Speaker 1: Monday, August the fifth and night Team USA just showing
Speaker 1: out now, jumping to its biggest lead in the medal count.
Speaker 2: That's right. US athletes have now won seventy one Olympic medals,
Speaker 2: nineteen of those gold, and China has moved into second
Speaker 2: place with forty five. You see the big lead disparity there,
Speaker 2: France dropping to third place with forty four medals.
Speaker 1: He welcome, never bond it to Amy and TJ. And
Speaker 1: it ain't bragging if you can back it up. Noah
Speaker 1: Lyles talked the talk. Then he ran that race. The
Speaker 1: Americans cemented his place as the fastest man alive in
Speaker 1: a race that was the fastest and closest in Olympic history.
Speaker 2: Also, in this tea from Perry edition of Amy and TJ,
Speaker 2: Sonny Lee shines so brightly that Eva Mendez and Ryan
Speaker 2: Gosling have to keep their shades on. Meanwhile, a dazzling
Speaker 2: French gymnast wins a gold medal, but another country gets
Speaker 2: to claim the victory and a one hundred year old
Speaker 2: win streak on the line for American swimmers. Bobby Fink
Speaker 2: to the rescue.
Speaker 1: Plus the boxer at the center of the gender controversy
Speaker 1: calls for an end to bullying. Also, US men lose
Speaker 1: an event at the Olympics that they have never lost before.
Speaker 1: And the US women's basketball team makes me and bro
Speaker 1: Box feels stupid.
Speaker 2: And could you win a gold medal with your ex?
Speaker 2: What event was such a big deal that Adele stopped
Speaker 2: her live concert to see it? And finally our apology
Speaker 2: to the US women's national team.
Speaker 1: And with all that, here we are this morning doing
Speaker 1: our thing once again. This is a very busy morning again, folks.
Speaker 1: We record a day of very early We get up
Speaker 1: at three or four am, start watching events, and today
Speaker 1: is a very busy day of event watching and stars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been watching women's diving and now we're watching gymnastics.
Speaker 2: I mean, these are marquee events in the Olympics and
Speaker 2: so fun to watch.
Speaker 1: And we are literally looking live right now as we
Speaker 1: record this. Simone is about to do her thing and
Speaker 1: Soony Lee on the balance beam. So if you're listening
Speaker 1: to us, then you already missed it live probably and
Speaker 1: you might know the results. I'm sure. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: this is gonna be on TV somewhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been focused a lot. Is anyone else out
Speaker 2: there looking at the uniforms. I mean, I don't know why,
Speaker 2: but it just feels fun to come. Some countries are
Speaker 2: doing better than others. We're big fans of Italy's outfits
Speaker 2: just all in all the events, they're just slaying it.
Speaker 2: When it comes to the fashion, the.
Speaker 1: Divers is one. They were great. They have very sleek,
Speaker 1: they were subtle, but the flag on the side. Those
Speaker 1: might be my favorite uniforms I've seen at the Olympic.
Speaker 1: We do every single event is a fashion show, and
Speaker 1: we are absolutely fashion critics.
Speaker 2: We have the Fashion Olympics for all of that. We
Speaker 2: decide who has the best uniforms, who has the worst,
Speaker 2: and the US has been you know what I will say,
Speaker 2: I have been a big fan.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I love that Italy hoodie. I think it's so cool.
Speaker 2: The hood has the red, the white and the green
Speaker 2: in the back. And I loved the initial French gymnasts leotards.
Speaker 2: They were beautiful, stunning, the white with the blue and
Speaker 2: red kind of ribbons. It was beautiful.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I forgot about Italy's the soft blue. It's like blue,
Speaker 1: the perfect blue.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I know, of course they know fashion and they're
Speaker 2: showing up on the Olympics.
Speaker 1: At the Olympics, you're gonna have to I'm gonna stop
Speaker 1: getting up by myself at three and four in the morning.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you get up with me, because I
Speaker 1: end up and it's so sad. I end up sitting
Speaker 1: out here by myself in tears every single morning because
Speaker 1: one that damn Dick's Sporting Goods commercial. It gets me
Speaker 1: every time. So that got me a game. You need
Speaker 1: somebody to hug well, I need Maybe if you were here,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't just let it out. I would kind of
Speaker 1: keep it in, or I wouldn't be so emotional. But
Speaker 1: the other thing got me this morning. I swear the
Speaker 1: platform diving and this is just another sign of just
Speaker 1: what the Olympics is. The two platform divers from Mexico
Speaker 1: with telling the story that they have been in previous Olympics.
Speaker 1: They both have medals. They were on the brink of
Speaker 1: selling their gold medals. Excuse me, their medals was a
Speaker 1: bronze and a silver, selling them to fund their diving
Speaker 1: and their training and their traveling. They're at the Olympics now,
Speaker 1: but that's where they were about to sell their other
Speaker 1: Olympic medals just so they could stay on course to
Speaker 1: come here aerow Mexico. The airline stepped in and say
Speaker 1: we got you. That's one of the EXE And I'm
Speaker 1: in here sitting by myself listening to that story and
Speaker 1: rooting for these Mexican divers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I yeah, five am is such a
Speaker 2: better start time for me. I just have to say
Speaker 2: just mentally for the rest of the day. However, yesterday
Speaker 2: I did get up with you at three thirty because
Speaker 2: we had to run.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know, I forgot about that. That was
Speaker 1: a hell of a day. We had done two interviews,
Speaker 1: recorded a podcast, ran a half marathon before nine am.
Speaker 2: It was a lot. And what time did I fall
Speaker 2: asleep last night? Around eight?
Speaker 1: We've been getting in bed earlier. But yeah, we felt
Speaker 1: like a bad.
Speaker 2: We had dinner in bed and fell asleep. Let's just
Speaker 2: be honest. That's how the day ended.
Speaker 1: But we did put the food up before we did.
Speaker 2: That was a win. That was our metal for the night.
Speaker 2: But the marathon went. The half marathon, it was not
Speaker 2: a marathon, went well. It was my slowest half marathon
Speaker 2: I've ever run that I know of, but it was
Speaker 2: ninety one percent humidity, and I'm going to just give
Speaker 2: myself I finished. I'm not in a race right now.
Speaker 2: I'm just training.
Speaker 1: We say, yeah that we I don't know if we
Speaker 1: made that clear. Yes, we say we were training. We
Speaker 1: did run a half marathon as part of the training.
Speaker 2: It was not an official race. It was just part
Speaker 2: of marathon training, and so the time didn't matter, although
Speaker 2: it does get in your head, especially I think after
Speaker 2: watching all of these Olympics, I'm like competing with myself
Speaker 2: now at this point. But I had to give myself
Speaker 2: a break and I just let it be my slowest
Speaker 2: time ever, because that's just is a part of it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it is inspirational to see them doing what they're doing,
Speaker 1: knowing what that training took, knowing they're going through little
Speaker 1: battles and injuries and pains, and all I got to
Speaker 1: do is to put one foot in front of the
Speaker 1: other and keep going.
Speaker 2: You know I did. It's exactly what I was saying
Speaker 2: to myself, all you have to do. This isn't skillful.
Speaker 2: You just have to put one foot in front of
Speaker 2: the other and not fall.
Speaker 1: It didn't help that we were coming around that curve
Speaker 1: and those two passed us. You're like, they look like Olympians.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. There was a couple. Oh this is
Speaker 2: I wish we had a video of it. There was
Speaker 2: a couple who just came flying by us and they
Speaker 2: looked like at the very least Peloton instructors and at
Speaker 2: the very most Olympians, and they were just smoking us
Speaker 2: and they were smoking their bot. I was just like, wow,
Speaker 2: that was actually inspiring to me, slightly defeating. You didn't
Speaker 2: speed up though, no, no, no no, I needed to
Speaker 2: pace myself. I don't think they were necessarily running thirteen
Speaker 2: point one miles like we were.
Speaker 1: That's a good point. But yesterday to the Olympics, and
Speaker 1: it was one of and lot. We'll tell you the
Speaker 1: marquee event of every every Olympics, the men's one hundred
Speaker 1: meters dash. But it delivered drama in a finish like
Speaker 1: we have never seen before. This is just not history
Speaker 1: made or record broken. This was as a race and
Speaker 1: as a whole something we have not seen an American
Speaker 1: history in Olympic history. We got the American Noah Lyles.
Speaker 1: He lived up to the hype and all his history
Speaker 1: onics and solidified his title as fastest man alive by
Speaker 1: winning the gold medal en row of one hundred meters,
Speaker 1: but by the smallest margin we have ever seen an
Speaker 1: Olympic history.
Speaker 2: That's right, So how close are we talking? The first
Speaker 2: and second place finishers both clocked the same time, like
Speaker 2: if you looked up on the leaderboard, nine point seven
Speaker 2: to nine seconds, so they had to take it down
Speaker 2: to the thousandth zuh. I can't even say that word
Speaker 2: of a second, not the hundredths of a second, but
Speaker 2: the thousandth of a second. And with the help of
Speaker 2: a photo finish, Lyles got the gold by five thousandths.
Speaker 2: I never have to say that word again, of a second,
Speaker 2: I'm telling you. Even in the replays in slow motion,
Speaker 2: I could not tell that Lyles won the picture.
Speaker 1: It was a photo finish and I was still looking
Speaker 1: at it. Can't tell he won. Wow.
Speaker 2: And then not just the two finishers first and second place.
Speaker 2: This field was so fast that this was the first
Speaker 2: time in Olympic history.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you all.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, you just stopped me.
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 2: Oh no, all right, well we won't say what happens.
Speaker 2: It's not good. This is the first time in Olympic
Speaker 2: history that the one through eight finishers in the one
Speaker 2: hundred all came in under ten seconds. That's remarkable. And
Speaker 2: also this was shocking to me. This is a good
Speaker 2: stat Oh wait, I was not about to say the
Speaker 2: same stat you were.
Speaker 1: I don't think the next the next stat say that.
Speaker 2: You say that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh, and eighth place finisher.
Speaker 1: So let let me make that clear. The guys who
Speaker 1: all did not meddle, who came in fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh,
Speaker 1: and eighth, they all set world records for the best
Speaker 1: times we have ever seen for a fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh,
Speaker 1: and eighth place finishers. That's how fast the field was.
Speaker 1: This is the fastest we've ever seen losers run.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a good way to put it, but it
Speaker 2: was true. It really was unbelievable to watch. Also, it
Speaker 2: made it more thrilling. Forty meters into the race, Noah
Speaker 2: Lyles was in last place. Halfway through, he had made
Speaker 2: his way up to seventh place. So to see him
Speaker 2: go from last and he was back there for quite
Speaker 2: a bit to first was remarkable. And he's the first
Speaker 2: American man to win gold since Athens, so that's quite
Speaker 2: a while. And now the ship is focusing too. The
Speaker 2: two hundred meter, which everyone says that's actually his best event.
Speaker 2: So prelims start this afternoon and he could become the
Speaker 2: first American man to win gold in both the one
Speaker 2: hundred and the two hundred meters at the same Olympics
Speaker 2: since Carl Lewis back in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 1: And speaking of our guy Carl, this is the last
Speaker 1: stat we'll give you to show you just how fast
Speaker 1: the field was yesterday. In the one hundred meter. Carl
Speaker 1: Lewis won the gold in Seoul, South Korea, back in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight, and he set a world record when
Speaker 1: he did it. Robes. The world record at that time
Speaker 1: was nine point nine to two. Nine point nine two.
Speaker 1: Carl Lewis would have come in dead last in that
Speaker 1: race yesterday.
Speaker 2: That's remarkable.
Speaker 1: He would have been last. It was good enough to
Speaker 1: get him a gold in eighty eight. He would have
Speaker 1: been last. That's how fast it was. So that was
Speaker 1: very fun to watch. And you all have to forgive
Speaker 1: us here as we're as we're talking to you, we're
Speaker 1: a little distracted because we watched it live and we
Speaker 1: just watching Sunny Lee perform on balance beam. You do
Speaker 1: need to tune in I don't know if you're going
Speaker 1: to try to track it down. Were try not to
Speaker 1: give you any results or anything that you ruin anything,
Speaker 1: any spoilers. But watching Sonny Lee perform and it wasn't
Speaker 1: her best performance here, had a little bit of a
Speaker 1: bad situation here on the balance beam. But she's given
Speaker 1: us so much joy. Oh she had these Olympics and
Speaker 1: so she just seeing her do her thing and get it.
Speaker 1: She's smiling now on the side to.
Speaker 2: I love her spirit. You can just see her energy
Speaker 2: come through the television. And by the way, I love
Speaker 2: her leotard today, it's really it's banging.
Speaker 1: I love her leotard to they brought it fashion.
Speaker 2: We'll we'll keep it in gymnastics because we had so
Speaker 2: much fun watching gymnastics yesterday. And here's a stat for you.
Speaker 2: The best French gymnast wins gold for Algeria. But she's
Speaker 2: making history for an entire continent. Algeria's Kaylie and Nimore,
Speaker 2: who was just seventeen, became the first African gymnast to
Speaker 2: win an Olympic medal. And it wasn't just any metal.
Speaker 2: She won gold with a near perfect routine on the
Speaker 2: uneven bars. It was so beautiful to watch. She was born,
Speaker 2: she was raised, She even trains in France. But she
Speaker 2: started representing Algeria just last year because the French Gymnastics Federation,
Speaker 2: for whatever reason, didn't clear her to resume competition following
Speaker 2: a knee surgery in twenty twenty one. I don't know
Speaker 2: that there was some back and forth about that, but
Speaker 2: her father is Algerian, so she was allowed to compete
Speaker 2: with the Algerian team. And you know it didn't matter.
Speaker 2: The crowd treated her like a hometown girl. They went
Speaker 2: wild for her after that incredible routine. So didn't seem
Speaker 2: like there was any bad blood. But gotta say success
Speaker 2: has to be the best revenge. I was just thinking,
Speaker 2: too bad France, the score for Algerie.
Speaker 1: No bad blood. They embraced her and I'm sure they
Speaker 1: understand and they get it, and and she is. We
Speaker 1: watched her in the all round. We've been watching her
Speaker 1: and didn't know who she was, like, wow, she is
Speaker 1: fantastic and now we get it. And to see her
Speaker 1: pick up a goal that routine yesterday was wow, was
Speaker 1: a wow. Yeah, she made some moves I didn't make sense.
Speaker 2: You actually gasped when you saw her do it. Her
Speaker 2: score of fifteen point seven, by the way, tied for
Speaker 2: the highest score of the meet in any event. That
Speaker 2: just shows you how good she was. And then Sunny
Speaker 2: Lee also competed.
Speaker 1: Yes, Dax that ron she was fun. She was. She
Speaker 1: has such a clean exercise on the uneven bar, so
Speaker 1: she was fun. While she got her second now bronze
Speaker 1: in Paris, so the first was a second. Actually she
Speaker 1: got the bronze on the uneven bars before. It's a
Speaker 1: third medal of the Olympics. So her career toll is
Speaker 1: now six and she is one. She represents the US
Speaker 1: so well, not to say anybody else doesn't. She's just
Speaker 1: such a little delight and always down there having fun.
Speaker 1: She really is somebody I've had a lot of fun
Speaker 1: watching this year.
Speaker 2: And her teammates were rooting for her. The Golden Girls
Speaker 2: were all in the stands, including some of the biles
Speaker 2: watching her. It's fun to watch them. See the celebrities
Speaker 2: who come to Paris to cheer on, especially the gymnasts.
Speaker 2: We've seen a lot of celebrities and in tennis as well,
Speaker 2: but we saw a rare sighting of Ryan Gosling and
Speaker 2: Eva Mendez together. They were looking super cool. They kept
Speaker 2: their shades on the entire time. I get it too,
Speaker 2: but it was it was cool to see them and
Speaker 2: again they didn't they look just so cool.
Speaker 1: It was just chill.
Speaker 2: It's fun to see them celebrity sighting.
Speaker 1: They casual sporting event and they were dressed the part.
Speaker 1: It was but a lot of I think we see
Speaker 1: more stars problem than gymnastics in the stands for anywhere
Speaker 1: else some of the swimming, but this has been fun
Speaker 1: to watch in the support, a lot of support for
Speaker 1: the swimmers as well. And Bobby Fink. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that medal can get golder, but he just picked
Speaker 1: up a very important gold medal. He came to the
Speaker 1: rescue of an American wind streak that dates back to
Speaker 1: nineteen oh four. Check this out. American men have won
Speaker 1: an individual gold medal in swimming in every Olympic since
Speaker 1: nineteen oh four. It was held in Saint Louis, of
Speaker 1: all places. But until yesterday in Paris, American men had
Speaker 1: been shut out no gold medals in any individual event.
Speaker 1: Of course, they had won some in some relays, but
Speaker 1: an individual race. Up until yesterday, American man had not
Speaker 1: won a gold medal at these games.
Speaker 2: So he won the race and in world record fashion, correct,
Speaker 2: he broke the world record.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he broke a record. He wins his race. This
Speaker 1: was the fifteen hundred I believe it was for him.
Speaker 2: It's nearly a mile by the way, for people, just
Speaker 2: to get a perspective, fifteen hundred meter because that kind
Speaker 2: of means nothing to me a lot of times. But
Speaker 2: it's basically, he swam a mile and he won gold
Speaker 2: by nearly four seconds. And the yeah, the world record
Speaker 2: he shattered was set back in twenty twelve by a
Speaker 2: Chinese swimmer. More on that in just a bit, but yeah,
Speaker 2: that was incredible.
Speaker 1: And also women picked up gold. The American women got
Speaker 1: a gold in the four by one hundred meter men late.
Speaker 1: They won that one by three seconds, set a world
Speaker 1: record there as well. Again three seconds in the pool.
Speaker 1: That's a blowout.
Speaker 2: So that brings the tally for US swimmers to eight
Speaker 2: gold medals in Paris, which is nothing. Well that's something
Speaker 2: to brag about, let's just say. And and by the way,
Speaker 2: also the pool is done like that was it for
Speaker 2: swimming in a pool, But there are still two outdoor
Speaker 2: swimming races in the sein, so we can talk about
Speaker 2: the scent a little bit more. But the men's and
Speaker 2: women's outdoor ten thousand meter marathon swimming competitions are Thursday
Speaker 2: and Friday, so two more swimming events, but they're in
Speaker 2: the scent.
Speaker 1: Let's see if they'll go off. We have to keep
Speaker 1: checking that water. People check the chlorine levels in the backyard,
Speaker 1: what they're.
Speaker 2: Doing in a second and swim in yum.
Speaker 1: Though Bobby Feaks saved us on that. On that streak,
Speaker 1: But another streak for Americans has ended. Check this out.
Speaker 1: Since the four by one hundred medley relay was introduced
Speaker 1: in the Olympics in nineteen sixty, American men have won
Speaker 1: gold in this event, have never lost it at the
Speaker 1: Olympics that they have been in since it was introduced. Now,
Speaker 1: the four by one hundred medley, this is the one
Speaker 1: where you got four guys. Each one does a different
Speaker 1: discipline butterfly, brass, backstro freestyle. So that's the race we're
Speaker 1: talking about. That winning streak has ended now and it
Speaker 1: was ended yesterday by China. Us touched the wall half
Speaker 1: second behind the Chinese team. Sounds close, but it didn't
Speaker 1: take a photo finish. This was kind of a really
Speaker 1: robes of dominant performance by the Chinese.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I said more to come on the
Speaker 2: Chinese swimmers, because there has been so much talk about
Speaker 2: them in recent days after The New York Times reported
Speaker 2: that about a dozen swimmers on the current Chinese Olympic
Speaker 2: team failed drug tests before the Tokyo Olympics, but they
Speaker 2: were cleared to compete by Chinese officials. There were no ramifications.
Speaker 2: They claimed that they ate some meat that had the
Speaker 2: contaminant inside of it, and from what we've heard from
Speaker 2: the IOC, there was no way to disprove that claim,
Speaker 2: so they allowed them to compete anyway. But two of
Speaker 2: those athletes who failed those drug tests are on the
Speaker 2: relay team that beat the Americans yesterday. And Bobby Fink,
Speaker 2: you know, he had just won, so he was being
Speaker 2: interviewed by reporters. He made some strong comments about that.
Speaker 2: He said. I'm going to quote him in Sport. One
Speaker 2: of my favorite quotes I've seen lately is there is
Speaker 2: no point in winning if you don't win it fair.
Speaker 2: I think you know the truth in your heart. Even
Speaker 2: if you touch and you know you're cheating, you're not
Speaker 2: winning right. So for me, if you've been on that
Speaker 2: and you've been contaminated twice. I think as an honorable person,
Speaker 2: it means you should be out of the sport. He
Speaker 2: did not mince his words, he did not split hairs.
Speaker 2: He made his feelings known, and I think a lot
Speaker 2: of folks feel the same.
Speaker 1: There's in there. And then there's another side to the argument.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, are we supposed it's tough
Speaker 1: to take somebody at their work when there's been like
Speaker 1: an incident after incident after incident after incident, and then
Speaker 1: there was another It came out after we heard about
Speaker 1: those failed drug tests. That was another two swimmers two
Speaker 1: years ago. Chinese gets the same thing they got called
Speaker 1: the drug test and got cleared by the Chinese. A
Speaker 1: lot of times you get a doping ban in swimming,
Speaker 1: it can go year years plus. So this is a
Speaker 1: big deal.
Speaker 2: As it should. You're cheating. You know you are cheating.
Speaker 2: And I was just saying to you as we were
Speaker 2: prepping for today, it blows my mind that the country
Speaker 2: whose athletes are accused of doping is the one that
Speaker 2: clears them, or decides or gives an explanation or chooses
Speaker 2: not to discipline them. That doesn't that doesn't seem like
Speaker 2: an outside investigation, and that seems like what would have
Speaker 2: to be the case if you wanted it to seem
Speaker 2: legit and betranded.
Speaker 1: You got the home team who was supposed to be
Speaker 1: checking the home team, and that.
Speaker 2: Was every reason to want the best players or the
Speaker 2: best athletes to move forward to represent the country.
Speaker 1: As an example, as a reminder there of what you're
Speaker 1: talking about, the best example people can remember she Carrie
Speaker 1: Richardson when she got a suspension, a doping suspension that
Speaker 1: was given to her by the US Anti Doping Agency
Speaker 1: and it kept her out of the Olympics. So we
Speaker 1: in that situation would have been incentivized, you know, cheat
Speaker 1: a little or whatever, or make it possible for her
Speaker 1: to run the Chinese Anti Doping whatever organization is supposed
Speaker 1: to do that type of thing.
Speaker 2: But she carries doping was we're not talking about the
Speaker 2: same That wasn't a performance enhancing drug. That was actually
Speaker 2: maybe perhaps a performance low ring drug.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but just give me what it's like
Speaker 1: for the home country, and if it's done well, that's
Speaker 1: how it's supposed to work. You're supposed to make sure
Speaker 1: that the athletes are following the rules. So about the
Speaker 1: Chinese are so proud and excited for this team and
Speaker 1: they beat the mighty Americans and it's a.
Speaker 2: Good but there's a cloud hanging over that win. Maybe
Speaker 2: they don't care, but I think the rest of the
Speaker 2: world's season the cloud.
Speaker 1: It's Sonny in China, though, I guess it is.
Speaker 2: I guess it is. Uh wow, it is. Uh. It
Speaker 2: was a thrill to watch Novak Djokovic yesterday. Who didn't
Speaker 2: see that? I mean, if you didn't, you missed out
Speaker 2: on that last set was just remarkable when they were
Speaker 2: doing their tiebreaker, Oh, I mean it was. We'll put
Speaker 2: it like this. One of the commentators said about one
Speaker 2: of the competitors here, Novak Djokovic, he said he will
Speaker 2: die on that court to win this and that sounds
Speaker 2: like a lot. But watching him play and win yesterday,
Speaker 2: that's exactly that was perfectly put.
Speaker 1: Because you and again you have to understand this history here.
Speaker 1: He has had four Olympics. He has gone oh and
Speaker 1: three in the Semis, didn't even make it that far
Speaker 1: in one of them. He has twenty four Grand Slams.
Speaker 1: He is the greatest tennis player ever and the one
Speaker 1: thing that was missing was this Well, you.
Speaker 2: Know, it's funny because we were saying this was his
Speaker 2: fourth attempt to win a gold. The truth is he's
Speaker 2: actually been in five Olympics. We forgot he won bronze
Speaker 2: back in two thousand and eight, but he failed to
Speaker 2: meddle in London, Rio or Tokyo. So this was his
Speaker 2: fourth try at a gold. He had a bronze in Beijing,
Speaker 2: so he wanted that gold and he got it finally.
Speaker 2: It took him a while, but and also by the way,
Speaker 2: he had meniscus surgery on his leg nine weeks ago,
Speaker 2: so there was a lot, you know, he had a
Speaker 2: lot of pressure. It was a pressure kirker for him,
Speaker 2: and he came out on top.
Speaker 1: He again, he's the oldest guy to make it to
Speaker 1: a Olympic final. He's playing the youngest guy ever to
Speaker 1: make it to an Olympic final, Carlos al Karez. If
Speaker 1: you watch any tennis, you know who this guy is.
Speaker 1: He is the next coming.
Speaker 2: Didn't he beat Djokovic in Wimbledon? I believe so. So
Speaker 2: they had already been matched up once before Djokovic lost,
Speaker 2: So it was amazing to see him push through and
Speaker 2: win and then to see him. I mean, he's sobbed.
Speaker 2: We've said this before, but you see, you know, they
Speaker 2: keep it together, they keep their laser focus going. And
Speaker 2: then as soon as they went, you see all the emotion.
Speaker 2: It's just amazing to see what they're able to keep
Speaker 2: at bay. And then it all comes out when they
Speaker 2: win and it's and then he ran up into the
Speaker 2: to the stands and was with his wife and his kids.
Speaker 2: It was just beauty with a Serbian flag. It was beautiful.
Speaker 1: That's thing, the Serbian flag. He's been very outspoken about
Speaker 1: this love for his country, but he joins a very
Speaker 1: elite group. So you hear about the Grand Slam in
Speaker 1: tennis if you win all four majors, but there's something
Speaker 1: else they call the Golden Slam. You win all four majors,
Speaker 1: but you also win a gold medal. He was not
Speaker 1: in that group. And the only people that are in
Speaker 1: that group Andre Agassi, Steffi, grab Serena, Williams Raffi, Na
Speaker 1: Doll Wow, a Golden Slam.
Speaker 2: So he's that sounds pretty cool.
Speaker 1: He's become even more elite.
Speaker 2: Sounds better than a Grand Slam, right, And this balance
Speaker 2: beam is the devil just gonna tell you, you guys,
Speaker 2: if you can watch the replay, because I'm assuming most
Speaker 2: of you weren't up for this because it's so early
Speaker 2: in the morning. But it's it's this is a really
Speaker 2: tough and these are the top eight gymnast by the way,
Speaker 2: who were selected from their preliminary scores to compete in
Speaker 2: the final for a medal. And it is been brutal sometimes,
Speaker 2: you know what, it's contagious. When one person falls, you
Speaker 2: just start to see athlete after athlete. It's such a
Speaker 2: mental game, especially you get one shot, you get one
Speaker 2: shot and and and we're seeing a lot of Olympic
Speaker 2: dreams die on this apparatus.
Speaker 1: I've seen a couple of heroes that are not just
Speaker 1: you slip and lose balance. I like some hard hits
Speaker 1: and falling and hitting that beam in ways that.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like it's been like the high bar
Speaker 2: for the men, which is next by the way. We
Speaker 2: saw so many people just you know, slip and fall
Speaker 2: and again, and their there dreams in a medal, because
Speaker 2: once you fall, you almost certainly aren't medaling, and that's
Speaker 2: you just know it's over. Then you got to get
Speaker 2: back up and you got to keep doing it, and
Speaker 2: it's it's tough to watch, it really is.
Speaker 1: We'll keep that on. Maybe we can turn that off
Speaker 1: because it's painful.
Speaker 2: Seas someone hasn't gone yet. I can't imagine what she's
Speaker 2: thinking right now watching everyone fall.
Speaker 1: She's thinking, I got this, Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 2: She's one of those like, are you'll.
Speaker 1: Really giving me extra points? Falling ahead of me? Well,
Speaker 1: we want to tell you all about this. We have
Speaker 1: a true story. This is one hundred percent of true
Speaker 1: store lunch plans. Yesterday were supposed to leave the house
Speaker 1: around eleven thirty am. US Women's basketball. They were playing Germany.
Speaker 1: Now they have already advanced to the next round, so
Speaker 1: the game wasn't necessarily one of consequence in terms of
Speaker 1: moving forward in this tournament. But it's always of consequence
Speaker 1: because this is the team, the US women Roads that
Speaker 1: have not lost in the Olympics, not just not lost
Speaker 1: gold medal, not lost a game since Barcelona goes back
Speaker 1: to ninety two. They're fifty seven and oh fifty eight
Speaker 1: and oh whatever it is. So I tell you we
Speaker 1: had this lunch plan, I said, Roads, can you make
Speaker 1: sure you have peacock is working on your phone?
Speaker 2: The app yep, I checked, I had it. We were
Speaker 2: good to go. And why why did we need to
Speaker 2: make sure we watched it?
Speaker 1: Because the streak was on the line. So if the
Speaker 1: women were watching the game, they were down big at
Speaker 1: the beginning. As we're getting ready it was fifteen to six,
Speaker 1: I had said, Holy hell, babe, and you know how
Speaker 1: I am about this stuff. You took it very seriously,
Speaker 1: because you know if I ask you at any point
Speaker 1: once we have not peacock ready to go. I got ready,
Speaker 1: I said, babe, we're gonna have to keep an eye
Speaker 1: on the score. I am putting my keys and my
Speaker 1: wallet in my pocket in the bedroom. You walk back,
Speaker 1: put the phone in my face and say, look, I
Speaker 1: got it. It's working. By the time you get to
Speaker 1: the door, you walk out to the hallway before I do,
Speaker 1: hit the button on the elevator. By the time I
Speaker 1: close the door, walk around the corner to get to
Speaker 1: you to the elevator.
Speaker 2: What do I say, don't worry about it, We're ahead.
Speaker 1: It was done in the snap of a finger. They
Speaker 1: go from down whatever it was eleven or thirteen, they
Speaker 1: were up thirteen and a half.
Speaker 2: How dare you doubt the US Women's basketball team on you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I felt so stupid after the fact, like I
Speaker 1: was really worried.
Speaker 2: Wow, I actually I thought that there was a chance
Speaker 2: that we weren't going to win soupid but the.
Speaker 1: Eighty seven to sixty eight with the final, they are
Speaker 1: now fifty eight and oh in the Olympics since Barcelona,
Speaker 1: but they but yeah, going to the knockout stage now
Speaker 1: they are the number one seed.
Speaker 2: All right. Well, it's fair to say we have seen
Speaker 2: a lot of show stopping performances at the Olympics, but
Speaker 2: there was one in particular that literally stopped a show,
Speaker 2: specifically an Adele concert in Munich.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she has been very vocal. Oh look, you could
Speaker 1: tell she's having a good time and has been watching
Speaker 1: the Olympics and has been talking about it. But on
Speaker 1: Saturday at her concert, she stopped singing, disappeared to the
Speaker 1: back of the stage for a second, and on the
Speaker 1: big screen in the arena, what came up the women's
Speaker 1: one hundred menor final?
Speaker 2: She Carrie Richards said, she said, she's a huge she's
Speaker 2: a huge fan of hers and she was rooting her
Speaker 2: on and so she was excited. So she had the
Speaker 2: entire like Munich audience stadium. I don't know how many
Speaker 2: thousands of people were there, all stopping to watch. Think, thankfully,
Speaker 2: it's ten seconds. It's if you're gonna stop a show
Speaker 2: to watch an event, that's the one to do it.
Speaker 2: But she congratulated Sherry, She congratulated the winner, and everyone
Speaker 2: had a good time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So that was just a cool moment that people
Speaker 1: are that into it that she even sto I'm sure
Speaker 1: they appreciate it. It was only ten seconds. She got back,
Speaker 1: she got back to scond exactly.
Speaker 2: Also, we have an apology to make to the US
Speaker 2: women's soccer team. This is also a true story. We
Speaker 2: planned our entire day Saturday to watch them take on Japan.
Speaker 2: We were on the edges of our seats. When the
Speaker 2: match went into extra time, we jumped up and we
Speaker 2: cheered when Trinity Rodman scored the only goal of the
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty minute game. We were in awe
Speaker 2: and we couldn't wait to celebrate them and talk about
Speaker 2: their amazing victory. And yet in our podcast Sunday, we
Speaker 2: completely forgot to mention their win was embarrassing.
Speaker 1: This is really embarrassing. Look, not that we're making excuses,
Speaker 1: but like we mentioned we had got number three, we
Speaker 1: ran a half marathon, we had done two interviews, and
Speaker 1: then we had to record the pipe.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of so many other things that
Speaker 2: had happened since the soccer game where people had won,
Speaker 2: and yeah, so it happened that. Dude, when was it yesterday?
Speaker 2: You looked over me and you said, oh my god, Ropes,
Speaker 2: we completely left up And I was like what. He
Speaker 2: was like, we completely left out something major in our podcast,
Speaker 2: Like what and you said the US women's soccer team
Speaker 2: and we both just hit.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was in our notes. It was
Speaker 1: in our notes to do. But the messed up part.
Speaker 1: We to your point, like we were getting onto each
Speaker 1: other like hurry up, are you ready? We got We
Speaker 1: made a whole plan because we had to be in
Speaker 1: front of the TV exactly. We weren't going to miss
Speaker 1: a second of that game, and we didn't. And then
Speaker 1: we didn't mention ladies, sorry, I mean the US women's
Speaker 1: basketball team, US women's soccer team, we are really doing that.
Speaker 2: We need to do better, We need to do better.
Speaker 2: But we've been watching and we have been cheering them
Speaker 2: on and we cannot wait. I mean, they have they
Speaker 2: looked so good. I mean, we love watching those women play.
Speaker 2: They're gonna take on Germany on Tuesday in the semifinals
Speaker 2: and rest assured we will be talking about them.
Speaker 1: On Wednesday the whole podcast.
Speaker 2: It will be dedicated to the US women's soccer team.
Speaker 1: And finally, here a simple question to all of you
Speaker 1: out there. Could you compete at the Olympics with your
Speaker 1: ex as your playing partner? Now you pick the X,
Speaker 1: whoever's in your head, whoever you're thinking about right now,
Speaker 1: but that X. Could you go and compete on the
Speaker 1: biggest stage with that X? Is it the Olympics? Is
Speaker 1: it your ex boyfriend husband? No, I think that's important,
Speaker 1: said pick the X, because we would go through. Now
Speaker 1: you have so much little what about this and what
Speaker 1: event is it? And do we have to do this?
Speaker 2: Do I have to coordinate with them in a very
Speaker 2: significant I can't be annoyed or pissed at them person
Speaker 2: as for me, the answer is no. The answer is no,
Speaker 2: no X. No.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, so.
Speaker 2: This is no not not to have to spend that
Speaker 2: much time and no, no, that's not for me. Okay,
Speaker 2: what about you? How about you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think I could.
Speaker 2: I think I got I so disagree with you. I
Speaker 2: do not name one ex that you are friends with,
Speaker 2: like actual friends with you talk and chat and hang
Speaker 2: out with. Oh I do know one? Okay, I think, Well,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I thought that you were friendly with
Speaker 2: one because we've interviewed that person. Oh no, okay, so
Speaker 2: I stand correct. Okay, name you don't have to name this. No,
Speaker 2: you don't have to name the X. But just tell
Speaker 2: me that you can think of a person that you
Speaker 2: that you actually are still friends with, who you've dated
Speaker 2: or have been married.
Speaker 1: Let me go through my text. Okay, I'm kidding. I
Speaker 1: kind of see your point, but we're asking the question.
Speaker 1: I kind of see what you're saying because I go
Speaker 1: back through my mind. It depends on who the ex
Speaker 1: might be.
Speaker 2: But are you friends with any of your exes? Still?
Speaker 1: There are some exes I will cross the street. But
Speaker 1: they competed. This has been a story. It's a fun one.
Speaker 1: It's a cute one. It's a silly one. It's not
Speaker 1: really one you could even argue. But check tennis players
Speaker 1: playing mixed doubles just won a goal medal. Tomas Mahatch
Speaker 1: and Katerina Senekova, Right, they just won goal for that
Speaker 1: country mixed doubles tennis. Now, after the win, what do
Speaker 1: a teammates do. Of course they're going to embrace each other.
Speaker 1: And they got up there and they gave a pretty
Speaker 1: passionate kiss.
Speaker 2: And maybe they're not really, but that's the thing.
Speaker 1: These two had been dating since back in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, and they broke up just a couple of
Speaker 1: months ago before for the Olympics that they had been
Speaker 1: training for. That's crazy, they broke up, but they still
Speaker 1: decided they wanted to commit to compete together, and sure enough,
Speaker 1: they just won a gold medal together, so amazing. So
Speaker 1: of course they got to the press conference afterwards and
Speaker 1: what did everybody ask?
Speaker 2: Are you back together?
Speaker 1: And their answer was not really a definitive one. Their
Speaker 1: answer was was, uh, we like to keep you confused.
Speaker 1: That's our personal business. That's not really for you. The
Speaker 1: other the guy said, you know what, it's top secret.
Speaker 1: And they were kind of being giddy and silly and goofy.
Speaker 2: But I think they got back together.
Speaker 1: Well, the kiss was clear that they got I mean.
Speaker 2: The thing is that's an on again, off again relationship.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh it's fine. I had chills.
Speaker 1: Okay, this this Balance being Sorry, we're.
Speaker 2: Watching someone Biles on the beam as we're talking and Devil.
Speaker 1: That thing is the Devil again.
Speaker 2: I love her, Leizard, I will say that. I'm amazing
Speaker 2: le It's hard. She looks phenomenal. This is insane. I
Speaker 2: this is insane. You guys. You have to watch the
Speaker 2: Beam finals. This is this just shows you the stress,
Speaker 2: the competition and and and what happens. I just I okay, okay,
Speaker 2: oh my god.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to look it up as we're here to
Speaker 1: tell folks when they're going to have this on TV.
Speaker 1: The Balance Beam is one you need to watch.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a replay. There's a replay for everyone. I
Speaker 2: mean it's happening live right now, but there is a replay.
Speaker 1: And if you do have obviously Peacock they do the
Speaker 1: replays and they have them there for you.
Speaker 2: This is one you can't miss.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're going to have this replay
Speaker 1: before it airs on television.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're right. This is the prime time. This is
Speaker 2: their prime time, Like, this is what they put out
Speaker 2: for everyone to watch. But it's going to be out there.
Speaker 2: What happens. I mean, everyone's going to see it, but
Speaker 2: if you so choose to look it up, and we
Speaker 2: don't want to give it away here, but my god,
Speaker 2: you have to watch this. This is I feel like this,
Speaker 2: like there is just a contagion that happens when.
Speaker 1: And you know, we're saying this as if. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously people are going to be talking about this, and
Speaker 1: this is going to be out there if you will,
Speaker 1: before during the day, and people are going to kind
Speaker 1: of know what happened and know the results. But we
Speaker 1: just didn't want to give it away here in case
Speaker 1: you're you're one of those folks that want to wait
Speaker 1: and watch and aren't paying attention to anything.
Speaker 2: Thanks. This is the time of the podcast where we
Speaker 2: say what we're watching today. Obviously we're watching gymnastics, and
Speaker 2: so Simone is on balance beam right now, but she's
Speaker 2: also going to compete in the floor exercise along with
Speaker 2: Jordan Chiles. But you know, I think this is what's
Speaker 2: at stakes right now. Biles has ten Olympic medals, and
Speaker 2: that is significant. Obviously, she won she led the US
Speaker 2: team to gold in the women's final. She won gold
Speaker 2: for all around and vault. But if she had a
Speaker 2: top three finish, if she gets a medal in the
Speaker 2: floor exercise and the beam, any of them, that would
Speaker 2: give her two more medals. That would make her the
Speaker 2: second most decorated female gymnast in Olympic history, only Larissa Latinina,
Speaker 2: if I don't know how to say a latin has
Speaker 2: more with eighteen. So I mean she's going for the
Speaker 2: This is what the Olympians do. At a certain point.
Speaker 2: You're the goat, right, but you want to have your
Speaker 2: name up there in history, and so this was always win, right,
Speaker 2: and just to get two more medals, it wouldn't have
Speaker 2: to be gold, would put her in a whole new
Speaker 2: level basically right now than she is right now. So
Speaker 2: that that's kind of what's at stake.
Speaker 1: That is, it's a great lea ry and I'm not
Speaker 1: big on the leotards and understanding that fashion. That's a
Speaker 1: good one.
Speaker 2: She looks fantastic, So yes, floor exercise. That'll be her
Speaker 2: final event, by the way, that'll be the last time
Speaker 2: we see Simone Biles compete. Later this morning, she's going
Speaker 2: up against Brazil's Rebecca Androge and teammate Jordan Chiles. But
Speaker 2: remember Simone one Gold and Rio. But she pulled out
Speaker 2: of the event in Tokyo, but we saw her slay
Speaker 2: it earlier, so this is her one of her big, big,
Speaker 2: big events. And even though there are no American men
Speaker 2: competing in gymnastics today, it is always remarkable to watch
Speaker 2: the men's final. So they have the parallel ball bars
Speaker 2: which just happened, which you'll be able to see on replay,
Speaker 2: and then the high bar is about to come, and
Speaker 2: we're absolutely going to be tuning in for all of
Speaker 2: the above. Track and field, you have men's pole vault final,
Speaker 2: you have women's discuss throw, women's five five thousand meter final,
Speaker 2: women's eight hundred meter final, and that's one to watch
Speaker 2: because we saw Britain's Keighlee Hodgkinson yesterday in the heats.
Speaker 2: She is a powerhouse. She is a favorite to win
Speaker 2: the eight hundred final. She is the Tokyo silver medalist,
Speaker 2: but she has some competition from defending world champion. We
Speaker 2: saw her Kenya's Mary Maria. She was phenomenal, so that'll
Speaker 2: most likely be a battle between those two women. And
Speaker 2: it was just fun to watch men's soccer. Men's team
Speaker 2: USA maybe out, but these are the semifinals, so we've
Speaker 2: got Morocco versus Spain that's at noon Eastern time, and
Speaker 2: then France versus Egypt at three pm Eastern time. Those
Speaker 2: are always fun ones. And I know you love badminton.
Speaker 2: The women's single metal matches are today and the men's
Speaker 2: singles metal matches are today. But all eyes are going
Speaker 2: to be on that gym today. That is what people
Speaker 2: are going to be talking about. What's happening at gymnastics?
Speaker 1: Why did Aym I tell me what we should get
Speaker 1: the answer? Why this seems like it takes so long
Speaker 1: with the scores, you know, I just like I wouldn't
Speaker 1: even begin to be able to to it.
Speaker 2: Just they're going through all the little tiny deductions. But
Speaker 2: we heard them called ghost deductions. I don't really know
Speaker 2: what that means, but it's very specific, and I think
Speaker 2: it just takes time to get it right.
Speaker 1: This is it seems odd to me though. This is bizarre.
Speaker 1: This is taking a long long time to get a score.
Speaker 1: So I don't I mean, we're not going to give
Speaker 1: the score here. I'm just sitting there and waiting, and
Speaker 1: that's we're want to try to get that answer as well.
Speaker 1: At some point, it just seems like they are taking
Speaker 1: not just right in this moment, certainly this moment, but
Speaker 1: it seems like.
Speaker 2: It takes longer than any other sport. But they do
Speaker 2: want to get it right. I do have to say
Speaker 2: hats off to NBC their graphics and their replays and
Speaker 2: how they show things in slow motion, but then even
Speaker 2: have like a computer generated graphic of the actual athlete
Speaker 2: doing their skill. It's remarkable because you can see what
Speaker 2: what it takes to pull off some of these unbelievable
Speaker 2: gymnastics feats. That makes sense, Like you can just see
Speaker 2: how difficult it is.
Speaker 1: I don't know why Simone bob is rolling her eyes
Speaker 1: at something. Just then this look at that.
Speaker 2: She's pacing in. My heart is pounding.
Speaker 1: They look at photography's just standing and everybody's star and
Speaker 1: her she is not.
Speaker 2: That's tough.
Speaker 1: Okay, she's throwing her she feels like this is long
Speaker 1: and that's some moon bioso.
Speaker 2: And she's getting annoyed. She's getting annoyed. She wants to
Speaker 2: know what her score is and she's she's frustrated.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well that's all we can tell you. As look,
Speaker 1: NBC has made this the best experience I've ever had
Speaker 1: watching the Olympics. It's been great and being able to
Speaker 1: watch it at this time of day is being cool.
Speaker 1: But man, you get these results early and this is
Speaker 1: this has been if I hope they show the whole beam.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the schedule, Hero Robes. They do not
Speaker 1: have the beam. You can either watch it five or
Speaker 1: then they don't play it again until NBC Primetime.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to wait till tonight to watch it,
Speaker 2: but it is it is worth watching. And uh, of
Speaker 2: course we'll be watching a lot of the events, bringing
Speaker 2: you all the very latest. Uh. But thank you for
Speaker 2: listening to us for all of the tea from Perry.
Speaker 1: We're not married to that name.