PyeongChang 2018 Day 3 Review
It's a glorious day to be a fan from either Canada or Australia as it's all about GOLD and SILVER for both nations on a medallistic day that will go down in history! Ben & Jarrod are joined by Mallory again to get all Matt Graham excited, as well as Team Canada excited and twizzle their way through the news of the day. We also try and work out why everyone at the Winter Olympics are all so much happier than the Summer Olympics, why these games make us dislike the Campbell sisters even more, talk up just how great curling is and wish all sports were like it and find out if Mallory actually knows anything about Canada. It's all available to click yourself into gear so wrap that silver around your neck and ski ski ski faster than Harry Laidlaw!
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
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BEN WATERWORTH: Hello everybody, and welcome back to Off The Podium, An Olympics Podcast, as we come to you for day three of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics. It's actually day four, the time we're recording this, but we're here to recap day three, because that's usually what happens after you recap day two. You move on to day three before you get to day four. And it is a golden day for Canada, and a silver day for Australia, which let's be honest, in Australian Winter Olympic history, winning a silver medal is just basically like winning five gold medals at the Summer Olympics. It's that special, it's that exciting. There's medals everywhere. We're excited, we're happy, so excited that the first thing we're gonna do is cross direct to our expert correspondent on the moguls on the Plains of Emu's, and of course is Jarrod Loobeek. Jarrod, we chose the wrong night to stay up and commentate on. We should have done it for the men because Matt Graham, superstar, he's almost as good as Dale Begg Smith.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Exactly, yeah, it was an incredible ride, incredible event. I'm gonna take a little bit of credit for predicting that Australia would win zero silver, which I think has made this happen.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, it's all thanks to you, Jarrod, we appreciate that. And giving us a Canadian angle on another glorious day for Canadian winter sport. Three medals, two of them gold, and she's the expert when it comes to winning medals because she has won them in something I'm sure before. Of course, I do speak of Mallory Foster, direct from the Canadian city of Adelaide. Hello, Mallory, welcome back.
MALLORY FOSTER: Hi, Ben, thanks for having me again. I knew about all three of our medals before talking to you this morning as well.
BEN WATERWORTH: You quickly Googled them in. How are you feeling, Canada of gold? They've got two gold. They're doing well.
MALLORY FOSTER: I was so excited yesterday. I was so excited yesterday, and I just checked the medals tally, and we're now in fourth. But yesterday, after our first gold, we were in second, I think.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, your second gold, you're in second. But Norway and the Netherlands, I think quickly went on to win gold just as soon as you won your second gold. But the good news is, should you win another gold medal today, which I think is gonna happen, we'll get to that, you will go up into second position. If you win two gold medals today, you will go up into first place, as long as the Germans, the Dutch, and the Norwegians don't win anything more. And also America might actually just win a gold while we're on air right now. So there's a few ifs, ands, or buts about where you may end up today. We will say that just at the time we are recording this, the Women's Halfpipe Final is on. It is in the final round, so we may sort of interrupt ourselves here to call at least the Aussie in this one here to see how Emily Arthur goes in the final round. She's not doing too well right now, is she, Jarrod? I mean, she looks like she's happy to be there, but she's got one more round to go, at least when we hit record here.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, clearly not up to the standard of the other girls. They were mentioning before that she was trying to land like a 920 or something for the first time ever, and the other girls are doing...
BEN WATERWORTH: One million.
JARROD LOOBEEK: 1200s, yeah, yeah. Yes. A couple of turns less than the rest of the field, but good to see her in the final.
BEN WATERWORTH: And you know that she's got no pressure on her when Channel 7 haven't talked her up for five days straight showing replays of a qualifying run. So it's kind of okay here for Emily Arthur, and she's about to go in just a second. But we'll just start quickly with our Aussie and Canadian results from day three, and for Australia, well, we've won a medal. We have gotten our first, and sadly, the women's moguls team couldn't do it, but the men's moguls team could. Matt Graham, silver medal in the men's moguls, had a great run in all three, in all three when basically everyone was falling over. But he went into this ranked three in the world. He's come out of it second in the world, I guess if you, I don't know if that updates it, but great result there for Maddie Graham. To get a silver, it's shades of Dale Begsmith. I'm calling it now, Jarrod, he's gonna win gold in Beijing because he's gonna do an opposite Dale. That's gonna be a new terminology that Australians will use in four years' time. Dale Begsmith started off with gold, went to silver. This time around, Maddie Graham's gonna go silver and go for gold. But what a moment for the esteemed history of Australian mogul sport.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, exactly. This is what we excel at. And Matt Graham held it all together. No choking yesterday, which was great to see.
BEN WATERWORTH: Absolutely. And Mallory, you obviously stayed up to watch this one, didn't you? What was your take on Matty Graham?
MALLORY FOSTER: I'm sure he skied well, cause he got gold. I was in bed.
BEN WATERWORTH: He got silver, actually. Nearly gold. But yeah.
MALLORY FOSTER: Oh, that's awkward.
BEN WATERWORTH: We'll get to-
MALLORY FOSTER: He got silver.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think you would remember the gold person in a second. We'll get to that. Mikael Kingsbury, yes, he got gold. But also in that, we should have a quick shout out to former Australian Idol host James Matheson did make the final where he was eliminated, only just eliminated in the first final. He actually was 14th. So very nearly did make it into the final. And if Addy made that second one, I mean, everyone was crashing out in the second one. He probably would have had a chance to make it into the final, but ifs, ands, or buts. And Rowan Chapman Davies, he was in 18th, so he sadly did not make it through to the final. And our other athletes on day three, well, as we just said, we're watching Emily Arthur. I think we're about to watch her run now in just a second in the final of the half-pipe. She made the final, congratulations to Emily. But sadly, Holly Crawford, I was gonna say a friend of our show, she wasn't on Off The Podium, she was on the brink, but in her, what was it, fourth Olympics, I believe, 20th place for her sadly, didn't actually quite make the cut. So she did not make it. I believe she actually just narrowly missed out on making the final, so bad luck there for Holly. And other results for our Australians on that day, that was day three, well, we didn't have any others compete. So that was slightly awkward for that. Did you pay any attention to the Half Pipe Girls yesterday, Jarrod? I mean, I know we're watching them now, but at least in their qualifying into getting into the finals.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I watched that the whole way through just to kind of see how the Aussies went and obviously great to see Emily get through. And then, yeah, I think Holly ended up finishing in 13th and the top 12 went through. So, yeah, like disappointing for her obviously, but to be at your fourth Olympic Games, I mean, that's an achievement in itself.
BEN WATERWORTH: Indeed. Now, Mallory, do you want to give us a summary of Canada or do you want me to help you out here?
MALLORY FOSTER: I can give you a summary of the medals. I don't know if I can tell you about anyone else.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, give us the medals. You won three medals. So tell us, what did you win?
MALLORY FOSTER: Ow, I just punched a wall. That really hurt.
BEN WATERWORTH: You were so angry that you didn't win more that you're just punching a wall.
MALLORY FOSTER: Yeah, um, ow, that really hurt. That was not nice.
BEN WATERWORTH: You need a moment here.
MALLORY FOSTER: It's okay. So in ladies slope style, our Canadian girl, Lori Ble came second, got the silver medal there for us. And then the most exciting medal of the day, in my opinion, was our first gold in the figure skating team event. Everyone skated beautifully if you watched it, which I know you did. And then as you already said, Michael Kingsbury came first in the men's moguls last night, which I definitely watched the entire thing. Other Canadians who competed, what sport am I even looking at right now? In the women's 10K pursuit, there was a Canadian in 19th. Yes, biathlon. Rosanna Crawford, she was pretty great, came 19th. And another one in 53rd, Emma Wonder. And in 57th, she did not start, sadly, was Megan Tandy. Don't know who any of these girls are, if anyone's wondering.
BEN WATERWORTH: Clearly, I'm a cult hero in Canada.
MALLORY FOSTER: I don't know about anyone else now. Oh, curling. We did ball and curling yesterday.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, yes, you're through to the gold medal match. You're in the gold medal game in the mixed curling, which is today. So, and I'm calling this now, you're gonna win the gold today. So, guaranteed gold for Canada on day four, I believe.
MALLORY FOSTER: Who are we curling against?
BEN WATERWORTH: I do believe you are up against Switzerland or Sweden. One of them, if I'm not mistaken. Yes, you are going to be up against them. I will confirm that in just a second.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, the Swiss.
BEN WATERWORTH: The Swiss, thank you, thank you. Thank you, Jarrod. Swiss expert, Jarrod Lubig. That's it?
MALLORY FOSTER: We also had a Canadian come fourth in the moguls last night, which you probably knew and I did not know. Yeah, pretty exciting. What other sports did we compete in? Ice hockey, I don't think we played yesterday. Not exciting. Okay, ski jumping. We didn't place as usual, it seems. Do we even compete?
BEN WATERWORTH: You had one?
MALLORY FOSTER: Ski jumping, it's fine.
BEN WATERWORTH: You did have one.
MALLORY FOSTER: What?
BEN WATERWORTH: Taylor Henrich was 32nd. She didn't make it through to the final. She was eliminated in the qualifying.
MALLORY FOSTER: Oh, I'm just looking at the finals. People who don't make it to the finals are not important. I mean, everyone in the Olympics is important. Congratulations to those who made it that far. Anyway, yeah, that's...
BEN WATERWORTH: I can help you out if you need more help. I can help you out here.
MALLORY FOSTER: Oh, Spencer O'Brien. Okay, wait, can we just talk about her for a second? Of course. So, I did watch all of the women's slumps out yesterday and Spencer O'Brien was one of the favourites going in. I think only, what was it, five or six girls actually managed to land an entire run yesterday in five girls in the women's slope style, just because the wind was so bad. And so, our two Canadian girls who did not win a medal came 21st and 22nd. Spencer O'Brien was in 22nd, and sadly she did not get to complete a run.
BEN WATERWORTH: Mallory, I'm going to interrupt you here. Can I interrupt you here really quickly? I need to interrupt you. Mallory, I need to interrupt you. Emily Arthur is about to hit the slopes here. I need to quickly hold that thought, because we need to call our Australian here, just to see if she can choke on a third run. She's currently sitting right down the bottom of the field after her two runs. She's only got a high score of 48.25. She will need to get a score of 85.75 or higher to put herself in the medals. And I'm calling it now. It's not going to happen. But let's go for a top ten here, Emily. She's at the top of the pipe. She goes into the next bit, and she does lots of spins. Oh, she's hands on the slope, which I think is bad. That's a really shit jump. She doesn't seem to have the power, as some of these other jumpers really do. She's just kind of doing some little spinny things. I know if this was on an Olympic video game, you'd set the DD at like 0.1 to try and press X and square at the same time, rather than having to bash all those buttons. Oh no, she's face planted! Ouch! That's gotta hurt. And she's up. She's okay. There's no blood on the snow. Oh no, hang on. She's just getting a breath. And well, you know, she's currently sitting in 10th place, Jarrod. Oh, and everyone's clapping at her. Look at the crowd. They love a good face plant in Korea. We didn't call this one as a medal, did we, Jarrod? This was expected, right?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, this is probably about where we expected that she'd wind up, and now she's being attended to by the medical crew in the typical Australian fashion.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes. Well, the crowd is cheering her. I don't have the audio up here, so it's good to see. She's just getting checked out here right now.
JARROD LOOBEEK: And she did land that 900.
BEN WATERWORTH: She did. She just didn't land the one. At the end, she just face planted. That was a big face plant, actually. And, oh, she's got about three people attending her now. Quick, everyone, rush to her. She doesn't look okay. I shouldn't be joking about this, because she might collapse at any moment, and then I'm going to be like a dick. Anyway, sorry, Mallory. Back to your slope styles. Are there real athletes who do well, unlike Emily Arthur?
MALLORY FOSTER: Sure. Yes, I think I was done with the slope style. I've moved on to speed skating. The ladies 1500 metre, we came 15th, 19th and 21st.
BEN WATERWORTH: Congratulations. Yeah. Yeah. All right.
MALLORY FOSTER: Did anybody else compete yesterday?
BEN WATERWORTH: I will just say quickly in the luge, after two runs in the women's singles, your third, Alex Goff, is currently sitting third behind the two German luges. And you also got somebody in No, Germans can't win medals. Well, it's better than the Norwegians, let's be honest. We'd rather Germany top the medal telly than Norway. So you're doing all right in the luge. So that's pretty good. But yeah, guaranteed gold. You'll win gold today in the curling. So that's pretty exciting. But yes, and can I just backtrack and say that I felt like I was a bit mean there to Emily Arthur. She did make the finals of an Olympic event, and that's pretty good.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Her face is now bleeding too.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, that's slow-mo of her face planning. Oh, that is a big... Oh, she is too. There is blood. She's down. And well, what was that saying in the movie, a league of their own dirt in the skirt? Maybe it's, I don't know, blood in the snow. That doesn't rhyme. Anyway, so the medal tally, we'll just quickly go to this one after. Actually, I'll go over the other medal results before I go to the medal tally. So the ones that we haven't covered, the biathlon, you mentioned it there, Mallory, but the winners of those who in the men's pursuit, we had France, Martin Fourcade, winning the gold from the Swiss, oh no, Swedish, sorry, Sebastian Samuelsson, silver, and German's Benedikt Dahl, got the bronze there. The women's pursuit, Laura Dalmeyer of Germany, beat the great Slovakian biathlete, Anastasia Kuzmina, and bronze to France, Anais Béchon. You mentioned Canada, gold in the team event, silver went to Olympic athletes from Russia, and the bronze went to the USA. In the moguls, as we said, Michael Kingsbury finally gets a gold medal. And I don't know if you caught it much there at all, Jarrod, but did you know that Canada have won the last three of these in a row now? Like god, they shoved that down our throats last night, didn't they?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think they only mentioned it once or twice.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think, actually, they want to be technical. They've won four in a row. Dale Begg Smith is technically Canadian, even though he won it for us. Matt Graham's silver. And Diachi Hara, bronze. Yes, as you said, Mallory, just knocking out the other Canadian there who was in the third place for a long time until the Japanese rider there. But everyone crashed out. It was good to watch. Ski jumping, the women's normal hill. Marin Lundy from Norway took the gold. Katharina Altheis from Germany, the silver, and Sara Takanashi from Japan, the bronze. Snowboarding, you said in the Slope style. It was silver to Canada. Valerie Blouin, how did you say her name? Blouin? Blouin?
MALLORY FOSTER: Oh, what did they say? Blouin?
BEN WATERWORTH: Blouin, yep, that sounds right. Jamie Anderson made it Canada. There was double gold then for the Americans in the Slope style because they obviously got it in the men's and the women's. Jamie Anderson took it out. And it was bronze for Eni Rukajarvi from Finland. And in the speed skating, no surprises. The Dutch took it again. Irene Verst, gold for the Dutch. Miho Takagi for Japan in silver. And Marit Lindstra, bronze for the Netherlands. In the ice hockey games that were held yesterday, we had two Group B matches, Switzerland 3-1 over Japan. And I was watching Sweden vs Korea, absolutely dominant performance by Sweden, 8-0 over Korea. I'm blaming the North Koreans. South Korea, I think, are generally pretty good in ice hockey. That's just the North Koreans that are choking them out. Mallory, you're an expert on all things ice hockey. Is that a correct statement?
MALLORY FOSTER: I wasn't listening to you.
BEN WATERWORTH: Never mind. I'm used to that. In the luge, I mentioned that we've got two Germans leading the women's singles. Natalia Gysenberger and Diana Eatenberger. There's lots of burgers going on there up at the luge. Alex Goff in the bronze medal position currently for Canada. Head of another German, Tatjana Hufner, in fourth place there. Good news is, of course, that the training for the men's doubles luge started yesterday. I was watching that. God, it's good to watch. So, so exciting to see that on my screens. We also had, as we said in the curling, Canada will go off for gold against Switzerland. And if I'm not mistaken, we've already had the bronze medal match decided. And I believe did Norway take the bronze? Jarrod, do you have...?
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, I think Olympic athletes from Russia beat Norway.
BEN WATERWORTH: Okay, well, I had a 50-50 chance there of that one, and I obviously got it wrong. So, congratulations to the Olympic athletes from Russia. Yes, you're right, they won that 8-4 against Norway. So bronze to the Olympic athletes of Russia. They're doing their drug-filled nation proud. Just quickly on the medal tally before we get to what we watched. So on day three, Germany leading it, four gold, one silver, two bronze, seven. They've got as many as the Dutch, but they've got three gold, two silver, two bronze. Norway, two gold, four silver, three bronze for nine. And Canada, fourth, two gold, four silver, one bronze, seven medals. Australia, currently in equal 13th place against our great winter rivals of Slovakia. We're both equal on a silver medal. Kazakhstan bringing up the rear with a bronze next to Italy as well. And just an update on New Zealand, they have not won a medal. So what did we watch on day three? Let's start with you, Jarrod. What did you pay close attention to on the stuff that we haven't already mentioned today?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I caught a little bit of everything bar the biathlon. I watched the figure skating probably two hours after it was over with Channel 7 trying to pretend that it was live and the event was just finishing when we already knew the results. I caught the end of the ski jumping, which surprisingly didn't go until two in the morning. So I'm thankful for that this time. And then the snowboarding, which was very much just, yeah, who could get down a clean run with just everybody, every second person falling over, really.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, it was a very crash-filled day, day three, I felt. Mallory, you sort of mentioned what you watched. Do you remember anything else that you watched or any comments on what you did watch?
MALLORY FOSTER: I only watched the figure skating and the Slopestyle, which of course aired at the exact same time. So I had my setup with the snowboarding on TV, and figure skating on my laptop. Yeah, the Slopestyle was really hard to watch. Like, I was just, I was sad for, like, I was cheering on every single athlete as they went down. I was like, you can make the jump, you can make the jump, and then they'd crash every single time. And it just, it wasn't that exciting because you just knew that if somebody made a clean run, then they would be like top three or four. And I don't know, that to me is kind of less of what the competition should be, and I don't know.
BEN WATERWORTH: You want to see more skill rather than just survival, basically.
MALLORY FOSTER: Yeah, and that's all it was. It was make a clean run, you're gonna win. That was essentially what it was. And like, there was one girl in her first run who actually threw a really big trick, and it was like a gorgeous trick, and she didn't land, which was really sad. But then on her second run, she was like, no, I'm just gonna play it safe, because if I land, then I'm gonna make top three. And didn't throw any big tricks, it was just what was gonna get her by to make that clean run and get a medal.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, one thing we haven't talked a bit about is, I mean, the weather is playing havoc so much on a lot of these events. I mean, we haven't seen any alpine skiing events because they're basically all being postponed and postponed just due to this weather that is happening in Pyeongchang at the moment. And yeah, that played a part. I mean, we sort of briefly mentioned that with our women's moguls the other night. Sort of by the time, you know, Brett Cox and Andy Norty were going down, it was basically a blizzard. And then even with the men's moguls last night, I mean, similar to what you were just saying there about the slope style, so many of the men's, men in the moguls were just crashing out everywhere. So it was kind of a lot of, particularly that second final, it was a survival of the fittest. I mean, Jarrod, I really thought that had old James Matheson gotten in there, he could have easily made it into the top six because it didn't about like four or five people crash out in that second final.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think the score to go through was like maybe like a mid 70s in the end to get through to the final six. So it was just person after person after person falling over. And I think it probably, I think, helped Matt Graham that he was really the only one kind of taking the left hand side, which seems to be, I don't know, it worked out for him, but maybe with less people taking it, it was a bit of a cleaner option.
BEN WATERWORTH: And also with Michael Kingsbury. I mean, he kind of struggled on his first two, and I thought, I'm gonna say to God, Matt, he's got the gold here, because if he doesn't live up to expectations, you know, he's not going to do it, but of course, you know, Kingsbury did. Surprisingly, Colin's obviously not on the episode today, if you're wondering where he is. He's gotten sick. He got sick of Andy Norty the other night, so he just actually got the flu. But he sadly couldn't be with us here for this celebration. I watched, same, similar to you, Jarrod, I basically watched a bit of everything. I didn't think there was anything I didn't end up seeing, which is kind of easier in the winter Olympics compared to the summer Olympics, because there's obviously fewer sports and there's less medals on each of the day. I paid particular attention to the curling in the morning. I really thoroughly enjoyed watching the Canadian-Norway match, and I've got some things to say on that when we get to the commentary section. But I learnt a lot. I learnt that you have strategy time in curling. Like, you can just stand there for, you know, you've got like six minutes or something per game to talk with your partner. And I think other sports need to implement the great use of the microphones, because I know we kind of get some sports who will get good microphones on the athletes. Like, if you watch The Big Bash, you know, you'll often hear the commentators talk to the cricketers and, you know, often ask them what they think if I'm a celebrity, get me out of here, and, you know, professional things like that. But, you know, you really are hearing the athletes talking to each other and, like, telling them what to do. And you don't really hear that a lot in other sports. So, you know, I thoroughly enjoyed the curling. I thought that was great. Mallory was happy that I enjoyed the figure skating. I really did enjoy that. And what's your esteemed Canadian pair at the end there, the ones who carried the flag? Is it Virtue and Moyer? Is that the right ones there, Mallory?
MALLORY FOSTER: Virtue and Moyer, yeah, they're the ice dancers.
BEN WATERWORTH: Their routine was amazing at the end, where they did it to the Moulin Rouge song. Just the way that was. It literally gave me goosebumps, and it was beautiful. Straight away. And they're in the ice dancing again, aren't they? They're going to win the gold, surely, in that.
MALLORY FOSTER: Yes, they will. May I just say that at the beginning of the figure skating, watching the team event, I texted you and I was like, oh my gosh, the figure skating's on, I'm so excited. And the very first thing that you said to me in a text message was, oh, wait, we're going to make fun of the ice dancing so much. And what did you just say? It gave you goosebumps?
BEN WATERWORTH: Because it was beautiful. I want to take back how much, Jarrod, you're going to hate me for this, but it was amazing. I loved it. Like, I'm thinking of more sort of flamboyant, arm-waving shit. But like, you know, maybe this is just because these are the good teams. Like, when we get to see, I didn't see Israel skate in the team, so maybe they were doing that garbage. I don't know. But like, it wasn't just them. I really enjoyed the American pair. They did like to do a Coldplay medley. That was like really cool. Yes.
MALLORY FOSTER: I didn't like the...
BEN WATERWORTH: You didn't like it? Was that just you don't like Coldplay or...?
MALLORY FOSTER: I do like Coldplay. I just didn't flow very well with the ice dance.
BEN WATERWORTH: But I think the thing to note too, that maybe this is where my opinion is changing, because I believe this is the first Olympics where they're allowed to use like lyrics in their music. Usually, I was reading this somewhere, where usually it's similar to gymnastics. And I think gymnastics have just changed this too, that you're only allowed to use instrumentals. But this is the first time, yeah, that they're actually allowed to use lyrics. And it just worked better. Like that bit with Virtue and Moya, just with the, you know, rocks and just the way it works so well with the music. So maybe it's just the lyrics are adding something different to it to what I'm used to seeing. So I stand corrected. I stand corrected, Mallory. It was enjoyable.
MALLORY FOSTER: Good. I'm so glad that you are willing to admit that.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, are you changing or is it just me?
MALLORY FOSTER: Compromising your sexuality and willing to admit that.
BEN WATERWORTH: What are you saying? What about my sexuality? You're in a relationship with me. That says more about you than me, I think. Do you change your opinion, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I mean, the upper levels are definitely better to watch. And I don't mind when they're doing kind of the spins and lifts and stuff. It is just the... And this is not even just for iSense, even for like the whatever you call the other type of figure skating, not iSense. Just like the in-between bits, like between like the spins and jumps and tricks and lifts, like I just... It is that just the arm waving, like the same as the floor routine in gymnastics. Just get into your jumps and stuff and get rid of these, like I can throw my arm out to the left and now look, it's above me and I don't know what I'm doing. Spaghetti arms. Just that bit I hate. And I just wish that should be like deductions throughout the routine for the amount of those stupid arm waves that you put in.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's also interesting, the coverage, I've never seen it before, that they actually have that live score going, don't they, in the top left of the... Like if they land the technical... Obviously the bits you have to land in each one, you just add the little spaghetti arms in there for each of the judges to see. I mean, Mallory, you would get more figure skating, I guess, in Canada. This is probably an on-the-fly question for you, but do they do that in normal, like non-Olympic figure skating competitions on Canadian TV? Because we never get figure skating on our TV unless it's in the Olympics.
MALLORY FOSTER: The only time I ever watch figure skating is in the Olympics or when the twins skate. And if I'm watching the twins skate, that's in person.
BEN WATERWORTH: Good. All right. Good to know. Good to see this is... That's a colon question. One thing I want to say about everything that I watch, is that this is what, to me, makes the Winter Olympics so great. We already went over this in our previous... There's just no boring sports. I literally was enthralled by the curling. And people say curling is the boring sport of the Olympics. I've also talked about the ice dancing. I was enthralled by that. Everyone is just so happy in the Winter Olympics. Everyone is so excited. Even people who fuck up and don't do too well, they generally always have... There's not many athletes I have seen be so disappointed with their results. And this is what's just completely different to the Summer Olympics, where you always get sulky people, like, oh, I only got the bronze. You know, things like that. And this is what I really appreciate about the Winter Games. It just looks fun. And we kind of have the difference between the Winter and the Summer Olympics is that, say, like, with the medal ceremonies, for example, is that, you know, you'll have kind of a venue presentation, which they get their own Surang and Burang given to them. And then you get the medal plaza one, which is completely different, where they've got like a live site where they'll have bands playing. I think Salt Lake were the first to do this, if I'm not mistaken. And they'll just have like, you know, a crowd can just go along at 6 p.m. every night, and they've got about, you know, five medal presentations for the day. So that's, as you've noticed, Australia Channel 7 are advertising to the death. See, you know, Matt Graham getting silver medal later tonight. I just, I kind of like it. I like it. I never used to like it back when I first saw it in Salt Lake, but I've kind of come to grow with it, because it's like a party atmosphere. It's great. I mean, Jarrod, do you like the way they do this, like with the medals and just kind of like the whole Winter Olympics seems like more of a fun time than the Summer Games?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, definitely. I think that just the athletes seem to get along better, and it doesn't seem kind of fake there, like supporting each other and hugging each other at the end and just being really happy for one another, not just themselves. I think there is kind of a greater sense of entitlement and I suppose selfishness at the Summer Games. And I think just because these athletes go through much and in particular in like the riskier sports, they put a lot on the line that just they are kind of happy for anybody who kind of lands that dream run and does really well.
MALLORY FOSTER: Mallory, I mean, I think the other thing is, you have way more Canadians on the podium in the Winter Olympics, which is why everyone is so happy and loving, obviously.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's all the Chinese and Russians in the Summer Games that ruin it for everyone. But it's a good point though. I mean, Canadians are happy people, but like just a subtle little difference. We joked and made fun of Brit Cox the other night for choking and that sort of stuff. And again, we're just trying to be funny. We know that we're proud of her for finishing fifth and for Jakinda, obviously, for finishing fourth too. But a slight example of that is that there was all this pressure on Brit to go for medals, and everyone talked her up, and then kind of like, oh damn, disappointed she didn't. Similar thing with the Campbell sisters in Rio, but the difference is we spent like three, four days of putting up with the Campbell sisters, oh, I don't know what happened, I'm so disappointed. This is the worst moment of my life. And like never, like they didn't go and hug Mack Horton when he won the gold medal or anything like that, did they? Whereas Brit Cox was at the finish line giving Matt Graham a hug after the moguls last night smiling, doing, you know, just being happy that she made it to the finals. Jarrod, can the Campbell sisters take a page from Brit Cox's book? Like this just makes me dislike the Campbell sisters even more, I think.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think everybody can take a page from her book. I thought that that was really exciting to see. It did annoy me. I don't know if you saw the stupid, like, I don't even know, like, judge or whatever he was, who, like, Brit Cox is, like, giving Matt Graham a hug, and then he's going to hug these other people. And then this judge comes over, he's like, you can't do that, we need to get all this other stuff done. Like, stop talking to people. And I was like, shut up and let him have his moment, you idiot.
BEN WATERWORTH: He's from the IOC, let's be honest. Yeah, yeah. Can we also just quickly comment, too? We had a lot of fun during Rio with those shitty little plastic little toys they gave to the athletes. This time around, as I said, they get like a Boorang or a Soorang or whatever the hell it is. But what is this thing they get at the actual plaza? It's like a piece of wood with mountains on it. Have you seen this, Jarrod? I don't know what the hell it is they're getting.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I haven't seen it yet, but I'll have to keep an eye out for it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Mallory, have you seen any of the medal presentations?
MALLORY FOSTER: No. I've only watched Little Stuffed Animals.
BEN WATERWORTH: You'll see. Watch when Matt Graham gets his medal tonight. But it's actually, if you're on the app, they do have a channel at about 7 o'clock every night Australia where you can just watch the medal presentations. I just happened to catch the Canadians get their gold last night in the figure skating. But they just keep an eye out for the little thing that they hand them afterwards. They get their medal. And can I say, comment the medals? I like the medals. They look nice looking medals. And you get a little wooden statue of something. It's a lot nicer than the plastic junk they got from Rio. But I still don't know what it is. And I'm happy to see that this is the first time in a long time I've had a decent looking Winter Olympics medal. I mean, the Sochi one had like a piece of plastic glass in it. The Torino one was a fucking donut. And I mean, I didn't mind the Vancouver ones. The Vancouver ones kind of had lumps on it. And I learnt when I was in Canada, I don't know if you knew this Mallory, that all of the Vancouver medals can actually be connected together like a jigsaw puzzle to form the shapes and contours of the Vancouver region. And they did that deliberately. So that's really cool. That's really clever. That's up there with the Rio Paralympic ones, which had like braille on it and little bells in them that like shook, considering what colour they were or something like that. But anyway, just keep an eye out for the medal presentations because they're very fun. Now, commentary coverage. Got one here from Colin. He actually isn't on the line here with us as we've already mentioned. But this one's actually quite funny. This is more of a Team Canada website fail. So they've actually posted on their, I believe this is their Twitter page, they've got, at Jay DeFurla point, win silver for hashtag Team Canada at Pyeongchang 2018. The women's moguls final in photos. So there's four pictures of moguls action. To which then they've gotten a reply from Audrey Robichard. Robichard or whatever. Guys, none of those photos are me. Ha ha. Andy does look good though. And Team Canada's, Oh no, so sorry Aubrey. You looked and skied awesome too. Thanks for letting us know so we can update. Oh God. Very Canadian there Mallory at the end. They've apologised to her for it.
MALLORY FOSTER: I mean they tried.
BEN WATERWORTH: They did. They did try. Did you, I want to go to you first, Mallory, if you noticed any of the commentary. Because I know you're paying more attention to this now that you're doing this show with us.
MALLORY FOSTER: I am. Okay, so again, I only watched two sports yesterday. When we won gold, my mum texted me and was talking to me. And so one of the commentators in the figure skating, okay, I need to find my phone, is Kurt someone who's apparently really famous? Incorrect. Kurt Browning.
BEN WATERWORTH: Ah, the Kurt Browning.
MALLORY FOSTER: So yeah, my mum was talking all about Bertie and Moyer doing such a great job, like they're gonna win gold, blah, blah, blah. And I said, oh yeah, and like we have a Canadian girl in second right now for Slope Style. My mum's reply to this is, it's so great to hear Kurt Browning commentating the figure skating. So yeah, I don't know if he's Canadian. I'm assuming he's Canadian because my mum knows who he is. He's one of the most amazing figure skaters of all time. My mum's in love with this guy.
BEN WATERWORTH: That's good to know.
MALLORY FOSTER: So that's my exciting commentating thing. Awesome.
BEN WATERWORTH: Of the day.
MALLORY FOSTER: I feel like it might have been something else, but probably not.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, if you think about it, please by all means let us know. Before I get to you Jarrod, just quickly we will say the women's half pipe is over. Gold to Chloe Kim from the USA, which means the USA have jumped over Canada in the medal tally. Silver to China, Luao Zhao, she got silver and Ariel Gold for the US bronze. Sadly, Kelly Clark couldn't become the first female to win four medals in four different Olympics and snowboarding. Sad to see that. And I've switched over right now. The alpine skiing is getting underway finally. The men's alpine combined downhill is about to get underway. And I love alpine skiing. The downhill, the slalom, the giant slalom. There's nothing unexciting about alpine skiing. Jarrod, any commentary, things of note for you on day three?
JARROD LOOBEEK: There was nothing from yesterday. I will say today in the snowboarding, there was a bit of a doozy when they were talking about Emily Arthur and how she was listening to Super Bass. And the commentary was like, she's a big fan of Nicki Minaj. Get in that starship, Emily, and fly.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, Jesus.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I was like, are you kidding me, really?
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, my goodness. Yeah, I've got a few doozies for us from yesterday. I have, I don't know, I'm guessing it's Canadian coverage from The Curling. I'm not sure. There's definitely a Canadian commentator and a Scottish commentator because we do actually know that The Curling Stones come from Scotland, and Scotland and Great Britain actually have a pretty good history in curling outside of the Canadians. So we had the nicest Canadian commentator, like just stereotypical Canadian. He sounds like he's about 70, but he comes across with the most obvious line, oh, in the old days before radio on TV, curling was on radio. And it's like, okay, that would be exciting. Then he says, oh, curling's a great sport for TV. Like, is it? Like, I love curling, but I could probably get sick of it after a while. Now, Mallory, I know...
JARROD LOOBEEK: It isn't into radio, I'm sure.
BEN WATERWORTH: He's sweeping, he's sweeping, he's sweeping. Mallory, I know Collins told me before that they legitimately use curling on primetime TV in Canada. As somebody who obviously clearly pays attention to these sports outside of the Olympics, do you ever just happen to find yourself on a Friday night flicking channels and oh, curling's on, let's watch this.
MALLORY FOSTER: We don't have cable, so no, I don't.
BEN WATERWORTH: I thought this would be on like network TV though. No, all right.
MALLORY FOSTER: No, we just, no.
BEN WATERWORTH: A few bits in the figure skating. Whoever, again, weird commentary combination. We've got like an American or a Canadian with an Australian, and she just sounds like the most Bogan woman in the world commentating. She's like basically the Tonya Harding of Australian figure skating. They love mentioning twizzles in figure skating. I don't know what a twizzle is. I thought that was, isn't that a type of red like chewy candy in North America, Mallory? No, that's twizzler.
MALLORY FOSTER: Twizzler. Isn't a twizzle when they like go back and forth without doing a full spin?
BEN WATERWORTH: Look, it could be. It either to me sounds like what Jarrod was saying with the spaghetti arms or perhaps maybe it's like back in the raw NHG days with the Hello Boys and the Ludwig notes. I don't know, but one of the best bits in this, I think it was the Italian pair, and they like lead in really close to each other, like they were about to kiss or something like that. And the woman just goes, Oh, thank goodness they both don't have braces. Um, but, um, what was, uh, the, um, some of the actual mogul stuff that was going on. Uh, I love Basil Zemplas, but just some of the stuff he comes up with. It's just kind of ridiculous. And god damn it, Jarrod, Channel 7 and Tennis, get over it! Like, when, when he, when, um, Matt Graham loses, you know, to, to McCall Kingsbury, they get there and they're like, oh, to put that into context, that would be like losing at Wimbledon against Roger Federer or losing, losing at Roland Garros against Rafael Nadal. We get it, Channel 7, you like Tennis?
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's the only sport they really have on. So they've got to make a point of trying to keep it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes. Um, there was one there when they get there and it was like, I think it was when Kingsbury down the bottom, Basil Zempelers, world class Olympic class, gold medal class. I think so. He says it. Um, also, can we point out that Dirk Nannis, who I knew as a cricketer, I didn't know he was a mogul skier as well. Like, what is he saying? Is Steve Smith going to be commentating the bloody figure skating pairs? He's got a background in it. Where does this come from? Did you know much about Dirk Nannis in the moguls?
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, I didn't know that that was his background at all. So I was like, who even is this person? Do they know what they're talking about? But evidently, he's got some idea.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I've just found an article here in The Daily Telegraph with a headline, Why Former Australian Cricketer Dirk Nannis is Calling the Moguls at the Winter Olympics. And it's got here that skiing is his main passion. His dream was actually to go to the Winter Olympics. And he ended up playing for Australia in cricket. So there you go, kids. You can do both. Oh, God, some of the other cheesy one-liners here. We had about, I think it was about Matt Graham, Has He Made These Moguls Into Gold Hills? Which was just no. We also had the great line of commentary there by Dirk Nannis, who literally turned around to the three winning medallists in the moguls and said, all three will feel like they've won a medal. Yes, Dirk, they have won a medal. And just the worst of the worst came at the end of it when I don't even know, I tweeted this out and somebody replied to me saying that it was Rachel Finch. It didn't look like Rachel Finch, but it wouldn't put it past me because Channel 7 has sent their expert commentators out there to the Winter Olympics, including former Miss Australia, Rachel Finch, with her vast background knowledge of winter sports. She's there in the crowd interviewing Matt Graham's grandparents, to which she says to the grandfather, oh, Matt's the first Aussie to win our first medal and his first medal. The grandfather's just like, yeah, yeah, Matt's always doing things. Yep, he's pretty good. And to which she then puts the microphone in front of the grandma, and she's all like, oh, oh, I'm so proud.
MALLORY FOSTER: Oh, oh, I don't know what to say.
BEN WATERWORTH: And then Rachel Finch, whatever goes, Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. What a great interviewer Rachel Finchwoman was. Oh my God. And typical channel seven, the coverage you think couldn't get any worse. But let's put up tweets at the bottom of the screen, showing how Australia is reacting to this great moment in our sporting history of silver medal. Let's see all the regular Australians putting out tweets, all the regular Australians, such as channel seven host Mel McLaughlin. Just like no regular people, it's just channel seven personalities. And I've discovered the name of that stupid woman who is a terrible host, Edwina Bartholomew. So there we go, we've got somebody to bag out a little bit more. All right, athlete of the day. Is this any question? It's gotta be Matt Graham, right, Jarrod? Come on.
JARROD LOOBEEK: You would think that if I am going to give it to Mikhail Kinsry, just because like, I think his score of 86 point whatever was actually too low because watching that run, like, I just feel like it deserved like a perfect score because you just can't get better than that. And the commentators were doubting him throughout. And I was like, yeah, we'll see, we'll see when it gets to the final. And I think just putting down that run, like he couldn't have done anything better.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think Dirk Danis had something against Macau Kingsbury, if I'm completely honest with you, because he always seemed to be bagging the guy out. Mallory, did you have an athlete of the day?
MALLORY FOSTER: Gotta give it to Virtue and Moyer. Like if they gave you goosebumps after what you've said to me, they're definitely athletes of the day.
BEN WATERWORTH: Okay, well, I'll give you that. But at the same time, you know, we've got to also realise that, you know, straight air silver medal might not happen again. This is the Winter Olympics. We've got to take these when they come. You know, think of the 90s people. What we would do is get a bronze medal. So yes, we'll see how that goes. Now, we don't have obviously Colin on the line here to do a My Name Is, but I found one here and I thought we'd go with Macaul Kingsbury just because, you know, he obviously got the gold. But sad to say, it's a pretty boring one, if I'm completely honest with you. No offence to you, Mr. Kingsbury. You're the Roger Federer of moguls. Thanks, everyone at Channel 7 for reminding us that. So we got here. Hello, my name is Macaul Kingsbury and I'm Canadian. My favourite Olympic moment is hearing the national anthem, Oh Canada, on the podium with Alex in 2014. That was Alex Bilodeau who of course won the gold. Or I think as Basil Zempel is called in Balladeau. As a kid, my favourite sports team was Montreal Expo slash Montreal Canadians. Do you like either of those teams Mallory? Okay, I like Montreal, but I don't know about their teams. If I could be any superhero, I would be Batman, to which they've posted a picture of him on Instagram in a Batman suit next to a woman dressed as Batwoman. So, oh Catwoman, the other one, sorry. If I could be an Olympian in any other sport than my own, it would be Diver or Skater 2020.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Oh, not Cricket?
BEN WATERWORTH: 2020 skating, it's the new thing coming soon. My favourite music artists are Metallica. If I could eat one food for the rest of my life, it would be steak. My favourite place to compete is Deer Valley, Utah, okay. My favourite thing to do in the summer is golf. And there's an Instagram picture of him playing golf. They know this is so boring, they're literally having to add pictures to this. My favourite cartoon to watch growing up was The Simpsons. Mallory, tell everyone your favourite Simpsons episode.
MALLORY FOSTER: That's rude.
BEN WATERWORTH: Tell everyone have you seen The Simpsons. Never watched The Simpsons, ladies and gentlemen. She's the one. That's it, that is legitimately his, my name is. So boring. I mean, congratulations on your golf.
JARROD LOOBEEK: You didn't even get him to draw a picture.
BEN WATERWORTH: I know, they just had to put pictures on here. There's so little lack of pictures. Anyways, there we go. Good news for us though. Jarrod Lubing, what happened to us and our fan messages breaking news? Tell everyone what happened.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, we're done with moderation. We're on the page. Mallory Lubeck's great post to Holly. It made it up.
BEN WATERWORTH: We're there, we've made it. Mallory, how do you feel about you sort of becoming famous on the Australian Olympic team?
MALLORY FOSTER: I'm really wishing that the message was nice, but I feel like it probably wasn't.
BEN WATERWORTH: No, it was about you meeting Holly Crawford at the Adelaide Oval, go Crows.
MALLORY FOSTER: Oh yes, go Crows. Cricket is a great sport.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, it is. Well, that's not even a cricket team, but well done. Well done. You love Australian sport, don't you? Everyone right now listening to this not live, seriously, switch over right now to the Alpine skiing, because this is amazing. Are you watching this, Jarrod? I love this sport.
MALLORY FOSTER: It is so windy.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I am, this is great.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, this is like, these guys are just like mental. The fact that they're going so fast on these tiny pieces of wood. This doing 101.6, oh, he's down. Oh, goodness. Just as I speak. Just watch even more some people crash and shit. It's great. Mallory, can we please go do this in Canada?
MALLORY FOSTER: Yes.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes. Permission.
MALLORY FOSTER: I mean, if you want to die, go for it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, I'm gonna die one day. All right, let's, let's read.
MALLORY FOSTER: Skiing scares me.
BEN WATERWORTH: Let's read some of these fair messages. There was one here. From Liam in Victoria to Scotty James. Hey man, I saw you kicking the footy around on your Insta story, and I was wondering who you went for. Also, you're killing it. Keep it up. A-U, A-U, A-U, A-U. Watch out, I'm getting these little Australian flags. I want them to, I think they should put the options here to reply. I wanna see Scotty James pressing reply. Hey Liam, go for the crows. I wanna see Holly Crawford replying to our message. Who are you?
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's my fourth Olympics. What are you on about?
BEN WATERWORTH: He's on from Josh Rees of New South Wales to a snowboarder, Emily Arthur. Hi Emily, I come from Sutherland in Sydney, and I volunteer in the office at your old Hee-hon. A Thursday just gave a running commentary of your snowboard qualification to your old mathematics teacher, Ms. Grey, we are rooting for you. Best of luck in the final. Go Australia regards Josh Rees, staff support guy at Bosco. There's not a full stop in there to be found. Marilyn Dawkins of Western Australia here to one of our bobsledders, Lucas Matter. Dear Lucas, 4D from Narrogan Primary School offer these messages of encouragement. If you fail, try again. Play fair. Good luck. Enjoy your time. Try your best. Don't get hurt. Play safe. Be nice to others on your team. Have fun. Go for gold. Never give up. Stay warm. Don't get frostbite. Encourage your teammates. You're sincerely 4D. Are you reading this, Jarrod? Do you have any here? I always feel like I should ask you if you want any to read any of these out.
JARROD LOOBEEK: My favourite one, and it's not even that funny, but I feel like if they're not accepting some of our messages, how have they accepted this? From Sydney Mills to Brittany Cox, Brett, you did a great. We are proud to have you. You couldn't even get her name right. You called her Brett. How does that get approved?
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, we know what we're doing today with one of these messages, then. Here's one from Noel Lofton in New South Wales. Hi, Matt. Oh, this is Matt Graham, by the way. Hi, Matt, it's Noel and Norell here from just up your street back home, number 129. You know where Matt Graham lives, and you can go visit Noel and Norell. Very best wishes, mate. Hope you have an amazing night tonight. We'll be watching and cheering every moment. All of Ost, and especially our end of Narara, is very proud of you and how hard you've worked to get this point. So let it rip. Enjoy the moment, and good luck. Oh my goodness, these are funny. Mallory, have you read any of these at all? I don't know if I'm meant to be enjoying you in here. No? I don't know if there's any good ones here. Let's see here. Yeah, I found that Brett one. Brett, you did great. Maybe they're a New Zealander. Brett, you did great.
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, but doesn't say overseas fan.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, true, true. Okay then, let's do... Okay, who are we choosing today? So who's competing? We'll quickly look. We've got a bunch of cross-country skiers skiing today. Jarrod, we've also got another male cross-country skier happening, and of course, Scotty James hits the slopes today. So what are you thinking? Shall we give Scotty some love today and go to some of our cross-country skiers?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, do we bother to send a team message?
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, good point, actually. Shall we just go for a team one, do you think?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, if we do a team for the cross-country, there's about four of them, so.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, let's do it, cross-country. So do you think this means we can tick them all off, technically? Can I rate this one? Absolutely. Does this mean, I just want to see if we're technically crossing off on my list here. So, okay, before we write it, let's cheat in some way or another here. We're officially, well, we've actually already sent one to Jessica Yeaton, so that's already fine. But we'll tick off Casey Wright. She's a cross-country skier. And Amy Watson as well, who I believe is Callum Watson's sister or wife, or just has the same last name. I think he did mention that in his interview. I do pay attention to people when I interview them. And Phil Bellingham as well. All right, what do you want to say here Mallory? What are we saying to our cross-country team? Ashley, first of all, what's your name? What is it?
MALLORY FOSTER: We are saying.
BEN WATERWORTH: What's your name here? What's your name here Mallory Hilding? All right, we'll go with that.
MALLORY FOSTER: Why is it always my name that gets used?
BEN WATERWORTH: You got published the first time. You're a hundred percent right now.
MALLORY FOSTER: I'm the only published one. So therefore it has to be under my name.
BEN WATERWORTH: All right, Mallory Hilding at hotmail.com. Everyone send her a message. All right, what are we saying to our cross-country team?
MALLORY FOSTER: We're saying, your sport is boring, but don't worry, we'll still cheer for you.
BEN WATERWORTH: Okay, I don't think that's going to get published. Your sport is boring, but don't worry.
MALLORY FOSTER: Oh, we can tell them that they don't belong in the Olympics because they're Australian, but that was racist.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's okay if it says from an overseas fan.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, actually, yes, let's quickly put this. Victoria, wow, okay. Send message to Cross Country's key.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think your record's gone.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I think you're definitely gone now. Good job, you've broken your streak. All right, let's get one to Scotty. Where are you? Send message. Oh, okay, post another message. Okay, calm down, Australian Olympic Committee website. Snowboard, where are you? Scotty James, name, let's go with Noah Groves. Email, noahgroves.mail.com. Oh, shit, I can't even spell. He's, of course, from the esteemed Australian Capital Territory. Let's see here. Any ideas? Ideas, kick Sean White's pasty white ass. Pasty white ass. His games suck, and his hair looks like a mop. Carry him harder than you carried that flag. Go, you good thing. Yeah, that'll do. Sorry, I didn't ask you any of you for input there. But Noah Groves from the ACT has sent that one in. Thanks, Noah Groves, for joining us today. I feel like we need to do one of these names. I'm just going to see here. Who have we got here that's got a name? Go, Brett. Let's see here. There's not many here, really. David, Deanna, Lydia, Adam, Harry. Oh, Harry, go Barry. There we go, all right. He's one of our alpine skiers. Let's see here. Harry Laidlaw. Name. Who can we go here? Anthony Rossi. That one. Using all our Auslitz names here. Hello, Rossi, if you're listening. Mallory has no idea who that is. It can be an overseas fan. Hey, Barry. What do we want to say to Barry? Ski and shit, love. You ski good. Good ski. Ski so good. We get wood.
JARROD LOOBEEK: You don't ski bad.
BEN WATERWORTH: Ski so good. Don't ski bad. Bad skiing is bad. You ski good. Good skiing is good. You like skiing. That's why. That's why you ski. So ski. Ski well. Ski hard. And remember, don't forget to ski. Just those at home who may have missed that. Hey Barry, you ski good. Good ski. Ski so good. Don't ski bad. Bad skiing is bad. You ski good. Good skiing is good. You like skiing. That's why you ski. That's why you ski. So ski. Ski well. Ski hard. And remember, don't forget to ski. Ski. That's gotta get published.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Surely that exceeds the character limit, doesn't it?
BEN WATERWORTH: No, it works. It says, thank you for showing your support. Your message is undergoing moderation and will be posted shortly. How the hell did that, the one yesterday get published? Can they not see they get published from the same IP address in the vicinity of like three seconds? I want to get the job at the AOC of moderating messages. That's their one job. Oh my goodness. Alrighty, day four. It's already begun. We're recording this in the middle of it, but the middle events today, alpine skiing, men's combined. Well, it's gonna happen because it's happening right now. So get excited for the alpine skiing to finally get started. Two events in the cross-country skiing, the men's individual sprint, the women's individual sprint. Curling, obviously we will have the mixed doubles gold medal match happening a little later on. Olympic athletes from Russia have already won the bronze in that one. The luge, women's singles will be decided today. Short track speed skating, the women's 500 metres, so we're back to the short track. The snowboarding, women's half pipes already been decided as we said. Chloe Kim, the gold for the USA. And in full track speed skating, the men's 1500 metres. Who's you're picking that one? Jarrod, is it Grant Hackett or Kieran Perkins?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I'm gonna go with Thorpey.
BEN WATERWORTH: Thorpey, okay, good idea here. Good idea. I'm actually looking at the start list here. I'm going for Bart Swings, my Belgian. He's there. But New Zealand's favourite speed skater, Peter Michael's back. Look out everyone. I am actually looking here at his record. Actually, can we just point out here, Jarrod, that this Peter Michael is actually a pretty bloody decent short track skier. Full track skier, I should say, a skater. Put it on the mind. Looking at his record in world championships, he's actually won a few gold medals. So when it comes to the 15,000 metres, he's the reigning world champion, and he's the reigning world champion in the 1000 metre sprint. So holy fuck, New Zealand might actually win some medals here, Jarrod. What's going on?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, hopefully, if they do have into medal, I'm hoping it's a bronze.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, absolutely. Nothing more than a bronze. We can't see winning anything more than that. They've already won a silver. So it will take them 26 years to win a bronze. So hopefully, 26 years to win a gold. So we'll go with that. Other events that are happening today, Fourth Day of Women's Ice Hockey is happening today. Get excited. Also in short track, there will be qualifying in the Men's 1000 Metres, the Stephen Bradbury event, and also in the Men's 5000 Metre Relay. Scotty James is hitting the slopes, as we said. He will be competing in the Men's Half Pipe, of course, where he is a very good chance of picking up a medal. But it's also not just him. We have Kent Callister and Nathan Johnstone to compete in that one. I will say again, in the cross-country skiing, we have Jessica Yeaton, Casey Wright, Amy Watson, as well as Phil Bellingham all competing there for Australia. And that is about it for what is going on on day four. Mallory, what are you looking forward to the most out of all those events?
MALLORY FOSTER: I'm looking forward to seeing Canada win another gold medal in curling.
BEN WATERWORTH: You will. I'm calling it-
MALLORY FOSTER: Although I probably won't watch it.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm calling it now. That is a lock that is 100% in. You are winning the gold medal. If the Swiss beat you in that game, I will come on air tomorrow and sing the French national anthem. That's what I will do. In French. In French. Which means I have to learn French pretty quickly. Mallory, it's always a pleasure having you on the show today though. So thank you very much. And hopefully we will hear from you again shortly. You're welcome.
MALLORY FOSTER: Thank you for having me. Sorry, I was yawning.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's often a reaction people have to this show. And Jarrod, thank you also for joining us on A Silver Day For Australia.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, let's not forget that silver and let's hope that Scotty James can beat the curse of the Swiss multivitamins and not choke.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, indeed. We're back again tomorrow to recap day four. In the meantime, if you like the show, like us on Facebook, subscribe to us on iTunes, leave us some feedback and we appreciate all the support that we have. My name is Ben. This is Off The Podium. We'll speak to you next time.
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