Speaker 1: On this Wednesday, August's first Team USA is waking up
Speaker 1: in Paris, still leading in the overall Olympic medal count.
Speaker 2: The United States has now won thirty medals so far,
Speaker 2: but home team France is close behind with twenty six medals,
Speaker 2: followed by China with nineteen.
Speaker 1: However, there are at least six countries with more gold
Speaker 1: medals than the US. Right now, welcome everybody to this
Speaker 1: tea from Paris edition of Amy and TJ. Again, we're
Speaker 1: not married to that name Peter Perry, but in this
Speaker 1: episode an edge of your Seat Men's all Around final
Speaker 1: where the gold medal was decided on the very last
Speaker 1: routine of the night.
Speaker 2: It was a nail bier. Plus Katie Ladecci's only competition
Speaker 2: in the pool yesterday was well, Katie Ladecci lebron. Katie
Speaker 2: and crew win, but there is a reason to root
Speaker 2: for their opponent. US women advance in soccer, and it
Speaker 2: is now official Cocoa Golf will be leaving Paris without
Speaker 2: an Olympic medal.
Speaker 1: Well, so how was your swim in the river sin?
Speaker 1: When athletes responds to that question, I'm definitely going to
Speaker 1: be using the bathroom later. We'll explain. That's what an
Speaker 1: American tennis player quits her match because of extreme heat
Speaker 1: and then things got heated with her opponent.
Speaker 2: And Simone and Sunny are competing today for the most
Speaker 2: coveted title at the Olympics. This is the event that
Speaker 2: everyone looks forward to every Summer Olympics, and that's exciting.
Speaker 2: But there is also another event that you've been very
Speaker 2: excited about that you already watched this morning.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I set my alarm to watch racewalking this morning.
Speaker 1: It's just one of those things you never get to see.
Speaker 1: Chris Paul did it in that State Farm commercial. But
Speaker 1: other than that, I haven't seen racewalking in four years,
Speaker 1: since the last Olympics. For all three years, I guess Tokyo.
Speaker 1: But it is the best. It's fascinating to watch. Twenty
Speaker 1: twenty K so they have to go as about too.
Speaker 2: Is that almost a half marathon?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Yeah, twelvee a half miles two point four to big exact.
Speaker 1: But it's it's one of those things you never get
Speaker 1: to see, and people even call it weird.
Speaker 2: It's funny. It's just female what they have to do.
Speaker 2: I'm not knocking the athleticism, but It is funny to watch,
Speaker 2: especially if you're a runner, even perhaps to see people,
Speaker 2: because you can't lift your feet off the ground.
Speaker 1: So it's the technical rule there racewalking. What is it?
Speaker 1: You cannot both feet cannot be off the ground at
Speaker 1: the same time. Of course, if you're running and you
Speaker 1: think about it, yes, of course you come off the
Speaker 1: ground both feet. That's one of the rules. Also, your
Speaker 1: front leg, the knee has to stay. Can't be bent.
Speaker 1: What front leg?
Speaker 2: Oh, that's why it's so funny when.
Speaker 1: You start, I said, oh, that makes sense, now, why
Speaker 1: you haven't do that? And you do get a violation
Speaker 1: if you get three, it's a two minute penalty and
Speaker 1: you have to So they're watching you very very closely.
Speaker 1: But do you remember what I say? Twelve point four
Speaker 1: miles a half marathon.
Speaker 2: Is was thirteen point one?
Speaker 1: Okay, So tell folks, how how long does it take
Speaker 1: us to run a half? We've done soveral, which is
Speaker 1: generally how long does it take?
Speaker 2: Well, so my best ever is one hour and fifty
Speaker 2: four minutes to run a half marathon.
Speaker 1: An hour and fifty four minutes. Again, that's thirteen miles
Speaker 1: versus they're doing twelve point four the young lady I
Speaker 1: watch today, Wing Gold in race walking did it in
Speaker 1: an hour and twenty five minutes.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. That is that's perspective, right.
Speaker 1: There's perspective, folks. They are walking faster than anybody watching
Speaker 1: can run a mile.
Speaker 2: Wow, run a mile? You mean? Oh, you're saying they
Speaker 2: walk faster than we can run. They walk a mile.
Speaker 1: Faster than you can run a mile.
Speaker 2: Our pace, what I mean, A good pace for me
Speaker 2: is eight forty five to have it be long distance,
Speaker 2: and eight forty five is a good pace.
Speaker 1: The men in race walking are doing under seven minute miles.
Speaker 2: And I have never don run any race that quickly.
Speaker 2: I could run a mile like that or maybe two,
Speaker 2: but I could not do more than that.
Speaker 1: It is one of my It's impressive. So that happened today.
Speaker 1: You still get a chance if you listen to our
Speaker 1: voys that they are having some replays. You will be
Speaker 1: able to catch it on USA today if you get
Speaker 1: up early enough. But that is a blast. You missed
Speaker 1: that this morning. We're fencing up on the TV right now.
Speaker 1: There was some some table tennis action this morning, So.
Speaker 2: You set your alarm once again for three forty five.
Speaker 2: I got up at five, So I missed all of that.
Speaker 2: But maybe I can rewatch some stuff. But you know what,
Speaker 2: I would even rewatch, but we watched yesterday.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see that again.
Speaker 2: It was amazing the men's all around final. There were
Speaker 2: some gutting moments. There were some exhilarating moments for all
Speaker 2: of the men competing, but for the two US men,
Speaker 2: it was tough. You know, we planned our entire day
Speaker 2: around watching this competition. We were preparing lunch, so we
Speaker 2: had the TV and the kitchen going on, and the
Speaker 2: TV in the living room going on. But right when
Speaker 2: the event started, we were still getting lunch ready, and
Speaker 2: before we could even get our food on the plate,
Speaker 2: we just ah, it was disaster for one of our
Speaker 2: favorite American gymnasts.
Speaker 1: And we all, look, it's one thing we're always rooting
Speaker 1: for the American athletes, but this is one Why did
Speaker 1: this feel so personal? I felt? When we're talking about
Speaker 1: Frederick Richard, superstar, viral star as well social media star,
Speaker 1: but he was the guy going into this that everybody
Speaker 1: thought had a real chance for the all around. His
Speaker 1: first event was the pommel horse. His very first event
Speaker 1: robes was this even a quarter of a way into
Speaker 1: his event, he fell on the palmer.
Speaker 2: I feel like it was within the first thirty seconds, right,
Speaker 2: And I have honestly right now. You know, I always
Speaker 2: get chills, but I have chills right now because I'm
Speaker 2: reliving it in my head, you know. And you even
Speaker 2: hear the commentators talk about what a good guy this
Speaker 2: kid is, and he is a kid. He's twenty years old,
Speaker 2: but you were rooting for him, and then his hand
Speaker 2: just slipped, and you know, they put the chalk on
Speaker 2: their hands for grip, but also can cause some slippage
Speaker 2: because it's slippery, as you might imagine, and it just
Speaker 2: for whatever reason is probably just nerves and all of
Speaker 2: the things that go into being up on the pommel horse.
Speaker 2: And everyone talks about that being a really tough event,
Speaker 2: and once he slipped and fell, it was nearly impossible
Speaker 2: for him to catch up.
Speaker 1: You talk about this first event, you were talking less
Speaker 1: than an inch of it. If his hand had been
Speaker 1: maybe to the left, just a half an inch, he
Speaker 1: would have stayed on the pommel horse. And that is
Speaker 1: why this sport is so devastating, and just that one
Speaker 1: little thing at the beginning, and his day was essentially
Speaker 1: over and we screamed in the kitchen. We like it
Speaker 1: hurt us so back. Can't imagine what he was going through.
Speaker 1: But this is how you get into these guys, these girls,
Speaker 1: and these stories and the Olympics, and it just it
Speaker 1: pains you to see it sometime. But he had a
Speaker 1: tough one and so does a teammate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and anyone who has ever watched or been a
Speaker 2: part of the gymnastics sport, it is always about perfection
Speaker 2: and that's what makes it so tough because if you
Speaker 2: are less than perfect and these points, these scores come
Speaker 2: down to just fractions, and so yes, one misstep, especially
Speaker 2: a fall, but even a babble can cost you a medal.
Speaker 2: And that's what happened to Paul Judah. He had his
Speaker 2: own issues. He had a really bad stumble on his
Speaker 2: landing on the vault and he nearly went off the mat.
Speaker 2: And again we just went, oh no. So you know,
Speaker 2: Judah and Richard, we should mention finished fourteenth and fifteenth.
Speaker 2: That is respectable, but not certainly what they had hoped for.
Speaker 2: They were both, or especially one of them, hoping for
Speaker 2: a medal. But other than that, the event was thrilling.
Speaker 2: If you didn't have a country you were specifically rooting for.
Speaker 2: Just watching this year, level of talent was remarkable. It
Speaker 2: was you couldn't even believe what these men were pulling
Speaker 2: off and the precision with which they were doing it.
Speaker 2: The gymnasts from Japan and China and Ukraine and Great Britain,
Speaker 2: they were showstoppers, and up until the very end they
Speaker 2: were in the mix to get a medal, and you
Speaker 2: didn't know who was gonna get what.
Speaker 1: But this is one of those things where if you
Speaker 1: watch any other sport, if it's two outs, bottom of
Speaker 1: the ninth type of situation and the team is down by one,
Speaker 1: if there's I don't know, two seconds left on the
Speaker 1: clock and Tom Brady just drove his team down to
Speaker 1: the forty five yard line. Now the kicker had to
Speaker 1: come out and make a kick to win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: This is what happened in gymnastics yesterday in a way
Speaker 1: that I haven't quite seen it myself. But China's Jong Bohong,
Speaker 1: he is a stud in this sport. Now he had
Speaker 1: the high bar. He's the last competitor go on the
Speaker 1: last apparatus. So this is the ultimate Olympic and sporting moment,
Speaker 1: last man to go, last rotation. All you have to
Speaker 1: do to get a gold medal is this, get a
Speaker 1: score of at least fourteen point eight six six to do.
Speaker 2: That's funny. All that is a really hard score.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of but a lot of athletes
Speaker 1: will tell you. You tell me what my target is.
Speaker 1: You tell me, you tell me. Any any one of
Speaker 1: those Olympians yesterday would have said, hey, would you take
Speaker 1: this scenario that you need a fourteen point eight sixty six,
Speaker 1: It's in your control. They would take that. So he
Speaker 1: needed a fourteen point eight sixty six. He got a
Speaker 1: fourteen point six three three and had to settle for silver.
Speaker 2: I mean, he still seemed pretty happy, but of course
Speaker 2: everyone wants the gold, especially at that level. But the
Speaker 2: man who got it, Japan's shinoska Oka, got the gold,
Speaker 2: and he certainly deserved it. It was remarkable to watch
Speaker 2: him do what he did on all six of those events.
Speaker 2: He was almost nearly perfect. But this was a big
Speaker 2: win for Japan in general because this is the fourth
Speaker 2: straight Olympic title for Japanese men, and it's always a
Speaker 2: big rivalry between Japan and China. I loved watching when
Speaker 2: Japan got gold and China got silver, and that's exactly
Speaker 2: what happened in the all around as well, but the
Speaker 2: team finals. But I loved watching the camaraderie between the two.
Speaker 2: They were congratulating each other, and that's something that you appreciate,
Speaker 2: and with all the discord we have, that's one of
Speaker 2: the things we love about the Olympics is to see
Speaker 2: countries competing and then congratulating one another, supporting one another,
Speaker 2: even cheering one another on. That's the beauty of the
Speaker 2: Olympics because.
Speaker 1: They understand the sacrifice the way nobody else can what
Speaker 1: it takes to do that. So now all we have left,
Speaker 1: we have one day of men's gymnastics left, I guess,
Speaker 1: and that's when they go for the individual medals on
Speaker 1: the individual on the individual disciplines. So I get to
Speaker 1: hear my boy justin Spring one more time, the commentator
Speaker 1: that I absolutely love. I cannot give this guy enough
Speaker 1: credit for how he guides us all kind of through
Speaker 1: what we're seeing and he I just love the guy.
Speaker 1: But the only chance to see an American male is the
Speaker 1: pommel horse specialist now who became, I guess, a viral
Speaker 1: glasses wearing sensation Stephen Netta Rozzik who brought it home
Speaker 1: on the pommel horse for Team USA to win that bronze,
Speaker 1: he'll go for an individual medal on pommel horse. What
Speaker 1: is that? I think it might be tomorrow, my Friday
Speaker 1: or Saturday.
Speaker 2: I think it's this weekend, but we can double check,
Speaker 2: but not today.
Speaker 1: At least we'll give you the update, don't. We don't
Speaker 1: want to if you look it up.
Speaker 2: But something to look forward to, for sure. Gosh, Katie
Speaker 2: Ledecki is always someone to look forward to, and she
Speaker 2: has joined a group of very distinguished American women with
Speaker 2: her win yesterday in the fifteen hundred freestyle. She now
Speaker 2: has twelve career Olympic medals and that ties her with
Speaker 2: three other American women for the most swimming medals of
Speaker 2: all times, Natalie Coughlan, Jenny Thompson and Dearren Torres. Correct,
Speaker 2: and those are the greats. But my daughters had been away.
Speaker 2: They came back yesterday afternoon, right when Katie was swimming
Speaker 2: the fifteen hundred, and I had to stop, you know, Ava,
Speaker 2: she loves to talk in the middle of Okay, I
Speaker 2: love you, Ave, but I have to watch this. And
Speaker 2: we were just jaws dropped. You had told me, like,
Speaker 2: when she does this, she's so far ahead. She was
Speaker 2: ten seconds r ten seconds ahead of her nearest competitor,
Speaker 2: and in swimming it's usually like one one hundredth of
Speaker 2: a second, So to be ten seconds ahead and to
Speaker 2: just watch her every race, it was the most one
Speaker 2: of the most incredible things I have ever watched. To
Speaker 2: see her be that much more elite in this particular
Speaker 2: event than any other person in the world, it's it was.
Speaker 2: It was amazing.
Speaker 1: Oh, you should see her in like the trials or
Speaker 1: smaller events than she laps people in the pool. So
Speaker 1: this event is actually the longest swimming event out there,
Speaker 1: the fifteen hundred. She has the twenty fastest times ever
Speaker 1: in the history of the event.
Speaker 2: In the world.
Speaker 1: The twenty fast times anybody has ever done this event
Speaker 1: all belong to Katie Ladecki. Look, all you can argue
Speaker 1: all of these Olympians are great athletes. You can argue, hell,
Speaker 1: the linebackers at the University of Georgia are great athletes.
Speaker 2: I think you could argue that for Katie.
Speaker 1: Ldeki though, is a great, She's an all time great.
Speaker 1: She still separates herself in an event like this. She
Speaker 1: is keep watch. She says she's going to do twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight. But you just we need to marvel every
Speaker 1: time she swims. You need to stop what you're doing,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: And speaking of that, it's just to get some perspective here.
Speaker 2: She her first Olympics was back in twenty twelve in London.
Speaker 2: She was one of the youngest women on the team.
Speaker 2: She was just fifteen years old. And now she is
Speaker 2: among the oldest swimmers at twenty seven. And look at
Speaker 2: what she is doing and to say she's coming back
Speaker 2: potentially again is pretty remarkable. I love seeing older athletes
Speaker 2: just continue, not just continue their level of athleticism, but
Speaker 2: bring it up and keep getting better. That is remarkable.
Speaker 2: And you know what, I also loved watching her at
Speaker 2: the end because this was uncharacteristic of her. She got emotional.
Speaker 2: She pounded the pool's surface with her right arm once
Speaker 2: she finished, and then when she walked out of the pool,
Speaker 2: she pumped her fist and raised both arms in the air,
Speaker 2: and well she should, but it was awesome to see
Speaker 2: her celebrate the moment and take it in because that's
Speaker 2: something sometimes athletes don't get to do.
Speaker 1: She does have two more events this week, one of
Speaker 1: them today actually the four by two, which I think
Speaker 1: American women certainly are favored to get a medal in
Speaker 1: that one. But perspective here, this is how many events,
Speaker 1: how many times i've Michael Phelps is somebody I used
Speaker 1: to work in California in the Bay Area when he
Speaker 1: before he even started his Olympic career, used to cover
Speaker 1: him a little bit, and then followed him and covered
Speaker 1: him in Rio, and we talked about how great he
Speaker 1: is now. And we talk about Katie le Deckey has
Speaker 1: twelve medals. This dude's got twenty eight. He has more
Speaker 1: actually gold medals than anyone just has medals in the Olympics.
Speaker 1: This is some perspective about all of the greatness and
Speaker 1: how he still stands well ahead of anybody in this
Speaker 1: But she is going to become, I think if she
Speaker 1: gets two medals, the most decorated behind Phelps in terms
Speaker 1: of all time medals men or women.
Speaker 2: Well, right now, with those other women we just mentioned
Speaker 2: her twelve medals, she's tied for the second most medals
Speaker 2: of any US Olympic athlete, male or female. But yes,
Speaker 2: Michael Phelps is leaps and bounds ahead but she'll be
Speaker 2: right behind him.
Speaker 1: But she's I think Jenny Thompson has eight goals the deck.
Speaker 1: He has eight goals, but I think Brian Lockey has twelve.
Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy? Ryan Locke wow has I think he
Speaker 1: has twelve medals, but he doesn't have as many the
Speaker 1: gold count. But all these names, they come become household names,
Speaker 1: right and we know these guys remember them because of
Speaker 1: these moments they have. So please catch her today if
Speaker 1: you can. We did catch the US USA men's basketball team.
Speaker 1: They had a rematch with upstart South Sudan yesterday. Now
Speaker 1: it was an exhibition game last month that the US team,
Speaker 1: of course has all these NBA champions, MVP's future Hall
Speaker 1: of famers. They actually had to come from behind in
Speaker 1: that exhibition last month, and it took a bucket by
Speaker 1: Lebron with seconds to go to beat South Sudan by
Speaker 1: one point.
Speaker 2: So you were looking for a tight match.
Speaker 1: I was looking for a competitive fun maybe to get pushed,
Speaker 1: certainly after what we saw a month ago. They only
Speaker 1: beat this South Sudan is brand new team by a point,
Speaker 1: being by seventeen yesterday, and it probably wasn't even that close.
Speaker 1: But the US is going to advance with the quarterfinals
Speaker 1: that now start next week with South Sudan. It's been
Speaker 1: one of those fun stories that some darlings, if you will.
Speaker 1: They won their first ever Olympic game with this new
Speaker 1: team of scrappy guys from South Sudan, so it's their fun.
Speaker 2: To watch and it's cool to see what will happen
Speaker 2: next because US Team USA plays Puerto Rico next. But
Speaker 2: for some just an interesting point, South Sudan beat Puerto Rico,
Speaker 2: so it looks pretty good for Team USA three. But
Speaker 2: now yeah, of course, but just for in terms of
Speaker 2: beating Puerto Rico. But now South Sudan has to play Servia,
Speaker 2: so we'll see. They're not out yet, so we'll see
Speaker 2: what happens with that, but we're rooting for them as well,
Speaker 2: right behind Team USA. Speaking of Team USA and who
Speaker 2: we're rooting for, the US women, the soccer team, they
Speaker 2: won their group by beating Australia yesterday two to one.
Speaker 2: They're gonna move on to the quarterfinals. They will play
Speaker 2: Japan on Saturday. They are one of three teams women's
Speaker 2: teams to win all three of their group play. So
Speaker 2: Spain has won all of their games. Canada has won
Speaker 2: all of their games, and we will see this is
Speaker 2: going to be a tight match going forward.
Speaker 1: All we put together like a rundown for this. Every
Speaker 1: day we do an episode about the Olympics and collection
Speaker 1: of these stories and we kind of write some stuff out.
Speaker 1: The shortest write up we have today is about the
Speaker 1: US women's soccer team, because it seems like there's no detail. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they won one big moving on, it seems like we're not.
Speaker 2: I tried to find that a little fun fact to
Speaker 2: add something to it. But yes, we're killing it. We're
Speaker 2: doing great well.
Speaker 1: Unforus of a Coco. Her Olympics is over. She won't
Speaker 1: be coming home with a medal. She lost her singles
Speaker 1: match earlier this week. We told you about that. She
Speaker 1: still had two other chances to get a medal, in
Speaker 1: doubles and in mixed doubles. She lost in both. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: she and her teammate were the top seeded pair in
Speaker 1: women's doubles. They lost in a tiebreaker, and then in roades.
Speaker 1: Later in the day, she lost her mixed doubles match
Speaker 1: in a tiebreaker as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's so disappointing because she came in as
Speaker 2: one of the biggest stars of the Olympics. You remember
Speaker 2: she was a flag by bearer along with Lebron James.
Speaker 2: She's the reigning US Open champion. She had such high
Speaker 2: hopes of at least one medal, and this was her
Speaker 2: first Olympics. But remember it was supposed to be her second.
Speaker 2: She was supposed to be in Tokyo. She made the
Speaker 2: US team as a seventeen year old, but just days
Speaker 2: before the competition, she tested positive for COVID had to
Speaker 2: pull out. So this was kind of her big moment.
Speaker 2: She is just twenty. There will be more to come.
Speaker 2: But she said this after everything and she realized she
Speaker 2: wasn't gonna have a metal. She said, I'll try to
Speaker 2: take the positive and do better next time. So she's
Speaker 2: already looking forward, but certainly a huge disappointment for her.
Speaker 2: That's got to be tough when expectations are set so high.
Speaker 2: It's just tough when you can't meet them.
Speaker 1: And she set them right. She set them by her performer,
Speaker 1: we have an expectations sometimes with these athletes, and of
Speaker 1: course they can't win all the time. But do you
Speaker 1: remember I forgot about Tokyo, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's right, Yeah, I got she was on the day
Speaker 1: of her flight. I think she had a positive COVID
Speaker 1: test and had about Yeah, that was a we forget
Speaker 1: how ugly that Olympics and MESSI they was. We celebrate
Speaker 1: just that it went off. But it was a tough,
Speaker 1: tough go last night.
Speaker 2: Oh, I was in the state. It was so odd
Speaker 2: just to be in the stands with no fans, just
Speaker 2: journalists and it was just Earie. It was an eerie, strange,
Speaker 2: bizarre Olympics where I don't That's what makes this Olympics
Speaker 2: so great. I think just to see the fan fair,
Speaker 2: to see everyone there, to see families up in the stands,
Speaker 2: it makes it's a huge difference for the athletes and
Speaker 2: it's just it's it feels so much more celebratory and
Speaker 2: supported in a way that it just didn't in Tokyo.
Speaker 1: We're gonna turn now to what has been one of
Speaker 1: the biggest stories of the Olympics so far, so Robes.
Speaker 1: If you ask someone this question, is that water safe
Speaker 1: to swim in? And their response was, well, it's compliant.
Speaker 1: Would that make you feel good?
Speaker 2: I think you know my answer complaint absolutely not.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm an official with an official badge and a
Speaker 1: jacket on, and I look really official. And I'm telling
Speaker 1: you I tested this water robes.
Speaker 2: And it's compliant. I mean, if I'm a swimmer and
Speaker 2: I'm competing in the race, that would have been good
Speaker 2: enough for me, because you want to win that medal,
Speaker 2: and you'll just suffer the consequences, whatever they may be,
Speaker 2: because you're a competitor, You're an Olympian, and you're gonna
Speaker 2: go for it.
Speaker 1: Might be gross.
Speaker 2: Try to keep my mouth closed, okay, and my eyes closed.
Speaker 1: But compliant. It's compliant. That's the word from Olympic organizers
Speaker 1: about the quality of the water and the River Sin.
Speaker 1: You've heard this by now. They had to cancel some
Speaker 1: practices and postpone the triathlons because the water in the
Speaker 1: Sin was unsafe. They had these unsafe levels of bacteria.
Speaker 1: Yesterday they said the water finally passed the pollution check.
Speaker 1: So the men and women's triathlons were held yesterday, which
Speaker 1: require the athletes to swim that first leg ropes, which
Speaker 1: is a one point five mile swim in the River Sin.
Speaker 2: And just to I mean to get a little specific
Speaker 2: the water, the threat to the swimmers if it wasn't compliant,
Speaker 2: but maybe even if it's just compliant and not what
Speaker 2: would be the next step up from compliant? Good?
Speaker 1: Barely passable?
Speaker 2: Okay, not great, but not terrible anyway. The threat to
Speaker 2: swimmers gastro intestinal issues, wounds getting infected, and your eyes
Speaker 2: getting infected because of the bacteria count in the SEIN. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so we should point out, at the time of this recording,
Speaker 2: we have not heard of or seen any reports of
Speaker 2: any of those troathletes getting sick afterwards. However, one South
Speaker 2: African athlete said after the race, and this is going
Speaker 2: to be a quote, I'm definitely going to be visiting
Speaker 2: the bathroom later. I swallowed gallons and gallons of water,
Speaker 2: so that's going to be a fun post race party.
Speaker 1: Well, you gotta smile. What do you do? I mean,
Speaker 1: what do you do? He said? Gallons and gallon Hopefully
Speaker 1: he's exaggerating, but you're swimming for a mile and a
Speaker 1: half and you're and you know what. They had to
Speaker 1: do it in the river because they are used to
Speaker 1: swimming in these conditions where the currents are part of
Speaker 1: the actual event, so they had to do so. If
Speaker 1: I've never did a mile in a river or something,
Speaker 1: can you imagine the water you're taking in? Can you
Speaker 1: really drink gallons?
Speaker 2: I don't know. But that's a party of one. Oh,
Speaker 2: that's a party of one.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing. Though, the winners were a guy
Speaker 1: from Great Britain he won the male tra athlete, and
Speaker 1: a woman from France I think one the other. There
Speaker 1: was a US athlete, a Seth Ryder, who competed as
Speaker 1: well for the US. But he got attention beforehand because
Speaker 1: he said he was preparing for the nasty water. How
Speaker 1: he said he was essentially trying to take in lower
Speaker 1: levels of E. Coli to prepare his body. How do
Speaker 1: you do that? He said that he didn't wash his
Speaker 1: hands after using the bathroom, okay, in the days and
Speaker 1: weeks ahead of the race. Seriously, he said he was
Speaker 1: to introduce it into his system a little. He did
Speaker 1: not wash his hands specifically after using the bathroom.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe that isn't you know, Maybe that is
Speaker 2: a smart move, because you know, anyone who's traveled to
Speaker 2: other countries who have different water altrition systems will just
Speaker 2: say that the locals are fine. It's US Americans or
Speaker 2: people who weren't used to those types of levels of
Speaker 2: bacteria that get sick, and so it does make some
Speaker 2: scientific sense.
Speaker 1: He says it's backed by science.
Speaker 2: Others say no, I mean, well, you're full of E.
Speaker 1: Coli.
Speaker 2: Yes, literally and figuratively.
Speaker 1: But he says, backed by science. I don't think any
Speaker 1: doctor would recommend it. But is there science behind it?
Speaker 1: I'm really not sure.
Speaker 2: We could ask my dad, he's a microbiologist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is he up yet?
Speaker 2: He's probably not, but we can check him with him
Speaker 2: and report back tomorrow. I think that's a good plan.
Speaker 1: Seth. By the way, with micro dosing the ecola, he
Speaker 1: finished twenty ninth in the triathlon.
Speaker 2: He finished, and let's just see if he got sick
Speaker 2: or not.
Speaker 1: The tennis we had an American, Danielle Collins. She actually quit.
Speaker 1: They don't call it quitting, and I shouldn't use that
Speaker 1: word retired. But she had to stop her tennis match
Speaker 1: yesterday because of stomach cramps dehydration. She says, essentially she
Speaker 1: had a heat stroke yesterday. During that match, temperatures hit
Speaker 1: ninety seven degrees and Colins and other athletes have complained
Speaker 1: that Olympics organizers aren't giving them insulated water bottles, so
Speaker 1: they're out there playing in this heat and having to
Speaker 1: stay hydrated with hot water. Now, get water into your system.
Speaker 1: However you get into your system, it will hydrate you
Speaker 1: all the same. But if it's ninety seven degrees and
Speaker 1: you're trying to cool your body temperature, you do not
Speaker 1: want to be taking in hot water. You want cold water.
Speaker 1: She's not the only athlete to complain about this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean she actually, you know, she did say
Speaker 2: she suffered a heat stroke. She was on the medical
Speaker 2: table for three hours, and she described what she was
Speaker 2: going through. She said she had full body convulsions. And
Speaker 2: I have to tell you, you know me running in heat,
Speaker 2: and it's not at ninety seven, it's just anything in
Speaker 2: the eighties. For me, you have seen me. I vomit
Speaker 2: when I was in Tokyo. I was training for a marathon.
Speaker 2: It was in the nineties. When I was running, I
Speaker 2: spent the entire day vomiting. I mean, it is real,
Speaker 2: and heatstroke can be deadly, as we've seen with athletes
Speaker 2: here in extreme heat, football players, et cetera. But it's
Speaker 2: a real thing. And I feel for her because that
Speaker 2: is devastating physically. And then how do you play at
Speaker 2: an Olympic level when your body is going through and
Speaker 2: not everybody's body takes on the heat and those conditions
Speaker 2: the same way.
Speaker 1: This is scary, I mean where we are right now.
Speaker 1: But athletes, you've been training your whole life for the
Speaker 1: Olympics and you get to the Olympics and you can't
Speaker 1: be at your best because of the heat, or because
Speaker 1: you feel like you don't have air conditioning in your
Speaker 1: Olympic village dorm, or because you get hot water during
Speaker 1: your event. We really hope no one ends up in
Speaker 1: a serious condition because of this.
Speaker 2: Well, the good news is I actually look this up today,
Speaker 2: Thank goodness for all of the athletes. The high temperature
Speaker 2: in Paris today finally eighty four degrees, tomorrow eighty two,
Speaker 2: and then into the weekend the highs in the seventies,
Speaker 2: and that's more normal for Paris. This is way way
Speaker 2: way above average, and the athletes are suffering for it,
Speaker 2: and I really feel for them. We should mention, though,
Speaker 2: what happened at the meeting at the net between her
Speaker 2: and her opponent after the match. That's getting just as
Speaker 2: much attention, if not more, than what was happening for
Speaker 2: her on the court.
Speaker 1: And she was playing a stud Okay, the number one
Speaker 1: player in the world, Ego Siatek of Poland.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you said that name.
Speaker 1: You know what. That's why I jumped in.
Speaker 2: I was gonna read it and then I was just
Speaker 2: gonna say, you know what, I'm just gonna be honest
Speaker 2: here and pause and say, hey, babe, why don't you
Speaker 2: take this name because I'm struggling with it.
Speaker 1: You nailed it a little more, you do, you do?
Speaker 1: But she's from Poland. She's great. Now you've seen all
Speaker 1: the time a match ends, the two players, no matter
Speaker 1: how heated that match was, they come to the net,
Speaker 1: they shake hands. They often hug the pleasantries. So when
Speaker 1: they met at the net to shake hands, it was
Speaker 1: clear that Collins was saying something that caught Schiatach off guard.
Speaker 1: You Actually, she Shiatak at one point kind of put
Speaker 1: her hands up, like what's going on? Like let that
Speaker 1: little emoji or that apple emoji right with this? What
Speaker 1: are we talking about? So later they did reveal Collins
Speaker 1: was telling Sciatech, you don't have to be insincere about
Speaker 1: my injury. What Collins then elaborated the reporters later saying
Speaker 1: her opponent can be one way on camera and another
Speaker 1: way in the locker room, she said, I quote, I
Speaker 1: don't need the fakeness, is what she said. Would not
Speaker 1: comment on it, she said, ask her about it and
Speaker 1: let her talk about it. You hate to see that. Again,
Speaker 1: we talk about, haven't we heard the Olympic ideal? And
Speaker 1: but you had to remember these guys, these women and men,
Speaker 1: these athletes are athletes. They are competitors, and competition at
Speaker 1: this level gets heated, and maybe this was a part
Speaker 1: of it. But yet you kind of hated to see it.
Speaker 1: But how bad a shade did Collins have to be
Speaker 1: in You're at the Olympics and you have to say, hey,
Speaker 1: I have to stop.
Speaker 2: I get it. I mean, if her body was going
Speaker 2: into full convulsions and on a table, that makes sense.
Speaker 2: And you have to put your health above a gold
Speaker 2: or any kind of a medal, or even any sort
Speaker 2: of competition. So it's a tough decision to have to make,
Speaker 2: but it was a smart one, I'm sure from a
Speaker 2: medical standpoint. So I get that. Now we want to
Speaker 2: talk about women's gymnastics, because that is going to be
Speaker 2: the talk of the day and perhaps even of the Olympics.
Speaker 2: But the two previous winners of the Women's All Around
Speaker 2: Olympic Gold will now both be going for gold in
Speaker 2: that very event again today both women are Americans. We're
Speaker 2: talking about Simone Biles and Sunny Lee. Of course, it's incredible.
Speaker 2: Only twice at Olympic history have two American women landed
Speaker 2: on the podium together. Two thousand and eight we have
Speaker 2: Nastia Luken who went for gold, who got gold, sorry,
Speaker 2: and Sean Johnson who got silver. And then in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 2: well it was Simon Files who had gold and Ali
Speaker 2: Raisman for silver. So this is really cool to see
Speaker 2: that we could have both women on the podium. I
Speaker 2: think most people are betting that Simon will get gold
Speaker 2: and soon you might get silver. But you never know.
Speaker 2: As we mentioned with gymnastics, one small mistake can cost
Speaker 2: you not just the gold, but being even on the
Speaker 2: podium altogether.
Speaker 1: I mean, should we even go as far as predicting?
Speaker 1: Are we kidding here? Small Biles is gonna win this
Speaker 1: thing running away?
Speaker 2: Agreed? But we I you know, you also saw what
Speaker 2: happened to Tokyo. It doesn't seem like she's anywhere near
Speaker 2: being in that mind space. She's come over. She's definitely
Speaker 2: risen above it and figured it out, did a lot
Speaker 2: of work on her mental health, and so you see
Speaker 2: what that has gotten her. Where that's gotten her. And
Speaker 2: I certainly believe if I was a betting woman, you
Speaker 2: could bet the farm that she's going to win gold. However,
Speaker 2: anything can happen in the Olympics. Anything can happen.
Speaker 1: Well, you can go to her balance being routine, jump
Speaker 1: up there and just smoke a cigarette, drink a beer,
Speaker 1: jump down, and she'll still win the over world.
Speaker 2: That's funny. But you know what is interesting to your point,
Speaker 2: and we've heard this from the commentators, because her skill
Speaker 2: level is so high. When you have a skill level,
Speaker 2: when you start out with it's you have a potential
Speaker 2: of getting a higher score than anyone else. You can
Speaker 2: actually fall and still win goal. Yes, and if you
Speaker 2: have a perfect routeene but it's less difficult and you're perfect,
Speaker 2: you don't make any mistakes, you still might not get
Speaker 2: on the podium. It's about now, the way gymnastics has become.
Speaker 2: It's whoever can do the highest difficulty starts out at
Speaker 2: such a higher point valuation that you can even make
Speaker 2: some pretty significant mistakes and still win.
Speaker 1: Think of it as weighted classes. In high school those
Speaker 1: ap classes, right, that kid got an A in the
Speaker 1: regular class. I got an A in the weighted class.
Speaker 1: So I got a four point three GPA and you
Speaker 1: got a four point zero. That's what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: You can this is what this is. And she's just
Speaker 1: so far ahead when she starts an event that it's
Speaker 1: she has the like I said, smoke, smoke a cigarette,
Speaker 1: drink a beer down't balance me and just hop down.
Speaker 1: She will still crush it on the next three events,
Speaker 1: win goal, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, you know you will be clapping for
Speaker 2: Simone and Suoni and all of tam Usa. But yes,
Speaker 2: Simone clapped back at her former teammate, and I.
Speaker 1: Should give you a hard time. She clapp should give
Speaker 1: you a hard time clapping.
Speaker 2: That just came to me right now? Oh are you shocked?
Speaker 2: That's a kidding. I'm laughing. Do you make fun of
Speaker 2: me all the time for my cheesy, cheesy, cheesy moments?
Speaker 2: But yeah, so you you wrote who in their right
Speaker 2: mind would block Simone Biles on Instagram? Well it was
Speaker 2: one of her former teammates. At least, that's what Simone
Speaker 2: Biles is saying. There you know, I have not loved
Speaker 2: witnessing this. I just got to say, I understand, I
Speaker 2: understand the emotion. This just this is hard for me,
Speaker 2: even as a woman, because this is just I feel
Speaker 2: like this gets all of the attention and the last thing,
Speaker 2: I think any decorated female Olympian wants the headline to
Speaker 2: be about some beef you have with another and she,
Speaker 2: you know, I think it's very fair to say she
Speaker 2: did not start it, but there's been some clapping back
Speaker 2: and it's stolen the headlines from in a lot of ways,
Speaker 2: just the accomplishments. I hate this. But there has been
Speaker 2: a back and forth with her former Olympic teammate, Mikayla Skinner,
Speaker 2: and it all started last month when Skinner, she started it,
Speaker 2: like I said, made comments that this team USA just
Speaker 2: doesn't have the work ethic and she said, and this
Speaker 2: is a quote here, besides Simone, I feel like the
Speaker 2: talent and depth just isn't what it used to be.
Speaker 2: So after the women went won the gold medal the
Speaker 2: team Gold, Simone posted a picture of the team on
Speaker 2: social media, but her caption is what got the attention.
Speaker 2: She said, lack of talent, lazy, Olympic champions which was
Speaker 2: almost assuredly a shot at Skinner.
Speaker 1: Okay. So then in another post yesterday, a follow up
Speaker 1: to that, Simone and a teammate Ordan Giles, showed an
Speaker 1: image of a phone being held for some by Simone
Speaker 1: and it had Skinner's Instagram profile up on the screen
Speaker 1: and it showed this image. You see, if somebody has
Speaker 1: blocked you, you could go to their profile and it says
Speaker 1: zero posts and da da da da. So it seemed
Speaker 1: to display that Skinner had blocked some moon Now Simon.
Speaker 1: Actually she tweeted out or the thing that's saying, oops,
Speaker 1: I've been blocked, and they're kind of having some fun
Speaker 1: about it and going at Skinner. Skinner, we do want
Speaker 1: to say apologized, like she put out a statement apologizing
Speaker 1: for her original comments. She also had said she was misinterpreted.
Speaker 1: I didn't hear the live comments that have the context,
Speaker 1: so I don't know what she was talking about, how
Speaker 1: she was talking about it, but clearly it offended the
Speaker 1: current team and something she said at least she felt
Speaker 1: later she should.
Speaker 2: Not have said, oh yeah, and then Soony added to
Speaker 2: it because she then put a she then put out
Speaker 2: on her social media put a finger down. If Simone
Speaker 2: Biles just ended you, and reportedly she ended that with
Speaker 2: a hand emoji, you can guess which one that is
Speaker 2: since been deleted. So that's just I get it. I
Speaker 2: get it. These these girls have worked so hard and
Speaker 2: they proved that their hard work paid off, and so
Speaker 2: it's very frustrating when someone who was once on your
Speaker 2: team then shows some shade. I just I wish that
Speaker 2: we could just find some sunshine and the shade could
Speaker 2: go away. But just for some point of reference, Mikaela Skinner,
Speaker 2: she actually was able to get a silver medal on
Speaker 2: the vault. When Simone had the twisties, she dropped out
Speaker 2: of that event and so Skinner was put in. She
Speaker 2: was there as a potential replacement and so it made
Speaker 2: room for her to win. And if you looked back
Speaker 2: at the two back in twenty twenty one, I guess
Speaker 2: they were good friends. So it's just it's just tough
Speaker 2: to see former teammates and just women in general. I
Speaker 2: just I hate this. So I hope we can put
Speaker 2: this to bed and we can focus on the athleticism
Speaker 2: and just watch and shaer On Biles and Sunny, you know,
Speaker 2: Sony Lee bring home some metal today and we can
Speaker 2: just cheer them on and forget this other stuff.
Speaker 1: Hang. Hopefully we'll see Skinner and some Owen and crew
Speaker 1: and maybe it's all okay. Maybe it's been misinterpreted. Everybody's emotional,
Speaker 1: but to your point, yeah, maybe it'll be okay. But
Speaker 1: I would love to talk to Mikayla Skinner. I would
Speaker 1: I just wonder where her head. Well, I want to
Speaker 1: find that clip.
Speaker 2: It was deleted, you know what that And also she
Speaker 2: I should point out she also put up on her
Speaker 2: Instagram story. She was trying to make good of making
Speaker 2: a bad decision by saying what she said, but she
Speaker 2: put up on their story on her story a picture
Speaker 2: of the team, the current team who just won the gold,
Speaker 2: and put heart emoji. So she was trying. But you know,
Speaker 2: once something like that has been said, you can't really
Speaker 2: unsay it.
Speaker 1: Let's keep talking about the women of the Olympics for
Speaker 1: a second, and another pretty incredible feat that has been
Speaker 1: pulled off by the women of Canadian soccer. They have
Speaker 1: advanced out of the group stage. Now that's tough to
Speaker 1: do for any country. To do it with a six
Speaker 1: point penalty is soposed to be impossible, but that's exactly
Speaker 1: what they have now done. Remember, the Canadian women are
Speaker 1: the defending Olympic gold medalists. They got caught, I say they.
Speaker 1: I don't want to put the whole team in it,
Speaker 1: but at least the coaches and the coaching staff were
Speaker 1: caught flying drones to spy on their opponents at their opponents' practices.
Speaker 1: The Canadian coach was actually dismissed and sent home before
Speaker 1: Canada played it first match at these Olympics. An investigation
Speaker 1: continues that an appeal was already denied. But Robes, you
Speaker 1: and I watch a lot of internet. Anytime countries are involved,
Speaker 1: you and I will stop and watch those soccer matches.
Speaker 1: But the group stage, if for folks do watch or
Speaker 1: don't understand you in a group of four teams, each
Speaker 1: of you play each other. If you win, you get
Speaker 1: three points. You lose, you get no points, you tie,
Speaker 1: you get one point. It's just so whoever gets the
Speaker 1: most points out of that group play. They got docked
Speaker 1: six points and they still made it out of group
Speaker 1: ropes by beating winning all of their matches.
Speaker 2: And that is remarkable. Also, I just if you're that good,
Speaker 2: why do you have to spy. I just the cheating
Speaker 2: thing is tough. And by the way, Bev Priestman, who
Speaker 2: is the Canadian coach, you mentioned she got sent home,
Speaker 2: but this they also got banned for one year, you know,
Speaker 2: and think about what that does to the team morale.
Speaker 2: So the Canadian coach, the assistant coach, and a performance
Speaker 2: analyst were all given those one year bands in addition
Speaker 2: to being sent home from the Olympics, and the team
Speaker 2: still did what they did, so they are certainly a
Speaker 2: force to watch. They're going to be facing Germany in
Speaker 2: the quarterfinals on Saturday, so you know, good for those
Speaker 2: girls for being able to rise above and you know,
Speaker 2: like you said, what your coach does doesn't necessarily imply
Speaker 2: that you had any part of it. And yet you know,
Speaker 2: they paid the price and they proved that they're still well,
Speaker 2: incredibly exceptionally good at what they do.
Speaker 1: Would have doubts that the team that the players were
Speaker 1: in on this and a part of it, and I
Speaker 1: have to take them with their word on that one.
Speaker 1: But I applaud them for what they've been able to play.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Today, also just wanted to give a shout out
Speaker 2: to US women's basketball. They beat Japan by twenty six points.
Speaker 2: They won fifty six straight Olympic games and so they
Speaker 2: are certainly a force to watch. The last Olympic game
Speaker 2: they lost was back in nineteen ninety two in Barcelona.
Speaker 2: So kudos to the US women's basketball.
Speaker 1: That's jed that the I mean, as you can imagine,
Speaker 1: the tallest player on Japan's team six to one, the
Speaker 1: US has I think half a team is tall than
Speaker 1: six one.
Speaker 2: Well, they're playing Belgium today, so we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 2: But somehow I think we've got this, But maybe that's
Speaker 2: just arrogant I don't know, or history. All right, this
Speaker 2: is what else we're watching today. It is a star
Speaker 2: studded day. Of course, we've just mentioned US women's gymnastics.
Speaker 2: If you twelve fifteen Eastern time, some Homebiles Sunny League
Speaker 2: compete in the individual all around finals. We are scheduling
Speaker 2: our entire day around that, obviously. Then track and field
Speaker 2: had its official start today. You heard TJ talk about
Speaker 2: the race walk. If you were like me and did
Speaker 2: not get up at one thirty in the morning or
Speaker 2: at three o'clock in the morning to watch it live,
Speaker 2: you can watch it later this morning. I will be
Speaker 2: doing that. I just I have to see it. So
Speaker 2: it's a must watch for me. Maybe it's a must
Speaker 2: rewatch for you. TJ.
Speaker 1: No, I'm good on So I watched no sport. Where's
Speaker 1: that line they tell you? I see you've seen it
Speaker 1: in your news career at some point locally where they
Speaker 1: say they tell you the news after it happens, they
Speaker 1: tell you the weather before it happens. But sports is
Speaker 1: the only thing worth watching live.
Speaker 2: Oh that's good.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 2: I've never heard that before, but that is all very true. Okay,
Speaker 2: men's golf today? You interested in that? You've got a
Speaker 2: marquee three sism? Oh my god, a marquee threesome?
Speaker 1: What where were you trying to say?
Speaker 2: Wow, threesome? And I said three sism.
Speaker 1: Three sism? Yeah I did, But where's the sizza come from?
Speaker 1: You were about to say? Wait, what a marquee threesome?
Speaker 2: It's because him. I don't know. Sometimes my brain is inexplainable.
Speaker 1: What other word could that have been?
Speaker 2: Three sism threesome? I don't know, because I don't know.
Speaker 2: But I've got some s names coming up, so maybe
Speaker 2: my brain just jumbled them all. Because the world's number one,
Speaker 2: Scotti Sheffer, number three Rory Macilroy. Thank you. See I
Speaker 2: am so bad with names sometimes and you might. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you know this one. Sweden's number four,
Speaker 2: Ludwig Aberg. I don't know anyway. I'm not a big
Speaker 2: golf person, as you can tell. But apparently if you
Speaker 2: love men's golf, today will be your day. We mentioned
Speaker 2: the basketball US women's basketball versus Belgium, and then yes,
Speaker 2: we mentioned Katie lid Deecki swimming in the four by
Speaker 2: two hundred relay. US women's beach volleyball versus China. Today
Speaker 2: US men's water polo versus Grease. There is so many
Speaker 2: more events that we just can't get through. But from
Speaker 2: surfing to archery to you know, it's just whatever you like,
Speaker 2: there's something for you today, So.
Speaker 1: We gotta get to it. We gotta go run very slowly,
Speaker 1: I guess we gotta read run floored. And these folks
Speaker 1: are walking.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we have a six miler today as we
Speaker 2: continue to prep for the Chicago Marathon. But doesn't seem
Speaker 2: like such a great athletic feed after everything we've been
Speaker 2: watching at the Olympics. But it is humid and hot, here,
Speaker 2: so we've got to go get that done. But no
Speaker 2: complaints here. Having so much fun watching all of Team
Speaker 2: USA do what they do and even just all the
Speaker 2: athletes around the world. It's been remarkable. Had a lot
Speaker 2: of fun, so hope you're having fun listening to us.
Speaker 2: We'll have more tea from Perry tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Again, we're not married to that title.