Speaker 1: We just jumped straight into the eight.
Speaker 2: End of day eleven here in Paris, and the action
Speaker 2: rolls on once again, joined by two time Olybyan a.
Speaker 1: World champ James Magnuson and made Fella. I'll tell you now,
Speaker 1: not just a great journal, but a great blow.
Speaker 2: Love's company over here Crash credit gay, crashy game.
Speaker 3: I thought it must have been one. It nice to
Speaker 3: be here.
Speaker 2: You win your company boys crash a bit of Coueensland
Speaker 2: at fourteen year old Arissa True which the gold medal
Speaker 2: in the skateboarding our youngest olibya of all time.
Speaker 3: Yet look, I got to admit, no one thought they
Speaker 3: would ever beat Sandy Morgan's record of being just older
Speaker 3: than fourteen when she won gold in a relay of
Speaker 3: nineteen fifty six. That people put them to stand forever.
Speaker 3: But Mannie and Michell grade nine at school and you
Speaker 3: win a gold medal. I made you coming back. I
Speaker 3: had you where you've been at the Olympics. So I
Speaker 3: when a gold what have you been up to?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: It's extraordinary? But what did it say about pressure? I
Speaker 3: mean the fact that she was as cool as you
Speaker 3: like in that last run. It was almost if she
Speaker 3: was insulated from pressure. And you know early in the day,
Speaker 3: as you said, we had the Boomers, didn't.
Speaker 4: We We did the boomers.
Speaker 3: Boomers up against Serbia.
Speaker 1: We're a powerhouse.
Speaker 4: Sigh.
Speaker 2: We led it by twenty four points at once at
Speaker 2: one point of the game, got ridden down when Paddy
Speaker 2: Mill scored right on full time to take you.
Speaker 1: To extra time.
Speaker 2: We lost in ninety five to ninety And I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what it is we spect about this performance song
Speaker 2: they're aside the boom was in my opinion, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: that are very good underdogs and that's why they started
Speaker 2: so well.
Speaker 1: But the moment they got twenty four points clear, they
Speaker 1: took the gas.
Speaker 3: And what you were saying about pressure very crumbled. Let's
Speaker 3: be canned about it. And a couple of hours later,
Speaker 3: a fourteen year old comes out and was absolutely nerveless.
Speaker 4: Probably the two contrasting methods and Olympic Games.
Speaker 5: You've got the blissful ignorance of youth yep, where the
Speaker 5: moment foremost is an acknowledged because it's so out of
Speaker 5: the realm of possibilities for a fourteen year old. And
Speaker 5: then you've got an overthinker of an experienced player who's
Speaker 5: been in the NBA coming back to Olympic Games and
Speaker 5: understanding the gravity of the situation and not being able
Speaker 5: to handle it but out at the moment.
Speaker 2: Pretty much all about tracks. So we're going to our
Speaker 2: five to one boys for crash. Now five to one
Speaker 2: most favorite track and field athletes of all the time
Speaker 2: ludis number five, Crash.
Speaker 3: We'll all go Michael Johnson, number five from the United
Speaker 3: States of America. Two hundred meters and four hundred meters,
Speaker 3: master of those things, will give you the four hundred.
Speaker 3: His record still stands. I've got to say, what's the
Speaker 3: most endearing character, col I'm.
Speaker 4: Going a story on that.
Speaker 3: You get into that Carl Lewis at for the Indomitable
Speaker 3: Showman Olympic Medals really needs an explanation. If you haven't
Speaker 3: got him on your list, I reckon you've got the
Speaker 3: wrong list. Number three is a story. I love Bob Beeman,
Speaker 3: who put together the single greatest performance in the history
Speaker 3: of athletics, the standout performance when he in long jump
Speaker 3: in Mexico. He beat the world record by twenty three inches. Now,
Speaker 3: if you beat a world record in long jump by that,
Speaker 3: people say, hey, wow, they beat it all that way.
Speaker 3: He beats it by that. It was measured by a
Speaker 3: steel pole which had a washer on it, and they
Speaker 3: would move the washer up. But guess what happened. The
Speaker 3: washer fell off the end of the pole. It was
Speaker 3: that line. He was so excited by it that when
Speaker 3: he got out of the pit he started breathing it
Speaker 3: randomly and just was his whole body almost melted. It
Speaker 3: was extraordinary. It took Mike Powell to catch him up
Speaker 3: a decade or so ago, but that was just that's
Speaker 3: a great story. You're saying, Bolt, what can you say?
Speaker 3: And it wasn't just his one hundred hundred hundred, it
Speaker 3: was what he brought to the cave. He would go
Speaker 3: up in the press box after he won a hundred
Speaker 3: and look at Bloke stories. The guy from the Jamaican
Speaker 3: Gleaner would be typing and he'd say, do you want
Speaker 3: to know to quote?
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 6: He was great at the Central Coast Mariners as well.
Speaker 6: That's right. The first time he felt his father. You
Speaker 6: tripped over the wall. You always yeah, you can't be.
Speaker 4: Good at everything.
Speaker 3: Crash. That's right.
Speaker 1: Listen Joey's commentary.
Speaker 3: Job jo your Facial series it was you meant that didn't? No,
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, And number one the drum roll. Look, Jesse Owen's
Speaker 7: the great black American spreader. He set three world records
Speaker 7: in forty five minutes one afternoon at a carnival. You know,
Speaker 7: the one hundred two hundred long. I mean, that's just
Speaker 7: mind blowing to pack at the SIGs a day.
Speaker 4: How do you do that?
Speaker 1: Lung busters?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, back in the day where they were lungbusters in
Speaker 3: an era where black men were treated really poorly. He
Speaker 3: had no sponsors. How did he do it? I couldn't
Speaker 3: contemplate putting anyone ahead of him as number one after
Speaker 3: what he went through. Of course, he won in the
Speaker 3: shadow of Adult Hitler in Germany. You think of the
Speaker 3: pressure a black man he had to raise money by
Speaker 3: racing horses and cars. His story was absolutely damn busting.
Speaker 3: He's one of the athletes stretches beyond athleticism. So he
Speaker 3: was my clear number one. James magnuson Jets.
Speaker 5: Number five A. You're going to see my list. Heavily
Speaker 5: influenced by the Sydney Olympics. That was the first Olympics
Speaker 5: I ever remember watching. Of course I was young and
Speaker 5: impressionable at the time, so heavy influence here, and you're
Speaker 5: going to see some generational differences, I'm sure between the
Speaker 5: three of us. Number five Kathy Freeman the race of
Speaker 5: a lifetime, the race of the Olympics, the race of
Speaker 5: the decade, century, whatever you want to call it. That
Speaker 5: four hundred meters in Sydney, and she did it with
Speaker 5: the full suit as well, which just added that little
Speaker 5: bit of extra pressure lit.
Speaker 1: The colroot.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Number four Maurice Screen, again young and impressionable at the
Speaker 5: Sydney Olympics. I remember the swagger of Marie Screen when
Speaker 5: he walked out. He had the big earrings, he was
Speaker 5: jacked up. He won one hundred meters in Sydney and
Speaker 5: I was just mesmerized by him.
Speaker 1: Well, I'd say that what was at that day at
Speaker 1: the hundred right.
Speaker 2: So he finishes and he's strutting her out, crowds going mad.
Speaker 2: He pulls his spikes off and the crowd anticipation. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he throws me into the crowd.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think they realized this spot.
Speaker 4: I got my number three from that same game. Marion Jones.
Speaker 4: She was the darling of track at the time.
Speaker 5: I just remember the winning margin one hundred meters at
Speaker 5: the Sydney Olympics.
Speaker 4: She was a beautiful runner, beautiful person.
Speaker 5: Obviously things came a bit undone towards the end of
Speaker 5: the career.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell the first thing that came up done.
Speaker 2: Did you see the husband or the boyfriend? Honestly, he's
Speaker 2: got like a billion bag.
Speaker 4: I think that's so broader undone in the end.
Speaker 3: But she spent six months in jail, didn't she.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that doesn't affect you.
Speaker 3: You're comfortable with that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Me serious?
Speaker 1: Like you?
Speaker 3: You you'll she'll come.
Speaker 4: I go, yeah, I go a athletic performance. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: My number two, Michael Johnson, the robot.
Speaker 5: Loved his technique, loved those massive biceps and shoulders as.
Speaker 4: He came around the corner.
Speaker 5: And my number one, you sain't bolt the triple triple
Speaker 5: one hundred, two hundred and.
Speaker 4: Four by one at three Olympics may never be done again.
Speaker 4: I believe the greatest athlete in history. You met him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've had a.
Speaker 4: Couple of nights in this sauce with you saying, yeah, Also,
Speaker 4: what tell me.
Speaker 8: Something about I can't tell you this story is I'm
Speaker 8: told maybe he's bigger than my personality, I think you say,
Speaker 8: and Bob probably doesn't left the finger to do many
Speaker 8: things in life anymore.
Speaker 4: But he's a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: But he also comes to a group of about five
Speaker 5: m Jamaican bokes, so you don't get used in on
Speaker 5: his own.
Speaker 4: You get us and his crew a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: I'd say, small docs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: My number five, Michael Johnson, until it was funny about
Speaker 2: Johnson said that he was He actually turned his palms
Speaker 2: up and he'd run like that should and your arm
Speaker 2: they say that your arm length, did say ship your
Speaker 2: your stride and it was all that shuffling stide.
Speaker 1: It was so different everybody else. Ray Martin classes.
Speaker 2: It was the worst interview he's ever done. He came
Speaker 2: out for the Goodwill Games. He said he was in
Speaker 2: a testing mood start with. And then Ray broadly not
Speaker 2: personally asked you about the impact of performance him drugs
Speaker 2: and athletics. Uh, he took it personally and things got
Speaker 2: a it's a it's a really tough watch.
Speaker 1: It's pretty hard talk.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: My number four s J.
Speaker 2: Booker, who was represented the USSR in Pole vol Booker
Speaker 2: was Ukrainian just an amazing, really make good look and
Speaker 2: charismatic guy. As I've said before, Us is habitat but
Speaker 2: a Ukrainian hero.
Speaker 4: But what's really.
Speaker 2: Interesting he moved into politics and after moving into politics, at.
Speaker 1: The moment, he's enduring at the moment a very difficult time.
Speaker 2: He's been accused of being a basically a bit of
Speaker 2: a students for the Russian government.
Speaker 3: So interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we might give back down.
Speaker 3: She only made won one goal, one Olympic goal, but
Speaker 3: World Championships he cleaned up manage one.
Speaker 1: You say volt number three, I can't add anything more
Speaker 1: than U Blokes did. Number two.
Speaker 2: Edwin Moses, the greatest four hundred men hurdler, just moved
Speaker 2: like just so smooth.
Speaker 1: Is there a part of event in athletics and the
Speaker 1: four hundred hurdles?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 5: I think that energy is on the lactic as said,
Speaker 5: plus having to jump over the hurdles in that last
Speaker 5: tray boy.
Speaker 2: Staff number one is Jesse Allens because I think, like
Speaker 2: Muhammad Ali, there's some people that transcend sport and to
Speaker 2: do it at the Berlin Olympics, at the Nazi Olympics,
Speaker 2: Hitler's Olympics and really shove it up the ass of that,
Speaker 2: so shout out the backside of the nuts said, and
Speaker 2: what's really that there's one.
Speaker 1: Of my favorite stories and sport around that.
Speaker 2: The iron is the irony is he won one of
Speaker 2: those gold medals in this revolutionary new shoe spike invented
Speaker 2: by these two young brothers who were Germans, Adolf Dassler
Speaker 2: and Rudolf Dassler. Now what happened after that was really
Speaker 2: really interesting. The Dassler boot was famous worldwide. Rudolf got
Speaker 2: conscripted to go to the war Fort World Lee two.
Speaker 2: He was actually a prisoner of warflte wife.
Speaker 1: From the Allies.
Speaker 2: When he came out, he was very knocked around, as
Speaker 2: you'd imagine, and he believed that his brother Adolph had
Speaker 2: conspired to get him into the war. So they fell
Speaker 2: out horrendously. So what he said, he said, I'm going
Speaker 2: to bury the Dasla brand. He went across the river
Speaker 2: and stood gut started a brand called Puma. Wow.
Speaker 4: So wo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really funny if you look till the day
Speaker 2: both of them died, they were always trying to want
Speaker 2: the one at for each other.
Speaker 1: You understand that it had also changed his name to Addie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was that name was a couple of the
Speaker 2: fair stigmas, so he became Addie Dass dassla yeah till
Speaker 2: they died. As you look at nineteen seventy World Cup
Speaker 2: final in soccer, as it's about to kick off, Palais
Speaker 2: tastes his Puma boot off and relayses, it's.
Speaker 4: It's great, it's just on spikes.
Speaker 5: He would have seen the bronze medal as Fred Curley
Speaker 5: in the one hundred meters so leading into this game,
Speaker 5: she was sponsored by Assex, signing deal for two million
Speaker 5: usd per year. Fred Curley Bruns medal. Let's got to
Speaker 5: the trials this year the US Olympic trials decided he
Speaker 5: didn't like the feel of the spikes, so wore Nike
Speaker 5: and they bore up his contract for two million dollars.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's what I'll say to young footballers. Don't don't
Speaker 1: take the cash.
Speaker 2: Okay to wear the where, the boot, the suit, your feet,
Speaker 2: they're all very very different.
Speaker 5: Now, may I wanted to ask you something about We
Speaker 5: were talking yesterday about Miami Fox and I noticed you
Speaker 5: got a little bit emotional.
Speaker 4: We're talking about her relationship with Jess and her gold medal.
Speaker 4: Can you delve into that a bit for me, missile.
Speaker 2: Of course I'm a parent first of all. Yeah, parent, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you understand how proud you would be, but also to
Speaker 2: be a parent of two kids that are in professional
Speaker 2: sport and the extra complexity that brings. Now when you're
Speaker 2: when you're a parent and your your children professional sport,
Speaker 2: you don't you just don't get any clear ee.
Speaker 1: There's always one that's up and one that's down. Is
Speaker 1: always the way you're looking. Ones having a great day,
Speaker 1: the ones.
Speaker 4: Having a bad day.
Speaker 3: It's for pit.
Speaker 2: It is just so tough, like there was there was
Speaker 2: one a funny well, I give you the best example, right,
Speaker 2: My two boys last year played each other at Mudge
Speaker 2: Newcastle versus mainly Mudget.
Speaker 1: It was special for us as my mum was.
Speaker 2: My mother and my grandmother and mudgie girls. My grandmother
Speaker 2: was a public event and so it was really nice.
Speaker 1: I thought, my god, too, you.
Speaker 2: Did this occasion for the family and they're playing against
Speaker 2: each other, and everywhere I went they were like, okay,
Speaker 2: who's going to win now?
Speaker 4: Now? For me, it was pissed tape.
Speaker 2: But I was saying, I've already read the script. It's
Speaker 2: going to go into golden point, it's going to end
Speaker 2: up a draw. Well, it went into Golden Point, ended
Speaker 2: up thirty two strut.
Speaker 4: He was unbelievable.
Speaker 2: But what happened, Crash is that Jack probably had his
Speaker 2: best game in first grade and Cooper had one of
Speaker 2: as many stinkers.
Speaker 3: Right, he says, with the incredible.
Speaker 2: That Jack played a great game, Cooper struggled, and they
Speaker 2: both come off together, right, and they said, come and
Speaker 2: get a photo, and they I've got you know, look,
Speaker 2: I've got got his year on my phone, you know.
Speaker 2: And there they are, and how they get there, we'll
Speaker 2: show it. There they are standing together a full time
Speaker 2: because Jack's he's beaming yeah, and Cooper's got a real
Speaker 2: strange smile. But I walk off and they come over
Speaker 2: to move and I grabbed Jack and I say, good
Speaker 2: on you, mate.
Speaker 1: I said that that's the best you deserve. That can
Speaker 1: work work your ass off. Then I turned to the
Speaker 1: other bloke.
Speaker 2: We'll sit there and you did it, okay, he said,
Speaker 2: Now I played ship.
Speaker 1: I said, now make you did okay, and you're going
Speaker 1: one to the other. Now.
Speaker 2: The Fox parents just as Rise and her success. I
Speaker 2: can only imagine how proud they were. It must have
Speaker 2: been done, but they would have had one eye out
Speaker 2: no Amy. As well as as Jess is becoming this
Speaker 2: amazing Olympic legend, you've got the younger sister dealing with
Speaker 2: trying to forge your own.
Speaker 1: Path, dealing with expectation, dealing.
Speaker 2: With pressure, all that, all that stuff I reckon yesterday
Speaker 2: her winning the gold medal. I have got no doubt
Speaker 2: that was the greatest moment in that Fender's life.
Speaker 3: And how do the relationships between Jess, who I think
Speaker 3: looks after that Amy a bit? You know, did you
Speaker 3: find the same thing with Joey? Like compare the relationships,
Speaker 3: Like how did you feel you were his keeper?
Speaker 4: You do?
Speaker 2: As like being the oldest sibling, the only older sibling
Speaker 2: is the dynamic and you look at oftentimes the older
Speaker 2: siblings look sort of more, they carry more on their shoulders,
Speaker 2: and the youngest sibling is sort of freestyle.
Speaker 1: They're pre wheeling for whatever reason. And you become like
Speaker 1: a second father with myself.
Speaker 2: Neandre And I remember when Inrew was a kid and
Speaker 2: he was playing now playing under fifteens a Newcastle, and
Speaker 2: I remember he got this terrible he got this terrible
Speaker 2: diseas's leaves and he could barely run and was undiagnosed
Speaker 2: for a long time.
Speaker 1: And it was Oscar's latest and.
Speaker 2: Before he was diagnosed, probably he was playing fifteen ins
Speaker 2: to the nights.
Speaker 3: I remember people would.
Speaker 2: Laugh and when he was trialing, I leave, his kid
Speaker 2: is so slow that barely moved, and I remembering the
Speaker 2: older brother watching him and the pain that caused me
Speaker 2: really getting the fights with people played at David Waite.
Speaker 2: David Waite was coaching the junior development was fine, and
Speaker 2: he said, I know the kicker, Billy run. We don't
Speaker 2: know if it's got much going for it as sorry
Speaker 2: as football, but to go out and do that with
Speaker 2: what he's jured, we're going to sign him and so
Speaker 2: sort of coming through.
Speaker 1: You'll cover through the grades.
Speaker 2: You are always the older brother, you know, You're always
Speaker 2: that way. You're always worried about anim more time, even
Speaker 2: though you know you should be.
Speaker 4: My warning to jest.
Speaker 3: Where is made? We're all interested. It's such a fascinating
Speaker 3: You're like the dynamic between you and Joey. Where is
Speaker 3: it at the moment? Like the Foxies. We're talking about
Speaker 3: how it's gone back and forth and ebbed and flowed.
Speaker 2: Funny crash, Okay, this this sort of completes the serve.
Speaker 1: My oldest son Jack, such a great break.
Speaker 2: Really. He worries about the family too much, worries about
Speaker 2: your drink, drink too much and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: He's taken over True's drinks anyway. But yeah, he's that
Speaker 1: sort of kid trouper, sort of free free will. But anyway,
Speaker 1: Jack says, what our lives going on?
Speaker 4: To Tally?
Speaker 1: I down like, so Ryan, so you know we're brothers, man.
Speaker 4: He has it's it's it's not right.
Speaker 2: So one day I'm sitting there and on the lounge
Speaker 2: and Sunday Engineer, I think it was, I'm having it.
Speaker 1: Help of beers, and he goes, do you want to
Speaker 1: have a drive?
Speaker 2: That I didn't really want to watch the movie? I said,
Speaker 2: I can sca from drive. So we hop in the car.
Speaker 1: Are we driving? Where are we going?
Speaker 3: And we're driving. We're gonna have the spit Bridge? But
Speaker 3: where are we going?
Speaker 1: As we went to have the Harbor Bridge? I knew
Speaker 1: where he was taking. So I'm sitting out the front
Speaker 1: of him the car. I said, fade, come on, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he said, get.
Speaker 2: The fuck up there, So okay, I got the lift
Speaker 2: up and he knocked on the door and opened it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jelley be coup really yeah, and he he did that.
Speaker 3: He did that.
Speaker 2: Now since we and Joey, yeah, a little bit, there's
Speaker 2: still a bit of ground of makeup, but you're always brothers. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a great story. Yeah, anybody who's your gonna have
Speaker 2: a bit.
Speaker 4: Made.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you sharing that story because it was a
Speaker 3: real insight.
Speaker 1: Clear that mind. I'm sitting there anyway.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Crash, I want to hear from you. This is
Speaker 5: my first Olympic Games on the ground covering it. We're
Speaker 5: eleven days in and I'm zombed. I've left a little
Speaker 5: bit of my soul on the dance woor, but also
Speaker 5: trying to report, trying to do these shows, crosses to radio.
Speaker 4: How do you do it?
Speaker 3: Mate? That's what I love about the Olympics. So it
Speaker 3: takes all you've got and there are some days you're
Speaker 3: walking along you think they used to have sleeping rooms
Speaker 3: at the Games. And when I first saw them, mind
Speaker 3: burst out laughing sleeping at the Games. By day four
Speaker 3: it was the first in that. But it's stripture, acred
Speaker 3: in exhaustion. But that's the glory of it. Isn't it,
Speaker 3: Maddie Like it's sort of being vulnerable, being open minded.
Speaker 3: Not the first I saw the eyebrows go, I saw
Speaker 3: the Dunke's go up.
Speaker 1: You know what, crash. I've been completely taken out of
Speaker 1: my comfort zone. I know, rave lely inside out.
Speaker 2: But to come here and to come here and well
Speaker 2: I understand what well, I've got new found respect for journalism,
Speaker 2: for guys like you just come over here.
Speaker 1: Little thing, just little things without McEwan McKean, Yeah, all
Speaker 1: those of having to work.
Speaker 3: It's not so much the long on ours.
Speaker 2: It's just the covering sports that you don't know that well.
Speaker 2: And I'll be I'll tear you mate. One of the
Speaker 2: highlights has been knocking around with Missile. Missile has been unbelievable.
Speaker 2: We get on fantastic, such a great blood. But sit
Speaker 2: in the stands swimming and him just taught me through
Speaker 2: everything's going.
Speaker 4: It's been.
Speaker 3: It's been incredible, wonderful.
Speaker 1: It's been a lot.
Speaker 4: That's been. It's been hard.
Speaker 1: Word, it's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: One more big show to go. Boys. What are we
Speaker 4: doing to wor right?
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tear what we're going to do to mine
Speaker 2: crash with missile, and we're going to travel around Paris
Speaker 2: and we're just going to give people a bit of
Speaker 2: a guide into when they come to Paris, what they should.
Speaker 1: Do now, now when Paris, when reddle age, when you come.
Speaker 2: To Paris, when you're in the twenties and thirties, older,
Speaker 2: the middle aged stuff.
Speaker 4: We all can do. The you can do, the continue to.
Speaker 1: The new rouge. Many boys love it.
Speaker 3: Let's go for a beer.