Tokyo 2020 Day 10 Review
After the highs of yesterday it's time to calm ourselves down for a quieter day as we are back to cover all the action of day 10 of Tokyo 2020! How are we feeling about the legend that is Andrew Hoy claiming another couple of sneaky medals? Is Canada set to explode after their massive win in the soccer? Are we missing the swimming already? How are we reacting to the Hockeyroos choking? Can we still believe an Italian won the 100m yesterday? How can we make golf exciting by commentating over it? And can we work out who is competing for Australia in the javelin? It's all here and more on another action packed day which you simply can't miss!
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
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BEN WATERWORTH: It is Off The Podium, an Olympics podcast, coming to you once again for a Tokyo 2020 recap. Day 10, we are getting deep and deep and deep into the Olympic Games of 2020 slash 2021. And after a massive, massive day yesterday, it's kind of a bit of a quiet day today. Not a whole lot to talk about. A silver day for Australia and a no medal day, but a pretty big result day for Canada. So, we'll get to that. But given the tantrum of one of our hosts last night, we've kicked him off because he doesn't deserve to be on this episode after throwing a chair. What a little baby. So, Colin's on tonight. So, we've only got Jarrod and I. It's all Team Australia. Athlete of the Day Australia already, Jarrod. We can call it right now, can't we?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Oh, absolutely.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, exactly. Welcome back, though. Jarrod, how have you found day 10 of Tokyo 2020?
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's been good. It's kind of, I suppose, getting used to not having swimming. But it's still been good, I think. I'm glad that we've still pulled off a medal. So we're still yet to go a day without a medal, which is great. But yeah, it's been good. It's nice to see kind of some of these new sports coming through. And I feel a lot of our fears have been confirmed with the track cycling, the 54, 56 medal counts looking a bit dodgy with the track cycling results today, if that's anything to go by. But yeah, lots of fun to see us move into these new sports.
BEN WATERWORTH: Particularly when our bikes are literally collapsing underneath us. A bit of a concern for our hopes going on there, but we will get to that. But yeah, it was, I thought we were going to go for a medallist day. I think our first day wasn't it? Both Canada and Australia was medallists on day one. But so it was for America as well. So we can remind everyone of that. But yeah, a nice silver for Australia in the equestrian, the team eventing. And the big talking point, I think, around this is the fact that Andrew Hoy, at 62, if you don't mind, has officially become Australia's oldest ever Olympic medallist. Won his fifth medal. So great job there for Andrew Hoy. Kevin McNabb and Shane Rose, also part of that team, finished second just ahead of France and well behind Britain, who dominated the event. And we will say, as we are recording this tonight, we are somewhat distracted by things going on in front of us. We have the Matildas in the second half against Sweden, currently trailing 1-0. And obviously, Soccer will be a bit of a talking point in a moment when it comes to Canada. And the Opels right now, surprise, surprise, are losing to Puerto Rico. But we'll talk about that as well. And the individual eventing is happening right now. Andrew Hoy, fourth qualifier for that one, fourth highest. So shot at a medal maybe for Andrew there, another one as well. So we could have one happening on air. But Andrew Hoy, I mean, like eighth Olympics. We already talked a little bit about him coming into this, but pretty, pretty amazing. He missed Rio and back for Tokyo, 62 years of age. I mean, we've had 13-year-olds win medals at these Olympics. Now we've got 62-year-olds winning. So while I felt old and useless, now I feel that I'm barely even past the halfway point to 62, Jarrod. So I've got a good 28 years to catch up. I've got a chance at an Olympic medal one day, perhaps.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it's nice and reassuring that I don't have to get off the couch yet. I can just put my Olympic dreams off for 40 more years or so.
BEN WATERWORTH: Which is incredible, though, for Andrew Hoy. I mean, we talked about this a little bit yesterday about this used to be one of those events where it was almost like a guaranteed medal for Australia. We won three in a row, of course, between 92 and 2000. It was always great to see the three-day eventing. Andrew Hoy was always part of that. So he was a bit of a household name in Australia for some time. So the fact that he's still coming around, I remember him winning the silver in the individual eventing back in Sydney as well. But I mean, this is great that he's missed one Olympics, he's come back to get a silver. Because I feel of all the medals that they were talking about us potentially winning, I didn't hear Equestria mention once. So this is kind of one of those surprise ones that we talk about that maybe no one was really expecting.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think so. And I suppose the other story come out of it is that I believe it is that Rose, he got a bronze in Rio and now a silver here in Tokyo. So clearly he's going for the gold in Paris.
BEN WATERWORTH: Which is good, you know, but you like to complete the set. We heard that enough with Jess. So hope that he gets as much coverage as Jess did during these Olympics. So, you know, kind of complete the set, all that sort of stuff. But yeah, I mean, you know, it was sort of I was kind of resigned to the fact that we weren't going to win a medal today. And it's kind of like, OK, fair enough, you know, looking around on the medal tally, a lot of our rivals haven't really gotten any medals. You know, Rock hasn't won any gold, so that's OK. Britain only with the one. But yeah, I mean, we'll take a silver as we've constantly said for Australia. This is definitely the quiet, quiet weekend. And I will admit, it did feel a little bit flat waking up this morning, not having any swimming to look forward to. Like, I know kind of part of you, as you said, like, I'm glad the swimming's over. But at the same time, no, I kind of miss it. It's kind of like, oh, OK, well, what do I get up to watch this morning? So I watched the hurdles and the long jump. That's what I watched. So, yeah, I don't know. Did you feel a bit flat on a Monday morning more so than usual?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, a little. I suppose it is that it's not even just the Australians are, like, so good in the pool. It's the fact that you have just so many finals back to back to back in the swimming, whereas the track feels like it's a little bit kind of stretched out and they kind of flip between the whole finals at night and finals in the morning, whereas the swimming really felt like the finals are solely focused almost in the mornings. So it is hard just being like, oh, this is a this is just a heat. And the fact that it's not race after race after race, I think it just takes a little bit of getting used to. But, you know, give it a couple of days and we'll have forgotten about the pool and it'll be all normal to wake up and not see medal chances first thing in the morning.
BEN WATERWORTH: One thing I actually just want to backtrack a little bit with Andrew Hoy, the significance of his fifth medal, we've talked up Emma McKeehan's results and obviously now being on the old time of Australian medals. Andrew Hoy is our greatest Olympian outside of the pool and the track. So everyone above him is either a swimmer or in the case of Shirley Strickland, obviously, track and field athlete. So to take that away out of the pool to kind of have that, that's pretty impressive. And looking at our, I guess, top 20 successful Olympians, I mean, outside of swimming and athletics, we have Andrew Hoy, obviously an equestrian rider. We've got a couple of rollers in there with Drew Jinn and James Tompkins and Matt Ryan, another equestrian rider and of course Rochelle Hawks in field hockey. So yeah, it's kind of good to see a bit going on there. Yeah, Andrew Hoy. I'd probably go out on a limb and say maybe our most decorated bald man in Olympic history. Would you say that, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I suppose you'd have to go dig back through the archives, but that sounds legit. I'd pay it.
BEN WATERWORTH: I mean, Grant Hackett was bald, I remember, in Athens, but I don't really picture Grant Hackett as generally a bald man. I'm sure Thorpey's been bald at some point in his life. Murray Rose potentially was bald at some point in his life. So yeah, but I mean, I generally picture Grant Hackett with hair outside of Athens.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, he's no Michael Klim.
BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly, exactly. There's a man you don't picture with hair. So I don't know if I've ever remembered him with hair. I think for Canada, no medals for Canada. But I mean, they basically have guaranteed themselves a medal because I think kind of one of the biggest results of these Olympics. I mean, we talked about the first game between Sweden and the US. Sweden belting US in soccer. But the boil over tonight, Revenger 2012, have been reading a lot on the social media about Canada wanting to seek revenge from being eliminated in the semis by the US in a bit of a controversial match back in London. Well, they've seek revenge, sought revenge, whatever the correct word is for that one, because they beat the US 1-0, and Canada will officially play for a gold medal in the sport of soccer, which, as Colin has kind of alluded to a few times, I mean, it's a big enough deal that they've won a couple of bronzes in this now to play for gold. I mean, that's massive. Obviously, we're hopeful that the Matildas can come back here, and we can have that Australia-Canada duel for gold, but it's still not looking too good right now. But I mean, I don't know if you caught any of this. I kind of had it on the background before, and it was a penalty to Canada, with about 25 minutes remaining. They got it, and the US could not come back. Their number one goalie go out quite early, injured the US, so they had to have their backup goalie. But I mean, this is a boil over. You think of big results when it comes to the Olympics, and the US women's football team is generally a team, you assume, are going to be a lock for the gold medal match, and this time around, no. Canada, our saviour, they've gone through to the big dance.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it's nice to know that if we don't come through this match, that there's somebody to cheer on in the gold medal match. But yeah, I suppose the USA looked vulnerable throughout the tournament, but just America, you always have this feeling that when it really matters, they'll just be able to string it together. There's just this self-confidence that they seem to have. But yeah, massive result. I caught a replay of the penalty and saw how excited all the Canadians were, and just huge achievement.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, it really was. And again, it's a shame that Colin's not on the episode tonight, because I would imagine this is up there as one of their biggest ever Olympic results. Not only to make a gold medal match of an Olympics in the sport of soccer, but to beat the US to do that. That's pretty massive. We know what a big enough deal it is for Australia to make the semifinals. This is the first time we've ever progressed this far in a competition of this nature. That in itself is a big deal. And realistically, even if Australia finished fourth, we will come away with that, saying, hey, that's a pretty bloody good result. A medal would be a huge bonus, of course. But I mean, you know, for Canada, again, it's like when we talked to her in Pyeongchang, when Germany made the gold medal match of the ice hockey, knocking out Canada along the way to do that. I mean, that was a huge deal. But it's interesting with the US, with the women, again, as we say, you often associate them always with doing well. They went out in the quarterfinals in Rio. They lost to Sweden in a penalty shootout, of course, famously. So as much as this is a shock, they actually have done slightly better than they did in Rio. And Canada went out in the semifinal there, of course, to Germany, beat Brazil for the bronze, while Sweden lost to Germany for gold. So they don't have to face Germany, Sweden. They'll have to face Canada should they hold on to this lead right now. But there are still, we'll just say at the time, there's 30, 24 minutes remaining, and there's a real chance here for Australia to equalise, but there's a pesky Swede to defend. So that's always the case, right? So hopefully, we can come back. The basketball, oh, the Opels are in front by two points, but I think we need to win by about 50 points, so we don't have any chance of progressing. So yeah, anyway, outside of that, I think before the Canada result and the Andrew Hoy Silver, I thought our headline would have been a certain other team of ours who have gone out in a cruel, heartbreaking fashion. Unfortunately, the Hokie Roos did not do what the Kookaburras did yesterday and not choke. They did choke. They went down 1-0 to a team that has never made the Olympic semifinals before, India. But I will say, India is a hockey nation. Behind cricket, it is their number one sport, well, their number two sport, I guess. So they do love their hockey in India. And I think sort of the women's game there has been developing quite well. But a 1-0 win to India. This is all the headlines today. Heartbreak for the Hokie Roos. You even sent a message into our group saying, oh, what are the Hokie Roos doing? And I've got to be honest with you. I mean, I think the women did very well to get to the quarterfinals. I know they're ranked number 2 in the world. But again, I don't really think they were that talked up. And I think they had a fairly simple group. So, I don't know. As much as it hurts and it sucks, of course I want to see them do well, because they showed such good form. I, in a way, am weirdly not overly surprised.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I feel like I'm the opposite. I really did think that this, if we were going to get a medal in Hokie, it was going to come from the women's team. Just looking at their form leading up, they haven't had posted huge scores, but they've just been so consistent in defence and getting ahead earlier in matches and being able to hold out a lead. And even watching this match today, they created so many chances. I feel like the Indian team, outside of the goal that they scored, they really weren't down the attacking end of the field for much of the game. They just defended really well and held that lead. But the Australians, it was just so frustrating to watch, because anytime they got a penalty corner or something, they just tried to make it overly complicated and pass around amongst each other instead of just taking it outside the circle and then using the drag flick to just go straight for goal, straight off the penalty corner. There was just too much passing and trying to find space instead of just flicking it in as fast as they could and just hoping for a deflection, which I think if they'd done that, they probably would have been able to equalise and potentially walk away with the win.
BEN WATERWORTH: That frustrating, the last one they had where they didn't go straight for the shot, they kind of did a little flicky passing around and it's kind of like, what are you doing? This is probably your last chance to have a shot. Just shoot, just shoot the damn thing. But yeah, it was kind of emotional scenes, watching the girls fall to the ground, crying. The interview Channel 7 had with one of the players, and she had to keep stepping away because she was crying. So yeah, it was hard. But if you're going to lose to anyone, lose to India. I think it's great, but the men and the women are both into the semifinals for India. So I mean, that's great. I know Australia and India have a bit of a rivalry when it comes. I mean, you would never celebrate being beaten by India in cricket. But I kind of think that, you know, I'm fine losing to India. I'd rather lose to India than the Dutch or New Zealand or England. I mean, India is a side I can get behind losing to, kind of like Fiji in the women's rugby.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think too, like you said, the fact that you would expect India to have gotten further in the women's game, given the success of their men's team in Olympics. So obviously, huge bonus for them. It's not like they're just a random team that we lost to, even though they did love to say on the commentary that we only lost to them four times in our last 40 whatever meetings or whatever.
BEN WATERWORTH: But a few things to say about the commentary of that today when we get to that segment.
JARROD LOOBEEK: But yeah, no, I like it definitely wasn't a moment where you felt robbed or annoyed at them. Like it was genuinely happy for them to have made it that far and to have both the men's and women's teams in the same finals. That's obviously a huge achievement for them.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think the stat I kept seeing was that they'd never qualified for an Olympics until Rio where they lost every single game. And then all of a sudden they come here to make the semifinals. So yeah, that's pretty good. They will play Argentina for a spot in the final and Netherlands beat New Zealand. So luckily, New Zealand are out too. That's a good that's good news. Spain and Great Britain, I believe, are playing right now. So we will have to see how that plays out. The men, of course, Kukaburras, will play tomorrow for a spot in that gold medal match against Germany. The other one is between India and Belgium. Belgium, steamed hockey nation of Belgium. I know they're somewhat decent, but I've never realised that they're this good. So that's an interesting little play there. Germany though, tough side. I would almost expect Germany to decide you'd want to play in the final, but we'll see how we go when it comes to that. In terms of medal results today, again, what we've got available to us, because as often is the case, we're recording while there is still stuff going on. Athletics, we had a few things. Can you mention before about how we have sort of events in the morning and then events in the evening? I don't know how I feel about that. It's kind of a bit confusing. The Men's 3000 steeplechase has just wrapped up not that long ago, and it is gold to Morocco. Soufiane Bacali, head of Ethiopia and Kenya. So congratulations there. I believe that's Morocco's first medal of the games. The Men's long jump this morning, Mithiadis Tentoglou of Greece. Congratulations. Silver and bronze to Cuba. In the 100 hurdles, I want to apologise to the great nation of Puerto Rico. I called this woman from Cuba last night. She's Puerto Rican, Ben. Jasmine Camacho, Queen, finally got revenge for Rio, took the gold in dominant fashion. That is Puerto Rico's second ever Olympic gold medal after your girl Monica Puig, whatever her name is, from Rio. So great to see there. Silver to the US and bronze to Megan Tapper of Jamaica. Her name might come up again a little bit later on in this episode. She could be one of my new favourites. I like her and also because Bruce likes her. And if Bruce likes someone, then Ben's going to like that person as well. Also today, the discus is going to be decided as we speak. The women's discus, I should say, the women's 5000 metres as well still to come. Badminton, the men's singles is on right now. I can tell you Indonesia's Anthony Sinzuku Ginting won the bronze. And the doubles for Badminton, it was gold. Indonesia there as well. Graciela Poli and Apriana Rahahu defeated China's Yifan Jia and Queen Chen Chen and Korea got the bronze in that one. Cycling, it was a world record to China in the women's team sprint. Germany the silver. Rock the bronze in the equestrian as we mentioned. Oh, nearly a goal there, sorry. Took my head away from the screen at the right time. It was gold to Britain, silver to Australia and bronze to France. The individual is happening right now. And can I give you an update on that one? Leading right now is a Japanese rider by the name of Kazuma Tomoto. Currently leading, Andrew Hoy is still a few riders away. He is the last Aussie to go. Our highest place Aussie at the moment is Shane Rose in fourth place. So currently it's Japan, France and Germany occupy the middle spots. And so I'm not being a dick thinking I'm ignoring our Canadian friends. There are no Canadians in this event right now. So that's why I'm not mentioning that Canadians. Gymnastics, we had Yang Liu of China in the men's rings ahead of his teammate. Hao Yu and a Greek gymnast took the bronze. I'm not going to try to pronounce that name. In the vault, it was gold to South Korea. Ji Huan Xin ahead of a rock athlete and an Armenian athlete. Is that their first medal of the games? I think it is. And women's floor, Jade Carey of the USA won the gold. That was Simone Biles' favourite one, of course, but America still got the gold, so they'll be happy with that. Ahead of another favourite athlete of mine, Vanessa Ferrari, Italy. Of course, she's from Italy. And there was a tie for bronze between Japan and rock. Interesting. Shooting. China have had a very good shooting games. Chang Hong Zhang won the men's 50-metre rifle three positions in an Olympic record ahead of rock and Serbia in the men's 25-metre rapid fire pistol. Jean Kwik MP of France beat Cuba's Larray Pupu. Pupu? Pupu. Probably I'll say Pupu. It's funny. Yonghang Li of China. So Cuba had a good day today. Three medals for Cuba. Good job for them. In weightlifting, women's 87 kilos. Zhu Youwang took the gold from China ahead of Ecuador and Dominican Republic. The women's 87 kilos plus is on as we speak. And the medals actually kept flying for Cuba because they got two gold in the wrestling as well. It's going to be Cuba's record breaking day. Luis Orta in the men's Greco-Roman 60 kilos won gold from Kenchiro Fumita of Japan. And it was a bronze to China and Rock. And in the men's Greco-Roman 130 kilos, Mijan Lopez of Cuba defeated Ayokab Kajaya of Georgia. And it was bronze to Turkey and Rock. The women's freestyle 76 kilo gold medal matches on as we speak. And it's been bronze to Turkey and China in that. So, wow, Cuba. It's good to be a Cuban today, Jarrod. I need to check the fact books. This could be their number one day at the Olympics.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It could be. And I feel like in the long jump too, when I was watching it, they only lost the gold on a count back. They actually jumped the same distance. And it may have been the first time ever that they had to do a count back at the Olympics for the long jump.
BEN WATERWORTH: Interesting. I didn't see that. They're actually the one. Now you mentioned the long jump. I'm glad you brought up a track event, a field event, sorry, because last night we got a bit excited on the show. We were still recovering from the fact that an Italian won the 100 metres. Marcel Jacobs, the hero of the world, let's be honest. Hero we all didn't know we needed. Mario and Sonic, the Olympics, has worked out well for Italy. But of course, we were on air last night when we were talking about this tie in the high jump. You were the one who pointed out that they had the gold to two athletes in the high jump, to Muttaz Essa, Basim of Qatar, and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy. Now, what we weren't aware at the time, because we didn't have the audio on and we weren't reading the news, is that they had this new option, it's a new way of deciding the medals, that basically they were tied to the point where the officials came after them and said, you've got two options. You can basically have an elimination jump off, winner gets gold, loser gets silver, or you both can have a tie for gold. Now, of course, anyone in that situation is going to take the gold. That's a stupid thing. Of course, anyone would. No one's going to say, well, I might risk not winning a gold to win a silver. But this has been a bit of a talking point, Jarrod. And I'm going to say right now, I don't know how I feel about this. I don't know how I feel about the Olympic Games simply coming down to a, do you both want a gold medal or do you maybe want to have a gold or a silver? Like, how do you feel about this?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I agree. I read about this and it kind of sad me on it as well, because I think fair enough is that was the rules of like, we've got to this point and you both have like the same, you've both jumped the same height. We look at a count back and you're both on the same level. There's nothing that can separate you. Okay, double gold. But I think this whole idea of, oh, well, there's options here on what we do. Like, I don't like that. I feel like you should put systems in place so you can decide who wins. And if those systems haven't brought up a clear winner, then just make that the rule that it double gold is awarded. But just giving them the option, it felt really, it just felt weird.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I just, I agree. Like, it's just, I don't know. To me, it kind of reminds you of like a primary school, like, oh, look, we're going to be here all day. You may as well both finish first. Like, it's, I mean, it's such a stupid thing. Like, as if you're going to walk up to people and say, like, oh, well, you've got a choice. Like, I mean, I'm not even from New Zealand, but even I'm still salty for them losing the Cricket World Cup in 2020 based on, like, however many fours or however stupid a rule it was that England won and all. Like, it's, like, I feel New Zealanders should be dirty about that, because, like, this is just literally at the Olympics. Like, oh, you're both, as I just said to New Zealand and England, you're both the world champions. Like, why not? Like, and here you are at the Olympic frickin games. Like, if this is a world championship, so like a diamond league meet, sure, but this is the Olympics. Like, just, you know, like, it's just, I don't know. It doesn't really sit that right with me, but I mean, I guess it's somewhat argue what's the same as a dead heat in swimming, right? Like, you know, what are you going to do? Get them out of the pool and say, have a swim off?
JARROD LOOBEEK: But at least they're like, that's like set in stone of like, this is the rule if this happens. It was just this, like the ambiguity around it of, oh, maybe, maybe not, like, it's up to you. Like, what even is like a jump off? Just, I don't know.
BEN WATERWORTH: Breaking news, Jarrod Lubik, Australia has added another medal to our medal count in the Equestrian. Andrew Hoy has finished third. We have a bronze. Congratulations, Andrew. So his sixth Olympic medal, not bad for Andrew. Silver and a bronze in the space of a couple of hours. Not bad for a 62 year old. So, again...
JARROD LOOBEEK: Is that his first ever bronze too? So just completing the set?
BEN WATERWORTH: It would be, yes, because he would have gotten three gold. He got his silver in Sydney, silver today. So bronze, he's completed this. He's done the Jess. He's done a Jess. So good job there. Not bad for a bald man. Again, like, bald men can do... I don't know why I'm feeling like I'm being a dick to bald men tonight. Like, where is this coming from?
JARROD LOOBEEK: The high jumper from Qatar was bald. So, yeah, there you go. It's been a good two days.
BEN WATERWORTH: The Italian wasn't Jacob's bald. So, you know, there's a thing like be bald, go to the Olympics, win a medal. So, there you go. Two medals for Australia today. That's fantastic. We've got, what have we got here? Ten minutes to go now. The Matilda is really pushing forward. How are you feeling watching this, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Um, it's just upsetting. Like, I feel like, I know it's not, but it feels like it's already over. And it's just, I think it's upsetting because we had the goal disallowed, where maybe it should have been, maybe it shouldn't have been. They didn't show a good replay on that, so it's hard to tell. But just the goal that Sweden scored was a bit soft and just, like, unfortunate. So it just sucks if we lose based on, like, that effort.
BEN WATERWORTH: Just flicking over to SevenMate to see if we've got an update on the basketball. But I'm seeing they're interviewing an emotional-looking Andrew Hoy. So there you go. I'm glad to see at 62, we can still have some tears coming out of the old eyes there. I should really update the medal tally now, and I'm hoping that this might have been updated, including our silver and bronze. I think it really affects us too much on the overall tally. But China are waltzing away at the top now. 28 gold, 16 silver, 16 bronze, 60 in total. The US still lead on total medals. 21 gold, 25 silver, 16 bronze of 62. Japan haven't won a gold in a few days now. Jarrod, they'll be a bit worried. They got off to such a great start, but they're struggling a little bit now. 17 gold, 6 silver, 10 bronze. We're a total of 33. Australia is still in fourth. 14 gold, 4 silver. One of those silvers. We're lacking in the silver department here. 14 gold, 4 silver, 14 bronze, 32. In total. And Rock, fifth, 12 gold, 21 silver, 17 bronze. We know if Rock just wins two more gold, they're well ahead of us on the silver count. Canada have dropped to 14th after a medal this day. 3 gold, 4 silver, 7 bronze. And I'm sure they're looking, of course, to adding that medal in the women's soccer when that takes place. Now, I'll give you some Canada results in just a second here outside of this one, but the Patilda's got a free kick here, right in the box. This is close to where they want it to be. Seven and a half minutes remaining here. I do love a good wall in soccer, just the way they kind of... And this invisible spray, which we saw back in the World Cup a few years ago. It's a pretty nifty invention. Whoever invented that should get a nice little paycheck. Just pause this for the moment to see how this plays out. Is it raining there as well at the same time? Because I know I was pissing down in Tokyo before.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, that was concerning. At the Athletic Stadium, I just can't believe that... I know they called off the field events, but fancy letting them run when it was that slippery, a flat race, let alone they had the hurdles going. And somebody did like trip over a hurdle, and she just went flying like off the track pretty much, because she had so much momentum from the rain.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, that was a very wayward kick, by the way, by Australia. So well missed over there. So yeah, obviously Canada's headlines today is definitely the soccer. One nil win, of course, over the US. And it will be, I believe, on Friday. So it's a long wait until the final. So there you go. In athletics, in terms of the women's 1500 metres, three Canadians are through to the semi-finals. No, two of them are. Gabriela de Buey Stafford and Lucia Stafford are through into the semis, while Natalia Hawthorne did not make it through. In the 200 metres, Crystal Emanuel made it through to the semis with a time of 22.74, a season best for her, but did not quite make it through to the final. And there will be others that are racing tonight, and I don't think they've quite made it through. Now, we talk about the potential of a Canada-Australia gold medal match in the football. We will have a Canada-Australia matchup in the beach volleyball, because Sarah Pavon and Melissa Jimena-Paredes are through to the quarterfinals, where they'll face Australia's Maria Atacho del Soler and Taliqua Clancy. Clancy, I should say, sorry. They'd beat Spain's Liliana Fernandez, Steiner and Alisa Baqueres-McMillan. Two sets to love. And so there you go. A guaranteed medal round spot for Canada or Australia in the beach volleyball. And Heather Bansley, of course, and Brandi Wilkinson won their round of 16. They have two Canadians in the quarterfinals. That'd be pretty exciting. Danielle Lepage in the women's wrestling was defeated 7-0 by Kanoum Velieva by Rock in the quarterfinals. Sad news there for Danielle. I was expecting more of her. The canoe sprint happened today. Adriana Langola and Michelle Russell are through to the semifinals in the K-1 200 metres. Roland Varga and Conor Fitzpatrick are into the semifinals in the men's C2 1000 metres. Simon McTavish will not be through. He did not make it through in the men's K-1 1000 metres. As well as Alana Bray-Luffhead and Madeline Schmitty are not also through to that one. Track cycling, women were eighth in qualifying while the men were sixth in the team pursuits. And Jay Lamoureux and Georgia Similing there, two Victorian athletes, so I interviewed for my prior job when I was living in Canada. Both in those teams, so I'll keep an eye out for them not winning medals, clearly. In the equestrian, there were Canadians, but they weren't good enough to make it through to the final. Oh, an Anilia goal there for Australia! Oh, geez. Sorry, distracted. Colleen Loach and Corey Blue de Gaulleis finished 28th. So there you go. Bad news for Canadian equestrian there. The secret of swimming, I've got that on the background on a different screen. At the same time, the duet free preliminaries on today, Jacqueline Simonot and Claudia Holtzner are competing today. Diving, Cedric Fafana was 17th. Sorry, 29th. He's 17. I mean, the men's three-metre springboard did not make it through to the semis. And that's all the updates I have for Team Canada today. Colin, what do you think about that? Oh, he's going to throw a chair at our face. So maybe I won't ask him about that one there. In terms of Australia, well, I'm telling you now in the football, it's not looking good. We're three minutes away from playing off for a bronze, but they're attacking. They're getting aggressive out there, Jarrod. So they're giving it their all.
JARROD LOOBEEK: They're trying. Would have been good to see more of this in the first half, but, you know, it's going to push through as best they can.
BEN WATERWORTH: Um, in the men's team pursuit in the cycling. Now, we got the fifth fastest time, but I've got to say that's a pretty bloody good result considering what actually happened. Now, I was recording an episode for another one of our shows. I had in the corner of my eye, and I look up at one point and I see this Australian like flatten his arse, throwing a helmet off with blood everywhere. I'm like, what the hell happened? His bike basically collapsed. What happened? Did he hit something on the track? Because I saw them putting gaffer tape on the track. Like, what happened?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I don't even know. My reaction was similar to you. I was just watching, and I turned away for two seconds, and I come back and his handlebars are gone.
BEN WATERWORTH: They kept showing the replay, and his bike looks like it disintegrates below him. The Australian is kind of riding on the track, putting their arms going like, no, no, no, stop, stop. And even the coach is like, no, this isn't right, this isn't right. And then the replay that seemed to see like something was on the track, maybe like a groove or a nut or a bolt or something. His whole bike like disintegrated against him. He was covered in blood. His whole face was basically like he'd been run over by a bike. And then eventually they obviously allowed them to do their time again. But I don't even know which guy it was that got injured. I wish I had his name. But he like red. They kept showing his leg. It was like covered in this massive scratch. He had like scars all over his face, blood on his jersey. So I mean, this guy is probably losing, like I don't know how much time that would cost him in pain, but to qualify for them. I mean, we beat Canada with like one guy missing. So, I mean, I take that as pretty good, right?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I was surprised at the run after he got injured because it was like decent.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, he was he was absolutely in pain, but Denmark topping that one in the limousine. You see cycling nation of Denmark, fastest qualifiers. So basically, this is, of course, where they have the quarterfinal race offs, essentially as this tomorrow, I think. So six will play seventh, second, third, fifth, eighth, and the fastest team will play in the fourth team. So that means that Australia will play Canada. No, we will do Britain. Traditional rivals in all senses of the word there. So hopefully we can get that one there. In the women's, we were the slowest qualifiers in that one, I think. Oh, was New Zealand the slowest qualifiers? Well, what was the case? No, second last. Canada was the lowest. Of course Canada were. What am I saying? New Zealand were just above us. So in the women's, we are the seventh qualifier. As we're looking here, Sweden have got a free kick just outside the box with a minute to play. Looking good, Jarrod. We're not feeling this one, are we? Just not looking good. In the women's 200 metres, Riley Day made it through to the semis, but unfortunately she just missed out on a spot in the final. Big talking point, of course, in the women's 200 metres is our bronze medallist from the 100 metres, Miss Thompson from Jamaica. She didn't do too well, did she, Jarrod? She decided to pull up in the line a little bit and not quite cross the line. Sharika Jackson, what was she doing?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it wasn't great. I do love, though, that now it's just been a talking point the whole day. Every time I flick onto the athletics, as soon as anything comes up, they just mention her, whether it's that event or just a different event, like the whole day they've just, oh, her coach will be getting stuck into her, this, that, whatever else. It'll be, they'll shine like the 1,500 metres. And it's like, well, they've got to make sure they run across the line because you know what happened in the last race. I'm just disappointed because I was looking for another Jamaican 123, and now, like, it's not going to happen.
BEN WATERWORTH: I appreciate Tamsin when she's basically gone. I'm sorry, Miss Jackson, you won't be in the final. I'm jumping ahead there for the commentary fails, but I laughed at that. I thought that was kind of funny. In the women's 1500 metres, we had a few Australians move through into the semifinals. Jessica Hull and Lyndon Hull. Hull and Hull. Hull and Hull. Yep, they're through to the semis, while Georgia Griffith sadly did not make it. So it was two out of three. That's pretty good. We'll take that, I think. In the artistic swimming, because we're no longer allowed to call it synchronised swimming anymore, Australia are 21st after the first whatever it is, out of 22 swimmers. So there you go. Canada are in third, by the way. We may or may not have some commentary of that coming your way very, very soon over the coming days. In the 470, so this was interesting, the sailing. So of course, we've already got a gold when that were. Now today, basically, Will Ryan and Matthew Belcher in the 470 had to basically, I think, finish in a top whatever position, and they would secure themselves a medal. But the sailing was cancelled today because of the weather. So nothing from that. But looking likely, very likely that another gold will be coming away in the sailing. So we'll keep an eye on how that goes. Mention the beach volleyball. We've got Clancy and Artacho Del Soler through to the quarters. We'll play Canada in that one. In the canoe, we had a couple of Aussies going today. And I believe we got a couple of semifinalists today. We did in the men's K-1 1000 metres. Jean van der Versuytten and Thomas Green both through, and they'll both be in the same semifinal against each other. So there you go. In the women's K-1 200, we do not have anyone. I'm looking at a Canadian there. That is the wrong page. In the women's K-2 500, we will have another couple go through, or is this a different one that I'm looking at? No, we do. Jamie Roberts and Joe Bridgen-Jones are through, as are Alyssa Ball and Elise Wood. So they're also both in the same semifinal there as well. In the diving, Ozzy Xingli, 19th, did not make it through the semifinals in the 3-metre springboard. And as we mentioned in the equestria, we had a couple of good results there. We won two medals. There's about a minute and a half left in this match, Jarrod. It's not looking good. I think we're playing for bronze against the US, which is a shame. The dream final for Off The Podium is not going to happen. But again, the Matilda should be very proud, I think, of making it this far. This is one of these ones where I'm honestly like, I kind of expected to lose. So it's kind of, you know, it's not that disappointing. The basketball, the update, Puerto Rico versus the Opals right now. Australia, again, I think I need to win this quite significantly to make it through. I don't think we have much of a chance. We're only one point ahead of Puerto Rico right now. So this is going to be by far the Opals' worst ever performance, I believe, at an Olympic Games in quite some time. So disappointment there for the Opals. Handball, we don't have any teams, funnily enough. We're out in the hockey, we know that. I'm sure there were people who shot some stuff in shooting. Table tennis, Australia eliminated in the men's round of 16 to Japan. 3-0, disappointing there. Water polo, our men won 15-7, but Serbia beat Montenegro 13-6, so I believe we will not make it through to the quarterfinals based on that result. I can tell the 87 plus kilos in the weight lifting has finished, and it's a gold to China, a silver to Britain, and a bronze to the US. So that was our last medal result I think we were waiting for today. We've got the badminton singles as well. Which, do we have an update on that one? I can tell you we do. And it's gold to Denmark in the men's singles badminton walkover. What do you know? Victor Axelsson beat Long Chen of China to get a gold for Denmark in badminton. Did you call that one, Jarrod, before the Olympics?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I didn't. I thought you were going to say it was Djokovic given it was a walkover.
BEN WATERWORTH: Interesting enough, I mentioned before Indonesia got the bronze in that same event, but Mr. Jin Ting beat a Guatemalian badminton player by the name of Kevin Corden. Now, I need to check if Guatemala have ever won an Olympic medal. They clearly didn't win one today, but I mean, I don't know if on the streets of Guatemala, they're going on for a fourth place finish, Jarrod Lubik. Like, I mean, fourth place in the Olympics, if you don't win a medal, you take that, wouldn't you?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I mean, that's what Canada's happy with.
BEN WATERWORTH: I know, that's the Maple Medal, right? Oh, there's a red card being given here to... Oh, and Ozzy's been red carded. I didn't even see what happened. With... Oh, the Swedes are clapping, because I think either they're clapping that she got a red card or they're clapping that they're about to win. What happened here? Was this a one-on-one, and she had no choice but to basically bring it down? Is it a penalty? A bit of shoving, bit of shoving. Oh, she's grabbed it by the arm there. Oh, I don't know about red. Maybe, I guess it's one-on-one, but fair enough. Guatemala have won a medal before. They won a silver medal in London in the men's 20-kilometre walk thanks to Eric Barrondo. So, come on, Jarrod, you knew that one.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I should have remembered that one.
BEN WATERWORTH: You should have. Everyone remembers that one. Iconic moment in Olympic history. All right. Outside of those results, Sweden are now through to the gold medal match, where they will play Canada. The Matildas will play for bronze against the US, so we couldn't even get a Canada-Australia bronze medal match. Like, that's all... What if we wanted Canada versus Australia in something, right? We didn't get in the softball, and now we don't get it in the soccer. Jarrod's not happy. Oh, let's hear this on the news.com today, you thing of that. Speaking of other things, what else did you watch today, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: That's a great question. I caught the canoe sprint, which was fun. I missed out on the pairs, which was annoying, because that's the one that's the best to watch. I did catch some of the artistic swimming, which was a joy. I particularly love that I've got the underwater cameras this year, which I don't know if that's necessarily new, but that just seems to be better than like it normally is, which is fun. I caught some of the men's vault final, which was great. And then just track and field throughout most of the day as well.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, from what I saw of the artistic swimming, thoroughly enjoy it. It's underrated. I remember the joke back when Sydney got the Olympics, and mum and dad talked about, let's go to Sydney. And then we're like, oh, we'll probably just get tickets to the synchronised swimming. It's kind of like that was the joke, right? But I would have taken it. So yeah, obviously a bit of the track this morning. Obviously, I just watched the soccer, watched some hockey, watching basketball right now as we speak. Saw a bit of the canoe. I actually watched a bit of volleyball today, some indoor volleyball today. For the summer, I watched some wrestling, which is always interesting. Again, may or may not be a sport we will have commentating at some point during the week, because why wouldn't we replicate Royal NHG from Sydney 2000 to do a bit of that? But yeah, and a bit of the diving as well. There was some diving on, so I managed to catch a little bit around that as well. Now, shall we go to the commentary before we do Athlete Of The Day and Fails? I feel like we always leave the commentary till late. Now, you unfortunately weren't able to join us for the golf the other day, Jarrod. You're just not a fan of golf. Why did you avoid the golf?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think it's just a little bit of jealousy. Like most tennis players can make the switch from tennis to golf. And I tried it for a term of school sport and just, nah, couldn't make the switch. It's just too difficult.
BEN WATERWORTH: No, okay, fair enough. Well, Colin and I weren't jealous. We were happy to be out commentating golf. And as you can imagine, it was very exciting. So let's now cross to Ben and Colin commentating golf.
COLIN HILDING: And thank you, Ben. And thank you for joining us here at the Tokyo Putt-Putt Panorama. And if you've been joining us from the beginning, welcome to our number 31 of this 18-hole golf course finals, semi-finals or quarterfinals. We've lost all track. Sleep deprivation has kicked in. But if you've been with us from the beginning, it has for you too, so it doesn't really matter what we say today. And of course, joined by golf legend, mini-golf grand slam champion Ben Waterberth.
BEN WATERWORTH: Thank you, Colin. Yes, sorry, I'm putting on my golf voice today.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, I'm sorry. I have been told multiple times today I'm way too loud for the sport.
BEN WATERWORTH: No, it's fine. I really appreciate the enthusiasm. We could use more of it in this sport. My voice has been stuck this way since I started playing as a seven-year-old, but it's so exciting to be here. I mean, I can't think of anything more exciting to do than watch golf. It really is the peak of life right now.
COLIN HILDING: It is, and fingers crossed, we will be out of here by next Thursday. So things are going well right now, Ben. Can you tell us who's in the lead right now, as our expert analysis?
BEN WATERWORTH: No.
COLIN HILDING: No, okay. Well, thank you for joining us. That is our number 31. There will not be a 32. I've just been told that we're stuck here at gunpoint. So we will continue in.
BEN WATERWORTH: Sorry. Thunder, there's thunder. Colin, there's thunder. Thunder. Bit too much enthusiasm from myself there as Rory McIlroy is about to hit this ball. That scared the living daylights out of me.
COLIN HILDING: And this club he has here, we call that an open-faced club sand wedge. Is that right?
BEN WATERWORTH: That is 100% correct. And that was the club sandwich shot, which is very well known in Ireland as their number one thing to do in life. And you can see the way that ball bounces on the green and into the bunker. He'll be disappointed with that because he doesn't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it does get everywhere.
COLIN HILDING: We'll only use the clothes-faced club sandwich. Now, tell me, how does that trail, that jet trail that follows the ball, how does that actually happen? Is that something in the atmosphere?
BEN WATERWORTH: It is exactly that, Colin. It is the atmosphere reacting with the magnesium in the ball. And of course, the atmosphere here in Japan does it in a way that it turns blue, as this golfer here, I didn't even catch his name, I was so excited by telling you about jet streams that he hit it not on the fairway, but you can see another ball there on the fairway, which is a good thing for that ball. That ball has been training a lot for these Olympics. And with this trailer knot, this is an American, which is always nice to see Americans in golf. And this golfer right now, Mr. Janitor Wenner to Wind Twin, he has just putt this one and no, missed the hole. That's a disappointment for his man bun.
COLIN HILDING: And if that's his original ball, then I'm Arnold Palmer.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm glad that you finally admitted that after all these years and come out, Colin, with that. But can I just ask you the question that how great is golf? I mean, the kids, the women, the men, the dogs. I mean, the women, the women's where I'm at. The women, I mean, look at the pink shirt on our Chinese Taipei competitor here. Without him, the women would not be into this sport. This is, of course, his CT Pan. Much better than AB Pan, the other Chinese Taipei golfer. But I mean, the women, the children, the men, the dogs. The children. The sailors the other day, they just stopped sailing to come and watch golf, because this is just... Just take a moment and listen to the crowd.
COLIN HILDING: Unbelievable, the eruption that we're hearing here. That might have been thunder, too, I can't be sure.
BEN WATERWORTH: What a day for golf, Colin. Golf is the real winner here today. I mean, it's at the Olympics. People question golf here. As An to Winning Wind and went to 1-2-1. I think that was what I said before. Oh, what a shot. The ball in the cup.
COLIN HILDING: And that's the way to do it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Puts him in into equal seconds, six under par. The leader, I will say, is Sepp from Austria. And when you think about golf, Colin, you think about Austria.
COLIN HILDING: That's what I do. Typically, Goldfinger does.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, we know he's a very famous Austrian, sort of, well, from the same facility, being the place where they produce Austrians, which of course we know is where Hitler came from. And when you think about great golfing nations, here's India. I mean, of course. I mean, one billion people can't go wrong by playing golf. And I have to say, if you're talking about the fashion, we had the pink shirt of Chinese Taipei, but I'm liking this kind of blue-striped green and orange. This Indian athlete here, I mean, he's so good, he doesn't even have a name. But just the way he moves his hands to flow there. You talk about the stream, the ball, oh, shit, thunder again. Holy crap, sorry for the language there. I know this is golf, it's very professional. But the way he moves his hands, that's him going, I'm gonna be the ball, be the ball, and putt it. And talk us through what's happening right now, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: All right, well, he's getting ready for his patented Nunavut Badger Beater swing here. And the hands are coming back, they're tightening up. They're tighter, they're tighter still. They're moving slowly, caressing a club, and it's off! Whoa! And it's moving towards the hole. And oh, right around the hole.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's always very important.
COLIN HILDING: I honestly thought the Nunavut Badger Beater would not fail him.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's always so important to get it in the hole. You've just got to find the hole. Oh, and Colin, Colin, sorry. Sorry to get too excited. The Canadian Mackenzie Hughes. Now that is a typical Canada stroke. He's trying to find the hole, but oh, he's nearly got the hole.
COLIN HILDING: That's not the ball. He just nailed a cockatoo right out of the sky. There's a poor defenseless bird flailing on the greenery.
BEN WATERWORTH: I've got to say, Colin, in the esteemed history of Canadian sport, as we've got Patrick Reed here about to swing for the green, and he gets it on there, that's good for America. I don't think I've ever seen a greater sporting moment than what I just saw there from the Canadian golfer. I mean, you know, you think of 2002, 2010 Winter Olympics, Penny Alexiax on track for medals at these games, the Canada Cup. I mean, that was just iconic Canadian sport. Listen to the crowd. Let's just take a moment, listen to the crowd. Oh, no. Oh, what a shot there from Gunn, the Thailand guy. Sorry, I got too excited there as I listened to the crowd. But I mean, Thailand fashion at its peak there with the man bun. But I mean, Canadian sporting history has been made today with a Canadian hitting a ball onto the fairway.
COLIN HILDING: That's the first time for everything. Now, this man right here, what country is he from? We know that famously, they're not allowed names until they can actually least place in the top five.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, I've actually been making all these names up today. This guy is from the Good Korea, so that's where he's from. Now, let's take a quick look at the leaderboard here. Now, the guy that I said in the lead, Sep from Austria, I'm making that up. It's not really his name. But I'm really intrigued here from Victor Hovland, just a name that I made up there from Norway. Equal fifth there with the Danish, sorry, very similar flags. I mean, I think of golf, I think of Norway. It's another one of these esteemed nations with a great golfing history.
COLIN HILDING: They like to golf in the snow there.
BEN WATERWORTH: Indeed. And what a shot there from Mr Fleetwood Mac from Great Britain. And look at the hair on that, Cole. I mean, marlottes and golf goes together like mac and cheese.
COLIN HILDING: Little known fact, Fleetwood Mac originally trained in the dressage, and not as a rider either. We all know that galloping skills are easily transferable into putting.
BEN WATERWORTH: Here's iconic Canadian Mackenzie Hughes, already named Canada's Athlete of the Year after his last shot and his long shot here now. Can it go towards the green? It is on the green. It's going towards the hole. It's going towards the hole. Oh, it's slowing down. It's slowing down.
COLIN HILDING: Something's wrong. Something's wrong. The ball. Oh, there it is.
BEN WATERWORTH: Check out the red shoes on that guy picking up the flag. And just a word of the weather here. We heard a bit of thunder before, but I believe it is getting closer. Of course, if there is too much thunder, golfers are scared of thunder, and they may have to stop playing. What a shot there from Patrick Green. Puts for par and loves life.
COLIN HILDING: Of course, this is only phase one of our 17 day marathon of golf. This is, of course, the technical portion. Coming soon, they will be judged on the clothes, as you mentioned, the fashion portion. Their hair, as you're a big fan of, and the talent competition will be coming later on as well.
BEN WATERWORTH: What a shot there by the Venezuelan there. Of course, his name there is Venezuela. I love how Venezuelans just call themselves after their country. It's that simple. But you're right, 17 straight days. And the great thing, people laugh about golf, but golfers don't sleep, Colin. They play 17 straight days without rest. It's amazing. The skills that these athletes have are incredible. You can see in the background there, Australia's mulleted magician wiping his snot onto a bit of a rag there and not realising it's on camera. But the excitement of golf here, we're seeing a man with a mullet walk onto the green as a ball sits there. Incredible. Now, is this Cameron Hughes again? No, it's not. It's a different guy. Mito Pereira from Chile.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, we'll just call him Chile.
BEN WATERWORTH: And it's bounced on the green.
COLIN HILDING: And oh, the cockatoo is back, and it pecked that ball right out of his trajectory. Heartbreaking.
BEN WATERWORTH: And look at the crowd, Colin. Just look at that grandstand. They are going off. And just again, let's take a moment to listen to the crowd. Oh, sorry. Every time I say that the thunder goes off, and it leaves a bit of poo in the undies, we'll listen to the crowd in a minute. Oh, he's Gabby.
COLIN HILDING: We can see there is a wave that's starting in the grandstands right now.
BEN WATERWORTH: Traditional Malaysian name of Gavin, and he's missed it. Oh, Gavin will be upset about that one. He's brought shame to the great nation of Malaysia. And he finally gets it in the hole. But I'll tell you what, Colin, he's going to be tied up and whipped to death when he gets back to Kuala Lumpur in a couple of days.
COLIN HILDING: Now, this also is still very early in the competition. They're probably on the fourth or the fifth hole at this point. Once we get into the teens, that's when the clown mouths and the gorillas come out, and then it just becomes extreme mini-golf.
BEN WATERWORTH: Alright, let's just take a moment to listen to the crowd before we see the shot.
COLIN HILDING: Let's just take one moment to look at the buns on that man.
BEN WATERWORTH: Whew! Wow, the crowd and the buns. This is a...
COLIN HILDING: Ben, I'm going to have to politely ask you to shut up. Some of our fellow commentators are saying the noise level is way too loud in here.
BEN WATERWORTH: Sorry, sorry. This golf gets me really excited. But we've seen here, of course, Ding Ding from China there. Get it in the whole fantastic shop here. Now, I was speaking, Colin, to former golfing professionals earlier today, including the likes of Shooter McGavin and Happy Gilmore. And both were very, very excited for today for golf. They love golf. All they want to do is golf. Golf, golf, golf. They wake up, they think about golf. They go to sleep, they think about golf. They go to school, they think about golf. They eat dinner, they think about golf. They have sex, they think about golf. I mean, golf is just all in the mind. And that's what these guys are doing for 17 days.
COLIN HILDING: Oh my goodness! There we go, finally a point. It's taken us 31 days, but we finally got one in the hole.
BEN WATERWORTH: Sorry, this is a South African competitor. Oh god, the thunder. Everything's happening here at the... whatever that place is that we're at. Of course, that is Nelseno Mandela from South Africa. What a shot.
COLIN HILDING: That's how you know it is officially an act of God that he got that.
BEN WATERWORTH: Mackenzie Hughes, not Cameron Hughes. Mackenzie Hughes for Canada. I'm catching up with the South African. Mackenzie Hughes gets it on the... Canada's sporting history there. A Canadian hit a ball onto the green. Colin, thunder, lightning. It's crazy. Take us through this shot here from this guy in white.
COLIN HILDING: Well, the goal is to get it into the hole, but he likes to do things the other way. He wants to bank it off of our broadcasting booth, off the canteen, the caddy's neck, off that lady's kneecap, and then into the hole. But, oh, a big miss there. Yeah, he just went straight for the hole. That's what went wrong.
BEN WATERWORTH: In the background there, the Australian just giving him the evil eyes. And we know that. Of course, that's how Norwegian were talking about before. Look at the transitions. Oh, god, the thunder again. The transitions that the editors...
COLIN HILDING: Ben, I am getting scared. I have to be honest with you.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, look at the golfer's run for the trees. Golfers do not like thunder. The crowd, the wave that you talked about, that wave has turned into umbrellas. They're going everywhere. And this shot here, I can hear some rain falling here too, Colin. Oh, more thunder! This is scary, Colin. We could be in danger here. We could be in danger. Of course, if we hear an air raid siren, people get confused in Japan. Whoa, there it is. People think that means the nuclear attack is imminent. But no, I think that means the play is going to be over for today, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: The Brits are invading?
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, maybe.
COLIN HILDING: Or the Italians. It has been a heavy Italian day. They're invading now.
BEN WATERWORTH: The play could be suspended or we could be being invaded. But we're seeing, oh, look, this Norwegian guy does not look happy. Chris got enough names there as Philanami.
COLIN HILDING: Jansen, Johansson. There is one positive of this, and that's they will be able to move up the wet t-shirt competition of the 9th hole.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm so glad for that, but Colin, he's our Venezuelan, Mr. Venezuelan. The brave ones. He's brave. He's playing in the train no matter what as he hits that ball, and his caddy's in the way there, but he does that so that he's kicked the ball in the hole there, I believe, to make it look better. Listen to the...
COLIN HILDING: That might get him a penalty.
BEN WATERWORTH: Let's just stop for a moment and listen to the crowd. Is there a better atmosphere than golf? Any sport? And look at this guy on his phone. He's tweeting live. He's live tweeting.
COLIN HILDING: He's tweeting, you should hear the commentary that's coming from that booth. Excellent, man.
BEN WATERWORTH: The golfers are walking off the course.
COLIN HILDING: They're all retreating. Venezuela will win this by default, just for being the only ones willing to get wet.
BEN WATERWORTH: Colin, in all your years of calling golf, I've never seen the excitement level. I mean, this is what golf is all about. It's the excitement. There's thunder. The Indian guy, he's looking at his notes. He's going, hey, I believe we've got the day off. Do you want to go check out the volleyball? And they're going, yeah, let's go catch a car there. Here's the Slovakian competitor going, oh, look, in about an hour's time, the gymnastics is on. I'll go watch some of my miles. Here's his, oh, more thunder. I've got to stop here. Colin, I mean, you're so brave when it comes to this thunder, you don't even react.
COLIN HILDING: Wow. I don't want to brag, but I have been struck by lightning six times.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Wow, you really are my hero.
COLIN HILDING: Six, six times.
BEN WATERWORTH: You really are my hero, and I thought our mileage would have strayed in here. I just, I mean, as you said, we've got 17 days of this to go. I mean, how do our golfers recover from here going off now, going to watch the volleyball, going to watch the gymnastics? I mean, our New Zealander, he looks too happy to be a New Zealander. I don't think New Zealanders are allowed to be that happy. But what do they do now to compose themselves?
COLIN HILDING: Occasionally, they will take a break and check out the artistic swimming. But yeah, it is that rotation of gymnastics, artistic swimming, and beach volleyball. And well, you can only guess where it goes from there.
BEN WATERWORTH: The standings. Give us the standings.
COLIN HILDING: Jonathan Vegas. That's just a name. I just couldn't help but take my eyes off of that name. Sepp is in first. That's not his real name. Thomas is in second. I missed the rest of them. Antoine is 13th. Juvik is 13th as well. There are a lot of 13th places. It's not an unlucky number. And of course, Canada's Cory Connors in 21st.
BEN WATERWORTH: Colin, Sammy Malmiky from Finland. 29th place, a Finnish record there. That is the highest Finland has ever been at a Summer Olympics. Good for them.
COLIN HILDING: By the way, these names will continue for the next six hours, so just feel free to continue watching this stream and reading the names yourself.
BEN WATERWORTH: Because you have paid live streaming here on the Olympic Gold channel, so you deserve to go through all of these names. Scott Vincent from Zimbabwe there, also a national record there. That is the highest Zimbabwe have ever been without the help of drugs. So good for Zimbabwe.
COLIN HILDING: And look, as we are into the 50s and only now getting to people who are over par.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Wow.
BEN WATERWORTH: That's a common trait about the 50s. And look at the facial reactions of our players here. Oh, god, jeez. He didn't react to thunder there. He's always pointing over. That's where the thunder came from, Jenny. There it is.
COLIN HILDING: I'm saying the gymnastics is that way.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, sorry. I often get the tie hand signals. But there's confirmation that the golf has been delayed. That's, look, is there a status spot? I can't even talk, Colin. I'm so over.
COLIN HILDING: It has been 17 days.
BEN WATERWORTH: Is there a status site in golf? Look, Jesus, calm down, Ben. Is there a status site in sport than seeing the words golf and delayed on your screen?
COLIN HILDING: I'm trying to think, yes, but it usually involves Great Britain winning a gold.
BEN WATERWORTH: That is a very valid point. Colin, I don't know if I've got anything more to say here. I just, as you can tell... I just, I'm lost for words. So I think I'm going to hand it over to you to wrap it up here because we don't know what's happening anymore.
COLIN HILDING: And thank you, as always, for joining us from the putt-putt panorama of Tokyo in hour 18 of our day six of our month three of golf.
BEN WATERWORTH: And thanks for that, Colin. Gee, I mean, you were just thrilled with all of that, weren't you, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Oh, yes, such insightful commentary.
BEN WATERWORTH: I mean, like, you just think of the Olympics, you think of golf. But yes, there you go. The women's golf still to come this week, so I'm sure we'll all be glued to our screens for that. Let's save athletes for the day after, because, I mean, God, is mine just going to throw a tantrum today? I don't know. Channel 7 fails. Colin didn't send me any CBC fails today, so I don't have any on that side of things. But do you have any Channel 7 fails or little caveats from their commentary today?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Just had the moment today from, I believe, it was the women's hurdle. I can't quite remember what the event was. But anyway, the American Walks out first, and then we get the great comment from Tamsin that she's used to walking out first. She was born however many weeks premature. And I was like, I don't know if that's something that you should be sharing. I don't really know if that belongs as the comment for this person walking out first. But just, I just heard it. I just couldn't stop laughing because I'm like, who brings that up? Athletes personalise like, oh, yes, she's used to being the walk to walk out first on the track because she was born three weeks prematurely.
BEN WATERWORTH: Did they do that with the men? Like, here's Jim from the States. He's a premature ejaculator. He's used to coming first. Like, I mean, like, seriously, like, I'm all for athlete insights, but sometimes it does go a little bit too far.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, absolutely.
BEN WATERWORTH: One thing, actually, I'm glad you mentioned that because I keep forgetting to bring it up. I go to my notes every single day and I never bring it up. What is with the obsession with commentators talking about athletes education? It's seriously, it's like, here is Sam Kerr who's studying a Bachelor of Science at Griffith University. Like, okay, are they just trying to point out that athletes aren't dumb and they can study too? Like, seriously, like, they always seem to point out that this person's studying this, this person's studying that. I don't know if I want to know that my Olympic athletes are smart. Like, I shouldn't be smart, they're Olympic athletes. Like, smarter than me, they can train their arses off to reach an Olympic Games. Like, why do I need to know that these superhumans who are better than me already are also smarter than me already in the book sense as well? I mean, I don't get the obsession with it.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, some of the insights are a bit odd. Like, I'd rather just have a little bit of insight on to how we expect them to go. Like, what's their history in the event? I didn't need to know that the Australian 200-metre runner works at Woolworths, and she's a checkout chick at Woolworths. Like, I didn't need to know that. So, yeah, sometimes it just goes a little bit far. I'm like, okay, I'm sure they're just filling up time, but just give me some history of the event and the athletes and how you expect them to go. Like, how have they been running, like, this year at international meets? Like, just the standard stuff.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, sometimes, like, the random stuff, I don't mind, but, like, sometimes it is just a little bit too much. And then it's kind of like, I get we're in a unique game, so they often will show, you know, you can't cut to the family in the crowd, right? You've got to have them on the couch. Like, the one they were showing yesterday with Brandon Stark's wife or girlfriend, they went out of their way to say, like, oh, and COVID restrictions, we can't even get into her house. We've got the camera set up outside her window. And I think they even said something like, they don't even know that we're there. You're just, like, being a peeping Tom filming Brandon Stark's wife? Like, what are you doing?
JARROD LOOBEEK: We know they've got a history with Jess Fox's dad and just filming people without their permission, so it doesn't surprise me.
BEN WATERWORTH: I want to see the news.com.au story of Jess Fox's dad, like, suing for, like, peeping Toms. Like, I mean, in all seriousness, like, don't let him sit. Like, they throw that on him live on air. Like, that was risky. He could have been like, what the fuck? I also did appreciate, though, that on one of the news sites, whatever they show, the Australian cricket team over, I think they're in Bangladesh, they all took a break from training to watch Brandon do the jump, so you kind of saw Mitchell there and his teammates watching him along there, so that was kind of cool. I did like today a lot of social media posts showing, they obviously had the photo shoot with the dolphins, with all the medals, and they had the great shot of Emma McKean with the seven medals all holding them there, which was a pretty epic shot. I've got a few commentary funny ones, but I've got to point out at news.com today you fail, because I mean, seriously again, news.com today you should be fail every single day. I did love their headline today, where it led with, Americans cry foul of the women's 4x100 claiming they're cheaters. And it's like, oh, what's going on? It's like, NBC, is there analysis here? Like, is Michael Phelps calling out at him? Like, what's going on? Their source was, and I am not making this up, two Americans on Twitter who said, oh, that didn't look like they jumped in before the swimmer touched the wall. That's not fair. That was a news.com today. You lead story because two Americans on Twitter were angry, Jarrod.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, I mean, what would you rely on? The two Americans on Twitter or the technology in the pool? Like it's a toss up who you go to is the expert there.
BEN WATERWORTH: I know. I mean, slow Newsday news.com today. You can make any news day fast, apparently. Dave Colbert is the name of our field expertise man in the one that we've talked up a few times. And I apologise, Dave, that I've called you. Who is that guy who commentates the field? Because I've known his voice for a long time. He's been commentating track and field as long as Bruce has. He is also a two times Commonwealth Games silver medallist in long jump. So I need to apologise to Dave Colbert, the esteemed Dave Colbert, fantastic for him. Bruce on fire today when it came to the women's 100 hurdles. Him and Tams and Love and Megan Tapper. Little pint size flying machine, knee high to a grasshopper. Look at how good she is. But I bought into it, I bought into it. Again, you may be hearing her name come up very soon when it comes to another segment. One thing I'll quickly say on the subject of athletics, don't know how I feel about these introductions of them coming out swimmer style. Like it works for swimming. It's a bit awkward for our athletics. It's like the 100 metres is cool, but like, do we need them kind of awkwardly standing there waving at the camera as they come out?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I don't think we need it because you get that moment when they're there on the blocks. Yeah, like I don't need it twice. It's just, yeah, I think I think pointless. I liked the spectacle of the 100 metres with the light show, but other than that, I don't think we need they do it. But certain like tennis events like as well, like obviously you have the walkout at every tennis event. But when they go like the extra mile and it's this walk from behind the screen and there's pyrotechnics and I just don't think it's needed.
BEN WATERWORTH: They did it. They try to do it in Formula One a couple of years ago at the American Grand Prix. Of course, they got the famous guy who does that. Let's get ready to rumble. And like he kind of got all the Formula One drives that was kind of cool. But at the same time, you're like, yeah, you can get away with this in America. But like you're not going to do this in Hungary. You know what I mean? But like, I mean, this is the thing, like, as you said, like we get that thing on the blocks. There was that great one was it at Rio or London when kind of like a same bolt basically turned to like the volunteer behind him and gave him like a bit of a fist bump, like as he was getting introduced, like that's where you want the pomp and pageantry, right? Like, it's just a bit odd, but I get it. Like, I get why they do it. The hockey, though, was where it was at today. And like I praise my man, Alistair Nicholson, yesterday, because, you know, Tasmanian, great. And again, he was back to form in the diving. Praise Georgie Parker. I think she's out there with Thorpey. Great expert comments. But Colin was talking about the cocky Americans yesterday with the whole, you know, losing to Bahrain or Qatar or whatever it was, and basically saying they played silly volleyball. Jesus Christ, we were getting a bit cocky in the commentaries, and more and more this got on. I did like this line from Alistair Nicholson. Yes, and the girls will be hoping here to avoid the indignity of being undefeated and losing to the fourth ranked team in the other pool. Like, holy crap balls. And then all of a sudden, it turned into, Oh, and are we going to channel the Matildas? Who's Australia's Sam Kerr? Well, clearly none, because as we saw, the Matildas didn't exactly do anything tonight. But then I also loved, again, I love you, Georgie Parker. Like, again, you've been great these games. But then I liked salty Georgie Parker, who's seriously still a bit salty from Rio. Many people question quarterfinals in the hockey community. It doesn't reward being good in the group stages. I hate when you have these knockout tournaments, and people then complain when the number one ranked side gets knocked out in the first round by a lower ranked team. That is the beauty of knockout format. Like, this is a big thing in the big bash, that it was always a thing that the number one team would always get knocked out by the fourth ranked. So they're now introduced kind of like the number one team gets a week off or they get a second chance. I get the second chance format in the AFL and the NRL. I understand that. But like, the beauty of knockout sport is that you need to be in your game the whole time around. This is the amazingness of North American, like, multi-round playoff systems. And you got the best of seven. Tampa Bay Lightning in the ice hockey famously, like three years ago, the number one, so they set a record for most wins in a single season. They won the President's Trophy, they dominated. They got swept for nothing in the first round of the playoffs. That was unheard of, but it happened. It can happen. I absolutely love the unpredictability of that. So I'm sorry, Georgie Parker. Who cares? Like, you can go undefeated, and then you can get knocked out by the fourth ranked team. It happens. This is sport. And I like an underdog story, even when it's against my own team. So, and I'm saying this as a Hobart Hurricanes fan, we went like 7-1 in the Big Bash the other year, and our first final, home final, should have won it easily. We got thrashed. Like, you know, I should be the one advocating for a second chance. It happened to us. So, anyway, rant over, Jarrod. I didn't like the arrogance of the hockey commentary today.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I agree. I think, too, the fact that there's two pools, you want to pull more than two teams through from each pool, because there's three medals up for grabs. In like the odd event that, for some reason, one pulls harder than the other, you need to be pulling at least three teams through from that pool, because if that pulls harder, then you want those teams to get the medals. So I just think it made complete sense. Like, in volleyball, they've got... It doesn't even go straight to quarterfinal in beach volleyball. It goes to round of 16. So I don't think there's anything to complain about. It's been like that for long enough. It's also not like they've been playing like a million matches to get top of their pool. It was five matches or whatever. So it's not like they've been playing for months to build up this massive lead. It was five matches within the space of like a week. It's not like we were winning matches, but we weren't winning them super convincingly, like one nil, two nil type score lines. So I just think it was a lot of complaining about nothing. I think the quarterfinals are fine. If it went to straight to semis, it would almost feel like we don't get enough hockey. I'm all here for getting a bit more hockey out of the tournament.
BEN WATERWORTH: And you go straight to the semis and it's just basically like, boom, you're going to get a medal if you win and then play off for a third. And like, this is a beauty of sport as well, that you can have a fairy tale like the Indian team make it through. I mean, I think of so many different famous sporting moments that have come through these knockout, the teams have gone on massive runs. I mean, we joke about it all the time, but Germany in Pyeongchang, you know, making it through to the semis, yeah, OK, they're up against Canada now. They're not going to do any, but they fucking beat Canada and then lose to Russia. I believe it was an extra time from memory. You know, like, I mean, who would have ever thought that? I think of World Cup soccer runs. You know, I mean, you look at Croatia only three years ago, making it through to the final. That was a fairytale back in 98 when they made it through to the semifinals. You know, Australia itself nearly made it through the quarter in 2006 when we were cheated out by Italy. I mean, so many famous sporting fairytales have come through this. And to me, you complain about it. You're taking away from the achievement of these teams that are capable of knocking off these big teams to make it through. So, yeah, it's salty Australians. Like, this is it. Colin was talking about this last night that we can bag out our own. Like, again, I love you, Al. I love you, Georgie. You've done great work. But like, it's disappointing. I get it. You come into this expecting to win. I get it. I was upset as an Australian. I was disappointed that we lost in the quarterfinals. But sometimes you've got to look against your bias and go, well, OK, on the grand scheme of things, this is a great story that this team from India are now going to play off, you know, 75% chance of a medal now. So, yeah, go wear an arrogant bunch of whinges in this country, aren't we, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Me? Particularly when it comes to sport, it just brings out like the worst.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jesus Christ. I do love the fact that I spent a majority today watching the screens of Seven not showing any live sport. Like, I swear, like, it was interview after interview, and here was another thing and another thing happening, and I was like, OK, are you going to show any sport? This is the Olympics. You can do that. I did like the part without talking up our new favourite man, Peter Boll, and they had the big headline on their giant screens behind them there in the studio of Unbelievable. So that was pretty cool. I do get a bit worried, though, the way we talk up these athletes to the point when, OK, it's an achievement to make the semifinal. I believe he's the first to make it through to a final, I think, in about 50 years. So again, it's an achievement itself. But the way they hype it, they're acting like this guy's going to break a world record and win a gold. And he might. I don't know. But can we just celebrate the fact that he made a final? I can't imagine Canada right now are going to promote the women's soccer final. There's a gold medal to Canada. They're literally like, this is huge. We've made the final of the women's soccer at the Olympics. Like, this is a victory in it. So we could lose 10-0 to Sweden on Friday. But who cares? We made the final. And this is what's going to ship me now with Matildas. Because I guarantee you the media is always like, got a cruel blow. Like, Matildas robbed. And let's test the waters right now, Joe. Let's go to news.com.au. What is the headline? Sam Kerr. Robbed by horrendous call. There you go. Classic form. Just, yeah, anyway. Celebrate the fact that these guys are there. Like, come on. So yeah, go on, Mr. Ball. Do us well. And yeah, I mentioned before, Tamsons. I'm sorry, Miss Jackson. I did enjoy that. That was kind of funny. If only she'd sung it a little bit more, that would have been quite good. Athlete of the Day. Hang on, what's that? Oh, we don't have any cry babies on the show. Hang on, what's that? I hear a baby crying. Colin's on the line. Colin! Who's your Athlete of the Day today, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: For me, I can't go past Andrew Hoy, which Colin's going to hate because he's Australian, but he's not here. So I just think I already had him on my radar from just getting the team silver, but to back that up with an individual medal, it is his sixth Olympic medal. It's just insane the fact that he's even still competing. It's just such a great legacy. And just like we said earlier, kind of one of these stories that nobody expected that the Australian team was going to get medals in these equestrian events. So to walk away with a team medal and individual medal, I think is just fantastic.
BEN WATERWORTH: Look, I would say that I was going to put up Megan Tapper because she just looks like the nicest human being on the fucking planet. She's so short, but she just loves life. And I just loved this kind of shot of her waiting at the end when I wasn't sure she'd won a medal or not. And she was just out there and she was looking in the camera like, come on, come on, come on. And she just seems like such a nice damn lady. She got the bronze in the 100 hurdles, if anybody's wondering who she is. But you know what? Just to stick it up, Colin, I'm going to agree with you. Because I just, you're right. I mean, shut up, Colin. I can hear the baby crying already. But seriously, we're going to have so many Canadians in Beijing next year, I guarantee it. But it is a pretty bloody big deal for Andrew Hoy to do this. In 62, like, I didn't, I remember like a week before the Olympics, realising he was even on the team. Like, that's pretty crazy that this guy has come back after missing Rio. Like, I'm sure nobody like, we reached out to him after Rio to try and get him on the show. And I think kind of it was like a very close and kind of communication fell through. So yeah, we're definitely going to try for him again. I mean, to equate Andrew Hoy's legacy now in Australian Olympic history, six medals is now equal tied with the legendary Murray Rose. So he and Murray Rose are the only Australians who have won six medals. Obviously, there's a few that have won a few more there. But I mean, crazy, absolutely crazy there to think that. So Andrew Hoy has now won more medals than Shane Gould. So that is putting that into context. So now I'm with you. And plus more bald men should be. Shut up, Colin, stop crying. Jesus Christ. We're going to get a lot of abuse on the show tomorrow, aren't we? Like a lot of abuse. Yeah, exactly. So speaking of tomorrow, actually, no, let's do it. Let's do a Feed The Dreams. We didn't do one of these yesterday, so I feel we need to update this. I mean, it's got to be to the Canadian women's soccer team, doesn't it? What are we saying? Suck it, America. Nice, ball-kicking girls. Give Sweden an Abba solutely thrashing. Does that make sense? Maybe. That's good to me. Colin Crybaby from Win. I can't put Winnipeg. It doesn't fit. Colin Crybaby Winnipeg. Winip. Fuck it. Colin Crybaby Manitoba. What is their initial? Is it MT? I think it's MT. Well, it's Montana. All right, let's put this on air. Colin Hilding at gmail.com. I'm not even going to try and hide it. There you go, Colin. Some more spam for the inbox. Let's view some messages here. All right, I'm going to scroll off the first few pages here, because I feel like the juicy ones are down on that page are at least 12, aren't they? You know, I'm getting really sick of kind of best of luck. Go Team Canada, you are doing us proud. Like, come on, Canada, where's the sass? I know you're a nice country, but you know, goodness here. All right, here we go. Jean-Luc Collette, kick some butt. Okay, it's getting a bit better there. All right, Ronald Field, Shine. Big Vanessa Amorosi fan there, I see. Um, let's see here. God, these are not fun. Um, Benafesh M. Kalesi. For Canada, who stands up for Canada? I don't know. You tell me, Benafesh. You're the answer. You've got the one there. Um, Brenda Walsh. Good luck. We will be watching. We are so proud of you. Um, oh, okay, here's a nice one. Mary Rees. My dream is, yo, see everyone in entire world. Live in peace and honour. Mother Earth and father, son, and our grandfathers gracefully. Praying hands. Love heart. Praying hands. Don't know if they got the message here. This is going to Canada, right?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I hope that gets printed on the tablecloth.
BEN WATERWORTH: Me too. Oh, he's a very modern one. Teresa. Go for gold. Woot woot. And the final one. Perhaps I'll go here. William Wallace. Giver. That's all it says. Great. Over on teamoz.olympics.com.au. Have they done anything new and exciting? A week into the Olympics or are we still stuck with randomness? Still stuck with randomness. We can vote now. What's our moment of the day here? We've got Logan Martin wins BMX Gold. Emma McKeon becomes Australia's most decorated Olympian. Peter Boll becomes the first Australian into 800 metres since 1968. And Barty and Piers become first Australian mixed doubles. Has that not been on there for three days in a row? I'm going to go with Peter Boll.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I'm really trying to get him that win, hey.
BEN WATERWORTH: I know. Peter Boll to me. Like, Emma, like, you can't take away from him. It's a given, right? You know, let's give it to Peter. And Catherine Moyer is now winning the Teemoz Trivia. So she should be. She's been doing very well there. All right. Tomorrow, we have got 24 medals up for grabs. 24 medal events, I should say, including got some boxing medals for the first time. Sport climbing is on tomorrow. You watch another Ben Waterworth athlete choke tomorrow because Tom O'Halloran is on the heats. He's on the board. He's not going to make the final. We know that. Sorry, Tom. I put the mickey on you. But I'm excited. This is actually generally one of the most exciting sports I've been looking forward to. Sport climbing. We have to wait to day 11. So bring on sport climbing. How are you feeling tomorrow? It's here. It's here, Jarrod.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I'm so excited. I think it's just going to be great to watch. Trying to figure out how it all works. I've got a bit of an idea, but just all the scoring systems and stuff, it's just going to be fun to see how it all plays out and whether it is as expected the one person dominates or if we can get an upset in the Olympics.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, it's going to be very, very interesting. Before I talk about some other things happening tomorrow, just to update, because I know I'm watching here a replay of the 3000m steeplechase. Clearly not live. So all the events have been decided right now, actually. So I'll say that the women's 5000m went to the Netherlands. There we go, they're catching up. The Dutch, good for this. Come on, Netherlands, live up to grace note. Sifan Hassan won the gold in the women's 5000m ahead of Kenya's Helen Aubrey and Gudaf Sagai of Ethiopia. And in the discus, Valerie Alman from the US took the gold ahead of German's Kristen Pudenz and another medal to Cuba. Yemi Perez. Look at Cuba go. Have a cigar. What's dying on the day? Get involved, everyone. Cuba's on the board. So that means that the updated medal tally, the final medal tally for the day. Do we have much moving in the top five? Nope. Rock still haven't caught us. But the Dutch are up into tenth. They've taken out the Italians who had a good day yesterday. Of course, South Korea dropping down the order. They're down to ninth now. So there you go. And Canada still in 14th. Look at the Swiss. Have we talked much about the Swiss? Three gold, four silver, five bronze, doing very well. The Croatians doing very, very well as well. So good for them. Also on the agenda tomorrow, of course, the Kukaburats semi-final hockey revenge for Germany. We're going to do it. Are we doing this for Canada? Jarrod, I want to do this for Canada. I want to get that revenge for Pyeongchang. I do love Germany. Germany is not a country that I like to usually root against. They're one of the countries I always like to cheer for outside of my few top nations. But this is big. This, to me... And I'm not to take away from the hockey rules, but this is the one. If we can get to this point, because again, this is just the story of the Kookaburras. This is what we do. We get so hyped. We get a good run, and then we just don't do it, do we? And it's just... It would be so good to make it through. I've got to say, probably, of all the gold medals outside of Jess, this is the one that I want the most. I want us to... I know we did it in Athens, but I kind of want it to happen again, because I want Eddie to win a gold, and I want the men to break through, break the drought.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, Athens feels so long ago, and just the fact that consistently we go in ranked as the top team in men's hockey, but we just don't seem to be able to pull it out. I'm hopeful. I feel like yesterday watching it, it was painful that it went to a penalty shootout, but I think if anything, that's got to kind of build your confidence that if you get into that situation again, you've got a chance of moving forward. So I just think that they've just got to go for it. I've got a good feeling about it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Chin up, boys. To put it into context, to see our record when it comes to the Olympics, we have made the gold medal match four times, only one at the once back in Athens, where we won it in Golden Goal from memory. That was back before they just went straight to strokes. We got the silver in Barcelona, the silver in Montreal, and the silver in Mexico City. The last time the Olympics were in Tokyo, bronze. Our very first ever bronze. But then you got to look between Barcelona and London. We went silver, bronze, bronze, gold, bronze, bronze, and then of course six in Rio. So, I mean, this is just, it was always the story of every Olympics. The men would go in as like the number one ranked side in the world and just never do well. I really do feel, in a weird way, to equate that to Canada and ice hockey. They went between 1952 and 2002 without winning a gold. Now, obviously ice hockey is a little bit more dear to the hearts of Canadians than field hockey is to the hearts of Australians. But it was just this long stretch that Canada had before they finally broke through in Salt Lake City and so many narrow misses. But I mean, not quite the same, but it's just one of these weird sporting curses that we have. And it sounds weird to say a sporting curse, because I know we won a gold in Athens. That's not that long ago. But I mean, it's just such an odd thing. You talk about some of our great sporting teams, and the Kookaburras are one of our great sporting teams outside of the Olympics. We can just never get it together. So come on, come on Australia. Let's cheer the Kookaburras. The Kookaburras is the old gumtree. We'll sing it tomorrow night, won't we, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Absolutely.
BEN WATERWORTH: 100%. Also, I should mention tomorrow in the boxing. Harry's up tomorrow, I believe, in the quarterfinal. So he, of course, is playing the Kazakhstanian boxer, playing, fighting. That should be the term there. Zakir Safilunin. I think I got that correct. The men's lightweight. Now, I need to check on when it comes to our last time we won a medal in boxing at the Olympics. I'm assuming we've won an Olympic boxing medal before. I don't know if you know this off the top of your head, Jarrod, but I feel that I've never witnessed Australia winning a boxing medal in my lifetime. I don't know if you remember one that I'm missing out on here. I mean, New Zealand's guaranteed to win one this time around, but can you remember Australia ever winning a boxing medal?
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, but it's hard to say because I get like sometimes the Commonwealth and the Olympics blend together. So Sydney sounds plausible, but probably not.
BEN WATERWORTH: So I'm looking here at the all time medal tally. So we have medaled in boxing before. We've gotten a silver and three bronzes. So I'm going to do a quick little flick through here because I like this. What I did when our wrestling guy is on, I wanted to find out, you know, when when the last time Antwerp was the last time we had not had a wrestler at the Olympics, which is something I feel needs to be mentioned more. I mean, Antwerp, that is that is 100 years ago. My friends, come on now. That is a that is a long time ago. So all right, let's quickly scroll through here. This is live on now. I know this is great podcasting, but I'm back to Beijing. Again, I'm pretty I just do not remember us ever winning a boxing medal in my lifetime. Nope, not in Athens. All right. So Sydney, you're calling Sydney. I remember our medal wins in Sydney pretty well, and I did not remember a boxing medal. Nope, we did not win. North Korea won a medal in boxing in Sydney. So good for them. All right. We're in Atlanta. We're in Atlanta. Canada got a silver in Atlanta in boxing. Good for them, but no medals for Australia in boxing in 1996. All right, we're back to Barcelona. What are your money here in Barcelona? No, New Zealand got a bronze in Barcelona. Canada got a silver and a bronze in Barcelona. So my guess, I'm going to say this, Montreal. I'm saying 76. Is Ben going to be right? No, he's not, because I go straight to Seoul and we won a silver. There you go. So technically in my lifetime, we have one. I was one years old. Graham Chenney took a silver in the light welterweight in Seoul. So there you go. That's your trivia fact of the day here on Off The Podium. You are welcome. You can take that around the water cooler tomorrow. Do we have anything else going on in terms of team sports tomorrow? Water polo, the Women's Quarterfinal. Yes, we do. Australia playing rock for a chance to play either the US or Canada, I believe, in that so we could get our USA Canada match up there. Who knows? I'm looking out for it. So keep an eye out for that one. But outside of that, I'm going to say probably no medals for Australia tomorrow. I'm going to I'm going to guess, right? Are you thinking that?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I suppose it depends if when's the sailing delayed till. Have they set a date for that or is just whenever conditions are fine?
BEN WATERWORTH: That's a very good question.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Hopefully they pencil that in for a day that we're not going to medal.
BEN WATERWORTH: One thing to pay attention to actually Tasmanian icon, he will be in a couple of days, Stuart McSwain. He runs in the 1500 metre heats. Now they've talked him up as a medal chance, and this is actually a genuine medal. He's fourth in the world. So, you know, there's actually a genuine chance there for another medal coming in the men's 1500. And we should also keep an eye out to one that I have sort of doing a bit of reading. There's a few articles floating around the Australian media right now of where of our medal chances going to come from in the final week. You know, people, there's, of course, the news.com today. You flash the articles of how we're going to top Athens and we're going to go across there to do all this sort of stuff. One person we have not mentioned once is Catherine Mitchell, the reigning world champion in Javelin. So she's in there with a bit of a shot, but apparently she's coming into this as a bit of an injury. So that's why they haven't really bookmarked her as a possible chance. But you never know. She could potentially do it. Have you heard much about Catherine? What are you thinking about our chances of throwing a stick long?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Is she from the Australian beef ads?
BEN WATERWORTH: I don't know.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Have you seen those ads?
BEN WATERWORTH: No. I feel like I'm missing out, though.
JARROD LOOBEEK: There's like one sliver of meat left, and then it's between her or her brother who gets it. And then the mum says, I'll go on, give it to your brother. You know, he's been trying to beat that record for ages, and he's on one of the dance machines down at the arcade trying to set a high score.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, I have seen that ad. I don't know if that is her. Am I actually, hang on, I'm just I'm just double checking here. Am I getting this two Australians in here? Is it the other one that's the world champion? Is it all? No, that's the men's. Isn't it Javelin? Am I looking at the right event? Because according to this, Catherine Mitchell isn't the world champion. I don't know. We have a world champion in some field event that apparently is meant to be doing well. Oh, no, hang on. Mackenzie Little. Ben, like this is why no one listens to. This is why Colin Tuck's tantrums, because I can't even get my facts right. I don't even know who our world champion is. I mean, let's be honest. No one in Australia knew who our world champions are in athletics, except for not Kathy Freeman. I mean, who's our last like? I mean, Sally. Sally was. We knew Sally, Pearson slash Mackenzie. But even is she the right one? I don't know. We've got a world champion somewhere in Javelin. I don't know our athletes. Who won the world championship for Javelin? Bugger this, I'm not giving up. Australian world champion Javelin person. Um, because it's not her. I don't know what's happening, Jarrod. I really thought we were going to have a super short episode, but I'm just being anal right now. Kelsey Lee Barber. That's the one. Come on, Jarrod, you knew that. Why would you correcting me?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Who's Catherine then?
BEN WATERWORTH: I've given these, I've given these Javelin throwers extra airtime. Like Mackenzie is listening to us every day. Oh, my God, they're talking about me. Kelsey Lee Barber, world champion in Doha, silver medallist in the Gold Coast of the Commonwealth Games and bronze in Glasgow. So, I mean, she couldn't even win the gold in the Commonwealth, but she could win the bloody gold in the World Champs. And I don't know if I trust her.
JARROD LOOBEEK: She's the one from that ad.
BEN WATERWORTH: She's the one from that ad. OK, Catherine Mitchell won the gold in the Javelin. Catherine Mitchell is in the event, but she's the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games thrower. Kelsey Roberts, our world champion, is the silver medallist from the Commonwealth Games. So, fuck, Jesus, Javelin throwers are coming everywhere, Jarrod. We're full of them.
JARROD LOOBEEK: We're going to go to the one, two, three, even though we don't have a third athlete in it.
BEN WATERWORTH: I know. Who is this other one I mentioned? Catherine Mitchell. So why do we have three? Who's Mackenzie Little? Javelin. OK, so.
JARROD LOOBEEK: So we do have three. So we can go one, two, three, no?
BEN WATERWORTH: Athletics qualification, Group A. We have Mackenzie Little. So she's already thrown. No, that's a personal. God, I don't understand what is going on right now, Charrot. I don't know. There's Group B. OK, so we do have three. All right. Kelsey Lee Barber and Catherine Mitchell are in Group B tomorrow. OK, good news. And Group A, Mackenzie Little will throw. And for Canada, because we're an Equal Opportunity Confused podcast, Elizabeth Galeedle will throw in Group B. And that's it. They're not good enough to have more than three, two, one. I don't fucking know what's happening. Um, Opals are winning 85 to 67, so they need to score about another 50 points, I think, to make through the quarterfinals.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think is basketball the same in that it's the top two teams and the two next best place third place teams?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, but I'm pretty sure I had a bit of a glance at it the other day. And I think because our goal difference points a difference.
JARROD LOOBEEK: 17 points down on goal difference. But do you know the second best ranked third place team is currently Canada? So if we were to go through, that would be knocking out.
BEN WATERWORTH: Which is rightfully so. So yeah, so no, it's a 24 point differential because they're 7 up and we're 17 down. So what are we now? 19 points up. So we need to score 5 points. Well, this is like what happened to Canada in the rugby the other day. They needed Rock to lose 33-0 and Rock lost 32-0. So we're about to pull a Canada in the rugby here. I think we need to score like 5 more points. So I mean, do you think Puerto Rico give a shit? Like Puerto Rico literally like we like Australia more, so we'll help you. Do you think like the coach of Australia he's just going to go, hey, like, like you're in North America, like Canada sucked, right? Yeah, I hate Canada. We're cool. We're Australia. Yeah, you're cool. Can you just like give us this? Like you're not going to win.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Surely there were some bribes that could have been offered. Australian citizenship place on the next Australian basketball team, although would you really want to after the performance this Olympics?
BEN WATERWORTH: Brisbane accommodation for 2032, like automatic qualification. I'm intrigued. This is actually quite intense now because it's now 19 points. So, well, it wasn't 19 before. Maybe I'm just again, I'm really not doing well at the end of this episode tonight. Oh, another basket of Puerto Rico. That's back to 17. So, isn't it interesting to think that we're actually kicking their ass, but we're nervous because you've got a score like this. It's not been a good day for women's teams in the Olympics for Australia today. So, the Hokie Roos, Matildas, and now the Opals. But Andrew Hoy won two medals in his hour athlete of the day. Oh, what's that? I can hear Colin crying again. Jesus Christ, Colin. As always, we'll be back tomorrow for more exciting action from the Off The Podium studios. Commentary wise, we've got a few events up our sleeves. Stay tuned to see if we've got any more happening tomorrow. Jarrod, what are you most looking forward to tomorrow? Is it the Hokie?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think it's the sport climbing ahead of the Hokie, but definitely the Hokie tomorrow night. Also, is it the beach volleyball tomorrow night? Is that correct?
BEN WATERWORTH: I believe so, yes.
JARROD LOOBEEK: So that one, that's where we finally get our Australia Canada match up. So that one will be good to watch.
BEN WATERWORTH: And of course, they are the hot favourites, aren't they, in the beach volleyball? Collins talked them up as almost a lock for gold. So, yeah, wouldn't it be nice to kind of knock them down a peg, those cocky Canadians, now that they're in the gold medal final of the, oh, look at us, you know, we beat America. Like, just face it right now.
JARROD LOOBEEK: You'd never get that from Australians. So humble when it comes to sport.
BEN WATERWORTH: We're incredibly humble. We are humble, humble people. Oh, look at this, we're 22 up now in the basketball. Come on, Australia, you need to eat a... Parker, I'm staying with this.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Three point on the buzzer, please.
BEN WATERWORTH: If you want to go to bed, go to bed. I'm sticking with this. Oh, we've got the rebound here. 90 seconds to go. Go on, number 14 for the Opals. Yes, alright! Stick it up, Canada! We've got the 24. So, what happens if it's a tie, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Who knows?
BEN WATERWORTH: Is it a shootout to Canada if it comes out as best of three?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think we have a little chat and we both agree that we go through, right?
BEN WATERWORTH: I would assume it would go on points four. So, I generally can say soccer, if your goal difference is the same, it's whoever scored the most goals right. So, okay, let's do some maths here. So, we went into this with 144. What are we on now? 90s at 96? 93 brings us to 230. Okay, well, we would be through because Canada only have points for 208. So, there you go. We could actually, okay, if we score more points, we score three more points, we could beat the French. So, we could potentially be the highest ranked third place team here, which would no doubt give us a better seeding. Look, I mean, we're going to get beaten in the quarterfinals, but I mean, you never know. India beat us. I mean, God, we're the last ranked team. We're going to have the cocky Americans. Oh, we're only against Australia. They only won the way. I do have to say, like, as great as this would be, that we can make it through. Do we deserve to make it through to the quarterfinals having won one game?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Oh, you know how Australians feel about quarterfinals. They shouldn't be in the Olympics.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, Georgie Parker, where are you right now? And the Boomers, I should actually mention the Boomers do play tomorrow. So, the Boomers up against Argentina, which is a tough one. Argentina, gold medallist, I believe, back in Athens, wasn't it? That famous win against the US for gold. So, that's a pretty trigger. I'm going to say, equally as nervous as the Kookaburras.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Is that knockout already for the basketball?
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh yeah, quarterfinals. So, I've talked about Jess, I've talked about the Kookaburras, but if there's one medal I could want of anything, it's the Boomers.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, are you talking about the curse in the hockey? That's the real curse, the men's basketball.
BEN WATERWORTH: Is it five times we've lost the bronze? And we remember Rio, of course, we lost like at the death, that dodgy foul call, where the Puerto Rico's going for a three, oh, airball! All right, here we go Australia. Think of France. Oh, 15's all by herself. Oh, what are you doing? You're right under the buzzer. Why would you throw her back? She was alone. Okay, 48 seconds to go. Just get a basket, you'll secure this here. So maybe the countback's not right. Go for three, equal France. Number shoot, number 14. Oh, you're dud, number 15. I don't like this number 15. You're not thinking with your basketball brain. Alright, number 12. I don't know any of these players. Do we know any Opals players? Cambridge isn't playing anymore, so I have no idea who any of these players are. Does Liz Timms play? Michelle Timms? Yes, it's in the basket. That's it. Suck it, Canada. We're in. 29.9 seconds to go.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Drop the three.
BEN WATERWORTH: Do you wonder if Puerto Rico here are laying back? They just don't want Canada to make it. Do you think the celebrations are Canada?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, some money changed hands based on this result. It was very close early on.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think so. Just quickly with the Boomers though, if the Boomers do win, we could potentially play the US because they didn't, they finished second. But then again, Spain are pretty good and they're our arch nemesis from both the World Championships and the bronze medal match in Rio. I remember watching the World Championships semifinal and we got very close to making the gold medal. I think it went to extra time for a memory or double extra time. So I mean, it would be actually nice for Spain and us to win to get some revenge. But I mean, it wouldn't be nice to beat the US in a semifinal at the Olympics. Wow. Talk about victories. That would be a victory in itself. All right. 23.6 seconds to go. 26 point lead here. I'm going to stick with this and we'll wrap it up. A bit of extra entertainment here for the Off The Podium listener. And I hope Colin's stuck around here right now to have this rubbed in his face. Oh, I hear him crying again. Jesus, Colin. You're not even showing up. Puerto Rico with the ball in the paint. Goes up for it. Oh, misses at night. The Opals excited in the bench. They've got it now. Hold on, girls. You're going to do it. You just have to maintain possession. Maintain possession. Puerto Rico has to foul. Why aren't Puerto Rico fouling you? They're not even trying Puerto Rico. Money has exchanged. Disappointing. They're fouled now. Come on, Melendez. At least make it look like you haven't been bribed. Now Australia is going to go to the line here. So you think they just, they think both of these. This will put us ahead of France. So there you go. We will get the easier one here. Opals need 25 plus to keep their Olympic campaign alive. We've seen the great, Channel 7 are listening to the show. So they've gotten, you're welcome, Channel 7. You've gotten our graphic up. Well done. All right. She's made the first. So they're 27 up here right now. And she's looking composed here. Australian lady bun and oh, she's missed the second one, 7.5 to go. Puerto Rico, get this and we're out, are we? I'm not too sure. On the buzzer for three. Oh, she's missed it. Puerto Rican hearts are broken. Canadian hearts are broken. Australia into the quarterfinals with one win. It just doesn't feel right.
JARROD LOOBEEK: These are quarterfinals. It just doesn't reward the top teams, does it?
BEN WATERWORTH: news.com today, you have found their headline now on a disappointing day for Australia women's team sport, the hookeroo's choked, the Matilda's choked, but the Opals deservedly through to the quarterfinals.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Never in doubt. Never in doubt.
BEN WATERWORTH: I couldn't beating Puerto Rico by 20, what was it, 27 points. I got to say, that's embarrassing. We get through to the quarters on one win, one win. Georgie Parker, what are you thinking right now? Come on.
JARROD LOOBEEK: There's got to be a lock for a quarterfinal knockout, right?
BEN WATERWORTH: You watch, we'll go on and win the gold now. We'll probably beat America in the quarters. Oh my goodness. So I'm jumping to news.com today, you here to see if there's anything. Ozzy R-rated reaction to dazzling run. Riley Day left the Channel 7 commentary team in shock, following an outstanding performance in the women's 270 finals. What did she say? Shit? Oh, Shinya's on. We better go, we're running late. Jarrod, thank you very much. I look forward to speaking to you once again tomorrow.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Thank you. It's been fun.
BEN WATERWORTH: And remember to like us on Facebook, follow us on all the social media channels, subscribe to us everywhere else, and you will have a great old time, unless you're a Canadian and a basketball fan. Sorry, the Raptors were a flash in the pan, and I shouldn't say that in my team. Don't bag up my team, Ben. Shut up, Ben. Let's go. We'll see you tomorrow on Off The Podium. Good night.
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