Tokyo 2020 Day 15 Review
As we reach the penultimate day of Tokyo 2020 it's time to once again go over everything that happened and more on our day 15 recap! Has Canada calmed down after their epic win in the women's football yesterday? How is Australia reacting to finally breaking the curse and winning a medal in men's basketball? Is Nicola McDermott our new favourite athlete? Do we know the difference between javelin and high jump? Have we saved our best commentary for last with our commentary of rhythmic gymnastics? And can we be hopeful that the closing ceremony tomorrow might actually be good? Another massive massive day and another massive massive episode! Get listening!
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
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BEN WATERWORTH: It is Off The Podium, An Olympics Podcast, coming to you for the penultimate day of Tokyo 2020 Asterix 2021. Day 15 is, well, sort of over. At least when we're recording this, there's still actually plenty happening. But all the stuff that we need and want to talk about, we can also talk about here because we've got all three of us together. For the first time in about four days, we've got two people on here. I think have settled their differences. But probably the last time that we're all together until at least Beijing. So we'll see how that plays out. My name is Ben. And joining us from the country of gold, gold, gold, and Nanaimo bars and all those references that I said last night that apparently is good. It's the number one Soca nation on the planet. It is Canada. And he's Colin Hilding, of course. Canada is the biggest city in the world. So, Colin, welcome back to Off The Podium. How are you and how are Canada today?
COLIN HILDING: We're even better considering you introduced us as gold, Canada, and not Canadians who fall out of their canoes. So, I'm glad that the right headlines are making their way over there.
BEN WATERWORTH: I didn't even see that. You need to update me on that. Maybe I've missed something today. Apparently, I will. And also joining us from the country that has got nothing today, or yet, maybe, potentially, while we're on air. Who knows? Jarrod Loobeek. Jarrod, welcome back.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Thank you. It's good to be back.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm intrigued that you two have sorted your differences out. I'm guessing you two are good. Everything's OK.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, in the spirit of the Olympics.
COLIN HILDING: In the spirit of the Olympics, Jarrod has yet to send me his address for his free box of multi-grain Penny Alexiak, so I'm very offended.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I'm doing it right now.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, there you go. Look at this. The bonding is happening. But I mean, Colin, we'll start off with you. You weren't here yesterday. We've worn the matching shirts today. We're throwing it up. But I mean, how is Canada reacting to the women winning the gold last night? And how did you react? Were you watching it? Did you catch up on it later? I mean, tell us how you felt watching that epic penalty shootout.
COLIN HILDING: So, I mean, my plan was to be here yesterday, but with having children, it doesn't work out. I think I got like an hour and a half sleep that night. And when the kids got up, the game was on. So I'm like, OK, they're eating. How much of this can I catch up on before I actually fall asleep? And then I couldn't fall asleep, as it just kept going and going and going. I was almost miserable watching, like, I honestly don't care if they even win the gold at this point. I just want to be over so I can go to sleep. And then they won the gold. And I'm like, gold, gold! And then the twins are just looking at me like, what's his deal? What's going on here? They didn't get it at all. But I mean, it was incredible, because I think that this was something that we were happy, as I said, to just have a shot at the silver. And I don't think there was expectations we were going to win. Maybe it was just Canadians playing it down like, oh, we don't want to be disappointed, but it would be great to be a silver medallist in this. To win the gold was so shocking, and to happen in such dramatic fashion like it did in the end, too. I think you guys mentioned on the episode yesterday, it had never gone to shootout before for the women's finals. So, I mean, it just kept going and going and going. And then we win the gold. And I mean, I still don't think that anybody stopped talking about this. I mean, we had some incredible medals yesterday that all took a back seat. Funny that, you know, I think you guys were mentioning on the episode. I'm glad I wasn't on there because you were mentioning like, oh, Andre Degrasse just won a sixth medal out of six events in two Olympics. And Mohamed just won. Those didn't air here until like two or three hours after they happened. The most disappointing thing was actually the night before because the soccer finals were supposed to be on originally 12 hours earlier. And CBC apparently had no replacement for that, despite dozens of events going on. Like, let's just show you all reruns of what happened yesterday. So I had nothing to watch all night. And then seven that it is exactly like that, except we had a reason we had nothing else to air, apparently. But then, yeah, in the morning, it pushed all these other events, and typically they would cut back and forth. Maybe they would show an update in the corner of the screen. There's a break and play. When the players were all getting their foot massages, you think, okay, let's quickly cut to the form I wanted, really? Nothing. I mean, I had gone back to sleep and woken up again before they'd actually come back, even from, oh, let's just wait around for the medal ceremony. They waited until that was done. They didn't want to miss any of the live coverage of that gold medal win, despite the fact we had Mohamed and we had Andre de Grasse, who were groundbreaking medals.
BEN WATERWORTH: I have to say, we're going to talk about the success that Canada's had in these Olympics, because it's amazing, that it was the first time I actually got to see the Canadian National Anthem play, because I was streaming it on the app. I know it was on sort of TV, but I was streaming it on the app so I could record it, and they obviously stuck with it right until the medals were presented. And I mean, I'm sure Jarrod, you're the same, I'm sure Colin, you're the same. It doesn't matter how many gold you win, or how many times you watch the Olympics, you still like that moment where you see your athlete getting the gold and hearing the National Anthem. And I mean, I've always loved Canada. I've obviously lived in Canada. It's as close to a second home as I've ever had in my life. And even before I lived there, I always enjoyed seeing the Canadians win the gold, and I loved it when in the rare times on Australian TV, you'd hear the National Anthem of another country. So I made sure to kind of stay there and watch it and listen to the National Anthem. I mean, you guys have won more gold in these Olympics than you have in the last 20, 30 years, but it was the first time I finally got to see the National Anthem. But I did, I jumped on all your news websites last night, and it was leading news stories on everything. I saw some people calling it one of the greatest sporting moments. I mean, we called it one of the greatest sporting moments in Canada's history. It's clear they took our lead. But obviously, it's been very well received.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, and with the National Anthem, just one thing to add to that, we're so used to Olympics with the National Anthems playing, and the athletes will sing along occasionally, and it's very rare that you actually can hear anything because you have the crowd cheering and all that. It was so unusual in this one because even with no crowds, like when Andrew DeGrasse won, you're just hearing the National Anthem play. But when you have that many women all there at the same time and they are belting it out, they were drowning out the instrumental part of it, which was great to hear because I don't think that's one thing. You miss a lot of things for not having a crowd. That's one thing that was great, not having a crowd actually made that ceremony.
BEN WATERWORTH: I also love the Swedes. I mean, generally, you lose and you go on composing. Obviously, the Cucabarras were very disappointed to lose, but I saw them getting their silver, and they seem pretty, okay, we lost it. Obviously, Jarrod, we didn't talk about the fact that they then got into a bit of trouble because they went out and got some beer and broke some COVID rules, which that's a whole other story. But I did love the Swedes. They just didn't give a shit. They were so upset. Did you see that, Jarrod, at all, the medal ceremony of the soccer afterwards?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I did. They didn't want to be there at all. Like you say, they didn't have that regroup moment of, oh, well, it's a silver medal in the Olympics. We're disappointed, but a second in the world isn't bad. It was just complete devastation, and they didn't even want that medal at that point.
BEN WATERWORTH: And I actually will give props to the Americans, because I thought the Americans would kind of be shitty, because they're the best in the world, and they're actually pretty happy that they're there. And one thing I'll say, and I know it's kind of maybe jumping ahead to our commentary section, but I'll forget if I don't say it now, is whoever these commentators are that we had on the 7App, two British people, the way they were there going like, and take a look at the way the Canadian flag's above the American flag. What does that mean for North America right now? It's upset the apple cart. And like they're basically going like, oh yes, these Canadian women would absolutely love seeing their flag above the American flag. And just like basically like, fuck you USA, Canada on top. It was so good. But I mean, Moe Armand was a pretty big deal. I feel you need to talk him up a little bit more, because I know you talked about him slightly, but how long has he been waiting for an Olympic medal? Because from what I can see, he's been around for a while, and this was a pretty groundbreaking victory. Well, silver for him.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah. Yeah, this is his third Olympics. And this isn't for the distance running. It's not something Canada has ever really been good at. I remember back in London when I think he had a top 10 finish, and all the talk was, wow, this is Canada's best results ever in this. You know, we're getting a lot of that now. A lot of these top 10s in the 1,500-metre, 3,000-metre, and stuff like that. But I mean, it was a big deal in London. And then going into Rio, he really had hopes of a medal, and I think he ended up finishing fourth. I don't remember in which distance it was, but that was like a huge disappointment. There's been a big shift in Canada from almost being complacent with, oh, this is our best showing ever to being, okay, we really need to win some of these things. And I mentioned with Aaron Brown, a big change from Rio to now where he's competitive. And even though he was in the finals, after that event, he was like, yeah, I can't help but say that I'm disappointed. And in a way, I think you kind of need that as athletes. It is good to be able to be like, you know what, I'm glad that we finished. We'll talk about some of the Canadian results later where a top 10 finish is like, yeah, there is nothing you can do but brag on that. But I don't think you can ever get to that next level, like Andre de Grasse and Penny Alexiak are at. If you're not willing to be like, no, I don't want fourth place. This isn't good enough. I want a medal. And he came into this, you know, as basically the top, not only Canadian, but North American distance runner really had a shot at a medal. It's pretty much figured it's his last Olympics. And he wanted it so bad. Like, I think of all the interviews I've seen with athletes, I don't think anybody showed as much determination to, I want this. It's not going to be good enough if I finish fourth than Mohamed. And of course, I think he finished sixth in the 10,000 metres. And to finish the way he finished too, I don't know if either of you saw the event, he was in the sixth position all the way up to the last lap. And then all of a sudden, he just sprints it. He's in front of one and in front of the other. It was such an incredible sprint. And even his interview afterwards, they were talking about, was this your strategy all along? Because it seemed like it was a strategic race. I'm going to stay in the back. I'm going to stay in the middle. I'm going to wait for my moment, save my energy, and then sprint. He's like, no, that wasn't my strategy at all. My strategy was the opposite. I wanted to go out there, and I wanted to dominate and make everybody afraid. And I think that's the other thing I love about Mohammed, is he has this competitive personality that is just so lovable. He's like, I wanted to make everybody afraid so that they would make mistakes. And he's like, then you had the two Ugandans who tag-teamed me, and there was no way to get past them. So I had to look for another strategy, and I basically improvised, and it worked. I think that he's... I'm not going to say he's getting lost in a shuffle. I think there's a lot of people who are loving it. It's just to happen on the same day as Evan Dunphy, and happen on the same day as the soccer, and happen on the same day as the 4x100 metre, it has gotten lost in the shuffle a little bit, but yet the reaction to him winning was so positive, where especially people who have followed sports in Canada and followed track and field in Canada, I don't think that there's any athlete in these games that Canada, at least the athletes themselves, wanted more to win a medal than Mohamed.
BEN WATERWORTH: I will say Wikipedia have updated it to the correct Canadian winning silver now, so that's good news there. They had the other Canadian winning silver. They had it just at night? Yeah, I was reading that yesterday, going, that's not right. That's not right, Canadian. Just quickly.
COLIN HILDING: Adding on that really quickly, the Canadian goalie for women's soccer, I don't know if you saw this at all, somebody had edited it for Wikipedia. The National Minister of Defence. Yeah, the National Minister of Defence, which the actual National Minister of Defence decided to basically say, hey, I'm happy to share this title with you.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, yeah, no, I did see that. I think even the Canadian Olympic Committee kind of did like a Google thing, like who is the Canadian Minister of Defence? And it came up. The two quick ones, obviously, because we're going to talk about today, but we just got to catch up from yesterday for the Canadian perspective. I mean, the four by one, watching that live, it was great. And Ben Waterworth is on the board for the medals. But as Jarrod and I are kind of debating, does it count when it's in a relay or a team? But yourself, I mean, not only do you have Aaron Brown, but Mr. Dumpy, I think as we established, I think he was our first guest post Rio, wasn't he? So you had a bloody good day yesterday, Colin, for Off The Podium. You're now sitting at two silver and three bronze for these Olympics. Still no gold. No pressure for Beijing. Let's see who gets our first gold medallist on this show. But I mean, in all seriousness, André de Grasse, six from six, missed 100%. I'm surprised you didn't yell at us for not putting him up for our Athlete of the Day yesterday. But also for Evan Dumpy. I mean, this is pretty spectacular for him. So close in Rio, and so just heartbreaking how he didn't get that in Rio. And to do this, I mean, I think the the the the mac and whatever it's called, the Kraft Dinner, thank you, is really working for him.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, that's the fuel that we know we need now for distance events, is Kraft Dinner. First on Evan Dumpy. Yeah, he was the first guest. And I think, you know, we've talked about this on our other episodes with Rio. We basically figured, let's do this as a one-off thing. And when Rio is done, that's it. And we sort of stumbled across a couple of athletes throughout the course of Rio. We're like, this is kind of an interesting story. I mean, nice to get them on there. And yeah, I think you're right. Evan Dumpy was the first one. So, I mean, maybe it's the early days of Off The Podium that, that, well, we follow that with Catherine Skinner and Watsi Swayish from Sailing, who didn't go on to qualify for Tokyo. We could always say the first is the best. You know, with him, it was such an incredible moment, because this is the end of race walking, as far as we know it. And he's been like one of the big champions of, you know, this event should be here. It's wrong that they're doing this. I want to go out and I want to prove why it should be there. I noticed, you know, Thomas Bach was in the Women's Marathon that happened today. He was there. Oh really?
BEN WATERWORTH: He competed, did he? What a man of the people Thomas is. I didn't realise that he was there.
COLIN HILDING: It wouldn't even be unrealistic. Again, excited stuff would happen.
BEN WATERWORTH: Good for Thomas.
COLIN HILDING: But yeah, no Thomas Bach at the race walk to give a nice send off. And Evan Dunphy, I've heard him on other videos say that, you know, Thomas Bach is not a fan of his. So he really wanted to stick it to Thomas Bach there. And that sprint that he had at the end, I mean, it's the same as Mohamed's too. I mean, it's great to be able to go out on a medal in the final Olympics ever. I think he just didn't care. What made it his so great, and I think this is why he's going to be a front runner for the flag bear, because his event is ending, but also because of what happened in Rio where he could have challenged it. He could have fought and got a bronze, and he said, I don't want to bronze that way. I want to bronze this way. And he ended up doing it. That's great. The 4x100 relay as well with Andre DeGrasse, the reason I said, even before we start this episode, that I don't have an issue with him not being athlete of the day, it's not that it's not an incredible accomplishment to go six for six in six events, but I mean, the same day that Elaine Thompson, hurrah, has basically pulled another Usain Bolt, and she's gone three gold for three golds in one Olympics. I mean, to me, that was a bigger story. And I almost don't mind that Andre...
BEN WATERWORTH: We undersold that. We undersold that.
COLIN HILDING: This is two times Ben has undersold Elaine Thompson. So I have issues with Ben.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm racist and sexist. What can I say?
COLIN HILDING: We established that in the app, in the 200 metre, didn't we? But yeah, I get no, I mean, no knocking against Andre DeGrasse. He is now tied for the second most medals ever. If Penny Alexiak hadn't won right now, he'd be tied for the most ever. And again, this is a summer athlete. It's incredible, his feet, but yeah, Elaine Thompson, like, wow. It's not just us. I feel like she's not being talked about in a lot of places right now because she didn't come into this as the front runner. And look what she's done now. I mean, we kind of tossed around the idea about Athlete of the Games. I mean, I'll say it now in case I'm not on the episode, but Elaine Thompson gets my vote.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, that's a good point. We haven't really clarified whether we'll do that or not, but I think we probably should. So clearly it will be an Australian. So shut up, Colin. Speaking of Australians, now, Jarrod, we don't have a whole lot to talk about, because everything we really got to talk about is happening as we are recording right now. The 1500 metres has just started. So Stewie and Ollie are running, and Ollie currently looks like he's leading, but going there for Stewie, and obviously the Boomers are playing right now. We can tell you we're up by four against Slovenia to break this drought of bronzes, and we've got the women in the high jump right now. But I mean, outside of that, our golfer choked. She finished fifth. Our canoeist choked. Our cyclist choked. Yeah, it's been a bit of a choking day for Australia really, hasn't it?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it's true. I think the big one out of those was like the cycling. It just has really been a very underwhelming track meet for the Aussies. I feel like it was London where they were getting, maybe it was Rio, but it feels like London, they were bagging up the track team and saying it's really like disappointing performance. I feel like we got more medals there than we did here. We've walked away with the one. It's got to be our worst performance in track cycling forever.
BEN WATERWORTH: I mean, when our athletics team are probably getting more medals than our track cycling team, you've got to be the problem.
COLIN HILDING: That's no joke, they probably have, haven't they?
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, they have. We've gotten two bronzes through Javelin and the Decathlon. So we have, we've only got the one. I mean, if you add the road cycling to it and the BMX, we've gotten a gold and two bronzes. But if you do track cycling, then we've only gotten the one bronze. And I'm not sure if we had anyone through in the sprints. I haven't checked the results. We'll get to that very shortly. But yeah, it's, I mean, swimming, as I sort of said, like after London, that was almost a national inquiry. You know, we had the Stilnox drama and James Magnuson, and do we need to mention him? But it was such a big deal in this country that our swimmers let us down so much after London. Cycling is usually our second-week saviour outside of the swimming, and this is something that we're usually very proud on. I know we had a bit of a drought there because Sydney, that was the first time we'd won a gold in track cycling, I think since, was it LA or Seoul? So we had a bit of a drought there. But I mean, then Athens came along, and then obviously, Anna Mears carried everything for a while. But now, like, yeah, I want to see this, some sort of like inquiry into our track. What's our track cycling team? What mascot are they right now? The Wombats? I mean, Jesus Christ, I may as well be that bloody slow, and they've got square shit going everywhere. Jarrod, can we call them the Wombats?
COLIN HILDING: Snails?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, that's what I was going to say is the other option. Oh, yeah, it's just been terrible. And I still get my hopes up every time that there's an Australian in it, because in my back of my mind, I have like our history in the sport. And then I see them go, and I'm like, oh, no. Like, today, the men in whatever event that was, where they do a million laps, got overlapped and got chucked out of the race. It's just, I don't know.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, and when Denmark win it, I mean, something's going on, when Denmark are winning track cycling events and Australia are getting lapped. I mean, there's something going in there. That's not right. The 1500 is on its final legs right now. Stuart McSwain was in third, but he's pulled in Australia. He's fallen back now. Norway's going to win another. Don't tell me Norway's not going to win again.
COLIN HILDING: I was going to say, I've got a spoiler here. I don't want to say anything, but I already know how it ends.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, Stewie's nowhere near it. Norway are going to win another golf. Oh, we need to talk about Norway. This is getting too silly now. And it looks like Kenya's gotten silver. Britain, Brian Stewie's gotten about seventh there by the looks of things.
COLIN HILDING: He slipped quickly. He was like in fourth position, and the last 300 metres just kept slipping.
BEN WATERWORTH: He fell back there. So King Island is not going up. What is happening with Norway? This is not, I'm not liking this. They dominate winter. Now they're starting to dominate summer. I'm uncomfortable with Norway's position. I don't know. They won beach volleyball today.
COLIN HILDING: As a fellow winter sport nation that has emerged as a summer sport nation, I'm loving Norway.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, I mean, from a Eurovision perspective, I mean, you know, how do you generally feel about Norway?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I'm a Norway fan, but I'm just a fan of all the Scandinavian countries because I've been there and they have cool flags. So, I mean, that's all it takes in my book for me to be a supporter.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm with you. I'm a huge Scandinavian fan. I mean, Swedish roots, Finland's probably my third favourite country on the planet, fourth favourite country on the planet. I've got a weird obsession with Iceland. I just want to go there. I mean, I have nothing against Norway. I mean, if I have to be honest, I've always got a bit of a soft spot for them because the first winter Olympics, I ever remember watching with Lilahama, and I remember just the speed skaters there dominating and the crowd. I remember all that as a little kid. But I mean, God, beach volleyball. Now, they've won how many gold medals on the track? This is Jacob Ingebinga, literally his name.
COLIN HILDING: He's That's basically what it was afterwards. Katie Vincent was like patting Laurence on her back, like, hey, we did it. And all of a sudden you see, she patted her a couple of times, then she goes for one big like smack, like, yeah, good job. And then Laurence goes, oh, oh, oh, falls out of the boat. And then Katie, all of a sudden loses her balance, like, whoa, whoa, whoa. CBC didn't catch it originally. They basically were going around, okay, and then the gold medal too, and then the silver, and it's like, and there's your bronze medallist. And they're in the water. And they just start laughing like, I guess they needed to cool off because it's really hot out there. They need to go for a swim. And then they show afterwards on the replay where the pad on the back happens and they'll exaggerate, whoa, whoa, whoa. To me, that's better than the bronze medal. Great that we won one more medal. We've now topped, I think, the all time record for Canada. We also hit what my prediction was. I said, did I not say I think we were going to get 23 medals in total?
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, let's check the stats. You said you did 23 in total. Look at you go, Colin Hildy.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, and most predictions were for 20 or 21. So, I mean, I was being optimistic, but they didn't let me down. But aside from, you know, actually hitting my predictions, maybe exceeding it, still some time to go. And aside from winning another medal, I mean, them falling out of the boat to me is a games moment.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, on that, you have broken the record now for most medals, one at an Olympic, outside of LA, and again, LA doesn't count. You will have won medals in LA. But I mean, you know, seriously, outside of LA, you have now won 23 medals, which eclipses Rio's 22, six gold, six silver and 11 bronze. So if you somehow find another gold, you'll equal Barcelona with seven, which is your best outside of LA. So, I mean, like I brought this up to you the other day and you said it wasn't really being talked about. But I mean, is this something that now is all of a sudden, hey, this is our most successful summer games in terms of medals one outside of the half and half games of LA?
COLIN HILDING: Just barely. When it happened, when the 23rd medal came, I kept waiting. And all I was I couldn't even find like, oh, here's the leaderboard is like, oh, the leaderboard removed up to 11th place overall. Like, forget that we just broke a record. Like, why doesn't somebody talk about this? That happened. What was that like? Maybe nine o'clock. So we're talking about about 10 hours ago that happened. It wasn't until about two or three hours ago where I started to see it being floating around. So I mean, I don't know, Canadians, they weren't looking for records so much. Because I think it was the same thing that we'll mention with Penny Alexiak. It was sort of falsely reported that, oh, she broke the record so that when it actually happened, people are like, wait, didn't this happen already? But with this one, if we check in tomorrow, maybe it's going to be a bigger deal than it is, but only in the last couple hours has it even started to be mentioned.
BEN WATERWORTH: Just a quick update in terms of, we'll go over the other results and we'll go to the actual metal tally. So in the high jump, we've got two Aussies in there, Eleanor Patterson and Nicola McDermott. Eleanor Patterson is equal first right now. She's cleared 1.96 and is tied with Ukraine's Irina Gerashchenko, and Nicola McDermott is tied for bronze. She has cleared 1.96 as well, but has a fault there and is in a three-way tie, four-way tie. Just also loving Channel 7 now showing the live 1,500 metres, which happened about 10 minutes ago. Good for them, Channel 7. The Boomers, are they winning at half-time, Jarrod? I saw the score, they were up for a little bit there, but did they get overrun? I didn't see the final score. I was watching the high jump.
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, I was in the same boat, so I saw they were ahead but then swapped over.
BEN WATERWORTH: Maybe we'll get confirmation on that very, very shortly, but we'll bring you the... I mean, again, people listening, this isn't live. You would have known the results by now. You know we've choked again, but we'll go through that. But the medal wins, I mean, today is the busiest day, so still plenty of things happening as we are on air right now, but let's go over what we can bring you. The 1500, as we just said, was won by Jacob. Let's see if we get this Inge Brigsten. There we go. In an Olympic record, if you don't mind, ahead of Kenya and Great Britain. The four by four still to come, the men's javelin is on right now. The women's 10,000 was won by a Dutch runner, Safan Hassan got the gold ahead of Bahrain. And Ethiopia, I have to say, I did love the Ethiopian runner. Lettison Abed Gedeh is her name. So I think we need to recruit her to come run for Australia. The women's four by four, of course, tonight. The women's marathon won by Kenya Perez, Jeb Chia Chia ahead of Kenya and the US. Base, the high jump obviously on right now. Baseball, the final is on right now between the US and Japan. Two heavyweights of world baseball. Japan have never won a gold medal in baseball. USA have only ever won one gold medal in baseball. Can you believe that? That was back in Sydney. And currently at the bottom of the six, Japan are winning one nothing. So that's a tricky one, because I've got to say, I kind of want America to win that, you know, because it's it's so Jarrod shaking his head. No, you want the host to win it?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, they've never won one. It's their home games. Like, what a way to kind of cap it off.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, well, I'm sorry. I'll defend the national pastime of the US right now. Well, Colin, did you listen to last night's episode, Colin, quickly at all that our long running question about the US and what they've not won in. So you had that answered. OK, good.
COLIN HILDING: I also had to agree with Jarrod, just because, I mean, you could say it's the national pastime of America. I mean, you could almost make the same argument for Japan as well. Yeah. I mean, for them to win it in there. And also, who knows? I mean, this isn't necessarily going to be back for Los Angeles. We don't know. So this might be the last time that this ever can test.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think it will be. It has to be surely America are not going to not let it come back.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think the Americans don't win, then there's more of a chance they'll bring it back.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, there you go.
BEN WATERWORTH: Korea, Korea ended up losing to Dominican Republic for the bronze in Korea. It's huge in Korea up there as well. So that was a bit of a shock there. I've got another fun little follow up from trivia last night. We were opposing the Olympic medals per capita last night. Well, I've got some results for you tonight. So stay tuned. I know you're excited for that. As I said, Dominican Republic got the bronze in the baseball, basketball. The US, what a surprise, won the gold. France, that's actually it was quite a close match. It ended up being quite a good game. It was the closest Olympic final, I think, since Munich, I think they said, or Montreal. So a long time since we've had a single digit basketball men's match and obviously Slovenia and Australia. I love how the bronze medal game is like the final game. Like, clearly, NBC have controlled this so they get it prime time in the States. But why is like, is this because they love Australia so much? They want the bronze medal game as the final in the women's bronze medal game was after the gold. It's kind of weird.
COLIN HILDING: I have something to add on that. This is from the day before, but I was really disappointed, not just because the soccer game was bumped from the prime time slot here, but because when it was bumped from the prime time slot, the gold and the bronze medal for the beach volleyball was going on. And CBC didn't cover either. They only had reruns on their prime time TV coverage. But on the app, you could watch the bronze medal. They didn't carry the gold medal. Like, you could not watch it until I think it was almost 24 hours later. It was it was sometime yesterday afternoon when I finally saw that they put it up there. So I guess in beach volleyball, bronze is more important as well.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think it's just a Canadian thing, right? That you love your bronzes so much, you're so used to winning it. You're like, oh, we're going to show the bronze medal game. What? What? Gold? That exists? Boxing, men's flyweight went to Galau, Yafay of Britain, Philippines, Silver, Japan, Kazakhstan, bronze. Men's middleweight went to Herbert Concierso of Brazil, ahead of Ukraine, Philippines and ROK. The women's flyweight went to Stokja Krasetsa of Bulgaria, ahead of Turkey, Chinese APE and Japan. And Turkey got revenge. They got a gold in the women's welterweight. Boussinesse Serminelli ahead of China, India and the US. In the canoeing, the C1 1000 went to Isequias Queroz of Brazil. Brazil's had a good day today ahead of China and Moldova. That's going to be their first medal of the games. And also the men's K4 500. Germany took the gold ahead of Spain, Slovakia, the women's C2 500. China took the gold ahead of Ukraine and Canada with the bronze. And the K4 500. Unfortunately, Lisa couldn't get a fourth medal. She got fourth, but Hungary got the gold. Belarus got the silver, and Poland got the bronze. The cycling, the men's Madison, as we said. Denmark freaking got the gold, a go figure. Britain got a silver. France got the bronze. Diving, women's 10, men's 10 platform, 10 metre platform. Surprise, surprise, China silver, China bronze. But Tom Daly knitted his way to a bronze. I can't say I went it out. I went it out. I went out. I was in the city tonight, and I got my first look at the Hobart live site. And as I was walking through, there was about three people watching it. It was all going on in Hobart, and the diving was on. So those three people love knitting Tom Daly going on there. Equestrian, Sweden got the gold, silver to the US, bronze to Belgium. Now, we have not talked about this once during these Olympics. Can anyone tell me who is a member of the silver medal winning US team? Anybody right now? Jarrod, you look like you know this. No? Colin?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Ryan Lochte?
BEN WATERWORTH: That well, we wish. A very famous singer's daughter is on the team of the United States team jumping team, and she's now a silver medallist. No one. All right, Bula. Bruce Springsteen's daughter is an equestrian rider. Yeah. And she's now an Olympic silver medallist. So there you go. The boss is-
COLIN HILDING: Is Horace's name born in the USA?
BEN WATERWORTH: Maybe. I don't know. But I mean, who's more famous now in that family? The Olympic medal winning daughter or Bruce Frick and Springsteen? I don't know. We'll have to wait and see. Mexico won the bronze in the men's soccer. The gold medal match is on right now between Spain and Brazil. And I can tell you it is a nil all in the first half. So there you go. Also happening today, the golf went to America. Nearly quarter won the gold. Japan, silver. Bronze in New Zealand. Gymnastics, Israel. Linoy Ashram took the gold. They've had a good gymnastics games, Israel, haven't they? Rock, silver. Belarus, bronze. Handball the gold medals a little bit later on tonight. We're excited for that. Spain got the bronze. Karate, at least according to one screen, it hasn't been decided, but I will dispute that. I'll maybe double check that. Britain have had a fantastic games. Fuck them in the modern pentathlon. They're stealing my sport away from me, the pricks. Joe Chung took the gold ahead of Egypt and South Korea. And Norway got the beach, took the gold, their first ever medal in beach while they weren't with gold. They hit a rock. And Qatar, again. Tell you what, Qatar, like all this money that they're spending out there on the World Cup, it's working for them in other sports because they're actually doing quite well. So there you go. The indoor is happening tonight. The gold medal game. Argentina took the bronze. Water polo. US, surprise, surprise, got the women's water polo, head of Spain, hungry, the bronze. And in the wrestling, Japan had a very good games in the wrestling. Takuto, Otoguru took the gold in the men's freestyle, 65 kilos ahead of Azerbaijan, ROK and India, another medal there for them in wrestling. And in the men's freestyle, 97 kilos, ROK with Abdullahshirid Sadulayev ahead of America, Cuba and Italy, the bronze. The women's freestyle, 50 kilograms is yet to be decided. The medal tally, Jarrod, I was thinking that if we could sneak a gold in the javelin tonight, we might get ahead of ROK. But ROK have just gone boom boom and I've gotten a couple of gold. So basically, I think we've locked ourselves into six. I'll just say Australia is in the sixth, 17 gold, 6 silver, 21 bronze, 44 in total. Ten off where we thought, Jarrod. So if we get a bronze in the basketball and a medal or two in the javelin, we can be closer there. China, well on top, 38 gold, 30 silver, 18 bronze, 86. US have gotten the century, 103 in total, 34 gold, 37 silver, 32 bronze. So can they get four more gold to take number one with latency? Japan, third, 25 gold, 12 silver, 17 bronze, 54 in total, their best ever Olympics. And probably to say, is that the highest they've ever finished? We'll need to check the research department for that. Britain, I think, have all but locked. Oh, actually no, Rock can probably get them. Come on, Rock! Go on, Rock! Beat Britain! Britain, 20 gold, 21 silver, 22 bronze, 63. Rock, 19 gold, 25 silver, 23 bronze. Canada, 13th, 6 gold, 6 silver, 11 bronze. You just need one more gold, Colin, one more, and you can beat New Zealand. Come on! Come on, Canada! And Ben's random country of the day today is going to be Nigeria, who are in equal 74th place with a silver and a bronze. How are we feeling about Nigeria, kids? Are we disappointed in where they are or not really focused or?
JARROD LOOBEEK: That's devastated.
COLIN HILDING: Disgusted would be more like it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Breaking news in the Javelin. Australia is in first place. Nicola McDermott has cleared 198 and he's clear on high jump. Thank you.
JARROD LOOBEEK: That was going to say on the Javelin 198. She's not doing too well.
BEN WATERWORTH: Hey, if I threw a 190, that's probably my personal best in the Javelin. Shut up.
COLIN HILDING: You know, I'm finding something just watching this. I don't know if this is a regular athlete thing or if they're the only she's the only one to show me, but every time Nicola finishes a jump, it looks like she's writing in her diary.
BEN WATERWORTH: You're stealing my thunder, Colin. You're stealing why I want to talk this woman up. I'll come back to that in a second. And Eleanor Patterson in the high jump is equal second right now. She's cleared 196. I wanted to talk up Nicola because I was going to maybe put her as like an honourable menger for athlete of the day, not putting her up, but literally they cut to her before an Olympic final. She's writing in a diary. She just casually walks out, waves, sits down, writes in a diary, a little smirk on her face. Then at one point, they cut back to her. She's like laying on a yoga mat, just like sleeping, having a rest. There she is. And then every time she jumps, they cut back to her. She's writing in a diary, dear diary, just jumped very well. I'm feeling confident. Now, I don't want to, by me about to say what I meant to say, this is not me bagging around, so please don't take it this way. I looked on her Instagram. She's obviously like a devout Christian. Like she's very much like very Jesusy because like everything like her pose is like, you know, I thank Jesus for getting me this. And if you actually look at her diary, you can see like a cross, like in the corner. So I love this. I love her. She's like my new favourite athlete, which is gorgeous. I'm just going to say that. But outside of that, like what athlete like Tom Daly? Oh, I'm knitting. Whoopty doo. Like she's like jumping and got done well. Dear diary, I'm happy with that jump.
COLIN HILDING: Dear diary, Ben's perving on me again. It makes me uncomfortable.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Dear diary, I threw a javelin 1.98 metres. That was the season's best for me.
BEN WATERWORTH: Dear diary, why can't Ben get the sports right? He needs to stop perving, but Jesus will forgive him.
COLIN HILDING: I tell you what, dear diary, remind me never to go on off the podium if I ever want to medal again.
BEN WATERWORTH: If she wins gold, I'm taking up Jesus. Like, I mean, she's just literally sitting down like I want to see more athletes. I want to see like Harry Garcide in the boxing, like after he wins a bout. Dear diary, could have punched harder today. Ben Johnson in 1988. Dear diary, probably shouldn't have taken those drugs. Oh, well, I will never get caught.
COLIN HILDING: Lol.
BEN WATERWORTH: The French guy in the boxing. Dear diary, I've got nothing else to do right now. I'm just going to sit here for a while.
COLIN HILDING: The Cossack stand in the wrestling. Dear diary, I wonder what an Indian man's arm tastes like.
BEN WATERWORTH: Simone Biles. Dear diary. I shouldn't have touched that. I'm not digging up that hole. But I want Nicola to win right now for big Christians and for diary writers. We talked about Peter Bol for podcast hosts, like fourth in the Olympics for podcasters, we'll take it. But diary writers, this is epic. Oh, my goodness. Canada results today. You had a big day in water polo. I think you got seventh. Yes. You did it.
COLIN HILDING: You couldn't hope for a better result than that.
BEN WATERWORTH: I know, literally.
COLIN HILDING: Let's see, things that we have not covered. So one of our men in the C1 1000 metre, Connor Fitzpatrick, he ended up finishing sixth in his B final, which puts him in 14th overall. But, you know, here is a great Canadian finish here. The men's K4 500 metre, they finished in fifth in their semifinal and did not advance. So that's even better for Canadians as rowers in these events.
BEN WATERWORTH: Canoers, get the sport right, Colin. Don't you know anything about the Olympics? Get the sport right.
COLIN HILDING: It's so weird that they have such a distinction between rowing and paddling, because it's the same venue, it's essentially the same events, but for whatever reason, no, that's not rowing, that's paddling. It's different.
BEN WATERWORTH: We talked about this last night, how we said that we feel sorry for Canoe, because it's basically the rowing's ugly stepchild. I'll probably go out on a limb and say, I actually probably enjoy canoeing more than rowing.
COLIN HILDING: I agree.
BEN WATERWORTH: Controversial opinion.
COLIN HILDING: Completely agree, yeah. This was actually a fun story. In the track cycling, Laurieanne Jeunesse, who had meddled a couple of days ago, and Kelsey Mitchell, who was also, I think she had finished fifth in their event, they went up against each other in the quarterfinals. Yeah. And so Kelsey Mitchell won this one, so we may end up having both of them end up as medallists. I think she's maybe our last hope for a medal in these games right now. For the men's side, Hugo Barrett and Nick Wams. They won, well, Barrett won his heat, but he had to rerun it after two competitors crashed. I need to watch this. Let me go back over and watch this again. He then crashed himself and ended up in the rapid charge. He finished fourth and didn't advance. There's a lot of crashes going on there.
BEN WATERWORTH: Can we just interrupt you really quickly? When we do our sports episode, please note down the word rapid charge. I'm sick of rapid charges. Just stop having rapid charges. This is bullshit.
COLIN HILDING: Are you opposed to the word rapid charge?
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm just opposed to rapid charges. You're at the Olympics. We're sharing medals. We've got skateboarding. You've got third and fourth chances. This is not right. The Super Bowl. Buffalo Bills when they lose the bloody conference final. Have another crack, son. No, it's sport. You get one chance.
COLIN HILDING: I kind of like the idea of rapid charge as opposed to qualifying based on time until you have to watch an event in its entirety as we're going through here. It's like five hours. Cut out the rapid charge already. So I both agree and disagree with you on that. Diving Nathan Zomber Murray in the 10-metre platform. It's a great name. I think we mentioned that before with him. Zomber Murray.
BEN WATERWORTH: Zomber Murray. That's Bond villain-esque.
COLIN HILDING: Nathan Zomber Murray versus Idris Elba.
BEN WATERWORTH: Hello, Mr. Bond. Oh, my goodness. It's Zomber Murray. Yes, it is, Mr. Bond.
COLIN HILDING: But he actually had the in the semifinals, he had the top score in the first round, but it sort of fell apart after that. So he just missed out. The knitting is what you know, as a potential Bond villain, Zomber Murray does not knit. I don't think that would have been a great gimmick, though, for a Bond villain, right?
BEN WATERWORTH: Does he write in a diary, though?
COLIN HILDING: Write in diary knitting? People just need these really, really calming pastimes in between their events to have success. That's what it is. What are the things can we come up with?
BEN WATERWORTH: Podcasting, knitting, diary writing.
COLIN HILDING: I mean, napping should be one.
BEN WATERWORTH: Ryan Lochte just needs to go to school, so maybe he can get an education. Maybe.
COLIN HILDING: I want to see somebody playing solitaire. That's what I want.
BEN WATERWORTH: I want to see someone watching porn. Like, just, you know. Ben's future Olympics sport. Ryan Lochte would be watching porn. Come on.
COLIN HILDING: This is what I'm excited to talk about. So in the Women's Marathon, we had a couple of runners in there, but the main one I want to talk about to actually finish, first of all, I'll just mention the ones who I don't want to talk about, because they're not as exciting. Dana Podorski finished 73rd. Natasha Wodock finished 13th, which is actually really good. But Melindi Elmore came in 9th place. And what's exciting about this is that not just the fact that she is 41 years old and came in 9th place in the marathon, it's the fact that she last competed in Athens. This is an athlete who came out of retirement 17 years later and somehow finished 9th place in the marathon. I think she just went on the goal saying, I just want to go out there and I want to finish in the top 10. I mean, that's just fantastic. Let's get her on the show. I want her on the show.
BEN WATERWORTH: Colin, I just want to interrupt you again. Sorry, I've been very interrupting today, but you've seen my list of people that we're going to reach out to. Your homework is to get her, and I want Evan Dunphy back on the show. So I want to talk to you about Kraft Dinner.
COLIN HILDING: Well, because my pitch to Melinda is going to be, listen, the last distant athlete we had was one of our first guests, and it was Evan Dunphy, and we not only landed him a bronze medal, but a Kraft Dinner sponsorship. So imagine what we can get you.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, we might even get a listener.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, exactly. I love the artistic swimming. Now, when you go through the results on the Olympic.ca website, they'll mention the athlete's name and stuff like this. Artistic swimming, the artistic swimming competition concludes with the team-free routine, Canada is in fifth place. Doesn't mention the athlete's name, doesn't say, hey, we're moving on.
BEN WATERWORTH: They're that ashamed of their artistic swimmers that they can't even mention them by name. They've let the country down, our most successful Olympics ever. But no, no, we won't talk about the artistic swimmer.
COLIN HILDING: They have a full paragraph on here to the woman who finished 73rd in the marathon. You know what's so weird? I just got a posting from the Team Canada. As soon as I said that Team Canada notification on here, I'm like, did they hear this? Are they really upset at me or something? It's Brittany.
BEN WATERWORTH: Brittany loves us so much that she's posting stuff to us deliberately.
COLIN HILDING: Absolutely. Jordan Steen was in the repassage, but lost in the wrestling. This was sort of our last hope at wrestling, so we're going to go home empty handed. Karate Daniel Gaczynski. The Daniel Gaczynski. I really love karate. I mean, we talked about this the other day, and I know you and Jarrod talked about a little bit yesterday, but I love this sport. I wish that we had this back already. And I actually heard today, apparently karate is really big in France as well. It's actually one of their biggest sports, so it's kind of considered shocking that they don't have it there. Bring back karate. Both of these events are great. But Daniel Gaczynski, he had only one win, one draw, two losses. He didn't even advance. Sad for him. Our golfers were definitely not doing as well as Australia. Our best golfer, Brooke Henderson, 29th, and Elena Sharp, 49th. And then, as you mentioned, Water Polo, we finished 7th overall. But 16 to 7, that was a decisive victory for 7th place.
BEN WATERWORTH: Is there much of a golf culture in Canada? I know when I was doing work for the Panthers, and we're talking kids that are between the ages of 16 and 20, their little activity they like to do to bond was golf and play golf. These are 16 to 20 year olds in Vancouver. I mean, is this just Vancouver Island because it's the posh part of the country? Like, I mean, you know, is Winnipeg a golfing mecca?
COLIN HILDING: Well, it's funny you mention that because I feel like golf is one of the favourite pastimes in Canada. Like, so many people are like, oh yeah, it's golf season. Oh, I can go out and I can golf. Everybody's really excited to do it. But as far as competitive golf goes, I mean, us finishing, what, 29th overall, I mean, that probably is the Canadian best.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, just before I get to some Aussie results, Nicola Diary McDermott is still leading. Eleanor Patterson is about to do her final. She's got one more chance to clear 198. She's dropped to fourth. And it's not on my screens of seven right now, but it is on my screens of tokyo.com basically. So I'll update that. The Boomers, nine points up in the third. How are we feeling?
COLIN HILDING: Are you telling me they're not carrying this on your network right now?
BEN WATERWORTH: The high jump or the?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, high jump.
BEN WATERWORTH: They are on seven, mate, but I've got the basketball and I've got the app on. So I'm kind of...
COLIN HILDING: CBC is having better network coverage than you are for your Australian athletes.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Eleanor's out.
BEN WATERWORTH: Eleanor's out. So she's not cleared it, so she will not win a medal. So she will be fourth at best. But that means Nicola will win a medal then, surely. Oh, no, there's still a couple of hours. Yeah, so there's still a few in it.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Still five to go at 196.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, no, the Boomers are playing, Colin. This is our big story right now. Eight points up. Oh, Paddy Mills in the basket. He drives it back to double digits. Come on, Overs. She's brilliant, isn't she? She's so good. All right, Aussie results today. The modern pentathlon, Ed Fernan got 31st. Good job, Ed. Glad you did that modern and pentathlon. Chin up, buddy. Chin up, champ. I'm sure Chloe's brother did better in Rio. I don't know where he actually finished. In the Kirin, we had two Australians in quarterfinals, or have two Australians. I don't know if they're tomorrow. Matthew Glazer and Matthew Richardson are in the quarters. I don't know if they happened tonight or not, but cool.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Tomorrow, I think.
BEN WATERWORTH: Tomorrow. All right, good. Hannah Green, as we mentioned, had a bit of the old Greg Norman in golf. She was hoping for all the lightning today that she would have won a bronze had it been cancelled. But unfortunately, it did, but not enough to not her. But fifth, which is where she finished. And the other, Ozzy Minji Lee, in a tie for 29th. We didn't have anyone in the equestrian. I mean, Bruce Springsteen did, but Australia didn't.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Is that our team that got kicked out because of the Mr. Cocaine sniffer?
BEN WATERWORTH: Mr. Cocaine, yeah, I think so. He's been listening to a bit too much Bruce Springsteen. So is that possibly how that played out there? In the diving, it doesn't want to tell me Mr. Cassio Russo did make the final Diddy Jarrod? Yep. How did he end up going? Do you remember? Because this isn't refreshing for me.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Somewhere in the six to eight region.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, I can see it now. Eight. Okay, good. Oh, well, we beat two Americans, and that's all that matters. So, suck it America! The track cycling, we went over the fact that we didn't do very well in the Madison, so we don't really need to go over that. In the canoe kayak, we got six in the K4 500. In the women's marathon, Sinead Diver tents. Good job there for Sinead. Ellie Pashley got 23rd, and Lisa Waitman got 26th. So, solid results there for Australia. In the women's K4 500, Australia was seventh, second last. Come on, chin up guys, pick it up. Not good enough. And in the, no, we didn't have anyone in that one. Cool. In the men's 1500, as we were talking about before, if this wants to refresh in time, I think Stewie got about seventh from the looks of things there, which if it had not been for Arianne Titmuss and Ockenden and Belts, probably would have been a gold basically for Tasmania at these Olympics. We've got high standards now that we've got Arianne Titmuss and Silver Medal-winning Kookaburras. Stewie got seventh, and Oliver Hoare got eleventh in that. So that's still, I mean, we'll take that pretty exciting there. What else happened today? The high jump's still happening right now. I can see that Nicola's still winning. Could we get that 18th gold, Jarrod? That would be exciting. That's what we want, don't we? Artistic swimming. I expect better from the Aussie girls. Come on, ninth. Come on, where are we? Yeah, well, we did. They didn't start. So Australia got last out of all the... We got beaten by Egypt in artistic swimming. Come on. It's not good enough, Australia. For shame. I'm not happy with that. Seriously, that's ruined my Olympics. I haven't had such a good Olympics until I found that out. In the water polo, we got fifth. We beat the Dutch 14 to 7, so yay. Go that team. Go the sharks. Stingers. Stingers. Yes, the sharks and the men. I'm getting confused now. And yeah, the boom is right now at 10 up with two to go in the third. So that's our main ones today. Just quickly, the baseball, bottom of the seventh. Japan won nothing up. And Brazil have scored in the football. So of course, Brazil did not win a gold medal in men's football until Rio. Bastards beat Germany in a penalty shootout for the gold. But right now could be going back to back. And I have to say, I'm going for Brazil. So come on, Brazil, get that gold. They've had a good day today, Brazil. They've already won two gold. So that's quite good for them. Now, a couple of things before we get to what we watched, Fails and Athlete Of The Day. Let's play some commentary. Our last commentary for the Olympics until Beijing. And we're going to have some fun during Beijing, aren't we, for commentary? Where we all started with Jarrod's famous mogul mogul mogul calls. But Jarrod, speaking of famous, this is where you're going to make yourself even more famous, because we did some rhythmic gymnastics. And this always reminds me of, I think, our very first episode when you brought up the fact that this shouldn't be a real sport. And now, five years later, you get to commentate on it. What was this experience like for you?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Oh, groundbreaking. I've got a newfound respect. I can't believe I ever said it shouldn't belong in the Olympics. It's definitely more professional than artistic gymnastics.
BEN WATERWORTH: Wow, that's a big call. Colin, were you sad that you weren't here for this?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, I actually, I don't know why I thought that we were going to record that as like the last one. And I was thinking tomorrow we're going to do it. So Jamie and I were even watching this last time. I had to do some research. I got to get ready because we're going to do arithmetic gymnastics. So thanks for jumping the gun on that, Ben.
BEN WATERWORTH: You're welcome. Anytime. Glad to glad to help you out. But all right, here it is. Our last commentary for the Tokyo Olympics. This is us commentating arithmetic gymnastics. Yes, welcome back to the Ariake Gymnastics Centre for the gymnastics that is the real gymnastics. It is rhythmic gymnastics. We're here for the individual all-round qualification rotation one, my favourite of all of the rotations, I must be honest with you. And it's a pleasure to be joined by 1973 rhythmic gymnastics male champion Jarrod Lubick. Jarrod, welcome back to the commentary box.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Thank you. It's good to be commentating this fantastic sport that's more than deserving of its spot on the Olympic roster.
BEN WATERWORTH: Here's Samir Kutar, now of Japan, and she's got her favourite apparatus here, the hoop. Now, as she gets started here, Jarrod, tell us the idea behind the hoop. What are we looking for with the hoop routine right now?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, basically, we're just hoping they don't drop it. If you catch it, that's a great start. And then just doing some movements throughout. If you can go through the hoop, that's 10 bonus points.
BEN WATERWORTH: Which is always a positive now. The almost a Harry Garcide ballerina spin there with the hoop, which is always good to see. I like these little flick ups with the hoop there. Oh, what a little rotation there, Jarrod. That's a very difficult one to do.
JARROD LOOBEEK: A very difficult rotation and a no sighted catch of the hoop, which will get her many, many, many bonus points.
BEN WATERWORTH: As you can see there on the side of the apparatus on the floor, there's another hoop and a ball there. Is that the emergency hoop and ball? Should this break? Because she's obviously very vigorous with this hoop.
JARROD LOOBEEK: That is true. Similar to the badminton, when the Australian player broke the racket and ran off to grab another, they can do the same in the rhythmic gymnastics.
BEN WATERWORTH: First with a leg turn around. This is called the plugging the holes, which is always a unique Japanese move. Around the neck, around the arm, around the arm, around the neck, up into the sky. She's going to catch this well and she does. Fantastic. That's a better catch than I've seen at the baseball all week.
JARROD LOOBEEK: That's true. The Australian softball players could learn a thing or two from that.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, tell us about this sort of leg spread going backwards there, because I mean, is that kind of the Japanese routine of mateship? Is this sort of the Japanese tinder? Or is there something else behind the spreading of the legs?
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, you're correct. This is a traditional courting routine. She would normally dance this for a bunch of suitors. Instead, she's dancing it for a bunch of judges.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, wow. And the double leg catch there and fantastic. And I'm swiping right on that one as the crowd goes absolutely crazy. Even the volunteers are clapping here, Jarrod. The Japanese are so hospitable here with their own. And what a fantastic routine we've seen there from Samir Keita there. That's got to get her at least 22 points.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Oh, absolutely. Didn't drop the hoop once. Was very in control of the routine. Just excellent rhythmic gymnastics.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, take a look at the slo-mo here. What fantastic camera work. The way the hoop just goes around the head there. She flips around. She's swiping left on all the boys she doesn't want, but there's a swipe right. And goodness me, isn't it a good swipe? And look at the spinny spins right there, Jarrod. I've not seen spinny spins like that since I last played Tiddly Winks.
JARROD LOOBEEK: This is true. The merry-go-round move is very popular in the rhythmic gymnastics, and she pulls it off. Triple spin, merry-go-round, and then pulls the handbrake.
BEN WATERWORTH: My goodness me, the handbrake pull there. Absolutely incredible. And look at the ankle spin there. What incredible ankle work there. She didn't skip leg day this week. It's clear to see. And my goodness me, that is an ankle spin and a half. And look at the emotion on her young Japanese artist face there. I mean, my goodness, she really is an artist. And look at the leotard there. Talk about art. I mean, everything about this sport is just art.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's very impressive. And we see there the hoop move, the guillotine with the hoop around the neck going round and round.
BEN WATERWORTH: Wow. And take a look at a coach there, of course, with Bruno the Teddy Bear, famous Japanese mascot. And they're waving in the kiss and cry. And oh, look at that, a 23.1. I said 22. Oh, Jarrod, that's a national record. Oh, my goodness. Wow. Aren't they going off here in Japan?
JARROD LOOBEEK: They are absolutely going off. The crowds in the stadium, the three people and those at home who have accidentally switched over are very excited about this result.
BEN WATERWORTH: Wow. Absolutely fantastic. Now we've got Egypt's Habiba Mazouk there. I love the little nod at the beginning there, starting in the middle ring of the Olympic rings. A clear tribute to the Olympic movement, united by emotion we see behind them. She's united by the Olympics.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, higher, faster, stronger together.
BEN WATERWORTH: Wow. Absolutely. Now, Bibi going for a bit more up. Oh, yes. I was going to say, the upbeat music here, but maybe she's going to be too excited for it there.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I don't know about the clashing colour of the orange ball with the blue and gold outfit. Probably a couple of deductions there from the judges.
BEN WATERWORTH: I have to say, it's kind of a more Hello Boys ball, isn't it? Like, look at me, I've got a bright ball, but I don't know how she's going here with the flips, and oh, she's dropped it between the legs. The ball's between the legs, but she's got to flip it around there. And I'll tell you one thing, I'm glad the Boomers weren't playing like that. They played for about two quarters doing that way, but at least they played when that, because that's not good ball movement here by the Egyptian.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's true, but still better than any of the offering the Opals put up throughout the two weeks of the Olympics.
BEN WATERWORTH: Absolutely correct there. Now she goes for the spin back flip twist with the orange ball. The Hello Boys, the Japanese tinder move, and she flips it back up, and it's going to hit the head. No, she decides to do it. Oh, she's hit the knee. She's hit the knee, Sharon. Oh, no, she's hit the knee.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's just showcasing all the sports. I'm not sure if she realises this is real gymnastics or if she's just trying to do a tryout for all the other teams. But we have seen the basketball dribble, the volleyball bunt, the soccer headbutt. It's just all in there.
BEN WATERWORTH: I have heard rumours that the Egyptian Olympic Committee are struggling to find athletes for power, so clearly we're seeing here Habiba just doing, trying to do that. But she's doing the flip forward, the forward flip, and then all through the legs up again. Oh, she's caught that one again through the back knee, the back knee onto the butt, the butt onto the back, the back onto the head. Oh, that's great moves there. The Lebron James bounce before that spike that you're talking about. And under the boob, under the boob ball. Oh, that's an amazing way to finish. She started off poorly, but under the boob ball, that's got to get her some high points here.
JARROD LOOBEEK: That is a showstopper. The one way you want to finish a routine to be able to capture the ball under the boob, incredible athleticism.
BEN WATERWORTH: I do believe that was the move that got you the championship way back in the day, Jarrod. Tell us what it is about the under boob ball that really speaks to the judges.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's just so difficult to pull off. And it was very controversial back in the day, but nowadays it's a little bit more acceptable.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, of course, Habiba here looking to get above 20, and if she gets above 20, this will be an Egyptian record. And of course, if you set an Egyptian record, not only do you avoid death, but you actually get a street parade on top of the pyramids, which is a unique thing, and I believe her face will be carved into the sphinx.
JARROD LOOBEEK: That's true, and that ball will rest atop the pyramids for the rest of time.
BEN WATERWORTH: Fantastic. I really do love the Egyptians' way of celebrating their Olympic glories. And now she looks, she waits, remember, above 20, and that honour is hers. Cairo holds its breath. She holds the ball, and she waits, she waits, she waits. Oh, this is a tense wait here, Jarrod.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, they're looking at all the footage, reviewing it for any mistakes. That dropped ball early. You might see a little bit of a deduction.
BEN WATERWORTH: As you're seeing here, they are reviewing the tape again. This is taking a long time. Not a common thing in rhythmic gymnastics. This is the least bribeable of the gymnastics, so I'm very shocked that this is taking some time. Egypt's still waiting, just absolutely on tenterhooks right now to see what is happening.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yes, of course, most judges not wanting to admit that they adjudicate rhythmic gymnastics, so bribing isn't much of an issue because they wouldn't want that to get out into the world.
BEN WATERWORTH: Great shot there of the mascots. Great camera work here. She's holding her coach's hand there. Of course, they just announced they're having a baby! She's done it! She's above 20! Oh, Jarrod! Cairo's erupting right now! What a moment for Egyptian rhythmic gymnastics!
JARROD LOOBEEK: Such a moment, and no deduction either. So Clarisse on the end of the judging panel must have missed that ball drop.
BEN WATERWORTH: Wow, this is why the kids love this sport. It's the emotion of it all. Listen to the crowd. They're going off still. That's actually Egypt. You can hear them all the way on the other side of the world. But right now, we've got to calm down. We've got another great competitor here. 19-year-old Chisaki Iwa of Japan. And check out the leotard on her, Jarrod. Oh my goodness. That's some crafty beadwork.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, a little bit confused by the colours. Maybe she thought she was representing France, and then got a late call up for Japan.
BEN WATERWORTH: She's going with her favourite apparatus. She's gone for the hoop. Now, she's gone for kind of the shiny hoop. I believe she picked this up at the reject shop. Good way to save money there. Obviously, Japan has spent a lot of money on these Olympics. But oh no, she's lost the ring. Oh, she's lost the ring, Jarrod. Oh, what happened there?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, I think that we can blame that on the reject shop. It's not a high quality ring. She may have to go to the ring sitting to the side of the square because this one's potentially going to break.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, after we just had the very upbeat music from Habiba there, interesting she's kind of almost going for the Swan Lake style ballet music here. Interesting choice. I'm going to feel that's going to bring some deductions there, Jarrod. I'm not sure about this. The crowd was getting involved in the pump up music. Now they're falling asleep.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, the crowd can really boost your score if they're feeling it. But yeah, this one, it's a little bit confused why she's gone for this music style.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, amazing catch there just over the back neck. Now she's going around there and she's lost it. Oh no, she's got it over the butt. That was a good butt wiggle. Moving it around there. Fantastic work. She's been watching the artistic swimming this week because that was a good butt wiggle.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It was, and she's gone straight from the butt wiggle into the guillotine and then the twizzle.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, the twizzle is my favourite. Now she goes to that ankle flip. Now onto the arm flip. Now she catches it, spins it around, spins it back around the neck, goes through the arm. Now a very high one there, not as high as she liked. Oh, and that's a bingo. Right across the knees there. Fantastic. Bit sloppy on the execution. Oh, and I don't like the way she moved her fingers up there at the end. I think she might lose some points for that finger wiggle.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, the one finger salute there at the end to the judging panel. I'm not sure if Clarice will be happy about seeing that.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, Chisaki doesn't look happy. She's, yeah, this leotard as well. I'm still very worried about it there. She's almost kind of got a sort of dark little number going around the crotch region there, which I'm not too sure. But she looks disappointed, Jarrod. She's usually the happiest rhythmic gymnast on the planet, but she's just got a sad look on her face.
JARROD LOOBEEK: She nearly fell down the stairs, which would have been a five-point deduction.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, just here's the hello Tinder boys there, and it's always good to see the openness of the legs there, really enticing the kids into the sport of rhythmic gymnastics. And check out the ankle grab there. Wow, that must take you some time, Jarrod, to be able to grab your ankle that way.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, the good old ankle grind, and it's just the athleticism. If she just hadn't had that bobble at the start, she would have got a really good score, but rightly disappointed in herself at this point in time.
BEN WATERWORTH: Of course, if she doesn't get 20, her husband will divorce her, so we have to keep an eye on how the scores will go. Very nerve wracking here once again. Now, she waves at her husband, says, please don't leave me, Jim, I do love you. But no, they're going back to the tape here. I'm not sure what they're looking at here, Jarrod. It looks like a bit of a bit of a thread is loose on the lower part of the leotard, and a bead, oh, a bead has fallen off. Oh, there we go. That's at least a half a point deduction.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yep. She may even be disqualified from the whole event.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, her entire marriage is on the line right now. Has to score above 20 to stay married. The crowd's clapping, they like it. Oh, a 23.1, okay. So she will remain married. That's a positive for Japan.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, the marriage continues. The gold medal hopes not so much.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, our final competitor for the day here. I'm looking forward to this one, Jarrod. This is Ukraine's number one rhythmic gymnastics and Ukraine's number one Michael Jackson fan, Victoria Onopurenko, dancing to Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson. Now, Jarrod, this is for the kids. Not only is it for rhythmic gymnastics, but it's for the kids, because the kids love Michael Jackson.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, yeah, this is what we want. We want a good music choice, a strong outfit here, the military style. And look at that starting pose.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, catches the ball with the beat of Smooth Criminal starting. That's how you want it. The spin around there. MJ, I'd say spinning in his grave, but he's not. He's dancing in his grave. Oh, and the butt catch, the flip over the head. Oh, my goodness me. I've not seen ball movement since that. Since Michael Jackson used to grab his balls, Jarrod.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's true. This is just a level above the rest of the competitors so far.
BEN WATERWORTH: We are seeing the rhythmic put into gymnastics tonight right now with this performance. Victoria is on fire. Now, she catches it through the crotch, back under the knee, back to the head. Oh, flips it over. And if you don't mind, that is not only the LeBron James. That's the Kevin Durant with Spice.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Very much so. And this is potentially going to get her a spot in the Ukrainian handball team, these skills.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, I know. That's the dream of young Victoria here now. She flips through from one end to the other, bounces with the boobs, if you don't mind, and flips around underneath the chest, through into the air, back onto the back with Pike. Fantastic work. Over to the bolt toss, catches it, falls over top of it. Oh, the drizzle through the legs, back over the top, bounces. Oh, that's the Michael Jordan. That's the Michael Jordan, Jarrod. I've not seen that since 1992 in Barcelona. Wow.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yep, that's the Hail Mary, nothing but net.
BEN WATERWORTH: My goodness. Dream team galore here as she goes over the shoulders. Does the worm, if you don't mind. Wow, she's adding some spicy, Jarrod. The worm with the MJ. And the other MJ, he is absolutely loving it in his grave right now, watching from above.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Oh, he definitely would be. This is just amazing. The fact that she's incorporated all these moves could try out for the hip-hop Ukrainian team for Paris. It's a possibility. There's nothing I can't see this athlete competing in.
BEN WATERWORTH: There's nothing I can't see this athlete doing in general. She is the absolute superstar of the world right now. Look at that outfit. I mean, she should be marching down the streets of Kiev right now, going up, saying, Hey, Vladimir Putin, invade us now, I dare you. I've got a ball. And she goes up. That's a mum. That's a mum. Catherine, of course, also a coach. Good to see there. Now, check out the bum flip around. One-handed, if you don't mind. There's the Michael Jordan. There's the over and under. And oh, just under the BO armpit as well there. She's wearing some Rexona and then some today, Jarrod.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, Rexona sales are going up after this. What an athlete. What such an advertising opportunity.
BEN WATERWORTH: Wow, all the talk these Olympics in the gymnastic circles was Simone Biles. Well, bugger Simone Biles. Victoria on a parenko is where it's at. Check out this. And the craftsmanship on that military-style uniform, I mean, the way the Ukrainian flag fits just above the waistline. My goodness me. Now, I'm expecting a high score here. Yes, hello to yourself there, Victoria. Yes, we're waving back at you. Mum and daughter loving this. Look at the pin collection on her mum's. She's been busy during these Olympics, Jarrod.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Look at, yes, she's met every single athlete by the looks of things.
BEN WATERWORTH: 24.30, only tenths. Take a long hard look at yourself, judges here. That was easily the top mark I've seen today. But let's take a look at the individual standings right now. We've got ROK in one and two, Belarus three and four, Israel, Italy, Bulgaria, Israel again, Bulgaria again. Bulgaria doing very, very well right now sitting in seventh and ninth. There we have Ukraine in tenth, Victoria in eleventh, Italy, USA, Japan, Azerbaijan. Disappointed with that, I know. Slovenia, USA, Georgia, Sloan having a fantastic games. And we've got Mexico, Egypt, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Japan, Australia in a record position of 24th, Uzbekistan, and of course, the final nation there of the Cape Verde Islands. Jarrod, when I think of the Olympics, I think of rhythmic gymnastics, and right now I can't think of a better way to go back to the studio. It's a pleasure to have you here once again in Tokyo, and I look forward to the remaining days of competition for rhythmic gymnastics.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, thank you. I'm hoping that we might see some of those hula hooping routines as the Olympic rings in the closing ceremony.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, we'll see how that goes. Right now, we're crossing back to the Off The Podium studio with Ben, Jarrod, and Colin. I'll tell you what. Michael Jackson at the rhythmic gymnastics should be more of a thing. That was pretty epic. I'm saying now, if that's at every rhythmic gymnastics, I'm there for Brisbane. I'm front row.
COLIN HILDING: Front row.
BEN WATERWORTH: Seriously, can we actually make a pact? If we're still all alive, particularly Colin, because he'll be like 50 something by then, can we get front row seats to the rhythmic gymnastics in Brisbane?
COLIN HILDING: Dead silence. Let me see. Do I want to fly all the way to Brisbane when I could just go to Los Angeles prior to that?
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I'll be there too.
COLIN HILDING: Let's all be front and centre Los Angeles.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I'll go front and centre for you for LA, and I'll go front and centre with Jarrod in Brisbane. Back to back.
COLIN HILDING: I'll do it.
BEN WATERWORTH: How does that sound? Good.
COLIN HILDING: I'll do it.
BEN WATERWORTH: You're good. I'm glad. Jarrod, will you do it?
JARROD LOOBEEK: 100% as long as we get the modern pentathlon as well, Francine.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, God. Did you actually... Obviously, if you listened to the show last night, you would have heard us talk about it, Colin. Did you see any of the modern pentathlon that was all in one stadium and that the pool... Well, I was watching it today, and I love it because it's a 25-metre pool, so it's kind of like a short course, and it was pissing down with rain today again while these guys are like full-on swimming. Like, they've literally got every apparatus of the modern pentathlon in one stadium. They've built an outdoor pool, they've got like a fencing little table there, then they've got the show jumping course, and then you run around the show jumping course and shoot. So if you can go back and watch a replay, but watch the modern pentathlon, it's fantastic.
COLIN HILDING: Will do. Good.
BEN WATERWORTH: I thought there was going to be more of a reaction there, but clearly not. Wow, this show is going very well. The Boomers are up eight with the three on the buzzer. Oh, he scores! Was that Exum? Or was that Inglis? That was Inglis. And Slovenia can't get it. So, ooh, third quarter over, 11 points up. Ingles, sorry, not Inglis. The guy in place was a Jazz. Wow, Jarrod, can we not choke from 11 points up at three quarter time at first ever? This is going to be the medal of the game for Australia! We could get a bronze! Seriously, you think I'm joking? This would be epic.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It would be. I'm not making a call until that final buzzer sounds.
BEN WATERWORTH: All seriousness, and Colin, to put this in, again, you've heard us talk about it. Let's talk about it again. Australia is the chokingest of chokingest in the men's basketball. I think this is our fifth time we've been to a bronze medal game. We have not won it. I don't know if you remember Rio when we got dodgy call in the final seconds of that game against Spain and lost it on the buzzer, basically. But this would be huge. They will celebrate this bronze medal bigger than some of our gold medals at these Olympics.
COLIN HILDING: And to think you could have actually beaten the Americans and been in the gold game.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, that's never going to happen because, again, we are the boomers. But oh, God, I'm like 12 minutes away right now from this. Meanwhile, we might win another gold tonight, and we're more excited about this bronze. Nicola McDermott has cleared two metres. She's cleared two metres. Get on board, Nicola, right in your diaries. Dear diary, I'm fucking epic at javelin, not javelin high jump. Why can I not get the spore right? Do they pick? They should pick it up. Combine event, pick up the bar, and go and throw it at the same time.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Throw it in and use it for the pole vault as well.
BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly. OK, I'm about to see the jump right now.
JARROD LOOBEEK: She's in her diary.
BEN WATERWORTH: She's so pumped up.
COLIN HILDING: Now, I want to jump. I was so proud we were carrying this when your network wasn't, and now CBC has decided to cut to an interview with the 10th place finisher in the 10,000 metre.
BEN WATERWORTH: She's got a cross necklace around. She's got the bling. I always do remember that women's high jump is often one of my favourite events at the Olympics.
COLIN HILDING: I was going to say, I think Ben has a type.
BEN WATERWORTH: The women's pole vault and the women's high jump are generally the best events to watch at the Olympics outside of gymnastics and synchronised swimming and all that sort of stuff. Can I just say diving? Men's diving? Tom Daly?
COLIN HILDING: I think we talked about that with the sexualisation of the uniforms. Men's diving is way more revealing than the women's outfits.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think men's diving is the most revealing sport at the Olympics, even more than women's beach volleyball. They have got shoestrings around their crotches.
COLIN HILDING: They might as well be wearing thongs.
BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly, but we don't talk about that too. But I mean, God, I know Tom Daly swings that way. I might swing that way. He's a man. I've walked past him. I've breathed the air next to him when I walked past him at the Commonwealth Games Village. He's a good-looking rooster, that Tom Daly. You'd knit with him. I would knit everything with him. Come on, between him and the 4x1 Canadian men's team, again, I was talking to you off air that photo of them, be proud to be Canadian, Colin, because, my goodness, they're very respectable in certain areas of the... Stop sexualising the men, Ben. This is not good. I want to quickly talk... Something I mentioned last night was in regards to medals won per capita, which is always interesting. There's actually a website, medalspercapita.com, and this goes through all the Olympics, and it's got Tokyo right now. All right, let's play a game here, guys. Top five countries of medals won per capita at these Olympics. Can you guess right now?
COLIN HILDING: I'm going Jamaica as number one.
JARROD LOOBEEK: San Marino.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jamaica's number six. They have got a medal per every 423,023 people. San Marino number one. A medal per 11,310 people.
COLIN HILDING: I'm crazy. Can you name some of the other ones? Because I actually read something earlier.
BEN WATERWORTH: No, because you're going to guess them. That's the point.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I feel like...
COLIN HILDING: I read earlier.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's going to be Ireland nations, right?
BEN WATERWORTH: There's a pretty obvious one if you think about it. We've talked out one nation a lot.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I'm trying to think who the...
BEN WATERWORTH: No. Qatar.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Who won the women's triathlon?
BEN WATERWORTH: Bermuda is number two on the list. Bermuda has a medal per every 63,918. Qatar actually, Colin, I think has a lot more people than you realise. They've got there 26. A medal per 1.4 million people. I'll help you out. He's a grenade... Grenada, a third. A medal per 112,523. Fiji, a seventh. A medal per 448,000. It also goes on the total. I'm surprised neither of you went to New Zealand. Yeah, New Zealand. Because they've got 19 medals per a population of only 4.8 million. So one medal per 253,000 people. And Bahamas, a fifth. So they've got a population of 393,000. They've won one medal, so it's one per 393,000. Well, according to... Maybe they haven't updated this.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, because they won in men's and women's 400-metre, didn't they?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, possibly. I think they did. So Canada, 36. A medal per 2.096 million. And Australia are apparently not on this list. We do not exist. Oh no, we're 11th! Okay, we're a lot higher than I thought we would. We've got a medal per 621,000 people. And the bottom is pretty easy. India, a medal per every 276 million people. Bring in cricket! Yeah, Nigeria. Although having said that, India have had about five fourth places. I've noticed a lot of fourth places going on there. Nigeria, 87th, the second last, with only two medals, 103 million per medal. China, amazingly leading the medal tally, still 73rd, a medal per 19 million people. That's almost the population of Australia. So that's pretty crazy. This boomer's game, Jarrod, I thought we were just shitting at him. We're about 13 points up, but all of a sudden it's back to eight. Slovenia coming back here. How are we feeling? Oh, that was way easy. You just left him wide open. I could have marked him, and I'm on the other side of the world. Oh, we're going to choke, aren't we, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: We're choking. It's going to be the same as Rio, isn't it?
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm not feeling very well right now. Meanwhile, in the javelin, Nicola's still writing in a diary, and she's still winning. Brazila's still winning the soccer. I can't get it right, can I?
JARROD LOOBEEK: The javelin was last night. It's very confusing.
BEN WATERWORTH: I can't even guess our javelin contestants, competitors, and yet now I'm getting the sport confused. What's wrong with me? Don't even ask me that question. What did we watch today, gentlemen? Jarrod, you can go first.
COLIN HILDING: Sorry.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I saw the bit of the canoeing, the track, like I mentioned, which was just abysmal, the men's basketball, the gold medal match, and then the men's beach volleyball, the gold medal match, which is actually good because Norway beat us in the group stages. So it kind of felt like vindication that they won the whole thing.
BEN WATERWORTH: Colin, what did you watch today?
COLIN HILDING: I watched some of the not rowing, the paddling, whatever you want to call it, the beach volleyball, gold and bronze medals, the 10 metre platform, the marathon, the women's marathon. I'm currently watching the high jump, otherwise known as the javelin.
BEN WATERWORTH: The high one.
COLIN HILDING: And a little bit of the track cycling too, although I didn't stick with it through all 186 laps of the Madison or whatever that is.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Where's the commitment? You could have at least stuck around till lap 100 when Australia dropped out.
BEN WATERWORTH: At least in Madison, you can understand. You just watch the Omnium if you need to get a degree in physics to understand what's going on there. Yeah, I watched the US Wing Gold today in the basketball. I saw a bit of the beach volleyball. I watched some rhythmic gymnastics. I watched some modern pentathlon, athletics. I'm watching the basketball right now. And the javelin. I'm watching the javelin right now. The javelin is very, very entertaining. I love how they're showing this Nicola. She's laying on her back reading a diary, and she's got drawings in it. She's like drawing a coloured pencil.
COLIN HILDING: You guys are missing out, because the Women's 4x400 Relay is about to start, and Belgium was line dancing.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, actually one thing we didn't talk about last night, why would you not take the layout there, Ingles? What are you doing?
COLIN HILDING: That's what you were talking about last night, not taking the layout?
BEN WATERWORTH: The 4x... Okay, now they've cut to the Relay now, so I've got the Belgians. Yep, I see the line dancing Belgians. I liked all the little... The Chinese, the 4x1 came out, and they were doing these cool little dance moves, and the Jamaicans... The Dragon Ball move? Yeah, so the Brits are coming out, and they're just going to be dicks, aren't they? Oh, no, they're doing a photo shoot. Why are Britain wearing swimming costumes? Seriously, they look like they're wearing a one-piece, so they should be going down to the local swimming meet. And Australia has turned it over again, have they? Oh, God, I can't watch the basketball. This is too much. This is going to be like doing reactions last night to the soccer. What the hell am I talking about right now? Oh, so just looking at the basketball, here's some facts for you. Canada have won medal in the men's basketball before. In 1936, you lost to the US. Can I just say, not very high-scoring basketball in 1936. The final score was 19 to 8. Was this just like a free throw competition or something like that in Berlin? Why was it so low-scoring? Canada have also lost the bronze medal match twice in your home Olympics in 76 and in 84. Australia, 1988 in Seoul, lost to the US in the bronze medal game, 78 to 49. In Atlanta, we lost to Lithuania, 80 to 74. In Sydney, I remember this one vividly watching it. In Lithuania, again, in the bronze medal game, we lost 89 to 71. And in Rio, of course, we lost to Spain, 89 to 80, fricking 8. Right now, we are only five points up against fricking Slovenia after having led about 12-13. I'm just not feeling this right now. Oh, no, they're within three. I can't watch it. I can't watch. It's happening again, Jarrod.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Why can't we just be like the US and be confident at sports and when you're winning, stay winning instead of just...
BEN WATERWORTH: This is a one-man team. It's literally a one. They've got one good player on Slovenia, Luka Donkić. That's the only guy that's good.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Get your diaries out, boomers. Honestly. Let's get one in it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Knit a fricking jumper. Knit something. Come on. Oh, God. There's so much happening right now. The 4x4 is on. Commentary fails or commentary highlights. Let's go with that. Jarrod, did you have anything today?
JARROD LOOBEEK: The only one I had from today, which we've mentioned before, was just the typical Channel 7 overhyping athletes. And it happened in the diving when our athlete was finished third in the semifinal portion to get through to the final. And they were talking beforehand how he is like an ex-gymnast, and he only took the sport up like 12 months ago or whatever.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, the TikTok guy. Is it? Oh, no, the other guy.
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, the other one. So he's new to the sport or whatever. And then they started the interviewing him, and they're like, you must be proud of that result. Like, surely you were just looking to make the final. But now, a genuine medal chance. Don't you reckon? And the guy was like, no, probably not. I'm just having him in the final. I think the medal is probably out of the question. But you've qualified third. He's like, yeah, anything can happen. I don't see it happening. It's just typical Channel 7. I'm like, leave him alone.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, God. Colin, do you have anything?
COLIN HILDING: I'm just watching Canada come very close to meddling in the 4x400 relay here. Let's see if I can do two things at once.
BEN WATERWORTH: Sorry, I'm just angry at our female basketballer. They have Paddy Mills. Although we just got an offensive foul, so suck it, Slovenia! Suck it, Luka!
COLIN HILDING: The first one I have is more just... I guess it was another one of these, oh, they didn't realise that they're still on air things. After the bronze medal match for the men's beach volleyball, after Qatar had won the commentator we had, she said, and more, beach volleyball action coming up after this. And then there was like dead silence and it was showing the two Qatar guys celebrating. She goes, oh, I love them. Like really erotically, I love them. Obviously did not realise that you have a hot mic there. And you know what?
BEN WATERWORTH: Sorry, sorry, Patty just fucked up a shot and went to a three pointer.
COLIN HILDING: Wait, because Canada is in the bronze medal position right now.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, I'm watching this now too. Who's winning that? Who's that? That's what Britain is at.
COLIN HILDING: America's winning.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, go America.
COLIN HILDING: Canada's ahead of Jamaica.
BEN WATERWORTH: Australia's ahead of Dunk. Dunk it, dunk it. We've got two sports going on at once here.
COLIN HILDING: All right.
BEN WATERWORTH: Sorry.
COLIN HILDING: America's winning the league.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's happening. We're winning bronze and we're winning gold.
COLIN HILDING: Canada can hold off Jamaica.
BEN WATERWORTH: The way you got the bronze. That Jamaica's got a nice ass.
COLIN HILDING: Let's keep doing this.
BEN WATERWORTH: Come on, come on, come on. Oh, it's so close.
COLIN HILDING: It's so close.
BEN WATERWORTH: You're ahead of us now. Oh, that's a big three from Slovenia.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, I think we just lost the bronze.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, that was Luca. Bloody Luca. Can somebody like Nancy Kerrigan, Luca Dunk, hit you in the knee? Seriously. Come on, Patty. Come on, Patty. Use those feminine hormones. That's it. Yes, up by nine. Come on, Patty. And now I'm seeing Canada are about to lose the bronze. So they lost the bronze?
COLIN HILDING: No, we did lose the bronze.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, classic Canada. And Nicola is about to jump at 202. So everything's happening. I've only got a three. Sorry.
COLIN HILDING: I want to say quickly, for the four by 400 relay, this is as big of a deal as when the men in the relay for swimming came in fourth, where it's like, hey, we just want to show up and prove that swimming isn't just for women in Canada, that the men are here to play. That's kind of the same thing for this women's four by 400 relay team. Like, hey, it's not just the men. So very different. Ben's like, yeah.
BEN WATERWORTH: Sorry. Ingrid's just got a three. Back by nine. Sorry, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: Back to commentary. This one I really liked. Our rhythmic gymnastics commentating team, there was some heat between them, like, not the chemistry heat that you talked about, but more like you can tell they actually don't like working together. So and they also both sounded older. I'll say that as well. But the country of Cape Verde, which I had never even heard about until this came up, the commentator, the main guy there, he was like, and Cape Verde is about 600 kilometres off the coast of West Africa. So I bet she's a good swimmer. And then it gets better because then the female commentator goes, yes, but she took up gymnastics, not swimming. It was just quiet. Wow. Like that was a lot of uncomfortable awkwardness between those two commentators.
BEN WATERWORTH: Very good to mine. All right. Calmly, 11 points up with 322 to go. Jarrod, we can't lose it from here. Can we?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Surely not. And in other news, Nicola's guaranteed a medal of some form at the moment.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I'm watching this. She's missed the 202, and what I'm seeing on my Maria Lassatinkene of Rock is jumping for 202. So if she gets this, she'll go to the lead. I think the seven mates a little bit behind the actual timing screen. So it's kind of odd. Nicola's tall. Like she should be a basketball player. I'm so distracted here by everything going on right now. I mean, we could win our 18th goal, which would be groundbreaking, but I'm more concerned about a bronze. Literally, I'm more concerned about bronze right now for the bend in the bar. They're not being sexist. Nicola is probably my new favourite athlete of these Olympic Games. She's the Chloe Esposito of Tokyo to Ben Waterworth. Look at her determination and screaming at herself as she goes in for this jump. But I know she's going to miss. Will this Olympic timing screen update itself? I'm nervous now if Maria's made the jump. Holy crap balls. Everything's happening on night 15 of the Olympic Games. And oh, she's made it. The Russians made it. Ooh, silver for Australia right now. Jarrod, you said we needed silver. Not right now.
JARROD LOOBEEK: We're lacking in it.
BEN WATERWORTH: I have to say, you talk about the overconfidence of the Channel 7. Can we just talk about the over cocky confidence earlier on today about us winning this basketball game? Edwina, fricking just going on about, today I'm certain I'll bet the Boomers will win bronze. And then what's Matt Shervington's BVO? Bronze vibes only. I don't really get it. I do also love Edwina talking up the bronze medal game. After the gold medal game was finished, she's like, oh, yes, Team USA. Some huge names there. But there's some even bigger names tonight. Yes. All right. Draymond Green, Kevin Durant, you know, all these huge name NBA players. And we've got like Patty Mills, who I think is in the WNBA. You know, Dante, some people that I'm sure a majority of Americans probably have never even heard of. But I do have to say, I also loved Edwina talking about Stewie McSwain. Oh, we've been offered the King Island Hotel is going to send us the go for gold Stewie Parmy. But can't quite have it right now due to quarantine. So we might have to get it sent back up to us after the games or something like that. During the bottom pentathlon, after every single swimming heat, they play Don't Stop by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. And I was getting fucking sick of them hearing that song. Why are you playing this song to death? It's getting a little bit annoying going through that way. This is kind of not really commentary fails. It's more just... I really loved the Americans getting interviewed. So the guy at the basketball was interviewing all the big name NBA players after they won the gold. And Ed Weiner was like, Oh, I think he's got his autograph book out now. He's interviewing all these heroes there from the NBA. So he interviews Draymond Green, great player for the Warriors, won a couple of championships. And I just loved the overconfident, cocky Americans. Basically, they're asking him, like, how are you feeling? He's like, we lost to Spain. We lost to these guys. Whoever they are. The World Champs, I think. I can't remember, but we did. People doubted us. Even in the USA. They say that the world caught up with us. Well, they didn't. Because here we are. We won gold. It's like going on there. And he literally said, we've come here to protect our game. Now, last time I checked, Canada invented basketball. But OK, Draymond, you do you, my friend. Jason Tatum getting interviewed by Channel 7, an Australian network where Australians are watching, to which the Australian Courtside Reporter says, your son is probably watching right now in the USA. What would you like to say to him? Which he's all like, hey, Jimmy, dad's here. Want a gold? Hope you're proud of me. Yep, I'm sure he's tuning into the Channel 7 coverage. And I had to feel sorry for Kevin Durant, a man who, you know, probably has more money than we could ever think of. He's obviously gone through a lot in life because he said, we actually went through a lot of adversity to get here. Yeah, we lost the game. Kevin, man, all these people out there.
COLIN HILDING: I'm going to say this right now. I had him up as a potential athlete the day. It's done. No, you're dead to me, Durant.
BEN WATERWORTH: I love Kevin Durant.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Are we giving Kevin a spot on The Voice next season, and that's his sub story?
BEN WATERWORTH: OK, sorry, just quickly sidebar. We're 14 points up with a minute 40. We're not losing it now. I'm calling it BVO. Bronze Vibes only. I think we're going to get silver in the javelin, the high jump, because Nicola's jumping and the screen hasn't updated itself still right now. It's a second attempt at 202, and it still hasn't updated it.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Get on this forever. Maybe an anthem is playing, and then they all have to stop and stand still.
BEN WATERWORTH: I like that when they were interviewing somebody the other day, they had to be quiet because the anthem was playing in the background. Just a quick note, we were bagging out Channel 7 yesterday for playing the damn voice ads. You wouldn't get it where you are, Jarrah, but there's this ad for a local bank that they keep playing down here. It is so annoying. You've got this obnoxious American dude and some other woman talking about some bank account called a Glide. And they're there, and he's going like, Glide! It sounds like something that you would shave yourself with. And then he's all like, Oh, but I'm pretty bad with my money, but this tells me how I can save. I can ask for some dollars from a splurge fund. And it's like these two millennials basically talking about how they can't save and some bank account will find money in your bank account that you should put aside. What are the kids learning these days? They don't know how to save money. Jesus Christ, Colin, you're older than me. And Jarrod, were you not taught to save? Yes. I'm getting so angry at this. The boom is 28 seconds away. We're going to win a bronze. This is history. History for Australia. I still don't know what Nicola's done because it's not showing anything on my screen. Everything's happening. I'm waiting for athletes.
COLIN HILDING: She's about to go here.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm on it.
COLIN HILDING: She just screamed, come on and started running.
BEN WATERWORTH: Is this her second or first attempt at 202?
COLIN HILDING: I'm not sure, but she missed.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, that could be. Yeah, well, it doesn't help because she missed the first. So, I mean, I don't know what the second one's going on here, because again, the screen hasn't updated itself. Football, Brazil is still up by one. Japan is still up by one. God, everything's happening. The Boomers have done it! The Boomers have done it! We're bronze medallists in Olympic basketball! Yes! Suck it, Slovenia! Suck it, Luka! That's it! The best Olympic result ever in basketball for men. This is the medal of the games, Jarrod. It's better than Decaflon, it's better than Jess.
JARROD LOOBEEK: The curse is over, finally.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, fantastic. This will be celebrated. What's news.com today you're saying right now? This is going to be probably something about how we did something wrong. It's the fourth headline. The number one is still about what's the face from yesterday. The German modern pentathlete that I put up for athlete of the day struck with a fist. Coach punches horse after gold medal lost. I did say that this horse should be chopped up into dog meat. Well, I mean, the coaches. What did I say about the Germans, Jarrod? I called it, didn't I?
JARROD LOOBEEK: You did. That does not surprise me one bit.
BEN WATERWORTH: A coach has been kicked out of the Olympics of punching one of the animals. Oh, Nicola got it. And it's an Australian record. But she's still in silver because obviously she got the...
JARROD LOOBEEK: Stupid count back system.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, just share the medal. Come on. Okay, I'm losing it. Patty's crying. Oh, Patty's in tears. Oh, so she should be. Amazing. Oh, everything's happening today. Everything's happening today. Oh, God, athlete of the day. Jesus, where do we even start? Colin, let's go with you. Let's buckle ourselves up, kids. Come on, let's get ready.
COLIN HILDING: Let me just address something here. I love how that's always Ben's joke, but yet Ben's the one who comes with a list of 87 athletes per day.
BEN WATERWORTH: I've only got two tonight.
COLIN HILDING: Moderate from Ben. I've actually only got two as well.
JARROD LOOBEEK: How many players are on the Boomers team?
COLIN HILDING: Actually, I wanted to mention with the...
BEN WATERWORTH: I said we're three now that you mentioned that, Jarrod. Thanks for saying that.
COLIN HILDING: With the soccer, as you mentioned, I said I was going to bring this up. I find it really hard with team sports to actually have an athlete of the day because how do you nail it down to just one player? And with the women's soccer, that's kind of the big deal right now is who's going to be one of our two flag bearers. You know what's so funny? I am watching Nicola right now staring at the camera, continuing to point and nod like, yes, yes, thumbs up as I'm talking, but she agrees with me.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm watching Slovenian men cry like they're all in tears as they walk off the court. Suck it up, Slovenia.
COLIN HILDING: But yeah, like the big debate right now is like, okay, do you give it to the captain, Christine Sinclair? Do you give it to the goalie who, you know, block the shots? Do you give it to what's her name, Grosso, who actually won the in the shootout, who actually won the gold medal? Do you give it to Fleming, who actually tied as a 1-1? Like there's too many options in team sports.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Give it to the Swede for missing the goals.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, good point. But no, I mean, the one I want to put up is obviously Alison Felix, because she has now not only broken the record, she's blown away her record again today. So I don't know if that's anything that's ever going to be beaten. Oh, was she on the 4x4?
BEN WATERWORTH: Was she? She was, yeah. She just won another medal.
COLIN HILDING: I know you guys had mentioned her yesterday as a potential one. So I mean, I put her up again today just because that's an unbelievable record, and she's now just gone even one more up on it.
BEN WATERWORTH: I just, sorry, just really quickly showing Nicola and writing in her diary. She's like, we've got this such look on her face as if she's like, oh, yeah, what am I going to write now? Just a look on her face.
JARROD LOOBEEK: She's moved on from the diary, though. She's writing in permanent marker on the back of her jacket now.
COLIN HILDING: She hit the last page.
BEN WATERWORTH: Is Nicola okay? Can we get someone out there to check on her?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, so my other one that I want to put up is actually in the karate, in the kata. The guy who won the gold medal, Ryu Kiyuna. It's not just the fact that this might be the only time we get karate. It's incredible to watch, especially the kata. I mean, the kumite, the tournament's fine, but the kata is just fantastic to watch. But this guy, Ryu Kiyuna, he's from Okinawa. So I know that Okinawa is now technically part of Japan. You know, it wasn't always, but nobody from Okinawa has ever won a medal in the Olympics before. With all that Japan produces, nobody from Okinawa has ever won. Karate was invented in Okinawa. This is the Okinawan sport. And for the first time and only time maybe the Karate's ever been contested, for them to win the gold medal, I think is a good choice, too.
BEN WATERWORTH: Good choices. I'm not disagreeing with any of them today. I can tell you Nicola has missed her first attempt at 204, just to spoil it for you. So she's still in the silver medal position right now. Jarrod.
COLIN HILDING: She's got a shot at the javelin still.
BEN WATERWORTH: She does, hopefully. Jarrod, any thoughts for you?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I didn't have particularly strong thoughts today, so I could be swayed with another option, but I'm going to go on Pentathlon again, and once again go for the silver medallist, Ahmed El-Gendi from Egypt, who was 50 seconds down at the start of the laser run, managed to claw his way back to silver. The first, well, he's Egyptian, so the first athlete from Africa to ever medal in the modern pentathlon.
BEN WATERWORTH: Wow. Well, there you go. I didn't realise that, so good for him. Just quickly, Japan, 2-0 up in the baseball, bottom of the ninth, bottom of the eighth, sorry, and Brazil still 1-up in the soccer. All right, I mean, I had Nicola McDermott as an honourable mention, just because she's just incredible. I'm going to put Patti Mills up as an honourable mention just because 4th Olympics flag bearer finally got himself a medal. He was crying at the end there. Good for that. Something for the boomers. My nominee, though, and Colin, I'm surprised you didn't do this one, because I know you're a bit of a distance runner fan. Bronze medallist in the women's marathon today, Molly Seidel. Now, this was a pretty fun story. Did you read about this, kind of what it was? She had never ran a marathon in her life until the US. Olympic trials where she finished second. It's like, oh, cool, I get to go to the Olympics. This is her third marathon ever, and she won a freaking bronze medal. I mean, hope for me now in the marathon. I've never run a marathon before in my life. So, I mean, you know, shoot for the stars. So, yeah, I thought that was a pretty inspirational story there from Molly. So she's my pick. But look again, I mean, Colin's probably not really that swayed. Jarrod, you maybe get the final vote. Colin, what are you thinking on that?
COLIN HILDING: Well, like, here's the thing I said before, you know, I don't hate Australians. Let me read it again. I hate Australians about as much as Jarrod hates swimmers or Ben hates gold medallists. That's the same argument. But I do like the idea of spreading it around, and I don't think we've had any Americans yet.
BEN WATERWORTH: We haven't had a single American.
COLIN HILDING: I put up Allison Felix. You're putting up the marathon runner. I like the idea of giving it to American. I think that both are worthy. I like the karate one I have as well. I like the Egypt one that Jarrod has. So we've got some good choices today, but it would be nice to give it to at least one American, so they realise we don't hate them.
BEN WATERWORTH: Look, I would just say that I'm not taking away from Allison. We obviously brought her up last night, but I mean, she's one enough.
COLIN HILDING: Good point, yeah.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, I mean, you can have the final say here.
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, I don't think she has one enough. I think give it to Allison.
BEN WATERWORTH: All right, Felix the cat has some lives. So there we go, first American who takes it. Well, it's about time, day 15. You know, like they can't win badminton, they can't win handball, but they can win athlete of the day. We should have just kept them, but they can't do it.
COLIN HILDING: Let's also, just to kind of reiterate how big of a deal that is, this hasn't been the best Olympics for sprinters or track runners for America. Yes, they've won a lot of medals, but they've had so many of their top athletes just not make the finals, struggle to make the finals. So for her to break these records and do what she did at her age as well, I think that's a huge deal.
BEN WATERWORTH: I agree. So congratulations, Allison. Now, let's not feed the dream anymore. They're kind of boring. I don't really like some of those ones on there.
COLIN HILDING: You know, I want to quickly add this before I forget, but I'm hopeful that COVID is not going to prevent anything like this, but two of our athletes, the Canadian athletes, including some of the ones that we sent the stick together messages to, are actually going to be here in Winnipeg in a couple of days. They've got a big Olympic homecoming. We have Skylar Park, who is in the Taekwondo, who came very close to meddling in Taekwondo, who is, obviously, she's from Winnipeg, so it's going to be here. It's at the big mall. It's the mall where I'm going to be possibly picking up Ben's Team Canada jacket, so I might even be able to pick that up for you now myself.
BEN WATERWORTH: He's sending a lot of things to Australia all of a sudden with the cereal and the bloody, you know. Just save your dollars and your splurge fund, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: But our volleyball team who choked in the quarterfinals, Pavan and Paredes are going to be there, as is Jennifer Abel, who's on a box of cheerios. I can get an autographed box of Jennifer Abelios in a couple of days.
BEN WATERWORTH: Do you have anything like that? Well, Rio, we generally have a welcome home parade. Usually, Sydney and Melbourne have big ones, and then kind of they get like... I went to the Rio one. That's where I got my photo with Chloe, and Catherine Skinner, and Bronte Campbell, the fake Campbell. But so they generally do. But we've got so many cities on lockdown right now. Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne are all in lockdown as of right now. I think Adelaide still are, aren't they? Hobart is basically the only city not on lockdown. So I'm thinking that we're going to get the main one. But the problem is everyone has to come back and quarantine for two weeks. A bunch of the swimmers are making the news because they've buggered off to Europe because they don't have to come back to Australia and quarantine. So if we do, I don't think it will be for like a month. But yeah, I'm assuming, I'm sure Ariane Titmuss will come down here. We'll probably get Eddie Oglet, the Tassie guy, Stuart McSwain. And yeah, they'll ship a couple of the random gold medallists. We'll probably get the stupid skateboard kid or something like that. Who can I just say? Met Sean White today. Check his Instagram out. Sean White even posted on his Instagram, Oh, congratulations from the dude from Australia who won the gold. So Sean White's on board with fricking what's his name?
COLIN HILDING: The best Sean White impression I've ever heard.
BEN WATERWORTH: Thanks. You know, but you know, I will go to it, I reckon. And who knows? Maybe I'll bring a microphone along and we can imagine if Kate Campbell is there this time instead of Bronte and like, Hey, Kate, big fans off the podium.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I'll be the praise at all times.
BEN WATERWORTH: I want Nicola to be there. I want Nicola, I want Nicola right in your diary. Come on. I'm still watching.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Mr. Doko in the back of her jacket at the moment again.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm still, well, she's like laying down. Is she crying on the ground? Like, I don't know what's happening. And I'm just thinking the timing, the timing screen on the Olympic app is saying that she's next to jump. I can tell you Spain have equalised against Brazil. So it's one all. The US are currently batting to save themselves at the top of the ninth. If they don't get any runs, Japan will win gold. Other events that have been decided, I can tell you that in the Karate, Iran's taken the 75 kilos. Sajid Genzadeh ahead of Saudi Arabia. It's going to be their first medal of the Olympics. And Japan and Turkey, the bronze. And Egypt, gold in the women's 61 kilo. Ferial Abdelaziz ahead of Azerbaijan, China and Kazakhstan. And the wrestling, was that all decided? The last one there was a women's freestyle, 50 kilos. Yui Sasaki of Japan ahead of China, Azerbaijan and the US. And that four by four, just to clarify, US got the gold. Poland, the steel. Poland are very good at 400 metre relays. Where did that come from? Jamaica, the bronze. So we're only waiting for the men's javelin. India finally got a gold!
COLIN HILDING: Are you sure it was the javelin?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, it is, I'm sure this time. Naraz Chopra of India got a gold. Well done, India. Czech Republic silver, Czech Republic bronze. So we're just waiting on the men's 4x4 and the women's javelin slash high jump. And obviously the baseball and the soccer are the only ones remaining there. I just quickly want to talk because this will be the last time all three of us together. Obviously tomorrow will be a slightly busier day just because we have the closing ceremony. So it will be Colin and I tomorrow. We'll talk about the closing ceremony. We'll do a Day 16 wrap, and I'll get Colin's final thoughts on the games. Jarrod will be joining me on Monday for a wrap of the games itself, and he'll give his thoughts on the closing ceremony as well. Flag bearers for the closing ceremony. Australia have announced theirs. Matt Belcher, our sailor, I think, thoroughly deserved Jarrod. Obviously now has won two gold and silver, our greatest ever Olympic sailor. I like it when we, you know, don't just jump. I mean, obviously we can't give it to a swimmer because none of them are here. But like, I do like, like, Jess Fox would probably be the obvious one, but give her the flag in Paris. Give it to fucking Nicola after tonight. Patty Mills, Eddie Ockenden, I seriously think, would have been a deserving one to give it to as well because it's his fourth Olympics. But yeah, Matt Belcher, what do you think of Matt getting the flag for the closing?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think deserved. And based just not on results, but the fact that sailing is one of these sports that is continuing to give a couple of medals here and there to Australia at each Olympics. And I feel like they deserve like a little bit of credit back based on that. It's nice advertising this sport, I suppose, a little bit more.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I agree. I love Nicola's missing. She goes straight to the diary, straight into it. America, I will say, Karawinga, they're javelin. Was it javelin?
COLIN HILDING: You're just going to second guess every time now.
BEN WATERWORTH: I actually do think it was their javelin throw. Now, you were talking a little bit about the Canada one. I've seen them making the announcement at 6:30 p.m. Eastern, so they haven't quite done it. Front runners, of course, you said DeGrasse, Sinclair, Mohamed, all these people. I think Christine Sinclair should get it. I mean, I was reading about her a little bit more that she is the leading scorer of all time in women's international soccer. This is what her third or fourth Olympics, captain them to two bronzes and a gold. I mean, that's pretty incredible. If that was your hockey team, you would be treating her like she's Queen Bee. So any difference here? So I say give it to Christine.
COLIN HILDING: I actually, I mean, she is definitely considered one of front runners, although it seems like online, most people are saying, no, give it to either the goalie or the girl who made the final goal in the shootout. Yeah. Because the thing that works against Christine Sinclair is that she was named the flag bearer in London when they won the bronze the first time. So she has been there before. But there's so much love for her in this country. I mean, she is, it's like the Wayne Gretzky of soccer. What's so great about this team is that the team itself, so many of those young girls on the soccer team, like the other two I mentioned, said that they took up soccer after watching Christine Sinclair in London. And now they're on a team with her. So, I mean, you may get a situation where they name one of the younger ones and they say, no, give it to Christine. It's really up in the air for the men, though, because, yeah, you could say DeGrasse, but Damian Warner, there seems to be so much support for Damian Warner right now. I mean, most of the threads I'm seeing are actually mentioning his name more than DeGrasse's, but I wouldn't count out Evan Dunphy as well, as I said, or even Mohamed. It's so limited with the last couple of years. You see so many comments, people say, well, how come Penny Alexiak's not in there? People are like, she hasn't been in the country for a week now.
BEN WATERWORTH: And she had Rio, wasn't she?
COLIN HILDING: She was Rio. She did have Rio, yeah. But I think the fact that Canada has done so well in these last few days means that we're going to have we're going to have flag bearers that even if this wasn't a COVID Games would have been potential flag bearers.
BEN WATERWORTH: Breaking news, Nicola has missed her third attempt. She will win at least a silver medal.
JARROD LOOBEEK: She's got the silver.
BEN WATERWORTH: She's got the silver. So, I mean, great. Like, we sort of thought that we could possibly medal in that, but that's kind of OK. Two silver and two bronzes in the athletics will take that chair. It's pretty successful. The Australian, I mean, we talked about this the other day. It actually is a pretty good turnaround.
JARROD LOOBEEK: She nearly had the last one, too. Like, she was over. I just saw her, and then like her heel hit it. Like, she celebrated because she thought she made it. And then you just see the poll just go...
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, I think I've got it now on the app. So, I'll watch this. I mean, let's be honest. She'll get the gold in about three years when they find out that this Maria Lasittek is on drugs. So, he'll be like Jarrah Talent when he got the... Hey, Jamie. Give us your comments on the men's 4x100m Canadian men's team.
COLIN HILDING: The men's 4x100 relay team, the Crotch Bulges. What were your thoughts?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Uh... I mean...
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, come on. They're massive.
JARROD LOOBEEK: They're sexy.
COLIN HILDING: Those are some DONGs there.
BEN WATERWORTH: They are some DONGs.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, but if a person's face isn't, like, really attractive... It doesn't really matter how big their...
COLIN HILDING: Sorry. I think that's your comment now. That's Jamie's comment now. Oh, but if her face isn't... She specifically said, you know, André de Grasse, it's like, you know, he's, you know, not ugly, but he's not my type. Aaron Brown, though, it's like, that's a handsome guy. So she liked Aaron Brown's crotch and his face.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Okay, but the thing is, though, is that honestly, it's just like a guy who likes to look at women's boobs, even if they're a little bit bigger. Because, well, boobs are a little bit different, but...
BEN WATERWORTH: I mean, one's needed for procreation, the other's just fun to do things with.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I mean, with a guy's penis size, it's not about the size, it's about, you know, how you use it.
BEN WATERWORTH: That's what you tell Colin every five years when you have sex, right?
COLIN HILDING: Telling all the listeners that I got no Aaron Brown to grass ball.
BEN WATERWORTH: I never have that problem, Jamie. I'm just... I have the best of both worlds.
JARROD LOOBEEK: But we got three kids, so you obviously know how to use it.
COLIN HILDING: Well, we got three kids to try, so I really know how to use it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Again, no, he's had sex twice. We go through the story. I'm glad that this is...
COLIN HILDING: The one respectable show that we have been, the only respectable podcast, Jamie has now ruined that too. My children will never be able to listen to this.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod is just losing his innocence here. I just want to point this out. We'll talk about tomorrow and see a bit more. Again, I'm not trying to make this all about Australia, because again, I would be doing this for Canada as well. We're sensing the canoe girls today crying, happy, emotional. I love it. I love seeing that. Right now, Nicola is absolutely bawling her eyes out. We talked about this last night with our javelin thrower getting bronze, just absolutely bawling her eyes out. Patty Mills bawling. I love this. I absolutely love this. As an Australian or any country right now, we've just lost a gold medal. You think, oh, we should be disappointed. But no, it's fantastic to see just this emotion and just everything about this.
COLIN HILDING: And I love the personality of her.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, just I love this so much. Like I just I this is why I love the Olympics. I love these emotions from these athletes. And just it doesn't matter what colour medal to do this and just get all that sort of stuff. I mean, just looking at Patty Mills right now. I mean, it's just I kind of feel bad for Nicola because her still is going to not get talked about because it's all going to be about the boomers. But just just incredible. Just absolutely. And these will be our last. There's nothing we can win tomorrow.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think she's back to the live to the diary again.
COLIN HILDING: I was going to say, if we get her on the show, can we pull our money? If she let's just ask her the question, if she says yes, fine. But if she says no to reading a page from a diary, can we commit to pooling our money together so that she can read one page of her diary on the show?
BEN WATERWORTH: Why do we have to pay her? Like, what are you saying?
COLIN HILDING: If she says no, diaries are private. You really think these athletes are making money? Of course, they're going to take 50 bucks.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm confused. I don't disagree with you. Like, don't get me wrong, diaries are private, but I don't understand this pooling the money will change her mind.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Sure it will.
COLIN HILDING: It would for me.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I'm not even sure if her diary is just her writing down the height of the jump and whether she made it or not, because it's like a little table with boxes and stuff.
COLIN HILDING: But there is a chance that the diary is something else, and we need to know.
BEN WATERWORTH: As a strong Christian woman, she's got very firm beliefs, but a bit of money, the dollars and the slide fund, she's like going, oh dear.
COLIN HILDING: Check out the Canadians, crotch bulges.
BEN WATERWORTH: She's very religious. She's like, Jesus, I love you.
COLIN HILDING: Holy crap, the grass is dong.
BEN WATERWORTH: Wow. Oh, I'm watching the diving. Tom Daly. I would dong him daily.
COLIN HILDING: You know that there's at least one page in there like that.
BEN WATERWORTH: No, like I'm with you. I can't imagine this news.com today. You aren't running with this right now. Let's double check the breaking news in Australia. Number one, drought breakers. Patty's perfect helping boomers win bronze. Followed by coach punchers horse after gold medal loss. Followed by livid Chinese divers nasty act. OK, and there's also a boxer wins gold with impossible punch.
COLIN HILDING: Interesting.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, and Joe Biden told us.
COLIN HILDING: Is it against a horse?
BEN WATERWORTH: I think so. Joe Biden told us to stay away from 9-11 events. OK, well, 9-11 comes up on this last show pretty recently. So, all right. So, OK, as I said before, the raps are coming. Tomorrow is going to be a very interesting day there. Before we talk about the closing ceremony, 13 medals to be decided tomorrow. And I'm saying it now. I don't think we're going to get any. I don't think there's a thing we can. I mean, technically, Harry gets his medal tomorrow. So technically you could say we won a medal. But I think we've walked on two days. These Olympics without medals, which is a pretty decent haul, but the main one tomorrow marathon. Abdi's running. We'll talk to you about him in a second. Colin there. We've got the basketball women's. Why is that saying tomorrow? That's today. A bunch of boxing. Well, I mean, cycling. Maybe we can pull something out of our ass. But obviously we're not winning anything in the water polo, the volleyball, the handball. And not just when I say we Australia, I should say Canada. Gymnastics rhythmic. Yeah. So basically, if any medals are coming for Australia or Canada tomorrow, it'll be in the cycling or if something weird happens in the marathons and a Kenyan doesn't win it. So Jarrod, I'll start with you. I mean, the marathon is kind of outside of the men's 100. It's the blue ribbon event of the Olympics. But I mean, get around the rhythmic group all around. I haven't even mentioned the stuff I watched today was the team stuff. They'll throw them balls. It was like basketball training. The frickin rock athletes changed their leotard colour halfway through. Like, Jesus Christ. What are you looking forward to in our final day of 13 medals?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, I think that's it. It's got to be the rhythmic gymnastics. Outside of that, the... Did you say women's basketball? I think it is the gold medal match tomorrow, right? Today was the bronze, I think, in the women's.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, you're right. Sorry, you are right. Apologies. The men played today. Ben, stop being so sexist. The women still have to... We know America's won it.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it's not. So I only have to tune in to the last minute of that.
BEN WATERWORTH: And who are they playing?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Japan, I think.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, get on Japan. If Japan win that, upset of the Olympics. Like, they were... Colleen obviously listened to the show yesterday, but we were... Nicola's crying while she's writing in a diary. All the photographers are just surrounding her, taking photos of her. She's going, Oh my God, do you diary? They won't stop taking photos of me. But yeah, I mean, America... Oh, hang on. I'm going to turn this camera on. This is that stupid bank head. Look, an obnoxious American guy. And watch his little hands. He'll do this dollar symbol thing. Ready for it? Ready for it? There it is. The Basplurge Fund.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Is he reading off cards?
BEN WATERWORTH: And down the bottom, it's got the paid actors. And this woman's literally like, I'm not very good at saving money, so it reminds me how to do it. Like, Jesus Christ. Oh, God. We need to start doing video episodes on this show. Oh, no, Spain, that's the equaliser. They're just showing the replay of it. I don't know what to ask the question. Colin, final day, I'm all over the shop right now. What are you looking for? Abdie, talk about Abdie. Chances for Abdie.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, I don't know if Abdie, I'm not gonna say I don't think he has a shot. I don't even think Abdie was necessarily saying he had a shot. I think the greatest thing about Abdie is, again, this guy is well into his 40s, and this is what his fifth Olympics, but he just missed out in Rio, so it could have been his sixth Olympics. And in the interview, I was expecting him to be like, yeah, I think I'm done. This is my last one. He's like, no, I got no plans to retire. He's like, you'll probably see me in another three years. So I mean, he's such a great guy, such a fun guy. People can go back and listen to the interview. He's got a book coming out. That's the really exciting thing. And I'm really pumped for his book because I don't know the release date. But his publicist did tell me that it was supposed to be pre Olympics. Now it's post Olympics. So I mean, maybe he's just waiting so we can add one more chapter to it if he pulls off the ups in the marathon. I feel bad for the marathon, too, because it's starting. And unless this is completely wrong on here, it's starting at like 8 a.m. Tokyo time. I mean, this is like a two and a half, three hour long race. Meanwhile, the Race Walkers were given a 530 a.m. start time with the heat in Tokyo. Let these guys start early. Come on.
BEN WATERWORTH: The one thing I do actually like about the marathon, I'll say, is I'm a fan of having the medal ceremony at the closing ceremony. It's a shame the crowd's not going to be there, but they do this too in the winter, don't they, with the final cross-country event from memory. So yeah, I'm a big fan of that. I really do like that. So yeah, it starts at 7 a.m. Tokyo time tomorrow. So yeah, you're right, obviously, Jarrod. USA, Japan, the Women's Basketball tomorrow. We've got a fourth final... Oh yes, the Women's... I've got to remember to watch the American Women in the Volleyball. That's another event I do enjoy. And the Men's Gold Medal match in the Water Polo Greece and Serbia tomorrow. Just a quick few updates before we talk about the closing ceremony and wrap it up. Japan have won the baseball, 2-0 over the US. So congratulations there. Japan, your first Olympic gold medal in baseball. The handball, second half, France leading Denmark, 21-17. Come on, Denmark! You can do it! And the one, it's one-all in the soccer. Closing ceremony, I'm not even predicting anything. The Paris display will be the best thing of it. I have no expectations for opening and closing ceremonies anymore, because no matter what we say, they're shit. They just get worse and worse. I'm hanging all hopes for Beijing, because they had an epic summer opening ceremony. Surely, they're going to have a good one for that. But Jarrod, again, you won't be here for the one tomorrow night. But I mean, Paris, the montage is just going to be them running away from the Eiffel Tower. I mean, what's it going to be?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, surely something like that, or like a breadstick relay, baguette relay, something like that. I don't know.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I mean, because this is what the first time they've had the summer games in 100 years. They had the winter, of course, in 92. So, I mean, this is a thing, though. Like, again, we talk about the cultural aspect of things. Like, it's exciting when you think Paris, you know, a global city, probably only behind New York and London, is like, you know, the capital of the world. So it's a big, big city to have the Olympics. But you've got to hope there's going to be some cultural elements to this. Because remember, they're only three years away. And five years ago, I would have been tuning out that section, like, fuck France, who gives a shit? But now I'm like, come on, get on board. I want to see Zinedine Zidane headbutting people. I want to see, you know, French people and frogs. And I want to see just French shit everywhere. Pepe Le Pew, the return of Pepe Le Pew.
COLIN HILDING: I'm like, you know what, Warner Brothers, you're going to cancel Pepe? We're bringing him back for the Olympics because we're proud of Pepe Le Pew.
BEN WATERWORTH: An international icon. And the French are like, ha ha ha, no, fuck you, Disney. Fuck you, Warner, whatever you are. Here's our icon. Here he is. Colin, closing ceremony thoughts. I don't know what to think.
COLIN HILDING: I'm kind of the opposite of you. I think the bar was set so low with the opening that maybe I just don't have expectations, so I have a feeling I'm going to be pleasantly surprised with it. Maybe it's because the bar has been set low, but it's something, you know.
BEN WATERWORTH: They're usually fun. This is the thing, right? The very first proper close, I probably did watch Atlanta. I remember it slightly because all the media in Australia was just how terrible our display was for Sydney. But I mean, the closing ceremony for Sydney was just a barrel of laughs. It was brilliant. The Vancouver closing ceremony might even be more of a favourite to me than Sydney. It was hilarious. London. I mean, as much as I say I hate the Brits now, I still stand on out in a limb and say that the London opening and closing ceremonies are the best ones I've ever seen. And I vaguely remember, was Sochi the one that had the big babushka dolls, or was that the opening ceremony?
COLIN HILDING: I think that was opening.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I can't really remember that. And Rio obviously had the great Tokyo display with the Prime Minister as Mario. But I mean, I'm just, the last closing ceremony was with Pyeongchang. I mean, still waiting for Sochi to come out. Like, god damn it. So I just, it can't be worse than, you're right, Colin, it can't be worse than the opening. And it's gonna be interesting because at the end of the day, I always get sad at the end of an Olympics, but it's unique right now because we've got, what, 180 days it will be tomorrow until Beijing. So that is...
COLIN HILDING: It's like 1992 all over again.
BEN WATERWORTH: It is. And can I just say, Channel 7 really amping up the coverage of Beijing today. Did you see the interview with our snowboard crosser today that Ed Weiner and Shervo did? Cam Bolton, they had him on for about 10 minutes. They were talking about Chumpy. They were showing the Chumpy Lodge. And I actually really want to go to the Chumpy Lodge. It's got like a big shrine to Chumpy, and it's got like all on the walls, like a list of all of our medallists from the Winter Olympics.
COLIN HILDING: The Chumpy Lodge.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's literally called the Chumpy Lodge at Mount Buller. But I forgot to mention the commentary fouls. Edwina... Oh, hello, Poland's 4x400 team.
COLIN HILDING: Sorry.
BEN WATERWORTH: They just had a close up on their... It said Poland on their bottoms. I was trying to read it. They... Edwina was just talking up. She said, like, Oh, one of the highlights of my career was being in Pyeongchang and everything. But it's a Campbell, if you don't remember, he was the one who broke his arm in the semifinal. And then went out again with like a taped up arm. He was dry reaching as they taped his arm up so he could get in the small final. And I had to laugh at Edwina. It was quite a funny thing she said. You know, he's there going like, Oh, yeah, you know, I'm hoping this won't happen again. So Edwina turns around and goes, Well, ahead of Beijing, I'd say break a leg, but it seems inappropriate. So, Edwina, good job. I appreciate that. Please bring back your funny hats for Beijing. I'm imagining you there, but like, as sad as I'm going to be for the end of Tokyo, any Olympics is sad. Seriously, though, like, the real Olympics are on in like 180 days. The real ones. Colin, like, come on, Canada are off the back of their most successful summer. You're going to shit it in in Beijing. I'm expecting Norwegian levels of gold medals and the Summer Olympic levels.
COLIN HILDING: Netherlands.
BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly. And Australia, Jarrod, we might get a bronze again, which, again, I'll be seriously happy about. So much to happen.
COLIN HILDING: Can I just say this? I can't even begin to tell you how excited... Well, I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am for the moguls in general, but I can't begin to tell you how excited I am to see your guys' reactions to Australia and the moguls, because I think you did well in Pyeongchang, but you've got a couple of mogul skiers now going into Rio.
BEN WATERWORTH: Didn't we have a couple in Pyeongchang in 19...
COLIN HILDING: No, no, I mean there's even more now.
BEN WATERWORTH: Is this a penalty to Brazil or Spain?
COLIN HILDING: Matt Graham, I can't remember what the other girls name it, they're still in the hunt like three or four years later. So typically mogul skiers will drop off on one olympics to the other, but you're going to have some familiar faces to get excited about.
BEN WATERWORTH: Is Dale coming back, Colin? Is Dale coming back? I don't care about anyone. If Dale's coming back, and by the way, it wasn't a penalty. I was misreading the hand signals. I tell you what, I'll be sure to get them on the show so that they won't win medals. Just again, can we go over the Ben and Colin medal count for Tokyo? Ben, zero gold, zero silver, one bronze in a team relay. Doesn't count, apparently, according to Jarrod. And Colin, zero gold, two silver, three bronze. Add that to the bronze from Pyeongchang. So Colin's actually winning the medal tally off the podium. Zero gold, two silver, four bronze. So no gold yet, though. Meanwhile, the four by four hundred is on right now for the men. Shall we? We'll just stick around for this and then we'll go. If you two want to go, you can go. The Dutch! What are the Dutch doing in third? Look at the Dutch run. What happened to the Dutch, these Olympics? I thought they were meant to be, like, better than us. Is he from Botswana or Bahamas? He's got a very weird running style there. It's Botswana. It's Botswana! We haven't talked about Botswana, these Olympics, guys. We were. And what's with the French in long sleeves?
COLIN HILDING: You know what? You talk about not talking about Botswana. You just missed the Fat Botswana, just won the bronze and the men's 4x400.
BEN WATERWORTH: That's literally what I'm talking about, and you just spoiled it for me. Thanks, Colin. Thanks, Colin. I literally am just talking about that, and you just spoiled it for me.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I know Ben's watching the other relay, the 4x300.
COLIN HILDING: I think you've spoiled a couple of events for me so far today.
BEN WATERWORTH: Why are you ahead all of a sudden? Has Canada picked up your internet?
COLIN HILDING: You've been ahead of me all night.
BEN WATERWORTH: USA are shitting this in, by the way. Did the Dutch get the silver?
COLIN HILDING: I can't remember already, but I'm just going to say, I love that now that's... Oh, how did you spoil that for me, Colin? Not only is that ahead, that was like 15 minutes ago. Like, how far behind are you?
BEN WATERWORTH: Ask Channel 7. I'm seeing... Okay, now I'm seeing. So, USA have won that. Oh, actually, the Dutch got silver? What's going on? Italy are the fastest men in the world? We didn't even ask you, Colin, what you thought about Italy winning the four by one. Like, god damn it. I'm so lost. This has been the oddest episode, but I'm excited. The Boomers got a bronze. It's one all in the soccer. The Danes are one point behind the French in the handball. Fucking Botswana got a bronze. What an olymp. And I didn't even mention, the one trivia thing I was going to point out today, this Olympics has set the record now for most ever countries meddling, most ever countries winning gold medals. Greatest Olympics ever. Bugger Sydney. Juan Antonio, his Excellency. This could be the best Olympics ever. We'll talk about this on our wrap ups maybe, but Andric Xinyas on. I can't imagine Andric Gaze has probably popped a couple of Viagra and is getting erect. Jesus Christ. Thank you, everyone, for tuning in. Remember to like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, subscribe. If you like us on our social media, you will be following the likes of Penny Alexiak, Zach Stubbley-Cook, who on my reply to him saying, thanks for the support, I said, Australia is proud of you, would love to get you on the show. If you want to get on there, his reply, thumbs up.
COLIN HILDING: I thought you were going to say again, thanks for the support.
BEN WATERWORTH: He knows our history, so he's not coming on the show. He's won his gold, he doesn't want to change. Did we get Mack Horton on the show? I can't remember. But we've got two more episodes to go for Tokyo, and then we've got a bunch more to come. We've seriously got five in the bag already in terms of winter athletes, and then we'll be getting some of these summer guys on and alternating. We're hoping, our hope is to have an episode for you every week between the end of Tokyo and the beginning of Beijing. That's a big commitment. These two have looked at me going, fuck, Ben, we didn't agree to this. Luckily, one of us on the show doesn't have a life, and you're looking at him. And Jamie's back. What's she brought us here? What's she got? What's on your plate?
COLIN HILDING: Peanut butter toast and honey toast.
BEN WATERWORTH: Geez, that's what happens when you know how to use your dong. You get toast and stuff like that. Colin, it's a pleasure to have you on here, and I'm glad that we again got the memo to wear the right t-shirts tonight.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, and it will be a pleasure tomorrow to see if we match again. Indeed.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, next time, wear the right t-shirt, but we look forward to hearing your voice in about two days' time when you can celebrate us winning no medals tomorrow and all the breadsticks and snails that we're going to see tomorrow night as part of the closing ceremony.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Thank you. I feel like you're underestimating the track cyclists, but we'll see.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'll tell you what. If we win a medal in track... Like, make a bet with me right now. I'm saying we're not winning a medal in track cycling tomorrow.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Definitely not.
BEN WATERWORTH: Okay then, no bets needed. We will be back again on Off The Podium. Thanks for tuning in. And I'm gonna go write my diary. Good night.
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