Speaker 1: Hey there on this Thursday, August, the eighth team USA
Speaker 1: on the verge of cracking friple digits in the metal count.
Speaker 1: The US athletes have now won a total of ninety
Speaker 1: two Olympic medals, China has sixty two. France remains in
Speaker 1: third place with fifty one medals.
Speaker 2: Welcome everyone to another t from Perry edition of Amy
Speaker 2: and TJ. And you know what You can call him
Speaker 2: Old McDonald, a fifty one year old just competed at
Speaker 2: the Olympics against teenagers. Also, an American sprinter literally and
Speaker 2: intentionally jogged the entirety of his race. It was all
Speaker 2: part of a strategy that now has him in the finals.
Speaker 2: And an athlete got sick after swimming in the sun
Speaker 2: and has now revealed what caused her illness.
Speaker 1: Also, both boxers at the center of that gender controversy
Speaker 1: make it to their respective finals and both will be
Speaker 1: going for gold. Also, an Indian wrestler goes to extreme
Speaker 1: measures to make weight for her gold medal round, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't enough and miss the mark by just three
Speaker 1: and a half ounces.
Speaker 2: A lot has changed in Tom Shar's life since he
Speaker 2: was a guest on our podcast Just a couple of
Speaker 2: days ago. Mainly, well, he has a new medal around
Speaker 2: his neck.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a really cool story. We're all cheering
Speaker 1: for these athletes. But Rose when we talked to these guys,
Speaker 1: there was something a little more special when we watched
Speaker 1: them compete after having had a conversation with him, it just,
Speaker 1: I don't know, you feel like you know him in
Speaker 1: a different way. And we were rooting hard for our
Speaker 1: skateboarder guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you get personally invested in them, and especially after
Speaker 2: knowing just how chill they were. They weren't out for blood,
Speaker 2: you know, they you know, and I don't I respect
Speaker 2: that when that's part of your strategy to win a goal.
Speaker 2: These guys were just doing what they love. They do
Speaker 2: it every day and they just got to do it
Speaker 2: on a big stage with the world watching and really
Speaker 2: shine a spotlight on a sport they love. And I
Speaker 2: feel like that's why they were in it. So you're
Speaker 2: rooting for them even more because it wasn't some high
Speaker 2: stakes competition. They were all buddies out there congratulating each other,
Speaker 2: genuine smiles, cheering each other on. I loved watching park skateboarding.
Speaker 1: That's funny you said it's not a high stakes competition.
Speaker 1: I know what you mean by that. It's funny that
Speaker 1: even at the Olympics with a gold medal on the line,
Speaker 1: these guys are just as chill as if they're back
Speaker 1: at their parks in California somewhere. That was fun to see.
Speaker 2: It's like the opposite of track and field, you know,
Speaker 2: you see these they are in it to win it,
Speaker 2: and I think that's special and amazing too. But it's
Speaker 2: just funny. The two sports couldn't be more different in
Speaker 2: terms of yes, yes, it's funny to watch both of
Speaker 2: them back to back. They're complete opposites.
Speaker 1: We watched and we seems like every view'll know we
Speaker 1: were watching this morning. We've been watching. We watched the
Speaker 1: marathon swim this morning that starting.
Speaker 2: You watched the marathon swim. Let's just be honest.
Speaker 1: This one actually started earlier than the other event. This
Speaker 1: one is one thirty am.
Speaker 2: You got up at two thirty this morning.
Speaker 1: To literally watch women swim through a river.
Speaker 2: Babe, you're insane. So he came. He put it on
Speaker 2: while we're both lying there, and normally we all know
Speaker 2: TJ likes the TV on it. I can drone it out.
Speaker 2: But for some reason the commentating, I just I started
Speaker 2: getting into it, and then I couldn't fall back asleep.
Speaker 2: So you had to go into the other room because
Speaker 2: you have to.
Speaker 1: This is a sport. It's not like constant it's constant action,
Speaker 1: but you can't really see action thing. It's like watching
Speaker 1: a NASCAR race. At some point you just think they're
Speaker 1: going around in circles. You have to really pay attention
Speaker 1: for the nuance. And I had to have all the
Speaker 1: nuance explained to me.
Speaker 2: So you had to turn up the volume a little.
Speaker 2: And that's when I was like, babe, can you turn
Speaker 2: down the volume? And so you just left the room.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I've been out here ever since. But that's right.
Speaker 1: But it was cool. Of course we'll get into well
Speaker 1: the river sin and all that going on. But the
Speaker 1: young lady who ended up winning, he called. I couldn't
Speaker 1: get They're out there in the water, you can't really
Speaker 1: tell what's going on. But he called her. You know,
Speaker 1: I love my commentators. He says, she's the Katie Ledecki
Speaker 1: of open water swimming. I said, okay, now I got it.
Speaker 1: Now I got it, And sure enough she wanted gold today.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's incredible. I did make it out to the
Speaker 2: other room in time to see something. Oh, just devastating
Speaker 2: that failed dive. The Mexican diver, she says she heard
Speaker 2: a noise, something distracted her and so she asked for
Speaker 2: a second go at it, because she literally slipped off
Speaker 2: the diving board and the judges, the referees ultimately said no.
Speaker 2: And her Olympic dreams and she was a metal contender,
Speaker 2: So it was really just you could hear the commentators
Speaker 2: just they were expressing just how devastating this was.
Speaker 1: You could argue, anybody who doesn't get a medal at
Speaker 1: the Olympics had their Olympic dream died. You could argue.
Speaker 1: But there are some, and we've watched them together. The
Speaker 1: one who was disqualified in sport climbing because he took
Speaker 1: off too early, the guy track who had a disqualification
Speaker 1: because of a false start, never even got to run
Speaker 1: in the Olympics. Those are even more gutting in This
Speaker 1: young lady from she's diving for a Native Mexico, but
Speaker 1: she's from North Carolina. She's won several national championships and
Speaker 1: one dive. You all know this. She's not supposed to
Speaker 1: have a lot of splash. She almost landed on her back, yes,
Speaker 1: in her dive, huge splash. She gets out of the water.
Speaker 1: As soon as her head comes up out of the water.
Speaker 1: Her hand is in the air because she's asking for,
Speaker 1: like you said, a do over. And we were I
Speaker 1: don't know this young lady. My fingers were crossed. Please
Speaker 1: give her a do over. Please.
Speaker 2: My heart was actually beating, you know, so hard because
Speaker 2: you're hoping that they're going to give for a second chance.
Speaker 2: And they did. They did admit that they heard a noise,
Speaker 2: but they said it was before she took off, not
Speaker 2: in mid air.
Speaker 1: So she got and I don't think i've seen this.
Speaker 1: She got a zero. It was called a what a
Speaker 1: failed dive? A failed dive all zero. She's essentially out.
Speaker 1: Aroanza Basquez is her name. But it got me to
Speaker 1: think about the noise thing in the Olympics that's been
Speaker 1: an issue. It's funny that the gymnasts we were talking
Speaker 1: about the other day they the.
Speaker 2: Silence wasn't working for them. It doesn't work well, no,
Speaker 2: it's it's too intimidating in a way because you know
Speaker 2: everyone's looking at you.
Speaker 1: So divers need dead silence. If not, I'm going to
Speaker 1: ask for a do over. It's just and then, of course, golfers,
Speaker 1: I mean tigers famous for cussing people out if you
Speaker 1: just breathe it too hard if he's about to make
Speaker 1: a shot. So it was the noise is interesting, but
Speaker 1: another gut ranging moment in the Olympics this morning. What
Speaker 1: else we watch? We got track and feel going today.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a big day, but we got
Speaker 1: an earlier start today, but I feel good. If anybody
Speaker 1: hears any noise in the background, we gotta let you know.
Speaker 1: We're sitting in our coffee table, not our coffee table,
Speaker 1: but our dining table right now, and we're washing clothes.
Speaker 1: So if you hear a little clunking in the background,
Speaker 1: it's just us being domestic.
Speaker 2: Yes, just a very loud washing machine. Unfortunately that we
Speaker 2: can't do anything about right now. So oh and you
Speaker 2: know what, we also want to just preview that we get.
Speaker 2: We got to speak to a silver medallist, Hailey Batton.
Speaker 2: She won in mountain biking and she is a joy
Speaker 2: to listen to. And we can't wait to bring that
Speaker 2: to you either today or tomorrow or next Just be
Speaker 2: looking for it. Hailey Batton silver medalist, and she is.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't wait for you all to hear
Speaker 2: just how she won, what she went through win, and
Speaker 2: what she's up to now.
Speaker 1: She was she jumps off the screen when you talked
Speaker 1: to her. But we saw something really interesting, and I
Speaker 1: know you all been paying attention, but this repechage that's
Speaker 1: been happening in track and field, it played a part
Speaker 1: in what we saw with an American sprinter who decided
Speaker 1: to jog his entire race. We're talking about Freddy Crittnen.
Speaker 1: He finished dead last in his one hundred and ten
Speaker 1: meter hurdles. He't yesterday. He did this on purpose, and
Speaker 1: he did this literally jogging down the track and then
Speaker 1: he just gently kind of stepped over the hurdles. Clearly
Speaker 1: he wasn't trying to compete. And yet this guy Robes
Speaker 1: is still in the one hundred and ten meter hurdles final.
Speaker 2: How did it happen? You ask, Well, if you've been
Speaker 2: watching any track and field, you've heard the word repechage
Speaker 2: thrown around. It's new to the Olympics this year. I
Speaker 2: had to look it up. I did not know what
Speaker 2: I was hearing, but basically it means as we're talking
Speaker 2: about second chances, you actually do get a second chance,
Speaker 2: and track and field runners who don't qualify out of
Speaker 2: the preliminary rounds all get put into an extra race
Speaker 2: for well, for lack of a better term, the losers,
Speaker 2: the people who lost the race, then the winning losers
Speaker 2: move on to the semifinals.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right. So Freddy Kritnin took advantage of the system.
Speaker 1: The dude has an injury that he was nursing, so
Speaker 1: instead of going hard in the prelimbs, he just lost
Speaker 1: on purpose, saved his energy, saved his body, knowing that
Speaker 1: he would have a second chance in the repechage, and
Speaker 1: sure enough he got an extra day of rest on
Speaker 1: his body. He came back to the repechage, he ran
Speaker 1: a good enough race to get into the semis. He's
Speaker 1: now into the finals by taking advantage of a system.
Speaker 1: People some people like it, some people don't, some people
Speaker 1: love it, and some people absolutely hate the system.
Speaker 2: Right now, yeah, but you know what, I look as
Speaker 2: a runner and having nursed injuries, you're nursing one right now.
Speaker 2: I understand. Man, If you're given that opportunity to rest
Speaker 2: up an extra day, why wouldn't you take it. I
Speaker 2: don't think he would have chosen you that, but why
Speaker 2: not let the rules work for you if they're put
Speaker 2: in place. So I don't fault him for it at all.
Speaker 1: I don't, that's the rule. So but the other runners
Speaker 1: would fault him because, hey, you just took a day off.
Speaker 1: I now have to go run hard all these races
Speaker 1: and you only had to run hard in one in
Speaker 1: the repechage. I ran hard in my heat. I ran
Speaker 1: hard in the repechage to try to make it. So
Speaker 1: why should you have that kind of physical advantage over
Speaker 1: me by gaming the system? That's not what it's for,
Speaker 1: is one argument.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I would just say that all of those
Speaker 2: runners had the same opportunity to do just what he did.
Speaker 1: Okay. Problem number two for the races is what you said.
Speaker 1: A lot of them now are going to start, and
Speaker 1: some have just saying, huh, the hell with it, I'll
Speaker 1: take all if they're injured or not, They'll say I
Speaker 1: don't even have to run hard in this one. So
Speaker 1: now they are trying to get an advantage that's not
Speaker 1: based on injury, but just based on you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm probably not going to make it out of my heat.
Speaker 1: I might as well say my for the you.
Speaker 2: Also got to run a second race though, I mean,
Speaker 2: even if you're lightly jogging it, you're still running a
Speaker 2: second race.
Speaker 1: He could have skipped down if he wanted to.
Speaker 2: All right, I tried. I tried.
Speaker 1: But if you think about like the eight hundred meter right,
Speaker 1: if you have to run an extra eight hundred meters,
Speaker 1: that's true, that is tough. And then so now some
Speaker 1: guys make the repechage and don't show up for it
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna save my body for my relay. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna do well in this individual race. I'll save
Speaker 1: it for my team relay. So then you have a
Speaker 1: repechage round with only three lanes occupied because some runners
Speaker 1: just don't show up for their repechage race because the
Speaker 1: hell with it, I'll skip it. So it's not it
Speaker 1: doesn't look good for the for the fan and the
Speaker 1: stand to see two or three people, four or five
Speaker 1: lean so they'll.
Speaker 2: See it six.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, we'll see what happens next Olympics. At
Speaker 2: that they'll see whether or not it worked. Well.
Speaker 1: It's to your point, when you want a second chance,
Speaker 1: I didn't, I ran hard, didn't make it. You know what,
Speaker 1: I got a second chance.
Speaker 2: I love second chances that I like third chances sometimes too.
Speaker 2: That's why it's so devastating for me to watch most
Speaker 2: sports in the Olympics because the majority of them do
Speaker 2: not get a second chance. That's why I like skateboarding.
Speaker 2: They get second and third chances. That makes it so
Speaker 2: much better for me. Yeah, I just feel like, yay,
Speaker 2: even if they messed up, they've got another shot. There's
Speaker 2: something about that knowing there's hope on the other side
Speaker 2: of a fall or something. I agree with you, it's
Speaker 2: not typical. Speaking of skateboarding, we had a lot of
Speaker 2: fun watching park skateboarding because I thought I like watching
Speaker 2: skateboarding because they get second chances and third chances. It
Speaker 2: makes me happy.
Speaker 1: Have a difficult time with my transitions.
Speaker 2: My transitions weren't as good as they almost always are.
Speaker 2: So anyway, the oldest Olympian in any event is this
Speaker 2: doesn't this makes a lot of sense in the equestrian events,
Speaker 2: right because they're riding a horse. So some of the
Speaker 2: athletes in the equestrian events are sixty five, sixty two,
Speaker 2: fifty nine, so you know they're up there. The event
Speaker 2: with the youngest Olympians. This also makes sense, is the
Speaker 2: aforementioned skateboarding a lot of teenagers. We mentioned the girl
Speaker 2: yesterday from China who's just eleven years old. That's the
Speaker 2: youngest competitor in these games. So when we tell you
Speaker 2: that we watched a fifty one year old compete yesterday,
Speaker 2: which of the two sports do you think he competed in?
Speaker 1: Uh, Equestrian duh, Nope, nope, we got a fifty one
Speaker 1: year old skateboarder. Yes, folks, fifty one years old. His
Speaker 1: name is Andy McDonald, Oh McDonald, let's call him. He's
Speaker 1: he's skating for Great Britain. He is now the oldest
Speaker 1: person to ever compete in the Olympics and skateboarding. Now,
Speaker 1: he is not new to the game, and he has
Speaker 1: been around a while and some would even call him
Speaker 1: a legend in this sport. But he's been skating one
Speaker 1: dozens and dozens of X Games medals over the years,
Speaker 1: but his first time competing in the Olympics and ropes.
Speaker 1: I'm look, we've had a lot of fun. There's there's
Speaker 1: few you can name you've had more joy watching compete
Speaker 1: than this dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we actually watched this in on separate TVs and
Speaker 2: separate homes, but we were texting back and forth because
Speaker 2: we were having so much fun watching him have so
Speaker 2: much fun. He's actually an American. I think his father
Speaker 2: is from Great Britain, so he has a British passport.
Speaker 2: Therefore he was able to compete four team Great Britain.
Speaker 2: But you know what, he was impressive and he most importantly,
Speaker 2: the smile on his face from start to finish was remarkable.
Speaker 2: And I love seeing Tony Hawk in the stands just
Speaker 2: going crazy cheering on his friend because they're buds from
Speaker 2: way back. I mean, this dude started skating in nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty five, I believe when he was competing, so that's
Speaker 2: how long he's been competing. But he was just a
Speaker 2: joy and a pleasure to watch, and I was rooting
Speaker 2: him on. He didn't make the finals, couldn't have cared
Speaker 2: less well. I don't think any of them did, to
Speaker 2: my point, they're all so chill. But I just appreciated
Speaker 2: his energy. It made me happy, It made me smile.
Speaker 1: That was the Olympic spirit that he absolutely exuded. And
Speaker 1: this is a sport. All of the ones on the
Speaker 1: women's side at least that got medals fourteen, fifteen, and
Speaker 1: sixteen with the ages Wow fourteen, fifteen and sixteen, and
Speaker 1: as a fifty one year old still in that same
Speaker 1: spoy this is a skateboard park, their street skate and
Speaker 1: their skateboard park. Like our guy told us, just imagine
Speaker 1: a swimming pool, empty swimming pool on crap.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what it looked like. To and Keegan Palmer
Speaker 2: of Australia, who won gold, I had I had chills
Speaker 2: like the entire time watching him just fly up in
Speaker 2: the air and do things that I would think were
Speaker 2: impossible to do with a skateboard. And right behind him
Speaker 2: was our Tom shar I say hour because he was
Speaker 2: on the podcast, so he's one of us. He took silver,
Speaker 2: and we were rooting on the other Gavin and Tate
Speaker 2: and you know, we were just are just hoping so
Speaker 2: much that they could get into metal contention, and they
Speaker 2: got close. But there was so much talent there it
Speaker 2: was crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you can. I don't know how
Speaker 1: these guys, you know what, Maybe they're built for it
Speaker 1: in a way better than even some of the older athletes.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're so young they say, oh I can. Probably
Speaker 1: they're young, so they think they're invincible or I fearless
Speaker 1: vacu later, or they're not, or it's just the culture
Speaker 1: of skateboarding. They're all just It really looked like they
Speaker 1: could give a shit if they want to metal or not.
Speaker 1: I know that's not the case, but it looked like
Speaker 1: they were just having a blast with their buddies in
Speaker 1: the backyard.
Speaker 2: That's what you hope for, right, I mean, if you're
Speaker 2: doing something at this level, well you better love it
Speaker 2: otherwise it's a painful thing to do. And they all
Speaker 2: love it, which just I was so impressed.
Speaker 1: So congrats to them. We want to give an update
Speaker 1: about the river sind A lot of talk about it
Speaker 1: and how nasty it is and dirty and polluted and
Speaker 1: not safe to swim on some days. They had to
Speaker 1: cancel some practices and move some dates with some events. Well,
Speaker 1: one athlete who fell ill after swimming in the river
Speaker 1: since says it was a virus and it was not
Speaker 1: a coli in that water that made her sick. And
Speaker 1: we've been talking about this and we mentioned this that
Speaker 1: Belgium had to pull out of the mixed relay race
Speaker 1: because Claire Michelle got sick after competing in the triathlon,
Speaker 1: while she did put out a social media post saying
Speaker 1: that she had contracted a virus not e coli. This
Speaker 1: next part you want to read the quote because it
Speaker 1: gets into some specifics.
Speaker 2: And now, well, you said, yeah, she was hospitalized. This
Speaker 2: was serious. She said she had three days of vomiting
Speaker 2: and diarrhea, which she says left her quite empty, and
Speaker 2: she ended up needing more significant medical attention. So she
Speaker 2: spent Sunday at the clinics slash hospital. So she I'm
Speaker 2: sure it was getting ivy fluids and all of those things,
Speaker 2: but she just wanted to clear it up because there
Speaker 2: was so much conjecture that the sin had made her sick,
Speaker 2: and she said blood tests proved that that was not
Speaker 2: the cause of her illness. However, there have been a
Speaker 2: couple other athletes who have been sick following that triathlon,
Speaker 2: but no one's there's been no proof that any of
Speaker 2: those illnesses are related to the sen specifically. I even
Speaker 2: noticed with all of the talk about it, Shape magazine
Speaker 2: followed us and interviewed a microbiologist. I'm laughing. We've been
Speaker 2: talking to my dad, who's a microbiologist, giving us updates
Speaker 2: about what equal like can do to the body and
Speaker 2: if the river sin actually could cause problems for folks,
Speaker 2: and he said unequivocally yes, if you swallow enough of that,
Speaker 2: absolutely it's possible.
Speaker 1: So, yes, we had the women. The women's marathon swim
Speaker 1: was this morning. The men's is tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Does that mean you're getting up at two point thirty
Speaker 2: again tomorrow?
Speaker 1: You know, I'll see what time the men's is. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what time theirs go, but yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to check it out. It's a they do. And again
Speaker 1: the triathletes, they only were in the water. They did
Speaker 1: a mile, mile and a half swim.
Speaker 2: This is significantly.
Speaker 1: This is a six mile two hours in the water.
Speaker 2: Oh my.
Speaker 1: So when you're watching it, every time you see them
Speaker 1: take us you go.
Speaker 2: You can you see them swallowing water?
Speaker 1: I mean they have to be I'm not paying that
Speaker 1: clothes of.
Speaker 2: Attention, but yeah, how could you not.
Speaker 1: You're two hours swimming with your head in the sine.
Speaker 1: So that one's tomorrow. Yes, I will be up and watching, but.
Speaker 2: You let me know how it goes. I will be sleeping.
Speaker 1: But even that, the commentators were saying this, they the swimmers,
Speaker 1: they want to be in the sin they don't want
Speaker 1: it to be nasty, but what a once in a
Speaker 1: lifetime experience. And the fans have lined that river and
Speaker 1: it looks other than the color of the water, the
Speaker 1: scene looks.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's stunning. I mean just the imagery when they've
Speaker 2: got the camera shots of you know, the Eiffel Tower,
Speaker 2: and it's amazing.
Speaker 1: All right, but yes, I watched that.
Speaker 2: You suffer a little bit for your sport. There you go.
Speaker 2: You know what, this has been a story that we've
Speaker 2: been following throughout and it's been an ugly, nasty story
Speaker 2: out of the Olympics. But you know what, it is
Speaker 2: close to having a double golden ending. Wouldn't that be
Speaker 2: something after all this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, finally see the two women who have been at
Speaker 1: the middleless controversy. We don't know, boxers Amani Khalif of
Speaker 1: Algeria and Lynn you Ting of Chinese Taipei. They are
Speaker 1: in the gold medal match in their respective weight divisions,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I applaud how given all they've dealt with
Speaker 1: the past. I think it's been a full week of this,
Speaker 1: has it not.
Speaker 2: Perhaps it's motivated them, you know, sometimes that's the kind
Speaker 2: of thing that gets you going. But if you don't,
Speaker 2: I'm sure we don't have to update you, but just
Speaker 2: a brief as much as I can briefly update you.
Speaker 2: Both Khalif and you Ting have been accused of having
Speaker 2: elevated levels of testosterone, and the International Boxing Association, which
Speaker 2: is not an authority that the Olympics, the International Olympic
Speaker 2: Committee is even acknowledging. In fact, they've been disqualified from
Speaker 2: being a part of the Olympics. So there you go
Speaker 2: in terms of credibility. But they've claimed that these women
Speaker 2: have both an X and a Y chromosome, saying that
Speaker 2: they were essentially intersex. Both of these women have said
Speaker 2: they were born female. They are female. They have passports
Speaker 2: and birth certificates to prove it. Sadly it got to
Speaker 2: that point, but there are still people out there, of course,
Speaker 2: who are questioning their gender eligibility to be competing in
Speaker 2: a female boxing match, and.
Speaker 1: Of course that's been a debate, a debate certainly this
Speaker 1: country having to do with trans athletes. This is not
Speaker 1: what this is. But all these things have kind of
Speaker 1: gotten mixed up together and became a messing guy, really ugly.
Speaker 1: But congratulations to them both. Len Uting's semi final and
Speaker 1: both these women have kind of been dominating their opponents.
Speaker 1: They have, they've had decent careers, pretty good careers, but
Speaker 1: they have had a pretty magical run, so congrats to them. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: though len Uting's semifinal match, her opponent, I mean, the
Speaker 1: match went on, she won on all the judges cards,
Speaker 1: but her opponent at the end, even after U teen
Speaker 1: leaves the leaves the ring, comes back, stands in the
Speaker 1: center on her own and puts her fingers up and
Speaker 1: makes kind of a double X, and many people took
Speaker 1: that to say she's trying to signify that she's a
Speaker 1: woman and trying to make that point that.
Speaker 2: She's a woman and that linting is not right. And
Speaker 2: that happened as well to Khalif with the woman she
Speaker 2: faced from Hungary, who previously on social media was putting
Speaker 2: out all of this hateful imagery. So they've both dealt
Speaker 2: with this in the ring outside of the ring, but
Speaker 2: they've got their heads on straight, so good for them.
Speaker 1: Well, Friday and Saturday, those two will be fighting in
Speaker 1: their championship matches, so check them out, all right.
Speaker 2: So you know, typically when an athlete gets to a
Speaker 2: gold medal match, you've got a gold medal on the line,
Speaker 2: the worst case scenario for that athlete is that they
Speaker 2: end up with the silver medal. But unfortunately, for India's
Speaker 2: Venesh Fogat, weighing an extra three and a half ounces
Speaker 2: not only cost her the opportunity to bring home India's
Speaker 2: first gold medal in wrestling, but it ended her entire
Speaker 2: Olympic dream. You know, the New York Times, I love
Speaker 2: put just for imagery to realize, Like, what's three and
Speaker 2: a half ounces? It's the way to a small banana
Speaker 2: or three sizes of bread, or a deck of cards,
Speaker 2: that's how much we're talking about.
Speaker 1: Or one of our alpha fly tennis shoes, one stick
Speaker 1: of speed stick deodorant, one package of uncooked ramen. Now
Speaker 1: the reason I know that is because I was going
Speaker 1: around the house look at for stuff.
Speaker 2: All these impressive impressive. But yeah, so that's what we're
Speaker 2: talking about. That's the weight in question. But according to
Speaker 2: the United World Wrestling rules, if you do not make
Speaker 2: weight after your second way in, you are eliminated from
Speaker 2: the competition. You essentially your name goes last on a
Speaker 2: leader board. And that's what happened to forgot. She was
Speaker 2: set to face ten USA's Sarah Hildebrandt for gold, which
Speaker 2: was her chance to become listen to this, the first
Speaker 2: woman from India, that is the world's most populous nation
Speaker 2: to win an Olympic gold medal in any event, I
Speaker 2: think about all of that, what was on the line.
Speaker 2: So when her staff checked her weight before her weigh in,
Speaker 2: she had gained three pounds from replenishing after her last
Speaker 2: three matches, which she handily won. And apparently that's pretty typical.
Speaker 2: So these athletes know what they do. They have their
Speaker 2: usual strategies for cutting these pounds. It's nothing out of
Speaker 2: the ordinary. So she stayed up all night. She was
Speaker 2: on the treadmill, she was going to the sauna, back
Speaker 2: and forth, back and forth. It didn't work. She was
Speaker 2: losing weight but not enough, so her team doctor said
Speaker 2: quote they tried all possible drastic measures throughout the night,
Speaker 2: including cutting off her hair and shortening her clothes, but
Speaker 2: to no avail. There have been other outlets who have
Speaker 2: said they've done even more extreme things. That's I can't
Speaker 2: confirm that, so I'm not going to report it. But
Speaker 2: they fell one hundred grams short, or three and a
Speaker 2: half ounces. Prime Minister of India tweeting this to their athlete, Vanish,
Speaker 2: you are a champion among champions, your India's pride and
Speaker 2: an inspiration for each and every Indian. But she was
Speaker 2: crushing it like she beat the former Olympic champion, the
Speaker 2: former world champion. I mean she was and like handily,
Speaker 2: like it wasn't even a question. So she was expected
Speaker 2: to win gold because she was disqualified. Well, team USA
Speaker 2: got the gold, and so congratulations to Sarah. But it
Speaker 2: certainly came at a large cost.
Speaker 1: No, look, you wanted far and square. I'm sure the
Speaker 1: American didn't want to win it that way. But you
Speaker 1: win it fair and square because far and square are
Speaker 1: part of it is making weight. Yeah, and you see
Speaker 1: this in obviously boxing they take this very seriously because
Speaker 1: if you have any weight, I wait, advantage over your opponent,
Speaker 1: that is a problem. It's not a fair fight. And
Speaker 1: I don't know how this happens because I have been
Speaker 1: around boxers and fighters over many many years. Them dudes
Speaker 1: know exactly what to do to make sure they make weight,
Speaker 1: and they just this. This should not happen in a
Speaker 1: major event like no, no, no, no, no, I don't
Speaker 1: know how that happened. And this isn't a fluke thing
Speaker 1: like a scratch or disqualification of this. I don't know
Speaker 1: how you're not ready to go to your goal metal map.
Speaker 2: That's devastating. Well, she so also she was. She did
Speaker 2: qualify in a in a lower than her normal body weight.
Speaker 2: She had worked really hard to get down. I think
Speaker 2: it's about one hundred and ten pounds and she was
Speaker 2: at one hundred and seventeen. So anyway, she had done
Speaker 2: the work to qualify for a lower weight and that
Speaker 2: ended up biting her.
Speaker 1: I just said, somebody let her down. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just you cannot miss out on a gold medal
Speaker 1: because of the most basic of things do in fighting.
Speaker 2: A deck of cards or a package of ramens that.
Speaker 1: Little I've seen. They dehydrate, they starve, they put on
Speaker 1: those big plastic suits, they go to saunas them do
Speaker 1: whatever it takes. I just don't get it, and it sucks. Sucks,
Speaker 1: sucks for her that you make the gold medal match
Speaker 1: and not even allowed to fight.
Speaker 2: Any I know. It was so much history on the
Speaker 2: line too. Yeah, that's a tough one. Well, we are
Speaker 2: watching so many fun events today as we have been
Speaker 2: every day. Track and field is going to be a
Speaker 2: big day today. The big event, of course the two
Speaker 2: hundred meter, the final of the men's We're gonna get
Speaker 2: to see Noah Lyles do what he does best. Is
Speaker 2: this considered to be his best match or at least.
Speaker 1: Or he's better at this than some say than the
Speaker 1: one hundred.
Speaker 2: Yes, so that's exciting. Although in the heats yesterday he
Speaker 2: did not win his heat.
Speaker 1: But don't have to.
Speaker 2: He's not sweating it.
Speaker 1: Don't have to.
Speaker 2: Nope, he doesn't.
Speaker 1: No, you know, speaking of track and field, this is
Speaker 1: a little bit of breaking news depending on what time
Speaker 1: you're listening to us. The Jamaican team four y one
Speaker 1: hundred team didn't make it. Waimated. This is a everybody know,
Speaker 1: these are powerhouse sprinters. They had issues on the exchange.
Speaker 1: We were watching this live. Just what was this fifteen
Speaker 1: twenty minutes ago? Ropes and yep, sure not. They didn't
Speaker 1: drop the baton, but had exchange issues and had to
Speaker 1: slow down. Got smoked. China won the heat.
Speaker 2: We saw it was remarkable smoked and you were saying
Speaker 2: they were precise in their handoffs and that matters.
Speaker 1: Didn't have to be the fastest guys they had to
Speaker 1: be the most efficient guys in those handoffs, and they
Speaker 1: crossed first. It was unbelieva. That's a big deal.
Speaker 2: That Yeah, that really is women's fifteen hundred meter semi finals.
Speaker 2: There's just so many events. I couldn't list them all,
Speaker 2: but just just no, starting now, all the way through
Speaker 2: the afternoon, you're gonna have whatever you'd like to watch.
Speaker 2: In track and field, You've got the women's long jump final,
Speaker 2: de mens javelin throw final, just to name a few. Also,
Speaker 2: men's basketball team USA versus Serbia at two forty five
Speaker 2: Eastern time, that'll be you're you're you're wobbling your head.
Speaker 1: Well, I wonder and the tm USA is won it.
Speaker 1: You remember they blew out Serbia was an opening game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: blew them out. Yeah, Okay, Now they're wondering if Serbia
Speaker 1: held back a little bit, if they didn't show all
Speaker 1: their cards in that match, because they knew they might
Speaker 1: have to find the United States on the other side again.
Speaker 1: So of course Novak Novak Djokovic, well he's Servia Sera.
Speaker 1: But the other the other joker, Nikolai jok have easy
Speaker 1: that's an easy switch. But yeah, they're wondering if they're
Speaker 1: gonna play him more now now, it's so some intrigue
Speaker 1: for that reason, all.
Speaker 2: Right, that's cool. Also, we' even just starting to sample
Speaker 2: a little bit. But this is also going to be
Speaker 2: going on throughout the day. Rhythmic gymnastics. It is a spectacle.
Speaker 2: I love gymnastics. I'm always just a little in awe
Speaker 2: of what they do in these events, and I'm I'm
Speaker 2: really intrigued by qualification rounds for the individual all around.
Speaker 2: They started already and they're gonna be going into the afternoon.
Speaker 2: So if you want to check it out, just it's
Speaker 2: fun to watch just the ball and they have a ribbon.
Speaker 2: They have a ribbon, they have a ball, but is.
Speaker 1: That two different thing yet the ball is a different
Speaker 1: thing than the rhythm or they do both the ribbon
Speaker 1: and the they do.
Speaker 2: I need to I need to watch more today and
Speaker 2: I'll be able to report back tomorrow. Yes, And I
Speaker 2: don't have all the answers because it's always been a
Speaker 2: slightly confusing sport to me. But I'm going to have
Speaker 2: some fun watching it. They're also replaying, by the way,
Speaker 2: I think it's an encore. Uh. If you want to
Speaker 2: check it out. The US did very well in artistic
Speaker 2: swimming or synchronized swimming, and that's again very fun to watch. Diving,
Speaker 2: men's springboard finals. Table tennis is going to be happening
Speaker 2: all morning, all afternoon. Some notables. The men's semifinals China
Speaker 2: versus France will be great. The women's semifinals China versus
Speaker 2: South Korea, those are both later this morning.
Speaker 1: On that point, we were talking about the oldest Olympians. Yes,
Speaker 1: in the equestrian the other sports, we're the oldest tennisable tennis,
Speaker 1: and it's the oldest are the women.
Speaker 2: Oh that's funny. Okay, that's that's fun to check out.
Speaker 2: I love that. All right, women's volleyball team USA made
Speaker 2: it to the semifinals against Brazil. That's ten am. That'll
Speaker 2: be good. I know, I know that'll be a good one.
Speaker 2: And then look, Team USA out of men's soccer. But
Speaker 2: the bronze medal game is being played today Egypt versus Morocco.
Speaker 2: That's at eleven a m. So a lot of folks
Speaker 2: will be tuning into that. We're thinking about it. We're
Speaker 2: still sad. We're still sad that Team USA is out.
Speaker 1: We're non committal on bronze medal masses.
Speaker 2: We like the fine knows and we like the interesting
Speaker 2: sports that we don't understand any of the rules, so
Speaker 2: we'll be watching all of that today. We will report
Speaker 2: everything back to you tomorrow. But thank you once again
Speaker 2: for tuning in for all the tea from Perry. No.
Speaker 1: I gotta put clothes in the dryer.