Ranking The Olympic Medals
Updated: Oct 14
It's time to bring you a fun episode today as we sit down to rank our favourite Olympic medals from the last 27 years and give you a taste of some of the more unique medal designs that we have seen through some of the more modern Olympics! We go over each of the Olympic medals from 1994 right through to 2022 and rank them in order of our least favourite to favourite and come up with our overall number one medal design that we've seen since the Lillehammer Olympics! It's a fun and unique episode that we know you won't want to miss!
FINAL RANKINGS
POS | MEDAL | BEN | COLIN | JARROD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Athens 2004 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
2 | Sochi 2014 | 1 | 12 | 1 |
3 | Atlanta 1996 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
4 | Beijing 2008 | 13 | 2 | 3 |
5 | Sydney 2000 | 9 | 5 | 7 |
6 | Vancouver 2010 | 2 | 6 | 13 |
7 | London 2012 | 7 | 7 | 9 |
8 | Tokyo 2020 | 10 | 3 | 11 |
9 | Salt Lake City 2002 | 4 | 11 | 10 |
10 | Beijing 2022 | 11 | 8 | 6 |
11 | Lillehammer 1994 | 14 | 9 | 5 |
12 | Nagano 1998 | 5 | 10 | 14 |
13 | PyeongChang 2018 | 12 | 13 | 4 |
14 | Rio 2016 | 8 | 14 | 12 |
15 | Torino 2006 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
Please note this is an automated transcript that may contain errors.
BEN WATERWORTH: It is Off The Podium, An Olympics Podcast, an award nominated podcast as we come to you today for an episode that you've all been waiting for. It's an exclusive episode because no one has ever done this, not even a podcast or a website or a YouTube channel. We're going to rank the Olympic medals from 1994 onwards. We are so excited to be able to do maybe the geekiest thing Olympic fans could ever do. We haven't even ranked the Olympics yet. We haven't even ranked the sports. We're going straight into the medals from 1994 onwards because why not? They're nice and attractive, and we like the medals.
COLIN HILDING: Just like us.
BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly. And just like us, medals have also been nominated for an award, which we will talk at some point because it happened a while ago, at least when you're hearing this for the first time, and people are probably wondering, why have you not talked about that yet? Well, there's a reason behind that. My name is Ben, and joining me is the number one medal winner from all of Winnipeg. It's Colin Hilding. Hello, Colin, welcome back.
COLIN HILDING: Yes, I have approximately one, and it's supposed to be Atlanta, but it's got Donovan Bailey's face on the other side. So Canada representing Canadian medals.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's better than that. We're putting it on already. We're also joining us is a man. I don't know if he's got any medals with him. I've got props. We're going to get to that shortly. Amy Plains, number one medal winner. It's Jarrod Loobeek. Jarrod, welcome back.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It is good to be back. I am prop-less, but I think if you're going to have an Olympic medal, you've got to earn it.
BEN WATERWORTH: None of these $2 wish crap things that Ben Waterworth has bought. Yes, I have 14 of the 50 medals that we are ranking in front of me tonight, and I have to wear all of them as I rank them. So I'm going to have a very sore neck by the end of this, and people are going to hear a lot of metal clanging, because obviously we don't do video episodes at the time of releasing this. Coming soon in 2022, get excited. But even then, we're only doing the ones you want to watch, the interviews. None of this crap of us talking. So you're going to hear a lot of clanging and banging for no real reason except for Ben having a sore neck. But before we talk about ranking the medals, we should touch on the elephant in the room, because we have been nominated for an award. We shouldn't gloss over this.
COLIN HILDING: Round of applause for us.
BEN WATERWORTH: We are amazing. Colin and I and Jarrod, we were part of 50 out of 1000 shows, and they never get nominated. Apparently, this one does. We have been nominated for an Australian Podcast Award in the Creativity Award category, which is a big honour. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. Now, a bit of a shock, because this wasn't a category that we actually entered in, but the judges apparently listened and thought, someway, we were creative. This is an award chosen at the discretion of the judges, recognising a single piece of audio so creatively dazzling that it deserve its own trophy. It could be the result of great storytelling, sound design, performance, editing, or a combination of the above. And it's proudly sponsored by the Nova Entertainment Podcast. Thank you, Nova Entertainment Podcast Network. Now, Jarrod, I messaged you the time recording this is only a few days ago. By the time we're releasing this, I believe the ceremony is actually on the day we are releasing this. So we get it out just in time. Jarrod, was there anything better to have someone like Osher Gunsberg basically saying, there's some great podcasts, you should be listening to them. Come on, Andy G is telling people to listen to Off The Podium, Jarrod. This is a coup for us.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's right up there. The only thing better would be Shane Gould, but we'll take Osher.
BEN WATERWORTH: He will take Osher. He's part of the surviving universe. Colin, I mean, how excited were you to see the clip of, I don't even know who that girl was, but she said we're one of the most creative podcasts in Australia. So thank you, Random Girl and Osher. I mean, how excited were you to wake up to this news?
COLIN HILDING: Especially with my recognition of both of those people, all the great work they do. But we had entered all the different shows, and I think it's not even the first year we've done it. And like, ah, we're not going to get nominated for anything. When I saw it, I immediately showed Jamie. She goes, huh, that's cool. I'm like, no, no, no, this isn't like some lame blog that says we are, you know, a Czech Slovak reality award.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, the Czech Slovak award.
COLIN HILDING: This is like a real thing. Look, it looks professional, Jamie. She's like, yeah, yeah, that's really good. All right. What do you want for breakfast?
BEN WATERWORTH: To put it into context, there's an actual award ceremony, the Ritz Hotel. Like, this is a real thing.
COLIN HILDING: I told her, I'm like, hey, if we had the money to go over there, we could actually attend a proper awards banquet. Come on.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, it's got nothing to do with the money on my side of things. Blame our borders. I mean, I want to go because like it's in Sydney and I could go to it as nominees. We get a chance to go there. But unfortunately, we're never getting nominated again.
COLIN HILDING: Well, somebody couldn't bother to be here to accept their creativity award.
BEN WATERWORTH: The borders just won't allow it. But seriously, like, this was a big shock. We're thrilled and we're up against some good competition. You know, we're up against background briefing. Never heard of them. House warming, which I not heard of, but I've looked them up and they'll actually look pretty good. It's basically a bunch of people in a house sharing stories about shared house living, which is pretty exciting. We're also up against Moon Man in the Morning, which is, I think, a nationally syndicated breakfast show featuring the esteemed Lawrence Mooney. Now, Colin doesn't know who that is, but I think even you know who Lawrence Mooney is. Jarrod is pretty funny. So and I'm looking here, they got 45,000 followers on Instagram. So, yep. And Shift Podcasts From The Edge, don't know who that is. And Stuff The British Style, which I don't know. I don't know who any of these podcasts are, but I looked them all up. They've all got about 10 times the followers that we do. So yay, we're the little guys in the big pool. We did something creatively, which to be honest with you, don't know what it is. The audio that we submitted included two clips of commentary from Tokyo, which was our swimming commentary. I think that was the Suck It America. And then it was the sailing commentary with the Pirates of the Caribbean. So I want to think it's a sailing. I thought that was kind of cool. So, you know, get on board the Pirates. Colin, I don't know, you were pumped for that.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, I mean, but little did they know, those are the only two creative things we've ever done.
BEN WATERWORTH: Done.
COLIN HILDING: So disappointment when they actually listen to the podcast.
BEN WATERWORTH: We lucked into it. Jarrod, if you were a judge, would you be voting more for Socket America, or Dun Dun Dun Dunnit Dun Dun Dunnit?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I'll be sailing every day of the week. The fact that you're able to make that interesting, it's just, I mean, that's the creativity right there.
BEN WATERWORTH: Look at that, if we win this damn thing, we're going to send it to the IOC and be like, look, we added music to sailing and we won an award. Actual Olympic.
COLIN HILDING: Well, we already have some athletes behind our commentaries. Like, yeah, this is what if we do win or even just be nominated, it's got to be for that because athletes are backing us. Awards are backing us. Like, we need to get into the Olympics now.
BEN WATERWORTH: And also, can we point out that the six of us nominated in this category, we're very honoured. They don't just award one category. This isn't the Oscars. You know, the most creative podcast goes to there's a gold, silver and bronze. Like, this is very fitting for an Olympics podcast, that there should be a gold, silver and bronze. And I hope that they release, like, the order. Like, if we don't get a gold, silver or bronze, I hope they release it, and we were fourth, because that would fit in perfectly. We would take fourth of being just off the podium, for Off The Podium.
COLIN HILDING: Do you think that they're actually nominating us now, though, so it could be appropriate that somebody is off the podium?
BEN WATERWORTH: Maybe. Who knows? Who knows? But the award ceremony, December the 2nd, which again, at the time we're releasing this, this is the day this is out. So, if you're listening to this in the morning, you can tune in. ozpodcastawards.com, I think, is the website, and you can check it out, and have the live stream there. You can watch it. And I'm sure Jarrod, Colin, and I will dress up in some tuxes and sit there on Zoom and pretend to the whole, like, the little moon man in the morning deserved that. Absolutely.
COLIN HILDING: Can a Canadian tuxedo be worn?
BEN WATERWORTH: I'll do the Joey Tribbiani well, but what the fuck? They didn't deserve to win, like. Moon man in the morning sucks, which they don't. Listen to moon man in the morning. It's great. I love Lawrence Mooney. He's a funny guy. But all the best to all the other people nominated. This will be the only episode that we do between now and then that hasn't already been recorded. So if we want to drop out any subtle sass to, I don't know, shift podcast from the edge. Oh, look at us. We're edgy. Stuff the British style. Well, they sell everything. Don't try too hard there with your podcast name. We'll throw some sass. But we're here to rank the medals. So let's get back on topic. And this is something we touched on a while ago that we said we would do. Bit of fun. You've been listening to all our great interviews, and we thought, well, let's take a break. Let's rank the medals. And we're going from 1994 onwards, because there have been some great Olympic medals over the years. But to me, 94 onwards is when they got really cool, because the ribbons were a little bit more stylistic. You had sort of more of the labelling of the Olympics from Atlanta onwards. I mean, the Lilahama one didn't have sort of the tight face on the ribbons, but they were a little bit more exciting than sort of just the stripes that they used to have on it. So a little bit more memorable. And we're doing every single summer and winter from 94 onwards. And also, which does now include Beijing 2022, because we did say when we were doing this, at that time, they hadn't released it, but they have released the metal designs now for Beijing 2022. So we can rank that as well. Sadly, that is the only prop I do not have, because Wish haven't released the Beijing 2022 replica yet. Jarrod, before we get into this, just give me a thought process on how you went into this. Like, I mean, did you go into this going, oh yeah, I've always loved this metal, easy number one, or I've always hated this one, easy number 15. I mean, how did you go into this when you put your list together?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I had a couple that I knew that I liked, but I feel the more that I went through them and kind of went away from it and came back to it, my rankings kind of changed over the week. But kind of my top one didn't shift. Everything else, I feel, the top and the last one didn't shift in between, was moving about a bit. But I mean, some of these are great, and others are just trash.
BEN WATERWORTH: That is a very good summary. I would agree with that. Colin, what about you?
COLIN HILDING: That also goes for the Australian Podcast Awards and the Creative Academy.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, some of them are trash. Moo Man in the Morning, brilliant, right? That is up there with every single award ever. But then Stuff the British Style, just shit. Just don't listen to it.
COLIN HILDING: I was gonna go with Off The Podium, but okay.
BEN WATERWORTH: That too is kind of rubbish. Hello to our friends over in Stuff the British Style. Great show, keep up the great work.
COLIN HILDING: I'm gonna agree with things both of you have said so far. With Jarrod, my number one, if you asked me six months ago, I don't think I would have had an absolute number one. But when I sat down to make this list, it's like, okay, this is probably gonna be number one, and it was number one. My top tier, I sort of all knew what it would be, but the rankings have changed. Even I made one or two adjustments this morning still. The bottom ones are interesting though, because like you said, Ben, I don't think that even my very bottom one, I would have said, well, that's my absolute least favourite medal. When you have to sit down and rank these as a whole, it's very different than just looking at a medal and say, oh, I kind of like that. That's cool. That's different. Then when you have to compare it to the other ones, that's where it changes a little bit. So as opposed to just being like, I like the way this medal looks, now you have to say, okay, well, is this too similar to another one? Is it too different from all the others?
BEN WATERWORTH: And one thing I'll say too, with some of my rankings, there's one in particular, which I love the actual, the story behind the design and what it represents. And I mean, they've all got their stories, and we're not gonna sit here and go, we're here for five hours, maybe we'll do it with some of the top few. But I know there was definitely a couple which came down to the fact of, okay, I know the truth behind, it's a great story, this adds to it. There's some which are definitely nostalgia reasons, okay, there's a sole reason why I love this medal. And there are definitely ones where I've just been like, I've always fucking hated that medal, it annoys the shit out of me, I will not rank that any higher than this spot. And so it's going to be, and I have no clue how to gauge either of you two, what your thoughts are. This isn't a double R7, download now. Didn't get nominated for a podcast award, should have. But whereas Noah, Colin and I can go into an episode and kind of rank it, okay, sort of like that. Or Jarrod, if we're doing a Euros Vision One, download now. Didn't also get nominated for award. That we can kind of go, okay, well I know Jarrod kind of likes these songs, so this is where he's going to rank as a possible winner. So I have no clue how to read you two and what you think. So, I'm excited.
COLIN HILDING: We really, we tend to not think. That's part of the strategy.
BEN WATERWORTH: We get nominated for awards. So, I mean, who knows? So how this will work is basically each of us will read through from 15th through to 11th. We'll kind of have a discussion each. Then we'll go from 10th down to 6th, have a discussion. And then we'll kind of go around the table and go five, four, three, two, one. And then I've got the magical Off The Podium formula Worker Outerer, Microsoft Excel, and it will give us the average. And then we will read through our 15th through to one averages of the Off The Podium's best medals, which you're all dying to hear. So and we're obviously all winter and summer. They're all together. We're not just doing the winters and the summer separately. And sorry, Youth Olympics next time, maybe not quite. I'd love to do the Commonwealth Games ones. There's some shit medals. You want to see some shit medals? Look at the Commonwealth, Glasgow, oh my God, Melbourne, one of the worst medals I've ever seen. Jesus Christ. All right, I'm not going first because I don't want to wear these medals for any longer than I have to. So let's go to Colin first because he's looking smiley and ready to go. Give us your 15 through to 11.
COLIN HILDING: All right. And my number 15, this is one that, again, like I was saying, with ranking it as a whole changes. Whenever I would look at this on its own, I'd be like, well, that's different. I like that. And then when I have to compare it to everything else, I'm like, it is the only one on this list that does not look like an Olympic medal. I'm not entirely sure what it is. Is it a doughnut? Is it a haemorrhoid cushion? It's the Turin medal.
BEN WATERWORTH: I thought you liked that medal. I was not expecting this.
COLIN HILDING: And that's the thing. I think if we had gone back even a year ago and if I were to look at it on its own, I'm like, I like that. But do I like it as an Olympic medal? No, I kind of like it as its own thing. If I got awarded that for one of my runs, I'd be like, yeah, that's interesting. That's cool. If I look at it as an Olympic medal, it just does not look Olympic like at all. My number 14 is, there's nothing wrong with the design, but it's pretty much just been there, done that. So it's Rio. Nothing new, nothing snappy, nothing stands out. It looks like a medal that you probably could have had in the 60s or 70s, and would have blended in with all the others. My number 13, another recent one, Pyeongchang, which from just doing a little bit of research online, a lot of people seem to like the Pyeongchang one for the simplicity. To me, it's a little bit too simple. There are some other very simple medals on here that I like more. I'm not saying there's a problem with simplicity, just in the case of Pyeongchang, nothing pops out. Number 12, I'm gonna call this the rise of Skywalker of medals because it's too much, way too much overthinking it. Sochi, I have no idea what it is. It looks very fancy. If I was buying jewellery for my wife, I would probably buy her the Sochi medal, but as an Olympic medal, tried way too hard. And then my number 11, another one that I think I always liked on its own. And then when you look at it as a whole, it looks too heavy to me. It looks like something that if Ben had to wear the real one of these, he'd be weighed down on one medal, not 15 of them. Salt Lake City, kind of a melted paperweight, which is a cool look, but maybe just a little bit too clunky.
BEN WATERWORTH: Wow, I'm telling you now, we thought these were gonna be all over the place. These are all over the place. These are, this is gonna be one crazy list. Wow, okay. I'm not used to not saying anything about this. Usually what we do is rebut, but we'll just, we've all got our things to say, I guess, unless Jarrod, if you got anything outstanding here, you want to scream at Colin or give us your list. Because I don't know if I really want to say anything without giving away my list. So, yeah.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, number 15, it's gotta be Turin. Like, it's so bad. If I wanted a CD, like, an athlete just go to the $2 shop and buy a pack of 10 CDs, and then you've got an Olympic medal, apparently, because it's just, it's horrid. Then 14 is Nagano, which just looks like a mistake, and they've put a sticker on the front of the medal, it's horrid. 13 is Vancouver, which is like a melted biscuit, it's messed up. 12, Rio, for similar reasons to Colin, it's just been there, done that, and then like the red colour as well is like a... And then 11 is Tokyo, because what were they thinking?
BEN WATERWORTH: This is insane. Like, I seriously like this is just... I'm actually really excited how diverse this list is going to be. This is just absolutely ridiculous. Colin, do you have anything to add? Just, I mean, you know, before I get to mine or on any of those choices?
COLIN HILDING: I mean, some of those are going to be quite high on my list. Some of them are coming up very soon. So stay tuned.
BEN WATERWORTH: All right. Now, this is where Jarrod and Colin get the Ben show right now, because I can do props here. All right. It's a clean sweep for Taryn. Screw that metal. Even holding this in my hand right now, I don't know what to do. The stupid thing doesn't stay upright, so you can put the Olympic rings up there and then you have the... It's just it's also the design. Like, it's got weird little... If you can see it, it just got like curvy lines, some rings, and then just the shitty logo at the bottom, which I'm... I'd like to rank the logos because that's a whole other episode in itself. You know, hello, Sochi and your shit typeface. But, yeah, no, Turin, just it's it's always annoyed me. When I when I watched it... How am I meant to put this on? This is tricky. It's and it's a short ribbon as well, so it's hard to do. When I watched the Olympics, I'm like, this is a shit medal. I don't like it. Dale Begsmith deserved better to win a gold for that one. So that's an easy 15 for me. At 14, here's a new one. Neither of you brought up. It's, I kind of like the design. And if you actually look at the medal itself, physically, it's got a unique design. It's got kind of like a gap on the sides of things, which is kind of interesting, but it's the only one on our list that doesn't have the name of the Olympics on the ribbon. So that kind of loses points for me. It's the Lilahama 1994 one, which again, hold it up. I do like kind of the maroon and blue kind of on the ribbon, but I write Lilahama 94 on it. You can hear the clanging on it. Look at that. Not a good start for the winters for Ben. Number 13, another new one as well. I've got to find this one. Where the hell is this one? It's somewhere on the bottom here. Oh, there it is. Which again, it's a very simplistic metal, and kind of it's, I like the colour of the ribbon. But again, even the writing on the ribbon is a bit plain, and just the design on it's a little bit plain for me as well. It's Beijing 2008. Not 2022, so summer, just it's a bit basic for me. You know, not my favourite of the basic ones. I'm gonna cling away there. At number 12, Colin brought this one up at 13. I'm gonna bring it up at 12. It's Pyeongchang. Yeah, it's kind of like grooved edges on each side of it, which is kind of interesting, and sort of it's okay. I like kind of the light blue and pink, which is kind of fancy on the ribbon, but outside of that, it's not that fancy. I've just realised that I've got a writing on this, and I'm actually the winner of the Alpine Skiing Women's Downhill. So there you go. Congratulations to me. Didn't realise I'd actually won an event.
COLIN HILDING: It was the creativity award in that event.
BEN WATERWORTH: It was. And number 11, the only one I don't have a prop for, and it's the newest one that's just been released. It's Beijing 22. It's very similar to 2008. I think it takes it a little bit more for me because I kind of like this sort of ring design that you've sort of got on it, and I think that adds it a little bit more to me than what you've got that white circle on the summer one. And I think the ribbon stands out a little bit better with those yellow flecks on it as well. But yeah, so outside of that, I haven't seen it physically, so I don't know how it will look in person, but hurry up, wish and release it so Ben can buy that. So not a good start for the Winters for me. Four out of five are Winters for mine. But can I just say, the Winters are the more unique of all of these. Like the Winters are the ones that pop. You either love them or hate them. So anyway, there you go. Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang. Colin, 10 through to six, unless you got anything to add on anything that I just ranked.
COLIN HILDING: No, I'll start with 10. And this one Jarrod's already brought up, and I had debated putting this at the very bottom. The only reason I didn't is because I thought if this wasn't a medal, I really liked the design of it. And so it's noggino. Like Jarrod said, it kind of has a sticker on it. You can't tell if it's gold, silver, bronze, for the most part. But it is a nice, interesting design, just that I don't think it suits a medal. My number nine, you've already mentioned Lillahammer. I actually like this one. So this is sort of getting to ones that I don't mind. It almost looks a little bit too clunky. There's too much graphics. So if somebody just got a little bit too crazy on, this is what the graphics are gonna look like. When it starts to take away a little bit too much from the medal look itself, then that's a bit of a negative. My number eight, this is one that could jump up there because there's another one coming up, which I originally wasn't a fan of at all, but it's gonna be quite on my list, but Beijing 2022. Like you said, it's similar to the 2008 one. It kind of looks like it's an astrological chart on one side, which is a little bit strange. But considering we had this revealed to us, what was it, a week, two weeks ago, the time of recording this, maybe it would move up if we had more time for it to grow on us a little bit more. My number seven, another one that I think people are very high on that I thought I would rank a little bit higher is London. Now, the only negative of London, I think is what people like the most, which is the backside of it with the scratchy look. But it almost just looks like somebody just scratched it up with a pen. I mean, I've got children who will take sharp objects, not knives or anything, but like a pen or... My kids are running around with screwdrivers and knives. But it's just a little bit too scratchy on the other side. I think that could have just been a little bit simpler. And my number six, this one I originally had, I think in the eight or nine spot. But considering, you know, it's my home country, it's taken a long time for this one to grow on me. Vancouver, another one that falls in the melted paperweight category. But I like the idea, sort of the backstory behind it, every metal being a little bit unique. And it has that very simple design where, you know, it's sort of just the shape of the metal itself, the look of it, the glossiness of it, that makes it stand out. I probably even 24 hours ago, I know for a fact 24 hours ago, I wouldn't have ranked this high, but somehow it's grown on me in the last 24 hours.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's that Canadian pride that you realise that you can't lump it down there as well. So there you go. I love how I'm the only one commenting on the ribbons. Maybe the ribbons are more personal to me, because I'm, you know, wanging around like that. It sounds like it should be like a belly dance or something like that. Jarrod, have you got anything to add on Colin's rankings? If not, get straight into your next five.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think to add, like Vancouver is way too high, but whatever. This is one that yo-yo'd a lot, and I can't decide if... I still am like in two minds about it. I like the Roman numerals at the top, and I like that this is individualised for the different sports, but it does kind of look like it's half finished. And then in nine, I've got London.
BEN WATERWORTH: Wait, hang on a sec, Jarrod. What was number 10? Sorry, I think you might have cut out slightly before then. What was number 10?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Salt Lake.
BEN WATERWORTH: Salt Lake. Okay, thank you. All right.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah. Nine is London. A little bit boring. I do agree that the back is nice, but the front's been done before. Eight, I've got Atlanta. Seven, Sydney. And then six, Beijing 2022.
BEN WATERWORTH: Ooh, look at that. You two have Beijing 08 very high. I didn't realise that we were fans of that, but okay. Interesting. And just, Jarrod, I won't hear you bad mouth Vancouver. Come on. Like that's just, you know, just careful now. All right. So number 10. God, I've got to find these. I should have really prepped these in an order, shouldn't I? Because this is really unprofessional. Where the bloody hell is it? I don't even know. Here it is. Okay, Tokyo, our newest summer. Now, I'm a fan of sort of the bigger medals in terms of the bigger radius, which will be reflected in some of my rankings. But the thing I like about Tokyo, it's thick. Like if I don't know if you can kind of see that it's one of the more thick ones. And I kind of like how it's got more of like the contours on it, where you can kind of feel a little bit more. But outside of that, the contours kind of just lead into a circle of the logo. And I'm not a fan of the Tokyo logo. I mean, it's better than the one that they changed initially, but it's okay. And the ribbon is nice. I just like the ribbons. God, all right. Put that around my neck. Clang away. Number nine, now this hurt me to put this so low, because it is my home country. And, you know, if I think about, if I do think about this medal, I mean, I was fascinated by watching. I remember when the Sydney Olympics came around and watching those first medal events, I was like, oh, what's the medal going to look like? And I'm like, oh, I love it. Like, it's so nice. And I've probably touched more Sydney Olympic medals than any other real life medals, and they've had their welcome home parades. But reflecting on it now, like, it's too small. Like, the little medal itself, it's tiny, and I don't like it. I don't like how small the medal is. It needs to be bigger, Sydney. Although I do kind of like the opera housey kind of flamey thing that they've got on the other side. And I like the light blue. The light blue is nice of the ribbon. At number eight, you two both already put this one up. Colin, you put this in your second last one. Surprising. Rio on the big sucker. I love, like, the big nature of the Rio. And was it you, Jarrod, who said you don't like the colour of it? I love the green. I love the green. It's so nice with the swirls of the blue and the orange into it. Like, it's nice. And yeah, I'm kind of contradicting myself with Tokyo when I say it's just a logo on one side with a couple of swirls. This one looks like it's, like, in the forest or something like that, too. I just, I like the Rio one. The Rio medal is a nice medal. So that comes in at number eight. Number seven. Oh, god, these are getting heavy. Oh, I was going to say, do I have this highest? No, I've got the equal with Colin. We're going for London. Yeah, it does look very scribbly, but it kind of looks a bit futuristic. Although, again, if we ever rank the logos, like the London logo to me is just always Lisa Simpson giving a blowjob. Like seriously, once you see it, you can never unsee it. But what gets at points for me is I've always loved the font of London 2012 and the purple. I'm a fan of purple. And I think it's awesome, the colour of that too. So at number six, hasn't been brought up. And I'm pretty sure it's gonna piss one person off because this might be his number one. I'm going for Athens. Now, I do like it, but again, it suffers from little, it's too small. But I also do like on the back kind of the Greek writing with the flames really cool. And I love the ribbon. I love kind of the blue and all the different colours of it. Obviously Australia's most successful Olympics outside of Sydney when it came to the gold until we just equalled in Tokyo. So we saw a lot of these medals won by Australians. And it's a nice medal. Honestly, all these medals from this point on are really medals I like. There's not a whole lot of negative, but it's just too little. I mean, look, it's kind of like a 50 cent piece in Australia. Like make it bigger, Athens. So there you go. All right, now, unless either of you got anything to say.
COLIN HILDING: No, I got a couple of things to say.
BEN WATERWORTH: All right, go, Colin, say, tell me.
COLIN HILDING: Let's start with Rio. I would say I'm surprised that you rank Rio that high, but considering you got these all off of Wish, I mean, Rio is the one that looks like it's a Wish medal, you know?
BEN WATERWORTH: They're all actually nice news. They're actually all pretty darn good, the realism of them.
COLIN HILDING: What I'm really surprised about is that I'm going to end up having Sydney highest out of anybody here. So, yeah, and I think you've got one of my home countries, one of my home countries.
BEN WATERWORTH: I've got the Calvary 88 one and the Montreal 76 one ready to rank just below Antwerp.
COLIN HILDING: Well, some of the other ones you talked about there. Run through your rankings again. I had a couple comments.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I was going to say we should maybe all go through our 10 rankings so far before we get into our top five if you want to. Colin, would you like to do that? Or do you want me to just go over those five quickly?
COLIN HILDING: Go over those five really quickly.
BEN WATERWORTH: OK, so the ones I just put up from 10 down to six was Tokyo, Sydney, Rio, London and Athens.
COLIN HILDING: OK, Rio, Sydney, Tokyo. You want me to read them again? Yes, please.
BEN WATERWORTH: Come on, old man. River, catch up. Oh, Moo Man in the Morning doesn't have these problems. Tokyo, Tokyo, Sydney, Rio, London, Athens.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, London, Athens. Oh, that's what I was going to call the London one. It's funny because you said that you can't find a lot of people who have ranked the medals online. There's a few where it's like a Reddit column here or there. Oh, here's some. What are some opinions? And you get three people replying. One of them mentioned the Barton Lisa Simpson thing, and I had not heard that before. Really? Yeah, but then I looked it up and I'm like, okay, I see what you're saying now. That might have changed my London rankings had I actually seen that beforehand.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, you've seen that before. That was, I think, back in London. That was like when they announced the logo, straight away, like, is that Lisa Simpson giving a blowjob?
COLIN HILDING: In all fairness, though, I probably didn't know what a blowjob was in 2012.
BEN WATERWORTH: You still don't. I need to show you a video.
COLIN HILDING: I learned it yesterday after reading Reddish.
BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly. We'll go back over the pegging thing again. But no. All right, let's go over our 15 through to six. Colin, you can start us off. Refresh our memories from 15 down through to six.
COLIN HILDING: 15, I had Turin, 14 Rio, 13 Pyeongchang, 12 Sochi, 11 Salt Lake City, 10 Nagano, 9 Lillahammer, 8 Beijing, 2022, 7 London, and 6 Vancouver.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Perfect.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod.
JARROD LOOBEEK: At 15, I had Turin, 14 Nagano, 13 Vancouver, 12 Rio, 11 Tokyo, 10 Salt Lake, 9 London, 8 Atlanta, 7 Sydney, and 6 Beijing, 2022.
BEN WATERWORTH: All right, so poor Turin. Clean sweep for them. I honestly thought Colin, you like, like I thought that would be in your top five. Like, I don't know why, but Turin, 15, 14 Lillahammer, 13 Beijing, 08, 12 Pyeongchang, 11 Beijing, 22, 10 Tokyo, 9 Sydney, 8 Rio, 7 London, 6 Athens. So as we head into our top five, if I'm looking here, has there been any that hasn't been brought up by anyone? No, I don't think so. Okay, interesting. All right. So just just give us your number five, Colin. You don't need to go far through to one, just your number five.
COLIN HILDING: All right, let's take one more off the board here. I'm going number five, Sydney. I thought that you guys would have been huge. I thought you even talked about loving, loving this metal before. The size is an interesting thing, because I don't know if that would change it. When we're looking at just a picture or we're watching on TV, you know, anytime we see these metals on TV, we're only seeing the Sydney metals. We're only seeing the Athens metals. So the size, you know, you don't really get that in context. So it is interesting that you can bring that perspective with all your Wish metals there. Or maybe Wish just got it wrong. I don't know. But I really love just the simple, traditional designs. And with Sydney, like you said, they always try to incorporate something of the culture into the metals. And the Opera House is probably one of the most basic ones you could do. It's one of the most obvious ones you could do. But it just screams, OK, this is Sydney, and it's not one of the other million metals that look exactly like it. Plus, to me, it looks like a million dollars. I mean, it's one of the metals that just, if I were to go try to barter, if I was out of money in a foreign country, I'd say, look, I got a million dollar coin here. This is my Sydney metal.
BEN WATERWORTH: Which is also to, should mention, usually you've got the same design on one side of it that you'll have in all the Olympics. So you've got that traditional Greek, like the statue with the wings. The winged, yeah. Yeah. And they've changed it, I think, since Beijing, that they've changed it. It's in the original Olympic Stadium, whereas from Athens beforehand, it was the winged angel with a bridge thing in the background and a laurel wreath. So that's always on one side of the metal versus what's. And I think that's only the summer metals, because the winter ones are just all very unique. But no, I'm glad that one of us loves Sydney in the top five. I mean, you know, I love that metal. It's just I like eight others more, apparently. So anyway, Jarrod, your number five.
JARROD LOOBEEK: My number five is Lulahama. I feel like this could have almost been my favourite if they'd put a little bit more gold on it. Like, that's the only thing I don't like about it is that it doesn't have enough of the colour of the metal on it. But I just appreciate the effort to have a different symbol for each sport. And even though I like the cartoony style, I feel like it just kind of works. It feels like it's cultural, it's unique to the Olympics. So I feel like they haven't tried to copy anything that's come before. And I think just the rings on the back look really good as well.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think as we're going to establish with some of these winter ones that maybe haven't come up as much. But yeah, the winter ones are the... And if people want to see... Obviously, we're talking about our favourites, kind of ranking them, going over the designs a little bit. And we'll put up on our social media, kind of maybe just a graphic of some of them ranked. But if you go to the Olympics website, you can actually find pictures of all the medals. And ultimately, we're only doing sort of 94 onwards. But if you kind of look at some of the older ones, for example, look at the Sarajevo one from 1984. It's kind of square. Sapporo sort of did a similar one in 1972 as well. So there are some very unique designs of the medals themselves going back in time, which are very, very interesting. But I mean, you sort of look at some of these really oldie ones, and they all look pretty similar. I mean, Paris 1900, I think they've almost got rectangles kind of on those ones. I just didn't think medals were officially kind of awarded until what, like 1908 or 1912 or something like that. And then I think they just retroactively had certain ones back in the day. So yeah, the winter ones are definitely the more unique designs of them. So I have at number five a medal that got absolutely no love from either of you. Colin, you had it at 10. Jarrod, you had it at 14. Nagano, I love the Nagano medal.
COLIN HILDING: Of course you would.
BEN WATERWORTH: Like the thing that I love about the Nagano medal is like you both sort of say like, oh, like it's kind of got like stuff on it, like the black stuff and doesn't look like a medal. I love the uniqueness of that. I think that adds to it. And I love the colours of it, like the logo itself, the Nagano logo, which is one of my favourite Olympic logos. It's like got all the colours of it. It's fantastic. The ribbon's great with kind of like the flowers on it. And it's just, I'm nostalgic with this medal because it was kind of the first winter Olympics that I got really obsessed with. And I remember seeing Zali Stegel with the bronze, one of these coming to the Channel 7 studio, showing it off. Like always love the Nagano medal. So, yeah, go for you too. Nagano, justice for Nagano.
COLIN HILDING: Like here's the thing, again, it looks nice if it was not an Olympic medal, you know, kind of like Turin. It's interesting, it's different, but when you said, oh, it's got all the colours on there, I mean, that's when, if you're an Olympic medallist, and you're like, oh, I want an Olympic medal, okay. And you show it to people and they're like, so was it gold, silver or bronze? I can't tell.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I mean, the background stuff is gold, Colin, like, you know, did I win? Did I win anything for this one? No, it doesn't have the event on it. So, Jarrod, I mean, you had this 14th, Jarrod. What's wrong with Naga? Come on.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It doesn't, like, it doesn't look intentional. I feel like the front of it, it looks like that, like the Naga No logo and the year and the Olympic rings. It looks like that circle bit has slipped down from like the rest of the medal. Like, it looks like a mistake. I just want to push it back up and then have, like, if that was just it, and you got rid of the black from the front, perfect.
BEN WATERWORTH: Actually, I want to clarify. I think I might have won this for bobsled. It looks like there's a sporting logo, and it looks like a bobsled. So, yeah, bobsled added to my alpine skiing downhill. So, I'm very multi-talented. I am. All right. Number four, Colin, hit me with it.
COLIN HILDING: Number four, the old design of Olympic medals for at least years and years and years, they all just looked like it was a coin. To me, Atlanta is the nicest coin I have ever seen. It's exactly the same design as so many others. It's just ten times better than all the coin designs that they've had before. And it's one of the ones that I think I've always seen the most. And I don't know if it's because the Atlantic Games, even though they weren't in Canada, there was just so much coverage over here. There was such a big deal about these medals when they originally came out. And being able to have a variation of it around my neck, maybe that bumps it up a little bit, but it's just so traditional, but it's just so... I'll just say it again. It's so much better than the other traditional ones. I can't think of anything fancier to say.
BEN WATERWORTH: Solid answer. I'll talk about it soon. Jarrod, you had it at eight, so I mean, not that far away, so you kind of like Atlanta?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I feel like it's a less refined version of Sydney.
BEN WATERWORTH: That's a solid point. I like that point. Maybe don't agree with it, but it's a solid point. Jarrod, your number four.
JARROD LOOBEEK: My number four is Pyeongchang.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, wow.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I kind of like how simple the front is, that it's just the Olympic rings, and I feel like the kind of etching works on it and just like the logo on the back. I don't know. I just like that it's minimalist, but I think the strikes through it give it like enough to be different from like all the others and stand out at the same time.
BEN WATERWORTH: This is where we're so diverse, because Colin and I had that very low, and I forgot you still had that up to go, Jarrod.
COLIN HILDING: I'll say one thing. I'm going to stand by my ranking, but what you say about like the etching and everything, Jarrod, if nothing else, the Pyeongchang, it stands out, and it doesn't stand out in a bad way. To me, it's just a little bit too simple, but you do make a good point. If you picture Pyeongchang, you can picture the medal, whereas a lot of these other countries, you're like, oh, there's so much going on in that medal, I don't even know what to picture.
BEN WATERWORTH: And that's a good point, too. Definitely with the majority of these medals, you tell me the Olympics, I can picture the medal, but there are some that stand out more, and I think that's reflected in my top view. Can I say my neck is starting to really hurt all of a sudden? What do I have? 13 of these around my neck now, 12, whatever it is? No, 10, I can't even count. My number four, another one that got no love from either of you, 11 from Colin, 10 from Jarrod, Salt Lake. I love the Salt Lake medal.
COLIN HILDING: Your neck's really gonna hurt now.
BEN WATERWORTH: I mean, I get what you're saying with the paperweight, but it's the shape of it. It's kind of jagged around it, and it's got a unique sort of design. And even if you actually look at it carefully, the way kind of around the little section where the ribbon goes through, you have the XIX kind of in there, like kind of just in that section there, which I think is really cool. I love the individual nature of the sports on it. I've won this for the 10-kilometre sprint in biathlon. And just even the background, how it's kind of got like this lady with a torch, light the fire within the motto of it, the rings, nostalgia reasons. This is Bradbury's gold. I mean, not in the biathlon, but even outside of just Bradbury, Alyssa Camplin, you know, the men's Canada team gold as well, Jamie Saleh, like just so many memories over Salt Lake that this medal just stands out for me. And I love it. I love the shape of it. It is quite heavy. Here we go. Alright hang on. Clang clang clang clang clang clang clang. But yeah, I like Salt Lake City. One of my favourite Olympics, so I like the medal as well. So, oh my god, this neck, Jesus. Listen, have you got anything to say, Colin? Go to number three.
COLIN HILDING: So number three, this would fall in the category of it really had to grow on you, because when I originally saw the design, I'm like, okay, that's all right. I don't see anything that really stands out. And then throughout the games recently, it really grew on me a lot. And I think it might have been you, Ben, who pinpointed just sort of the raised look on the one side, all the different contours, all the different shapes to Tokyo. It really has that unique look to it without being too busy. And maybe in two or three more years, when I've sort of forgotten about this a little bit and there's not as much recency bias, I might bump it back down to where I originally thought it would be, which would be possibly a top 10 one. But as of right now, I absolutely love this Tokyo. And every time I look at it, I'm like, man, I just love this metal more and more.
BEN WATERWORTH: Okay, interesting. Garrett, got anything to add on Tokyo? Otherwise, give us your number three.
JARROD LOOBEEK: My number three is Beijing 08. I just don't really have anything bad to say about it. I like that it has the jade inlay. I like that it's the colour of the inlays different for the different metals. I like that it kind of distinguishes between the three further. I will say that what weighs it down is, I think the silver metal design does not look as good as the other two. I think overall, they've kind of captured a unique look while also having the rehash of the track and the winged person on the back. I just think it's a good balance. And also the red ribbon really pops as well.
BEN WATERWORTH: Red is my favourite colour, and I'm sad that I don't rank these red ones up higher. But no, I do like the red. I like the Beijing 22 red more. And they're very similar. I weirdly appreciate that they kind of went for that similarity in some way, even though it would be nice to have something completely different. But yeah, there you go. Number three, my highest summer medal on this list. I've talked up a lot how much I have loved this medal, and it's just nostalgia reasons. And to me, this was like the first of those real like pitcher ribbon medals. And I think this was the first medal I ever got to see in person. I've got a photo of me wearing a bronze medal from Atlanta around my neck. But just love it. And I love that sort of style that it's got. It's very basic and small that I've kind of complained before. But it's just something simplistic about it that I like that fits in well for the Centennial Games. I like kind of the ribbon, the way they've got like the logo with the 100 on it, kind of the laurel wreath. And the green with like that real gold trim around the ribbon, I think really, really works. So there's just something about the Atlanta medal that I've always liked. That was an easy one for me to go into my top three. But yeah, my highest summer medal is Atlanta 1996. Then you go, ooh, the crowd goes crazy. Colin, anything else to add? Otherwise, give us your number two.
COLIN HILDING: My number two was Jarrod's number three, Beijing 2008. And I almost feel bad for 2022 because they did go with something similar. Like you said, Ben, I like that they did something similar because this hasn't really happened before about being able to have these opposing games so close together. But if there had never been a 2008 Beijing medal, maybe 2022 is higher for me. But just the different circles and everything on the back, like Jarrod said, the inlay, it's got such an original look to it. And like one of my biggest complaints seems to be, it's not too busy, it's not too complicated. It's simple, but there's a lot going on. And also just the front of the stadium look, like you mentioned, the traditional wing creature on the stadium. There's just so much more texture to it where you can see exactly what it is. It's not like you have to squint or get really close. You're like, oh yeah, that's supposed to be a stadium, and they've got so much detail on that. This is pretty close to a perfect medal. I wasn't quite sure, putting my finger on, what it was that didn't work. Jarrod, you kind of raised a good point about the silver. Obviously not looking as good, but the gold especially, it totally stands out.
BEN WATERWORTH: There you go, Jarrod. And you're ranking it high. I'm looking at the averages here now, and I don't even know if I can work this out, but I'm glad I got Excel, because I think I know what's going to be number one, but I'll get there in a second. Jarrod, you're number two.
JARROD LOOBEEK: So, I have Athens as number two. I feel like this just, it gets the balance right. It feels traditional and like a throwback, which fits for Athens. I just think the Greek writing on the back kind of caps it all off, and then like the ribbon doesn't clash or anything. It kind of works. Yeah, just everything about it, I think, is really good.
BEN WATERWORTH: You know, it's actually interesting. I just realised, Jarrod, that your two that remained was either going to be my number one or Jarrod's, Colin's number one. So now I know. Oh, interesting. My number two, Jarrod, 13th. Just stop it. Colin, six, decent. Vancouver. Now, I hate the fact this replica does no justice to the Vancouver medal because that's the replica.
COLIN HILDING: That's a wish medal.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, like this has got no like the beauty about the Vancouver medal, which a lot of what gets me high points is the story behind it. So every single one of these medals is your own unique shape, the way they're kind of contoured and everything. They're all unique. There's not two medals the same. And literally, if you got every single Vancouver medal and put them together, it forms one giant picture. So like these are all pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, which I think is so intelligent. And it's got all related to do with like the landscape of BC and kind of like the contours of the mountains and everything. I love the way they kind of went out of their way to do it. And that really ranks it highly to me. I love it.
COLIN HILDING: It's big, it's round, it's thick.
BEN WATERWORTH: I like my things big, round and thick. The ribbon's cool with like the lines and just Vancouver 2010 on it. It's Canadian, it adds things to it as well. And it's the closest I've ever lived to an Olympic city. Well, I guess I lived in Brisbane, and that's now an Olympic city, but hey, whatever, like, you know, go to town. But no, I'll give Vancouver some love.
COLIN HILDING: I just want to add something. I think you were with me when we saw those in person at the Royal Canadian Mint here.
BEN WATERWORTH: And I've seen a bunch of them in person. Just to interrupt you, like, when I've been to Vancouver, they have like in certain sections. I went to the museum at BC Place, and also in the exhibition centre, they had a display there still of the medals, and I've got a photo on the podium, and the cauldron, like, yeah, it's all still there.
COLIN HILDING: I'll say this in defence of Jarrod. This is one of the ones that even when I... I wasn't like the biggest fan of Vancouver, and I think when I saw them in person, it very much changed my perspective, because there's also... It's one of these medals where you look at it straight on, and then you tilt your head a little bit, and it looks completely different, like the shape and everything, and it's just the shine from it. So seeing these in person does give a completely different... Even compared... I've seen the London one in person, and I probably was less impressed seeing the London one in person. But yeah, the Vancouver one does go up a lot if you actually can look at it in the flesh.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm trying to think. And I'll ask this of you, Jarrod. Obviously, a few of our guests have obviously gotten their medals out and kind of shown them on camera. I'm thinking in person I would have seen Atlantis, Sydney, Rio...
COLIN HILDING: Calgary?
BEN WATERWORTH: In person?
COLIN HILDING: They didn't have that at the Olympic Park?
BEN WATERWORTH: I didn't go to the Olympic Park. I never ended up going. There would have been a few in the Sports Museum in Melbourne, which I couldn't remember which ones would have been there. I'm just thinking parades and stuff like that. I've touched a Sydney medal. I've worn an Atlanta one. I've touched a Rio medal. I don't think I've ever seen a winter one in person. Actually, no, that's a lie. I think Bradbury's Gold is in the museum in Melbourne. So I've seen the Salt Lake one. Jarrod, have you seen any in person?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think only Sydney. I'm fairly sure we had somebody come out and talk at the school. I don't remember who, but yeah, that's the only one.
BEN WATERWORTH: One of those. All right, cool. All right, so our number ones, which, wow, these are fascinating, particularly because two of our number one, two of us, our number ones, somebody ranked very low, interestingly enough. Colin, you're number one. No, actually, if it wasn't Toreen, I thought this might be your number one, because I know you've talked this medal up before.
COLIN HILDING: I'm surprised you thought Toreen would. I've probably been like, oh, it's not that bad in the past, but I think I've ever been like, yeah, I love it.
BEN WATERWORTH: One of the times I mentioned I hated it, and you kind of defended it, so I don't know why I feel like you liked Toreen.
COLIN HILDING: The defence was probably, it's not that bad, but really it is. Yeah, my number one, I mean, this is an obvious one, and I'm so glad that Jarrod had it as high as he did too. Athens, when I try to think of what the perfect medal is, it would be this. I really do lean more towards the traditional look of the medals, where you don't have to look at it, oh, is that a medal from some games? But you can look at it and say, that's an Olympic medal. It's got all the classic elements to it. If I were to imagine what an Olympic medal looked like back, we're talking like the ancient days of the ancient Olympics. This is sort of what I picture. Having all the ancient Greek writing on the back, I mean, that's probably what really sells it. But this is as traditional as it can get, and it's so appropriate that it would be for Athens that they would go with such a traditional but elevated look to it.
BEN WATERWORTH: I mean, it's a nice medal. I had it at six. I had it at the lowest. Of course, Ben does. But, you know, yeah, I like it. Jarrod, you had it at number two. Unless you got anything else out on that, you can move into your number one.
JARROD LOOBEEK: So the best medal, hands down, by Country Mile is Sochi, because it is super unique. They managed to get the culture in. I feel like the issues with, like, little karma of not enough of the colour of the medal, like this is like there's enough gold, there's enough silver, there's enough bronze on them. And the fact that for the other, like, inlay, they've gone like this clear colour, I just feel like it works. I like that it looks like a mountainside for the Winter Olympics. Just everything about it's good. I like that they're, like, thick on, like, the side too. And the ribbon doesn't distract from the medal, which is good.
BEN WATERWORTH: Colin, do you have anything to add? Because I'm trying to get to my number one.
COLIN HILDING: It looks very nice. I mean, it's an incredible looking design. To me, it's just it's too much, and it's not Olympic looking enough.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, it's my number one as well. And I used to hate the Sochi medal. I used to kind of when I first saw that, I'm like, oh, that's like Turin. That's horrible. Like, what's going on with that one there? Like, it's got a hole in it, and it's got glass in it. Like, oh, this is terrible. But it's one that just grows and grows and grows and grows on me. And like the physical one doesn't have it. They've kind of like made the clear bit like silver or something. So it's very wishlike. But I just love it. Like everything Jarrod said, I agree with. Like, it's kind of like a snowflake kind of mountain thing, which works. And in what might be the worst Olympic logo, it kind of that even sort of works. It looks okay on the medal. And I just kind of like the simplicity of the rings on the background. The ribbon is beautiful. Like it's I agree with Jarrod doesn't take away from it. And this is just one that just I don't know. Like if I was to have ever won an Olympic medal, this would be the one I want because it's so unique. It's so cool. Like it's just it's interesting. And it's not so doughnutty and shit like Turin, that it still can be sitted an Olympic medal. So I'm going to put this on now. Oh, all 14. But Sochi, Jesus Christ. Now I know how Michael Phelps feels. Yeah, I love it. I love it now. I'm glad I've grown on to loving Sochi. So there you go, Russia. You had $20 billion well spent Off The Podium Australian podcast nominated podcast ranked two of us as your number one Olympic medal. So the most expensive Olympics ever. You have White Elephant stadiums that aren't being used. You finally got validation.
COLIN HILDING: And my family is Russian. I mean, I should be ashamed for my ranking.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, you should be, Colin. All right, let's let's basically the algorithm usually play a song. If we're doing double, we don't need to do that, do we? No, we can just go into this. Um, so from 15 through to this is fucking fascinating. Um, can we guess what number 15 might be? Everyone? Anyone? Bula? No. 15. Oh, hopefully Milan Cortina is better. Maybe they'll do the Timbit for the middle, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: They can have a comp- Yes.
BEN WATERWORTH: You're like, hey, we got to do it the same. Like, come on, you've got the doughnut for Taryn. 20 years later, you can do the pizza. 14th. Oh, poor Rio. Go to Rio to get the 14th medal. In 13th place, Jarrod, you had this at four, but apparently that wasn't enough to bump it up. Poor Pyeongchang. 13th there. It's so interesting the discrepancy between so many winters at the bottom and then a few at the top. Nagano. Oh, 12th for Nagano. Oh, poor little Nagano. 12th. Just missing the top 10. Another winter. Lilahama comes in at 11th. 10th, our newest medal on the list. A medal that we have not seen awarded yet, but Beijing 22. In 9th place, Salt Lake, number 9. Tokyo comes in at number 8. London at number 7. Now our next two are our home Olympics. Does it go to Australia or Canada? Number 6. Vancouver at number 6, which means Sydney goes in at number 5. Number 4, Beijing 2008. Number 3, Atlanta, number 2, Sochi. And at number 1, Athens gets the goog. So Athens is the number 1 Olympic medal of all time. Soch, Jarrod, I mean, did you ever have like any kind of like, does Athens go at number 1, or was Sochi always number 1 for you, and Athens solo at number 2?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Sochi was immovable, but Athens, I'm more than happy for that to be crowned number 1.
BEN WATERWORTH: Colin, you're obviously happy. I mean, you were the only one who had a different number 1, and you got the number 1. So you must be feeling pretty satisfied.
COLIN HILDING: I mean, it's mostly because of my Sochi ranking that Athens is number 1, but I'll take it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Good job, good job. What means more to you, an Australian podcast award nomination or having your medal chosen at number 1?
COLIN HILDING: Well, let me answer that after I see if we actually win.
BEN WATERWORTH: In only a few hours time, tune in to australianpodcastawards.com. This has been fun. I like this. And you know what I like about this, too, is the fact that having Jarrod, Jarrod's so, like, nice and calm, there's no fucking debate. There's no, like, Noah, like, oh, I hate you, Ben. No, don't make fun of my alcoholism. This is calm. Jarrod, join us on Double Loss 7. We'll get these done, not four and a half hours. Like, this is done in an hour.
COLIN HILDING: Good job.
BEN WATERWORTH: Colin, I mean, how are you feeling? This is weird for you and I doing these rankings and it being so quick and calm.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, what I really like, though, is that our top two, we represented both the summer and the winter games, and we also represented a traditional look and a very non-traditional look. So I'm kind of happy looking at the averages even if it doesn't match completely to what I have.
BEN WATERWORTH: That is a solid point. And just quickly, so what is our top ten is made up of? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven summers and three winters. Oh, poor, poor little winters. Which I guess, does that mean that the intro and outro of this, we're going to play our summer intro or our winter intro? What do you think? I guess we've got to play summer, don't we?
COLIN HILDING: Just play some random Greek music.
BEN WATERWORTH: No, I can't be bothered making something new. I'm just playing the same old summer one. We've still got the Tokyo music. I'll make it to Paris in a year or so when I can be bothered editing a new intro. Speaking of episodes and intros and everything along the lines, we've got so many great interviews. We've got episodes dropping every two days, essentially between now and about the end of January. And then come the end of January, we're doing an episode every bloody day, people, basically, from the end of January right through to the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. Jarrod and Colin are going, I didn't agree to this. What's going on? I'm busy. I don't have time for this. You two are fine, right? Like, we don't have to get you on board until the Beijing preview episode. So you two are safe. Don't worry. But we've got some great ones. And I will say that from episode 201 onwards, and this is, of course, episode 150-something, or 173. God, Ben, I don't know how to do my maths. Video episodes, video interviews. You'll be able to see that on a newly created YouTube channel. So get excited. But we've got some great, great guests both summer and winter still to come. I'll tease and say that our next interview is somebody who has an Athens medal. She got a bronze in Athens. Probably more famous for a medal that she didn't win. Getting disqualified 200 metres from winning a gold medal in Sydney, sadly. But she got the bronze in Athens. I'm talking about Jane Saville, race walker, four-time Olympian. Was also in Atlanta and Beijing. So a great chat there. And we've got some more great chats still to come across that way. But with these two looking at me, you'll hear a bit of them on our 200th episode, Best Of. But I don't think we're going to hear either of your voices until our Beijing preview episode, Yutus. You can have a couple of months off. Rest. You know?
COLIN HILDING: There's no interviews coming up I was part of.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, yeah, that's true.
COLIN HILDING: You were in a few of them.
BEN WATERWORTH: I forgot about that. Yeah, a couple. Jarrod, were you in any of them? I can't remember. Maybe.
JARROD LOOBEEK: As I can recall, minimal effort, maximum reward.
BEN WATERWORTH: But I think in all seriousness, like we've often talked about sort of doing maybe a general recap of each other. We're going to work out what other episodes we can do after the Olympics next year when things slow down a little bit. But I like these rankings. I really would like to do, you know, more. I say the next one, the logos, because I don't have to wear them around my neck. But there are some shit, shit logos, and there are some amazing logos. So, Colin, I don't know if you have initial thoughts on Olympic logos, if that's something, because I think they only really created a logo, and that would be a longer one, because I think they maybe brought a logo in from like the 50s or 60s, and we can probably do it when they first had the official logos. But any initial thoughts? I mean, unless you've got another idea, if I'm just telling us that we're doing logos, please rebut me with a better ranking, if you think.
COLIN HILDING: No, that's a good one. And I think there's where we're probably going to disagree on Sochi more, because I was a big fan of the Sochi logo.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's got Times New Roman written Sochi.ru, a great logo. Vladimir Putin probably spent five billion dollars on that.
COLIN HILDING: It looks like a really fancy website address. I like it.
BEN WATERWORTH: I really want to get the old Tokyo one that they got sued for copyright infringement, which I'm glad they did, because that was worse than the Sochi logo. Look that up. That was a terrible one. And we'll rank the Hobart 2020 logo amongst it too, maybe. Jarrod, again, unless you've got any other ideas, you got any thoughts on the logos of the Olympics?
JARROD LOOBEEK: The logo sounds good, because I agree with you. There's some logos that need to be called out.
BEN WATERWORTH: There's some logos that have been sitting on their history for 50 years. I'm looking at you, Montreal. It's time you got called out for you sitting around thinking, oh, I'm so good. I cost Canada billions of dollars. Again, that logo cost $2 billion. I think Quebec just paid it back. But that will come at some point in 2022. But stay tuned. Like us on Facebook. Follow us, all the usual channels, and tune in to australianpodcastawards.com to see us not get a gold, silver, or bronze. I'm Moo Man in the Morning. That's my tip for gold. Predictions, everyone. Just quickly, I'm going Moo Man in the Morning gold. I'm going house warming silver. And I've given them a nice shit, so I think they should get the bronze. Stuff The British Stole. They're going to steal the bronze from us. Colin, predictions for the Creativity Award.
COLIN HILDING: You know, I just I think the name Stuff The British Stole is creative enough. I think that's our gold medal winner right there.
BEN WATERWORTH: I want to hear, like, I'm sure they'll play a clip. Whoever wins. But I want this to be like, you know, British music. Hello, I'm British, and I stole the award for best creative podcast at the podcast awards in your bloody face off the bloody podium. Yes, shit show. Jarrod, who's taking the creativity award tonight? That's not us.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, the heart says things, the British stole. But the head says, Moonman, in the morning, you'd probably want to win with that budget.
BEN WATERWORTH: I know. I mean, seriously, like forty odd thousand followers. Like, this is a nationally syndicated show. Like, I mean, again, literally look each of the shows up. I think I got excited with Housewarming, because I'm like, oh, they've got like about the same amount of followers on Twitter as us. Like, OK, cool. They've got like five thousand followers on Instagram. Like, that's their platform of choice. So, and like, everybody's like, oh, congratulations. Well deserved. I think we got one like on our posts on Instagram that we got nominated for an award.
COLIN HILDING: It was me.
BEN WATERWORTH: Where you're saying there's a chance. But in all seriousness, I sound like I'm taking the piss, but it is a pretty big honour. We are pretty chuffed because I think they said that there was over 900 entries into the Australian Podcast Awards. And we apparently are one of the most six creative podcasts, according to the judges. So we'll take it. Number four on the whatever that list was of podcasts to listen to about the Olympics in 2021. I think we'll be about number 34 next year. And the top six most creative podcasts. We got a lot to live up to for our Beijing commentary, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: This is why we have to come in four or lower. Can you imagine how angry Derek Druin is going to be if we get a medal after what you did to him? You know, it's hilarious.
BEN WATERWORTH: If we win the frickin gold, and we break the curse by winning our first gold medal on this show, for us! Carly Masse has got this silver, oh so proud, two silver medals. Oh, the show I was on, what a gold before I did. Brit Cox is going to be mad. Like, again, I get the shit for Derek basically saying, oh, you're going to win gold. Oh, Ben, ha ha ha. Can we just point out that Colin back in Pyeongchang was like, oh, if there's a lock for a gold medal, it's Brit Cox.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, we didn't bring that up to her when we interviewed her in a few months time.
COLIN HILDING: Well, if there's a lock for a gold medal, it's Moon Man in the Morning.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yay, we're going to win the gold. Can we just, can we make this, hey, Australian Podcast Awards, it's the 2002 Short Track Speed Skating. You're about to get up to the thing. Oh, they all fall over. Off the podium wins the gold. Doing it off the podium. That's what they call it, basically. But congratulations in advance to Moon Man in the Morning. Thoroughly deserved. Such a good show. I wake up, there's Moon Man. Look at him, staring at his face in the thing. Anyway, thanks to the judges. We appreciate being in the top six. It's where we deserve. Jarrod, thank you for joining us. And thank you for joining me on the Sochi Lab. I appreciate your brain.
JARROD LOOBEEK: No problem. And a shout out to Off the Podium, a podcast that missed out on a creative award by spelling mistake.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yay, Off the Podium. Better show.
COLIN HILDING: Better show.
BEN WATERWORTH: Off the Podium. And Colin, thank you for joining us and for joining me sort of on the Vancouver Lab.
COLIN HILDING: Thank you. And I have a good chiropractor to recommend to you.
BEN WATERWORTH: Thanks for tuning in. This is Off the Podium. As always, remember, go left.
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