Speaker 1: It's Sunday, August fourth, and Team USA is distancing itself
Speaker 1: from the competition in the overall medal count, enjoying its
Speaker 1: largest lead so far of the Paris Olympics A.
Speaker 2: The United States has now won sixty one Olympic medals,
Speaker 2: fourteen of them gold. France now a distant second with
Speaker 2: forty one total medals. China has thirty seven.
Speaker 1: That is impressive and welcome to Amy and TJ. The
Speaker 1: biggest stars for Team USA were in action Saturday, including
Speaker 1: at the track where sprinters were running through a lot
Speaker 1: of rain and there was an unexpected empty lane and
Speaker 1: then an unexpected result. All that drama to crown the
Speaker 1: fastest woman in the world.
Speaker 2: Plus in American swimmer finishes third but doesn't win bronze.
Speaker 2: We'll explain. Katie Ladecki keeps making history an American three
Speaker 2: peats as Olympic champion. The palmahorse guy does it again,
Speaker 2: and stop me if you've heard this one. Some mon
Speaker 2: Biles competes, some mo Biles win goal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's almost an foregone conclusion at this point, at
Speaker 1: least after what we've seen with this Olympics. That's a
Speaker 1: pretty cool spot to be in.
Speaker 2: She is three goals in right.
Speaker 1: Now, Yes, and more to come. I would suspect she's
Speaker 1: got what left. She gets to do the floor exercise
Speaker 1: and she gets to do the beam. Yeah, she's doing
Speaker 1: two more and so yeah, today we have Sunny Lee
Speaker 1: on the uneven bar. She's the only American competing in
Speaker 1: that event. Finals. But yeah, a lot more simone to
Speaker 1: com which is always good for those of us.
Speaker 2: Watching and those of us those who have been listening
Speaker 2: to us here. You know, oftentimes we are recording when
Speaker 2: we're watching events live. So we got live Bad Midton
Speaker 2: going this morning and again Robes every morning. You were
Speaker 2: up with me for the most part all morning this morning.
Speaker 2: But I usually have some story for you, But the
Speaker 2: one today would have been and you saw it happen
Speaker 2: the women's semi final of Bad Midton. Now, most of
Speaker 2: the folks listening to my voice wouldn't make that appointment
Speaker 2: viewing necessarily.
Speaker 1: I know that I wouldn't have otherwise.
Speaker 2: But you saw one of those just heartbreaking Olympic moments,
Speaker 2: one we didn't even know from Spain Carolina Maren. She
Speaker 2: is up in her match, has to retire because she
Speaker 2: has a knee injury.
Speaker 1: She retired in the middle of the match. And this
Speaker 1: is Rio's gold medalist, So this is somebody who has
Speaker 1: had a storied and incredible run at the Olympics, and
Speaker 1: to see it all fall apart in the middle of
Speaker 1: the match was devastating.
Speaker 2: Up one set and up in the second set, so
Speaker 2: she was kind of on her way, maybe going to
Speaker 2: another final.
Speaker 1: They were saying she was cruising to a gold medal,
Speaker 1: That's what some of the analysts were saying.
Speaker 2: But to see her on her knees screaming, not I
Speaker 2: don't even know. I don't think that was in pain.
Speaker 2: She was screaming just an agony of what she knows.
Speaker 2: She couldn't continue. To see an athlete that knows they
Speaker 2: can't keep going, you know, she would have given anything,
Speaker 2: so you know she had to be injured.
Speaker 1: Gives me chills in the worst ways. She was punching
Speaker 1: the ground in just utter frustration, devastation. So just it's
Speaker 1: it was excruciating to watch. She's had an amazing Olympic run,
Speaker 1: but it's hard to see it all happen, actually see
Speaker 1: it end on live television, and that's exactly what just happened.
Speaker 2: But again, some of the other Olympic moments. We'll have
Speaker 2: this for folks later, but we just had a really
Speaker 2: good time talking to a couple of Olympians who are
Speaker 2: going to be competing in coming days. They're Olympians who
Speaker 2: some even question if they're Olympians and should even be
Speaker 2: walking around Olympic village, like what are you doing here, kid?
Speaker 2: But it was cool to talk to these guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked to the park skateboarders from southern California
Speaker 1: and they are, man. You know, you get a stereotype
Speaker 1: of a skateboarder from southern California, will they fit it.
Speaker 1: They they're chill, they're cool, and they're they're just kind
Speaker 1: of off being there, don't really care so much about
Speaker 1: getting the medal, just enjoying the experience, man, because this
Speaker 1: is what they love. It was it was fun. We
Speaker 1: can't wait to share that with you a little bit.
Speaker 1: They compete next week, and these guys we talked to,
Speaker 1: they are the best, the best, including his seventeen year
Speaker 1: old world the world champion, the.
Speaker 2: Number one rank. That's seventeen years old.
Speaker 1: Oh he is chill, just chill, like so chill, Colin
Speaker 1: jo just chilling. Now back at home.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess he's made it back. This was a
Speaker 2: weird one. Here was a he had the assignment in Tahiti,
Speaker 2: which was a great assignment. He was the roving reporter
Speaker 2: for the coverage of the surfing there in Tahiti. And
Speaker 2: I guess a lot of people go to Tahiti and
Speaker 2: they're known for their coral.
Speaker 1: Well, coral to look at, not coral to step on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, his foot looks like he went dancing on it.
Speaker 2: But Colin is gone already, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So he he'd made, of course, the funny man
Speaker 1: that he is making jokes about the fact that he
Speaker 1: had already been injured more than any Olympian and had
Speaker 1: visited the medical tent more often than any other actual athlete,
Speaker 1: because he yes, he ripped up his toes pretty badly
Speaker 1: on the coral. And then the bad part is then
Speaker 1: he got an infection and I think they even said
Speaker 1: it was a staff and which can be very serious.
Speaker 1: I mean it can actually be deadly. And then he
Speaker 1: got an ear infection I think on top of that.
Speaker 1: So he was joking that his feet and his head
Speaker 1: couldn't go on the water, but he was not opposed
Speaker 1: to getting his torso wet so, I mean, he tried
Speaker 1: to make all the jokes he could about it, but
Speaker 1: it actually got so serious they had to sent him
Speaker 1: back home.
Speaker 2: And he did. He's been reporting with his no shoes on.
Speaker 2: Whether that's a good idea or not, who knows.
Speaker 1: But it turns out I don't think it was a
Speaker 1: good I think if he could go back, he probably
Speaker 1: would have worn reef shoes or something to that effect.
Speaker 2: But we can smile about a little bit only because the
Speaker 2: funny man, the SNL guy, is still making jokes about it.
Speaker 2: We will stay on top but that and get an update.
Speaker 2: Hopefully he's fine. Sure he's uncomfortable, but hopefully he'll be
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we will wish him the very best. But he
Speaker 1: still had a big smile on his face. As long
Speaker 1: as he's laughing, we can too.
Speaker 2: I guess we had some smiles and some tears yesterday.
Speaker 2: This was appointment viewing for us yesterday as well. It's
Speaker 2: kind of been one of the biggest stories of the Olympics.
Speaker 1: That's right. It was an emotional victory for Algery and
Speaker 1: Bachman Clive. We've been talking about this story for the
Speaker 1: past several days, but this victory in the ring guarantees
Speaker 1: her a medal, which is incredible. But she's been fighting
Speaker 1: perhaps an even bigger battle outside of the ring, a
Speaker 1: battle of misinformation, online abuse, and this is all over
Speaker 1: people questioning her gender eligibility. And you know, her father
Speaker 1: even had to get involved and he was providing proof
Speaker 1: of her birth certificate that she was born a female,
Speaker 1: that she is a female. And so this has just
Speaker 1: been a tough battle for her. But she beat Hungary's
Speaker 1: Anna Lusa Hamori, who, by the way, contributed to some
Speaker 1: of that social media I'll call it scrutiny, but others
Speaker 1: would say abuse or bullying. Uh. She essentially compared her
Speaker 1: to a beast in the ring and a lot of
Speaker 1: people calling her a person and not a female. I mean,
Speaker 1: just really tough stuff. So now she has to go
Speaker 1: into the ring with this woman who has contributed to
Speaker 1: some of this discord in the quarterfinals of the women's
Speaker 1: sixty six kilogram match. I think is what it's called
Speaker 1: is it worth? What is it called? Weatherweight? Uh? Wilter wait,
Speaker 1: I knew I was gonna get it wrong. You kno'd
Speaker 1: begin with a W. But this means at least that
Speaker 1: Khalif will She's guaranteed a bronze medal and she's advancing
Speaker 1: to the semi finals. But we watched and waited for fire,
Speaker 1: us like what are these two women going to do
Speaker 1: in the ring when they finally meet. But you know what,
Speaker 1: it was a clean and fair fight, and I was
Speaker 1: heartened to see that despite what was happening outside of
Speaker 1: the ring, both women were civil. They showed sportsmen like
Speaker 1: behavior towards one another. And you know, Khalif was the
Speaker 1: better boxer, and the judges agreed so like by far
Speaker 1: was it wasn't even close. And when they lifted up
Speaker 1: her hand, it wasn't until after she left the ring
Speaker 1: and was walking away that the emotion of the wind
Speaker 1: and I would imagine the past few days just washed
Speaker 1: over her and we saw her not just cry, but
Speaker 1: she sobbed and and I just in that moment, you know,
Speaker 1: we can all talk about stories and kind of almost
Speaker 1: clinically talk about them or have an opinion, but you
Speaker 1: really saw the human impact in that moment. It just
Speaker 1: it all came over her. I got tears in my eyes.
Speaker 1: Our daughters were watching. I know Ava got tears in
Speaker 1: her eyes. We had chills just thinking what this poor
Speaker 1: woman has been through at the same time trying to
Speaker 1: win an Olympic medal. I mean this is her second Olympics.
Speaker 2: Aside from if you throw out all the controversy, you
Speaker 2: throw everything, none of that, none of that ever happened.
Speaker 2: This is a person who's been fighting for since she
Speaker 2: was a kid. And in that moment she got out
Speaker 2: of the ring, she just realized she just won an
Speaker 2: Olympic medal. Yeah, you would cry over that anyway, given
Speaker 2: all you've gone through and sacrifice, to think of everything
Speaker 2: on top of that, I can't imagine what that emotional
Speaker 2: release was in that moment. I guess we kind of
Speaker 2: saw someone.
Speaker 1: And you know, it was so cool. I get since
Speaker 1: reliving it watching it, seeing that crowd cheering her on,
Speaker 1: supporting her.
Speaker 2: And that's not just Algerians.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody in that crowd was cheering her on. And
Speaker 1: I hope she feels that love and that supporters she
Speaker 1: goes on to the semifinals now, and good for her
Speaker 1: because even her father said, because he just said, this
Speaker 1: is immoral, this is unfair, and I hope she wins
Speaker 1: the gold and I think a lot of people will
Speaker 1: be rooting for her for a lot of different reasons
Speaker 1: because she is beyond all of this, an exceptional boxer.
Speaker 1: And the IOC president Thomas Boch I think we've all
Speaker 1: seen him over the years, so I'm at opening ceremonies.
Speaker 1: He spoke out yesterday. He finally wanted to put this
Speaker 1: to rest, but he defended Khalif, saying, what is going
Speaker 1: on in this context in the social media, with all
Speaker 1: of this hate speech, with all of this aggression and
Speaker 1: abuse and fueled by this agenda, he said, is totally unacceptable,
Speaker 1: and he said she should not be questioned further. She
Speaker 1: is absolutely eligible to compete, and he really wanted to
Speaker 1: put a rest to this, and we can only hope
Speaker 1: that will be the case. Khalif will face Taiwanese boxer
Speaker 1: in the semi finals that happens on Tuesday, and we
Speaker 1: will be watching.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope this is done. I appreciate the IOC.
Speaker 2: I mean, what else is there to be said about it? Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's done. Yep, letter fight. Well, the fastest woman in
Speaker 2: the world this year will not have the title of
Speaker 2: fastest woman in the world. All right, let's explain here
Speaker 2: we Yesterday was the day track and field is one
Speaker 2: of the highlight events the one hundred meter now by
Speaker 2: most accounts and most guesses and most betting lines, she
Speaker 2: Carrie Richardson. This was her race to lose. I suppose
Speaker 2: because she has been the fastest woman in the world,
Speaker 2: currently has that title because she's run the fastest time
Speaker 2: in the world this year. However, she struggled a little bit.
Speaker 2: We saw her in her prelium. She actually lost in
Speaker 2: her early round to Julian Alfred of Saint Lucia, and
Speaker 2: it looked like and rose we were watching like she
Speaker 2: was laboring a little bit to finish, just to qualify
Speaker 2: for the next round. And then a lot of people
Speaker 2: kind of scratch their heads, Well, she'll get it together
Speaker 2: in the final final comes around. Sure enough, Sha Carrie
Speaker 2: comes in second to the same woman that beat her
Speaker 2: in the early round, Julian Alfred of Saint Lucia. The
Speaker 2: cool part about that story is Saint Lucia, the pitons
Speaker 2: that we love there.
Speaker 1: I love those mountains, Oh.
Speaker 2: My goodness, we love We both spent time on that island.
Speaker 2: This is their first gold medal ever in the history
Speaker 2: of that island.
Speaker 1: Congratulate you know what, And she earned it. She was
Speaker 1: amazing to watch run. And you know, I guess I
Speaker 1: just didn't realize Sha Carrie is five to one. I
Speaker 1: had to look it up. And you know, just to
Speaker 1: think she does what she does with her body in
Speaker 1: this speed at which she does it with given the
Speaker 1: fact that from a stature standpoint, she's at a disadvantage
Speaker 1: shorter legs, longer legs, I imagine that has to be
Speaker 1: a part of it, the physicality of doing what they do.
Speaker 1: But you know, everybody raised their heart out and it
Speaker 1: was it was a beautiful thing to watch Julian celebrator,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, with her family and her supporters, and I
Speaker 1: believe it was her coach in the stance, just the tears,
Speaker 1: the joy, and it was because it was unexpected. No
Speaker 1: one I didn't her name wasn't on any radar that.
Speaker 2: I saw, at least to that point. The three women
Speaker 2: who were on the podium for one hundred meter in
Speaker 2: the last Olympics, it's Tokyo. We're all three Jamaican women.
Speaker 2: All three of those women were not in this final.
Speaker 2: Two of them didn't qualify, and then one of them
Speaker 2: dropped out unexpectedly. Shelley Fraser Price. She has won two
Speaker 2: Olympic gold medals in the one hundred meter and right
Speaker 2: before her race and the semi she dropped out. Everybody's like,
Speaker 2: what's going on, and it's some injury that hasn't been
Speaker 2: I haven't seen it fully explained anywhere yet.
Speaker 1: We just saw the letters d NS did not start
Speaker 1: that was flashed on the scoreboard just moments before she
Speaker 1: was supposed to race, Shakerri and Julian and all the others,
Speaker 1: and so they literally said there's an empty lane, and
Speaker 1: really no explanation was offered. We got the explanation later
Speaker 1: that it was an undisclosed injury, but it remains undisclosed
Speaker 1: as of this recording.
Speaker 2: But given I mean, given her history, this is her
Speaker 2: fifth Olympics against she won back to back gold medals
Speaker 2: in this event, we know it had to be serious
Speaker 2: because we know she wanted to be out there running.
Speaker 2: But we set it up that way Rose because given
Speaker 2: that those three Jamaicans were out of the final, Sha
Speaker 2: Carry it looked even better for her right to win
Speaker 2: the gold. But sure enough, Julian Alfred, it looked like
Speaker 2: Sha Carry got didn't get off the blocks very well.
Speaker 2: It was a slow start for her and she was
Speaker 2: struggling just to get back to that second place, that
Speaker 2: silver medal position. She did, but we have to what
Speaker 2: do you do here? Robes And this is not a failure,
Speaker 2: but to some it will seem a bit of a
Speaker 2: disappointment because she was expected given what happened with Tokyo,
Speaker 2: and we've been waiting for her to have her Olympic moment.
Speaker 2: It the expectations was so high.
Speaker 1: If that was what I was just going to say,
Speaker 1: I cannot imagine the pressure of going into the Olympics
Speaker 1: and it's it's your entire country is expecting you to
Speaker 1: win gold. These sponsors who has sponsored you, expect you
Speaker 1: to be the gold medalist. They have poured I can't
Speaker 1: imagine how much money into you with all like she's
Speaker 1: in every commercial you see.
Speaker 2: So Loan Sha carry who else? Who are bigger faces
Speaker 2: for the United States and the Olympics. Even every time
Speaker 2: you turn on the TV you see those two faces.
Speaker 2: I mean, who else would it be?
Speaker 1: I mean it's non stop. Noah Lyles perhaps a little
Speaker 1: bit too, you know, he's not as.
Speaker 2: Lone the commercials and whatnot. Sydney the hurdler maybe, but.
Speaker 1: No, You're coming into these games and it's your first
Speaker 1: Olympic Games. You know what happened. You got disqualified from Tokyo,
Speaker 1: so you feel that pressure and now it's your moment.
Speaker 1: All these years everyone's been waiting. That is I can't imagine.
Speaker 1: So to have gotten silver is still a phenomenal feat
Speaker 1: for obviously, you saw how incredible those women were. They
Speaker 1: are like the best of the best, and she got
Speaker 1: a silver medal. But I know that's not what people
Speaker 1: are expecting. So you hate to think that getting a medal,
Speaker 1: and especially a silver medal, is a disappointment, but in
Speaker 1: this case it was.
Speaker 2: And this is the this is the This thing's even
Speaker 2: more I said, the fastest woman in the world does
Speaker 2: not have the title the fastest woman in the world. Obviously,
Speaker 2: whoever wins thee hundred met at the Olympics, you are
Speaker 2: the fastest woman in the world. You keep that title
Speaker 2: until the next time around. So Alfred, Julian Alfred, who
Speaker 2: won the gold medal yesterday, ran the one hundred meter
Speaker 2: in ten point seven to two seconds. That was the
Speaker 2: winning time yesterday. Sha Carrie this summer, at an earlier
Speaker 2: meet ran a ten point seventy one. She has run
Speaker 2: this year faster than the woman who just won the
Speaker 2: gold medal. Yeah, so Sha Carrie knows she didn't have
Speaker 2: her best race because she had better one if that
Speaker 2: same time she beat it already this year.
Speaker 1: That's the Olympics. The Olympics, you get a shot and
Speaker 1: sometimes it's just not going to.
Speaker 2: Sucks out that it sucks. But congrats to SHAKERI. You
Speaker 2: have made us all proud. It has been fun to
Speaker 2: watch you and watch you since two thousand and twenty one.
Speaker 2: And all that happened to her then, which still some
Speaker 2: people are pissed about. That was a travesty, but that's fair.
Speaker 2: That sucks.
Speaker 1: I get that, I get that. Some some people had
Speaker 1: a better day yesterday than Shakerry. And his name is
Speaker 1: Ryan Krauser and we watched him do his thing and
Speaker 1: the shot put, and you know what, he has won
Speaker 1: gold in three straight Olympics and that has never been
Speaker 1: done in shotput before. And it was fun. He got
Speaker 1: his gold winning shot at the very end and we
Speaker 1: were all watching, you know, they grunt, they're spinning around
Speaker 1: to watch because you just don't get to see that
Speaker 1: at any other point in any kind of sporting event.
Speaker 1: And he did his thing and it was raining. We
Speaker 1: should mention watching all this track and field events. I
Speaker 1: was impressed because it's one thing to do it on
Speaker 1: dry footing. And I know they have special shoes and
Speaker 1: all of that, but that's got to be worrisome when
Speaker 1: you've got, you know, a big heavy shop but you're spinning.
Speaker 1: It's raining watching. But he did it, and it was
Speaker 1: awesome to see him win. It was it was really
Speaker 1: cool moment.
Speaker 2: But it's hard to I mean, he the same event
Speaker 2: three straight Olympics. He has won gold. That is incredible.
Speaker 2: And to see these big guys all look like they're
Speaker 2: about to go chop wood.
Speaker 1: They look like Vikings, almost like big Vikings, and you'd
Speaker 1: think like, oh, they're just big mudheads. But no, not
Speaker 1: Ryan Krauser. No, he has a master's in finance, a
Speaker 1: bachelor's in economics. I love these fun facts.
Speaker 2: He's more than an athlete, and he has studied this.
Speaker 2: He credits some of his analytical training in school that
Speaker 2: has helped him now to craft or to help him
Speaker 2: in his craft. And he has other people study him
Speaker 2: and his technique, and he has created a whole new
Speaker 2: techniques for the spinning and how it does. He talks
Speaker 2: about how the body movement necessary. It's INCREDI these aren't
Speaker 2: just big dues spin around a circling throwing a sixteen
Speaker 2: looks like is not. We need to give them credit
Speaker 2: where credit is due. With congrats to him win goal
Speaker 2: in the same event in three straight Olympics. That is
Speaker 2: extremely rare. That is extremely hard to do. Hold my beer,
Speaker 2: says Katie Ledecci. She has now won gold in the
Speaker 2: same event in four straight Olympics, the eight hundred meter freestyle,
Speaker 2: so she is even one up the Krauser. But this
Speaker 2: is another one. You know what felt good about this one?
Speaker 2: She beat the Australian.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's your thing. You can't stand it, like if
Speaker 1: we if we lose, if we get second, third, okay,
Speaker 1: as long as the Australians didn't.
Speaker 2: Be they've got they have us caught up in this rivalry.
Speaker 2: But to see her beat deadmost was great. But this
Speaker 2: is the greatness of Katie Lidecki. Once again, every sentence
Speaker 2: with her history is included in the sentence when you're
Speaker 2: talking about it, So more history here. She's got nine
Speaker 2: overall medals and she's still talking about twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: So I don't think we're done with her Olympic career.
Speaker 1: I love that. Can you imagine just the toll that
Speaker 1: swimming takes on you, what you have to do to
Speaker 1: be at the level they're at, and to potentially go
Speaker 1: and do five Olympics, that is remarkable to me. But
Speaker 1: if anybody can do it.
Speaker 2: Katie Lideki fifteen sixteen at that first one.
Speaker 1: I think she was fifteen if I recall, and yeah,
Speaker 1: and she's still at it, and good for her. She
Speaker 1: is inspiring women everywhere. I love this because we're watching
Speaker 1: this as you know, washed up over the hill folks,
Speaker 1: but all the young folks who were watching the athletes,
Speaker 1: the future athletes, that these athletes are inspiring is such
Speaker 1: a huge part of this. And I love young girls
Speaker 1: getting to see what's possible and new sporting events getting
Speaker 1: added to the Olympics. It's just cool to give people
Speaker 1: and kids' motivation to to do better, to do things,
Speaker 1: to be athletic. I love that.
Speaker 2: I didn't hear anything you said after we're all washed up.
Speaker 2: We are, though, but no, I'm bean. You do not
Speaker 2: speak for me.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, you know what you know we should put.
Speaker 1: You know we're actually recording this and what are we
Speaker 1: about to go do?
Speaker 2: Run a half marathon. Us all washed up.
Speaker 1: We're about to run a half marathon. It's six twenty
Speaker 1: seven in the morning here right now, and we we're
Speaker 1: wrapping it up because we get we got to beat
Speaker 1: the heat in the humidity here in New York City.
Speaker 2: You're already dressed. I am sitting here in pants and
Speaker 2: no shirt to get my running shirt in my lap.
Speaker 2: That's the scene.
Speaker 1: So that's true. That's true.
Speaker 2: Watching bad midden, three banana and three coffee mugs on
Speaker 2: the table. I just want to set the scene.
Speaker 1: Well, we we've been sitting on a couch a lot,
Speaker 1: so it'll be good for us to get a little
Speaker 1: work out in. We are training for the Chicago Marathon,
Speaker 1: so we're halfway through. Actually today today is the halfway
Speaker 1: point of us training fun for the Chicago Marathon. And
Speaker 1: I do have to say watching all of these Olympians
Speaker 1: has given me the extra inspiration to continue, because there
Speaker 1: are a lot of days where I just don't feel
Speaker 1: like running, especially when it's hot and humid.
Speaker 2: Today are gonna be all right, you good.
Speaker 1: I will get through it, and I honestly like I
Speaker 1: will be thinking about all of the incredible athletes I've
Speaker 1: seen over the last few days and it's gonna get
Speaker 1: me going. So that's also a cool thing. I think
Speaker 1: it maybe inspires other people to get up and move
Speaker 1: and maybe do a fast walk no run.
Speaker 2: Question you always. I wish we could go fine. They
Speaker 2: probably do have numbers about if gym memberships increase, you
Speaker 2: know they do in January after the holidays. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: I wonder in the Olympic time, do they see more
Speaker 2: people going to the gym.
Speaker 1: I would think that's very possible. I'm seeing all these
Speaker 1: incredibly fit, fierce women and I'm like, hell, yeah, girl,
Speaker 1: and I want to like do what I can to
Speaker 1: to just I don't know, fulfill that physical need we
Speaker 1: all have and sometimes we just lose it. We think
Speaker 1: I can't do that, But you know what, you can
Speaker 1: do something today. So that's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna report back to you. Better have a good run,
Speaker 2: because if you don't'm all everybody.
Speaker 1: I don't like pressure. Don't give me pressure. You know
Speaker 1: what who does really well under pressure?
Speaker 2: Transition? I don't do that.
Speaker 1: I mean, if only I could be like Simone, uh no,
Speaker 1: she is amazing, and wait, Simone Biles should have DJ
Speaker 1: kalid As her hype man at the Olympics explain this.
Speaker 2: See this is what I'm saying. Everybody knows because Simone
Speaker 2: just needs to walk around every time she competes. She
Speaker 2: just walks in the room and DJ Kalet should be there.
Speaker 2: Another one. Oh my, she's going for a metal, another one, gold,
Speaker 2: another one. And that's what Simone Biles has done. She's
Speaker 2: got another one, another gold medal. And she did this.
Speaker 2: This didn't look very difficult. What I mean is it
Speaker 2: was never in question. When Simone lands and she smiles,
Speaker 2: I know she's gonna win gold because you can tell
Speaker 2: there's she knows it and I'm think, okay, she's good.
Speaker 1: Well, she makes the most difficult and dangerous vault in
Speaker 1: the world look easy. And yes, the moment she lands, actually,
Speaker 1: as she's landing, when they do it in slow mo,
Speaker 1: you can see when she's coming in for the landing,
Speaker 1: she has a big smile on her face because she
Speaker 1: knows she just nailed it and she knows she's going
Speaker 1: to stick the landing. It's remarkable to watch her do
Speaker 1: what she does. And yes, this vault she performed is
Speaker 1: so dangerous and so rare. It's actually named after her.
Speaker 1: It's called the biles too, So she picks.
Speaker 2: Up gold in the vault, and you said floor and beam.
Speaker 2: She still she.
Speaker 1: Still gets to compete on those two events, so we
Speaker 1: still have more simone biles to watch, which is very exciting.
Speaker 2: Right, And a weird scene at the pool, and an
Speaker 2: unfortunate one where an American swimmer finishes third in her race,
Speaker 2: so that means you win the bronze, right, No, Alex.
Speaker 2: After touching the wall and third place, she thinks she
Speaker 2: won the bronze. This was a two hundred meters individual medley.
Speaker 2: Officials then after a review, disqualified her, saying she did
Speaker 2: not complete the backstroke. She did not complete the backstroke
Speaker 2: portion of the race. But they're essentially saying, I'm not
Speaker 2: sure what you're trying to explain to me here, baby.
Speaker 1: But because I read that she was disqualified for an
Speaker 1: illegal move on the breast turn because she was rotated
Speaker 1: fully onto her stomach before touching.
Speaker 2: The wall, we're talking about the same thing here, the backstroke. Yeah,
Speaker 2: when you finish that, you turn around and touch the wall.
Speaker 2: They're saying she didn't. She turned around too early, so
Speaker 2: you're supposed to backstroke all in all the way to
Speaker 2: the wall. But they are essentially claiming she got some
Speaker 2: kind of advantage because she turned over and didn't complete
Speaker 2: and didn't finish the backstroke fully on that lap as
Speaker 2: an individual medley, so you have to do the breast,
Speaker 2: the butterfly, the back and the free right right, that's
Speaker 2: their argument is that in that trend position she didn't
Speaker 2: go all the way.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's so said. And then the worst part was
Speaker 1: her sister, Gretchen was watching and saw it happen, and
Speaker 1: her heart went straight to her sister. But she had
Speaker 1: to focus because she's also part of Team USA and
Speaker 1: just you know, not that long after this all happened,
Speaker 1: she then had to compete in the four by one
Speaker 1: hundred mixed relay team, and so she really said, even
Speaker 1: though her heart was breaking for her sister, she had
Speaker 1: to keep her head focused on her actual match. And
Speaker 1: well it worked because Gretchen won gold with her relay team.
Speaker 1: In fact, they set a world record, So congratulations to them.
Speaker 1: So heartbreak for one and gold for the other sister.
Speaker 2: She said in that she was in the warm up pool. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and she said her sister, she sees her win bronze.
Speaker 2: She then just does a little warm up lap and
Speaker 2: by the time she comes up and looks her sister
Speaker 2: doesn't have bronze anymore. And can you imagine what that family,
Speaker 2: that family goes from a goal from this one and
Speaker 2: to the disappointment of that one. And that was a
Speaker 2: tough moment to see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and no one probably knew the heartbreak more than
Speaker 1: Gretchen because she knew what she knows what it's like
Speaker 1: and what work went into that and to see that
Speaker 1: just disappear over you know, rules are the rules, and
Speaker 1: they understand that, and I'm sure it was just it
Speaker 1: was a mistake, but it was a costly one.
Speaker 2: So yes, it's the Olympics. Boy, can it can hurt sometimes,
Speaker 2: can't it? But we do have these other stories in
Speaker 2: these moments. And one of the biggest moments of this
Speaker 2: Olympics will forever be remembered. Where Stephen Netarozik, who helped
Speaker 2: course the US men when the team bronze. He is
Speaker 2: a pommel horse specialist and he was robed back at
Speaker 2: his specialty yesterday.
Speaker 1: You know, it's so cool. I mean, obviously it's amazing
Speaker 1: to win a team medal and that means so much
Speaker 1: to this group who's been together, working hard, but to
Speaker 1: have an individual medal is also just remarkably special. And
Speaker 1: he was the only member of Team USA, the men's
Speaker 1: gymnastic sticks team, who actually qualified to compete in the
Speaker 1: finals on an individual event, So that in and of
Speaker 1: itself was a cool thing for him, and then for
Speaker 1: him to actually meddle because the pommel horse, we saw
Speaker 1: it in as much of the competition as we've seen,
Speaker 1: threw a lot of guys off. Threw a lot of
Speaker 1: guys off, and it was heartbreaking to watch hands slip off,
Speaker 1: people falling, gymnasts falling off the pommel horse. But man,
Speaker 1: that guy can pommel horse, and it is awesome to
Speaker 1: see him do what he does and just to be
Speaker 1: celebrated the way he has.
Speaker 2: And that will continue. He will have a heroes welcome
Speaker 2: when he comes back to the US. But congrats to Ireland.
Speaker 2: I mean, the guy who ends up getting the gold
Speaker 2: in this is the first time Ireland has ever had
Speaker 2: a goal in gymnastics.
Speaker 1: So I love those stories and just to see, you know,
Speaker 1: the whole country just give a huge collective hugged one person.
Speaker 1: That's really really cool. I love watching those moments.
Speaker 2: Well, we're we're watching you didn't like how they put it,
Speaker 2: and I loved it. It's very blunt. But there was
Speaker 2: an athlete, a commentator was a former olympian, was saying,
Speaker 2: my job here is to keep my dream alive, and
Speaker 2: the way to do that is to kill yours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was That was ruthless. And I understand that
Speaker 1: we are talking.
Speaker 2: Everybody there has an Olympic dream, and the only way
Speaker 2: yours stays alive you gotta in somebody else's. That is cold, It's.
Speaker 1: Not where my head goes. The truth.
Speaker 2: You see this, We're watching bad Midton. One of these
Speaker 2: dudes right now is going to kill the other one's
Speaker 2: spirit and dream in just a few minutes.
Speaker 1: Wow. I mean that is one way to look at it.
Speaker 1: I guess to focus on the positive for everybody. Oh wow, okay, Nike,
Speaker 1: that's nice. I like that. I mean it is I
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta get into the headspace that you need
Speaker 1: to be in to win, and to win you have
Speaker 1: to be ruthless sometimes, but you gotta play by the rules.
Speaker 1: You gotta play by the rules. A nia.
Speaker 2: We got to get will to foll on this.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, all right, we are watching of course
Speaker 1: more Olympics Today tennis is a big one. It's happening
Speaker 1: right now as we're recording this men singles gold medal match.
Speaker 1: Of course, Novak Djokovic and Spain's Carlos how do I
Speaker 1: say his last name? Alcoraz Alcoraz top two seeds competing
Speaker 1: for the gold medal. So this is exciting and going
Speaker 1: to be one that everyone's talking about it. It's one
Speaker 1: of the big, big, big gold medal wins.
Speaker 2: The oldest guy and the youngest guy ever in the
Speaker 2: final yep.
Speaker 1: And our other fun fact that Djokovic is his fourth
Speaker 1: time trying to get his first medal.
Speaker 2: He's zero for three in the semis that the.
Speaker 1: But he is in the finals, so this is going
Speaker 1: to be exciting. And the women's doubles medal matches are
Speaker 1: happening as well today. Table tennis always fun to watch,
Speaker 1: but they actually have their finals this morning as well.
Speaker 1: You can probably catch replays of those. Gymnastics, we have
Speaker 1: the men's rings final and the men's vold final, but
Speaker 1: no US athletes are going to be in those. As
Speaker 1: we mentioned, Steven Netorozik was the only one who was
Speaker 1: actually able to compete qualified to compete in an individual event.
Speaker 2: American.
Speaker 1: I actually have that as a note here. Even though
Speaker 1: there's no Americans competing, it is incredible to watch these men,
Speaker 1: just the best of the best compete on these events.
Speaker 1: So it's so worth watching in my humble opinion. And
Speaker 1: then the women's uneven bars final is today. That's I
Speaker 1: think happening at nine to forty Eastern time. But that's
Speaker 1: Sunissa Lee, Sony Lee, and this is her event, so
Speaker 1: I am really excited. She absolutely is a gold medal contender,
Speaker 1: so that's going to be very fun to watch. This
Speaker 1: is the last day, the final day of swimming events
Speaker 1: in Paris, so that's a big deal. And we've got
Speaker 1: some I think there's a fifty meter freestyle final in
Speaker 1: women's and a four by one hundred medley relay final.
Speaker 1: The men have a fifteen hundred meter freestyle final and
Speaker 1: a four by one hundred medley relay final. So four
Speaker 1: wants to watch there in swimming, and then track and field,
Speaker 1: this one, this one is must we can find out
Speaker 1: who the fastest man in the world is. Today. The
Speaker 1: one hundred meter final, all eyes on Noah. That's at
Speaker 1: three fifty Eastern times, So what that pressure is going
Speaker 1: to be tough for him. What do you think, I mean,
Speaker 1: what are they saying?
Speaker 2: What are they saying? It doesn't matter. It only matters
Speaker 2: what he's saying, because that dude can talk. He's got
Speaker 2: a great personality, he has fun, he is. He is
Speaker 2: that kind of confident and cocky that you know.
Speaker 1: I love No a lot. Sorry, we can't wait to
Speaker 1: see him. Also, there's the women's high jump final and
Speaker 1: the men's hammer throw a final. I've been loving watching
Speaker 1: all these drag and field events and women's basketball. We
Speaker 1: should mention that too. They are playing Germany at eleven
Speaker 1: to fifteen Eastern time, and yeah, they're expected to win everything.
Speaker 2: Always step on the court.
Speaker 1: Again, So another full day of Olympics. We'll let you
Speaker 1: know how our half marathon went. But thank you as
Speaker 1: always for joining us and for listening to to the
Speaker 1: t from Perry.
Speaker 2: Again, we're not married to that