Speaker 1: Tuesday, August sixth, and TUSA had a huge day at
Speaker 1: the Paris Olympics on Monday.
Speaker 2: The WUIs athletes have now won seventy eight Olympic medals,
Speaker 2: twenty of them goal China now at fifty three total medals.
Speaker 2: In France, the home team still in the third place
Speaker 2: with forty eight.
Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to Amy and TJ. Folks. That might have
Speaker 1: been the last time that we will ever see Simone
Speaker 1: Biles compete in an Olympics, and she was at the
Speaker 1: center of a wild final day of gymnastics competition. This
Speaker 1: all happening in Paris.
Speaker 3: Of course, I guess you could call it the unbalanced beam.
Speaker 3: Why did so many athletes, including Simone and Sunni fall
Speaker 3: in the finals? Uncharacteristic of both of them was the
Speaker 3: audience shushing too much, And then the floor exercise became
Speaker 3: a head scratcher and a heartbreaker for at least one
Speaker 3: athlete who thought she had secured the bronze.
Speaker 2: Plus two athletes who swam in the river Senne as
Speaker 2: part of the triathlon have now withdrawn from the Games illness. Also,
Speaker 2: pushing and shoving during the women's five thousand meter race
Speaker 2: led to a runner being disqualified and being stripped of
Speaker 2: a silver metal, but they gave it back to her
Speaker 2: two hours later.
Speaker 4: We'll explain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of flip flopping there. Yesterday, Welcome to
Speaker 1: another Tea from Pere edition of our podcast. And it's
Speaker 1: already been a busy morning. We've watched how many events already.
Speaker 2: Well, the sport climbing three meters springboard, men's diving, and
Speaker 2: then we moved over to sport climbing. They were doing
Speaker 2: Boulder this morning. And where is she from Slovo, Slovakia,
Speaker 2: Jakia and was a young sorry Slovenia.
Speaker 1: She was amazing watching her just just attack the wall.
Speaker 1: Everybody else struggling, swinging, falling. She was like boo boo, boo,
Speaker 1: boo boo, and she went straight up. And now we
Speaker 1: moved on to women's park skateboarding, which is so cool.
Speaker 2: It just started and I don't know who and this
Speaker 2: is I think we might we mentioned this yesterday. We
Speaker 2: might give a gold, a silver and a bronze to
Speaker 2: broadcasters at the end of this because there are some
Speaker 2: commentators who clearly we're watching skateboarding.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Whoever is doing the commentary has skated before, but explaining
Speaker 2: things in the best of ways to folks like us
Speaker 2: who just see people going up and down on a skateboard,
Speaker 2: but she's explaining the technical side of it, and it's
Speaker 2: you find yourself getting educated and some are so good
Speaker 2: at that, and whoever this is, she's one of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you were asking questions and then ten seconds later
Speaker 1: she answered all of them, because you know, you're like, wait,
Speaker 1: what just happened? What does that mean? What happens next?
Speaker 1: And so when you have the really good commentators who
Speaker 1: know their stuff but also know how to explain it
Speaker 1: to us who don't understand the technical it's fantastic to happen.
Speaker 2: Some of them are great. So it really hats off
Speaker 2: to a lot of them who are.
Speaker 4: Doing really, really, really great work over there.
Speaker 2: But yes, we're watching women's Park Now skateboarding, and we
Speaker 2: know a little about this because we talked to some
Speaker 2: of the US skateboarders who are going to be doing
Speaker 2: park later.
Speaker 4: But it's like, look at that. These are children.
Speaker 2: We're literally looking at teenagers as Olympians competing in skateboard,
Speaker 2: but they've all.
Speaker 1: Been skateboarding since they were four or five, you know,
Speaker 1: And this is the women's happened today and then the
Speaker 1: men's are our three Americans who we spoke to. We
Speaker 1: are so excited to root them on. They compete tomorrow,
Speaker 1: so we're looking forward to that as well. But man,
Speaker 1: what a day it was in the gym, in the
Speaker 1: arena for gymnastics was I couldn't believe how dramatic it
Speaker 1: all became yesterday the balance beam finals. It was hard
Speaker 1: to watch. You already have a hard time watching the
Speaker 1: balance beam, but how was it for you yesterday?
Speaker 4: I hate the balance beam.
Speaker 2: I just I hate watching the balance me and so
Speaker 2: much of what we watch in the Olympics. Maybe other
Speaker 2: people and maybe you and others feel this way. It
Speaker 2: doesn't matter if it's what country it is. I want
Speaker 2: to see everybody do well. Yes, I want Siman and
Speaker 2: soon need to win. But anytime are there competitor falls,
Speaker 2: your heartbreaks. I don't want to see them do badly.
Speaker 2: And so the balance being certainly gymnastic, but the beam sucks.
Speaker 1: And yesterday it sucks. It was it was really difficult.
Speaker 1: Half of the eight competitors fell off the beam. These
Speaker 1: are the best of the best. These are the top
Speaker 1: eight competitors from everyone who came as top olympians from
Speaker 1: their countries, and four of the eight fell.
Speaker 4: That's wait in show.
Speaker 2: I would you know, I'm trying to look it up
Speaker 2: while we were telling the story of what the fall
Speaker 2: percentage is on the beam in high in competitions. Because these,
Speaker 2: like you said, these are the eight you could essentially
Speaker 2: say the eight best women in the world on this
Speaker 2: apparatus competa.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, absolutely and it still took down half of them.
Speaker 1: And you know what, I've always said this too, and
Speaker 1: I think anyone who's competed knows. You get a momentum
Speaker 1: going either way. And also there's a contagion that can
Speaker 1: happen when someone else starts falling. It just gets in
Speaker 1: your head. So both Sony Lee and Simone fell. Simone
Speaker 1: ended up finishing fifth, Soony ended up finishing sixth. It
Speaker 1: was shocking. It was a game changer. But we were
Speaker 1: very excited to see italy as Alistamada taking the gold
Speaker 1: because we've been rooting her on. She has this beautiful
Speaker 1: ballerina like elegance to her every time she competes, and
Speaker 1: so it was fun to see her take the gold
Speaker 1: on that. But then it was interesting to hear what
Speaker 1: Simone and soon he said about the competition. They said
Speaker 1: that the crowd affected their routines. The audience was shushing
Speaker 1: other gymnasts who were cheering on their fellow athletes during
Speaker 1: the balance beam final, and some of the gymnasts and
Speaker 1: coaches all said there was kind of an awkward atmosphere
Speaker 1: during the beam in the gymnasium on Monday, and I
Speaker 1: think they were well meaning audience members, but they were
Speaker 1: trying to silence the athletes, but it didn't have and
Speaker 1: other spectators, but it didn't have the intended effect because
Speaker 1: Simone actually looked bewildered after her beam performance and she
Speaker 1: could be heard asking Sunny, why are they shushing? And
Speaker 1: then Simone actually told reporters it was really weird and awkward,
Speaker 1: not our favorite. None of us liked it. And I've
Speaker 1: said this to you my small amount of competing in gymnastics.
Speaker 1: When it's quiet, it's the worst because you know everyone's
Speaker 1: looking at you. I prefer to have the floor exercise
Speaker 1: music on and other athletes competing because in your mind
Speaker 1: you can kind of just focus and think, oh, they're
Speaker 1: not all looking at me. And some of the gymnasts
Speaker 1: said it actually the noise emulates practice allows them to
Speaker 1: focus and they don't have to be so worried. That
Speaker 1: makes sense to me.
Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense to me because I am from
Speaker 2: not from that world. So we're watching. When we were
Speaker 2: watching the all around and things go, the competition, the
Speaker 2: team competition, everybody's so if you're on your balance beam,
Speaker 2: somebody's over there performing on the uneven bar, somebody's over
Speaker 2: there on floor exercise, somebody's over there on the other prece.
Speaker 4: So all that noise is going on.
Speaker 2: And so I was watching, and I often say when
Speaker 2: watching the balance beam, like damn, why did that not
Speaker 2: throw her off? She doesn't know if those people are
Speaker 2: gasping because of her, or cheering because of her or
Speaker 2: somebody else. That noise is what I thought was a distraction,
Speaker 2: But there is to it.
Speaker 4: Gymnasts welcome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're used to it. It's kind of like when
Speaker 1: you're used to there always being just some sort of
Speaker 1: a like a white noise ish kind of thing going on.
Speaker 1: You tune it out, but you almost kind of embrace
Speaker 1: it because it makes you feel like, you know, you
Speaker 1: can just focus on your thing.
Speaker 2: World class they know, and they know better. They weren't
Speaker 2: making excuses. They were talking about you need to make
Speaker 2: clear there they weren't making excuses, but it was a
Speaker 2: real thing.
Speaker 1: And they were being asked, why did everybody fall off
Speaker 1: the beam? And that was just something that came to
Speaker 1: them and it makes sense to me. Okay, this didn't
Speaker 1: make sense to me at all what happened on the
Speaker 1: floor exercise. By the way, Simone won silver in floor
Speaker 1: exercise and that brings her total up to this Olympics
Speaker 1: to four medals. She had three golds and one silver,
Speaker 1: but this was the first time she has not one
Speaker 1: gold on floor ever. And we saw Brazil's Rebecca Androge,
Speaker 1: who we've loved watching. She won gold, but there was
Speaker 1: a confusing inquiry because Romania thought they had won bronze.
Speaker 1: They had the flag up, they were celebrating, but Teamy
Speaker 1: ussays Jordan Childs ultimately one bronze. She moved up from
Speaker 1: fifth to third after her coaches put in an inquiry
Speaker 1: about a specific move the jet. Her coaches actually said
Speaker 1: they didn't think anything would come of it, and so
Speaker 1: her coach actually described having her back turned and she
Speaker 1: heard Jordan's scream when she saw her score shoot up
Speaker 1: by a tenth of a point, which is all it
Speaker 1: took for her to go up into third, and I
Speaker 1: just had to feel so bad for that poor Romanian
Speaker 1: gymnast who thought she had won. There was confusion for
Speaker 1: a while, but in the end Simone and Jordan were
Speaker 1: on the podium second and third.
Speaker 2: That was another Olympic moment and it was an awful one.
Speaker 2: Now this is not from the perspective of Jordan Childs
Speaker 2: and these are the rules and you can do it.
Speaker 2: But Romania has not had a metal in gymnastics in
Speaker 2: the Olympics for twenty years now, twenty plus years, and
Speaker 2: the young lady won a medal, a bronze for her country.
Speaker 2: So they have the flag out of folks, you've seen this.
Speaker 2: They drape themselves in the flag. They've thrown it up
Speaker 2: in pride in front of the whole audience, and that
Speaker 2: whole the whole country's celebration.
Speaker 1: Stopped was celebrating.
Speaker 2: It sucked to see that, just that that has to happen.
Speaker 2: That's just it was an awful, awful moment for them.
Speaker 2: But it's within the rules. The inquiry is just simply
Speaker 2: you asking them to go back and review the scores,
Speaker 2: period And sure enough, they talk about this all the time,
Speaker 2: being a game of inches or just a little hop
Speaker 2: or tenth of a point or thousands of a point,
Speaker 2: not just it suck. Your heartbreaks Romania.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the best explanation I got was that she
Speaker 1: didn't get full credit for something she had actually done.
Speaker 1: And so if the inquiry leads to a more fair
Speaker 1: score than obviously, that's what we want every correct That's
Speaker 1: what every athlete would want, even the person who ended
Speaker 1: up not getting the bronze, you wouldn't want to win,
Speaker 1: you know, because there was poor judging. You want to
Speaker 1: win fair and square, and so hopefully that is exactly
Speaker 1: what happened. And look to see the Romanian gymnast and
Speaker 1: just everyone in that audience, just their faces fall and
Speaker 1: just the crushing where you thought you meddled and then
Speaker 1: you didn't. But then to also see Jordan's excitement, I mean,
Speaker 1: she was just beyond excited. And that was as sweet.
Speaker 1: It was like just so bittersweet because you were excited
Speaker 1: for Jordan, but your heart sank for Romania.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's not our athlete, Romanian that but you do.
Speaker 2: You're pulling for all of them. But that was a
Speaker 2: special moment for the country that was yanked and they
Speaker 2: have to wait another possible four years.
Speaker 1: And now yes, and now you know the next questions
Speaker 1: will be for some moments. She's already been asked, are
Speaker 1: you coming back LA twenty twenty eight. She has not. Obviously,
Speaker 1: she hasn't ruled it out, but she did say this,
Speaker 1: I've accomplished way more than my wildest dreams, not just
Speaker 1: at these Olympics, but in monastics, walking away with four medals.
Speaker 1: I'm not mad about it. I'm pretty proud of myself.
Speaker 2: She should be, And you know, I learned something about
Speaker 2: her in the past couple of days. We know how
Speaker 2: grave of an athlete as she is, and she's the goat.
Speaker 2: We know these things. You know what, It was really
Speaker 2: cool to see her be a fan, to see her sportsmanship,
Speaker 2: and to see her be such a supporter of her
Speaker 2: teammates was really cool.
Speaker 1: You're talking too much the medal stand.
Speaker 2: No, well, that's part of it, but just in the
Speaker 2: team competitions and in the individual competitions, even seeing her
Speaker 2: in the crowd the other day being supportive of her team.
Speaker 2: She is a member of a team. We know she's great,
Speaker 2: but to see her perform and behave on the sideline
Speaker 2: in that way you're like, oh, okay, she's not just
Speaker 2: a great athlete, she's a great teammate, she's a great sportsman.
Speaker 2: It was that part was great, and what they planned
Speaker 2: at the podium was one of my favorite moments the Olympic.
Speaker 1: Yeah I missed it. I had to go. I was
Speaker 1: actually going to lunch with my daughter meeting her new
Speaker 1: college roommate and her roommate's mom, and so I have
Speaker 1: to leave, and you were texting me, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: you just missed the most amazing podium moment.
Speaker 2: It might have been my favorite, one of my It's
Speaker 2: in the top five. It's been a lot, but you
Speaker 2: think of it. Simone So Rebecca Androgi of Brazil beat
Speaker 2: Simone Biles fair and square on the floor and.
Speaker 1: Simone has never not gotten gold on the floor.
Speaker 2: Exit Peter fair and square. And you know who knew
Speaker 2: that immediately was Simone Biles. She was called on this island.
Speaker 2: She could was overheard saying I think she's got this one.
Speaker 4: She knew it.
Speaker 2: So the ceremonies, Simones get the silver. She's on the
Speaker 2: left side. You got Jordan Childs on the right side,
Speaker 2: She's got the bronze. And then in the middle and
Speaker 2: then high as part of that podium is Rebecca Androgi.
Speaker 2: As soon as they say her name announce her as
Speaker 2: the gold medalist. Simone and Jordan, in a coordinated and
Speaker 2: clearly planned and practice moment, turned to her and bowed.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 4: They turned to her and bowed.
Speaker 2: It was just a cute, sweet giving this woman her moment,
Speaker 2: who has lost out several times to these two women
Speaker 2: in the past, and to acknowledge her greatness and to
Speaker 2: see a Simone bowels give somebody that kind of credit.
Speaker 1: You know they've earned it.
Speaker 4: Loved it.
Speaker 1: That was awesome. I just so I didn't see it,
Speaker 1: but you just describing it just gave me chills right now.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Loved it and we can't forget that. Yesterday we talked
Speaker 2: about the balance beam, the men's high bar. Oh, yesterday
Speaker 2: was it was a train wreck and.
Speaker 1: There was so there were no American athletes, so I
Speaker 1: know there isn't as much coverage here in the United States,
Speaker 1: but we watched it all and that that was the
Speaker 1: women's balance beam, was the men's high bar.
Speaker 4: Yesterday it was I don't count.
Speaker 1: I don't know how there wasn't serious injury. When they
Speaker 1: are gaining this unreal momentum swinging around. When they fall off,
Speaker 1: it's hard, and then they have to get back up,
Speaker 1: literally dust themselves off, and then get back up there
Speaker 1: and finish. I don't know how they do it. I've
Speaker 1: said I just walk out. I just I would run out.
Speaker 4: Do you remember the falls?
Speaker 2: Some of them fell off during the routine, but we
Speaker 2: saw at least two, probably three guys on their dismount.
Speaker 2: It's one thing to take a hop or a step.
Speaker 2: They landed and completely dove forward onto.
Speaker 1: Their faces, landed on their stomachs.
Speaker 4: What the hell?
Speaker 1: It kind of like, how how soon he fell on
Speaker 1: the beam? That was tough on her stomach, that's tough.
Speaker 1: But they all got back up, and that actually could
Speaker 1: make me like cry and choke up. They, every single
Speaker 1: one of them, from the beam to the high bar,
Speaker 1: got back up and finished their routines, oh, knowing that
Speaker 1: they had zero shot of a metal, knowing that their
Speaker 1: score actually didn't matter, And they did it anyway. And
Speaker 1: I loved watching the crowd.
Speaker 4: As soon as those guys fall, they start clapping and cheering.
Speaker 2: But they were competing as well in silence, right, yes, yesterday,
Speaker 2: So Nobody talked about that as being an issue with that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but that could have had an impact. I
Speaker 1: mean I get tears in my eye just seeing the
Speaker 1: resilience and the pride and just oh the hard work
Speaker 1: that went into that moment. Oh and the devastation.
Speaker 4: But you talk about that science.
Speaker 2: This is the place has a capacity of twenty thousand,
Speaker 2: so we're not used to in at twenty thousand seat
Speaker 2: stadium that it's loud because of NBA team is playing
Speaker 2: in that type of capacity. Think of twenty thousand being
Speaker 2: quiet just watching you.
Speaker 4: That's what's real pressure. That's entirely too much. So but
Speaker 4: congress to them. But the gymnastics is done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh it was so awesome. I actually think this
Speaker 1: was one of my favorite years. It was just so
Speaker 1: incredible to watch and filled with so much drama.
Speaker 2: But ugh, kid from Colombia, we gotta mention that's the
Speaker 2: first ever medal in gymnastics for.
Speaker 1: College seventeen years old. He was a megastar on that
Speaker 1: high bar and he we will not that will not
Speaker 1: be the last we see of him.
Speaker 4: The guy you love from uh the got a medal
Speaker 4: from Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Yah, gotta medal as well. He was literally two heads
Speaker 1: taller than his UH compadres who were on the metal
Speaker 1: stand with But it was fun to watch and so
Speaker 1: happy he got a medal as well.
Speaker 2: All right, we want you want to turn now to
Speaker 2: the to our EC updates. Yes, so we got now
Speaker 2: two Olympic athletes who have dropped out of competition because
Speaker 2: of illness. But these two are of particular note because
Speaker 2: they had both previously competed in the triathlon, which means
Speaker 2: they had to swim in the river Sin. So Belgium
Speaker 2: they decided they are not going to compete in the
Speaker 2: mixed relay after Claire Michelle, bless you, robok is sick
Speaker 2: as well, Get that out of me.
Speaker 4: But the Belgium.
Speaker 2: Belgium decided they were not going to compete in the
Speaker 2: mixed relay because one of their athletes, Claire Michelle, got sick.
Speaker 2: They did not specify what the illness was, but Claire
Speaker 2: Michelle had done the triathlon days prior and had to
Speaker 2: swim in the sin And so when an athlete who's
Speaker 2: been in that water ends up being sick, people do
Speaker 2: robes obviously take note of. And then there you got
Speaker 2: Adrian Brifford of Switzerland.
Speaker 4: He had an issue as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he dropped off his country's mixed relay team because
Speaker 1: of what they are calling a gastro intestinal infection. In
Speaker 1: a statement, this was that it was impossible to know
Speaker 1: if it was related to the water in the Sine.
Speaker 1: Of course, they probably don't want to upset the home
Speaker 1: country as well by throwing shade at the Seine, and
Speaker 1: maybe there is no way to tell. But you know what,
Speaker 1: my dad was always this is so funny. My dad,
Speaker 1: the microbiologist who was giving us some scientific information about
Speaker 1: the sin and what ecoli does to your body and
Speaker 1: whether or not you can inoculate yourself from it, which
Speaker 1: you cannot. But he would always tell me, whatever the
Speaker 1: incubation period is, you can kind of go back and
Speaker 1: figure out what it was. So this would be how
Speaker 1: many days since they swam in the river sind from
Speaker 1: when they got sick, Exuesday, they swam on Sunday, Sunday,
Speaker 1: and then forty eight hours, my dad would be able
Speaker 1: to tell you, like that's exactly when they got it,
Speaker 1: Like he knows what the incubation period is. We should
Speaker 1: have called him. It's too early, but we can probably
Speaker 1: give you that update. But that actually is the way
Speaker 1: you can go back and trace to see where you
Speaker 1: got infected. So if it's a forty eight hour thing,
Speaker 1: it's probably undeniably the sen. I mean, look, my dad
Speaker 1: has told me in certain countries this is the truth.
Speaker 1: Where I'm traveling to for work. Often when I'm in
Speaker 1: the shower, to close my mouth and close my eyes,
Speaker 1: and to actually shower with your back to the shower head,
Speaker 1: because you don't want to ingest any of that water,
Speaker 1: not even a little bit. So imagine, as so many
Speaker 1: swimmers say they do when they're swimming. Just you. You
Speaker 1: you actually drink in a lot of the water uncontrollably.
Speaker 1: So it would make sense marathon swimming in the sen
Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday. How about that for a We can't wait, mom,
Speaker 1: I think it's I believe it's like a ten k basically, right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, six point something miles in this sin because
Speaker 1: they only swim, I say, only.
Speaker 4: But what if?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this will be a lot more water ingested yea,
Speaker 1: yea to those swimmers cowing.
Speaker 2: Up later, Look, they want to compete. I don't know
Speaker 2: if they're we're talking about it. I don't know how
Speaker 2: much they're talking about it.
Speaker 1: It's It's funny. I've seen different some of the swimmers
Speaker 1: coming out saying it's the most beautiful venue ever, it's
Speaker 1: the most beautiful place I've ever swum, and then other
Speaker 1: people saying it's disgusting. There was debris underneath me. I
Speaker 1: don't want to know what it was. So it depends
Speaker 1: on the swimmer.
Speaker 4: You act debris underneath me.
Speaker 2: You never want to swim in anything and you have
Speaker 2: to say there's debris underneath it.
Speaker 1: It was actually one of the Belgian swimmers who said,
Speaker 1: I don't want to know. I just swam through. That's
Speaker 1: probably better.
Speaker 2: Because we know, let's get out of the water and
Speaker 2: let's go to the track. And track is generally it's
Speaker 2: not supposed to be a contact sport, but there was
Speaker 2: some pushing and shoving during the women's five thousand meter final,
Speaker 2: so much so that these second place finisher was disqualified
Speaker 2: after the race. But the story did not end there.
Speaker 2: We're talking about Faith Kipyegon of Kenya, the current world champion,
Speaker 2: was in the lead on the inside lane two laps
Speaker 2: to go. Okay Gudaf Sagui of Ethiopia then made a
Speaker 2: move and rope she was trying to get the lead. Okay,
Speaker 2: they always want to be on that inside lane. So
Speaker 2: the guy was trying to move in on the space
Speaker 2: Kipiegon was occupying at the time. So Kipiegon just gave it.
Speaker 2: It was kind of a yo, get off of me
Speaker 2: kind of a thing. You just got some full pushes,
Speaker 2: some just kind of a almost looked like they were
Speaker 2: playing hands eas you know, they were just kind of
Speaker 2: doing that thing. Well, a lot of folks roads looked
Speaker 2: at that, including the officials, and said that's too much.
Speaker 2: And afterwards, sure enough, she ended up in second, but
Speaker 2: quickly disqualified for what the officials called obstructing another runner. Again,
Speaker 2: she finished second, that's a silver medal, but immediately was
Speaker 2: told disqualified for her obstruction.
Speaker 4: So that's the end of the story.
Speaker 1: Yes, no, because she appealed the disqualification and that disqualification
Speaker 1: was overturned. But it took what two hours for them
Speaker 1: to make that call. So in the meantime they had
Speaker 1: given first, second, third place to the second and third
Speaker 1: to other runners.
Speaker 2: And the third place runner from Italy ended up with
Speaker 2: a bronze. Ended up in fourth in the race, but
Speaker 2: with the disqualification, moved up to third. The disqualification was
Speaker 2: then nullified, which means.
Speaker 1: The fourth that you say is the worst place to
Speaker 1: finish any race, Okay, I'll correct myself.
Speaker 2: You know what's even worse than finishing fourth is thinking
Speaker 2: you won third and then they push you back the fourth, right,
Speaker 2: This sucks for her, which is exactly.
Speaker 1: What happened in gymnastics too. It's so interesting.
Speaker 4: It sucks.
Speaker 2: You win a medal and then there's a review and
Speaker 2: the medal is taken away, not because of something you did,
Speaker 2: something that's completely out of your control.
Speaker 4: So this whole story, my heart actually goes.
Speaker 2: Out to the Italian runner who was in fourth gets
Speaker 2: a bronze or thinks she does, and then it's later
Speaker 2: taken away hours later. But a lot of folks who
Speaker 2: reviewed this and looked at it, and folks who are
Speaker 2: experts in this, thought the disqualification was too much.
Speaker 4: It was a little.
Speaker 1: Even the NBC commentator actually said that she believed that
Speaker 1: Siguy was the one who should actually have been If
Speaker 1: there was ever anyone in those two who should be
Speaker 1: disqualified or have some sort of issue, it should have
Speaker 1: been her, because you know, she's the one who was
Speaker 1: trying to get in the other runner's lane, and so
Speaker 1: she was inserting herself in a way that she shouldn't have.
Speaker 4: So she was in the capego, was in the lead.
Speaker 2: So it's not like she didn't have anybody to push, right,
Speaker 2: So it's not she was just doing her thing.
Speaker 4: So the other girl tried to come in and get
Speaker 4: into her space.
Speaker 1: She was a solid. I mean, she was in second place.
Speaker 1: She's that was a silver medal win. There was no
Speaker 1: photo finish. I mean, she absolutely was clearly in second place.
Speaker 1: Funny enough, the woman who went from silver to bronze,
Speaker 1: so she ended up getting third place. She said she
Speaker 1: absolutely expected that to happen. And she said, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to make sure I say her name right.
Speaker 4: Look, they know their sport, Hassan, right.
Speaker 1: She said that. She said that she knew she deserved
Speaker 1: the silver, and so she had no problem taking the bronze.
Speaker 2: And look those two and I saw the top two
Speaker 2: finishers here ended up being teammates from Kenya. And look,
Speaker 2: these women race all year long against each other. They
Speaker 2: know each other well, but in a lot of them train,
Speaker 2: they know this sport. So if they don't have an issue,
Speaker 2: I don't have an issue.
Speaker 1: Exactly. I think that's a good way to look at it. Well,
Speaker 1: we are watching a lot of events today. Fifteen gold
Speaker 1: medal events are up for grabs, a lot of them
Speaker 1: in high profile metal events. In track and field. This
Speaker 1: has been fun to watch. Team USA's two time Olympic
Speaker 1: medalist Gabby Thomas is going to go for her first
Speaker 1: gold medal in the women's two hundred meter and I
Speaker 1: am so excited about this one. On the men's side,
Speaker 1: a possible show down. This will be among raining Olympic champ,
Speaker 1: Norway's Jacob Ingebritson, Great Britain's reigning world champ Josh Kerr,
Speaker 1: and then the twenty twenty four US champ Cole Hawker.
Speaker 1: Experts are expecting this is what they're saying, one of
Speaker 1: the most vicious and hardest fifteen hundreds the sport has
Speaker 1: seen in a very long time.
Speaker 4: This is a fun, fun race.
Speaker 2: That's it because it's you know, it's a fast race,
Speaker 2: but it's still several laps they have to do. But
Speaker 2: to see that group stay together, the strategies and that
Speaker 2: whoever has that sprint kick at the end. I appreciate
Speaker 2: this race, oh almost more than anything in track and field.
Speaker 1: I get so nervous when they all obviously go to
Speaker 1: the inside lane and fight for position, I mean, which
Speaker 1: is what we saw happening in the women's But I
Speaker 1: just don't even know how, like, oh, it's crazy to
Speaker 1: watch nolal lyles in the even in the one hundred
Speaker 1: go from last to first, is crazy how they position
Speaker 1: themselves all right, basketball men's basketball, Lebron Kevin Durant, Steph
Speaker 1: Kerr along with Team USA. They are facing Brazil and
Speaker 1: a trip to the semifinals is on the line, so
Speaker 1: they need to win this one that happens at three
Speaker 1: Eastern time. And then, oh, I'm so this is probably
Speaker 1: the thing I'm most excited about today. As we promised earlier,
Speaker 1: we will not forget the US women's soccer team. They
Speaker 1: are taking on Germany. That happens at noon Eastern time,
Speaker 1: and that is what we are planning our day around.
Speaker 2: I don't know who else is to I don't know
Speaker 2: how other people are watching. I know the ratings will
Speaker 2: now I have been off the charts. I don't understand
Speaker 2: the ratings anymore because it's not just TV, it's not
Speaker 2: just broadcast, it's not just NBC. They count USA, they
Speaker 2: count streaming this, so I don't get it, but clearly.
Speaker 4: These have really really been going well. But are people
Speaker 4: watching live or are they most people watching?
Speaker 1: I It depends if what your job is, and maybe
Speaker 1: even people. The nice thing is because you can put
Speaker 1: up on your computer. If you're in your cubicle, you
Speaker 1: can have it up and watching. So it's just nice
Speaker 1: to have the option to be able to watch it
Speaker 1: streaming somewhere. You could even watch it on your phone.
Speaker 4: People have peacock, Yeah, a lot of people have.
Speaker 1: We get a little bit of a hard time finding
Speaker 1: We had a very hard time finding the soccer matches yesterday.
Speaker 2: I was it eighty five degrees and we were running
Speaker 2: through the streets of midtown going into twelve places.
Speaker 4: You all got peacock to see.
Speaker 1: We finally we finally found it was like our fourth
Speaker 1: or fifth place. We finally found it, but they didn't
Speaker 1: have peacock. They found some Spanish channel that had it
Speaker 1: on poor quality. You were like, let's get out of here,
Speaker 1: we're watching. So then we race on the subway to
Speaker 1: try and make it back to my apartment while they're
Speaker 1: going through this is this is just halftime, right?
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: We left the bar a little before halftime so we
Speaker 2: could time it to get on a train and get
Speaker 2: set up at home in time for the second half.
Speaker 1: Yes, this was uh, this was our day yesterday. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's all about getting in front of a TV. So
Speaker 1: it's been fun. We are excited. We still have a
Speaker 1: few more days left, and of course we will be
Speaker 1: watching for you and you can keep listening to us.
Speaker 1: You can get all the t from Perry right here
Speaker 1: every day.
Speaker 4: Okay, find that name might stick