PyeongChang 2018 Day 7 Review
We launch full face into a new daily review of PyeongChang 2018 and sadly for both countries involved there are no medals to talk about but that doesn't mean we still can't have some fun and excitement along the way! Jarrod comes in fresh with some research about just how having a Swisse ad campaign actually hurts your chances of success in an Olympics. There is also talk about why Australia should be better in long-track speed skating, why the athletes Channel 7 doesn't care about do better, why we need to interview people who do doubles luge and some of the funniest fan messages you'll hear from the Australian Olympic Team website. Click away and listen away to another exciting day!
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
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BEN WATERWORTH: Hello everybody and welcome back to Off The Podium, An Olympics Podcast. I don't know what a Podcast is. I think that was something from the Survivor days. But we are now into day 7 of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics. Another day of competition is done and dusted. And it's been a bad day for Australia. The streak is over. The two days of Olympic glory of medals is over. The 12, 16, 18 years of Olympic medals in the aerials is over. And it's a sad day to be an Australian. So much so that Canadians, once again, are boycotting the podcast. And we've just got two sulky Australians, including the man from Emu Plains. He still holds the Emu Plains record in the sport of aerials. It is of course Jarrod Lubik. Jarrod, welcome back to Off The Podium.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It is good to be back. Yeah, good to talk to get over the disappointment of the streak coming to an end.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, yes, very sad, very sad. We are recording this just after the aerials finals have ended. And sadly, no success for Australia in this. The consistent streak of four Olympics in a row with medals is done. Laura Peele, Danielle Scott unfortunately not able to do what Lydia Lassler and Alyssa Campland had done previously in a very interesting, entertaining final. I mean, when I say entertaining, I've never seen a super final where basically two people land, four people crash, and there's an Olympic bronze medallist today just basically because she crashed the least hardest out of the six in the super final.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it was all to play for there. It was looking so promising, but yeah, not to be.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's an interesting... I mean, is this such a fascinating event? I mean, one of the messages I sent to you when we were watching it is basically, it's one of these sports where you really have to cheer for people to crash. And I remember during the Vancouver ones where Alyssa Campland was doing the expert commentary, I think she was... I think Eddie McGuire might have been calling that one because Channel 9 had it. And basically I think there was one or two people jumping after Lydia Lassler, and they both crashed, and Alyssa Campland was basically cheering, and she's like, Oh, I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't be cheering, I hope they're okay, but Lydia's got to win the gold. So it's just... It really is fascinating. I'm literally the whole time going, crash, crash, crash, crash. And pretty much almost everyone did.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it is that moment of... As soon as they crash, there's the initial joy, and then you do have that second of, are they okay? And as soon as you see that they're walking, it's like, yep, it's okay to cheer. That's fine. They're alive. It's all good.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah. It's... I just... It's once another one of these winter sports where I just have to go, I'm like, who honestly wakes up and goes, I want to flip myself in the air, do this, do that, and then basically nearly kill myself at the end. But it was back to back gold medals for Bella Rus, Hanna Hoskova took the gold in the final round. She got a score of 96.14. She was most consistent in all three of the rounds, let's be honest. And then it was silver and bronze to China. Zhang Jin with the silver, and Kong Fan Yu for the bronze. Alice Super, the reigning champion in the six Olympics, nearly got a bronze. But basically Kong Fan Yu, Alice Super, Laura Peele, and Madison Olsen all crashed in that super final. Sadly for Laura Peele, the Aussie, she crashed a little bit harder than Alice Super and Kong Fan Yu. I mean, you said it to me in the messages, Jarrod. I mean, she just missed a huge opportunity. She basically went into that. She had to land to that jump. She was a medallist. It was that simple. I mean, do you go into that and think, oh, maybe I just need to reduce the difficulty here, because, you know, even the most basic jump was always going to win her at least a bronze. I mean, if I'm her and I'm not, you know, I'm just going to play it safe, because I'd rather walk away with a medal. But I guess she went all out, guns blazing, golds hers for the taking. So she went hard and sadly didn't go home.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I suppose maybe if she'd been a bit later in the order, because she did have, the eventual gold medallist was before her, and she got a 90 something or other. So I suppose she still thought, even if I land something basic, there's a chance that I won't be on the podium there. But I suppose the strategy is, yeah, do you turn it down or with everybody crashing, do you up your level of difficulty as high as possible and then not worry about crashing, because your jump in the air was good enough to get your medal even if you didn't stick the landing?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I mean, it's kind of the Jackie Cooper was explaining. There's a lot of strategy that comes into play, even in the first round of the finals, just with so many people sort of not doing the best early on. And sadly, in that first one, Danielle Scott, who many people kind of touted as our big hope out of the four women that went into this, she ended up last. And it's interesting, kind of similar to what happened with Jarrod Hughes yesterday. It's really the ones that they tall cut the least that end up doing the best. And we've kind of said this, it really comes down to laying the mickey on them from an Australian perspective, doesn't it? Because his old Laura Peele, finishing highest, fifth place, and she seemed fairly satisfied with that at the end of that interview.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think I've talked about the Swisse multivitamins jinx. And I've done a bit of research here. I've got some names for you on people who've done the ads going back to London and where they finished. So London 2012, Cadell Evans in the cycling, 80th in the road race, then pulls out of the time trial. Time trial, Leighton Hewitt in the tennis, lost in the third round, lost in the quarters in the mix. Matt Target in the swimming, was in the men's 4x100 freestyle relay that were really the team that was hyped up to win, didn't place. Fourth. Rio 2016, Matt Glaser, the track cycling, fourth in the men's sprint, fourth in the men's team sprint. The Campbell Sisters swimming, famous chokers in the 100 metre freestyle. Eleanor Patterson in the high jump, she won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, failed to qualify for the final at the Olympics. Carmen Martin in the taekwondo, lost first round. The men's and women's hockey teams, both lost in the quarterfinals. The women's basketball team, lost in the quarterfinals. The women's water polo team, lost the penalty shooter in the quarterfinals. Then, of course, we had in Pyeongchang, Scotty James third in the halfpipe, which, I mean, that was good.
BEN WATERWORTH: That's a win.
JARROD LOOBEEK: But could have done better. And then, Daniel Scott 12th in the area was the only person who has beat this jinx, is Dylan Alcott in the Paralympic Games with the gold in the men's singles and doubles.
BEN WATERWORTH: Okay, then. So, essentially, if you are an able-bodied athlete, the best you can ever hope for on Swisse multivitamins is bronze. If you are a para-athlete, just knock yourself out in the Swisse vitamins. You will go for gold. That's incredible. I'm impressed that you've done your research there, Jarrod. Now, was this a simple case of going over all the ads that you've recorded on your PC, or is there actually like a list, like, Swisse multivitamins, we're so proud to sponsor the following athletes?
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, it isn't on Wikipedia pages yet. But yeah, I just basically Googled Swisse multivitamin ads in YouTube and had a look at them, and yeah, the research is compelling.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, do they only sponsor Olympians? Like, I mean, does this stretch into other sports? So like, have they started sponsoring, you know, I don't know, AFL teams, NRL teams, you know, netballers, things like this? I mean, do we need to lay the jinx perhaps just on them for other sports as well?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, they definitely do, yeah, represent some other sports. I haven't looked into it that closely, but yeah, I'll definitely get back onto Google and see how far this jinx spreads.
BEN WATERWORTH: Look, I've literally just Googled it really quickly. The only one that's come up here is Ricky Ponting, 2013. Now, he retired, let's see, when did he retire? Around about 2013. So basically, he jumped on the Swisse Multivitamins to essentially try and boost his career. His last test was in 2012, so it was kind of a post-retirement before he played another season out with Tasmania and the Hobart Hurricanes. Now, if I'm not mistaken, I'm trying to remember here, I do think Tasmania did win the Sheffield Shield in 2013. We did. So, you know, a bit of a slight difference there, but still, there's research involved here, Jarrod. I like this. You can be the Swisse Multivitamins ambassador. I mean, I was going to say we could try and get an ad with them. I'd happily take third on iTunes. So, you know, maybe we should take over here.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think that would be good for us. Maybe if you're an athlete and you do get the call-up from Swisse Multivitamins, maybe think about another product.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, yes. That is absolutely crazy to think that. And I thought it was just the Off The Podium curse that basically athletes really do rubbish. I'm really not looking forward to seeing David Morris go now. They had a great profile on him this evening after the women's one there. He's just such a likeable guy, David Morris. And god damn, I hope that we haven't jinxed him because I've interviewed him twice. So, you know, that didn't work out too well for Lydia Lassler. So we'll see how that plays out. But I mean, in all seriousness though, again, always comparing the differences between winter athletes and summer athletes and even, you know, some of the way the questions are asked to it. Like, you know, even the way that a post-match, a post-jump Laura Peele was interviewed, you know, she was being congratulated. We know Channel 7 talked her up, but we still kind of at least had them say, like, congratulations, it's an outstanding effort. You know, you must be proud, 5th in an Olympic final. And she was, you know, you can tell she's a bit disappointed, but she was obviously like, oh, you know, look, my goal was to make the super final and I've done that. But let's again rewind to Rio two years ago. It's not like, oh, congratulations, you know, Campbell Sisters, 4th and 5th in Olympic final. You're pretty happy with that. It's like, why do you two suck? It's just, I think that really they need to put this mantra to the Summer Olympians, and then maybe we won't have, but the account of their exclusive interview with the Campbell Sisters and why they sucked.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I mean, it is a little bit different. I did see, I think it was, was it James Magnuson who came out and made these comments, and then Lydia Lassler just kind of took him to school about how it's easier to be in the winter in the mix, blah, blah, blah. But yeah, I suppose in the pool, like, her comment was in the pool, like, there's no outside factors. Like, most of the time, it's in indoor pool. There's no, you're not taking into account the wind. I mean, the wind was crazy today. And the fact that there's never been a back-to-back gold medallist in aerials just tells you how unpredictable the event is.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, yeah. I mean, and I don't doubt that there's gonna be complaints the next day about, oh, how can you take it seriously when, you know, the bronze medallist crashes and four people... Somebody made a comment on that the other day, I think, about some sport where it was similar to that. And like, okay, you can understand that, but that's just the nature of sport. I mean, it's so different to, you know, as I'm a huge Formula One fan, you can legitimately have, you know, 20 of the 22 cars taken out at the first corner. You've still got two cars in the race, and they're going to battle out to win the Grand Prix. It just happens. It's sport. 100-metre final, everyone could trip over, except for our same bolt. He's still going to win the gold. Stephen Bradbury is a classic example of that. You know, it's just how sport is sometimes. But I mean, this is the thing, for Australians, we only see this every four years. You know, we don't ever take into account, you know, the great work that Daniel Scott, Laura Peele, you know, all these other Aussies are doing on the World Circuit in the lead up to this. And I think, you know, we've mentioned this before about the fact that, you know, they probably strive on, you know, all this non-pressure from their home country on the World Cup stage, because no one in Australia really gives a shit about them to the Olympics. And all of a sudden, they've got, holy fuck, the whole of the country's, you know, Channel 7's interviewing my family, my dog, my Barbie dolls, like, holy crap, I better perform. And, you know, there's all this pressure on them. So it's just such an interesting thing. And I love it when kind of summer and winter Olympians have little battles against each other. And seriously, James Magnuson, just shut up, mate. Just go choke on something. You know, go hang out with the Campbell Sisters, try and sell Uncle Toby's and make sure that people choke on them. Because seriously, that is a weird product. Can we just, like, do a separate episode and just, you know, ripping shit into our swimmers who really, like, we love our swimmers. But, like, bring back the glory days. Where's Thorpey? Hack it before he turned weird. You know, Susie O'Neill, Petrilla Thomas. Back when our swimmers actually lived up to expectations. Now they're just all whinging and moaning.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, exactly. Tough enough.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm actually, I moved to the Gold Coast on the 27th of this month. Now, in case you've missed the ads, Jarrod, the Australian Championships begin on the 28th of February. I don't know if you've seen any of those ads on Channel 7. Hard to notice when they are. And to my, there was a Twitter person who replied to me. I was really being sarcastic to that person who actually replied with the actual date, OK? Sarcasm doesn't work too well on Twitter. I am seriously thinking of possibly going along to at least one of these nights, because it's on the Gold Coast. I thought, well, why not? I'm not going to get to the swimming at the Commonwealth Games, because it's sold out and I'll be working. So I can, I'm going to go along on a Campbell Sisters night and just throw shit at them. Do you think they'll appreciate that? Throw an Uncle Toby's Muesli bar at them. You think they'll like that?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, and then try and get the interview at the end after you've thrown it at them.
BEN WATERWORTH: I just get media accreditation. Oh, over here to Off The Podium Podcast. Yes, Campbell Sisters. Why do you suck?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Big fans.
BEN WATERWORTH: Just, he's, oh, sorry, I'm just choking. You'd be familiar with that. It's only the Commonwealth Games. I mean, gold, they could, you know, swim 20 seconds slower than they usually do, and they'd still probably actually win a gold. It's only up against, like, England and stuff. Not Canada, though. Hopefully Penny Alexiak's not going to the Olympics. Anyway, that's the Commonwealth Games, I should say. That's the Commonwealth Games, Oz. Coming soon after Off The Podium. But other results for the day on an Australian perspective on Day 7. So in the cross-country skiing, the Off The Podium curse continues. Callum Watson was 70th in the men's 15-kilometre-free. Phil Bellingham, 77th. So that strong rivalry between that two pair continues, and Callum Watson coming out on top. Now, we did mention in yesterday's episode, of course, Brendan Carey had skated at that point. He ended the day in 16th, but I do believe he has made it through to the long section. Am I not mistaken there, Jarrod? I think he has.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I believe so. I did see him skate six times, so you'd think with six attempts that you'd get through.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's so amazing how the Australian athletes at the Games get so many more opportunities to perform, isn't it? I mean, Channel 7 just show every single one of their runs. They all look very familiar, but I think they're different. As we mentioned, Laura Peele, 5th, Daniel Scott, 12th in the aerials. Skeleton, we also mentioned earlier yesterday, 16th, John Farrow. In the women's, which I believe, Jackie Naricott... I'll come back to that one. I don't have that result, unless you've got that for me, Jarrod. I just don't have that in front of me at the moment. Belle Brockhoff, she made it through to the semis, which was great, but unfortunately didn't quite get through. She actually crashed out in the semi, but fifth place for her in the small final. So great job there. She's another guest here on Off The Podium in the lead up, so we apologise, Belle, for jinxing you in that. But still making it to the semifinals. Great result for Belle, and she's also a very consistent performer out there outside of the Olympic Games. In the women's skeleton, I can tell you that Jacqueline Naricotte is in 15th position after the first run. And as we are recording, the second run is actually just still continuing. She went a little bit slower in her second run. She got a 52.76 in her second run, 52.53 in her first run. So we will see how that goes, of course, probably more tomorrow, I would say. And the one question actually that I need to quickly answer in The Men's Skeleton before I go through the other results. Did we beat New Zealand? No, we didn't. Damn it. John Farrow, 19th, but Reese Thornberry, 14th for New Zealand. Jarrod, end the Olympics. I'm sorry, we just got beaten by New Zealand in Skeleton. How can we live with ourselves?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it's going to be a tough one. Luckily, we did get that fifth in the aerials to kind of boost us up with New Zealand not placing in the aerials.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, big shock that one. New Zealand, a powerhouse in the sport of aerials. We know that New Zealanders are good at falling off the height of a four-story building flat in their face. So I don't know what that means. That was meant to be a funny joke. It didn't really work. From a Canadian perspective, obviously, we don't have any Mallory or Colin on the show again today. The Canadians are in hiding. No medals for Canada on day seven either. So they're just stealing it along here with us here in the Australian perspective. But there will be some results in there. We'll go over the medal results for today on day seven. A couple of alpine skiing events, as we said. The Super G. It was gold to Matthias Meyer of Austria. A 124.44 for him. Great result. He goes back to back in alpine skiing medals. He got the downhill gold in Sochi. So he gets the Super G here in Pyeongchang. Beat Fuse. Fuse fears just he's from Switzerland. His first name's Beat. So just dance to the beat of the Fuse. Silver medal to him. And bronze to the Norwegian skier of Kjetil Jansrud. Good result for him there, bronze. Dustin Cook was 9th for Canada in the Super G. In 22nd and 23rd, two other Canadians. Manuel Osborn Paradis was 22nd. Broderick Thompson, 23rd for Canada. There was a New Zealander in that one. Willis Feese was 37th. Sadly got beaten by his great Lichtensteinian rival, Marco Piffner. But also good news for him, though. We know that when it comes to skiing, New Zealand have a very strong rival with Monaco. And good news for them. They did beat Oliver Genot from Monaco, 38th position. The other New Zealander, I know a lot of them are listening to this right now, Adam Barwood, 43rd for him. Very satisfied with that. And again, good news for him. He did beat the Kosovo skier in Albantari, who finished in 47th. Last place, the Irish skier again, Patrick McMillan. He was the last of the ones who didn't crash. Another Canadian, James Crawford. He was 40th and DNF for him. So good job. In the women's slalom, the Zalisegel Memorial, the 20th anniversary of Zalisegel's Amazing Bronze in Nagano. It was gold to Sweden. Frieda Hansdotter took the gold ahead of Switzerland's Wendy Holden. That was a difficult one for Mallory to try and comprehend, Sweden, Switzerland in gold and silver. And Katarina Galhuba of Austria took the bronze. Canadians in that one, Erin Meyer-Lazinski, 11th for Canada. Laurence Saint-Germain, 15th for Canada. And Ronnie Rem, 27th for Canada. And scrolling through here are the other ones here. The New Zealand skier, for those wondering, Alice Robinson, 59th and typical of a New Zealand slalom skier, did not finish. In the cross-country, as we mentioned, a couple of Aussies in that one, but the gold went to Switzerland. Good day for Switzerland. Dario Kologna took the gold in that one. Simen Hegsted Kruger for Norway in the silver. And Denis Spitsov for the Olympic Athletes of Russia took the bronze. Canadian Graham Kilik was 38th in that one. Knut Jonsgaard, 69th for Canada, and Devon Kershaw, 71st for Canada. Just for the North Koreans listening to us today, wondering where Han Chung Gyeong finished, 101st. So stop messaging us in North Korea. We told you we'd get to the results. We went over the aerials, as we said. Hannah Hook's over from Belarus Gold, Chinese Yongjin, Kong, Fanyu, silver and bronze in that one. The Skeleton, South Korea got there, finally their second gold. The host nation with Yun Sung Bin, who of course had the Iron Man helmet. And gee, did you see that? The crowd went absolutely off. I didn't realise that the Skeleton track would have so many loud people at it.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, the crowd went nuts at that. That was insane.
BEN WATERWORTH: Absolutely insane. Nikita Tregobov from Russia. It's clear to see that the Olympic athletes from Russia, you know, holding back a little bit. I don't think the drugs have kicked in, because they're just getting all these silvers and bronzes. I think they're just being told by, you know, Vladimir and everyone is like, do not win the gold. We do not want shame of Olympic anthem play instead of Russian anthem. So that's why I think they're just getting all the silvers and bronzes. And great news for Britain, they get their first medal of the games. Dominic Parsons takes the bronze in the skeleton. What a bloke Dominic Parsons is. Let's just talk about him for a second. Born in London, England, he began as a runner, and then he went into skeleton, won a bronze in the World Cup back in 2013, and in his second Winter Olympics, takes a bronze, was 10th back in Sochi, and he is the very first, his first, this medal I should say, is the first for Britain from the male side of things in skeleton, since the great, oh you would be a fan of his, the great British skeleton racer of John Crammond, who won a medal all the way back in 1948. I mean, you grew up just talking about how you wanted to be the next John Crammond, did you not?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, John a little bit underrated in the sport, I feel. But I am looking forward to Don Parsons improving by seven places from Sochi, so I'm looking forward to him to finishing negative fourth in Beijing.
BEN WATERWORTH: Absolutely, he would, nothing less than that. And just for those at home who of course are wondering if the rumours are true, it is confirmed here, I can see that Don Parsons is in a relationship with Australia's own Jacqueline Naracot. So they are the tabloid couple of the world of skeleton racing, are they not?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, they call them Domke, is their couple name.
BEN WATERWORTH: Domke, it's the hottest talk in town in skeleton. You should hear the stories about those two. You could form a new 50 Shades of Grey in that one. In the Snowboard Cross, we mentioned about our own Bel Brockhoff in the small final, but it was gold to Italy. Makala Moyali, gold in that one. Silver, now I believe this girl is 16 years of age, and she's also got about 16 different parts to her name. Julia Pereira de Salza Mabillot of France. Try saying that with a bunch of marbles in your mouth. She is 16 years of age, and she is an Olympic silver medallist. What were you doing at the age of 16, Jarrod? Were you winning Olympic medals? Well, Jesus, you're a bit behind the times. You've got to move to France. It's expected of you. Bronze of the Czech Republic, Eva Samkova, taking the bronze in that one from a Canadian perspective in that. Tess Critchlow was ninth overall. She was third in the small final. A couple of Canadians were knocked out early in that one, as you would expect. Canadians are snowboarding. They just haven't had a good game. The Canadians, except for what the Snowboard Cross or whatever the hell it was. Speed skating. This is the last one that was going on at the same time as the aerials. I had it on my tablet while I was watching on the big screen. The 5000 metres in the women's, and it was another gold. To the Netherlands, Esmee Weiser took the gold in that one. Track record for her as well. The great Martina Sablikova, who I believe was going for three gold in a row in this event. She sadly could only manage a silver, but can I just say she was pumped up. For a woman who coming into this, I'm just looking here, she'd won three Olympic gold medals previously, twice in the 5000 metres, back to back as I said, and she also took the gold back in Vancouver in the 3000 metres. You wouldn't know that she'd not won medals before. She was pumped up. I'm so happy to see that from an athlete who obviously, you know, probably was expected to win the gold. And bronze to Natalia Voronina of the Olympic Athletes of Russia. And for the Canadians, there was fifth and sixth Ivani Blondin and Isabel Wiedemann were fifth and sixth in that one there. And that means before I get to some other results of the non-medal events today, the medal tally, day 7, Germany, who I, if I'm not mistaken, this is the first day they haven't won any medals. They haven't won a single medal on day 7. The Germans, oh, crisis mode for the German team. Nine gold, two silver, four bronze. They're still on top in the total gold tally there. Norway, six gold, eight silver, five bronze. Nineteenth, Netherlands, six gold, five silver, two bronze. Thirteen, USA, five gold, one silver, two bronze, and eight in Canada. Round out the top five, four gold, five silver, four bronze. Australia, we are still in seventeenth with two silver, one bronze. South Korea have jumped up into tenth, the host nation. Two gold and a bronze. Good to see Britain on that list. We're not meant to cheer for the Brits, but I don't know. There's something about the Brits I don't mind when it comes to sport, even though I feel un-Australian for saying that. Outside of the medal events, in the figure skating, I'll go to that, and also we'll look at the men's ice hockey, as well as some of the ski jumping today. Start with the figure skating, and at the end of the short program, Japan's Yuzora Hanyu is leading that, with a score of 111.68, ahead of Spain. Oh, they've kicked into gear. The Spaniards, after breaking the dark of the Olympic medals, currently in the silver medal position, is Javier Fernandez. Could you get a more Spanish name than Javier Fernandez? I'm sure he's wearing a sombrero with a rose in his mouth, and just...
JARROD LOOBEEK: Mm, and plenty of spaghetti arms, I reckon.
BEN WATERWORTH: He's got the red towel with a ball charging at him. Like, that is less like the most... If you think of the most stereotypical Spanish name, Javier Fernandez. It's like Bruce Jones for Australia or something like that. Japan is currently in third with Shoma Uno. So golden bronze, currently, position there for the Japanese. And yes, Brendan Carey, you are correct. 16th position. The top 24 made it through to the free skating. Sad news for Malaysia is that Julian Yee, 17th... 25th place, sorry, did not make it through. So he would be disappointed with that. But good news, though, for Israel, is that Aleksey Bychenko made it through. And as did the great Uzbekistan skater, Misha Guy. Now, you're very familiar with Misha's standard out there. Did you think he lived up to his 14th there? Or do you think he can go a little bit better in the free skate?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think he's got it in him to go a little bit better. Obviously, more so known for his gymnastic routines and his ice skating, but he's made the switch and it's paid dividends.
BEN WATERWORTH: Hopefully, he can go for the top 10, Misha. Go for the top 10. The other Israelis, there's actually got two Israelis there. Great job there. Daniel Samahowin. Canadian perspective, Patrick Chan, 6th position currently. Keegan Messing is in 10th position, so two Canadians through to that as well. So look forward to that. I know you're a big ice figure skating fan there, Jarrod. So I'm sure you'll be watching that very, very closely. In the women's curling that happened today, Canada are in all sorts of strife in the women's curling. Days after winning gold in the mixed doubles and also dominating the men's, they are 0 and 3. This is unheard of in Canadian curling. They have not even won a single match. They lost 8-9 to Denmark today. So crisis talks going on in Canadian curling there. Great news though for the South Koreans. They had a 7-5 win over Switzerland and Sweden 5-4 over the Olympic athletes from Russia. And currently, if I'm not mistaken, the standings in that at the moment sees Japan on top. They're undefeated, so is Sweden. And Canada dead last. They are currently 0 and 3, the only side without a victory. So Canada got to get those brooms into gear if they want to make it through to the finals. And the men's side of things, though, for the Canadians, things are a little bit better for them. They're undefeated. So they'll be happy, of course, with that. And I do believe, actually, a lot of those matches are happening right now as we speak, or am I looking that differently? Or do we not have any? No, I think they are still going on as we speak. So we... oh, no, we did have a few today. I'm looking at this differently here. So Denmark defeated Italy 6-4, Norway defeated South Korea 7-5, Sweden 10-4 over the US, but there are some games going on right now. Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Britain, Denmark, USA, Canada, South Korea in that one. The men's ice hockey continued today, and the US finally got a win on the board, 2-1 over Slovakia, so they were pumped up about that one. And fresh after defeating the US, Slovenia got their arses whooped by the Olympic athletes from Russia, who were beaten by Slovakia. So it's all over the shop currently, here in Group B in the men's ice hockey. 8 goals to 2, the Olympic athletes from Russia spanked the Slovenians. So currently in Group B though, USA is still on top because of course, even in losing that match to Slovenia, it was in an overtime result, so they still get a point for that. So they're sitting on top for 4 points there. In the other matches today, we had another match. I think Norway-Finland is on right now, as is Sweden and Germany. So that's why I don't have a result for that one. Just yet, and Jarrod, I know you're itching for me to get to the ski jumping. I can tell you that that is going on right now, and only 2 people have guaranteed qualification right now. That of course is Andreas Alamonono from Finland, and the great Jani Ahohan from Finland. That is still ongoing at the time of recording, so let's see how that goes. Alright, take a breath. What did you watch today besides the aerials?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I saw the snowboard cross, so the coverage is not as great as the men's, simply I think because Belbrokov did get through that qualification in her first run, so then they didn't really bother to show any more of it, because I suppose there was no more Aussies to go, and they didn't really need to, so Channel 7, back to their old tricks. Yeah, the skeleton, I saw a bit of that. That was exciting for South Korea. And the figure skating, like I said, I saw Brendan Carey about six times through his performance. Great consistency, scoring the same throughout all those runs. And then what else? The cross-country skiing with Dario, I think he was defending champion, or maybe two-time defending champion, but he won again, so great for him. And then just a little bit of the ladies slalom in their skiing.
BEN WATERWORTH: Two-time defending champion, you're correct. And when you think of cross-country skiing, you think of Dario Cologna. I mean, it's like you think of tennis, you think of Roger Federer, you think of athletics, the same boat. You think of cross-country, it's Dario. I mean, the guy is just, he's a guy's guy. Like, everyone loves him. The women want to be with him. The men want to be him, be with him. You know, everything and everything, you know. Kids got posters on the wall. Adults have got posters on the wall. He's just a, you know, when you think of great Swisse sports people, it is between Dario and Roger, isn't it?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, and I mean, Swisse multivitamins will definitely be trying to get an ad with him sometime soon, given his popularity.
BEN WATERWORTH: Probably. I wonder if in Switzerland, they call them Australian multivitamins. That wasn't a funny joke. Ben, move on. I, yes, saw a bit of the ice hockey today. Good to see a bit of that. Yeah, so I told you I was watching the speed skating. Big fan of speed skating. I wish we had a good Australian speed skater. I'm not talking about, you know, well, we do have one Australian speed skater, but I'm saying he's not good. He's good by Australian standards. But world standards. I don't know if you caught any of the front bar tonight on Channel 7 when they had Colin Coates on there. He was a bit of a character. But yeah, there's just something about it. I think that's my memories of the Winter Olympics. First ever seeing this during Lillehammer. I just remember the Norwegian speed skaters in their red suits in front of their home crowds. I don't know, I just have this distinct memory of it. And I always wanted to be able to do it. I just think it would be a fun sport. I can't skate. But I don't know, have you ever tried to whack on the skates and kind of do that weird arm motion? I just look so poetic the way they skate around that rink.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It does. It is nice to watch. There's nothing satisfying about it. Really, when I'm on a rink, it's mainly just about trying to stay upright, so I haven't progressed to the stage of the arms yet, but maybe next time.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, there's just something so interesting about it. I'm trying to find here, of course, our legendary speed skater and Daniel Gregg, who is yet to compete in the men's 500 and men's 1,000 metres. He actually a bronze medallist at the Nagano World Championships in 2014 and an Australian national record holder in both of his events. And it's interesting, I actually remember when I interviewed Stephen Bradbury many years ago and I talked about the full track speed skating and he kind of explained how people don't realise how big these rinks are and that there's none in Australia, of course. You know, why are we going to build a full track speed skating rink? So, I mean, they are massive. I mean, this is like what, almost like a 400, 500-metre circuit. You think about an athletics track, 400, 500 metres, that is, you know, I mean, this is a big deal. So you can see why maybe Australians aren't too good at this.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think that the rink at Penrose is probably not big enough for that. They'd have to do a triple the amount of laps to get the distance up.
BEN WATERWORTH: Are you a frequenter at the Penrose ice rink at all?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I don't think I've been in about 10 years. Highlights definitely for me was the limbo, which they held there.
BEN WATERWORTH: You need to come to Hobart and see just our rink. I swear your lounge room is bigger than our rink. It's legitimately the only ice rink in the entire state of Tasmania. And, yeah, of course, I go and watch ice hockey on a Tuesday night, which is fun. But, yeah, the only other rink I've been to in Australia is the main one in Melbourne. I went and watched a national ice hockey game there. They packed the crowd. There's about a thousand people there for an Australian national league of ice hockey. There was a pretty big crowd. And that's named the Bradbury Rink. And they've got another full-size one next to it. So I think it's called the O'Brien Group Arena now. Hello to our friends over at O'Brien Group. But, yeah, I mean, we're getting the facilities. I think somebody mentioned or I read a statistic that there are more ice rinks in the suburbs of Toronto than there are in the entire country of Australia. So that probably makes sense, really, if you think about it. All right. What are we up to? Athlete of the Day. What do you have for this one, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I'm just going to have to go with the Korean skeleton athlete, Jung Sung Bin. I just thought that winning in front of your home crowd and just the reaction of the crowd and the Iron Man helmet, I mean, it was just all really impressive.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, look, I'm going to go with somebody who's technically not an athlete, but I just want to give this, and I don't even know this person's name. But I'm going for the coach of the Chinese aerials team. Am I allowed to go outside of the box here with this one, Jarrod? I mean, I, hey, look, I'm going to be honest with you. I've never really seen a lot of excitable Chinese. They're very, like, professional people. You see them, particularly in the Summer Olympics, they win a gold, and they kind of just stand there and they're like, yes, gold. Expected, I'll take it. You don't see a lot of emotion from the Chinese. But, like, this guy was just, he was going off every single one, and every time someone landed, he was like, whoa, yeah, whoa! Like, just going mental. I love this guy. I want to know who he is. I mean, the Chinese aerials coach, I'm saying he should have his own reality show. He probably does. He's probably the biggest thing. He's probably China's Kim Kardashian.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, definitely. And I think that's probably the team's key to success, is you want to land your jump, not for your score, not for your medal, but for him and his reaction.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Channel 7-wise, now again, I didn't catch a whole lot of it today, but special note to the bipolar nature of the beloved Basil. I love Basil Zemplas. Like, I think I'm one of his few fans in this country, because I know he gets a lot of hate. I always like to call him Mini Bruce, because I think he's just got such an air of Bruce McEvaney around him, Basil. And special props to Basil, who often will like my tweets. When I tag him in it, he's replied to me a few times. I feel like Basil and I are tight. But like, just the bipolar nature of Basil, when he's all like, oh, such an absolute chance here for Australia, it's going to be a glorious night, you know, and then all of a sudden you get, oh, disappointment there. It quickly changes to, what a fantastic night, fifth position. Like, it's just make your mind up, Basil. Are you happy that they crashed? Are you happy that they didn't? Like, what's going on? And yes, absolutely, the 300,000 replays of Brendan Carey, you know, let's mention a thousand times over that Danielle Scott is from the Northern Beaches and had that surfing footage of her again. I mean, my goodness. And they've obviously switched focus to David Morris now because they're starting to play the packages on him. And also Breno and Kenno or whoever it was, I noticed that Kenno must have been on a toilet break because Lydia Lassler had replaced Kenno. And look, I love Lydia. We went over this yesterday. But you could really tell, I think it hit her tonight, that she wasn't in the final because she almost just seemed like she didn't want to be there. She was very insightful. She was like professional. She told her how it was. She gave a great insight into aerials and what the athletes are thinking as they went into that final. But if you just kind of watched her body language, I just felt like she was like, oh my god, god, I wish I was out there. I think it just kind of hit her that she wasn't there.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, she was definitely very subdued, but she also did get asked annoying questions where she just had to repeat herself a hundred times in case anybody doesn't know the wind does affect aerials.
BEN WATERWORTH: And special note, of course, there's a dickhead that is Tom Williams in the crowd. Just stop it, Tom. Like, when did he win Dancing With The Stars and Take His Shirt Off? Like, 15 years ago now? Like, he peaked then. Just go away. Like, he's not relevant anymore. Why isn't Joanna Griggs doing it? You remember 2002 Salt Lake? I don't know if you remember it, but Joanna Griggs became, I think, the first ever female to ever anchor an Olympics in Australia. Now, I wasn't a Joanna Griggs fan growing up. I had the pleasure of meeting her a few years ago. She's one of the most nicest, you know, charming people you'll meet in person. I can say nothing but nice things about that woman now. And I really wish she was there fronting it, because get rid of Edwina Betholomew, weird hat woman. You know, Mel McLaughlin, just go away, have a date with Chris Gayle, get it over with. Like, just bring back Joanna. I want Joanna and Bruce fronting Beijing, otherwise I'm done with the Winter Olympics.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, exactly. I've definitely noticed the lack of Joanna's presence even at like the tennis. She just needs, we need her at more sporting events.
BEN WATERWORTH: I remember growing up, waking up on a Sunday morning to watch Sports World. Were you old enough to remember Sports World on a Sunday morning? No, it was like, it was, you know, pre-internet, pre-internet, you know, you couldn't wake up and, you know, check your scores on your phone, like you wake up and there's Joanna Griggs, what happened in the world overnight? Thanks, Joanna, great, you know, interviews, it was fantastic. It was like on a Saturday afternoon, you used to watch Wild World of Sports, and then yeah, you had Sports World on Channel 7 on a Sunday. And you just take it for granted, you don't like these people growing up, but then you like, you get to like them, and fucking Hamish McLaughlin, like I really did not like him, then I kind of started to like him during some of the AFL stuff, and I'm really starting to dislike the guy right now. It's just terrible. And they've been advertising to death as Channel 7 do, what is that? Sparta climbing over walls thing. And like they started showing the commentary of it, which is him and Edwina Bartholomew, like you want me to make me watch it less?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it's just ridiculous, the repeated ads. The only thing that makes me kind of bare is now with this whole, the Russians are coming to cook on my kitchen, my kitchen drawers. But just to make it a bit more fun in my head, I just replace every time I say Russians, I'm like the Olympic athletes from Russia are coming. And now it's time for the Olympic athletes from Russia to cook. Can they cook?
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, that's hilarious. Yes, just for those at home watching, just an update in case you haven't seen it. So coming soon to Channel 7, my kitchen drawers are the Olympic athletes from Russia versus France. You have the Sparta, I am Sparta. Do you believe you can walk? Oh, that song is in my head forever. The Australian National Swimming Championships. The biggest drama since Revenge, some doctor show. Some other doctor show which is returning, which is apparently the number one show in Australia, which I've never heard of. The Simpsons are coming to Channel 7. We're just doing their job here, Jarrod. We can just summarise this. I feel like I'm missing something here.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I feel like there is something else, but I don't know.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, the Home and Away one. This is the best flaming place. There we go. Oh, God, the cop. Who is the mysterious cop? Now, look, I haven't watched Home and Away in about two years. I gave up finally. But my dad will still watch it. Sometimes I'll sit there and watch it when he's eating dinner. That cop has to be the worst act. And this is a soap opera we're talking about here. And there's another guy in that ad who's like, I know the truth about you. I'm going to find out. And that's me being actually quite nice to this person. They're even worse than that. So it's just ridiculous. Channel 7 can just give up, please. God damn it. What else did we get to now? All right, my name is... Hi, I'm Ben. No, Canada. Once again, doing Colin's job for him. Today, I think we should go to Illusia. Justin Snythe. We've mentioned his name a few times during the week. One of the double lugeists. Why not? So, hello. My name is Justin Snythe, and I'm a Canadian. My favourite Olympic moment... Well, this guy's actually written a lot of stuff, so here we go. This hopefully can be interesting. This is his favourite Olympic moment. Walking into the opening ceremonies in Vancouver, witnessing Sidney Crosby's Golden Goal or my own experience of finishing fourth in the doubles luge in Sochi. Oh, no, the doubles team relay in Sochi. As a kid, my favourite sports team was the Calgary Flames. Oh, I like this guy! Here we go. He goes for a good team, the best team. If I could be a superhero, I would be Deadpool because I could heal my injuries, and because I'm usually the first one to chirp my teammates. He's got like childish writing. It's really hard to understand it. Oh, he still is a Flames fan because they've shared an Instagram photo of him at a Flames game. The game last night, something else. Glad to witness a Flames clincher playoff spot. Oh, look at you! This guy is my new favourite person in the world, Justin Snife. My favourite music artists are the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Dranco Jones? I can't read that word. Somebody Jones. If I could eat one food for the rest of my life, it would be Pad Thai, because you can have it so many different ways. It's not your typical pizza answer. Good point. I like this guy. My favourite place to compete is Kongsee in Germany, Konigsee, Germany. One thing I've always wanted to do is see the gorillas at Volcanoes National Park. My favourite thing to do in summer is be active outside, fly fishing, biking, even working on my car. Does he give his loose friend to all of these things? My favourite movie is, depending on the day, Pulp Fiction or Lucky Number Slav? Slav? I can't read that word. My favourite place in Canada, the mountains, whether it's Banff, Fernia or Whistler, it doesn't matter. And they've included a trailer. I love how Olympic.ca are very forward thinking. Here's a trailer for Pulp Fiction, in case you don't know what it is. My favourite cartoon to watch growing up, all of the old school Looney Tunes. If I had to do karaoke, I would sing to probably something by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I'm on a huge kick right now. I think he's high. If I could be an Olympian in any sport, other than my own, it would be either snowboarding, mountain biking or hockey. Cool. There's an Instagram picture of him with a snowboard. And he doesn't have to draw any pictures of himself. So, you know, not funny, but I like this guy. Justin Snythe. Colin, if you listen to this, let's get Justin on the show and his teammate. We'll talk about doubles luge. I really want to get some double luge-ers on the show. Now, have they updated the fan messages today, Jarrod? Let's have a look here. Nervous as always. Looks like they have. Alright, so... Oh, Brennan Carey. Deanna Lockett, one of our speed skaters. Karen Bonifant. The blue scoopers are behind you, Deanna. Better turn around. They're hunting it down. Let's see here. Zara from New South Wales to Brennan Carey. Dear Brennan Carey, thank you for competing since your grandmother works at BRPS. We missed out on school. Yay! From Zara. Cool. Sammy Kennedy Sim. Guest of the show. Of course, a snowboarder, is she not? I can't even remember where our guests are from. No, she's a freestyle skier. Of course, she is. Ski cross, of course. I knew that. Why am I thinking snowboarding? I don't listen to the things we do on this show. Skye and Nathan, hey Sammy, congratulations on making the team. We're looking forward to watching your race next Friday. We know you'll kill it, XO. I like this one here from Claud in Victoria to Harry Laidlaw. It's just simply a love heart emoji. Basic, why not? Debbie S from Victoria to Lydia Lassler. Hi Lydia, congratulations on an amazing aerial career. Sorry it didn't end the way you would have wanted, but please don't feel like you've let anyone down. You gave it your all, as always, and that's more than enough. You've been an inspiration to many people, and now it's your turn to relax and enjoy some well-deserved family time. Enjoy. Oh, that's a nice one. Um, you got any here that I'm missing? I don't know if you're looking at this at all.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Um, I'm seeing to Lachlan Reedy, who I assume is a Bob's letter?
BEN WATERWORTH: I think he is, yes he is.
JARROD LOOBEEK: From Jeff and Luke Barker overseas fan. Hey, Locky, good luck from Calgary. We brought your Jeep Liberty from you when you were here training. We said we would watch out for you when you made it to the Olympics. And here you are. Go get them.
BEN WATERWORTH: Aww, Jeff and Luke. Good on you guys. You're going to go out and do well now. He was going to go shit in the Bob's letter until he realised that. It's like, oh, Jeff and Luke are watching.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, he knows his car's in good hands.
BEN WATERWORTH: Uh, one of our alpine skiers, Dominic Demsher from Linkin In SA, I admire your work. Short and sweet. Fair enough. Um, let's see here. Sam Truck to Russell Henshaw. Of course, another one of our freestyle skiers from Sam Turk. Hey, spelled H-A-Y. Hey, I am from Australia. I am in year four. I am a big fan of the Winter Olympics. You are a fantastic freestyle skier. I am nine years old. From Sam. Excuse me, Harry Crow again to Harry Ladle. Harry Ladle, I'm getting a lot of love. You are the best snow-dorber in the world. And my name is Harry to love Harry. What?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Snow-dorbing is my favourite sport.
BEN WATERWORTH: Finlay Bock to Jarrod Hughes. Hello, Jarrod. As you might already know, my name is Finlay. I like playing soccer and fencing. My best friend is William Gaskin. I, too, was born in Sydney, but now I live in Kattegai. I have two sisters. Juno is one, and Amy will be seven in November. Hope you win something, Finlay. That's hilarious. That's just like a biography of my pocket. I had chicken for dinner. We really shouldn't be laughing at this. This is like little kids. All right, we know that all of our messages are going to be from kids today. Asher Jones to Kalani Crane. Hi Kalani, my name is Asher. I'm in year four and live in Kattegai. I hope you will try your best and have fun. Do you have any brothers or sisters or pets? My favourite food is pizza too. Wish you the best of luck. Oh god, there's another one here. I feel like this is another podcast trolling them, because these all seem similar. Maybe this is On The Podium. Lockie Eccleston from New South Wales. Hello Matt, oh hang on, sorry, this is to Matthew Graham. Hello Matt, I go to St Paul's Gundaguy School. My best friends are Ollie and Harry. I hope you win a gold soon. Yeah, tick tick, Matt, come on. I like to watch freestyle skiing. I think you're one of the best freestyle skiers. From Lockie. You must be watching it nonstop, Lockie. Yeah, I hope you win gold too soon, Matt Graham. Oh, I've got Abby from New South Wales. Emily Arthur. Hey again. I really love your work. I can't believe you compete in snow. I've never seen snow in my life. Also, I have a friend called Emily. She's really awesome. Bye. Ha ha ha. Oh, this one's from, oh, I can't stop reading these. Talia from New South Wales. I wonder if it took them a day to put these up. These are hilarious. To Kalani Crane, who hasn't competed yet, but Talia says, you did a great job representing Australia. I'm turning 11 in July 22. I love ice skating, spelled S-C-A-T-I-N-G. I love slime. Bye from Talia. Jarrod, have you just been trolling this since we've come off air last? Be honest.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I'm just, like I want to meet this class of students because excellent job. Talk about using your schooling to the full.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh God, it's getting better here. Emily Hughes from New South Wales, she's watching a different Olympics all together. To Brittany Cox, Hey Britt, I'm super proud of you because you've got seven gold medals. You have made Australia proud. You are my favourite winter athlete ever.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, with seven gold medals, why not? She's everybody's favourite.
BEN WATERWORTH: Seven time gold medallist Brittany Cox. She's better than Thorpey.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Seven time medallist competing in her third Olympic Games in the one event.
BEN WATERWORTH: She's only one off the same bolt. Where's she on the Coles and Optus-Hats? Emily from New South Wales to Jarrod Hughes. Hello, my name is Emily. Good luck with your next race in Beijing. That doesn't say that. We were cheering you on last night on TV. Well done, hope to see you win again. You didn't win the first time. Thank you for representing Australia. Have a great day. We done a PowerPoint on our favourite Olympics person and I choose you because you are amazing. Thanks, Emily.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, she's lucky she could watch that at night with the multiple replays on Channel 7.
BEN WATERWORTH: Why is nobody in school these days learning how to use a full stop? Oh, hang on. William Dias from New South Wales to Ekaterina Aleksandrovna. We know she can't read this. You are lovely and your ice skating is lovely. Get a thousand gold medals, lovely. Beat Brittany Cox at a seven. Get a thousand. Oh my God. All right, okay, one more. Maggie Peterson of New South Wales. To Kalani Crane. Hi, my name is Maggie. I live in Gundagai and I'm in year four. Is skating hard for you? It is for me. But I guess once you get the hang of it, it's easy. Do you have a special diet? But pizza is the best ever. Good luck, we will be cheering for you. Oh my goodness, all right. Let's get the little kid messages out here. I'm not even going to look who's competing tomorrow. I think we need to go in alphabetical order. Who have we missed here? All right, we missed Emily Arthur, poor Emily Arthur. We've missed out on her fan message. All right, I can't stop laughing. Snowboard, Emily Arthur, name. I think we just need to do one name here. Johnny. Johnny, it's all Johnty, apparently, hotmail.com. Johnny can be from New South Wales, because apparently all these people are coming from New South Wales. All right, Jarrod, hit me with something here.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Oh, I think we just need to say that we're super proud of her 22 gold medals.
BEN WATERWORTH: Hey, Emily, I'm, don't spell properly, Ben, I'm Johnny. I'm in year five. We watched you, loved all your nine gold medals. I hope you win a tenth. Did you know my best friend is Peter. I like chicken! Exclamation mark. Do you like chicken? Please answer. You rock best Olympian. I can't even spell. That helps. Since Brett Cox. That's got to get published based on all the other crap that's been published today. Thanks Emily Arthur, if you're listening. There we go. There's number one. Thank you. All righty. Who else have we got on the list? An alphabetical order. Cam Bolton. Good old cammy boy. Couldn't quite make it through his arms, hanging off somewhere. Somewhere, somewhere down on his leg, I think. All righty. Let's go here on the snowboard. I'm going to go to Cam Bolton. Name. Let's get your name published, Jarrod. Why not? Jarrod Lubik. jlubik at hotmail.com. I hope that's actually not your real email address. If it is, good guess. Come on, Jarrod. This is up to you. This is all you, my friend.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I would like to start with Hey Cam, so H-A-Y.
BEN WATERWORTH: H-A-Y Cam, yep.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I bought a Segway off you.
BEN WATERWORTH: I bought a Segway off you.
JARROD LOOBEEK: When you visited Latvia.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yep. Good start.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's still running well. 10 out of 10 would buy again.
BEN WATERWORTH: Again. Anything else?
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, that's it.
BEN WATERWORTH: I smell by BY by the way.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Good, good. Good.
BEN WATERWORTH: Seriously, AOC Web Admin, get back to us. All right, who's next? Oh, Bell Brockhoff, here she is. Actually, I will say, Bell Brockhoff randomly liked a lot of my posts on Instagram, and I don't actually think she follows me, so. Ben Waterworth, email, Ben Waterworth, at hotmail, that is not my email address, by the way.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Sign up for those emails and offers.
BEN WATERWORTH: From Tasmania, hey Bell, great job. Sorry you couldn't win the small final. That would have been awesome. My favourite singer is Britney Spears. Do you know her? Probably because you're famous. Anyway, do well in your next event. Love, Ben.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think that's got a chance of going through it. Year four.
BEN WATERWORTH: Do you know Britney Spears because you're famous?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Come to Go Publics.
BEN WATERWORTH: We have way too much time on our hands. I think we're doing all right. There you go, AOC, you're welcome. All righty, day eight. What can we expect on day eight? If I look at the right page, I can tell you from a medal perspective, we have a lot on tomorrow. We have nine medals tomorrow being decided. So, Alpine skiing, we have the Women's Super G, Biathlon, the Women's Mass Start. Oh, God, you think biathlon's a great way to the Mass Start happens. The four by five kilometre cross country skiing relays on for the women, get involved. We'll have the medals found out in the men's singles and the figure skating. The freestyle skiing, we'll have the women's slope style. So, we had that in the snowboarding, now it's time to see that in the skiing. Short track is back, the Stephen Bradbury Memorial. The men's 1000 metres is on and going for that. The women's 1500 metres is also on. That's a quick turnaround, actually, because the same venues used for short tracks is for figure skating. So, obviously, they get the figure skating out and done with during the day and put a few witch's hats in the middle. Bob's your uncle, you've got short track track. Short track track, try saying that quickly. The women's skeleton will be decided tomorrow, and the men's large hill individual in the ski jumping will be happening tomorrow. Australian perspective, it is only going to be Brendan Carey in the free skating. Deanna Lockett gets her first look in in the short track. She's in heat three of the ladies 1500 metres. Excuse me, that is the only Ozzy's involved. What are you looking forward to on the next day there, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Definitely looking forward to getting back into the short track skating. A bit unfortunate for Deanna to not have another Australian in there to push her over if she needs automatic advancement to the next round. And then what else? I think the cross country skiing, I'm interested to see how this relay system works.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I should also mention too, surprise it's not actually mentioned on the Aussie list here unless there's been a change that I don't know about. But the qualifying for the men's aerials is tomorrow, so we could see David Morris in action tomorrow, if this is correct on one page I'm looking at. Also, curling continues tomorrow, of course. The quarterfinals in the women's ice hockey happen tomorrow, so get excited for that. Canada will hit the ice again tomorrow in the men's ice hockey. And yeah, we will see a little bit more of that going along there, get excited for everything. We'll be back again same time, or maybe not same time, same place tomorrow. What time that will be, who knows? Canadians, will they be with us? I don't really know. And I'm just seeing here, Jarrod, on the pyongchang2018.com website, there's actually a Facebook chat bot for Boorang and Soorang here. I'm not sure, it says you can ask them a question. And I've clicked on it and apparently it's like giving my computer a virus or something. And so, here we go. Like it just would not open. Ask Soorang and Banderby. What do I do here? Facebook chat bot opened. How do I do it? Go to chat bot, ask Soorang and Boorang. Oh, so do I have to do this on my phone? Should we have a quick look at this? How do I get to bots? I didn't know this is a thing. You know, there's bots on Facebook.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Evidently, there is. It's the Spanish snowboarder in his spare time.
BEN WATERWORTH: Go to chat bot. Well, all right, where is the damn chat bot? I'm here, there's sport, there's things, and this is too hard. I'll work it out tomorrow. I'll be here all day. But get excited. We might be able to ask Boorang and Soorang something on the episode tomorrow. Like us on Facebook, follow us on, well, we're not on Twitter, but again, hashtag Off The Podium if you wish to have a conversation with us. Just compliment us on the show, say hello. Tell me if I'm being sarcastic, and maybe we should play that game. Guess, are Jarrod and Ben being sarcastic with their tweets? Because I really don't know when the swimming championships are on for the Australian trials. I'm so darn confused. Jarrod, always a pleasure, mate. Thank you so much. And I really appreciate your efforts today on the Swisse Maldivitamin Research. I think it's a gold medal for you today on this episode.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I just feel like I had to put it out there as a warning to other athletes. I think it's only fair to know what you're getting yourself in for. Yeah, so looking forward to the next episode.
BEN WATERWORTH: And we will be back to the next one tomorrow, wherever you're listening to us. Thank you for tuning in to Off The Podium, and we'll speak to you next time. Good night.
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