1 00:00:06,707 --> 00:00:10,587 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine 2 00:00:10,747 --> 00:00:11,787 Speaker 1: from newstalk ZEDB. 3 00:00:12,707 --> 00:00:14,907 Speaker 2: Let's get you across the Tasman to Adam Peacock, our 4 00:00:14,907 --> 00:00:18,947 Speaker 2: regular Australian correspondent heavily involved in coverage of the Olympics 5 00:00:19,027 --> 00:00:22,107 Speaker 2: with Stan Sport on your side of the Tasman, Adam, 6 00:00:22,147 --> 00:00:24,227 Speaker 2: including this morning, you were involved in coverage of the 7 00:00:24,267 --> 00:00:26,667 Speaker 2: opening ceremony. How did you enjoy it? 8 00:00:27,467 --> 00:00:30,987 Speaker 3: Yeah? Good a pony it was, I may mention on 9 00:00:31,027 --> 00:00:32,907 Speaker 3: our show. Actually it wasn't so much a ceremony but 10 00:00:32,947 --> 00:00:36,747 Speaker 3: to an extravaganza which you don't really come to expect 11 00:00:36,787 --> 00:00:40,027 Speaker 3: anything else from the French. And oh they put on 12 00:00:40,027 --> 00:00:42,667 Speaker 3: a show. I look at it logistically and thinking how 13 00:00:42,707 --> 00:00:43,867 Speaker 3: the hell are they going to pull this off? With 14 00:00:43,947 --> 00:00:47,267 Speaker 3: boats going everywhere, here, there and everywhere, but look spectacular 15 00:00:47,387 --> 00:00:52,867 Speaker 3: or spectacular. The French like to be unique, like to 16 00:00:52,907 --> 00:00:54,987 Speaker 3: be standard set as in style, and they lived up 17 00:00:54,987 --> 00:00:58,227 Speaker 3: to all of those accusations, if you want to call 18 00:00:58,267 --> 00:01:01,947 Speaker 3: those reputations. With what they laid on. It was unreal. 19 00:01:02,227 --> 00:01:05,067 Speaker 2: So the pageantry is over and the sport can begin. 20 00:01:05,147 --> 00:01:08,707 Speaker 2: It already has begun, of course, for various sporting teams. 21 00:01:08,707 --> 00:01:10,427 Speaker 2: And I want to talk about the Matilda's in a moment. 22 00:01:10,467 --> 00:01:14,467 Speaker 2: But what are Australian expectations ahead of the Olympic Games? 23 00:01:14,547 --> 00:01:18,307 Speaker 2: Like do people have a Middle Talian mind? How do 24 00:01:18,347 --> 00:01:20,627 Speaker 2: Australians approach and Olympic Games? 25 00:01:21,187 --> 00:01:25,107 Speaker 3: Yeah, they talk medals, They get excited, very patriotic, very 26 00:01:25,387 --> 00:01:29,227 Speaker 3: biased as you are during an Olympic Games. For me, 27 00:01:29,307 --> 00:01:31,147 Speaker 3: I try to take a bit of a step back 28 00:01:31,187 --> 00:01:32,947 Speaker 3: and think, well, I don't like to put an actual 29 00:01:33,067 --> 00:01:35,227 Speaker 3: figure on it like you used to get. I like 30 00:01:35,267 --> 00:01:38,427 Speaker 3: to go wide with like, okay, let's try and hopefully 31 00:01:38,467 --> 00:01:41,027 Speaker 3: we were in between forty and sixty medals, whereas pinning 32 00:01:41,227 --> 00:01:42,947 Speaker 3: an exact number on it. Because the worst thing you 33 00:01:42,947 --> 00:01:45,107 Speaker 3: want to come away from an Olympics is if someone 34 00:01:45,147 --> 00:01:47,427 Speaker 3: doesn't live up to it for any old reason, and 35 00:01:47,667 --> 00:01:49,747 Speaker 3: luck can play a part in some events, and just 36 00:01:49,827 --> 00:01:52,747 Speaker 3: someone being better on a day, or maybe you just 37 00:01:52,787 --> 00:01:56,627 Speaker 3: didn't perform your best for any old reason. Calling that 38 00:01:56,667 --> 00:01:58,987 Speaker 3: a failure I think is really really hard for some 39 00:01:59,027 --> 00:02:02,787 Speaker 3: of these athletes train without funding, without putting their lives, 40 00:02:03,587 --> 00:02:07,107 Speaker 3: livelihoods on whold to chase their dream. Talking about the 41 00:02:08,107 --> 00:02:12,267 Speaker 3: top end of town with your well paid athletes, I'm 42 00:02:12,307 --> 00:02:14,107 Speaker 3: talking the majority of the four hundred and sixty they 43 00:02:14,107 --> 00:02:17,187 Speaker 3: are going for Australia. It's their moment, So yeah, it's 44 00:02:17,187 --> 00:02:18,827 Speaker 3: just going along with them and enjoying all the. 45 00:02:18,787 --> 00:02:22,547 Speaker 2: Sport and the swimming gets underway nice and early night 46 00:02:22,627 --> 00:02:26,467 Speaker 2: one off swimming action tonight for I can talk in 47 00:02:26,547 --> 00:02:28,427 Speaker 2: similar time zones, can't I just a couple of hours 48 00:02:28,587 --> 00:02:32,707 Speaker 2: it so is the pool a place where the United 49 00:02:32,747 --> 00:02:35,667 Speaker 2: States are in Australia? Sites is there there's little mini 50 00:02:35,747 --> 00:02:39,467 Speaker 2: battle Australia against the United States within the overall Olympic 51 00:02:39,507 --> 00:02:41,347 Speaker 2: swim program there is. 52 00:02:41,827 --> 00:02:45,307 Speaker 3: I can't see us toppling the US on the metal taleyer, 53 00:02:45,467 --> 00:02:47,187 Speaker 3: I'd be very surprised if we did. I think we're 54 00:02:47,187 --> 00:02:48,907 Speaker 3: going to go back to nineteen sixty for US to 55 00:02:49,627 --> 00:02:53,267 Speaker 3: have more goal than the US. But they've just got 56 00:02:53,267 --> 00:02:57,147 Speaker 3: more depth. Like we were good in certain events and 57 00:02:57,227 --> 00:02:59,707 Speaker 3: a lot of events, but the US they're pretty much 58 00:02:59,747 --> 00:03:02,747 Speaker 3: there or thereabouts in just about every single event. So 59 00:03:02,747 --> 00:03:04,867 Speaker 3: we just don't have their depth. And they're so good 60 00:03:04,947 --> 00:03:07,347 Speaker 3: because they've got more personally people to choose from and 61 00:03:07,387 --> 00:03:09,667 Speaker 3: deefinitely a really good collegiate system where they develop a 62 00:03:09,667 --> 00:03:12,787 Speaker 3: lot that swimen say yeah, if we can get close 63 00:03:12,867 --> 00:03:15,267 Speaker 3: to them. That's a great result for Australia and I 64 00:03:15,307 --> 00:03:18,947 Speaker 3: think half, if not more than half, of our gold 65 00:03:18,987 --> 00:03:21,147 Speaker 3: medals is going to come from the pool, so that's 66 00:03:21,147 --> 00:03:22,947 Speaker 3: a big watch for us in the first week. 67 00:03:23,067 --> 00:03:25,587 Speaker 2: Yeah, looking forward to the swimming. Are the Matildas, as 68 00:03:25,587 --> 00:03:27,467 Speaker 2: I say, already under way, as are our men's and 69 00:03:27,467 --> 00:03:30,987 Speaker 2: women's footballing sides. I watched the Matildas against Germany yesterday. 70 00:03:31,227 --> 00:03:34,707 Speaker 2: I was I mean, I actually really enjoyed the game 71 00:03:34,747 --> 00:03:38,427 Speaker 2: of football, but Germany, I don't know. I'll ask for 72 00:03:38,467 --> 00:03:42,027 Speaker 2: your analysis. It was a fairly comprehensive display from Germany. 73 00:03:42,027 --> 00:03:43,787 Speaker 2: What did you make of Australia's performance? 74 00:03:44,507 --> 00:03:47,267 Speaker 3: Not up to scratch for that level. If you're going 75 00:03:47,347 --> 00:03:49,347 Speaker 3: to expect to get something out of a world coach 76 00:03:49,467 --> 00:03:52,787 Speaker 3: well drilled German side with some class players, you can't 77 00:03:52,787 --> 00:03:55,707 Speaker 3: play like that, and they know that they've got to improve. 78 00:03:56,107 --> 00:03:59,587 Speaker 3: I think tactically the Germans played Australia perfectly. They didn't 79 00:03:59,587 --> 00:04:02,067 Speaker 3: try and press, they say, in what's called a mid block, 80 00:04:02,147 --> 00:04:05,387 Speaker 3: so basically they go back to the middle of the 81 00:04:05,427 --> 00:04:08,267 Speaker 3: pitch and just let Australia play around with the ball 82 00:04:08,467 --> 00:04:12,147 Speaker 3: back and then make decisions that ultimately nine times out 83 00:04:12,187 --> 00:04:13,987 Speaker 3: of ten didn't come off and then it set pieces. 84 00:04:14,147 --> 00:04:18,147 Speaker 3: They were just sleepy and scored off two corners Germany, 85 00:04:18,147 --> 00:04:23,067 Speaker 3: So yeah, it's a wake up cool Tony geestaff and 86 00:04:23,147 --> 00:04:25,467 Speaker 3: said that minutes after the final whistle and it's hard 87 00:04:25,467 --> 00:04:28,147 Speaker 3: to disagree forty eight hours on. So yeah, they need 88 00:04:28,187 --> 00:04:30,547 Speaker 3: to sharpen up against Zambia otherwise the whole thing is 89 00:04:30,547 --> 00:04:31,987 Speaker 3: going to be over real quickly and they've got to 90 00:04:31,987 --> 00:04:33,867 Speaker 3: have a big win against Zambia because a goal difference 91 00:04:33,907 --> 00:04:35,787 Speaker 3: and trying to get through to the next phase. But 92 00:04:35,787 --> 00:04:37,427 Speaker 3: well done to the Kiwi boys. I watched it oft 93 00:04:37,467 --> 00:04:39,627 Speaker 3: that one and was that Ben Wayne? 94 00:04:39,947 --> 00:04:43,667 Speaker 2: Yeah it was the Wayne train. Yes indeed, yep, that. 95 00:04:43,787 --> 00:04:46,067 Speaker 3: Was good to see them get a win. Hopefully they 96 00:04:46,107 --> 00:04:49,147 Speaker 3: can go on with it. The US will be tricky 97 00:04:49,187 --> 00:04:51,067 Speaker 3: but not unbeatable in the next one, so it'd be 98 00:04:51,067 --> 00:04:53,107 Speaker 3: good to see the Kiwi men and the women over 99 00:04:53,147 --> 00:04:53,587 Speaker 3: there as well. 100 00:04:53,627 --> 00:04:57,827 Speaker 2: Of course, absolutely, that's the Canadian spying with a drone 101 00:04:57,867 --> 00:04:59,667 Speaker 2: story landed in your consciousness. 102 00:05:00,027 --> 00:05:02,787 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, because it's so dramatic. Bet priestman that their 103 00:05:02,787 --> 00:05:06,387 Speaker 3: coach been sent home. Yeah, the Canadian coach, so I 104 00:05:06,467 --> 00:05:09,427 Speaker 3: deserve you can't do a crack like. I don't know 105 00:05:09,427 --> 00:05:11,467 Speaker 3: if you saw it, Ponty, but someone pull it out 106 00:05:11,507 --> 00:05:13,747 Speaker 3: on the Internet's a wonderful place. They pulled out the 107 00:05:14,187 --> 00:05:17,467 Speaker 3: actual job description for the analyst job for Canada, like 108 00:05:17,507 --> 00:05:19,667 Speaker 3: when he got the job, and it said must have 109 00:05:19,827 --> 00:05:24,747 Speaker 3: drone flying experience that would literally part of the jobs back. 110 00:05:25,347 --> 00:05:27,667 Speaker 3: I love it. It didn't exactly work out the way 111 00:05:27,667 --> 00:05:28,267 Speaker 3: they intended. 112 00:05:29,107 --> 00:05:32,347 Speaker 2: It's amazing. That is amazing, and I guess like over 113 00:05:32,387 --> 00:05:34,947 Speaker 2: here at the time zones, you know, obviously being in Paris, 114 00:05:34,947 --> 00:05:37,187 Speaker 2: we sort of start through the night, stock up on coffee, 115 00:05:37,187 --> 00:05:39,587 Speaker 2: that sort of thing for those of who us who work, 116 00:05:40,027 --> 00:05:42,547 Speaker 2: we obviously do do. Australian fans do that as well, 117 00:05:42,587 --> 00:05:44,787 Speaker 2: you know, you get up for certain events or you 118 00:05:45,147 --> 00:05:47,947 Speaker 2: just stock up on coffee and sort of yards through 119 00:05:47,987 --> 00:05:48,267 Speaker 2: the night. 120 00:05:49,147 --> 00:05:51,387 Speaker 3: Well, having having a look at the schedule, Ponty, a 121 00:05:51,427 --> 00:05:53,227 Speaker 3: lot of a lot of the stuff, like the rowing, 122 00:05:53,227 --> 00:05:54,907 Speaker 3: and you were all over the rowing because New Zealand's 123 00:05:54,907 --> 00:05:58,507 Speaker 3: so bloody good at it. That's on at a decent time. 124 00:05:59,027 --> 00:06:01,267 Speaker 3: I think it starts for the regatta, starts to night 125 00:06:01,347 --> 00:06:03,867 Speaker 3: at five pm our time, probably seven yours correct, and 126 00:06:03,907 --> 00:06:05,667 Speaker 3: then in the middle of the day you. Usually there's 127 00:06:05,707 --> 00:06:08,667 Speaker 3: your team sports, see, but the big stuff for us 128 00:06:08,667 --> 00:06:11,787 Speaker 3: like swimming, athletics all that. You've got your finals at 129 00:06:11,787 --> 00:06:14,587 Speaker 3: four am, so it's not a ridiculous ass to just 130 00:06:14,667 --> 00:06:17,067 Speaker 3: get a couple of hours a shadow. It's not normal, 131 00:06:17,147 --> 00:06:20,387 Speaker 3: but yeah, we'll get away with it. Of course, we're 132 00:06:20,507 --> 00:06:22,187 Speaker 3: going to stay up and see what happens with our 133 00:06:22,547 --> 00:06:24,347 Speaker 3: men's rugby seven. Do you want to shut about that 134 00:06:24,387 --> 00:06:24,667 Speaker 3: for a bit? 135 00:06:25,187 --> 00:06:27,787 Speaker 2: Wow, well you're taking your six minutes to get there, 136 00:06:29,587 --> 00:06:32,747 Speaker 2: you know. I spectacularly fail to mention our exit at 137 00:06:32,747 --> 00:06:35,027 Speaker 2: the quarterfinal stage. I was going to say, will be 138 00:06:35,107 --> 00:06:37,107 Speaker 2: cheering for Australia now, but I'm not sure that's true. 139 00:06:37,107 --> 00:06:39,667 Speaker 2: It might be, it might be fig we throw our 140 00:06:39,707 --> 00:06:40,547 Speaker 2: allegiance behind. 141 00:06:41,387 --> 00:06:43,787 Speaker 3: I think Fijigan for three is such a good story, 142 00:06:43,787 --> 00:06:45,827 Speaker 3: but hopefully it doesn't happen, because that means we've been 143 00:06:45,867 --> 00:06:48,267 Speaker 3: bouncing seventy fine of it. The men have played so 144 00:06:48,387 --> 00:06:51,707 Speaker 3: well on the dance. Boord had Michael Hooper and Morgan 145 00:06:51,787 --> 00:06:55,067 Speaker 3: Toui with me as part of the coverage, and Hoops 146 00:06:55,107 --> 00:06:57,667 Speaker 3: obviously was part of the men's seventh squad in a 147 00:06:57,787 --> 00:07:01,187 Speaker 3: lead up and a squad player there, and he knew 148 00:07:01,347 --> 00:07:04,107 Speaker 3: he saw it. He saw this togetherness of this group 149 00:07:04,227 --> 00:07:08,027 Speaker 3: and they've got each other's backs, big style and moods 150 00:07:08,107 --> 00:07:09,867 Speaker 3: and who actually made a point he said the field 151 00:07:09,867 --> 00:07:14,067 Speaker 3: looks a little skinnier, like, not as wide because it's 152 00:07:14,107 --> 00:07:18,347 Speaker 3: inside an athletics track. So that's kind of played with 153 00:07:18,387 --> 00:07:20,307 Speaker 3: a few tactics that they've come up with. But Australia 154 00:07:20,307 --> 00:07:21,947 Speaker 3: have defended so well and they're going to have to 155 00:07:22,267 --> 00:07:24,027 Speaker 3: against the thgen too. Are going for that three in 156 00:07:24,067 --> 00:07:24,347 Speaker 3: all row? 157 00:07:24,507 --> 00:07:26,387 Speaker 2: Yeah, so many places to keep your eyes on. I 158 00:07:26,427 --> 00:07:28,907 Speaker 2: hope you have a great week, Adam, and let's uh, 159 00:07:29,187 --> 00:07:32,027 Speaker 2: let's reconvene next Saturday and see where the middle tellies 160 00:07:32,307 --> 00:07:34,027 Speaker 2: are at for our respective nations. 161 00:07:34,347 --> 00:07:36,947 Speaker 3: I think we'll pro rada it with population, all right. 162 00:07:37,507 --> 00:07:39,827 Speaker 3: If you've view won three and we won twelve, it's 163 00:07:39,867 --> 00:07:43,147 Speaker 3: about on on with everyone's expectations. 164 00:07:43,147 --> 00:07:45,627 Speaker 2: So maybe there's nothing that we love more than a 165 00:07:45,627 --> 00:07:47,947 Speaker 2: per capita middle table. 166 00:07:47,907 --> 00:07:52,307 Speaker 3: Over here, exactly. We'll cheer each other on. 167 00:07:52,427 --> 00:07:54,387 Speaker 2: Yeah, looking forward to mate. We'll tet again next week. 168 00:07:54,867 --> 00:07:55,987 Speaker 3: Thanks funny, Thanks Adam. 169 00:07:55,987 --> 00:07:59,467 Speaker 2: Adam Pecott, our Australian correspondent deeply invested in the Olympic 170 00:07:59,507 --> 00:08:03,347 Speaker 2: Games and courage over there with stan Sports, so we'll 171 00:08:03,347 --> 00:08:06,947 Speaker 2: get nice and close to the Australian reaction to the 172 00:08:06,947 --> 00:08:09,987 Speaker 2: Olympic Games with Adam Peacock around this time every Saturday 173 00:08:10,027 --> 00:08:11,947 Speaker 2: afternoon during the Games and on for the rest of 174 00:08:11,947 --> 00:08:12,267 Speaker 2: the year. 175 00:08:13,107 --> 00:08:16,267 Speaker 1: For more from Weekends Sport with Jason Fine, listen live 176 00:08:16,387 --> 00:08:19,667 Speaker 1: to news Talk zed B weekends from midday or follow 177 00:08:19,707 --> 00:08:21,307 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio.