PyeongChang 2018 Day 12 Review
It's a momentous day in the history of the Winter Olympics as we come to you for day 12 of PyeongChang 2018 and celebrate some moments from day 13 which involve NEW ZEALAND GETTING ON THE PODIUM....TWICE!!!! As we hide our shock factor at this amazing feat, Ben, Jarrod & Colin go over all the other stuff that needs to be talked about so that we don't get too kiwi at this point of the games. Why is American Cross-Country skiing the next big thing for our American friends? Why is Canada disappointed they won a bronze? Why is Australia disappointed in the entire team? And how hard is it for a slalom racer to actually go around the first gate? All of those and more to be discussed as we still try and work out how New Zealand did what they did...or dud what they dud...
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
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BEN WATERWORTH: Welcome back, everybody, to Off The Podium, An Olympics Podcast as we come to you for a full recap of a day that's already happened, because we're sort of doing this a day later, but who cares, because it's the Olympics and you want to listen to it anyway. Day 12 is done and dusted. Another big day, another golden day for Canada, and another day for Australia. And we also even have some pretty interesting breaking news from day 13 when we're in the midst of recording this as well. My name is Ben, joining us all the way from Emu Plains, it's Mr. Jarrod Loobeek. Jarrod, welcome back.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Thanks, great to be here.
BEN WATERWORTH: And always Mr. Kennedy himself, yet to win a gold medal, but he'll get one probably on day 14. It's Colin Hilding. Colin, welcome back.
COLIN HILDING: Thank you. Great to be here as well.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes. Well, I'm glad that you're so pumped up and happy on a day that let's just jump ahead into the present before we talk about the past. I know Canada won gold. I know that's important to talk about. I know the Canadian men's ice hockey team are through to the semis. I know lots is happening in the world of Canada, but let's just be honest. New Zealand have won a medal.
COLIN HILDING: That's right.
BEN WATERWORTH: New Zealand have won a frickin Winter Olympics medal. They've gotten a bronze in the big air at the whatever the hell it is.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, spoiler.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, sorry to spoil it. But Zoe Sadowsky-Sinott has taken the bronze medal, and this isn't even in the one where they had three finalists in it. It's absolutely crazy to think this. She's only 16, as has been pointed out to us on the Australian coverage about 100 times. She's Australian born. So, Jarrod, I've got to go to you first of all. How's this? Reactions? New Zealand, they've broken the 26 year drought. There's Party Central in Auckland, in Wellington, in Christchurch. The country's going off.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I mean, it's a bit devastating for us, but I suppose we take solace in the fact that it is just a bronze. And typical Australians trying to claim somebody who has some tenuous link to the country.
BEN WATERWORTH: No, we did say that they have to win a bronze medal. We said, no, they're not winning any other colour. And we're probably going to jinx them by saying that in terms of, you know, the fact that we know that they've got at least three people in the men's half pipe with the skiing. 26 years since Annalise Koberger took the silver on that infamous day in New Zealand's sporting history back in Albaville. What a moment. I mean, Colin, you're watching this sort of live. You're CBC pulling a Channel 7 here right now and claiming it's live then because you haven't even seen this yet.
COLIN HILDING: I mean, they're not claiming it's live. I'm just behind on my PVR. I haven't caught up to the recording yet. But it's funny because just as we were about to go on the air, Jamie was watching the New Zealander wipe out whichever run we're in right now. And then she's like, Oh, she just wiped out so hard. And I'm like, she goes on to win a bronze medal. And it's like, No, I don't think so. Unless she's doubting me because she's like, Well, then she must do something spectacular after this because that was awful.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, clearly she did. I mean, I just saying here, she's 16 years old. She looks like she's about 12 if I'm looking at a picture over here. She's already putting all the news out there. Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand's iconic news website, has the headline, Nailed It Zoe Zdowski-Sinott Takes Bronze. It's got breaking news. Kiwi Big Air snowboarder Zoe Zdowski wins bronze at the Winter Olympics. And meanwhile, I thought, would they have this on the news.com.au? Would they be breaking news about New Zealand winning a medal? Their Winter Olympic headline is live. Rich as shit Norway is crushing it. But this is actually, I messaged our good friend Nook Chester, of course, who works with us on the Oz Network. We had a bit of a segment that we recorded yesterday for the brink about this. He's pumped up, he's excited. There's parties going on right now in New Zealand. I mean, this has to be, Jarrod, their biggest ever sporting triumph ever, bigger than the World Cups and the rugby, bigger than, I mean, we beat him in the cricket last night because they suck. But I mean, this this is an iconic day for New Zealand.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I'm calling it a national holiday tomorrow. Nobody working. They'll all be hung over. And then I think, yeah, every year that goes on, it will be marked as a national holiday.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm literally looking at the other headlines on Stuff.Code. This is a day that New Zealand has once again been named the least corrupt country in the world. But that's all irrelevant because they've won a bronze medal at the Winter Olympics in a sport that only got brought in for the first time this time around. So it takes a new sport for them to finally break the dark. But that's it, New Zealand. Can we just say that's it? No more, no more medals. You've won, you've won. That's all you need. Do not get any in the ski half pipe because you will not go ahead of Australia. Then then it's gone from being happy for New Zealand to starting riots. And we will declare war on New Zealand.
COLIN HILDING: You could solve this very easily by just inviting every New Zealand winter athlete on Off The Podium to guarantee they don't win anymore.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, it would only take about an hour to get through them. Oh, has Tom?
COLIN HILDING: Hello, Tom?
BEN WATERWORTH: How'd you go on the skiing? Oh, pretty good, Brew. Should also mention that it was almost going to be a poor day for New Zealand to come on this show because we mentioned how they made the quarter, the semis of the team pursuit and out of the four teams in the semifinals, where do you think they finished? Fourth, they got the tin medal. So they got their second fourth of the games, but that's all a dusting memory. Outside of this, Colin Hilding, take us through another golden day for Canada. Let's go back into the past. Day 12, I was watching this live and Brady Lemon, is he the new National Treasurer of Canada and United Gold Medal of these games?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, he is. And I don't think he was on anybody's radar before this happened. I don't know if he was on anybody's radar halfway through the race. I mean, it almost feels like it was a default medal because everybody dropped out except for him and one other guy. But I mean, it was still exciting. I kind of woke up to seeing the news about this. That's the one unfortunate thing about the schedule we have right now, is that I get the notifications on my phone saying when we want to gold before I actually have a chance to watch it. But I mean, it was still great to watch and great that we have a new Olympic hero because this Olympics has been weird for Canada that most of our athletes that we really had high hopes for have kind of just fallen flat on their face. But then you get these unknowns like Brady Lehman, who's the new star of Canada. I mean, they're going to give him like a star on the Canadian Walk of Athletes fame or fortune or whatever those things are. He's going to be prime minister by the end of the week.
BEN WATERWORTH: Which I mean, just looking, I was looking at this yesterday in terms of how you've gone recently at the Winter Games because obviously Vancouver, you top the medal tally, 14 gold a record which Norway are possibly going to beat, but we won't talk about that. Then in Sochi, you got 10. So if you win one more gold, which hopefully will happen today in the Women's Ice Hockey, we'll get to that, you will for the third consecutive Olympics get into the double digits, which you'd never been double digits before in Winter Olympics. So I mean, I'm sure that you're walking away from these games no matter what happens. I was taking this as a successful one because I mean, no matter what happens at the current time, you've got the third most gold medals you've ever gotten in a Winter Olympics and more than likely will probably add to that tally in the final few days.
COLIN HILDING: It's just weird for us to see Canada place so much higher than the United States on the medal tally. I think that's probably our biggest bragging rights. And that's the thing that I mean, I don't even think I've really been keeping track of how many medals, you know, versus how much is left for us to win. It's more just like, we're still ahead of the United States. Like, how is this possible? I don't know if this, if you have any statistics on how the US is performing compared to past Olympics. It feels like growing up, it was always like the US in the top three spots, and now they're, what, like struggling to hit top five?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, well, I can look at that right now. So currently, they're six gold, four silver, six bronze. Sochi, they finished with nine gold, seven silver, 12 bronze. They actually haven't gone double digits to US since Salt Lake when they got 10 gold, 13 silver, 11 bronze. So each Olympic since Salt Lake, they've won nine gold. Vancouver, they won 37 medals. They got 15 silver. I do, from memory, think they got more medals than you in Vancouver. They just weren't winning the gold. So yeah, it is interesting, because I kind of look at that too, because I mean, I actually was the other day, I was thinking to myself, who is the most overall, like the greatest sporting country in the world? I'm talking like winter, summer, like all the weird sports in the world. There's actually a website. It's like sportingrankings.com or something, where they have an algorithm to essentially work this out. It's very fascinating. I definitely recommend you guys looking it up. America are clearly out on top. Canada is ninth, and Australia are tenth, according to the latest rankings. Canada apparently is a better sporting nation than Australia. But yeah, I mean, I assume, I'm with you there. I always assume America are gonna go a lot better. They were fourth in Sochi. Canada were third. So yeah, I mean, but I mean, this is party central then for a bit, because you're three gold ahead of America right now. So unless they upset you in the women's ice hockey today, I think you guys really have got a big enough gap to maintain it over them.
COLIN HILDING: I mean, that will be the one thing we won't be able to recover from, because I think we're headed for, if we win gold, what will this be? Like the sixth straight gold, or will it be fifth for Canada for women's hockey?
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, I think it would be fifth, 2002, sixth, 10th, 14th, 15th, yeah. Because you lost in Nagano, didn't you?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, the bigger deal being that, you know, the rivalry with the American team, and that's the one sport, I can't even just say sport, that's like the one section of a sport, you know, just women's hockey, that is like a real rivalry, where there's like, you know, animosity between the teams and everything. Because I remember the big deal that was coming out of Sochi was that there was this moment in the third period where Canada was trailing, and one of the American players came up to the bench and basically said, you know, how does it feel now? You guys are going to lose. And then Canada came back from being behind and ended up winning. So I don't know, the Americans are probably really anxious to win this one. But having said that, I was at one of the five exhibition games that Canada and US had going into these Olympics. And I think Canada won four out of those five. I guess that was like three of them were in Canada or two of them were in Canada and three were in the United States. So it's not even like a home advantage. But if we lose that one, I think that's when everybody in this country is going to cry. We've already lost in women's curling. So if we lose in women's hockey as well, women everywhere are just going to give up sports. It's going to be over.
BEN WATERWORTH: This is more of a lock. And I think you talked about this, isn't it, than the men's? Because I mean, we'll talk about the men's shortly, but I mean, that was kind of very unknown. Whereas, obviously the women, it was kind of this. And yeah, you're four in a row. This will be your fifth in a row should you do it. And when I watched the round-robin match, there was pushing and shoving, and I haven't really seen a whole lot of fighting in women's ice hockey, so I was into it. This is great. So yeah, I'm intrigued to see how that plays out. But you also did get a bronze. Oh, go ahead, yes.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, we actually had a fight break out right at the end of the exhibition, the Canada-US exhibition we had here in Winnipeg back in, I think that was in December. It was like the very end of the game and like the last seconds, it's just the two teams piling on top of each other. And the same thing happened when they played, oh, it was about a week ago when the two teams played. It was like right at the end of the game. So, they're gonna probably be very well behaved and then I guarantee within the last five minutes, there's just gonna be a riot.
BEN WATERWORTH: Always, always should be. You got a bronze two in the bobsled, the women's two, two women bobsled, Kayleigh Humphreys and Felicia George. I mean, I love the bobsled, I do, but I mean, there always seems to be a bit of, it wasn't as exciting as the men's two men. I'll just point it out with the tie at the end. But I mean, it was still interesting, but it was always gonna be a fight between USA and Germany in this one, it seemed. But you got another medal.
COLIN HILDING: And this is one of the big disappointments though, I said, because we had such high hopes for Kayleigh Humphreys winning the gold, because she won gold in both Vancouver and Sochi in this. And if she had won gold, and going into this throughout the World Cup events, she was the heavy favourite to win gold here. Had she won gold, she would have become the first Canadian to ever win three back-to-back golds in either summer or winter. And unfortunately, I watched her first two runs, and the commentators were even commenting that she was progressively getting slower, and they were saying, oh, it must have been some type of equipment problem. And then it came out in the middle of the day, oh yeah, they were having some type of equipment problems with their sled. And of course, they came back in the last two runs or whatever, but it just, it wasn't enough to come back from those first two. So, I mean, as exciting as it is that we still medalled there, I know that everybody, including Kayleigh Humphries, is probably our most serious athlete. I guarantee she's probably beating herself up right now, and that's considered more, I think, you know, great we got a bronze, but disappointed because we really did expect the gold in that one.
BEN WATERWORTH: You can definitely tell the Australian perspective here, where I'm like, yeah, it's great you guys got a bronze in the Winter Olympic. And you're like, dude, that sucks. Like, we didn't want the bronze. Yeah. Stupid bronze. Jarrod, for Australian perspective, speaking of not winning medals, the ladies downhill, Greta Small yesterday, she was 20th, great job for her. The cross-country skiing, look at this for a result. Sixth position in the semi-final. Jessica Yeaton and Barbara Jezusek, I think they put their rivalry aside there, Jarrod, for that one. And Colin Watson and Phil Bellingham were 13th in their semi-final. Seriously, you look at this and you see the sixth next to it, and you're like, wow, Australia did well. Oh wait, semi-final. And Kalani Crane, you know she's not gonna win a medal because she's been on our show. She was 16th in the freeskate style of the women's, what do you call it, the single solo?
COLIN HILDING: Short program.
BEN WATERWORTH: Short program, that too. Some of them are tall though. That's a bad joke. Lady Singles, that's the word I'm looking for, which was enough for her to get through to-
COLIN HILDING: Single ladies?
BEN WATERWORTH: I didn't hear any Beyonce. It's enough for her to get through to the long program or the main. She's through to the next bit. So she beat a Canadian, so yay Australia.
COLIN HILDING: Did she?
BEN WATERWORTH: She did. There's one Canadian. You are, your third, seventh, and that's it. But you also had- Larkin Ostman was 25th. And good news for Kalani, she beat her great Ukrainian rival in Anna Kchnitshynkova. I'm sure she'll be very happy with that. Anton Grimas, 30th in the seeding, and then he was out of his 1.8 final in the ski cross. And that was it from Australia perspective. How are we going, Jarrod Australia? I think most of Australia's gone home at this point. Jarrod uses our flag bearer for the closing ceremony. Maybe there's some news for us, anything else we need to talk about for Australia? Because our media is already starting to bash us, aren't they?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, they're kind of getting on that trend, but I bought into the hype with, I shouldn't have. I bought into the hype with this ski cross because they're talking about how, he was the fastest in practice all week, and then he crashed in his seeding run, but before he crashed, his time was way under everybody else. Like, yep, he's got the fastest time. He's a real shot here. And then, obviously, he crashed and injured the collarbone, and that was that.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I mean, we've got Sammy Kennedy seen because she's been on the show, so again, you know she's not gonna get a medal, but at the time of recording, I think she's ranked about ninth in the seeding, so good news for her. But yeah, I mean, I've seen these media articles that are starting to go like, disappointment for Australia, so much hopes, and once again, we'll go out with gold. We haven't won a gold since Vancouver. And like, I say this, I've said it before, but I just don't get the bashing of this. And like, it happens in the Summer Olympics more, but the Winter Olympics again, I think we should just leave these. It's proudest punch that we even win any medals. Again, I've said this plenty of times, you know, I grew up remembering when it was so celebrated, we'd win one bronze medal. That's all it took for us to be happy. And I get it, it's developed. We're at a point where we should be winning gold. I understand that, but we can still leave a Winter Olympics with three medals, two silver and a bronze. And I'm sure that every single person who's coming away from these games is gonna be happy with our performance. And just, I think it's unfair that the media bashes us. I mean, is Canada ever this harsh? I mean, I know you kind of mentioned a bit of their Colin, but I mean, if Canada had left these games with like three gold, a silver and a bronze, would you guys be getting like ripped into like big time?
COLIN HILDING: We don't so much bash as we just like express extreme disappointment. You know, that's where we were about 15 years ago or whatever. I guess every game is leading up to Vancouver. It was more just like, oh, really wish we'd done better. But hey, good try, guys. I don't think a Canadian has it in them to really bash anybody.
BEN WATERWORTH: I just think it's unfair for us in the winter. The Australian media pays attention to these athletes once every four years. I don't think they have a right to criticise them for coming home with this. Like Summer Olympics, a little bit, yeah, but even then, I still think you should be proud of any performance coming out of the games. Commonwealth Games are the only ones I think that, yeah, like if we end up fifth behind like Nigeria and like St. Kitts and Nevis, then yeah, that's pretty fair enough, but like the Olympics, I think, are different. So, I mean, Jarrod, do you really have any opinions? Because I just really think it's harsh that, I mean, you look at someone like David Morris, look at half of these athletes who, you know, we're disappointed for them, of course we are, we want to see them win medals. But you know, David Morris holds his head up high and is just like, look, you know, I just got 10th in an Olympics, I'm happy with this, you know, and most of these people, most of these people have the same mindset, particularly as we've gone over, the Winter Olympians compared to the Summer Olympians.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, and I think you have to kind of look at the size of our team as well. Like, it's not like we're some massive force. There's so many events that we're not kind of represented in. And I think that's kind of where the conversation needs to go and where we need to start is let's kind of get people into these events that we're not competing in. Let's kind of build it up rather than tearing down our athletes who maybe don't do so well. And the fact that like we've walked away with three medals, I mean, that's like eagling our best like whole of medals, maybe not in terms of gold, but in terms of overalls. So I think how can you kind of be disappointed with that when you've done pretty much just as good as we did last time around?
BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly.
COLIN HILDING: Don't you think you should be more like the Kiwis?
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm walking a lot more fourths than fifths. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I think like you're absolutely right. Three Olympics in a row, we've won three medals now, which is amazing. Again, go back 20 years when we walked away with one. If you had said that to anyone, we would have taken that, you know, in droves. And you look at the medal tally right now, we're technically ahead of Finland, who, like, if you think about Finland, like a great winter nation, they won four bronzes, you know? I mean, all it takes is New Zealand to win a silver medal. They're ahead of Finland as well. We're ahead of Liechtenstein, you know? Like, come on. But yeah, I mean, it's just, it's hard enough hearing it after the summer games, and it's like, I just think it's even worse that they bash it in the winter games. It's just, be proud. We've won two silvers and a bronze. It's fantastic, I think, for Australia. Other medals that happened on day 12 that we will quickly go over, just the medal bits here. The Women's Downhill, the Blue Ribbon event for the women of the games. It was gold for Italy, Sophia Gorgia. She took the gold ahead of Norway's Ragnald Moikel, the Norwegian skier. And Lindsay Vaughan, bronze medal. Oh, I haven't seen her Twitter, though. Is she happy about this? Has anyone looked?
COLIN HILDING: I did see her post a bit of an excuse here. Turns out my skis got burnt out in the race yesterday, and she posted a picture. I guess these were supposed to be burnt out skis. My technician thinks it happened on the second gate. Have to race on another pair today. Hopefully they'll survive and stay fast the whole way down.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, my God. Just, you got a bronze medal, all right? Jesus Christ. I'm sure every single person who finished below you would gladly take that medal, young, grateful knobhead. Jesus Christ. I like Ryan Lochte better. I'm saying it right now.
COLIN HILDING: Can I just add, this is fresh. This wasn't on my page when we started this, but about 30 minutes ago, she tweeted, man, I forgot to wear deodorant today. If I hug you, don't judge me.
BEN WATERWORTH: Damn it, I was gonna hug her later, so I'm not going to now. But Lichtenstein's Tina, the Lichtensteinian ski, and you only got another medal. She was fourth. So yeah, that would have been great to see two medals for Lichtenstein. Canada, oh, Greta Small beat a Canadian. Yes, a victory for Australia again. Greta Small was 20th. Valerie Greiner for Canada was 21st. Ronnie Remi was 23rd for Canada. And Candice Crawford, sadly, was dead last. She didn't finish. That must have been the saddest moment of Dak Tor for Canada there, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: We almost had her on the show right before the Olympics started here, so at least we can wash our hands clean of her three event failures she's had.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's clearly communication, at least, will also make you crash. As we said in the bobsleigh, Canada with the bronze, Germany took the gold, USA took the silver, Canada also were sixth and seventh, and Jamaica were 19th. They beat their great bobsled rivals of Nigeria, who were 20th. Cross country, the men's team sprint. It was gold for Norway, silver for the Olympic athletes from Russia, bronze for France. Can we just talk about the Olympic athletes from Russia? Still yet to win a gold. God, they're terrible. The drugs, only the curlers are on the drugs. But like everyone else.
COLIN HILDING: You people need to start shooting up again, come on.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jesus Christ. An embarrassment to your country. The great nation of Olympic athletes from Russia are embarrassed for you all right now. Canada were eighth in that one. And the women's cross country skiing, I had to double take at this, because when you think of the great nations of cross country skiing, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, you know, all these great nations, France, Germany, I never think of the great cross country skiing nation of the United States of America. Apparently their very first ever gold medal in the sport, but congratulations to America. Kikan Randall and Jessica Diggins took the gold in this one ahead of Sweden and Norway. I don't know, did any of you see this? Like, I just don't think of America and cross country skiing. Anyone at all? No?
COLIN HILDING: No.
BEN WATERWORTH: All big American fancy. So they're gonna be treated like heroes.
COLIN HILDING: I bet you, now that they've won a medal, they're gonna become incredibly douchey in the sport.
BEN WATERWORTH: They're probably like the most obscure American Olympic gold medallists ever. I don't know how Americans treat their Olympic gold medallists, because like, you know, in Australia, we know they get a stamp. They're generally highly revered. Pretty much most Australians after the Olympics will know who's won our gold medals. I'm sure it's the same in Canada. I mean, America win like 30 of these a day in the Summer Olympics, so they just come home and say, oh, you only won a silver, don't want to talk to you. Like, I mean, it's, I feel this is how Americans treat them, but like, is Jessica Diggins going to like walk into a Burger King in like a month's time with a gold medal around her neck? Oh, what did you win that in? Snowboarding, skiing, figure skating? Nah, man, cross-country skiing. What's that? Like, the great Olympian of Jessica Diggins. Yeah, she might be my new favourite Olympian. Good on you, Jessica Diggins, for being Jessica Diggins. The men's ski cross, as we said, gold, Canada. Silver, to maybe my favourite athlete's name ever, Mark Bischoffberger from Switzerland. And Sergei Rydzik from Olympic Athletes of Russia. I was sad, though, watching that, Colin, because when the Russian and the Canadian crashed, Kevin Drury, he had a bit of a Drury day, I was waiting for one of them to get up, and like, oh, here comes someone, oh, it's the Russian. So I nearly thought you were gonna get gold and bronze. You nearly could have had three, you could have had 75% of the field, because you had David Duncan didn't make it into the final, but you had two athletes in the heat to the second semi-final. So very close there for having a 75% sweep of the final.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah. Which sport were we talking about again?
BEN WATERWORTH: Ski Cross, the one where you won the gold. Brady Lehmann, the new hero of Canada.
COLIN HILDING: I mean, it was just constant wipeouts, because we had, I don't know if this was one you're talking about, if it was during the semis, Chris Del Bosco. He wiped out, I mean, he was taking out a stretcher. It was like a very dramatic wipeout, like probably one of the biggest injuries I've seen during the Olympics so far.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, and I think we did mention that one. But you get the gold medal, so congratulations. In the speed skating, the men's team pursuit, as we said, New Zealand, sadly fourth, but Norway took the gold ahead of South Korea. And for the second consecutive day, Jarrod, the Netherlands pick up a bronze by winning the B final. So we can see the Dutch here doing quite well. That's their tactic now, isn't it, Jarrod? Just win the B final, we'll get a bronze.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think they've kind of just a little bit over all that skating, so they're just phoning in for the bronze.
BEN WATERWORTH: Did you see that, Colin? Did you see all the controversy around the women's 3,000 metre short track relay when Canadians were robbed of a medal? I don't even get what happened in that still to this day.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, I mean, it was running for about 11 minutes as they were deciding on it. And I was kind of watching it, but I was getting ready for work at the same time, so I wasn't listening to the whole thing. I just remember them cutting to a shot of the Canadians, and it looked like they started celebrating, and then they come back and they show that they're out of it completely. And I'm like, were they just really excited to finally have a decision after 11 minutes? And that's what they were celebrating for, but it was pretty disappointing. I mean, again, it's, I guess, speed skating outside of Sam Jarrod, and who is the other one? I can't remember her name now.
BEN WATERWORTH: The long track.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, we've basically, no, I mean, it was the other short track.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, the short track.
COLIN HILDING: The social media bullying.
BEN WATERWORTH: Putin, wasn't it?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, yeah, Putin. Between her and Sam Jarrod, I mean, they've won everything. And this is again, like, one of Canada's national sports. You know, short track speed skating, long track speed skating, whatever it is. Speed skating, growing up, it was like, you know, that's what we clung to during the Winter Olympics, that and hockey. So it's been kind of a disappointment all around for speed skating this year.
BEN WATERWORTH: And poor old Charles Hamilton crashed out again in the 500. No, he got a penalty, I think, didn't he? Or something like that.
COLIN HILDING: I'm at the point where I'm expecting to just see him, you know, as disqualified.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, he's got the relay to go, so I look forward to them getting disqualified in that again. But, yeah, it was gold in the women's team pursuit. Japan took the gold in the Olympic and track record, if you don't mind, ahead of the Dutch. Americans beat Canadians in the bronze medal B finals. So sadly, just missed out by half a second there. In the curling, the men's. Well, the good news, one side of the curling for Canada is that you've got one team through to the semifinals. The Canadian men finished second overall, so they'll play the US in the semis. They went down to the US, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, in the round robin. So hopefully, they can get that back. Obviously, it'll happen in the mixed doubles. The other teams in the other semifinal, again, poor Mallory will be confused because Sweden and Switzerland are playing each other. And did the Swedes go through undefeated? No, they ended up losing too, but there you go. But the women, what happened? Colin, the women just... They lost a few, then they started on a streak, then they lost a couple more, and they finished in sixth. Like, what happened?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, I mean, I hate to say it. I mean, you probably don't even recognise my profile pic right now, but my profile pic is Eve Muirhead, who actually just beat Canada and took the women out of the Olympics. Who is my favourite curler, male, female, in any country? More just because she has celiac disease, and I feel like I have to support my fellow diseased curling lover here, but...
BEN WATERWORTH: I love her because she's got a disease.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, but I was unfortunately rooting against Canada. I mean, for one, Rachel Hohmann, she didn't really start us off on the best note for Canada. And I don't know, I always support Eve Muirhead. So whether it's Canada going down or not, I mean, I'm happy that Eve Muirhead won.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, the good news is for the host nation, they just dominated that. They only lost one game along the way. Is South Korea generally considered a great nation of curling? I've never heard this before. And all of a sudden, they've gone through losing one match and they're through the number one seed and they'll play Japan. What happened there?
COLIN HILDING: Isn't there always one event that the host nation just ends up dominating on where they really shouldn't? And it's just kind of that home advantage. I mean, I feel like this happened, you know, in Torino, it happened in Sochi. There's always something where it's like, well, how did they pull that off? I think it's just the home advantage. Plus, I noticed the same thing, you know, with curling in Sochi is that the crowds, it's like one of the craziest crowds you'll get, and they probably shouldn't be as loud and as rambunctious as they are, but there's something that's following curling from one Olympics to the next, where the crowd's just insane.
BEN WATERWORTH: Hmm, I'm thinking, that's a good point actually to make about the host nation. Jarrod, I'm thinking back to Sydney. I'm either thinking of Simon Fairweather winning the archery gold medal, which is something we'd never done and we'd never done since, or the beach volleyball girls winning the gold. I mean, I know they won the bronze in Atlanta, but I mean, beach volleyball, you'd think we'd be good at it, but it's not something we've really come out since with. I mean, we won 16 gold in Sydney, but I'm guessing they might be the two. I don't know if you have much memory of our golds in Sydney, Jarrod.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I just remember, yeah, particularly the archery gold that was unexpected, but I think we should be definitely testing the Koreans to make sure they're not taking any Mildonium.
BEN WATERWORTH: I still remember that gold in the archery. I love that gold. That was just such a random gold for Australia to win. It's almost like Chloe Esposito two years ago winning the modern bed title. I'm like, where does that come from? But yeah, so Sweden will play Great Britain in the other semifinal there. So sadly, Canada can't win a gold in that one. The figure skating, as we said before, the top three, Alina Zagitova from the Olympic Athletes of Russia and a world record score, 82.92. Colin, Jarrod and I were going over this yesterday. Since when can you get world records in figure skating? I didn't realise this was a thing.
COLIN HILDING: I mean, is it based on the fashion or the performance? I don't know.
BEN WATERWORTH: Like, I just feel like the judges will be looking there at their score. They're like, oh, shit, they've only got an 82.50. If we give them a little bit more, they'll get a world record. Like, I just feel like it's a sport where you can't and you shouldn't have a world record.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, I mean, especially if you have Russian judges in there, you know that it's going to be a bit of an unfair advantage.
BEN WATERWORTH: Do they test the Russian judges for drugs? Like, do they get the same scrutiny? Second was also Russia, a vagina, a Vagina, Evie Medvedeva from Russia. And maybe my new favourite athlete, who sadly we don't do the Ben's Future Wife segment anymore because I have one of those. But if we didn't, Caitlin Osmond might be someone who I would be very intrigued to talk more about.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, just wait till we get to her profile today.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, can't wait. The Canadian figure skater. I like Caitlin Osmond. And I'm just looking here. She's actually one year older than my current Canadian girlfriend. So we're safe there. Just making sure she wasn't like 16 year old snowboarder or anything like that. Finland took the bronze in the women's ice hockey. Congratulations to them. They beat Olympic athletes from Russia, Canada and USA to play off of the gold today. The men's tournament, I was up last night to 1.30 in the morning watching Canada go over the team from Finland. Well, it's kind of sad. I wish they weren't playing Finland because Finland's maybe like my second team in the ice hockey. So I would have liked that to be the gold medal match. But in the other result, Czech Republic over the US in a shootout. The Czech Republic's always sneak through in shootouts. So no more America. I put the Mickey on them yesterday, Jarrod, when I said I think I've got a good feeling for them. That happened with Chumpy as well. And Russia thrashed Norway 6-1. But the boil over, my goodness, Germany beat Sweden in overtime. Now, again, when I think of great nations of ice hockey, Sweden is easily out there. They won the silver in Sochi, won the gold in Lillehammer. I mean, they're a great nation when it comes to ice hockey. Germany, well, I had to look this up. I'm like, have they even medalled in ice hockey? They did like back in the 20s. They won a bronze, but like they have not done shit all in ice hockey since. This is a huge upset, Colin, that Germany knocked out Sweden and will now play Canada for a spot in the gold medal game.
COLIN HILDING: Well, I mean, when you run down the list of famous German players in the NHL, like Leon Dreissotl, Marco Sturm, Tom Kuhnockl.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, I mean, this is the who's who of like NHL All-Stars here.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's crazy. They won a bronze medal. Actually, no, I'll correct myself. They won bronze in 1932, and then they won bronze in 1976. But they have not, if you look at the World Championships, they have not medalled since 1953. So this is an absolute boil over. And you compare that to Sweden, who again, they were still medallists four years ago. And I'm sure that after all the success Sweden have had in this game, this is like a national emergency. Like Sweden going out in the quarters to Germany.
COLIN HILDING: You know what? They're going to have to merge with Switzerland for future games for hockey teams.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, it's the second consecutive game that Germany's knocked out of Sweden or Switzerland because they beat Switzerland 2-1 in overtime, then they beat Sweden in overtime. Did you see any of this, Jarrod? I mean, this was on very late last night.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I didn't, but I think sometimes you just have those games where your countries kind of can't put a foot wrong. And I think Pyeongchang, that's definitely kind of Germany. They're just kind of racking up the medals and the results in the upsets.
BEN WATERWORTH: And for you, though, Colin, for Canada, I mean, you'd want Germany over Sweden in the semi, wouldn't you? I mean, you know, their luck's got to run out, you'd think, and it's going to be, quote, the easier game. I guess that's what Sweden probably thought. But I mean, is Canada looking at it that way? Like, oh, great, we've got Germany. This should be better to get into the gold medal game.
COLIN HILDING: Again, it's all so up in the air with the hockey that you don't really know what to think. I mean, I mentioned it a couple of times already this week, but, you know, this whole tournament or whatever started with, like, Slovenia and Slovakia upsetting US and Russia. I mean, you really don't know what's going to happen. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if we even lost in the semifinals at this point. I'm hoping we don't, but, you know.
BEN WATERWORTH: I want you to go for your three in a row, your three gold in a row, because obviously Vancouver, Sochi, take out bloody Turin where you choked, and you would have won five in a row, basically. But, yeah, have you ever won three in a row? No, you started off the very first four Olympics, the great games of Antwerp, when it was back in the summer games, of course, and then Chamonix, St Moritz and Lake Placid. Between 1920 and 1932, Canada were undefeatable. You then went on to win the silver in 1936 before winning gold in 48 and 52. So between 1920 and 1952, you made every single gold medal game, and you only lost one of them. That's a great period of Canadian ice hockey, but we're rooting for three in a row here at least. No pressure on them at all. Men's Big Air, the qualifying of that. God, it's just getting better for New Zealand, is it not? The highest qualifier for the Men's Big Air was the steamed fourth place finisher from the Ski Cross, Carlos Garcia Knight. Holy shit, New Zealand can win multiple medals. He's the fastest qualifier. But three Canadians through to the Men's Big Air final, Mark McMorris, Max Serentz-Perot, I'm saying his name again wrong, aren't I? And Sebastian Tautant. Tautant. Sebastian got through. Good on you, Sebastian. And I feel like I've gone over everything that I can go over. Alright, I'm taking a breath. Colin, what did you watch on day 12?
COLIN HILDING: I mean, most of what we've covered, I saw Brady Lehmans win. I spent most of my evening watching my favourite Eve Muirhead defeat Canada. And I caught a little bit of the Canada-Finland hockey game as well. I didn't get to watch the whole thing. And the bobsled, I mean, I was glued to the woman's bobsled all the way up until the end when we won a bronze. So disgusted.
BEN WATERWORTH: You won New Zealand's medal.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, exactly. The New Zealand gold goes to Canada. And yeah, we were just watching the woman's big air as we came on air here, which is I think Jamie's new favourite event. And she's going to love it even more when the men's big air starts because it's got Max Pearl and Mark McMorris. And I think I sat through Caitlin Osmond's skate of the six hours of the women's short program from last night.
BEN WATERWORTH: You're lucky. We got about 15 last night, I think, on Channel 7.
COLIN HILDING: I mean, in all honesty, I mean, I don't mind figure skating, but does anybody sit there and watch the whole thing, especially when the replays are longer than the screen itself?
BEN WATERWORTH: They force us to watch it.
COLIN HILDING: Do you watch the replays or do you just skip them?
BEN WATERWORTH: No.
COLIN HILDING: I wait until I can skip the replays.
BEN WATERWORTH: They show the replays or the replays or the... We don't have a choice, Colin. You don't know how bad it is here. It's still showing right now. They've shown Kalani skate like so many times. I'm like, get over it, Kalani.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, I mean, I was able to tough it out to watch a few of the Caitlin Osmond replays at least. So, I mean, that's going to be exciting going into... When is that? Tomorrow night that goes on?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, sir. Yes, I do believe it.
COLIN HILDING: We can do live commentary maybe?
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, fuck it. It can't be any worse than Channel 7. Jarrod, in between the replays of Calani Crane, what else did you watch on Day 12?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I caught bits and pieces of the bobsled in between the replays, of course, because they wouldn't show the full event. And then, other than that, I sat through the freestyle skiing, which was just a big disappointment for Australia. And then the speed skating, the men's and women's team pursuit, which far out the semifinal between Korea and New Zealand. New Zealand were winning for every single lap except for the last one. And they lost it by less than a second. I was convinced watching it. I was like, New Zealand is going to go into the gold medal race. They're going to be guaranteed a gold or a silver. What is happening? And then thankfully, Korea got them on the last lap. But up until then, they had the entire race ahead of the Koreans. So I was just thankful that that didn't eventuate.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, you've got to say, that's probably spurred them on to get this bronze today. And they're probably just going to sweep the halfpipe. They're going to get Carlos Garcia is going to get a gold in the big air. They're going to leave these games with like two gold or silver and two bronze. And then we're going to be like, fuck. Like, what is going on? Yeah, I caught the freestyle. I caught the ski cross. Then I was out for Mosul last night. By the time I got home, they were showing the pursuit of the speed skating. And I was just like wanting them to show the Canada game on the main channel. So I was watching that on my tablet. And then they cut to the Canada game just as Canada got the goal. And then, of course, they decided to split screen it with the Germany-Sweden game. Because we have to be honest, that was actually a really good game. Like, Germany were leading, I think, 3-1 in the last period. Sweden got back and tied it up. And then Germany caused getting overtime. So it was actually quite exciting. But Channel 7 decided, oh, fuck Canada versus Finland. We're showing Germany versus Sweden. I was like, no! So I had to resort to my tablet watching both games. But I saw a bit of the bobsled too. They showed that. So that's what I saw. Just backtracking. I'll just quickly in the medal tally. I forgot to mention that. Top five. Norway, 13 gold, 11 silver, 9 bronze. Canada, nervous though about this. Because if Norway win one more gold, they equal your record from Vancouver for most gold medals in our winter games.
COLIN HILDING: But having said that, we have, like, what, 16 new events this year alone.
BEN WATERWORTH: True, true. That's why New Zealanders are happy that they're there, because they can actually win medals in them. Germany, too, could also do this. So they're on 12 gold, 7 silver, 5 bronze. Let's be honest, we'd rather Germany beat it than Norway, right? Like, you know, not Norway. No, no one cares, right? Canada, 9 gold, 5 silver, 7 bronze. USA, 6 gold, 5 silver, 6 bronze. And the Dutch, all their medals coming in speed skating, 6 gold, 6 silver, 4. They are the Jamaica of the winter Olympics. They just win all their medals. But you look at the middle, Jamaica has won 6 gold, a silver and a bronze. They are pretty good. They have all come into one sport. And South Korea now, 4 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze. Australia, 21st place, 2 silver, 1 bronze. And New Zealand, equal 25th with the great nations of Kazakhstan, Latvia and Liechtenstein. When you think of the great nations of the winter, the future nations of the winter Olympics, they are all on a solitary bronze medal. Of course, I will say that's updated to include the medal from day 13, which of course is happening as we're recording. Athlete of the day, let's go with you, Jarrod. Who have we got today?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, in the spirit of New Zealand getting plenty of praise, I've gone with a New Zealander from the Speed Skating. So you watch this event, they're in their suits, you can't see their hair, you don't know like what they really look like under their getup. So the team finishes, and then this New Zealand skater, Peter Michael pulls back his hood, and he is rocking the best mullet I have ever seen. Like this thing, far out, it deserves a medal just for the hair.
BEN WATERWORTH: Did they do a hair montage like in Rio then? I whip my hair back and forth, I whip my hair, no?
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, but they should have. I hope that they'll just include it in Tokyo. They'll just have this little clip from the Winter Games just with the mullet.
BEN WATERWORTH: And they'll include the Norwegian dude with the moustache. I'm just like stroking the moustache.
COLIN HILDING: Moustachio Viking.
BEN WATERWORTH: Moustachio Viking, the great Norwegian ski jumper. Colin, who's your athlete of the day?
COLIN HILDING: Well, I'm going to put the vote out there for Eve Merehead. I don't think I need to sell it. It's just a lock, everybody agrees. Move on. I do have to ask though, I'm assuming I'm a day or two behind here. You guys probably picked, what was it, the day before, that, what was she, in the half-pipe, that Eddie the Eagle-ed her way to being the worst Olympian ever?
BEN WATERWORTH: The great Hungarian. I've forgotten her name already, Jeremy. Yes. She was amazing.
COLIN HILDING: Which, again, Canadians, polite as you can get for anything, and the flash that came across my phone was basically saying, is this the worst Olympian in history? Canadians were so upset about it apparently. I'm like, this is amazing. This is like true Eddie the Eagle.
BEN WATERWORTH: But did you get serious commentary? Because if you find the footage of ours, our commentators are legitimately treating this like she's the most amazing. Like, oh, well, good form there. Oh, she landed that trick well. They're not laughing. They're actually treating this. What did they say, Jarrod? It was like, oh, she'll be disappointed she didn't land that trick or something. Now, that really cost her.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, disappointed she didn't get a grab on any of her tricks. And I'm sitting there, I'm like, what tricks? She went side to side, and then she did a little backwards bit at the end.
BEN WATERWORTH: But Colin, I don't know if you got the full story of her, the fact that she basically, she ran for governor against Arnold Schwarzenegger as a 19-year-old. She was so desperate to compete in the Olympics that she had to find, America wouldn't take her. Then her next option was Hungary because of her grandparents. And they basically said, sure, finishing the World Cup in a couple of top 30 positions, and we'll let you go. So she deliberately chose the World Cup events where all the top skiers weren't competing, where there was only like 24 or 25 competitors. So even if she crashed out, she was still classified in the top 30. And then that basically got her a role at the Olympics. I love this woman.
COLIN HILDING: I mean, that's even better than Eddie the Eagle getting in by winning, or not even winning, competing in a seniors competition in England.
BEN WATERWORTH: This woman seriously needs a movie made after her. Like, she's just incredible. It's so funny. And she actually wanted to actually go into Skeleton. I'm reading more about here as well. So, yeah, there's just so much about her. She's seriously... She's got a master's degree from Harvard. So, like, she's a smart woman. So, she's actually intelligent.
JARROD LOOBEEK: She managed to get in there.
COLIN HILDING: You know who we have to pair her up with? We have to pair her up with John Morris, the Canadian curler with Caitlin Laws.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yep, yep, yep. What's his nickname?
COLIN HILDING: Oh, Jomo or something like that.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, yeah. If we do at the end of these games, like our start of the games, it's between her or Esther. Esther can still win this gold in the Snowborne in a couple of days. So she will just be the star no matter what. But Elizabeth Swaney and Esther Ladeca, I want them both on as a co-interview. The best episode we would have ever done. I'm giving the athlete of the day, just because I also like saying her name, because, you know, why not, to the great American cross-country skier, Jessica Diggins. Sorry, Kakan Randall, you're pretty good, but Jessica Diggins takes it for me. Like, a momentous day for American cross-country skiing. And Jessica Diggins, a new national hero. I'm sure she's going to replace Lindsay Vaughan as the poster girl for the Winter Olympics. Your old news, Lindsay. Jessica Diggins is in now. So congratulations, Jessica Diggins, for taking that one out. Any CBC fails or any interesting CBC things that have been happening in the last couple of days, Colin?
COLIN HILDING: No, I mean, I got to be honest. Most of the CBC coverage I've been watching for the last day I haven't really been listening to, the commentary on or anything. I've just sort of been watching it and having it on the background. So unfortunately, I don't have anything other than just watching right now this Alex. This has nothing to do with CBC. This Alex Ferreira guy who just won in this key half pipe. Look at this guy's profile pic. This guy's a winner. Let me see if I can find it.
BEN WATERWORTH: I would love to see it. While you're looking at that, Jarrod, do you have anything to add for channel 7?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I kind of briefly mentioned it, but just the whole ski cross with Anton. They talked him up so much. And then in that qualifying run, he was really fast out of the start. So then he gets to his quarter final and they're like, we know he's known for his good starts, Anton will be looking to get ahead of the field early. Obviously, he had damaged his collarbone in the meantime and got a really crummy start. And then after that happens, they're like, Anton off to a slow start, which is what we expected here. I'm like, you can't just change your mind. You've just said he's great at the start. Two seconds later, you're like, oh, no, he's not good at the start. He'll make up time throughout the course. Just admit your mistake. We admit our mistake with the B finals being rubbish and then they actually did have a purpose the other day. But if you're wrong, just stick to it and admit it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, yeah, I'm just that's typical Channel 7. I'm just seeing Alex Ferrer's picture. It looks very... It's almost like there's Sean White. I don't know if you saw Sean White. Sean White is like looking at something. I don't know. It was like, hashtag, what's Sean looking at? He was not even looking in the camera, which I didn't realise. So this is going on right now. The half-pipe fight. I don't have any footage going on in front of me. So just currently after two runs, Good News is New Zealand are in fourth and fifth. So we're OK at the moment. So just calm down. Calm down, Ben. Or is that actually correct? No, it's not correct. No, they are. Well, this isn't updating properly on me. I'm going to double check that. This is a weird thing that I'm looking at. The only one that I had with the fan, the Channel 7 thing, was what I mentioned before about... It's not really a fail. It's just a very Australian thing to do. When New Zealand wins a medal. Oh, the Australian-born New Zealander. And like, look, I get it. I understand why you would say that. But that's like turning around and saying, well, you have to take away our gold medal from Dale Begg-Smith, because he's not Australian. He's a Canadian who represents Australia. So, you know, give that gold back to Canada, perhaps. But it's such an Australian thing to do.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, we'll take it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I bet you will. So then you would have... How many moguls in a row would have you won? Four in a row.
COLIN HILDING: We would have... Yeah, we would have missed... Well, I guess everything's to Salt Lake.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, so there you go. And that's when they were trying to sell, like, when Your Man won the Thousand Metre Short Track, the stat that they gave in Australia was no... Stephen Bradbury is the only man to ever win that event who wasn't born in Korea. So therefore... Because the guy who won for Russia in 2014 was originally born in Korea. So that was like the Australian way of doing that. And actually, one thing I just read, a thing I read was... There was an article the other day saying about how Stephen Bradbury's gold medal win for Australia in 2002 has cursed Australia in the sport of short track and that we've done rubbish in it ever since. Like, fuck you, media. Like, we will take that medal...
COLIN HILDING: How did you do it before him?
BEN WATERWORTH: We won a bronze. That was our first ever medal. But like, fuck you, media. I will take that gold medal for a hundred years of being shit in short track speed skating, than, you know, getting a few bronzes every couple of years. Because that's like the most iconic moment in Australian winter sport. Like, what is wrong with our media, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I don't know, and that just doesn't make any sense. Like, how many people would have taken up the sport of short track speed skating after seeing him win a gold? Like, how many kids went on to go to that sport? If anything, it would have boosted our talent. If you hadn't won it, that would be even worse than we are now at it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly, exactly. Breaking news, I'm going to correct myself. I've finally got the proper results here of the halfpipe, and this is actually worrying all of a sudden. After two runs in the men's halfpipe, America's Alex Ferreira, the man himself, with the awesome profile picture, is leading with 96.0. New Zealand's Nick Oportius is in the silver medal position. No, New Zealand, stop! You won your bronze, go away! 94.80. Canada, come on Canada! Noah Bowman, come on, do better! 89.40. New Zealand in fourth as well. Bojang as well. And for some reason, Byron Wells, is he not well? I mean, he's two DNSs. Has he just given up? New Zealand won a bronze, you don't need me to compete anymore. Holy shit, this is bad. They could win two medals in a day. We didn't even win two medals in a day. Anyway, Canada's My Name Is. I think you've got a good one for us here, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: I do, and I'll link you to it, Ben, just for your own personal enjoyment here.
BEN WATERWORTH: Does it have a phone number on it?
COLIN HILDING: Of course we have to. I wanted to go through either Kaylee Humphreys or Felicia George today. Felicia George doesn't have a profile, and Kaylee Humphreys, of course, disappointed us enough that if she's not winning gold, we're not giving her the time on this show. So let's talk about Caitlin Osmond, who's probably also going to win a bronze. It's more acceptable to have a figure skater. So Caitlin Osmond, I just want to say, I saw her for the first time in Sochi, and it's one of these cool things where she wasn't nearly at the top then, but you're like, oh, she's only 18 years old. Imagine where she's going to be in four years, and now it's cool four years later to actually see her really succeed. Plus, let's be honest, if she wasn't Ben's future wife and I wasn't married, I'd put her on the list.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, can I just say, I really interrupt you there quickly, sorry, Colin. I feel bad for Jarrod, these games. I feel like we should be doing Jarrod's future life. Let's start again, because Jarrod, I'm sorry, that we've kind of ignored you, and it was all about me and Rio. I don't know, you might be in a relationship. I don't know, but we'll give you Caitlin. How about that?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Sure, sounds good.
COLIN HILDING: Would you want Lindsey Vonn instead?
JARROD LOOBEEK: That's just going to be a hard pass then.
BEN WATERWORTH: Sorry, yes, all right, Colin, go ahead.
COLIN HILDING: All right, so Caitlin Osmond. Hello, my name is Caitlin Osmond, future wife of a host of Off The Podium. My favourite Olympic moment is winning silver in 2014 with the figure skating team. So much fun being on a podium with a team. We'll never be forgotten. There's no punctuation there, so I'm not sure where her sentence ends. If I could have any superpower, it would be to fly or be invisible or both. With an exclamation mark. I love her. She has very long paws. That's literally what it would do. To fly, long paws, or long paws, be invisible. My favourite sports movie is Happy Gilmore slash Blades of Glory. Again, this is one of those great crossover movies.
BEN WATERWORTH: She'd get along well with me. We'd be able to watch movies together. Like, this is a good start.
COLIN HILDING: Draw a picture of yourself. She's drawing a picture of herself. Now, the position of her right leg that is up does not look natural. And also, she has the bubble coming out of her mouth that says, I did it, which I swear I read the first time as idiot.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I'm just glad to know she's flexible and she's happy when she does things. Oh, that's flexible, all right. Straighten it. Literally.
COLIN HILDING: My funniest childhood memory is biking and forgetting how to turn slash stop. The tree and I became great friends.
BEN WATERWORTH: She's quacky and funny, see? Like she's a perfect match.
COLIN HILDING: And it's funny because I saw several interviews with her on TV today, and she doesn't show nearly this much personality in interviews. She seems very pleasant, but none of this humour. So we need some long-form interviews with her. Her on Off The Podium here.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, I'm doing that interview. Colin's choking at that prospect.
COLIN HILDING: My favourite pump-up song is I Have The Tiger. That's amazing. The most recent TV show I binge-watched is Bones. This is amazing. Draw a picture of one of your teammates. She wrote, Andrew Pogue. I swear she drew really happy Spongebob square face here because that's not a natural shape of a face. My least favourite foods are fish. Just any fish, I guess. If I weren't an athlete, then I would be a professional TV watcher.
BEN WATERWORTH: See, we're so perfect for each other.
COLIN HILDING: That's Ben's current profession.
BEN WATERWORTH: Thank you.
COLIN HILDING: We really are made for each other. My favourite vacation spot is a beach because it is warm and time stands still. I don't know how that works. People usually describe me as cheerful and buoyant. That's also the way people describe you, Ben, cheerful and buoyant. Thank you very much. If you were an animal, which would you be? This is my favourite. This is right here for the Australians. I would be a koala. I would stay above everyone on my tree and watch all the happenings. I would also sleep so much.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, so Australian. She loves Australians as well. Like, this is just perfect.
COLIN HILDING: And did you notice the best thing about that?
JARROD LOOBEEK: She did not refer to it as a bear.
COLIN HILDING: It's not referred to as a bear.
BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly. She's knowledgeable. She wants an Australian man. See? Like, yeah, this is happening.
JARROD LOOBEEK: This is good that she's drawn that. Because now we can claim her if she wins a medal. Once she drew a koala, she's practically Australian.
COLIN HILDING: Channel 7, Caitlin Osmond, bronze medallist, drew a koala and stated she would be a koala because she sleeps so much.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I would love an unofficial medal tally of just the medals that we've claimed as Australian and just to see how it's seen.
BEN WATERWORTH: We'd be on top of the show.
COLIN HILDING: If I could be an Olympian in any sport other than my own, it would be diver or beach volleyball. That's something we want to see. My favourite song lyrics are Because I'm Only Human, and my guilty pleasure is Candy! So much! So much candy!
BEN WATERWORTH: You always find the fun ones. Whenever you're not on the show, we find the boring ones.
COLIN HILDING: It's because I bothered to look. I just want to say I haven't gone through them yet, but in the last two days, they've added pretty much every member of the women's hockey team. So I'm sure we'll find one or two good ones out of there for when they win the gold medal tomorrow.
BEN WATERWORTH: That's your research to go through that. Before I get to the fan messages, I've just actually switched on the men's half pipe. Now, the Canadian who's just gone has just face planted, so he's not going to win a medal, unless he was the one who was in third. I don't know if that was Noah. But can we just point out the New Zealander who went before him, who is the New Zealander in second position, Nick O'Portes, who looks about nine. I've looked him up. He's 16. But he legitimately did the most New Zealand thing ever and was like, oh, bro, we're already going to get a medal. And he just zigzagged. He did Elizabeth, what's her name, back and forth. And he didn't even try. Is he just legitimately going, oh, I'm going to win a silver medal, bro? That's ridiculous. Did you see it? It's so funny. So goddamn, this is getting nerve wracking that New Zealand might do this. Jarrod, our fan messages, sadly, haven't been updated since yesterday. The lazy admin's back on the board.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think they do Thursday and over the weekend. And the Monday to Wednesday bloke gets lots of the fan messages up.
BEN WATERWORTH: Colin, because you missed a few golden ones. There was one basically saying to Lydia Lassler, who they were wishing her luck. Here it is. Hi, Lydia. I think you did a fantastic job. Hopefully you're going to the 2024 Winter Olympics. Do you notice anything wrong with that sentence? I'm trying to go to Paris. Will you be going, Lydia? There's a few golden ones there. According to my list here, we're on track to getting through everyone, so that's good. We're up to Nathan Johnstone, Snowboarder. That's where we're up to. What are we thinking to old Nate? I'm actually watching this half-part. This American guy's pumped up. He did pretty well there. All right, Nathan Johnstone. Name? Alex Ferreira. Email, weirdpitcher at hotmail.com. Overseas fat message. What are we thinking here? Oh, yeah, we're all on the ball today.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think we should convince him to switch to the ski half-pipe. Did you see Elizabeth Swayney's run in the half-pipe?
BEN WATERWORTH: Did you see Elizabeth Swayney's run in the ski half-pipe? She rocks. You suck. Poor Nathan Chum.
COLIN HILDING: That one's getting published.
BEN WATERWORTH: I want to see our chumpy one from yesterday. What's the beef? Hasn't made it quite yet. All right. Oh, the Americans have gone into gold. David Weiss and New Zealand's into bronze. Yes! Sorry. He actually looks like that survivor contestant. Who's the long-haired survivor guy? Jay from Millennials Vs Gen X.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, yeah, he kind of does.
BEN WATERWORTH: There you go. Look at that for a doppelganger. All our survivor fans. Oh, the New Zealand is hugging him because he's happy. He's like, yeah, I'm winning a bronze, not a silver. So the Canadian is out of the medals. Oh, he's pumped up. Look at that New Zealand in bronze. That just looks so weird. All right. Sammy Kennedy-Sinn. Well, she's already today ninth position. She's been on this show, so you know she's not going to win a medal. This is from Uma Thurman. That's the thought of Uma Thurman, apparently. hotmail.com. What does Uma Thurman want to tell Sammy Kennedy-Sinn?
COLIN HILDING: Next time, don't go on Off The Podium.
BEN WATERWORTH: Next time, don't go on Off The Podium.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It ruined my acting career.
BEN WATERWORTH: Charlie Wines. No, that's a bit too soon. It ruined my acting career. Oh, there's another Canadian going right now. Sorry, I'm getting excited. Wouldn't this be amazing if a Canadian could knock a New Zealander out of the medals? Come on.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It would be so good, especially after like putting down like that crummy run, like to be like, yeah, I'm safe. They were doing this in qualifying as well, just the back and forth, and I don't think it's really fair to Elizabeth. It's kind of like they're taunting her.
BEN WATERWORTH: Like, why would you? Oh no, he's fucked it up. Why would you honestly think like you're safe when there's like, what, 10 people to go after you? Like, it's just such a New Zealand thing to do. Like, oh, Brew, let's just not even try. New Zealand, if you tried better in things, you'd be better, all right? Just like, you know, come on.
COLIN HILDING: Hey, who won a bronze today? Was it Australia?
BEN WATERWORTH: Who? Shut up!
COLIN HILDING: Ha ha ha ha!
BEN WATERWORTH: Don't stand up for New Zealand! No one stands up for New Zealand.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, clearly, Australia, we have high hopes for the rest of our athletes, considering we've already named our closing ceremony flag bearer because we know that nobody else is going to win anything.
COLIN HILDING: Wait, who did you pick?
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod Hughes. Too bad if Killarney Clark, all the figure skaters crash, and Killarney Crane wins a gold medal. Sorry, Jarrod, taken away from you. Our last one today has to be the great American Idol runner-up of Adam Lambert, who's now switched to snowboarding. He's next on our list. Uh, name, uh, Simon Cowell. Um... Simon Cowell at hotmail.com. Overseas fan. Um... Uh, sorry, you had to switch to snowboarding. You were crap at that, just like you were at Idol. Done. Alright. Cool. So, that's our fan messages. Not much to really add on those.
COLIN HILDING: We're not even trying to get these published anymore.
BEN WATERWORTH: How many have we had published, Jarrod? At least like five now, haven't we? So, you know, that's our Everest. That's our Olympic medals.
COLIN HILDING: Five more than real.
BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly. Uh, so, you know, we're happy with that, Colin. Thank you. So, we won't be serious. We're just waiting for the admin to like, you know, completely fuck up. Um, so, I'm just looking here quickly at the who's left to go in the half-pipe. So, we've got, oh, a French person just crashed. That's always a good thing. Um, so, we legitimately have Alex Ferreros got to come. There's one more New Zealander in Bo James Wells who's now in fifth. There's another American in Aaron Blunk and Torren Yorta Wallace. That's his name? Jesus, I'm sorry about that, Torren. Um, so, there's still a New Zealander to come. Oh, actually, I shouldn't joke about this Frenchie. He's, like, getting medical. He's, like, flattening his face. Um, anyway.
COLIN HILDING: We just killed another person on air, Ben.
BEN WATERWORTH: He's only French. He's fine. Um, no big loss. So, we now look ahead to a day that's already started, because we're sort of commentating on it. Day 13. Um, from an Australian perspective, before I go over the immense we have, uh, now actually, Jarrod, you might need to comment on this because I didn't see it. Uh, the men's slalom. Uh, Dominic Demchard. What happened to dear old Dominic?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, poor Dominic didn't get the memo that you've got to go between the gates from the very first gate. So, um, yeah, he kind of just missed the... I suppose he kind of straddled the first gate, and one kind of foot was inside, and one was outside, which is obviously not allowed when you're meant to go around them.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, so he's sadly a DNF. Uh, maybe I shouldn't be joking too much about this French, because they, like, there's like 20 people around him right now. This actually looks quite serious. Uh, bad timing for that, Ben. Uh, Greta Small will be competing today, tomorrow, whatever you want to say, in the Alpine combined. Sammy Kennedy-Sim, as we said, uh, she's already competed in the ninth in the Ski Cross, uh, seating round, uh, in that one, and that's all we have for an Australian perspective. Did... Yes, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: I was just gonna ask, did you guys cover the Russian mixed doubles curlers yet?
BEN WATERWORTH: Uh, the drugies.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, we were commenting on this about how the hell of all the sports in the Winter Olympics, curling is the one where somebody gets caught.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, but I mean, did you cover that they had to give back their bronze?
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, they've officially had to give it back, have they?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, no, we didn't... We haven't updated on that. What happened there? So it's 100% done now. They've given back their bronze.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, so I mean, who was in the bronze with them, or who was in the bronze game?
BEN WATERWORTH: Norway?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Norway?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I think it was Norway.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah.
COLIN HILDING: It's not like they needed another medal, but we're standing up against drugs here.
BEN WATERWORTH: But, okay, as a great Canadian nation of curling, what purpose does drugs have in the sport of curling?
COLIN HILDING: I mean, what purpose does it have in any sport? You wondered back during Noggino with Ross Rebliati, the purpose it had for him as a snowboarder, but I don't know, maybe it just, maybe like, you know, lots of cocaine helps him to focus or something. Think about it this way. If you have to yell sweep that loud, you have to be like really high.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, didn't we?
COLIN HILDING: Let's retest everybody.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think Jarrod established it was the same drug that Maria Sharapova was on, so something to do with like your heart or something like that. But yeah, like Jesus Christ, curlers and drugs, that's a new thing. The other New Zealander half-pipe dudes about to go down the pipe right now, you mentioned about New Zealand mullets. This guy's got the New Zealand dreadlocks. He's pumping his jammer. Oh, he's giving his coach a hug already. He's like, me and Brew, we're at the Olympics.
COLIN HILDING: Which guy is this?
BEN WATERWORTH: This is Beau Jane. Is this Beau?
COLIN HILDING: Can I just go on a rant here for a second?
BEN WATERWORTH: Please do. It's about a New Zealander. Go for your life.
COLIN HILDING: It's not even the New Zealand thing, it's everybody. I am so done with all half-pipe, whether it be snowboard or skiers, all half-pipes just smiling like idiots, whether they crash or win or anything. Here's the people you need to be testing, because they're all high. They come in last place like, whatever, man, I had a blast.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, this guy's bobbing his head jamming to his tunes, and is he going to do the New Zealand thing or just zigzagging? No, he's doing a twisty, turny thing. Oh, no, he's landed it. Shut up, bro. He's pumped up for New Zealand. All New Zealand Winter Olympians are happy today because they've won the bronze. That's the only reason that other guy didn't bother skiing, because he's like, bro, we don't need to do it, we've won the bronze. Oh, this guy's doing well. Bo James. Oh, that's a big one. Don't land it. Oh, no, shut, bro. New Zealand just did well. Oh, there's people in the crowd from New Zealand. The coaches are pumped. They're going, I'm getting a raise. I'm getting a raise. We've coached them into the final. And his teammates come up to him. They're embracing. Oh, shit. Shit, Jarrod, what's going on here?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Hopefully he just gets the bronze and knocks Nico off the podium.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I mean, either way, if he gets into the medal positions, we know they can't double medal, so I guess there's a bit of a silver lining there, and hopefully not a silver silver lining. He still has one, two, there's three to go after him. So if he gets gold, if he's in the first place here, well, then all he needs is one of the others to crash and New Zealand's got a medal. I can tell you that he didn't. I've already got the score in front of me. He got a 91.60. Oh, phew, so New Zealand are in third and fourth. All right, interesting. So before I go over what's happening the rest of day 13, is there any, I'm guessing it's just all about the women's ice hockey gold today, isn't it? Colin, from a Canadian perspective?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, I mean, there should be an honorable mention though that Sam Gerrard could be getting another gold medal. He's the only one we have left in the 500-metre short track. And then also the semi-finals for the men's curling is coming up too.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I will mention, I believe this is the first time in the history of the Winter Olympics that 10 gold medals are up for grabs as well. So it's a momentous day. So after only three the other day, we're up to 10. So medals will be decided in the men's slalom, the women's combined and alpine skiing, the biathlon will get the women's relay, freestyle skiing, the halfpipe is about to be decided right now. We're watching it as we speak. Ice hockey, obviously the gold will be decided. Finland's already won the bronze in that one. The Nordic combined is back. The Team Large Hill, four by five kilometres on. You mentioned the short track. We've got the women's 1,000 metres, the men's 500 metres, and the men's 5,000 metres relay. I love the relays in short track speed skating, so I'm looking forward to that. And obviously we've already had the snowboarding women's big air happening today. You mentioned the curling. You're absolutely correct. You got the men's semi-finals going on for that. We also have got... What else do we have today? Qualifying. There was meant to be a bunch of other stuff, but they've been moved. So basically it's really only the medal results that are happening today. Outside of that, there was going to be qualifying rounds of the men's giant slalom, and the women's giant slalom, and the snowboarding, but they've both been moved. And yeah, so pretty much... Oh, and the guy's crashed. I'm just looking at the freestyle skiing. So shit, there's only two to go, and the New Zealanders even put his hand on his mouth. Oh shit, bro, I might be winning a medal. Oh God, this guy's hurt too. Stop milking it, get up. You're fine. You're not a soccer player. Where's this guy from anyway? Is he American? Oh, he has to be an American. The only three remaining are Americans. I love these two guys who have to come down the half pipe, and I want them to have a little siren on their head. They're just so slow at getting to him. They're just literally walking and skiing at him. You okay, mate? My tunes are damaged. That's all these half pipe people. They're just pointing at him now. They're like, go on, finish your run.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, I love that replay.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, I'm seeing it now. What happened to him? He's up. He's up.
COLIN HILDING: He landed flat on his back.
BEN WATERWORTH: OK, this is the other bit. He's up. He's spinning. He's around. He's around.
COLIN HILDING: Maybe if you pull it... This guy's pants were around his knees before he even got in the air.
BEN WATERWORTH: All are. I know that's the cool thing to do in these sports, like wear your baggy pants around your knees, but you're in the freaking Olympics.
COLIN HILDING: No wonder they're all crashing.
BEN WATERWORTH: I don't need to see you, Calvin Klein. For god's sakes, it's the freaking Olympic Games. This is where the X Games can ruin the Olympics. It's different. He's fine. Oh, this is Torren. Did his parents just love the Olympics? They named him after Torino.
COLIN HILDING: Look at Alex Ferreira's picture. That's amazing.
BEN WATERWORTH: Is this who we've got now? I feel like before we close it off, we should probably just stay here and just see. We've only got two to go.
COLIN HILDING: We've got one less event to talk about tomorrow.
BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly, exactly. Look at his picture. You know what he actually looks like? He looks like one of those mug shots they do with those crazed people going like a school shooting, like afterwards when they put it to the media. The shooter was Alex Ferreira. Probably too soon to make those jokes. Sorry to our American listeners. All right, so Alex is already in the gold. This won't affect our New Zealand medal chances here. So basically, the only guy to come after this is Aaron Blunek. So this has got no bearing on anything. He just needs to get a bigger score if he wants to guarantee himself a gold.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, he's pulling a Chloe Kim here. Like, he's going all out.
BEN WATERWORTH: This is what the New Zealand, this is what Nikko Portius needed to do. Like, did they have like an agreement? Like a gentleman's agreement? Like, oh, Nikko, we'll let you win the bronze. Yeah, he's going to town here. This is domination. Oh, he's spinning the pole.
COLIN HILDING: Look at that.
BEN WATERWORTH: He's doing a helicopter.
COLIN HILDING: I love the little pole spin on the end.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, can I just, you know, you're more of a winter athlete expert than I am and Jarrod and I, Colin. Why do they need the poles in this? There's no purpose.
COLIN HILDING: It's aerodynamics and style. It's kind of like the pants being down.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's like even in the ski cross, they've got the poles. Like, why?
COLIN HILDING: I mean, you've got to use it to pull up the pants every once in a while.
BEN WATERWORTH: I guess. I mean, I just, yeah, I always thought maybe it's a balance thing, like when you got skis or something like that. Yeah, I think we've established, like you went on your rant about the half-pipe. I think the ski half-pipe is just not as good as the snowboard. You know, it's just not as... They don't get as high, although this guy did.
COLIN HILDING: Do you know which one is better? Because this is one of my complaints with a lot of these events they've added where it's literally just the exact same event for snowboarding and skiing, and whichever one airs second, you're always like, yeah, I've seen this already. But the one that I actually prefer the skiing for is the cross. I find ski cross to be much more exciting than snowboard cross.
BEN WATERWORTH: I probably disagree with that, but you know, I get what you mean about them.
COLIN HILDING: You can shut up.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, Jarrod and I were establishing the other day that they need more crossover sports, so we need the snowboard downhill, we need the snowboard super G, and we also need the snowboard cross country, which Jarrod, as you explained, would be them going up the hill trying to get up on their snowboard.
COLIN HILDING: We need ice hockey big air.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, we need short track half pipe.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Half pipe luge.
BEN WATERWORTH: Speed skating luge. They should just go down the big tube on their speed skates. Nordic combined of every event.
COLIN HILDING: Alex Ferreira is in second after that.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, because of course David Wise did improve on that. My bad. So he improved on his score, but he's.8 under his teammate. So we know that America is going to get a gold and a silver. Can they sweep the medals here? All right, it is down to Aaron Blunk to knock off New Zealand's second bronze of the day. Words that, I mean, it's very New Zealand to finish fourth. So it's almost appropriate that this should happen here.
COLIN HILDING: And then did you notice him pull up his pants there right at the top of the hill?
BEN WATERWORTH: Aaron Blunk does not look like a snowboarder. He looks like a prep school guy who's like a mathematician. He looks too proper to be a snowboarder, like based on his picture.
COLIN HILDING: He looks like he looks like the guy that that Alex Ferreira shot up in the school library.
BEN WATERWORTH: Stop studying! Sorry, sorry, we know it's a harsh topic right now. Alright, we know if he lands all this pretty well, New Zealand are going to be robbed of another medal. If he crashes, Auckland is going off right now. Oh, he's landed that one. He's done a flippy, flippy, flippy. No, he's landed that one too. He's not looking good for New Zealand. Oh, he's going to town on that one. Oh, he's had a bit of a wobble.
COLIN HILDING: He's had a bit of a wobble.
BEN WATERWORTH: He's landed again. He's got one more here to go. Is this all it's going to be for New Zealand? Oh, he's had a bit of a wobble. I think that's enough. I think New Zealand are going to get fourth again here. Oh, and poor old little Nikko Podius has just brushed the hair and gone, oh, shoot, bro. I should have tried. He looks so disappointed, Nikko Podius. His strategy has backfired on him. He needs to get a higher than 94.80, and I'll get there because I'm on the website here, and the results come forward before the actual TV.
JARROD LOOBEEK: 24.81, please.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, that would just be so good. Everyone in Auckland and Wellington and Christchurch are glued to their screens right now because they have two national holidays in a row here. I love the way he, like, grabs his ski there. And he has scored an 84.80 New Zealand and won another medal! This is bullshit!
COLIN HILDING: You know what the greatest thing about this is? Is that somehow Peter Jackson's gonna get a trilogy of movies out of this story.
BEN WATERWORTH: This is like, New Zealand have achieved something Australia never have in a Winter Olympics. It's won more than one medal in a day of competition.
COLIN HILDING: And it has to be little Nico.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, and they can still win more. They've still got that Carlos Garcia in the big air. Oh, New Zealand don't know what to do with themselves right now. I need to message Nook Chistery. Look at him go! He's absolutely pumped for New Zealand. I'm texting Nick right now. You won another medal! I feel like Nick's the new service for New Zealand. They don't even know the Olympics are on right now. They're like, Shot, send some cameras over to Pyeongchang, we're winning medals!
COLIN HILDING: I mean, this is such a CBC thing to do, though. They immediately cut away, before even they got to show any, like, the victory laps or anything like that, to show a bunch of people holding up Canadian flags outside of the hockey arena.
BEN WATERWORTH: Meanwhile, we're just seeing Nick I bought his hands on his head, going, Oh, Shot, this wasn't in the team briefing. When you win a medal, what do we do? They're going to want to speak to me. They're going to want to interview me. Shot, I don't know what to do. New Zealanders are just absolutely, he's so happy. In all jokes aside, I do love seeing this, though, when somebody who wins a bronze medal is this happy. Like, he is absolutely, Oh, they've given him a New Zealand flag. They've found one.
JARROD LOOBEEK: An Australian one, they've just colored in the stars red.
BEN WATERWORTH: He's literally just quickly handed him a flag. Like, oh, shit, this is a, I believe this is etiquette. You walk around with a flag. Oh, what a day for New Zealand winter sports. We'll be back for the rest of day 13 tomorrow. Fuck, we're probably going to come back in New Zealand on top of the medal tally. Who knows? Jarrod, always a pleasure. Thank you for joining us.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, thank you. Spain now equal with New Zealand in the medal tally, so I mean, the Spaniards are going to be very angry about that.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, absolute royal commission into Spanish winter sports. And Latvian winter sports beaten by New Zealand. Can we just look at this picture right now? We have two American flags, two New Zealand flags and two Canadian flags. What is going on? This world is a fucked up place. Um, and Colin, thank you very much for your time on the show. Good to have you back.
COLIN HILDING: And I'm excited to talk tomorrow about how somehow New Zealand pulled off a miracle and won the gold medal from Canada in women's hockey.
BEN WATERWORTH: And until that day comes, thank you for joining us. Likes on Facebook, follow us on Twitter by using the hashtag Off The Podium. And if you're in New Zealand, congratulations Brew! You've won a medal! There's two of them!
COLIN HILDING: Shut!
BEN WATERWORTH: We'll speak to you tomorrow on Day 13!
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