Tokyo 2020 Day 12 Review
A golden day 12 for both Australia & Canada is in the books as we go over everything that happened and more! How excited were we to finally get our sailing gold for Australia? Were Australia's two bronzes somewhat of a shock? How did we feel the skateboarding went a second time around? Is Peter Bol the new hero Australia needed? Is Canada getting excited about the decathlon or should Australia be getting somewhat excited? How great can we make wrestling commentary? And is our athlete of the day going to be a calm choice today? Click and listen away and get your daily Olympic fix!
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
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BEN WATERWORTH: It is Off The Podium, an Olympics podcast coming to you for day 12 of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Another big day and another golden day. Oh, I feel so nice to say those words again. A medal that we all knew we were winning today, but Australia got another gold and two bronzes. We talk about surprise medals. Well, we got two medals that I don't know if we were overly expecting today. So a big day for Australia. And at the time of starting this, it's a nothing day for Canada. But, but there's a big but on that. That sounds a bit wrong, because they've got a very big chance of one or maybe two medals at an event that is still to come, which may or may not happen while we are on air. So stay tuned for that. But for that reason, the Canadian is still sulking, so he's off doing something else. So it's just an All Australian episode today. So, athlete of the day for Australia, bring it on. Jarrod Loobeek is with me once more. Jarrod, it is a pleasure to have you back on the show.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's great to be on a Canadian-free episode.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, gosh, we actually got some comments on Twitter about the little, the incident at the beginning there. So, you know, good to see that it spurred some excitement over on the Twitterverse. But I think he's going to change his nappy. It takes a while for that to happen. So, yeah, but I mean, a golden day for Australia. Matthew Belcher, William Ryan got the goal. We all knew it was coming in the men's 470, and I mean, I ended up seeing it. They showed it. The one time the show is sailing is when they're actually going to win a gold. But this, of course, was revenge for Rio. They both got silver in Rio, but they finally got the gold. But for Matthew Belcher, this is his third Olympic medal, gold in London in the 470 class. So I believe he's become the most decorated skipper in the 470 class at the Olympics. So that's the title we all want. Yeah, I mean, look, I feel like I shit all over the sailing, but the sailors never let us down. Every Olympics, I swear we get, what, at least one gold, maybe two. London famously, we had about two or three in one day, didn't we, that came to our rescue. So we may make fun of it, but it's always good to rely on our champion sailors.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it's just one of those sports that's obviously not heavily publicized and it's difficult to watch at times. But yeah, it's exciting that it's, we've got such a good history in it and that it is something that we can always bank on to boost the medal tally a bit.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, since Sydney, this is our fourth gold medal in the 470 class. So we're generally pretty good in this one. So only in Athens did we not win gold. And of course, as I said, in Rio, we were runners up in that one. So you got to go all the way back to before Sydney when we didn't really medal. We medaled in the very first 470 back in Montreal. Of course, he esteemed Ian Brown and Ian Ruff, the Ian, the boat of Ian's back then taking that in Montreal. But yeah, it's definitely one that we tend to rely on quite well. Of course, got the gold in this one in Sydney as well and Beijing for the women. So obviously a good class. I mean, of all the sailing classes, Jarrod, I mean, laser and 470 are my favourite. What about you? What's your favourite in the sailing?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Um, yeah, probably similar. They're just such exciting events. Yeah, I don't know how you could go past the laser. It's just the epitome of sailing.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's called it's called laser. I mean, that that in itself is amazing. But I mean, look, it's interesting because I can't tell the difference between any of these boats. I'm sure there's plenty of differences. Some have one person on it, some have two. Where's like the the Sydney to Hobart style ones with like 50 people on the boat? I kind of want to see these, you know, super yachts out there in the harbour in Tokyo clang and things. Oh, wild oats 11 out there, you know, doing that sort of Australia too. I want to land down under being played and now I'm Bond and Bob Hawke telling everyone it gets fired the next day, going to work and boss doing that's a bum. I mean, really make this sailing. We made sailing with Pirates of the Caribbean the other day, Jarrod. Come on, turn the week up a little bit.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think there's a lot they could do to increase interest in the sport. I think for one thing, a relay of all the different classes, then you go from one boat to the next boat.
BEN WATERWORTH: Hands down, mixed relays to keep it exciting. Artistic sailing could be a thing. Why not? You know, you could have sailing boxing, like, you know, like battle boats kind of out there as well. So, yeah, and all seriousness, great. Straight to get another go. We knew it was coming. I feel like I'm talking shit, but in all seriousness, I mean, Matthew Belcher, three time Olympic medallist now, two gold, one silver. William Ryan now, silver and a gold. Incredible effort from them. In that race, we should say that Sweden got the silver, Spain got the bronze, and two bronzes for Australia. Now, I guess when I say kind of unexpected, I mean, we knew we were in a bronze medal race today against New Zealand in the men's team pursuit. So not really a huge surprise. We knew we were in a shot at a medal, and we did win it. I believe New Zealand crashed. I didn't actually catch it. But I think this is just reward for the team who obviously had that handlebar malfunction the other day. They generally were in a, with more of a shot, I think, than a bronze. So they were kind of obviously a bit disappointed, but get a bronze medal. Kiwis crash. That's a pretty good result for us.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, absolutely. And I love how, like we had obviously that malfunction with the handlebars the other day, but they found three other bikes that had like a similar or the same fault that they had to remove from like the Australian teams. What would you say, like backup like bikes? They just had to switch them over to different bikes because three more had faulty issues with them as well.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, yeah. It's good to see they've got them on hand, right? Like, you know, it would have been funny if they had said like, oh, we borrowed them from New Zealand or something along those lines. But there you go. But the other bronze, I mean, I woke up to this. We mentioned slightly that the marathon swim was on the women's 10K, and we got our very first medal in marathon swimming, can you believe? And this has only been a fairly new event. I think, believe was it Beijing was the first time that it was brought in. Carina Lee took the bronze in a photo finish, if you don't mind. And I actually I do like the end of marathon swimming when they've got to whack that board. Like, that's actually really, really entertaining. But a nice little surprise to wake up to to win a marathon swimming medal. History Day for Carina Lee.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I always find it fascinating whether it be like the marathon on land or the marathon swim, the fact that you can have these really long distances and it still comes down to a touch, which it did in the case of second and third in this one.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, it's I mean, it's I would love to get Carina on the show or any marathon swimmer on the show for that, because it's kind of one of these things of what what makes you do marathon swimming rather than lap swimming. And I'm sure there is something to it. Maybe you do a 1500 metre and you're like, this is too easy. Like, I mean, maybe they can do a 1500 metre in like 10 minutes. I'm like, nah, I need a challenge. But I mean, it's kind of one of these sort of interesting things that I would like to find out. There's so many sports in that way that I feel like, why do you choose the hurdles over doing, you know, normal running or a pole vault? Like, I mean, what makes you do pole vault moguls? Like, why do you want to ski over bumps? Like, there is a method to the madness. But I mean, this is great. I always like it when we sort of create. Obviously, it's a fairly new event, but, you know, a bronze medal there for Karina. And I'm surprised we haven't seen blanket replays of this, Jarrod. I mean, it's swimming. Come on. Why isn't this being shown like nonstop all day?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, there's no equality. It's not really fair, is it? I do love how this is slightly more prestigious than getting us getting the first ever Australian female through to a skateboarding park final.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, we'll get to that. But, yeah, outside of that, no other medals. I mean, we've obviously got Peter Bol still to come while we're recording. It's about 27 minutes away, so we will be on air. So we will keep you updated on that. And of course, for Canada, no medals for them today. But Andre de Grasse and Aaron Brown are still to come in the 200, which we may or may not be still on air with that one. But obviously, Colin, I think, has just had to take the day off to get some more tissues for both the upper and the lower part of the body for the excitement that may come from this. But how are we feeling about Peter there? I mean, watching right now, they've been showing a lot of coverage about him. Bruce is actually on camera right now. It's rare you see Bruce. He's with Hamish McLaughlin, I see. They're talking about the 400 women's hurdles, which we'll mention in a minute. But how are you feeling about Peter? Will it be an unbelievable evening tonight?
JARROD LOOBEEK: You know, I've got a good feeling, but it's kind of starting to fade today just based on the amount of coverage he's getting. Like, just purely based on his races, I think that he's been running great. Like, he's generally towards the front of his heats, and he was able to maintain his speed throughout the heat and the semi. But just with all the hype and coverage and, as you say, the whole his new nickname of unbelievable, I feel like Seven's just laying on a little bit thick, and we may be getting another case of Rowan Browning in the 100-metre sprint.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I've got a bit of a feeling of that one too, which, I mean, look, it's great. The story behind him, sort of what a Sudanese refugee came to Australia at a very young age, and kind of, you know, everything about his story is really, really great, and they've really been showing a lot of that. He's actually a podcast host too. So we need to, I think, keep an eye out on this for us right now. This is a chance for people like us that can go to the Olympics and win a gold medal. He hosts a podcast called In My Spikes. So everybody probably should check that out. It's a lot better than our podcast. But yeah, well, for Sudanese refugees, for Australian runners, for 800-metre runners, and for podcast hosts, that's what he's, who he's running for tonight. Where's the massive montage on podcast hosts dreaming that this will happen? I want to see the inspirational messages from podcast hosts.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah. Where's that headline? From mic to track? Surely that that's got to get run at some point. Probably if he fails, they'll say, do we expect anything more from a lowly podcast host?
BEN WATERWORTH: Come on. If he didn't waste too much time podcasting, then that would have been different. Now, we'll go over the medal results. There's still a few events, of course, that are being decided right now. One that is just wrapped up while we're recording is the Women's 3000m Steeplechase, and it's Gold to Uganda, Parath Chamathar, Courtney Freak, the woman from America got silver, and Heaven King. If I actually watch these and listen to the way they pronounce it, I'd probably get it right, wouldn't I? For Canada, Genevieve Lalonde was 11th, and for Australia, Genevieve Gregson did not finish. So both Genevives, they're mixed fortunes for Australia and Canada. We may have been doing something else while that was on, Jarrod. I don't know if you had an eye on that. I didn't see what happened to the Aussie girl there.
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, I didn't. I just saw photos afterwards of her lying in a puddle and then her being wheel-chaired off the course. I'm assuming she took a tumble and then hurt her leg or something. But, yeah, just, I mean, it's not great when people fall, but it can be kind of interesting to watch, but hopefully she's okay.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm interested in the wheelchair thing, because we might have somebody talk about later on with the wheelchair. The 400 hurdles are the women's. When we saw the men's world record go yesterday, similar thing today, Cindy McLaughlin, who I believe has set the world record now twice at these Olympics, incredible feat by her, as America won two, Delilah Mohammed Silva, and Netherlands Femke Ball took the bronze in that one as well. We've still got the men's 200, obviously, the men's 800, obviously, and the men's hammer throw is still to come tonight. The artistic swimming duet is happening right now, so maybe we might have a result of that at some point. Boxing today, it was another goal for Cuba. Cuba? Just like get going, Cuba. They've been amazing the last few days. It's obviously like Australia in the first week. The second week is all about Cuba. Alan Lopez took the gold in the light heavyweight ahead of Brits Benjamin Whittaker. Can I just say thank you, Cuba, because we've got Britain breathing down our neck right now. I thought it was rock, but it's Britain now, and they've had a couple of favourites today not win the gold, so thank you very much that we are still sitting in fourth on the medal tally. It seems as Britain can't quite get the gold. Bronze went to Rock and Azerbaijan. In the cycling, of course, Australia got the bronze in the men's team pursuit, but Italy took the gold, and Denmark got the esteemed cycling nation of Denmark. I just, I don't understand this. The equestrian, the individual jumping is happening right now. We'll bring you updates on that. Sailing, as I mentioned, Australia gold in the men's force 70, Sweden silver, Spain bronze in the women's. Britain did get a gold today in the women's force 70 to Hannah Mills and Alida McIntyre. Silver to Poland, bronze to France. Skateboarding the women's park. Japan again, is this three out of three Japan have got now in skateboarding for gold? Sakura Yoshizumi, head of Kokona, Haraki, and bronze to Britain. Sky Brown, Jesus Christ, why is Sky Brown's name one more time? I'm gonna slap someone. And in the women's marathon, Australia bronze, it was gold to Brazil and silver to the Netherlands. And in the wrestling, the Greco-Roman 67 kilos, I can tell you the bronze has gone to Germany and Egypt, but that one's still to be decided, as is the Greco-Roman 87, the women's freestyle 62 kilos, and the weight lifting, the big boys, 109 plus kilo, is happening right now as we speak. So I'll give you a brief metal tally update right now, even though this of course is set to change with other events happening right now. China still on top. This is China's first day with not only without a gold, but maybe without a medal as of right now. I mean, I've got the weight lifting to go right now, but didn't see any medals for China today. 32 gold, 21 silver, 16 bronze, 69 in total. The US, 25 gold, 30 silver, 22 bronze, 77 in total. Japan, 20 gold, 7 silver, 12 bronze, 39 in total. Australia, still in fourth, 15 gold, 4 silver. The silvers are letting us down. 17 bronze and 36 in total. Britain, 14 gold. We know as soon as they get one more gold, they're ahead of us because they've got 18 silver and 15 bronze for 47 in total. While Canada have slipped to 17th. Come on, Canada, degrass. Here's your only hope tonight. You need to go one, two, three gold, four silver, seven bronze, 14 in total. New Zealand are in 12th, six gold, four silver, and five bronze, 15 in total. And for those wondering, of course, where Namibia are, they are in Eagle 70th, currently with one silver medal. That is Ben's random country of the day coming again tomorrow. I'm shocked that Britain just are getting all these silvers. 18, I mean, Russia too. Sorry, ROK, we talked that up at the beginning, but I mean 18 silver for Britain, 21 for ROK. And even we should mention the US, 30 silver. So some of these powerhouse nations are kind of coming up short and other countries are stealing the gold. I've got to say, I kind of like it.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, well, I mean, it's good for us in terms of the countries that are biting at our heels. You have to feel that the Brits have got to get, like, there's got to be a gold coming to them at some point in the track cycling. But just so far, they just have underperformed a little bit there.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I'm weirdly hoping that we can hang on to top five. That would be nice. I'm not confident of holding on to fourth. But yeah, you got Britain and Russia breathing down, you know. I mean, with events to come still, like, yeah, you'd expect Britain surely in the cycling, as you said. I mean, boxing, they generally get a sneaky gold potentially. Equestrian, there's still a couple of equestrian events to go. And athletics, they've got a few there. So, yeah, it's not surprising Britain, but Russia, like, it's interesting. I mean, wrestling, I'm guessing, maybe they've got a few ones there, if they beat some of all the stands. I think they're still in the volleyball. So, you know, but then you got to look back, I guess, to Germany, France, Italy. You know, these countries that are generally always around us. I mean, we've got more than double the gold of France and Italy. Germany, pretty much double theirs. So, I mean, I feel top six is pretty much a lock right now. I probably jinx that. But I mean, unless Germany, France and Italy go on an absolute barnstorming of gold in the final few days, and the Dutch, I mean, I feel top six, we're surely secure in the top six.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, you would think so. You have to feel that, as you said, like the Brits, surely they'll pick up a couple somewhere. And then rock. I mean, the artistic swimming, for one thing, it's just one event, but then also all of the rhythmic gymnastics, you've got to think that they're probably favourites in a lot of those events. So I feel like they'll get a couple there.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's our favourite event too, of course. We'll get to that as well. South Korea, interestingly enough, have gone a very large amount of time without a gold medal. They have slipped very much out of the top 10, still on six. It's got to be about a week, I think, since I've seen South Korea winning a gold. All the archery's ended and the taekwondo's ended, so they're screwed there. Just quickly on Australia, though, with 15 gold, we should probably mention this. This is our third best Olympics now in terms of gold medals won. Only Sydney and Athens are ahead of this. So should the Kookaburras come through tomorrow, that would equal Sydney in terms of that one. And if maybe the Boomers or Peter tonight, or we can get a sneaky gold somewhere else, you know, it'd be nice to get up to Athens. But I mean, look, I take 16 gold. I think that's more than you and I predicted and Colin predicted on our tally. And in terms of whenever we've gotten, of course, we've beaten Beijing now 14. So 14 gold in Beijing, got a six on the medal tally. And both in Athens and Sydney, we were fourth with 16 and 17. Our most successful in terms of highest placing was third back in Melbourne, but I doubt we're even going to remotely get close to third. For Canada, obviously, they've gone a few days without medals now, although again, we're hopeful for this evening. They got four gold, of course, in Rio, and they haven't gotten higher than four since Barcelona. They got seven back in Barcelona. So they will be hopeful that maybe a gold tonight and maybe their decathlete is doing somewhat decently. They can get to that magical five for Canada. So we'll see how that plays out. I might actually, before I go through some of the results, I might jump straight to, what did you watch today? Let's shake up the apple tree a little bit, Jarrod. Why not? What did you watch today?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, I caught the end of the marathon swim, and then I saw a little bit of the start of the hockey between India and Argentina, which is potentially just finished, or it's around about there. And then a little, a couple of the decaf on events. So I saw the 100 metre sprint and a bit of a high jump. Outside of that, not a whole lot. I did see, sorry, I did see the women's 1500 metre semis, which was very impressive from Hull and Hull.
BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly, Hull and Hull. They got the Genevieve in one and the Hull and Hull in the other. Yeah, two, two through to the final. Argentina did come through for the win over India 2-1. So they will play the Dutch with the goal. I want to go over some of the team sports in this episode, just because I feel obviously we've been focused on Australian Canada, but there's obviously some team sports which we've not focused on at all, which I feel is important to kind of update where they're going there. Yeah, I woke up to the joys of skateboarding, although I have to say a lot better than the other one. Like it was a little bit more entertaining. But again, when you put it on mute and you don't have to listen to those knobs commentate, it's a lot better. So, I mean, that was fine. It was still entertaining to watch all of those girls fall on their face. Yeah, I got a bit of the canoe, a bit of the cycling. I watched some more of the sport climbing tonight, a bit of diving, a bit of equestrian, sailing and athletics. So kind of the standard ones. Yeah, I sadly didn't see the marathons, so maybe I need to go back onto the Seven Plus app and check it out to see if that actually works. Let's go over how some other results went for Canada and Australia today. For Canada, they're obviously hanging out for about another hour and a bit for the 200, and we've just seen on the screens of seven, Andre De Grasse with the big words, favourite in front of him, Jarrod. Which, look, I'm not even joking when I say this. I sincerely hope Andre wins. I think he's got the silver, he's got three bronzes now, so silver and three bronzes. So it's the Jess Fox scenario. He deserves a gold. So he's going in as a favourite. And Aaron Brown, Off The Podium guest, another medal for Colin. So we'll see how that plays out. So I'm excited to see how that will go there. In the Decathlon, Damian Warner apparently was at the long jump. Had that been in the actual final of the normal long jump, he would have won a bronze, I believe. So Soga was there, was he in that. He also, I believe, bummed out in the high jump, but was leading after the 100, the long jump, and the shot put. So not quite sure where he's at there, but he's doing well. He's this big great hope that Colin's talking a lot about there. Now we had two sisters in the 1500, two Canadian sisters, I should say. Now, how did they go? I can tell you that Lucia Stafford did not make the final, but Gabriella de Blu Stafford did make the final. So one out of two, not bad. Wonder how that Christmas will go this year around the dinner table, to say that one of them made the final and the other didn't. In artistic swimming, I can proudly say the Canadians are in fifth place heading into the final tonight. And in all seriousness, Canada is quite good in artistic swimming. So medal chance there. Equestrian Maria Des Loris will compete in the jumping final tonight. So best of luck to him. Kate Sanderson in the 10K Marathon was 18th. In the canoe kayak, the very first time the C1 200 metre was held. And good news for Katie Vincent and Lawrence Vincent Lapointe. They won their heats and are through to the semifinals. That's what we're expecting, wasn't it? Good to see their bronze medallist from London, Nick Matveev and Mark De Jong in the K1 200 metres. Through, are they? Yes. No, maybe. Matve did, but De Jong didn't. Oh, that's a shame. I know how to read. Michelle Russell, through the quarters of K1 500, she's through to the semis, and Brian Malfessy and Vincent Jean-Denis did not make it through to the semis, and we're going to the B final. Good for them. In the diving, the 10 metre platform, Megan Benfitto and Selena Toth are through to the semifinals. Good for them. In track cycling, Canada got fifth in the team pursuit. They beat Germany. Good job. That's what I was expecting from them. I should mention the Ben Waterworth curse there, Jay Lamoureux, fifth. Good for him. He's part of that team. And there was a couple of other Canadians in action. Kelsey Mitchell and Lorraine Jeunesse won their rounds of the heats of the Kirin, so we'll be through to the quarterfinal, while Hugo Barrett and Nick Whammus threw into the round of 32 in the men's sprint. Golf, people hit balls. Brooke Henderson and Elena Sharp, both are three over par and are eight strokes off the leader. Damn. And Alana Yip in the sport climbing, she did well in the speed. I think I caught her run. I believe she was in the top 10. And I should pull up the other results shortly to see how she's gone in the bouldering, which is of course, takes about five hours, doesn't it? I think we tracked it about seven hours last night. She, after bouldering, is in 16th place. So she's dropped down, doesn't like the bouldering, does Alana? Gee, she's led a country down there. So there you go. We're about 10 minutes away from the 800. So I'm just going to see if I can fly through some of these other Aussie results for you right now. In the men's decathlon, as opposed to the women's decathlon, because there's the heptathlon, I should say. So just in the decathlon. Two Aussies in that one, Ashley Maloney and Cedric Dubler. Doing quite well. Ashley Maloney is currently sitting in third place. So doing quite well. And he actually won the high jump. So good for him. The 400m still to come. But and then Cedric, what a name, I like the name Cedric, is in the bottom half, I can see here. So yeah, quite a bit of that today. I actually don't mind the decathlon. I know college early into the decathlon. I can see why it's entertaining.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It is, it's good. It's interesting to see these athletes who are so multi-talented. And to the point you brought up before, the fact that they can, I suppose they have certain events that they're better at within the spectrum of the decathlon. And some of them really, they could compete in individually if it wasn't too many sports and too much effort in a short amount of time. And they're saving themselves for the decathlon. But the fact that they're getting these great individual results, it's, I mean, there's potential there for them to maybe look into competing, I suppose, in something apart from the decathlon as well.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, and it's another one of these sports too, where it's like, yeah, it's kind of like what makes you think to yourself, I'm good at all 10 rather than just, I'm just going to choose one. Like people just can't make their mind up clearly. As you mentioned, the 1500, great result for Australia 2 into the final, Lyndon Hall and Jessica Hull, Hull and Hall into the final. So great to see there, the men's javelin. We did not have a competitor, so I don't know why I'm talking about it. In the, what am I looking at here? The 3000th Seable Chase, we've already gone over that, haven't we? In the heptathlon, we do not have a competitor in it. I did miss out, there was a Canadian in the heptathlon, and that of course is Georgia Ellenwood, and she looks like she's in about 10th place, so doing OK there. In the men's sprint, we had a bunch of Aussies in there, and they didn't look like they did very well by the looks of things here. So I can see a lot of people not doing well, which is not good. So I can see that Matthew Richardson didn't make it through. Nathan Hart, Matthew Richardson, he's gone from football to cycling, didn't realise that. Nathan Hart did not make it through. And yeah, gee, we're really not doing well in cycling. A bronze might be the only thing we get, Jarrod. What's going on? We talked about this last night, but I don't like this. Why aren't we good at track cycling anymore?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it's an odd one. I think in the sprint, Matthew Glazer was meant to compete, but he pulled out because of a medical issue or something. I think he was kind of our best hope in that. So that maybe explains why we haven't progressed kind of past the, I don't know, what round of 32 or whatever in that.
BEN WATERWORTH: Right. In the Women's Kieran, Carly McCulloch did not make it through in her heat, but she made it through in the repacharge. So that's good that she got in the second. I don't like repacharge. Repacharges are weird. Why do we have repacharges? I mean, second chances, like, is this a thing?
JARROD LOOBEEK: They're another topic for discussion in our sports episode.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's like Redemption Island or something like that. Do we really, really need that? Canoe Kayak, we had a couple of competitors out there on the water today. In the K2 1000, Riley Fitzsimmons and Jordan Wood won their quarterfinal and are through to the semis. Congratulations to them. In the Women's K1 200, unfortunately Josephine Bulmer did not make it through. She was last in her quarterfinal. And Bernadette Wallace, I believe the sister of Ken Wallace, great canoeist, she did not make it through either. But did I mention Katie Vincent for Canada? If not, she is through. And as is Laurence Vincent-Lepointe. I think I did mention them, but they'll get some extra airtime tonight. In the women's K1 500, the great Lisa Carrington is through to the semifinal. Get on board the New Zealand hype, try and get that one more medal, Lisa. She's actually going to be in a semifinal against two Aussies, Alyssa Ball and Alyce Wood are through in that one. So I tell you what, we don't want New Zealand to breaking a record. So just steer your boat, do what Britain did in the rowing and take them out in the semi basically. So Lisa can't get that extra medal. How about that? Peter Bol, of course, about to run very, very shortly. The Opels, today I shall come back to the Opels. We'll go through that very, very soon. The 110 hurdles are still on athletics here. Nicholas Hough, that's how you say his name, isn't it? Hough Parthen, yep. Seventh, he wasn't too happy. He had some calf soreness, I believe. But I don't think there was a hurdle he didn't hit.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I was going to say it was very impressive. If that was the aim of the sport, he did a great job.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, if the goal, yep, you did very well there, Nicholas. But he seems like a nice guy.
JARROD LOOBEEK: A bit confused between hurdles and dominoes there.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, exactly. Sport climbing, as I said, Oceana McKenzie is currently in 12th after the bouldering, so that's good, better than Tom, but Tom did his best. And sorry that I cursed you, Tom. In the skateboarding, we had a finalist, Jarrod Poppioelsen. It's been so long since Australia has made a final of a skateboarding, hasn't it?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Broken the drought.
BEN WATERWORTH: Fifth place, though, for Poppioelsen, so not a bad result. She was only 10 points off getting a bronze there, so good job.
JARROD LOOBEEK: She was automatically more likeable because she was over a reasonable age to be an Olympic champion if she'd won.
BEN WATERWORTH: How old is she, 16, 17?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I thought she was like 20 or something.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, is she older? Good to see that I'm paying attention. In the golf, Minji Lee and Hannah Green are both in a tie for 23 at even par on day one. Diving, great work from Melissa Wu, one of our veterans of the team. Fourth place, head of the Canadian. Suck it, Canada. So she is through to the finals. The semifinals, I should say. Well, Nikita Haynes did not make it, sadly. I like the 10-metre ones, always the one I enjoy. That's kind of the one that we had Laura Hinson on before. And generally the one we have all the success in is the 10-metre one. And look, I'm a chicken. I can't even get into a 1-metre board. So these women are brave as heck, but I love watching it.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think it's more exciting to watch because they can do a little bit more because they got a bit more airtime than the springboard.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, exactly.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Although diving as well, do we need so many rounds?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of competitors, isn't there? So, I mean, I guess. But, oh, I'm seeing the Sibyl Chase replay, and there she goes, flat in the face. And I love the photographer right behind her just taking photos of her while she's dead on the ground. Classy there by the Tokyo photographers. Basketball, unfortunately, for the Opals, it wasn't really a surprise. Let's be honest. This was what, the 54th match in a row, America have won at the Olympics. 79 to 55. I turned it off when we're about 30 or 40 points down. But, I mean, the win for us was basically making it to the quarterfinals, right?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it's true. I mean, I suppose we would have been expecting more than that going into the Olympics, but given how we had to come through that last group game, I think probably deserved. It wasn't a case where the quarterfinals were rewarding the lower ranked team. This was one where the quarterfinals got it right, you could say. But yeah, no, this was good. I turned it on and we were winning 2-0, so it was a good start to the game.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, exactly. Well, you could say you were leading at one point. Just checking out now, God, Peter Bol's got a huge crowd together at... Is he from Sydney? I hope he's not from Sydney because they're on lockdown. I mean, this is bad for COVID. Let's just say they're in Melbourne. Or Hobart. It's probably safer there. But check out the crowd there, Jarrod. That's literally bigger than the crowd in the Olympic Stadium right now.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's true, although it almost feels like that's the type of energy we were just getting just before the sport climbing. Or I don't know if you saw, but they just had a random breakdancing segment.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I don't know if it was just because or if it was meant to be a lead up to Paris or an exhibition theme. But they just had people breakdancing, like a group breakdancing, for 20 minutes.
BEN WATERWORTH: Maybe, who knows where we're going to go. Peter Bol's race is about to be on, but I tell you what, what we'll do now, because I feel like we're almost going to be not necessarily commentating this, but cheering on this live. We might actually throw to actual commentary earlier today. Jarrod had the day off because he was sad to prepare himself for a certain other event that we will have tomorrow. But Colin and I headed out to watch some wrestling, and it was a little bit more entertaining than we thought it was. So let's cross now to Colin and myself commentating wrestling. Yes, welcome to the Makahori Mess Hall, or as I'm calling it here, Madison Tokyo Garden, for what is being billed as the match that stops the world. It is Tokyo Olympic Mania 2020, as we get ready for the Greco-Roman quarterfinals between Kyrgyzstan's Axel Nakhmudov and Azerbaijan's Rafid, who is a naïve. And as we can see here, Axel is doing the classic Hulk Hogan song, I Am A Real American, even though he is from Kyrgyzstan. I'm not sure the methodology there. But joining me is former world champion in the Intercontinental Bout from 1996, Colin Hilton. Colin, what a pleasure it is to wrestle today. We hear Rafid coming on now to the Rocks theme.
COLIN HILDING: And tell me, all those cornermen behind him, they are part of the Battle Royale tonight? They are. They just took me out of the zone on trash, but they will be competing later on in the over-the-top battle royale.
BEN WATERWORTH: No, that's Yokozuna behind him.
COLIN HILDING: Good work, Yoko.
BEN WATERWORTH: I know. Absolutely incredible there. But great for the IOC to try and get the kids in here. As we see Finland's Stevo Pedrovik wearing, I believe that says face shield. Yes, quite obvious what he is wearing there. But in the meantime, getting some professional elements in. We're about to get started here, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: Now, that face shield will come in very handy once the chair shots start. So steel chairs will be flying, but he will be OK.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, take us through just what's going on here in the early rounds, as we do see the Azerbaijanian kind of go for the headlock quite early. Now, is this common from Azerbaijanian wrestlers?
COLIN HILDING: No, not typically, but he is quite upset that the wrestler here from Azerbaijan has made up his country because he wanted to be entered in the Olympics. He forged his forms, and now it's become a grudge match because he says, I'm the only Azerbaijan here. Azerbaijan, you do not exist.
BEN WATERWORTH: And it's a very interesting element, then, to add to that, that he did choose to go out to the Hulk Hogan, I Am A Real American. So clearly sucking up to the USOC to try and get some citizenship there. But as we see here, Axel got a bit of a leg injury. He's wearing the black taper. Is this a ploy here to go up against this Azerbaijanian competitor to say, hey, look, I'm injured. Aim for my leg, but maybe he's secretly got a steel chair hidden underneath there.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, you know, there's some brass knucks that are going to be buried in that pad there. And at some point, he'll whip those out, knock out his Azerbaijanian opponent, and then the grudge match will officially be over.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, it's interesting to see the move. It's all the Azerbaijanian goes for the throw. He goes out the second wall, and he does a backflip pike. I think he's got the wrong sport there, has he? Who's Neov? I think he should have been at the diving pool. And his coach sees it, he's like, no, no, you should have been training for wrestling, not diving.
COLIN HILDING: And you know, that hole, that was called a Flynn-Flawn Fujiwara takedown. Learned, of course, in the Great White North from the one and only Flynn-Tobby and Flabius himself.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, I did read about that. That is good to see in person. But the competitors here just going for the grabby grabs. Now, I'm not too sure if they need to go for the flippy flips here, as we did see from the Azerbaijanians. But Axel here trying to go for the nipple clamp. And that's good to see here that Rafig is prone to this attack. He's protecting the nipples, and protecting the nipples is important in this sport.
COLIN HILDING: He's going lower. He's going for the honky honk below the belt.
BEN WATERWORTH: A bit early for the honky honk, I feel. I feel the honky honk should only be done...
COLIN HILDING: Oh, he's getting really low there.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, the referee stopped here, and as Axel is very happy that he's gotten out of that one. But Rafig's coach again saying, look, no, you trained for the wrong sport. Diving is for parrots. And as we go into the downward dog right now, I do like it when they go into the downward dog.
COLIN HILDING: Now he's imitating swimming.
BEN WATERWORTH: He is Rafig right now, welcoming Axel into him. Oh, and here we go. Straight down below to the downward dog, but up into the upward dog, and oh, a throw down. Oh, Axel, he goes in for the dry route. Now he's just humping in slightly. Now this is a marking of territory, a classic Kyrgyzstanian wrestling move. Now he's got him on the headlock here. He's saying, hey, you're mine. Take it, take it. That's it. The Finnish ref is liking this. He's getting in for a close view. He's gonna put this on his OnlyFans account. Oh, and Axel now really trying to put him outside the yellow circle into the flippy flip mood and into the flippy flip on the backy back. And oh, that's an OnlyFans special. That's a premium content. Oh, and don't the Kyrgyzstanians love it?
COLIN HILDING: Right over the top rope, and the countdown begins. One, two, three. He's got to be careful not to get counted out here or disqualified. I do like how he so seamlessly transitioned between the missionary position, the doggy position, and what I believe was the iguana position by the end there.
BEN WATERWORTH: Colin, I'm so impressed that you've learned some of these positions recently. Kudos to you.
COLIN HILDING: I've had some co-hosts exposing me to some videos.
BEN WATERWORTH: They sound like sick people. You should get away from them. 7-1, that move brought Kyrgyzstan now. And just listen to the crowd here. They're loving every minute of it. Axol once again picks him up. He goes for the carry. Oh, that's a slam down if you like it. That's almost the people's elbow. Can you smell what Axol is cooking? And doesn't his coach love it?
COLIN HILDING: You talked about the crowd here. It is absolute pandemonium here. There are approximately 18 other fighters who are impatiently waiting there about. We're just saying, go, guys, go.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, it's over.
COLIN HILDING: Good man.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's over.
COLIN HILDING: Ding, ding, ding.
BEN WATERWORTH: There it is. It's been called.
COLIN HILDING: And a complimentary hug. They got very close during those missionary positions.
BEN WATERWORTH: Colin, I can't believe what I'm seeing here. We've seen some amazing stuff at Tokyo. But for Axel Makhmadov to beat Rafiq Hassanayov in the missionary takedown. And look at the rig on him. My goodness me. If that doesn't make you want to get into men, then nothing will. Holy crap. I'm erect.
COLIN HILDING: I think we've witnessed history here. The sport of the future that the kids are all going to be waiting to see. No steel chairs, though, but there is still plenty of time in the night.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, he's going into the mix zone. As we take a look at the replay, this is where it came from the Downward Dog into the Missionary. He's heading to flip over, and then boom, takes it over there. Then the crowd is still going crazy here. I'm surprised he's not jumping up in the beltbuckles and drinking beer. We know he usually likes to do that, but he's composed. This is only the quarterfinal. But it was the people's elbow that took him over into the Missionary. Take a look at that grip. Oh my goodness. That has got to hurt. And I've got to say right now that I think Rafiq is going back to Baku. A bruised man, Colin Hilding. He should have stuck to the diving. And he can't even speak, Colin Hilding. He's that shocked.
COLIN HILDING: I'm speaking. I do believe that after this bout, we're not going to be hearing the Rocks theme. We're not going to be hearing the real American. After the fondling that went on there, I'm pretty sure one of these men is going to change the theme music up to, I'm just a sexy boy. I'm not your boy toy. Because wow, that was a lot of fondling, grabby grabs and honky honks.
BEN WATERWORTH: Colin, I have to admit, that was my walk on music back in my professional wrestling days because it's true to who I am.
COLIN HILDING: Still is today as a commentator.
BEN WATERWORTH: It is indeed. Yes, as we just saw there on the screen, of course, into the semi-finals now is Axol. And how do you predict his semi-final bout will go, Colin? I mean, now that he's beaten Rafik, the world is at Axol's feet right now, isn't it?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, I think there will be a famous double cross when the New World Order comes out. Delivers a devastating leg drop, and well, Greco-Roman wrestling will be changed forever.
BEN WATERWORTH: Indeed, yes. And I do hear rumours circulating that Tupac or X-Pac, whatever that guy's name was, probably X-Pac, Tupac's dead, or is he, will also return at some point to put in the spice of this event. And of course, the winner, as it is famously known in wrestling, not only do they go on to win the gold medal, but they go on to win a very esteemed Hollywood career where they will eventually get a TV show named after them and also star in Jungle Cruise coming soon to cinemas near you. Just had to get that subtle plug in there. Disney did threaten me with a gun. What an event. Look at the wrestling. Look at the crowd. Look at the mats. I mean, the kids love the wrestling. The adults love the wrestling. And most importantly, the Kyrgyzstanians love the wrestling because they are through to the semifinals of the Men's Greco Roman 77 kilos. Colin, it's always a pleasure to wrestle with you here in A Cometary Box. Thank you for your time.
COLIN HILDING: Always exciting to get inside the squared circle and dive off some turnbuckles and deliver some headlocks and sharpshooters.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, I couldn't have said it better than myself. And I can't even speak properly. I'm that excited. And look at the camera work here. We've got people taking photos of Olympic rings. We've got women pushing their hands down. We've got producers on headsets. I mean, all the highlights of wrestling are being seen right in front of us. But let's cross back now to the Off The Podium studios as we go take ourselves a cold shower. Wow, what an event, Jarrod. I'm sad you couldn't be there. You missed out.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, like the OG of the Olympics wrestling, really.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah. How was that nearly off? Remember that wasn't meant to be here in Tokyo? They pulled it after London, and then there was that outcry? Like, seriously, like, I mean, all jokes aside, wrestling to me is one of these staples that should be at the Olympics. This is like as traditional as you can get.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, absolutely. Like, I just don't... We've mentioned it before. The process of deciding which sports are in and which sports are out is a bit iffy. So that's one you've just got to keep just for the nostalgia of it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Like, we mentioned it a few times now. We're going to do a sports episode because, I mean, we've got outside of interviews and everything between Olympics, you know, we've got some other plans. We sort of want to do maybe some retrospectives of each of the summer and winter games. Maybe sort of we'll just get an old opening ceremony and just do some commentary over it or something along those lines. But yeah, that would be an interesting one to do just a sports episode, you know, in general, talking about what's in, what's out, and kind of things that like the instant, the little, you know, repertarges and things like that, that as we just mentioned, because there's a lot to digest when it comes to these sports, especially summer, because, you know, winter, there's not as many. And I can forgive the winter sports a little bit more. But summer, again, like there's definitely some sports here we can cut.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think it's just it's working out the timing and just, as we said, just like the weird, the repertarges and weird rules, like the one country in the slalom, like one athlete per country, it's just odd that there's not much consistency across sports at the Olympics.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, it's very interesting. Now, just while we're waiting, Ashley Maloney is still in second in the decathlon, nearly at the halfway point, four, after four events, seeing Cedric Dudley is in 15th. So I need my Bruce next to me. I don't know if Australia's ever medaled in the decathlon. But I mean, this was, could this be our surprise medal that we sort of, the Chloe Esposito moment, the David Morris moment that no one's calling, because I've never heard anyone mention the words decathlon and medal for Australia ever. This could be a big result. I know it's not quite halfway yet. It's only four events in. But I mean, pretty interesting to see that we've got somebody in second place.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, that's very exciting. I'm hoping that he can kind of hold on to that sport. And if he could go one better and take home the gold, wouldn't that be a story?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, indeed. The 800 is getting very, very close to starting right now. But one thing I wanted to do in terms of results is I mentioned, of course, that there's obviously a lot of team events happening at these Olympics that we haven't really focused a lot on. And they're getting very much to the pointy end. We obviously talked a lot about softball in the first week. But baseball, of course, is on. This weird notion of only having six countries qualify, just like they did in the softball. And no Australia, no Canada. But we're into the pointy end right now. And I can tell you that we're into the semifinals. And the US are waiting to play the loser of South Korea and Japan. So the winner of South Korea... This is even where it's weird in baseball. Because basically, you don't just have quarters and semis. You've got, like, semis, and the loser of a semi plays the US for a spot in the gold medal. They get a second chance. Well, then it's all confusing. So anyway, South Korea and Japan will play each other. And the winner of that goes through to the gold medal game. The loser plays the US. And then the winner of that game goes back into the gold medal game, while the loser of that plays Dominican Republic for bronze. Did you follow that, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
BEN WATERWORTH: I can tell you that Mexico and Israel have been eliminated. So the gold will either go to South Korea, Japan, or the US. And the bronze will either go to South Korea, Japan, US or Dominican Republic. And silver will obviously go to South Korea. Yeah, it's weird. They just make it complicated. In the handball, one of my favourite sports of the Olympics, we're at the semifinal stages. In the men's, we have France playing Egypt, who knocked off Germany. And didn't they go off on social media? This is a first for Egypt to make a handball semifinal. This is a sport that I feel is dominated by Europe. So to have Egypt into the semis is massive. And Spain up against Denmark in the other semis. So I'm looking at Sweden, I'm looking at Norway, esteemed handball nations that aren't quite there. In the women, though, the Norwegians are in the semis, up against Rock. And my favourite team at these Olympics, the Swedish women's handball team, are into the semis, and they will play either France or the Netherlands. So who are you picking there, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think the French.
BEN WATERWORTH: The French? You're on board the French? Why not? Let's go the French. I'm going for the Swedes. And I'm going for Egypt in the men's, because let's see some history there. In the volleyball, so indoor volleyball we are talking here. In the semis, we've got France up against Argentina for the men, and Brazil up against Roc for the men. And in the women, we have Serbia against the US in one semifinal. We've got South Korea beat Turkey, so they're through, and they will play either Brazil or Roc. And of course, in the beach volleyball, we know that we're going to have Australia versus Latvia in one semi, Switzerland versus US in the other. In the men's, we're going to have Norway versus Latvia. Aren't Latvia having a great game in the beach volleyball? Those beaches in Latvia, god, get in there for summer in one. And in the other, we're either going to have, in one quarter, we've got Qatar versus Italy, and Germany versus Roc. So I'm going for the Qataris there. They're having a big couple of years Qatar ahead of the World Cup next year. So all that money they're spending on the stadiums is working for their athletes as well, it seems.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it looks like it's paying off. I'm back in the Norwegians in that one.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, get on the Norwegians. The 800 is very close to getting underway here. I'll just quickly go to the water polo. And obviously Australia are limited in the men's, but we've got Greece into the semifinals. They'll play either Croatia or Hungary, and Serbia and Spain in the other semi. In the women, now that Australia and Canada are both out, you've got Spain and Hungary in one semi, USA and ROK, you can't go past the Americans. They're generally pretty dominant in the women's water polo. You're looking past them at all?
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, I feel like they've got to unlock.
BEN WATERWORTH: And the men's football, one we haven't really talked too much about, the gold medal game will be between Spain and Brazil. Big powerhouses of world football. Bronze will be between Japan and Mexico. And apparently there's a bit of talk about they're trying to remove the gold medal game between Sweden and Canada because they don't want it during the day. So I'm not sure if that's gone ahead yet, but we'll see how that goes. All right, the 800 is about to start here, Jarrod. I mean, we're not going to have any sound effects here or anything. It's not commentating. We're just going to look, and Peter's running. That's a good start that he's running.
JARROD LOOBEEK: That's what you want, getting off the blocks.
BEN WATERWORTH: You do. He's actually, he's gone almost to the lead here now against the Botswainian. And oh, there's that French man bun guy. Don't like him. And Peter's cross, this always confuses me in the 800. The way they cross, it scares me that they're going to like, trip over. But good blocking move there by Peter to block the American. That's who you want to block, right?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Just stop them together as a match.
BEN WATERWORTH: Shubby Shovington there between the Kenyan and the Botswanan. Traditional African rivals there. I do like the Kenyans top though. I like this kind of, it's almost like a honeycomb fashion, isn't it? It's kind of nice. This is brilliant commentary. The American just, he's too busy looking at other people. I do like this, where's this competitor from? His name's Ben. It just literally says Ben on his shirt. Oh, Peter's leading! Close the race, 400 done!
COLIN HILDING: Alright, final lap!
BEN WATERWORTH: Come on, Peter, come on! Bruce must be having an orgasm right now. Okay, he's going to do the traditional Australian thing of leading, and then probably losing this.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Pitching laps, right?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, probably. Is this Polish guy here coming up into third now? He's looking pretty strong. He's got the bling going on there. Peter's still leading. What are we out here? 600, the Kenyan's looking down. This Kenyan in second's going to do this. Although the Ben guy, he's really powering through at the back there. Yeah, this is why I don't commentate athletics. Oh, the Kenyan's going. There he goes. He's got the afterburners on. Come on, Peter! That's it! Move those legs! Move those arms! Run! Run, son! He's in second! He's getting overtaken by the Polish and the other Kenyans! He's gonna get fourth! He's gonna get fourth! Oh, that's good, though. Well done to Peter. Oh, and he's not even gonna get fourth. Oh, we got fourth! Oh, well done. We'll take that.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Any day of the week.
BEN WATERWORTH: That's brilliant. Good on him. The Kenyans look like they went one, two. And yeah, the Polish guy, third. And then I'll look at all the family there. Oh, it's Perth. Okay, it's in Perth. Never mind. They've got the subtitle there, saying Perth's, all right, Sydney, lockdown's going on there. So Peter Bol, fourth place. I'm sure that Bruce will be talking about that and probably saying that it was a brilliant result for him there. So no extra medal to add for Australia. Does he look disappointed? Do you think they're Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: He does look a little bit. And I feel it's probably just like the immediacy of the moment finishing fourth, because surely you move away from that and you can look back and be proud.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah. I mean, like I would probably go out and say finishing fourth in the Olympic final is probably the worst place to finish. But yeah, like I mean, you know, the first Australian to make an 800 final, what since that 68, wasn't it? So I mean, great result there for Peter to do that. And I always love it in athletics, they've just got the flag so ready to go. They've always just got a flag, like, where are these people just sitting in the crowd, particularly with no crowd? They just have a flag ready to go.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I don't get it. Like, are they supplied by the Olympics or like, what's the deal? Because surely if you get some super obscure country winning a medal, then you've got to have a flag ready to go. And they just always seem to be one that pops up. So unless I just feel like there must be something behind the scenes where, yeah, the IOC or whatever has kind of a bundle of flags ready to go in case of any result in the final.
BEN WATERWORTH: If the British Virgin Islands had a one the other day, like where's that flag coming from? So Emmanuel Kipkuri, the Kenyan one, ahead of Ferguson, Sheriot Ratic, Poland's Patryk Dobeck got the bronze, and Peter's been interviewed right now as we can speak. He was Spaniard, Adrian Ben finished fifth. So Peter Bol officially classified in fourth there, and the American finished last. I thought he was one of the favourites for that one. So yeah, he's looking somewhat happy there. He's not looking too disappointed. Peter, don't know what he's saying right now, but I'm sure we'll see about 50 more replays of that, no doubt before the... We'll catch it once we're finished recording, essentially. No, I'm not going to do Athlete of the Day yet. Cometary fails. I believe Colin sent some in, but Jarrod, what have you got for me today before I get to Colin's?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Just basically everything from the women's skateboarding. I don't have anything in particular to say. There was the one comment about... I think they were trying to make an analogy between when you go into the event, you want to hit the tricks hard, but somehow they started talking about if you're going to be a monkey, you want to be a gorilla. It was just the same as last time. It was all just chummy and them being like, oh, I really want this person to do good because I'm friends with them or I met them once. They're just happy to be here, this, that, whatever else. And I get that maybe it's a little bit more lighthearted because the athletes are so young, but it just adds to the frustration that you've got 12-year-olds winning an Olympic sport, and then the commentary makes it also seem really unprofessional. So it just doesn't help the case of skateboarding really staying in the Olympics. This is the new event that really hasn't lived up to the hype.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I mean, I'm completely with you. Like, again, as I said earlier, whatever it was today, street, park, whatever the hell it was, it was a hundred times better than what we got the other day. But it's just, I don't know. And like, just the commentators, just I could not listen to it. I could not, like, after like five minutes, like I've written down a few things here. You sell the sizzle, not the steak. And then the most obnoxious one between the two, the one who's always talking about, oh, yeah, there's my mate, there's my mate. Oh, I had coffee with him once, I did this. His whole thing that he wouldn't shut up about, oh, I'm so glad I'm not a judge. Oh, luckily I'm not a judge. Oh, tell you what, if I was a judge, that would be number one. Oh, judge, yeah, I wish I wasn't a judge. Oh, I'm dirty about the votes for that last one. Oh, the judge. And then would not shut up about the British girl, Sky Brown, holy crap, I got sick of hearing her name. And then it just made me dislike her. I'm sorry that I dislike a 13-year-old girl. Good honour for making the Olympics. Yes, I'm jealous before you send in the complaints. But I just did not want this girl to win because they wouldn't shut up about it. And then the one, they get there, at one point they say, I've had a lot of people today asking me if she's from Oz. Oh, yeah, yeah, a lot of people are saying is she from Australia? Even though she was born in the UK, her parents are Japanese from the UK, and lives in America. Confusing, right?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Like, what?
BEN WATERWORTH: Like, that doesn't even make sense, right?
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's just, it's just so, oh, it's so bad. And it wasn't not like they interviewed them in the studio because they bought them in to do like one of these replays of the final and for them to talk about it. And it was just, it just was exactly how you'd expect it to be. They're like, one's wearing like a T-shirt, the other one's wearing like a flannel and like socks and thongs and like trackies and just, it's like, why did they, surely there was a better option or somebody could have told them in between to like, let's do a better job here of keeping it professional and making it seem like this sport should actually be in the Olympics rather than, it really just, the whole time, it felt like they were just commentating like an event at their local skate park.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, and the other one there that I had, I think I put in our chat today at one point when they were like, oh, she's the first Australian female skateboarder in the finals. To which the other person replied, oh, yeah, the first Australian finalist. To which the other person replies, oh, yeah. Like, what does that even mean? And then they were talking up thing so much, Sky Brown, that on her like last run, they were just like, oh, how good is she? Oh, that's just a training run. She got bronze. She didn't even win the gold. All right? Jesus, just like, I can't stomach those two. I'm glad I didn't see them because I don't ever want to see their faces because I've got a picture and you kind of sold it for me. Colin shot through some from the CBC commentary. He says, commentary from skateboarding. If you weren't watching us during the live feeds, you wouldn't know this, but Yndira had a wardrobe change. She was wearing that yellow shirt before, and now she's opted for something more colourful, but she's still wearing it in the same way. But if you look good, you skate good. I mean, I obviously would skate very good. Don't know if I ever got on a skateboard. I think the majority of stuff I've got though outside of that is from Bruce and Tamsin. Always good for some great little moments. We had an American. Last name was Alan. I can't remember what event he was in. But he's a bit of a showboater. He likes to kind of do some pop and locks and some moves, and he won his heat or whatever event it was, and he turned to the camera, and he kind of did this weird robot kind of thing. There was this silence, and then Bruce McAvander goes, he's getting weirder by the moment. He just sees awkward silence before actually says that. Also tonight, there was the 400, one of the Canadian athletes and the 400 the women's. Tamsen gets there and goes, oh, she wants to be a firefighter, which will come in handy. There'll be a lot of smoke to put out after this race. A bit of an awkward silence, which Bruce replies, not your best one there, but I'll pay it. And then Tamsen, oh, like little, was that flirtatious between Bruce and Tamsen there? I don't know.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, they've got, they do have good chemistry, the two of them. So I just, it's really weird, like listening to the commentary and just thinking, like, what are we going to do in Paris if, like, if Bruce isn't there?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, which, let's be honest, he's probably not. Like, I really hope he's, like, because he didn't do Pyeongchang, did he? I want him back for Beijing. Because channel seven, the last Olympics he would have done winter would have been Turin, because nine had Vancouver and ten had Sochi. So, but was he in Turin? I don't even know. Geez, Bruce, come on, come back for the winters, come back for Beijing. Go out on a high in Beijing. I did like the sailing commentary when they were talking about Matthew Belcher and Will Ryan. Their secret to their sailing, they enjoy it. Yep, always a positive there. And also, I do love Dave Colbert. He might be growing on me as one of my favourites for these games. Just completely bagging out the Aussie decathletes having shit technique in the long jump. Like the whole time, he's like, oh, that's terrible technique, terrible technique. But he is a decathlete. Like basically going there. And he will not shut up about the sand. He loves going off about this sand, doesn't he? He was even going on at all. They can have golden sand at the beach volleyball. They can have golden sand at the dressage. Why do we get dirt? And then I think it was at Tanzan or Bruce, he would turn around and say, oh, you won't shut up about the sand, will you, Dave? He was like, no, I need to get to the bottom of this. Oh, so good. The other fail, a slight fail I had today, I mentioned in the group was on Wikipedia. And again, you can't really fault Wikipedia. This is something that people edit. But for a large portion of the day, Carina Leigh was listed as being from New Zealand on the marathon swimming. So whoever got that wrong, screw you. That wasn't very nice. Can I also just point out one thing about the Channel 7 coverage? We know they like a good montage. It's all good. We haven't had the hair one. We had a few other ones there. And honestly, I'm not even joking. My favourite part of the Olympics most likely is always the end montage they put after the closing ceremony. It's epic. It gets me, I literally cry. It's always good. I save them. I have every single montage from Sydney Onwoods on my computer from both winter and summer. Jarrod, if you want me to hook you up, I can hook you up. But I have to say their music choices when they go in and out of ad breaks, pretty on point, pretty modern, pretty up there with all the, you know, the kids, the skateboarding fans. Why do they keep playing Get Set By Taxi Ride? That song hasn't been played, I think, since 2001. What's going on there, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I don't know. It's got to be, it must be somebody's favourite, right? And that's just, maybe it's an in-joke between them. I don't know. To me, it always jars, and it's an odd choice as well.
BEN WATERWORTH: I guarantee the members of Taxi Ride are probably working at Woolworths now or Centrelink. They probably come home, you know, turn on the TV with their wife and four kids, and they've watched the coverage, and all of a sudden it comes, ha ha, that was me. And I go, shut up, Jeff, that wasn't you. I was like, I was in Taxi Ride. No, you weren't. No one remembers Taxi Ride. Um, 1999 get sets from, it's not even from 2001. It's that bloody old. Jesus, went to number eight in the Aria charts. Was that successful? Come on.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Okay, a couple of cents of royalties every time it's played on Channel 7.
BEN WATERWORTH: Maybe that's what it is. Maybe one of the guys from Taxi Ride works for Channel 7's music department. It's like, fuck, I'll get royalties every single time I play it. Like, it's not like they've just played it once. I swear they play it like three times every day.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Like, get set everybody.
BEN WATERWORTH: I mean, it's not a bad song, but it's just like, seriously, of all the songs you can choose, get set by Taxi Ride. Like, what is going on there? All right, well, we, I don't know how this is going to go today.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Athlete of the Day!
BEN WATERWORTH: I feel like we need to have like dramatic music going on. Let's try that again. Athlete of the Day! Now Colin actually today, even though he's not with us, has sent us in a nominee. He's a nominee on the back of our hurdler yesterday from Norway, breaking the world record. He's gone with Sydney McLaughlin, breaking the world record today in the women's 400 hurdler on the fact that she broke it twice. I went under, I was at 47, 46, first woman to do that. So that's who he's voting for. I'm just going to say this right now. Too many hurdlers. Too many hurdlers. Got to spread it out. No, no, too many hurdlers. Don't know. What about you, Jarrod? Who's your thoughts for today?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Today's a tough one. I feel like nobody really stood out to me from what I saw and what I've looked at in the events from today. I'm almost tempted to throw to, this is going to annoy Colin Dudley, an Australian and also an Australian swimmer at that.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, okay.
JARROD LOOBEEK: In Carina Lee from the Marathon Swim. But I could be swayed really on anybody today because I don't have a super strong contender, but I just think it's an impressive swim.
BEN WATERWORTH: No, I agree. Colin, before you start yelling at your speakers right now, again, it's a history-making moment. Our first ever Marathon Swimmer bronze medal. We literally don't know who this woman is, and she's done it, and we won't know who she is in a week's time, but we'll get her on the show. We'll get Karina on the show, and we'll get her to talk about it. As I said before, I legitimately would like to learn what gets you into Marathon Swimming. If I was to nominate an Aussie, because we're doing this here, I'm just going to do this every day now to piss Colin off, I would honestly vote out Peter. I think fourth in 800 is pretty bloody good. So good for him. But no, my two nominees, neither of them are from Australia, Colin, and neither of them are medallists, Colin. So there you go. I have got from Sports Climbing, I have got the Russian, the rock athlete of Yulia Kaplina. Now, I caught her second speed run, and she was off like a rocket. She's the world record holder in this event. And the athlete before her, I think the Slovenian, she nearly broke the world record. She was like this close to breaking it. So Yulia's like, fuck you. No, I'm not going to let you do it. So she's climbing up the wall, she's going gun blazes. I finally heard the commentators. I heard what you were getting at. Then just as she's on like the last climb, she goes to reach out to touch it, she slips. And she falls. And as she falls, hands on the head, starts bawling her eyes out. Like, not a word of the lie. She was just in hysterics. I felt so bad for her. Like, this is, I know a weird thing for Athlete of the Day, but I feel like we need to perk her spirits up a little bit because of that. And the other one, speaking of perking up the spirits, I'm going to a Belgian decathlete by the name of Thomas van der Plaatsen, who started off all right in the 100. Did an 11.05. Pretty good. Got to the long jump. As he got to the board, something went pop in his leg, and he decided to forward jump instead of do the whole thing. So he basically face plants into the sand, and let's add a large scream. And the camera goes straight to his face, to which you hear a very audible, FUCK! And then, next minute, you see him in the Ozzie Heptaf Sibyl Chase wheelchair, being wheeled off hand in his head. He's let his country down. So my nominees are based on the fact that they've had shit days. They've epitomized the Olympic spirit to me by trying, and they've done their best. They'll both be used in montages. The face planting Belgium, and the crying Russian. So they're my nominees. Jarrod, don't know if I sway you on any of those.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I mean, they both sound great. How do I pick between the two? Well, we've not had a sports climber. Which of the two would annoy Colin more?
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, he likes his decathlon, but having said that, we've had athletics. We've already covered athletics. We haven't covered sports climbing. We've got to spread the sports out according to Colin. So... That's true. Do we give it to Julia?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think so. I mean, I nominated a sports climber yesterday, so I'm happy to go with, uh, with Julia.
BEN WATERWORTH: All right. There you go, Julia. And look, OK, I'll backtrack Colin in all seriousness. Not to take away from your hurdler, but you're not here to defend it. So, sorry, it's Julia. And also, we will say that, uh, pending investigations into the Russians, this may also get stripped from her and given to Thomas after the Olympics, should she be found to have drugs in her system. So we will say... We will follow that rule for our athlete of the day and go back on that one when it comes to that. Uh, now, we don't have a whole lot more. I don't think we're going to be sticking around for half an hour to do the 200, so we'll update you on that tomorrow. Um, we haven't done a Feed The Dream in a couple of days. Um, shall we... Let's, let's, let's do one here tonight. What are we thinking here? Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's gotta be, um... artistic swimmers, doesn't it?
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, absolutely. All right, um... What, what shall we say? Artistic you're swimming more or something? You were terrible?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, make sure it's more synchronised.
BEN WATERWORTH: Artistic swim yourselves more. Uh, I can't even see what's going on here. Uh, make sure it's more synchronised.
JARROD LOOBEEK: And your nose plugs are tight.
BEN WATERWORTH: And your nose plugs are tight. Name, uh, Colin Crybaby. Colin Hilding at gmail.com. Real email address. You should email it. Um, do we have any updated Canada's messages here? Catherine Grey, hashtag feed the dream, hashtag your words, beautiful diving, so powerful and precise. Way to go! I'm sorry Canada, like, you're great, but like, seriously, your messages are really boring. What's the team Oz votes for today? We have all class between opponents at full time. There's a picture of Paddy Mills and an Argentinian basketballer. First boxing medal for Australia's secured in 33 years. Kookaburras flying to gold medal match. Or sports climbing makes its debut with a picture of Tom Ohala, and I'm voting for Tom! He deserves it!
JARROD LOOBEEK: That's true. After that bouldering performance, I'm kind of regretting not putting him up for Athlete of the Day yesterday. But yeah, no, I think Tom deserves that, and I'm sure he'll win that in a resounding majority given who he's up against there.
BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly. No one else in that would even remotely come close to doing that. I mean, the boxing. Did you see the interview with Harry last night? He had been like bagging out the selectors or whatever. What did he say? He was like, Oh, I want to message back to those at home who said that this wouldn't happen to this. Well, look who's winning a medal now. Something like that. It's so brilliant. This is boxing. This is why we need to see more boxing at the Olympics. This is so great. It's so great. He's Friday, I believe, at 2.45 Australian time. He's boxing. That's generally the correct term. He's fighting. How do we say that? If we got any updates on the medals, we do... Artistic swimming. Well, you called it. Rock's got the gold. China's silver. Ukraine bronze. So Rock's leaped back up into fifth now, breathing down our necks. I'm going to say this. Rather Rock overtakes us in Britain. Got to say it. Rock's having a great debut Olympics. So it'll be a fairy tale story for them, if they were to walk away with top five at the Olympics. Do we have any others? What would we have? Some wrestling going on, didn't we? I can't see any events having been decided there. Oh, no, that's not true. Egypt got the... No, they lost. Hang on. I'm reading this wrong. Germany got the bronze in the 67 kilos, Greco-Roman in the bronze for the others. I think we went over those ones, didn't I? The final. OK, gold went to Iran. Is that their first gold of the games? Possibly. Silver went to the Ukraine in the 87 kilo. We've got bronze to Germany and Serbia. Gold went to the Ukraine over Hungary. And in the women's freestyle, we've got bronze going to Bulgaria and the Ukraine. The gold medal final between Kyrgyzstan and Japan is on as we speak. Who is your money on there, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's got to be Kyrgyzstan, right?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, come on, get on the stands. The stands love. Why isn't Stan the official sponsor of the Olympic wrestling? All the stands do well when it comes to... How many years do you think until we have to subscribe to Stan to watch the Olympics? Probably about another 10. Brisbane, 2032, Stan, official broadcaster of the Olympics.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Given they've taken over the tennis, the Olympics is next.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yep, exactly. Weightlifting, it looks like Georgia's currently leading that ahead of Iran and Syria. So there you go. There's a Kiwi in the final. Good on him for being a heavy lifter of shit in New Zealand. And what about the one that we're all waiting on baited breath for, the equestrian? Do we have a result in the equestrian before we say farewell? We do. Oh no, Britain's gotten gold! Shit! That means we are now officially down to fifth, aren't we? Ah, crap. Britain gold. Sweden, silver, and Netherlands. I love it when you see these countries, you don't expect to win medals in certain events. Like Sweden and Equestrian. Don't really flow off the tongue very well. Oh, so bad news to end the episode on. The top five. China, USA, Japan, Britain, Australia. Oh, so silver's, Jarrod, it's those silvers that are letting us down. Jesus. Peter, you could have won the gold for us tonight. Tomorrow, we have 27 medals being decided, if you do not mind. The second most of any day moving forward. And I guess a couple of big ones for Australia tomorrow. Well, it's the gold potential for us in the hockey. That's probably the main one. The Kookaburras against Belgium. How are you feeling ahead of that one?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I'm feeling good now, because I mean, I counted them out earlier and said that the women's team was going to do better, and that was my feeling. So now that they've made the gold medal match, I'm kind of just like, well, either way, I'll be happy.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, yeah, it's interesting. I mean, look, I'm on tenor hoods. I really would love them to win. Of course, we all do. We're Australian. But I mean, just again, sort of almost the curse going on there, which I mean, is it really a curse when we have won a gold? But I mean, you look at our history and everything along those lines. But speaking of curses, the big one outside of that, the basketball, the boomers up against the USA tomorrow. That's during the day as well. It's quite an early one, 2.15. I believe it's on the afternoon. So, I mean, look, God, if we beat the frickin dream team in the Olympics, who gives a shit if we get belted by Francis Levinian? I mean, that's our gold medal win right there. But shit, that would be big. That would be very, very big. And unlike the women, I feel like we've got a chance in this one.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It would be huge. And it's hard to... I don't think all their players was there, and it was just a trial game. But that win against them in like when we were kind of doing training just a couple of weeks out from the Olympics, like surely we've got to take something from that.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah. And if I was top of my head, I don't think we've ever beaten the US in Olympic basketball. So, I mean, this is huge. But look, go out there, give it your all, and then don't choke for the bronze. That's all I will say. Also, I mean, plenty of things actually happening in terms of finals. There's a lot more than I realise. The women's semifinal, the beach volleyball, of course, is on tomorrow. So, Artacho Del Sol and Clancy are up again. That's a very early one too, actually. That's at 11 o'clock in the morning. So, quite an early one to get there. And obviously not the one we wanted to be playing in, but the football, the Matildas, are going for bronze tomorrow against the US. And again, like, no matter what happens in that result, we've talked about it a lot. It is a huge, huge big match, the fact that we're in a medal for a medal. But it's actually, that is going on about two hours before the hockey. So, luckily, they're not on at the same time there. But that'll be interesting. And in the water polo, we can get fifth, because we play Canada for fifth in the Women's Water Polo, the grudge match that we've wanted all Olympics. There it is, Jarrett.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, definitely one to look out for.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, also to look out for tomorrow. Get excited, because we get to see karate for the first time at these Olympics, which I'm very excited for. This is actually, like, of all the new sports, it's the one that I really have no expectations, but I just don't know what to expect. And I feel this could be amazing or terrible. So I'm looking forward to that. But I'm wearing the T-shirt. I'm wearing it. It's happening. The defence is on, even though she's not in the games. Modern pentathlon begins tomorrow, everyone. The event that stops the games, the only day where no medals will be decided, but we talked this up five years ago as the event that everyone should get excited for. We ended up getting a frickin gold medal in it. Screw you all, the haters. That's the one time Ben Waterworth's prediction has gone all right with it. But I seriously love the modern pentathlon. It is like the most batshit crazy of sports. It's like Nordic combined. Who came up with this idea? It's just batshit crazy, but it's brilliant. And we're the reigning champions in at least one of them, so we can take some of that. Are you excited? Modern pentathlon's back, Jarrod.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's just, like you say, it's just the weirdest mix of sports. It really feels like somebody just either they invented a sport that they were going to be good at because they happened to do all these disciplines, or literally they just pulled sports out of their hat. And we're like, OK, that sounds good.
BEN WATERWORTH: I actually think that I did hear recently that it was Pierre de Coubertin did invent it. He was basically wanted to kind of combine all these, you know, great events together to really, you know, the champion of the Olympics. But I mean, like I think we talked about this five years ago. Combine them all together. I want them on a horse with a gun and a sword jumping into the water and then getting out of the pool and running to the finish line. Like just get it all done with in like two hours. That's the best way to do it.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, you know what? I'm surprised that Colin likes this sport because you know how like the last bit, people leave at different times and it's staggered and they're not all together, which we know is Colin's pet peeve when it comes to relays in Olympic sports.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yep, yep. No, I completely there. And I believe Chloe's brother is our competitor in the men's. So that's good. And I do know the name of our female competitor, but I apparently don't have it in front of me right now. So I apologise, Chloe Esposito B. But you are keeping her seat warm until Paris. Let's just say that right now. But I'm pumped. I'm really, really pumped for that. And another day back. As I said, 27 medals tomorrow. It's a very, very busy day. The second most that are being given out at any point. So there you go. We're going to leave this right now. But Jarrod, one thing I want to leave on is we didn't... You brought this up, this great little story you brought up today. The fact that we didn't have a cultural element really at the opening ceremony, but there's culture at the Equestrian. Tell us about what's happening at the Equestrian and how it's affecting our horses.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Big news at the Equestrian is that all the jumps, they're obviously all styled in kind of traditional Japanese elements. There's like a geisha jump and there's a couple of temple jumps. But the one jump that's causing everybody trouble is the sumo wrestler jump, which is putting off the horses. The horses are not lacking running at this big sumo wrestler. And I believe they actually come into it, not like face on. They come in from the back, so they see the butt first. But yeah, there's apparently there's been a number of horses that have borked at this jump and haven't wanted to go over it because they see this big imposing figure and backside before they get to the jump and they're not happy about it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Would you want to jump if you see a big butt in your face?
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, I don't think so.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I'm on board the horses here. Have they removed it or is it still going to be there?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think it's still there.
BEN WATERWORTH: Wow. I mean, that's actually why I always like that about the show Jump, because I remember in Sydney, they kind of have like all the cool little, you know, elements and all that sort of stuff. I will correct myself. Sorry. Chloe's brother is not competing for a straight at these Olympics. He did the last Olympics. I thought he was back, but both the Espositos have decided to take a pass from Tokyo. Ed Fernon is our male athlete, and Marina Carrier is carrying the hopes of back-to-back gold in modern pentathlon. So get on board that. We'll be back tomorrow, same, well, not same time, but same place. I don't know what time it will go up. Usually we stagger these during the day. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, on Instagram. You can stay up to date with everything on there. And of course, we appreciate you subscribing to our channels to stay up to date with everything. Get these direct to your speakers. We've got more exciting stuff happening throughout the rest of the games. And I'm telling you now, you're going to stay tuned after these Olympics because we've got some great interviews lined up already in the lead up to Beijing. And we'll, of course, be getting some Tokyo people on board as well to make sure that they don't win any medals come Paris, or at least when I interview them anyway. Thank you for tuning in. Jarrett, always a pleasure. Thank you very much.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Thank you. It's been great. Fingers crossed for all the Aussie teams tomorrow.
BEN WATERWORTH: Indeed. Let's hope for a big one. And also, let's hope for Andre right now. By the time we're ending this, it's literally only minutes away. You'd think we'd stick around, but we can't be bothered. So fingers crossed for Andre and fingers crossed for Aaron to get another medal for Colin. Until tomorrow, we have been Off The Podium. We'll speak to you tomorrow.
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