Rio 2016 Day 11 Review

Colin is back, the golds are back and most importantly Off The Podium is back to talk about all the fun times and events from another day of exciting Olympic action! Who knew the Canadians could jump so high? Well, Colin did, but also who knew once again it was up to the sailors to save Australia! There is so much stuff to talk about that even we couldn't choke in a quarter final!

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

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BEN WATERWORTH: Good evening, afternoon, evening, and good night once again from Off The Podium, An Olympics Podcast, episode 13 as we pop into day 11 of the 2016 Rio Olympics. It's getting to that point where we're going to be slowly getting sadder and sadder, but we're not going to think about that right now, because we've still got plenty of days to come in the modern pentathlon, so we know we're going to be definitely getting more and more excited, even though we're getting towards the end. But the good news is, if you're tuning in to us today, you're celebrating the fact that both Australia and Canada know how to win a gold medal again. We should really just say a medal in general. We went completely medallist yesterday, and we've come back and both won gold medals, so that works out perfectly. I would like to, first of all, welcome back Mr. Jarrod Loobeek to the show. Jarrod, welcome back on a golden day for sailing.

JARROD LOOBEEK: It's excellent to be back on a golden day. We had a burto pull through for once, which is a bit of a change, and just, yeah, a perfect way. We were talking yesterday that maybe we wouldn't get another gold the whole Olympics, but look, we talk about it, and it happens, so good work.

BEN WATERWORTH: Absolutely, and speaking of good work, Canada's Daily Metal Street was broken yesterday. It didn't win any, but they've bounced back with a high jumping gold, because they've jumped above everybody else to win a gold. Canada, celebrate and celebrate the fact that Colin Hilding is back on Off The Podium. Colin, welcome back to Off The Podium.

COLIN HILDING: Thank you, and I'm going to point out it is history-making gold medal in this one. I can't wait to talk about Derek Drouin.

BEN WATERWORTH: Wow, I'm intrigued, and sadly, it's not a history-baking one for us, because it was in sailing, but you know, it's...

COLIN HILDING: You know, I tried to watch sailing on my lunch today at work, and I had a pop-up come up on the app that said that you can watch two feeds at the same time. So I was so impatient that I actually just spent my entire lunch trying to get something else up, because sailing alone was not enough to keep my interest.

BEN WATERWORTH: Sailing is not alone, not enough to keep anybody's interest. Even sailors get bored watching their own sport.

COLIN HILDING: Sailors were watching basketball while they were sailing in the final.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, exactly. They were on their phones. They didn't care at all. Sadly, we have to talk a little bit about sailing today, because we did win a gold and a silver. Both our medals came from sailing. From Australia's perspective, I should say. Jarrod celebrated. We got gold in the laser class. No, there was no gold finger or, you know, die another day or anything around here. It was Tom Burton in the laser class. And a real sneaky victory from what I'm led to believe, too. There was strategy involved. Didn't know there was such a thing in sailing as strategy, but apparently there was. He took our first gold in a few days, and our only other medal came also in the Great Sport of Sailing in the NACRA 17 category, one of the best categories there is. Lisa Darmanin and Jason Waterhouse, the cousins, they teamed up together. Who honestly goes to their cousins? Oh, let's go to the Olympics together. They got a silver. Good day for sailing. I mean, you know, this is kind of like London a few years ago, Jarrod, that we kind of got saved by the sailors. Our shift de mission, that lady who I can't remember her name of right now, she was at the sailing because she obviously understood that's where we're going to try and get some success from. But yeah, I guess celebrate sailing.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Oh, exactly. I mean, what an amazing sport. Such a highlight of the Olympics, I'd say, sailing. Yeah, you can't, I'm speechless. You can't really say anything more about it. I still believe that as improvements we made, like I mentioned before, cannonballs on board the sailboats would make things more interesting. But yeah, we knew that we'd have a chance of meddling in this. After London, and I mean, I think this is kind of Australia's new swimming, is it not, sailing?

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes.

JARROD LOOBEEK: So maybe they could run this. Well, I mean, it does run for a whole week anyway, but I mean, more events in this. I'd like to see three people on a boat instead of pairs. Yeah, the more events in sailing, the better for Australia. So hopefully in Tokyo, they're adding more to the list.

BEN WATERWORTH: Again, I want to see the sailing eights. I want to see eight people on one of those tiny little dinghies to see how they go out there in the water. But yeah, Tom Burton, gold in the laser. He beat Croatia's Tonci Stiponovic and New Zealander Sam Meet. That's always good to see them in the bronze position. But it was interesting, Jarrod, because I mean, I know nothing about sailing. I watched it, still know nothing about sailing. But from what I gather, he had to beat the Croatian sailor by like five places in this final race because Tonci was that far ahead that, you know, he only had to finish within four places of Tom, you know, just to get the gold. But there was a bit of argy-bargy going on early on, it seemed. Tonci got a penalty because you can get them in sailing. And then from what I gathered, then Berto did something where he outfoxed Tonci and did, I don't, look, I honestly have no idea what the fuck he did, but he did something according to the commentators that made him win the gold. Do you know what he did, Jarrod? I still don't know what he did.

JARROD LOOBEEK: No, I can't really say that I have a grasp on sailing. I do like the penalty circles that they have to do. It's kind of like, you've been naughty. Now, just go around in a circle and get back on course.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes.

JARROD LOOBEEK: But yeah, I mean, there's so much strategy in sailing, too much to talk about. I mean, you can go whatever way you want. And obviously, he chose the better course, the better direction on the day.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yep, the on-screen graphics make it easier to understand, clearly, because that makes it what we're talking about. And yeah, the silver to the cousins, Lisa and Jason, again, you know, I don't really have that many cousins, but I've never sort of gone to one of them and gone, hey, wouldn't it be great if we went to sailing in the Olympics? But post-race, they were happy. They were slightly disappointed they didn't get the gold, but they were still happy. They lost to the Argentinian pairing of Cecilia Carranza and Santiago Lange, don't know if they're cousins or not, and beat the Austrians. Does Austria have any water to sail on? Tanya Frank and Thomas Zajac. Are they a landlocked country? Hello to all our Austrians. Jarrod, anything to add? Really, this is a shit question to ask you. Basically, you talked all you can about sailing with Berto. Lisa and Jason, the cousins, anything to add on them?

JARROD LOOBEEK: No, not particularly. Yeah, good work. Second, good work. We needed some more medals, and they came, so good work. Maybe they didn't hear the update that we were kind of over the silver medals, that we kind of reached our quota there, but we'll take it.

BEN WATERWORTH: We just needed a medal. Come on, let's be honest. It's all we needed, a medal. So, yes, good on them. All right, that's enough sailing talk for today, because Colin wants to talk about Canada winning a gold medal. Derek Druin in the men's high jump. Now, I caught the end of this. He did well, clearly. He won the gold. Now, Colin, is this something that Canada expected? Was Derek talked up at all for a medal prospect?

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, he was, actually, especially since he won bronze in London, and he's the reigning world champion. But that, in a way, actually put my expectations down, because the previous day there was the pole vault, and Canada had the reigning world champion, Sean Barber, and he completely fell apart and came in ninth. He was out of it so early, so I was sort of expecting the same thing, but Druin, I mean, it was flawless the entire time. He didn't miss once. The only time he missed was after he had won the gold, and Canada's never been that big in high jumps, so we don't get that much TV coverage about it, but I didn't realise that even after you've won the gold medal, you can still choose to keep going if you want to try to break an Olympic record. And when he went to try to break the Olympic record, that was the only time that he fell, and that was his one mistake the whole time. It was a really intense, dramatic event, and I was surprised at how dramatic something like high jump can be. I think it was mostly made up by, if you did see the end, the Ukrainian Bondarenko. He looked... It was like a combination of intense, serious game face, intimidated, and extremely nervous all at the same time. And I love how these guys will slap themselves across the face just before they jump. And the way they run, the fact that it looks like a deer, I mean, it's a fascinating sport to watch. And the fact that you can miss three times, I mean, it just gets more and more intense each time. It was definitely one of the highlights. The reason this is so historic for Canada is because the last time Canada won a gold in a high jump was 1932. So this is one of the biggest droughts of all time. And even overall, just the field portions of track and field, I don't think Canada has won a gold since that 1932 one. The last one that was made a big deal about they were talking about on TV was in Montreal where a Canadian won a silver. And that's been kind of the field portion of track and field's highlight for the last what, 84 years now. So this is a huge deal. The fact that he won the gold and that he ended a huge joke for Canada.

BEN WATERWORTH: The esteemed Duncan McNaughton I'm looking at here won the 1932 Los Angeles gold medal for Canada. Beated the great Bob Van Osdell from the US and the Philippines greatest ever high jumper, Simeon Toribio. What a star of high jump he was.

COLIN HILDING: Yes, we all remember those days.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I really like the field events. There's something about them. I mean, I remember Sydney, you know, obviously, you're watching everything to do with Sydney at your home Olympics. But you know, Tatiana Gagoria in the pole jump, how exciting it is. You know, will she make it over? Oh, she does. You know, Jai Tarima in the long jump, you know, just it's so exciting to kind of watch these events. And I know when I did athletics in high school, which really wasn't that often because I was fat, I still am, if I have to be honest with myself.

COLIN HILDING: Little bit of a life, though. I mean, he caught her attention. I can't blame her. What a handsome guy. But yeah, I guess that's all that really takes to get elected in Canada nowadays. So maybe he is the future prime minister.

BEN WATERWORTH: Well, there you go. See, she's all right to look for future husbands. So you can go back to helping me not only look for a wife and take a couple for yourself. There you go. You're allowed to. You're allowed to. But I mean, let's be fair. Everyone's future husband or wife is always the same bolt. So, you know, that's that's clearly the case there, right, Jarrod?

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, 100 percent.

BEN WATERWORTH: But outside of the medals, that's all we won for Australia and Canada today. I'm so glad we're not like British or Chinese, because these episodes would be so long, or American, I should say. Like, oh, my God, these are all the medals we won today. The other results were Australia, because again, there's more of these than there are for the medals. Continuing on athletics, so we nearly got a medal in a field event. Dani Samuels just missed out fourth in the discus. She missed out on a medal by about 30 centimetres, I believe. Now, Jarrod, we said yesterday, I think she was 12th in Beijing and 9th, and we said she was on for about 6th, I think. So she improved. So, you know, on that rate, she should be gold medallist in Tokyo.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I mean, it was a good throw. I felt sorry for her afterwards. She was a little bit disappointed, but I mean, that's a huge improvement. And like you said, look out at Tokyo 2020, because she's coming for the gold.

BEN WATERWORTH: She was gutted as well in the post-race interview. She clearly thought she could have thrown better. So bad luck there, Danny. Big news in the 5k semi-finals, we have three women into the five kilometre final. If you don't mind, Genevieve Lacar is there. She was in the 10k, wasn't she? Eloise Wellings and Madeleine Heiner-Hills. And Ryan Gregson into the 1500 metre final as well. Good results there. Alexander Hartman sadly didn't make the 200 metre past the heats. And our girl, Michelle Jenike, what was she doing? She was dancing too hard. She was expected to at least make the semi. She choked, not in the good way. She's out. What's going on? Sad there. Did you see that, Colin? Did they show much of the jiggling Jenike beforehand?

COLIN HILDING: You know, I had limited time yesterday, so I was skipping past a lot of the heats when I got home. If I'd known it was on there, I would have waited to see the dance at least.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, well, exactly. That was just essential viewing in Australia, Jarrod, wasn't it? We tuned out after she did the dance.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Oh, exactly. I mean, we knew she wasn't going to meddle. Let's be honest, we were all there for the dance, and after that, yeah, changed channel.

BEN WATERWORTH: It's so interesting.

COLIN HILDING: There's like a graphic coming up on screen. It's like T minus nine minutes, 34 seconds to the Jenike jig.

BEN WATERWORTH: It had the jig alert instead of the anthem or the Ozzie alert. It was the jig alert on the channels of seven. Yes, exactly. You're watching the Australian coverage. Good job, Colin.

COLIN HILDING: But I find this interesting, Jarrod, because the channel seven app actually works over in Canada. That's how I was able to see that.

BEN WATERWORTH: Of course, of course. This was one of the events that every Australian should have been looking forward to, Jarrod. I mean, if, you know, Sally Pearson didn't get injured, we would this channel seven, we all over this shit, but now they don't really care. So, I mean, do we care about this event? I mean, they haven't had the final yet, have they? So it was only the heats. So, I mean, again, Genicky's gone. Who gives a shit about the hurdles?

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I mean, whoever wins this, it's going to be a pretty hollow victory without Sally there amongst the field. I mean, you wouldn't even consider yourself a gold medallist with her not there. So, yeah, I mean, I don't know why the rest of the field is bothering to contend it, because if you win, you're just going to be disappointed.

BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly. Katherine Mitchell's into the Javelin final, but there was, I don't know if they showed any of this footage in Canada, but one of our other Australian competitors, Kim Mickle, she dislocated a shoulder in the middle of throwing the Javelin. Now, it wasn't quite as gross as the weight lifter's elbow and the Frenchman's leg. Still pretty graphic. You could see clearly his shoulder blade just like sitting there, like not in a place it should be. So sad for there. And Kelsey Lee Roberts was 24. She didn't make it, but we got one into the final. Brooke Stratton into the final of the long jump. Chelsea Janesh didn't make it. Brandon Stark didn't make the final of the high jump. Would have easily been Derek's big challenger there, Colin. So you got let off there.

COLIN HILDING: Did you say Bran Stark?

BEN WATERWORTH: Brandon Stark.

COLIN HILDING: Oh, like Game of Thrones.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, because I watched that.

COLIN HILDING: Something that you're clearly not familiar with.

BEN WATERWORTH: Love that show. I'm the only person in the world who doesn't watch it. Ella Nelson was ninth in the 200 metre. She narrowly missed out on making the final there, but she's already been talked up as a big prospect for a medal in Tokyo by finishing ninth. Okay. And Lauren Wells nearly made the 400 metre hurdle final, but didn't. So there you go. Basketball, well, we have to talk about it. We don't want to. The quarterfinal curse of Australian teams in these Olympics continue. The Opals, one of the pre-games favourites, they've medalled in every single Olympics since Atlanta. They're out at the quarterfinals. They lost to Serbia of all people. They're absolutely gutted. They hadn't lost a game at all heading into this match. They choked. The quarterfinal curse is back. Down to the Boomers. We've only got one more team left in the entire Olympics. And if the Boomers don't medall, it will be the first time since 1984 an Australian team, obviously we've already won one in the rugby, but in an established sport that is not a new sport, hasn't won a medal. Jarrod, what's going on? What happened to the Opals?

JARROD LOOBEEK: I don't really know. I think, I mean, the other times that we lost in the team sports, I was disappointed, but this, I feel like this is a shock of the Olympics for me. If you're going to put money on a team that you thought this team is going to place, they're going to medal, you would put it on the Opals. I mean, they've medalled at pretty much every Olympics they've been to. They won all their group games. I think Serbia, who they lost to, had only won two of their five group games. I mean, all the stats are kind of in our favour. And you're right, we just choked. I mean, we had 10 seconds left to score a basket from anywhere, and we went for kind of a safe two and couldn't get that. I would have loved to see somebody just go for the three and try to win it right there.

BEN WATERWORTH: One thing I have to say, it is a huge shock. I'd say the Kookaburras losing in the quarters is probably a bit more of a shock than the Opels because, I mean, they are the greatest thing in the world, but they always choke in the Olympics. But yeah, it is a big shock for them. So, oh well, picking themselves up and just choking anyway. The canoe kayak, we love this sport so much. Murray Stewart was fourth in the K1 1000 metres. He was leading for the most part, but then he got overrun, didn't even get a medal. Elise Burnett and Elisa Bull were eighth in their final. I haven't even written down the category here, so sorry about that, girls. And it was one with paddles. Martin Marinov was eighth in the B final, the C1 1000 metres. Cycling track came to an end. Annette Edmerson was eighth in the Omnium, and Matthew Glatz was tenth, and Patrick Constable fifth in the Kirin. Grurant Nell in the diving was 15th in the 3 metre springboard, didn't make the final. Questrian Australia out of the team show jumping. Thor, shame Australia. Although Edwina, Tops Alexander, and Matt Williams are in to the individual event. So good news there, Jarrod. Still alive in the horsey bits. So, yep.

COLIN HILDING: Horsey bits.

BEN WATERWORTH: Well, it's not the pommel horse. It's the one, yeah, anyway. And in our newfound, so I don't know if you listened to much of the show yesterday, Colin, but we've found a newfound appreciation for the second most boring sport in the Olympics, the marathon swimming. Jarrod Port was leading for basically the entire race. It looked like a surprise medal for the Aussies, but he faded in the final kilometre and finished 21st. So typical, typical.

COLIN HILDING: Fading in the final kilometre was also what happened to the audience who were watching, too.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, exactly, exactly. But I did check my Snapchat stories, and Britt Elmsley was at Copacabana Beach cheering on Jarrod. So, you know, thanks Britt for updating.

JARROD LOOBEEK: No individual reply?

BEN WATERWORTH: No, she still hasn't checked her individual Snap that I sent her, so I'm still waiting for her to block me. Alright, Colin, what happened to Canada on day 11?

COLIN HILDING: Well, I'm going to start out with something that should not be newsworthy, but is, just because of how famous the athlete is. I was talking about Adam van Coverden, and probably one of the most accomplished summer athletes we've ever had. And in the kayak, he failed to even make the final in his final Olympics. He's never not medalled before. He has like a half dozen medals. But in the B final, he basically said it was going to be his final Olympic race. This isn't even like a question like Phelps or a bold. He said, this is my final Olympics race. And he went out and he completely blew away everybody in the B final, even though it wasn't for a medal. And his final time was greater than the silver medallist in the real final. And he's been the big news all day up until Derek Druin. It's kind of a send off to one of our favourite athletes and a classy guy. And it's funny when he was asked, you know, most of these athletes, they're asking, you know, is this your final Olympics? And he said, well, the next one's going to be in 2020. I'm too old to be doing this then. So we love Adam Van Covert in here in Canada. And that was the beginning of the day. Of course, in women's soccer, we lost to Germany after beating them earlier in the Olympics. So we will be moving on to the bronze medal match and high jump, obviously. Derek Drewan, that was the highlight of the day. He cleared what was a 3.8 metres. It's not even saying here on this page. Shame on you, Canada. We don't even have proper results for our gold medallists here. But I believe it was something like 3.8 metres. And if it was a fraction of that, then I just really over blew this here.

BEN WATERWORTH: He jumped higher than either of us can. Let's just be honest.

COLIN HILDING: That's right. He jumped about 3 metres higher than either of us can. Boxing, another big disappointment. Again, the athletes that Canada is expecting to really succeed. Mandy Bujoldo was saying that this was the one that Canada was putting hopes on being the first gold medallist we've had since Lennox Lewis in 88. And she was eliminated in the corner finals. It wasn't even close. They showed Floyd Mayweather in the crowd. I think Floyd Mayweather has landed more punches on women than Mandy Bujoldo did in her match just today. Men's three metre springboard.

BEN WATERWORTH: It's always up there with Jarrod's joke about the French yesterday.

COLIN HILDING: Men's three metre springboard. Philippe Gagne, he finished, what was it, 11th place. Still a good event. I love watching the springboard. But Gagne, the commentators continually said over and over again, for only 18 years old, this is really impressive. And, of course, before the event started, they're like, oh, well, he's the real hope for medal in here. Synchronised swimming, Simon-Owen Thomas. Oh, Simon-Owen Thomas, they, again, they don't put the actual placing they finished here at, but they didn't win. That's all I have. I've searched like four different pages and none of them have complete results here. So this is pretty pathetic here today. Sailing, I don't know, were we in that? Can you tell me the results, Ben? It says we were in sailing.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, you were there and apparently still trying to finish. I couldn't tell you.

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, so sadly, there's not much else going on in Canada today. There was probably a thousand other events that I just simply didn't see. But even ahead of Derek Druin, at least for me, the heats for the men's 200 metres, Andre de Grasse, number one going in the semi-finals, ahead of Justin Gatlin, ahead of Usain Bolt. This is Canada's greatest. He will go on to become Canada's greatest runner of all time. I'm convinced of it.

BEN WATERWORTH: Better than Donovan.

COLIN HILDING: Better than Donovan. Well, at this point, he's not better than Donovan Bailey, but considering he's 21 years old and four years ago, he was kind of dared into getting into track on the last day of school. Which is the real story. Somebody dared him to and he made a fool of himself. He didn't even know how to get on the blocks. And when he won the race, a scout was in the audience and had no idea who this kid was and basically immediately, you know, started working with him. And now here he is, a bronze medallist, number one going into the 200 metre final. Another four years, Andre DeGrasse will be the gold medallist. You heard it here first.

BEN WATERWORTH: Don't you hate that? Like, can one of you, like, dare me to take up, like, gymnastics or something?

COLIN HILDING: I dare you to do the hop, skip, jump, somersault cartwheel.

BEN WATERWORTH: Like, seriously, if one of his friends just didn't dare him, he'd be like, come on, like, train all your life for it.

COLIN HILDING: Where would Canada be without stupid dares on track and field day?

BEN WATERWORTH: Hey, Wayne Gretzky, I dare you to play ice hockey. Did Donovan Bailey, I know we got the goal, did Canada want a relay medal as well? Is he a multiple medallist, Donovan, or just the one?

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, no, he won the relayed as well.

BEN WATERWORTH: OK, right, OK. Well, actually, just really quickly, you want to know how your great Canadian sailors went. Lee Parkle in the laser, 23rd, what an effort. Tom Ramshaw, that's his name, was 21st in the Finn category. Didn't realise Finland had their own category. And in the 470, Graham Saunders and Jacob Saunders. I wonder if they're cousins or just brothers. 22nd in the 470 category, so good on them. Actually, I'm not going to throw them all, there's too many. Canada was a lot in the sailing, so there you go, if you really wanted to know how I found that, I don't know. Now, other results. Yeah, New Zealand got a gold and a bronze today. Good for them. In the canoeing, and the bronze obviously in the sailing. It's the French part of the Olympics. Brazil, the host nation, they got another gold in the lightweight boxing. Robson, the Brazilian guy, he got one. He beat a Frenchman too, so that's even better. Good on you, Robson. They also got a silver in the canoeing. In the men's C1 1000 metres, Izaquais Caos took that one out. Simone Biles, just a lazy fourth gold medal, if you don't mind, in the women's floor. I was watching a little bit about this, and so good is she. She's created a move on the floor, which basically can only be done by men, apparently. I thought it was a bit sexist the way the commentator said it, but anyway, but so good it is, they've called it the Biles. They've actually named this move after her. So, yeah, she's incredible. Absolutely amazing.

COLIN HILDING: Which man was it named after before that?

BEN WATERWORTH: I don't know. The Frank. I couldn't tell you. I really don't know. I just really wanted to quickly go over, now that Australia is completely out of the team sports, and Canada are, I think, mostly out of them, except for the bronze in the women's soccer.

COLIN HILDING: And men's volleyball.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, we talked about it yesterday. They made the quarters, yes, you're absolutely right. So just quickly in terms of who's left in some of these team competitions, so the women's soccer, you're going to have a gold medal match between Sweden and Germany. The host Brazil, they got their come up against Jarrod, they were beaten in a penalty shootout. So in your face, Brazil. Sweden knocked them out. So Sweden are the giant killers. They've knocked off America and Brazil. So they're up against Germany. And so the bronze match will be between Brazil and Canada. The men's, well, the semis are I think Thursday from memory. So my team, Germany, is still in it. They'll play Nigeria in one semi, and Brazil will take on Honduras in the other. So that's where that's looking at. Field hockey. So you've got in the women's competition, Netherlands and Germany, two powerhouses. Well, one of them will not go for gold. So they'll take on one semifinal, and New Zealand and Great Britain. Come on, Britain! They play in the other semifinal. The men's competition, big upsets in both of those semifinals. The Netherlands and Germany, pretty much around with Australia, the top three in field hockey of all the Olympics and all the world championships. Belgium knocked out the Dutch 3-1, and Argentina knocked out the Germans 5-2. So you're going to have a Belgium versus Argentina gold medal match and a Netherlands-Germany bronze medal match. And everyone thought that should probably be the gold medal match. So just looking here, Belgium have never won a gold in field hockey for the men at least, and neither have Argentina. So kind of have a first time gold medallist. Big news there. Handball, we haven't really talked a whole lot about handball. I love handball. It's a great sport, but in that one, so in the women's, we're down to the semis. Netherlands will take on France. Norway will take on Russia. In the men's competition, we're still at the quarters, so Croatia, Poland, Denmark, Slovenia, Brazil, France, and Germany, and Qatar. Don't we love the Qataris? Basketball, now that Australia and Canada are both out of the basketball, France will take on the US in one semifinal. Spain will take on Serbia in the other, and of course the men's quarterfinals start tonight. Australia up against Lithuania, Croatia, Serbia, Spain, France, USA, Argentina, water polo, so in the women's competition, Hungary versus the USA, after those unfunny Hungarians knocked us out the other day, and Russia versus Italy in the other, and in the men's, it's Montenegro versus Croatia, Italy versus Serbia, and I actually completely forgot about the volleyball, Colin, when it comes to the team sports. So Canada's still in it, I believe. They're up against Italy, are they not, in the quarters? Have I got that correct? No, Russia. Here we go.

COLIN HILDING: I'm waiting for it to come on. I already forget.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, no, Russia. So the men's, the quarters will be Italy, Iran, USA, Poland, Canada, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, and in the women's, we're down to the semis, so you've got China versus the Netherlands, and Serbia versus the US. So just thought we'd update on the team sports for those wondering out there. The medal winners today, outside of the ones I've already mentioned, so the athletics, 110-metre hurdles. Why do the men have to run an extra 10 metres in the hurdles?

COLIN HILDING: Is it only the men who do that?

BEN WATERWORTH: They do the 110, the women only do the 100-metre hurdles. Like, why?

JARROD LOOBEEK: I think when the event started, somebody probably made a typo, and they've just run with it ever since.

BEN WATERWORTH: That was meant to be the 100-metre hurdles.

COLIN HILDING: I did hear, though, that Simone Biles ran it, and they're now going to rename it the 110 Biles hurdles.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, exactly. She beat the men in it, too. If anyone listening, both our listeners, if you know anything about that, I'd love to know. But a Jamaican won that, surprise, surprise. Amar McLeod, gold in that. Men's triple jump, our favourite sport. Christian Taylor from America took that one out. We know he won the high jump. 1,500 metres meant to Faith Kipyugon from Kenya. And in the discus, Sandra Perkovic won that one from Croatia. Boxing, as we mentioned, that went to Brazil. The canoeing, so Sebastian Brendel from Germany won the C1 1,000 metres. The men's K1 1,000 metres went to Marcus Waltz of Spain. New Zealander, Lisa Carrington, yep, she won the K1 200 metres. Jesus, that's a bit short. Women's K2 500 metres went to Hungary. Danuta Kozak and Gabriella Sabo won that one. Cycling, Britain did very well on the final day of that. So Jason Kenney won the men's Kieran. And the women's Omnium went to Lora Trott, both British. And in the women's sprint, Kristana Vogel for Germany took that one. Diving, China took that one. Surprise, surprise. Chow Yun, the men's 3 metre springboard. Gymnastics, as we said, Simone Biles won the floor. Men's horizontal bar to Germany, Fabian Humberken. And the parallel bars went to the Ukrainian Oleg Vernev. In the sailing, where we mentioned Tom Burton, Gold for Australia and Laser, the Finn. Giles Scott from Britain. How British is that name? Giles Scott! I compete in the Finn category. The Laser Radial. That's what's different from the Laser. It's like rowing, like the quads and the fours. Mareat Baalmaster. That's kind of appropriate for a sailor. Netherlands and the NACRA 17, as I said before, Argentina. Took that one out. Swimming, the marathon. Went to Ferry Wirtman from the Netherlands. I think they took the double gold there. The Ferry Wirtman? Yeah, I know, the Ferry Wirtman. I think that they took out both the men and women, if I'm not mistaken. That's good on you, the Dutch. I didn't know they were good, long-distance swimmers anyway. Synchronised swimming, the Russians. Took out the duet, Natalia Ishenko and Svetlana Romashina. Table tennis, China, women's team. Won that one, they've hit Germany and Japan. Got the bronze. Weightlifting, 105 kilogram category. Lasha Talakhadze from Georgia in a world record lift. Good job for you there, Lasha. And in the wrestling, it's still a sport. Men's Greco-Roman, 66 kilogram. Davor Stefanik from Serbia took out the gold. And in the men's Greco-Roman, 98 kilogram. The great Arta, Arty Alexanyan from Armenia. He took the gold there. So, the medal tally after day 11 sees the US still on top with 28 gold, 28 silver, 28 bronze. We're gonna boil over here, folks. China is in third, Britain is in second. The British don't know what to do with themselves. They don't usually win in stuff, so they're actually like sitting second. I think they're doing better than they did in London, perhaps. 19 gold, 19 silver, 12 bronze. China, there's an inquiry going on here as to why they're not doing that well. I mean, sure, if they're third and they lose to Russia and USA, that's generally the top three, but not Britain. They're third. Russia, fourth. Germany have had a good day. They've jumped up to fifth. Australia, still in ninth. 7 gold, 8 silver, 9 bronze, 24 medals. We are behind the French on basis of silver medals. They've won 11. We've won 8. Both won 7 gold. Come on. Canada, the bad news is, because New Zealand won a gold as well, they're still not ahead of them. You're in 17th, Colin, 3 gold, 2 silver, 9 bronze, 14 in total. So, there you go. And Brazil, 15th, 3 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze. New Zealand, well, we don't give a shit about them. They won a gold. That's enough for that. So, we've covered that. We've covered the results. We've kind of talked about what we watched. Colin, you already told us, but anything to add on anything else you watched today?

COLIN HILDING: Well, the 3 metre springboard was, even though Canada really didn't have much of a hope, that was one that I watched. And obviously, Adam Van Koverden had to see his final race. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the highest rated moment of the entire Olympics for Canada. That's how much of a national treasure he is. Mandy Bujold, I watched her get punched a lot in the flyweight quarters. The 200 metre heats, that was the one I was really excited about today, especially with Andre Degrasse being number one going into the semifinals. And if people are listening to this after he came in last in the semifinals, then I was excited for nothing. And of course, the high jump. And I did see the beams where they made a big deal about the fact that Simone Biles only had to settle for a bronze medal.

BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, in the beam. That was yesterday, was it not?

COLIN HILDING: Well, if it was yesterday, then they were airing it today.

BEN WATERWORTH: It was definitely yesterday because we were talking about that yesterday because the Dutch lady won the gold. Yep.

COLIN HILDING: Oh, well, Canada was so busy airing all the events that we didn't win any medals in yesterday that they had to air Simone Biles a second time.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes. And I thought the Channel 7 app was slow. So, well, there you go. You got it eventually. You might even get the Beijing vault at this point. Like, that will finally show it. So good on you, CVC. Jarrod, what did you watch?

JARROD LOOBEEK: It was mostly a day for athletics. Plenty of track and field events. The marathon swimming, I would say, thank you to Channel 7 for allowing us to see our athlete and not wonder where they were throughout the whole event. And thank you to Jarrod Port for swimming at the front. So we knew where you were. Although I was a little bit annoyed the moment when he got overtaken, we cut to an advert, and then we didn't know where he was for the rest of the race. But for the majority, we knew he was there at the front. So that's an improvement there.

BEN WATERWORTH: Particularly with the last name of Port. Like seriously, I'm surprised they're still not looking for him. So good on you. Yes.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Richie's cousin, I believe.

BEN WATERWORTH: I avoided the marathon swimming. I had enough of that the other day, so I didn't need to see it again. It's pretty much the same, except they had penises instead of vaginas, so there was nothing different there. I watched the basketball. Still trying to recover from that.

COLIN HILDING: Oh, see, I'm trying to... Can we talk about that for a second?

BEN WATERWORTH: Go for it.

COLIN HILDING: All right, I'll give my rant, and then you can give yours. I actually don't mind basketball, and I have a problem watching professional basketball because I love amateur basketball more, but I may be over that now. I mean, I was watching the fourth quarter of Canada yesterday and France, and I was really into it for a few minutes. And then it was just three seconds of play, stop the clock, three seconds of play, stop the clock. I counted, and in the last five minutes of play, it took 20 minutes for them to get through. By the end, I was screaming at the TV, just let it be done with. I was almost in tears. Just let it end already. Can't they go for more than four or five seconds without stopping the clock?

BEN WATERWORTH: Well, yeah, I guess that's probably why you don't like professional basketball then, because that's generally what happens in the NBA. Yeah, I guess it's just the sport, particularly when it's close at the end. I mean, if it's a blowout, they don't generally do that right at the end. But yeah, it's frustrating. I guess I'm semi-used to it because I watch a bit of basketball, so it doesn't bother me as much. I mean, it's not American football. They just do that in the entire game. It's not like just the final two minutes. But I mean, you should be watching the NBA, Colin. You don't live in Toronto, but you live near the city where there's an NBA team that they're doing decent-ish at the moment.

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, I'm only a 24-hour drive away from it without a sweep of rest.

BEN WATERWORTH: It's closer than I am.

COLIN HILDING: I like watching basketball, but I just get too impatient with it.

BEN WATERWORTH: Right. OK, then. The impatient basketball fan. Got it. The only other thing I watched was athletics, but we talked about that before. Good to see they're getting some crowds in the second week in Brazil. Although they did cut to the crowd shot of the sailors, and there's still no one there. But I love the medal ceremony for the sailing, actually, because they sort of do the pan-out shot of them getting their medals, and you see this crowd on the barriers watching it, and they've got these two armed Brazilian army men with massive AK-47s, because they all know those rowdy sailing fans at medal ceremonies can clearly get a bit cray-cray. So, yes, they're protecting the great sailors of the world. Athlete of the day, Colin, I'm guessing you might already have an obvious one. I'm not too sure.

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, I can't think of anybody other than Derek Druin. I mean, it's historic to be the first gold medallist in 84 years.

BEN WATERWORTH: In that field, not just in the Olympics. I mean, they have...

COLIN HILDING: But again, in every field event. So, how many times did we not gold in discus or javelin? And we could have...

BEN WATERWORTH: Clearly should have. I mean, I remember the Athens discus final. That great Canadian should have won a medal, gold at least. Jarrod...

COLIN HILDING: I think that was Donny Bailey, too, I'm pretty sure.

BEN WATERWORTH: And he's still watching it right now on CBC. It's in the memories. Actually, I noticed that with Channel 7. They show every now and then great Olympic moment, and every single one I've seen so far is from the Sydney Games of Australia winning a gold medal. So, Jarrod, who's your athlete of the day?

JARROD LOOBEEK: I'm going to have to go with Sandra Perkovich, the gold medallist from the women's discus, just because you get six throws in a final. She has her third. She fouls twice. Her third throw is like 70 metres long, and then she fouls twice again. I mean, this is just how you win a final. You do one good throw and then foul the rest. On the last one, she pretty much threw the discus and just walked out the front, because she knew it wasn't going to be further than what she'd already done. She'd heard enough. She knew she was a gold medallist, and I think that's... I don't know, maybe there should be an investigation here. I think if you're fouling constantly, I mean, that's poor sportsmanship, but she just knew she had it in the bag, so she couldn't care less.

BEN WATERWORTH: I was watching that too, actually, because I remember the commentator after, like, a second foul was all like, oh, she's so good. This is not looking good for her. And she just, like, straight away does it. Then, yeah, that's lazy.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Whatever.

BEN WATERWORTH: It's good on her. My athlete of the day is not a medallist. He's not Australian. He's not Canadian. He's Irish. I don't know if any of you two saw this one. An Irish boxer by the name of Michael Conlon, who got eliminated early in the bantamweight category. He was promptly interviewed straight away from Irish television, to which he replied after, you know, what did you think of the result? He clearly thought he should have won. And he turns around and goes, they're fucking cheats live on TV. They're known for being cheats. Amateur boxing stinks from the core right to the top. But he was got beaten by a Russian. He stood up and he's given the bird to like everybody around. And later on, he jumped on Twitter. He tweeted Vladimir Putin and said, Hey, Vlad, how much did they charge you? Basically implying that the boxing federation was bribed by the Russian government. So he gets easily for me because he's live on TV. They're fucking cheats. Oh, goodness me. So good. Hello, Michael, if he's listening. I agree with you. I don't actually know anything about it, but whatever. I think boxing is one of the very few sports. I haven't really seen anything of these Olympics, except for when Jarrod mentioned the Chinese guy the other day. He celebrated a little bit too early. But anyway, why for the day? Sadly, as we mentioned earlier, Britt Elmsley has not replied to my tweet by Snapchat. Sorry. Sorry to announce to the world. I'm still on the Julius Stein group of page from the other day, Colin, although Ellen Nelson, our 200 metre runner, she's up there. But I've waited until day 11 to put Michelle Jennecke on there. I mean, she walked out, wobbled a little bit, finished six in a heat and goes home. But that's enough. I'll marry her still. She's been on ads for Coke, as in the beverage. I'm not implying anything. Colin, you have anyone else for me?

COLIN HILDING: You would have to be on Coke to dance that much.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes. Yeah, clearly Jamie's looking out for husbands for her. So have you been looking out for wives at all?

COLIN HILDING: Oh, all the time, all the time.

BEN WATERWORTH: All right, good.

COLIN HILDING: The whole Olympics.

BEN WATERWORTH: Good to know. Channel 7 Shit She Should. I don't really have much on this segment today. You might have more from CBC. I don't know, Colin. They seem to be doing well at the moment. I've just written here in big capital letters. Buzz from Brazil. Just stop. That was on just before we came on air tonight. And oh, it's still cringe worthy, Jarrod. Can they not cancel it?

JARROD LOOBEEK: It's really bad. And I don't know if you've seen, it's not the Buzz from Brazil, but we have this new little segment before we go to break. It's that little mix song, Hair. And they're just showing all these athletes with like different hairstyles and stuff. And then it cuts to like a horse's tail flicking in like the wind. And it's like, I think they must have come up with this when we had a couple of days break from not winning medals. I'm like, this is the best thing you can show now that we haven't won anything in a while. You do a segment on athletes' hairs, and then you chuck a horse's tail in there just for good measure.

BEN WATERWORTH: I haven't seen it. I need to. Now I feel it. Goodness me. I just wanted a special note to the esteemed Joanna Griggs. Now Colin will have no idea who that is. She's a fairly well-known TV host in Australia, a former swimmer. I believe she's a Commonwealth Games medallist. I don't know if she ever made it to the Olympics, but she used to be the sort of the anchor for the Olympics back in the day. She hosts better homes and gardens now. I had the pleasure of meeting her this year. I never really liked her, but she's actually a very nice lady, so I kind of changed my opinion on her. But she, for some reason, is in Rio, and they've sent her out to the sailing to be the correspondent ready to interview the sailors. She's just been waiting around.

COLIN HILDING: Is she like out in the water bobbing up and down like, Jackie, can you give us a couple words here in the last stretch?

BEN WATERWORTH: So I saw that. And yeah, actually, this is kind of, it's not a Channel 7 ad. They've clearly pinched this from the BBC and sort of rebranded it with Channel 7 stuff on it. But I thought it was a brilliant ad. I wish I knew what, I mean, I guess, go to YouTube, type in BBC ad for the Paralympics. It goes for about four or five minutes, and it's kind of got this band playing a song, and, you know, like the band members kind of like have, you know, various limbs missing and obviously just playing.

COLIN HILDING: We understand how bands play music. You can move on.

BEN WATERWORTH: I guess what the unique thing is, is I think like the drummer is playing with his legs because he doesn't have any arms, and they're just basically showing the uniqueness of kind of Paralympians and kind of the things that they can do. It's kind of hard to explain. It's really good. If I can find it, I'll share it on our page. But it's kind of a props to them in a way for airing it, even though it's kind of they've just rebranded a BBC ad. But yeah, I think this is the very first time, Jarrod, I believe that the Paralympics will be shown on commercial TV, because I think generally the ABC or SBS show the Paralympics. So I guess we're getting a bit of ahead of ourselves. But I mean, that's kind of exciting, the Paralympics on commercial TV.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, that's really cool.

BEN WATERWORTH: It is.

COLIN HILDING: Is it also in the commercial, though, that a horse's tail is like strumming a guitar?

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, it is. Anything from CBC today, Colin?

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, there's two. The one I forgot to mention, this was the last event I watched yesterday, was the 110-metre hurdles. And the Canadian, I sent you guys a picture of it just with the most ridiculous face I have ever seen. And when they were showing the replay, the commentators actually broke out laughing and said, that's not exactly the kind of face you want to be making in this event. So that was a funny moment. But the best has to go to the 3-metre springboard, where I believe it was the bronze medallist. I don't remember. I think he was from Germany, where he did his final dive. And they're like, oh, what a great dive. And then as he gets out of the pool, he kind of like bows to the crowd that's cheering for him. And the head commentator went, you shouldn't be bowing to them. They should be bowing to you.

BEN WATERWORTH: Wow, that's Channel 7-esque. That's good. Patrick Hosding, I'm seeing, is that the man you're talking about?

COLIN HILDING: That's right, yeah. So I guess all hail our Lord and Savior, Patrick Hosding or whatever his name is.

BEN WATERWORTH: What did they say about the same bolt then? I've got nothing from news.com.au today, because I didn't really look, to be honest. So anyway, Canadian athlete of the day, Mr. Hilding.

COLIN HILDING: Well, I was waiting for this one to come up, because I like the profile, and there was no coverage at all for this athlete. I mean, she was important enough to get her own hello, my name is profile, but I didn't see anything on TV. And apparently, she came in 16th today in the javelin. Her name is Liz Gleedle, and you'll find out throughout this, she's an extremely happy person, it seems. So draw a picture of yourself. She drew a shadowed figure of herself throwing a javelin, and wrote next to it, that's the best I got, ha ha! Which is something she does quite a bit in here. My favourite Olympic moment is Simon Whitfield winning his gold with an exclamation mark. If I could choose any Olympic host city, it would be Rome. In my spare time, I most like to cook, try new foods, slash recipes. The weirdest instruction a coach ever gave me was raspberry noise, which I guess is like, like that noise. And then she put in brackets to tell me I did something wrong. Like maybe she would have finished better than 16th of her coach offered better criticism that every time she failed at something. My favourite workout is throwing again with exclamation mark. But she put, but in 30 Celsius plus weather. I don't know why it's her favourite to throw in 30 plus Celsius. That's pretty much disgusting. If I could have lunch with any one person, it would be my boyfriend. And then she drew a heart. I mean, if I could have lunch with any one person, she chooses the one guy she probably have lunch with all the time. Some people are picking their dead grandmothers here, so we could get a little bit more creative. My favourite sandwich. You got to tell me if this is something you guys would eat. An open faced buckwheat toast, avocado, feta cheese and poached egg.

BEN WATERWORTH: Take off the avocado, I'll eat it.

COLIN HILDING: Jarrod, are you into avocado on your buckwheat toast, feta cheese, poached egg sandwich?

JARROD LOOBEEK: I think the avocado is OK. Buckwheat kind of scares me off.

COLIN HILDING: So, no, that's a no from Off The Podium to your open faced sandwich. This is my favourite here. Draw a picture of a Canadian animal. She drew absolutely nothing, left the box blank, and then put an arrow next to it that said, albino beaver in a snowstorm. If I could have any superpower would be to have perfect memory. Life would be way easier. The best candy in the world is, I don't even know what this is, blue live wire. Weirdly plastic, but delicious.

BEN WATERWORTH: Maybe she's just some of the wires.

COLIN HILDING: She was biting on a real live wire, and that's why it tasted weirdly plastic. As a kid, my favourite sports team was basketball. The great team of basketball.

BEN WATERWORTH: I love all of them. Every team in every league in the world, they're my favourite. Can't go wrong. I always win.

COLIN HILDING: Along with my favourite sports movie is You Don't Know Bo from ESPN's 30 for 30, which is a TV show. It's your favourite sports movie. If I could live anywhere in the world, it would be Madrid. When I was little, I always thought my dad played for the Vancouver Canucks, didn't realise it was a something team. Again, she writes, I don't know what she wrote above the something team.

BEN WATERWORTH: A shit team or?

JARROD LOOBEEK: It was actually a real team.

COLIN HILDING: A real team. My favourite joke to tell is, inappropriate one-liners at the dinner table.

BEN WATERWORTH: Like what? Tell us.

COLIN HILDING: I don't know, but it probably ends in haha.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yesterday's joke was better.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yesterday's joke was the best, Colin. Did you hear that one?

COLIN HILDING: No, I haven't had a chance to hear it yet.

JARROD LOOBEEK: What was it?

COLIN HILDING: Can we repeat it?

BEN WATERWORTH: All right. Shall we go this way, Jarrod? Do you remember it? Do you want to say it?

JARROD LOOBEEK: I remember my part in it. That's it.

BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod and I will role play this again. Knock, knock.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Who's there?

BEN WATERWORTH: Was it no joke or something? I can't remember what the next bit was. Joke or something?

COLIN HILDING: I'm going to role play as Liz Gleedle here.

BEN WATERWORTH: Anyway, the punchline was I have no joke or something, so it wasn't even funny. Anyway, we failed miserably at that. Move along back to Liz.

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, that's it for Liz today. She ended on her inappropriate jokes, which she didn't actually give us.

BEN WATERWORTH: Right. She has to tease us. I tell funny, inappropriate jokes, but you have to come to dinner with me. You can't unless you're your boyfriend, clearly. Fan messages. Pretty boring today. Penny Taylor. She... Basketballer, I believe, is she not? This is from Stephanie, New South Wales. Penny, you are a gracious and humble captain. Not everybody would handle a defeat with the grace you did. I have to say that I am an enormous fan, and I would love to be able to meet you one day. You are a phenomenal player, and a true inspiration for millions of Australians. You can get through anything, and I need a role model like you. Love, Steph. X, X.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Anything except a quarterfinal.

BEN WATERWORTH: Could...

COLIN HILDING: Who is this... Who is this that wrote Penny was that?

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, Penny Taylor.

COLIN HILDING: Could... Could she have just more delicately put it, can you teach me how to fail at life the way you do?

BEN WATERWORTH: Speaking of failing in life, the Campbells are still getting a lot of love. Uh, Bronte Campbell. This one's just from Dash. They're so embarrassed of sending her a message, they don't even want to say a name. Hi, Bronte. You and your sister are my favourite heroes. I love you. Heart, heart. Clearly again, embarrassed to admit it. So they've got their name. Um, this one from Riley, Oliver, and Hannah of Victoria to the Oz Olympic team. Hi, Selma. The entire Olympic team is called Selma. We hope you have...

JARROD LOOBEEK: That's our nickname for them.

BEN WATERWORTH: That's Australia's nickname for our team. We hope you have a great race. We will be cheering you on. Go, Selma! Um, yep. Um, Marie Papon from New South Wales. I think they're a cool runnings fan to the Australian Olympics team. We are all very proud of you all. You were selected for the team, Selma was, and you have done us proud. I am feeling very Olympic today. Clearly a cool runnings fan. Um, this one's definitely not from Jarrod. Mia from Queensland to Equestrian Dressage. You did Australia proud. No. Um, Catherine from New South Wales to Victoria Mitchell, and the avatar of Victoria Mitchell looks like she's in the process of like doing a poo. Like she's got a very strange look on her face. I don't know who she is, but, uh, Catherine says, awesome yoga and love you, journey, growth and strength. Yep. Stepple tough lady. I don't know what that means. Um, oh, stop sending it to the Campbell's.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Um, I didn't know that yoga was an Olympic sport.

BEN WATERWORTH: We missed that one. Isabella from Queensland to Daniel Pritch hasn't even competed yet. But Isabella says, I hope you had a great time at Rio. Clearly assuming she's eliminated already.

COLIN HILDING: They know that it takes like about eight days for these messages to get up there.

BEN WATERWORTH: Flynn. It wasn't that the category. Oh, that was Finn. So the whole category of sailing sent a message. Flynn from Victoria to Melissa Wu, one of our divers. I love the way this starts. So remember, her name is Melissa. Flynn starts off with, Hi Mel, in brackets, found your nickname on a website. Because clearly, found your nickname? Yes, because, you know, didn't want to be rude by calling you Mel. I just found that was your nickname. For school, we had to select an athlete that we would find a bit about for a week. I didn't know much about the diving team, and you were the first to pop up when I searched. Doesn't even give a shit about her. Just happens to be the first one there. Anyway, good luck in Rio, and I would watch you if your event wasn't at 4am in the morning over here. Good luck from Flynn. Basically Flynn's like, oh, I have to do this stupid project. I've chosen diving. Oh, you're the first one. Oh, your event's at bloody 4am. I'm not watching it, but I hope you do okay. My god. I don't think we can top that. Oh, hang on. Alicia Kylie to Melissa Tapper, a table tennis player, I believe. Hello, my name is Alicia Kylie. My teacher, Mr. Joel, said he played table tennis with you. I've heard about you so much. Good luck from Alicia Kylie.

COLIN HILDING: He's probably a pathological liar, too.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I think I'm done now. There's so many here that are shit. So, all right. I know one more. Matthew Delavadova. Is this our message from yesterday? No, it's not. Nicholas from Western Australia. I like how you play basketball and your great teamwork. I play under eights, and I like playing basketball, too. I hope you play the next game and score some points and win. Matthew Delavadova. Jarrod, when we got over there yesterday, he's sitting on the bench, receiving a fan message.

COLIN HILDING: That's a better comment than what you put up.

BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, basically, Jarrod.

JARROD LOOBEEK: No, I didn't think so.

BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod had a little whinge yesterday because he's like, his name always gets said. Sitting on the bench, having a scratch. Where are we going today? What sport? The Triathlon starts today. Taekwondo is nearly here. They could use a bit of luck.

COLIN HILDING: Ah, my sport. My sport. Taekwondo.

BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, of course, your sport, right.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, go with that, then. Definitely.

BEN WATERWORTH: Taekwondo it is. Well, we've got Safwan Khalil, Carmen Martin, Carolyn Martin, and Hayder Shakara.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Are they Martin's cousins?

COLIN HILDING: The message needs to include at some point, I hope you and your cousin do well.

BEN WATERWORTH: I wonder if their brother is Martin Martin. Which one? Do we like Carmen or Caroline better? Who's a future wife? I can't really see their faces.

COLIN HILDING: Do we have time to Google them first? What are their names?

BEN WATERWORTH: Carmen Martin and Carolyn Martin. Martin, M-A-R-T-O-N. Not like...

COLIN HILDING: T-O-N.

BEN WATERWORTH: T-O-N, yes, very confusing.

COLIN HILDING: They have to be unique. Alright.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yep, this is great. Yep. This is why we're number three on the podcast, Chad.

COLIN HILDING: I decided let's skip the future wife thing and just pick one at random.

BEN WATERWORTH: Alright, fuck it. Carolyn looks good. Um, oh, maybe not. Oh, well, too late. I'm already on a thing.

COLIN HILDING: That's the awkward pause I have.

BEN WATERWORTH: Caroline Martin, nickname Carolina. I got that off a website.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Another one of these annoying nicknames that's longer than their actual names.

BEN WATERWORTH: What's the point of it? The nicknames would be shorter. Idiots. Um, I'm not calling you an idiot, Caroline. Whoever gave you the nickname is an idiot.

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, what website was that?

BEN WATERWORTH: Stupid nicknames.com. Alright, what are we? What are we saying to Caroline here?

COLIN HILDING: Clearly jumping. Well, feel the rhythm, feel the ride, get on up, it's bobsled time, cool running.

BEN WATERWORTH: Okay, feel the rhythm. Feel the ride. Is it get on up or get eat up? Get on up. Get on up. Do we say it's bobsled time or taekwondo time?

JARROD LOOBEEK: Taekwondo time.

COLIN HILDING: Taekwondo time.

BEN WATERWORTH: It's quite taekwondo. Apparently taekwondo turns into taekwins. Taekwondo time. Cool running. PS, if your event wasn't on at 4am in the morning, I'd watch you. They actually might make it that one. That was a decent one. So yeah, go on, Caroline Martin. Kick people. Go girl.

COLIN HILDING: Ben's future wife, Caroline Martin with an O.

BEN WATERWORTH: She might be old enough to be my mum. Oh no, she's 32. OK, she's not that old. All right. Never mind. That was mean. Sorry, Caroline. You're a nice lady. Good on you for doing what Colin couldn't do and make it to the Olympics in Taekwondo. Day 11. No, day 12. Sorry. I'm getting sidetracked. Not that many gold today. Only 16. Tomorrow, I should say. So today we're recording this. Whatever. So only 16 gold. It's a shortened day. Only one day to modern pentathlon. But as I mentioned, Taekwondo gets underway today. Women's golf gets underway today. Double woohoo! There is the BMX happens in the cycling today. That's kind of exciting for Australia, because we've got some decent BMX riders. And other medals to be decided today. Athletics, obviously. The first of the badminton medals are today. Hoo hoo hoo! Boxing, yes. Equestrian, still there. We've got the Exhibition Gala of the Artistic Gymnastics. The last real gymnastics we'll have are these Olympics there, Jarrod. Sailing medals. A guaranteed medal today for Australia. I don't know who it is and what category it is, but all I just read that was a headline. So at least we'll get one medal today, we can tell you that. Table tennis, final day for that with the medals there. And we've got some beach volleyball medals to be decided. And wrestling as well. Colin, anything stand out for you today?

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, we have several wrestlers starting out today, and we also have Brooke Henderson in the golf. And I think the big events will be the volleyball, Canada and Russia, which should be starting in about half an hour. Sadly, I won't be able to watch it live. I'll be reverse sport climbing off of a building here in Winnipeg. And my big event will be the continuation of the 200 metres with Andre de Grasse. And we do have another Canadian in there, Aaron Brown, too. He made the semis as well.

BEN WATERWORTH: Aaron, underrated. Jarrod, do you have anything that you're looking forward to? I don't know why that's funny.

JARROD LOOBEEK: I'm looking forward to... It's got to be the decathlon. I mean, these are athletes who were not good enough at an individual sport. They kind of average at everything, so they fit into the decathlon. It's kind of the... It's for the failed individual performers, so it's great to see.

BEN WATERWORTH: That's a very good way of looking at it there, Jarrod. Actually, I like that. Like, well, I was kind of good at running. I was kind of... You know, it's like the modern bentathlon. When you get to that, I was kind of good at riding horses and shooting, so I might combine them. You never know. They were dead. All the athletes were dead in the decathlon and the modern bentathlon. I dare you to take up ten sports! Do it! Yep, I'm done. Facebook, we're on there, Off The Podium Podcast, iTunes, YouTube, and as always, thank you for the support. Colin, good to have you back, and I'm so glad that Canadians can jump high.

COLIN HILDING: That's right. All Canadians but me.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes. And Jarrod, good to have you back. I'm so glad that Australians can sail!

JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, what would we do without them?

BEN WATERWORTH: Shit, that's the answer. And thank you for tuning in, and just like a jiggling jennicky, I'm out of here in less than ten seconds.