Rio 2016 Day 3 Review

Canada can stand up and rejoice for winning more medals than Australia today as day 3 rolls around. And with no Jarrod on the show today (he is too busy trying to find Richie Porte and Bathorse) both Colin & Ben discuss why Rugby is set to become the new national sport of Canada, discover just what it takes to make a Chinese athlete smile and continue on the push for Flin Flon 2028 (#FlinFlon2028) as well as adding an O to the name of every person in true Aussie style.

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

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BEN WATERWORTH: It is episode five of Off The Podium, an Olympics podcast. We've now reached the quarter mark of episodes compared to the amount of gold medals that Michael Phelps has won. So we're getting very much closer and closer to that mark, even though we probably won't actually reach it by the end of the games, because he'll probably win a bunch of more before the end of it. But day three is done and dusted of the 2016 Rio Olympics. It's been another golden day for Australia and another bronze-filled day for Canada. And we're here to wrap it all up. There's only two of us here today. Jarrod's so excited with the prospect of medals being awarded in equestrian tomorrow that he's had to take the day off to compose himself ahead of what will be a very exciting day for him. But my name is Ben. And so excited that I am that Australia knocked off the might and power of Canada and rugby sevens that I don't even give a shit that they won more medals than us today on day three because I'm excited. Australia's won another gold. And this man on the line is very excited as well because Canada won two bronze medals. And as I said, more medals than Australia, probably for the first time in the history of the Olympics. It's Colin Hilding. Colin, welcome back to Off The Podium.

COLIN HILDING: And what is going on with Canada? We're flopping in the rowing every single day. We're cleaning up in the pool. Apparently, we know how to play rugby. This is not the country that I grew up in, but I'm happy with it regardless.

BEN WATERWORTH: I just can't believe that this is an episode of this show where, again, you've won more medals than Australia in a day of the Summer Olympics. I mean, this is unheard of. This is a national celebration. This is like New Zealand finishing fifth in an event. It's like, what's going on in Canada right now?

COLIN HILDING: Or silver ahead of Canada in an event today. But I get the point you're trying to make. It's pretty unusual. I don't think that Canadians are used to winning medals this early. I think it's usually day three or day four by the time we get our first. And here we are at four medals in three days. So this is going to be the groundbreaking Olympics for Canada. I don't think anybody expected it to be this way.

BEN WATERWORTH: If only you could win a gold. I mean, how long till trample ending starts?

COLIN HILDING: Trample in, trample in.

BEN WATERWORTH: Still a couple of days away. So, you know, you'll get to taste that hopefully soon enough. But yes, recapping day three just quickly at the beginning, as always, the medals won by both our great nations. Australia won medal today and it was gold. The ladies Rugby Sevens clinching their gold medal. Fantastic result. The first Rugby medal awarded in about 90 odd years in the history of the Olympics. First time Rugby Sevens has been part of it, but Australia, the favourites coming into this tournament and they lived up to that reputation. They knocked off the Canadians 17-5 in the semi-finals before waltzing over the New Zealanders 24-17 in the final. And there's only one thing better than winning a gold, and that is beating the New Zealanders. And can I just point out that two of our gold medals have come from beating New Zealanders. So therefore, if we had have lost those, just think about this Australia, we would be equal on gold medals with New Zealand right now. So we have done our nation a service by making sure that New Zealand are not only kept gold medallist, but also not equal with us on gold medals. So that is important. And for Canada, as I mentioned, more medals in Australia, two bronze. They took the bronze in the Rugby Sevens. I don't know if that's an upset. They knocked off the Brits, 33 to 10, in the bronze medal match. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on how Canada are reacting to that one, Colin, in just a moment. And also another medal in the swimming, in the 100-metre backstroke, Kylie Mass. Am I saying that correctly, Colin? Is it Massie or...?

COLIN HILDING: I think it is.

BEN WATERWORTH: Mass, good.

COLIN HILDING: I heard her name for the first time about 20 minutes ago. So I'm the expert here.

BEN WATERWORTH: As have most of Canada. And importantly, she beat two Australians in that match. Emily Seaborn was coming into this, the world champion in the 100-metre backstroke. She finished second last. So, yeah, just another day of Australia choking after doing so well. Yes, how is Canada reacting to, I guess, the rugby sevens? We talked about this a couple of times, that you guys have no idea what rugby is. And now it's, what, a week away from being a national summer sport, overtaking lacrosse, I'm guessing?

COLIN HILDING: That is what tends to happen in Canada. It happened four years ago with soccer. I mean, soccer is something that everybody plays growing up, but it's not really a popular sport. And then when we took the bronze in London, it suddenly became huge. And, of course, that happened a couple of years ago with tennis, with both Milos Ranić and Jeannie Bouchard kind of breaking out. And I think that's what's going to happen now with rugby. I have to be honest, I mean, I'm familiar with the game in that I understand the basic rules of it. I don't think I've ever sat down to watch it before today, other than a few minutes in the days leading up to this, just to see what our teams were like. You'll probably be able to clue me in more than I'll be able to clue anybody else in. I have a feeling probably in the next week, there's going to be tons of rugby clubs that just explode across the country now, because that's kind of the way we go. But I do have a lot of questions about this. For one, is this considered an upset to beat Great Britain?

BEN WATERWORTH: I would say it would be, because generally when it comes to any form of rugby, your main nations are pretty much Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, England, Argentina are generally pretty good, France and sort of a lot of the Pacific Island nations. So, I mean, Britain generally in rugby tournaments, they compete individually, so they're not Great Britain, they're England, Scotland and Wales. And I mean, England in rugby union, which is, I guess, the daddy of rugby sevens, not rugby league. I mean, they were world champions in 2003. I think they lost the final a couple of years ago, and I think they made the quarters or semis of the World Cup last year. I'm not huge on rugby, but I think I know enough to get by, even though it's obviously beloved in Australia. But by, you know, absolutely, I would say Canada beating Great Britain in a game of rugby is an upset. You know, that would be like Great Britain beating, I don't know, a skiing event for Canada. I can't even think of an event like, it's not going to happen in ice hockey. You doubt it will happen in curling. Well, in Scotland, they're generally pretty good, aren't they, in Great Britain? Oh, yeah, possibly.

COLIN HILDING: But I actually root for Scotland even over Canada.

BEN WATERWORTH: Right. Gee, are you like shamed for doing so?

COLIN HILDING: I should be, but yeah. My second question is the length of the games. I mean, I didn't realise it was this quick fire. Is it really only two 10 minute halves or is this just shortened for the Olympics?

BEN WATERWORTH: I think it's just a shortened form of rugby in general. I mean, rugby sevens, like again, I'm not a huge rugby fan, but I can easily sit down and watch a rugby sevens match because they're short and it's exciting. I mean, there are two forms of rugby, rugby union and rugby league. Rugby union is generally the international game, the one that the World Cup is, you know, I don't know how many people are on a team, but I guess there's more than seven. And matches go for a lot longer than 10 minutes. But, you know, that's where the All Blacks, surely if you've heard of them, the New Zealand, they're the best team in the world. Australia has the Wallabies. You know, it's a very popular, yes, the Wallabies, but big sport, but this is kind of like the junior version of it. So, yeah, I think it's just shortened to make it, quote, more exciting. We have a lot of sports in this country where they like to make different versions of it. Cricket, if you ever pay attention to that, there's three different types of cricket, one that goes for five days and one that goes for two hours. So this is kind of like the exciting form of rugby. So, yeah, it's generally not that short for the proper version, but for rugby sevens, yes, it's normal. All right.

COLIN HILDING: I'm all for it because I like that it was quick. I mean, both the bronze and gold medals were over in just over an hour, which was nice. I did notice if we're going to talk a little bit about your win, the gold medal win, the unachievable for Canadians. I don't know if it was because Australia, New Zealand, big rivalry, but it seemed to be a lot more physical, more intense, a lot more ripping off each other's clothes and suplexing each other. A couple of kicks to the face or whatever is going on. Is that more normal or is that just Australia versus New Zealand thing?

BEN WATERWORTH: I think it's a bit of both. It's definitely normal. I mean, if you want to be technical, the only sport New Zealand generally meets Australia in is rugby, rugby union in particular. I mean, the All Blacks, they beat us in the World Cup final last year. They've won the last two World Cups in the full game. And they're just the dominant force. So yeah, when it comes to rugby, New Zealand will stand up to us. I mean, I don't know if you caught the Hakka before the match, but that's just a staple of New Zealand. I mean, that is just, we need to have Nick on this show right now from Survivor Oz, because he can explain just how much that means to New Zealand. I'll watch any sporting event when New Zealand just to see the Hakka, because that's just always something amazing. But yeah, it's always tense and physical. And, you know, New Zealand, I think, are crying foul for a couple of decisions, as they would, you know, because they just like to complain. But, you know, at the end of the day, we won the gold. Suck it up, New Zealand. You got a silver. You got a silver, Brew. Like, I mean, come on, you've got two medals at this point, New Zealand. What are you complaining about? Look at Canada. You've won four medals. And they're, like, celebrating, whereas New Zealand, oh, Brew, we got upset by the Australians. Suck it up. Take it. Still, we ever won any silver. You're beating Australia in something, New Zealand. God. Just felt like it.

COLIN HILDING: Alright.

BEN WATERWORTH: I just think there was a reaction there, but clearly Canada and New Zealand.

COLIN HILDING: I was a little bit scared for a second. This is that viciousness that we saw in the game there.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes.

COLIN HILDING: You must have a rugby background, I'm guessing.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes. When we were in Australia and New Zealand rugby, it makes us angry. It's like Canada in ice hockey. You're a very polite nation. You drop that puck, you're ripping people's teeth out. Exactly. You're swimming, as we touched on there before, I guess. It was a tie. Kylie Mass, she tied with a Chinese swimmer in that event, I believe. I guess that's great for another swimming. Is swimming going to take a huge leap? I guess you do all right in swimming in general, but three days, three medals, I can imagine that all of a sudden, they're going to be melting the ice rinks in a lot of cities in Canada and turning them into swimming pools.

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, and I've said this every day, but I'll keep repeating it. There was not a lot of hype going into this because of how young our swimming team was. And then it was on day one, it was like they went out of their way to say, this team is like, the average age is 16 or 17 of our swimming team right now. And it was more done as a way to say, hey, can't wait to see what they'll do in Tokyo. And here we are meddling every single day, at least the women are meddling every single day. I'm waiting for some guys to get on board there, but we still have Ryan Cochran to come. Yeah, anytime any sport really, a Canadian really excels, it will take off. So swimming is pretty, the funny thing is swimming is pretty big here. I mean, it was mandatory, at least when I was in school, it was mandatory to actually learn swimming and not just learn swimming, but for probably two or three years, you would have swimming classes for maybe about a month or two at a time every single school year. So I don't know if that's changed or anything, but I'm excited because I actually enjoy the swimming, probably because we don't win as much, we don't have as much over exposure as it sounds like you have there, definitely as much over exposure as there is in America. But at this point, it's going to be fun every single day. I'm learning new people, and usually going into the Olympics like this, you know who these people are coming up. I mean, you see them in their commercials and in all the promotions on the network for the Olympics. And these are people, I'm learning their names for the first time. Like I said, I heard Kylie Mass's name for the first time, 20 minutes before we started recording this episode. It's fantastic.

BEN WATERWORTH: I can imagine that the Canadian commentators too probably have too. They're all like, oh, this is an event, this is great. And oh, fuck, we've won a... Who's this? Kylie Mass. Oh, we love her. She's fantastic. I'm just reading here. She's 20 years old. Good on you, Kylie, for being 20. She's from LaSalle in...

COLIN HILDING: One of the elderly ones on the team.

BEN WATERWORTH: She's from LaSalle in Ontario. Is LaSalle not the guy who wasn't that Dr. Benton in ER? That was Eric LaSalle, wasn't it?

COLIN HILDING: You said LaSalle. I got excited for a second because I grew up in LaSalle, Manitoba, which is about 15 minutes from Winnipeg. But no, sadly, she's from the wrong province.

BEN WATERWORTH: Different. So there's more than one LaSalle. Obviously, Eric LaSalle was very busy in Canada at some point. Just leaking his mark. And she is the Canadian record holder in the 100-metre backstroke. Good on you. And a gold medallist in the 2015 Summer Universe Aid. I have no idea what that is, but she won a gold there. So that's...

COLIN HILDING: I'm looking this up now.

BEN WATERWORTH: She joins the ranks of the great swimmers of Anastasia Zueva from Russia, who won at Universe Aid at 2013. The legendary Romanian swimmer of Carmen Bunacu in 1985. What a memorable race that was. 1985 100-metre backstroke at the Universe Aid Games.

COLIN HILDING: If anybody wants to know how prestigious this is, just Google Universe Aid mascot. And I just sent Ben a picture. This is not what you expect from a classy game like the Olympics.

BEN WATERWORTH: How would you even describe that? It's like a... I don't even know. What is that? It's like a person with spiky hair and stars on their chest.

COLIN HILDING: It looks like they crossed something from Pokemon with a baby with Sonic the Hedgehog and put a couple of stars on his chest and had it wink.

BEN WATERWORTH: We have not mentioned the Rio mascot. Is it Uniquius or Uniquius or whatever it is? This yellow... I don't even know what it's meant to be. But yeah, that's an episode in itself talking about Olympic mascots. Nothing beats Izzy from Atlanta. Can we just point that out? But yeah, she tied with Fu Yonghu from China to take the bronze. So a lot...

COLIN HILDING: Did you see the time separating the silver medallist and the two bronze medallists? It's one one hundredth of a second separating three swimmers.

BEN WATERWORTH: Look at that. How close was Canada to getting that elusive second silver? The one thing I'll have to say for Australia, we had two 100-metre backstroke chances. They were talking this up like nothing else on our coverage here. Basil Zemplas and John Rooney just talking this up out of their butt holes about how good we are going to be in this. We have Emily Seabalm, the Rating World Champion coming into this event. Oh, you know how fantastic they're going to go. It's going to be great. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. She was in lane one. She turns in world record time at the 50-metre mark. This is great. Look at this. We're going to be winning gold. It's so great. And then she ends up finishing second last. In the post-race interview, she just did not give a shit. She wanted to go off and cry because she was just answering the questions in the most shortened form you could ever see. And she's just going, yeah, oh, you know, I didn't swim very well. You know, I'm very disappointed, blah, blah, blah. You've got young Madison Wilson, who was just happy to be in the final. She's come dead last, and she's acting like she's won a bronze medal for Canada. She's so happy. She's like, oh, I didn't swim my best, but I'm in the final of the Olympics. I'm so happy. Like, you know, good on you, Madison. That's how you should be. Like none of this Emily Seabond sulking. And then Mr. Mitch Larkin, our other hope in the 100 metres, in the men's, he also turns 50 metres in front, underworld record pace, and ends up finishing fourth by three one thousandths of a second and loses to a guy whose name is David Plummer from the USA. There you go. That's Australia in the pool tonight.

COLIN HILDING: Well, we should also bring up, and I don't know how much of a big deal is being made of it yet, mostly because we talked about Katie Ledecky's really stolen a lot of the thunder. But back in London, Missy Franklin, who was 17, was heralded as the female Michael Phelps. She won four golds at the age of 17. And I even bragged earlier on, Canada kind of claimed her because she has dual citizenship as like, you know, co-Canadian winner. But she completely flopped tonight. And I guess it's now questionable whether she's going to, you know, if she's going to be kind of a one hit wonder now. So a lot of these swimmers that are high hopes for are falling flat.

BEN WATERWORTH: Well, they talked a lot about her in the 100 metre backstroke, for example, because Missy won the gold in this event back in London and beat Emily Seabombs. So of course, you know, oh, you know, there's no Missy Franklin in this. Emily's in with a real chance of gold. And she came dead last, was it not, in the 200 metre freestyle? If that's the event I'm thinking of.

COLIN HILDING: In her semifinal, she was dead last.

BEN WATERWORTH: So what's happening there?

COLIN HILDING: So it wasn't even the finals. It was her semi.

BEN WATERWORTH: I don't know. Perhaps...

COLIN HILDING: There's someone in the water over there in Rio. Yes.

BEN WATERWORTH: Obviously, the swimmers ahead of her. All the swimmers ahead of her are taking better drugs. I don't know. Like, I mean, Arson Young. I mean, he won a gold tonight. So I want to get to that shortly, actually, because it's funny, the coverage with everything. But I guess just going over other Aussie results quickly before we find out more of Canada, because I'm always intrigued to find out about what's happened with Canada as well. So a couple of big ones for us in the water polo. I joked yesterday that we were going to be having a nice defeat to Hungary, one of the best sides in the world. We tied 9-all with Hungary, and we're still alive. We still have the chance of making it past the group stage. So I think we're called the Sharks in the water polo. So that's kind of convenient. Tennis, Sam Stozer, she's through. She hasn't lost yet. She beat Misaki Doi and will play Angelique Kerber, who sadly beat Jeannie Bouchard there, Colin. Sorry about that. So I just ruined one of your results for the day. And in our other singles match, John Millman went down to Kane Nishikori, but he fought so hard in that one. He had the double break in the first set and then lost it in a tiebreak, and then he had the break again in the second set, but sadly lost, he definitely gave it his all. Sailing started today. A lot happened. I don't know what the hell's happened in that. We've got a lot of sailors. They'll win gold next week, so I'll talk about that next week. One of our big gold medal hopes, Jessica Fox, second in the K1 Canoe Slalom into the semis. Great work there from our silver medallist from London. Now this one, I'm so devastated that Jarrod's not on the show today here, Colin, because this will excite you as well. Our equestrian team, how well are we doing right now after the cross country? We are first overall in the team event, and Chris Burton, or as our commentators like to refer to him as, Berto, we'll talk about that very soon. He's leading the individual standings too, so we're in a shot for double golden equestrian on day four, and that's why Jarrod's not here right now. He's finding Bathorse and getting excited.

COLIN HILDING: I was going to say, just where is Bathorse? That's what we really need to know.

BEN WATERWORTH: He's trying to find him. I think he's flown to Rio. He's trying to find Bathorse and Richie Porte, so that's where Jarrod is today. He's got the set, and he's also flying to Flimflom to make sure that the bid gets started.

COLIN HILDING: Yes.

BEN WATERWORTH: Basketball, huge result for the Boomers, 95 to 80 victory over Serbia. We've knocked off the fourth and fifth best teams in the world in our opening two games, undefeated for the first time in Olympic history after our opening two games, and we've got a small feat of playing the Dream Team on Thursday, so I'm sure we can win that. Of course we can. Archery, Alice Ingle, lost in the round of 16 to the legendary Brazilian archer of La Cilia Bori. I was watching that this morning, and she knocked off a fancied Italian in the first round, so she did well there. Hockey, Hockey Roos, not doing too well. They lost to America 2-1. They lost their opening two matches, so not looking good for them. Beach volleyball, sadly, our team lost. I can't repeat the great Canadian success that they're having in both forms of the volleyball. Marifi Del Soler and Nicky Lard lost their match to the Swiss team of Anouk Verge Depre and Isabel Fauna. Love them. Shooting, no success in the trap for the men, Adam Vela and Mitchell Iles did not make through the finals, and Dane Sampson and Jock Rossetart in the 10-metre air rifle didn't make it there either. Judo, we love our Judo. We had a victory in the first round to Jake Benstred, but he lost in the round of 16 to Azerbaijan's Rustam Orvov, that guy. And in rowing, it happened. This is where Colin's no doubt excited. Well, it doesn't sound like they're doing too well, actually, Canada. So our men's four is straight through to the semis. Our women's eight, of course, it's a big story here in Australia, that the women's eight team did not qualify for the Olympics, but the Russian team got eliminated, so they were literally on a plane. The moment the opening ceremony was on, they've only been in Rio for a couple of days, and they're like, hey, guess what? You're competing. They're through to the rep in charge of that. The women's quad skulls, sadly, not through to the finals. They missed out by six hundredths of a second. That's what happened to Australia. What happened to Canada today, Colin?

COLIN HILDING: Well, of course, we covered the bronze for both Mass and the rugby team. I think those are the big stories. Sadly, the men's volleyball team, which it was quite exciting a few days ago, our men's beach volleyball team actually pretty much took it down to the wire with Brazil, like the best team in the world. And they lost today to I think what they were playing Italy. Yeah, they just lost to Italy. So they're out now. Basketball, though, or the women's basketball team did win. And what else we have going on? Equestrian, something was going on there.

BEN WATERWORTH: You rode horses.

COLIN HILDING: Nothing that I followed. Yeah. There were horses, there was naeing. Somebody threw a shoe. But I did say that the rowing were kind of flopping in it right now, especially that the men's quadruple skulls, that one big disappointment. I think we finished fifth in the repitage, so it's really down from where we were in pretty much every Olympics prior to this.

BEN WATERWORTH: Devastating.

COLIN HILDING: I don't know how much hope we have, maybe in some of the individual ones in the canoe coming up. Swimming, oh yeah, we did have another decent placing, Rachel Nichol, another one of our young female swimmers. She finished fifth, the 100 metre breaststroke. And as we said, Jeannie Bouchard is now out, but in the men's doubles, our guys are still in there, so they're going to move ahead into, is it up to the second round now or the third round?

BEN WATERWORTH: Funnily enough, I have that screen somewhere here in front of me. I can tell you that they're into the quarterfinals actually. There we go. Yeah, they're up against the Italians.

COLIN HILDING: And as far as I know, Jeannie's still in the doubles too. She is, yes. She's out.

BEN WATERWORTH: She's scheduled to play the Czech team. Well, I'm guessing that will be tomorrow. So they win there through to the quarterfinals. But yeah, looking at the Canadians, yeah, you've got, of course, Daniel Nestor. I'm just reading here. He, of course, was part of the doubles team that knocked off the Woodies back in Sydney. I remember that very well. Our great legendary...

COLIN HILDING: Has he been around that long?

BEN WATERWORTH: He is, yes. He's just looking here. He is the ripe old age of 43. And, yeah, I mean, Sydney 2000, we had the best doubles partnership in the world. Tom Woodford and Mark... Tom Woodbridge and Mark Woodford, that's it. I'm getting around the wrong way. They won it, won gold in Atlanta and made the final in Sydney. Expected to win that, but it was a huge upset that the Canadians beat the Woodies. I don't know who...

COLIN HILDING: I was going to say, is their team name the Woodies? You're dead serious, they're the Woodies?

BEN WATERWORTH: Dead set serious, the Woodies. Until the Bryan Brothers came about, they were the greatest double pairing in the history of tennis, but now the Bryan Brothers have kind of shadowed all over that. So, yeah, we were very proud of the Woodies. And why wouldn't you be when you called them Woodies? Just a classic name. There you go. Well, I'm happy for... I'm rooting for the Canadians and the doubles. I mean, knock off the Italians, you're into the semis, you'll either play Spain or Austria, and your mate Rafa is playing there for Spain and the doubles as well. So... Hey, there you go.

COLIN HILDING: You got this in the bag, baby!

BEN WATERWORTH: You do indeed. Other main results from today, before I go over the medal winners, just quickly. Brazil, the host nation, won their first gold medal of the games. The great Rafaela Silva won the women's 57kg judo. Good on you, Rafaela. That would have been a sight to behold there. Sun Yang, as we mentioned, gold in the men's 200m freestyle. And I have to say, I've got to jump ahead to a bit of classic commentary here. When Basil Zemplas, our great swimming commentator, turns around and basically says, while Sun Yang is celebrating his gold medal, turns around and says, I wonder if there's a bit of Mack Horton on the mind there as he celebrates the win. I think he's probably not thinking at all about it. He just won a gold medal. What's his first thought? Oh, that guy who beat me the other day and called me a drug cheat. I'm thinking of him right now. I kind of doubt it, Basil.

COLIN HILDING: I have to say, too, I've never seen any Chinese athlete enjoy themselves that much. I don't know if I've ever seen one smile before. He was jumping up and down. I loved his victory celebration.

BEN WATERWORTH: And when he threw the cap in the crowd and it went in the pool, I don't know if he caught that pit on his metal lap.

COLIN HILDING: And then it splashed somebody, and there was a massive stare down. It actually was quite unpleasant.

BEN WATERWORTH: There is still so much happening right now with this whole China, Australia stuff. Apparently, Chinese media are tweeting negative stories about Australia. They literally are saying, like, Melbourne no longer the most livable city in the world due to pollution. It's like, this is coming from China. I'm not getting involved. I don't want to be splashed by Beijing, so I'm staying out of this future war between Australia and China. And I just want to mention quickly, because I go over the medal winners, I didn't realise that the creator of Glee, Nip Tuck, and American Horror Story was a swimmer, Ryan Murphy. One of the men's 100 winners. I got excited.

COLIN HILDING: Another thing on the resume.

BEN WATERWORTH: Everything this guy creates is amazing, and now he's a gold medallist. So good on you, Ryan. But yeah, just so the gold medals today, China took out the men's synchronized 10-metre platform. Did Canada not have a diver in that at all?

COLIN HILDING: If they did, I didn't see it, but I was out of the house for a lot of the day.

BEN WATERWORTH: No, they didn't look in here. China won gold ahead of the US and Great Britain. Sadly, the Mexican pairing only finished fifth. I'm very disappointed about that. Fencing, the women's saber went to Russia. Yana Egorian took that one out. Gymnastics, the men's all around. Japan took that one out. Good to see that. Also in judo, Japan won another gold there too. Men's 73 kilogram to Shohei Ono. Japan doing quite well. Stopped winning those bronzes. As we said, rugby sevens. Australia's gold there. Italy took out the men's 10 metre air rifle. Niccolo Camprani. And in the men's trap Croatia, Josip Glasnovic won that one. Swimming, as we mentioned, Sun Yang, the 200 free. Ryan Murphy, the 100 back. Katina Hosu, I can never say her name. The Iron Lady took a second gold of the games. 100 back. And Lily King, the 100 metre breaststroke for the USA. And in Colin's favourite sport of weightlifting, two gold medals in that one. Oscar Figueroa from Colombia took out gold. And an Olympic record for Sukanya Sushrat from Thailand winning the women's 58 kilogram. So that's the gold medals at least from today. So I guess now is a perfect time to look at the medal tally after three days. Now Australia with our gold medal at one point jumped back up to second. But sadly because we choked in the swimming, we didn't add to our gold. So we've stayed at third. We're still happy with that. We'll take third still. But the US leading now again, five gold, seven silver, seven bronze, 19, China five gold, three silver, five bronze, 13, total Australia third, Italy up into fourth with three gold, four silver, two bronze, Japan in fifth, three gold and seven bronze, if you don't mind. Canada sitting pretty in 24th place all by themselves. A silver, three bronze. Sadly though Colin, that puts you behind New Zealand. Two silver. This is our whole thing when we're talking about the total medals need to count, not the bloody gold, because you would be ahead of New Zealand. You've won double the medals of them, yet you're still behind them. That doesn't work.

COLIN HILDING: We need an official Canadian dance to start every event with, and then we'll be up there.

BEN WATERWORTH: What is the official Canadian dance?

COLIN HILDING: What's that one?

BEN WATERWORTH: The chicken dance.

COLIN HILDING: The chicken dance.

BEN WATERWORTH: Well, we need to find something to do with rabbits.

COLIN HILDING: Oh, we do have an answer to that. If anybody was listening yesterday, the bunny hug that Gavin Schmidt threw a picture of himself in, I was mentioning it today in the card of my wife, and she's like, yeah, that's what they call a hoodie in Saskatchewan. Apparently, this is a well-known thing, not in everywhere in Canada, but in Saskatchewan only, they call a hoodie a bunny hug.

BEN WATERWORTH: Who knew your wife was such an expert on Saskatchewan?

COLIN HILDING: She has a brother who lives in Saskatchewan, so I guess it must have come up in conversation once.

BEN WATERWORTH: Clearly, no Schmidty.

COLIN HILDING: Good old Schmidty is Saskatchewanian bunny hugs.

BEN WATERWORTH: Good news over Canada, sitting in 24th place. Let's just say you are beating France, so that's always a good thing. France have only won a silver so far, so I'm not sure what's going on with the French, Colin.

COLIN HILDING: We're French-Canadian. We're like France Jr. and we're beating them. That is something to brag about.

BEN WATERWORTH: We talked about your supposed rivalry with America. Surely you got to go up against the French. Everyone wants to beat the French. Come on.

COLIN HILDING: At this point, it's just New Zealand. We just can't be that ashamed of ourselves anymore.

BEN WATERWORTH: Seriously, you could win 80 silver and 90 bronze, and New Zealand will win one gold, and you'll still get beaten by them. Yeah. You don't want that in your resume. Beaten by New Zealand at the Olympics. So I guess we really need to talk about right now. What did you watch, Colin? We've obviously talked a little bit about what you watched, but was there any other things that you watched that I don't know about or that our listeners don't know about, I should say more importantly? Who cares about me?

COLIN HILDING: It was kind of an all-team sport day for me today. There was a little bit of rolling on early in the morning, but then it was just sort of depressing me, so I turned the channel and I watched a lot of volleyball today. I almost saw America in the volleyball, at least the women's volleyball, almost saw them lose. The commentators making a big deal about the fact that they're losing. I think it was the Netherlands they were playing. They were down quite a bit and they did come back in the end. What else was there? Of course, rugby. I watched both the gold and the bronze medal games. A little bit of basketball was on earlier. I can't remember who was playing. I did watch some of the water polo earlier today. It was Greece and Serbia, and that one was another come from behind, so it ended up as a tie, I believe. And then, of course, the swimming in the evening. Still waiting for some fencing coverage on TV. I want to see my futuristic sport on there. I was away actually for most of the evening, so I only saw a couple of swimming events. I came home here just before we started recording, because I have an event I'm doing, a charity event, and I was off practicing the reverse sport climbing. So I'm ready for the Olympics when they actually switch this thing up, and everything gets played in reverse for 2028.

BEN WATERWORTH: Is reverse sport climbing sport falling? I mean, how does that work?

COLIN HILDING: Yes, very slow repelling. So I guess we'll call it sport falling or reverse sport climbing.

BEN WATERWORTH: Okay, got it. Fair enough. Is that funny? You mentioned about the fencing yesterday. When I was watching it too, you mentioned all the flashing lights and everything. When there was a Canadian fencer at one point and his entire helmet had a giant maple leaf on it, it was kind of like, well, how do you actually see? Is that just like, oh, I'm just going to have a maple leaf and just hope for the best. I'm just going to wave my sword. It's actually such a fun sport to watch because every single time they get a point, they light up and they always celebrate so passionately. You know, it's like, ah, I got a point. So it is a fun sport to watch.

COLIN HILDING: I think more people need to think their heels together or something like that.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, there needs to be more. I wonder if there's like trash talking in fencing. Like what's their version of splashing? Is it like, you know, knocking their sword over? Oh, it's on. We can we can come up with that for flimflon.

COLIN HILDING: Like the Facebook cross with fencing mama jokes.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, you're my exactly. What did I watch? The canoes slalom. I really enjoy that. That's a very fascinating sport, especially the one with the two men in a boat. I don't know if you saw it. Like it's fun enough with one person having two people in this tight little canoe trying to go around these giant gates and then getting it's like you're in a endless toilet.

COLIN HILDING: Now, my earliest memory of that is from Sydney. Do you know was it introduced in Sydney?

BEN WATERWORTH: No, I think it was Atlanta. No, it would have been Barcelona actually, because it was in Barcelona because Jess Fox, our Aussie hopeful, her dad competed for Great Britain at the Barcelona Olympics and her mum won a bronze medal for France in Atlanta. So it's at least been around for that long.

COLIN HILDING: I have my VHS tapes and as I said, I think in our first episode, every once in a while I'll crack one out or I have to transfer them digitally now, but I'll put one on before bed just to watch and I always remembered my Sydney tape, which was like the first one I made, started with that and it was just the coolest thing I'd ever seen. I don't even think I recorded the entire event. I just got a couple minutes of it and that's always what I associate with is just the first opening minutes of my Sydney VHS tape.

BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I actually was Sydney because the park where they have that is out at Penrith, which is where my pop and my family lives out there. So every time I go to Sydney, I actually stay out that way. And I remember one of the times I stayed out there because my pop knew I loved the Olympics. He drove me to where they had it. And you can actually go there still and just, you know, pay and you can go down the whitewater course and just, I don't know, have fun.

COLIN HILDING: Pee in the water.

BEN WATERWORTH: Pee in the water. Sydney Olympic logo ready to go. Just to pee on it. It's right ready for Colin to come about and just go, oh, I really need to go to the toilet. And then just like off he goes.

COLIN HILDING: That's right.

BEN WATERWORTH: But question, that's where our commentary will come from later because that was just something else. Beach volleyball is always fun to watch. There's actually people at the beach volleyball. And basketball, the booms, I watched more archery, handball, love that on the app. Of course the rugby. But again, I've written here in big letters, still no crowds. I think we really need to join Jarrod over there in Rio because not only do we need to find Richie Porte, we need to find where the people are. Because again, there's no one there, Colin. Where are the people? Please, somebody tell the people of Rio, there's a big event happening in their city right now.

COLIN HILDING: I noticed with the beach volleyball today, I love that they had the aerial shots, at least the one that I was just watching. And the stands, they go up forever. This is like 100 feet up or something. They're almost going to hit the upper atmosphere or something. This thing goes on forever. So I just think they're a bunch of cheapskates, and they're all sitting up in the nosebleeds section. We just don't see them in the front row or anything.

BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I've actually noticed that you mentioned yesterday that it doesn't look like there's many people there, but the crowds sound quite large. I think there's a bit of trickery going on here. I think they've got some sound effects that they're adding. I bet you if you're actually there, there's like a bird. I mean, we heard the commentators the other day at the Judo, like, oh, so quiet right now. I bet you that's just sound effects added onto the Olympic Broadcast Corporation or whatever it is. Let's add some sound effects, make the crowd sound big.

COLIN HILDING: Every once in a while, somebody hits the wrong button, you get like an old sitcom can laughter.

BEN WATERWORTH: And then a boo! That's just when the Russians walk out. So, yeah, it's fascinating to see. You all of a sudden hear a Sun Yang come on down! You're the next contestant on the Price is Right! Oh shit, wrong button! We need to do that. We need to get that on YouTube and just double it over. Olympic sound effect failed. Athlete of the day, I'm guessing it's going to be Kylie Mass for you, doesn't it? Or are you just going to give it to your entire Rugby 7 team?

COLIN HILDING: Well, I'm actually reserving one of the Rugby 7s for another segment here. So yeah, we'll go with Kylie Mass. Also, as I said, I watch nothing but team sports all day today. I want to give, I guess, an unfavorable shout out to the American Men's Gymnastics. They missed out on meddling for the same thing that happened to the Canadian women missing out on making the finals by basically slipping on the uneven bars right at the very end with the last person going. It was kind of a sad moment.

BEN WATERWORTH: That's what we would say in Australia to that. I've got a couple that I've got one main one, but a couple of honorable mentions. Australian shooter Dane Sampson. Now, everyone in Australia loves Dane. We're Dane crazy. Just National Dane Day, because he competed in the 10 metre air rifle, sadly only finished 37th. So you're wondering, well, why the hell are you putting out Dane? Well, that's an improvement from London, when he sadly only finished 42nd. So he's managed to improve five places. Now, I think that we're so centric on our rugby team, on our swimmers, on our archers, but like, you know, credit where credit is due for Dane Sampson, five places higher than he finished in London. You know, he's a good bloke, Dane. I'm sure he like donates to charity and like, you know, uses his indicator when he turns when he's driving because he has improved a lot. So I think maybe he'll be our fan message of the day. We'll get to that later. I'm not sure. Chad LeClo.

COLIN HILDING: Now, J Mac, J Mac is a huge fan of his.

BEN WATERWORTH: I hear J Mac has a tattoo of Dane Sampson. He loves him. Like, seriously, like the Dane Sampson love in this country is underrated. All right. You think of greatest training.

COLIN HILDING: And James Sampson has a J Mac tattoo as the other part of it.

BEN WATERWORTH: So my name is Jamie McMillan. Or you can call me J Mac. Chad LeClo from South Africa. Now, I don't know if you saw the 200 free. He just came out of those blocks and just absolutely built it. Like he was winning the whole race for 150 metres in lame one, if you don't mind. Still won the silver. Got overrun by Sun Yung, because obviously his drugs kicked in at that point. But the thing I have to say about Chad is, I know he's been around for a while, Chad, because I think back when South Africa used to win the 4x100 free, he was part of that. But his suit at the end, his South African team uniform, looked like it was about eight sizes too big for him. I don't know if he's lost a lot of weight or he's just going for the baggy bro look or something along those lines. And then when they actually put his full name up on screen, it's not just Chad LeClo, it's Chad Guy Bertrand LeClo. So the guy has got like 80 different names. So I just think he deserves some props. And also I love butchering names on this show. And there's no better name to butcher than an Icelandic name, because there was an Icelandic swimmer, I think it was a 100 metre backstroke if she was in, a breaststroke she was in. And I think she got about fifth. But her name, and this is, I apologise to the country of Iceland right now, because apparently you've got the hardest language in the world to learn, and your names aren't exactly easy either. Her name is Hrafnhildur Lúthursdottir. And I have no idea if that's even close. But I'm looking at her profile here. She is a silver medallist at the European Championships and a bronze medallist earlier this year. But we thought that the Universe Aid Games were big, Colin. This lady, this Hjulur Frifrin Frutun Frifrin from Iceland, she is the queen of the Games of the Small States of Europe. She has won so many gold medals here, according to Wikipedia, that I don't even think it can fit on the screen. But how do we get involved in the Games of the Small States of Europe?

COLIN HILDING: Drugs, political corruption.

BEN WATERWORTH: I'm just looking here. There are what? There are 10 member countries of the Games of the Small States of Europe. You've got Andorra, Cyprus, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro and San Marino. When you think of powerhouse nations, these are it. We're covering the next one.

COLIN HILDING: And high stakes poker games at Casino Royale would be the other part of it.

BEN WATERWORTH: In 2017, they're going to San Marino. We're continuing this podcast the next year because I want to make this the Games of Small States of Europe podium, Off The Podium. So yeah, shout out to that Icelandic one. I'm not going to say her name again. But fine, yeah, Chris Burton, Birdo. He's the great athlete of the day. When we get to this commentary, seriously, I can't even do it justice until we get to that segment because he's leading the equestrian right now for Australia. Forget old Dane Sampson and Jay Mack. Chris Burton's going to marry this guy, I think. Jay Mack's going to marry Chris Burton, I should say. But anyway, I don't really have a wife today. I didn't really find anyone.

COLIN HILDING: Oh, I've got one for you.

BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, hang on. Oh, Colin's matchmaking for me. I like this.

COLIN HILDING: It'll tie in to our segment today.

BEN WATERWORTH: Who have we got for me?

COLIN HILDING: Okay. So are we moving on to the athlete segment to the day? The hell my name is?

BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, the one where you go through your... No, well, maybe we'll save that because I'll just quickly go over the commentary stuff. Okay. But yeah, Britt Elmsley still...

COLIN HILDING: I've got a commentary bit too.

BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, good. Good. I'm intrigued to find out who my future wife is, but Anna Derrick, well, she's got a month till I can marry her. So anyway, I'm renaming this segment, Channel 7 Shit, Shit, Shit. That's what this segment is called. It's not just classic commentary, and you can add CBC, slightly okay, eh? You go first. I want to know, what's Canadian commentary happening? What's happening with them?

COLIN HILDING: Okay, this is another example of Canadians maybe trying too hard to be politically correct and polite. During the bronze medal match, the Great Britain versus Canada Rugby Sevens, there is one of the Great Britain players, her name is Heather Fisher. I don't know if you're familiar with her.

BEN WATERWORTH: Of course we are.

COLIN HILDING: She's the bald. If you've ever seen them play, she is the bald one.

BEN WATERWORTH: All right, yes.

COLIN HILDING: And if you've seen her close up, it is very clear that she is bald with patches that have been shaved, but coming in. If you see that, you're going to assume probably somebody's going through cancer treatments or something like that. The Canadian commentators pointing her out and talking about her. It's like you will notice she is the bald one. And we just want to say that is treatment for cancer. It is not a fashion choice. To point this out for a cancer patient playing in the bronze medal match. It is not a fashion choice. This is part of her treatment.

BEN WATERWORTH: I mean, good on her for obviously beating cancer and winning a bronze medal. That's great. But like, so what if she wants to have a bald head? I mean, don't get me started on women with short hair. But like, I'm sure there are some out there who like to have bald heads.

COLIN HILDING: Like just the fact that they felt compelled to remind people, this isn't a fashion choice. This is sickness, people. Let's treat this with respect. How about calling it out in the middle of the game? You notice the bald one there? She's a cancer patient. This isn't one of those fashion trends that she's trying to start.

BEN WATERWORTH: Why even mention it? This is a man. See, that bald guy, he's going, that's a fashion statement. He doesn't have cancer.

COLIN HILDING: Whenever we do have something to say about the Canadian commentators, it's always them trying really hard to be politically correct, trying really hard to be polite, and it just coming across as incredibly awkward.

BEN WATERWORTH: Well, this is going to be a perfect segue into Australian commentary. I'm going to save the Equestria for last. Just a couple of bits on other parts I noticed. Within moments of us winning gold in the Rugby 7, it is already a quote famous victory, according to Channel 7. Yes, I'm sure we went into it as the world champions and the outright favourites. Clearly, we were underdogs and it was a famous victory. If Canada had have won, that's a famous victory. I don't think us winning an event that we were expected to win is a famous victory. I mentioned Basil Zempelis, the Mac Horton bit with Sun Yang. I actually quite like Jan Rooney. For people, you don't know who Jan Rooney is, Colin, but our swimming commentators Basil Zempelis and Jan Rooney. Jan Rooney is a former world champion swimmer for Australia. She's an Olympic gold medallist. She's, I think, a TV... She reads the weather, I think, in one of the cities on the mainland. She's, you know, a very attractive lady. She's very good at her job. But she turns around and she's just like, I'm nervous, Basil. I haven't been this nervous in some time before the 100 metres like for Emily Seabomb. And then Emily Seabomb comes out, does this whole walkout. And I'd love to talk about when we've got more time the whole entrance of Swimmers since it's become like a rock concert with the name on the background. Anyway, but she turns around as Emily Seabomb walks out. She goes, Oh, that's good. Little smile, wave to the crowd. That's her usual style. What else is she expected to do? Come out and do the D-Generation X suck it motion or something. It's not wrestling. I really don't know what she's expected to do. Smile and wave to the crowd. Pretty standard for an athlete, I would say, Gianruini. But yes, Equestrian is where it's at. Now, I'm very sorry to say that I don't actually know this commentator's full name. I know her name was Vicky. That's about all I can tell you for our beloved Equestrian commentator. I've written down a heap here because this is Australian commentary at his best. Because outrides our leading champion, Chris Burton, the Off The Podium athlete of the day, at least from my behalf. And she gets a bit excited. Berto's coming up next. This is Australian commentary. He successfully jumps over a jump. She turns around and says, Berto's stickability is looking great right now. I mean, stickability is a very common term in Equestrian, I think. She keeps looking at the horses. Gosh, those are lovely creatures. She's getting very excited. This is like Jarrod getting excited. Oh, that's a really funny one. Where I've lost it. She's like, there was a classic line. This is like the best bit ever. And I've completely lost wherever it is. She's comment. This is before Berto comes out, right? There's an Irish rider and they haven't done very well. So this is her exact line before getting excited, before Berto comes out. The Irish team is pretty much screwed. He's Berto. Like that is actually what she says. There's too many here that I've written, but Vicky, Vicky, whatever your name is, you're the best commentator in the Olympics so far. Your love for Berto does it infamy. All right, Canada Athlete of the Day, my future wife apparently. Do I need to start Googling? Who have we got today?

COLIN HILDING: Yeah. Well, we're going to go through two of them because it's Rugby. There's actually four who have profiles on here from Rugby. We're going to go through two of them today. The first one I'll put up is Ben's future wife. You can Google right now, Bianca Forella. And if she's not your future wife, then well, maybe Jarrod or it's too late for me now.

BEN WATERWORTH: Okay.

COLIN HILDING: Yeah.

BEN WATERWORTH: Keep going. I'm keen to learn more about Bianca.

COLIN HILDING: So my name is Bianca Forella and I am Canadian. So draw a picture of yourself. She drew a picture of herself. She's got her curly hair in there. For whatever reason, she stopped with the head and she doesn't have a nose. So I think she's a lazy drawer. She just gave us a disembodied head. If you could choose any Olympic host city, it would be Rome, Italy. In my spare time, I most like to hike, sleep and watch TV. The weirdest instructions a coach ever gave me was, grow two inches. I wonder if she listened on that one. My favourite workout is she crossed out front squat. She must have gotten sick of it during when she started writing it and finishing it. And she finished writing jump testing. I don't know what jump testing is.

BEN WATERWORTH: Clearly that's going to join 2024 behind sport climbing.

COLIN HILDING: Yeah. The front squat is out of the Olympics. That's what the issue was. And jump testing is in. If I could have lunch with any one person, it would be Channing Tatum. She's not the only athlete who wrote this, but she is the only one who felt the need to put in brackets underneath it. IE. Mike from Magic Mike.

BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, him.

COLIN HILDING: Right. The guy from Magic Mike or just Channing Tatum. But she wants to remind us is Mike from Magic Mike.

BEN WATERWORTH: Is that like saying Brad Pitt, the guy from The Curse of Benjamin Button?

COLIN HILDING: Benjamin Button from Benjamin Button. Draw a picture of a Canadian animal. She drew a moose or a dog with sticks strapped to its head. This could be the reindeer from the Grinch who stole Christmas. I can't tell.

BEN WATERWORTH: Is that a bunny?

COLIN HILDING: This is a bunny hug in the wild. My favourite sandwich is grilled cheese. If I could have any superpower would be teleportation. That seems to be like the default answer. I don't know how that's so helpful in sports. The best candy in the world is chocolate. As a kid, my favourite sports team was the Montreal Canadiens. If I could live anywhere in the world, it would be New Zealand. I guess she was aiming for the silver, right?

BEN WATERWORTH: Sorry, I'm divorcing her already. Sorry, Bianca.

COLIN HILDING: When I was little, I don't understand why they include this still. When I was little, I always thought, she wrote, raisins were a fruit on its own grapes. And then she crossed and scribbled it all out. So the entire answer is scribbled out to the point where I can't really read it, but they felt the need to keep this on the page. This one you're going to love, Ben. Her sense of humour will win you over. My favourite joke to tell is what's orange and sounds like a parrot?

BEN WATERWORTH: Um, I don't know, Bianca.

COLIN HILDING: A carrot.

BEN WATERWORTH: Ah, I get it. That's, yep. I'll forgive her for the New Zealand love. She's a funny chick. I get it. Yep.

COLIN HILDING: And what would the coolest Olympic medal look like? It's a medal with a maple leaf underneath the Olympic rings.

BEN WATERWORTH: Is it bronze?

COLIN HILDING: Um, there's no colour in here, so it's whatever we want it to be.

BEN WATERWORTH: Okay.

COLIN HILDING: We'll move on to her teammate, Sarah Kaljuvi. I don't even know if I'm pronouncing that right. So draw a picture of yourself. She drew somebody who looks nothing like her. Again, if you want to see these pictures, they're quite funny. Just Google, hi, my name is Team Canada, and look for Sarah Kaljuvi. She's blonde. She drew somebody with like black hair, and she put on the side of the face that we can't see on the picture. She drew an arrow pointing and put shaved side because I guess she has one half of her head shaved. She pointed out the shaved side but didn't draw it. There's a very long-winded, boring answer for the greatest Olympian of all time. I'll skip that. The first Olympics I remember watching was Salt Lake City. If I could be any superhero, it would be Jean Grey. So not Teleporter. I don't know why. My favourite ice cream is chocolate brownie cookie dough. If I were a baseball player, my walk-up music would be The Beast by Tech Nine and Busta Rhymes. Are you familiar with Tech Nine and Busta Rhymes?

BEN WATERWORTH: It's my ringtone. Um, like, love it. One of the best.

COLIN HILDING: The best nickname I've ever been called. This actually fits in with their name, but it's also what Ben calls most of his wives, Juvie. You have to see the picture on this. What the coolest Olympic medal would look like. She wrote that it's an Olympic burger, obviously. But to me, this looks like some high-tech death star with the Olympic rings in the middle. It's actually extraordinary art. In a movie about my life, I would be played by Charlize Theron. If I weren't an athlete, then I would be the Cookie Monster.

BEN WATERWORTH: Who wouldn't be?

COLIN HILDING: I mean, eventually these athletes have to get a real job and her job is going to be the Cookie Monster, apparently, which makes total sense that her guilty pleasure snack is cheesecake. She should be the cheesecake monster, not the Cookie Monster. My favourite song lyric is, We in a fight to the finish, so why not fight till you finished, by Jules Santana, The Second Coming. Are you familiar with Jules Santana, The Second Coming?

BEN WATERWORTH: That was my ringtone until the Buster Rhymes one came on. So, yeah.

COLIN HILDING: Most recent TV show I binge-watched was The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Draw a picture of a Canadian animal. Everybody but Gavin Schmidt knows the moose is the only answer.

BEN WATERWORTH: What about a beaver?

COLIN HILDING: Nobody's done a beaver yet. Maybe that's what Gavin Schmidt's was. It was like a beaver without a tail or something. My favourite place in the world to compete is Hong Kong. Doping, I'm not gonna make any accusations. My favourite video game is Mario Kart 64. My biggest fear in life is missing a meal.

BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, terrifying.

COLIN HILDING: And I can't live without my support system. So that is our rugby team. That's what led them to the bronze.

BEN WATERWORTH: Do they ask them different questions each of the players? Cause I swear like there's different questions to everyone you've read out.

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, I think there's probably a half dozen different questionnaires out there and it's just random, whoever gets which one.

BEN WATERWORTH: Right. Okay then. Well, there you go. I will put Bianca on the list and she will...

COLIN HILDING: Strike one of your juvies off.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes. Well, the gymnastics is on again tomorrow. I didn't actually see the Americans perform. I think that was when I was in bed. So we'll get to...

COLIN HILDING: It was the men's gymnastics on today.

BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, well, look, you know, I'm open to experimenting. So we'll see how we go. It's not legal in this country yet, but I'm sure it will be one day. Two Australian fan messages. No, we won't go through too many of these because a lot of these are kind of bland and boring. I found one, an interesting one here though. This one kind of relates to you in a way, Colin. No, I'm not trying to find your future husband, only if you want one again. This one's from Howard Bird, overseas fan. Hi, this is to Steven Bird. Hi Steven, the Canadian side of the Bird family are really impressed with you making the Olympics for the second time. All the best for the heats and finals. Say hi to Mark and Averill for us. Cheers, Howard Bird. So clearly related to Averill Levine. I mean, that's the only Canadian Averill that I know. I have no idea who the hell Steven Bird is.

COLIN HILDING: But there are lots of birds here.

BEN WATERWORTH: Well, a lot apparently. A lot of people are trying to steal away my future wife and I'm not liking these messages to Brit. Sarah Harris, an overseas fan. So happy for you. Congratulations, I'm an Aussie in UK. That's great. This one from Adrian of Victoria to one of our rugby players, Charlotte Castleick. Hi, I'm Adrian. A dog. No, it doesn't say that. Well done. You just made yourself a fan. You were killing against Canada. That's a bit harsh. Like I didn't see any dead Canadians on the field. In the Olympics, spelt O-L-I-M-P-I-C-S. To you and the rest of the team, bring home the gold ladies, Australia.

COLIN HILDING: Australian ebonics at its best here.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yep, exactly. I love how the AOC actually like spellcheck these beforehand. Jake, overseas fan, to Chloe Dalton. A lot of Canadian messages today. I just watched your game against the Canadian Olympic team. Wow, so not only does she play rugby, she took on the entire Canadian Olympic team. Jake says, and wanted to say, you did great. Oh, isn't that sweet? Just those damn Canadian Olympians. I could have take them on. And this one's from Danny in Queensland, to David Morgan. And don't ask me what he competes in. I wouldn't have a clue. The message says, go Morgo.

COLIN HILDING: Morgo?

BEN WATERWORTH: Morgo, yep. That's about it.

COLIN HILDING: Does everybody have to have a shortened name like that in Australia?

BEN WATERWORTH: Yep, this is Australia.

COLIN HILDING: Berto, Borgo.

BEN WATERWORTH: Come on. You should know this about Australia by now. We always have to. All right, so are we literally sending a fan message to the one and only Dane Sampson? I mean, is there anyone else today to Sampso?

COLIN HILDING: Oh, it has to be Sampso.

BEN WATERWORTH: All right, let's-

COLIN HILDING: Can we just end everything we say in the message? Can we just end it with an O?

BEN WATERWORTH: Absolutely. Can you send a fan message to Dane Sampson? Sampso, your name. Off the podium, why not? That's original. This is great.

COLIN HILDING: O-T-P-O? O-T-P-O?

BEN WATERWORTH: Off-to. We're big in the shooting circles. They love us. I just want to quickly point out too, we talked about Canada coverage showing former Olympians watching Olympic races. In Australia, we cut to the lounge room of the Australian Olympic Village and get to see swimmers sitting on a couch on their phone. That's apparently worth showing.

COLIN HILDING: See, here in Canada, there's still a novelty, like we're doing good at swimming. This is exciting. Our greatest swimmer of all time is watching this. In Australia, it is just such second nature to be winning in swimming. That you're sitting there tweeting while your teammates are winning a gold.

BEN WATERWORTH: They literally cut to this room as Sun Yung's on his victory lap, and they're all like, oh, and there's Mack Horton sitting on the couch, on his phone. I wonder if he's thinking about Sun Yung right now. Probably tweeting about him. Such is the care factor of Australia on Sun Yung, that we just need to see our gold medallist on the couch on Twitter.

COLIN HILDING: Playing Candy Crush. Meanwhile, there is like a world records being set out in the pool.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, exactly.

COLIN HILDING: Pokemon Go takes the precedent here.

BEN WATERWORTH: The message I've written here, well done, Sampso, on your 37th place-O, all the best-O. That'll do. All right. Thank you, Dane. Now, just before we wrap it up for the day, we're obviously starting off this very big Flynn-Flon 2028 Olympic bid, Colin, which Jarrod, of course, you mentioned Flynn-Flon, Jarrod put his hand up. It's already taking the city by storm. All 5,000 people and 200 people on the other side of the border are loving it. I found six strange and remarkable facts about Flynn-Flon. Do you want to hear these? Because these are exciting. This is why the Olympics will be there in 12 years' time.

COLIN HILDING: This is why you know more about Canada than I do. I'm interested to hear this.

BEN WATERWORTH: Well, we discovered this one yesterday. Flynn-Flon is named after a science fiction character. You know, he was a science fiction character of Josiah Flynn Tabarty Flontane, Flonatin, from the 1905 book, The Sunless City. That is a magnificent book. The mindless prospectors who discovered large mineral deposits near the future side of the town found a copy of the book nearby. So basically a bunch of miners have gone like, Oh, yeah, well, there's a book. Oh, let's name it after Josiah Flynn Tabarty Flynn. Like, that's what it comes about. Like, what if they discovered, like, I don't know, Moby Dick? Oh, let's call the town Dick. I don't know. The second fact, I know you know this one, Colin, at least 17 NHL players have come out of the town of five and a half thousand people, including Hall of Famer Bobby Clark and Ken Baumgartner. Yes, I know. In the last decade, Flintlawn was home to Canada's largest legal grow op, known as the Ganger Mine, because it grew pot in an underground mine. It supplied Health Canada's medical marijuana needs. It was a stoner town.

COLIN HILDING: Now that explains why they named it Flintlawn.

BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, this is such an Olympic city. In the 1950s, Flintlawn flirted with independents from Manitoba, the Flintlawn Chamber of Commerce very briefly considered to carve out a large chunk of northern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta to form a new province to be called Precambria.

COLIN HILDING: So we're going from Flintlawn 2028 to Flintlawn Secession 2028.

BEN WATERWORTH: This is like the Great Canada Civil War. It's not Brexit. It's like Flexit. In 1943, hundreds of servicemen from Flintlawn were invited to descend on Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square for a raucous reunion that lasted from morning to midnight, drinking at least one bar dry. As a dispatch from London noted, the manager had never seen Flintlawners in action before, and his voice was full of wonder and regret when he had to inform them that the well had run dry. Oh, jeez, that's not good. But this is the last one. This is a pretty big one. Flintlawn native Dr. Frank Gunston, or as we like to call him, Gunstow, is credited with developing the world's first total replacement artificial knee in the 1960s. Well, there you go. They invented something, Colin.

COLIN HILDING: I'm just surprised they didn't come up with a better name for it than just artificial knee.

BEN WATERWORTH: Flintlawn flabity knee.

COLIN HILDING: Like the Florida official fleet or something like that.

BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, exactly. Cityofflinthlawn.ca is their official website. And just a reminder to everybody that today at 8 a.m. in the city of Flintlawn, there's some walking going on. There's like an event here that says walking. So, clearly, everyone get up and walk.

COLIN HILDING: It's the beginning of the very long torch walk for Flintlawn 2028.

BEN WATERWORTH: 12 year journey around the city of Flintlawn. Must do a few laps. All right. Hashtag Flintlawn 2028. Start at trending. Day four is upon us right now. 15 gold medals will be decided today. No sports starting. All men's rugby sevens is on today. I don't think Australia is in a chance. I think Fiji are aiming for their very first Olympic medal in that. But we'll have medals decided today in canoeing, in diving, equestrian. Oh, come on, Birdo, do it for Australia. Fencing, artistic gymnastics today. Women's, I'll be on to that. Hopefully not in jail by the end of it. Judo, more shooting, more swimming, and some more weight lifting medals. Anything particular of note for Canada? You're on to the diving, are you, today, Colin?

COLIN HILDING: I've had no opportunity to even check what's going on tomorrow. So all I know is the one good rower we have is, from what I understand, Carling Zeeman. She's up tomorrow, which is the reason they still have all morning dedicated to nothing but rowing, even though we're failing at it miserably.

BEN WATERWORTH: What's the 10-metre synchronized platform today?

COLIN HILDING: Men or women?

BEN WATERWORTH: That would be the women, and it looks as Canada are involved, so you might have a chance.

COLIN HILDING: Rosalie Filliams in there?

BEN WATERWORTH: I just see they've got a list of six countries, and it just says Canada. It doesn't tell me who, but it just says Canada. You've got Canada, the US, Mexico, Brazil, Malaysia and Great Britain. No, China? Hang on a minute. That's not right.

COLIN HILDING: But they want to sweep the medals. They have to be in there.

BEN WATERWORTH: Maybe they just didn't show up. They've slept in. The drugs didn't arrive. Sorry, we don't want to start a war with China. It's already begun, but anyway. Nine days to Modern Pentathlon, so get excited. Colin, always fun. Thank you for your time today. Yes, thank you for trying to set me up with Bianca. I'll shoot her a tweet.

COLIN HILDING: I had a flintabulous, flantastic day today, and this was a great way to end it off. I have no other flinflonian words to use there.

BEN WATERWORTH: Well, if you have some flinflonian words, you can find us on Facebook, www.facebook.com. That was an F-word. Find us on Facebook. Off The Podium podcast on there. You can also find us on email. Well, not find us, you can just email us. offthepodium.hotmail.com or on iTunes. Subscribe to us. Leave us a rating. No new ones to go over today sadly. And also on YouTube, of course. But yes, we'll be back tomorrow, day four. As always, get excited. Thank you for your time. And have a flin flan flobbity day. And good night here from Off The Podium.