Tokyo 2020 Day 2 Review
After a golden day for Australia and a silver day for Canada, it's time to bring the squad back together for another epic recap of the Tokyo Olympics by going over everything that happened on day 2 of the games! Just how pumped are we all to have so many medals won by both nations? How great are we at swimming commentary? Is it time to finally praise Cate Campbell for not actually pulling a Campbell? Why are we happy to see the great Olympic nation of Tunisia finally get rewarded? How much did we hate skateboarding? How much did we actually enjoy surfing? Would we like to all attend the Storm Sanders Barty Party? Why do Canadians not know the difference between softball and baseball? And are we starting to miss Ryan Lochte or have we found a solid replacement? Get yourself silver and gold to make the listening even better as you tune in once again!
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
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BEN WATERWORTH: It is Off The Podium, an Olympics podcast coming to you today for day two recap of Tokyo 2020, and it's a golden day for Australia. Get in there, stick it up your butts, everyone else. We finally got some gold and a silver and a bronze. We got them all. We can quit the Olympics now. We came what we got for, got what we came for. I can't even speak. I'm that excited. I'm choking on my own spit right now. Oh, it's been a big day. I've been calling. I've been sleeping. I've been drinking. I don't know what else I've been doing. It's also been a great day for the nation of Tunisia. They have won a gold and a silver. Oh, breakdown records. We're going to get Tunisia on the line tonight. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. All the medals are everywhere. Oh, and I also think Canada won a couple of medals too. Maybe. I'm not too sure. They did. They won two silver. Somebody reckons it's Canada's new bronze, but I think it's not because they're getting ahead of themselves. Gold, that's the one. I'm really doing well starting tonight. Yeah, I should have gotten one of you to start it. But anyway, let's introduce the two people on the line tonight. Let's go to Canada. Let's cross live to Canada. Double silver medal winning nation tonight. Colin Hilding, how are you feeling with all the silver linings that are happening right now in your playbook?
COLIN HILDING: Oh, it's a silver day for Canada. I also am losing my voice. I'm so excited to be here. It was a great night, even though the funny thing is some of the best hopes we've had were shattered overnight, but Canada is ignoring that right now because we're no longer stuck in the bronze position or the fourth or the fifth position. We're up to silver. By the time we get to Paris, we're definitely gonna be winning some gold.
BEN WATERWORTH: Maybe, just again, don't get cocky. Also joining us is a man who again is planning those emus and as excited as we are for the glorious success that Australia has had on this day, he's also a little bit disappointed for the glorious chokes that Australia have already started to do on day two. Jarrod, welcome to the show. And sadly, the Barty Party has gone a little bit farty.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, Barty Party over before it even began. You talk about Canada losing Metal Hopes yesterday. Yeah, not a great day for the Aussies overall, I don't think.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I'm making up for that tonight because again, I say this every episode, Colin and Jarrod can see me. I've got the medals around. I've got three around my neck tonight because obviously I said Tokyo, we're going to wear a gold every time there's gold, but I'm clanging around. Listen to this. I've got Rio and London to celebrate the fact that we didn't even talk about this when we get to our commentary, which will play very, very shortly, but by Australia winning our four by 100 metres women's freestyle, we've gone back to back to back. So stick that up, you blunt and smoke it world. From London to Rio to Tokyo, we got the bronze in Beijing, but we got the gold in Athens. So we've won four of the last five, but I'm just gonna make the clanging noises tonight because that's what it sounds like to win multiple medals, more than two. Colin, you jealous?
COLIN HILDING: I don't know, I've got the multiple silvers, not around my neck, but I think at this rate, you're pretty much the Usain Bolt of four by 100 women. So there you go. I mean, big bragging rights for Australia.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I do appreciate that, Colin. Thank you very much. I will technically say that if you want to be technical, I think that Canada has won the same amount of medals as Australia because you got four silvers and two silvers, whereas we got four gold, a silver, and a bronze. So six each. So there you go. Oh, but if you start on the heat swimmers, I think we've got more. But hey, cool, six is all for the proper swimmers. No offence to the heat swimmers, right? Does that count?
COLIN HILDING: Well, we had one more heat swimmer. So what does the total put us at? Because Taylor Ruck technically got one.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think we had three in the heat, so. Well, you know, we're winning then. So you shouldn't have said that. You kind of should have.
COLIN HILDING: All right, well, no need to brag about it. Don't get cocky, Ben.
BEN WATERWORTH: But yes, in terms of, we'll go over the medal winners of the day. There's obviously still a few events happening as we are recording this right now. But of course, for Australia, it was gold in the women's four by 100 metre freestyle relay, a world record, the first ever country to go under the magical mark that was, I believe, four minutes, which again, you'll hear, not four minutes, three minutes, 30, I should say. God, four minutes is a bit of a slow time now in 2021, Ben. Three minutes, 30.
COLIN HILDING: We can swim it in four minutes.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, you two can, you know, I don't know about me. But three minutes, 29, 69, the world record. So you're gonna hear some excitement from that very, very shortly, because there may have been some very intelligent commentators doing that event today. But in that event, I mean, we're calling this the Off The Podium Quinella because Canada went silver. You couldn't script this any better. Great result for Canada to beat their bitter, bitter rival south of the border of the United States. And thank you, Canada. We like to see USA getting beaten in the swimming for that. For Australia, silver came in the 400-metre freestyle to Jack McLaughlin. He got beaten by a Tunisian, who I'm sure we will discuss very, very shortly, the esteemed swimming nation of Tunisia, and bronze to Brendan Smith in the men's 400-metre individual medley. And for Canada, their second medal of the day came in the women's synchronized three-metre springboard in diving to Jennifer Abel and Melissa... Abel, thank you. And Melissa, you pronounce the name, Colin. I'm not gonna try this one. Thank you very much. There you go. Great result. Was this a... I'll start with that one for Canada. Was that an expected medal? Were you guys hoping for this, or was this a bit of a surprise?
COLIN HILDING: Well, I would say both a surprise and expected one, if that's possible. In London, Jennifer Abel was kind of the rookie, and she won a bronze in the same event. And going into the... I was talking about partner change-up, random partner change-ups. There was a partner change-up as her original partner. She won the bronze with, had retired. And they sort of put two semi, like equally experienced swimmers together in Rio. And in both synchronized events, they finished in fourth, just shy of a medal. So Jennifer Abel was actually almost contemplating retiring after Rio because she was so disappointed. But they ended up pairing her up with Katrina Bielu, and who herself is a rookie, this is her first Olympics. And it was more or less, you know, I think that they had placed in the world championships and the bronze. I don't think that they had gotten as high as silver yet. So after the first two rounds that I watched, first three rounds, maybe, it wasn't even looking that good. And then they pretty much locked it up by the time they entered the fifth round, that they were gonna be silver. So everybody right now, more than anything, it was just exploding with excitement for Jennifer Abel because there was so much disappointment that she vocally experienced after Rio that everybody's just thrilled that she's able to, if this is her final Olympics, end off in a silver position.
BEN WATERWORTH: I honestly completely forgot it was on. And I just happened to be on Twitter when I saw that, but obviously it just happened because all of the tweets were coming through. And I'm like, oh, fantastic. So I'm sad I missed it. I might have to go back and check the seven app to replay it. And oh, disappointment for Australia. Sorry, right now I'm watching live the soccer and we've just gone one down to Spain in the 80th minute. So yeah, screw you, Spain. But in that diving, China took home the gold, the pair of Ting Mao Shi and Han Wang, and bronze to the esteemed diving nation of Germany. If you had have said that in the 70s and 80s, it would have meant a little bit of a different thing for our soccer fans listening tonight. But anyway, Lena Hentschel and Tina Punzel are taking the bronze there for Germany. Australia, Jarrod, as I mentioned, actually, no, hang on, sorry, before I get to that, I quickly should touch on the four by one. Obviously, I think bronze was a real possibility for you guys, but I mean, you're gonna hear our commentary of it very soon. We were pumped. This was a great swim. And Penny Alexiak, who's kind of, I guess, been a big question on her form since the Rio Olympics. She really brought this home and took that silver, gave the silver to Canada, basically. So Kayla Sanchez, Margaret McNeil, Rebecca Smith and Penny Alexiak. So I did hear that this is, what, Penny's fifth medal, which makes her the equal most successful Canadian Summer Olympian of all time, which is crazy, because she's, what, 21 years of age, which is insane.
COLIN HILDING: She just competed in her first event of her second Olympics. So I mean, she's going to shatter that record. Oh, we said it now, we're cursed her.
BEN WATERWORTH: Thanks, Colin. I was gonna mention something about Summer Macintosh, but we'll, I don't want to continue the trend of Australia's condescension towards her tonight. I'll get to that soon. But I mean, was this also a big, a highly talked up thing that you guys got, the silver?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, I don't know if it's just a Canadian thing that we sort of always expect. We're hoping for a bronze, because sort of mentioned that with the diving as well, but there were a lot of hopes that we'd win, but the questionable thing, I guess part of it was Penny Alexiak, because she's been very silent in the media since Rio. And only recently, there's a couple of interviews and some short documentaries that have been played all over TV, where she's owning up to the fact that like the success and all the attention really got to her. And it was actually, she credits Michael Phelps. She said she actually met with Michael Phelps, and he sort of gave her a lot of advice on how to deal with the amount of media attention that you get after something like this. So about two years after Rio, she was sort of just completely drowning, and then sort of mounted a comeback lately. But I mean, she's coming into this as the only experienced Olympian on this team. And obviously is the anchor. I mean, she kind of won this for us. I do feel for her because the documentaries building this up was about how one of the things that really got to her was that her name could never be mentioned without it being Olympic gold medallist Penny Alexiak. Or when you mention these events, Penny Alexiak and the Canadian team. And all I was seeing was Penny Alexiak and Canadian team win a silver. So I'm like, oh, are we going to be cursed for another two years after this? And then she's going to have to have another comeback for Paris. But yeah, rookie team with the experience, Penny who doesn't necessarily admit to doing well with pressure kind of put a little bit of doubt. But I mean, it was incredible. I mean, right down to the wire, just seeing her come back. That was the highlight of my Olympics so far.
BEN WATERWORTH: And I have to say, I did see that she has been on, this is a cold call ad. So we've got the Yo Pro Bro curse happening already, but I think this cold call thing is the opposite for Canada. I mean, this is a medal. I mean, I've got to say that this might be a thing, Colin. Can you get a list of us, of all your people who are involved in this, basically, so we can kind of track this?
COLIN HILDING: Well, I know Mark Messier is. He's long since retired, but we sort of talked about Off Air. He's still got it in him. He could come back for the men's hockey team at some point if he wanted to. And Stone Cold Steve Austin in the wrestling, maybe?
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I'm waiting for professional wrestling to make it to the Olympics. When are they going to let professionals in wrestling at the Olympics? I mean, it's all amateurs still, isn't it, basically? So, back to back medals in this event for Canada. You got bronze in Rio. I'm just trying to quickly flick through here. Canada's never won gold in this event, but I don't know if this is something that's been announced. I mean, me quickly scrolling through the past history of this event, I can only ever see that you have won bronze. I'm not sure if you've been made aware or has it been advertised that you've ever gotten anything better than a bronze in this event.
COLIN HILDING: No, I mean, they haven't talked it up much. And most of the Canadian coverage has been leading into events, you know, oh, this is what our most successful placing has been in the past. So bronze probably would be it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, you unfortunately weren't able to join us for the commentary, which we are gonna hear very, very shortly, but I'm not sure if you caught this or did you come back and watch it as a replay? I mean, for Australia, as I think we said yesterday, and I thought I jinxed it, cause this is what we do in this show, but if there was one gold medal lock, it was this event. And luckily we lived up to expectations by kind of also smashing the world record. So, I mean, did you catch it live? Did you watch it eventually? What did you think of it?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I caught a replay and then a replay and another replay because Channel 7 coverage.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, have they? I didn't realise they had showed it more than once. That's unusual.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Very unusual for them. No, it was great. The one thing we can rely on the Campbell Sisters for is to swim well in a relay.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, that is a good way of putting it.
JARROD LOOBEEK: So, no, it was very impressive just how far ahead they were of the field. And the fact that they've three-peated it is... Yeah, we really own that event at this moment in time.
BEN WATERWORTH: And look, gotta say, Cate did very well. And I actually want to give Cate some praise very, very shortly, because her winning this gold is actually quite a history-making event for Australia. Bronte, though, she kind of did get us off to a bit of a shit start. So, I mean, she kind of lived up to the Campbell name there, let's be honest. She touched in second, so as you do. Emma McKeon was the one, though, that really got us in. And that third leg, she just absolutely motored home with that one. Was fantastic to see. And a special note to Meg Harris, Olympic debut for her 19 years of age. Fantastic for her to get straight into the final, basically, and get her very first gold medal. Just quickly before I touch on Cate Campbell, that sounds a bit inappropriate. I would get permission first. Canada has never won more than a bronze in that event. Quickly, my quick little research, Colin. So it's groundbreaking. It's the highest ever you've ever finished in the four by 100. So congratulations, Canada.
COLIN HILDING: Congratulations to me. I mean, then the rest of Canada. I'll pass it along to them, but I'm gonna take it first.
BEN WATERWORTH: In all seriousness, we like to bag out the Campbells, but let's take a moment to actually go over the achievements of what this means for Cate Campbell. She is the only the second ever Australian Olympian to win four medals in the same event in four consecutive Olympics, behind only Liesl Jones. Of course, she won a bronze back in Beijing and gold in the following three. She's the oldest ever Australian swimming medallist. It's a pretty big deal there. She's only the third flag bearer in the history of Australia to win a gold at the same Olympics she was a flag bearer. Now, Jarrod, let's put you on the spot. You may have heard this on the coverage, but can you tell me the other two? And Colin, you can chime in as well, because I know you know your Australian flag bearers.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think swimming is probably the way to go. Are we talking about summer or winter as well?
BEN WATERWORTH: Both summer. Sadly, none of our flag bearers have ever gone on to win the gold. In winter, I should say.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Thorpey?
BEN WATERWORTH: Thorpey never was a flag bearer, believe it or not.
COLIN HILDING: That was going to be my guess.
BEN WATERWORTH: No, he did not. In Sydney, it was, of course, Andrew Gaze, and in Athens, it was the sailor, whose name escapes me. But no, Thorpey never got to carry the flag.
COLIN HILDING: My guess, then, is going to be the sailor whose name escapes me as well.
BEN WATERWORTH: Sadly not. I will say, I'll give you both a clue. I think this should give it to both of you there. A fairly recent one, and somebody who may be competing at an Olympics again this year have been at several previously in the past. Your favourite sport, Jarrod. Come on, you know it. It's on the tip of your tongue.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I didn't know we had an Olympics. Good old Mr. Hoy, Andrew.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes. Andrew Hoy, 96 in Atlanta. He was our flag bearer. Now I'd be baffled if either of you got this. I mean, clearly I knew this. I did not have to look this up. Bobby Pierce, a rower in 1928 in Amsterdam, carried the flag for Australia and went on to win the gold. Colin, come on.
COLIN HILDING: I remember watching that vividly.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah. He went on to win the gold. He went on to win the gold.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah. So, iconic Australian Olympic.
BEN WATERWORTH: No, 2028. He just only ever wants to compete at the Olympics in LA. That's how we rolled. And our other medals, Jarrod. Now, Jack McLaughlin. Look, I feel when we get to our athlete of the day, I mean, I know how I'm nominating today, even though it's kind of, let's be honest, it's a bit embarrassing to lose a Tunisian in swimming, but I think we're over it by now. It's a great story. We'll talk about Ahmed Hannahafna. Yep, I'm going to use his name eventually. But silver for Jack McLaughlin. This wasn't the one that we thought we were going to get this in. Mr. Winnington, I like to call him Winnington McWinface. Elijah Winnington was the favourite going into this for Australia. But at the end of the day, it was Jack McLaughlin who McLaughlin'd up the silver. But yeah, great, great to get a silver in this event still, wasn't it, even though we did lose to Tunisia?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think so, particularly because it was McLaughlin and not Winnington. So the fact that I think like if we were going to win gold, obviously we thought Winnington was going to do it. The fact we picked up a silver with somebody else is almost just as good.
BEN WATERWORTH: And in the Bronx as well for Brendan Smith, went in the fastest, basically didn't do as well as he did in the heats. As Thorpey liked to remind us about 20 times, it was a gold and silver for the US. Chase Callis and Jay Litherland went one, two, but he was pretty much out of it, Brendan. He looked like he was really not doing well, but then all of a sudden he stormed home to get the bronze. I believe this is only our second ever medal, and this is one of our worst ever swimming events that we've ever done. I think two bronzes now. What did you think of Mr. Smith getting our first medal of Tokyo 2020?
JARROD LOOBEEK: It was an impressive comeback. The freestyle leg, obviously the last leg was great, but the rest of it, yeah, very interesting. I did love. Thorpe is awfully blunt with his commentary, and the fact, like you said, that he brought up, if he'd swum the same time he swam in the heaps, he would have won the gold medal and just brought it up like three, four times throughout.
BEN WATERWORTH: I was going to say, sorry to interrupt, but like, I was jumping a little bit ahead to our commentary files, but the one thing I really did appreciate, like Thorpe does often sound bored in this commentary. Like sometimes I just think, like Thorpe is probably getting paid a lot of money, and he doesn't want to be there. But when he does chime in, it's great, because I love Basil. I love Basil to bits. I love Liesl. I love Liesl to bits. But Basil is the Ben Waterworth of commentators. He's just a massive suck up. He just sucks up, sucks up to everything. Because the whole commentary in the lead up is, oh, we're going to win gold here. Brennan's guaranteed. Winnington's guaranteed. It's going to be three gold for Australia. It's still going to be great. And then by the end of it, oh, how great is it that we won a silver with Jack McClock and our bronze separate, how good is they? Oh, what a moment for Australia. I mean, Thorpey just comes in and he's basically like, yeah, fuck it, he should have spent my fasting in the morning. Remember those ads back in the day, Thorpey Says It's Fully Sick? When it was, was that for like the Uncle Toby's or something like that? This should be like, Thorpey Says It's Fully Sick, because he's just going to say how it is. Thorpey's Angels, remember his TV show we had in the early 2000s? Thorpey knows what he's doing, and he's right now saying it how it is.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's true. It's actually, it is very refreshing. And I do agree that he often comes across very bored in the commentary. And I think he gets a little bit annoyed to it. The questions that he gets asked, oh, this is a stupid question, I suppose I have to reply.
BEN WATERWORTH: I actually like the picture. I think Basil tweeted a picture of him and Lisa all together. Yeah, Basil looking excited. Thorpey just kind of rocked up in his shorts and his thongs and his shirt. And he's like, fuck, what am I doing here? I will say, random side tangent story. I briefly met him. It was on the night of the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. I was walking to my seat, and lo and behold, who's walking towards me? Fucking Ian Thorpe. So I'm like, oh, it's Thorpey. So I'm like, oh, good day, Ian, how you doing? He's like, oh, yeah, good. Can I get a selfie? He looked at me, and he was like, you could tell he was in a bit of a rush. And he's like, oh, yeah, I'm on my way to the pub. Yeah, no, that's all right. Just super nice. Like, it could have been an absolute digger, just to be like, no, I'm onto the thing.
COLIN HILDING: But like, again, four pieces at least. You know, I would have had time if I walked as fast as I did earlier today.
BEN WATERWORTH: And he is a mountain. That guy is huge. He is so tall. And just, wow, incredible. Yeah, I mentioned America Gold and Silver in that event as well. And bronze in the four by one. As I said, Ahmed Hafnui. I'll get it. How do we say it all, everyone? Can we just, did I get it right? You're clapping me, Colin?
COLIN HILDING: Oh, I wasn't clapping. I'm just clapping for Ahmed, because I'm so excited.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, right. Okay. Gold and bronze in that one to Kieran Smith. Let's talk about Ahmed quickly, because 18 years old, I believe a year ago, he was ranked outside the top 100 of this event. I think he was about 17th or 18th going into the Olympics, qualified in Lane 8. This was a very Kieran Perkins-esque swim of him to get that. And it was incredible. Jokes aside, losing to Tunisian swimming, I'd rather lose to Tunisian swimming now that I think about it, losing to America, because again, this guy just went off. And Colin, I want Jamie to send me the footage. Jamie sent me a message, because you and your wife and I talk often. And she's basically like, I filmed Colin. He was so excited. And I basically said, oh, he's not allowed to come on the show anymore. To which Jamie replies, who, Colin or the Tunisian? So what is it about this, guys? Is it the Star Wars connection? Is this why you're so excited?
COLIN HILDING: Well, I think it was helped by earlier in the day, seeing Tunisia win a medal too. As a Star Wars fan, you got to love Tunisia. But part of it was, you know, I'll be honest, seeing, okay, Australia has this one as a lock, and Canada, or not Canada, Tunisia can come in as my adopted nation to root for, maybe in some of the swimming events. And it is swimming. It's just something that was unexpected, and I remember about halfway through saying, Tunisia's actually, you know, they're in this. And then coming up to the end, I just said, I don't know what came over me. I just exploded with excitement. I was like jumping up and down, and I was trying to explain to Jamie why this was so great, as I was showing some of the messages back and forth that we were having this, especially your tweet halfway through saying, well, we've definitely got this one, right? I catch it on the end, and I'm like, Tunisia for the win. What I think is so great about it is kind of what you said, you don't expect this. And Jamie didn't understand. I was like, what's the big deal about this? And I explained to her, I'm like, Tatooine is Tunisia. You don't expect a lot of swimming to come out of the desert. And it's just exciting when you can have a country where even the commentators are talking up, they're like, nobody really saw this one coming. Anytime you're in the Olympics and you get an upset, it's great. When you get an upset over somebody that Ben was openly calling the victory of halfway through, this is like, you know, election. Oh, we're calling the victory right now. And then it just completely backfires. I mean, it did make me very happy.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod, before I get your thoughts on it, it's only their second ever gold medallist in swimming. Back in Beijing and London, Osama Meloli won the men's 1500-metre freestyle, and then he went on to win the 10-kilometre marathon in London, and then a bronze also in London in the 1500-metre freestyle. So only their second ever gold medallist in swimming. It was very Joseph schooling for me, kind of like an unexpected one, sort of. And again, the 400 metres was wide open, essentially. Like, it was kind of sad when they cut back to the village, and they just showed Mack Horton watching. Because, like, Mack Horton's here. He's on the Olympic team. But he got beaten out for this event by McLachlan, if I'm not mistaken. He finished third in the trials. So the defending Olympic champion just casually watching out there at the Olympic Village. Outside of that, though, Ahmed, I mean, Jarrod. Yeah, we're over it now. He's a straighter, aren't we? You know, good on him.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think so. It was just such an impressive swim. And the fact, too, that, like, he was pretty much in the lead from, like, the get-go. It wasn't one of these people. Like, I feel like the Australian thing is, like, typical of, like, the last, like, two laps to kind of put on, like, a sprint and get up there. But he was just in amongst the medal positions from the very start. And the fact that he was able to hold on to the end was just super impressive.
BEN WATERWORTH: And you know what I'm saying right now, Colin, before you say what you're about to say, is that I'm with you with Team Tunisia because, again, I don't like sand. It's coarse, rough, and irritating. But thugger it, they can swim. Like, this is like Australia winning in the middle of the Winter Olympics. We're just all desert, right? So, cool. You know, at least we've got beaches. Tunisia doesn't. I mean, I've seen, you know, I've seen Aunt Baru and Uncle Owen burning. That actually wasn't the Stormtroopers. That was just because it was that hot. They walked outside to, like, get some fresh air. They caught fire. It's an unknown secret of Star Wars. But the great thing now about Tunisia, because, of course, as you mentioned before, they got a silver yesterday in the Taekwondo. Golden silver for Tunisia. It's in eighth on the metal tally right now. I know we're jumping ahead. We'll get to the metal tally. But that puts them a grand total of 24 spots above Great Britain, so stick it up, you British butts, Britain. You're getting beaten by Tunisia. And don't even get me started on New Zealand. Haven't won a medal yet. So, everyone, ball with Team Tunisia, right?
COLIN HILDING: That's all it takes to get you on the bandwagon. They're beating Great Britain, people.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm fully on the team of Tunisia. Let's get Team Tunisia as our greatest thing. What are we predicting now? Four gold, three silver, seven bronze. Let's call it... They'll beat Canada. I'm saying Tunisia will beat Canada at these Olympics.
COLIN HILDING: I think they're just behind us in the standings right now, too, so that may not be unrealistic.
BEN WATERWORTH: They're ahead of you. They're ahead of you. We're doing the gold count. If we're doing total count, I believe in total count, they'll be ahead of you, right? Because they've got the gold, you've got the two silvers.
COLIN HILDING: I think one of the other things that was so great about All Med was, anytime you get the reactions to a gold medal win, it's always great. And for some reason, swimmers just have the best reactions, I feel. This is one of the all-time great reactions to somebody realising they won. And yet, it would be topped by, if you saw the footage of his coach reacting, who basically did the MC Hammer side-to-side dance in the stands. I'm like, oh man, if we did a coach of the day, this guy is my pick.
BEN WATERWORTH: And I have to say, I was a bit mean on Twitter, I think, but it was kind of in good fun. I kind of tweeted out, good to see that Tunisia got the memo that you dress up for the medal ceremony, because he just rocked up in his boardies and a T-shirt. Maybe that's the official Tunisian outfit. I can't remember the opening ceremony. I don't remember much of it. I've already blocked it out. But he literally just looked like he was ready for another swim. There's a US in Ralph Lauren, nice white tailoring Australia with their Assics kind of playing. It's just Tunisia rocking up in a T-shirt. Yeah, sweet, give me my gold medal. We are going to play. I'm going to go over all the other results now, in just a moment, because that kind of contradicts what I'm about to do. Colin and I actually flew to Tokyo today, quickly, made a day trip. Just wanted to call one event. And we did call the Women's 4x100m freestyle. Colin, before I play this clip, do you have anything to say on this? Because look, I have to say, this was quite a good call.
COLIN HILDING: It was. And Tokyo, beautiful country, very relaxed restrictions on having foreigners fly in for the day. So not too impressed with that, but it was a great experience nonetheless to go there.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, when you're the number four podcast on Feed Spot for the Olympics, then you get special... And like I'm saying right now, last time I checked, we were about 33rd on the iTunes charts in Japan for sports. So they love us. We're big in Japan right now. So without further ado, let's cross now to our call from earlier today of the Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay. Over to you, Ben. Yes, thanks for that, Ben. We are here at the Tokyo Aquatic Centre for the event that stops a nation every four years. Depends on which nation you're in. It is the Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay. And I am in esteemed company tonight. My name is Ben. You should know that already because I crossed to myself. But of course, joining us here is the number one commentator from that place he lives in in Winnipeg. It is Colin Hooty. Colin, it is an honour to have you join me in the commentary box tonight.
COLIN HILDING: Absolute honour to be here. And as we saw on the screen, Australia, world record holders in this event, which generally does come up anytime Tunisia is not competing. So we have high hopes for the Australians today.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I have to say, those high hopes are something that are up there. Not that I've heard any high hopes about this event. I mean, I sort of... The Australian media, we're very calm collected people. We don't talk up any of our swimmers. We're very satisfied with our silver and bronze from earlier tonight. No pressure at all on any of those swimmers in those events. So I'm sure that we're going to be a very subdued race tonight. As just looking at the Chinese contingent, they're a 15 year old swimmer, which I believe is an overage veteran when it comes to Chinese sports. So good to see they're going with some older competitors this time around.
COLIN HILDING: And due to the temperatures in Tokyo Outdoors, the indoor venues have decided to drop to near freezing temperature, hence why all the winter parkas entering.
BEN WATERWORTH: And look at the Americans there in the crowd, cheering on their beloved swimmers, of course. There's been a lot of national inquiries already in the US on day two of Tokyo. No medals won on the first day of competition. So I'm really glad that they have bounced back after their disappointment of not winning medals in one day. But, oh, Colin, let's talk up this. What's going on here?
COLIN HILDING: Here we go. We got the Canadians. Contenders for a Canadian gold, aka a bronze. Maybe even better than that. And Penny Alexiak, what a hero to this country.
BEN WATERWORTH: What an absolute hero. Very young team, the Canadians, there with Kayla Sanchez, Margaret McNeil, Rebecca Smith, and Penny Alexiak, who is bouncing back after some disappointment since Rio, Colin. She needs to, I guess, relive that form that saw her basically win more medals than Canada has won in the history of the Olympics.
COLIN HILDING: Absolutely. And here's our favourites, the Australians.
BEN WATERWORTH: And take a look at them.
COLIN HILDING: And we've got a Campbell in there. We've got two Campbells, Colin.
BEN WATERWORTH: Did you not see both of them?
COLIN HILDING: All right, so our projections are now changing. Australia will be in for the Canadian gold in the bronze position.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, Bronte and Cate both leading off and anchoring it. Meg Harris on her Olympic debut, only 19 years of age, and Emma McKeon, of course, there as they remove these Asics tracksuits, which are taking the streets by storm in Australia. I've seen at least one person wear them, so very good. But Colin, you're going to take us off here. What's going through the minds of these swimmers as they get on the blocks?
COLIN HILDING: Right now, it's how cold is that water. That's pretty much the only thing they worry about. When you hit that water, when it's freezing, I mean, that's what you're looking for as a Canadian. You want it as close to the ice and cold of Canada as you can get. Yukon territory, Northwest Territory temperatures, that's what they want.
BEN WATERWORTH: Australia in lane four, the favourites, the world record holders, Olympic record holders, Canada in lane three, can they cause the upset? Colin, take us away.
COLIN HILDING: All right, on the starting blocks, and we're waiting for that whistle or one, or whatever it is you might hear. And they're off, and we got Seabiscuit in the lead, followed closely by Secretariat, and look at this, who's coming up in third? It's Zo-what, Zo-what? Followed by Penny Alexiak, or one of the Campbells, or something like that. Oh, we are off to a hot start here, and the strokes are flying. Right and left, right and left, all over the place, and as you see, the world record line there, everybody is closely trailing behind it, maybe even pulling ahead, and there we go, and the turnover. If this was synchronized swimming, we would have had an easy gold medal out of that move there. And the clarity, this water is just beautiful. It's taken approximately five years to get the green out of it from Rio, but wow, the swimmers are appreciating it today. And I can't tell who's at the line here. We have Great Britain in the lead, Australia in second, and Sweden, that looks like. Sweden's coming up, so look at this. Canada and Australia will choke, and we're about to go to the split here, and number two.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I have to say Bronte Campbell there did a Campbell. We finished in second in that first leg, but into the pool now comes Meg Harris. Traditional swimming nations of Denmark and Sweden getting very off to a good start there. But right now, it is a bit of a boil over right now, because I think that is Sweden in lane eight in the lead. We've already seen lane eight be victorious tonight with Tunisia. It actually is Sweden, and look at the speed there. 1.76 metres per second. That's faster than a Volvo in Sweden. That's fantastic. But Canada have moved up into third here right now. Margaret McNeil really starting to get that Maple Leaf in here, but a boil over here. Sweden are in the lead here in swimming. Australia's already lost to Tunisia. Cate Campbell, no pressure on you on the anchor lake here, but Emma McKeen's about to jump in here and try and get it because Sweden can't beat Australia in swimming. It's an embarrassing night already. But as she comes now into the wall, she's looking like she might be in the lead here. She hands over to her next winner. We are in the lead. Colin, take it here.
COLIN HILDING: All right, and Canada might be battling it out for the bronze medal at this point, but Australia in the lead. Still plenty of time to blow it. But at this point, they're playing possum. Are they playing possum that they're actually winning and just gonna pull even further ahead? More likely they're playing possum, and they're about ready to drop to fourth as we're coming up to the wall. And they are world record pace right now. A comeback for Australia. There we go. We're into the final 50 here as the, well, the final 150. I've lost track.
BEN WATERWORTH: Keep it together. Keep it together, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: Canadians can't count. We just know how to swim, but not as well as Australians, apparently, as the temperature is heating up in the water. And Australia, they're getting ready to make their move. The move is coming. Everybody's seen this before. That's the move. That's the kind of move that wins a gold medal as we're getting ready on that anchor leg.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, Cate Campbell into the pool. This is the one time Australia's hanging on to Cate not pulling a Campbell. Look at this lead Australia has. They're in world record contention right now. Cate, she's stroking. She's swimming. Left over right. Right over left. The free is really styling right now. The butterfly kick. Canada's making their move though. I can see Canada moving up into second. An iconic day for Canada potentially, but Cate Campbell is bringing this home. She's moved up into serves with the Canadians. Can she beat their traditional rivals in America? But stuff Canada. Stuff America. Who gives a shit about North America right now because it's all about the down under America. She's never trained before. She's got it with her gold. It's silver for Canada. And stick it up, your Yankee doodle asses America on your bronze, because that's all you deserve. And look at the celebrations. The Dolphin family and Noosa are going off Australia. Get in there. Wow. And still with the Canada, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: Amazing, amazing. Seven Mate, are they talking up Canada right now? Yes, they are, because a Canadian is on the commentary apparently.
BEN WATERWORTH: This is an iconic moment. If you were going to lock a gold in for Australia, you were going to lock this one in. And wow. And look at the Canadians too having a hug there. Celebrating. They're jumping up and down. Penny Alexiak. This is what, about an 87th medal, I believe. So good job there for Penny.
COLIN HILDING: And you know what? I mean, a little bit of a preview here of Alexiak's battling in the pool as her brothers just landed on the Seattle Kraken. So Penny has decided to show the water who's boss before her brother gets to next year.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now just looking over the replay here. Look at that stroke going on there from both of those swimmers on our screen. I mean, look, I'm prevalent in stroking, maybe just not in swimming. But I tell you what, if I was able to stroke like that, then I would be much better at whatever stroking I'm talking about. There's Emma McKeon, who really brought the Aussies home. We were losing to Sweden in swimming. It was an embarrassment happening right before our eyes, but she turned it around and gave enough of a lead to Cate so she couldn't choke and then came right in there. Boom, touches the wall. A world record time. Colin Hilding. I mean, look, you've been around swimming for a very long time. I mean, it's a world record. You've never seen any team swim faster than that.
COLIN HILDING: Never. I mean, not even the Canadians who are the next closest. So we have at least four years, possibly five years, to be able to break a world record pace ourselves for Canada. But right now, it's a happy day for Australia as it's taken them, what, three days now, two days, three days almost, to actually land a gold medal. And this may actually be the last that they're going to get for the rest of the Olympics, with the pace they're keeping up right now.
BEN WATERWORTH: So a world record time of three minutes, 29.69 there for Australia, silver for Canada and bronze USA. Look at that. Netherlands in fourth, Britain fifth, Sweden failed sixth day of mourning for them. The People's Republic of China have let the people down in seventh, while Denmark in eighth.
COLIN HILDING: Only three one hundredths of a second between Canada and the US. That's where those long arms of Penny Alexiak come in handy. Those strokes in those long arms.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, hopefully her brother's long arms will be longer than a stick and score some gold for the Kraken. But who cares about the Kraken because Australia has gold, Canada has silver. What a day. Let's cross back to our beloved host on Off The Podium. Wow, what a call, Colin. Just amazing.
COLIN HILDING: Jarrod was there. He just he was speechless. He had nothing to say.
BEN WATERWORTH: We're all speechless right now, the reaction. Yeah, Jarrod, you were very, you're just so quiet. I'm really impressed with how you were able to keep yourself together during that.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, you know, I was just worried about the Campbells choking, so just didn't want to celebrate too soon.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, speaking of choking, let's go over the medallist today. I don't know how that gets related to choking, but Archery Korea. Now, he's a great little story for Korea. The women's team event undefeated the ninth consecutive gold medal in this event, which ties them with the US men's four by one medley swimming team and Kenya in the men's steeplechase for most consecutive medals or gold medals won in the same event. Of course, both the US men's swimming team and the Kenyans can beat that record. They can go over 10\. They haven't run yet, but incredible there. Silver went to Rock, and Germany took the bronze in that one. Cycling, the women's road race. Did any of you happen to catch the drama that happened in the women's road race? Because we kind of took gold medallists, I think.
COLIN HILDING: I mean, all I saw, I went to bed watching it last night, fell asleep watching it, and woke up in the morning kind of just, you know, catching what happened, like just on the recap, and I saw there was a crash somewhere maybe about a third or two-thirds of the way through. Is that the drama?
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I wish that was the only drama. No, Jarrod, take us through what happened here, because this is actually quite hilarious.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, you know, the road race, it's an interesting event. We had kind of a leading pack ahead for pretty much the whole thing, and then towards the end, the Peloton were able to reel in all but one of the leading pack. But that wasn't for the Peloton to know, because there's no race radios or comms. So the Peloton thinks they're in the lead, they're in first place. Little do they know, there's a Polish rider up the road who's about to take the gold medal. Polish rider wins the gold medal, Peloton comes up, it's a sprint for the finish, the Dutch rider gets ahead, and she starts celebrating like she's won the gold. So good, such a good moment.
BEN WATERWORTH: I will correct you quickly there, Jarrod, it was an Austrian rider.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Austrian, Poland, same place.
BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly, same thing. Germany's ran him over a few times. But yeah, it was quite, you got to feel bad. So the Dutch rider, Annemiek van Vleuten, pumping, let's be honest, I put this down to that website, pumping the tires of the Dutch. They're just so cocky now. We're going to win so many gold medals. What have you done, Netherlands? You've won two silver in two days. Come on, you're tied with Canada.
COLIN HILDING: Canada's done that.
BEN WATERWORTH: I mean, exactly. You've been beaten by Tunisia, the great nation of the Olympics now. But you do feel bad for it, and this is sort of, yeah, renewed calls that they should maybe introduce some radio in the Olympics or anything along those lines. Anna Klensenhofer of Austria took the gold and bronze, went to Eliza Longo Borghini of Italy. We've gone through the diving. Currently, there's fencing happening right now. I was catching some of that before. Canada, you got to the quarterfinals, I believe. Maybe we'll go over that very, very shortly. But we've got a bit more on the Canadian fencing happening. Actually, I've got an update. Sorry, no, the women's foil has been decided. Breaking news. Lee Keefer Sutherland. Lee Keefer, for the great fencing nation of the United States. Look at that. Miranda Frost. Oh, she's British. But she sort of is American. Madonna was there. This is what I mean. Verity helps them out, Colin. This is what I'm saying. Lee Keefer took the gold. Can we talk about Choking Nations? Rock again, another silver. Ina Derigalova took the silver. And Rock Bronze, Larisa Korabeyakova in the men's EPA. The bronze has already been decided. Ehor Ryslan of Ukraine and the gold medal one yet to be decided on that. Judo, this is a bit of a story here. Double gold for Japan to siblings, if you don't mind. To Fumi Abe won the men's 66 kilos. His sister, Ute Abe, won the gold and the women's 52 kilos. I mean, that's a cool little story that brotherhood. I mean, God, my sister and I could never win in anything, let alone go to an Olympics. I mean, Jarrod, if you've got siblings, is this something that you could do if you've got any siblings, go to Olympics and win gold on the same bloody day in the same sport?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, maybe if they bring in lawn bowls. Other than that, I don't see it happening.
BEN WATERWORTH: Colin, you know, was this something you could do with your siblings?
COLIN HILDING: I don't think my siblings would be up for the activity of it. But I did want to mention, as far as siblings go, because if Jamie is listening, she's going to feel I'm obligated to do this. But silver medallist Jay Litherland is a triplet. He's the only one who's actually made the Olympics. And he's also Jamie's new favourite human being on the planet.
BEN WATERWORTH: I thought, is she liking skateboarding and swimming?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, there was a skateboarder she didn't mind. But Jay Litherland, boy, she exploded for that guy. Like she was checking out his Instagram within seconds of it. She's like, if you get this guy on the show, I'll actually listen to you guys.
BEN WATERWORTH: I hope you have some towels. But can I actually say, he's an American swimmer of both Japanese and New Zealand descent.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah.
BEN WATERWORTH: What's going on there, New Zealand? How'd you let him go? I keep thinking Jay Litherland is Jay Leno. You've got Lee Keefe Sutherland. And then I got extremely excited in the men's 10-metre air ride. I thought William Shatner won a gold medal. I thought Canada won a gold. William Shainer of the US took the gold in that one in an Olympic record. Rock did get themselves their first gold today. The women's 10-metre air pistol. Vitalana. Am I saying that correctly, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: You are, yep.
BEN WATERWORTH: Thank you. Skateboarding, which I'm sure we'll talk about very soon. Yuto Horigome, the Japanese kid, and I'm saying kid because that was an interesting event. Took the gold in the very first time for skateboarding. Oh my goodness. Japan had a great day, actually. And the other swimming event we haven't mentioned, the 400 IM for the women, Yui Oshie. Oh, really? Why do I read these names out? You too should be doing this. She took the gold. And the other one today in the weightlifting, in the men's 61 kilo, Fabian Li of China. Two from two from the weightlifting from China. Still to be decided while we are recording, the men's FAA in the fencing, Taekwondo men's 68 kilo, women's 57 kilo, and the men's 67 kilo of the weightlifting. So the medal table as we speak right now, and maybe we'll update this just before we go. China and Japan both on top with five gold, but China take the overall place having won 10 medals in total. Japan doing great in their home Olympics. This kind of makes me sadder now that there are no fans at the moment, because this would be fantastic for them to do that in front of their fans. The US after all the national inquiries, the calls to cancel the Olympics for them just because they were choking after day one, kind of made up for it in day two. Three gold, two silver, and four bronze. They're in third. South Korea are in fourth with two gold and three silver. And ROK are in fifth with a gold, three silver, and two bronze. Australia currently in seventh with a gold, a silver, and a bronze. And Canada is currently in equal fifteenth with the Dutch. Zero gold, two silver, zero bronze. Just a quick update, remember, on Tunisia, they're in eighth, one gold, one silver. Just an update on the Brits. Yep, one bronze. Suck it, Britain. And an update on the Kiwis. Oh, no, bro, we haven't won a medal.
COLIN HILDING: I do want to say, I did look up, as you mentioned, your love for Great Britain. They do make up 8.17% of our listenership right now, so we love you, Great Britain. Not all of us share Ben's opinions.
BEN WATERWORTH: 8% is nothing. I mean, come on, we've got more listeners than 8 now, so we can be picky. I mean, do we look at the French listeners back in Rio? I don't think we did. I mean, you know, they just ran away from it, so they didn't listen. So I'm seeing here that we've got 10% Canadian, 12% Australian, and like 50-odd percent American. So we've kind of been a bit mean to the Americans in that commentary that you just heard.
COLIN HILDING: France is 1.92%. So if they were listening in Rio, Ben, you drove them away for Tokyo.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I'm looking at the Norwegians here, 2.67. We're getting big in Norway. It's a dream of mine. I've always wanted to do that. So when Tunisia gets on this list, then we will get talking. Before we go over some of the other sort of Australia and Canada results, I'm going to start with this. What did we watch today, folks? Because I feel there's one little event that I woke up to this morning and kind of wanted to just rock myself in the head after I realised that this is an Olympic sport now and we have to pretend to care about it. That was skateboarding. Maybe we should do it. Should we just do it? Jarrod, did you catch the skateboarding this morning?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I did. I did. Very interesting.
BEN WATERWORTH: Colin, would you summarize skateboarding as very interesting?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, it's not going to be a favourite of mine. I'm going to be OK if they ditch this by the next Olympics. I try to find joy in even the bad sports that I watch, as we're going to get to in surfing coming up soon. My joy definitely came in the wipeouts in skateboarding. Every single time, I will say every single time, I'm like, serves you right.
BEN WATERWORTH: The one thing I will say, people are like, oh, this is just like snowboarding. That's kind of my viewpoint of when it got announced. I was like, yeah, OK, that's fair enough. The difference with snowboarding is these snowboarders kind of present themselves as Olympians. Like, they're in proper attire, they're sort of professional, sort of, you know, they go out there like, OK, yeah, they're a bit street, like Chloe Kim, like she's cool. You'd want to, you know, go down to the park with her and hang out with her and go to the mall and get up to some delinquent activities, sure. But like, they present themselves as professional and Olympic, and they get the commentators involved that are professional and Olympic. I turned on the TV as soon as I woke up this morning to be presented with baggy-faced kids that should be down at the mall, like, bumping into me, wearing AirPods, like, wearing Nike kids...
COLIN HILDING: Oh, the AirPods...
BEN WATERWORTH: . who look so bored to be... These are Olympians we're talking about here, and they just look like, yeah, bro, whatever. And then I have no idea, Jarrod, who these Australian commentators were. But all I heard was a conversation between two douche bros who were talking about, oh, here comes the Japanese. Here's my mate. Yeah, oh, no, he's my mate. Oh, this guy here. I spoke to him the other day. And then every single time, someone would follow them. And then you see the judge at school. Oh, that's not a good score. I would have given more than that. And then they're talking about... There was a piece of equipment that fell off one of the apparatus at one point. And they're going, oh, yeah, what was that skater? Yeah, remember that skater whose shoelace? Oh, yeah, yeah, that one. Yeah, what was the name? They're all over the sudden out of nowhere. Tonya Harding.
COLIN HILDING: That was the one.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah. I'm like, Jesus Christ, these are the type of kids I hated in high school, and now they're commentating the Olympics. Like, this isn't the X Games. I'm sorry. Like, I can't defend this sport. And it looked... I don't even know with the crowd if that would have been exciting, because snowboarding is fast. It's exciting. Like, the half-pipe's great. Like, the slalom's great. The big air, it's fun. It's exciting. They were so slow and boring, they kind of did like a kickflip onto a rail and kind of went down. And the Australian guy...
COLIN HILDING: One reel! That's the whole event?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah. And I will say, like, at least, like, the baggy clothes and everything, but at least, like, the States and Japan, I think I saw a French skateboarder, at least they kind of, like, gotten a different outfit and kind of made it look a bit like that. Australia just went down to their local Assics and got the media polo, and he was just wearing it with a backwards cap listening to fucking AirPods. I wanted to like this. I was not opposed to skateboarding being the Olympics. Now I am. Colin, I am so angry at skateboarding being an Olympic sport.
COLIN HILDING: I'm also angry with the Olympics presenting this where they don't make them wear any type of pads because there were more wipeouts than there were successful tricks. And they're falling on pavement. And I mean, you mentioned the AirPods. I mean, they're not even paying attention. Like, okay, you don't want to make them wear a helmet. Fine. But like make them wear something because these guys are there, like you said, in their shorts and their T-shirts. They don't even have a full uniform. Meanwhile, we got other sports where there's arguments over whether they should change the shorts they're wearing in beach volleyball because it's too revealing. You know, you have swimmers who aren't allowed to wear their legs past a certain point, and these guys can just wear whatever they want, and they're falling all over the place. Like somebody's going to be gushing blood by the end of these Olympics, and they're going to say, oh, mandatory pads. And half of the Olympians are like, no way am I going on national television wearing pads like a little loser, come on.
BEN WATERWORTH: They wear pads in snowboarding, don't they?
COLIN HILDING: Exactly, and you've got that snow. I mean, yeah, sure, it's packed down, but I was saying that to Jamie. I'm like, I would rather fall unprotected on the snow any day than fall on the pavement. I'd rather fall on ice unprotected every day than fall on concrete. Like, it's just ridiculous watching these people.
BEN WATERWORTH: And also I will say, Joe, before I get your thoughts on it, you're going to have kids now who are just getting on their skateboards and skating down to their local shop, you know, running over old grannies. Parents are fully against it. Now there's kids that can be like, oh, mum, it's an Olympic sport now. And then they're watching TV with that, and your mum and you're like, oh, where are you? You know, Neep has little Jimmy. Oh, no, the Olympians don't. So thanks, Olympics, for ruining my kid's future. I'm not having kids, let's be honest, but Colin's got kids. Jarrod's going to have kids one day. Like, come on. Yeah, Jarrod, skateboarding.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It was bad. I just, yeah, it was one of the sports, like you mentioned, that it was exciting to watch and see what was happening. It was just so boring. The fact, like, I don't know who decided like the format of this, like they do like a couple of runs, and then it's the big trick segment where, yeah, jump on a rail, jump off a rail. They're just, I don't know, there wasn't enough air, there weren't enough elements. It was a weird setup. It took like forever. It was the longest event ever. Yeah, just nothing was good about the commentators. I don't know how many times that guy had to mention that he wasn't a, like, he never competed professionally. I'm like, okay, we get it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Why didn't they give us a call?
JARROD LOOBEEK: We get that they went to the skate park and were like, okay, you, you want to commentate the Olympics? Sure. It was just bad. There was no, like, nothing was redeeming about it. The only good thing was that the Japanese guy won and the Americans didn't, but apart from that, nothing.
COLIN HILDING: What's the American's name who came up? Was it Silver?
BEN WATERWORTH: Kevin Holl, no, sorry, I'm looking at one there. Sorry. Jagger something? Bronze, Jagger Eaton. Kevin Holl did win the silver. He's from Brazil. So, Jagger Eaton.
COLIN HILDING: This Jagger Eaton guy, like, you know.
BEN WATERWORTH: That's a name you just want to smack. Put you in Jagger. Don't even say your last name.
COLIN HILDING: And like, I can't remember what commentators I was listening to. They kept referring to him as Jagger Eaton, and yet everywhere else you look, it's like, no, it's Jagger. I'm like, either way, I just want to punch this guy. When he had one of the few wipeouts he had, too, he basically fell like right on his back. I saw his head pretty much bounce off the concrete. His AirPods fall out. I burst out laughing. And she was like, what's funny? That's actually really mean. I'm like, no, it's just great because I just want this guy to fail. And what does he do? Like, he should be checking his head. Oh, medic, medic, like, just get a courtesy checkup or something. He picks up his AirPods, puts them right back in, and goes back, like, bouncing. What is wrong with you, Jagger?
BEN WATERWORTH: Moves like Jagger, no. Doesn't do it at all. I only caught a bit of the surfing while we were on the topic of... What I saw of it wasn't that bad. Like, the thing I would say about the surface from what I saw, like, they seem to respect it a little bit more than they are at the Olympics. Like, I kind of like there was a little, wow, the Australians had kind of got in a circle and did like the Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, they were kind of wearing the green and gold. They had the flag and kind of it looked a little bit, it felt a bit more Olympic to me, did the surfing. So, Colin, you seem very anti-surfing. Am I right in saying that? But I mean, did you catch much of it?
COLIN HILDING: Well, I'll say this. When something happens, which is very rare, because they go out there for a long time, you can see some nice moves. You know, it's not quite point-break level surfing, but it's decent. But the way this event's structured, and when they previewed it in the Pan Am Games a couple years ago, it was really bad, because one surfer would go out at a time. Here, they're letting four go out on the water at a time, but they have 30 minutes. So the clock starts from them paddling out, which takes like five or six minutes just for them to paddle out. I'm like, why am I watching this? And of course, they put it on first thing in the morning. So it's the only thing I have to watch, because there's nothing else. For me, it's really difficult because of the hour too, because once we get to the late afternoon, evening hours, the kids completely monopolize the TV, because it's the only way to keep them from destroying something in the house. So I basically have to watch something on my phone, and this is the only thing to watch. I actually sat through 30 minutes, well, more than 30 minutes, probably about 45 minutes straight of watching this. And it is so dull, but if I could just catch the highlights at the end of it, maybe, you know, that would be okay. There's a reason why, though, the skateboarding actually did get about an hour of coverage on CBC last night, and surfing wasn't even mentioned. Because it is so dull. I put up a post on this on Facebook. I don't know if either of you saw it, but in the middle of this, I posted, Olympic surfing just debuted. The following is a list of sports I pitched to replace it in future Olympics that I guarantee will bring more excitement. One, 3X3 staring contests. Two, hedge trimming relay. Three, artistic toenail clipping. I got a lot of response of people volunteering for the hedge trimming competition. Several people want to be in on that. Somebody volunteered for the toenail clipping one. My favourite here, I could volunteer my toenails for the hedge trimming event. Somebody suggested synchronized graphic novel readings. Somebody suggested rock, paper, scissors, which somebody else replied that that is a real sport in Japan and posted a link. I'd actually rather have that replaced surfing in the future. And our good friend Jimmy, former Oslo Jimmy, said they should have speed eating event. I would watch that, which I agree.
BEN WATERWORTH: We'd be able to chance that one for competing.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, there is one highlight though. What actually got me through watching an entire heat of 30 minutes straight was one guy, an Indonesian surfer, and the name alone. We talk about how you want to punch someone with the name Jagger Eaton. How could you not love a surfer with the name Rio Wade? Like that is a name made for surfing.
BEN WATERWORTH: Point break.
COLIN HILDING: This guy, exactly. And he's fun too. Like you mentioned how it's very Olympic-like. They treat it with respect. When they're introducing the surfers one at a time, they all have the stoic expressions like, I'm just focusing on that water. The water's right ahead of me. Rio Wade turns to the camera. I mean, the listeners won't be able to see this, but I'll try to. He turns to the camera. He gives an awkward smile. And then the camera stays on him for probably five or ten seconds as they continue to run through. I'm from Indonesia, blah, blah, blah, the age of whatever. And he just keeps every once in a while awkwardly looking at the camera. It's still on me. Hey, guys. And then again, hi. And then as they're treading water, where they're paddling out into the water for five, six minutes straight, the camera goes on him again. He's probably a good 30, 40 metres out in the water. And he sees the camera way off in the distance on him. And again, he turns and looks like, hey, yeah. I'm like, this guy I will root for. I stuck with it just for him.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I'm glad because you've got no Canadians I'm seeing here either. So you have to.
COLIN HILDING: How disappointing that we have not attached ourselves to this sport.
BEN WATERWORTH: The iconic surfing nation of Canada. So good. Jarrod, what was your take on the surfing?
JARROD LOOBEEK: You know what? I didn't mind it. It's more interesting than the skateboarding. So that's a plus. If we're keeping sports and getting rid of some of the other new ones, surfing should remain. I think the weird thing about surfing is the fact that there's repercharges. I just, any sport with repercharges, I'm like, I don't know. I don't know how many chances we give people. There were a couple of issues today with not just surfing, but other sports with the formatting that I was like, I feel like this needs to be fixed and amended immediately. But surfing, I just, I don't think that needs to be repercharges.
BEN WATERWORTH: And the thing with surfing too, it's so weather dependent that like, I mean, you're just extending it for the fact of extending it. You know what I mean? It's not rowing, which generally as long as the water is flat, and even if it's a bit choppy, you still can do it. I mean, it's absolutely windless. You can't surf, can you?
COLIN HILDING: You can control the water too. I mean, as they're doing it real, they kind of dammed off the water in the section they want, so you don't have the waves. You can't create waves. I mean, this is why I feel really bad that this is such a long event because I think in the Pan Am Games, they had them go out individually one at a time, but they were given 10 minutes. Now they have them going out four at a time, and they're given 30 minutes. I mean, 30 minutes is a long time to wait for a wave, and that is 90% of what they're doing is just, all right, there's one. No, I'm not going to take that one yet. Okay, another one. No, I'm not going to take that one yet. And how do you control this? And what do you do if you just don't have big waves on a day? There's never going to be a world record, Olympic record or anything.
BEN WATERWORTH: I will say, though, quickly, Colin, the only reason they did dam off the water in Rio is to stop it turning green because they're having problems at other places.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, but they did it in Tokyo as well, and the water looks nice.
BEN WATERWORTH: I will say quickly, in the skateboarding, Canada's... This is a kid you want to punch as well, Mickey Pappa. Jesus Christ. Just to tell these are Olympians now. Mickey Pappa, Olympian. Great. And Matt Berger, that's a bit more tolerable. So Mickey was 10th, sadly missed out on the final, and Matt got last. And the one Australian, Shane O'Neill, Olympian. He finished 16th. And in the surfing, it's good news for Australia. Obviously, our great big hope of Steph Gilmore. She's through, as is Sally Fitzgibbons as well. So we've got two Aussies through in that one. There's a bloody Kiwi through. Ellie Williams. Shouldn't be that mean. It's better than Britain. And Julian Wilson in the men's and Owen Wright are both through into the next rounds as well. But again, before I go through some of these other results, what did we watch today? Jarrod, let's start with you. I think I started with Colin yesterday. So I'm going to start with you. Just quickly, I will say breaking news. Channel 7 showing the 4x100m freestyle relay for about the 87th time today. So good job, Channel 7. A new world record for you as well.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, we need another gold medal fast just for people's sanity. I watched, what did I watch? Surfing, skateboarding, the tennis, and then a little bit of the hockey, some water polo, and the women's artistic gymnastics. Shout out to Simone Bial dancing to the song from Tokyo Drift as her floor routine.
BEN WATERWORTH: Culturally insensitive or culturally appropriate? I don't know. She's Simone Bial. If you watch any of our coverage, you know she cannot do wrong. Even today when she had a bad day, she did amazing apparently. Yes, I watched lots of the gymnastics too. I'll get to that. Colin, what did you watch today, yesterday, last night? How it works out for you?
COLIN HILDING: Well, after swimming and skateboarding had pretty much worn me out, I actually upgraded to archery, which I'm not the biggest archery fan, but I was loving the team archery last night, probably because I was coming off of surfing and skateboarding. But it picked up after that. I watched a lot of swimming, pretty much all the swimming from both the finals, which it's so weird that the finals, as far as we're looking at Tokyo time, the finals are held first thing in the morning for them, and then the heats are held at the end of the day. I mean, for me, it makes sense watching it if I'm not considering the time difference.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, they do it for you. They do it for your part of the world, because of bloody NBC. Thanks, America.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, it's unusual as I'm trying to catch up right before it. Oh, I've got to make sure I catch up on all the events. And I'm like, oh, these are the heats. This isn't even going to be relevant until tomorrow. But I mean, a lot of the swimming dominated. Rowing also was big. I was watching a lot of the rowing last night, and I'm trying to think what else. I went back and rewatched more of the 3X3 basketball. Pretty much, I think I mentioned that to you before you did the commentary. Everything that I missed when I watched it the first time around, I'm just loving that event. And right now, currently, table tennis is captivating me. I did watch a lot of the taekwondo on and off because Winnipeg did have one of our big athletes who was a possible medal contender, Skylar Park. Check her out on Instagram, Ben. I think he might be a fan. But Skylar Park from Winnipeg, it's not even just because she's from Winnipeg. They've been talking her up a lot, like she had a real shot at a medal. Unfortunately, it didn't quite go well for her because she beat the Australian, looked strong. And then she lost to a Taiwanese competitor, quite decisively lost, and unfortunately didn't make the repitiage in that one. But diving, taekwondo, that was sort of on and off throughout the day as well.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think we could get Skylar Park on the show. I wouldn't say no. So, yeah, I'm looking at her now. Good job, Skylar. Before I get to what I watch, I will just mention in breaking news, the men's EP has been decided. And as a gold to France, Romain Canon has won the gold, beating the great Hungarian, Gurgelij Siklossy. Yep, I was pretty good in the gold, but he didn't laugh enough for that one. And as I mentioned before, Ukraine with the bronze there. So the only medal still to be decided while we're recording. Men's 68 kilo taekwondo, women's 57 kilo taekwondo, and the weightlifting men's 67 kilo. Hopefully we'll have a result by the end of this. Yeah, I woke up, switched on the TV skateboarding, wanted to shoot myself. Obviously the swimming, of course, would be watching that. Yes, then the bati party kind of just went wayward. Watched a bit of the canoeing. Did you not catch Jess today, Jarrod? Didn't see her.
JARROD LOOBEEK: That's right, I did catch that. That is one of the sports that have an issue with formatting. I think the fact that you're only allowed to have one athlete from each country is just a bit of a joke. Surely it needs to be at least two or three. It's just stupid to not have the best athletes in the world there. The fact that you could be ranked two in the world, but somebody else from your country is ranked one in the world, so then you don't get to go to the Olympics is just stupid.
BEN WATERWORTH: That was Andy Norty, wasn't it, Colin?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, I was about to say, when she was like fifth or sixth in the world and couldn't make the Canadian team because you can only send four.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, that's like us, given that we're the number four best Olympic podcast in the world. We would be in Tokyo right now, sadly, but the top three are all Australian. So, yeah, sadly, we can't go the quota there. Definitely watch the gymnastics. I'm always one for watching the gymnastics. Very entertaining. I watched the softball. I caught the end of the Canada-Japan game in the extra innings. I was actually very excited about that. I was sad about the result. I've got some good commentary fails for that one. I did also catch the archery. It seems to be my tradition in the last two days of the Olympics. I make dinner and I watch the archery. I like it. It's a cool little thing. I watched a bit of the basketball. I watched a bit of the boomers. And I got some fun things on the commentary there, too, because I didn't watch the Channel 7 feed. I just watched the stream of my app. And I got a different commentator, and I don't know if I liked him or not. And I caught a bit of the fencing and the soccer as well. So there you go. And I also caught an ad today. I just wanted to point this out. Coming soon to 7Mate, Jarrod, Australia's sexiest tradie. So I don't know if you entered that or not. But between that and advertising The Voice and Flying Doctors and Home and Away, can I just point out, when they advertise Home and Away, why are they doing it with a really cheery song when the first thing they show is like a car accident on the way to a wedding? Has Home and Away changed? It's been a while since I've watched it, Jarrod. I don't know if you watch Home and Away, but why is it almost happy when people are dying in a car accident?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I don't know, that's just, they're reusing plot lines now. People die in a car accident. That's every other week on Home and Away at this point in time.
BEN WATERWORTH: Don't tell me Home and Away is recycling plot lines. That show has always been original. Come on. Never have they ever recycled plot lines. What are you talking about? Other events of the day that we haven't mentioned, I'll throw to you, Colin, if there's anything notable that you want to mention with the Canadian results at all, anything that you want to kind of mention and bring up at all?
COLIN HILDING: I mean, that we haven't covered so far. Let me just quickly look through here. The diving list for me, obviously the big one. Skyler Park I already mentioned. That was unfortunate. Big one, actually. This, we mentioned in our previous episode, and I'll kind of remind people if they didn't check out our previous episode, but Mandy Bujold, one of our female boxers, she had like a massive battle to get to the Olympics, which made news everywhere. And I definitely can confirm it made news everywhere now because I was listening to the British commentary of this, and they were bringing it up. But what essentially happened is she wanted to have a baby and decided she did get pregnant and had her baby during an off year, a non-qualifying year, which was 2019. And then 2020 comes around, and obviously the events get cancelled because of COVID. So they said, we're going to reschedule to 2021. 2021 comes around, they cancel it again, and then they say, well, we're just going to go back to the 2019 year. She basically says, listen, that's fine, but if it was never announced that this was supposed to be a qualifying year, she should at least give an exemption and give somebody a second chance. Hold some type of event, hold some type of council to determine if somebody, and she was denied over and over again. This went all the way to her literally suing the IOC, taking them to court and winning an elastment decision only two weeks ago. So she's been one of our biggest media stories here, just the fact she got to go. I don't think anybody expected her to win, even though she had placed fifth in Rio in her weight class. But she was out in the first round last night. It wasn't even really close. What was great about it though is that, you know, she kind of talked about how she just wants to compete in this because no Canadian woman has ever even competed in back-to-back Olympics in boxing. So she became the first one ever to do that. And she kind of lived up to her word that she just wanted to go. It wasn't about, you know, oh, I have to win this, or I have to have a fair shot or whatever. When she lost, she was smiling, she was applauding. You know, she did have some tears in the press conference afterwards, but they were more tears of joy. It was actually really great to watch her. I mean, I would put her up as a contender for Athlete of the Day just because of the story she's had, and I guess her victory to even get there and, you know, really going out with class. But that was going to be one of my most memorable events, even though she did lose. Big thing was Felix, I'm going to butcher his last name, but Felix Auger, Ali Asimi, let's call him that. But wow, it did not look good that he was taking on Andy Murray. So it wasn't even planned to air on television. And then we got the big news, Andy Murray's out. And I'm like, victory for Canada. He's playing an Australian.
BEN WATERWORTH: I mean, when I have a choke in the first round of tennis, it passes the second round.
COLIN HILDING: And it's a substitute, too. I mean, this isn't even like a front runner. And then Max Purcell, whoever you are, come in and take over.
BEN WATERWORTH: You washed your mouth out. He's one of our iconic tennis players. I know him very well.
COLIN HILDING: What was he ranked? They said he was ranked 160-something? Felix is like top 10 ranked, I think. So big disappointment. We went from, and I'm still like, we didn't give it. I think they were waiting till after it was over. Maybe they had already planned out the primetime coverage. But I guarantee had we won this, this would have been all over the TV. But now it's sort of like we went from Andy Murray's out, get ready, tomorrow we're going to bring you Felix. And now it's like, we're not even talking about Felix. Nothing happened last night, everybody. The rowing, Carling Zieman, as I learned last night, I have been very much bragging on our commentating team for the rowing here. They made a point to part, point out that she is kind of lovingly known as the Z Monster, which they, after they brought that up every single time throughout her race, they kept saying, Z Monster has pulled into second now and is going on to the semi-finals. So we're rooting for Z Monster. And then Trevor Jones, our other one, actually finished second in the quarterfinals. So he's moving on to the semi-finals for both of them in single skulls. And semi-finals also for Patrick Keene and Max Latimer in the double skulls. You mentioned the fencing already.
BEN WATERWORTH: You missed one there, Colin. Sorry to interrupt, but you had Gabrielle Smith and Jessica Savak got through to the final for the double skulls as well.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, OK, then I did miss that.
BEN WATERWORTH: Congratulations, Canada.
COLIN HILDING: It's the first thing mentioned here, and I think they're some of the medal hopefuls we have, but I immediately saw Carling Zieman. I'm like, oh, I got to talk about the Z Monster here. So Z Monster is distracting me. That's unfortunate. Everything else here, I'm sure we'll eventually get to. Sailing, softball. Let me talk about softball really quickly. As you mentioned, we lost one nothing. I do want to say what's hopeful here as far as our bronze medal position. Maybe we can even pull off a Germany in the ice hockey and really surprise everybody and take out a favourite once we get to the playoffs. But Canada has now played both US and Japan, and the score has been one nothing in both. So very close games with the two top teams and a big blowout with our bronze medal rival Australia. So a lot of potential in softball, I'm thinking.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, one thing I'll say quickly, I mean, I'll mention our softball chance today. I don't know how we got blown out by you guys, and we only lost to the US by one run. So like, I mean, we just must have had a couple of days off against Japan and Canada, and then really show that we're capable. Did you see any of the softball today, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I didn't see it, but I was watching, and I was in shock when I saw the live update that it was going to an extra innings because nobody had scored a run yet. I was like, yeah, how do we lose to Canada so badly, and then the US were going to an extra innings? It just doesn't make any sense.
BEN WATERWORTH: Actually, I was really entertained by the Canada Japan game. It was the extra innings ones. It was quite interesting. Before I go to some of the Australian results, some breaking news here. This is a sad one for Australia. One of our favourite athletes from Rio, Dane Bird Smith, has just withdrawn from the Olympics for medical, for family medical reasons. Sadly, he has announced that he will not be on the plane because the athletics team leaves tomorrow. They're scheduled to arrive in Tokyo on Monday morning. So sad, they're bronze medallists, of course, in the 20k walk. So yeah, Jarrod, that's a sad one. We love Smitty.
JARROD LOOBEEK: That is a sad one, and a genuine medal contender too.
COLIN HILDING: Is Bird a middle name or is that a nickname?
BEN WATERWORTH: It's probably his middle name, but I don't know, it's Australian. Who cares?
COLIN HILDING: I was going to say, if it's Australia, you're just going to give them a lovingly middle name, a chumpy-like name.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, chumpy. Can we dedicate a segment to chumpy during the Winter Olympics? I feel we need to do something.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, yeah.
BEN WATERWORTH: Let's just name this podcast Off The Chumpy when it comes to Beijing as a tribute. It's very sad. I still can't believe that he's dead. That's just so sad. And we didn't do it, so can't blame us for that. Don't laugh. It's not funny. So Australian results today, you mentioned the rolling. I've just got this one. One thing I'll say, I do appreciate the Team Canada website. You've got the nice summary, which Australia generally have. We generally have like a summary page. But for some reason, we don't now. So the AOC are too busy winning Olympic bids to put together a nice proper summary, apparently. But two Australian crews were in action today in the rowing, in the women's quad skull and the double skull. And the women's quad skull made it through, won their rep charge, and will be into the final. Whereas, unfortunately, for our double skull pair, they finished fifth, and will be into the B Final. Get on board the B Final, everyone! Which is always exciting for that to happen. So, yes, anyway. As I mentioned in the softball, we went down 1-0 to... 2-1, sorry, to the US, which is nothing to frown upon. That was a decent effort by the Aussies in that one there, against probably the probable gold medallists in that one. In the soccer, as I mentioned, we did go down to Spain 1-0. But again, gallon effort, Jarrod. You're shaking your head. But I mean, you know, I think we beat Argentina. I didn't hear any news about that. But I mean, you know, we put it up to the Spanish. That wasn't too bad.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's true. It keeps my prediction alive of us not making it out of the group stage. So there's the silver lining. It's just disappointing that we held on so long and for the Spanish to score in the 80th minute or whatever it was. I mean, they outplayed us from what I saw. It could have easily been 5-0, so I suppose 1-0 will take it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I did. From what I saw, we didn't play that greatly. But I mean, again, you know, 1-0. You take that against Spain. We had a couple of gymnasts in action. I didn't quite... I saw sort of some of the... with that, how they went with that, but I don't actually have the full results in front of me. Obviously, my research is doing very, very well. Our badminton players today both lost. That was a bit of a shocker, not really. That happened. Basketball, I mentioned the Boomers hit the court today. We ended up with the W8467 over traditional rivals, Nigeria there, so that was pretty exciting. Beach volleyball, Delisola, Tucho and Clancy defeated Cubas. Lydian Leyla, 2-0. Always fun to watch the beach volleyball. 50 degrees at Sandgot today. Jarrod, did you see Channel 7 talking that up a bit today, that they had to go off and I think put ice on their feet?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I did, I did hear about the thermometer being stuck in the sand to give such a precise and official reading.
BEN WATERWORTH: Boxing, our first Aussie hit the ring today. Harry Garcide took the win over John Ume of Papua New Guinea in the Men's Lightweight, and he's through to the next round. As I said, Jess Fox hit the course today, and tell you what, I watched the first run. I think she was in about third after the first run. I was a little bit worried about our Jess, not Jess. Not this one great hope, but she shattered in in the second run. She, I think, finished about three seconds ahead, and is the fastest qualifier. So good on you, Jess. I don't know how I feel about her dad commentating, Jarrod. I don't know if that's a good or a bad. I mean, he's knowledgeable, but is that a bit of a conflict of interest?
JARROD LOOBEEK: It feels like it, and I suppose he was... Well, he didn't bring it up, but the other commentator brought up the fact that they could only have one person per country and the fact that Jess's sister would have qualified if it was just a number of allocated spots. It does feel like a bit of a conflict of interest, and I feel bad for the dad commentating because I feel like he's trying so hard not to be biased that it almost comes across like he just couldn't care about his daughter. She's like, oh, yep, Jess, yep, that was a decent run. She just finished first so far. A little bit more excitement would be great.
COLIN HILDING: What a disappointment. Better parents are ashamed right now.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I mean, aren't both her parents Olympians?
JARROD LOOBEEK: A good job, I think, that Jess didn't take up the Yo Pro advertising that I'm sure she was offered. So she was very smart to steer clear of that. So she's still in with a shot.
BEN WATERWORTH: Refresh our memories. Ash is obviously one of them, so she's choked. Who were the other athletes on that one?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Brandon Stark, I want to say, the high jumper.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yep, okay.
JARROD LOOBEEK: And then Kyle Chalmers in the swimming.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, he got us home in the four by one. I'll get to some of that swimming. So he's off to a decenish start. But yeah, there you go. In the men's, Daniel Watkins, I believe, is through to the final as well. So that's in the canoeing, I should say. So great job there for that one. Both Australia and Canada had some cyclists, but that only went for four hours today, so that wasn't too bad compared to the six hours of yesterday. We don't really give a stuff about the equestrian, so that's fine. We've done enough of that. As I mentioned, the soccer, I've gone through that. Hockey today, the hockey roues hit the field, and a 3-1 win over Spain. Great one there in Australia. A boil over in the men's, the kookaburras. And I'm not even joking when I say traditional rivals. Legitimate traditional rivals in India, one of the great hockey nations, 7-1. Spanked them, Jarrett. Spanked them.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It was a very impressive win, yep.
BEN WATERWORTH: Very, very good. We like to see a good spanking of the Indians. That's always a, that sounds weird, doesn't it? It wasn't meant to sound that way. In the judo, the men's 66 kilo, Nathan Katz made it through to the round of 16. Unfortunately, he lost to Israeli Judo-Co, how do you say it, Borosh Shmolov, and he sadly lost in a Wasi-Ari. Oh, the worst way to go out in judo. It's no Ichimoto or whatever that was, but remember that? The Ichimoto thing along those lines? That was a long time ago. I want to go through some of the swimming hits because obviously we've got a few things of note in that one to go through there. Yeah, and you mentioned Taekwondo, obviously. Skyler Park defeated Stacey Hymer in the round of 16 there, so not going well. Ash Party's gone, she's out. But Max Purcell, oh, the great, the iconic Max Purcell won through to the next round. Luke Saville sadly is out in the singles and also in the doubles, not a good day for Mr. Saville there. Tom, say a name for me, please, Jarrod, thank you.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Tomlanovic.
BEN WATERWORTH: Thank you very much. She's through to the next round after winning through. And I'm very happy that quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, Mr. Ducksworth, James Duckworth is through to the second round of the men's singles after winning that as well. So good for him. And the Water Polo, the Stingers went down 15 to 10 against Montenegro, which apparently is a gallant effort, because Montenegro are quite a decent side when it comes to Water Polo, so there you go. Now, the swimming, obviously we talked about the finals, but we should really touch on the heats for certain events, particularly when it comes to our first ever guest who's gone out and competed today, the Off The Podium Curse. Tell you what, it was looking good, wasn't it, Colin? Did you see what Kylie did?
COLIN HILDING: Kylie sets an Olympic record, and then within 10 minutes, the Olympic record is broken two times.
BEN WATERWORTH: Which this is the big battle. You know what interests me, Jarrod, is they're talking up the battle between Katie and Narnie, right? The Ledecky versus Titmuss, the Battle of the Pool. This is what they're all pumping the tyres up. Why are they not talking up the 100m backmall? Because you literally have the three fastest women in the history of this event who are battling it out, who all broke the Olympic record tonight in the space of 10 minutes, as Colin just said. Kylie Mass comes out in heat number four, so it's a new Olympic record of 58.17. The duck of the Off The Podium purse is gone. The curse, I should say, the purse as well. The curse is in the purse. She's out. She's done. She's done it. Fantastic. Then you get Regan Smith of the US in the next heat. Says, bugger you, Kylie. Screw you guys for beating us in the swimming this morning. I'm going to come out and set an Olympic record, 57.96. Alright. And then what happens after that in the next heat? Kylie McEwen says, all right, see both of you. Stick it up your butts and smoke it, people. I can't stand sticking up your butts today. I don't know what's going on in that anal comment from a few weeks ago. It's really throwing me, Colin. 57.88 to really smoke the tires of this event in a couple of days. These aren't the heats. They've still got semis to go. Kylie McEwen, I want to say, I've actually followed Kylie on Instagram for a long time, and there's reasons behind that. But the fact that out of nowhere, she's come on board and just like dominated things. I actually feel legitimately sorry for her because, yeah, she's getting talked up in this country, but Cate and Ani are getting talked up way more than Kylie, Jarrod. If I have to say who's going to win out of the solo chances here, I'm probably going to jinx this by saying this, I feel Kylie's the best chance out of those three.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's true, but I think it's almost playing to her benefit that she's not being talked up because out of the pressure put on the athletes, she's got the least of those three at the moment. So I feel like it bodes well for her chances.
BEN WATERWORTH: There's a few other Australian and Canadians in some of those events, which I won't go over. We will be here for a long time, but I want to mention in the 400, obviously, all the talk was Ledecky and Titmuss, but Summer McIntosh came out firing in that against Ledecky in her heat. Ended up finishing third. She has qualified for the final. 14 years old. She's qualified for a final. I do want to apologise to Summer McIntosh on behalf of Australia for our very condescending commentators this evening. I love you, Basil. I'm curious about this. Well, I love you, Basil, and I love you, Thorpey. But basically, she was leading that entire, basically, the first 200 metres, right? They did not even mention her name until I think the 100 metre turn to when they're like, oh, and look at this, Summer McIntosh. Only 14 years of age. What an effort to just get here. And then they're like, yes, I'm sure she's just proud to be swimming against the great Katie Ledecky, and I'm sure she will take a lot of experience from this. She made the final. Like, she nearly won the heat.
COLIN HILDING: She was only.75 behind. This is younger than Phelps was when he debuted, and Phelps didn't perform like this.
BEN WATERWORTH: Younger than Thorpe. Thorpe was 16 in Sydney. I mean, it's ridiculous. They were so condescending. She just made the frickin Olympic final at 14.
COLIN HILDING: And six months ago, nobody knew her name.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, it was crazy. And the 4x1 for the men. Yeah, we weren't looking too good in that one, Jarrod. Canada was winning that one for a large portion of it, but you mentioned Kyle Chalmers, the Opro bro curse, maybe not quite there yet, but into the 4x1 there. Not quite the powerhouse we used to be in the 4x1, not the men, but at least we made the final, right?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I feel like it's like the reserve team too, so potential room for improvement.
COLIN HILDING: I was just wanting to go back for a second and just talk about Summer Macintosh really quickly. The timing didn't work out. You know, Brittany McLean, who we had on the show, which I honestly think, considering she was a person who lined us up with interviews with other people, and you just sort of casually mentioned, hey, would you be interested in coming on? I still say one of the best interviews we ever had. She's really started to make a career in broadcasting now. She's one of the anchors that talks about the swimming. She's done commentary for swimming in the last couple months. She was on for the relay that we won, but because the hour of the heats, you know, is during her off time, they didn't have her to talk about the fact that Summer Macintosh beat Brittany McLean's Canadian record in that heat, which is a huge deal. You know, I'm sure it's a huge deal for Brittany McLean. It's a huge deal in Canada as well, because breaking a Canadian record and being able to go to the finals, I mean, this isn't an event that we really have a strong showing in all the time. So I'm curious tonight when they have the prime time on, and I'm sure they're going to, you know, the event might be coming up tonight. I don't know. You'll have it later on. But to get Brittany McLean's reaction to this.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, it would be quite interesting to say, because obviously we sort of follow her through our social media channels and that. And I like kind of seeing her posting these little behind the scenes things. I'm in the studio doing this kind of stuff and all that sort of stuff. And I mean, very well spoken on the show.
COLIN HILDING: I agree.
BEN WATERWORTH: It was a great interview. So I'm sure she's great on the broadcast sort of seeing that as well. So I mean, I don't know. She quite as direct as Thorpey. I mean, you obviously haven't seen Thorpey.
COLIN HILDING: And one of the reasons I know it is because I had mentioned to you when I re-listened to her interview recently before our 100th episode, you kind of made some jokes about... Well, we made jokes about Ryan Lochte and also the Campbell sisters, and she openly laughed at our jokes. It wasn't like, oh, that's not nice, guys. But she was definitely more diplomatic towards the Campbells when she was on air in front of the largest audience in Canada.
BEN WATERWORTH: I definitely appreciate the fact that Ryan Lochte tweeted out, I think it was today, and was like, hey, man, like, so excited to be watching the swimming. Go Team USA. So sad that Ryan's not there, but we've got our new Jamie's boyfriend from New Zealand, Japan, slash America, right?
COLIN HILDING: We need to find the Locky. Every single Olympics, that's our goal, to find a Ryan Lochte.
BEN WATERWORTH: Do we not have our Ryan Lochte with a skateboard? Does it mean God?
COLIN HILDING: We know we're going to find one there. Jagger Eaton. Jagger Eaton.
BEN WATERWORTH: I didn't hear him speak. Jagger Eaton is in you. Hey, man, I got bronze at the Olympics. Like fucking like he doesn't even know that he got a bronze at the Olympics. I mean, he doesn't even know what he was competing at. He's just gone back to the Olympics. Where am I? Like, what's this thing around my neck?
JARROD LOOBEEK: At a scale, have to get some new AirPods.
BEN WATERWORTH: Hey, man, did you see that massive stack I did, bro? Like I'm going to fucking put it on TikTok, bro. Jagger Eaton. Seriously, like is that the one that Jamie thought was hot?
COLIN HILDING: No, no, no, I don't even know. I don't even think it was one of the guys who made the finals. But yeah, it was just some random guy. She forgot about him quickly when Jay Liverlin came out and was swimming though.
BEN WATERWORTH: Don't forget about me, bro. I'm pretty sexy, bro. Come on, bro. I'm going to skate over your face. That's the new thing. Before I get to our athlete of the day, I should get to the medal results have all been decided now today. So in the men's 67 kilo gold to China, Li Junqian took it in another Olympic record. China smashing it in the weightlifting. Columbia Louis Javier Mosquera got the silver and Italy Mirko Zani took the bronze. That is in the weightlifting and in the Taekwondo, in the men's 68 kilos, it's gold to Uzbekistan. Ulugbek Rajatabani beat a Brit. Suck it, Britain, you still have a lot of gold. Bradley Sindon took the silver for Britain. Bronze went to China's Xiao Zhao. There you go. I got that correctly, I think. And America, the great Taekwondo nation of America, Anastasia Zolotic beat a rock. Poor rock, silver again. I actually legitimately feel sorry for rock. Tatiana, they need to pump those drugs more. This is quite like, they're just, the drugs are failing. Tatiana Menina took the silver and bronze to Turkey's Hattis Kubra Ilgun, defeating an EO, is that the refugee country? Wow, has that refugee country ever actually won a medal before? The nations of the refugee? That's a pretty big deal. They got fourth place. So great result there. Kimya Alizadeh Zinurin. Oh, that's going to maybe change my athlete of the day. That's a big story there, that they can get to a medal round. But let's touch on the athlete of the day. I mean, look, that's kind of changed my mind. But I mean, I'm putting up, Tunisi is great, amazing, Ahmad Hafnui. I mean, you know, his coach alone gets him the nod for me today. I mean, a couple of the... There was a Dutch gymnast. I've written it down somewhere on my notes here. She had resting bitch face if I had ever seen it. I was scared. I was like, holy crap, again, you're at the Olympics. And she actually put off a decent thing. She kind of walked off the thing. Like, is this just filling the pressure of the Netherlands because they're not living up to the expectations of Gracenotes? Like, they've only won two silvers. But yeah, I'll stick to our Tunisian swimmer. Jarrod, who have you got in mind for an athlete of the day?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, speaking of the Netherlands, I just can't go past anime, command, fluten. I think all silver medallists celebrate like you've won the gold. Even if it's unintentional, it was just such a good moment, the fact that she thought she'd won. She had it, but I mean, still just so good. And I think if anything for me, it brings the argument that no, we shouldn't bring in race radio if we're going to get these amazing moments without it.
BEN WATERWORTH: You know what? We've got some strong contenders today. This might be tricky to come up with. Colin, did you actually do your job today? Did you think of somebody today? You just want to be the third wheel here to decide.
COLIN HILDING: No, I mean, I had Ahmed and my number one as well. I want to throw out their Mandy Bujold, like I said. Also, you know, quick mention here. How do you pronounce his name? Nino Salukvadze Georgian, which is where my family on my mum's side comes from. Ninth Olympics and finally announced her retirement. You know, she didn't even qualify.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, this is our gymnast.
COLIN HILDING: No, no, this is, she's a shooter.
BEN WATERWORTH: Because I'm going to mention now our, was she, is Bekistani gymnast in her eighth. I don't think she's made the final, but a bit of an emotional farewell for her. I saw that being tweeted out there as well.
COLIN HILDING: Yes, I mean, nine Olympics is just, she started in Seoul, Korea. Wow. It's just insane. But finally, we're qualified for that. That's right. I mean, those would be my three. I'd almost want to give an honourable mention out there to Rio Wade, probably the greatest name and greatest smile and reaction in the boring sport of surfing. But I mean, I would think, you know, it's got to be Ahmed.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I think so. I mean, I want to, he's not even an Olympian because he just pulled out. World number one golfer, John Rahm, has just pulled out of the Olympics because he got COVID. So, you know, special, special nod to him. I mean, I will say, though, I mean, yeah, our Dutch cyclist is up there as a possibility. Reminds, like, here's a question for you, Jarrod. Would you rather celebrate thinking you've won silver, or would you like to pull a Lindsay Jacobellis, of course, the snowboarder who celebrated too early and fell over, basically thought she'd won and didn't win and got the silver in Turin? I mean, I would almost be our Dutch cyclist, because at least you didn't lose the gold on the line, right?
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's true. I think, yeah, it's got to be that way.
BEN WATERWORTH: But I think we've got a clean sweep for Ahmed here. I feel we're all happy to give it to Ahmed. So congratulations, Ahmed. Not only have you won a gold, but you've won the Off The Podium Athlete of the Day. What's more prestigious? I think this one. Yeah. Absolutely.
COLIN HILDING: I mean, Ezra would tell us this is more prestigious.
BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly. Exactly. 100%. CBC and Channel 7, as always, our fun moment of the episode. Colin, anything from CBC happening? I mean, I think, I don't know if our softball commentary, we get the CBC one, because he, I mean, he was American. I think he was Canadian, because he was getting excited. He's American or Canadian, but I've got one potentially from him. But did you have any on the board today?
COLIN HILDING: Was he also laughing? This thing just keeps going, doesn't it? Look at that watch. Before I mentioned the CBC one, I wanted to mention, it's actually very good commentary. I mean, if you're scripting, it's a great exchange, but wow, listening to NBC commentators is just painful. I mean, every single time we do this, I always mention, I try to watch some of the American coverage just to see what they're showing that's different. But no matter what the event is, they could have somebody who is ranked 170th in the tennis, and they're gonna be like, oh, strong shot at a medal here. Let's see what happens. But the basketball, now this was the women's 3X3 basketball, which has WNBA players. I mean, it's almost unfair they're allowed to compete in that. But these guys, great commentators, but man, you just walk away wanting to punch these guys. One of them is like, it sounds, tell me if this sounds as crazy as it sounds in my head. But if you're Mongolia right now, do you want to try and force the US to have to shoot from the outside? And the other guy says, that does sound crazy because the US team has more shooters than Call of Duty. And then at the end of it, they're being so condescending. They're like, oh, you know what? At this point, you almost got... No joke, it's like you almost got to wonder why Mongolia even shows up. It's almost an unfair advantage to be playing against the US, but you know, that's what happens. Like, wow, I would love to get these guys to the show to do an interview with them, but that is your epitome of arrogant American commentary.
BEN WATERWORTH: I mean, look, I know Australia talking ourselves up, but I think we kind of just backtrack and complain, where it just sounds like, yeah, that does sound extremely American.
COLIN HILDING: The Canadian one, though, we were talking last night, I was saying how fascinating it was when you were going on about Thorpe's criticism during the swimming, that Canadians are like, they're so reserved, like even if we are the most, like, McHale Kingsbury, the most dominant freestyle skier in history, you know he's always going to win. They'll never say it. But as a result of that, I think that sometimes our commentary would almost come across a little bit boring, but there are some nice slip ups here. Byron McDonald, who does the commentary for the swimming, he I think was a medallist in Montreal or Munich or something from back in the 70s, and he still actually coaches and mentors a lot of the athletes in Canada today. Great commentator, but I don't even remember who it was. One of the Americans was coming out, I think it was in Jay Lewis' event, because Jamie was actually paying attention to it with me when I laughed at this. And he's talking about this guy who didn't win, he won like silver, bronze in his event in Rio. And he goes, he actually was quoted as saying, he's glad that he didn't win the gold, because it kept him, he's quoting him as, glad I didn't win the gold, because it will keep me hungry for five more years. And then there's a pause, he goes, at the time he said four more years, but now it's been five. That's the one where I'm like, maybe actually read your type before you actually speak it out loud.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think we are, was it Winnington said, or Thorby was saying about Winnington or something like, to win a final, you've got to first make a final or something, and then come back and like, it was some weird saying that I'd never heard of, it's just like some swimmer's speak or something, or I don't know that. Before I go, Jarrod, ask if you picked up, the one that I picked up from, again, I'm guessing it was the Canadian on the softball. They're there, he's getting all excited that we're going to an extra innings, and he says, oh, it's exciting, we're about to get some extra baseball in Yokohama. I'm like, ooh, what sport are we watching right now?
COLIN HILDING: I'm telling you, he didn't know his assignment until 10 minutes beforehand.
BEN WATERWORTH: He literally thought he was going for the baseball, and he's like, wait, they've got poos. Softball? Jarrod, did you pick up on anything today?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I didn't pick up on any fails, but there was a great moment in the swimming coverage where they crossed to the...
BEN WATERWORTH: The pods?
JARROD LOOBEEK: The pods, yes, the pods. The parents of dolphins, which Lisa Jones so eloquently put it, is that they used to be called the poos, the parents of Olympic swimmers.
BEN WATERWORTH: I want the poos! Like, what's wrong with the poos? One of our greatest tennis players was the poo? Why aren't we having the poos?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, actually, if you're a parent, you'd prefer to have that written on the back of your jacket.
BEN WATERWORTH: Exactly. Go the poos. I like that. I've got a few. I went through the skateboarders. I do appreciate that Channel 7 are using great Olympian Luke Darcy to anchor their coverage. Colin, you probably never heard that name before, is an Australian rules footballer who obviously has never played in the Olympics in his life, and apparently he's eligible to host the Olympics. I will say, she's back. Edwina, did you see her? She was hanging out with Shervo today, Jarrod. There she was. She was wearing a funny hat, though, but no wonder she hasn't replied to my tweets recently. She's busy. She's back. Good on you, Edwina. Yeah, just the coverage of Channel 7, I mean, the pods are fine, sure, but, like, God, they've gone to kids' schools and are interviewing them before they've won a gold. Like, show that when they win a gold. Like, there's that famous footage of Kyle Chalmers, like, school kids, like, jumping up and down and celebrating when he won the gold in Rio. But, like, whose was it? The university was at Brendan Smith's, and they've interviewed all these university mates. Like, dude, he's just made a final. Like, pressure.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I just don't think we need the interviews with the parents at all. Show the footage, sure. But it's just, it's always the same thing. Like, what are they gonna say? Oh, we're bitterly disappointed that he won a silver. I'm so, like, angry, like, don't bother coming back home. It's just always, oh, we're so proud of him. He's always been committed to this, that. He really deserves it. I'm like, I know what they're gonna say before they say it. I don't need the interview. The only good point was when it was, like, 10, 11 in the morning, and the mum wanted some champagne, and the dad's like, get me a rum. But other than that, it's just all the same same.
COLIN HILDING: We don't have that here. I mean, I saw that before we did the commentary last night when I was watching your screen, that there's a lot of stuff, as you were saying, with family reactions. The closest we'll get is they'll show a shot because they're filming everybody. They'll show a shot of them if somebody wins or somebody as well, you know, reacting to it. But I don't think the only one who's actually spoke on air was Skylar Park's dad, and that's because he's her coach. That's the only family member who has ever spoken during these Olympics for Canada.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think Channel 7 has shown more family member reactions in about 29 of the sports so far in these Olympics. So the one that I like from the family reaction, though, was they were interviewing Brendan Smith's dad, and he's like, yeah, no, Brendan's had a really tough year. He's had to go swimming at the beach. And he's literally going like, he's had it tough. We've got people dying of COVID. Colin, I sent you that headline today from the Ash Party Chokes. It's the number one headline above, like, three people die in New South Wales because of COVID. But Ash Party Choked, who cares about the dead? Because Ash Party Choked. So this is his, Brendan's, his dad. Oh, such a tough year. He's had to swim at the beach.
COLIN HILDING: That could have been part of the opening ceremonies. You got the treadmill, the elliptical, and a guy at the beach. The struggles of COVID training.
BEN WATERWORTH: I did like a couple of Liesl Jones' lines, though, when she's talking about the swimming team being the kings and queens of napping. Didn't know that. Good to learn. She mentioned that a bronze medal at the Olympics is nothing to be sneezed over. I don't know if that's a great Australian saying. And when I think Basil brought up the statistic about Cate joining her as only the second Australian to ever win four medals consecutively in the same event, Liesl Jones very humbly goes, even I forget my achievements sometimes. I liked the quote from Jack McLaughlin. They interviewed Mr.Winnington straight away, and he was shitty. Like, you could tell. He was like, oh, like, you know, bloody, this is stupid. I'm pissed off. But I did like Jack McLaughlin. Very happy to get the silver, even though he got beaten by like how it was a hand length. But he's basically referring to himself as an F1 car and that the Australian teammates are his pit crew. So I like that. That was quite a little bit there as well. In the canoeing, the guy that you mentioned, not Jess's dad, but the other guy, I did like his line when he said, yes, she has a choice of going backwards or forwards there. That's a very big strength of Jess's. All those people I know that don't know how to go back or forth. I mean, the horse last night, the reverse parallel park, Jarrod, on Jess Fox's level, right?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Definitely.
BEN WATERWORTH: The gymnastics commentators, I know I can't remember the lady's name. She's been around for a very long time. I remember her commentating in Sydney with Sandy Roberts. That's how long she's been around. I feel for her, though. She's sounding a bit bored. I tell you what, those gymnastics commentators are the most bored I've ever heard any commentator I think at these Olympics. I've heard Ian Thorpe. So, don't know about that. I wanted to mention when I flicked over to the boomers game on the app, there was like this old American dude, who was like, I don't know, he sounded like about 60 or 70. But I'm like, oh, so nice that the grandpa out of the nursing home to commentate the basketball. He wasn't bad, but he was just kind of like, oh, yes, and the boomers are doing very well here tonight. That's our young Patty Mills. She carries the flag at the opening ceremony, and isn't she doing well? And I also, I don't know who the woman was in the studio throwing to the heats, but whoever she was, I just want to say this very politely. Fuck you. Tasmania isn't that much of a backwater, but she tried to make out that dear old Aunty Titmuss escaped the hell that is Tasmania. So her dad Steve, who got a bit of a cult following during the Commonwealth Games. Another thing I've mentioned on this show, prominent Tasmanian, he used to be our lead anchor for our Channel 7 News, and I think he still does kind of some feeling anchoring on the Sunshine Coast or the Gold Coast. And she's like, I wish I knew her name. She's like, oh, yes. And they had to make the big decision to leave Tasmania, but they did. And they went off to bigger and greener pastures in Queensland. And then basically she says lines of, yes, back when she had to swim in Tasmania, they didn't have any female swimmers. She had to swim against the boys. I'm like, where are we from? Like, we have women in Tasmania, and like, we do have pools.
COLIN HILDING: It's not the United Arab Emirates, people.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Have you got pools? I wish she's swimming at the beach as well.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, well, she's had a hard life. Oh, Jesus Christ. The other two things I wanted to mention, it's literally on right now as we're recording this, have you caught any of Shinya with Andrew Gage and Andy Ma and the other woman? Kind of. It's not as bad as that Rio Ramber or whatever it was. I don't mind Andy Ma and Andrew Gage, but what's your take on Shinya if you've seen it, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Look, it's not my favourite. I think it's deserving, I suppose, if it's time slot. It's probably the nicest way to put it.
BEN WATERWORTH: People should listen to this instead. Do you have a comedic look at the games at all? Again, Canadians are very reserved. I don't think I saw any comedy in Canada. You guys are hungry. But do you have any comedic takes on the games at all?
COLIN HILDING: No, there's a show that would be perfect for it. I'm sure they've done it for the Winter Olympics, called This Hour Has 22 Minutes. It's one of the biggest shows in Canada that's been running probably as long as I've been alive. But it's the summer months, so it's off, so we don't get anything out of it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, we had the front bar. I didn't know if you saw that one the other night, Jarrod, of course, that. But Roy and HG, we should say, Roy and HG are actually doing a podcast. Don't listen to us. Go listen to Roy and HG. It only goes to 20 minutes. And it's Roy and freaking HG. Much better. The one thing I see as well, Mr. Aki, the cultural segment, have you caught Mr. Aki going around Japan today? He was showing us about the House of Origami, Jarrod. I was very entertained.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I did. I saw him. He was just on about five minutes ago talking about Godzilla as well. So what a personality.
BEN WATERWORTH: We'll record it and send it over to you. I forgot to mention about the fencing. I've written this in a big bowl letting us mention this. Watch the fencing. We will be watching it tomorrow. We'll get to that. But as they walked out into the gold medal bout, one of the ones I watched tonight, the Imperial March played as they walked out. Brilliant. Loved it. I thought that's what we would play in Brisbane in 2032 when the Americans walk out in the swimming. But clearly not. Now, we'll look ahead to tomorrow. I'll give the final medal tally for the day with our fan sort of things today. Jarrod, I think it's your turn to give a cheer for our Team Canada. I was reading some of the hashtags today for 7 Olympics, and I have to say, Great Olympian, our London flag bearer, Lauren Jackson, bagging out Channel 7 today, which I like this. But one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Her tweet that she put out today, is it just me or is it really difficult to navigate the 7 Plus app for the Olympics? I admit my technological skills aren't at scratch, but I have no clue how to find events for the next 24 hours. When Lauren frickin Jackson is bagging them out, then you know you're in... I guarantee Channel 7 will say, I'll fix it by tomorrow now, won't they, Jarrett? He's shaking his head.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's so bad. It's just... Even tonight, I was like, I just can't find anything to watch apart from the main channel. And everything was like delayed to and behind. It's just, it's really, it is really terrible. She's not alone in having difficulties with the app.
BEN WATERWORTH: There was a really great, very Australian tweet, which I did have up, and apparently it's disappeared on me, where somebody was complaining very heavily in very Australian language. And I'm really hoping I can find this really, really quickly right now, because I'm dragging this out. This one isn't it, but I like this one here from Matthew Tarbert.
COLIN HILDING: And I don't...
BEN WATERWORTH: Maybe he's talking about my American friend that was commentating on the Boomers, because he said, I would rather listen to Stephen Hawking commentate the basketball than this bloke.
COLIN HILDING: Seriously?
BEN WATERWORTH: Hashtag Tokyo 2020. Hashtag 7 Olympics. So maybe it was that one. Oh, here we go. Here's our very Australian tweet. Apologies for the language in this one, but I am Australian. I can get away with it. From George at George underscore A underscore 3. Hey at 7 Olympics, you absolute fucktards. How about putting the basketball on one of your main channels? Would be our most anticipated sport, and you have to watch it on the app. You cunts get nothing right, do you? Hashtag morons, hashtag 7 Olympics. Anything like that, Colin, in Canada?
COLIN HILDING: I haven't followed it. I did want to give an update on our app, though. As I said, it doesn't cast well with the Chromecast, but I also learned today that if you're just going on the website, they have twice as much stuff available as they do on the app. The app just sort of caps it at about six events that can be streamed live. I don't know why that's the case. If you go on the website, you can see everything. But I found a way around the whole Chromecast situation, because we don't have the cable TV up in our room. So when I'm going to bed, because of the hour and everything, I want to be able to be watching events. Amazon Prime has thrown in for free. Well, you have to have Amazon Prime Video, but it's not like one of their add-on channels or anything. CBC Olympic coverage 24-7 can be streamed live on Amazon Prime, and that does cast properly. So I am now able to watch this as I go to bed, which is how I went to bed last night watching the road race.
BEN WATERWORTH: Good job, Colin. I like that. Well done.
COLIN HILDING: I have played a big hand in it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I see you have there. I'm sitting on the T-MOS Hub. Let's do one thing we can do. Let's update you on the T-MOS Trivia Leaderboard. New leader today, Megan Stapleton. Good job, Megan. You are the T-MOS Trivia Leaderboard with 14,194, creative Tim Aeby and Courtney Mattick. Sounds like a porn star name, Courtney Mattick. Something as a band or something. The one thing you can do here, you can pick your favourite athlete, submit it, and you could win a $500 Woolworths voucher. There you go, if you really want to do that. All right, Jarrod, you're going to send in a cheer right now to Team Canada. Actually, no, sorry. It can be for Team Canada, for our beach volleyball players, or for Megan Benefito. That person that Colin pronounced correctly the other day. Who would you like to choose tonight, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think let's just keep it general, Team Canada.
BEN WATERWORTH: All right, Team Canada it is. All right, let's queue this up. I think you've got to queue it up on your screen as well, Jarrod, if you've got it ready to go. It's true. Yeah, all right. I mean, when you're ready, get excited, get pumped up. Give us a big cheer for Team Canada on our sticktogether.ca website.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Come on, Canada, get it done. Get it done, Canada. I'll stop choking like the Campbell sisters. Get on the line. Australia's catching up. Slow down a little bit. Go, Canada, go for that silver. You've got it. Oh, good job. Never in doubt.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think Jarrod's won that one. Jarrod wins the cheers. Can we play? I want to play another one here tonight. Let's see here. I feel like we've played all these ones. What about Sonya L from Ottawa for our beach volleyball players? Again, you two pretend you're listening to this. Let's hear how this goes right now. Let's go, Melissa. Did she say pound that hide one? She said pound something.
COLIN HILDING: I hate you on the language.
BEN WATERWORTH: I mean, I know Ottawa is that city where people get angry, but I know you live in Ottawa, but like, I mean, come on, calm down. You're not Australian. Jesus.
COLIN HILDING: Wow.
BEN WATERWORTH: There you go. All right, what are we looking forward to tomorrow? Well, I tell you what we're looking forward to tomorrow. The curse. The curse is still potentially on because Kylie Mass is back in the 100 metre backstroke semi, so get through to the final Kylie. But our last Olympic guest that we had on this show from Canada going into Tokyo, Max Von Haaster is competing in the individual foil. Now, he was very, very confident that he's going to win a medal, and I'm hoping, and this is going to be our commentary event for tomorrow, I feel, so we're going to commentate Max, the best name in fencing. But I'm excited. Colin, I've always liked fencing. It's always been one of these sorts of sports that I've liked when I've seen it, and it's not really been one I've been able to watch. But since we spoke to Max on this show and learnt a little bit more about it, I now know that you've got to get to 15, so I understand that part of the bout of fencing. That's about all I remember from that interview, but I'm excited, I want to see Max do well. Pan-ans, bronze medallists, and the American, I can't remember his name off the top of my head, who he's got this strong rivalry with, and I hope he doesn't have to face up against him. But he's not playing him in the first round. Again, I don't know if you play people in fencing. I don't know if that's the correct terminology. Fight in fencing, it's not Miranda Frost. But he's up against Hong Kong's Chan Yin Ryan Choi tomorrow. So that's who he's meeting in the round of 30. Big rivalry, but you're looking forward to this call on our great Canadian fencing. You've never won a medal in fencing, ever, in the 130 years of the Olympics. Drought could be broken tomorrow.
COLIN HILDING: Well, I mean, he's a guest of Off The Podium. We are going to continue that drought for at least another four years. But I'm hopeful. Hey, if Kylie breaks the drought tonight, then Max breaks the drought tomorrow.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, there you go. We're going to see how it goes. Jarrod, I mean, I know you've just not stopped listening to our interview with Max since we aired it. So, I mean, are you hopeful for Max that he can jump on this Off The Podium page of turning the curse, putting the curse in the purse?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I've got no doubt. I'm really confident about Max's chances.
BEN WATERWORTH: Good. That's the positivity from all of us here on the show. This is what I like to hear from Off The Podium. This is the best thing about it all. That's how it works. Tomorrow, we do have 21 medals that will be decided, including medals in canoeing for the first time. We've got medals in gymnastics happening tomorrow. We've got the women's street and the skateboarding. Triathlon tomorrow as well. First medals decided in that. Other sports starting tomorrow. We've got the men's mountain bike happening tomorrow. So we will have our women's the next day, another Off The Podium connection there, of course, as well. The rugby kicks off tomorrow. The men's happen tomorrow with that. And as I mentioned, the triathlon. So I'm excited for the rugby. I'm excited for that. I do like the mountain biking and triathlon. All the sports starting tomorrow, I'm excited for. Jarrod, do you have any potential highlights for yourself tomorrow that you're keeping an eye on? Sort of what will you watch tomorrow rather than a what did you watch?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think just keeping up with the tennis. After kind of the shock exit of Barty, I feel like the women's side is a little bit more open. You've still got a sucker there. And then the men are kind of outperforming the Australian women at the moment. So looking forward to seeing if we can keep that run going.
BEN WATERWORTH: I also believe the Matildas are tomorrow against the US. So I'm sure that will... I'm sure there's somebody called Sam Kerr, I think they talk up a lot. I've never heard of a name before. Colin, anything in particular for yourself outside of watching our man Max poke people with sticks?
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, actually, now that you mentioned the triathlons on, another one of our five Manitoba athletes, Tyler Mislechok, who's from here in Winnipeg, is going to be competing. So I'm going to be rooting for him now that I know what's going on.
BEN WATERWORTH: Good to hear that. I'm glad. Colin, that's what I... I'm pumped in your tires and... Pumping your tires, is that what I'm trying to say there? That's not... What?
COLIN HILDING: At least not stick it up my butt.
BEN WATERWORTH: I should also mention, I really feel bad. I'm pumping up the Tasmanian connections with Arnie Titmuss. I completely gelled over the fact that the canoeist that has made the final, Daniel Watkins, is a proud Tasmanian. So, get up there Daniel! Stick that bloody oar up their butts!
COLIN HILDING: That hellhole of Tasmania!
BEN WATERWORTH: The torturous hell that is Tasmania! We don't even have women that can swim in this state! You have to move to Britain...
COLIN HILDING: The canoe at the bloody beach!
BEN WATERWORTH: You've got to go to Queensland! Escape Tasmania, move to Queensland! That's why, funny story, where was the first place I lived outside of Tasmania? Queensland! All right? It's like, it's where all Tasmanians go. In the meantime, we do appreciate your company on the show. If you're listening to us, shout out, seriously, all jokes aside, we love the support we're getting during these games on social media and throughout the listenership base. A big hello to our listeners in Japan, particularly. As I said, we've charted very well in Japan today, so they're going Olympic crazy in Japan right now. Good to see that. Until 8% in the UK, suck it, you haven't won a gold, I don't give a shit, I'm not apologising. And to our French listeners, bonjour, you know, excusez-moi for the poor form that I did five years ago. All is forgiven. Civil play, thank you. I could have stayed in Canada, Colin, that was good French.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, much better than your pronunciation of their names, but your Russian language is pretty good.
BEN WATERWORTH: They just run away from me when I say their names anyway, so it doesn't really matter. But I'm looking forward to coming back tomorrow to talk more Olympics, to commentate more Olympics, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter. Actually, Adam, like us on Facebook. By the way, I'm staring at two very esteemed Olympic colleagues of mine who are just thoroughly entertaining, thoroughly smart, thoroughly knowledgeable. I actually just happened to scroll through who likes our page over on Facebook today, and haven't noticed two names missing from that list. When two of our co-hosts do not like our Facebook page off the podium, I'm embarrassed.
COLIN HILDING: What is going on, you two? You know what? To be honest, this is an honest answer for me. To be honest, I don't know. I thought I was, because I always receive the Off The Podium notifications, but that's because I'm a co-admin on the page, I realise.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes, you gotta like it too, just because you're in control of it, you know? Come on, don't you know anything.
COLIN HILDING: Well, we have two more people liking our page now, look at that. I think we're up to 40 now.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Two more, one more, I don't know.
BEN WATERWORTH: Jarrod hates this show, don't you? I'm liking this show.
JARROD LOOBEEK: If we hit top 30 sports podcasts in Japan, then I'll think about it.
BEN WATERWORTH: 36 isn't good enough for Jarrod, he's got a criteria. I'm not liking that page. My news feed's sacred on Facebook. I don't want it charmed up with this. Hashtag OTP on Twitter and Instagram as well, if you want to join in the conversation. And we're posting some fun things over there as well. But Colin, thank you very much, and congratulations, clang these together. That's two medals together.
COLIN HILDING: Thank you. I mean, there's gonna be two more tomorrow, and they're probably gonna be silver.
BEN WATERWORTH: And Jarrod, there's three here for us, because we did better than Canada. So thank you once again for joining us, and maybe we can reignite the Bardi Party at the US Open.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, she's still got the doubles. I think it was a tactical move to make sure she gets gold there.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I want somebody with the name of Storm Sanders to win a medal. I mean, the Storm Sanders Bardi Party sounds like an epic event to go to. And I really do hope if they have welcome home parades, which let's be honest, at this rate, Tasmania is going to have the biggest one because we've got no COVID cases. So I can be chilling out with Storm and Ash Bardi at the Ash Bardi Party, Storm Sanders Party with the Campbells and everyone. Like, I mean, I got myself with Bronte five years ago. It wasn't Cate, but it still was one of them. So yeah, anyway. And also just a quick note, I will say thanks to the Australian Olympic website for posting an article on Chloe today. Sadly not here, of course, in Tokyo, but she's looking forward to Paris, is Chloe, to sort of defend a title. She just takes one of the, I mean, let's be honest, she is gonna defend it in a proper Olympic year. So.
JARROD LOOBEEK: That's true.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, exactly.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Whoever wins this year, a bit of a holy victory.
BEN WATERWORTH: It doesn't count, it doesn't count. Although her brother's competing, so we'll see how he can continue the esteemed Estesito name. Until tomorrow, we appreciate your time, or, yeah, because your time's valuable while listening to us. I started this show crap, I'm ending this show crap, just fucking, I'm going. Please come back tomorrow.
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