Rio 2016 Day 1 Review

As day 2 rolls around, the boys go over a golden day for Australian (and a bronzed one for Canada) and talk up the prospects of ending the Olympics now given Australia has clearly won them. We also discover some very exciting new potential team names, glorify the magical sport of archery as well as find out why Canadian swimmers are stoned, find out just out why Britt Elmslie will be marrying Ben in the future and discover what Jarrod is angry about today.

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

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BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, hello everybody, and welcome once again to Off The Podium, an Olympics podcast on what a magnificent day it is to be podcasting about the Olympics. Day one of Rio 2016 is over. A golden day. It's amazing. It's awesome. It's great to be in Australia. And you're listening to the only podcast right now recorded in the country that's leading the medal tally. That's right. End the Olympics right now. We don't need to compete anymore. It's done. It's over. In your face, Hungary. In your face, United States. I'm so excited. I can't even say the word face. And in your face, South Korea, Australia. A golden day. We've already won a quarter of the medals, the gold medals that we won in London in one day. So we're doing very well. And we've got a lot to cover in this episode. Episode three of Off The Podium to cover day one of Rio 2016. My name is Ben, and I too am proud as punch that I beat a guy that was tested positive in the swimming as well. That sounded better in my head. But joining me also is a guy who is so excited for the fact that we've won gold medals on the opening day that he stopped watching the dressage to make sure that he could see us winning the gold medals. It's Jarrod Loobeek. Jarrod, welcome back to Off The Podium.

JARROD LOOBEEK: It's good to be back. It's a great start to see the Olympics. When you're second in dressage, you've got to switch over for the first in the swimming. So, yeah, great start.

BEN WATERWORTH: Well, speaking of great start, we're also joined by a man who's so happy as well. He's thrilled he's over the moon because Canada are in 17th place on the medal tally with a bronze medal. It is Mr Colin Hilding. Colin, welcome back to Off The Podium.

COLIN HILDING: We are on the board, and I have to repeat something that was said off air when we were mentioning that Canada won a bronze. I said, well, it's not a gold, and you're like, well, a bronze is kind of like a gold to Canada in the Summer Olympics, which is 100% true. This was like the greatest moment of the year in this country, and I'm sure we have many more bronze to come.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, yes. Well, I'm sure if we continue to do this show in two years' time for the Winter Olympics, you'll know what it feels like to win all those medals, and we'll be on your position. Like, oh, we got seventh in the slalom. Yay, we did well today. But it's kind of interesting how that works. But yes, day one. What a day. Twelve gold medals decided, and two of them were won by Australia. We should really start off with that because we're literally recording this pretty much just after we've won our second gold medal and a world record to boot. The 4x100m relay in the swimming for Australia. We defended our gold medal from London four years ago. Fantastic to see that. And great to see the girls kicking some absolute butt in that. Also, Australia won a gold medal in the 4x100m. I can't talk. I'm so excited. Just absolutely dominating in the pool there with Mack Horton winning it. Great job there for Australia. And also, I should mention, we won a bronze medal today as well in the archery, which kind of came out of nowhere. I'm sure we will talk about that. And obviously for Canada, you guys got the bronze in, well, behind us, of course, Colin, but we've got to cover the fact that you did win a bronze medal. We did mention that. But great start. To start with you, Jarrod, we're Australian, we're proud, we're extremely happy and over the top that we got these gold medals. Were you expecting us? I mean, Bruce McEvaney put the commentators curse on the 4x100. We looked pretty like we might get the silver halfway through it, but we came through to win it, and then a bit of a surprise gold there for Mac at the same time.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I was definitely a little bit nervous in the relay. That gold medal was definitely kind of prematurely put onto the tally before the actual race. But yeah, it was just such a great tail end to that relay. And then getting the gold in the individual 400 metres was great as well. Yeah, really unexpected to kind of win that, and that looked a little bit touch and go there at the end. But yeah, I mean, winning the relay was such a good thing because that was a little bit of a saving face, I suppose, at London after we did so bad in the swimming. So for that to be an early event this year, which is kind of the perfect way to kick things off.

BEN WATERWORTH: Now, I remember in London the fact that we sat on one go, because we won obviously the four-by 100 in London. I think we had won one gold medal for the entire first week of London. And just remember sitting there going, come on, we've got to win another one, we've got to win another one. And we just kept winning silver after silver after silver. And I was worried halfway through that four-by 100. I'm thinking, Bruce, you had to say it. You had to say it 24 hours ago. You couldn't just stick to your commentary about Aruba and the Beach Boys. You had to put the commentator's curse on it and make sure that we lose it. But it all came down to Bronte Campbell, who just kicked some absolute arse in that third leg before Kate Campbell brought it home. Of course, Emma McKeon, and my new favourite athlete of the Olympics. Can I just point out Britt Elmslie? We'll talk a lot about her this episode, but we did it world record as well. Were we expecting the world record there, Jarrod? I mean, we held the world record, so it's not really that exciting, but I guess we'll take that at the same time.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, definitely. I mean, we were a mile ahead of it. It's always tricky, because you know that right at the end, that world record is sort of going to come back closer to your athletes. It's always a bit deceptive in swimming, but the fact that we could hold on and get that as well was just a bonus. I know the commentators were talking about the world record maybe like half way through the race, and I'm like, I don't care about the world record, just give us that gold medal, but to get both, I mean, that's just a dream come true.

BEN WATERWORTH: And I have to say, we talked a little bit in our first episode about post-race interviews with Sally Pearson, Nii McLennan back in Beijing, and some other ones, but we had two great post-race interviews. I don't know if you were paying attention to those, Jarrod, particularly with the girls there afterwards. And I like the fact that Kate Campbell turned around to, was it Katie Liddicky, the American who she beat in that final, a great name by the way. She turned around when asked about the question about how she felt about her. Oh, she's dead to me. I knew I would win. She might have been joking, but it was still a funny way of saying it. And earlier, when Mack Horton is being interviewed after winning his gold in the 400m, he turns around and says, it's a win for the good guys. It's a rival between me and athletes that have tested positive. So he's already shoving it up there. Australia's been extra cocky on day one. Jarrod, is this a bad sign for us, or are we just going to take this and roll, because it's fun?

JARROD LOOBEEK: I think we're just going to roll with it. I think we didn't have the chance in London, so soaking up while we can. I did love the song to get the girls ready for the race beforehand was Get Low, is an interesting choice, but if it works, go with it.

BEN WATERWORTH: I have to say though, it's fun to see it, and because you get so used to seeing athletes in sporting events when they're winning and things like that, it's a team effort. I knew we could do it, and all this sort of stuff, to actually come out and be like, she's dead to me, and start basically singing along to Get Low. It was fun to see that. Now, Colin, how were the Canadians? Were they singing along to Get Low and talking about the Swedes? Because they were nearly in bronze for a while before Canada came and got the bronze there. Are they talking about the Swedish team being dead to them?

COLIN HILDING: No, but we did hear about the Horton Yang feud in our commentary too earlier in the day. Again, one of those things where I don't know if Canadians are just too polite to come out and even talk about somebody else trash talking, but what we were hearing about is that Yang splashed Horton in the pool a day earlier or something like that. And the commentators in the most serious way possible were like, and apparently on the bus over to the events today, every member of the Australian team brutally stared down Yang. That was like, they stared him down! I can just imagine how intense that was. Wow, that's...

BEN WATERWORTH: We save our anger to the trash talking after the race when they can't hear us.

COLIN HILDING: There's kind of a sportsmanship thing. You know, you do the staredowns first and you trash talk after. That's the gentleman's way of doing it in sports.

BEN WATERWORTH: It's interesting, you mentioned about the whole Yang feud there with Horton, because here they talked a little bit about this whole splashing situation. Now, I don't know too much about China and what they do when it comes to getting angry with other people, but if all they do is splash people, maybe we shouldn't really be that afraid of China as a country. Maybe they're not exactly a threat to world peace as a lot of people think, because at the end of the day, they've just got to splash us if we piss them off.

COLIN HILDING: And all you've got to do in return is just have five times as many men stare down the splasher, and then they'll count.

BEN WATERWORTH: We will put our army up to stare at the Chinese. One thing I have to say though quickly, just on the topic of China, I mean, you know, they're 11th on the medal tally right now, two silver, three bronze. I mean, we know in like a day's time, they would have won 100 different gold medals, because I swear every single time I'm watching any event, they've got an athlete who is doing well. So that's just China. Are they ever happy? Like even when they win gold, are they happy? I don't think China is ever happy at winning a medal. Is it just calling a case of, oh, another gold medal?

COLIN HILDING: I think it's a communist thing, because you saw the same thing with Russia back in Sochi. I think if they win a gold, but don't get the world record, then they're probably going to lose a limb when they get home.

BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, only gold and not a world record. To Siberia with you. Of course, China would not go to Siberia. I don't know.

COLIN HILDING: That's for the Chinese ship, all of their misfits.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, indeed. But it's fascinating, I think, kind of with that rivalry. And I mean, really at the end of the day, USA didn't actually win any gold medals in the pool tonight. So that was good. Jarrod, our obviously very strong rival, the only sport in the world, I think, that we can actually compete with America in and have a chance of beating them, we actually are kicking their arses right now.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it would be good to get a handy lead going into the next couple of days, because I think it could change around really quickly.

BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, it will. Absolutely. You know, because I think, if this is again similar to London, then we've just clearly done our dash already. I mean, you look at the swimming, actually. Japan, of course, won gold tonight with Kosuke Hagino in the 400-metre individual medley. I believe it's the first time America have been beaten in that event in quite some time. They actually went gold and bronze in that event. Daiya Sato got bronze, and America got silver with Chase Calisi. The other swimming ones, obviously, Mack Horton, as we mentioned, gold in the 400-metre freestyle for Australia against Sun Yang, the Splasher, 341.68 for the China, and bronze to Italy, Gabriella Detti, just an up-and-coming swimmer from Italy. We all know him. And in the other swimming events, Hungary, yes, what a performance that was. Speaking of world records, Katinka Hosu, how did he say it? Husu? Yes, the very famous Hungarian swimmer, the Iron Lady, as they kept calling her on our commentary. She set a world record time there, 426.36. Very contentious world record, that one, apparently, set by a Chinese swimmer a few years ago in London, finally beaten. Silver to America there with Maya Derado. And then bronze to Spain, Mariela Belmonte. And as we said, the 4x100 Australia, Emma McKee and Brittney Elmslie, Bronte Campbell and Kate Campbell. Alicia Coots gets a medal for swimming in the heats. She gets gold, USA, silver and Canada. Look at the star line up here. A national record, I believe, here too, if I'm reading this correctly, Colin, for Canada. Sandrine Mainville, Chantelle Van Landingen, Taylor Ruck, Alex Yak and Michelle Williams got a medal for swimming in the heats this morning. They're all national heroes right now. They're on stamps tomorrow, aren't they?

COLIN HILDING: Oh, absolutely. And I'm going to say Chantelle Van Landingen. That's how you don't butcher it. From Winnipeg, my hometown. Fantastic. She's going to be a hero here in the city at least. And I think she's probably also the oldest one. I mean, the interesting thing about this team, I didn't really have any expectations for the Canadian swimming team coming in. A lot of that has to do with the fact that, you know, we kind of all disappoint in swimming every time. And also, this is like the youngest team I think we've ever had. The majority of the swimmers in both men's and women's teams are under the age of 20. Probably like 80, 90% of them are competing in their first Olympics. So even some of our best swimmers, this is their first experience. But you said they broke the Canadian record. They pretty much have been breaking Canadian records left, right and centre every event they've been competing in. So this is something where they're just pushing our own country's records back each time they compete. And I think it's, once we get to Tokyo, I think this is going to be a really exciting team. And maybe we'll even get a silver one day.

BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, you can dream, can't you? Like, that's the ultimate dream. I want to go over something.

COLIN HILDING: We haven't won a gold, I'll say this. In swimming, we haven't won a gold since 1992. Mark Tewkesbury, who's probably, you could argue, the most famous Summer Olympian still alive in Canada. He was actually on CBC's coverage earlier in the night. And they showed a clip from it. If anybody can find it online, it's probably on CBC or even on YouTube by now. Mark Tewkesbury, the most famous Canadian swimmer of all time, watching the Canadian women in the last leg, freaking out like you've never seen before, squealing, jumping up and down. It's one of the greatest things I've ever seen.

BEN WATERWORTH: I love the fact that Canada has to have, because they have such limited success, that just behind them winning bronze is a clip of a former Olympian watching them winning bronze. That's how much they have to stretch the coverage in Canada. Let's watch one of our former Olympians watch us win a medal. What next, the Prime Minister watching them win a bronze medal?

COLIN HILDING: Rosie McLennan is our next Prime Minister. We established this.

BEN WATERWORTH: Hello Rosie, if you're listening. Of course she's listening. We will go over the other medal, because it obviously wasn't just Australia and Canada, but the other medal, which this actually is the reason why we're on top of the medal tally. Yeah, we won two gold, but so was Hungary. I mean, God, Hungary, off to an amazing start. We mentioned that in the commentary, of course. Oh, I'm feeling a bit hungry. And speaking of which, here they come. So they've got off to a great start. But the reason we're on top, we got a bronze, and that came in the form of archery. Now, when you think of the great nations of the world of archery, you think of South Korea, you think of France, you think of America, you don't generally think of Australia. Obviously, Simon Fairweather famously won gold for us back in Sydney. I remember that very well. That was one of my favourite events, and we did win a bronze also in Athens, I believe, in the individual. Off the top of my head would say this is the first time we've ever won a team medal in archery. I was watching this very early on in the morning in the quarterfinals when we knocked off one of the best in the world, France, got our arses handed to us by the eventual gold medal of South Korea in the semifinal before we backed it up and took out bronze up against China. Alec Potts, Ryan Tyak and Zach, no, he's the American, sorry, Taylor Wirth, there we go, I'm looking at the wrong person there, our bronze medal champions in archery. Jarrod, did you let this one go by the radar when you were watching dressage and didn't realise we'd already won a medal in a sport that wasn't in the pool?

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I was busy watching the horses and then look at this, they cut over to the archery and it's like, where did this come from? And I think you're right, the first medal for Australia in the teams event in archery, I mean, we're going places. If we get into, if all the guns get taken away, and we're left with bows and arrows, then look out.

BEN WATERWORTH: Well, all our guns did get taken away 20 years ago, so this is why all of a sudden in archery, we're doing alright. We're preparing. See, America, this is what you need to do. Take your guns away, bow and arrows, you win medals, alright? We'll get to shooting, I know you kind of want a golden shooting, but that's just to be, you know, expected. Colin, do Canadians even know what archery is?

COLIN HILDING: We know what archery is. I don't think any Canadians are aware it's an Olympic sport. And that's really just because it's never on TV. It's funny, I made a joke earlier today that I don't think the shooting event has ever been covered on TV here. I don't think archery has either. There was about a 10 second clip of it during the highlights today, and that's probably the maximum amount of archery I've ever seen on Canadian television.

BEN WATERWORTH: Well, this is one thing that I've got to give props to. You know, we're going to spend a lot of the next two weeks bagging out Channel 7, and believe me, we'll get to them very later on in this episode. But their app, actually, when I finally got it to work, was quite good because I could watch the archery. You can watch any sport you want with the premium content. It's only 20 bucks if you're not a Telstra customer. I am, so I got it for free. You're welcome. But $20, not bad. You can watch any sport you want. And yeah, you can just click on archery. There it is. Jarrod obviously has dressage as his favourite. We'll get to dressage at one point, of course, because boy, oh boy, weren't the crowd involved in that. Both the people in the crowd at that event were thrilled. But yeah, so it was great to watch the archery. So I'm looking forward to seeing if either Taylor, Alec or Ryan can back it up with an individual medal in the coming days. Just looked at the ranking around there, Colin Sadler. Yeah, Canada didn't send a team into the men's archery. So sorry to disappoint there. So maybe in Tokyo you can just take that and sport climbing will be your number one goal to go through there.

COLIN HILDING: And they might get about 60 seconds of TV coverage if that happens.

BEN WATERWORTH: They'll be increasing their moments there on Canadian coverage. But obviously just going through some of the other results today in terms of the medal, we had the men's road race we talked a little bit about yesterday. Sadly for Australia or Canada, no medals there. Tassie Boyd, Richie Port crashed out of the race. Gold went to Belgium. Greg Van Avermaet, look forward to seeing his gold strip from him in a couple of years, beat home the gun from Denmark, Jacob Fugslang, what an athlete, and the great Polish Rafał Majaka. Just a warning to people, seriously, if you do not want names to be pronounced correctly, listen to this podcast because unless your name is like John Smith, I'm going to make your name incredibly wrong.

COLIN HILDING: You struggled with Mack Horton. Let's just remind the listeners of that.

BEN WATERWORTH: Mack Horton. Jarrod, you watched a lot of this. Was this a deserving victory for Mr. Van Avermaet?

JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, I can't say I saw the end. I did see a lot of the unlucky parts. I think Richie Port, every single time he went over the cobblestones, he did something to his bike, which was frustrating. And then he went missing for about half an hour, and all the commentary was, Where's Richie Port? Where is he? I don't know where he is. I think he's in the chasing group. Wait, maybe he's rejoined the peloton. Oh no, I can't see him. I wonder where Richie Port is. Change to the dressage, change back. Where's Richie Port? He's still missing. We don't know where he is on the road. But we're hoping that he's catching up to the peloton. So after that, it got a little bit frustrating, but I think, I mean, these things happen in road racing. There's a little bit of luck, especially if you're going over cobblestones and coming down hills and falling off. But well, the big names didn't win, which was a bit of a surprise. I mean, you expected kind of Chris Froome to be up there. But obviously, I don't know, it came down to these three at the end, and the Belgian took it out.

BEN WATERWORTH: I'm not that big on cycling, but I know, isn't there Andy Schleck, or Schleck, or whatever it is? He's from Belgium, isn't he? All I remember is when Cadel Evans won the Tour de France, the hashtag went around Twitter saying, Schleck my balls, or something along those lines. Very Australian, that we had to rub it in somebody's face, quite literally. Also, we had fencing, individual EPA, gold medal to Hungary. Again, apologies to all the Hungarian listeners here, but Emisi says, Emisi, why aren't they hungry? She knocked off Rosella Flamingo from Italy. I'm not joking. Her name is Rosella Flamingo. And Sun Wen from China, the bronze. I'm very disappointed to say, Colin, you had a Canadian athlete in this. Not sure how much coverage this got. Lenora McKinnon, she made it through the round of 37. She beat Simona Pop from Romania 15-10, but sadly then went down to the eventual silver medalist of Rosella Flamingo 15-8 in the round of 32. So Canadian fencing, a bit of a step forward there. They made it past the first round at least.

COLIN HILDING: Same old story every Olympics. Never do we succeed in fencing. When will we learn?

BEN WATERWORTH: It's a fascinating sport fencing to watch. Also, quickly, judo. We had a couple of medals decided there. The extra lightweight, 60 kilo in the men went to Russia. Beslan Mudronov, obviously one of the four athletes from Russia that were allowed to compete. Silver to Kazakhstan and bronze to Japan and Uzbekistan. Of course, they get two bronze in that one. And in the women's extra lightweight, 48 kilo, Paolo Paletto, Argentina, gold. She beat Jong-Boo Kwon from South Korea and then Japan and Kazakhstan. Bronze medals there. In shooting, the first medal of the Olympics, I was watching this. I was very excited to watch the first gold medal decided in the women's 10 metre air rifle. Can I just point out, shooting is one of the most boring sports to watch on TV. There is no excitement. I remember watching the trap shooting back when Michael Diamond used to win that in Sydney. I mean, that was semi-exciting, but watching a woman's face mixed with a target is not that exciting. At least with archery, you can do those cool slow motions of the bow going into the target, whereas this, no. Virginia Thrasher. That's her name, Virginia Thrasher. Gold for America. She beat Lee Do of China and Sling Yi. She took the bronze. And also Vietnam won a gold in the men's 10-metre air pistol. Huang Zhong-Wen defeated hometown hero Felipe Amadeu Wu from Brazil and Wei Pang from China. So Brazil do have a medal. Weightlifting, a medal decided there. Thailand won gold, and that's Sir Peter Tansen for Thailand. Indonesia silver, and Japan the bronze. And as I mentioned in the archery, Australia winning the bronze with gold to South Korea and silver to the US of A. So an interesting medal tally so far at the end of day one. As I said, Australia on top. Two gold, one bronze, a total of three. Hungary second, USA third, South Korea fourth. I've got a question I want to post to you too, because I know I've debated this before with people in the past. We know that medal tallies are ranked by gold medals, one. And then obviously if there's a tie, it goes back, count back, silver, count back, bronze. Do you think it should be sorted by gold medals, one, or total medals, one? Because I've always been on the bandwagon, and in saying this, Australia wouldn't be on the top of the medal tally, but I always think it should be by total medals, one. I don't know. What do you think about that, Jarrod?

JARROD LOOBEEK: Oh, I think we need to make it more complex. I think there needs to be a point system. Three points for a gold medal, two points for a silver, one point for a bronze, and then tally that up. I mean, if there's a team that has 400 bronze medals, 400 points, good on you.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, well, that's good. Good call.

JARROD LOOBEEK: I think a gold medal should be worth more, but I don't know, like, necessarily if a team that has seven gold medals and nothing else should be ahead of a team that has ten silvers and five bronzes.

BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I look at Canada, for example, like, you know, let's win 15 silver, 18 bronzes, no gold. Should they really be ranked behind, like, Vietnam, who wins one gold medal? I mean, Colin, come on, this should be a national outrage here.

COLIN HILDING: Well, I think you're going to have contrasts in one way or the other. I do think, though, if you have a country that can put out a thousand athletes, you know, if you look at China, if you look at the United States and they have four athletes competing in every single finals, obviously the chance of winning medals is increased compared to maybe another country that can only put out one athlete in half as many events. So I do like the idea of it being based on gold, but I also, why not just have it both ways? Have it where you're ranking it based on gold, but then you also have, well, here's the rankings based on the points system, like Jarrod said. I don't think I'd ever want it to be, well, we've had more third place finishes, so we're number one.

BEN WATERWORTH: Should there be like an actual, like, I mean, everyone always talks at the end of the games like, oh, China won the medal, and they don't get anything except for like pride. I mean, should there be a prize perhaps, Colin? I mean, Canada would have won that in Vancouver, then you would have, I don't know, declared the capital of the world until the next Olympics. I don't know.

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, well, I mean, that kind of is the bragging rights for Canada here anyways, that not only did we win the most amount of gold, but we won like the most amount of gold ever. And it took us, I think, six days to win our first gold. So I think every country is going to have their own story. That's the thing I really like about the Olympics is that it's not necessarily about, well, these are the bragging rights because every country is going to look at it differently. I mean, right now, Canada is saying we just want to win 19 medals. We don't care what they are. We want to beat what we did in the last few Olympics. Let's get one more. And another goal was we want to medal on day one, something they hadn't done before. So no country is going to be up to the level of China and United States necessarily, but they can all set their own goals. And Australia.

BEN WATERWORTH: The leading country in the world right now. Like, come on. Yeah, it's interesting. Jarrod, do you think there should be an incentive for topping the medal? I mean, we would never do it, but hey, we can dream that one day we can go to a games again when it's a boycott by USA, China and Russia.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it'd be cool if you got something extra. Maybe we were talking yesterday about adding and getting rid of sports. I think that would be a nice incentive. If you win the medal tally, then you get to add a sport and take one away.

BEN WATERWORTH: That's true. Like come 2020, it's all Aussie rules football and cricket. Actually, not cricket. We're not really good at that anymore, but Australian rules football all the way. Like, absolutely. That's a good one. I like that, actually. Outside the medals, obviously, other events now. Colin, I particularly would like to know in terms of Canada, you were paying attention, I know, to the rowing. Eugenie Bauschard made it through to the next round of the tennis. What else was happening for Canada on day one in terms of how you guys went?

COLIN HILDING: Well, I mean, the rowing's an interesting one because if anybody, I don't think it's really covered as much in other countries, but here, that was pretty much all morning what was on, and the conditions out there were so extreme. There was like a Serbian boat, the Capsaes, in the middle of their heat. There is one Canadian who really excelled. Her name's Carling Zeeman. There's a name I have trouble pronouncing, Carling Zeeman. She was at times rowing sideways in her event, and she still ended up 30 seconds at everybody else, so that was pretty exciting. Tennis, we just started out. We had one of Vasek Pospisil. He's knocked out, but Jeannie did move forward, and it was pretty significant. I don't know if either of you saw it, but it was, I think, 6-3, 6-3 is what she took it in, so that was a big one. The swimming was kind of anticipation all day because the heats there were earlier in the day, like I said, there wasn't a lot of hype put into our expectations of what we could do this time, but when we started to see a lot of these young 16-year-old Canadians, some of them were really placing high in their heats that there was a possibility of getting a medal, and it wasn't necessarily in the event that I expected it in, but still to come away with a bronze, that was fantastic. But some good showings in swimming throughout the day, some disappointing ones as well. I will say that while Jeannie was going on TV, my baby, who's three months old, was fussing a little bit, and he was watching TV. I'll go into that a little bit later on. He was watching, glued to the TV all day long, kind of some funny stories about that. But I pulled up the CBC app, which sounds like it's much like yours, where you could just watch any event without commentary, I'll say. And I watched table tennis, Romania against Iran, and that was hilarious.

BEN WATERWORTH: Traditional rivals.

COLIN HILDING: But to watch two very intense nations, very intense athletes from very intense nations, playing so viciously on a table that is, I don't know, like four by four or something like that. It's almost like watching basketball with somebody in a six by ten room. I mean, it's just hilarious to watch. Having never watched table tennis before, that was one of the highlights of my day. Table tennis without commentary, Romania and Iran.

BEN WATERWORTH: I definitely am looking forward to, we're going to do a segment each day of, yeah, talking a little bit about some of the events that we watched as well. Just quickly, before I sort of go over some of the Australian ones, I should have mentioned earlier when we're talking about the swimming and the world records, Adam Peaty, Great Britain, broke the men's 100 metre breaststroke world record in the heats, if you don't mind, and then nearly beat it again in the semi-finals. So Great Britain didn't win a medal on the opening day, I believe, but they at least got a world record. Jarrod, for us, outside of our domination of the medal tally, a few other notable performances for Australia, our women's rugby seven team, of course, who are favourite to win gold, they walked away with two easy wins. They beat Fiji 36-0, and I also believe they beat Colombia, if I'm remembering off the top of my head correctly there. Basketball, the Boomers knocked off France. A bit of an upset, that one, I think, Jarrod, because France, I believe, are ranked in the top ten, and I think we're only tenth. So great performance by the Boomers, of course, who are going to, who are aiming for our very first ever medal in men's basketball. We've got a very strong team. The women also opened up their campaign, the Opals. They knocked off Brazil, 84-66. It was mixed results in the hockey. The Kookaburras beat New Zealand 2-1. Colin, you'll learn a lot that we call our teams lots of names. So we'll try and explain. We don't actually have a team of birds that go out there and play hockey.

COLIN HILDING: Please, please tell me one of them is called the Chaswazers.

BEN WATERWORTH: No, sadly, not the Chaswazers. We do have the Seven Mates, though, going out there. Maybe we can call our men's archery team the Chaswazers. Just because I don't think they have a nickname.

COLIN HILDING: We are adopting that for the Olympics.

BEN WATERWORTH: We have a new nickname for our...

COLIN HILDING: Ben, you're good at getting these Olympic campaigns going. Can you just start a campaign to get any team named the Chaswazers before this is over?

BEN WATERWORTH: The Chaswazers. Well, I'm going for the archery team because we have to have a team name. I think, actually, somebody was talking about this on, I don't know, the other year. That all our national sporting teams have a nickname, except for our cricket team, which is, you know, that's our national sport. They're pretty much our number one national team. And we don't have a nickname for them. They're just the Australian men's cricket team. So our swimming team are the Dolphins, of course, because you think of Australia, you think of dolphins. The men's hockey teams are Kookaburras. Our women's hockey team are the Hockey Roos. The Boomers are our basketball team. The Opals are our female basketball team. There's a pattern going along here. We don't have a team in the men's soccer, but they're the Olly Roos, as opposed to the Soccer Roos. The females are Matildas. Jarrod, am I missing anyone here? The Chaz Wars is clearly our dominating archery team. What's our dressage team called?

JARROD LOOBEEK: I don't know if they have a name. We've got the Sharks, or the Sharkies, in the water polo. We've got the Stingers, the female team. You name it. You just look it up. There probably is a name for the equestrian team.

BEN WATERWORTH: The Leglifters.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yep, sounds good.

BEN WATERWORTH: Did Canada do that, Colin? Do you nickname any of your national teams?

COLIN HILDING: No, not at all. I want to start it, though. There has to be some good ones. Just after I finished watching Jeannie's match earlier today, we went out to the store, and she's the proud sponsor of a... I don't know what you call it. They make breaded chicken products, like chicken nuggets or chicken breasts. It's called Pinties, and she's their spokesman, and it's actually gluten free, so I can eat it. So I'm always saying that I want to go out and buy Jeannie breasts or jean nuggets or whatever. Maybe Jeannie could just be the official nugget or...

BEN WATERWORTH: The nuggets.

COLIN HILDING: Pinty, we could call her the Pinty or something like that.

BEN WATERWORTH: I just think you could call the Canadian tennis team the nuggets. How did the nuggets go?

COLIN HILDING: Team Canada for the tennis team, tennis or the nuggets. Yes.

BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, it's fascinating actually. Anyway, we'll go over some more sporting teams perhaps. Yeah, in the hockey, the Kookaburras beat New Zealand, but the Hockey Roos sadly went down to Great Britain in their match tennis. We claimed an Olympic record, Jarrod. You would have been on to this one. John Millman, the very first Olympic athlete to create double donuts. He beat Lithuanian legend Ricardas Beringkas. Six love, six love. You were on that one, weren't you?

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I mean, that was a shock victory against Ricardas because he's known for his form coming into the Olympics. Yeah, that was a solid win in a day of otherwise losses in the tennis, but John Millman is a good bloke, so good on him.

BEN WATERWORTH: Good on him, yes. You were on that one too, Colin, weren't you? I mean, God, that was the number one sport in Canada behind watching former athletes winning bronze medals.

COLIN HILDING: No, we were too busy with the kookaburras and the dolphin flogs or whatever you call them.

BEN WATERWORTH: Dolphin flogs, yes, that's exactly the name of the team that you were rooting for right up there with the Chaswazers. Magnificent. Actually, just quickly on rowing though, we had a great mixed results for Australia, a lot of people moving through the next round. How did Canada actually go on the rowing? Did you qualify a few boats through there with your nuggets or whatever the Canadian rowing team is called? That was a tendency, my bad.

COLIN HILDING: Like we did with Carling Zieman, it's something that goes on for days and days like swimming. Some of the other events that I was watching earlier today, we didn't fare too well in, and I don't know whether those were kind of the B teams. I mean, there was a lot of, a big deal I guess made about how they were splitting up the teams trying to even things out going into this Olympics. But the water conditions were really just brutal, and I wouldn't be surprised if maybe we lost some of our front runners just because of that.

BEN WATERWORTH: Well, just reading here, Australia had six secured spots in the next round, while one will go into the repper charge, men's and women's single skulls into the quarterfinals, men's double skulls, women's double skulls, and the men's pair. I don't know what the Australian rowing team is called. Jarrod, the Strokers, the backwards Bennys, I don't know. We had the awesome Fawesome when we used to do really well in the quad. So we, you know, I don't know. What's an Australian animal, Jarrod, that we haven't used? The bilbies?

JARROD LOOBEEK: Oh, they've got to be the water boatman. Surely, I mean, that's a classic Australian animal.

BEN WATERWORTH: The water boatman. We're going to write these down. We're trademarking all these, at least, throughout the games. And yeah, so I really think that was the main one. But I've got to mention, Jarrod, you were on this one. We'll get to this in a moment when we talk about what we also watched. The equestrian. We're in second position right now after the dressage. What a performance, Australia. You know, we're known for our dressage ability. We were on fire, were we not?

JARROD LOOBEEK: Oh, very much so. I mean, shout out to the horses. I mean, Centano 2 or Centano the second was on fire. Then we had Palunk Brokard, he was great. Extra helpings of oats for those horses tonight. If we're going to cross country in a couple of days.

BEN WATERWORTH: Might even sneak a carrot or two in there.

COLIN HILDING: I heard there was a controversy when one of the horses splashed the other one and there was a massive stare down.

BEN WATERWORTH: Chinese horse too, they just have it against Australia. You mustn't get second splashed. I was watching a bit of the dressage, you know, it helped me get to sleep. But one thing I have noticed on day one of the Olympics is that we talked a little bit about the budget of the opening ceremony. Clearly the ticket price is also a little bit high because does anybody in Rio know the Olympics are on? Because clearly isn't that many people going. Jarrod, do you just think Brazilians don't get the subtleties and the nuances of the excitement that is the dressage?

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think it might have something to do with the commentary. I think you need a good MC there to rile up the crowd, and that's not happening. So yeah, I just think just a little bit more understanding, maybe some cards that they could hand out on how you score points, and this is a trot and that's not a trot, would be helpful for the crowd.

BEN WATERWORTH: They need Giselle to just walk through the horse field. Here's Giselle again. Oh, love dressage. I mean, Canada, I think, have horses, don't you, Colin? So like you would know what dressage is, surely?

COLIN HILDING: Oh, we've had some of our biggest Summer Olympians have actually been an equestrian. So that's not even a joke here. It's not something I ever watch. But yeah, no joke, we've had flag bearers.

BEN WATERWORTH: You've had flag bearers? I just thought that was just a fact you wanted to say, like, we've had flag bearers in Canada. Cool.

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, we do flag bearing too.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes. But yeah, so I mean, we shouldn't joke in all seriousness. Australia have won plenty of medals in this before, but I believe Britain are leading currently at the moment. Am I correct in saying that, Jarrod?

JARROD LOOBEEK: Germany, I think.

BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, of course. Oh, the Germans. Right. How rude of me. How are New Zealand going in the equation? Because we know that's one sport that they generally consider doing all right in.

JARROD LOOBEEK: No idea.

BEN WATERWORTH: No, yeah, we don't give a shit.

JARROD LOOBEEK: They're not second. We're baiting them. That's all that matters.

BEN WATERWORTH: They're not first. They're not second.

COLIN HILDING: I think the fur coats are bogging them down a little bit. They can't really get the trot they need.

BEN WATERWORTH: I just want to point out, because we'll talk about now what other sports we watched today have paid attention to, but just in the archery really quickly, because, yeah, there were several sports on the Channel 7 app that don't have commentary. But the archery, for whatever reason, we got New Zealand commentary. I didn't realise that New Zealand loved their archery. It was, oh, it's a lovely shot there. Ten points there for Australia. So, you know, Colin, do you randomly get, like, Mexican commentary for, like, the table tennis? I mean, you said you had none for the table tennis, but it just seems like a really random place to get commentary from.

COLIN HILDING: No, it's the same thing here. I mean, some of the feeds, depending on what you're watching, I guess they'll just... If we have an English language commentary going on anywhere in the world, we'll plug that one in there. So we get that, too. I can't remember what I was watching earlier today, and it was a British commentary for whatever reason. But yeah, it gets all mixed up like that.

BEN WATERWORTH: I reckon they go around the International Media Centre and all like, all right, we need to show Australians handball. Where are the Dutch? You guys, commentate for us, and we'll commentate the judo for you. Like, let's just trade off, you know, just somehow they do that. But yeah, I'd like to know from you guys what other sports you watched. I think we'll do this every day. What particular sports did you pay attention to, Colin? You've obviously touched on a few for you, but were there any that you haven't mentioned that you particularly got fond of on day one?

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, beach volleyball is always fun to watch, and the men's team that Canada had, we went up against Brazil, and that's pretty much a death sentence, and we pushed it right down to the wire. Like, it was one of the closest matches I've ever seen. It was quite exciting. So yeah, going up against Brazil and losing, that's nothing that's too shameful if you do it as well as us Canadians do. I think other than that, I watched maybe about five minutes of the six-hour road race, enough to see a couple of the wipeouts, and lots of swimming this evening, and obviously our bronze medal, that's the big one. It was pretty much just around the clock. Everything that was on, I was flipping back and forth, so I probably got a little bit of everything that was covered on all six channels today.

BEN WATERWORTH: Was there particular, like, I mean, obviously in Australia, you know, it's swimming, swimming. Oh, we'll cut away from the boomers, winning, because there's an Australian in the heat of the swimming who's going to come last, but we'll show it to you anyway. I mean, is that just Canada's deal? I know we talked a little bit with us in the first episode, but I mean, swimming and rowing, as you mentioned, a lot of rowing, obviously, so that's generally what they're showing.

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, the morning was pretty much all rowing, but I will say compared to London, where that was kind of the birth of soccer for Canada, soccer, football, whatever you want to call it, ever since we won the bronze in London for that, it's become so huge. Winnipeg actually hosted the Women's World Championships last year. We have some of it. It was all over Canada, but we had several events here. And I think anytime soccer is on, I think they're going to be dedicating a couple hours that now. Canada and Zimbabwe was on this afternoon. That was another win for Canada. Obviously, Australia won a couple of days ago. So I have a feeling that that's going to take up a lot of the airtime over the next few weeks.

BEN WATERWORTH: I should quickly mention too, I forgot to mention on soccer, the Matildas. We had a two-hole draw with the number two ranked team in the world, Germany. The Matildas? Yes, the Matildas. That's what we like to be called. Sorry, I was paying attention, but it looks like Canada did beat Zimbabwe quite significantly then.

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, well, three to one. And I think the one goal from Zimbabwe was right at the end or something from what I saw.

BEN WATERWORTH: Right, OK, cool. Just looking at that. Jarrod, what did you watch? I mean, obviously, clearly, it was just, you know, 10 hours of dressage watching with a bit of road race and swimming in between. But was there anything else that you paid attention to?

JARROD LOOBEEK: Bits and pieces of everything, mainly Australians, because Channel 7 coverage does kind of make sense, so they'd favour Australia being in Australia, but, you know, that's how it works. A bit of the water polo, I mean, that was a shame to lose to Brazil. I didn't see that coming. The table tennis, lots of losses there, which was a bit of a shame.

COLIN HILDING: Did you catch Romania and Iran, too?

JARROD LOOBEEK: Exclusively Australian matches on Channel 7, from what I saw. I did watch a bit of the real gymnastics, the artistic gymnastics. Some great moments in that. My favourite would have to be there was an Irish athlete who dislocated his knee on his floor routine. And then he's there, he's finished his routine, he's at the side of the mat, in agony pretty much, trying to limp off stage. His coach comes up to try and help him. They get to the stairs. The athlete, he puts out his arm, thinking the coach is going to help him down the stairs, but does the coach have a bar of it? No, he just walks away. And we have this gymnast limping down the stairs with nobody helping him. Oh, such a sad moment, but so great.

BEN WATERWORTH: Typically Irish, you know, they just forget that they're at the Olympics. Oh, there's my friend. When we get to our athlete of the day, I've got a candidate from the gymnastics. I don't know if any of you saw the one that's doing the rounds on the internet right now. It's quite graphic and disgusting. But you'll be Googling it very, very shortly. And I hope you guys haven't eaten anything because it makes you feel very queasy. I want to tease you for that one. I paid particular attention to the dressage, a little bit at least, the archery as I mentioned. Handball, I told you at the beginning, I love my handball, and I was watching the fascinating match between France and the Netherlands. France winning that one 18 to 14. It's such an exciting sport, handball. I do love watching it. I caught a bit of the table tennis as well. Tennis without commentary, which I've never experienced before in my life, but that was fascinating as well. Got a bit of the judo. I just kind of was flicking on the app, just going through all the different sports to see what they're all like and where the fans actually were and weren't watching. The road race, I did enjoy sort of the scenery, kind of lots of palm trees going on, the beach and just really showing off parts of Rio. That was very fascinating. So, yeah, lots to obviously to go through and go around. And clearly more to come obviously with it all. But yeah, if you haven't got these apps, these are very handy. I mean, where were we back in Sydney or Athens or Atlanta when we had to watch one channel of Olympics? You know, we're going to tell our grandkids one day, when I was your age and I watched the Olympics, I could only watch one channel. Now you've got virtual reality and you're actually at the bloody Olympics.

COLIN HILDING: You're actually bringing me back to the good old days when I first started recording Olympics. And I think back in Sydney before there was more cable coverage for it, I have my old VHS tapes where every once in a while I would flip to the French-Canadian channel that would be airing a different event with French-Canadian commentary. I would have no clue what they were saying on it, but I'd still get the event.

BEN WATERWORTH: No, I can't speak French. So anyway, hello to all our French and French-Canadians. I've just offended another country today. That should be a segment. What country will Ben offend today? Um, so that's not really a hard segment. It's gonna happen every day. Before I actually get to athletes, yeah, I want to mention going back to Virginia Thrasher, the first gold medal of the games, didn't mention the gold was not only won by America, but it was presented by Count Dracula himself, Thomas Bach, little little midget man, you know, came up with his one gold medal. Ah, ah, ah, ah. And then also have we noticed the gold, I mean, the medals are quite pretty looking with the striking ribbon around it, and they're quite large looking. But instead of getting flowers, or, you know, I remember in Athens, you got like a little wreath on your head, and Sydney, you got, I don't think you got anything, but you get a little figurine of the Rio logo. What the hell is with that? Looks like they've just gone to the merchandise store. Thomas Bach's literally gone, oh, we need to give them something more. Quick, go to merchandise store. Buy lots of the little trashy figurines.

COLIN HILDING: Like, I think it's a Play-Doh structure is what it is.

BEN WATERWORTH: And you can see the faces of the athletes when they get it. Oh, what a medal. Oh, where are my flowers? What the hell is that?

COLIN HILDING: You should watch, if you have a chance to go back and watch the medal ceremony again, you should watch as they're handing out the gold or something like that. You can catch a glimpse of one of the Canadian women dropping hers on the ground and then turning around and picking it up. And it may have been in more than one piece by the time she picked it up.

BEN WATERWORTH: Typical Canadians, they don't know what to do when they win a medal in the Summer Olympics. Like, oh, my hands should be shaking, should be cold. Oh, wait, no, what? Drop bang. Jarrod, do they need to give out something a little bit extra? I mean, I would just want the medal. If I wanted a trashy little merchandising, I would go to the merchandise store in the Athletes Village.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, obviously, they've had an excess order. Somebody's added an extra zero to their quantity that they want to ship in. And they've got to get rid of them somehow. So somebody's decided, oh, we'll just palm off to the athletes.

BEN WATERWORTH: I totally blame Thomas Bach. It's his fault. He just gets rid of them. Now, athletes of the day, I think each day we're going to kind of maybe pay attention to one or two athletes that we particularly took. Now, it doesn't necessarily have to be someone who won a medal. I've got a couple here. Well, one of them did win a medal. We'll get to her. But the one I was mentioning before, get ready to Google French gymnast Samir Ait said, I probably said his name wrong. It's Samir Ait said, S-A-I-D. Now, he was on the vault and did his thing. He landed and his leg snaps clear in half, and he lays there and lifts his leg up as it literally bends down and wobbles. It is smashed. It is gone. It is not pretty to watch. But clearly, I think he's making the news. Did any of you catch this at all?

COLIN HILDING: No, I'm Googling it now. I can't find a video yet.

BEN WATERWORTH: There we go.

COLIN HILDING: If there's a video, send it to me. I want to see.

BEN WATERWORTH: I'll tag you on Facebook, because I wake up this morning to my friend. I say, like, oh, Bree's tagged you in a post. Oh, that's nice. Bree, what have we got for me? And it's like this video of this guy snapping his leg clear in half. I will find it for you now, Colin, live on air, and I will tag you in it, because I hope you haven't eaten, celebrating that bronze, because it's not pretty. Everyone's good.

COLIN HILDING: It's 11 p.m. at night. I have eaten multiple times.

BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, you've just regurgitated your breakfast, haven't you?

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, a leg is not meant to bend that way.

BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, it's fascinating to watch this thing, because there was the, was it London or Beijing? There was that weightlifter whose arm just gave way or something halfway through there that kind of made the reaction. There we go. That's the reaction that we're getting. So Samir, you're becoming a hero already. Colin's gone. That was a bit more of a reaction than I was expecting. My other two that I wanted to quickly mention, we're talking about the refugee athletes, or of course the athletes from Ooh, I Want To Take Ya. And we've got one here, first one to compete yesterday or today, Yusra Maddini. She competed in the 100m Butterfly, finished 41st, which I mean, I still think it's props here. I'm just looking here. She beat great names of swimming, including Aureo Lua Chebran of Grenada, Moron Ahmed Ali Bar Matraf of Yemen, and of course, the great Johanna Umringi from Rwanda. What a legendary swimmer she is back in her homeland. I think she gets props for not coming last and representing the great nation of who I want to take you. And I want to put a particular note, because not only I think are we going to have the daily segment of what country can Ben offend, it's going to be the daily segment of which female athlete does Ben want to marry each day. And I'm going with Britt Elmslie, our Aussie gold medalist, well, part of the relay team. And I'm telling you now, by the end of this episode, I will be sending her a fan message on the official Australian app. So just special props. And I would have done that even before she won a gold medal. So they're my athletes of the day. Colin, I don't know who you've got on the books here, but are we really going past our French gymnast man?

COLIN HILDING: No, I'm going to say uncontested. The only ones I was willing to put up at this point was either the Romanian or the Iranian in table tennis. But sadly, the commentators never told me their names. So I have nothing for you.

BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, you're athletes of the day.

JARROD LOOBEEK: We'll already mention the Irish gymnast, Kieran Behan, who's just still looking for a hand off the floor. Just waiting for somebody to pick him up and take him down those stairs. That's not going to happen. And then we already mentioned him, John Millman. It's good to have an Australian tennis player with a brain in his head. And the fact that he won just makes it all the better.

BEN WATERWORTH: I love the fact that we're singling out all these people. Poor old Mack Horton, our gold medalist, doesn't even get a mention.

COLIN HILDING: If this was legit, I'm all for the Canadian girls who won the bronze today, and Jeannie and everything. But Mack Horton, that was spectacular watching. And especially, I don't know if it was, I'm sure you already knew this, or it was probably mentioned there too, but I heard here that this was the first time, I guess in 20 years, that the Americans haven't won this event. So that's a big deal there too.

BEN WATERWORTH: Not the 400, because Ian Thorpe, our legendary Ian Thorpe, won that in 2000 and 2004. So, I don't know what your Canadian research is.

COLIN HILDING: Which event was it?

BEN WATERWORTH: Are we talking about the 400?

COLIN HILDING: Well, there we go. Canadian commentary fail of the day.

BEN WATERWORTH: Well, there is a segment, Canadian commentary fail of the day, and I've got one coming up here with Australia's cringe-worthy commentary of the day in just a second. So, I think we need to maybe send a few notes over there to Canada. This is Ian Thorpe. He's a swimmer. So, they might have been talking about the one that I mentioned before, I think was the individual medley where Japan won gold, because I heard in that part that America hadn't been beaten in that in about a thousand years. So, there we go. Saving Canada. I know what you meant. We know what you meant. Just, yeah. I wrote this one down, because if you haven't listened to the episode 2 where we mentioned Bruce McEvaney's great comment about a ruba, not only a country, but the first line of a Beach Boys song. Basil Zemplas, our fantastic swimming commentator alongside Jan Rooney, doing a good job. I say bring back Dennis Comedie though, he should be a swimming commentator here.

COLIN HILDING: Uncontested.

BEN WATERWORTH: Uncontested. This was an exact quote that Basil Zemplas said during the post 4x100 metres race, talking about the fact that we obviously have sisters in the team with the Campbell sisters, first ever swimmers to swimming sisters in Australia to win gold medals, Bronte and Kate, comparing them to famous sisters of sport and the world. But his exact quote was, and I quote, they are now even more famous than Anna and Elsa from Frozen. So, just, I'm not sure about the comparisons there. Like, really? We go to a Disney movie there, Basil? You're disappointed you're not getting Channel 7 commentary here, Colin.

COLIN HILDING: I know. This is hilarious. I still want to see that clip from yesterday, the Aruba one. I need to see it. Anybody out there, if you can beat Ben to the punch, please send me the clip of these commentary fails. I have to see it.

BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, did you pick up on that one at all?

JARROD LOOBEEK: You know what? I heard a Frozen reference in there somewhere, but I wasn't really paying attention. And now that I've heard what they actually said, I'm glad I didn't hear it properly at the time. Oh, far out. That's probably a question you need to pose to the six-year-olds who are sending in all the good luck messages. Ask them for their opinion on that. They may disagree.

BEN WATERWORTH: Basil is bowing down to the six-year-old audiences. So let it go, Basil. There are other people who watch it more so. But we're not ending this episode with let it go from Frozen, are we? I hope not. Good. No one said yes. So I'm glad with that one. Now, I guess...

JARROD LOOBEEK: Can I just say my pet peeve from the swimming?

BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, please do. I watch Jarrod's pet peeve today.

JARROD LOOBEEK: And it probably shouldn't, but it really does. I hate this whole... When people are qualifying for the semis or the finals, and they're like, oh, we'll have to wait on the other results to see if they're through. And the fact that they wait for the official list to come up on the screen, which takes forever, when no doubt they have all the results in front of them, and they could work it out easy, and like, oh, we're just waiting, it's going to be close if he makes it or not. I'm like, look at the times from the other races beforehand. Work it out and tell us. I'm sick of waiting for this list to come up. And every time we don't make it, they do, oh, he's finished in ninth, so he's just failed to qualify. And I bet half the time they're not even in ninth, and it's always 0.2 hundredths of a second. I'm like, you make up your stats here, but you won't tell us beforehand where they finished.

BEN WATERWORTH: We used to have a segment on Survivor, it was called Jared's Joust, when we had Jared Elliott on the show. I think we've just rediscovered Jared's Joust with Jared Looping getting angry. I noticed that too, actually, and it was funny, because I think it was the one, was it the Breaststroke Semi, perhaps maybe you're talking about where they said he finished in ninth, and they interviewed him straight away. The guy's name escapes me, sorry for that Australian swimming team, the Dolphins. But you can tell with Basil, he was kind of like, oh, maybe he'll make it, maybe he'll make it. And then I obviously looked at his notes that you're talking about, because he was like, but he might have just missed out. Don't get your hopes up. And it's like, clearly you know that he's missed out. But you don't want to be the cock who comes out and says he's made it when he hasn't, when the official results come out. Yet you're all happy enough to say that they're more famous than Anna and Elsa from Frozen. So, Basil Zempelis, working out where and when he can stuff up live on Australian Olympic TV. Now, I guess we can have a look a little bit at some events on Day 2 moving forward here. But Colin, do you have a Canadian athlete profile that we can get to before we maybe look ahead to Day 2?

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, you know, we mentioned yesterday that the Team Canada app, Team Canada website, they have this series called Hi, My Name Is. And it's basically like things you do in third grade where you fill out a questionnaire about yourself. It's done in the athlete's own handwriting. So today, a Canadian swimmer who missed out in her event, she came in fifth today. Her name is Emily Overholt. Now, she's basically, this is her first Olympics. She only really broke onto the scene last year. I'm going to, even before I start saying this, the reason I picked this is my son who's three months old. He spent the whole day today watching the Olympics with me. I've been saying, my mum's been reminding me all day that, for the last six months, I've been saying, all I want to do is watch the Olympics with him. And everybody keeps saying, he's going to be three months old. He's not going to understand the Olympics. He was glued to the TV all day today. And we tried to put him to bed before the primetime stuff kicked in today. And he kept fussing and kept fussing, and eventually we brought him out, and he wouldn't stop crying, he wouldn't sleep, he wouldn't feed. And as my wife was trying to feed him, his eyes kept glancing back over at the TV as the 400 metre individual medley was about to start. So Emily Overholt, who competed in that event, came in fifth, proud moment, first time my son snubbed food to watch the Olympics. So we're going to read her bio today. And the questionnaire starts, my name is Emily Overholt and I am Canadian. So the first question is, the greatest Olympian of all time is Clara Hughes, who is also from Winnipeg here, and I believe the only Canadian to medal in both summer and winter Olympics. The first Olympics I remember watching was Beijing 2008. Draw a picture of yourself. Now, if anybody can find this, they do draw pictures. And her picture is basically her with a swimming cap on, goggles and a swimsuit, giving peace signs on both hands. Her favourite, my favourite ice cream flavor is Ben and Jerry's Half Baked. I don't know if that explains the peace sign or something. This is Ben's alternate to get out of playing Let It Go in the closing moments of the episode here. If I were a baseball player, my walk up music would be Fergalicious. So you have a choice today, Ben.

BEN WATERWORTH: Fergalicious, get low or let it go.

COLIN HILDING: In a movie about my life, I would be played by Mindy Kaling. The resemblance is striking. You see the two of them, I guess. Not really, but maybe there's a personality thing. Draw a picture of a Canadian animal. She draws a very juvenile looking moose that is smiling. My guilty pleasure snack is ice cream or pizza in brackets or both. What my favourite song lyric is, what time is it? Summertime from the cast of High School the Musical. There's another song. Look at all the options we have today. The most recent TV show that I binge watched is Friends. My biggest fear in life is waking up with a spider on my face.

BEN WATERWORTH: But she doesn't want to come to Australia. That happens every second day.

COLIN HILDING: And the final questions. I can't live without, she said, napping. And what would the coolest Olympic medal look like? She drew a pizza on a metal ribbon with the word pizza and three hearts next to it. Ladies and gentlemen, my son's favourite Olympian, Emily Overholt.

BEN WATERWORTH: Now, look, we know Russia is basically being banned for taking drugs. I want to get this girl tested. Because that is... She wants pizza on a medal. Is that like because she's got the munchies? Like, dude, imagine if I won a medal and it was pizza.

COLIN HILDING: The best pizza flavor is Ben and Jerry's Half Baked.

BEN WATERWORTH: I love these. Keep these up. These are great. These shit all over our fan messages. I just want to quickly here, I've written this one ready to my future wife, Britt Elmslie. She's at least my future wife on day one. Who knows who it will be on day two. This is on behalf of all of us, including Colin, you think that she is a...

COLIN HILDING: I'll attend the wedding. Just personal preference.

BEN WATERWORTH: Great winning, great performance Britt. All of us from Off The Podium, in brackets, no I'm not going to put the website, are still cheering you on. We'll buy you the first drink when we get back to Australia. Set that one in. Oh, I've just got a notification. Your message is undergoing moderation. Oh, the AOC will look it up and say whether or not it can go there. Jarrod, have you downloaded the app? Have you looked at any of these fan messages yet?

JARROD LOOBEEK: I have not, but I think I need to get on to this because these sound great. I want to message some people not to get hurt.

BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I think we all need to, like, band together, find the most obscure, random Australian athlete that no one will ever hear of because they'll finish, like, last in the taekwondo. And, like, they will never get a fan message, and we should, like, find all the dressage athletes and, Jarrod, like, load their wall up. I love the way you made your horse lift its leg. Um, so, just quickly here, clearly these definitely take their time to go under moderation, because we have one here from Roger Bell in Victoria to Richie Port. Your time will come, Richie. Proud of your guts and determination. True Blue Aussie. Well done, mate. Lydia Williams. I guess she plays for the Matildas. Jane from Queensland. Wow, what a game against Germany. So exciting to watch. You did an amazing job. You always do. Clearly a big fan of Lydia Williams. It's so great to see so many women role models in sport. You make us so proud. Keep it up.

COLIN HILDING: Is there one in there? Good luck with your gold tomorrow, Mr. Thorpe. Like, how far back did you get?

BEN WATERWORTH: Dawn Fraser, you are an inspiration. He's won.

COLIN HILDING: Cassius Clay for the win, 1960.

BEN WATERWORTH: Pierre de Coubertin, thank you for inventing the Olympics. Bobby from Queensland to Kate Campbell. Great job. Keep going. See, Kate was going to stop until she read that message. She was done. She won a gold. She was going home. Now, with the support of Bobby.

COLIN HILDING: Just like we heard the other message the other day, they planned on getting hurt that day, but when the one kid said, don't get hurt, that's when they finally snapped out of it.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yep, yep, exactly. He's won to Mack Horton from Kim in Victoria. Enjoy it, Mack. Swim strong. We will cheer you on for every stroke. Now, if you fuck up there, Kim, and don't do it for one stroke, he's not going to win another gold medal.

COLIN HILDING: It's all on you.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, exactly. I found that one again from Aubrey Mullen. Good luck. Don't hurt yourself.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Clearly somebody should have sent that to the French gymnast before him.

BEN WATERWORTH: If only Frantz had fan messages, then he would have not broken his leg. Final one here. Isaac from Western Australia to Brandon Stark. Good luck in the high jump. I really hope Brandon Stark competes in the high jump and isn't like a swimmer or something like that.

COLIN HILDING: To Frantz Stark? Is this a Game of Thrones app or something?

BEN WATERWORTH: Maybe, maybe. Oh hang on, this one's a good one. Tom from Western Australia to Sam Willoughby. I hope you win the BMX. You are very good. I hope you lose the BMX.

COLIN HILDING: He's not very great sadly. Just very good, not great.

BEN WATERWORTH: I think we need every day. Alright, let's do this quickly. Right now, I'm just going to waste some time really quickly. Let's find, give me a sport, somebody, because I'm going here to... If I click on...

JARROD LOOBEEK: I think the badminton athletes could use some support.

BEN WATERWORTH: Alright, find an athlete. Here we go. Let's see. Badminton. Alright, we have gotten five athletes. So who do we want to send one to? Matthew Chow, Hussuan Chen, Lian Chu, Robin Middleton or Sawan Sarasangi. Who do we like?

COLIN HILDING: The last.

BEN WATERWORTH: Sawan. Alright, here we go. Okay, send a fan message. Okay, your name. Let's put this from Jarrod. Actually, no, we'll just put Off The Podium. You know, we've got to advertise ourselves. The AOC will get out like three days after. Who's this Off The Podium person? This is live podcasting. We're not really. I mean, this is recorded. We could edit this out, but we don't because we think we're funny. What do we want to say to Sawan? We're from, we'll put Tasmania. What do we want to say? Hit those shuttlecocks well.

COLIN HILDING: You do it good.

BEN WATERWORTH: Hit those shuttlecocks one way. Well, it is now. Hit those shuttlecocks well. You do it.

COLIN HILDING: What if we just did something completely unrelated, like can I get that 20 you owe me?

BEN WATERWORTH: You hit my car and didn't leave the insurance details, you bastard. Oh yeah, just find our badminton athlete. I like you. Hope you win the high jump. Alright, here we go. Suwad Sarasigi. You hit the shuttlecocks well. You do it good. There we go. He's got a fan. Alright. We need to find one every day. This is good. And I want, yeah, definitely I'm keen to learn more about these Canadian drug takers, as in the recreational drugs. I'm not implying that Canadian athletes take performance enhancing drugs, because otherwise they might win some medals. So they clearly don't. Day two is about to be here. Looking ahead, we have got 14 gold medals to be decided today. So two more than today. And if we look at what medals are being decided, get excited because diving begins today. So I know you're on to that one, Jarrod, already, aren't you?

JARROD LOOBEEK: Looking forward to it.

BEN WATERWORTH: Absolutely. Good. I'm glad. So if we have a look at what medals are being decided today, women's 10-metre air pistol in shooting is up for grabs. The women's road race in cycling. So if you had fun sitting through all 18 hours on the men's, get ready for the women's. The women's trap shooting is decided today. 53-kilogram division in the women's weightlifting. The women's synchronized 3-metre springboard in the diving. Don't we love that? As well as the archery. The women's team is decided today. Judo, women's 52-kilogram, men's 66-kilogram. Judo, personally, that's my favourite category in the Judo. And going through the men's individual foil fencing. Colin, you're all on to that one, of course.

COLIN HILDING: Foil fencing? Like what? It's made out of aluminum foil? They don't even get real swords?

BEN WATERWORTH: Brazil, they can't afford it. The budget, we saw that in the opening ceremony. So here's some foil. And swimming a couple of events, of course, too. The women's 100-metre butterfly will be decided, men's 100-metre breaststroke, the women's 400-metre freestyle, and then the men's 4x100-metre freestyle relay. Another bronze coming up, perhaps, in another relay there, Colin? And what are your hopes in the men's 4x1?

COLIN HILDING: Well, Emily Overholt's in the women's 400-metre freestyle tomorrow, so we'll be waiting to see if she can walk straight.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, I'll be worried about her.

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, I think the big one here in Canada, I think, will be the diving tomorrow, the synchronized diving. We have a really good team for that one. Pamela Ware and Jennifer Abel, those two are... I'm really hoping they're going to be in medal contention. Maybe even a gold. We might get lucky this early in the Olympics.

BEN WATERWORTH: Sam Stoser, I believe, is in action tomorrow as well. Jarrod in the women's singles and the tennis should also mention one of my favourite events, the women's real gymnastics gets underway tomorrow. So I'll find no doubt another future wife who hopefully is Leigh Lage. Thanks, Ben. And I'm not sure what else we can look forward to. The canoe slalom as well is on tomorrow as well, Jarrod. So Australia, get excited for the canoe slalom. You'll be still on to the equestrian though, won't you?

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I mean, that's continuing. We've got in the tennis Stoser, but also Dasher is up against Serena Williams. So I mean, we're all hoping for an upset there.

BEN WATERWORTH: Are we? Because isn't everybody rooting for another gold for Serena? I think even I'm rooting for Serena for a gold. Except for Eugenie, of course. But anyway, I'm still hanging out.

JARROD LOOBEEK: We kind of have to catch us on the metal tally yet.

BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, that's true. We can't. Exactly. And get excited, folks, because it's still another 11 days till the modern pentathlon starts. So it's getting closer. It's getting closer. But this has been a lot of fun. Day one of Rio 2016 is done and dusted. A golden day for Australia and a bronze day for Canada. You still haven't heard the national anthem yet, Colin, but you got very close today, so good job.

COLIN HILDING: And there are many days to go till the trampoline, so we better get comfortable listening to other countries' national anthems.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, I'm sick of hearing the Hungarian national anthem. It's all I heard today besides the Australian one. Jarrod, thank you for your time as well. Keep an eye on that dressage, and also we'll keep an eye on those water boatmen going well in the rowing.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, fingers crossed.

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