WEBVTT - Raw-Doggin’ Olympic Medals 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:03.560 Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, the show that 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.960 from now on and forever we'll be calling the Olympics 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:08.480 sports tapists. 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:12.320 Thank you disco utters on Twitter. 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.360 On today's show, we'll get into all the biggest headlines 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:17.680 after a busy weekend at the Paris Games. We'll give 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:20.160 love to some old folks still getting after it and 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:23.400 try to stump producer Alex with your Olympic questions. It's 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:28.760 all coming up right after this. Welcome back, Hope you 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.280 had a great weekend. Here's what you need to know today. 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.040 On the track, the women's one hundred meter final took 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.839 center stage on Saturday night, Americans Shakerrie Richardson and Melissa 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:43.559 Jefferson both competing in their Olympic debut when silver and 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:47.360 bronze respectively. But we absolutely have to give flowers to 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.879 gold medalist Julian Alfred, who upset gold medal favorite SHAKERI 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:53.640 to give the Caribbean nation of Saint Lucia it's first 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.000 ever Olympic medal of any color. The island nation has 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.720 a population of just one hundred and seventy nine thousand. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.520 If you haven't seen him, google the videos of folks 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.280 back in her home country watching and celebrating the win. 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.240 So cool and if you think Saint Lucia is small, 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.760 let's sail about ninety miles north to another island nation, 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:17.600 Dominica population seventy two thousand, which also won its first 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.959 ever Olympic medal. On Saturday night, Theo Lafon Gadsen claimed 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.400 gold in the triple jump on behalf of the Caribbean 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:28.280 island nation of that. In swimming, Katie Ledecki, who just 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.199 last week became the most decorated female athlete in US 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.959 Olympic history when she won her thirteenth medal, made even 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.120 more history this weekend. On Saturday, she claimed gold in 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.000 the eight hundred meters, becoming the first woman from any 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.320 country in any sport to win four gold medals in 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.560 the same individual event. She's only the second swimmer to 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.160 do that, joining the goat Michael Phelps. Over the weekend, 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.120 Simone Biles won her tenth career Olympic medal, claiming gold 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.680 on the vault. Brazil's Rebecca Andrage took silver, and American 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:02.400 Jade Carey took braun. In the uneven bars finals, Sunny 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.320 Lee captured her third medal of this Olympics, taking bronze 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:09.880 behind Kalia Namore of Algeria and Chochia of China. Now 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.400 you'll remember our guest last week, Ari Sapperstein, who came 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.240 on to talk gymnastics, told you keep an eye on 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.560 Khalia and we hope you watched it because it was 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.560 a beautiful routine. She also becomes the first Olympic medalist 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.880 in gymnastics from not just Algeria, but all of Africa. 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:30.120 Very very cool to watch. Gymnastics concludes today with the 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.400 balance beam and the floor apparatus finals. Simone Biles will 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.680 compete on both. She'll be joined by Sunny Leon Beam 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:37.960 and Jordan Chiles on floor. We're pumped for that. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:39.600 To basketball. 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:43.960 Three x three basketball concludes today and somehow the US 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.640 are competing. If you listen to last Thursday's group chat, 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.640 you know that we didn't really have high hopes for 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.359 the US team when they started the games with three 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:53.679 straight losses. 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.760 But you know what, shame on us because they turned 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:57.760 it around. 0:02:57.960 --> 0:02:59.600 You know what, not shame on us, We're gonna take 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.959 credit for Thank you for listening, ladies. I'm glad our 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.359 disappointment in you and our demand for a whole new 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:10.239 set of players inspired you to turn things around, because Yeah, 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.919 after their terrible start, team USA came back in won 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.440 four straight. They finished pool play at ranked third out 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.720 of eight teams, and even though they missed out on 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.280 a bye, they made quick work of their playing game opponent, 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.840 defeating China twenty one to thirteen on Saturday. So they'll 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.919 now play Spain in Semi final number one today, that's 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.799 at eleven thirty am Eastern, and then Germany and Canada 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.079 go head to head in Semi Final number two at 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.960 twelve thirty pm Eastern. The bronze medal and the gold 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.760 medal games will follow, beginning at three pm Eastern. 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:39.800 Good luck, ladies. 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.520 Glad you took our shitting' on you and turned it 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:43.480 into a positive. 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:45.000 Are bad? 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.080 In soccer, the US booked a spot in the semifinals 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.680 with a one nil extra time win over Japan on Saturday, 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.920 Trinity Rodman scoring an absolute banger of a goal for 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.320 the win. Please look that up if you didn't watch it. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:59.640 Next up for the US is Germany. That game is 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.640 two day at twelve pm Eastern. Germany booked its spot 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.440 with a penalty shootout win over Canada, ending dronegate at 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.600 least on the play side. I'm sure plenty of news 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.280 still to come, and Brazil and Spain are playing in 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.640 the other semi final. Now, you remember ahead at this 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:17.000 USA Germany game that US already beat Germany four to 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.520 one in pool play earlier in the tournament, so they're 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.400 very familiar with the Germans and presumably they'll head into 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.039 this match with a little bit of confidence. Also, one 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.240 other soccer update that we needed to give you after 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.080 talking about it last week. You remember that Marta, the 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.680 Brazilian legend, got sent off with a red card in 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.720 Brazil's final game of group play. Usually that means you're 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.800 missing the next game, so we were worried we might 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.800 not see her in international play ever. Again, Marta told 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.080 us before this Olympics this was it for her in 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.360 Green and Yellow. But Brazil pulled off the win without her, 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:50.760 and we all celebrated more Marta until we learned via 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.440 the athletics Meg Linahan that Marcha's red was earned from 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:57.159 a quote serious foul play, so she was docked two 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.240 games and she'll have to miss Brazil's semi final game 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:03.440 against Spain as well. Brazil is appealing that, but the 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.840 good News is whatever happens, Marta is guaranteed one last 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.760 Olympic game. Even if Brazil loses in the semis, they'll 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.840 still play in the bronze medal match, and assuming all 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:16.560 goes well, we'll get to see her one last time finally. 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:20.440 Boxing News boxers Cindy Nagamba will soon become the first 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.960 member of the Olympic refugee team to claim a medal. 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.359 She won her quarterfinal round on Sunday and secured a 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.039 spot in the semi final, and if she wins, she'll. 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:29.479 Fight for gold. 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.599 If she loses, she'll take home bronze. The Sport of 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:37.320 Boxing awards bronze medals to both semifinal losers. Now. Nagomba 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.160 was born in Cameroon, but she can't return home because 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:44.000 she's gay and homosexuality is outlawed in the country, so 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.880 she lives in England. But per the Athletic she's repeatedly 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:51.120 been denied British citizenship despite winning three national titles and 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.760 receiving support from Great Britain Boxing. So she competes for 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.320 the refugee team and she'll be winning them a medal. 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.120 Such a cool story. 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.719 One of the things I've loved most about watching this Olympics, 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.200 and really any Olympics, is how many different examples of 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:12.560 greatness we get to see. We see big, small, tall, short, fast, strong, young, 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:16.280 and old, And I especially like the old, as the 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.640 only person on the show alive for the death of 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:22.719 John Lennon and the birth of MTV and apparently, based 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.200 on pre show, the only one who knows the reference 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:31.200 A dingo ate my baby. I appreciate the olds are 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.080 still getting it done. In the words of another eighties baby, 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.680 the great Diana Tarasi in the twenty twenty one ESPN 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.520 doc one forty four, why can't old people dream too? 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:41.920 It's like, why can't old people dream too? 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:42.840 What? 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.039 There's an age limit to being great? 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:49.440 And we're not talking Simone Biles old here, golden girls, 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:55.320 my ass y'all are children. You're Misha's age, Simone. We're 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.840 talking actually old for sports people, you know, like the. 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.760 Meme you I'm only thirty five. I have my whole 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:02.440 life ahead of me. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:06.080 Sports broadcaster, here comes the oldest player in the league. 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:11.600 He's thirty two. A miracle so speaking to thirty somethings, 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.680 and as the only person at good Game who remembers 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:19.920 the hit show thirty something whatever, whatever, let's just start 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.960 with the youngest old. On Sunday, thirty one year old 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.480 Kristin Faulkner won gold in cycling's road race, marking Team 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.400 USA's first women's road cycling medal in forty years. 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:29.920 Now. 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.080 She's not actually old, thirty one is just getting started. 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.200 But do you ever watch when they do those athlete 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.640 features with the home video footage of the gold medalist, 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:38.960 like playing their sport as a three year old, and 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.000 you think, wow, you know, guess if I wanted to 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.320 be an Olympic medalist in skateboarding or soccer or gymnastics, 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.720 should have started training as soon as I could walk. 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.840 Well, that is not Faulkner's story. 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.840 She only started cycling seven years ago, at age twenty four. 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.480 It's kind of where her relatability ends, though, because she 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.760 grew up in Alaska, road at Harvard, moved to New 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:01.720 York to take a job in venture capital, you know, 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.040 like normal things. But after going to a free intro 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:08.440 to cycling lesson, she started biking around Central Park for 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.880 her morning workouts. Didn't even pursue cycling full time until 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.320 twenty twenty one. Wasn't even supposed to compete in the 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.120 road race at these Olympics. She only clinched the spot 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.360 after one of her US teammates gave up the spot 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:23.160 to focus on triathlon, so Falkner entered as the true 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:27.320 underdog's underdog coming into Sunday's race, But with three kilometers 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.640 left in the race and still hanging with the lead pack, 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.040 she made a risky move and decided to leave the 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.720 peloton behind. It sprint for gold, and she won. So 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:40.199 to the baby of our group of olds. Congratulations. Okay, 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.679 but Misha's really the only one here who considers thirty 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.640 one old, so let's talk like actually old for an 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:50.800 Olympic athlete. Fifty five German dressage writer Isabelle Verirth became 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.080 the oldest woman to win Olympic gold in one hundred 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.839 and twenty years when Team Germany claimed the top prize 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.480 in team dressage on Saturday. Now that's according to those 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.520 Olympic nerds over at OLYMPDA. With that gold, she also 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.720 became the first person to win a gold medal at 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:08.280 seven different Olympics. By the time producer Misha was born, 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.800 birth was already a four time Olympic medalist. 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.600 Also shout out American Laura Kraut, who at. 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.840 Age fifty eight, became the oldest US medalist in seventy 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.360 two years when she won silver and team. 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:20.120 Jumping last week. 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.080 And by the way, did you guys see the venue 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:27.280 for these equestrian competitions Chateau de Versailles? Absolutely unreal, Like, 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.560 even if you're not interested in watching any equestrian stuff, 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.120 which you should be based on how we've established ourselves 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.960 as the primary source for horse news, you should just watch. 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.040 Some of it. For the venue, It's unbelievable. 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.320 Also, I once cursed at a man in French outside 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.120 Versailles because he cut the entire two and a half 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.120 hour line with this family by pretending to be on 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.400 the phone. And when I started getting mad at English, 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.400 she pretended he didn't understand me, even if you might have. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.439 So then I started swearing in French and that's when 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.760 things really picked up. Anyway, let's get to the next 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.600 old Seeing Seng was a rising table tennis star in 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.160 the nineteen seventies and eighties and even went pro at 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.960 age twelve, making the Chinese national team at sixteen, but 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.560 then a rule change derailed her game and she retired 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:09.240 when she was only twenty. She moved on, making her 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.760 way to Chile in nineteen eighty nine, opening a furniture 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.320 store and only briefly dabbling in the sport in the interim, 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.760 But she decided to pick up her paddle again during 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:21.000 the pandemic, and last week she played in her first 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:25.520 Olympic match at age fifty eight. Even better, it was 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.400 a sixty one year old former teammate who's also competing 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.000 this year that inspired her to come back. It's not 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:36.000 too late for us, y'all. Pickleball, Brisbane, twenty thirty two. 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:40.160 I'll see you there. I probably won't because I'm actually 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.240 getting tired just thinking about competing at my advanced age. 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:47.040 Let's take a quick break and towel off. I'm fatigued. 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:49.920 When we come back, we're going to answer your Olympic 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:57.040 questions with Alex. Welcome back, everybody. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.360 If you're enjoying the Olympics as much as I am, 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.000 despite still being a little bit confused about a lot 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.240 of things, and based on some of your questions, you 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:09.600 are so our expert Alex is going to answer your 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.560 questions and we'll see if we can Stumper. 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:13.199 Let's start with Eve. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.439 This is from an email she sent us, she asked, 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:20.360 why does the coach question mark stand near the uneven 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.400 bars for women? Is it to catch them in case 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:26.040 of a fall or to provide something to spot So 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:26.800 what's happened there? 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.440 Alex, Yeah, I love this question. So it is similar 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.520 to what happens at a gym. If you're doing a 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.839 bench press, you better have a spotter because you don't 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:36.839 want to be the person that ends up not being 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.120 able to get the weight off of your chest. And 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.480 in gymnastics they're doing dangerous things all the time, and 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.040 so what is interesting to me is that it is 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.520 only on uneven bars that athletes are allowed to have 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.840 a spotter without an automatic deduction. And so jimnasts typically 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:55.880 have their coach because it needs to be somebody that 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.240 knows their routine and is also accredited and allowed on 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.720 the floor of the bit competition who stands underneath them 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.840 because if they lose the bars when their head is 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.920 towards the floor, that could obviously end very badly for them. 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:11.640 But one story I just want to flag, I'll link 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.960 to it in the show notes. Diana Moskovitz of Defector 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.560 actually wrote a great story last year about how Biles 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.560 when she was training the yr chinko double pike, chose 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.800 to get a deduction to have her coach spot her. 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:24.960 It was a point five deduction, which you know in 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.240 gymnastics is a lot thoughnut for Simone Biles, and so 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.000 I think that there's a question to be asked in 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.959 the future of should gymnasts be allowed to have a 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.080 spot her all the time for all four apparatus. 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.480 Yeah, I mean it feels like in the middle of 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.440 a vault it would be dangerous for both of them. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:44.200 But you have seen Simone's coaches during warmups be on 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.640 the edge of the map to kind of cushion her 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.559 if she's going to fall at the end of those 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:50.600 massive vaults. 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.280 Well, one thing I'll add to that too is I 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:58.320 love watching gymnastics and diving with other athletes because me, 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.439 as a normal human, I'll be shocked when the person 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.560 falls when they actually fall, But jimnasts note that the 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.880 person is going to fall like a whole five seconds 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.440 in advance, and so their coaches are the same. When 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.280 you've seen an athlete do something one hundred times, you 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.640 know from the get go that they're in the wrong place, 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:16.400 the wrong spot in the air. They're not doing that 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:20.400 twist fast enough and so while it is dangerous for 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.280 someone to be there, the coach certainly knows better than 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:25.800 anyone else. Oh, I need to step back because she's 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:26.760 about to fly into me. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:28.439 Yeah for sure. 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:28.920 Yeah. 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:30.960 I mean I kind of had a feeling about those spotters, 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.720 but I did never think about the fact that they 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.119 don't allow them for any other parts of the routine. 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.760 All right, let's go to Laurna on Twitter. What are 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.120 those random boxes the medalists receive. 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.880 This one's quick and easy. It is the official poster 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:46.320 of the Olympics. And as someone who decorated her college 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:50.360 dorm room with unofficial printed off of the Internet posters 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.000 of the Olympics, I'm pretty jealous. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:52.880 Oh my gosh. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:57.400 I thought those were like carrying cases for the medals, because, 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:02.880 as someone who's won two Emmys, what happens when you 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.079 win an Emmy is they give you this giant box 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.360 to put it in and to take home with you. 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.080 But then they also give you like luggage to put 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:11.960 the box in, because they presume that you didn't have 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.079 room in the original luggage that you brought to like. 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:14.600 Get it home. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.680 So I thought, oh, they probably have like some sort 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:21.760 of like long skinny box with like clasps on it 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:23.360 that you put the metal in, and that that's what 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:24.080 they were holding. 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:25.400 Do they have that separately? 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:27.840 That's actually a great question. I don't think that they 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.000 give them a carry in case for their Olympic medal. 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.440 Maybe Sarah stumped me, right. 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.440 They don't even get like a little Crown Royal velvet 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:35.320 pouch to put it in. 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.440 I know I used to keep my ski goggles in 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.400 a Crown Royal velvet pouch. Those are the best. 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.360 Yeah, maybe if you anticipate getting a medal, you should 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.480 bring a Crown Royal pouch with you. Because I'm not 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.200 raw Dog in my Medal. You got to wrap that 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:49.880 thing up before you take it home. If you're not 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:51.680 going to wear it all night on your neck, you 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:53.480 got to have a plan for it, is all I'm saying. 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:55.960 Yeah, honestly, I think if you win an Olympic medal, 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:57.720 mandatory you have to wear it through security. 0:14:57.960 --> 0:14:59.320 Yeah, I mean agreed for sure. 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.280 I also think think it's mandatory that we call this 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:05.560 episode raw Dog in your Medal, because that's just gonna 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:06.200 have to happen. 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.280 Moving on, Beth hool. 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:12.000 Asks does the caddy get a gold in golf too? 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.240 I love this question because I saw someone post that 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.200 horses should get the medals because the riders are really 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.800 more like the coaches, which was hilarious to me. But 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.480 I didn't really think about the caddies. Are caddies getting medals? 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.720 They are absolutely not getting metals, which apparently is something 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:28.920 that golf is like all up in arms about and 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.400 has been since the sport was added back in twenty sixteen. 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.720 To me, it's not that wild, given that coaches don't 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.440 get metals in any Olympic sports. 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:38.720 Yeah, caddies are basically coaches. 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.760 Yeah. Yeah, coaches don't get medals, horses don't get metals. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:43.280 But I agree with you. I think the horse should 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:44.640 maybe get the metal over the human. 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.800 For sure, or at least both, at least both. This 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.840 question is from Nick. Why are some surfers wearing helmets? 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:55.840 So it is because of how dangerous that venue is. 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:59.760 So ahead of the Olympics, Surfing's International Federation actually advised 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.520 that surfers wear helmets. Most of them did not listen, 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.840 but one of them, Joe On de Fay of France, 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:13.160 she actually crashed, had a super nasty wipeout, got thrown 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:16.160 into the coral reef that is below that break, and 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.800 when she came back after getting four stitches, she was 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.720 wearing a helmet. I also got a question from Nick 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:25.240 about helmets in skateboarding, because some athletes are wearing them 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.600 and some aren't. And in skateboarding it's actually an age thing. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:30.280 So if you're under eighteen, you have to wear a 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.000 helmet no matter what event you're in, and if you 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:34.960 compete in the park event, you also have to wear 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.720 a helmet. But for athletes that are competing in street 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:39.840 and are over the age of eighteen, they can decide 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:40.760 to do whatever they want. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.080 Interesting, I'm always seeing people riding around Chicago on those 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:46.360 we call them divvy bikes, I think their city bikes 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.720 in New York, and they're like, clearly they don't know 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:50.960 how to ride a bike and they don't have a helmet, 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:52.920 and I think it's just a safety issue for all 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.600 of us. I think at any age, you should be 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.760 required to wear a helmet on a city bike. I've 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.000 also seen stories of them ending up on Lake Shore 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.240 Drive in the middle of Chicago, which not great. 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:03.280 Not great. 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.199 Somebody else on Twitter wants to know what gives with 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.600 the repechage round in track and field. So can you 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.080 explain who and why they get to run in that 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:13.879 if they don't make it via their heats. 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.240 Yeah, for sure. So even Olympic nerd alex Azi had 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.440 to do a double take when I saw that track 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:23.639 and Field had represchage rounds. So represchage is actually a 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:27.040 French word. Loosely translated, it means second chance. It's something 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.080 that has existed in rowing probably forever. Don't fact check 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.199 me on that. And what happens is that in the 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.720 individual events from the two hundred to the fifteen hundred, 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.880 if you don't advance out of your heat, you are 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:40.920 given a second chance to try to make it into 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.639 the semi finals. So it's all the losers competing against 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.720 each other. I don't know if I love the idea 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.280 hate the idea, but I guess we'll see how it goes. 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:50.040 I tend to love the idea. 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:53.359 I think any chance you have to prove that you 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.160 belong and make it. If you then do that, I'm 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.320 here for it because it's so heartbreaking to me when 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.600 someone just like something goes wrong or they're just this 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.159 closed or something I don't know. I just for the 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.400 most part, I believe in that as long as ultimately 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:07.560 everybody gets that fair shake in the end at the 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:08.800 final Absolutely. 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:10.800 The only thing I'll add to that is you have 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:14.520 to actually finish. If you record a DNF for whatever reason, 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:16.800 I'm pretty sure that doesn't actually qualify you for the 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:17.800 repechage round. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.680 Oh that's the kind of incident where I want them 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:24.720 to have a second yit darn it all, all right, Alex, 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:27.440 I feel like I did, in fact stump you because 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.240 I did ask about whether they get a metal condom, 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:35.520 and so I get a prize, right, That's what you said, 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:36.960 if someone stumps you, they get prize. 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:37.200 Yeah. 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:39.040 And I think my family also gets a prize because 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.280 they asked me a question today that I thought I 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:42.760 knew the answer to you, and then I realized I 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:44.800 maybe don't actually know the answer to it. 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:45.600 What was that? 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.600 So we were watching fencing and they were curious about 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:52.040 the tethers. One of them asked. They were like, oh, 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:53.800 is that so the coach can pull them back? I 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.080 was like, that's a really funny visual, Like imagine your 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.520