Speaker 1: On this August second, Team USA has increased its lead
Speaker 1: in the overall Olympic medal count.
Speaker 2: That's right, the United States has now won thirty seven
Speaker 2: medals so far and racking up the gold. That total
Speaker 2: now at nine. Home team France is next with twenty
Speaker 2: seven medals, followed by China with twenty four.
Speaker 1: And with that, welcome to this Tea from Pari edition
Speaker 1: of Amy and TJ. Again not married to that name
Speaker 1: Tea from Pari, but folks, some own biles put a
Speaker 1: new gold medal and a new diamond necklace around her
Speaker 1: neck yesterday and both made clear she is the greatest
Speaker 1: of all time.
Speaker 2: That she is. Plus, speaking of women making history, Katie
Speaker 2: Ledecki has won her thirteenth Olympic medal, officially making her
Speaker 2: the most decorated American woman in Olympic history, earning a
Speaker 2: silver medal in the four x two hundred meter freestyle relay.
Speaker 2: And guess what, She's not done yet. She is the
Speaker 2: heavy favorite to win another gold this weekend.
Speaker 1: And a major Olympic controversy to tell you about after
Speaker 1: a female boxer quit her match in just forty six seconds,
Speaker 1: with some claiming that she was fighting a he as
Speaker 1: a heated and now ugly gender debate has erupted with
Speaker 1: the likes of Elon Musk and JK Rowling chiming in we'll.
Speaker 2: Explain and concern on the court as the state of
Speaker 2: Novak djokovic surgically repaired rtney is in question after he
Speaker 2: beat a twenty four time Grand Slam champion. Now the
Speaker 2: question today is how will he compete as he takes
Speaker 2: on Lorenzo Mussetti of Italy in the semifinals. Djokovic is
Speaker 2: making his fourth attempt for his first Olympic gold medal.
Speaker 1: And our eyes are watching live. Don't know what most
Speaker 1: people are doing. Have you talked to friends and whatnot?
Speaker 1: Do you know if a lot of people are watching
Speaker 1: live or most people are waiting for primetime?
Speaker 2: I think it's a little mixture of both, and it
Speaker 2: might depend on what you do for a living man.
Speaker 1: What time you have to get up? Yeah, that makes
Speaker 1: very good sense. Not everybody is even if you can.
Speaker 1: Even if you have the time, I'm to get up
Speaker 1: a three or four, most people just don't have it
Speaker 1: in them to do so.
Speaker 2: I think you're an anomaly, DJ, But.
Speaker 1: You know what you're missing some good stuff.
Speaker 2: I know I come in every morning, I'm like, oh
Speaker 2: I miss that? What?
Speaker 1: Yes, you missed great table tennis in this morning.
Speaker 2: Table tennis, I feel like, is on all day, which
Speaker 2: I appreciate because we had watched it in the afternoon.
Speaker 2: I've certainly missed some of it in the morning, but
Speaker 2: it never disappoints.
Speaker 1: Coming down to the men's and women's quarterfinals and semi finals,
Speaker 1: which I'm watching, I'm all into it and that's wonderful.
Speaker 1: But we got a lot of track that was going
Speaker 1: on this morning. Of course, all eyes on she Carrie,
Speaker 1: who is running. She was the current world champion one
Speaker 1: hundred meters heats starting today. We're not giving anything away
Speaker 1: here by telling you she did okay in her heat.
Speaker 2: It's been very fun to watch. We're very fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Not giving anything away, but that's going to be going
Speaker 1: on during the day. And she is just adorable. We
Speaker 1: already loved her and her talent, but just to see
Speaker 1: she's just this little bitty thing with this she is
Speaker 1: powerful and yes she takes you see her in an interview,
Speaker 1: she's the sweetest thing ever. Man. That gun goes off
Speaker 1: and she hits it and it's just a pleasure to watch.
Speaker 1: He's flying and I have to tell you this one
Speaker 1: of ropes I've I was just reading about a commercial
Speaker 1: and I had tears of my eyes. Okay, I do.
Speaker 1: I want to give Nike and I want to get
Speaker 1: Dick Sporting Goods a shout out here. We've spend so
Speaker 1: much time talking about how the can't wait to see
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl commercials. These Olympic commercials are blowing all
Speaker 1: those out of the water and they're just such touching
Speaker 1: and inspirational and moving. And the one on the Dick
Speaker 1: Sporting Goods, it was the one about, uh, here's to
Speaker 1: the little moments that happen every day like that, but
Speaker 1: just showing these clips, these home videos, including one of us,
Speaker 1: like this little girl getting the news that she made
Speaker 1: the team and she starts crying. This little kid on
Speaker 1: his own, like Barry Kawak, he's kicking the ball into
Speaker 1: the net and.
Speaker 2: He makes the goal.
Speaker 1: He makes it. They are just so stirring. And then Nike,
Speaker 1: good lord, having Willem Dafoe winning aim for everybody my
Speaker 1: bad man.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's NonStop entertainment, whether it's the sports or it's
Speaker 2: the commercial.
Speaker 1: Niche you hats off to you. But yesterday we planned
Speaker 1: our whole day around just like we did for the
Speaker 1: men's all around. The way, I'm not overstating this. This
Speaker 1: is the most important event of the Olympics. I say
Speaker 1: most important, not to an Olympian who maybe is in
Speaker 1: track and field. What I'm saying for all of us
Speaker 1: watching is this not the marquee event.
Speaker 2: For me, it is Gymnastics has been and probably always
Speaker 2: will be. We love watching a lot of the sports,
Speaker 2: but this one is for me the most fun. And
Speaker 2: so yeah, we brought all of our girls circling around
Speaker 2: the TV. We prepared our lunch, and you know what
Speaker 2: I actually thought it was going to be. I mean
Speaker 2: a shoe in and maybe even I don't want to
Speaker 2: say boring, but just you already knew what the ending
Speaker 2: was going to be. But I have to say it
Speaker 2: was so much closer and so much more fun than
Speaker 2: I ever thought it would be. It blew away all
Speaker 2: of my expectations.
Speaker 1: So yeah, even before yesterday knew some own Biles was
Speaker 1: already the most decorated American gymnast in history. She'd already
Speaker 1: won an Olympic All around gometal, and she was already
Speaker 1: widely considered the greatest gymnast ever. She had nothing more
Speaker 1: to prove to us, and yes, she proved something else
Speaker 1: to us yesterday. She proved that she can handle adversity
Speaker 1: on the biggest stage. These were her words afterwards. I've
Speaker 1: never had an athlete that close. Before I was getting uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: You could see it on her face. You could see
Speaker 2: it on her face. I know she was probably just
Speaker 2: concentrating and getting in the zone, but she actually almost
Speaker 2: looked like she was angry, like but that whatever was
Speaker 2: going on. She said she was praying to the gods.
Speaker 2: I believe because people asked her about the look on
Speaker 2: her face right before. But she was, of course talking.
Speaker 1: About Rebecca Andronji right.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh, and I have been in awe of her
Speaker 2: from the beginning. She is a dazzling gymnast from Brazil.
Speaker 2: She's amazing at what she does her floor routine. If
Speaker 2: you haven't seen it, my god, it's just full of
Speaker 2: just spirit and unbelievable expertise. So Simone was anticipating her
Speaker 2: that she might be a problem even before they competed,
Speaker 2: and turned out it was true. But Simone wowed us
Speaker 2: all with her vault. It's the most difficult vault in
Speaker 2: the world. It is a dangerous vault. It's a double
Speaker 2: pike that she did not perform in the team event,
Speaker 2: but she nailed it in her individual event and that
Speaker 2: put her ahead. But then she made a rare but
Speaker 2: significant mistake on the uneven bars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even if you're not don't have the trained eye
Speaker 1: for gymnastics, you saw this mistake happen. You weren't necessarily
Speaker 1: sure what happened. But she went down to the lower
Speaker 1: bar on the uneven bars, and please correct me if
Speaker 1: I get this wrong, but she at some point it
Speaker 1: looked like she almost stopped rotating and she had to
Speaker 1: bend her legs a little bend at her knees to
Speaker 1: keep from actually scraping on the.
Speaker 2: Fight because if you touch the floor, it's a massive deduction.
Speaker 2: So she had to pull up her knees, which was
Speaker 2: not exactly, you know, elegant, and that definitely caught any
Speaker 2: one's eye. And then she had she did to take
Speaker 2: an extra swing around the lower bar to regain her
Speaker 2: momentum to continue her routine, which she did, which is
Speaker 2: an incredible thing to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so she made it through, and she talks
Speaker 1: about the uneven bars all the time, right, she's.
Speaker 2: Not her favorite there the devil, she hates it.
Speaker 1: She hates them, but she ends up behind on points
Speaker 1: midway through they all around what is happening?
Speaker 2: She had to go to beam next, which is so
Speaker 2: nerve racket. So to know you're behind and you've already
Speaker 2: kind of maybe messed with your head a little because
Speaker 2: you did something you didn't think you were going to do,
Speaker 2: which cost you points. So but she nailed her beam,
Speaker 2: and then that.
Speaker 1: Just me right, I hate I'm not the only one
Speaker 1: that hates I hate watching beam.
Speaker 2: Well also hates watching penalty kicks, which yeah, I hate that,
Speaker 2: and so I like both of those for the drama.
Speaker 1: Okay, what about trampoline. We've been watching this so fun,
Speaker 1: but now I'm getting nervous watching that.
Speaker 2: Trampoline is so fun anyway, Yes, So back to simone fials.
Speaker 2: She was the last athlete to go on the last
Speaker 2: event and it was a vault could be her best event,
Speaker 2: but floors right up there with her too. She needed
Speaker 2: a thirteen point eight six seven for the gold and
Speaker 2: what did she get?
Speaker 1: A fifteen point oh six six end of the day.
Speaker 1: This wasn't difficult and she did her first pass on
Speaker 1: the floor exercise. When she landed, there was a smile
Speaker 1: on her face and we all knew this is over,
Speaker 1: and she knew it was over.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she had it was funny, she had this
Speaker 2: amazing like just tuded like, yeah, I just did that,
Speaker 2: and watched me do some more.
Speaker 1: She knew it. Everybody knew it was over at that point.
Speaker 1: So congratulations to her that you keep hearing about her history.
Speaker 1: So she added some yesterday with this. She's the third
Speaker 1: woman to win two all around gold medals. She's the
Speaker 1: only one to do it though eight years apart, and
Speaker 1: I believe the other two did it was back I
Speaker 1: think goes back in the sixties. If I haven't read
Speaker 1: way before, I was long ago. But she's twenty seven.
Speaker 1: She's the oldest woman to do this since nineteen fifty two.
Speaker 1: That other athlete was thirty years old. And of course
Speaker 1: she has more medals than any American gymnast man or
Speaker 1: a woman. Now she sits at nine. Can you remind
Speaker 1: me when she has left? She still has some more
Speaker 1: metals she can get in the individual.
Speaker 2: She's competing on floor beam and vaults. Okay, so not
Speaker 2: surprisingly she's not competing on the uneven bars, which I'm
Speaker 2: sure she's very happy about. Yeah, so she is three
Speaker 2: more metals she could pick up. So that's incredible. And
Speaker 2: to celebrate her win, because she clearly is the goat,
Speaker 2: she got a necklace that says just that, with five
Speaker 2: hundred and forty six diamonds. I love what she said.
Speaker 2: She said, some people love the fact that I put
Speaker 2: the goat around my neck, and some people hate it.
Speaker 2: And I like the fact that it's like she likes it.
Speaker 1: It's polarizing. Yeah, somebody's talking about it.
Speaker 2: She likes. She's like, I don't mind the people who hate.
Speaker 2: I don't mind the people who love. But at least
Speaker 2: people are saying so.
Speaker 1: I'm mad about Well, who's mad exactly?
Speaker 2: Well, I think some people think it's maybe arrogant. What
Speaker 2: I'm not one of those people. I mean, you should
Speaker 2: celebrate that, like.
Speaker 1: The great joy all time. And it's a cool little
Speaker 1: When I first heard it it, I thought it was
Speaker 1: a like it was written out goat. No, it's a
Speaker 1: literal little goat with all these diamonds on it, shout out.
Speaker 1: I mean, give them credit. Janet Heller Fine Jewelry in
Speaker 1: Southern California they're the ones that went together for and
Speaker 1: they made sure they put out of them on social media,
Speaker 1: making sure y'all all knew yep, we made that, we
Speaker 1: did it.
Speaker 2: If you'd like one too, or another animal, maybe encrusted
Speaker 2: in diamonds, just let us know we've got you.
Speaker 1: We have to mention Sunny Lee though, who was I mean?
Speaker 1: I watched her during the last Olympics and then a
Speaker 1: lot of people fell in love with her. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. She's just a joy. She just a little
Speaker 1: joy to watch. I've been really really having a good time.
Speaker 2: I was so happy she You know that you're the
Speaker 2: defending gold medalist now Simone's back, and she was the
Speaker 2: defending gold medalist because Simone dropped out. I think most
Speaker 2: people would argue, but she at one point didn't look
Speaker 2: like she might. She looked like she might not medal
Speaker 2: at all, which was you could see it on her face.
Speaker 2: But man, did she nail the floor. Oh she nailed
Speaker 2: the floor. And then she secured her spot and we
Speaker 2: didn't know if it was gonna be silver or bronze,
Speaker 2: but it did end up being bronze.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so that was cool. When they finally came
Speaker 1: out and said she is guaranteed a bronze even though
Speaker 1: still a couple more performers. That was great. So this
Speaker 1: is a big deal. She's the first woman to win
Speaker 1: all around medals and back to back Olympics. Remember she
Speaker 1: got the gold last Olympics and now bronze in the
Speaker 1: all all around. But still that's back to back Olympics
Speaker 1: with a medal in all around. Now do you come
Speaker 1: in each She did it in seventy six eighty the
Speaker 1: only two women to do anything like that.
Speaker 2: That's a pretty cool person to be linked with or
Speaker 2: compared to.
Speaker 1: So we got to give some perspective here. So soon
Speaker 1: he won the all around gold by point one three five.
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 3: Just over a tenth of a point tenth of a point,
Speaker 3: barely a tenth of a point.
Speaker 1: Simon won by about one point two points, yes, today,
Speaker 1: so that's a much bigger margin of victory. But this
Speaker 1: is one of the closest margins of victory that Simona
Speaker 1: has had to deal with in winning some of her
Speaker 1: world titles and her Olympic title. She won the gold
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen by two points. So a win is
Speaker 1: a win. But it was cool to see. Look We're
Speaker 1: so impressed by her physically and what she does, but
Speaker 1: to see her have to dig in make some adjustments,
Speaker 1: that was a mistake made and she had to show
Speaker 1: her grit in her heart. She did. She was something
Speaker 1: else yesterday.
Speaker 2: And I'm excited that we get to keep on watching
Speaker 2: her for the next several days or through the weekend.
Speaker 1: And the young lady you were pointing out and again
Speaker 1: her floor routine is just one with energy and has
Speaker 1: I think she uses Beyonce's music, Rebecca Andronji Androgi of Brazil.
Speaker 1: But you got to give this young lady some a
Speaker 1: shout out to her. She got silver yesterday. In twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, she got silver behind Soon Ay. And this
Speaker 1: is a young lady though, who had three ACL tears
Speaker 1: yeah twenty fifteen, between twenty fifteen and twenty eighteen, so
Speaker 1: she's had to keep fighting her way back. And see
Speaker 1: her yesterday with just a joy in her face performing
Speaker 1: that was another cool Olympic moment.
Speaker 2: It was a joy all around to watch those gymnasts
Speaker 2: do what they do and it was just incredible. Now ah,
Speaker 2: not so joyful and really just I think it's it's
Speaker 2: just sad and confusing and disturbing all at once. Olympic
Speaker 2: boxing is fighting about gender, and it all came to
Speaker 2: a head in the ring when Italy's Angela Karini shocked
Speaker 2: the audience when she abruptly ended her fight just forty
Speaker 2: six seconds into her match against Algeria's Iman Khalif. Khalif
Speaker 2: threw a few opening punches. Karine says she felt such
Speaker 2: a severe pain in her nose she couldn't finish the match.
Speaker 2: She didn't shake Khalif's hand after the referee raised it,
Speaker 2: and instead she began to cry in the ring and
Speaker 2: fell to her knees. Okay, so that is dramatic in
Speaker 2: and of itself. But here's the problem. Here's the controversy.
Speaker 2: The eligibility of Khalif and another Olympic boxer we should mentioned,
Speaker 2: Taiwan's Lynn Uting have been questioned by critics. Both have
Speaker 2: identified as women since birth, Both have competed and lost
Speaker 2: to women in international boxing events, including previous Olympics, but
Speaker 2: both were disqualified from last year's Women's World Championships after
Speaker 2: failing an unspecified gender eligibility test. This is where it
Speaker 2: gets a little confusing. That test claimed there were elevated
Speaker 2: levels of testosterone and their systems. But the group that
Speaker 2: disqualified them, called the International Boxing Association or IBA, lost
Speaker 2: its Olympic status because the IOC, the International Olympic Committee,
Speaker 2: says there are governance problems, there's a lack of financial transparency,
Speaker 2: there are perceived instances of corruption in judging and refereeing,
Speaker 2: and this test is unspecified. There's so many questions about it.
Speaker 1: So this bottom line is that there are two boxers here,
Speaker 1: two women, who were disqualified from an event that happened
Speaker 1: last year. The group that disqualified them has been disqualified
Speaker 1: for participating in the Olympics by the IOC. So this
Speaker 1: is a mess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so the IOC has defended both of those
Speaker 2: boxers right to compete. They said that it made its
Speaker 2: decisions based on gender rules applied at the Rio Games.
Speaker 2: Now there have been other governing associations of different sports
Speaker 2: that have amended or updated what those rules are. The
Speaker 2: IOC says, we're sticking with the twenty sixteen rules, and
Speaker 2: they went on to say they are women in their passports,
Speaker 2: and it is stated that is the case that they
Speaker 2: are female, but that has not quelled the controversy, and
Speaker 2: some big names are now publicly winging in on this. JK.
Speaker 2: Rowling tweeted a video of the fight and then wrote,
Speaker 2: explain why you're okay with a man beating a woman
Speaker 2: in public for your entertainment. Elon must jumped in. He
Speaker 2: shared a post from swimmer Riley gains You remember him
Speaker 2: and so Riley Gaines put out on social media. Men
Speaker 2: don't belong in women's sports, Elon said absolute utely and
Speaker 2: re shared it. Gaines is actually trying to get a
Speaker 2: hashtag trending hashtag. I stand with Angela Karini. That's the
Speaker 2: Italian boxer. Karini has really kind of stayed neutral in this.
Speaker 2: She said, no one is to judge this match. I
Speaker 2: am not a referee, but her prime minister, Italy's prime
Speaker 2: minister also getting involved, saying that Italians have had a
Speaker 2: strong reaction. She called the fight a match that did
Speaker 2: not seem on equal footing. She went on to say
Speaker 2: athletes who have male genetic characteristics should not be admitted
Speaker 2: to female competitions.
Speaker 1: It's a mess. I mean, what are you supposed to
Speaker 1: do here. I'm supposed to walk up to a woman
Speaker 1: competing in the Olympics and tell her she needs to
Speaker 1: prove to me to me and a member of the
Speaker 1: public that she's a woman. If the IOC says that
Speaker 1: these folks are eligible, I don't know what else I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to do. And do you talk about the IBA,
Speaker 1: the boxing organization that disqualified her from the World Boxing Championships. Well,
Speaker 1: people take that with a grain of salt, because that
Speaker 1: organization is run out of Russia by a Russian and
Speaker 1: backed by a Russian company, and they only disqualified this
Speaker 1: Algerian boxer after she beat a Russian boxer, So that
Speaker 1: is being thrown into it.
Speaker 2: And look, I'm not a scientist. I have no idea
Speaker 2: about how you determine someone's gender if they're born a female.
Speaker 2: But from what I've read, you can as a woman
Speaker 2: have elevated levels of testosterone and still be a woman.
Speaker 2: Everyone has different levels, so it's just unclear what that
Speaker 2: test should or is to be able to determine that.
Speaker 2: It's very confusing and this isn't going away. Cali's next
Speaker 2: match is on Saturday against Hungary's Anna Luka Hamori.
Speaker 1: Who didn't help the situation at all.
Speaker 2: She claims she's ready for the fight.
Speaker 1: She and she's well, I'm saying if I beat a
Speaker 1: man all the better, Like that's not helping to But
Speaker 1: I don't know what this is. That Boxing Association president saying,
Speaker 1: based on DNA tests, we have identified a number of
Speaker 1: athletes who try to trick their colleagues by posing as women,
Speaker 1: and it said it proved they have X.
Speaker 2: And why chromosomes.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just it's The problem is this
Speaker 1: has now delved into a nasty, heated public and very
Speaker 1: much social media debate where people are saying nasty things,
Speaker 1: and there's been a lot of talk about trans athletes
Speaker 1: and how we should handle fair play. But they tried
Speaker 1: to make clear this is not a trans.
Speaker 2: Exactly so, and if you look online, they will actually
Speaker 2: call these two boxers transgender, and they'll go so far
Speaker 2: as to call them men. Neither of those things have
Speaker 2: been proven at all. In fact, they've categorically denied that
Speaker 2: either one of those things are true.
Speaker 1: And this is one where we encourage everybody, please please
Speaker 1: do not get your information right now on this from
Speaker 1: social media in a post that somebody made, because there's
Speaker 1: so much misinformation out there and just some hateful language,
Speaker 1: awful language that doesn't really have any place in this conversation.
Speaker 1: The conversation is worth having, absolutely, but not there. So
Speaker 1: I encourage you. Just don't believe everything you're reading on
Speaker 1: somebody social media.
Speaker 2: We've said this in different stories, but as journalists, and
Speaker 2: we are journalists who have been covering the news for
Speaker 2: almost three decades, and where you get your sourcing and
Speaker 2: where you get your news from matters. So just please
Speaker 2: remember it, especially on a story like this, and do
Speaker 2: your research and look and see where your information is
Speaker 2: coming from and where they're getting their information from. It's
Speaker 2: so so important before we form opinions.
Speaker 1: That is, we know it's Olympics and always going to
Speaker 1: have some controversies. These stories you pop about you you
Speaker 1: said this morning you were sitting now we putting notes together.
Speaker 1: You said, there's so much stuff.
Speaker 2: There's so much to talk about. Oh my good, bad, ugly,
Speaker 2: scary controversial. It always delivers the Olympics. It's never boring.
Speaker 1: So he's a good, bad, ugly controversial. This next one
Speaker 1: is maybe a little it's a little controversial, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if you all heard it, but before we
Speaker 1: get into that, you might have just heard robot's phone
Speaker 1: click here, is that your dad? Okay, we have a
Speaker 1: question for her dad, who's a microbiologist, having to do
Speaker 1: with what you all have been seeing about the river
Speaker 1: sind and that nastiness, and they had to keep checking
Speaker 1: it for bacteria and it wasn't safe to swim in.
Speaker 1: They had to delay some things. And then there was
Speaker 1: an American as a writer, Seth Ryder. I believe that
Speaker 1: got the name right. He said he was trying to
Speaker 1: introduce E Coli into his system ahead of the race
Speaker 1: so he would maybe not get so sick if he
Speaker 1: was ingesting nasty water. Well, he has now come back
Speaker 1: and said, yeah, I was just joking. The triathliness already happened,
Speaker 1: and now he said he was just joking when he
Speaker 1: said that. I don't know if you believe that or not,
Speaker 1: but it got a lot of attention, and we wondered
Speaker 1: if that's actually true. Can you help yourself and maybe
Speaker 1: not get so sick with E. Coli if you're swimming
Speaker 1: in it if you start introducing it into your system
Speaker 1: ahead of time by not washing your hands after you
Speaker 1: use the bathroom. So we're waiting on Robot's dad, a microbiologist,
Speaker 1: to get back to is to see if there's any
Speaker 1: truth to it.
Speaker 2: So I just I had tried to call him before
Speaker 2: we started recording the podcast. He told me he was
Speaker 2: in the shower. What's the question. I'm sure he'll appreciate
Speaker 2: me telling everyone that. So I said, it's about the
Speaker 2: river sen and E Coli. If you swim and swallow
Speaker 2: some of the water, can you get sick? He just
Speaker 2: wrote three very simple words, Yes you can.
Speaker 1: Hey, But the question about the microdiddle thing, is that
Speaker 1: anything to it? The dude said, if I'm not washing
Speaker 1: my hands for the days and weeks leading up to it,
Speaker 1: so that I can introduce E Coli into my system,
Speaker 1: and then I will be better equipped to deal with
Speaker 1: the pollution and the river sand, that's the question we're
Speaker 1: asking her dad. Now, gonna get that answer to you
Speaker 1: before the end of this episode. But the other thing
Speaker 1: I was talking about the a little controversy. A surfing
Speaker 1: judge has been removed. You know, they're doing the surfing
Speaker 1: competitions in Tahiti, but an Australian judge has actually been
Speaker 1: removed from the competition. Benjamin lois his name, But the
Speaker 1: reason is he took a picture with a surfer posed
Speaker 1: for a picture that it was a day off. He's
Speaker 1: an Australian judge and it was an Australian surfer and an
Speaker 1: Australian coach he posed with them. That made its way
Speaker 1: around social media. It just wasn't a good look, and
Speaker 1: so they've called that. The International Surfing Association said that
Speaker 1: was absolutely inappropriate for him to interact with a surfer
Speaker 1: in this way and he was removed to protect the
Speaker 1: integrity of the sport.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're another surfer and I see the judge
Speaker 2: who's judging me, who's also judging him, acting all buddy buddy,
Speaker 2: because they all come from the same place in Australia,
Speaker 2: that would make me concerned and uncomfortable that maybe perhaps
Speaker 2: he was not objective.
Speaker 1: She's gotta be you gotta be smarter than that. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're all from Australia. I'm sure they insurfing circles, they
Speaker 1: run across, come across each other. Fine, maybe nothing to this,
Speaker 1: but you gotta know better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the caption was just kind of like, hey,
Speaker 2: all the buds from the same island, and so it
Speaker 2: just felt like it just no matter what, even if
Speaker 2: he is the best judge and completely objective, isn't a
Speaker 2: good look. It's not a good look. So I'm, oh,
Speaker 2: you know when you're texting someone and the three dots
Speaker 2: he's about to write something and then they went away.
Speaker 2: So we'll have to wait a little more for my
Speaker 2: dad's response because this is what I asked him. Can
Speaker 2: you microdose and get less sick? Swimmers? Said he didn't
Speaker 2: wash his hands for weeks after using the bathroom. Is
Speaker 2: that scientifically sound? All right? So we're gonna wait for
Speaker 2: that again.
Speaker 1: This is this is an absolutely credible source. This is
Speaker 1: what he does. So he'll have this answer in no time.
Speaker 1: As we're waiting on dad there with the three dots,
Speaker 1: we didn't want to tell you about a scary moment
Speaker 1: in the pool this morning. Just happened not too terribly
Speaker 1: long ago as we were recording here, but a swimmer
Speaker 1: collapsed almost immediately after getting out of the pool for
Speaker 1: a race. It was a two hundred meters individual. Medley
Speaker 1: raised camera, Pataka of Slovakia. She collapsed onto that pool
Speaker 1: deck and was immediately surrounded by medical staff. We could
Speaker 1: all see her being taken out on a stretcher. She
Speaker 1: had an oxygen mask on. We are told she was
Speaker 1: conscious as they were taking her out, Not exactly sure
Speaker 1: what happened, but we will keep an eye on that.
Speaker 1: I certainly hope she's okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and some more news from the pool. It's been
Speaker 2: the pool itself has become controversial. Controversial in swimming. Don't
Speaker 2: dive into the shallow end of the pool.
Speaker 1: I been telling the sassince we were kids.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I've heard that my entire life. That makes
Speaker 2: a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: But it turns out all the Olympians are diving into
Speaker 1: a shallow pool. Shallow by their perspective anyway. But there's
Speaker 1: just something to keep an eye on. The fact that
Speaker 1: not a lot of records have been falling so far
Speaker 1: at the Olympics. I actually took five days for the
Speaker 1: first world record to be set. Now, maybe that's not
Speaker 1: a big deal, but we're used to at these events,
Speaker 1: Robes world events. These are the best in the world
Speaker 1: swimming their best and so because we haven't seen that,
Speaker 1: a lot of people are wondering why. Well, it turns
Speaker 1: out I don't even know this, Robes. There can be
Speaker 1: slower pools, right, we talk about fast tracks, but this
Speaker 1: is a slow pool because it's not as deep as
Speaker 1: they're used to. This one is seven point two feet deep. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: plenty room swim. When it's that shallow, they say, it
Speaker 1: calls more turbulence and whatnot on the surface of the pool,
Speaker 1: and it makes it more difficult to swim, and we
Speaker 1: are seeing slower times.
Speaker 2: Wow. I would never have known that.
Speaker 1: I heard them talking about some of the commentators. I
Speaker 1: heard Michael Phelps say something about it. I said, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: but this pool is seven point two feet deep. There
Speaker 1: is now an eight point two feet minimum going forward,
Speaker 1: so they're changing the exception here. Oh they allowed Paris.
Speaker 2: To do seven point two I wonder just because they
Speaker 2: figured it is what it is, and you you know,
Speaker 2: you have to deal with what you have.
Speaker 1: Well that's what they said. This was for the matter.
Speaker 1: It allows for more prime seating on the decks they
Speaker 1: were able to build.
Speaker 2: Wait, they're caring more about the spectators than they are
Speaker 2: the swimmers, the athletes themselves. That makes zero sense.
Speaker 1: See that would be a first, But the US Championships
Speaker 1: were this year that pool was nine point two feet
Speaker 1: nine point one nine point two, So that's a two
Speaker 1: foot difference in the depth that they say absolutely makes
Speaker 1: no difference.
Speaker 2: Notably, no records in the first four days there was
Speaker 2: finally one Wednesday, yep. But in comparison, there were twenty
Speaker 2: three world records set in Beijing forty three records set
Speaker 2: the next year at the World Championships. However, there is
Speaker 2: a cabiat that was all in the middle of that debate.
Speaker 2: Do you remember this about the swim suit that they
Speaker 2: said was giving swimmers an advantage and they then imposed
Speaker 2: new rules about the fabric and the body coverage. Michael Phelps,
Speaker 2: they had to completely change what they wore in the pool.
Speaker 1: I get that, and you'll will remember that because if
Speaker 1: I just say this, the torpedo right from Australia wore
Speaker 1: that full body suit and he was blowing everybody out.
Speaker 1: And then people started wearing the suits and records started falling,
Speaker 1: and then they came back on the suits a little bit.
Speaker 1: But just something to keep an eye on, is they
Speaker 1: start to ramp up more with the swimming over the
Speaker 1: next time.
Speaker 2: Well, let's stand the water, because I actually do have
Speaker 2: the response from my dad now again whether or not
Speaker 2: you can microdose to get less sick if you're swimming
Speaker 2: in well the scent, let's just say, with potentially bacteria.
Speaker 2: So my dad said, no, you cannot do that. It
Speaker 2: depends on the strain of E. Coli being and he
Speaker 2: put this in quotes vaccinated against one strain, meaning with
Speaker 2: your own poop doesn't necessarily make you less susceptible to others.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Not all E coalies are created equal, and some strains
Speaker 2: produce stronger toxins than others. He adds, give me a
Speaker 2: call if you want to chat about it more. I
Speaker 2: think I'm good.
Speaker 1: Hey, Okay, one more, I'm gonna get to those things.
Speaker 1: Ask him this question. Can you still you can micro
Speaker 1: dose E coli? Buy not washing your hands from.
Speaker 2: Using from from one string?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm saying that is legit is what he's saying.
Speaker 1: You are micro dosing E. Coli. It might be the
Speaker 1: wrong strain, but you are legitimately you can legitimately micro dose.
Speaker 1: I mean, is that would anybody recommend that? Okay? Ask
Speaker 1: him how?
Speaker 2: Maybe this does require a phone call later and we
Speaker 2: can give an updated.
Speaker 1: That's what we've got now, Okay, But she's still texting
Speaker 1: her dad, who's in a Yeah, this is all audio
Speaker 1: right now. But you all have this image in your head.
Speaker 1: Robot's dad in a wet and a towel, right shower
Speaker 1: in his bathroom in Snellville, Georgia, texting his daughter about
Speaker 1: E coli. That's a typical.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I'm not gonna this is what we talked about. Honestly,
Speaker 2: my dad would if you needed to know if something
Speaker 2: was expired, or what would happen if I ate this
Speaker 2: or did that, or went to this country and drank
Speaker 2: that water. He has been a source of health information
Speaker 2: for me my entire life.
Speaker 1: I called him just yesterday asking how long those eggs
Speaker 1: will stay in the fridge without a problem.
Speaker 2: It's great to have a microbiologist in the family.
Speaker 1: Oh another great, great, great, No controversy on this one. Folks,
Speaker 1: listen to this quote from an athlete. Every medal it's
Speaker 1: like gold. I don't care that it's bronze, it's gold.
Speaker 1: That quote from Olga Carlin, a fencer who just won
Speaker 1: her country's first medal of the Paris Olympics, and it's
Speaker 1: her country's first Olympic medal since it was invaded by Russia. Yes,
Speaker 1: Carlin is from Ukraine. Ropes. We've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: these Ukrainian athletes. They performed with inspiration each time you
Speaker 1: see them, and it got great athlete to movie watch those.
Speaker 2: The gymnast, the male gymnast, I can't remember his name,
Speaker 2: but my god, he was so good and he was
Speaker 2: because forth he almost meddled. But you can just see
Speaker 2: the passion and the pride, and it's impossible to not
Speaker 2: root for those athletes who have been training under the
Speaker 2: most unthinkable circumstances. The swimmers talking about hearing, you know,
Speaker 2: bombs going off and rockets overhead while they're training for
Speaker 2: the Olympics. It's really unimaginable. But yet they did it
Speaker 2: and they're here and it's just fun to watch them
Speaker 2: get to perform on a world stage and do it well.
Speaker 1: And I said, I was gonna this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a well it is still a nice story. But carl
Speaker 1: and X she almost didn't make it to the Olympics
Speaker 1: because in a World championship was a qualifying event for
Speaker 1: the Olympics, she refused to shake her opponent's hand. That
Speaker 1: opponent was Russian, I mean, and it got her disqualified.
Speaker 1: She got a band, but that ended up being overturned
Speaker 1: and she is able to compete. But you know, tough,
Speaker 1: it's tough.
Speaker 2: There are there are really tough political situations that are
Speaker 2: so personal and that's a hard thing to ask when oh,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: But I love her quote there this one about the
Speaker 3: oh yes, yes, she said to all the athletes who
Speaker 3: could not come to the Paris Olympics and be here
Speaker 3: because Russia killed them, I dedicate this to them.
Speaker 2: That's powerful.
Speaker 1: You know what. You say it all the time, to
Speaker 1: the point that I roll my eyes when you do it.
Speaker 1: But you just said that quote, and I got chills. Yep,
Speaker 1: thank crazy.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I know you get chills all the time.
Speaker 2: I do, I do, Oh my gosh, the entire time
Speaker 2: I'm watching most sporting events. I started to get chills,
Speaker 2: already got them this morning. With track and field, we
Speaker 2: told you we've been watching it. It's often running Team
Speaker 2: USA expected to be a heavy favorite on both the
Speaker 2: men and women's side, so that's always extra fun. We
Speaker 2: mentioned Sha Carrie Richardson making her long awaited Olympic debut
Speaker 2: after being disqualified from the Tokyo Games. I actually forgot
Speaker 2: about this, but yeah, she's had to wait. She was
Speaker 2: supposed to. She was seventeen right at the time, but
Speaker 2: she tested positive for cannabis. Her mother had just died.
Speaker 2: There were a lot of extenuating circumstances, and it certainly
Speaker 2: was sad to see her not get to go to Tokyo,
Speaker 2: but she is here and she is ready to go
Speaker 2: in Paris. We won't give away the results, but as
Speaker 2: we kind of alluded to, she's off to a very
Speaker 2: good start. She has eight heats this morning, so if
Speaker 2: you can even catch one of them, it's amazing. I mean,
Speaker 2: eight heats in one morning, that's kind of crazy. But
Speaker 2: she is a front runner to win the one hundred
Speaker 2: meter as the defending world champion, so that is gonna
Speaker 2: be so much fun. We're gonna be watching all of
Speaker 2: that today. A lot of heats, a lot of qualifying rounds,
Speaker 2: but this afternoon there is actually a metal round, the
Speaker 2: men's ten thousand meter final ten thousand meter how many
Speaker 2: weather it's coat Well, on just few moments ago it
Speaker 2: was seventy five degrees. It's completely different. It's twenty degrees
Speaker 2: cooler than it was earlier in the week, so thank
Speaker 2: goodness for them. And then we have swimming, a lot
Speaker 2: of swimming to watch. Caleb Dressel will try and defend
Speaker 2: his gold medal in the men's fifty meter freestyle, and
Speaker 2: we have the women's two hundred, two hundred meter backstroke,
Speaker 2: the men's two hundred meter I am. We talked about trampoline.
Speaker 2: We were watching an American she is competing. She could
Speaker 2: become the first American athlete to meddle in this event.
Speaker 2: Her name is Jessica Stevens. If you can catch her
Speaker 2: trampoline routine, please do. We've been watching nerve wrecking. It's
Speaker 2: so fun. You're on the edge of your seat, you're
Speaker 2: on the edge of it, and what they do is
Speaker 2: just remarkable. It's incredible to see what they do. And
Speaker 2: then tennis, we mentioned the semifinals. Djokovic still on his
Speaker 2: quest for goal, but he's got that knee issue, so
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens there. USA men's soccer, Oh my god,
Speaker 2: that's about to begin. Quarterfinals are today. This is the
Speaker 2: knockout round, so US plays Morocco. This is the first
Speaker 2: time since two thousand that the US men's team have
Speaker 2: advanced beyond the group stage. And I didn't realize this.
Speaker 2: They have never meddled in men's soccer, So this is
Speaker 2: going to be one to watch a lot of other
Speaker 2: team USA competing in men's golf, men's volleyball, the US
Speaker 2: VERSUS Japan today women's water polo. People are loving that
Speaker 2: the US versus host country France. We've got the US
Speaker 2: women's beach volleyball facing Germany today. All of this happening,
Speaker 2: I think in the afternoon, and even though it's one
Speaker 2: of the few Olympic sports in which no American has
Speaker 2: ever won a medal, we will keep watching table tennis
Speaker 2: all day, all morning, all night. Whenever it's on. It's
Speaker 2: it's a musty event.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they do it, you know what.
Speaker 1: I'm to that point. I heard a guy say this
Speaker 1: morning about a young lady who was two women that
Speaker 1: were going at at South Korea. I remember where the
Speaker 1: on the young lady was from, but she said one
Speaker 1: of them had been, you know, playing, so she was seven.
Speaker 1: Like wow, you're impressed by that, and they said they
Speaker 1: had the other one started playing when she was two
Speaker 1: and started taking it seri at five. Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah. There is a culture for this. The Asian countries dominate,
Speaker 2: and we've heard the coach for the for the team
Speaker 2: USA just being very frustrated at not having the resources
Speaker 2: because there just isn't the history with table tennis. We're
Speaker 2: watching right now.
Speaker 1: Because it's a young lady you were talking about, yes,
Speaker 1: and that was her golden moment. We won't we're not
Speaker 1: giving anything away. We happen to be watching this stuff
Speaker 1: live in case you don't. We're not going to give
Speaker 1: it away. But a young lady just realize she won
Speaker 1: a gold medal and she is just her reaction and
Speaker 1: this is man. I love the Olympics.
Speaker 2: It's amazing. Yes, and so we will keep watching and
Speaker 2: we're very happy you keep listening to us, and we
Speaker 2: will continue to do what we're doing, and we will
Speaker 2: bring you all the tea from Perry tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Again, we're not married to that title. The intens