Tokyo 2020 Day 6 Review
Another golden day for Australia and a day that brought us the gold we most wanted as we celebrate Jess Fox finally getting to the top of the podium! Yes, everyone's favourite Australia has finally broken through for that elusive gold, and it's time to celebrate her in every single way! We also go gobbilty gook for Zac Stubblety-Cook, celebrate Canada taking a much deserved bronze in the rowing and also celebrate Australia's other medals, even though the rest of the country seemingly bags them out. We also celebrate San Marino winning their first ever medal, bring you some epic sailing commentary and find out why we might be missing out on living in America when it comes to their amazing coverage on NBC. It's all here and more on another episode you can't miss!
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
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BEN WATERWORTH: It is off the podium, an Olympics podcast coming to you today for an epic day 6 review of Tokyo 2020. And as we all go gobbledygook for Zac Stubblety-Cook, we're all going absolutely chickenpox for Jess Fox because she did it. Jess Fox has broken through and finally won a gold medal. It's a double golden day for Australia, as well as a silver and a bronze day. And it's a bronze day for Canada as well. Let's remember to talk about them, even though we don't really have to tonight because it's only Australians on the show tonight. Colin's too busy having got so excited commentating sailing earlier today. We'll hear from that very shortly. But joining me on the line is Australia's number one expert on canoes slalom and breaststroke. It is Jarrod Lubig. Jarrod, what a day to be an Australian.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, what an awesome day to be an Aussie. Just wow, I feel like I'm still getting over that Jess Fox win. I was shaking so much when it was happening, just like the adrenaline. It was just so well deserved. And what a moment.
BEN WATERWORTH: It really is one of those ones where it's just, you want it so badly for her. And it was so heartbreaking the other day when she lost in the K1, and she would have won it had she not hit some of the poles. But unfortunately, she didn't win, and she still got her bronze. And obviously, she was a bit disappointed, but still had a smile on her face. But yeah, you're absolutely right to come back into this one, the debut of the C1 slalom. And yeah, I was absolutely shitting bricks. I don't think I've been that nervous in any Olympic event, probably since Sally Pearson back in London, maybe, I think, probably. It was just, because she went last as well, it was kind of one of these things where you're like, oh, no, but she did it. She took the gold and she's finally completed her set. And you made a very valid point actually on our chat today saying that give her the flag for the closing ceremony. But unfortunately for Jessie Cart, because she's got to go home within five days now, doesn't she? Those are the rules. So maybe she will get the honorary nod if she was allowed to stay. But you then said, give it to her in Paris, because she's all but confirmed she's coming back in three years.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I feel like provided she's in Paris competing, she's got to be a lock. I just can't see anybody else who that would pick over her. I just feel like, I know it's way getting way ahead of ourselves, but I just think that there's like no other option really apart from to give it to her.
BEN WATERWORTH: Maybe they'll think Arianne Titmuss, who knows? But yeah, no, I'm with you. I mean, look, in all fairness, I think she probably should have gotten it this time around. I mean, not to take away from our dear friend Kate. But as they keep celebrating Jess, she is essentially the all time greatest canoe slalom competitor of all time. She's basically won everything before her except for that Olympic gold. But who knows, maybe giving her that flag could have added more pressure to her and maybe wouldn't have it. But it's it's such a great result for her. I mean, I don't think there's a single person on this planet who does not like Jess Fox. And she celebrated, she cried, we had a dad on the commentary, her mum was there. I mean, the thing I liked about it, too, was that, yeah, OK, Channel 7 and Channel 7, they're going to be Channel 7. But at least they don't have to go out and seek out every single family member. They're literally right there. I mean, he's in the commentary box. Although I was a little bit concerned that they filmed him without his consent. I don't know how I felt about that. But I mean, it was I mean, Richard Fox ever just the professional. You could tell that, like, it clearly meant a lot to him, but he was still just very sort of solid. Oh, yes. And I'm very proud of her. And her mum was amazing. Her sister was amazing. Mel McLaughlin got a little caught up in the moment, thinking she was a bestie. But hey, that's Mel McLaughlin for you. But I mean, this this is the gold we all want. I mean, we would have liked to have won two, but one's fine. Well, I'm happy that she's got at least one.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it's early days, but it just already it feels like this is going to be like the moment of the games. Like, this is right out there for me for like one of the best Australian Olympic moments ever.
BEN WATERWORTH: I would absolutely second that. I mean, that adds a golden bronze in these games to a silver and a bronze that she's previously won. So amazing to think that she's won four Olympic medals. I don't know in terms of successful canoe slalom, men or female, male or women, men or, you know what I'm talking about. Of all time, I'd have to kind of look into that if there's been say a male slalom competitor who has won that many medals. But I know they had said that no female had ever won three medals in the one event prior to the other day when the Spanish canoeist got a medal as well as Jess in three. So yeah, four now in total for Jess, which is incredible. And I have to say, I do love the differences. Obviously the C one and the K one, obviously the boats are slightly different, but of course this one is sort of more the one paddle, whereas the other day it was kind of like the dual one where you did it that way too. So I mean, this one looks like 50 times harder. I mean, I can't even go in any, I can't even do this on a video game, let alone in real life. I mean, I can't imagine how hard this event is.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it looks super difficult. And I think just the fact adding to this medal too, was Jess had such a good run in the semis and the lead up. And then in the final, when the Brit put down that run that was faster than Jess' run in the semis, it was kind of like, oh, like, that was like three seconds faster than she went in the semis. Can she like improve on that further? And it was just such like a flawless clean run, like a couple of seconds faster than the silver medal as well, which is obviously like a huge time difference in this event. So just props to Jess for being able to pull it off after there must have been added pressure too after losing like the K1 and knowing like this is like my last chance like for three years until I might get another shot at Paris.
BEN WATERWORTH: And I absolutely loved her comments when she admitted that, you know, she didn't have a very good few days, you know, she's as kind of keep saying, she just seems like such like a likable person, but she said that even she struggled since the other day when she didn't get that one. So, I mean, it was such a great effort for her to do that. And yeah, as you said, the Brit Mallory Franklin who got second, I mean, what better way to win the goal by beating a Brit? I mean, seriously, I mean, it could have been a Brit, could have been New Zealander, who cares, but we beat one of them. And a German by the name of Andrea Herzog got the bronze, not quite Ricarda Funk, but still, I mean, Herzog may be related to a great survivor player, who knows, but yeah, great event, I love it. And of course, we've got what's his face in the men's tomorrow, qualified second, so who knows, could get another medal there. But our other goal today, in the men's 200-metre breaststroke, as you heard at the beginning, and as I already said, as Basil Zemplas, our Lord Mayor Extreme said, it's time to go gobbledygook for Zac Stubblety-Cook, the greatest name in swimming, lived up to his star billing for an Olympic record, gold medal for him. And just such a calm and collected guy. This guy's just chill, he just won an Olympic gold medal, and he's just like, yeah, cool, won a gold medal. Even they interviewed his girlfriend and his mum, they just say, yeah, cool, he just won a gold medal. I mean, great result. Our first men's gold medallists of the games as well. So yeah, Zac Stubblety-Cook, what a name and what a swimmer.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, such a good swimmer as well. Like they come from behind victory, which is kind of becoming, I feel like nearly all of our medals have come that way in the pool. Like it's never been, we've been leading apart from the women's relay. In all the individual events, we've been behind until that final lap. And this one too, like the fact that so many of them were swimming so fast, so early, and then just coming back to the field and just getting that touch on the wall was just, it was such a good win.
BEN WATERWORTH: I believe he made about two seconds up on that last 50, which was incredible for him to do that. But great result for him. And it was also some other medals for us in the pool today. The 100 freestyle, oh, how close was that? A fingernail. You talk about come from behind. Kyle Chalmers stormed home, and it looked like he had it. Thorpey thought he had it, I thought he had it. I was watching that, that was just before we were at the sailing, Colin and I, we were watching it live on our monitors, and I called it, I thought he had it. And then Caleb Dressel took the gold in an Olympic record and for Russian Olympic committee, Clement Kolesnikov took the bronze. And I should also mention in the 200 breast that Arno Kminga, silver for the Netherlands, and Mati Mattson, Finland, first medal for the game for the Finns. I love a good Finnish medal, so it was good to see that. But yeah, the 100, I mean, so close for Kyle Chalmers. I mean, and again, the humbleness of him, to straight away go, oh, so I'm half a second faster than I did in Rio, you know, like straight away, like he knows that. But I mean, it's great. I'm fine with the silver for Kyle. I mean, it would have been nice for a goal, but I don't know if this was one of those ones that I think anyone really kind of expected him to potentially go back to back and to be six, you know, hundreds away from going back to back is pretty incredible.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think a great result considering the circumstances too. Like we heard from him afterwards that if it had, if the games had gone ahead like a year ago, he wouldn't have been there. So the fact that he did his rehab in like such a short amount of time, and the fact that it was only a touch, I did love the Thorpey line of, oh, if he'd been drawn into a different lane, he might have won that.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah. Oh, that's coming, Jarrod. There's plenty of discussion points about reactions today from Australian metre. Don't worry.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Everything considered, no, it was a great result. And I mean, I'm over the moon that we've bumped up that silver medal tally.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, you called it, you did, there it was. I mean, is this again, is it the Yo Pro Bro curse broken? I mean, again, it's not gold, but I mean, it's better than what Barty did. I mean, she's playing right now. So we may be jumping ahead there, but you know, is it broken? Do you think is silver good enough?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I feel like it's hard to judge because there was so like, like few athletes for this, like the fact that it was just like the three. And obviously like Kyle's done great, Barty's done terrible. So far we'll see how the mixed doubles pans out. So maybe it's going to have to come down to Brendan Stuck in the high jump to see whether the curse is alive and we're a little broken.
BEN WATERWORTH: We should mention we are recording this at the moment as the mixed doubles is on and Barty and Piers are locked in a super tiebreaker right now against the Greek pairing after taking the first set. So the winner of this goes into the semis. So Jarrod might be slightly distracted here. He loves his tennis and, and it's one all at the moment in the super tiebreaker. So the one too, again, that maybe, I feel we talked ourselves up a little bit here with this one. The four by 200 metre freestyle relay. The way people talked about this, channel seven, everyone, we were expected to lap everyone, I feel, with this one. This was a lock. This was, you know, we were winning this one. I don't think we led this race at one point at all, but we got a bronze, which I, again, any medal at an Olympics is great. Yes, you've got to admit, watching something like this, you are going to be disappointed as a supporter, as somebody who gets into the hype. But like once it kind of calms down, you're like, okay, well, it's still a medal. It's still a medal for Australia. And I don't think anyone predicted China to win this event. They won in a world record time. The US came through for the silver. Everyone was ahead of the world record time that Australia previously held, which was absolutely fantastic. So, I mean, it was actually a quite entertaining race. Sometimes the four by two can be a bit mundane, I feel. I mean, the men's was quite exciting the other day to see Australia get the bronze. But yeah, again, we'll talk about sort of the media and the reaction to a lot of these results today shortly. But I mean, again, another bronze for Australia. We got all colours today in the pool, gold, silver and bronze. And obviously Jess gave us another gold. So, I mean, if you had have said at any point during the Olympics, you're gonna walk away with two gold, a silver and a bronze on day six, you'd probably take that and not be disappointed.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think too, like the fact that the fastest three teams all went under the world record, like you can't be disappointed there. Any other given day or event, you've won it with the time that the Aussie girls swam. So, I think that just shows the level of the Olympics and in a final really anything's possible because they're all pushing each other to just go faster and to reach that next level.
BEN WATERWORTH: We should mention for Canada a bronze today in the rowing and the one that we sort of called and talked a little bit last night, Kayleigh Filmer and Hilary Jansons and the Women's Coxless Pair. And I don't live there anymore, but I spent a year of my life in Victoria and I have spoken to Kayleigh, a local girl there. As I said last night on the show, she trained on a lake about five minutes from where I first lived there. So, I think maybe she won the medal because she didn't come on the show, let's be honest. But great to see, I caught the end of that just as I turned on the TV this morning. So, a bronze for Canada today. Obviously, we don't have Colin's reaction to that, but Jarrod, let's get your Canadian perspective. How great is this for Canada to win a bronze in rowing this morning?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, I mean, Canada is over the moon. What did Colin say? Rowing is their national sport, pretty much.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, better ice hockey.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, national holiday for Canada tomorrow. Clearly, Colin's athlete of the day next time he's on the show. But yeah, I mean, a great result. Bronze for any nation, bronze for Canada, even better.
BEN WATERWORTH: I should mention, I'm wearing my gold, my Tokyo again. I got my new shirt today in the mail, my Aussie Olympic team, so I gotta wear that off. Penny Alexiak was part of the 4x200 relay team that ended up finishing fourth. So nearly a history-making moment there for Canada. Of course, Colin, unavailable tonight, he said he would have come on for five minutes to talk about Penny's groundbreaking moment, but she's into the final of the 100 metres tomorrow, which maybe we'll talk about a little bit, a chance to defend that. Any medal will of course make Penny Alexiak the single greatest Canadian Olympian in the history of the Olympics. We should also celebrate a little fact too, to our dear old neighbours across the Dutch, Jarrod, because New Zealand have a gold! New Zealand have finally broken through for that elusive gold. They've got half of Tasmania's medal count now, the women's Cox's pair, that the same race at Canada got bronze in. It was won by a New Zealand pair of Grace Prendergrast and Kerry Gowler. I was too concerned of watching the Canadians to win the bronze, and it took me a few minutes to realise that New Zealand had won a gold. We make fun of them, we rip into them, but again, on a personal level, I lived there for 18 months. I like the Kiwis as much as I like to make fun of them. I mean, how do you feel about New Zealand winning a gold medal?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I'm happy for them. I mean, it's better than the Brits. So like it's kind of that different type of rivalry between Australia and the Brits and Australia and New Zealand. So I think, yeah, definitely happier for New Zealand than I would have been happier if a Brit had won.
BEN WATERWORTH: Before I talk about some other significant medals today, 6-3 up Australia now in the Stubblety. How are you feeling, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I don't want to get ahead of myself. I'm just having flashbacks to the women's doubles and the fact that they lost it in a super tie break. So I'm just, I don't know.
BEN WATERWORTH: I just got a nice point there at the net though. So it's 7-3. So Jarrod might be distracted here slightly while we go through this. Let's just stick with it here. I think we should not necessarily commentate it, but I'm just, I feel like we're going to be too distracted. Greece is serving here right now. And that's a nice little show. Are you a doubles or a singles man, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I play a bit of both. So either or, I think singles, I mean, that's kind of a bit more fun because you get all the glory. But there's nothing like a good doubles point that has like all four players involved and the players at Ned and bullying back and forth.
BEN WATERWORTH: I played tennis for about a year or two, and I was always the doubles guy. Oh, a shot there from Piers at the net, eight, four. Jarrod, now how are you feeling? Two points away here from a semis final spot. The number one seeds here, the Greeks too, aren't they? So this is a pretty interesting one. Is there ever any sledging going on here as they change sort of ends, as they walk past? I feel like I'd walk past and I'd just be like, hey guys, you're gonna be going and eating some souvlaki tonight, you guys suck. Like, you know.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Surely not often, but I mean, there was the famous incident where the Argentinian spat at Huard on the change of ends. So every now and then.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now Bandian, right? Was it, or was it a different player?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think it was Chayla.
BEN WATERWORTH: I just, I think Argentinian tennis players, I think of now Bandian, who doesn't?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Now Bandian's the one who kicked the wooden box around the line swivel's legs. And then cut the guy's leg open.
BEN WATERWORTH: Peece loves his net play. Nine, four, five match points here. Wow, I'm glad I'm watching this. This is, I mean, if we choke from here, I don't want to put the commentator, I mean, we're not commentating. We're just, we're simply observing here. Sorry to take this brief break in transmission, because obviously by the time you are listening to these people will be well aware that Barty and Peece probably choked from here. So remember this moment in time when they had five match points. And that was a fault there. Come on, give it to us on a double here. Make it easy. Strat is about to go off. Haven't won a tennis medal since Athens. And oh, that was an easy one. Peece left the gap open there, didn't he, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, gotta be covering the line.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, what's his name here? Sitsipas, how do you say his name?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Sitsipas.
BEN WATERWORTH: Sitsipas, thank you. I'm not sure about the hairstyle. What are you thinking of the hairstyle?
JARROD LOOBEEK: You're not a fan of the ponytail?
BEN WATERWORTH: No, no, no, not at all. I think if you've got long hair.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think he pulls it off better with the headband.
BEN WATERWORTH: You got long hair, just let it out. Let it out, man. We don't need man buns. We don't need ponytails. Oh, good serve there from Mrs. Grease. She's a little unit, isn't she? I see Alicia Molloch in there, our bronze medallist from Athens. I love Alicia. She's one of the first Australian tennis players I think I ever saw play live when she used to come down here to Hobart. She won here in Hobart one year. She was the second Australian. I think we had another Australian winner at one point. All right, Australia's serving now, 9-6. Again, don't want to commentate. Don't want to jinx them. Oh, good serve there. Is that going to go out? Boom. Look at him, Jarrod's pumped. The Ash Party, Piers Party, back of the Storm Sanders Party.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Great. Yo pro mojo, I'm not going to call it yet, but it's teetering in the opposite direction. Bad mojo to good mojo.
BEN WATERWORTH: The happiest I think I've ever seen Jarrod. I'm not even joking. I mean, I've seen him happy over Eurovision before, but wow, Channel 7 are quick to get away from that and go straight to the water polo, aren't they? They do not give two shits and Australia just won. In the water polo, by the way, we are, I think, getting spanked by Serbia. Quite significantly. This is the reigning Olympic champions. So we'll update you on that. But I'm just actually, again, we're recording this a little bit earlier tonight, so there's still plenty of events on. I'm looking right now at the Women's 200 back, and our girl Kayleigh McEwen right now is in second, and Kylie Mast as well in the pool. I didn't realise she was doing the 200, or I thought she was only doing the four by one medley, the mixed one. So another Off The Podium special here. And I'll get too distracted. We'll see how Kayleigh's doing here. I mean, just while we're watching this, well, I'm watching this, speaking of Eurovision, significant day for one of our, no, let's not say one of, our favourite Eurovision nation. We have a first time Olympic medal country winning team of San Marino. Alessandra Pirelli in the women's trap. Unfortunately, it came at the expense of an Australian, but if you're gonna not get a medal, you're gonna give it to San Frickin Marino, Jarrod. What a win.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, such a good win. Valentina will be celebrating back home. San Marino's population have won. Big party in Valentina's backyard tonight.
BEN WATERWORTH: Do you think that maybe that Alessandra is a chance to perform at Eurovision next year? Like, I mean, they've got about two singers. She might be able to sing away with a gun.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think it's definitely a possibility. And if she's not the one singing, how about some live trap shooting on stage?
BEN WATERWORTH: Hey, I'm all for live trap shooting. In all seriousness, we'll talk about the shooting shortly, but shooting is actually an underrated spectacle of a sport to watch. I mean, you think to yourself, how is shooting exciting? It's people shooting stuff. But like, it's nerve wracking. Like, I was almost shaking as much as the Jess race today. It's so nerve wracking to watch it. It's kind of like archery. Like, they're both on paper boring sports, but they're actually really fun to watch, aren't they?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, absolutely. Like you say, it's just so, like you're living on every single shot.
BEN WATERWORTH: And speaking of every single shot, Kelly McEwen has just won her heat, and Kylie Mass has come second. So look at that. The Off The Podium, Quinella once again. So Kelly McEwen has won heat too there. We'll go through some of the other medal results today, though, from what we have already talked about, as Jarrod is still catching his breath excitement. I mean, Jess has won. Piers and Barty has won. Jarrod's having a good day today. I mentioned the C1. We've got the fencing team's foil is happening as we speak. Italy has won the bronze, and that's a bad game for Italy in fencing. Traditional fencing nation. That's not even me being a dick. They really are. And yet to win a gold in the fencing. So still a few events to come in there, but we'll have to see how they go. The women's artistic individual all around in the gymnastics is happening as we speak, so we might have a result for you by the end of that. We've got a double gold for Japan again in the judo. The men's 100 kilos, Aaron Wolf winning that one, and the 78 kilos, Shori Hamada took that one out. I believe there was a Canadian in the men's judo who lost in the bronze medal bout to a Portuguese judoko. So unfortunately Canada couldn't add there. The rowing, as we mentioned, New Zealand won the gold in the Cox's pair. Croatia in the Cox's pair for men took the gold in there ahead of Romania and Denmark. Ireland won their first gold of the games. And tell me if these aren't the most stereotypical Irish names you've ever heard. Fintan McCarthy and Paul O'Donovan took the gold in that one ahead of Germany and Italy. And the women's lightweight double skulls, Italy took the gold ahead of France and the Dutch. The shooting in the men's gold went to the Czech Republic's Jiri Liptak, head of his countrymen, David Cossettly. And Britain got the bronze in that one in the women's trap. And we'll talk about this when we come to our Australian results. The gold went to Slovakia's Zuzena Rek-Stefkova beating American Kayleigh Browning and our esteemed new favourite athlete Alessandra Pirelli for San Marino, the bronze. In the swimming events today, as we've already mentioned, Zac Stubbely-Cook, Caleb Dressel and China winning the relay as well. China also got the gold in the 200 butterfly with Yuefei Zhang taking that gold. And in the men's 800 freestyle, the very first time that has ever been held in Olympic Games, Robert Fink won the gold there for the US. And in the table tennis, I can tell you that China will win gold and China will win silver as the final will be between two Chinese table tennis players. Who they will be, we will have to find out soon. But that means that the medal table is looking very good right now, Jarrod, if you are an Australian, because we are currently sitting pretty in fourth right now, ahead of our dear rivals, Rock. We have won eight gold, two silver, ten bronze. And just to put that into perspective, we have now won as many gold medals as we did in Rio and also in London, and we are not even halfway. Boy, oh boy, wowee, we aren't Channel 7 talking that up, thinking this is going to be a massive thing. But I mean, again, the swimming does end in a few days. So, you know, how are you feeling now? I mean, it's nice to equal our haul from the last two Olympics, but again, I mean, there's still a few realistic chances that we've got, at least in the swimming there's still a couple, and there's some other non-swimming ones that you could think, but I mean, I don't think we're going for a haul here of like 25 all of a sudden, as I think Channel 7 are pointing out.
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, I don't think the gold total is going to be doubled by any means, but you'd have to think we've got a good shot of picking up at least one or two more in the pool. And then like you said, there's others outside the pool who have their chances. There's always a surprise Aussie win thrown in somewhere. So yeah, I feel like we still got a couple more up our sleeve.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I mean, our last time we got into the double digits was back in Beijing where we won 14 gold. So yeah, I mean, look, I'm going to say this right now. I think we should get to double digits. I'm predicting that, but I'm not sure if my 54 total, I think you had 54 total as well, has got to be reached. But you never know. There's still plenty of time to win some of those minor medals. Top of the medal table, China, 15 gold, 7 silver, 9 bronze, 31 in total. The host, Japan, still doing very well, 15 gold, 4 silver, 5 bronze, 24. US in third, 13 gold, 14 silver, 10 bronze, 37. They're leading the medal table if you do the Ben Waterworth method of doing it by total medals. Straight out of the 7th and 4th, Iraq in fifth, 7 gold, 11 silver, 8 bronze, 26. You know if Iraq wins another gold, and they probably will in the gymnastics tonight, then we're going to be straight back down to fifth, but that's fine. And the Brits sitting outside the top five, which is where we like it. Canada are currently in 12th, and they, of course, have 2 gold, 3 silver, 5 bronze. New Zealand have moved up into equal 21st place, everyone. They're tied with the Czech Republic, 1 gold, 2 silver, and a bronze. Tasmania equal 16th with Kosovo on the metal tally at the moment. 2 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze. Not too sure where New South Wales would be, Jarrod. I'm assuming that would probably be a lot higher. I mean, I'm guessing some of the relay girls are probably from New South Wales. Is she from Queensland or a New South Welsh woman?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I'm not sure, but I mean, Jess Fox is like the stereotypical New South Wales poster child.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes. Well, I mean, that's all you want. You want Jess to come through with that one, don't you? Of course. So I might actually just do a weird way of doing the orders of this today, just while I try and actually get the Canada results up. So I'll throw to you, Jarrod, and ask you the question of what did you watch today? I'm very intrigued to find out what you did watch today.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I didn't actually get to catch a lot today. Obviously a bit of the swimming in the morning, the canoe slalom, followed by some golf, because I just needed something to calm me down. I was like, oh, what's up? Here we go, golf that way. That's not going to get the heart rate pumping. And a little bit of the BMX as well, which was really good.
BEN WATERWORTH: Look, I've got to say, I caught some of the golf. That may be something that we may be talking about more tomorrow, of course, as you heard our little thing of what we were doing for commentary. And look, it's not like golf is a sport. I don't mind playing like my dad plays golf all the time, and he's always trying to get me out there to play with him. And like when I play golf, it's not bad. Like I can see maybe the relaxation appeal of it. Like it's just a nice social game. You can play with some friends. I get that. But when it comes to a spectator sport, it's not like sometimes I'll see like my dad go to my dad's and he'll be watching golf. Like, cool. You're watching golf, dad. That seems exciting. So I don't know that one, but like, I don't know. There was just something. I like some of these guys' hairstyles. Obviously, Zac Smith is quite prominent there. I don't know. Like, I still think there's some worse sports. I still, controversial opinion, I'd probably still watch the golf over the skateboarding. How is that for a controversial opinion?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I think it's 50-50 between the two.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, maybe we'll have to go to the jury and see how that goes. But yeah, I watched some of the rowing this morning, obviously the swimming, got some golf. Caught a bit of the BMX. That was quite entertaining. I do like the BMX. Golf, as I said, the canoeing, of course, the shooting. Love me some shooting. Obviously watched a bit of the tennis while we were just here on air as well. And I caught the rugby sevens as well. I do like the rugby sevens, and I think I'm a bit more of a fan of the women's rugby sevens than the men's. And not just for the reasons you're thinking. I don't know, there's just something interesting. I mean, I was watching the Team GB, not just Great Britain, Team GB, nearly beat the raging favourites in New Zealand, but they ended up getting overrun. And we'll talk about Australia and our connection, of course, one of our guests involved in a pretty big day. But I mean, do you enjoy the rugby? I don't know, we couldn't really, we talked a little bit about it last night obviously with Fiji, because a certain person on this episode didn't want to be spoiled. But yeah, do you enjoy watching the rugby?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think the rugby sevens is good, because it's kind of that, I almost want to say it's like the sweet spot between like Union and League. Yeah. And I feel like, yeah, a lot more happens than I've like, I've never been a big rugby Union fan. I find it pretty slow. But in this, it's obviously less players on the field. So there's more room to break through and score tries. And the fact that the halves too are like, they're really short, which I didn't notice before. Oh yeah, I watched and I was like, oh, it's already like half time. So I think that too, like the pace of the game is exciting and fun. And it's something that it's not going to take ages out of your day to watch.
BEN WATERWORTH: Just a quick little update here on the swimming. The four by one medley, mixed medley, the first time this has ever been happened, is happening as we speak. And Canada in their first heat only went fifth. So unless we've got a very slow second heat here, Canada might miss out on a spot there. So that could be a bit of the Off The Podium curse. Kylie probably, I'm assuming, would get the backstroke nod there for Canada. But maybe she was being rested for the heats, given that she just came around the 200. But the Australian final heat, I should say, is happening. I like these mixed events. I feel like they make sense. I know they've had them in the Youth Olympics for quite some time. But the Youth Olympics take it a step further. They have mixed nationalities, of course. Australia could be with Canada and Italy and China altogether. But are you a fan of them introducing? We've got this in Athletics as well. We've got a mixed 4x100 relay as well.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think it adds an element of intrigue. And it's interesting to see if you have the men and women in the pool at the same time, and there's a strategy of who's going to swim what leg. So I think it adds in a lot more room for lead changes throughout. And it just seems like an obvious idea in something like swimming and athletics, where it's a full program, but obviously there's space to fit it in. So I just think, why not?
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, we're seeing right now Australia look like we're about to head into the first turn, not quite in the lead. I'm sure as we'll talk about at some point, Channel 7 probably say they're in the lead, but that's the whole of the story. Okay, Canadian results, and we'll go through Australian results as well. As we mentioned, the medal came for Canada today in the rowing, Kelly Filmer and Hilary Janssen's. It was Canada's first medal in that event since Barcelona in 1992. So there you go. In other events, a couple of Canadians were in the semis and the B finals. Penny Alexiak, as I said, part of the 4x2 that ended up finishing fourth. Penny Alexiak is through to the final of the 100 freestyle, which I'm sure we'll talk about very, very shortly. Canada's hoping the artistic gymnastics tonight. Ellie Black has unfortunately withdrawn due to an injury in training. But they will be represented by Brooklyn Moors, the Brooklyn Moors tonight. So there you go. In the team foil, Canada went out in the quarterfinals. So they actually finished fifth in the fifth place bout, beating the host nations Japan, their best ever result in women's foil team fencing. So congratulations, Canada. Great to see there. And Shady El Nahas, the men's 100 kilos in judo, as I mentioned, went out in the bronze medal match to Jorge Fonseca of Portugal. Michelle Lee in badminton has advanced from group play with a 2-0 record. She faced world number three Nozima Okahara of Japan in the round of 16, and she lost 2-0. But apparently Canada's best ever result in badminton equaling that. So I bet you're happy for that one. Jarrod, you loved your badminton yesterday, didn't you?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, very happy for them. That's one of those ones where the sport of badminton is the real winner, isn't it?
BEN WATERWORTH: When Canada can make it to the round of 16, you know you're in for a treat. Just an update on the swimming here in Australia. We're also struggling a little bit here. Heading into the 300m on the butterfly leg. We're in about fourth place here. So who's our 100m swimmer here? Have they put Kate to work ahead of tomorrow? Have they put Emma in there ahead of tomorrow? I don't think they would want to waste their energy ahead of the 100m final tomorrow. Maybe we've got Bronte or somebody, Jarrod. Who do you think?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Well, you know us, arrogant Australians. Surely we've chucked in our B team in a heat.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, we're gaining on Russia. So China and the relays all of a sudden have just, you know, I mean, are we going to maybe throw some shade at them and suspect that they've been drinking certain juices during the week? I don't know, Jarrod.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it's an interesting one when all of a sudden you're winning relays, but you don't seem to be doing as well in individual events.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, maybe the shipment of the Pfizer came through or something like that. But Australia's coming back here at the moment. We should be in the top three at this turn right now. Final turn. Third place right now. Italy. What does Italy have to do with swimming? I'm shocked. Oh, we've got this now. Whoever this is. I don't know who this is. I should have looked up the start list, and I know we're distracted here, but oh, we're storming home now. Australia will take this. I hope this isn't one of our two finalists in the 100 tomorrow, because that's the only event we've got finalists in tomorrow. That looks like Kate. Maybe that is Kate. Maybe she's going to pip it here. Is she going to pip the Chinese swimmer? No, second, but that should get us through to the final. So anyway, beach volleyball, one of Canada's big hopes, of course, Sarah Paven and Melissa Humane-Paredes undefeated in the group stage. They've topped their pool, and they will go through to the round of 16. While Heather Bansley and Brandy Wilkinson will face world number ones Agatha and Duda of Brazil in their final pool C match. They got one all records and could potentially make it through. I've got a funny thing about Pavan and Humana Parade. I sent a little video in our chat, which I will have to mention. Rugby Sevens Canada, of course, are the reigning bronze medallists, but they didn't do so well in their second game. They lost 26-12 to Fiji, but they beat Brazil 33-0 Zip, and they take on France tomorrow, and hopefully we'll get through to the quarterfinals. Basketball Canada had a good win over South Korea today in the women's basketball, 74-53. BMX, Drew, Matheson and James Palmer were in the quarterfinals in both the men's and the women's. Matheson, fourth in her heat and is in through to the semis, while Palmer is unfortunately out. Golf, our favourite sport, Mark Pearson, sorry, that's a hockey player, wrong one, I'm looking here. Corey Conners and Mackenzie Hughes tied 20th at two under par, six strokes back from the leader. And in the hockey, as I think, was it last night, Colin mentioned, or was this today? Maybe talk to me about this earlier. Nine-one, they got spanked by Belgium. And unfortunately, they're not going to go through there. There's sailing going on, that's good. Linda Jekko was in the women's 25-metre pistol. She's 41st after the qualification period. So there you go. Who's your standout performer from all of those? Jarrod outside of the medal winning. I mean, God, like, it's Canada going everywhere, aren't they?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I mean, it's got to be the hockey team, right?
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, 9-1 against Belgium, respectable.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Bothering to, yeah, bothering to hit a goal.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'll tell you one thing, if Australia lost 9-1 to Canada in ice hockey, we'd be celebrating that. So just quickly, Canada has not made the 4x100 mixed medley final. So, wow, I predicted that was a Carly-Mass lock and luckily she's gone through in the 200 back. So yeah, the old cursor Rooney might be coming through there. All right, Australia, let's go through this. Archery, we actually had a pretty good day in archery today. Taylor Wirth is through to the quarterfinals, winning his round of 32 and his round of 16 matches. So good for him, as is Ryan Tyock. Actually, no, sorry, he's been eliminated in the round of 16. He made it through to the round of 16, but we'll have one Australian represented in the quarterfinals there, which is a good result, as we've kind of mentioned a little bit with Taylor Wirth. He, of course, is a bronze medallist from Rio. Did you catch into the archery? I think I just saw like two seconds of it when I was clicking channels at one point.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I didn't. I'll have to catch it next time it's on. I feel like I haven't watched enough about this game.
BEN WATERWORTH: Such a great sport. I just, I really love archery. It's one of the, like, that's one of those ones when they talk about, you know, Basel and all that. Oh, the kids are going to be watching and they're into this in Brisbane. Like, seriously, watching Simon Fairweather in Sydney made me want to take up archery. Like, I really wanted to do it, and clearly I'm not competing at the Olympics. So obviously I didn't, but that was just one of those random events which I never thought I would get into, and I loved it. That was probably my favourite gold medal of Sydney 2000. In the Canoe Slalom. Oh, I think we won a gold medal. Yes, Jess Fox, there she is. Good for her. I believe both our riders in the BMX are through to the quarterfinals. Sorry, the semis and the finals, which of course are happening tomorrow, which if they will come up for me. Because we got a lot of lovely stories, didn't we, about, how do you say her name? Saka Kabira? Say her Saka Kabira. Because of course her brother was one of our best ranked ones and had a pretty horrific injury last year. Lauren Reynolds as well, I believe, is through as well. Yes, she is. And in the men's, Anthony Dean is not through. So unfortunately, we have to go with our two girls representing us tomorrow in the finals. Fencing, obviously, we don't have a team. Hockey, at the time of recording this, Australia will play New Zealand tonight. The Hockey Roos, that's women's hockey tonight. The Hockey Roos aiming to aim undefeated. Rowing, we had a bunch of people in the B finals, but do we really care about the B finals? I don't. So after yesterday, that kind of went that way. In the rugby, Australia spanked Japan 48-0. And I thought it was a bit of a boil over happening in the Chinese game, because we went behind quickly, but then we came through 26-10. Our girl, Charlotte Kaslick, got a couple of tries in both games and was looking quite strong. Nearly stopped the first try there from China, actually, as well. But we're cheering on Charlotte ahead of, hopefully, some further progression tomorrow. I will say in the sailing, we actually do have, I believe, in the laser class, a leader in that one. Now, you're nodding at me there, Jarrah. That made a bit of news today. So sailing's kind of one of these ones where, again, we literally don't give a shit about until we realise we're probably about to win a medal. And I believe, if I can get the results up here today, our sailor in this one both races today to take the lead. So, yeah, his name is Matt Wern, and yes, he is leading the race right now. So, I mean, you've got to at least win one sailing gold. That generally happens every Olympics, doesn't it?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I feel like there's that many events that it feels like it's a lock that, yeah, we get one gold out of it each time the Olympics come around.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, shooting-wise, you and I talked up the trap, the women's trap, of course, Catherine Skinner, the reigning champion in that, and given that she came on Off The Podium after she won the gold, clearly she didn't qualify for the games. But it was heartbreak, Letitia Scanlon, who I actually remember her, she was the leading qualifier for the final back in Rio and ultimately didn't medal. Catherine Skinner won that. She was looking so good for a medal. She, I think, went on about a seven-shot run there at one point and was really close to the lead. And basically, when it came down to making the top three, she had to hit one shot from her last two to make it. And I think she missed both of them. So unfortunately, she finished fourth, and you could just literally see the devastation on her face from fifth to fourth. So she's going to win a bronze in Paris by the looks of things. And Penny Smith also made the final, but she was first to limit. I mean, heartbreak for Laetitia. I mean, I feel unfortunate for our shooters, because, I mean, these generally are people that we only ever hear about when it comes to the Olympics. But I mean, yeah, wow. That's heartbreaking for her, the way she went out.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, to perform so well throughout, and then for it just to come down to, like, as you said, like one or two targets and just have a bad round, it's just, it is disappointing. But like you said, the silver lining is that San Marino were the position that stepped into that bronze medal spot.
BEN WATERWORTH: And in the men's, we had two shooters, James Willett and Derek Thomas both did not advance through to the final. Swimming, we've already gone over the medal results and some of the ones obviously that we talked about, we'll probably talk about some of the finals. I've only got one finalist tomorrow, but we'll talk about that after. Tennis, the big news, the Barty Party continues with Piers. We're through to the semifinals in the mixed doubles. I believe we have never won a medal in mixed doubles, I would go out on a limb and say. I think it's only ever been doubles and singles, which is the other two anyway. But we're playing. Now I'm looking here, our rock pair of A. Rubalev and A. Pavlochenkova. Can you tell me anything about our esteemed rock competitors here? The number four seeds.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, well, they're both good singles players in their own right. But it's always interesting in the Olympics, the fact that I suppose the doubles teams and just the way that it works aren't necessarily double specialists, and it's more so we'll just chuck in our highest ranked players. And it feels like really, particularly with the men this year, it's like the top male singles players will play the men's singles and then opt for the mixed doubles rather than the men's doubles, because I think it gives them a bit more of a break between matches because with the mixed doubles starting later and being less rounds. So yeah, it will just be how they kind of combine together. Obviously, they've done well to make it to the semis, but you would think that Barty and Piers have a lot more doubles experience. So hopefully that will be the difference that's able to get them into that gold medal match.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, given that tennis, of course, has only really been back at the Olympics since 1988, I'm not sure how we went back in sort of the old days. But if I'm not mistaken, and I think my mind is correct here, that we've only ever won medals, at least gold, through the Woodies, of course, back in Atlanta, they got the silver in Sydney, and then Alicia Mollet got the bronze in Athens. So one got one silver, we won three bronze. I'm guessing did our two other bronzers come from back in the old days of tennis? Jarrod, am I missing someone here?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I feel like they must have, because I can't recall anything recently.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, I know Jelena Dokic made the bronze medal match in Sydney, but she lost. Oh, okay, I see here. Oh, come on, Jarrod, you should have known this. 1912, Stockholm, Anthony Wilding took the bronze in the men's singles. Come on, that's one of our most famous ever bronze medal wins in the Olympics. And where is this other bronze coming from? I don't see another bronze. Did we win maybe a bronze in Korea potentially, in Seoul or Barcelona? Because they were the only other times. So this is great podcasting here. Ah, OK, we did. Women's doubles in Seoul. Elizabeth Smiley and Wendy Turnbull took the bronze back when they awarded double bronzes. There wasn't a bronze medal match. So equal bronze with Steffi Graf, who of course won the gold in the singles at the Golden Grand Slam and Claudia Code Kielsch. And we should mention Golden Grand Slam still on the cards. Novak beat our man, Nick Assury, and you're not happy about it, are you, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, I mean, as an Adal fan and the whole GOAT debate, it's not ideal. But I mean, credit where credit's due, he just is really playing out of his skin. And I mean, Nishikori is definitely on the comeback trail. I feel like not playing as well as he used to, but to win by like 6-2, 6-love or 6-love, 6-2, whichever way around it was, it's just such an impressive scoreline this late, kind of in the tournament.
BEN WATERWORTH: So Djokovic is either going to play Zverev or Chadi. And then in the other semi, we've got Chazenov and Kareno Busta, all names that I've heard of. So I mean, on paper, I would assume he's got an easy run, but I probably just jinx him there. And good news for us is that New Zealand will not win a gold or a silver, because Marcus Daniel and Michael Venus went out to our Croatia. But Croatia will have a gold and a silver medal, because it's going to be an all-Croatian doubles final in that one. And the women's, you talk about the Ben Waterworth commentary curse, well, Belinda Bencic is through to the final. So there you go. She hasn't appeared on this show, so maybe it's just me on this show type of thing. But she will win a gold or a silver medal there, which is pretty exciting. I like her. In the water polo right now, let's see. I think we're getting severely spanked in that one at the moment. Still, every time I flick over, it's a replay and the score goes off the screen. Is that what you're watching at the moment, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I'm not. My last update is 5.12, but that was a while ago.
BEN WATERWORTH: I think I saw it was like 9.1.
JARROD LOOBEEK: So it was about...
BEN WATERWORTH: 13.7. 13.7, two minutes ago, which is respectable to be six points above the Serbian. I'm going to throw to Athlete Of The Day. Now, look, I'm just going to jump in and say that, you know, I'm tempted to put up our San Marinian, I don't even know what the other terminology is there, shooter because we love San Marino. It's their first medal. Alessandra Pirelli, great shooter, icon of San Marino. But, I mean, can we go past Jess? Can we go past Jess, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's not, it's, yeah, it's not possible. I had the same thought, like, the only other person who was potentially in the realm was, yeah, the San, San Marinese, I think it is.
BEN WATERWORTH: San Marinese, okay.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Shooter, but just, just Fox, it was just such an iconic moment. This was one where the coverage was maybe over the top, but it felt believable that the whole of Australia was watching this and this was the event. The Cathy Freeman moment, as we said for the kayaks, but it turned out in the canoe, so I think it's a no-brainer.
BEN WATERWORTH: What are you talking about, Jarrod? They did not go over the top. It's not like the presenters on TV open up a bottle of champagne and drunk it live. I don't know what you're talking about. That's common for every event. I mean, did you not see them getting pissed over Zac Stubblety-Cook winning gold today? No, not over the top at all. I'm looking forward to talking about them. I should have asked Colin to send us in a nominee, but he probably would have given me, I don't know, like freaking Michael Phelps or something like that from, you know, Sydney as a 15-year-old or that. But yeah, maybe a bit biased today, the two Australians giving it to Jess. But no, she deserves it. She deserves it. So yeah, Jess Fox, athlete. I will say that I would like to, and maybe I'll pay a bit more attention, like I feel we shouldn't always give it to a gold medallist. I feel like sometimes, like, you know, we'll give it to somebody out there who's done something a bit different. No pressure. But, you know, at the moment, I mean, Jess needs it. Go Jess. Now, commentary fails and everything along those lines. I've got a bit of a talking point. I just want to, Colin did send me through a few little ones to mention from CBC Fail. So I'll go through these ones now. So he was talking about Sarah Sostrom in the swimming, to which there was apparently a commentary line where I don't know who this commentator would have been, but they say, and Sostrom is falling out of it. Sostrom is struggling. Something is wrong. Oh, here she is. So that's a pretty funny one. And in the 200 metre relay, the commentary included, and the Chinese are swimming beside themselves right now. I don't think that makes sense, but they are swimming very well. Sounds very Canadian to me. So there you go. Yeah, before we get to some things I've got, did you note anything down today at all from our commentary team?
JARROD LOOBEEK: No, nothing in particular.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm just going through a few things. I believe it was Jack McLaughlin in the 800 metres today. Don't they love to torque him up? Silver medallist in the 400. There was at one point there, I believe, Basil said, Jack's there, not far off the pace. He was about three body lengths behind, I think, in seventh. I don't know why there seems to be some sort of thing that our channel said. We love all three of them, but they sometimes seem to torque it up a little bit there. I did like Liesl Jones' comment, because as we mentioned about Stubblety-Cook, he sort of stormed in the final 50 to win the gold, but he was a bit off the pace. And you know, Basil's like, oh, he's off the pace, what a good start. Liesl Jones is like, oh, don't be stressed about Zac. He'll come back from here, and well, Liesl did it. So good job there. As I said, line of the Olympics, Basil's M+, we can all go Gobbledygook for Zac Stubblety-Cook. I mean, seriously, that's got to be the winning one. That's almost like the F-bomb and the C-bomb from Joanna. I mean, what would you give it to out of those two?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I feel like it's got to be Gobbledygook, because who thought they would hear that?
BEN WATERWORTH: I know, right? I wonder if Basil's like written that down and gone, OK, if he wins gold, or like that's just off the cast. Bruce, off the cast. Basil probably prepared that. I really want to live in Perth, because I mean, if that's what he says in his speeches, I'm there. I also love Liesel and Thorpey fighting over Zac being their new favourite athlete. Liesel Jones is like, oh, I love him. He might be my new favourite athlete. And Thorpey is like, well, no, he's my new favourite athlete. Oh, Thorpey. I'd say they're flirting, but we know that probably isn't the case. I'm actually just quickly looking at the Channel 7 coverage right now. And of course, they're showing about the 80s replay of Zac Stubblety-Cook winning. But they've got Hamish McLaughlin and Thorpey looking at their big screen here. I've got to shout out to Thorpey's fashion choice here. He's got the kicks on. He's got like the black slacks. He's got the grey suit jacket and a shirt and tie with the beard. He's looking good with the beard, Thorpey. What do you think of Thorpey's beard?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think it suits him. Yeah, like you say, this is like a good head to toe look. Although it kind of looks like maybe he thought he'd just be sitting behind a desk, but he pulls it off.
BEN WATERWORTH: I mean, Hamish McLaughlin actually must be quite a tall guy because he's kind of on par there with Thorpey. So there you go. I have to say that I did like the commentary of Zac Stubblety-Cook because Basil seemed to be struggling at the end there. He's like, another gold for these Australians at these games. Like, it wasn't quite, you know, what a superstar. What a champion. It was just like, OK, get it out, Basil. You can do that. I also do love Australia's way of whenever we're in a gold, it's, let's show the medal tally. It's like, there we are. Look at us go. I mean, are they going to be doing this next week when we just are winning bronzes every third day? Quickly, quickly going on that one. Trying to think what else there. Oh, mainly it's mainly about complaints. But actually, I wanted to mention Russell Mark in the shooting. Maybe the most Australian guy to be an Australian, but he's brilliant. He's just like, yeah, like I won gold. Ha ha ha ha ha. And then like, I don't know who the other guy next to him was, but it was like, oh, could you be getting out a comeback maybe? And he's like, well, the Kuwaiti who won a gold the other day was 57 and I'm 57. Ha ha ha ha. Good for him. At least we've got one of our former esteemed champions, because wasn't Michael Diamond arrested for like gun, illegal gun possession or something like that or something else? Didn't he have to sell his gold medals because he's like going to be bankrupt or something?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Something happened. It was. Yeah, I expect that to be kind of the new series on Stan or something. It would seem to be a big enough fiasco that they could make a mini series out of it. Underbelly Diamond.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, there's actually we didn't mention it the other day that I think it's Nathan Bagley's name. You know, a bronze medallist or a silver medallist from Athens in canoeing basically got caught as being part of some sort of scam or something to get cocaine to the country and is off to jail for a while. So, yeah, not looking too good there. And didn't we have Scott Miller as well recently, our former medallist from, I think, Atlanta got done for a bunch of drugs. So, you know, that seems to get swept under the rug a little bit from Australian media, doesn't it? Because it's all about the success. It's all Ariane, all sorts of stuff. I've got to talk about just, is it arrogance? Is it cockiness from Australia when it comes to just how things are in the Olympics and medals or things like that? Like, before I even get to talking about yous.com today, you, and we have barely even talked about them, can we just talk a little bit about how Channel 7 covers these? And again, love you, Basil, love you, Thorpey, love you, Liesl. But holy crap, this 4x200 metres, did they just basically pencil it in for a gold? They're literally at the beginning of this race going, well, this will be our third gold for Ariane, of course, and it will be our sixth in the pool. Like, literally as they're on the starting blocks, they are talking up about how Ariane will become only like the second Australian to win three gold at an Olympics behind Thorpey and Dorn, or maybe it was like the fourth because I think Shane Gould won three as well. Like, just the way he was like talking it up. And then at the very, like even in the middle of this race, you've got, I think it was Thorpey saying like, interesting that China are challenging us. And then they're talking about Katie Ledecky at the end, basically, you know, denying Titmuss a gold. This is a whole team here. This is a relay. There are four swimmers, not just Titmuss. And then literally at the end, you could hear the absolute devastation in the voice. Oh, and here's a result. And then within two seconds, it goes, what a fabulous result it is to win a bronze medal. And then like the interviewer, when they're interviewing all four of the girls, well, it took a world record to beat you. It's like, and then I'm going to give props to all four of the girls in the interview because they literally were just all like, yeah, look, you know, we broke our previous result. We're happy with this. So humble, so nice. Ariane said she was a bit disappointed. But before I talk about the other stuff that came with this, because there's even worse stuff around this with news.com.au, I mean, like, I think I've talked about this, how like I buy into this Channel 7 hype, and I hate it. Like, I hate getting sucked into it because I literally am at the time like, oh, I'm annoyed, I'm disappointed. But then all of a sudden, okay, well, cool, it's a bronze medal. But like, seriously, like, just inflate our ego. We're not America. We shouldn't be going like, oh, well, this will be Ariane's third gold. There was even Sass, I think, from Leesel, because at one point they sort of accidentally cut to like hearing the Americans being interviewed. And you could audibly hear the Americans say, we're just so happy we beat Australia. And then you hear like Leesel Jones, oh, America, they're giving us some shade or something like that. Like, it's just frustrating, is it not? Like, I mean, an Olympic bronze medal is nothing to be frowned upon.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I'm with you. I also, it's so hard not to buy into the hype. And then you have to really step back and get some perspective on the situation of being like, oh, well, these are the best, like, athletes in the world. To even make it there is an achievement. Even the way that, like, Channel 7 will do the whole, a bronze medal is nothing to sneeze at, but it always sounds insincere. I think they, it's just about getting that level right. Because you don't want them, I've seen them go in other events too far. The other way where you medal and it's like, well, how did that happen? And then all of a sudden afterwards, like, yes, well, as we know, so-and-so was the world champion and won this and that. And I'm like, oh, well, okay. Like it would have been nice to have some perspective, but it's just about getting it right. It should have been like based on like the heats, the Aussies, obviously in lane four going as the favourites. Like that's like, that's enough. I could, you don't need like the big build up of like, this will be this person's gold. They'll break this record. This will happen. That will happen. I think if anything, hopefully it won't happen, but hopefully they may have learned somewhat that at the Olympics, really anything can happen, particularly in event like swimming. The majority of the events are just so close. It's a touch on the wall. It's hundreds of a second.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's not often apart from more so the long distance events where you'll get the like body lengths between people, which I mean, this goes back to, I think what we talked a little bit about before the Olympics and kind of, you know, a lot of the reason why I say the AOC this time around are not doing predictions, they feel like it puts too much pressure. I mean, again, I remember growing up when Australia, if we, if you had have gone back to the nineties and said we would win eight gold in an Olympic Games, that would be absolutely lauded as an amazing Olympic Games for Australia. It would have been celebrated because outside of hosting in Melbourne, we would never win double digits. We won eight in Rome, I think eight in Munich, and then nine, we peaked at nine in Atlanta. And I remember nine in Atlanta was a huge deal. That was such a celebration. And then sadly, like Sydney kind of ruined it in a way because all of a sudden you win 16 gold medals and people think, wow, and then we become the first nation ever to win more gold medals at the games after we hosted by winning 17 in Athens. And then even winning 14 in Beijing, it's kind of like, well, wow, now we've just got these high expectations. But I just think that it's nothing to be frowned about. If we do not win another gold for the rest of these Olympics, eight gold medals is bloody fantastic and we should be celebrating that. And then I've heard a lot of comments on Twitter and everything too, where a lot of people will talk about silver and bronze being the minor medals. Now, yes, technically that is correct. They are the secondary medals to gold. It's still an Olympic frickin medal. I mean, it's like, should it be called a minor medal? It's an Olympic medal. Tristan Thomason, we had him on a few weeks ago, gave the great talk about how he's a World Championship bronze medallist, yet nobody ever seems to mention that because they're like, oh, you went to an Olympics and you didn't make the final. He's won a frickin medal at the World Championship. That's still pretty amazing. So look, it's interesting. And when we get some athletes on after the show, maybe we can bring this up with them more so because it's just, it is that hype. It's just the media around it. And then what makes it worse is when you get dear old news.frickincom.frickinau. Now let's read their two headlines today that came directly after gold medals had been won by Australia. So Zac Stubblety-Cook wins a gold medal for Australia. James Magnusson gets silver. James Magnusson, no, he never won. I think he did win the silver, didn't he? But he never won a gold. I'm talking about Kyle Charles. Wow, I'm really going back 10 years. The headline though, nothing to do with let's go Gobbity-Cook with Zac Stubblety-Cook. The headline was, What killed Kyle, the pre-race blunder that ruined Aussie gold? I mean, seriously?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Like, what?
BEN WATERWORTH: We won a gold in another event, and we got an Olympic silver. This guy's pretty happy with that. And then the other one, just after Jess Fox has claimed gold, her headline was the second headline on news.com.au. It said, Historic gold medal for Jess Fox. Yay. But the headline was, major stuff up, arrogant gamble blows up in Australia's face. Australia qualified fastest with women's 4x200 freestyle, teamed by three seconds with backups. Then came the A-team. And then they go on to talk about how because we led with Ariane Titmus, that cost us the gold. Now, again, arrogance of Australian media here. This is ridiculous. This has gone into these games with no pressure from the AOC, but then you've got all of this stuff going on there. I mean, news.com.au is about a realistic news site as we are a realistic podcast. But at the end of the day, they are the most read news website in this country, whether you'd like to admit that or not. That's ridiculous, Jarrod. I mean, that is just embarrassing. I want to apologise to everyone on behalf of Australia that that is our leading news website, because that should not be the lead headline on a double gold day for Australia.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it's just... It's ridiculous too, because I feel like TITMAS split, actually, her split time was quite good. Yeah. And you can't say it was arrogance to put in, like, obviously in a funnel, you're going to put in the team that's going to deliver you the best chance of winning. It would be arrogance if this team had swum slower than the team in the heats, but they didn't. They swum faster. So, like, what's your argument?
BEN WATERWORTH: Are we talking about the fact that maybe the US and China swam slower to rest their swimmers? You know, like, maybe they did that. And I feel so sorry for Leah Neal, who was the anchor for our swim team. She looked so sad getting out of that pool. But as you just said, they swam faster than our B team. I mean, that's again, like, putting anyone in there and all of a sudden claiming that, you know, they're crap just because they didn't win. Like, who cares if you win the fricking heats? That's the point, you win the heats to get through to the final, and the final is where it counts. It's like, you know, you win a semi-final in a grand slam. You're not going to all of a sudden turn around and go, well, you know, if you had done this in the final, you would have... I mean, maybe you will, but like, it's kind of, you know, you take it for what it is, but it's an achievement. I mean, Leah Neal, good on her. She's an Olympic bronze medallist. She did the best she could. And I mean, Cade Ledecky found some form in that four by two and, you know, did it. And I mean, this is a weird thing for me to say. It's usually the Americans who are really kind of arrogant and then are talking down their chances. Americans are celebrating this silver medal. They were, all over Twitter, were just basically going like, wow, this is an American record. Like, Cade Ledecky, she's won another medal. And it's one of these rare times where I'm like, well, good on America. They actually did this very, very well, unlike the gymnastics the other day. So, yeah, it's just such a... I really do wish we had Colin on this episode just to kind of hear like how Canada would do something like this because I can't imagine they're going, oh, Penny Alexia choked, she didn't break the record. Like, I saw some tweets from Canada and saying like, you know, a plaudible effort from the girls. They got four. Summer Macintosh did very well, 14-year-old. So it's just since coming back here last couple of months, I realise there's a lot about this country I did not miss. And I'm not trying to be one of those snooty Australians who moved overseas, but God, we whinge a lot, Jarrod.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, it feels like it's never good enough. And yeah, it's just that whole thing with perspective. It's like they've made the Olympics, if they medal at all, amazing. If they get a gold, great. But then also too, like Australia has, like, look at our population compared to, like, other countries of the world. Like, obviously we have, like, great facilities in terms of sports, but like it's just, it's trying to compare, like, between countries in, like, a metal tally is just, it's comparing apples and oranges. Like, it just, it doesn't work.
BEN WATERWORTH: And it's, you've got to look, as I've always said, with the Sydney Olympics, like, you have that blowback. You invest so much money into your sporting, and this will happen for Brisbane. There will be millions upon millions upon millions of dollars invested into sports in Australia in the next 11 years to ensure that when Brisbane comes around, we win a shit tonne of gold medals, and it will happen. It happens all the time at the Olympics. Britain is a classic example of that. Canada, the On The Podium campaign, which got them so many gold in Vancouver, has just trickled so thoroughly throughout the subsequent Winter Olympic Games, and it's slowly starting to trickle away. And that's what happens. We're never going to be the US. We're never going to be China. We're never going to be Russia. That's just how it is. We don't have that type of funding for it, and it's a trickle-on effect. We're in a lucky position now where we are going to see two Olympics in the space of 30-odd years, and it's so rare to see two Olympics in a person's lifetime in a country like Australia. So again, I'd love to do a whole episode on this. I'd love to get somebody on to talk about this more, because this annoys me more at the Winter Olympics than it does at the Summer Olympics, and I will talk about this in Beijing next year. But again, we've won 18 medals right now. 20 medals, actually, sorry. We're up to 20 medals. I mean, this is where people start to get cocky, like, oh, you know, like, we only won 29 in Rio, so we're clearly going to get like 40. I don't genuinely believe we're going to win 54 medals. That was just cool. I'm just going to go there. Jarrod, you're shaking your head too. Genuinely don't believe we're going to win 54 medals. But I mean, like, just be proud. Like, for fuck's sake, if you won one bronze medal, be proud. If you didn't win any medals, like, you're Olympians. Like, just, oh, yeah, god, this country. The other ones I wanted to say, though, on a sort of a fun note, speaking of America and Team Swimming, I loved a tweet that US Swimming put out today. A bit of a sassy tweet, and I loved it. Their tweet was, Before posting negative comments, post a video of yourself swimming a 50-metre along with your time, with sort of that little sassy face emoji, which was brilliant. Also, from the Canadian perspective, their beach volleyball players, who are, you know, metal shots, basically were caught on camera in between points where one of them said, something along the lines of, Oh, look at them yelling at everybody the whole time and growling. Get a fucking life. Such shade. So good. And, okay, again, I want to praise some of our coverage. I actually watched a bit more of that Xinhua last night, Jarrod. I'm kind of coming around. Kind of funny. Like, Gazy. He's everyone's guy. And Andy Mars, I think, was off sick, but they got Hamish McLaughlin. I know you're not a Hamish McLaughlin fan, but I actually don't mind Hamish. And I like the lady. I wish I knew her now. I like to call her Mel McLaughlin Jr. because she's kind of very similar to Mel. But they've got a bit of chemistry and a bit of fun. At one point, they were showing some highlights, and they obviously left Andrew Gaze's mic on, and they came back on air, and basically Hamish McLaughlin was like, I believe you were still on air the whole time. But you can just hear him talking over the top of highlights, going, oh, that's gonna hurt. Oh, crikey. And I was waiting for them to drop an F-bomb or something like that, but he didn't. But the coverage on NBC, I really wish I was still in North America, because they have Snoop Dogg and Kevin Hart interviewing people, because our shirtless Tongan, where is his name? He's posted a photo on Instagram today of him being interviewed by Snoop Dogg and Kevin Hart. Now, Jarrod, we're missing out. I want Snoop Dogg and Kevin Hart interviewing our athletes.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I feel like Snoop Dogg just always pops up where you don't expect him. Menu log ads in Australia, interviewing athletes at the Olympics. It's just great.
BEN WATERWORTH: I mean, this is a stoner guy who basically spent the 90s promoting unprotected sex and drugs and all that kind of stuff and rap culture. And here he is now with this. He was doing shows with Master Stewart. I had a friend who worked in a hotel in Melbourne. It was a hotel where a lot of A-list celebrities would come and stay. And he said one of the nicest people he ever dealt with when checking them in was Snoop Dogg. He said he was so surprised, like he knew Snoop Dogg was coming in and thought this guy is going to be an absolute dick. He said he was one of the nicest people that he ever, ever got to deal with. So I want more Snoop Dogg on my Olympics. Can I just point that out? Who would we get in Australia? Would it be Hamish and Andy, I guess?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Probably.
BEN WATERWORTH: We get Kate Miller-Heidke doing interviews with Guy Sebastian or something along those lines. Bring back Roy and HG. Seriously, stop listening to us and listen to the Roy and HG podcast, which is doing quite well. Should really throw to our commentary. This is one thing that you've been dying to hear, Jo, because again, you weren't able to join us on the Harbour today. The sailing, Jarrod, you were counting down the minutes to commentate this. What happened?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I have been a bit of a no-show for the water events, right? A little bit hydrophobic, I think.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah, what's going on there? Are you just not telling us something here? Is there just some real water fear that you've got going on at the moment?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I went on a scuba diving trip, and I was left out in the middle of the ocean. And that's why I sing with so much emotion in my voice.
BEN WATERWORTH: Classic Australian trip that happened. Everyone talks about the whole getting kidnapped in the Outback, Wolf Creek thing, but everyone forgets about that time we just left those two behind in the Great Barrier Reef. Classic Australian ploy there. But Colin and I were out in the harbour today, and we were commentating the Women's 470 class. And let's just say we made sailing exciting. That's all I want to say. So let's cross out now to Ben Waterworth and Colin Hilding to commentate the sailing. It's over to you, Ben. Thanks, Ben. We are here at Enoshima for Race 1 of the Women's 470 sailing class. And what a day it is for sailing. The boats are out in the water. The boats are off the water. The crowd has flocked in here. I've not seen a crowd this big at a sailing event ever. This is massive. It is huge. This is the event that stops the Olympics. As you can see on the graphics on our screen, explaining what a boat is, people just need a refresh. Because everyone knows what a boat is, because everyone loves their sailing. And speaking of loving their sailing, it is a pleasure to welcome 1972 sailing viewer, it is Colin Hilding. Colin, welcome back to our coverage here at the Tokyo Olympics. I'm thrilled to have you here next to me.
COLIN HILDING: I am thrilled to be here. It is a beautiful day. It's approximately 35 degrees outside, approximately 180 degrees in the water. They had better stay in those dinghies or somebody is going to be losing some skin in that water.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's about 300 degrees in the commentary box because we're that excited. But of course, Colin, can you just quickly explain this? Because we're actually going to cut straight into the race. Actually, before we do though, let's quickly take a look at our start list. So Argentina, Australia, Brazil, People's Republic of China, Spain, France, Great Britain will be our first set of boats, as you will see there. They're our top seven. Of course, our People's Republic of China and Brazil, traditional sailing rivals. Then we have Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia and the great sailing nation of Mozambique as well. What can we expect from these starting? Oh, actually, I forgot there's more. Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey and the United States. I always forget there's those other seven because they're kind of the not so important ones. But we're cutting straight here to the race where, you know, so much to cover here. But Colin, who can we expect here to do well? Because it looks like Poland are out front right now.
COLIN HILDING: Right now, I'm going to say the Polish because they're out front right now. That is my expert analysis. Once we get a shot of somebody who's in front of them, I'm going to call them.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, just quickly, as we see the graphics here, the lead Poland, 7.5 knots doing very well. Israel doing very well for them, not a traditional sailing nation. They're in second, Britain in third, France fourth, and Australia dropping back to sixth there, disappointing for them as Japan are in fifth. Explain to us exactly the 470 class. What is the 470 class in sailing?
COLIN HILDING: Well, it's actually very simple. You need to keep your weight down to 470 pounds. It's very strict. Sometimes they have to wear those giant garbage bag suits to shed a couple of pounds just to fit in the boat. If you go in at 471, you will sink. So right now, this is easy to tell that they've all kept lean, mean, and probably on keto.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, that's the way to go here, is we've got a great shot here of the British crew just struggling there to pull the rope there.
COLIN HILDING: Oh my god, look at that! The way they took that wave was just dangerous.
BEN WATERWORTH: The camera person there even lost it there. They were that excited there, Colton. It was a great rope pull. The Brits here leading Israel and the US, it seems. Obviously, the US known for their sailing. They so in love with sailing, they named an event after themselves, the America's Cup. Just reminding everyone that Australia did beat them in 1983. No, we have not gotten over it. It's still a great moment in our history. But what is happening here with this British boat here? She just looks like she's on a casual sail on a Sunday afternoon pulling a rope, but I feel there's a lot more to it than that.
COLIN HILDING: Well, there is. She's pulling at about 20% strength right now. If she pulls it all the way, then she's going to start spinning around in circles. And then every once in a while, you might even see the front end come up. Slammed down again.
BEN WATERWORTH: That's a move. Sorry, Israel.
COLIN HILDING: That was unintentional. They spun all the way around. A little bit too hard pulling on that. They're at about 30% or 40% right now of their strength. You know what? Right now, anybody seen the Truman Show, they are headed for a painted wall where they will speak to the creator by the end of this.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I was going to mention that, actually. Will there be some fake storms put up? Is there something that they can do that, really? Will Kristoff kind of get involved here to really make it entertaining? Is that a common thing in Olympic sailing?
COLIN HILDING: It is. Every once in a while, you might see a giant mechanical shark poke its head out of the wall, or out of the water there, and the wall. It will come out of the water and the wall. They like the special effects here in sailing.
BEN WATERWORTH: That's an incredible thing. But Poland, 7.1 knots, doing very well. Here, Israel sneaking back up into second place. The British move there, whatever they did, you explained it very well, but I completely forgot, because I'm just so entertained by sailing.
COLIN HILDING: It was the partial pull, let's call it that.
BEN WATERWORTH: Whoa, what a wave move there from Poland. Look at them ride the wave there, up and down, up and down. Oh my goodness, I'm going off here. This is incredible.
COLIN HILDING: Can I just be critical for a second? How can we get glorious, up close shots like this in sailing in the middle of open water, and yet every person I see surfing seems to be filmed from about 200 feet away? Get some DC cameras in surfing. Come on, let's transfer some of our production.
BEN WATERWORTH: Let's be honest, Colin, sailing is all about the kids. The IOC know that the kids are into sailing, whereas surfing, it's more for the adults. Surfing is kind of a grown man's and a woman's sport, whereas the kids... I mean, on the way here today to the sailing, all I could see were kids in boats. Everywhere I went, all the young Japanese people were in boats. They were just sailing. They were going, this is all I've been waiting for for five years. We had to wait an extra year for this. The kids love their sailing, Colin. It's such an accessible sport for the kids. I mean, every kid I know has access to a boat.
COLIN HILDING: I mean, I know. I'm in one right now. I'm not even outdoors. I plan it down in my living room just to get the feel for it. I kind of give myself some partial pulls to rock it back and forth while I'm watching it on the big screen in the living room, or in the studio, wherever I might be.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I mean, I'm glad that you decided to put our studio on a boat, Colin, it makes it a little bit more entertaining.
COLIN HILDING: Well, thank you for coming to my living room to record this as well.
BEN WATERWORTH: Anytime. When it comes to the traditional sailing nations, I would think of Australia. You know, I would think of the US. Britain probably as well, France. Poland's not one of these countries that jumps to mind. How did Poland get so good at women's 470 sailing?
COLIN HILDING: Well, they competed in the wild card against Burkina Faso. And that's pretty much it. Just it was luck of the draw. They picked two countries. It's kind of like names and a hat. What do we got? We got Poland. We got Burkina Faso. We have Mozambique. Two out of the three are going to make it in.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, there you go. That explains enough for me there. But I'm seeing here the French team on screen. This is Camille Le Pointe and Eloise Lretorans, who, of course, are very good friends of Colin. Now, I believe you spoke briefly to Eloise here as we're seeing the Polish crew again. Oh, make a little duck under the sail. Oh, my goodness. Oh, sorry, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: I wasn't expecting it. That was not the wave. There's a fight broken out among the crew. They are fighting right now. One wanted to pull left. One wanted to pull right. And they said, you know what? You're going down.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, look, I mean, look at the daring nature of this fight now. One of them is hanging off the boat. She's that scared of a crew member, but she's going to pull some rope here and almost threaten to choke her. I want to come back to the question I asked. Oh, look at this.
COLIN HILDING: She's pounding fishing. This is what I'm going to do to you when I get you down on the ground.
BEN WATERWORTH: She's got a stick now. We know what Polish people can do with sticks. It's a Polish pole. The Polish pole is out, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: The pokey pokes and the stabby stabs are coming out. They started fencing. This is how they keep the kids in there. They breed different sports together.
BEN WATERWORTH: I couldn't imagine I would ever see the Polish pole. Oh, there's going to be a collision here. Oh, look out, Poland. Poland are going to hit the boat. That's incredible.
COLIN HILDING: That is very unusual to see in the sport. Usually the sea traffic controllers have much better control over it.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, just quickly back to my question. You spoke to Alois and Camille before from France. Any advice you gave them or anything that they were saying before this event?
COLIN HILDING: Well, actually, I asked them for advice on how to commentate this. And I believe they sounded very positive, but I have not brushed up on my French recently, so they could very well have been insulting me and my children.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I actually had a bit of a chat with the Mozambique crew of Maria Machava and Denise Paruk, and they said that they really need some help when it comes to their sailing. So they suggested that we were able to help them out. So I'm just actually going to connect something here to the speakers of the Tokyo Olympic Speakers, and I'll just queue this up. There we go. Yes, Pirates of the Caribbean music is in my neck. So there we go. Let's see how that works.
COLIN HILDING: We all remember the famous Whirlpool sequence at the end of At World's End. That's basically what they're doing right now. This is the theatrical part of the competition. So they're scored on artistic, they're scored on technical, and they're scored on theatrics. And this is the theatrical portion of the program.
BEN WATERWORTH: Look at the Dutch, the Slovenians and the Chinese here going around to some Pirates of the Caribbean. I mean, this is why the kids get involved, because they want to cue this up and get involved in it. I mean, you can play so many other songs, you can play I'm Sailing Away, that could work, but no, I'm digging the Pirates of the Caribbean sub here. Oh, Switzerland just came in! What a move by Switzerland! Wow, my goodness, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: Nice save there. Almost ending catastrophe.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, the fifth mark here, and I love the way that they're able to so quickly animate these boats. We talked about that in the Bad Myth the other day, but this is live shots of animation. I mean, again, attracting the kids. Kids love cartoons, so let's cartoon on this. Poland have about a 17-kilometre lead here over Israel, it seems. France sneaking up behind Israel, so obviously the advice that they gave you were helping. But oh, we've got a little bit of trouble here for Poland. Looks like they're stopped. Oh no, the Polish pole was broken. The fight between these two is breaking out again. Oh, she's got a leg caught in a rope. Oh, she has to move it around there.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, that's a submission of a pole. She's tapping out. I think she's tapping. No, not yet.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's getting close to it.
COLIN HILDING: Tap out his tummy.
BEN WATERWORTH: Just the boat in the background there, I believe that was the Canadian boat. I like to see the Canadians use the motorized dinghy there, but unfortunately, they weren't qualified at the start.
COLIN HILDING: Well, Jess, when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, here comes Canada. They're there. Just that disruption is their plan.
BEN WATERWORTH: Of course, the Polish crew of Agnieszka Skoropec and Jolanta Agar are doing very well, but Israel is gaining here. Look at the gain there from Israel. Noya Baram and Shah Tibi are absolutely on fire, as we've got a close up view of the French. Wow. That French... That's Camille there.
COLIN HILDING: Sexualization in the uniforms of sailors has become quite the controversial topic.
BEN WATERWORTH: I believe recently in a recent poll of the French of who has the sexiest butt in sports, Camille Lacan did come across at number one, followed by Mary Antoinette. So I think they've kind of forgotten about her. But seriously, number two butt in France still after all these years. So good for them. And the polls here, they still look like they're just sitting still here. So maybe they're just talking it out, having a bit of a D&M, just to make sure that the poll is polls aren't going there. But they've got such a lead here. I mean, this is an unassailable lead. We went around the fifth mark. We should have mentioned that. I don't even know what that means, but it sounds important. But I mean, with such a lead at the fifth mark, I mean, it leads six of seven right now. They've got 188 metre lead. I thought it was 17 kilometres. Clearly my distance is going there. But Australia, Australia's up in the fifth. Oh no, they've just been overtaken by the Italians.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah, that's your typical Italian move there. They just love to sneak in there just to stick into the Australians.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, looking at how close the build is behind there as we get a close up of the Poles here. I mean, the Poles literally, I think, are sitting still again just to tease Israel-France. Australia are back up in the fifth again. So classic move there from the Australians. But is this just a bit of a toying tactic? Is this a bit of a sledge? Here the Pole's going, come and get us, come and get us. We're used to being overrun by countries, but the difference is all these years later, we know how to take it. We're not just going to get invaded again. We're going to let you invade us, but then we're going to stick it right up to you and do the Polish thing, which is just sailing to the distance and win a race.
COLIN HILDING: Well, we all know Keanu Reeves' famous like, come here, finger wave that he does in The Matrix. That is the sailing equivalent right there.
BEN WATERWORTH: I believe that is the subtitle and the slogan.
COLIN HILDING: Come here. Sailing for the kids.
BEN WATERWORTH: Now, the Polish sailors here, both Skarepik and Olga, have gone through the two yellow markers there, as I believe that is Agar standing up to even do the come here right now to everybody. She is literally leaning over the side of the boat going, come here, Israel. Come on. Let's do this. And I will say that I have to say, after all these years, it's great to see two nations very much destroyed by World War II, really coming into their own sailing hours. It's about time. This is what the Olympics are all about.
COLIN HILDING: You know, it's been all good since the Holocaust. That's going along with the commentary.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, Colin, sorry to interrupt you. We've got the Finnish here. The Polish, not the Finnish, but they weren't even qualifying, but the Polish are about to cross the line.
COLIN HILDING: They have.
BEN WATERWORTH: They've won this race.
COLIN HILDING: The Polish have won despite a pole fight and all. Polish-Poles fights strife among the team. And you know what? They come together in the end. All the sportsmanship of that country is just extraordinary. Now, what are we going to do? Are we going to end up in another crash here?
BEN WATERWORTH: No, Colin, I've got to say here, we know this is a bit of a marathon, the 470s. Plenty of races to go, but Israel are going to finish second now. If they can get under 50 seconds here, they will get the bonus gobbly-goop point, as we know how important that is. So is Israel. Let's call this. They're coming to the line. Can they beat 50 seconds? 42, 43. They're going to do it. Look at this. They're going to cross the line. Israel will get the second gobbly-goop point as France cross the line, miss out by 5 seconds. And the Brits, the British, look at them in a deserved fourth place. Suck it, Britain.
COLIN HILDING: Sail, sail, sail your boat right across the line.
BEN WATERWORTH: Wow. I tell you what. I think this Pirates of the Caribbean theme really spurred on Israel to break the 50-second barrier. Without the Pirates of the Caribbean going on in the background, I really think they would have struggled. But who's this coming here? Oh, it's Italy. Italy has snuck through into 5th Australia. Don't know where they are right now. Here come the Italians. As they're going to go across the line, can they beat 1 minute 30? Oh, easily. Oh, that's a typical Italian sail there, Colin.
COLIN HILDING: Yeah. Hey, you know, I think we have lost track of that Canadian boat. It's on its way to Fiji right now.
BEN WATERWORTH: Whoa, hang on a minute. Turn up for the books. Australia have lost 6th place to the host nation here. Oh, and Australia crossed the line in 7th. Nia Jerwood and Monique De Vries will be disappointed with that. But luckily, they beat their very fierce rivals in Slovenia there into 8th. As we got a bit of a race here between China and the Netherlands. And China, I think, will just beat us. Germany as well. They're all battling in here for that is 9th place. And I think Germany just hit them there.
COLIN HILDING: They just hit a crab. Oh, the crabs are out to the ceiling as well.
BEN WATERWORTH: Wow, I want to just receiving word. Breaking news, the Germans there actually got disqualified as they crossed the line. I'm not too sure why. I think maybe because of hold one.
COLIN HILDING: On sportsman like conduct. The Polish won and there were a couple of racial slurs I was hearing related to the Holocaust. And that definitely cost the judges.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, I mean, with Poland and Israel one and two, there's no way they were going to allow Germany to finish. It's great to see the equality involved in 2021. They would purely disqualify the German space and the reputation. Quite fair. The US coming across the line, all beating Greece there as well. Very close. Now, this is Brazil here. They like to signify that they wear bras. As you can see, both of their sailors, their Fernando, Lucia, and a Vardicen.
COLIN HILDING: They just call it bra.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's halfway between like, hey bra, what's going on? Or hey, we're women, we wear bras. As they cross the line here, can they beat 2 minutes 50? Oh no, they've just missed out three seconds. Nearly a national record there for Brazil. But we've got Malaysia coming here.
COLIN HILDING: Bra is an aging boat that I think needs to be cycled out.
BEN WATERWORTH: Definitely agree. But Malaysia will cross the line. Oh, it's Argentina. Oh, sorry, I got my boats confused there.
COLIN HILDING: Oh, the Coast Guard has come in.
BEN WATERWORTH: Here's Malaysia now. Oh, and Argentina have also been disqualified as well. Clearly the sailors are not fans of Lionel Messi. Here's Malaysia, Mass coming across the line. And I have to be honest, I'm going to be a bit biased here. Nuritja Jamal and Juni Karan, Nuritja Mili are my favourite sailors in the world and deserve a 16th place for the Malaysians there. Even saying 18, but you know, of course, the Germany and Argentina have been disqualified.
COLIN HILDING: I'm just going to say it right now. Half of these countries did not exist at the beginning of this race, I swear.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, look, that's the beauty of sailing, Colin. The kids get involved. They vote online for the fan poll, and they just introduce boats halfway through. Pirates of the Caribbean. All of a sudden, you've got a Swedish team. They're just having a casual sail on the Tokyo Harbor, and boom, they're in the Olympic race. And look at them go here. A Swedish boat. Sorry, Colin, I'm going to call this. They've never beaten five minutes behind the leader here. They're going to smash this. This is going to be a Swedish record. They're going off in Stockholm right now. They're going to smash this by more than 50 seconds. The Swedes come across the line only four minutes and five seconds behind. Oh, my goodness. Olivia Bergström and Lavisa Carlson are going off. Sorry, Colin, over to you. Colin's speechless. He can't even think right now.
COLIN HILDING: Yes.
BEN WATERWORTH: He's so blown away by the Swedish record. As Turkish will bring up the rear here.
COLIN HILDING: Well, somehow they've frozen in place on my side.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's the boat. The connection on the boat is not doing well.
COLIN HILDING: Somehow it's frozen in place on my screen.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, yes.
COLIN HILDING: The Wi-Fi out here on open water is not so good.
BEN WATERWORTH: Turkey crossed the line to finish in what we're 20th on the strait, but 18th in the water. But look at Poland here. The skill involved 48 seconds ahead of Israel. But we know Israel will get the gobbledygook point for beating the 50-second barrier there. But tell us about the skill involved here from our Polish days. After the Polish pole fight in the middle of it, is she still able to grip the arms there, or is there gelanta so good at the gripping of the arms?
COLIN HILDING: Hey, you know, that is a full-on pull right there, which is what they needed to get across the finish line. I mean, no other boat out here had a fight break out in the middle of it. And I do hear that they were actually fighting over a fencer.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, they should be. I think that's a good thing to do. We're watching the replays here. And again, every time I watch this, Colin, it's all about the kids. I mean, that staff has spoken volumes to the children out there. I'm even hearing words right now on the streets of Stockholm as they're celebrating that every single child under the age of 17 has just literally jumped into a boat. I mean, that speaks volumes to the sport.
COLIN HILDING: There also is some controversy in right now. Apparently the Americans are claiming that the Chinese sailors may actually be underage, and they're lying about their age to qualify for this competition.
BEN WATERWORTH: Classic American move at the Olympics. But look at the animation here involved. Pixar has nothing on that. Even the animated lines on the water there just look so realistic. But this was the battle here earlier on, leg four of seven, Poland versus Israel. But Poland gets the lead. This is where a bit of the fisticuffs came about here, as you can see, slightly the pole of the pole comes out. But then this little move here from Israel, let's be honest, that's what got them under 50 seconds. I mean, that's a classic Israeli move.
COLIN HILDING: That is, they call that Saskatchewan double turkey.
BEN WATERWORTH: That is a perfect idea for a name, and that's certainly pulling off. But here's the finish line. And aren't Yolanda and Agnes here just going off there? They love life. There's a moment for Israel with the Gobbity-Cook point. And just very typical Israelis there. Calm and collected. They'll celebrate when they need to. France third, fourth of Britain, Italy fifth. And the Canadian motorized boat, we believe, has also been disqualified, which is a bit unfair, I have to say. In Canada, they're not known for their sailing. They don't really have water to sail. I mean, snow sailing, they do very well. But Canada's got to try and work out the advantages when they can, right?
COLIN HILDING: Well, I mean, unfortunately, most Canadians like myself still have them sitting in their living room and haven't actually found the water to test them out in yet. So, you know, much like the Jamaican bobsledders just sort of had to train and push carts, Canadians train in their living room, sometimes in their bathtub. But typically, we only actually get to the water on competition, which is why we don't see them right now. They're actually still lost somewhere out at sea. Sad story, they probably will die. Most likely will not be rescued. But hey, they will die Olympians.
BEN WATERWORTH: That's all that matters. Confirmation of the results, Poland, Israel, France, Britain, Italy, Japan, and Australia, the top seven. Just mentioning just a second ago, the iconic slow-mo images of the sailing, which will be in our memories forever. Slovenia in eighth, Germany who of course have been disqualified, moves to People's Republic of China up into ninth, Netherlands into tenth, Spain, Switzerland, the US, who of course have a bit of a protest against China right now, so we'll have to keep an eye on that. Of course, the points are awarded. Like golf, you get low points for finishing high and high points for finishing low. Greece, Brazil, Argentina have also been disqualified, Malaysia, Sweden and Turkey. And unfortunately for Mozambique, I'm not too sure there what happened. We didn't see them, but they have not come to the start. Maybe they were so pumped up for Pirates and they wanted to listen to it.
COLIN HILDING: Well, it's actually very brave. They decided to mount the rescue operation for the Canadians.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, look at that. Typical Mozambique thinking about themselves as well as others. But as we leave Enoshima right now, with some beautiful shots here of the harbour. What an event. We look forward to covering more of the Women's 470 at some point. It is the race that stops the Olympics. Colin Hilding, thank you for your time.
COLIN HILDING: Thank you. And next time, you can come sail away with me.
BEN WATERWORTH: And well, indeed we will. Let's come sail away right now by crossing back to the Off The Podium studios with Bill Cullen and Jerrion. And thank you very much, Ben. I don't know what Off The Podium is, but clearly he was getting drunk on the excitement on the sailing. Who knew that Pirates of the Caribbean is all you needed to make sailing exciting, Jarrod?
JARROD LOOBEEK: If only that should be blasting out. Forget about the DJ at the beach volleyball. Where's the DJ at the sailing event?
BEN WATERWORTH: Seriously, what are the sports like while we're on this topic? What could you, what's some other music you could add to some sports like golf? What could you add to golf to make that exciting? Is it Snoop Dogg, maybe?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I mean, if he's there as well, just get him to put on the live show.
BEN WATERWORTH: Ain't nothing but a cheap thing, baby. It's just like, I mean, golf is very concentrated, right? But I mean, a bit of Snoop in the golf wouldn't be too bad. I think skateboarding. I mean, come on, like the obnoxious little shit kids out there doing it should be something like surfing is obvious. But I mean, dressage. Can we just talk about the fact that when we commentated the dressage the other night, we did not mention the great Munich Symphony Orchestra versions of Billie Jean and all night long, I think it was or whatever the other song was playing. But I did notice Channel 7 got a bit excited because one writer wrote out to Kylie Minogue, which is always a positive. So, I mean, obviously, keeping on the dressage. I mean, what's your music of choice for dressage?
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's a good question. I mean, we've talked up You're The Voice on this show. I think a horse trotting to You're The Voice, nice and proud. Couple of reverse parallel parks. I think it could work perfectly.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yes. God, there's so many things. I think maybe for fencing, a bit of Mask of Zorro action going on there, a bit of Die Another Day, of course. You know, there's so much going on there in the world of music. Maybe people listening can send us in their ideas for music. Before I get to sort of looking ahead for tomorrow, because we've got some big stuff happening tomorrow and everything along those lines. One thing I wanted to mention with Jess Fox is, did you see the news story that emerged out the other day that Jess has found a very unique way to use some of those 50,000 condoms that are in the Olympic Village? Basically, the damage to the front of her boat, she has to put some sort of resin material on it to try and fix it. And to hold it into place, she's using condoms to slip it over the thing. I mean, this is genius. We know the athletes aren't having sex these Olympics, it's a sex-proof bed. So, I mean, Jess has found a genius. This is why she won gold today, let's be honest. It's the condoms.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's true. Who knew that there were so many boats they needed to repair in Tokyo?
BEN WATERWORTH: She's got the extra large condoms too, I believe. You know, Jess likes a big, so good on her. She puts it on the boat and it goes home. So if any other athletes are listening right now, use those condoms, I'm sure again, they can be mixed with the music. You can find that along the way. Now, tomorrow, day seven is a big one because it's our first day of athletics tomorrow. We've got one medal event in the athletics tomorrow, the 10,000 metres, but it's always at halfway point of the Olympics, isn't it? You know, kind of you're there when the athletics is happening. I'll be honest, I'm looking forward to Bruce. I always look forward to the athletics for Bruce. Bruce called the swimming. I think it was in Athens he called the swimming, and maybe did he do it in Beijing. So I wonder why Bruce doesn't do the dual commentary. But yeah, like, athletics is always fun. I mean, this is the Olympics. Athletics is the Olympics, right? This is where the most nations compete, the most events. And this is, I think it's, we haven't really discussed too much about the lack of crowds and how that is. I don't think it's really been that much of a difference. Some events maybe, but outside of that, it hasn't really been too bad. This is where I think it's going to be weird, in an empty stadium, you know, 60, 70,000 people. I mean, I can't even imagine the 100 metres, what that's going to be like. So, are you excited for the athletics? Are you a man who enjoys these athletics?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, definitely. I think it's just so many events in the one spot, and the fact that they're all kind of running, like in amongst each other, like plenty to choose from, which is good. I think the swimming, as much as Australia loves it, for the fact that it gets us up there on the metal tally, it's always nice when it kind of comes to a close. You get to a point where you've seen enough swimming, and you're just ready for something different. So I think the variety that athletics offers will be really great.
BEN WATERWORTH: And if I'm not mistaken, generally I know the swimming, the finals are held morning Australian time when they're sort of on this side of the world, because that's an NBC thing. Basically, they've got the rights, so they can strong on the IOC. I don't think they do this with the athletics, so I still think they still hold the 100 metres at night from memory. So the men's 100 metres kicks off on Saturday, but the women's 100 metres, the preliminary rounds and the semis, are they tomorrow? I think it's just all heats tomorrow. But other events we've got starting tomorrow, the high jumps on tomorrow, the discus steeplechases going on, the women's 800, men's 400 hurdles, the women's triple jump, the women's 5,000 metres heats, but the one medal tomorrow that is being decided is the men's 10,000 metres. I have done a couple of 10k since the last Olympics, and I generally don't run the whole thing, so clearly I didn't qualify. And the 4x4 relay mixed round one. It's quite early for that. But bring on Bruce. Hashtag bring on Bruce, I say. 21 medal events are happening tomorrow, and alongside the athletics starting tomorrow, we also have trampolining starting tomorrow, which is always kind of the middle ground of gymnastics, Jarrod. I know you like your balls and your ribbons. There's also traditional gymnastics, which is always fun. But I don't know, I'm weirdly entertained by trampoline. It's kind of one of these sports where I'm like, do I like this? And I watch it, I'm like, yeah, it's not too bad. Like, it's fine. I mean, it's not rhythmic, but it's still up there. I mean, we won only medal in this type of gymnastics, so we should be celebrating this in Australia.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Yeah, I think trampolining is almost like, nostalgia is probably not the right word, but the fact that my mind just goes straight to like kids jumping on trampolines in their backyard, doing like the whole belly flop routine on the trampoline, and then to imagine it at this high level, the height that they get on the bounce that you'd never be able to achieve on your home trampoline that would normally have like a couple of springs broken and inevitably somebody would fall through the gaps and hurt themself. I think it's just great for the fact that it's there and just that funny comparison is just always in the back of your mind.
BEN WATERWORTH: I was shit scared. I was not a good trampolining person. But I mean, I think it's also one of these ones that so many things to do with Sydney, I think kind of give me like, I'm always a bit partial to Taekwondo and Triathlon because I remember watching them in Sydney. At Trier, as I said, you know, there's a lot of events which relate so much to just those two weeks in Sydney. And obviously trampoline was debuted at Sydney and with Jai Wallace winning the silver. You know, we all remember his reaction when he got the silver. It was fantastic. So I don't mind the trampoline. It's the women's tomorrow. And of course, for Canada, that's a big deal because Rosie McLennan is back. She's aiming to be, I think, the first Canadian to ever win three consecutive gold medals in a single event in a row. So of course, she's the reigning two-time gold medallist from both London and Rio. So I think from memory, Colin talked up that she's not really a big chance, but who knows? It's the Olympics. You never know what else is going to happen. I guess the other big ones tomorrow in terms of the medals, of course, as we mentioned before, the women's slalom was on today, but we've got the men's happening tomorrow. And I will say that the Australian guy that I mentioned, of course, is Lucian Del Four, who I believe was the second fastest qualifier. So keep an eye out for him. Cycling, both the BMXs being there tomorrow. We've got a badminton medal being decided tomorrow, mixed doubles, and I can tell you it's going to be a gold to China and a silver medal to China. Chinese competitors in there. When it comes to events to look out for, I guess for Australia tomorrow, obviously we've got the women's BMX will be something to keep slightly in the back of your mind. We do actually have an Australian competitor in the trampoline. Her name is Jessica Pickering. So keep an eye out. There's only 16 people in that final. So you never know. That's a decent chance for a medal. We have got two crews in rowing finals tomorrow, both in the eights, the men's and the women's. Both there, some of the not quite up there. I think for medals, we were sort of near the slower competitors, but Canada also at least in the women's tomorrow. So keep an eye out for that. In terms of other prominent ones, we've got the Matildas in a quarterfinal tomorrow, Jarrod. Now, football, of course, is a sport. Australia has never won a medal in. I do not believe we have ever progressed past the quarterfinals in either men's or women's. And it's an interesting one with Britain because you never know really how to go with this. England, of course, generally the country you come up against when you play in soccer. Football, I stick to football, Ben. That's a true term. So yeah, I don't know how to read this. I don't know if I would have rather Canada because at least then if we had a loss, then Canada goes through because Canada's got fricking Brazil and I'm nervous of them. So how are you feeling for the Matildas tomorrow?
JARROD LOOBEEK: Um, I've got a, I feel like I've got a bad feeling. It just, there's some of these sports that just feels like you're just destined not to meddle in.
BEN WATERWORTH: Yeah.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Like I don't want to jinx the men's basketball, but it feels like that type of thing with, with football. Yeah. It's just, I don't know. I feel like there's just such hype around this team. And it, to be fair, it has died off a lot since, I don't know, two, three years ago when they were just producing these amazing results. Um, so I suppose in that sense, that's probably a good thing, but I feel like the hype is still there, but there's expectation that they'll do something special here. And I just, I don't think, I mean, I don't think it's going to be one-sided, but I think it, like, I just, it just feel like we're going to get a heartbreaking moment, um, whether it's, whether it's this round or the next.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, of course, only two years removed from hosting the World Cup as well. So, I mean, a big result here would be fantastic for the sport, really. Not that we're not excited to have the World Cup in Australia in two years, but I think it would be, you know, a massive deal if Australia could come away, even, even if you got fourth. I mean, it's a big deal to make to semis, I think. And I'm going to say, I feel that we might be in with a chance. I'm just, I'm not going to say we're going to win, but we might be in with a chance. Just some quick breaking news while I go through the other stuff as well. I should mention that in the fencing, we do have a result in the gold medal match. Rock! Quickly! Jarrod, turn in, you get his and Tchaikovsky. Defeat of France, 45 to 34 there in the fencing. So congratulations to them. We still do not have a result in the women's all around. I've actually got it on in the background right now. I can tell you that Simone Biles is not leading, which is probably the obvious one right now. The current leaders are Vladislava Urizova from Rock and Angelina Melnikova. As I said, Rock gonna win the gold, and we're gonna get put down on the medal tally, which of course is the case. You mentioned basketball. The Opals are back on the court tomorrow. They're playing China, hoping to bounce back on that one. Got a couple of beach volleyball players out there going tomorrow as well. In other events tomorrow, our golfers, I didn't mention where they were sitting. They're not doing too well, so I don't think there's really much to talk about that. Hockey, the Cucabarros out against Spain tomorrow. That'll be a tricky one. Spain, a very good country when it comes to hockey. So we'll see how that one plays out. And Canada also play tomorrow against the CSI Africa. So good luck there, Canada. And Rugby Sevens, of course, will be keeping an eye out. Australia won two from two, so you'd all say we're into the quarters, but we do play the US tomorrow, who are actually a lot better in Rugby Sevens than I think people give them credit for. Canada, I think, have to win against France to have any shot of making it through to the quarterfinals. Sailing's happening tomorrow. That's great. Swimming-wise, it's 100-metre freestyle is the only one we've got a look in tomorrow. Now, I'm going to say this now, Jarrod. We have fun on this show, bagging out Kate. We really, really do. Rio was fun. And I'm going to say this, you might laugh at me, but I kind of wanted to win. Like, I actually kind of wanted to win. Emma McKeon is the fastest qualifier for this. We shouldn't take away from that. She's looked in strong form. She set the Olympic record in the heats. But I kind of want Kate to win. Jarrod, I'm a bad Off The Podium host for saying I want Kate Campbell to win a gold medal individually.
JARROD LOOBEEK: I don't think you are because I feel like, I don't know, I've got a good feeling about Kate Campbell in the 100m. I don't know why, but it would be nice. Good justification for carrying that flag in the opening ceremony. It would be nice. You have to feel that she just must want it so badly at this point. It came up with Jess in the slalom, but the fact that we have these athletes who have won, been world champions so many times, and really that is just the same thing as the Olympics, but it's held every year. The big difference is the Olympics only comes around every four years. So there's just a lot of deserving athletes who, because the Olympics are so rare and anything can happen, that they may not end up winning an Olympic medal, but on the balance of things, they've been more consistent, the more consistent athlete. So it would be a nice touch to her Olympic story so far.
BEN WATERWORTH: It's just... Yeah, I think you got a good point there, but I will say they haven't hyped her up as much. Like, that was our problem, wasn't it, with Rio? I mean, we literally had them all but saying that we were going to go 1-2, that Campbell, that both Bronte and Kate were going to go 1-2, and that was the problem. Like, it's been a joke on this show. We will always say pulling a Campbell. But if we've got to be realistic and nice, we want to see, like, yeah, it did kind of annoy me a little bit, kind of the attention and how it was all like, woe is me, but Tristan Thomas made a very valid point in that interview with him about, you know, her genuine reaction. And if you actually follow Kate Campbell on social media, she does seem like kind of like a nice girl, kind of, you know, you kind of feel a bit for her. So like, as much as, of course, I'd love to see Emma McKean win, you know, but I mean, in all seriousness, too, I would not be upset if Penny Alexiak defended her title. I think it would be groundbreaking for Penny to get a medal in this event, to just break that record, because, you know, we can be the cocky, arrogant Australians, be like, oh, Thorpe has won nine medals, you know, but like, I mean, seven medals for a Canadian, and to be a summer athlete as well, I mean, this is unheard of. This is like if all of a sudden an Australian, the most successful Australian winter athlete is a Winter Olympian. Like, it's just unheard of. So I mean, I'm really looking forward to that, but I'm saying this now. I've got a bit of a good feeling too, Jarrod. I'm going to be completely honest with you. I would love to see the top three of Emma, Kate and Penny, but keep an eye on this Siobhan Hoy that got the silver in the 200, because I don't know, like, I feel that's a bit Penny-esque of Rio, where Penny got a medal, I believe, in the 200 from memory, and then all of a sudden won the gold in the 100 tie with Simone Manuel. So yeah, it's going to be an interesting one, the 100 metres for the win. We have not won gold in that event since Jodie Henry in Athens. So she's, I have to say, I like Jodie Henry. She to me is one of these forgotten ones that people never talk about as an Olympic champion in this country. Like, I just, I always love Jodie Henry, and I can't believe she barely ever gets talked about. So we should try to get her on the show. I like Jodie. But that's our only finalist tomorrow. We do have, around Titmuss made the 800 final, which I think is in a couple of days, and our 200 back girls in Kelly McHugh, and she will be in the semis tomorrow as well. So keep an eye out for that. And Kylie Mass. Come on, Ben. Keep up the equalization there with Canada and the Off The Podium guests. Speaking of Off The Podium guests, it's Kylie Mass, as I just mentioned, tomorrow in the 200. She's not in the four. Well, she actually might be in the four by one mixed female heats. Not mixed, the four by Medley. Thank you. That's what I meant. So if she's swimming, she will be in that. But maybe they're going to rest her for the final, should they make it. And of course, Charlotte Kaslik tomorrow in the rugby as well. No medal has been decided for them, but they'll still have those ones. One thing I want to do before we head off, I need to mention that Colin did flick us through almost a new fan thing. Now we've kind of been a bit unlucky these Olympics, where we don't really have fan messages for the Australians. We don't have the My Name Is for Canada. I'm looking here on the TMOs Olympics Hub, and I can tell you Warwick Anderson's leading the trivia. Good on you, Warwick. Oh, they've changed the Olympic moments now in our Speedo competition, Jarrod. We've got Ariane's second gold sinks in. Awesome Foursome takes first gold since 2004. Hockey Roos continue winning streak. Or Titmuss and Ledecky heats up in Tokyo. It's the rowing. It's the rowing. I love the fact that she's from Tasmania, but even I'm getting sick of the Ariane tip. I think even Ariane Titmuss is getting sick of the Ariane Titmuss stuff. So yeah, but we've got here. Canada have a fan message sort of thing. Sobeys, which is a grocery store. I used to shop at Sobeys every now and then when I lived there. They have an opportunity, Jarrod, to have a fan message put on a quilt that will be given to Team Canada. Basically, they've got a form here. In 20 characters, you can share your message with Team Canada. Hashtag feed the dream. So I'm disappointed that I'm not living there anymore because I could have picked up a reusable shopping bag with pictures of Olympians on it. So I'm very sad that they're... But basically, they're asking Canadians, well, clearly we're not involved in that one, coast to coast to send messages of support, and they're going to create a tablecloth made from over 1000 messages to let our Olympians know we're behind them. Let your words share in Team Canada and nourish their Olympic spirits throughout the games. Oh, isn't that nice? So in 20 characters or less, Jarrod, what do we want to say to Team Canada?
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's got to have something on there about... What was that saying? Good job, buddy.
BEN WATERWORTH: Oh, chin up, champ. Chin up, champ. Chin up, Kylie. Kylie is one of their ambassadors. They've got their ambassadors here for Sobeys, and Kylie is one of theirs. So shall we, like... Good on you, Kylie.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Chin up, Charlie. Chin up, Charlie. Chin up, Kylie.
BEN WATERWORTH: Good on you, Kylie. Chin up. Champ. The 200 is yours.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Reverse the curse.
BEN WATERWORTH: Reverse the curse. And put it in the purse. Alright. Submit. Input your name here. Right. Fair enough. Let's go with Colin Hilding. Submit. Enter your email. What's his email? I do know his email. Shit. Shall I give it out on air? Actually, yeah, let's give it out on air. I'm sure people can do it. Colin Hilding at... no, I'm not gonna do the rest of that. gmail.com Send Colin an email. You never know. Alright. Thank you. We received your message and we'll be reviewing it. If chosen, it will be stitched onto Team Canada's... Oh, we can view the... Jarrod, we can view the messages. This is what we want. Cindy from Winnipeg. Probably Colin's neighbour. You are the best. Canada is the best. The True North is supporting you. Go Team Canada. There we go. Kamen Tinovich says, Go Canada Go. Pretty simple and straight to the point there. That'll get on. Tara Lee says, We are so proud of you and all your hard work. You are all gold medal winners in our eyes. Go Canada Go.
JARROD LOOBEEK: It's true. That's very Canadian.
BEN WATERWORTH: Well, hang on. Here's what they're stolen. Also on here, Jarrod Anita D. Keep it up. Nearly chin up. You are all inspirations. Um, I like this one from Sunil. Sky is the limit. That's all you need to go straight to the point. Uh, why not? Um, anyone else here? I think we need to save some of these. There's 64 pages of this. Uh, wow. Maybe I'll filter through some of these ones and try and find one there. Uh, oh, this one's nice. Margaret Hash. Do your best and enjoy your Olympic experience. Straight, like, that's all you need. See, Canada gets it. None of this cocky Australian-ness of, you know, uh, you only go to Silver, Bronze, Middle. Um, Jarrod, it's been a pleasure to have you on the show as always. Uh, plenty happening. Uh, what are you looking forward to tomorrow? I know we kind of talked up some of those events, but is there one in particular that you're gonna be keeping an eye on tomorrow?
JARROD LOOBEEK: I feel like the BMX. There's potential. Uh, I feel like it's gonna be overhyped depending on what happens, but there is potential for, like, a lovely good new story there. Um, so I think, and the fact that we're in, um, I think the two different semis, um, hopefully we can get both of the girls through to the final.
BEN WATERWORTH: I'm, I'm just gonna be cliché and say I'm pumped for the 100. I, I think I'm probably more pumped than the men's. I think this is just, it's, it's got every chance to be a nice story. Uh, and this coming from the podcast that makes the Campbells a joke. So, um, look at us changing our tunes. We are the Basil's Emplice of podcasts. We like to suck up when it comes through to the, these sort of things. But, uh, we'll see how that plays out tomorrow. And the Matildas. I'm just gonna say it right now. I'm looking forward to the Matildas. I, I've got a decent feeling. I don't say a good or bad feeling. I have a decent feeling. Um, an updated Final Metal tally for you today. We're not even a Final Metal tally, because we've obviously got the Gymnastics going on. And this will probably go up with Rock looking like they're gonna win another gold. So our top five, China, Japan, US, Rock and Australia. We're three clear of Great Britain. So, uh, that's, that's good there. And Canada's still in 12th place as well. So we'll see how that changes tomorrow. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, hashtag OTP, and subscribe to us on all the relevant channels. Leave us some feedback. We appreciate all the support and everything you're giving us. And we look forward to bringing you more exciting action after basically a week of competition, because we've got plenty to come, though. So get excited. Jarrod, as always, thank you.
JARROD LOOBEEK: Thank you. It's been great.
BEN WATERWORTH: And we will be back tomorrow, hopefully with Colin, and we'll see how things pan out. Until then, thanks for listening, and we'll speak to you next time. Good night.
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