Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, the show that
Speaker 1: from now on and forever we'll be calling the Olympics
Speaker 1: sports tapists.
Speaker 2: Thank you disco utters on Twitter.
Speaker 1: On today's show, we'll get into all the biggest headlines
Speaker 1: after a busy weekend at the Paris Games. We'll give
Speaker 1: love to some old folks still getting after it and
Speaker 1: try to stump producer Alex with your Olympic questions. It's
Speaker 1: all coming up right after this. Welcome back, Hope you
Speaker 1: had a great weekend. Here's what you need to know today.
Speaker 1: On the track, the women's one hundred meter final took
Speaker 1: center stage on Saturday night, Americans Shakerrie Richardson and Melissa
Speaker 1: Jefferson both competing in their Olympic debut when silver and
Speaker 1: bronze respectively. But we absolutely have to give flowers to
Speaker 1: gold medalist Julian Alfred, who upset gold medal favorite SHAKERI
Speaker 1: to give the Caribbean nation of Saint Lucia it's first
Speaker 1: ever Olympic medal of any color. The island nation has
Speaker 1: a population of just one hundred and seventy nine thousand.
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen him, google the videos of folks
Speaker 1: back in her home country watching and celebrating the win.
Speaker 1: So cool and if you think Saint Lucia is small,
Speaker 1: let's sail about ninety miles north to another island nation,
Speaker 1: Dominica population seventy two thousand, which also won its first
Speaker 1: ever Olympic medal. On Saturday night, Theo Lafon Gadsen claimed
Speaker 1: gold in the triple jump on behalf of the Caribbean
Speaker 1: island nation of that. In swimming, Katie Ledecki, who just
Speaker 1: last week became the most decorated female athlete in US
Speaker 1: Olympic history when she won her thirteenth medal, made even
Speaker 1: more history this weekend. On Saturday, she claimed gold in
Speaker 1: the eight hundred meters, becoming the first woman from any
Speaker 1: country in any sport to win four gold medals in
Speaker 1: the same individual event. She's only the second swimmer to
Speaker 1: do that, joining the goat Michael Phelps. Over the weekend,
Speaker 1: Simone Biles won her tenth career Olympic medal, claiming gold
Speaker 1: on the vault. Brazil's Rebecca Andrage took silver, and American
Speaker 1: Jade Carey took braun. In the uneven bars finals, Sunny
Speaker 1: Lee captured her third medal of this Olympics, taking bronze
Speaker 1: behind Kalia Namore of Algeria and Chochia of China. Now
Speaker 1: you'll remember our guest last week, Ari Sapperstein, who came
Speaker 1: on to talk gymnastics, told you keep an eye on
Speaker 1: Khalia and we hope you watched it because it was
Speaker 1: a beautiful routine. She also becomes the first Olympic medalist
Speaker 1: in gymnastics from not just Algeria, but all of Africa.
Speaker 1: Very very cool to watch. Gymnastics concludes today with the
Speaker 1: balance beam and the floor apparatus finals. Simone Biles will
Speaker 1: compete on both. She'll be joined by Sunny Leon Beam
Speaker 1: and Jordan Chiles on floor. We're pumped for that.
Speaker 2: To basketball.
Speaker 1: Three x three basketball concludes today and somehow the US
Speaker 1: are competing. If you listen to last Thursday's group chat,
Speaker 1: you know that we didn't really have high hopes for
Speaker 1: the US team when they started the games with three
Speaker 1: straight losses.
Speaker 2: But you know what, shame on us because they turned
Speaker 2: it around.
Speaker 1: You know what, not shame on us, We're gonna take
Speaker 1: credit for Thank you for listening, ladies. I'm glad our
Speaker 1: disappointment in you and our demand for a whole new
Speaker 1: set of players inspired you to turn things around, because Yeah,
Speaker 1: after their terrible start, team USA came back in won
Speaker 1: four straight. They finished pool play at ranked third out
Speaker 1: of eight teams, and even though they missed out on
Speaker 1: a bye, they made quick work of their playing game opponent,
Speaker 1: defeating China twenty one to thirteen on Saturday. So they'll
Speaker 1: now play Spain in Semi final number one today, that's
Speaker 1: at eleven thirty am Eastern, and then Germany and Canada
Speaker 1: go head to head in Semi Final number two at
Speaker 1: twelve thirty pm Eastern. The bronze medal and the gold
Speaker 1: medal games will follow, beginning at three pm Eastern.
Speaker 2: Good luck, ladies.
Speaker 1: Glad you took our shitting' on you and turned it
Speaker 1: into a positive.
Speaker 2: Are bad?
Speaker 1: In soccer, the US booked a spot in the semifinals
Speaker 1: with a one nil extra time win over Japan on Saturday,
Speaker 1: Trinity Rodman scoring an absolute banger of a goal for
Speaker 1: the win. Please look that up if you didn't watch it.
Speaker 1: Next up for the US is Germany. That game is
Speaker 1: two day at twelve pm Eastern. Germany booked its spot
Speaker 1: with a penalty shootout win over Canada, ending dronegate at
Speaker 1: least on the play side. I'm sure plenty of news
Speaker 1: still to come, and Brazil and Spain are playing in
Speaker 1: the other semi final. Now, you remember ahead at this
Speaker 1: USA Germany game that US already beat Germany four to
Speaker 1: one in pool play earlier in the tournament, so they're
Speaker 1: very familiar with the Germans and presumably they'll head into
Speaker 1: this match with a little bit of confidence. Also, one
Speaker 1: other soccer update that we needed to give you after
Speaker 1: talking about it last week. You remember that Marta, the
Speaker 1: Brazilian legend, got sent off with a red card in
Speaker 1: Brazil's final game of group play. Usually that means you're
Speaker 1: missing the next game, so we were worried we might
Speaker 1: not see her in international play ever. Again, Marta told
Speaker 1: us before this Olympics this was it for her in
Speaker 1: Green and Yellow. But Brazil pulled off the win without her,
Speaker 1: and we all celebrated more Marta until we learned via
Speaker 1: the athletics Meg Linahan that Marcha's red was earned from
Speaker 1: a quote serious foul play, so she was docked two
Speaker 1: games and she'll have to miss Brazil's semi final game
Speaker 1: against Spain as well. Brazil is appealing that, but the
Speaker 1: good News is whatever happens, Marta is guaranteed one last
Speaker 1: Olympic game. Even if Brazil loses in the semis, they'll
Speaker 1: still play in the bronze medal match, and assuming all
Speaker 1: goes well, we'll get to see her one last time finally.
Speaker 1: Boxing News boxers Cindy Nagamba will soon become the first
Speaker 1: member of the Olympic refugee team to claim a medal.
Speaker 1: She won her quarterfinal round on Sunday and secured a
Speaker 1: spot in the semi final, and if she wins, she'll.
Speaker 2: Fight for gold.
Speaker 1: If she loses, she'll take home bronze. The Sport of
Speaker 1: Boxing awards bronze medals to both semifinal losers. Now. Nagomba
Speaker 1: was born in Cameroon, but she can't return home because
Speaker 1: she's gay and homosexuality is outlawed in the country, so
Speaker 1: she lives in England. But per the Athletic she's repeatedly
Speaker 1: been denied British citizenship despite winning three national titles and
Speaker 1: receiving support from Great Britain Boxing. So she competes for
Speaker 1: the refugee team and she'll be winning them a medal.
Speaker 2: Such a cool story.
Speaker 1: One of the things I've loved most about watching this Olympics,
Speaker 1: and really any Olympics, is how many different examples of
Speaker 1: greatness we get to see. We see big, small, tall, short, fast, strong, young,
Speaker 1: and old, And I especially like the old, as the
Speaker 1: only person on the show alive for the death of
Speaker 1: John Lennon and the birth of MTV and apparently, based
Speaker 1: on pre show, the only one who knows the reference
Speaker 1: A dingo ate my baby. I appreciate the olds are
Speaker 1: still getting it done. In the words of another eighties baby,
Speaker 1: the great Diana Tarasi in the twenty twenty one ESPN
Speaker 1: doc one forty four, why can't old people dream too?
Speaker 2: It's like, why can't old people dream too?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: There's an age limit to being great?
Speaker 1: And we're not talking Simone Biles old here, golden girls,
Speaker 1: my ass y'all are children. You're Misha's age, Simone. We're
Speaker 1: talking actually old for sports people, you know, like the.
Speaker 2: Meme you I'm only thirty five. I have my whole
Speaker 2: life ahead of me.
Speaker 1: Sports broadcaster, here comes the oldest player in the league.
Speaker 1: He's thirty two. A miracle so speaking to thirty somethings,
Speaker 1: and as the only person at good Game who remembers
Speaker 1: the hit show thirty something whatever, whatever, let's just start
Speaker 1: with the youngest old. On Sunday, thirty one year old
Speaker 1: Kristin Faulkner won gold in cycling's road race, marking Team
Speaker 1: USA's first women's road cycling medal in forty years.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: She's not actually old, thirty one is just getting started.
Speaker 1: But do you ever watch when they do those athlete
Speaker 1: features with the home video footage of the gold medalist,
Speaker 1: like playing their sport as a three year old, and
Speaker 1: you think, wow, you know, guess if I wanted to
Speaker 1: be an Olympic medalist in skateboarding or soccer or gymnastics,
Speaker 1: should have started training as soon as I could walk.
Speaker 2: Well, that is not Faulkner's story.
Speaker 1: She only started cycling seven years ago, at age twenty four.
Speaker 1: It's kind of where her relatability ends, though, because she
Speaker 1: grew up in Alaska, road at Harvard, moved to New
Speaker 1: York to take a job in venture capital, you know,
Speaker 1: like normal things. But after going to a free intro
Speaker 1: to cycling lesson, she started biking around Central Park for
Speaker 1: her morning workouts. Didn't even pursue cycling full time until
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Wasn't even supposed to compete in the
Speaker 1: road race at these Olympics. She only clinched the spot
Speaker 1: after one of her US teammates gave up the spot
Speaker 1: to focus on triathlon, so Falkner entered as the true
Speaker 1: underdog's underdog coming into Sunday's race, But with three kilometers
Speaker 1: left in the race and still hanging with the lead pack,
Speaker 1: she made a risky move and decided to leave the
Speaker 1: peloton behind. It sprint for gold, and she won. So
Speaker 1: to the baby of our group of olds. Congratulations. Okay,
Speaker 1: but Misha's really the only one here who considers thirty
Speaker 1: one old, so let's talk like actually old for an
Speaker 1: Olympic athlete. Fifty five German dressage writer Isabelle Verirth became
Speaker 1: the oldest woman to win Olympic gold in one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty years when Team Germany claimed the top prize
Speaker 1: in team dressage on Saturday. Now that's according to those
Speaker 1: Olympic nerds over at OLYMPDA. With that gold, she also
Speaker 1: became the first person to win a gold medal at
Speaker 1: seven different Olympics. By the time producer Misha was born,
Speaker 1: birth was already a four time Olympic medalist.
Speaker 2: Also shout out American Laura Kraut, who at.
Speaker 1: Age fifty eight, became the oldest US medalist in seventy
Speaker 1: two years when she won silver and team.
Speaker 2: Jumping last week.
Speaker 1: And by the way, did you guys see the venue
Speaker 1: for these equestrian competitions Chateau de Versailles? Absolutely unreal, Like,
Speaker 1: even if you're not interested in watching any equestrian stuff,
Speaker 1: which you should be based on how we've established ourselves
Speaker 1: as the primary source for horse news, you should just watch.
Speaker 2: Some of it. For the venue, It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Also, I once cursed at a man in French outside
Speaker 1: Versailles because he cut the entire two and a half
Speaker 1: hour line with this family by pretending to be on
Speaker 1: the phone. And when I started getting mad at English,
Speaker 1: she pretended he didn't understand me, even if you might have.
Speaker 1: So then I started swearing in French and that's when
Speaker 1: things really picked up. Anyway, let's get to the next
Speaker 1: old Seeing Seng was a rising table tennis star in
Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies and eighties and even went pro at
Speaker 1: age twelve, making the Chinese national team at sixteen, but
Speaker 1: then a rule change derailed her game and she retired
Speaker 1: when she was only twenty. She moved on, making her
Speaker 1: way to Chile in nineteen eighty nine, opening a furniture
Speaker 1: store and only briefly dabbling in the sport in the interim,
Speaker 1: But she decided to pick up her paddle again during
Speaker 1: the pandemic, and last week she played in her first
Speaker 1: Olympic match at age fifty eight. Even better, it was
Speaker 1: a sixty one year old former teammate who's also competing
Speaker 1: this year that inspired her to come back. It's not
Speaker 1: too late for us, y'all. Pickleball, Brisbane, twenty thirty two.
Speaker 1: I'll see you there. I probably won't because I'm actually
Speaker 1: getting tired just thinking about competing at my advanced age.
Speaker 2: Let's take a quick break and towel off. I'm fatigued.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to answer your Olympic
Speaker 2: questions with Alex. Welcome back, everybody.
Speaker 1: If you're enjoying the Olympics as much as I am,
Speaker 1: despite still being a little bit confused about a lot
Speaker 1: of things, and based on some of your questions, you
Speaker 1: are so our expert Alex is going to answer your
Speaker 1: questions and we'll see if we can Stumper.
Speaker 2: Let's start with Eve.
Speaker 1: This is from an email she sent us, she asked,
Speaker 1: why does the coach question mark stand near the uneven
Speaker 1: bars for women? Is it to catch them in case
Speaker 1: of a fall or to provide something to spot So
Speaker 1: what's happened there?
Speaker 3: Alex, Yeah, I love this question. So it is similar
Speaker 3: to what happens at a gym. If you're doing a
Speaker 3: bench press, you better have a spotter because you don't
Speaker 3: want to be the person that ends up not being
Speaker 3: able to get the weight off of your chest. And
Speaker 3: in gymnastics they're doing dangerous things all the time, and
Speaker 3: so what is interesting to me is that it is
Speaker 3: only on uneven bars that athletes are allowed to have
Speaker 3: a spotter without an automatic deduction. And so jimnasts typically
Speaker 3: have their coach because it needs to be somebody that
Speaker 3: knows their routine and is also accredited and allowed on
Speaker 3: the floor of the bit competition who stands underneath them
Speaker 3: because if they lose the bars when their head is
Speaker 3: towards the floor, that could obviously end very badly for them.
Speaker 3: But one story I just want to flag, I'll link
Speaker 3: to it in the show notes. Diana Moskovitz of Defector
Speaker 3: actually wrote a great story last year about how Biles
Speaker 3: when she was training the yr chinko double pike, chose
Speaker 3: to get a deduction to have her coach spot her.
Speaker 3: It was a point five deduction, which you know in
Speaker 3: gymnastics is a lot thoughnut for Simone Biles, and so
Speaker 3: I think that there's a question to be asked in
Speaker 3: the future of should gymnasts be allowed to have a
Speaker 3: spot her all the time for all four apparatus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it feels like in the middle of
Speaker 1: a vault it would be dangerous for both of them.
Speaker 1: But you have seen Simone's coaches during warmups be on
Speaker 1: the edge of the map to kind of cushion her
Speaker 1: if she's going to fall at the end of those
Speaker 1: massive vaults.
Speaker 3: Well, one thing I'll add to that too is I
Speaker 3: love watching gymnastics and diving with other athletes because me,
Speaker 3: as a normal human, I'll be shocked when the person
Speaker 3: falls when they actually fall, But jimnasts note that the
Speaker 3: person is going to fall like a whole five seconds
Speaker 3: in advance, and so their coaches are the same. When
Speaker 3: you've seen an athlete do something one hundred times, you
Speaker 3: know from the get go that they're in the wrong place,
Speaker 3: the wrong spot in the air. They're not doing that
Speaker 3: twist fast enough and so while it is dangerous for
Speaker 3: someone to be there, the coach certainly knows better than
Speaker 3: anyone else. Oh, I need to step back because she's
Speaker 3: about to fly into me.
Speaker 2: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I kind of had a feeling about those spotters,
Speaker 1: but I did never think about the fact that they
Speaker 1: don't allow them for any other parts of the routine.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Laurna on Twitter. What are
Speaker 1: those random boxes the medalists receive.
Speaker 3: This one's quick and easy. It is the official poster
Speaker 3: of the Olympics. And as someone who decorated her college
Speaker 3: dorm room with unofficial printed off of the Internet posters
Speaker 3: of the Olympics, I'm pretty jealous.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: I thought those were like carrying cases for the medals, because,
Speaker 1: as someone who's won two Emmys, what happens when you
Speaker 1: win an Emmy is they give you this giant box
Speaker 1: to put it in and to take home with you.
Speaker 1: But then they also give you like luggage to put
Speaker 1: the box in, because they presume that you didn't have
Speaker 1: room in the original luggage that you brought to like.
Speaker 2: Get it home.
Speaker 1: So I thought, oh, they probably have like some sort
Speaker 1: of like long skinny box with like clasps on it
Speaker 1: that you put the metal in, and that that's what
Speaker 1: they were holding.
Speaker 2: Do they have that separately?
Speaker 3: That's actually a great question. I don't think that they
Speaker 3: give them a carry in case for their Olympic medal.
Speaker 3: Maybe Sarah stumped me, right.
Speaker 1: They don't even get like a little Crown Royal velvet
Speaker 1: pouch to put it in.
Speaker 3: I know I used to keep my ski goggles in
Speaker 3: a Crown Royal velvet pouch. Those are the best.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe if you anticipate getting a medal, you should
Speaker 1: bring a Crown Royal pouch with you. Because I'm not
Speaker 1: raw Dog in my Medal. You got to wrap that
Speaker 1: thing up before you take it home. If you're not
Speaker 1: going to wear it all night on your neck, you
Speaker 1: got to have a plan for it, is all I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, I think if you win an Olympic medal,
Speaker 3: mandatory you have to wear it through security.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean agreed for sure.
Speaker 1: I also think think it's mandatory that we call this
Speaker 1: episode raw Dog in your Medal, because that's just gonna
Speaker 1: have to happen.
Speaker 2: Moving on, Beth hool.
Speaker 1: Asks does the caddy get a gold in golf too?
Speaker 1: I love this question because I saw someone post that
Speaker 1: horses should get the medals because the riders are really
Speaker 1: more like the coaches, which was hilarious to me. But
Speaker 1: I didn't really think about the caddies. Are caddies getting medals?
Speaker 3: They are absolutely not getting metals, which apparently is something
Speaker 3: that golf is like all up in arms about and
Speaker 3: has been since the sport was added back in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: To me, it's not that wild, given that coaches don't
Speaker 3: get metals in any Olympic sports.
Speaker 2: Yeah, caddies are basically coaches.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, coaches don't get medals, horses don't get metals.
Speaker 3: But I agree with you. I think the horse should
Speaker 3: maybe get the metal over the human.
Speaker 2: For sure, or at least both, at least both. This
Speaker 2: question is from Nick. Why are some surfers wearing helmets?
Speaker 3: So it is because of how dangerous that venue is.
Speaker 3: So ahead of the Olympics, Surfing's International Federation actually advised
Speaker 3: that surfers wear helmets. Most of them did not listen,
Speaker 3: but one of them, Joe On de Fay of France,
Speaker 3: she actually crashed, had a super nasty wipeout, got thrown
Speaker 3: into the coral reef that is below that break, and
Speaker 3: when she came back after getting four stitches, she was
Speaker 3: wearing a helmet. I also got a question from Nick
Speaker 3: about helmets in skateboarding, because some athletes are wearing them
Speaker 3: and some aren't. And in skateboarding it's actually an age thing.
Speaker 3: So if you're under eighteen, you have to wear a
Speaker 3: helmet no matter what event you're in, and if you
Speaker 3: compete in the park event, you also have to wear
Speaker 3: a helmet. But for athletes that are competing in street
Speaker 3: and are over the age of eighteen, they can decide
Speaker 3: to do whatever they want.
Speaker 1: Interesting, I'm always seeing people riding around Chicago on those
Speaker 1: we call them divvy bikes, I think their city bikes
Speaker 1: in New York, and they're like, clearly they don't know
Speaker 1: how to ride a bike and they don't have a helmet,
Speaker 1: and I think it's just a safety issue for all
Speaker 1: of us. I think at any age, you should be
Speaker 1: required to wear a helmet on a city bike. I've
Speaker 1: also seen stories of them ending up on Lake Shore
Speaker 1: Drive in the middle of Chicago, which not great.
Speaker 2: Not great.
Speaker 1: Somebody else on Twitter wants to know what gives with
Speaker 1: the repechage round in track and field. So can you
Speaker 1: explain who and why they get to run in that
Speaker 1: if they don't make it via their heats.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. So even Olympic nerd alex Azi had
Speaker 3: to do a double take when I saw that track
Speaker 3: and Field had represchage rounds. So represchage is actually a
Speaker 3: French word. Loosely translated, it means second chance. It's something
Speaker 3: that has existed in rowing probably forever. Don't fact check
Speaker 3: me on that. And what happens is that in the
Speaker 3: individual events from the two hundred to the fifteen hundred,
Speaker 3: if you don't advance out of your heat, you are
Speaker 3: given a second chance to try to make it into
Speaker 3: the semi finals. So it's all the losers competing against
Speaker 3: each other. I don't know if I love the idea
Speaker 3: hate the idea, but I guess we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 2: I tend to love the idea.
Speaker 1: I think any chance you have to prove that you
Speaker 1: belong and make it. If you then do that, I'm
Speaker 1: here for it because it's so heartbreaking to me when
Speaker 1: someone just like something goes wrong or they're just this
Speaker 1: closed or something I don't know. I just for the
Speaker 1: most part, I believe in that as long as ultimately
Speaker 1: everybody gets that fair shake in the end at the
Speaker 1: final Absolutely.
Speaker 3: The only thing I'll add to that is you have
Speaker 3: to actually finish. If you record a DNF for whatever reason,
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that doesn't actually qualify you for the
Speaker 3: repechage round.
Speaker 1: Oh that's the kind of incident where I want them
Speaker 1: to have a second yit darn it all, all right, Alex,
Speaker 1: I feel like I did, in fact stump you because
Speaker 1: I did ask about whether they get a metal condom,
Speaker 1: and so I get a prize, right, That's what you said,
Speaker 1: if someone stumps you, they get prize.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I think my family also gets a prize because
Speaker 3: they asked me a question today that I thought I
Speaker 3: knew the answer to you, and then I realized I
Speaker 3: maybe don't actually know the answer to it.
Speaker 2: What was that?
Speaker 3: So we were watching fencing and they were curious about
Speaker 3: the tethers. One of them asked. They were like, oh,
Speaker 3: is that so the coach can pull them back? I
Speaker 3: was like, that's a really funny visual, Like imagine your
Speaker 3: coach just gets to like pull you back like you're
Speaker 3: on a support climbing hall or something. But the tethers
Speaker 3: are there because they're electronic equipments to determine whether or
Speaker 3: not they make the touch. Oh, just because the weapon
Speaker 3: is moving so fast that the human eye probably can't
Speaker 3: detect that.
Speaker 2: That totally makes sense.
Speaker 3: Right, And I think it's existed for like probably as
Speaker 3: long as electricity. Again, don't fact check me. So then though,
Speaker 3: they ask me, is it possible for one fencer to
Speaker 3: electrocute another fencer? And I immediately was like no, And
Speaker 3: then I stopped because blind confidence is my least favorite
Speaker 3: quality in a human and I'm pretty sure the answer
Speaker 3: is no. But I was like, I've never asked a
Speaker 3: fencer that, and then I started googling myself and I
Speaker 3: end up on Reddit where somebody's like I was sweating
Speaker 3: and I felt a small shock while fencing, And granted
Speaker 3: that's like some amateur anyway, just reminds you you always
Speaker 3: need to ask the question.
Speaker 1: You just don't know. It's always good to ask the question. Okay,
Speaker 1: and speaking of that, I have one more question for you.
Speaker 1: Let's see if I can stump you at this. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's hear it should male Olympic pole vaulters hire drag
Speaker 1: queens to teach them how to tuck before they compete,
Speaker 1: so they don't limited themselves competition with their natural gifts
Speaker 1: down below, and not talking about any particular incident at all.
Speaker 2: This is a total hypothetical.
Speaker 3: I love a good hypothetical question. Answer more. Drag queens
Speaker 3: always all the.
Speaker 1: Time, absolutely, and I do think you know, add it
Speaker 1: to the coaching staff.
Speaker 2: It can't hurt. Also, shout out to my.
Speaker 1: Girl, Renee Stubbs for the ingenious idea of a drag
Speaker 1: queen coach teaching these guys how to tuck. I say,
Speaker 1: get the queens from the opening ceremony, or you know,
Speaker 1: call my girl Lucy Stewell from here in Chicago.
Speaker 2: Shout out Lucy Stewell. Everybody look her up.
Speaker 1: I think it's wise for us to take another break here.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll talk about some things we wish.
Speaker 1: We're set in stone.
Speaker 2: You're back. We're back, and it's time for yes. And
Speaker 2: let's talk about statues, y'all.
Speaker 1: In January twenty twenty one, the University of South Carolina
Speaker 1: Athletics put up a statue of Las Vegas Ace and
Speaker 1: tmusa basketball superstar Asia Wilson in front of Colonial Life
Speaker 1: Arena to commemorate.
Speaker 2: Her absolutely legendary college career.
Speaker 1: The Hopkins South Carolina native and twenty seventeen National champ
Speaker 1: was the first black woman to have a statue solely
Speaker 1: in her honor on SC's campus, and as Asia pointed out,
Speaker 1: it was the same campus that her late grandmother wasn't
Speaker 1: even allowed to step foot on in her youth due
Speaker 1: to racism. The moment was so well deserved and got
Speaker 1: a lot of attention around the sports world. In fact,
Speaker 1: considering the tear that Asia has been out in the
Speaker 1: WNBA and internationally, wouldn't surprise me if she had another statue.
Speaker 2: By the time her career is over.
Speaker 1: But Asia's one of very few women athletes with a
Speaker 1: statue of their likeness. Some others include Gold medalis Sunni Lee,
Speaker 1: who has one in her hometown of Saint Paul, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: four time WNBA champ, Simone Augustus who has one at LSU,
Speaker 1: Brandy Chastein and the ninety nine ers who are immortalized
Speaker 1: at the Rose Bowl, and Venus and Serena Williams, who
Speaker 1: have a statue honoring them at the National Museum of
Speaker 1: African American history and culture in Washington and now, as
Speaker 1: of this past July, three time Olympic gymnast Dominique Dawes
Speaker 1: has one at a recreation center in Montgomery County, Maryland,
Speaker 1: where she grew up. Dominique Dawes one of my favorite
Speaker 1: Olympic athletes ever. We are so excited for her and
Speaker 1: for the athletes you mentioned so yes, and the fact
Speaker 1: remains that there are so many female athletes who have
Speaker 1: not received their statues or frankly, the attention and appreciation
Speaker 1: they deserve. And it's much bigger than just female athletes
Speaker 1: not getting their recognition.
Speaker 2: It's women in general.
Speaker 1: Did you know that, according to research by University of
Speaker 1: Wisconsin lacrosse professor Sierra Rooney, only six percent of all
Speaker 1: American monuments feature actual female historic figures as their subjects.
Speaker 2: And according to nonprofit Monument Lab.
Speaker 1: In the US, you're more likely to find a sculpture
Speaker 1: of a mermaid than of any American born woman who
Speaker 1: actually existed and.
Speaker 2: Did something cool.
Speaker 1: Because I bet you've seen a lot of those stone
Speaker 1: tittied fountain ladies fountain water, but not a lot of
Speaker 1: statues dedicated to real, actual accomplished women, and this is
Speaker 1: the way we've immortalized men in this country for centuries,
Speaker 1: both athletes and otherwise. So it's about time we start
Speaker 1: keeping that same energy for greats of any gender. Put
Speaker 1: it in stone or clay or whatever the hell you
Speaker 1: make a statue out of, except for butter, because that
Speaker 1: Kaitlin Clark butter statue was super awesome. But if you
Speaker 1: could nuke a statue and it melts doesn't count.
Speaker 2: It was cool though.
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Speaker 1: here's our good game play of the day. What athlete
Speaker 1: in women's sports do you want to see immortalized in.
Speaker 2: Bronze or clay or copper or not butter?
Speaker 1: Pick one person. Okay, we do not want lists. We
Speaker 1: want one person, only one athlete in women's sports you
Speaker 1: would like to see a statue of.
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