Speaker 1: Well breaking debuts. One b girl breaks the Internet to
Speaker 1: carry to the rescue, a shocking disqualification for US men,
Speaker 1: and I am a woman a Moni Khalif makes a
Speaker 1: gold medal state.
Speaker 2: Welcome everyone to this tea from Perry edition of Amy
Speaker 2: and TJ on this Saturday, August tenth. Down to the
Speaker 2: last couple of days of competition, and the US and
Speaker 2: China are now tied in the gold medal count. Both
Speaker 2: countries have thirty three gold medals, but the US is
Speaker 2: a way ahead of China in the overall metal count
Speaker 2: one hundred and eleven to China's eighty three.
Speaker 1: There were even times we were way ahead in the
Speaker 1: overall metal count and China was ahead in the gold
Speaker 1: medal count. The once track and Field started, things kind
Speaker 1: of yeah, kind of changed even down a little a
Speaker 1: little bit. But yeah, welcome everybody. We know what you're
Speaker 1: talking about is what everybody's talking about. We knew we'd
Speaker 1: be talking about breaking today, break dancing, but we didn't
Speaker 1: know that it would be this. So we're going to
Speaker 1: get into all that everybody's talking about. This is it
Speaker 1: ray Gun. I think she was actually the first because
Speaker 1: I was walking when it started and you were texting
Speaker 1: me and I didn't get to the TV until I
Speaker 1: think a couple of competitors in. She was actually one
Speaker 1: of the first I saw.
Speaker 2: Yes, same with me and yes. And I have to
Speaker 2: say this, whatever you thought of her performance, you couldn't
Speaker 2: help but smile. Some people might have been even laughing,
Speaker 2: but there was joy involved. Whatever your emotions were, I
Speaker 2: would argue that you were riveted. You couldn't stop watching.
Speaker 1: That is true, and a lot of people are still
Speaker 1: watching today.
Speaker 2: I might rewatch. I just actually suggested that later today
Speaker 2: I might be up for rewatch.
Speaker 1: It was that good good. We're gonna get it too,
Speaker 1: ray gun in a second. This morning we got into
Speaker 1: and I guess it's that crazy me, but yes, the
Speaker 1: Men's marathon was live at two am, and I got
Speaker 1: up it.
Speaker 2: Well, I woke up at two thirty and I finally
Speaker 2: came out into the living room at three something. I
Speaker 2: gave up my quest to go back to sleep. And
Speaker 2: I'm not upset about it, right because.
Speaker 1: You and I are marathon runners. We got a couple
Speaker 1: of rnathons this year, and we got a ten mile
Speaker 1: to run today, so it's so interesting to see these guys.
Speaker 1: But it's also cool to see them struggle. What I
Speaker 1: mean by that is just you can relate to what
Speaker 1: you're seeing, and we're more impressed by their feet than
Speaker 1: anybody who is a non runner. Probably, Yeah, my god.
Speaker 2: I mean, to run a marathon is hard enough, and
Speaker 2: I can't break four hours. That's what I've been trying
Speaker 2: to do. These guys are just over two hours two
Speaker 2: oh six something, I believe, and it was an Olympic
Speaker 2: record actually today in one of the toughest marathon roots,
Speaker 2: at least according to the commentators. The hills there was
Speaker 2: some extra heat. It was not optimal in terms of
Speaker 2: getting your fastest run. But just watching them run at
Speaker 2: the pace they run at, I mean, I think, I
Speaker 2: guess my marathon average is around I think it's around
Speaker 2: nine forty five or maybe a little bit better than that,
Speaker 2: maybe the nine thirties. But they are running between a
Speaker 2: four and a five minute mile for twenty six point
Speaker 2: two miles. It's unthinkable to me.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to look for a good way to put
Speaker 1: that into context. For people at the speed at which
Speaker 1: they're going. The fastest mile I've ever run in my life,
Speaker 1: with six minutes and twenty six seconds ever, and it
Speaker 1: was just on a random day. I wasn't going for
Speaker 1: something like this happened, and you know, feeling it that
Speaker 1: day and on that second or third mile, boom fast
Speaker 1: I've ever run in my life.
Speaker 2: When you're running like a three mile race.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, two miles, there's nothing. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's won the long and it wasn't sustained. This is
Speaker 1: one random ass thing. These guys are running four and
Speaker 1: five minute miles for two hours straight, and I I
Speaker 1: just it's unfathomable. You couldn't keep up with them. If
Speaker 1: they took off running outside right.
Speaker 2: Now, I could not run one mile, not even close.
Speaker 2: I couldn't run half a mile that fast. So it's
Speaker 2: so impressive. It's just and some of the guys when
Speaker 2: they came over, I mean most actually was. I was impressed.
Speaker 2: We're still walking. But some of them went straight to
Speaker 2: the medical tent. That's how hard this is.
Speaker 1: They were stumbling over. They needed medical attention. And it
Speaker 1: looked there was some sun out today and you were
Speaker 1: talking about the guys were finding shade.
Speaker 2: I know what that's like, always looking for shade.
Speaker 1: It makes it different. But the whole race, you see
Speaker 1: them getting these ice packs as they're going down at
Speaker 1: the constantly drinking water. The congrats to the guy who won.
Speaker 1: And it's a really really cool story because Robes he
Speaker 1: wasn't even supposed to be on this team. He was
Speaker 1: actually an alternate.
Speaker 2: That is so remarkable. He was an alternate because someone
Speaker 2: had to drop out, and you know, they didn't want
Speaker 2: to put him in because I guess he had had
Speaker 2: a couple races where he had issues and couldn't finish,
Speaker 2: which we all understand as well because every race is different.
Speaker 2: So they felt like he was inconsistent. They didn't necessarily
Speaker 2: want him on the team.
Speaker 1: And what a way to prove them wrong, and to
Speaker 1: actually don't prove them wrong. You're saying, actually, you didn't
Speaker 1: make a mistake by leaving me off. I got an
Speaker 1: opportunity and what I'm able to do, he was just
Speaker 1: able to I guess reconfirm he's showed them what he's
Speaker 1: actually capable of, and I don't know. It's a great
Speaker 1: story from kid from Ethiopia. Where's his name here? Tamrit
Speaker 1: Tola of Ethiopia and set on Olympic row records. So
Speaker 1: congrats to him, and it was fun to watch the
Speaker 1: other thing. You know, I've been watching every day and
Speaker 1: it's getting really close, folks. As of this recording, China
Speaker 1: has won seven out of seven diving gold medals and
Speaker 1: we got one more today, Robes. And you know I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna miss it.
Speaker 2: I know you're not. It's coming up later this morning.
Speaker 2: We've been watching the semifinals for the finals or later
Speaker 2: this morning, so I know you will be watching that.
Speaker 1: Nice to get to what everybody was talking about yesterday.
Speaker 1: We were all so excited Robes Breaking is making its
Speaker 1: Olympic debut, so it was all the buzz.
Speaker 2: Anyway, it was all the buzz, and we watched a
Speaker 2: little bit apart and then we came together. But I
Speaker 2: was watching with my daughter Annalyse, and she said something
Speaker 2: right before you text it to me, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of questions as to whether or not this should be
Speaker 2: an Olympic sport. I mean, it's it was interesting to watch,
Speaker 2: and you know, people have their different opinions. That was
Speaker 2: what I think people were thinking about going into watching Breaking,
Speaker 2: but then it turned into something altogether different. When we
Speaker 2: watched one particular bee girl, but.
Speaker 1: It was it was it was new, it was fun,
Speaker 1: it was different, and clearly there's athleticism and creativity, but
Speaker 1: even to an untrained eye, which you could argue overwhelming
Speaker 1: majority of the eyes on it yesterday were untrained. I
Speaker 1: don't know what that trick is. I don't know what
Speaker 1: that trick is worth. I don't know who creative that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. But when you watched all the bee girls,
Speaker 1: one clearly stood out as not performing the same as
Speaker 1: not having the same energy, of not having the same athleticism,
Speaker 1: the same skill. She stood out, like it or not,
Speaker 1: you could tell that Raygun was different.
Speaker 2: I know, I'm laughing because the names are so funny
Speaker 2: because her name is actually doctor Rachel Gunn, and so
Speaker 2: it's just funny she goes by ray Gun. But you know,
Speaker 2: I was I was struggling a little bit with it
Speaker 2: because you know, this all happened and began in the Bronx,
Speaker 2: and some of it felt a little bit like cultural appropriation.
Speaker 2: I sent that to you because I felt a little
Speaker 2: icky watching it, like should these people be acting like this?
Speaker 2: It just felt a little strange, and it felt even
Speaker 2: stranger watching Australia's ray Gun. She just look it felt
Speaker 2: like she was posturing or corny. It just didn't feel authentic,
Speaker 2: I guess, And it stood out for that. And I'm
Speaker 2: not saying she doesn't deserve to be there and she
Speaker 2: doesn't have the resume to prove it, but it just
Speaker 2: felt corny.
Speaker 1: You know. I thought that was authentic, like I think
Speaker 1: she is authentically. Maybe she's just really white. Guess that's
Speaker 1: not a hip hop culture.
Speaker 2: I tried to do that, I would have looked probably,
Speaker 2: oh definitely.
Speaker 1: And if I'm trying to river dance, I'm probably gonna
Speaker 1: look pretty stupid.
Speaker 2: So well exactly, I mean, that's my point. Like I
Speaker 2: just did, it didn't seem like it came to her naturally.
Speaker 1: Okay, there we go. That's a good one because we
Speaker 1: are there are tons of folks outside of the black
Speaker 1: community and hip hop culture who are plenty of white
Speaker 1: girls and boys out there who can dance. They asses
Speaker 1: are up against anybody out there in hip hop and
Speaker 1: breaking and whatever you want to call it. True, she
Speaker 1: just didn't seem to be one of them. To an
Speaker 1: untrained eye, she stood out before anyone. Even you want
Speaker 1: to make fun of her or criticize her, you could
Speaker 1: just look at the screen and tell she was not
Speaker 1: doing what a lot of the other women were doing.
Speaker 1: She was not like the other She was not like
Speaker 1: the outfit. Even what she was wearing. It was a
Speaker 1: green and yellow, it was a full it was a
Speaker 1: flight suit, would you call it.
Speaker 2: It looked very much like a flight suit, yes.
Speaker 1: Or a groundskeeper uniform.
Speaker 2: She might have been on the tarmac directing airplanes. Yes,
Speaker 2: it had that kind of look.
Speaker 1: She owned that as well. She said, Hey, I came in.
Speaker 1: I didn't know we weren't supposed to rep our country.
Speaker 1: I didn't being sarcastic about it, but yeah, she was
Speaker 1: proud of what she was wearing. So let's get into
Speaker 1: I know you've seen memes, you've seen jokes, you've seen
Speaker 1: the videos out there, but we want to get into
Speaker 1: exactly who is this lady. So Roles, let's start at
Speaker 1: the top. Exactly who is she?
Speaker 2: Well, she has a PhD in Cultural studies. She works
Speaker 2: as a lecturer in the Department of Media, Communication, Creative Arts,
Speaker 2: Literature and Language at Macquarie University in Sydney. And I'm
Speaker 2: going to have to have you help me with one
Speaker 2: of these words because you looked it up. But according
Speaker 2: to the Australian Olympic Committee, her Areas of academic interest
Speaker 2: include dan feminist theory and something called auto ethnography.
Speaker 1: Now we decided to go ahead and put that in
Speaker 1: there because we had to look up what that is,
Speaker 1: but it is it's a type of study, academic study
Speaker 1: in which you use personal experience as a part of
Speaker 1: your data collection when you're studying particular parts of culture.
Speaker 1: So maybe she kind of I only mentioned that because
Speaker 1: it seemed to kind of go in line with who
Speaker 1: she is, what she studied, and how she ended up
Speaker 1: in breaking. So we wonder is she an experienced competitive breakdancer?
Speaker 1: And that answer is absolutely. She grew up with a
Speaker 1: dancing background I believe ballroom dancing and something and jazz
Speaker 1: dancing I believe it was, but she didn't start breaking
Speaker 1: until her mid twenties and robes, as we saw yesterday,
Speaker 1: that's kind of late to be breakdancing.
Speaker 2: Yep. And she's actually crediting her boyfriend who's now her husband,
Speaker 2: to be the one who encouraged her to first start breakdancing.
Speaker 2: And look, she has been the top ranked B girl
Speaker 2: in Australia as in number one, and she represented Australia
Speaker 2: at Breaking World Championships in twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: and she qualified for the Olympics fairly and squarely.
Speaker 1: Yes, how did she qualify? Well, she won in two
Speaker 1: thousand and three, the World Dance Sport Federation.
Speaker 2: In twenty three, two thousand and three.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty three. So just last year the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three World Dance Sport Federations Oceania Breaking Championships, she went
Speaker 1: up against fourteen other b girls. She won and by
Speaker 1: winning gold at that event, she punched her ticket to Paris.
Speaker 1: Now should mention that she was previously ranked number one
Speaker 1: in Australia years back. Currently she has not been a
Speaker 1: top ranked breakdancer out of Australia, but she won this
Speaker 1: competition fair and square, so she got the ticket. So
Speaker 1: how did she score in the event yesterday at the Olympics,
Speaker 1: Well she didn't.
Speaker 2: She did not score one point. She scored nothing. And
Speaker 2: the way the scoring works in breaking, the big girls
Speaker 2: go head to head for three rounds. You get a
Speaker 2: score for each round by the nine judges. They don't
Speaker 2: give you technical stores scores to be added up, but
Speaker 2: they just simply vote for which danswer they liked better
Speaker 2: in that round, and in all three rounds, Reygun did
Speaker 2: not get a single vote from any judge.
Speaker 1: Okay, so now all this has happened, she's exploded on
Speaker 1: the internet. What has she had to say about all this?
Speaker 1: While she told Yahoo's Sports afterwards quote I came into
Speaker 1: the event kind of expecting that I wouldn't get a
Speaker 1: vote in quote. She then told another outlet, I was
Speaker 1: never going to beat these girls on what they do best,
Speaker 1: the dynamic, the power moves. So I wanted to move differently,
Speaker 1: be artistic and creative because how many chances do you
Speaker 1: get in a lifetime to do that on an international stage.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, and she made her mark, and you know,
Speaker 2: she made the point to say her style is different
Speaker 2: from the younger breakdancer. She's thirty six, if we didn't
Speaker 2: mention that, And so she said, I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's going to be valued as much as some of
Speaker 2: the other criteria, but she hopes people are still wowed
Speaker 2: by what she did bring because she said it is
Speaker 2: something different. Well, people certainly were wowed, and I feel
Speaker 2: like everyone who watched had an opinion and she was,
Speaker 2: if nothing else, extremely memorable.
Speaker 1: And that could be good or bad. I suppose, given
Speaker 1: that this was the inaugural event. So who knows what
Speaker 1: you're saying, But what are people saying now about her performance?
Speaker 1: A lot out there is encouraging supportive of her, calling
Speaker 1: her an inspiration. There are others out there who are
Speaker 1: very critical, just saying she didn't do a good job,
Speaker 1: or I don't know, she needs to bring up her skills,
Speaker 1: or what's going on in Australia. How does she make
Speaker 1: the cut? And then it goes to some folks who
Speaker 1: are just being downright mean and hateful. I've seen some
Speaker 1: stuff robes where folks were saying they were shamed to
Speaker 1: be an Australian. There was some stronger language out there
Speaker 1: that out there like that that goes a little too far.
Speaker 1: It's fine if you don't think she was good. She
Speaker 1: put herself out there, so criticism comms, but as always
Speaker 1: sometimes robes, things go a little too far.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think I just it's one of
Speaker 2: those things where I think, if you can look that
Speaker 2: she she brought. She brought some headlines to the sport,
Speaker 2: maybe not the ones that they were anticipating or hoping for,
Speaker 2: but it certainly made it even more fun to watch.
Speaker 2: That's what I will say. And again so much so
Speaker 2: that I would like to personally rewatch it at some
Speaker 2: point this weekend. It was that fun to watch.
Speaker 1: And we should give her a look. I don't know
Speaker 1: all the scoring that the judges do have something there,
Speaker 1: some things they're looking for. But a big part of
Speaker 1: your score is creativity, your originality, and your personality. So
Speaker 1: you get scored on some that she had that and
Speaker 1: that was creative.
Speaker 2: It was all her own kangaroo hops for a little
Speaker 2: Australian legendary is.
Speaker 1: What that is? Legendary?
Speaker 2: Well, you just look if you want to smile and
Speaker 2: just just check her out.
Speaker 1: There are people who bring joy to the world given
Speaker 1: if they don't mean to do so, and there are
Speaker 1: so many fol we are enjoying. She made a smile.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even say it was cringe worthy necessary.
Speaker 2: You were laughing so hard, like just enjoying it. You
Speaker 2: had tears coming down your face.
Speaker 1: The tears came from reading all the things after.
Speaker 2: And the ones that aren't mean. There are some that
Speaker 2: are just funny and lighthearted, like this is what my
Speaker 2: five year old nephew says after saying watch does after
Speaker 2: saying watch this, and then what they have up there
Speaker 2: some of the moves she's making. It very much fits
Speaker 2: the caption and it's just very funny. People are creative.
Speaker 2: I apply people who are creative and having fun with
Speaker 2: it versus being mean with it. There's a way to
Speaker 2: do it where it's you can be included. You're including
Speaker 2: her in the fun in a way without being mean spirited.
Speaker 1: Hats off to her to get out there on stage
Speaker 1: knowing she was outmatched by all these young girls. She
Speaker 1: knew going in that she's no she did, but she
Speaker 1: went out there and she was herself. I mean, I
Speaker 1: I applaud anybody who's willing to do that, and I
Speaker 1: think Australia should embrace her and be proud of her.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, everybody's talking about one of yours
Speaker 1: today and that's not a bad thing. I applaud her
Speaker 1: and she made us all smile.
Speaker 2: And Ami of Japan, she just goes by Ami.
Speaker 1: You know, she was my favorite.
Speaker 2: She was she was smooth. You liked her from the beginning.
Speaker 2: I warmed up to her and I thought she Yeah,
Speaker 2: she was just smooth and just like she was a
Speaker 2: pleasure to watch.
Speaker 1: You know what I think she did. I think she
Speaker 1: might have held some stuff back early on.
Speaker 2: That's what I think it was.
Speaker 1: She got better and better, she started getting I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this girl can't be touched. But she was very smooth,
Speaker 1: very fun to watch. If you like. If you don't
Speaker 1: like it, what do you think about breaking? Just the
Speaker 1: event itself? What did you think?
Speaker 2: I don't know, because I appreciate the spotlight to the
Speaker 2: sport and that it is an athletic and endeavor. But
Speaker 2: then I'm like, are we opening it up to ballet
Speaker 2: or we're going to open up to when you start
Speaker 2: involving dance. I don't know. It just I it's just
Speaker 2: there's a question as to what is an Olympic event
Speaker 2: and what isn't. And look, this was fun to watch.
Speaker 2: I will be we will be watching the men compete
Speaker 2: today too.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't say about breaking yet.
Speaker 1: I don't fully I don't know. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's a yeah, it is a matter of the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Because I'm just watching breaking, I would have no issue.
Speaker 1: But on that stick, clearly there's athleticism. This is not
Speaker 1: a question of these athletes or not. No, and the
Speaker 1: moves and the tricks and the study and the practice
Speaker 1: that it takes. I'm not questioning that, but when you
Speaker 1: have someone out there like ray Gun, you then like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, this this person's the same eating in
Speaker 1: the same cafeteria with Lebron and Carrie and right Decky
Speaker 1: and really.
Speaker 2: One of the memes was thank you Raygun for making
Speaker 2: millions of people at home feel like they too could
Speaker 2: become an Olympic athlete. So that's the one thing you
Speaker 2: wouldn't want to happen, is that becomes a mockery of
Speaker 2: what the Olympics actually are. That's it's all. That's the concern.
Speaker 1: Perhaps, oh whattal we do? But here's the thing we
Speaker 1: how this talk break dancing is not in the Olympics
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty eight in LA. It is not on
Speaker 1: the schedule. And what's after LA. It's not on the
Speaker 1: schedule for the one after that either, So we don't
Speaker 1: know when we might see it back. It could change.
Speaker 1: But they do this because they're trying to stay relevant.
Speaker 1: They're trying to get your body, trying to be relevant.
Speaker 1: But look at us, now, how much do you enjoy skateboarding?
Speaker 1: Do you question that in the Olympics?
Speaker 2: I really like, no, I don't.
Speaker 1: You don't surfing. You question that, No, because.
Speaker 2: If anyone could do something that I couldn't possibly dream
Speaker 2: of doing, that to me should be an Olympic event.
Speaker 1: Then that's break dancing.
Speaker 2: I mean I would go with dancing of any kind
Speaker 2: if we're going to go there. Answer your question, I
Speaker 2: can't even do the Cuba shuffle.
Speaker 1: Oh well, congrass to her plenty more. She came from
Speaker 1: I am sure every day I come on here and
Speaker 1: I say, it was the moment, the best moment for
Speaker 1: me here. This was the best thing I've ever watched.
Speaker 1: And I hate to be a just sucker for the moment,
Speaker 1: but we saw something yesterday that is going to go
Speaker 1: down as one of the moments of this Olympics. And
Speaker 1: we have Shakari Richardson to thank for it because she
Speaker 1: played absolute superhero yesterday. We all witnessed it. Coming up
Speaker 1: on the last leg of the final of the women's
Speaker 1: four by one hundred relay. The US team was in
Speaker 1: third place, and then Robes they gave the batons to
Speaker 1: Shakerri and it was magic.
Speaker 2: She flat out ran down the German competitor who was
Speaker 2: in the lead significantly actually, and then she beat out
Speaker 2: the woman from Great Britain that was in second place.
Speaker 2: It was remarkable to watch she I mean down the
Speaker 2: one hundred meter stretch and in what will be one
Speaker 2: of the lasting images of the Olympics, should Carrie turned
Speaker 2: I mean and just staring down the other runners as
Speaker 2: she was crossing the finish line. It was so badass.
Speaker 2: It was so bad, you said, I hope someone took
Speaker 2: that picture and blows it up for her and she
Speaker 2: can just hang it over her bed. I mean, that
Speaker 2: is just something.
Speaker 1: It was iconic, it was and that what added to it.
Speaker 1: They were it was pouring rain.
Speaker 2: It was a downpour, so it.
Speaker 1: Added to the drama. We were worried if they were
Speaker 1: going to be able to hold on to batons, if
Speaker 1: they were going to be slick. But after what happened
Speaker 1: with her in one hundred meter, we know she is
Speaker 1: one of the two or three faces of the Olympics.
Speaker 1: All to talk about her after what happened to her
Speaker 1: not going to Tokyo, having to come back from that,
Speaker 1: everything she went through and been blazing for years getting
Speaker 1: to this moment. She didn't win the hundred She lost
Speaker 1: out to the young lad Julian and I Alfred from
Speaker 1: from Saint Lucia.
Speaker 2: But you know what, it was almost like we mentioned
Speaker 2: that last stretched that last hundred meters that she did
Speaker 2: in the four in the four by one hundred, that
Speaker 2: was her one hundred meter race that you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, she blazed past everyone else. It was just
Speaker 2: so cool to see her. It was it was I
Speaker 2: don't want to say redemption, but it was proving that
Speaker 2: she is gold metal worthy.
Speaker 1: Something about this felt even better because it was she
Speaker 1: did it for the team, right she did was a
Speaker 1: team event and she had to bail them out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were down, she had to chase down. I know,
Speaker 1: you always love it. But the two she chased down
Speaker 1: was a woman that was five eight and a woman
Speaker 1: that was five to seven and it comes a little
Speaker 1: five too five too to carry.
Speaker 2: Look, well, you know what that is. That is what's
Speaker 2: one of the coolest parts about it because she doesn't
Speaker 2: look like the other runners with the long legs, but
Speaker 2: she's got power and fierceness in those legs and she
Speaker 2: just propels herself in a way that I just think
Speaker 2: is it just defies expectations when you look at the
Speaker 2: physicality of all of them, and I you know, love it.
Speaker 1: I might blow that picture up and put it on
Speaker 1: the wall of her staring them down as she crossed.
Speaker 1: But congratu to them and the four one hundred meter
Speaker 1: women's relating that one goal the fellas do rotes.
Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, that this is a fun transition. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: sum it up with one word, disqualified. But even worse,
Speaker 2: this is adding insult to injury. This was the fifth
Speaker 2: consecutive Olympics where Team USA misses the podium in the
Speaker 2: men's four by one hundred relay, So for twenty years
Speaker 2: the United States has been without a medal despite having
Speaker 2: some of the best runners in the world. That is indisputable.
Speaker 2: And it was hard to watch. And it happened almost
Speaker 2: immediately as lead runner Christian Coleman collided with Kenny Bidnarik
Speaker 2: in a botched baton pass.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and when we were watching this live together, because
Speaker 1: they took a wider shot and on that first tall
Speaker 1: runners are together and that first exchange happened, I screamed,
Speaker 1: what the just going crazy? You're like, where are you?
Speaker 2: Was terrible eyesight. I was like, how could you see that?
Speaker 2: It was it was like a far shot and you
Speaker 2: saw you were zeroed in on on the USA.
Speaker 1: And you saw something go terrible wrong, which is what
Speaker 1: they run into each other. They've had in the past
Speaker 1: like drop batons, but these two literally bumped into each
Speaker 1: other on the track. Now again they got seventh, So
Speaker 1: even they crossed the finish line, they get seventh. You're thinking, well,
Speaker 1: that sucks, that's terrible, but it actually got worse. They
Speaker 1: were disqualified that handoff where they bumped in each other.
Speaker 1: It happened outside of the exchange on once they finally
Speaker 1: did do the handoff. So this is history repeating itself.
Speaker 1: Men's Rey late teams lost by baton pass botches two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight, twenty sixteen, Tokyo twenty twenty one. And
Speaker 1: there are questions now this morning about how this team
Speaker 1: was managed, and it has to do with Noah Lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because so the entire lineup was shuffled after Noah
Speaker 2: Lyles dropped out of the competition after he announced he
Speaker 2: had COVID nineteen. So instead of just plugging in Kyrie King,
Speaker 2: who was taking Noah's place, so just putting him in,
Speaker 2: Lyle Spot whoever, decided to switch up the entire lineup,
Speaker 2: which some believe could have led to the baton issue.
Speaker 2: Because it wasn't the order in which they had practiced
Speaker 2: running in. And one person who was very upset, American
Speaker 2: track and field legend who doesn't need any introduction, Carl Lewis.
Speaker 2: He was in the stands. You can see it on
Speaker 2: his face, but he was so pissed. Later he took
Speaker 2: it to social media. He wrote on x it is
Speaker 2: time to blow up the system. This continues to be
Speaker 2: completely unacceptable. He threw some barbs directly at the Track
Speaker 2: and Fields, the US Track and Field Association, so he
Speaker 2: was not mincing words and he said, enough is enough.
Speaker 1: Look, we losing is one thing. If a team crosses
Speaker 1: the line before you by a second fraction of a second,
Speaker 1: you still get upset. We can come back and do
Speaker 1: better when you just don't. I mean, it's the basic thing.
Speaker 1: Where is lady yesterday? All right? Hey, this is what
Speaker 1: you do fellas you run fast and then you hand
Speaker 1: the stick to the guy in front of you that's
Speaker 1: running fast as well. That's basically it. I know there's
Speaker 1: some technical stuff into practice that's involved, but we can't
Speaker 1: get a stick round a track. It was in twenty years.
Speaker 2: I know, and it was crazy because we were worried
Speaker 2: about the women because we saw the rain coming down
Speaker 2: so hard that they were going to drop the baton na.
Speaker 2: They did not. But the men, well they were literally
Speaker 2: and it was nothing to do with the ring.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's like the three stooges out of there.
Speaker 2: It really did kind of look like that.
Speaker 1: It was, unfortunately, but we know those guys. They worked
Speaker 1: at it and who knows what went wrong, and but
Speaker 1: we give them credit. And Kung Fu Kenney, of course,
Speaker 1: we've loved watching him throughout and he was a part
Speaker 1: of the exchange unfortunately, but something's got to be done.
Speaker 1: If Carl Lewis is saying it, we are listening.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, Well, everyone was listening to the woman at
Speaker 2: the center of the gender eligibility controversy. She came out
Speaker 2: on top and she had a lot to say. Twenty
Speaker 2: five year old Amani Khalif has now become Algeria's first
Speaker 2: Olympic gold medalist in women's boxing, and she's the first
Speaker 2: boxer from that country to win gold since nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 2: She beat the world champion China's Yanglu by unanimous decision.
Speaker 2: As you might imagine, the crowd went wild, shouting her
Speaker 2: name over and over, and it was just a beautiful
Speaker 2: moment after such an ugly last several days, even weeks,
Speaker 2: because her fight outside of the ring was definitely overshadowing
Speaker 2: any of her matches inside the ring, and she had
Speaker 2: to repeatedly defend herself. Even her father got involved for
Speaker 2: her right to compete as a woman.
Speaker 1: See we that's her right to compete as a woman.
Speaker 1: You're just you're having to argue that you're a woman.
Speaker 1: That sucks, I mean, And she had to say it afterwards,
Speaker 1: that statement, I am a woman. What woman has won
Speaker 1: an event at the Olympics and part of her press
Speaker 1: conference she had to say, I'm a woman.
Speaker 2: It's sad, but I love that she was able to
Speaker 2: keep her head clear and in fact maybe even motivating
Speaker 2: her to do what she does best. But yet she
Speaker 2: I wanted to read her full statement because it's just
Speaker 2: so powerful and again to your point, the fact that
Speaker 2: she even had to say this instead of saying thank
Speaker 2: you and you know I have fought hard for this.
Speaker 2: Instead she had to say, I am fully qualified to
Speaker 2: take part in this competition. I'm a woman like any
Speaker 2: other woman. I was born a woman, I lived as
Speaker 2: a woman. I competed as a woman, There's no doubt
Speaker 2: about that. And she talks about the detractor. She says
Speaker 2: are enemies of success. That is what I call them,
Speaker 2: and that also gives my success a special taste because
Speaker 2: of these attacks. Good.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm leaning back in my chair, not to
Speaker 1: the mic. I just it's been a great and the
Speaker 1: way not just the Algerian fans have embraced her, but
Speaker 1: how everybody in that arena has been embracing her. It's again,
Speaker 1: it's one of the lasting images and moments and stories
Speaker 1: of these Olympics, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And there was another boxer, Lynn U Ting, who
Speaker 2: also had her gender eligibility questioned as well, along with Khalif.
Speaker 2: She is from Taiwan. She is fighting today also for gold,
Speaker 2: against a Polish competitor, so we will be watching that
Speaker 2: match as well. But she is, certainly she is. That
Speaker 2: is happening. I do have that written down. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: but that's when it's happening. And I, oh, it's happening
Speaker 2: at three thirty Eastern time this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Well, we're losing a step here, baby. I was trying
Speaker 1: to I was trying to keep from interrupting you by
Speaker 1: saying what time is it? In case you didn't know,
Speaker 1: That's why I didn't say anything, and that's pointed to
Speaker 1: my read watch. And then you made moves, but it
Speaker 1: still stopped you. And I was trying to keep you
Speaker 1: from stopping.
Speaker 2: You know, I can't do two things that way.
Speaker 1: But good for the IOC. They keep coming out and
Speaker 1: saying these women are eligible, leave them alone, and that's
Speaker 1: the end of it. So we'll be watching for the
Speaker 1: possible second gold medal in all this.
Speaker 2: Placet Yeah, and we want to oh, I want to
Speaker 2: give a shout out. We watched this yesterday too. Twenty
Speaker 2: one year old Olivia Reeves, who won the United States
Speaker 2: first Olympic weightlifting gold medal in twenty four years, also
Speaker 2: setting an Olympic redal record with that medal, And you
Speaker 2: got to love it when you get the gold and
Speaker 2: you also set a record, and she did both of
Speaker 2: those things. And this is just the second Olympic gold
Speaker 2: medal for Team USA since women were even allowed to
Speaker 2: compete in the event in two thousand. So this is
Speaker 2: a rarity and she hopes it brings shines of spotlight
Speaker 2: on USA weightlift.
Speaker 1: Weightlifting another thing we've been enjoying watching when they're struggling
Speaker 1: to keep that thing off and they're shaking. Oh, some
Speaker 1: of them fall off the stage. Oh.
Speaker 2: I've been on the edge of my seat watching both
Speaker 2: the men's and the women's. It's and a lot of
Speaker 2: these people, men and women, are lifting double their body weight.
Speaker 2: It's unthinkable to me. Again, something I could never imagine
Speaker 2: ever being able to do.
Speaker 1: Well, could you ever imagine us? This is what we
Speaker 1: do now, Hey babe, make sure you get here by
Speaker 1: eight fifteen. Weightliftings on right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've said things we've never said to each other
Speaker 2: before we are watching Olympics.
Speaker 1: But this has been fun. This has been fun. So
Speaker 1: today is a huge day. We're planning it all around.
Speaker 1: So we're about to head out here shortly going to
Speaker 1: You can catch us on Park Avenue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lafayette as he turns into Park. Yeah. So it's cool.
Speaker 2: We actually our friend Matt James, we ran into him
Speaker 2: running the other day and he was like, are you
Speaker 2: all going to run on this streets in New York?
Speaker 2: And we're like, what's that? Sadly, I've lived here for
Speaker 2: more than twenty years and I don't know basic things
Speaker 2: about the city. But they open up several stretches of
Speaker 2: streets in all five burroughs for pedestrians, runners, bikers, whatever,
Speaker 2: no cars allowed. And it's an awesome opportunity, especially for
Speaker 2: those of us training for marathons, to have a new
Speaker 2: running path that we would never ordinarily get to run.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna run through the streets of Manhattan here
Speaker 2: in a little bit. We actually have a little of
Speaker 2: a break today. We only have to run ten miles
Speaker 2: and next weekend's fifteen miles, so we're about to go
Speaker 2: do that. But the watching the men's marathon today was
Speaker 2: such an awesome inspiration. And by the way, if you
Speaker 2: didn't get up at one thirty in the morning to watch,
Speaker 2: you can rewatch it at ten thirty Eastern time. It
Speaker 2: really is an awesome thing to be able to see
Speaker 2: and witness. And we're kind of planning everything around getting
Speaker 2: the run done in time to be ready for eleven
Speaker 2: am Eastern time, where the US women soccer team gold
Speaker 2: medal match plays Brazil.
Speaker 1: Most watch and Brazil is beautiful. They are so beautiful
Speaker 1: to watch.
Speaker 2: It's it's gonna be there.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: This is fun because we have that going on, and
Speaker 2: then at ten am. Right before that, the men's breaking
Speaker 2: as we just talked with, that's their prelims. But two
Speaker 2: pm is the finals, so I think we'll probably end
Speaker 2: up watching soccer and then the finals.
Speaker 1: Wonderful Australia has any male I.
Speaker 2: Mean, I can't wait to find out the platform diving.
Speaker 2: Men's platform diving, which I know you're really excited about,
Speaker 2: is at nine am. I'm luckily all of these big
Speaker 2: events in these finals are oftentimes replayed and you can
Speaker 2: find them throughout the day, which is what we've had
Speaker 2: to do sometimes. Track and field final day of competition
Speaker 2: starting at one thirty this afternoon Eastern time. I'm excited
Speaker 2: about the women's fifteen hundred meter final. You've got more
Speaker 2: relay finals men and women's four by four hundred, the
Speaker 2: men's eight hundred meter final, the men's high jump final,
Speaker 2: the women's javelin throw final. Oh I love this one,
Speaker 2: the women's one hundred meter hurdles. Just, I mean, so
Speaker 2: many really excited things to watch. Then three thirty Eastern time,
Speaker 2: we have Team USA men's basketball final versus home country France.
Speaker 1: This is kind of perfect. This is set up perfectly.
Speaker 1: The team everybody wants to be versus the home team,
Speaker 1: which is quite quite good. This is gonna this is
Speaker 1: not a you know what, They're gonna blow these guys out.
Speaker 1: I bet they blow Frants out. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a close match. And I know weben Yama, but
Speaker 1: they got too much pride to Yeah, I'm predicted easy win.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: It was so three thirty is basketball, but it's also
Speaker 2: boxing that we just mentioned. We've got lin U ting
Speaker 2: fighting at three thirty, and then just all the other
Speaker 2: events that I know are so important to so many people,
Speaker 2: but lots of everything's a final today. It's one of
Speaker 2: the last days of competition. So water polo women going
Speaker 2: for the bronze. USA women table tennis, it's China versus Japan,
Speaker 2: the women's team finals. We've been watching some sports climbing.
Speaker 2: There's finals there, rhythmic gymnastics finals, and ta is competing
Speaker 2: in the artistic swimming, duo finals, synchronized swimming. So there's
Speaker 2: something for everyone today, and really this is one of
Speaker 2: the last days, so it's gonna be a fun day
Speaker 2: of sitting in front of the TV after our ten miles.
Speaker 1: It's the weekend. I know, folks have a loves going
Speaker 1: on during the week because is your last chance to
Speaker 1: see some of the greatest athletes, some of the greatest performances.
Speaker 1: So enjoy. We certainly have been, and we will today
Speaker 1: as well. But we always appreciate you listening in to us.
Speaker 1: I guess we got how many of these left too.
Speaker 1: We'll have them tomorrow. We have one Monday.
Speaker 2: Maybe and that's it. So yeah, we have two more
Speaker 2: editions of Tea from Parie. But thank you for listening
Speaker 2: as always, and we'll see you tomorrow.