Tokyo 2020 Day 11 Review
Another day of Tokyo 2020 is done and another episode of your favourite Olympics podcast is here to go over everything that happened! How amazed are we that Norway apparently are as fast off snow as they are on it? How amazing was sport climbing to finally watch? How frustrated are both Canada and Australia for double fourth places in the cycling? Is Canada still celebrating over the soccer from yesterday? Is Australia still celebrating over the hockey today? How wild are we feeling about Harry and the boxing? And just how many chairs will be thrown during our always heated athlete of the day segment? Climb yourself up as fast as a Norwegian to listen to another epic day of Olympic recap action!
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
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BEN WATERWORTH: It is Off The Podium, an Olympics podcast coming to you today for day 11 of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on a day where no one meddled. No one, no countries at all meddled. None that count anyway. Yeah, no medals for Australia and Canada. So I don't know what we're doing here today. We're apparently talking about nothing. It's a weird feeling, but who cares? We're not Australia. We're not cocky, arrogant pricks. So we're here to talk about the other esteemed athletes. Esteemed athletes. Really? Of other countries, particularly a certain country near us, which had a very good day, and we'll talk maybe a bit about them. You heard some voice there, actually. No, it's a baby. No, no, no. Yeah, no, we've got him on the show. Here he is. Colin Hewittian. Colin, welcome back to the show. Good to see you've got your own introduction music now. Crying baby.
COLIN HILDING: Yes, I'm glad to be here on Australia's only Olympic podcast talking Australian stuff. So maybe I can bring a different perspective for a change, Ben.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'll tell you what, Colin, you find yourself another Canadian co-host, make it 50-50, and then we'll talk, all right? That's your homework.
COLIN HILDING: We'll bring Jamie on right now.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jamie doesn't count. Jamie doesn't watch anything. She would know what she's doing on the show.
COLIN HILDING: Well, she does now that she's seen the Canadian's pants.
BEN WATERWORTH: And did she watch any of the diving? They're shirtless. Also joining us is a man who's not shirtless. It's Jarrod Loobeek. Jarrod, welcome back.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Thank you. It's good to be back. I don't know what you're complaining about, Colin. We gave plenty of credit to the Canadian women's football team yesterday. You got nothing to whinge about.
COLIN HILDING: Well, we'll get to that. I've run some statistics when it comes to our athletes of the day. So good Canadian math coming soon.
BEN WATERWORTH: Three Australians and one Canadian. Wow, what a blowout that is.
COLIN HILDING: Well, I was thinking more three Australians out of 10 days, which makes up 30% of our athletes of the day without any other athletes of the day out of any top 10 nations.
BEN WATERWORTH: And yet we have more gold medals than Canada, so I'll boo hoo.
COLIN HILDING: I'm sure you won more than America and China and Russia and every other country in America.
BEN WATERWORTH: Let's get this over and done with. All right, I want to get on the topic. I gotta admit it, athlete of the day is not always about the winners. All right, this is the thing.
COLIN HILDING: I know it's about Australian winners.
BEN WATERWORTH: No, we tried to put up a French athlete the other day in the spirit of the Olympics, and that you were like, no, we're gonna have a great Canadian. See, we were willing to go to somebody else, you know?
COLIN HILDING: Okay, let's do this in all seriousness, like all jokes aside, I just want to flash back a couple days ago where Jarrod made a very fair argument where we were on the third athlete of the day we'd given to a swimmer, and he said, you know what? I think we gotta move past swimmers now. Fair enough, Jarrod. Ben made an argument, you know what? We've given it to a couple of gold medallists. I think we gotta move past a gold medallist. I'm glad for our 8% to 9% Australian licensorship, but I think the 91% out there would like to see some more representation. That's all I'm saying. So I'm actually, in all honesty.
BEN WATERWORTH: Calling for the equality.
COLIN HILDING: In all honesty, I keep hearing, oh, wait till we get to Beijing. I'm not interested in that in Beijing. I honestly think a good thing to do going forward so that we can showcase as many athletes, as many sports, as many disciplines, as many countries as possible. If we were to institute one country rule for Athlete of the Day, and if we were to ever do anything above that, let's get a whole consensus. Because it is look like, let's be honest, if this were an American podcast, and you heard three out of their 10 athletes of the day were American, you'd be saying, oh, it must be run by NBC, typical Americans. If this were a Chinese podcast and three out of their 10 athletes of the day, you would still say propaganda. It is looking a lot like the Australian perspective is being pushed a little bit higher than everything else.
BEN WATERWORTH: Okay, Colin, let's just take a step back. Take Noah back right now. First of all, I want to point out that I actually advocated for a Canadian athlete the other day, but I was shut down. I wanted the Canadian goalkeeper.
COLIN HILDING: I know, I shut you down.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, see? So you can't talk about that. We would be at 3-2 right now.
COLIN HILDING: I don't want a competition. This is what you don't get. It's not a competition between Canada and Australia. I don't want every Canadian. I wanted one Canadian. I put up two. I wanted one Canadian. I think honestly, if we're really looking at this, I think there's been way too many. But when we get to the end of this, if no Australian athletes are put up by the end of these games, we will still be at almost 20% of our athletes of the day from one country, and it is your country. So in the interest of our 91% listeners out there who are waiting for some recognition for other countries, I think it would be fair that we move on.
BEN WATERWORTH: All right, I'm just putting this out right now.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Apologies that I haven't watched every single event every day to make a fair decision.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, well, that's a good point.
COLIN HILDING: Here's the thing, I haven't. If I were to put up everything that I watch on TV, it would be all the Canadian perspective too. And again, I'm not blaming you guys. You guys only have the Australian, but you're also the one saying, oh, this is typical Channel 7. It's the Australians, the Australians, the Australians. You're falling for it. You're playing along with this. This is like seriously, all jokes aside, I'm not even this isn't even like an argument or anything like that. I think our athlete of the day, we should spread it out as much as possible. And three out of ten, I don't think it's being spread out a lot. So and I will say this, I liked your athlete of the day yesterday. I also think that in all fairness, if we are going to be spreading this out as much as possible, not giving it to all gold medallists, not giving it to all swimmers, we also don't give it to all one country. Let's hold off on not giving it to the Kayleys or the Jess Foxes if we think there might be a bigger story comes. That's honestly what I did with why I turned you down for the soccer one. So I'm like, you know what, I'm sure there are better athletes of the day today. I know that there's going to be a Canadian athlete that I'm going to be very passionate about, and that's the one I want to fight for.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, you look like you're itching to say something here before I chime in.
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, I'm just going back through the list and I just don't know who you're disagreeing with.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, well, for one thing, I'm disagreeing with Jess Fox because, again, great story for Australia, but it's no different than Tom Daly's story. And if anything, Tom Daly's story might be a little bit bigger because he beat the Chinese, the only person to beat the Chinese and who knows how long. So we have athletes who are on equal level. And I think if we were to be looking at this from the American's perspective, there'd be a lot of arguments of, well, why isn't Katie Ledecky in there? Why isn't Caleb Dressel in there? You know, why isn't this person, this person in there? So it's not to say that your athletes are bad. I'm just saying, let's spread it around. Let's pick our favourites and then let's try to find somebody new.
BEN WATERWORTH: OK, I want to start this off by saying this isn't grade three, four, five sporting carnival where we've got to spread the love. This is Off The Podium. Stop chiming in with the 2021 woke bullshit that everything has to be equal. All right, we will give who we want. OK, one thing I'll just say right now, we're getting really heated at the beginning of this. I like it. Somebody's, I do hear a crying baby still. I think that one thing that I will say is we never really clarified much outside of this because previous two Olympics we've covered, our athlete of the day was basically we each gave up a nominate and we didn't choose an overall winner. It was just, this is my athlete of the day. The only reason we've turned around and choosing an ultimate one now is because we've gotten a bit fancy on social media. So we thought like, cool, let's put one up there. And in all fairness, we kind of did that right at the beginning. We didn't clarify anything. I think that was me just saying, oh, by the way, this is what's happening. And then all of a sudden that happened. So my bad, we should have clarified this beforehand. Secondly, no, I don't agree that we should spread it around. I think it should go based on a vote and who we all put up. I don't know.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, you're going to do one. I'll say this. The question you put up, I looked for it. I could not find the story carried anywhere other than Australian news.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I could say the same thing about Penny Alexia. I didn't find it anywhere else.
COLIN HILDING: I saw it in other places. I saw it in other places, too. Well, I'm not arguing that choice. I'm saying if we're giving three out of 10, 30 percent to one country, it does look a little slanted. And let's acknowledge we have 91 percent of our listeners out there who maybe want to see a different perspective.
BEN WATERWORTH: If 91 percent of our listeners want to see a different perspective, when they message in and complain that we have been too biased to Australia, then I will listen because I'm not listening to the one crybaby on this episode who's chucking a little tantrum. Because at the end of the day, yes, we are an Australian-Canadian centric podcast. Yes, we have 66% of Australians, which again, yes, we're going to be biased. Because as Jarrod said, we have a coverage. You have a coverage. We like to be outside of our perspective, but of course, we're going to be centric towards someone like a Jess Fox, or a Kaylin McEwen, or an Andrew Hoy, because we're seeing that and we're celebrating that. If you're listening in the US, and 91 percent are listening in the US, as you said, they're not going to hear about Andrew Hoy, they're not going to hear about Kaylin McEwen, they're not going to hear about Jess Fox. So to them, they're going, oh, okay, well, I want to learn about that. Maybe they're sick of hearing about Katie Ledecky and Caleb Dressel and Simone Biles all the time because they're so centric. So if they want somebody else, if they want the Americans, listen to an American podcast, because I'm not going to apologise for being biased for our athletes that are great and deserve to be recognised.
COLIN HILDING: Okay, so the other seven days, there were no Australian that were worthy you wanted to recognise. We have honourable mentions. Let's give the honourable mentions out. That's what I've been doing every once in a while for the Canadians, but the only two that I fought for were the ones that I was passionate about. If we're saying no more swimming, I'm going to start saying, well, there's no chance of swimming anymore. Gold medal is all going forward. I'm most proud of the gold medallist. Let's give it to all gold medallists, but we want to spread around. One of the best ones we did was the first one we put up, and it was somebody who came in last. So it's good to be able to give a variety to our athletes.
BEN WATERWORTH: And I don't disagree with that. Why are we arguing over this? I don't disagree with that at all. I, for one, and the person is like, I don't think we should always give it to a gold medallist. But at the end of the day, my personal vote every day will go down to somebody who I genuinely think should win the athlete of the day. And this is the stupid little award that two people listen to out there, and it doesn't go anywhere.
COLIN HILDING: I know the two people are Ben and Jarrod because it's always an Australian. And again, I'll say this. Jarrod has a good head on his shoulders. Jarrod puts up with it every single day, not one day without fail. Ben has put up an Australian. And I'm not going to apologise for that.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm not going to apologise for that. And Beijing, because I'm generally more Canadian centric coming at Winter Olympics, I'm probably more than likely going to put up a Canadian every day.
COLIN HILDING: I'm going to be turning down the Canadians because I don't want just to be a Canadian, sweet.
BEN WATERWORTH: I am going to say this right now, that if by Beijing, we can get a fourth co-host on this show, and they are Canadian, I will gladly be spread 50-50.
COLIN HILDING: Well, you just dressed up as one.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jamie is not going to come on every day. You barely come on every day. Jamie, what have you got to look after the kids? Get Casper on. Good points. Good points. Thank you. We can always open it up to the listeners. They can vote every day, but then kind of it's a whole process. Look, we will clarify rules around this before Beijing. In the meantime.
COLIN HILDING: That's all I'm saying. Let's come up with something that will allow it to be spread around more and not a two to one vote because you guys watch the Australian coverage. And I like your athletes that you put up. I just simply say, if we were to have put up three Americans at this point, we would all be saying, you know what? Let's spread it around, not just the Americans. And the only nation in the top 10 that has been given athlete of the day is Australia. And it's been done three times out of 10.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm just-
COLIN HILDING: It is a bit of a staggering number.
BEN WATERWORTH: Why is this a thing? Why are we caring about this?
COLIN HILDING: Because I'm not Australian, so I'm not connecting with these. You're putting up things that I have to Google at the time of, because I can't even find any news sources here in Canada that carry this, or United States or anywhere.
BEN WATERWORTH: Sorry, I just had to give you a moment there.
JARROD LOOBEEK: That's the man who didn't know about the French boxer.
COLIN HILDING: Exactly. It was sitting there inside-
JARROD LOOBEEK: There's the other.
COLIN HILDING: International news. The French athlete, you could find it on the internet. They did not carry anything other than a quick snippet that said this. And we were going to give the athlete the day to somebody who head-butted a person twice, was disqualified, and held up the boxing over the greatest accomplishment in Canadian history. And that's something, as I said, you guys would have fought for if it was the Australian side.
BEN WATERWORTH: But we didn't, because freaking Emma McKean did it on the same day that Penny Oleksiak did, but we took a back seat. So what are you talking about?
COLIN HILDING: Because if you hadn't, you would have been at four out of 10.
BEN WATERWORTH: All right, OK, we have gone 13 minutes of this episode having an argument. We will clarify some rules. We will go over some things for Beijing. In the meantime, I'm standing my ground. I'm voting how I vote for these Olympics.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, I know you will. If it's an Australian, I don't care. Let me just add this. Let me just add this. I actually do get a kick out of the crying thing you threw in there, but let's back up to who started the protests in our podcast. If anybody wants to listen to Double Law 7, ranking the secondary Bond Girls, where Ben not only walked off for two to three minutes, came back and shared his screen with pornography as a punishment because I put up somebody at number 12 who had two minutes of screen time.
BEN WATERWORTH: Difference is, you still did it. My line thing didn't get overruled. And thirdly, by all means, you can take over the editing if you really want to. Then you can do whatever you want.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I mean, it's just-
COLIN HILDING: I'll edit out the Australian after the day, the next six times it comes up.
BEN WATERWORTH: Go for it. You do it.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Imagine dissing a 62-year-old man in his eighth Olympics.
COLIN HILDING: Hey, I said that's the one I would have agreed with. I said that's the one I would have agreed with.
JARROD LOOBEEK: The most decorated female kayaking athlete of all time at the Olympics.
COLIN HILDING: Absolutely. Let's hear what Ben has to say about the New Zealander who had a-
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, I've got, like, you actually thinking that I'm not? Like, legitimately on my notes here, I am going to talk a lot about her, and she's one of my nominees.
COLIN HILDING: That's good, because that's spread around. That's what I want.
BEN WATERWORTH: But, Jesus Christ. Wow, really, really crying today, my goodness. Day 11, gentlemen. No medals for Australia or Canada. At least, yes, there's still a few events going on, but I don't think there's anything going on right now that's looking good, although I think there's a Canadian hammer thrower potentially in with a bit of a shot. Each volleyball? Well, there's no medals can be decided tonight.
COLIN HILDING: It'll be first shot at a medal, I guess.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I mean, like...
COLIN HILDING: Guarantee, actually.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I mean, if you want to... Okay, on that page, Australia has guaranteed ourselves three medals today, but they're not on the tally yet until they officially are on the tally. I'm talking about the... Jesus, what's wrong with you? You take a day off and you just want to fight everyone. Have you been watching the boxing column? What's going on?
COLIN HILDING: I am literally watching beach volleyball. Ben's so defensive right now. I'm literally watching beach volleyball, and I'm like, oh wait, if we win this, we pretty much have the guaranteed medal.
BEN WATERWORTH: That's got nothing to do with what I just said. Anyway, Jarrod, I'll start with you then, because I'll let this guy have a bit of a breath, I think. No medals, but I guess the big thing for us, and the reason why I'm wearing the Athens gold medal today, is the Cookers did it, the Cookers! The Curse is not in the purse, yet the Sigurd will win the bloody gold. But they're in the gold medal final, they've done it for the first time since 2004. This was a big result.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, big win as well, 3-1. I was a little bit concerned when we got that lead kind of so early and then straight away, the Germans leveled back. But yeah, super impressive. Definitely the highlight of the day in terms of Australian results, particularly because some of our other teams struggled a little bit, but yeah, super excited for that gold medal match.
BEN WATERWORTH: It was a great result and so thoroughly deserved. And it's just, I mean, again, it's not done yet, like it's obviously still very much a likelihood that we'll get another silver. But I mean, I still think that you go into that, you're the number one nation in the world, jump against apparently Belgium are number two. They actually did win the silver in Rio. I double checked that. I didn't really think Belgium were an esteemed hockey nation, but apparently they do okay. But I mean, yeah, as we've said a few times, this is one of those ones that I think is, you know, would mean a lot to Australia to kind of get another gold there. And Canada, Colin, you are welcome. We exacted revenge on Germany in an Olympic hockey semi-final. There you go. We did it for you, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: I was about to ask what sport you were talking about because I don't think Canadians acknowledge this as a sport. But I'm glad. I mean, Germany deserves it. Come on, they've done terrible things in the past, most of which are actually only related to hockey in Canada.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, exactly. Is Canada still crying about that, that you guys lost to them in Pyeongchang about that? No?
COLIN HILDING: In all honesty, if Canada loses in hockey, they are very bitter about it. Like this whole idea about polite Canadians is a total lie because if you take hockey away from them, they are nasty, terrible people.
BEN WATERWORTH: Colin, we know that. We know if you take Athlete of the Day away from them, they are nasty, horrible people, and they cry foul for a long time. So, I mean, we are witness to that right now. I actually, in all seriousness though, like, you know, we will talk about some of the stuff that Canada did today, but you weren't on the episode yesterday. Obviously, the big, big news was the women knocking out the US in the soccer through to a gold medal match. You will play Sweden. I mean, how was this received in Canada? I can imagine that this was very big news for you guys.
COLIN HILDING: It was all anybody talked about. It was every headline you saw. It's everything. People who I know don't watch sports are sharing it on social media. I think the unfortunate thing is, again, the whole idea of polite Canadians is a bit of a lie because there were some comments that were made by the US team saying, like, you know, what bothers us is that we lost to Canada here. This is a rivalry. Canada would be saying the same thing if it was America. And there are Canadians saying, oh, look at these poor sports. They're not poor sports. They haven't lost to Canada in 20 years. That's a streak. You know, the steeplechase, as I mentioned to you guys in the chat yesterday, the Kenyans won nine straight Olympics, and then suddenly they lost to both Ethiopia and Morocco. I guarantee they're like, you know, it hurts to be losing this. So I can feel for the American side because I also know that Canada has been there with hockey, as you mentioned. But the big comments going in, and I don't know if this was carried anywhere else, was Christine Sinclair, who is pretty much, you know, she is soccer in Canada here. She said, all we want is to change the colour of the medal. Like, we don't want to be three in a row for bronze. And at this point, I mean, I don't think we're going to win a gold. I don't think anybody is expecting us to win a gold. But just the fact that we have upgraded, you know, to a new medal, as Kylie said, we've upgraded now to at least a silver. I think that's victory enough.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, that's kind of what we were talking a little bit about with the Matildas. Like, I mean, you know, we wanted to play you guys. I mean, I was looking forward to being a bronze medal matchoff and then nearly could have been a gold medal match. But, you know, there's all these disappointing headlines here about all the Matildas, this Matildas out. But like at the end of the day, this is probably where you guys were at in London. Like to make a semi-finals is a nut. Like that's a huge thing for the sport in this country. And even if we finish fourth, that will still be a big thing. And again, we're hosting the Women's World Cup in two years. So it's kind of, it's perfect timing for this to happen. So I mean, I think it's going to be very interesting in Sweden, you know, doing very well. Are they talking up the record between Canada and Sweden? Is this a side that you guys have got a record against at all? Or not quite there yet?
COLIN HILDING: No, can you tell me what the record is?
BEN WATERWORTH: Because I don't even know.
COLIN HILDING: I don't think it's great.
BEN WATERWORTH: Clearly, I follow female soccer very closely. So I don't really know.
COLIN HILDING: If they did it in the water, you would, right?
BEN WATERWORTH: Absolutely, of course. I'm a big fan of water polo, so I would definitely follow that. The big one, though, that you mentioned this, you kind of talked me down thinking that this is something I wasn't going to talk about. Literally, on my notes, it's one of the major things to talk about today. New Zealand, and in particular, one New Zealand athlete in the canoe sprint, we talked about Valerie Adams becoming the most decorated female New Zealand athlete of all time only a couple of days ago in the shot put. Well, her record lasted all of about two or three days because stand up and cheer for New Zealand's Lisa Carrington, who won two gold medals basically in the space of an hour and now has her fifth medal in total. So not only is she the most decorated New Zealand female athlete of all time, she's equal first with Paul McDonald and Ian Ferguson. And she's got two more events to go, if you don't mind, including an event that she got her bronze in Ria. So she just needs to medal one more time, and she'll join Penny and Emma as the most decorated Olympians from her country. And also with New Zealand in general, there's six gold medal, which puts them only two behind their highest ever gold medal count of LA in 1984. Fourteen in total, only four behind the 18 they got back in Rio. And having spoken with Nook earlier this evening, quite proud, they're quite chuffed over there in the land of the long white cloud. So, Jarrod, I mean, I think we can hear them screaming still from this side of the world, can't we? They're going off in New Zealand.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it's a big party. Next thing you know, they'll be trying to beat the Australians in the Olympics.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, don't worry. I've got one at least a little dig at the Kiwis later on in our profiles, because I've also heard some of their commentary going on about Australia, which doesn't mean they get a free pass today. But I mean, obviously, this has made a bit of the news end in Canada, Colin, and if you were aware of this.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, well, I mean, we had a couple of Canadians in those events. So I mean, it was being carried live here, but the commentators weren't talking, oh, that was really good showing the communities. They were just going on and on about Carrington. And for commentators in canoe and kayak and rowing to get really animated is, it's not something you hear every day, but it was like, this is incredible. This woman has just won a gold medal and two gold medals, and she's gonna break the all time record. Like they were getting as worked up at it as they did probably for Penny Alexiak. And I think that caught me really off guard.
BEN WATERWORTH: Which I gotta say too, so Ian Ferguson and Paul McDonald, the equal record holders for New Zealand, are both also canoeists. So, phew, don't New Zealand love to canoe? I mean, when I lived there, all I ever see were just New Zealand's canoeing. Everywhere, just the streets of Auckland, canoes, just all the way.
COLIN HILDING: They keep trying to canoe to Australia for a better life?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yep, exactly. Well, some would argue people from Australia try to canoe to New Zealand for a better life. It depends on where you are. Yeah, well, everyone canoes out of Hobart. I did a couple of times, and I'm back. It's just, you just can't escape, apparently. She's from Taronga, a nice part of the country too, as well.
COLIN HILDING: From Toronto? It's ours. We won the gold.
BEN WATERWORTH: Taronga. Taronga. Of course, if that's A to Maori, it's like, I'm not even going to try. I'm going to fend the whole country. I'm trying to be nice to them at the moment right now. Good on you, Lisa. And also the other one I wanted to mention today as well, because we'll go over the medal results today, but I watched this one live. 400-metre hurdles. Karsten Warholm. Now, we talked about this the other day about Norway winning a gold in Triathlon. Now they've got the fastest man who can run a lap of a track over sticks of wood. I mean, what's going on in Norway? Like, they're fast on snow. Now they're fast on land. The Norwegians are taking over. I don't know if I like this or not. But I mean, this was epic. I mean, it was, what was it, like a 45.9-something, or rather the first man ever under 46. And as Matt Shervington pointed out, his time that he ran today would have won him the Australian Championships in the 400 metres flat without hurdles. That's how fast it was. And I think Bruce said that the top five, the times that they posted would have won every single Olympic medal in history, which is absolutely insane. And again, from a Norwegian, we had an Italian win the 100 metres, a Norwegian win the 400 in a world record. Colin, what's going on with this world here right now?
COLIN HILDING: That was honestly one of the craziest events I've ever seen for a lot of reasons. One, they said that the world record in that had been standing for 29 years. Nobody had broken it. And it had been broken by Carsten, what's his name, a couple of weeks ago. And then he goes and breaks it again. And then the second place actually would have broken that record as well. What makes this even weirder is that it's Tokyo, and I think at 1030 in the morning yesterday on one of the events, they said it was 34 degrees. That was at 1030 in the morning. He ran this at night. Maybe it had cooled off a little bit, but I dealt that much. These Olympics have been so hot that nobody was expecting any. Just before this started, maybe about half an hour before it started, I even said to Jamie, I don't expect any world record to get broken here because it's near impossible with the heat. And in the 400-metre, I think it was the women's 400-metre sprint, they were saying that seven of the nine fastest in the world chose not to run that event because it was just going to be brutal. To do 400-metres in a sprint in this heat was near impossible, and nobody wants to set them up for failure. They did it while jumping over hurdles, and two guys set the world record. And he set the world record with enough time to rip his shirt open and scream, and the Canadian comedians even called it like, you know, there's the crazy Viking. Well, that's not stereotyped at all, but I mean, I'm sure he would applaud that name choice.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, did you see it?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I did. It was so impressive. Yeah, I think the stat that keeps coming back to me is what you said, the fact that his 400-metre hurdles would have won the Australian Nationals for 400-metre flat. Like, it's just a fact you can run that fast around a track while jumping over stuff, and you can do it better than everybody in our country. It's just, yeah, it was such a good race.
BEN WATERWORTH: I have to say, though, as great as the race was and great to see the results. I mean, as you said, Carson's celebrations were fantastic. Benjamin, in second place, great name. Great to see Brazil get a bronze. He was pumped up. I was devastated that in fourth place, by just so close from the British Virgin Islands, Kyron McMaster fourth, he was like four, what, three-tenths away from winning their country's first ever Olympic medal. And I barely classify the British Virgin Islands as a country. Like, it's just, it's an island where rich British people send their money so they don't get taxed, basically. I mean, I can't take a country serious enough called the Virgin Islands and then add British in front of it. But like, I mean, God, that was so close for him to win an Olympic medal. I love how they put here national record. I mean, I probably could set the national record for something on the British Virgin Islands. It's not that hard. But I mean, seriously, though, this guy nearly won a bronze medal. I mean, I want to put him up for Athlete of the Day just for that alone. But yeah, good, bad luck. And a name like Chiron. That's a very British Virgin Island, isn't it? I think of the British Virgin Islands.
COLIN HILDING: I don't know much about the British Virgin Islands.
BEN WATERWORTH: There's virgins there and they're British.
COLIN HILDING: So if the name makes you sound like a virgin.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'd put the American Virgin Islands, you know, because they're not dicks. But anyway, we should mention right now, though, that the Women's 200m is about to go on our screen. So we're about to see that happening. So I'll go over some of the other medal results, though, from today. And yeah, we basically are waiting, obviously, for the 200m that's happening right now. The Men's pole vault, I think, has just been decided. The Women's hammer throw is also... No, that's just been decided, so I can give you that. And we're also waiting. Are we waiting on anything else? No, it's just these two events. Actually, this must be the last one, because, again, I think the pole vault has been decided. So, as we mentioned, the 400 hurdles went to Germany's... Norway's, sorry, Norma. Castanets, basically the same, aren't they? Castanets, Warholme. One's a bit more evil. And that's the Norwegians. They got the gold. USA silver, Brazil bronze. The Women's 800 metres went to the US. Atingmu gold, Britain silver, USA bronze. Women's long jump went to Germany, Malacca, Mahambo, ahead of the US and Nigeria. And Women's hammer throws went to Poland. Anita Lodolet, yep, that person. Zheng Wang from China, and Melina Kopron from Poland. I'm just gonna pause here, because the 200 metres is on. I don't know if you both are watching this.
COLIN HILDING: I bet you you're 10 seconds ahead of me, so I don't want it spoiled.
BEN WATERWORTH: All right, well, I'll try my very best to spoil it.
COLIN HILDING: It'll be over when they're about to start. You're like, oh, and look at that!
BEN WATERWORTH: They're running, they're sprinting, they're sprinting, they're running down the track. There's women, they're running, they're running, they're sprinting, they're around the bend. They're athletic-ing. Look at them athletic. They're doing well. There's one in front. There's one in second. There's one in third. There's a fourth place. There's a fifth. There's a sixth. There's someone way last. And oh, that one's going to win it. The one who's fastest is going to win. Oh, look at that woman come through in the other lane! Oh, my goodness! And...
COLIN HILDING: Cometary of the day.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, well, we don't have any commentary tonight, so that's our commentary. And there you go. Gold to that woman. Can I spoil it for you yet?
COLIN HILDING: They're on the starting blocks.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, God, you're so slow! Bloody Canada! Jesus! No wonder you complain so much about athlete of the day. You just can't even accept it. It takes you that long to realise what's going on. In the boxing, men's welterweight. Cuba. Cuba's had a great couple of days, haven't they? They've got a couple of gold today. Bunch of medals yesterday. That's all moved with Cuba. Ronnie Oli Iglesias. I believe that's Enrique's son. He took the gold ahead of Brit's Pat McCormack. And bronze went to Ireland and Rock. And the women's featherweight. I caught this bout today. It was quite entertaining. Sina Arif from Japan got the gold ahead of Nessie Petekikikako of the Philippines and Italy. And Britain shared the bronze in that one. We'll say, we'll talk about Harry Garcide very soon, but guaranteed medal for Australia in the boxing. First time since 1988. And New Zealand as well, I will mention. David lost his semifinal, but he will get a bronze. So good to see that there. Have you watched it yet, Colin?
COLIN HILDING: Now I need a spoiler. Did Shelly Anne even place?
BEN WATERWORTH: I think she got full from what I could see.
COLIN HILDING: Wow.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I haven't seen Lee.
COLIN HILDING: Lane Thompson, there's the new Osane Bolt.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, she's done the double. Is that the double double?
COLIN HILDING: The double double.
BEN WATERWORTH: So she got the double in Rio as well. So there you go. You can spoil it now. So Miss Thompson from Jamaica got it. So good job for that. And do we have a result in the pole vault, Jarrod? I thought that looked like somebody was celebrating on my screen a couple of seconds ago. I'll try and pull this up to see what's going on. Then we'll come back to that. So that was the boxing in the canoeing, again, Cuba. Line up in the streets of Havana. Die another day playing on the streets all day. As Sergey Torres and Fernando George won the Men's C2 1000 metres. Silver to China, bronze to Germany. In the Men's K 1000, the gold went to Hungary. They were thrilled, weren't they? Always happy. Belint Koppasaz. The guys that the commentators could not shut up about. Adam Varga. Oh, here's the future of the sport. This guy's the future of the sport. Well, they got silver. And then Portugal bronze for Fernando Pimenta. And yeah, gold for New Zealand in both the Women's K 1200 and the K 2500. At least Carrington in the K 1200. And then she was joined by Caitlin Regal in that boat with the other person. Spain and Denmark got the silver and bronze in the K 200 and then Poland and Hungary. The other one, cycling. Oh, goodness, we'll talk about this. Two Canadian golds for both Australia and Canada. Fourth place for us in each of these. The men's team sprint. The Dutch took the gold ahead of the Brits. Thank God for that. And France, the bronze, beat Australia. And in the Women's, the Germans, in a world record, beat the Brits. Thank God for that. And the US beat the Canadians. For the bronze. In the diving, gold to China. No surprise there. CEG ahead of China. And Britain got the bronze. Gymnastics, it was bronze to... Well, start with bronze. Why not? Horizontal bar to rock. Silver to Croatia. In gymnastics. And gold to Daki Hashimoto in Japan. Well, for Japan. It was in Japan as well. The men's parallel bars went to Jingyongzu of China, ahead of Germany and Turkey. And China also got to the gold in the balance beam. Chen Chen Guan, ahead of Jing Tang of China. And the big story of the day, she decided she wasn't sad anymore. Simone Biles is happy again, because she decided to compete, and she got a bronze. So there you go. I believe she actually just got a bronze for showing up. I don't think she did anything. She's like, Hi, everyone, I'm Simone Biles. Have a medal. Oh, thank you. She's kind of like Meryl Streep.
COLIN HILDING: Hey, she beat a Canadian for that bronze.
BEN WATERWORTH: I want to talk about that Canadian. She's very proud. I was watching it and she was crying. Like, what happened? And then I read the story and it was a great moment for her. Highest place ever by a Canadian female artistic gymnast. Great. That surprised me. I thought you guys were decent in gymnastics. So there you go.
COLIN HILDING: We've meddled once in men's and it was, I think, in Athens.
BEN WATERWORTH: Gold on the floor in Athens. I looked that up before this. Sailing, Britain got a couple of golds. Those bastards and the men's 49er and the men's fun. Which was commentated by a Kiwi. So I loved it every time I said, Oh, this is the last time that fun will be in the Olympics. I was a bit sad. New Zealand got the silver in the men's 49er and Germany got the bronze. I believe Germany was at the one that they beat us right at the end. Or was that the NACRA 17, Jarrod? One of them, we were in bronze medal position and then we choked.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think it was the NACRA 17.
BEN WATERWORTH: Classic NACRA 17. Australia always happens. Brazil got the gold in the women's 49er FX. Head of Germany in the Dutch. As I said, the Brits won the Finn, head of Hungary and Spain. And Italy got the gold in the NACRA 17, head of Britain and Germany. The 109-kilo weightlifting. The gold went to Uzbekistan, Akhbar, Jurarev, head of Armenia and Latvia. And the wrestling, I'm sure you're glued to this today, Colin. It was gold to Hungary's Tomas Lorinches. Good day for Hungary today. And the Greco-Roman, 77 kilos. Head of Kyrgyzstan and Japan and Azerbaijan. All the Gems are getting the medals in the wrestling. In the Greco-Roman, 97. It was Rox, Musa, Avolev, Abit, Armenia, and Poland and Iran got the bronze. And in the freestyle, women, 68 kilos. America, Tamiyara, Tamara, I'm guessing they would be. Mensa, a head of Nigeria and Ukraine. And another Kyrgyzstan medal. Good day for Kyrgyzstan. There, so. And the women's 200 metres, we can officially say that gold went to Elaine Thompson. Hurrah, double, double, and then silver went to Christine Mboma of Namibia, the esteemed nation of Namibia, and Gabrielle Thomas of the USA got the bronze. So yeah, Shelley Anne Fraser Price, fourth. I'll say it there for Mary Jose Lu from the Cote d'Ivoire, the one who keeps singing the fourth and fifth.
COLIN HILDING: And what's the Bahamian in last place?
BEN WATERWORTH: What happened there? I don't know, probably thought of me. I run slow. I don't know where that came from. The pole vault, so has it been? It looks like it has been decided. So the gold of Sweden, Amman Duplantis, looks like he's taking the gold there. Ahead of America's Christopher Nielsen and Thiago Braz of Brazil. So we'll call that there. Great. I'm sad with the pole vault. Like the Aussie guy bombed straight away. I don't know what was going on there. Metal tally then. So our final metal tally, I can give this here now for the day. The top five is still the same top five as we've had Russia. Actually, it's slipped out of the top five, but their wrestling gold has put them back in. So China, 32 gold, 21 silver, 16 bronze, 69 in total. The US still leading on total medals. 24 gold, 27 silver, 21 bronze, 72 in total. Japan, finally, they've broken there a couple of days without a gold. They've got 19 gold now, 6 silver, 11 bronze, 36. Australia, no medals, but we're still in fourth. 14 gold, 4 silver, 15 bronze, 33 in total. And ROCK, with that last minute gold, 13 gold, 21 silver, 18 bronze, 52 in total. Canada have slipped a 16th, 3 gold, 4 silver, 7 bronze still. New Zealand, we're in the top 10! But they're just out now on 11. 6 gold, 4 silver, 5 bronze. And for those at home, I know you want to know where the Islamic Republic of Iran are. They are in equal 49th place with a gold and a bronze. So that is Ben's random country of the day. New segment now on Off The Podium. Let's go through the Aussie and Canadian results. Colin, I'll go over to you. Just want to quickly update on the basketball. The Boomers are 7 points up against Argentina as we are 7 minutes into the... 7 minutes remaining in the third. So Jarrod, you feeling OK right now with this?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it's looking good. It's not... Hopefully not coming down to the wire like with the Opals.
BEN WATERWORTH: Nice 3-pointer there. So move up to 10 points. And there's your man, Deleva Dover, screaming on the benches. Of course that's where he is. Colin, Canada, give us some results.
COLIN HILDING: Well, Andre Degrasse and Aaron Brown qualify 1 and 3 going into the finals for the 200-metre. Sadly, Brendan Rodney is out because Ben interviewed him.
BEN WATERWORTH: We'll come back to that shortly, don't worry.
COLIN HILDING: What else do we have? The Javelin, Liz Gleedle finished 11th overall, unfortunate for her. This one, actually, I will talk about later when we get some commentary fails, but we had in the 400-metre, Kira Konstantin. She actually moved on to the semifinals, whereas our other runner, Natasha McDonald, did not.
BEN WATERWORTH: Did something happen with Mo Ahmed last night?
COLIN HILDING: Why is he on my results here again?
BEN WATERWORTH: I have no idea. You tell me.
COLIN HILDING: So he still ended, apparently, in the 5,000-metre. That's good for him. All right, I thought that it was done for the 10,000 for him. Good job, Mo Ahmed. Still a chance. Hammer throw, Cameron Rogers. Fifth place. Not bad. Track cycling, Ben already talked about. Beach volleyball, Bansley and Wilkerson are moving on to the semifinals, and we're going to find out shortly if they are going to be facing Pavan and Paredes, who I guess are undefeated and now considered the front runners, now that the Americans have been knocked out. So we could have the Canadian semifinals there. Men's volleyball, this one was actually really heartbreaking. Not unexpected, because we're basically going out exactly where we went out in Rio, in the corner finals, to the exact same team that we went out in Rio, which is Rock. Well, I guess it wasn't Rock last time, but same thing. But Ken has never made it past this, but it was a good go, and they came close near the end. It was a little bit of a nail-biter at the end. Water polo, I did catch some of this last night. I fell asleep in the middle of it, and then woke up about 10 minutes later, and it was over. So 16 to 5, lost the United States, as we usually do. So yeah, we're out of the water polo. Ellie Black, this is actually a really big story here. Now, as big as the Simone Biles story is, I would say it is sharing equal headlines in Canada, because Ellie Black was our greatest hopeful ever, we thought, in gymnastics, and not taking anything away from her at all. I mean, there's an incredible documentary that they aired right as the Olympics started, like an hour-long documentary just following her last year, what they thought was going to be her heading into Tokyo 2020. And then they cancelled it, and you get her reaction from that and everything. And then flash forward a year, and we start off. And then in the all-around competition, she pulls out, I think within like 24 hours of Simone Biles pulling out, but for her, it was her ankle injury, which has been day to day. And finally, now, last minute, she's able to come back in there on the beam. Came in fourth despite their ankle injury, which they said they barely cleared her to compete. If only there wasn't two Chinese in there, we would have had a medal. And if only Simone Biles was still having issues, we would have a medal. But still fourth place finish, the best we've ever had. Sailing, stuff went on there. Best ever Canadian results.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think you got six in one of the races, which I was seeing that was being shared quite a bit. So I was like, hey, good on you, Canada. You can sail well.
COLIN HILDING: We can sail. I mean, there's not a lot of water here, but we can sail. Sport climbing, Sean McColl did a little bit better than the guy I've been interviewed.
BEN WATERWORTH: Hey, poor Tom.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, I didn't catch the whole thing of this, and they haven't updated it on the website. It's still on. It wasn't looking like he was in metal contention, but I was wondering about that, because I thought it was going to be over quickly, because I was wondering... Well, we'll talk about sport climbing a bit. We'll mention that. Artistic swimming. Ben, did you catch this one?
BEN WATERWORTH: I saw a bit last night. You guys were third or fourth, I think, after the first day. I'm not too sure about the second day, so I haven't seen the results yet. So fifth, is it? Okay, that's good.
COLIN HILDING: So I guess that's coming up.
BEN WATERWORTH: Coming soon to some commentary in a couple of days, is I'm looking forward to that. Jarrod and I have been practicing, haven't we?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Commentating on the sport itself.
BEN WATERWORTH: Both. We need to get into the sport to commentate it, so we need to be able to get ourselves in the zone. I'm very literal about my commentary.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Method actor.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, exactly.
COLIN HILDING: Adrian Lanois was in the semi-finals, but didn't advance to the finals in the K-1 200 metre. Last time that event's ever been contested, I don't think you mentioned that either, did you?
BEN WATERWORTH: Uh, no. So let's mention it now.
COLIN HILDING: So Carrington goes out as the final ever, possibly.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, as you should.
COLIN HILDING: And we had a couple others that advanced to the semis, and then some of the finals on Wolfie Mulk, so there's a lot of names here. But yeah, that's pretty much it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Cool. I wanted to actually, in all seriousness, talk about Ellie, because like, yeah, I did sort of, I was recording earlier for one of the other shows, and I sort of was on in the background, and I mean, of course, I'm going to watch the women's gymnastics, because that's just me. And I literally saw her performing, and then kind of I just see this crying, and I'm like, what's going on? Like, you know, did she fall? Like, I'm watching the routine, like, no, she did pretty well. And yeah, fall is pretty good. So, you know, she could be mentioned a little bit later on.
COLIN HILDING: And update here. Canada will not be playing Canada in the semifinals for beach volleyball, but will be playing Australia. Sorry if I still get thunder there.
BEN WATERWORTH: What? Did Australia win?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, in the quarters, is that on right now? I thought that wasn't until later. Are you watching the right thing?
COLIN HILDING: Oh, sorry. No, no, no. I thought they were displaying the semis here.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, no, no, no.
COLIN HILDING: I was reading the wrong Canadian team. So, yes, quarters still to come.
BEN WATERWORTH: Because the Australia-Canada one's like late. I think it's starting like right about now.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think it's after the Boomers.
COLIN HILDING: So they're just they're literally starting right now.
BEN WATERWORTH: There you go. So, yeah, well, because it's been a busy day in terms of like Australia, like promoting all these things. I mean, it kind of went from the hockey to the water polo. Now the basketball is on. And then, yeah, the beach volleyball is the other one that they're kind of pumping up right now. But the basketball quickly, the Boomers are leading still. So that's exciting. So we'll see how that plays out. 51 to 45, Argentina are coming back. Argentina are a good side. So I think we talked about this last night that I was a little bit nervous about this one. But hopefully the Boomers, they're going to play the US. Now, I did what I know I'm jumping into what we watched, but I was looking like Spain were going to come through with that one. That wouldn't have really been a bigger surprise that one, because there's a number one and number two sides in the world. But the US came back. Kevin Durant was on fricking fire. But I'll tell you what, if we end up winning this game and playing the US in the semis, wouldn't that be sweet to make it through to a gold medal game by beating out the dream team? So, you know, that would be bigger than anything the Matildas did these Olympics. So we'll see how that plays out. So for Australia today, I will say that we do apparently have a guaranteed gold in sailing coming our way, which is good. Matthew Belcher and Will Ryan did enough today to guarantee themselves a gold, so they basically just have to show up and they'll win the gold. So we have another gold guaranteed for Australia. I believe that is tomorrow. So obviously, we can't quite claim that as it is. The Kookaburras 3-1 over Germany, so we will have a guaranteed medal in hockey that is coming up on Thursday night, I believe, against Belgium. And Harry Garcide, get around the boxing, everyone. We're going to talk about the curse of Ben Waterworth very soon, but I'm calling the curse of Ben Waterworth and the boxing slightly not that bad, because Harry's getting a medal, David got a medal, I've noticed a couple of the other Brits that I've worked with got medals, can't account.
COLIN HILDING: The curse can be broken as long as you can meet them face to face.
BEN WATERWORTH: I will tell you about this. I've got a whole thing written out. Just don't, like, it's going to come here.
COLIN HILDING: I feel like this is a pitch to get more people to do face to face interviews with us, but you go for it. You go for it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Harry defeated Zakir Safulin in the men's lightweight. Now, I don't know if you saw this, Jarrod. And again, my expertise, having watched every single Commonwealth Games 2018 boxing match, I thought they were fair calls. I thought that he lost the first round, the second round. Yep, fair enough. I honestly didn't think he did well enough in the third. I was a bit surprised that he won. I'm being honest. I sat there going, no, Harry hasn't done it, but he did. And he went off. And Australia is going off. Boxing, we've got a medal for the first time since 1988, Jarrod.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, who would have thought that that double bronze rule would come in so handy to make sure we're guaranteed. But I think we're going for more than that.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I mean, I don't know. He's up against the number one in the world, Andy Cruz from Cuba. So not too sure there. But I mean, this is again one of these ones that like, look, if he loses and gets knocked out in five seconds, you will take it as a win. I mean, it's a long time between boxing, medals for a sport that we've never won a gold in. So who knows? Gets it through to the gold medal match and you never know. And this guy does ballerina stuff. He's a ballerina in his spare time.
COLIN HILDING: Ballerini stuff?
BEN WATERWORTH: Ballerini stuff. Ballet, that's the word I'm looking for. I don't know what it's called. What's it called? Ballerini?
COLIN HILDING: Ballerini.
BEN WATERWORTH: Do you want to...
COLIN HILDING: Hey, you know, I've got some tickets here. Do you want to go check out the ballerini stuff with me?
BEN WATERWORTH: You know, my favourite Natalie Portman film, that one with all the ballerini stuff in it that she won an Oscar for? Black Swan. It was great. I look really good in a ballerini skirt. It really suits my figure. But the best ballerini around, Harry Garcide, through to the semis. So fantastic there for Harry. In the sports climbing. Oh, Tom. 17th. Overall, he's 17th, so he improved. He was dead last after the bouldering. I've got to say, this sport is amazing. This is so good. The speed climbing is brilliant. The bouldering is frustratingly awkward, but fun. And then now the lead is kind of interesting. I'm seeing the Canadian right now is actually coming out. It's such a shame. This is one that I would have loved to see with a crowd, because you've actually got a fair few people there watching it. But I saw the grandstand that they built for it in the background. Can we just quickly talk about this? Jarrod, I mean, this is epic. This has lived up to everything, I think, that we thought it was going to be. This is this might be my new favourite sport at the Olympics. I can't believe we bagged this out five years ago during Rio.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's particularly the sprint is just amazing. The bouldering, like you say, I think maybe the bouldering goes on for a little bit too long because I flicked away from it and came back like an hour later. I was like, oh, is this like now they're doing a final or something? I'm like, oh, no, it's just it's still the same bouldering getting through the athletes. But yeah, there's just so many good moments to it that you wouldn't expect the cleaning of the boulders in between people, the fact they bring on the volunteers, but then obviously the climbers themselves aren't happy with the job that they've done. So they just get their little brushes up and start brushing away at the wall. Yeah, it's just so much fun to watch. And the commentator for this is brilliant.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, is it the British one?
COLIN HILDING: I think we're hearing the same one. I was hearing British.
BEN WATERWORTH: OK, yeah, because I saw it was on seven for a bit, but I only had it on that. I mean, you talk about going forever. I mean, I've been recording this on my laptop now for five hours and ten minutes, and it's still going. The Canadians still climbing. So like I'm worried there's going to be a 20 gig file size. But yeah, I mean, Colin, you caught some of it.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, I caught the sprint part, which I I'm going to slightly disagree only in that I feel like everything happens so fast that I don't have a chance to really even digest what happened. I'm not even talking about the sprint. The sprint itself is fantastic. Just to see it's super human how quickly they climb up the wall. But I wish they had a little bit longer of a transition in between the matchups because it's like, oh, they got to the top, they're down and all this moving on the next one. It's just it's rush, rush, rush. I want to be able to see who won a match, you know, figure out, OK, where the placing is. But knowing that this is now on five hours, I think there's probably a reason they did that. Maybe they could just break these up and do it in two sessions.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I think I remember talking to Tom about it, how, you know, it was a bit of contention around them doing this as a combined event that, like, you know, often these people are good at one and not so good at the other, and they don't generally do a combined event. So I would like to see it separate. I think we need to just do a speed, a bouldering and a lead, all separate events.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think both. I think have the combined and then that's the basis for your qualification for the individual event.
BEN WATERWORTH: Like Equestrian, kind of how they do that.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Or gymnastics.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, exactly. So I 100% agree, but it's fascinating. It really is in the Canadian now still going. He's nearly at the top. So I love how they've literally got a sticker saying top. That's just for the Canadian, I believe. He's like, where am I going? And it's always fallen.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, is there a this way up sticker somewhere?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, it's like Dr. No, everything's labelled.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Like, you know, we make it better to the speed if that was knockout.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's that's a good one. The thing, though, that I like the bulge around the crotch isn't brilliant the way they've kind of got like the crotch little harness. But then it also looks like they're all just, you know, spend a day out in the worksite or covered in sort of like chalk and paint. So but yeah, Tom Haller and 17th, so not last. So that will take that. Where's the Canadian 14th? So he's beaten the victory there for Canada.
COLIN HILDING: And that's what we call 14 victories.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I mean, you know, into the second week of the Olympics. If you're from the British Virgin Islands, the athletics women's long jump, Brook Stratton, seventh, which is great. Colin, you've got to get on board the Brook Stratton train. She's a celiac. We were learning all about her health. Yeah, we're learning all about her health struggles. They're saying this is a really good result for her because she's had really bad health issues and they kept saying about how she was diagnosed with celiac disease. So you've got a friend.
COLIN HILDING: I was watching that last night, the long jump. That was actually, I stuck with it from beginning to end. And Jamie was like glued to it to the point where she's like, you know, I got to go do something now. Can you just pause this until I'm back? I'm like, OK, well, it's live. I don't know how long it's going to pause for. I might only have like 20 minutes or whatever. She was loving it. She did kind of make a crack. This had nothing to do with watching me. She sort of said, oh, there's Australian. Is she going to be the athlete of the day? But she also commented that she looks like, I don't know the name, what's the name of that comedian? She was in the movie Trainwreck.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, Amy Schumer.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, she says she looks like Amy Schumer. I'm like, I can kind of see that.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, not the worst call. I'll pay it. Not too bad. Might pay her other comment. Jesus Christ, the Hildings are a snarky family. In the Javelin-
COLIN HILDING: She has a follower on Instagram, by the way.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, I mean, it took me about 10 minutes last night to realise who our Javelin throwers are, but who gives a shit, all three of them into the final and like absolutely blew little Bruce away. And the other guy, Dave, they couldn't find it. The stat book was broken. They think this is the first time that Australians have ever made, three Australians have made the final of a field event. So we make up a quarter of the field. So how are we feeling now? We're gonna be ninth, 10th, and 11th probably, or 10th, 11th, and 12th.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Probably, but just the mind has already started wandering to the 100 metre sprint, and if we can do what the Jamaicans did and get the trifecta on the podium, it would just be so good.
BEN WATERWORTH: Goodness me. Wouldn't that be thing? I also just love now on channel seven that how they've obviously got the Boomers on. We're in the fourth quarter now, 12 points up Argentina. Good looking. We're up by 12 points, I should say. They're still showing the pole vault. They're not showing the beach volleyball. What's going on channel seven here? Like are you just gonna, they're gonna hold it off till after the Boomers and claim it's live, aren't they? Like that's what they would do.
COLIN HILDING: Are you following beach volleyball though?
BEN WATERWORTH: I would love to know an update, Colin, if you've got one for us.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, well the first set, Australia's up 12 to eight.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, come on, you're good, I'm proud of Australia!
COLIN HILDING: Pavan and Paredes, they look very relaxed for being down right now, which I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. We'll see when we get to the second set.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's very Canadian. It's very Canadian. Oh, yeah, we're losing. Yeah, Kelsey Lee Barber, on the last throw, if you don't mind, made it through. Mackenzie Lue.
COLIN HILDING: I do mind, thank you.
BEN WATERWORTH: She doesn't. The world champion, of course, remember that? Derek, she's the world champion.
JARROD LOOBEEK: That was the one we found out. She's the one from those ads on TV.
BEN WATERWORTH: She's the one from those ads on TV that's the world champion.
COLIN HILDING: So I don't know if this is what the joke's about because I'm not in on the Australian TV, but.
BEN WATERWORTH: No, you didn't listen to the episode last time I called it.
COLIN HILDING: Well, I told you I listened to parts of it, but.
BEN WATERWORTH: You obviously didn't listen to the funny bit, so.
COLIN HILDING: It was all funny, right? But here on Canadian TV, I'm so tired of hearing about world championships because they find a way to say that every Canadian is in a world. Oh, they were a bronze in a world championship. They just don't give the year. And then after the event, like that was the 2015 world championship. Well, that would have been good to know beforehand.
BEN WATERWORTH: They kind of know that she's a reigning world champion. So the last athletics world championships were in 2019. So she won it. And they were saying, though, that she's one of the ones that was really affected by the delay because she was like in really good form. Then I think she got injured. And therefore, like had the Olympics gone ahead last year, she probably would have been a gold medal favourite. She's not barely being talked about. I don't think I heard her name until the other day when I read the, who could we still win medals with in the final week? Oh, we've got a world champion in Javelin. I mean, the joke was last night, Colin, that I had only discovered we had a world champion in Javelin yesterday. And then I was like, oh, and then I literally couldn't remember her name. And I kept reading out every single Australian athlete's name except for her. Like so much as world champion Javelin news make it here in Australia that we've got the world champion in Javelin and we don't even know.
COLIN HILDING: So, but yeah, all three of them are airing it though, right?
BEN WATERWORTH: They had snippets of that. We have the final when it's on like they kind of they cut between like obviously between the both. Can I just say I do love here when they're showing the boomers that Harry's gone across to watch the basketball. He's in the crowd. He's still in his boxing uniform. He hasn't even gotten changed. Harry's just got from winning a boxing quarterfinal. I'm going to bugger it. I'm going here. I'm going to go watch the basketball in the 400 metres. Bendra Abaya did not make it through in the heats. She was fifth in her heat and sadly did not make it through. But I mean, look, this has been a great game for Tasmania. Obviously, we know Ariane's, you know, got the four medals. But stand up and cheer for Stewie McSwain, number four in the world in the 1500, and he's comfortably through to the semifinals. And I'm going to name again Stewie McSwain, Stewie McSwain.
COLIN HILDING: That's a normal name in Australia, Stewie McSwain.
BEN WATERWORTH: Are you trying to be racist against our names in our country, Colin, a proud, you have stubbled the cook, Stewie McSwain, Chumpy Poole, like I'm not knocking it.
COLIN HILDING: I'm like, man, you guys got epic names, whether they're real or not.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I mean, then we all give him nicknames after that. That would be like Stewie McCarron, like he'd be like Macca or something like that. Like you wouldn't even call him by that. But he's through, so like he's legitimately a medal chance. And a Tasmanian from King Island, of all places. It's a place in Tasmania I've never been, so good for him. And also Olly Hall got through as well. So we've got two Australians in the semi. Now, we don't have commentary today on the show, but we do have something epic to play today. Now, I sent this through to both of you. I don't know if you actually listen to the song or not, but you might hear it for the very first time on the news tonight. I don't really watch the news, but I caught a bit of the news because Tasmanian news is interesting. We can call it that. We had a group from King Island who play the ukulele, and they're called the Uke Can't Be Serious. And it's basically a bunch of little old ladies who have written a song about Stuart McSwain going on to hopefully win gold at the Olympics to the tune of Johnny B Good by Chuck Berry. So let's hear this right now with no commentary. We're going to hear the full song right now by the U Can't Be Serious group on King Island, Tasmania, singing a song about Stuart McSwain. Where U Can't Be Serious and we wrote a song for Stuart to wish him luck at the Olympics. One, two, three, four. Oh, you're gonna have that stuck in your head, aren't you? Great song.
COLIN HILDING: I'm glad that I didn't listen to that now. It sounds hilarious, but I think I've mentioned to you before, I have a disdain for the instrument of ukulele. So.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yep, yep, well, so does King Island, apparently. Jarrod, what do you think of that? I mean, come on, I mean, from, I do also, I will just quickly point out that on channel seven, they don't turn around and say he's from Tasmania, they say he's from King Island. Because like apparently to them, they don't need to mention Tasmania anymore. It's just, oh, he's from King Island. I mean, you got to love Stewie, don't you? Come on.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I'm just looking forward to it. We tabbed it up. You're The Voice is the song for the Brisbane Games, but now, I don't know, that's a contender.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I'll tell you what, that's a good point. And how good is Tasmania be in these Olympics? Our canoeist, Arianne Titmuss, Richie Porte finished. We've got two, we've got two Kookaburras, we've got Eddie Ockenden and Belts in the final. We could end up walking away if we win gold and Harry gets a gold. That's six gold medals for Tasmania. I'm just saying, Tasmanians are attracted to be more gold than Canada. This is huge. And Colin, please bring this stat up when it comes to the Winter Olympics, when Manitoba win more gold medals in Australia. So-
COLIN HILDING: Manitoba will not be winning gold medals.
BEN WATERWORTH: You got curlers, don't you? No?
COLIN HILDING: Well, if they make it this time, they didn't in Pyeongchang.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, you never know. The pole vault, yeah, Curtis Marshall, sadly, he made the final but didn't get out of that. So, ba ba ba bow bow, Price Is Right sound effects there.
COLIN HILDING: Are you doing the Price Is Right music? Seriously, I'm not even joking.
BEN WATERWORTH: For some reason, like recently the last few weeks, whenever it's like something shit happens, I literally go, ba ba ba bow bow. Like, I don't know why. That's not even the sound effects they played on Australia's Price Is Right. I know that from the American one. So I don't even know why that's in my head.
COLIN HILDING: You're doing that when everything goes wrong, but that's the victory music on Price Is Right. The bad one is bom bom bom. Yeah, I made it.
BEN WATERWORTH: No, but don't they do the ba ba ba bow, like it's more of a mew. No, that's the one I hear.
COLIN HILDING: Don't think so.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, anyway, whatever.
COLIN HILDING: Well, in the version that I have in my head, it is.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Thinking of the Cuban edition.
BEN WATERWORTH: The Cuban edition, exactly. Women's team pursuit cycling Australia. Finish fifth, yay, go Australia. And in the men's team pursuit, we got beaten by fucking France for bronze. But did we not set an Olympic record or was that in the pursuit? The pursuit.
JARROD LOOBEEK: So the sprint. There was just too many.
BEN WATERWORTH: So there's the pursuit and the sprint, which are very similar, but when you chase one, like sure. So the team sprint, we got the fourth. We got the fourth. We got the fourth, everyone. And we are battling off a bronze in the team pursuit against New Zealand, which is that's what we got the Olympic record in. Yes, no, maybe?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Too many Olympic records going in the track. It's a little bit sus.
BEN WATERWORTH: I don't get-
COLIN HILDING: I actually do. I like the pursuit better. They have it in-
BEN WATERWORTH: It's interesting, yeah.
COLIN HILDING: It's the same as speed skating's pursuit, you know? But really one of these days, I want it to be, you are going to go until you literally catch the other person and not have them in your lap.
BEN WATERWORTH: You got to tag them on the back when you're going around that rope course, right?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, and if it goes longer than sport climbing, it goes longer than sport climbing, you know?
BEN WATERWORTH: The thing that we talked a little bit about, and I don't know how track cycling, I know with the women's team, you got a bronze in Rio, but you obviously got fourth this time around. But I don't know how big outside of that track cycling is in Canada. But generally, this is one of our go-to events where we're going to meddle in. But I was actually reading an article today about the fact that since Athens, when we won at least three or four gold, we've been so shit in track cycling. I know Annamie's got a gold in London. I think we've won one gold since Athens. And there's been apparently this massive review into track cycling in this country after Rio. And yet here we are on track to what? Maybe win a bronze? On track? I don't know. They were talking up the dolphins in the swimming, like, oh, London was terrible. They only won one gold, and here we are nine years later winning nine. What a comeback story. Whereas why aren't we talking up the track cycling, Jarrod? This should be one of our best events, but we suck all of a sudden really badly.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it's hard to see like in these sports how that happens, because when you're doing so well, you're expecting more people to take it up. You're thinking that they're probably going to get more funding. There's more advertising money in it if you're doing well in it. It's just it's a weird one how just all of a sudden, it was just like the medals just dried up out of nowhere. Maybe I mean, how bikes falling apart doesn't help.
BEN WATERWORTH: But did you say that, Colin? Did you say the Australians? But so I was watching in the corner and I thought he hit something on the track. But no, his bike just broke. One of our members is coming around, you see these Australians face plane on the track. Basically, you think he's dead, but he's fine. And they show the replays, his bike just broke, like his handlebars fell off and he just falls off the bike. Shouldn't laugh, but it was funny.
COLIN HILDING: I was seeing that the Chinese, there was some big controversy about the tape on their legs would possibly give them an advantage.
BEN WATERWORTH: I mean, it sounds pretty standard in cycling. Tape on your leg gives you an advantage.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I did love today when the British women's team, when they set the world record and then they crashed to like two seconds after it, it's because I was so obsessed that they got the record that they just went looking ahead of them and then one takes out the entire team.
BEN WATERWORTH: Was that the one where I saw out of the corner why the Brits and the Danes collided? Like they had the big crash on the track. I saw Britain and they had a man and nearly took out their coach who was standing on the line. So that was funny. Artistic swimming, Australia are 20th out of 21. So actually out of 22 because Greece didn't start. So we're ahead of South Africa, our traditional artistic swimming rivals. So that's all that we care about there. Outside of all of those, the Boomers will win this one. I think, Jarrod, we're about 20 odd points up now. So it looks like we will play America for a spot in the gold medal match. Will we lose bronze again? What are you thinking?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Surely. Yeah, well, it just feels like the curse will live on forever.
BEN WATERWORTH: Slovenia are playing France in the other semifinal, and Luka Dončić has been dominating for Slovenia in their first time ever in the Olympics. So I would like to face France in the bronze medal game. I do not want to face Slovenia in a bronze medal game. It reminds me of all those years we used to lose to Lithuania. That was the only time I think Australians knew who the Lithuania were, because we always lost them to the bronze medal at the Olympics. Now, how's the Beach Volleyball going right now, Colin? Because again, I still believe it's not on TV here.
COLIN HILDING: Australia won the first set.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, come on! It's on TV right now. I can see it. One set up and we're 3-1 up in the second. How are you feeling right now, Colin? All of this.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, I haven't even started the second set. Spoiler.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, sorry. Spoiler alert, we're winning. Oh, no, you just got to point back. It's 3-2 now.
COLIN HILDING: Go live, that's why.
BEN WATERWORTH: Go live. Okay, well, just quickly, the Boomers are 81 to 52 up. I believe we will win. I'm not going to watch the rest of that, and I probably choked on that one. But we still have the Opals. Did we even mention to Colin, do you realise what happened to your Canadian women's basketball team thanks to us?
COLIN HILDING: No.
BEN WATERWORTH: So basically, Australia played Puerto Rico. We needed to win by 24 points or more to be the best third place team. And who was that team that we would knock out if we got 24 points or more? Canada. What did we win by? Like 28 points, I think. We ended up being the best third place team. We were ahead of France. So just like in the Rugby Sevens, where I think Rock needed to lose by 33 points or more, and they lost by 32 points, you needed to hope that Australia won by less than 24 points, and we didn't. So sorry, Canada. You're not in the quarterfinals of women's basketball.
COLIN HILDING: We're taking it hard.
BEN WATERWORTH: Boxing is set. Harry's through. We had a few kayakers, canoeists in the finals. Didn't win any medals. Although I did love how they were talking up the Gold Coast guy, who basically was a surf lifesaver, and somebody told him to go to the Olympics to improve your surf life saving. So he made the final of an Olympics. Oh, good. I'll be good at my surf life saving now.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Surf life saving, though. Brisbane 2032.
BEN WATERWORTH: Hey, actually, thoroughly entertaining sport. Did you ever used to watch the Uncle Toby's tour growing up?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Mm-hmm.
BEN WATERWORTH: Like Guy Leach, like our great survivor winner. Yeah, it was very entertaining. He used to love that. Sadly, we didn't make the semifinals as a handball. That's a bit of a shock, I know. As we said, Australia will play Belgium for gold in hockey. Sailing, we've got a gold guaranteed, and we choked on the other one. Sports climbing, sorry, Tom. Table tennis, we already got eliminated. Volleyball, we don't play that sport. Water polo, bit of a sad one, bit of a shock. We're out to rock. Bit of a shock, we're out to rock. Nine, eight. It's a rock shock. Yeah, could have been Australia, Canada semi, but instead it's gonna be a Rock USA semi. How are you feeling about that one, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: These quarterfinals, they just don't reward the top teams.
BEN WATERWORTH: Georgie Parker is still shitty. She's, I did love Georgie Park today. Oh, I'm still recovering from yesterday. Like, come on, Georgie, take a step back.
JARROD LOOBEEK: She doesn't have anything else left to commentate now.
BEN WATERWORTH: She did leave hockey to go play AFL for Collingwood. So I mean, you know, you've kind of got to judge her for that. We did have a weightlifter today, but they obviously didn't make the final. So bad news there for that. Um, I just I don't want to go to Athlete of the Day because that will probably take another 20 minutes. Um, I just want to raise something here. We've talked about the curse in the purse with Carly Mass. You know, Colin's claiming it's done. Colin's celebrating the fact that the Off The Podium.
COLIN HILDING: Time's over done now.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's done. She's won medals. So I guess, you know, technically you could. But I'm sorry to say that the curse is still out of the purse when it comes to Ben Waterworth. Just want to read out some results here for you based on who I've been on interviews with and what has happened to them since. All right. This includes winter and summer Olympians. Lydia Lassler, a great Olympic champion, 18th in Pyeongchang. Tom Burton, gold medallist, 470, the laser, whatever it was, got out-sailed by Matt Murn and didn't qualify for the Olympics. Katherine Skinner, reigning gold medallist in the women's trap, didn't qualify for these Olympics. Bel Brockhoff, got 11th in Pyeongchang. Sam Kennedy Sim got 8th in Pyeongchang. David Morris, we know he was robbed, but it's probably my fault. Clearly the Chinese judge, whoever it was, it robbed him of that landing. 10th place for him. Brendan Carey, 10th place. Joanie Bodenhurst, didn't even start, she got injured before the race after carrying the flag for us in the Paralympic opening ceremony. Chumpy Pullen, died. Andy Cheung, I should know. Ben, Chumpy Pullen got 6th in Pyeongchang and died. Andy Cheung, heats in semifinal in his events. Kalani Crane, 17th. Brendan Rodney, today. Today, Brendan frickin Rodney couldn't even make the semis. Heats. Charlotte Caslick, quarterfinals. Max Modesta, round of 32 and round of 16. Tomohalla, I've got Tomohalla in his 20th, but 17th, I'll take that. And Derek Druin did not qualify for the Olympics. Did he qualify or did he pull out?
COLIN HILDING: Pulled out due to injury.
BEN WATERWORTH: Pulled out due to injury. All right, so they're the Off The Podium guests, OK? I mean, we know Brendan's still got a chance of a medal in these Olympics. He's in the relay team. But outside of the Off The Podium guests, people I've interviewed in general for other shows, for The Brink, great show. Colin's been on it a few times. Ash Barty, Belinda Bencic, both medallists at these Olympics. Belinda got two medals. She got a silver and a gold. Ash got a bronze. So I'll kind of take that. But then people I interviewed for other purposes in Canada, Jay Lemurao in the cycling will cycle for fifth. Georgia Similing got fourth. So there you go. Cassie in the rowing, I didn't actually interview her. I spoke to her, but it doesn't count. And Boxers choked or got a bronze. So when I interview them for The Brink, they get a medal. When I interview them for Canadian media, they get fourth or fifth. When I ask them to come on the show, but they don't go through with the interview, they win a medal. When I meet them and work with them, but don't interview them in boxing, they win a medal. So note to future guests, if I talk to you, come on The Brink or let me meet you in person or don't do an interview.
COLIN HILDING: Fly out to Hobart. If you really want that gold medal, fly to Hobart.
BEN WATERWORTH: No one that I've interviewed on this show has won a medal. That is, how many people is that?
COLIN HILDING: Do you have any left, though, or is Brendan the last one?
BEN WATERWORTH: Brendan's the last one. I don't think, you know, Tom's not going to make the final because obviously only eight people make it through. I didn't interview Abdi. I mean, Winter One's, yes, we've got plenty for Beijing. We've got plenty lined up, but I'm not feeling hopeful.
COLIN HILDING: Plenty lined up to fail in Beijing.
BEN WATERWORTH: Bree, one of the gold medal favourites for the Monobob. Clearly not.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, that'll be heartbreaking.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, not Bree. Bree, how many is this? One, two, three, four, this is like 20 people. No, that's not right. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 people I've interviewed on this show.
COLIN HILDING: Jarrod, is it time for a mutiny? Should we start discussions?
JARROD LOOBEEK: It gets long overdue, but.
BEN WATERWORTH: What's going on?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I don't know. It's no worse than the Swiss jinx. That was pretty bad, so.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm telling you now that, like, Brie, least name your freaking bobsled after me. Like, I mean, like, I mean, Colin, Colin can gloat and say, I've won four Olympic medals based on his guests. I've won none. Jarrod hasn't even interviewed anyone. So, I mean, you know, Jarrod's the safe one. But I mean, at least if I get a bobsled named after me, I'll take that. So, yeah, we'll just don't. If we ever, if we have a guest come on the show and want to listen to an episode of this, don't listen to this segment. Okay?
COLIN HILDING: I want to say something just on my interviews here, to not pat myself on back. But Aaron Brown, one of the big controversies here, it's not really a commentary fail, so it's not jumping the gun. But one of the big controversies here is every time his name gets brought up, even when he qualified in third, they keep mentioning. And, you know, controversially, he decided to only run in the 200, not do the 100 and 200. By the way, Andre de Grasse is the only person running both 100 and 21 in all of Tokyo. And yet everybody seems to be blaming Aaron Brown, saying, Oh, he really should have, even Donovan Bailey on TV last night. I really think he should have run both. Aaron Brown talked about in the interview with me about how, you know what, I think that one of the things that maybe held me back in Rio was spreading myself too thin, trying to do the 100 and 200. And he's saying the same thing now in interviews when he's being asked about it. He's like, you know what, I didn't want to spread myself too thin. You know what, I'm going to say I got his strategy out of him. Let's say that. If he ends up winning a medal, it's all because he made life decisions based on that interview. That's what our claim is going to be.
BEN WATERWORTH: Good job, Colin. Look at you, Mr. Smarty Pants. Let's have a competition, Colin, between now and Beijing. We'll see how many athletes we can get on between us. I mean, you're welcome to join me on all my interviews, and I'm welcome to join you on yours. But clearly we know that if we ever do dual interviews, they're not going to make it. So we'll see how that goes. I'm just saying, look, clearly the 200 metres should have... Like, I know you mentioned it before, but two Canadians, you got Aaron and Andre in that. So and what have we got? Two, three Americans, a Liberian, who I believe actually is an American, but is now a Liberian, a Trinidad and Tobagian. Is that the right one? And a Jamaican. When we get to the commentary bits, I've got something fun to say about one of the Americans because he got interviewed by Australian TV, and that was a very unique interview. All right, let's get this thing done. We'll start the clock. All right, we're probably on for another four hours. The sports climbing is still going on, so we might beat that. Athlete of the day.
COLIN HILDING: Shit.
BEN WATERWORTH: Colin Shaw.
COLIN HILDING: I've got a few that I mean.
BEN WATERWORTH: Stop crying, stop crying and talk.
COLIN HILDING: Well, I've got a few that I think are all very worthy. Karsten would obviously be one, but he's kind of been bumped down on my list, despite the fact that it's incredible doing any world record in Rio. Elaine Thompson is probably my number one at this point. I mean, to do the double-double. She was the first person to ever do the double, and now she's done the double-double. And she did it in these games where all the talk was on Shelly Anne and not her. And she didn't have the best results coming into Tokyo. I mean, she was very much off the board and has sort of come out of nowhere. She is probably now going to go down as the greatest female sprinter of all time because I don't know if you're ever going to match that again. I mean, nobody should have matched it with... Bolt shouldn't have been able to pull that off, and now Jamaica has pulled it off twice. Another one that I just want to throw out there, Carrington, you mentioned that would be a big one, but I don't think we're going to choose this, but I just want to give kind of a nod for an indirect reason to Simone Biles. I think we're all kind of tired of the Simone Biles story dominating all the media and kind of upstaging the athletes who are meddling right now, and I'm not calling her a quitter like some people are. I'm not taking anything away from her. But that one event she competed in, it's probably going to go down in history as the event of Tokyo now. And I'm not even going to say I would take this over Elaine Thompson, but I think we have to at least acknowledge the importance of somebody who made a decision to drop out. It became such a big story that when she came back, this became the marquee event of Tokyo. And it's not quite at the level of Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, but I guarantee, despite the fact that this was on a North American side, I think at four in the morning, this is going to break ratings records. I mean, this is such a huge deal. And when people think about Tokyo 2020, most of the talk is probably going to be on Simone Biles coming back and winning at least one medal. I'm not saying to pick it.
BEN WATERWORTH: I just want to say quickly on Simone Biles saying, we could do a massive discussion about this, but had she done a massive torn hamstring or did this or did that, sprained her ankle like Ellie Black did and whatever, pulled out but then came back like, no, I'm OK, and come back and win a bronze, I'd be more on board with that. And I'm not trying to take away from the fact that she pulled out due to mental reasons, is there anything lesser than a physical injury? But I can't get on board with that positive opinion. I'm sorry, I need to be the negative Nancy. No, but I just want to say this about Simone Biles, because this is what frustrates me about this, is that she's championed as this advocate for mental health for athletes and all this sort of stuff and everything, and yeah, she's taken a stance, and no, I'm not right to compete, and blah, blah, blah, blah. Then she literally goes, no, I'm OK, and she comes and competes. It takes away from everything she just stood up for in the last two days. I'm sorry, it just annoys me.
COLIN HILDING: And again, this isn't a vote for Simone Biles, and good for her. For me, this would be a vote for, look at what this has done for our games. It's probably tanking as far as interest goes right now. It will be forever remembered. And I'm not a fan of Michael Phelps. Up until we got to Rio, I hated Michael Phelps. A lot of people hated Michael Phelps, but you can't take away the importance of what he brought to the Olympics. And for a single event winning a bronze medal after basically pulling out, the attention that this has brought to the Olympics is at least a big deal enough to be considered. It's more the story of this and what it has brought to the Olympics, more so than just her.
BEN WATERWORTH: I feel this is one of those regional things, Colin. And this isn't me trying to be a dick to you or anything or kind of going back to what you were saying before, but like, yeah, it's made news here. But I mean, the Olympics in this country right now are not, oh, people are losing interest. I mean, the Olympics are the biggest thing right now because of how successful Australia has been. I would say this is the most talked about the Olympics I've seen in a very long time. So to us, yeah, it's made the news that Simone Biles came back and won a medal, but that's not a talking point. We're just so into everything that's happening in this country right now, and all the stories are like, how this has brought Australia back together with all the problems because we've got Sydney still in lockdown. I mean, Charrod knows that. He's there. You know, we've got a lot of things happening around that. So again, I'm just, again, not me trying to be a dick, and I realise we're not putting her up, and we're debating this for no reason, but I'm just saying it feels like that's more of a regional thing, maybe a North American thing, or maybe outside of that area, because that's not something that's making use here for that reason.
COLIN HILDING: Okay, I get it.
BEN WATERWORTH: No, no, no, like I'm not trying to be a dick. I'm just saying in general, like that's an interesting perspective to hear that, because that's not something that I have heard. So that's what I'm trying to say. I'm not trying to shut that down. That's just simply me saying that. So who is your...
COLIN HILDING: But for the record, Alain is my vote.
BEN WATERWORTH: Okay, that's what I was about to ask you. Alain is your vote. Canada looks like they've just won the second set. So we're going to a third. That's how it works in beach volleyball. Yes. All right. Jarrod, who is your nominee?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Decisions, decisions. You know what? After the opening discussions to this episode, I am just going to throw out there Bessa Marwin from France in the sport climbing for setting the fastest qualification time in the speed because I just thought that was impressive. He's not a gold medallist. He's from France. We haven't picked yet. He's not an Australian and doesn't have an Australian connection that I know of. So that is my vote.
COLIN HILDING: That was crazy. That was an insane climb he had.
BEN WATERWORTH: Just quickly, 97 to 59. That's how much the boomers have won by. So there you go. That's a massive result. I did not expect Australia to win that much against Argentina. We're going to have a tricky one today, folks, because I just want to give some honourable mentions. I literally had Ellie Black written down as an honourable mention to have sprained a freaking ankle the other day to come back and get fourth freaking place is pretty incredible. To me, that's bigger than Simone Biles. I'm sorry, Simone. And I want to say, like, I'm not shitting on Simone Biles for what she did. It just it's annoying that she got all of that praise, who then come back and I'm going to come back. Like, just just stop it, Simone. Stop being so good. Shut up, Colin. I'm going to put an honourable mention to an Australian, Harry Garcide, that he's bloody brilliant to have a boxer win a medal after all these years in a sport that really gets no attention in this country outside of every now and then the Commonwealth Games. It gets a bit. We've got a couple of like when Jeff Horn won, like he's fading to obscurity. Like it's been a long time since we've had a prominent boxer in our country. We're surrounded by the likes of Anthony Mundine. That doesn't count. So, I mean, this is a big deal for the sport of boxing in Australia. This will help this sport big time moving forward in Australia. But the two that I want to put up. And again, I don't know how this is going to work. Lisa Carrington. I mean, seriously, like for New Zealand, for a country in New Zealand, Nick pointed it out very well when he was talking to me like, they're a country of four million people to win the amount of medals that they're winning at these Olympics and to have someone win five, like five medals. I mean, pennies obviously now won six or seven. That's a big deal for Canada. You know, we talk about Australia's Winter Olympians winning two medals. That's a big deal to have multiple Winter Olympic medallists. I mean, New Zealand, again, they punch above their weight so well in the Summer Olympics for this. We make fun of them, but that's incredible. Five medals, and she's potentially got the chance to win six. I mean, compare that to Penny. Penny's what? Six? Was it seven? She's won seven. So even if Lisa medaled in her last two events and got seven in total, you've got a country, the tiny little country called New Zealand with four million people that has about the same amount of people as the city of Toronto in the second largest country in the world. I mean, that itself speaks volumes for her achievements. I, though, mine that I thought this would almost be a sweep, but I'm a bit surprised it hasn't quite gone that way. Carsten, I mean, he ran under 46 seconds. He ran a race that would have been faster than most countries' 400 flat from a country called Norway that is all good. So I know we've already put up a Norwegian, so again, that's, you know, Collins rules. But, I mean, like, it's one thing I'll say, like, this isn't, this sounds racist, but it's not meant to be. To see a white guy out-sprint a black guy like the way he did was incredible. I've never seen that before. Like, that's probably really racist, but I'm not meaning to sound racist. Like, I don't know. It's just, it's just crazy to me. And Bruce and Tamsen were calling this the greatest race they've ever seen at the Olympics. And all the headlines I'm seeing are like, is this the greatest ever race at the Olympics? To have five people, the top five would have won a medal at every single Olympic Games prior to this. Insane. The top two broke the world record. And as you said, Colin, until recently, this was a world record that stood for nearly 30 years. I mean, that's insane. So, my vote is Carson. So I don't know how we're going to break this deadlock.
COLIN HILDING: I think, though, just one more rebuttal to add. And I think Carson was an honourable mention for me, but I mean, the record of the double-double didn't exist prior to this, too. So I think just as big a deal to make on that. Well, on the female side, nobody's done it, though.
BEN WATERWORTH: OK, I'm just pointing out to be gender equal that the same has done it. The men have done it. Look, I don't know how do we do this. Rock, paper, scissors. I'm not into Elaine. I'm sorry. I'm not taking away from achievement. But you pissed me off earlier, Colin. Why, because she's not white? Exactly.
COLIN HILDING: I don't know. I mean, Jarrod, you only put up one person. You didn't have any honourable mentions. Karsten's at least on my honourable mention list. So, I mean, that's probably the closest we'll come to a consensus unless you have any others you want to add or throw in there, Jarrod.
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, I'm indifferent either way.
BEN WATERWORTH: All right, so we're going with Karsten then?
COLIN HILDING: It looks like it's Karsten by a vote of one in an honourable mention.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jesus, we're going to have to make sure tomorrow that we stop putting up all these Norwegians. Jesus, we're so biased to Norway, aren't we? Jesus, God, sorry to our 91% that we're just putting up Norway all the time.
COLIN HILDING: We're at 50% from two countries.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, all right. Actually, just to clarify, Canada didn't win the second set. It's 2019 right now in the second. I thought it went to 15, but clearly I can't count.
COLIN HILDING: I was wondering, I'm like, you're really far ahead of me. The third set will be 15.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, okay, well Canada just got the second now. So, all right, going to the third in that point. What did we watch today, gentlemen? Colin?
COLIN HILDING: Currently Beach Volleyball. The athletics, obviously. The long jump, I already mentioned that one. I actually had a really hard time sleeping last night. It's a miracle I even got up for this episode. I probably got an hour and a half sleep. No reason, I kept drifting off, and as soon as I drifted off, I would be wide awake again. So I kept turning on the TV throughout the night and just watching whatever was on. I did catch the sport climbing, or at least the sprint portion, and the entirety of the gymnastics, the beam, and obviously some of the canoe as well. So basically everything that was on TV for the seven hours I was trying to sleep before I eventually fell asleep for an hour and a half.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now I know why you're so grumpy and angry, because I remember that 007 episode where you called me fat, and that was like two in the morning, and you were grumpy.
COLIN HILDING: You met my children, this is a normal night for me, an hour and a half.
BEN WATERWORTH: But still, I get it now, I understand. Give Colin some sleep, and he'll be typical, nice Canadian. Jarrod, what did you watch today?
JARROD LOOBEEK: A little bit of everything. Obviously the track and field, caught the canoe sprint, caught the track cycling, which was a disappointment. The hockey, which was amazing. The water polo, as you mentioned, that was a bit of a let down. I feel like we had lots of chances. And I think something we didn't mention was I watched the men's horizontal bar final in the gymnastics, where we had an Australian finish fifth. Did he finish fifth? Yeah, which I believe is the highest ever finish from an Australian male gymnast in Olympic history.
BEN WATERWORTH: Did we have a... Did Alisa Skinner finish fourth in an apparatus in Athens?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think what I read said the highest finish by a male, so I'm assuming that a female's done better before.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I'm pretty sure Alisa Skinner did back in Sydney or in Athens. I know, yeah, we had a very highly placed female in one apparatus once, but... No, yeah, we've obviously never done well at all in artistic gymnastics, but now we have. Good job. Sorry, I knew he was competing, but I didn't realise he did that well, so... Why are we just calling him him?
COLIN HILDING: My syllable.
BEN WATERWORTH: Thank you very much.
COLIN HILDING: That man?
BEN WATERWORTH: God, oh, that man. Typical man. Yeah, I think I watched basically everything that you guys did. I caught a bit more of the boxing. I watched the Japanese girl win against the Filipino girl. That was pretty entertaining. Yeah, the sport climbing, which... Is it still going on? Or have they finally finished it? No, it looks like it's finally finished. All right, seven hours later. Yeah, I caught a bit of table tennis today, actually. That might be coming soon to our commentary in a few days. But I do like a bit of ping pong, so that was exciting. Yeah, and that's about it. Everything else, you guys obviously already mentioned. Commentary fails or everything else. Let's start with Jarrod today. I will go Australia, Canada, Australia.
JARROD LOOBEEK: So I just had the one, which is not a commentary fail, but just the sport climbing commentator was just amazing. And he had so many of these great lines, and him commentating the speed was the best because he's trying to squeeze in all this stuff in like a five-second run. It was almost like he was doing one of those like cattle options, I want to say, like over in America, like that's what it was like. That was the speed that he was having to call like the event at. But I did love his comment when like lots of the athletes were breaking their like personal bests and records. And he said, well, the wall is standing strong, but the records are crumbling. It was just a really cool moment.
BEN WATERWORTH: I was recording it while I was recording, so I didn't hear much of the commentary until the bouldering. So I need to go back and watch that. Colin, Canada, hit me with it.
COLIN HILDING: There was one funny one in the diving. I forgot to mention that for what I watched. But it might have been a weirdly timed thing. I know that they've shown the commentary booths where they're actually separated into two booths, but like, you know, see through wall or whatever. The main commentator Mitch, I guess, is his name had basically been wrapping it up. He's like, and back to you in the studio, Heather. And then our expert, what's her name? Oh, I'm drawing Blythe Hartley. Former, former mentalist Blythe Hartley. So after he goes back to you in the studio, Heather, she goes, Mitch, I'm with you there. There should be an automatic wow after every one of those dives. And then it goes quiet again. He goes, and China wins the gold back to you. Did she just not hear that the event was over? And she threw in this weird comment about, let's give an automatic wow.
BEN WATERWORTH: Can we do a comment through the diving and just do that? How about Owen Wilson? She went lucky.
COLIN HILDING: The other one was just an awkward interview. Now, after the events are over, you know, you have the, I don't know, trackside reporters with their microphones on hockey sticks or whatever to keep their distancing. Usually they're pretty good. They must have had an intern doing this or something because it was so awkward. They were interviewing one of our female runners. I mentioned her earlier. Ivan said we'll have something coming up in her later.
BEN WATERWORTH: Glenis.
COLIN HILDING: But what's that?
BEN WATERWORTH: Glenis.
COLIN HILDING: Glenis?
BEN WATERWORTH: That's your runner, Glenis.
COLIN HILDING: Well, Glenis then. I'm going to find her name here. It's Glenis. You don't believe me? Fine. Fine. It's Glenis. Let's call her Glenis.
JARROD LOOBEEK: All right.
COLIN HILDING: So, Glenis, we're being very huge.
BEN WATERWORTH: These are all good paws.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Glenis.
COLIN HILDING: I'm like, did you catch a name that I didn't?
BEN WATERWORTH: Jack Smiggins gets a hilarious last track over on Double on Seven. I mentioned Glenis, and you're like, who?
COLIN HILDING: Glenis. It has to be Glenis. Glenis Smiggins.
JARROD LOOBEEK: There we go. Glenis Smiggins.
COLIN HILDING: Our famous track star. The first question I didn't get, it was like something like, so how did you feel that that race went? And she's like, giving a professional answer. You know, it was a little hard for me, and it wasn't quite the result I wanted. And all of a sudden, it was, uh-huh. So I understand that you have asthma. How does that factor in? And she gives another answer like, well, yeah, you teach yourself how to, you know, proper breathing techniques and everything. You know, it's difficult in this heat or whatever. And he goes, uh-huh, okay. So do you, like, think you were able to execute the race plan that you had? And meanwhile, she's barely made qualification. At this point, she's on the bubble. Do you feel like you were able to execute the race plan you had? She openly laughed. She's like, um, yeah, I guess, and then gives another polite answer. But, like, she was getting impatient with this dumb reporter who's just clearly got a script of, here's some potential questions, but you got to feel it out with the people. It was so awkward but hilarious.
BEN WATERWORTH: And that's why I went to journalism school. I don't know, I was trying to come back. It's not working for me. I mean, clearly, all the athletes that come on, they answer questions for me, and they get so mentally drained by them, they don't perform at the Olympics. They go, oh, my God, those questions that random guy asked me, I can't perform, I can't perform. Six-four right now on the third. This is entertaining. Oh, and Australia's gotten another point. I did love a second ago how the Canadians basically ran into each other as they tried to get the ball. They're not talking, Colin. Why are the Canadians talking to each other? What's going on? In all seriousness, this is one of your favourites, aren't they, to win the gold?
COLIN HILDING: They're undefeated, so they are the favourites right now to win the gold.
BEN WATERWORTH: But undefeated ever? Have they ever lost or just undefeated in the Olympics? Because the hockey roos are undefeated.
COLIN HILDING: They're usually very strong, but in the Olympics, they're undefeated, but yeah, they're huge favourites coming into this game for Canada's medal hopes.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, it's going to be a comeback though. They're 8-4 down in the third. I don't know how it's going. Yeah, not necessarily fails. I don't feel like we should call this highlights maybe. A couple of good Bruce moments, I guess. Lowlights, highlights, lowlights. I love Bruce today. I don't know which event it was, but one of the runners showed off a little bit, and Bruce is like, oh, he's a bit showbodey, but I like it. Bruce gets a bit excited. I like Tamsin Manu's random facts of the day. One of the runners today apparently is into trading cards, to which Tamsin Manu said, you know how kids are into trading cards? Yeah, he makes trading cards to get people into running. It's like, you know how kids are into trading cards? Okay?
COLIN HILDING: You just glossed over something very important there. There's running trading cards. I want some of these.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think this is like in the British Virgin Islands or something. Like he was from some random country.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Has he got a Chloe Esposito? The elusive Chloe Esposito card?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I don't have a Chloe Esposito. I still want my Chloe Esposito. I do love the awkward Channel 7 Olympian Get Vaccinated ads, where it's not like they've gone out and gotten like, you know, Emma McKeon or Ariane Titmuss or Paddy Mills. They've gotten like, Hi, I'm Glenys, Australian table tennis player. Hi, I'm...
COLIN HILDING: Hi, I'm Tom O'Harris.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, seriously, it's like, Hi, I'm Jack, Australian taekwondo competitor. Hi, I'm Lenny, Australian karate. Like, literally no one, anyone has heard of. And they're like, I got vaccinated. You should too. Like, Jarrod, have you recognised any of these athletes?
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, and it's just, well, I mean, every ad to do with the vaccination in Australia is handled poorly. But these ones, it's like, Hi, I'm Glenys, and I've jumped the vaccination queue because I'm representing Australia in the Olympics. Get vaccinated, even though you can't, because there's a shortage of supply. But whatever, clearly, this is just a bandaid. They've stuck over my arm to pretend I've just been vaccinated.
COLIN HILDING: And if it's incentive, why would you put up the losers? Like, if there are people on the fence who are getting vaccinated, well, you know what? I don't want to be a loser. I want to be a winner.
BEN WATERWORTH: They may as well say, Hi, I'm Tom O'Halloran, Off The Podium guest. I listen to Off The Podium, so should you. Like, I mean, that's what they should do. What else did I have today? Oh, the javelin. What's his face? Dave Colbert mentioned that's going from, you know where, to almost the mayor's office. I have no idea what that means. I don't know. I also love it when he got a bit excited when our long jumper, Amy Schumer, basically did well, which Dave Colbert, he sees the white flag go up because it was a legal jump. Oh, white flag, I love that. Cool. That's pretty good. There was one of the American runners they kept calling Kung Fu Kevin. I don't know why. I did love the breaking news on news.com today. They revealed which country stole Australia's mascots. The mystery is finally being solved. I didn't realise our mascots had been stolen. Apparently, in the Olympic Village, we had a kangaroo and I don't know if it was a koala or something. Then it went missing. And then apparently, somebody blamed the Canadians because they were like, oh, they've probably gone over to Canada to hang out with the moose. It wasn't the Canadians. It was the Germans. The Germans stole our mascots.
COLIN HILDING: Who cracked the case, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy? I guess.
BEN WATERWORTH: I would have gotten away with it. See, it wasn't for the damn Canadians. What was... I did like there was a Lebanese runner at one point who gave a salute, like as they introduced me, kind of stood up rigid and saluted the camera before he went up there. There was another runner...
COLIN HILDING: I can't ever hear Lebanese without thinking about glee.
BEN WATERWORTH: Because you're thinking of lesbian?
COLIN HILDING: Lesbian, I'm Lebanese. I'm Lebanese, don't you mean lesbian?
BEN WATERWORTH: I haven't watched that in a long time. Was that Britney S. Pierce, my favourite character on that show? I love Britney S. Pierce. The one when you talk... Well, we talked about recently, Homess, The Dip, I think you mentioned it or something, or somebody mentioned it. Do you ever know who I'm talking about? Australian comedic group, Leigh-Norm Woodley. There's one of their stand-up performances, and they're sitting there, and Frank goes, I just can't stop thinking about homos. I'm like, what? And it's like, yeah, it's my favourite Lebanese dip. And they're like, homos! Homos, you idiot!
COLIN HILDING: You're putting homos and Lebanese together. Somebody's going to be misunderstanding what you're talking about.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's just, I just can't stop thinking about homos. Another one that Tamsen really did a research, there was a runner who loved doing dance moves from video games. So which Tamsen said, you've got to be right up there with video games to know his moves. Okay. And there was another, was it the Canoe Finalist with Nick Green, at one point when he says, there's a lot of Olympic medallists in this final, and the youth. I mentioned before their love for that Hungarian varga, oh, he's the future, he's the future, he's the future. During the 400 hurdles, I think Tamsen Lewis like basically had an orgasm, the way she was screaming and going off with everything along those lines. There was also at the hockey, good old Alisa Clarkson, no, Alisa Clarkson, Alisa Nicholson, not Alisa Clarkson, dumb coach of Hawthorne. When he gets there, oh, there's only a small crowd here today. That's better than the no crowd that we've seen at all the other events. And we talked about the cocky Australians, right, going on the other day about everything. Even when we are winning, we are still cocky and bragging everything. The Germans fucked up one of their penalty corners, to which Alistair is like, oh, mistrapped there from the Germans. Terrible, terrible stuff by the Germans. It's like, calm down. And what was the woman aside Hamish McLoughlin in the studio? I can't remember her name. The woman, that sounded really sexist, Ben. The reporter next to Hamish McLoughlin, when she's talking up the boomers, right? This is, we need to come up with a new segment name for the like, over selling an event quote of the day. Because we had it when the Kiwis the other day about, you know, oh, can't get much better than 19 out of 20. Colin had one the other day. So it's the, this reporter said, the boomers quarterfinal tonight, it doesn't get any bigger than this. Yeah, it does. The semi-finals bigger, so is the gold medal match.
JARROD LOOBEEK: The bronze medal match.
BEN WATERWORTH: The bronze medal match. Yes, it does get bigger. The two last ones I'm going on here. The winner of the first 200-metre heat is at O'Ryre-Knighton. We're talking about Bruce loves him. He's 17 years old. He's fast. He's great. He's a bit cocky. He's very American. So our trackside reporter gets him, and you know, he's a bit, you know, he's a bit kind of blasé. He's a little bit all like, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like showing his USA and everything, to which the trackside guy said something to him along the lines of like, that's the fastest ever a 17 year old has run or something. I can't remember. So this American guy goes, for real? And just like does this stick to the camera. It was so funny. The final one I'll say, I praise New Zealand, praise New Zealand this episode. I've given them props. Nick Chester, our New Zealand correspondent, did tell me that New Zealand had a bit of a dig in Australia today in their media. Everyone, in their live blog of the Olympics, they decided to say, well, New Zealand would be ahead of Australia on this medal tally because Australia's only won all of their medals in swimming. So take away their swimming medals, and we have done better than Australia. Well, take away your canoeing medals, and we probably still have done better than you, New Zealand.
COLIN HILDING: Rowing, equestrian.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, like, they're having a dig at us.
COLIN HILDING: Soon to be beach volleyball.
BEN WATERWORTH: Like, you know, even Jarrod Collins defending us, and he hates us apparently after these Olympics. So, in the great words of a great swimmer, but changing one word slightly, fuck you, New Zealand. So, yeah, anyway, there we go. Quickly, 14-12. This is match point for Australia. That's 14-11 here. Did we get it? We got it!
COLIN HILDING: Live commentary.
BEN WATERWORTH: Suck it, Canada!
COLIN HILDING: Revenge! This is actually, you know, both Canada and US have been knocked out. This one's like wide open right now. There have been a lot of upsets in beach volleyball.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, Australia is going to play the great beach volleyball nation of Latvia in the semifinals. In all seriousness, Jarrod, this is pretty exciting. We have not medaled, I think, in beach volleyball since Sydney, since we won in Sydney. I don't think did Natalie Cook, I think they made the bronze medal match in Beijing, maybe, but they lost it. So, I mean, again, you think about beach volleyball, I would assume Australia is up there because we've got beaches and we have balls. So, yeah, go ask Jarrod.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, this is such a massive result. Yeah, so excited. I feel like, although good exposure, I want to say, for Latvia, like Latvia and Lithuania, we mentioned Lithuania before Latvia gets to mention this episode. It's been a good Eurovision bingo card episode.
BEN WATERWORTH: It has, and Latvia has done pretty well there. Obviously won the 3x3. Latvia is one of these, like, I joke about Romania. I legitimately like Romania. Romania is a country I would legitimately like to go to, it fascinates me. Latvia is always one of these Eastern European countries that I legitimately am fascinated by. It is literally a country that nobody really outside of Latvia, I'm assuming, knows much about. It never makes the news. No one talks about it. But I would love to go to Latvia. It's just one of those countries where it's like, where it's the favourite place you've been to in the world. Latvia? Cool. I mean, I know the flag of Latvia. Outside of that, I don't know much about it. Has Latvia ever won Eurovision? I don't think they've ever won Eurovision, have they?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I kind of want to say that they have, but no. I'll say they have.
BEN WATERWORTH: Let's go with that. Just quickly to do the fact check here. No, Australia has not won a beach volleyball medal since our gold in Sydney. Of course, the great Natalie Cook, Kerry Pothouse, of course, got the bronze in Atlanta. We have lost two bronze medal matches, though, in the same Olympics, and I'm wearing the medal today, Athens. So yeah, Natalie Cook got the bronze with a different partner, Nicole Sanderson. They lost to the US for the bronze. And the men, I didn't realise we actually have a men's pair that lost the bronze medal at those Olympics, too. Julian Prosser and Mark Williams lost to Switzerland in beach volleyball? Come off it! Switzerland doesn't have beaches? How does that work? It's like them winning the America's Cup.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It doesn't have any.
BEN WATERWORTH: No volleyball. No, I guess it's kind of like tennis. So there you go. I didn't mention the partying rowers and rugby players getting reprimanded in Australia for vomiting in rooms or something along those lines. So anyway, so I guess looking ahead, obviously got no commentary. Tomorrow we have 17 medals. It's one of the lesser days in terms of total medals given, but it gets very busy from after tomorrow onwards. But we have golf returning. The women's golf kicks off tomorrow. Marathon swimming, which is always kind of one of these ones I do enjoy when I remember it's on. And kids, get excited. Skateboarding returns tomorrow. Hopefully, it's the good one. Right? I don't know what the difference is.
JARROD LOOBEEK: The previews looked good.
BEN WATERWORTH: So is this kind of like the BMX freestyle, but on skateboards? Is this what we're meant to be believing?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I did see some big air in the previews, so I'm hoping.
BEN WATERWORTH: Does it involve little kids falling off skateboards so we can laugh at these obnoxious little 13-year-olds that shouldn't be winning medals?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Fingers crossed.
BEN WATERWORTH: I mean, but is this... Again, I really have done my research clearly. Can these kids back it up? Can they win? Can we have that Brazilian 13-year-old get the gold instead of the silver? Like, I mean, is this... Do we know this? Colin, you're our skateboarding expert.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, we have a guy at a cereal box. His event's already come and gone, so we know nothing about what's to come.
BEN WATERWORTH: Clearly, yep. All right. But you like the decathlon, don't you, Colin? So the heats of that are starting tomorrow. Is that the one that you got the Canadian in it or is that the heptathlon? Am I getting them confused?
COLIN HILDING: That's the decathlon, yeah. So that's our best chance now.
BEN WATERWORTH: Right, OK. So going for that glorious four. But of course, tomorrow, artistic swimming, the duet, we're all into that. The men's 200, probably...
COLIN HILDING: I'm rooting for Benin's Jarrod...
BEN WATERWORTH: . will probably be on air tomorrow when that's on. The 800, though, it's happening tomorrow. Is it going to be, what was it, Orsamo or whatever the hell they said it was? I mean, we're looking forward to him, right? Aren't we? We're going for Aussie-ness, Aussie glory in the unbelievable bowl. That's what it is for Peter. So, I mean, I'm seriously like, I love this guy. Like, and I'm telling you now, fuck you, Colin, if he wins gold medal, if he wins a medal tomorrow night, automatic athlete of the day.
COLIN HILDING: So we will hit 25% by the end of the games.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, exactly. Well, you're not here tomorrow night, so suck it. You don't get a vote. All right, Jarrod, we're going to choose an Australian ready for tomorrow, ready to go. But I'm actually really excited for that event, Jarrod. I'm looking forward to the 800 metres.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I don't want to jinx it, but I feel like he's got a chance. He's looked really good in like the heats and the semis, so it would be so good, fingers crossed, that he can pull it out.
BEN WATERWORTH: Australia guaranteed a gold medal tomorrow. The Men's Force 70. We will get our gold in that one in that. So that's exciting as well, of course, for Off The Podium athletes. We have Aaron Brown. We don't have Brendan Rodney. So we'll keep an eye out on how that goes. Some of the other ones, keep an eye out in the basketball. We should mention, obviously, that we got really excited last night with the Opels. Of course, they play the US in the quarterfinal. So we will have a great quarterfinal finish for the women's basketball. That will be exciting for us. And just looking at the other team sports here. Any of us playing in anything else? It doesn't look like it. I don't see any Canadian or Australian flags outside of that. So we'll see how we go. But we will have some commentary tomorrow, I believe. Colin, I think are we going to have table tennis, sport climbing, or wrestling? What are you feeling like? Because you'll join me for that tomorrow. So we can go back in time and commentate any of these events and go back to Tokyo. What are you feeling?
COLIN HILDING: Which one is the shortest?
BEN WATERWORTH: Wrestling.
COLIN HILDING: Wrestling it is. Wrestling it is. Short windows to record makes it wrestling by default.
BEN WATERWORTH: Wrestling. And I'll try my best not to rip off Roy and HG from Sydney. Before we go, I do want to give a special shout out actually. Over on Twitter, Don Whelan tagged us and a couple of other Olympic podcasts on there saying that he's enjoying listening to all of us, and it's hard to keep up, but he's doing it. So I appreciate that, Don. And while we're on the topic, those other ones that he did mention, Keep The Flame Alive, Olympopod, and The Five Rings Podcast, listen to them because I believe they all have 100% records of their guests going on to win medals. And I also believe that if you're sick of all this Australian bias, you can hear American athletes of the day. It's all you like. All you like in all of them, which I know Colin's missing. He's wanting all those Americans because he's so jealous of all these Australians getting all these athletes of the day. Thanks for joining us today. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, subscribe. And yes, we're getting very close to the end. I'm sad, but it's 185 days to Beijing. Come on, the real Olympics. I love the Summer Olympics. I love doing this, but I'm telling you, I say this all the time. I like the Winter Olympics better. So I'm so excited that they're only 185 days away. Jarrod, thank you very much for joining us. It's a pleasure, as always.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Thank you. It's been great.
BEN WATERWORTH: And Colin, go take a chill pill, Phil.
COLIN HILDING: I would rip my shirt open right now, but somebody beat me to the punch.
BEN WATERWORTH: That's why Norway is athlete of the day. Thanks for tuning in to Off The Podium, and we'll speak to you tomorrow.
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