Speaker 1: Hey everyone, It's Friday, August ninth and closing ceremonies just
Speaker 1: two days away. And CUSA now six at one hundred
Speaker 1: three overall medals after an impressive day on the track.
Speaker 2: China has a solid hole on the number two spot
Speaker 2: has seventy three total medals. France, Great Britain and Australia
Speaker 2: round out the top five.
Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to another t from Perry edition of Amy
Speaker 1: and TJ. The biggest headline probably is that the fastest
Speaker 1: man in the world was the third fastest man in
Speaker 1: his race Thursday. Did COVID play a role in Noah
Speaker 1: Lyles missing that double gold glory?
Speaker 2: The most entertaining battle we have watched, perhaps, and the
Speaker 2: entire Olympics came yesterday and courtesy of the tallest and
Speaker 2: funnest women in Paris. And were you worried? We weren't
Speaker 2: worried now for a second, not even when the USA
Speaker 2: men's basketball team was down by seventeen to Serbia yesterday.
Speaker 2: Plus an American sets a world record in his event
Speaker 2: but ends up with a bronze medal.
Speaker 1: Win set a world record repeat. US printer Sidney McLoughlin.
Speaker 1: Lavroni stays on brand and stays on top of the podium.
Speaker 1: She highlighted a huge day for USA Track and Field.
Speaker 1: There are eight diving events in the Olympics. China so
Speaker 1: far has won gold in six of them, with two
Speaker 1: to go, and unbelievable and unprecedented sweep is very much possible.
Speaker 1: The US has selected its flag bearers for closing ceremony
Speaker 1: and finally, I.
Speaker 2: Know you are, but what am I? That's China's response
Speaker 2: to the US as the two countries go back and
Speaker 2: forth over doping allegations. Eliminate from the Olympics on Sunday,
Speaker 2: arrested trying to buy cocaine On Tuesday, one olympian apologizes
Speaker 2: as he's evicted from Olympic village and another Olympic marriage
Speaker 2: proposal to tell you about. Our runner finishes the race,
Speaker 2: then goes over and gets down on her knee and
Speaker 2: proposes to her boyfriend. It's a lot to get to
Speaker 2: in this one. I can't wait to get at it
Speaker 2: with you about the proposal yesterday. But that was so
Speaker 2: much going on. We're starting this morning another early morning
Speaker 2: for us that's been full of diving. Is a big deal.
Speaker 2: So I watched the platform diving this morning well, they
Speaker 2: stop doing the handstands. It's just stop. It's too stressful.
Speaker 1: It's already scary enough to imagine diving with the skills
Speaker 1: they dive with from the height that they're diving from,
Speaker 1: but then to start in a handstand and it's sometimes
Speaker 1: it's gone really well and sometimes it's gone the other way.
Speaker 2: We haven't seen them fall, but they've come down, and
Speaker 2: you get a two point deduction for it. Platform diving
Speaker 2: is just you know, if you're out today, how about everybody,
Speaker 2: if you're out today, no matter where you are, just
Speaker 2: find a three story building. As you're walking around that
Speaker 2: three story building, Now imagine standing on top of it,
Speaker 2: then jumping off that three story building and landing exactly
Speaker 2: how you want to on the ground after doing flips
Speaker 2: and twists. That's what they're doing.
Speaker 1: Didn't haven't We heard the commentators say that these divers
Speaker 1: when they hit the pool are going thirty miles per hour, thirty.
Speaker 2: To thirty five and while Lyles runs at about twenty
Speaker 2: six twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, that's a really good I just got chills
Speaker 1: when you said that, because that is what these divers
Speaker 1: are doing. And yes, if you hit the water, you
Speaker 1: know in the way you don't want to. It's not
Speaker 1: just you know, zero in your score. It's actually injury.
Speaker 1: I mean that is a serious and dangerous thing to do.
Speaker 1: So yes, to start from a handstand. I can't hold
Speaker 1: a handstand in the form they're holding it on the ground,
Speaker 1: let alone on the edge of a platform. It's fair
Speaker 1: three stories up.
Speaker 2: It's scary, it's dangerous, but it's thrilling to watch them
Speaker 2: do their thing. A lot of track and feel. Yesterday
Speaker 2: you said a big, big day we're going to get
Speaker 2: into about the US. On the track, we saw some
Speaker 2: some spears being chucked yesterday.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, you're talking about the javelin throw. We
Speaker 1: were watching. I was watching with my daughters. You were
Speaker 1: watching back at your and you sent me a text
Speaker 1: during the javelin throw and said, ask your daughters if
Speaker 1: they know what spearchuckers means.
Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, some people might hear this right now and
Speaker 2: might not think anything of it. But the commentator, sure enough.
Speaker 2: They showed a shot of all the javelin, the javelin
Speaker 2: thrower of what we're talking about, and he said, oh,
Speaker 2: we got the spear chuckers coming up next. I immediately
Speaker 2: picked up my phone and sent a message to you guys,
Speaker 2: So it's you and your daughter's over there. None of
Speaker 2: you all knew what it meant.
Speaker 1: I was trying to guess. I thought maybe it referred
Speaker 1: to indigenous people. It sounded like something you probably shouldn't say,
Speaker 1: so Annalise, my youngest, actually went straight to Urban Dictionary
Speaker 1: and said, oh, it's a racial slur. It refers to
Speaker 1: black people, and we I didn't know that, but it
Speaker 1: clearly is a slur.
Speaker 2: I don't know who this guy is, and we could
Speaker 2: look him up and don't want to put his name
Speaker 2: out there. And that's not the point. It's just one
Speaker 2: of these things where people don't sometimes realize the words
Speaker 2: they use, how they continue to get perpetuated. This is
Speaker 2: the largest sporting event in the world. We see it
Speaker 2: every four years, and a guy just casually lets out
Speaker 2: a slur like that. I immediately sat up and I
Speaker 2: recognized it. Clearly he didn't maybe the broadcast team doesn't
Speaker 2: didn't because the replay is still available and it's still
Speaker 2: in there that we watched this morning, it's still there.
Speaker 1: You just played it again. It sounded like he was Australian.
Speaker 1: It was hard to say, but British or Australian one
Speaker 1: of the two, or South African one of it was
Speaker 1: an accent that was not American. But he clearly said
Speaker 1: it and they did not take it out. So either
Speaker 1: no one caught it or no one cared, or I
Speaker 1: don't know, no no.
Speaker 2: Or no one knows. But it's just one of those
Speaker 2: weird things. After Gabby Thomas the other day that she
Speaker 2: was called articulate after she wins a gold medal and
Speaker 2: compare to Sherry Shakerri Richardson as Gabby's the one who
Speaker 2: has got the Harvard degree and she can be sold
Speaker 2: in boardrooms, there's just another like are you kidding?
Speaker 1: It's just important. I think it's important to point it
Speaker 1: out though, and I'm glad we're talking about it, just
Speaker 1: so people are aware. Words matter and that's all you
Speaker 1: can all you can do.
Speaker 2: And maybe he has no idea what he said, but
Speaker 2: that didn't take away from what was a wonderful, wonderful
Speaker 2: day at the track, however, I guess yeah, it was
Speaker 2: the highlight of the day of the most anticipated thing
Speaker 2: of the day was seeing the two hundred meter men's final,
Speaker 2: and we had a chance to see something we hadn't
Speaker 2: seen in a long time. So the fastest man in
Speaker 2: the world is in this race. We're talking about Noah Lyles,
Speaker 2: fastest man in the world. He already run the one
Speaker 2: hundred and won it. And then the fastest man in
Speaker 2: the world ended up in a wheelchair after his race yesterday.
Speaker 2: He was attempting Noah. This hadn't been done since Carl
Speaker 2: Lewis did it in nineteen eighty four. He won the
Speaker 2: one hundred and two hundred meter races. No American has
Speaker 2: done it since then. But Lyles and zut Robes with
Speaker 2: a bronze medal in this final.
Speaker 1: That's right, and this was his event. You know, not
Speaker 1: everyone expected him to win the one hundred meter, but
Speaker 1: everyone expected him, or at least most people expected him
Speaker 1: to win in the two hundred meter, but he ended
Speaker 1: up with the bronze and he collapsed onto the track
Speaker 1: as soon as that race was done. He was immediately
Speaker 1: surrounded by medical personnel. No one knew what was going on.
Speaker 1: They even brought out a wheelchair to take him off
Speaker 1: the track. And then it was a short time later
Speaker 1: he told reporters he had tested positive for COVID on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: so this was Thursday. He said he kept it to
Speaker 1: himself and decided to still race on Wednesday, which we
Speaker 1: saw in the two hundred meters semifinals, and he didn't
Speaker 1: win his heat then either. I think Kenny beat him, right.
Speaker 2: No, he lost to the guy who beat him again.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, right there, so the guy's beat him twice.
Speaker 2: But his week you're talking about, Noah, what the one
Speaker 2: hundred final was on Sunday?
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 2: He ran in the prelims on Monday for the two hundred,
Speaker 2: tested positive on Tuesday for COVID, ran again in the
Speaker 2: semis on Wednesday, and then ran again on Thursday. Now,
Speaker 2: if anybody and plenty of you have had COVID, I
Speaker 2: actually I guess I haven't, have never tested positive for COVID,
Speaker 2: but people, you know you don't feel your best oftentimes
Speaker 2: when you have COVID.
Speaker 1: The big for me, the biggest thing was my fatigue.
Speaker 1: So you can't I can't imagine competing at an Olympic
Speaker 1: level with COVID. And also he is asthma as well,
Speaker 1: so that has to be an even more concerning situation
Speaker 1: to have COVID, to be asthmatic, and then to try
Speaker 1: and win gold in the Olympics running. This can't be easy.
Speaker 2: Be clear where not and nobody else is trying to
Speaker 2: make excuses for him. Right he performed this week. I
Speaker 2: mean it's admirable he did it with COVID, but he
Speaker 2: was bested by the same guy, like you said, Rose,
Speaker 2: the same guy that beat him in the semis beat
Speaker 2: him in the final for goal that lets see Lee
Speaker 2: Tobago of Botswana and so Rose. That was to see
Speaker 2: the kid perform was very impressive. But to hear some
Speaker 2: of the details in the history he made, you have
Speaker 2: to be very excited for him.
Speaker 1: I mean he made history for an entire continent. So
Speaker 1: it was beautiful, you know, the first gold and the
Speaker 1: first time four African men made the two hundred meter
Speaker 1: final because Tobago was the first African to win in
Speaker 1: a world championship. But if you saw who was lined
Speaker 1: up there, it was impressive, Zimbabwe up there as well,
Speaker 1: and it was just it was so cool to see.
Speaker 1: And what you hate to have happened to him is
Speaker 1: that the Noah Lyles I have COVID story out shining
Speaker 1: his incredible accomplishment and the gold medal that he truly
Speaker 1: deserved and won. I mean he glided across the finish
Speaker 1: line up. He really looked like he was having the
Speaker 1: time of his life and he was ready for this,
Speaker 1: and he looked like a gold medal winner from start
Speaker 1: to finish.
Speaker 2: And this kid has not come out of nowhere. They've
Speaker 2: had our eyes on him for a long time. He
Speaker 2: set a record in the under twenty one hundred meter dash.
Speaker 2: This guy has been doing it for a long time
Speaker 2: and has been looked at as the next coming. Maybe
Speaker 2: this is a little early his arrival, but if you
Speaker 2: saw him in that race, you're like, Wow, this guy's
Speaker 2: gonna he's what twenty one?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's gonna be He's impressive. Yeah, Because I was
Speaker 1: sitting next to my twenty one year old daughter Apa
Speaker 1: and I was like, he's the same age as you,
Speaker 1: and she was like what I mean, just to see
Speaker 1: what he's accomplished at his young age. And I also
Speaker 1: don't want the spotlight away from Kenny Bednarik, who is
Speaker 1: affectionately known as Kung Fu Kenny because he wears that
Speaker 1: wrap around his head. But he looked incredible. I was
Speaker 1: so impressed with him watching him do his thing. And
Speaker 1: I watched him in the heat earlier too, and he
Speaker 1: just sailed across that finish line, and I love seeing
Speaker 1: the celebration with his family in the stands. Afterwards, I
Speaker 1: was really I was. I was proud to be an
Speaker 1: American seeing him. It just was really cool and he
Speaker 1: won silver and it was a beautiful thing to watch,
Speaker 1: Like brother, I really did. He has such great energy,
Speaker 1: so it was fun to see him when and yes,
Speaker 1: we feel for Noah, but just you hate to see
Speaker 1: what happened with him take away from the from the
Speaker 1: success of the other two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and but frankly you can't help, but it did
Speaker 2: a little bit. Yeah, you know what. Afterwards, most of
Speaker 2: the cameras were trained on no allile it's not the winter.
Speaker 1: And we were texting back and forth about that because yes,
Speaker 1: we get it, that's the big story. It was an
Speaker 1: unexpected loss. And then to hear that he had COVID
Speaker 1: kind of takes away from the victory of the other two.
Speaker 1: But we just you know, it was it was an
Speaker 1: awesome race to watch.
Speaker 2: And then afterwards, I guess insult the injury here, Noah
Speaker 2: Lyles actually got penalized or flag for improper conduct. Now,
Speaker 2: nothing necessarily is going to happen with the results of
Speaker 2: the race because of that. But I wasn't sure exactly
Speaker 2: what they were talking about. Improper conduct. He broke some rule. Now,
Speaker 2: if you saw him come out after they introduced him, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's yelling and screaming and hopping up and down and
Speaker 2: running around in a little bit. It's it's his thing,
Speaker 2: it's his energy, and that's fine. I got no problem
Speaker 2: with it. But maybe they do. And apparently he hit
Speaker 2: some box or speaker that was on the track and
Speaker 2: knocked something over, and so maybe that was some of
Speaker 2: the improper conducts. But just seemed like, I said, insult
Speaker 2: the injury.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And also to point out because I think many
Speaker 1: people might not realize this, there are no COVID protocols
Speaker 1: at the Olympics this year. So obviously before and we're
Speaker 1: all used to if you if you get COVID, you
Speaker 1: have to isolate you. That's not there's nothing in place
Speaker 1: in the Olympics. They just say, Hey, it's like they're
Speaker 1: treating it like the cold. Like if you have a cold,
Speaker 1: if you had any other little, you know, minor upper
Speaker 1: respiratory illness, you wouldn't do anything differently. It's up to
Speaker 1: the individual athlete how they want to act didn't do it,
Speaker 1: so he didn't do anything wrong by continuing to compete.
Speaker 1: We should point that Out's.
Speaker 2: Say it's isn't that crazy our whole None of these
Speaker 2: athletes had to go through any COVID testing, no restrictions
Speaker 2: to come as the Olympics, and the last one we did,
Speaker 2: you couldn't do it. I mean co Co Golf didn't
Speaker 2: even get to go to yes because she tested Positi.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, it was Oh yeah, I was in Tokyo.
Speaker 1: I had to isolate. I had to quarantine for fourteen
Speaker 1: days in my hotel room before I could even go
Speaker 1: to any event or see anything at the Olympics. So
Speaker 1: we have come quite a long way in the last
Speaker 1: three years. So no Ahlliles competes with God doesn't have
Speaker 1: a mask on, no problem. But all track and field,
Speaker 1: by the way, from start to finished yesterday was on real.
Speaker 1: It was insane, I mean truly and thrilling to watch.
Speaker 1: I loved the men's one hundred ten meter hurdles. Americans
Speaker 1: Grand Holloway and Daniel Roberts came in first and second,
Speaker 1: and no American had won gold since twenty twelve. Holloway
Speaker 1: cruised his way across the finish line for gold, and
Speaker 1: then his longtime college rival Roberts He came in second
Speaker 1: for silver with what commentators called an exceptional lean. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize how big the lean was until I saw
Speaker 1: it was a photo finish. He got silver by just
Speaker 1: three one thousandths of a second. I mean, it took
Speaker 1: a while for them to decide who actually got silver.
Speaker 1: It was that close.
Speaker 2: You remember how it was the closest one hundred meter
Speaker 2: final in history. Yeah, we said it was five.
Speaker 1: Ye five one hundred Wait, five thousandths of a second.
Speaker 1: There you go, This was three thousandth of a second.
Speaker 1: I hate saying that word, so I'm glad I have
Speaker 1: to keep saying it. But this is cool because they
Speaker 1: were rivals all through college and they actually talked about
Speaker 1: bringing the US back in this particular event because they
Speaker 1: saw we hadn't done well for the last eight years.
Speaker 1: And yesterday they did it together number one, number two,
Speaker 1: and the images of the two celebrating were just epic.
Speaker 1: It was so sweet to say, oh my god, we
Speaker 1: talked about this and then we did it. How cool
Speaker 1: is that? And we should mention our friend Freddie Crittenden,
Speaker 1: who we noted got into the finals by not trying
Speaker 1: to win. He came in sixth, no.
Speaker 2: But he got to the finals. His strategy worked. Who
Speaker 2: knows that the injury had any impact, but the favorites
Speaker 2: ended up winning or Grant Holloway was the clear. This
Speaker 2: was his focus from the gun. After the second hurdle,
Speaker 2: you knew who was going to win this. And I
Speaker 2: love this brother. We talked about Noah Lyles and then
Speaker 2: his antics and he's arrogant and he's loud and brash
Speaker 2: and all this stuff. This walks with more arrogance than anybody.
Speaker 2: I just he don't have to say anything. He just
Speaker 2: walks and he talks, and just his look, he's just confident.
Speaker 2: He has a great smile. I love, love, love Grant Holloway.
Speaker 2: So the day on the trackage day for Americans was.
Speaker 1: Huge, and then the ladies of Team USA had us
Speaker 1: and tears that had me and tears at least, but
Speaker 1: tears of joy. Oh, I love. This was so much
Speaker 1: fun and I loved watching this with my girls. Tara
Speaker 1: Davis Woodhall she won her first gold and her first
Speaker 1: Olympic medal in the women's long jump, but for me,
Speaker 1: it was what she did afterwards when she realized that
Speaker 1: she had won. That brought me to tears. First she
Speaker 1: fell back in the sand and just took it in,
Speaker 1: and it was I just loved seeing her quietly celebrate
Speaker 1: the moment that she just nailed it.
Speaker 2: You know, she though got she got an encore. She
Speaker 2: very few athletes get this have. But she had one
Speaker 2: last jump, but she already knew she had the goal. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so she was the last jump. She just couldn't have
Speaker 2: fun just celebrating, own the crowd and all that. So
Speaker 2: that whole last jump, when she already had it in
Speaker 2: the bag, really built up the moment, right what you're getting.
Speaker 1: At Oh so yes, So she lays in the sand,
Speaker 1: she takes it in. Then she ran to the stands
Speaker 1: to find her husband, paralympian Hunter Woodhall, and I have chills.
Speaker 1: Look I have chills right now. See look, you got
Speaker 1: chills all the time, but just a little extra right now.
Speaker 2: Extra chills.
Speaker 1: The way that they hugged each other, I could cry
Speaker 1: right now. And you they actually had the volume up
Speaker 1: and you could hear Hunter, her husband saying with the
Speaker 1: biggest smile on his face, like holding her saying, Tara,
Speaker 1: you're an Olympic champion, and it was just so sweet
Speaker 1: to see his incredible support for her. And then I
Speaker 1: did a deep dive into their relationship because I wanted
Speaker 1: to know everything about them, and I encourage everyone else to.
Speaker 1: They met when they were seventeen at a meet when
Speaker 1: they were both in high school. They went on to
Speaker 1: different colleges. By the way, she went to the University
Speaker 1: of Georgia and he went to the University of Arkansas.
Speaker 1: That's kind of funny. Anyway, I didn't even realize that,
Speaker 1: but then I just thought that was cool, because you know,
Speaker 1: I went to the University of Georgia, you went to
Speaker 1: the University of Arkansas. But anyway, they stayed together and
Speaker 1: they got married in twenty twenty two, and it's just
Speaker 1: a sweet story and just I encourage everyone to look
Speaker 1: it up. And then we have to talk about the
Speaker 1: Queen Sidney McLaughlin Lavrony. Not only did she defend her
Speaker 1: Olympic gold in the four hundred meter hurdles, but she
Speaker 1: broke the world record for the sixth time, and she
Speaker 1: is the first woman to ever repeat gold in that
Speaker 1: event in the four hundred meter hurdles. And then we
Speaker 1: got to see her. I think we get to see
Speaker 1: her race one more time over the weekend and the
Speaker 1: women's for by four hundred relay. But she also had
Speaker 1: a sweet moment running back into the stands to see
Speaker 1: her family, look like a friend maybe a relative giving
Speaker 1: her a crown to wear, which I loved, and then
Speaker 1: all the picture of her with the crown, the flag
Speaker 1: and just taking it in.
Speaker 2: I don't know, okay, some moan biles Quang Hong Chong,
Speaker 2: the diver from China. I'm trying to think of the
Speaker 2: athletes in the Olympic Katie Ledecki in the fifteen hundred.
Speaker 2: There's some athletes that when they compete, you know they're
Speaker 2: going to win. You're never worried. They're only competing against themselves.
Speaker 2: She's one of them that. There was never a question.
Speaker 2: This was that if you see this, she looks like
Speaker 2: she's running against high school kids. It's remarkable what she's doing,
Speaker 2: and she keeps crushing these world records. She's only running
Speaker 2: against herself. She is phenomenal.
Speaker 1: She was so far ahead of everyone else. It was
Speaker 1: a comfortable race to watch. You just got to smile
Speaker 1: the entire time because you were almost like you were
Speaker 1: running with her because you just knew she was winning
Speaker 1: and it was just so fun. It was like it
Speaker 1: was a glory run for her, like she she had
Speaker 1: it in the bag. Nope, not the photo finish.
Speaker 2: Okay, we weren't worried about her. But I mean, were
Speaker 2: you worried yesterday? I was you were. I wasn't worried
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 1: You were a little bit.
Speaker 2: Tell me you did? You were like stayed on the score.
Speaker 2: But then I think you got on the phone and
Speaker 2: you asked me how they were gonna do it. They're
Speaker 2: gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: What you just said, They're gonna be okay?
Speaker 2: You did when they were still down by thirteen or something.
Speaker 1: Oh I know, And then I was like, okay, I
Speaker 1: gotta turn this on.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the men's basketball team USA men's basketball
Speaker 2: team full of All Stars, MVP, NBA champions, and future
Speaker 2: NBA Hall of Famers. These dudes were down by seventeen
Speaker 2: points yesterday. Not only that they were down by thirteen
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter. That's nothing to to sneeze out there.
Speaker 1: That's nerve wracking.
Speaker 2: But for some people, as you watched the game and
Speaker 2: I wanted to start to finish, you could see that
Speaker 2: what they were doing and how they were getting it.
Speaker 2: That's why I wasn't necessarily worried. But we do now
Speaker 2: see why team USA and coach Kurr why they were
Speaker 2: so worried about Serbia. Serbia, of course has the two
Speaker 2: time now NBA MVP plays out for the Nuggets. Of
Speaker 2: course we're talking about Uh.
Speaker 1: I wanna call them no back Joe, but it's something
Speaker 1: really close to himikol Jokich, Maikolai Jokich, Yes, he is
Speaker 1: the one.
Speaker 2: I keep getting those guys mixed up, but he is Okay,
Speaker 2: He's a big deal. Now, this is a team the
Speaker 2: US has beaten twice in the past month. They had
Speaker 2: to play Serbia in an exhibition game and then they
Speaker 2: played him in the opening round of the Olympics. Both
Speaker 2: of those games US won by the same margin, twenty
Speaker 2: six points.
Speaker 1: And then yesterday, well they won by four. And that was,
Speaker 1: by the way, in a game where they trailed for
Speaker 1: thirty five of the forty minutes. That is crazy. Stephan
Speaker 1: Lebron saved the day, though not shocking. Steph scored thirty
Speaker 1: six points and Lebron had only the fourth triple double
Speaker 1: in the history of the Olympics.
Speaker 2: I think I do. I know I sent you that
Speaker 2: text saying Steph has fourteen of Team USA's first fifteen points.
Speaker 2: You did you if you've watched it, We've all watched
Speaker 2: him over the years. But when you see him get going,
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, okay, this is about to happen. You
Speaker 2: knew what was happening. He's on, this is about to
Speaker 2: be his day, and he was needed to kind of
Speaker 2: save the day. That all the guys who were in
Speaker 2: the game at the end were over thirty years old.
Speaker 2: I think that were NBA veterans. So they had to
Speaker 2: fight and scrap and claw, and you saw them their
Speaker 2: intensity and defense was the big deal. I know they're multimillionaires,
Speaker 2: they get pampered. I know they're not staying Olympic village.
Speaker 2: They're in a hotel room. We have all these songs.
Speaker 2: If you watch that game. These guys are competitors, they
Speaker 2: are fighters, they are fierce, and this team was fighting
Speaker 2: for their country in track and feeld and some things.
Speaker 2: There's some individual accolades, yes, your Team USA representative, but
Speaker 2: they this is a team event and to see them
Speaker 2: do what they did yesterday, I applaud them and I
Speaker 2: have a new respect for some of these guys that
Speaker 2: I have been watching my whole well, certainly their whole careers.
Speaker 1: Do you do you think there was ever a point
Speaker 1: in when coach Kerr was nervous or concerned.
Speaker 2: Before the game, during the game, but they said, I
Speaker 2: mean even the huddles, he was giving them confidence. We're
Speaker 2: gonna be okay. He could see it happening, He could
Speaker 2: see what was how the tide was turning. But Steph
Speaker 2: and Lebron they call him Lebron Captain America these days,
Speaker 2: but they made it happen. Kerr's quote afterwards, one of
Speaker 2: the greatest basketball games I've ever been a part of.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Now that's a big coming from him, because Steve Kerr
Speaker 2: is the guy who's won championships with the Jordans in
Speaker 2: the Bulls a lot, the guy who's won four championships
Speaker 2: with the Golden State Warriors. So to hear him say
Speaker 2: that it was that this was to see them gut
Speaker 2: it out like that. You gotta respect these guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And they play France on Sunday. That'll be a
Speaker 1: huge game. They're playing the home country. What are you expecting?
Speaker 2: Home country obviously is gonna go crazy. It's going to
Speaker 2: be fun. But this is a rematch from Tokyo.
Speaker 1: Home court advantage though they got.
Speaker 2: The home court. But France folks don't make a mistake.
Speaker 2: They got Webin Yama, the number one overall draftick who
Speaker 2: plays with San Antonio. Now Rudy Gobert, who's won I
Speaker 2: don't even know how many defensive Player of the Year awards.
Speaker 1: So it's they got NBA talent all over their team.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's gonna be great. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: I know what we're doing Sunday, all right. And then
Speaker 1: you had said because I missed this one you and
Speaker 1: of course I missed what you are calling the most
Speaker 1: entertaining competition you have watched at these games.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be just into hyperbole and the moment,
Speaker 2: this was the most fun I have had watching anything
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy you did that without me. What I
Speaker 1: was doing something with my daughters, and so I had
Speaker 1: to that was I missed it. And now I'm go ahead,
Speaker 1: let me tell me what I missed.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry you're saying I shouldn't be.
Speaker 1: Rubbing it in right, Oh, but I actually do you
Speaker 1: want to know what tell us what you saw.
Speaker 2: This was this went to five sets. But these are
Speaker 2: the two absolute powerhouses of women's team volleyball, Brazil and
Speaker 2: the US. This is a rematch. This is a gold
Speaker 2: medal match from Tokyo that the US won, is a
Speaker 2: rematch of the gold medal match in London that Brazil won.
Speaker 2: So they've been going at it and these are the
Speaker 2: best at this and this sport. The reason I love
Speaker 2: this the stadium they have they're playing in. It's like
Speaker 2: I think, maybe see's twelve thousand, but when you watch it,
Speaker 2: it feels like they're in a high school gym. Just
Speaker 2: everybody's constant yelling. And if you know volleyball, every time
Speaker 2: the ball is in play, what the other team is
Speaker 2: trying to do is punch you in the face with
Speaker 2: the ball. It's a violent sport in that way, every
Speaker 2: single time. So you see them back and they go
Speaker 2: so quickly and there's no break in the action. It
Speaker 2: was non stop. You cannot take a bathroom break watching volleyball,
Speaker 2: and certainly not that match yesterday. Wow, yes, all.
Speaker 1: Right, what happens?
Speaker 2: I'm into it?
Speaker 1: Oh, they play Italy.
Speaker 2: In the final on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Sunday's a big day, obviously.
Speaker 2: A huge day, but yeah, I encourage you, please please
Speaker 2: watch these women. And I say they're the obviously the tallest.
Speaker 2: You have to be tall to play the sport. But
Speaker 2: after every point they come together in the middle and
Speaker 2: do a little huddle that just last couple seconds, but
Speaker 2: they're always laughing or smiling or congratulate, huge smiles. Nobody
Speaker 2: has that much fun playing. They were just a blast
Speaker 2: to watch, and so I encourage you check them out
Speaker 2: on Sunday for the final.
Speaker 1: All right, well, this next sport. I watched it first
Speaker 1: Live with You, and then I rewatched it again with
Speaker 1: my daughters because they wanted to see it, and it
Speaker 1: was just as good the second time. And there's such
Speaker 1: a crazy story involved. I'm talking about speed climbing. I
Speaker 1: don't know if y'all have watched it, but you can
Speaker 1: go back and watch replays. It's worth it. They make
Speaker 1: it up to the top in less than five seconds,
Speaker 1: so it's really fun to watch these heats. But an
Speaker 1: American set a world record in speed climbing. He beat
Speaker 1: his own world record that he had set two days prior.
Speaker 1: But even though he had the quickest and best score,
Speaker 1: he only got bronze speed climber. Sam Watson finished third,
Speaker 1: and if you're wondering how it's possible, will kind of
Speaker 1: break it down for you. They go through semifinals and
Speaker 1: then the finals. Well, in the semifinals he was beaten
Speaker 1: by Wupang of China by just a fraction of a second.
Speaker 1: But then when he went for his bronze medal win,
Speaker 1: he set the world record at four point seventy four.
Speaker 1: That gave him the bronze, but the competitor he lost
Speaker 1: to of China, Woopang then win against Leonardo Vederick of Indonesia.
Speaker 1: Leonardo of Indonesia beats Peg with a four point seventy five,
Speaker 1: so that's how long it took him to get up
Speaker 1: to the So technically Sam had a faster time than
Speaker 1: the actual gold medalist, but just the way it worked
Speaker 1: out with the heats, he ended up with the bronze.
Speaker 2: It's elimination. You go one on one with somebody and
Speaker 2: if that person beats you, that's then you're out. So
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter who had the fastest time, but it sucks.
Speaker 2: It does feel like it sucks for him that you know,
Speaker 2: you actually performed better than anybody at the Olympics and you.
Speaker 1: Had a bron the fastest time in the world including
Speaker 1: the Olympics, and he got bronze. But here's the deal.
Speaker 1: Sam is eighteen years old, so he has a.
Speaker 2: Long, long, long, just two probably.
Speaker 1: I think he's got a couple more, and I was
Speaker 1: it's cute. He's he's not phased by the fact that
Speaker 1: he got a bronze. He's very excited that he is
Speaker 1: a medal and he's now saying that he wants to
Speaker 1: go to four point six like he's already setting his
Speaker 1: sights on beating his own record once again. But he
Speaker 1: is a phenom to watch and it's just so fun.
Speaker 1: It won't take any time. I encourage everybody to go
Speaker 1: back into speed climbing and watch it. It looks you
Speaker 1: can watch it the whole thing in like less than
Speaker 1: ten minutes. I mean, it's great, and we were cheering,
Speaker 1: and even though I already knew what was going to happen,
Speaker 1: it was just so fun to rewatch it with my girls.
Speaker 1: It's fun.
Speaker 2: It's it. I told you this several days ago. Sabine
Speaker 2: A had her in here and she put on she
Speaker 2: would not stop watching, you cannot stop. She what she
Speaker 2: called him the what's the thing from the Stranger Things? Said,
Speaker 2: they look like a like a demogorgan ruck going up
Speaker 2: the wall or the things from a Quiet Place. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's what they look like when they're flunt crawling up
Speaker 2: this wa wall.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable and you and I have to say you and
Speaker 1: Sabine got me into it because I you were like,
Speaker 1: you have to watch this and then you can't stop.
Speaker 1: And so when I told the girls they were the same,
Speaker 1: they're like, they were mad. We actually were watching it
Speaker 1: as we were waiting for the two hundred meter Noah Lyles,
Speaker 1: and I said, Annie, we have to switch because Noah
Speaker 1: is about to run, and she was mad. I was like, girl,
Speaker 1: this is on replay. I can pause it, go watch
Speaker 1: live what's happening in track and Field, and come back.
Speaker 2: And she mad.
Speaker 1: She was pouting because she wanted to see Sam. She
Speaker 1: didn't know what was going to happen, and she was
Speaker 1: so into it. But I made her wait, watch the
Speaker 1: two hundred meter and then go back to the speed climbing.
Speaker 2: And the folks, you have it. If you not haven't
Speaker 2: seen it what we're talking about here. They're just climbing
Speaker 2: a wall. That's about fifty feet tall, and it has
Speaker 2: these hand holes and footholes and you just got to
Speaker 2: get up there as fast as you can and hit
Speaker 2: this little square that stops the uh uh stops the clock.
Speaker 2: And that's it. And it literally the women do it
Speaker 2: in about six to seven seconds. The men can do
Speaker 2: it in four to five seconds.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. And I actually told you I want to
Speaker 1: go to a climbing gym. We have a couple here
Speaker 1: in the in the city. I'm just totally inspired. I
Speaker 1: want to I want to see, I want to try.
Speaker 1: I got into it.
Speaker 2: Climbing is my favorite sport or activity to do because
Speaker 2: it's the only thing that you do that you cannot
Speaker 2: have anything else on your mind. You have to constantly
Speaker 2: be focused on where you're hand. You can't be listening
Speaker 2: to music or thinking about a meeting you have or
Speaker 2: any other emotion. That's why I love climbing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that makes a lot of sense because you
Speaker 1: are in the moment to be the power of now
Speaker 1: get it. That makes total sense.
Speaker 2: Now, you know, I was excited about this today. We
Speaker 2: just watched it and folks, we're not gonna give away well,
Speaker 2: we're not gonna give away what happened here, But something
Speaker 2: unprecedented is really brewing at the Olympics right now, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna know pretty soon if China's gonna pull something
Speaker 2: off that has never ever, ever, ever been done before.
Speaker 2: We have eight diving events at the Olympics, Six of
Speaker 2: them have been completed so far, and a Chinese diver
Speaker 2: has one gold in each of the six. The remaining
Speaker 2: two events are the women's three meter springboard that finalist
Speaker 2: today and then the men's ten meter platform. The prelimbs
Speaker 2: we just watched this morning, and then they wrap tomorrow.
Speaker 2: So what we're talking about here is China has a chance,
Speaker 2: a real chance to sweep all eight medals in diving,
Speaker 2: and that has gold never be done all gold. Okay,
Speaker 2: that has never ever ever been done. They got closer
Speaker 2: to them in Tokyo. Did you go to any diving.
Speaker 1: When you were I did, I did, And yes, the
Speaker 1: Chinese dominates.
Speaker 2: When you were there. I'm sure you saw never get
Speaker 2: a gold medal because they won seven out of the
Speaker 2: eight in Tokyo. Now, if you go back to Beijing,
Speaker 2: which is two thousand and eight, they have won twenty
Speaker 2: seven of the thirty two possible gold medals in diving. Wow,
Speaker 2: and it looks like they're possibly going to win all
Speaker 2: eight in this Olympics. That's insane. That's a dynasty the
Speaker 2: likes of which I don't know if we're seeing anywhere
Speaker 2: else in the Olympics.
Speaker 1: We'll have to keep watching.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm watching.
Speaker 1: I know you are.
Speaker 3: You get up early to watch this for sure.
Speaker 1: Well, the Chinese divers putting on their show. The Chinese
Speaker 1: swimmers have also had their success, but that success has
Speaker 1: been muted by doping allegations that the US is now
Speaker 1: looking into. That certainly has been a big headline. So
Speaker 1: China's response to all of this, well, you want to
Speaker 1: come after our swimmers, We're going to come after your sprinters.
Speaker 1: China's anti doping group says it now wants greater testing
Speaker 1: and scrutiny of America's track and field athletes because while
Speaker 1: we're doing just so well.
Speaker 2: And they're pointing out or they're they're jumping on. One
Speaker 2: guy on the American team. His name is Arion Knighton.
Speaker 2: He's a sprinter, but he had a failed drug test
Speaker 2: earlier this year, god suspended, appealed, but then was allowed
Speaker 2: to come and run in the Olympics, China said, well
Speaker 2: will we'll Well, you are making you're hooting and hollering
Speaker 2: about our athletes who failed to test several years ago
Speaker 2: and then got cleared, and now you're mad about that.
Speaker 2: That is their argument, And they're sticking to this one
Speaker 2: guy right now and calling us hypocrites for allowing him
Speaker 2: to run. Now, Arian Knight and I don't think he meddled,
Speaker 2: that's not necessarily the point. But he too said he
Speaker 2: ate contaminated meat that ended up leading to the drug
Speaker 2: test failure. The Chinese swimmers same thing. They ate tainted
Speaker 2: meat somewhere where they need a microbiologist on their.
Speaker 1: Staff, they really do, because from what I've read, the
Speaker 1: problem with that defense is that it's not unprovable.
Speaker 2: So what do you do? So that's not the problem,
Speaker 2: that's the so the beauty of that excuse, right if
Speaker 2: you're the athlete, but it's the problem if you're in
Speaker 2: the anti doping age. You can't do anything about it.
Speaker 2: So we don't know what's going to happen. But nine
Speaker 2: is upset because the FBI has juristical jurisdiction to a degree.
Speaker 2: But there's a federal law that does allow the FBI
Speaker 2: to investigate these types of doping conspiracies, even if they're
Speaker 2: outside of our borders. So we got the Olympics in
Speaker 2: la in twenty twenty eight. Yep, we've got wain Is
Speaker 2: so like again twenty to thirty.
Speaker 1: Thirty four, thing like that.
Speaker 2: So are you all going to give our athletes hell
Speaker 2: coming to your country? So they're trying to make sure
Speaker 2: that the two sat we figure this out and don't
Speaker 2: do some kind of a tit for tat when it
Speaker 2: comes to athletes in the test.
Speaker 1: That's the dark side of the Olympics. Well, we have
Speaker 1: an Australian athlete apologizing for what he called a terrible mistake.
Speaker 1: I think that is one way to put it. It
Speaker 1: wasn't a mistake during competition, Nope, it was a mistake
Speaker 1: outside of Olympic village. He was trying to buy cocaine
Speaker 1: from a seventeen year old in the middle of the
Speaker 1: night in Paris and police caught him in the act.
Speaker 1: It's Australian field player. Ry Australian field hockey players name
Speaker 1: is Tom Craig. His team was eliminated in the quarterfinals,
Speaker 1: which was actually a big upset. They had done much
Speaker 1: better in previous Olympics and had higher hopes. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I went from defeat to uh, well much worse and arrest.
Speaker 2: I didn't know what you were going to I didn't
Speaker 2: know what word you were going to put there. I
Speaker 2: got nervous for a second, But you know, what do
Speaker 2: you do? You're if your Olympics is oh, you're still
Speaker 2: there trying to enjoy the experience. He went out for
Speaker 2: a night and obviously he's admitting this, so this is
Speaker 2: not us allegedly anything he's admitting. He apologized, He said
Speaker 2: he has embarrassed his country, embarrassed himself. You know, some
Speaker 2: folks on the team came to his defense, said, look,
Speaker 2: he's a good guy and he made a mistake. You're
Speaker 2: not trying to say it's okay what he did, But
Speaker 2: what do you do. He screwed up, screwed up bad.
Speaker 2: Makes his it's more so making his country look bad
Speaker 2: in this moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look he's going to face the consequences too.
Speaker 2: How do we get one of these per Olympics?
Speaker 1: Yes, there always there's always some arrest, some some situation. Yes,
Speaker 1: I can recall one almost in every Olympics I have covered. Yes,
Speaker 1: so this was uh the arrest of Paris. You know what,
Speaker 1: let's talk about something happy.
Speaker 2: M you say that. Now, I don't know where this
Speaker 2: one's going to go.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's well, we've seen a couple proposals, but there
Speaker 1: was one that happened that was extra sweet because there
Speaker 1: was a little twist to it. It was a little unexpected.
Speaker 1: This one was beautiful. It happened after the three thousand
Speaker 1: meters steeplechase. You know, we loved that race so much.
Speaker 1: French runner Alice Vanoute told herself, I love this that
Speaker 1: if she ran this race under nine minutes, knowing that
Speaker 1: nine is her lucky number. Apparently she's been with her
Speaker 1: boyfriend for nine years, so if she ran the race
Speaker 1: under nine minutes, then she decided before she started that
Speaker 1: she was going to propose to him. So she ran
Speaker 1: the steeplechase, this is my favorite in eight minutes fifty
Speaker 1: eight point six seven seconds. The universe spoke, so she
Speaker 1: got down on one knee she proposed to him. He's
Speaker 1: a Spanish triathlete, Bruno Martinez. And she didn't have a ring,
Speaker 1: but she had a pin, a love is in Paris
Speaker 1: pin and she got down on one knee in front
Speaker 1: of everyone, and she proposed. What he say?
Speaker 2: I guess he said yes, he said yes.
Speaker 1: She did confirm everyone that he said yes. She came
Speaker 1: in fourth.
Speaker 2: Is that we got a lot to unpack here came
Speaker 2: in fourth. Fourth. We were talking about the Batmanton right,
Speaker 2: the young lady that won gold, and he came in proposed,
Speaker 2: And I asked, well, if you didn't win gold, would
Speaker 2: he have still come and proposed to her? She got fourth,
Speaker 2: she didn't medal. You could almost argue that this was
Speaker 2: a disappointment to her or she or something.
Speaker 1: You well, she set a goal for herself under nine minutes,
Speaker 1: but not to get a medal, you know what. For her,
Speaker 1: it wasn't about the medal. No, okay, fine, it was
Speaker 1: about making her own personal best. She set a goal
Speaker 1: for herself and.
Speaker 2: She beat it.
Speaker 1: She made it, she did it, and that was her
Speaker 1: cue to propose.
Speaker 2: Let me ask this question. If she had gotten fourth
Speaker 2: and then he proposed to her, would that I still
Speaker 2: felt a celebratory?
Speaker 1: I think so, because it's I love you no matter what,
Speaker 1: and I'm proud of you, no matter what, and you
Speaker 1: did your best, and let's do this and let's live
Speaker 1: our lives together and you know, they had been together
Speaker 1: for nine years, and she was joking about it when
Speaker 1: she was talking to the press. She said, look, I
Speaker 1: kept waiting for him to do it, and he didn't
Speaker 1: do it, so I figured why not?
Speaker 2: And that's my next problem here. This dude just got
Speaker 2: called out in front of the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard not to say, yes.
Speaker 2: You had to your your girlfriend just had to run
Speaker 2: three thousand meters and missed the podium by mere second. Water.
Speaker 2: She had to do that. She just went through all that,
Speaker 2: and the least you could do is not have her
Speaker 2: then proposed to you. I'm sure she had to go
Speaker 2: home that night and make him dinner, didn't you.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, dude, but as a man, how
Speaker 1: would you feel being proposed to? Like? I actually saw
Speaker 1: something online where someone went off on a rant saying
Speaker 1: women should not propose to men, and they listed all
Speaker 1: the reasons. Why where do you fall on that?
Speaker 2: I don't think women should propose them in Why I
Speaker 2: am unfortunately? Some would say, but it's it's I've been
Speaker 2: trained this way. I open doors, I pick up the check,
Speaker 2: I walk on this side of the street to where
Speaker 2: the traffic is. I it's just one of those things
Speaker 2: that are built in. Now, you could argue that that's
Speaker 2: built in. If you think that, then you also must
Speaker 2: think that women should be doing the laundry and doing
Speaker 2: that right if you go into some of those traditional roles.
Speaker 2: But this is one, I think it's okay to think that.
Speaker 2: Or for me personally, I would not want you robes
Speaker 2: to propose to me.
Speaker 1: Well, the good news is we're on the same page
Speaker 1: on that. I think to eat to their own I
Speaker 1: think that's beautiful if that's what works for you and
Speaker 1: women want to propose to man, I think that's fantastic.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite movies is Leapier, But I digress.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's am com you haven't seen it. But she sets
Speaker 1: out to propose to her longtime boyfriend who hasn't proposed
Speaker 1: to her, but turns out he wasn't the right guy,
Speaker 1: and she finds.
Speaker 2: Love somewhere else with someone else in Ireland.
Speaker 1: Is the uh not the guy she was going to
Speaker 1: propose to.
Speaker 2: Oh no, No, that's the twist, right.
Speaker 1: Right, there's a false ending and then it ends up
Speaker 1: all you know, full of love and happy endings with
Speaker 1: another guy. Uh no, yes, the other way around with
Speaker 1: the other guy. How could I guess it's a great movie.
Speaker 1: It's so cheesy, but I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: It's Amy Adams and it's it's a great movie. Yes, anyway,
Speaker 1: I I I don't think I would ever want to propose. Ever.
Speaker 1: I think I'm a traditionalist when it comes to that,
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 2: Why do you think a man should be the one
Speaker 2: other than tradition? I mean, I'm trying to look for
Speaker 2: a better word than just tradition, but I mean, what
Speaker 2: else is there?
Speaker 1: There's something about it that feels I don't know if
Speaker 1: I can even articulate it. You know what I have
Speaker 1: in my head? What I read what this man put
Speaker 1: out there about why men should propose and women shouldn't.
Speaker 1: And his arguments were a couple of things. First of all,
Speaker 1: he said that men just tend to shy away from
Speaker 1: commitment like that aren't as big into marriage. Initially, that
Speaker 1: women or little girls at five years old dream of
Speaker 1: their wedding and dream of getting married, whereas that never
Speaker 1: crosses a little boy's mind. So you come at it
Speaker 1: from a different place. So for a man to decide
Speaker 1: he wants to marry you, it takes more, is what
Speaker 1: he was kind of implying like more of an emotional
Speaker 1: decision than a woman who might jump into it because
Speaker 1: she's just so excited about getting married. That was one
Speaker 1: of his big reasons. I you know, take that for
Speaker 1: what it is. And the other one he said was
Speaker 1: that men typically take on a bigger financial burden. Traditionally,
Speaker 1: it's not always the case, obviously, but they tend to
Speaker 1: be the breadwinner, so they're taking on a bigger financial responsibility.
Speaker 1: So it's a bigger decision financially for most men than women.
Speaker 1: So that was another consideration. And those are his two
Speaker 1: big ones.
Speaker 2: That's the guy saying now I'm ready, Yes, But my
Speaker 2: mom would always tell me this. You said you a
Speaker 2: guy was trying to wait until he gets everything perfectly
Speaker 2: in line and then he decides to get married. But
Speaker 2: a woman wants to struggle and go through you, through
Speaker 2: all those things with you and build it together.
Speaker 1: That is so true. Your mom is very correct, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And I guess I just I think, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: men tend to not be as quick to want to
Speaker 1: commit like that, and so I would want a man
Speaker 1: who really wanted to commit to me and really put
Speaker 1: in the effort to commit to me that would That's
Speaker 1: just kind of a way of showing that he wants
Speaker 1: to be with you no matter what, forever. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I would never want to interrupt that. I do think
Speaker 1: women come at it differently, approach it differently, and I'd
Speaker 1: rather have a man come to that decision versus me
Speaker 1: trying to get a man to come to that decision.
Speaker 2: Have you always been proposed to? Yes? Okay, Sometimes a
Speaker 2: decision is made like you, oh no, do go to
Speaker 2: a courthouse?
Speaker 1: And both of my in my marriage there was a
Speaker 1: formal proposal.
Speaker 2: Yes, what about your third one?
Speaker 1: Still waiting? And don't worry. Don't worry, I'm not.
Speaker 2: Getting going to this guy. I got seven more years.
Speaker 1: There's no rush, just fifty one.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the flag bear. You know did you remember
Speaker 2: I forgot we have closing ceremonies?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, did you completely? You know what? It's
Speaker 1: funny of all the Olympics I've gone to, I've been
Speaker 1: to all of them since Beijing except for London, and
Speaker 1: I've never made it to a closing ceremony. I've been
Speaker 1: to plenty of opening ceremonies, but I've never been to
Speaker 1: a closing ceremony because I've always been on a plane back.
Speaker 1: I've been rushing back to see my girls, my family,
Speaker 1: so this will be cool because I've never seen one.
Speaker 1: But we had the big announcement of who the flag
Speaker 1: bearers will be. Of course, Lebron and Coco Goff got
Speaker 1: the honors being the flag bearers in the opening ceremony,
Speaker 1: but the honors I love who they chose for closing
Speaker 1: Katie Ladeci and Nick Mead.
Speaker 2: Katie Ladecci is guess kind of a no brainers were
Speaker 2: alloted to a large degree. She's just an all time
Speaker 2: athlete for the Americans. But then Nick Mead is one
Speaker 2: who maybe don't know the name, but he's a great,
Speaker 2: great personality, but he's a rower. He's the first rower
Speaker 2: to ever get a flag bearer role for the Americans
Speaker 2: at the Olympics. Is the first. But he's part of
Speaker 2: that four man rowing team that won gold that hasn't
Speaker 2: been done in ninete since nineteen sixty. So that's why
Speaker 2: he's getting the honor and it's a cool one. Not
Speaker 2: as many will attend, as many nations and athletes will
Speaker 2: be there obviously for the closing sera, but it's still
Speaker 2: a great honor for them.
Speaker 1: It was really cute. So he was about to sit
Speaker 1: down at a cafe to order breakfast with his teammates,
Speaker 1: and both of these athletes got the news from their teammates,
Speaker 1: which I thought was really cool. And he says he
Speaker 1: got chills immediately said he needed to get a haircut,
Speaker 1: and then he asked his teammates should we still order breakfast.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was so excited. It was really cute.
Speaker 1: And then Katie, by the way, you know, she is
Speaker 1: the most decorated US Women's Olympian of all time, so
Speaker 1: she's got She won four medals in Paris and brings
Speaker 1: her total to fourteen. She was actually watching what you
Speaker 1: got up early to watch the Open swimming marathon. She
Speaker 1: was there. She got a call from her teammate Bobby
Speaker 1: Fink to tell her that she yeah, that she got
Speaker 1: the honor of being one of the flag bearers, and
Speaker 1: so just cool stories all around and how they told
Speaker 1: them and what their reactions were. But they're both obviously
Speaker 1: clearly honored and we're excited to watch them.
Speaker 2: This is a big day. We need to get going. Actually,
Speaker 2: we got water polo men's water polo final coming. The
Speaker 2: US is in the Semis yep.
Speaker 1: And gus who we're playing Serbia Serbia. If it's anything
Speaker 1: like the basketball game, it'll be one to watch. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then ten am. We have been talking about this.
Speaker 1: This is all Eastern time. By the way, breaking the
Speaker 1: new Olympic sport is starting today. The women's qualifying round
Speaker 1: is at ten am, but at two pm in the
Speaker 1: afternoon is the women's final. And that is going to
Speaker 1: be so cool because it's never been seen before in
Speaker 1: the Olympics. And then volleyball ten am. Men's are there, sorry,
Speaker 1: Team USA are competing for bronze. This is the men's
Speaker 1: volleyball USA versus Italy.
Speaker 2: Eleven thirty at USA women's basketball. Now, anytime they play
Speaker 2: it's important. We assume they're going to win. They're playing Australia,
Speaker 2: but they have a streak on the line, fifty eight
Speaker 2: to fifty nine game Olympic winning streak on the line,
Speaker 2: so it's always good to watch them. We got noon,
Speaker 2: this has to happen. Spain versus France noon Eastern time.
Speaker 2: This is the home team playing a soccer powerhouse. Bank
Speaker 2: just won the euro Yeah, guess okay, so this is
Speaker 2: a very is gonna be good. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 2: This is at noon today. Rhythmic gymnastics. We haven't seen
Speaker 2: a lot of this, but that's happening today. The all
Speaker 2: around finals at twelve fifty Eastern.
Speaker 1: Time, that's right. It also will be in primetime, so
Speaker 1: if you if you can't see it live, you can
Speaker 1: watch it in primetime. And then track and field, there's
Speaker 1: so much to watch. They've got the women's and men's
Speaker 1: four by one hundred relay finals. You've got the women's
Speaker 1: shot put final, the women's four hundred meter final, the
Speaker 1: men's triple jump final, the women's ten thousand meter final,
Speaker 1: the men's four hundred meter hurdles final. I mean really,
Speaker 1: it's just there're gonna be so many amazing medals to
Speaker 1: be won, and that's gonna be fun to watch. And
Speaker 1: then the synchronized swimming artistic swimming. The individual all around
Speaker 1: finals are at twelve fifty Eastern time, and at one
Speaker 1: thirty we're gonna see the duet technical portion of synchronized swimming,
Speaker 1: and we've got Team USA competing, so that'll be fun
Speaker 1: to watch. And table tennis, lots of table tennis today,
Speaker 1: men's team finals, China versus Sweden. You've been watching a
Speaker 1: lot of table tennis.
Speaker 2: It's incredible to watch and these are the best in
Speaker 2: the world doing it. And the team final is how
Speaker 2: they have to do it. You doing in team like
Speaker 2: two of his two on two and then it's several
Speaker 2: individual matches which makes up the team final. But it's
Speaker 2: NonStop action. Don't miss the Chinese. You know what, Sweden
Speaker 2: has been really good. Anyway, watch it is what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: and we haven't. I love this. We normally wouldn't be
Speaker 2: watching women's boxing, No, we would not. Story. It's a
Speaker 2: controversial story, but now it has our intrigue and our
Speaker 2: interest and it's a human story.
Speaker 1: Now that's right, four to fifty Eastern time. Just a
Speaker 1: little bit later, a mon Kahlif, the woman who has
Speaker 1: been in the center of that gender eligibility controversy. She
Speaker 1: was born a woman. She is a woman. Just important
Speaker 1: to note, despite what you may see or read online,
Speaker 1: she is fighting for the gold medal. She has made
Speaker 1: it all the way to the gold medal round despite
Speaker 1: everything she's been dealing with in fighting outside of the ring.
Speaker 1: So it's just a cool Story's going against China's Lu Yang.
Speaker 1: That's going to be something that we absolutely will tune
Speaker 1: into and the world will be watching in a way
Speaker 1: that they wouldn't have otherwise. If there's a silver lining
Speaker 1: to all of this mess is that perhaps at least
Speaker 1: more eyes are on this sport and on these women
Speaker 1: doing really incredible athletic just moves in the in the
Speaker 1: in the boxing ring. I haven't watched a lot of boxing.
Speaker 1: I know you have, but it's just been fun to
Speaker 1: watch her and you just you feel for her and
Speaker 1: all that she's been through, and I mean, I'm absolutely
Speaker 1: going to be rooting for her.
Speaker 2: All right, So, folks, we appreciate you as always making
Speaker 2: some time with us. We're watching some more sport climbing,
Speaker 2: not the speed climbing. It's a sport climbing. This is
Speaker 2: a different one. But folks, you all enjoy your Friday.
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