COLIN HILDING: I am really behind. I haven't even got there yet. I don't know how we're going to do commentary of this.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, have you seen it? Have you seen Olivia?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I've seen the run. I haven't seen the score yet.
BEN WATERWORTH: She's pretty cute as well. Maybe I need to watch moguls more. Okay, well, it looks like I might be calling the whole bloody thing at this rate.
COLIN HILDING: I'm going to opt out from the episode because I don't want anything spoiled, so do we want to wrap up the episode? Do you guys want to do commentary without me?
BEN WATERWORTH: I want to do commentary. We need to do this. Do you have any comments? All right, well, if you can bugger up if you want to. I don't have anything more for you unless you got fan messages or you want to talk about the middle table, Sean White retiring. That's about it.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah.
BEN WATERWORTH: You're dismissed.
COLIN HILDING: Now, I have to come back and talk about the end of this, though.
BEN WATERWORTH: Okay, well, this is what you do. You bugger off and watch this. We will call it. And then because you're 10 minutes late, you just come in in the final bit. There you go. Simple. Mute yourself until I watch it.
COLIN HILDING: I'm going to see if I can catch up a bit. Oh, hold on. Is it Peryn now?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, she just finished.
JARROD LOOBEEK: She's at the top of the hill.
COLIN HILDING: Okay, I've got her at the top of the hill now.
BEN WATERWORTH: Okay, I actually didn't even watch her run. I was too busy seeing if you were...
COLIN HILDING: I missed Olivia. So what happened with Olivia? All right. Cometary, Peryn is going down. She's got a good spread of the legs there. Didn't mean to sound that way.
BEN WATERWORTH: I did miss out.
COLIN HILDING: She's gunning for Justine right now. She's going to finish her off. She sees her at the bottom of the hill. Chloe's getting in the way. Chloe's going to protect her. Peryn is flipping over top of them and landing safely on the ground. She missed the deferral of Point Sisters, but she may win a medal.
BEN WATERWORTH: I've seen the score on my computer. I need to close this because this is ahead of the TV. So I'm getting spoiled before I even see a score. I just put my hand up. I'll just call Jakara. Sorry, Jarrod. I'll steal Jakara. You guys can do the others. How about that?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Then you can take the blame if she loses.
BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly. It's worth having my neighbours probably like bang on the door if I'm getting animated.
COLIN HILDING: I think I said yesterday or the day before that I didn't see Jakara winning a gold. I thought that if anybody was going to upset Perrin, it would probably be Anri. But I'm thinking Jakara is a little bit more likely now to pull off the upset.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, now you just fuck you, Colin. Just don't say anything. We can't even claim it from the podium. And again, I had a conversation with her about two months ago where she's like, yeah, I'll come on after the Olympics. So she listens to the show.
JARROD LOOBEEK: All right. Sorry.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm going to shut up if Jarrod wants to commentate.
COLIN HILDING: All right. So Prydnska is coming up. And oh, she's in first place. 77-36. I don't know if that's going to hold, though, for a goal. 77-36.
BEN WATERWORTH: Has Anastasia started for you?
JARROD LOOBEEK: She's not. She hasn't. We're about to go back to... Yeah, she's at the top of the hill. Here we go. That's the famous nation of rock. Will we be hearing some Tchaikovsky at the end of this? Long lost Anastasia going back to the royal family. She's waiting and she's off. Good start. Mogul, mogul, mogul. And into the first jump. And it is a how you do in Hangtan. And mogul, mogul, mogul. Grass going everywhere. The form doesn't look good, but who knows? The judges, they can easily be bribed. It doesn't make any sense. The form is looking better. Mogul, mogul, mogul. Through the middle section, moguling well. Coming down to the final jump. What do we get here? It is a backside 1080. Grab the leg. Well done. Perfect run. I think she's going to be in... I'm putting that into like a mid 70 range, 75 point something.
BEN WATERWORTH: I would hand that over to my esteemed colleague Colin to comment on that.
COLIN HILDING: I'm going to agree with Jarrod. It's not going to be Parin. It's probably going to be in the 75 range. But because we said that, she's going to get a score of 93.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, she's standing. She's looking. Can I just say I loved how Tess Coady didn't realise that she had to stand there and like wait because she was like awkwardly go, I didn't realise I had to stand there and wait for the people to come down the hill. Sorry.
COLIN HILDING: Why were so many? I know we have like the winners, just off moguls for a second. You have like the winners or all the podium finishers, you know, hugging, tackling, whatever. What was like the 12 other people that all attacked them? Was that everybody in the competition?
BEN WATERWORTH: That was Auckland. That was the city of Auckland. Flying over to celebrate.
COLIN HILDING: Nick was in there.
BEN WATERWORTH: He was.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, and of course we got it wrong.
BEN WATERWORTH: She's leading. Anastasia. Sorry, Jarrod, have you seen it yet?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I have yet.
COLIN HILDING: So, Coretta Lafont will not repeat as gold medallist.
BEN WATERWORTH: Has Rock ever won a gold medal in... I don't think they have. Who's doing Anri? Are you going to do Anri, Coretta?
COLIN HILDING: I've got Anri. All right. It is somebody who Ben's not legally allowed to commentate on. 17-year-old Anri Kawamura only two years ago made her World Cup debut, and I was on the podium the first time, and she's off, and she's hitting those moguls hard. She's hitting them. She's hitting them. She's smacking them around. She's still sad about Justine, as well. And oh, CBC has cut away, and Justine and Chloe are still comforting each other, and I don't even know what's happening with Anri right now. They've got Anri in the corner of the screen. There we go. Some consideration for the Japanese sensation. She's coming down the bottom of the hill. She almost hit herself on the bottom. All right. And she's happy. She's very happy. She's very happy for Justine and Chloe not making the finals.
BEN WATERWORTH: Great calling there from Colin Hooting.
COLIN HILDING: I think she's taking first right now.
BEN WATERWORTH: I've seen the score, and I'm not allowed to comment legally because she is 17.
COLIN HILDING: It might be something different with the Olympic judges, but typically on the World Cup or even the World Championships, I find it a lot easier to predict the finishes. Whenever I watch this with Jamie, I'll be like, oh, yeah, they're going to take second. Oh, yeah, this is going to be fourth. And then almost always be right. There's something messed up here. Maybe there is some corruption. Maybe this is a James LA. David Pelletier situation.
BEN WATERWORTH: What is the IOC? So, we're not getting accreditation.
JARROD LOOBEEK: In the judging, a Russian judging the air, that doesn't seem legal.
BEN WATERWORTH: Third. Well, yeah, Anri's third. Wow. So Anastasia will win a medal for rock.
COLIN HILDING: That's not expected at all. She's not even the Russian I would have expected to medal.
BEN WATERWORTH: Me neither, to be honest, just absolutely not. I thought it would be Vladimir Putin, but hey, what do I know?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Poor Vlad. Looks out and qualifying.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jylan Kauf is yours.
JARROD LOOBEEK: UPR, top of the hill, man with a clipboard looking intense. Readjust the gloves. Wind is blowing. And she's off. She's taken the middle track. Mogul, mogul, mogul. And first jump, backflip, grab the ski. Oh, legs are coming apart, but the knees aren't together. This is not looking good. But who knows? Mogul, mogul, mogul through the middle section. She's pulled it back together somewhat. Skis are going everywhere. Ski poles are going everywhere. And oh, bobbles into the jump. Another backflip again, pretty similar to the first air. I think she's coming last.
BEN WATERWORTH: Look, I'm going to interrupt you here, Jarrett, because I've seen the score, and I'm going to have to get into Chikara here pretty quickly because it's about to do it. Spoiler alert, she's in the lead. She has scored an 80.28 and is in the frickin lead. Jaylen Kalf of the United States is in gold. So we're going to have a name beginning with J winning the gold medal here. Is it Chikara? Oh, she's out of life. Jaylen, Perrin is not going to medal. Well, maybe, I mean, Chikara, probably now that I've said that. Um, Jaylen is loving life. She's hugging, she's making out with somebody. Oh, there goes the clothes. But here we go. Destiny for Australia. Chikara Anthony stands at the top of a mountain and stares. She stares into history right now. Can she repeat the gold medal performance that Australia still talks about? Dale Biggsmith 2006. And in honour of Dale, we will make sure he's involved in this commentary. She sucks it in, and she's off. Into the 11th mogul. Oh, she survives it. She lifts into the twisty corky. Oh, she lands out beautifully. Dale, Dale, Dale, Dale, Dale. Oh, she's looking good here. The knees are very, very straight. She's gonna try and do the triple cork Dale flip. Is she gonna land this successfully? She does this. I'm calling it now. She's gonna win the gold. Bounces off that left Dale, the right Dale, left Dale, the right Dale, left Dale, right Dale. Here she comes into the second jump, the Crucial Dale flippy, she lands it. She's got it. She's gonna cross the line in a time of 27, 63. She's popping the air. Jakara, I think she's done it.
COLIN HILDING: You said what was her time?
JARROD LOOBEEK: 27.
BEN WATERWORTH: 27. Don't look at me like that. Hey, I'm a bit slow when I'm on this episode, so you leave me alone. Look at the form in the replay there. She's grabbed the ski. She's grabbed the beg and the smith. And oh, look at the form on her butt.
COLIN HILDING: She's, her turns are fantastic, which probably means she's not going to.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm saying it now. I have never seen, I have never seen a crack as synchronised as Jakara's on that second jump. And that to me is going to get a high point margin from that Russian judge. So I'm just waiting now and look at the way the knees just bend and left on the left and right. Dale flips it over. Is this going to be the drought breaking moment? We've seen the drought of 70 years broke up in New Zealand today. Can the drought of 12 years be broken for Australia here for a gold medal? As the scores come up, she's done it! Gold for Australia! 83.09, Jakara Anthony. She's climbed the mountain. She's skied down the Dales. And the Dale Begsmith of female mogul skiing has done it. Australia, gold in your face, Canada. We're on top of you in the medal tally. You can't even win a gold in moguls. Mikhail Hu, who gives a shit. Ben Waterworth prediction of a gold medal going to Jakara Anthony has happened. She's coming on Off The Podium. Probably not now. She's a gold medallist. She's probably too big for us, but hey, whatever. Ah, at History for Australia, we've won two medals in one day at the winter fucking Olympics. Jarrod Lubik, start the streets of parting up right now across the country, come on.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, this is insane. And finally, a run that looked good, getting a good score. The silver medal, I don't know what was going on there, but this, it made sense. Moguls make sense again. What a run, what a finish.
BEN WATERWORTH: Absolutely brilliant. Colin, how are you feeling right now?
COLIN HILDING: This has been the most wild judging I've seen in moguls ever for both the men's and women's. I'm happy, I'm obviously happy for Jakara. I'm happy for Jalen just because she was one of the three front runners that failed in the last Olympics and didn't get a shot. But also the one time I met Jalen Cough, her family shows up to these events with a giant J that they hold up in the sand so you can never miss them. And the one time I met Jalen Cough, I asked you, do you mind if I get a picture with her? And her mum was there and her mum's like, are you a fan of Jalen Cough? And I'm like, yeah, sure. Her mum is the most energetic, excitable person ever. And no joke, I got a picture. I've got it right here. So here we go. Picture of me in silver medallist, now Jalen Cough, taken by her mother. Her mother sat there and talked to me for like 10 minutes, the entire walk out of the Calgary Olympic Park, talking to me nonstop, so excited, and also a former mogul skier herself. So I'm happy for Jalen's mum. Go Jalen's mum, honorary mention for athlete of the day.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm looking at Jalen Cough and not a bad, yeah. I gotta get into mogul skiing, I think. I'm missing out here. Historic Jarrod, amazing. We called it, this is the year that we were gonna break this gold medal drought, and here we are 12 years later. I feel like I wanna be more excited. If I was at home, I would be going off right now, but again, I've got neighbours in a hotel, I don't know if they can hear me, I'm sorry. We won a gold medal, I'm sorry. But I mean, gold and bronze, I mean, 20 years ago, we were getting our first gold. 28 years ago, a bronze medal was enough. I mean, 30 years ago in Albuville, seventh was the best thing we're doing. We're winning two medals in a day now. This is crazy.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, this is insane. I'm not looking great for that four medal prediction, winning so many so early.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, slow down Australia, come on.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, right.
BEN WATERWORTH: Take a step back.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Four tests, you're not gonna get any replays tomorrow. Channel seven, cross that off the list.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I'll check with the rundown in the morning, and we'll see how that goes. But seriously, it is great. Like, this is, it is, I mean, I remember watching Lydia back in Vancouver, and I guess we probably didn't think we would take 12 years to win another gold. We started getting used to winning Winter Olympic gold, of course. But just got to say, Dale Bigg Smith laid the groundwork for this. You know, he did it 16 years ago and just had to build that up there.
COLIN HILDING: And now you finally have a proper Australian gold medallist mogul skier.
BEN WATERWORTH: You watch your mouth about Dale, all right? The Daily Dale is there for a reason, Colin Hilding, okay? On the day that Dale Bigg Smith is honoured on Dale Bigg Smith Day, you're not allowed on the episode anymore. I'm banning you from this show for your rudeness when it comes to Dale Bigg Smith. But Jacara Anthony, gold medallist, fantastic.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, so Nick's on the show. Yeah, you know, she's actually really Australian. No, no, Dale Bigg Smith, really Australian.
BEN WATERWORTH: Shut up. We're hypocrites in Australia. You deserve it. And you know what the best news about Jacara winning the gold? We're ahead of New Zealand on the medal tally.
COLIN HILDING: That lasted for about 12 hours, Nick.
BEN WATERWORTH: That's what you get when you mess with Australia in the Winter Olympics. Breaking news in the curling at the halfway point after four ends, Canada, zero, Australia, seven. Oh, the mercy rule is going to come into play in a second, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: This is the end. OK, this will be the ending to our movie now. We're going to put this movie together.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm sorry if we beat Canada in curling with a mercy rule. Jukara who? Like again, this is like if Canada played Australia in cricket and bowled us all out for like ten and won in like two deliveries. This is a spanking. Who are you, Colin? Like, curling is like, what's wrong with you?
COLIN HILDING: There's nothing to do with me. I told you coming into these Olympics, I'm pulling for Deena Talley.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, this like get everyone of our athletes COVID, all right? Talley, I want you to fucking go home tonight and celebrate. Grab Scotty James, fucking make out with him for ten minutes. Grab Laura Peele, grab Danielle Scott, grab Bree Walker, like grab them all. Grab every single athlete and make out with them. Just just foot, grab the Jamaican bobsled team, like them win a gold. Fucking just go to fucking town on everyone, all right? Like everyone that wants to win a gold. This is, you said it Colin, it's the doping of the Olympics. It's get COVID.
COLIN HILDING: This is brilliant.
BEN WATERWORTH: We've cracked the code. I mean, I just, I'm so happy, Jarrod. Seven nothing, end the game right now.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I know, this is insane. I told you once they won one, the momentum was just standing there and winning. If they'd won that first match, they wouldn't have lost any of them.
BEN WATERWORTH: They are undefeated since COVID. What a day for Australia, bronze medal, you, gold medal for Jakara, and smashing Canada and curling. This is ridiculous. And actually, in all seriousness, breaking news in the luge. We won a top 20 for Alex, after three runs, he's in 17th.
COLIN HILDING: This is brilliant.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh my God, I don't know where to look right now. The cursors in the purse over off the podium were going to beat Canada in a mercy roll in curling. Most embarrassing day for Canadian sport ever.
COLIN HILDING: John's looking really unhappy too. He's usually such a cheerful guy.
BEN WATERWORTH: I wonder, can we just go into Milan and have every single team coach us so we know all the secrets and have COVID? So I guess metal tally would be a nice update right about now. We're beating Canada at the winter Olympics on a metal tally. This is the greatest day in Australian sporting history. I'm going to use a famous phrase. If anybody sacks their employees and they're not showing up to work, you're a bum. Iconic. Norway are on top still. Fucking Norway are two gold and one bronze. Sweden in second, two gold, zero silver, zero bronze. Third rock, one gold, two silver, two bronze. Netherlands, one gold, one silver, two bronze. And in fifth place, Australia, one gold, one bronze. We are tied with Japan and Slovenia, but still, we'll take it. Stop the Olympics, stop the winter Olympics right now. Canada are equal 12th with a silver and a bronze, with Austria, come on, pick your game up. And of course, speaking of Jamaica, update on Jamaica, they are currently an equal 19th with zero gold, zero silver, and zero bronze. So they'll be pretty happy with that. I'm sure that's exceeded their expectations coming into these games. I was gonna read some fan messages from the AOC website, but I can't.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, I thought they were from our fans.
BEN WATERWORTH: Shut the fuck up and show some live sport. Oh, wait, sorry. I picked up the wrong paper there. What an exciting day. Tomorrow, we have more great stuff happening. I do have the list here somewhere. Yes, so medals being decided in both, in alpine skiing for the first time, men's downhill, hopefully we'll go ahead, the women's giant slalom as well, the biathlon, the women's individual, figure skating, the team event medals will be decided. The short track, legitimate chance for Australia here. Brendan Corey, fierce, he's the first Australian male to go through in the 1000 metres out of the heat since Bradbury on the 20th anniversary, of course, and he set an Australian record in the meantime. So the former Canadian, he was Canadian till about five minutes ago. Did you see his interview, Jarrett, after the race? That was brilliant.
JARROD LOOBEEK: That was the most Canadian interview I've ever seen as well. He was so polite and just matter of fact, to the point, and then just the ending of him saying like, thanks mate, or whatever he said at the end was just like perfect.
BEN WATERWORTH: He literally called and he's just basically being interviewed and the guy's just like, oh, so you did so well there. You picked up on that speed. What did you think of that? Yeah, I was pretty happy with that. And yes, I was like, so how are you feeling with going to the next race? Yeah, I'm really pretty confident. So on that second turn of this blah, blah, blah, and you're feeling this, and you're feeling bravary inside of you, and do you think this will be a big moment for Australia? Yeah, probably. And then they were just like, well, good luck. And then he goes, thanks mate, like he tries to do an Australian accent. He's like, thanks mate. He's brilliant. I love him. He's so good. So yeah, he's in the quarters. So anything can happen. The Women's 500m, the Ski Jumping Mix Team, get involved in that, can get on board Abby and Ali, because I know Colin wants to. In the snowboarding, the men's slope style will be on tomorrow, and the speed skating, Aideen Verst, could create history tomorrow by becoming the first athlete to win five gold medals consecutively, consecutive Olympic Games. In any event, summer or winter, if she wins a gold medal tomorrow in the 1500m, she's in with a chance, one of the greatest of all time. Also tomorrow for Off The Podium, I believe it's just Abby and Ali, because of course I've written down Charles, Eric and Greta, but Charles obviously we know is not in the 1000m, Eric did not go on the team event, and I believe Greta is not competing in the Giant Slalom tomorrow. So from an Off The Podium perspective, we'll be just keeping an eye on the mixed team in the ski jumping. And I'm looking forward to tomorrow's day of celebration for an Australian athlete, because it's an individual that I don't think anybody's heard of really, and doesn't realise the achievement that they have. So it's an exciting one. Colin, do you want to give a teaser of yours? Do you know who's tomorrow is, or do you just wake up tomorrow and go, yeah, that one?
COLIN HILDING: I'll be honest, outside of the first two, which I specifically picked for a specific day, I can just have a bunch, but I don't even have all of them. I have about a half a dozen right now, just sitting and waiting, and I'll just pick one tomorrow.
BEN WATERWORTH: Breaking news in the news. News.com.au's headline right now for Jakara Anthony winning gold medal reads, she's bloody done it. Ozzy wins gold. Now, if that's not the most Australian headline you will ever hear, then I don't know you at all. So what would Canada's be? Defer the points, it's just hug, eh?
COLIN HILDING: I can't wait to see what it is.
BEN WATERWORTH: Mikael Kingsbury apologises for not winning gold. Jarrod, a momentous day. Thank you so much. Oh, hang on, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, hang on. A breaking news in the curling. Canada, after the end of fifth round, fifth end, Canada, four, Australia, seven. All the comebacks on Colin. Closing the gap. Closing the gap. Jarrod, thank you so much. This has been a lot of fun. And in the Olympics, we're good. Two days is enough for Australia, I think, and New Zealand as well.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, end it right now.
BEN WATERWORTH: And Colin, Jesus Christ, start the enquiries into Canada. What is going on? Two days in and a silver and a bronze. Come on, pick your game up. You are being beaten by Australia and New Zealand in the Winter Olympics, Colin. This has got to, something's got to happen here.
COLIN HILDING: If I had just not kept this COVID for myself and shared with our athletes, we would have had better chance.
BEN WATERWORTH: You'd be winning medals right now. Get yourself to Beijing, quick stick.
COLIN HILDING: Somebody fly me over there. Put me on the curling team. John, you're out. I'm in, we're going to win this thing.
BEN WATERWORTH: Put Casper in a bobsled. Quickly, get him in the monobob. Come on, shut him down. Put Remy on a skeleton. Put Jamie in the Nordic combined. I'm sure she likes that. Oh, and look at this. Jakara is about to get a little gold bing duen duen. Oh, I'm getting emotional right now. This is a bug of the medal. You know, a little gold bing duen duen. Thanks everyone for listening. Remember, vote for us in the sports pod. Today's a round of applause, gentlemen. This is very worthy of being nominated for the best Olympics and Paralympics podcast at the Sports Podcast Awards. Vote now at sportspodcastawards.com. Sign, register, click on us for still leading. We are now officially the Zoey and the Jakara of podcasting. Like, subscribe, all that fun stuff. And we appreciate the support because we are fucking awesome. And that's an eight on the Jarrod joke scale. Until tomorrow, shout out to Jason Momoa. And as always, remember, you go left. What an episode, you loved every single second of it. It's Ben again, just quickly reminding you once again, if you want to help us win a sports podcast award, sportspodcastawards.com, register to vote, click on best Olympic and Paralympic podcast section, listen to the other nominees, and then go, hey, Off The Podium's awesome. They're so good. They put in so much work and so much effort, and we just love them, and they deserve to go on the podium for once. Ben's awesome, Jarrod's awesome, Colin's okay, but he's also kind of awesome. We'd really appreciate it, and particularly if you've actually listened to the rest of this and ended up here, because generally I assume you've well and truly tuned out by now. But seriously, if you're at this point of the podcast, then you're a true listener, and that means that you're a true fan, and you should vote for us. sportspodcastawards.com. Do it now. We will thank you forever, literally ever, like every episode moving forward. We will thank you forever. sportspodcastawards.com. All right, thanks for tuning in. We'll speak to you next time on Off The Podium. I'm really gonna go now. Bye.
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