Speaker 1: Ring, Ring Ring.
Speaker 2: It's the end of a little era.
Speaker 1: I've quite enjoyed myself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this has been a lot of fun. We're not
Speaker 2: just talking about the Olympics. This is the end of
Speaker 2: season one of Two Guys Five Rings. With this episode,
Speaker 2: as we look forward to more Olympics in the future,
Speaker 2: we must also look back at Two Guys Five Rings,
Speaker 2: which has really taken not only the media by storm.
Speaker 2: I think that it's changed who we are and how
Speaker 2: we look at the Olympics, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 1: Bowen, Absolutely, I have never been more invested in the
Speaker 1: materials of the mattresses in the Olympic village than I
Speaker 1: have since this podcast. I've learned so much. We've had
Speaker 1: such a great team that has helped us along the way.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you all. I mean, what will you take
Speaker 1: away and cherish the most after this?
Speaker 2: You got to meet Greg Luganis I mean, that was amazing.
Speaker 2: You got to go back and listen to that episode
Speaker 2: in that interview if you haven't yet, I mean that
Speaker 2: was probably I would say that was the highlight of
Speaker 2: it for me, was getting to connect with him and
Speaker 2: just such an icon and such a legend. And yeah,
Speaker 2: and of course, always sharing time with my sister and
Speaker 2: really really connecting over world events. I think we got
Speaker 2: so much closer doing this.
Speaker 1: We did, and we got to talk about really important
Speaker 1: things like Billie Eilish, like.
Speaker 2: Lady Gaga Ao Ao, we smoke him.
Speaker 1: And of course Celine Dion's wait, that's rhymes. I don't
Speaker 1: know why wait, hold on a second. No, no, the
Speaker 1: fact that get thrown into international court for this.
Speaker 2: Oh, the producers are laughing, they're sending emojis, they're cracking. Oh.
Speaker 1: Now, and of course Celin Dion, Hell, that's so insane.
Speaker 1: My French Canadian ass is going that they're taking my
Speaker 1: card away. Well, it's not about French anymore, okay, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's about.
Speaker 2: Italian In twenty twenty six, it's the Milan Courtina Winter
Speaker 2: Olympics and Paralympics or twenty twenty six Milan Quurtina Olympic
Speaker 2: Winter Games. Baby, it's gonna be the first Olympics winter
Speaker 2: or summer officially featuring multiple host cities.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. It's very I would say, Demi Levado and
Speaker 1: Nick Jonas going on tour together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in that it's more than.
Speaker 1: One, in that it's more and in that the world
Speaker 1: will gather and we will remember it, and we will
Speaker 1: remember it for all time like we are in Everyone
Speaker 1: involved is very talented, that's true. You can't deny it.
Speaker 2: In that way. It's a lot like the Demi Levada
Speaker 2: Nick Jonas Tour.
Speaker 1: More than thirty five hundred athletes expected to compete from
Speaker 1: ninety three countries across both Olympics and Paralympics, one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixteen events in sixteen sports in the Winter Olympics,
Speaker 1: six sports in Paralympic Winter Games.
Speaker 2: And a new Olympic sport. Yes, yeah, there's ski mountaineering
Speaker 2: sort of the Breaking of the Winter Olympics, which was
Speaker 2: a part of the twenty twenty Winter Youth Olympic Games.
Speaker 2: And ski mountaineering. Competitors ski uphill and downhill and use
Speaker 2: mountaineering abilities to race through snow covered mountains. This is
Speaker 2: pretty crazy. Ski mountaineering is particularly popular in Italy and
Speaker 2: its roots can be traced to the first crossing of
Speaker 2: the Alps on skis. So this is uphill downhill skiing.
Speaker 2: It's going to take strength, it's going to take determination,
Speaker 2: it's going to take a whole lot of grit. Grit
Speaker 2: seven more Olympic events overall compared to the one hundred
Speaker 2: and nine contested at the twenty twenty two Beijing Winter Games,
Speaker 2: including the addition of eight new events and the elimination
Speaker 2: of one event. Uh oh, sorry, alpine skiing. You know,
Speaker 2: mixed team, You're not in it. There's three ski mountaineering events,
Speaker 2: two additional events in freestyle skiing men's and women's dual moguls,
Speaker 2: one additional event in luge, by far the scariest Olympic sport.
Speaker 2: There's now separate men's and women's doubles events instead of
Speaker 2: one event open to both genders, an additional skeleton event
Speaker 2: added to mixed event, and one additional ski jump event added,
Speaker 2: which is the women's large hill.
Speaker 1: This is so specific when it comes to skiing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can you talk about this.
Speaker 1: Well as an amateur skier and we all have to
Speaker 1: be if you grew up in Colorado, so gosh. I
Speaker 1: had my French Canadian card revoked for thinking LeAnn reimsong
Speaker 1: with something by Celine Dion. I'm going to get my
Speaker 1: Colorado car revoked for thinking that ski jump was. For
Speaker 1: not knowing what skeleton is? What is skeleton?
Speaker 2: That's a really good question. I feel like we would
Speaker 2: know what if we saw it. It's kind of like
Speaker 2: when someone doesn't know who Stanley Tucci is, Like you
Speaker 2: would literally.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't know who Stanley Tucci is?
Speaker 2: Some gaze out there. Some people might Okay, so is
Speaker 2: Sean is weighing in and saying before we get into
Speaker 2: Stanley Tucci too much more, he wants us to know
Speaker 2: that skeleton is a winter sport featured in the Winter Olympics,
Speaker 2: where the competitor rides headfirst and pro okay, this is
Speaker 2: this is I thought this is what it was, head first,
Speaker 2: face down on a flat sled normally run on an
Speaker 2: ice track that allows us let the gain speed by gravity.
Speaker 2: So this is like one of those like true death sleds.
Speaker 1: This is like the louge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like lose but loose. You lay on your
Speaker 2: back with your like so you're you know, your first.
Speaker 2: The only difference is like you're laying on your god
Speaker 2: darn stomach face first skeleton. Can you imagine there's something
Speaker 2: about lying on your stomach as you barrel down a
Speaker 2: mountain slope that makes it feel at least a million
Speaker 2: times more dangerous than if you were just laying on
Speaker 2: your back. First of all, I would rather be on
Speaker 2: my stomach than on my back, and I'll just say that.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just gonna leave that there. I'd rather
Speaker 1: be on my back than my stomach.
Speaker 2: Really, yeah, stop bowen, stop stop bowing. Stop it. I'm serious,
Speaker 2: you don't stop stop it now stop. Other smaller changes
Speaker 2: have been made to some of the events themselves, including
Speaker 2: for the first time ever, men and women will race
Speaker 2: the same distance across the cross country skiing competition.
Speaker 1: Thank god, equality at last, we have achieved total equality
Speaker 1: across the genders.
Speaker 2: We need equality, We need parody.
Speaker 1: We need cross country distance parody now, and we will
Speaker 1: have it in Milan for the first time. I can't
Speaker 1: believe that men and women's legs are the same. You
Speaker 1: cannot dispute that I see some amabs out there with
Speaker 1: with more feminine legs than the afabs, and I see
Speaker 1: some afabs with mete muscle legs, and I go go off.
Speaker 2: All legs, all legs equal. What else? The ski jumping
Speaker 2: team format has reduced from four athletes to two, with
Speaker 2: competition held over three rounds. You know, so there's a
Speaker 2: lot different And just to speak about what's going to
Speaker 2: be going down in terms of the culture. Milan will
Speaker 2: host the opening ceremony as well as figure skating, hockey,
Speaker 2: short track and speed skating, and then all across a
Speaker 2: bunch of other cities is going to be different events.
Speaker 2: So we're talking Milan, Livigno, Bormeo, te Sero, Predazzo and Trcelva. Verona.
Speaker 2: Am I saying all this correctly?
Speaker 1: I think you are bro Vo brought Visimo to Matt
Speaker 1: Rogers for that beautiful Italian pronunciation. Verona. Do you think
Speaker 1: Romeo and Juliet will make it appear?
Speaker 2: I think so. So Verona is hosting the closing ceremony
Speaker 2: of both the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. So Milan
Speaker 2: will host the opening, Verona will host the closing, and
Speaker 2: we better see some Romeo and Juliet play.
Speaker 1: And what about Milan. I want to see Donnatella strut
Speaker 1: down the runway.
Speaker 2: Gaga again, Gaga again. Let me just say this out loud,
Speaker 2: just because I know what happens when we do often
Speaker 2: these things will just end up happening. Lady Gaga is
Speaker 2: just an Italian girl from New York, So why would
Speaker 2: you not send her to Italy to be part of
Speaker 2: the games. I mean she is an Italian girl, that's
Speaker 2: number one.
Speaker 1: She was in a ski outfit in House of Gucci.
Speaker 1: She knows what it's like to be on the mountains.
Speaker 2: She knows all about it. She's been there and back.
Speaker 2: We need to watch House of Gucci again.
Speaker 1: I don't know that we do. Let's talk about some
Speaker 1: athletes to watch from USA. We have Isibolevito in figure skating.
Speaker 1: She'll be just Weakshi of her nineteenth birthday during the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six game, so that means right now she
Speaker 1: is seventeen. Wow, and it's going to be held in
Speaker 1: the hometown of her mother, Kiya Ragarberi Livito, who was
Speaker 1: raised Isibo as a single parent. Levito is the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two World Junior champion, twenty twenty three US Champion,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four World silver medallist in the senior ranks.
Speaker 2: I think the name on everyone's lips is gonna be
Speaker 2: Isibo Isabo.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a great name.
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? We are gonna be hearing Isabolevito
Speaker 2: like that is going to be the name on everyone's lips.
Speaker 2: It's too good to say nothing of Ilia Molina. Ilia
Speaker 2: Molina figure skater as well, the reigning world champion and
Speaker 2: two time reigning US champion. Molina will be twenty one
Speaker 2: years old during the twenty twenty six milan COURTEENA Winter Games.
Speaker 2: Is the only skater ever to lend a quadruple axel,
Speaker 2: the most difficult jump ever attempted.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was possible. It's giving someone Biles,
Speaker 1: which has four and a half rotations, okay. He is
Speaker 1: coached by his parents, Roman Skornikov and Tatiana melaninaa both
Speaker 1: figure skaters for Ruzbekistan at the nineteen ninety eight and
Speaker 1: two thou and two Winter Games. Tatyala Milanina is also
Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety eight Grand Prix Final and ninety nine
Speaker 1: four Continence champion, and her father, Ilia's maternal grandfather, Valerie Milanan,
Speaker 1: is also a coach. This is giving. I'm sorry, Nepo baby,
Speaker 1: but when a Nepo baby can do a quadruple axel,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Competing for the US, we should say,
Speaker 1: competing for the US of course, the land of Nepo babies.
Speaker 2: Mmmm. Oh yeah, it's our number one export.
Speaker 1: But iliya, if this man could do a quadruple axle.
Speaker 1: He can say that he can he.
Speaker 2: Can't maybe if he's gay. A lot of these figure skaters,
Speaker 2: I'm like, why are you straight? Like there's so many
Speaker 2: straight male figures. That's a lie.
Speaker 1: No, no, I think ilia. Let's see.
Speaker 2: My favorite figure skaters ever were the Canadian couple remember
Speaker 2: who that they were robbed of their go medal, so
Speaker 2: then they ended up getting one because of the Russian
Speaker 2: judge was cheating, or though the French judge was treated
Speaker 2: was cheating, the French judge was cheating, and so they
Speaker 2: were they were, and I remember they I remember hearing
Speaker 2: that they were together and I was like, oh my god, wow.
Speaker 2: But then they've since broken up, did you know? Well anyway,
Speaker 2: Jordan Stoltz is a speed skater from the USA. Stilts,
Speaker 2: who will be twenty one years old during the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six mil On Courtina Winter Games, is the youngest
Speaker 2: ever single distance world champion in history. Stilts first tried
Speaker 2: speed skating on the frozen pond behind the family's house
Speaker 2: after watching our icon Apollo and oh No compete at
Speaker 2: the twenty ten Vancouver Winter Olympics. And let's just say
Speaker 2: many young people were inspired watching Apollo ens on no
Speaker 2: at that Olympics. I'll let people fill in the blanks there, Yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, inspired to do all the kinds of athletic feats.
Speaker 2: Yep, getting physical.
Speaker 1: Ope, We've got Jesse Dickens and cross country skiing, the
Speaker 1: most accomplished US cross country skier in history, with three
Speaker 1: Olympic medals, two overall World Cup titles, six championship medals.
Speaker 1: Mikayla Schiffrin also for USA Alpine Skiing, having a mass
Speaker 1: ninety seven World Cup wins at the end of the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three eight twenty four World Cup season, Mikayla
Speaker 1: Schiffrin is the winningest alpine skier of all time, male
Speaker 1: or female. She's the first athlete in the history of
Speaker 1: the World Cup to win in all six disciplines slalom, giant, slalam, parallel, slalom, alpine, combined,
Speaker 1: Super g and downhill. Shiffrin's mom is Eileen, served as
Speaker 1: her daughter's first coach and still works at Mikayla to
Speaker 1: this day.
Speaker 2: I had to say all these names have like star quality.
Speaker 2: I mean, Mikayla Schiffrin, Jesse Diggins, Jordan Stoltz, Is abou
Speaker 2: Levito come on, come on, I'm not over it.
Speaker 1: I'm still not over Isibo is the one to watch.
Speaker 1: And let's just say there might be a new sort
Speaker 1: of Adam Rapon figure. I hope for a new Johnny
Speaker 1: We're Adam Rapon. I want a new gay icon to
Speaker 1: come out of this Winter Games. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I also have to say, while we're so excited about
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty six Milan Courtina Games, it really like,
Speaker 2: I think we've discussed it on the podcast before, but
Speaker 2: we continue to wrap our heads around how the Los
Speaker 2: Angeles Olympics in twenty twenty eight, the Summer Olympics in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight are going to happen. Because Bowen literally
Speaker 2: was driving yesterday in LA on a Monday afternoon, like
Speaker 2: when there was supposed to be no traffic and it
Speaker 2: was hellish. It's like, I give it all up to
Speaker 2: God when it comes to logistically figuring out the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty eight Summer Olympic Games, because there's so many reasons
Speaker 2: for us to see greatness and glory, but I wonder
Speaker 2: if we're going to be seeing just traffic and pain.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this. Let's say volleyball is supposed to
Speaker 1: start at eleven am on a Tuesday, and let's say
Speaker 1: on the west side, roll the cameras. No one's in
Speaker 1: the seats, athletes aren't even there. How, what's the actual
Speaker 1: start time? You think? What time do you think people
Speaker 1: will actually start playing? If it's at eleven am noon? No,
Speaker 1: that is so generous.
Speaker 2: Two point thirty three o'clock.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's Los Angeles we're talking about.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something, especially because all of these
Speaker 2: venues are going to be used at the same time.
Speaker 2: Just go with me here. Last week I went to
Speaker 2: the Olivia Rodrigo concert at the Kia Forum. There was
Speaker 2: also a football game happening at Sofi Stadium, and also
Speaker 2: down the block, I believe that Bruno Mars was performing.
Speaker 2: There was no way to move in any direction. So anyway,
Speaker 2: like there are tons of venues that are going to
Speaker 2: be used across the city, they're just all going to
Speaker 2: be used at pretty much the same time, and the
Speaker 2: city's not made for it. But I you know, Karen Bass,
Speaker 2: we're gonna sing.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see Karen Bass. We have faith in you.
Speaker 1: The nice sustainable thing is that there are no new
Speaker 1: venues built. I think that's the historic thing first time
Speaker 1: in the history that no new permanent onions will be built.
Speaker 1: And I want to talk really quickly about the new
Speaker 1: sports that will be added. Breaking will unfortunately not return.
Speaker 2: But oh, it's officially not returning.
Speaker 1: It's officially not returning. Here are the new sports on
Speaker 1: the Olympic program, baseball and softball. They have been part
Speaker 1: of several Olympic Games, most recently in twenty twenty. So
Speaker 1: they took one Olympic game off in the summer and
Speaker 1: now they're going to be back for twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Cricket makes his second Olympic appearance, returning off your nets
Speaker 1: and said, one hundred and twenty eight years. Last time,
Speaker 1: if you do the math, was in nineteen hundred in Paris.
Speaker 2: What else do we have? Lacrosse? Similar to cricket, lacrosse
Speaker 2: returns to the Olympics after more than a century, but
Speaker 2: this time in a faster paced six is format on
Speaker 2: a smaller field, sort of akin to rugby seven's lacrosse
Speaker 2: and its traditional tennis side format was a metal sport
Speaker 2: in both the nineteen oh four and nineteen oh eight
Speaker 2: Olympic Games. It also was a demonstration sport in the
Speaker 2: nineteen twenty eight, nineteen thirty two, and nineteen forty eight Olympics.
Speaker 2: It's honestly so shocking to me that lacrosse hasn't been
Speaker 2: a part of the Olympic conversation.
Speaker 1: Because it's such a good sport.
Speaker 2: Growing up on Long Island, I don't know if lacrosse
Speaker 2: was huge, Honey, Colorado had the Mammoth, the team was
Speaker 2: called the Mammoth and those games were electrifying. Yeah. No,
Speaker 2: lacrosse is no joke, to the point where even me,
Speaker 2: someone that was not I, would have had no impulse
Speaker 2: to play. I had a lacrosse stick and really tried
Speaker 2: to get good at it because it was taking over
Speaker 2: the culture. So honestly, that's like a blind spot for
Speaker 2: me that I did not know that lacrosse wasn't just
Speaker 2: always a thing. Maybe we were just from two areas
Speaker 2: that really embraced it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. I think so. But it's a
Speaker 1: fun it's a great sport. I'm very happy that it's
Speaker 1: returning to LA. Flag football making its Olympic debut, very
Speaker 1: very very cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we got squash squashly making its Olympic debut
Speaker 2: in La Although squash was a demonstration sport at the
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires,
Speaker 2: para climbing has been added to the Paralympic Game Sports program,
Speaker 2: bringing the total number of Paralympic sports to twenty three.
Speaker 1: Aside from the new sports, new events on the program
Speaker 1: coastal rowing beach sprint format. Meanwhile, the modern pentathlon events
Speaker 1: will no longer include the equestrian discipline instead feature obstacle racing.
Speaker 1: I mean pentathlon crazy concept. Oh yeah, you gotta ride
Speaker 1: a horse too. Wait what now you don't anymore? No,
Speaker 1: no longer will include the equestrian discipline, but you gotta
Speaker 1: do obstacle racing, which is wow.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I'm not a child, and the concept
Speaker 2: of an obstacle course doesn't do what it used to
Speaker 2: do to me. You used to be able to say
Speaker 2: the word obstacle course to me and I'd be like,
Speaker 2: let's go.
Speaker 1: Not anymore.
Speaker 2: I loved obstacles. Now I'm kind of just like less obstacles.
Speaker 2: I'll do a course.
Speaker 1: I'll do a course.
Speaker 2: I'll do a regular course.
Speaker 1: All my obstacles are up here. I'm putting to my
Speaker 1: head exactly mental.
Speaker 2: Did you know I did. One of my track events
Speaker 2: was the steeple chase. Do you know what that is?
Speaker 1: Yes, I did the steeple chase like three years a road.
Speaker 2: It's a distance race on the track. It's like usually
Speaker 2: thirty two hundred meters, but you have to do a hurdle.
Speaker 2: Two hurdles. One is a regular hurdle and one is
Speaker 2: a hurdle that you like. You step up on the
Speaker 2: hurdle and use it to jump over a tiny little
Speaker 2: water hazard and you get a little wet when you
Speaker 2: do it. And I remember I was so excited to
Speaker 2: do this and it was by far the hardest thing
Speaker 2: I've ever seen. Wow at the time. At the time
Speaker 2: and physically, I was like, wow, that was so much
Speaker 2: harder because you think about running two miles in general,
Speaker 2: it sounds difficult. Now, ad you got to jump over
Speaker 2: a damn lake, and honey, that's bringing your mile time
Speaker 2: up at least if.
Speaker 1: There's a lake involved, at least two minutes.
Speaker 2: And we're adding big seconds.
Speaker 1: And for the last time, what was your mile?
Speaker 2: My mile time in high school was four thirty six.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss hearing you say that. Maybe I'll just
Speaker 1: have to keep saying it.
Speaker 2: But no listen before we close this podcast out this season,
Speaker 2: I have two guys. Five Rings comes to a close.
Speaker 2: I want to know, in terms of the opening ceremony,
Speaker 2: what do you want to see in LA? Just draw
Speaker 2: up your perfect program, who performs, and what does it
Speaker 2: look like.
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking out loud. I want a Bears in
Speaker 1: Space moment. I want Acbar to have a whole sort
Speaker 1: of like moment during the opening ceremonies. I want I
Speaker 1: just want the floor to be dirty and carpeted for
Speaker 1: that time. I want the theme of the LA Olympics
Speaker 1: opening ceremony to be dirty carpeted floors, which is an
Speaker 1: LA thing. It's not a New York thing, specifically, it's Ala.
Speaker 1: I'm staying at the Chateau Mormount right now. Dirty carpets
Speaker 1: are everywhere, and let's see. I want Gwen Stefani to
Speaker 1: come out and do her Christmas songs, because why not?
Speaker 1: That'd be kind of fun.
Speaker 2: I want Oh, no doubt would be amazing. Actually, I mean,
Speaker 2: like I just saw them in Coachella. They were incredible.
Speaker 2: No doubt as an opening ceremony in LA would be
Speaker 2: really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I want there to be a Joan Didian Retrospective
Speaker 1: as performed by Katie Perry him Katy Perry. I'm sorry, Yes,
Speaker 1: Katy Perry. I think Heim should have a moment.
Speaker 2: Katy Prairie featuring him doing Katy Perry. Hi.
Speaker 1: Yes you. I agree with everything you said, nothing added.
Speaker 2: I want them. I want the who shot party in
Speaker 2: the USA. Ye, it's a party in the essay that
Speaker 2: would make it perfect. And I also think it's the
Speaker 2: perfect way for us to end with that wish this podcast.
Speaker 2: You are truly my sister in sports. I didn't know
Speaker 2: you were beforehand, by now I know you are. Do
Speaker 2: you have anything to say to me?
Speaker 1: You are truly my sister in international relations because sports
Speaker 1: and international relations are what the Olympics and Paralympics are about.
Speaker 1: And I have had the privilege of traveling to international
Speaker 1: destinations with you. I see your character come through, I
Speaker 1: see your curiosity open, I see your spirit just receive
Speaker 1: the wonders of this planet. And that is also what
Speaker 1: the Olympics are about. And I have had so much fun,
Speaker 1: got so much fun with you. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 2: You and I we are an international relation. And that
Speaker 2: is a rule of culture. It is rule of culture.
Speaker 2: Number one hundred.
Speaker 1: You and I are an international relation. This has been
Speaker 1: and will continue to be to Guys five Rings, Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for listening.
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