Speaker 1: On this Saturday, August third, the home team France has
Speaker 1: cut into Team USA lead.
Speaker 2: The United States has now won forty three Olympic medals,
Speaker 2: nine of them gold. France has thirty six total medals,
Speaker 2: followed by China with thirty one.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Amy and TJ. This is who you have
Speaker 1: to look forward to just this weekend at the Olympics. Simone, Lebron, Ladecki,
Speaker 1: Marshawn Shakerrie Neta, Isaac Noah, the biggest stars of the
Speaker 1: Paris Games are all in action this weekend.
Speaker 2: This weekend, and specifically today. Also in this edition of
Speaker 2: Tea from Perry, a couple of heartbreaking, hard to watch
Speaker 2: moments for American men. First a demoralizing loss for the
Speaker 2: US men's soccer team, and then later in the day
Speaker 2: we watched as US swimming star cried and cried and cried.
Speaker 2: Also in this episode, the ongoing gender controversy has now
Speaker 2: led to an official protest by one country and an
Speaker 2: official complaint another.
Speaker 1: Plus Pharrell and the French President in the VIP rooting
Speaker 1: for the new King of Olympic Swimming. The oldest man
Speaker 1: and the youngest man will meet in the tennis final,
Speaker 1: and a US runner pulls off a rare feat in
Speaker 1: a long distance race.
Speaker 2: And win gold and get a diamond a proposal in Paris,
Speaker 2: but was it the right time? And finally an expert
Speaker 2: in the field of microbiology gives us a definitive answer
Speaker 2: on one of the most talked about topics at the Olympics.
Speaker 1: And with that, we were watching and folks, as we
Speaker 1: get into this episode, Robot and I often record while
Speaker 1: we have the TV on live watching the early morning events,
Speaker 1: and we just saw something that drives home how heartbreaking
Speaker 1: the Olympics can be. We're watching the one hundred meters heats,
Speaker 1: the men's one hundred meters, the most prestigious title in track,
Speaker 1: fastest man in the world, first heat, first heat for
Speaker 1: a guy from Great Britain, and his Olympics is over
Speaker 1: before the race even s.
Speaker 2: He jumped the proverbial gun and it just by. It
Speaker 2: was so hard to watch, and he tried to convince
Speaker 2: the efficients there on the track that you know, to
Speaker 2: give him a second chance or whatever. He was explaining
Speaker 2: for quite some time and it was frustrating the other runners,
Speaker 2: but eventually he did not run in protest. He had
Speaker 2: to just walk off the field. And his hopes crushed.
Speaker 1: Just what we're talking about four years, You've been working
Speaker 1: for four years, and he gets to his first race,
Speaker 1: the first heat, and it's over. He's been disqualified and
Speaker 1: it's over. That is a heartbreaking thing. And only can
Speaker 1: happen something like that, neilandas I just.
Speaker 2: Kept saying, couldn't they just let everyone have a second chance?
Speaker 2: It just I know, I get it, but it is.
Speaker 2: It's it's so hard to watch.
Speaker 1: If folks, it's something to keep an eye on as
Speaker 1: you're watching some of the sprints. You don't get Yes,
Speaker 1: you get one chance. If you jump the gun, then
Speaker 1: you are disqualified. They also have something. Their starting blocks
Speaker 1: have essentially little computers in them that can monitor how
Speaker 1: quickly you react to the gun. They say a human
Speaker 1: being can't react quicker than I think a point a
Speaker 1: tenth of a second, and if you do it faster
Speaker 1: than that, it's considered actually you jump the gun, even
Speaker 1: though you didn't take off until after the gun went off,
Speaker 1: you still can take off too fast to where they
Speaker 1: say you still anticipated the gun and didn't take off
Speaker 1: when you heard the gun.
Speaker 3: That's what happened to this kid.
Speaker 1: A computer essentially said, hey, you were too fast off
Speaker 1: the blocks.
Speaker 2: What a mind game too, There's so much going through
Speaker 2: your head as an athlete. I can only imagine when
Speaker 2: you're at the height of your career with the chance
Speaker 2: of metal and I just I can see it happening.
Speaker 2: I can see it happening, even you're not trying to cheat.
Speaker 2: It's just you're anticipating it in your nerves and you've
Speaker 2: got a lot of adrenaline rushing. I just I feel
Speaker 2: for the guys.
Speaker 3: Jerema Azoo of Great Britain is out. He's right.
Speaker 1: It was kind of dramatic there for a little while
Speaker 1: as he kept trying to make his case, but that's over.
Speaker 1: We also watched Noran Lyles this morning. You'll see him,
Speaker 1: of course, the US star. He was a little in
Speaker 1: his heat. He actually made the commentator the analysts made
Speaker 1: are a little nervous. She's like, hey, I would appreciate
Speaker 1: if he, you know, stepped on the gas a little
Speaker 1: more than he did, because he ended up second in
Speaker 1: the close, almost third in his heat, and he didn't
Speaker 1: look great. And he had a very honest moment in
Speaker 1: his interview afterwards. He said, I didn't take my competitors seriously.
Speaker 1: I down played my competitors. It won't happen again.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, if you're going to do it,
Speaker 2: at least do it in the heat where you just
Speaker 2: it was just the top six to qualify. Correct? Is
Speaker 2: that usually what it is?
Speaker 1: Ish? God, we got our rules. Is the top two
Speaker 1: or three automatically go through? It might be the top
Speaker 1: two in all the heats and so many heats, and
Speaker 1: then time comes into play.
Speaker 3: But but he's.
Speaker 2: Under estimating your opponent. Okay, he'll never do it again.
Speaker 2: We shall see, we shall see.
Speaker 1: Should we update the folks now about the river sin
Speaker 1: You want to do the update now?
Speaker 3: Uh? Well, save it to the end.
Speaker 2: Let's save it for the end.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's save it for the for them.
Speaker 1: You all know they're talking about the river sence that
Speaker 1: water has been dirty and they cleaned and some guy said,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to wash my hands to try to
Speaker 1: introduce oh E cola into my system. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Can you actually do that? We have a definitive answer.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that, all right.
Speaker 2: Well, there was a definitive, definitive decision on what's going
Speaker 2: on with the men's soccer team the US soccer team.
Speaker 2: It is not good. They are out there. Metal hopes
Speaker 2: were crushed and it was brutal, Morocco besting the US
Speaker 2: in a four to nil resounding defeat. You know, we
Speaker 2: planned the entire day around this game. We were excited,
Speaker 2: we were racing to be set up and watch, only
Speaker 2: to witness a very slow and painful demise for the
Speaker 2: American men.
Speaker 1: It was I think it was just one Niel at halftime,
Speaker 1: and then the wheels really really came off for this team.
Speaker 1: If you watched it from the jump, you always had
Speaker 1: the feeling that okay, as a matter of time before
Speaker 1: Morocco scores, they were constantly on the attack. They had
Speaker 1: good energy. They were out there laughing and smiling now
Speaker 1: having a good time.
Speaker 2: They were. It would look like they were having a party,
Speaker 2: and the players were not. And one of our star players,
Speaker 2: Kevin Prad's, gave this very soon statement after this game
Speaker 2: describing what happened. He said, and I quote here, they
Speaker 2: kept scoring, we didn't. I don't know what other words
Speaker 2: I could say. And that really summed it up in
Speaker 2: the simplest way possible. And even though they're out for
Speaker 2: this Olympics, there is some hopeful news. A lot of
Speaker 2: sports analysts who know more things than I do really
Speaker 2: are looking forward to what's to come with this team.
Speaker 2: Because all but three players on that team are under
Speaker 2: the age of twenty three. They have a lot of
Speaker 2: time ahead of them to grow and to improve. And remember,
Speaker 2: this very young team that did not perform well against
Speaker 2: Morocco pushed the American men into the quarterfinals for the
Speaker 2: first time since two thousands. So there's something there. We're
Speaker 2: seeing a spark of something.
Speaker 1: Okay, and a lot of it ies okay, because we
Speaker 1: got to get ready now. World Cup is going to
Speaker 1: be around the corner. But this is two back to
Speaker 1: back major international tournaments that the United States has not
Speaker 1: looked good in. The Copa America didn't get out the rounds,
Speaker 1: playing in a home country, essentially.
Speaker 2: Got out of the rounds this time, didn't get out of.
Speaker 1: The early stages, but got out this time, but then
Speaker 1: had a It wasn't just got there was It was
Speaker 1: a terrible showing for Neil Walker Zimmerman, kind of one
Speaker 1: of the older guys on this team. He questioned whether
Speaker 1: or not they have the right mindset when you put
Speaker 1: on that jersey. This is not guaranteed you're representing your country,
Speaker 1: and he said there's some of that missing. It was
Speaker 1: a little critical of some of the younger guys. So
Speaker 1: we'll see if that sticks. But man, we really want
Speaker 1: to see this team reached some kind of to be
Speaker 1: able to compete on an international level.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe the defeat, you know, that defeat with a
Speaker 2: little bit of hope, you know, they thought, wow, we
Speaker 2: got out of we got out of the group rounds
Speaker 2: and then this resounding defeat. Maybe that'll light a spark
Speaker 2: inside many of them.
Speaker 1: Well, or maybe they should go to the Aquatic Center
Speaker 1: and see Leon Marcham do some swimming and get inspired
Speaker 1: this dude. Have you have you been watching some of
Speaker 1: the swimming. This kid, he's the star of the Olympics.
Speaker 1: He's the star of the pool.
Speaker 3: You've been here. The crowd laon Leon. They've been rooting
Speaker 3: his name. But he is the guy he is.
Speaker 1: Forgive me for the Michael Phelps comparison, but he is
Speaker 1: now in that conversation. He has broken some of Michael
Speaker 1: Phelps records a few over the years, but now he
Speaker 1: is that superstar. He is now four for four at
Speaker 1: the Olympics, four races, four gold medals after ropes. He
Speaker 1: won the two hundred meters individual medley last night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when he popped out of the pool after that,
Speaker 2: he just put up his hands and put the number
Speaker 2: four and everyone knew what he was referring to, which
Speaker 2: is pretty impressive. If you've just won four medals and
Speaker 2: they're all gold, you get to do that. Also, you
Speaker 2: pointed out it's been fun to watch the French when
Speaker 2: any of their swimmers do the butterfly when they pop up.
Speaker 2: Sorry I meant to say the breastroke. When they pop up,
Speaker 2: they yelled, they chance so that their swimmer can hear them.
Speaker 2: It was fun watching them do that, and they really
Speaker 2: go into a frenzy anytime Marshaun swims, including we saw
Speaker 2: French president Macrone who was there cheering wildly in the
Speaker 2: stands with Pharrell Williams nearby. So it's fun to see
Speaker 2: the fans get so into it and get behind they're
Speaker 2: a swimmer or just any swimmer who's that great to watch.
Speaker 1: I don't think Maack wrong was putting on. I mean
Speaker 1: he was fanning out in a way that you don't
Speaker 1: see a lot of world leaders do.
Speaker 3: That was just cool.
Speaker 2: So it was a human moment.
Speaker 3: Everybody gets into it, and we'll get.
Speaker 2: To see Moreshaan swim again this weekend in a relay
Speaker 2: and he'll have a chance for yet another goal, so
Speaker 2: maybe he can hold up a high five.
Speaker 3: We have to turn down to this.
Speaker 1: From what you've seen through the end of the day yesterday,
Speaker 1: ropes and today this morning, would just say it's still
Speaker 1: a growing controversy.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely, there are actually several new developments to tell
Speaker 2: you about. When it comes to the Algerian boxer Iman Khalif.
Speaker 2: We talked about it yesterday and I'm sure if you've
Speaker 2: even looked online in any way, you'll know she's the
Speaker 2: boxer who made those headlines after her opponent, Italy's Angela Karini,
Speaker 2: quit just forty six seconds into their match, complaining that
Speaker 2: the hits were just too hard, and then Khalif's eligibility
Speaker 2: to compete was questioned once again by critics. She was
Speaker 2: disqualified from last year's Women's World Championships after failing an
Speaker 2: unspecified gender eligibility test. That test itself has been in question.
Speaker 2: It claims she had elevated levels of testosterone, but the IOC,
Speaker 2: the International Olympic Committee, has maintained the Khaliph and she's
Speaker 2: now a two time female Olympian, meets all the requirements
Speaker 2: to compete. So here's what's been happening. Khalif's father is
Speaker 2: now speaking out in defense of his daughter. He even
Speaker 2: showed reporters her birth documents and younger photos of the boxer,
Speaker 2: stating she was born female, that she is female, and
Speaker 2: he said the attacks against his daughter are immoral. He
Speaker 2: urged her to go all the way and win gold
Speaker 2: for her country. But as she fights for that medal,
Speaker 2: her next match, which happens to be today, is getting
Speaker 2: nasty outside the rank.
Speaker 1: This young leg what do you I'm disgusted by that
Speaker 1: idea that someone has to pull out a birth certificate.
Speaker 1: I know, okay, so I mean, look, I know things
Speaker 1: have happened in international competitions before, and people have fabricated
Speaker 1: documents before and all that stuff. But the idea of
Speaker 1: you're telling somebody essentially you need to drop trouser and
Speaker 1: prove to me what you are, that's that's disgusting.
Speaker 2: It's tough, and she's fighting, and look countries are getting involved.
Speaker 2: She is fighting Hungary's Anna Luka Hamori, but the Hungarian
Speaker 2: Boxing Association now putting out an official protest to the
Speaker 2: IOC to reconsider allowing Khalif to compete. That is not
Speaker 2: going to happen. The IOC is standing by its decision
Speaker 2: and Hamori still plans to fight her. But here's where
Speaker 2: it gets really, really gross and disgusting. She reposted a
Speaker 2: disturbing image that depicted Khalif as some sort of muscled,
Speaker 2: horned animal in the ring. A beast is what a
Speaker 2: lot of people are calling it. And she also was
Speaker 2: reposting stories that continue to wrongly claim Khalif is not
Speaker 2: a woman. Now, Maury has since shut down a lot
Speaker 2: of that social media presence after those posts were discovered,
Speaker 2: but it's still out there. So because of those posts,
Speaker 2: the Algerian Olympic Committee has now submitted an official complaint
Speaker 2: to the IOC saying that she has violated the ethics
Speaker 2: of the sport, referring back to those social media posts, that's.
Speaker 1: What you mean by ugly, Yeah, that's awful. It was
Speaker 1: encouraging at least the young lady. She beat the quit
Speaker 1: in forty six seconds. She did come out and essentially apologize.
Speaker 1: She did, she apologized, so she didn't shake her hand afterwards.
Speaker 1: She said Actually, she got caught up in the moment
Speaker 1: at that time, and that was the wrong thing to do.
Speaker 1: When she was sorry, she says she respects the IOC's
Speaker 1: the decision.
Speaker 3: They say, she can fight. I respect it.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't a snub necessarily. It was just that
Speaker 1: she was angry that her Olympic dream had quo gone
Speaker 1: up in smoke, and that's why she didn't shake hands
Speaker 1: at the time. Maybe that will help with some of
Speaker 1: this conversation. I just got, don't what are you supposed
Speaker 1: to do? When can it go away? If somebody you're
Speaker 1: a woman and somebody's telling you you are not what
Speaker 1: you are?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and no, it's really frustrating. There's so much misinformation
Speaker 2: out there that she's transgender, that she's intersects, all these
Speaker 2: none of that's none of that appears to be true
Speaker 2: at all. So it's hard to undo a rumor like that.
Speaker 2: You know, perception becomes reality, unfortunately, and so many of
Speaker 2: these false stories that come out about anyone, it's really
Speaker 2: hard to get that back. So it's frustrating, but no
Speaker 2: doubt it will be a spectacle to see what happens
Speaker 2: inside the ring with all that's been happening outside of
Speaker 2: the ring. That fight is scheduled for later today. I
Speaker 2: believe it's eleven twenty two Eastern times.
Speaker 3: That's not ugly.
Speaker 2: I hope it isn't.
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it's it's it's like a powder
Speaker 2: keg situation. I don't know. We'll have to We'll have
Speaker 2: to wait and see all. You know this this was
Speaker 2: tough to watch and uh US swimmer Caleb Dressel, he
Speaker 2: broke down into yours after he was not able to
Speaker 2: defend his Olympic gold medals in the one hundred meter
Speaker 2: butterfly the fifty meter freestyle. You know, he won both
Speaker 2: of those events just three years ago in Tokyo, and
Speaker 2: it was a crushing defeat yesterday.
Speaker 1: This is a guy he is. This is how impressive
Speaker 1: he is. It's kind of cool that he's gold or bust.
Speaker 1: This dude's got eight gold medals and nothing else. He's
Speaker 1: no silver, no bronze. So he's gonna win the thing
Speaker 1: or he's just not gonna be involved. But he was
Speaker 1: crying and crying and crying. Yeah, it was an Olympic moment.
Speaker 1: This is a guy who's talked a lot about his
Speaker 1: mental health after the last Olympics and wasn't enjoying swimming.
Speaker 1: I had to take some time off from swimming got
Speaker 1: himself together. But it looked like everything in one moment,
Speaker 1: and we happened to all be there for it, and
Speaker 1: it felt inappropriate at a time to even be there
Speaker 1: watching it.
Speaker 2: A lot of people were commenting that they did not
Speaker 2: appreciate the decision to keep the camera on him because
Speaker 2: it just kept going, and people said it actually became
Speaker 2: too heartbreaking and too devastating to watch, although I did
Speaker 2: see there was one mother who said she was the
Speaker 2: mother of three young sons and she actually didn't mind
Speaker 2: her son seeing that it's okay for men to let
Speaker 2: it out to be emotional too, Like that is heartbreaking,
Speaker 2: that is devastating, and if you want to cry, you
Speaker 2: should be able to cry. And so she appreciated that
Speaker 2: that was shown to be just to normalize it, and
Speaker 2: that this is something that men do. This is something
Speaker 2: that men should be able to do publicly, and it's
Speaker 2: okay to get it out.
Speaker 1: It's okay to get it out, Is it okay? I
Speaker 1: guess where do we draw the line. It's not a
Speaker 1: criticism necessarily of NBC and what they decided to do.
Speaker 1: But I guess to some folks it's felt like that
Speaker 1: person needs a private moment.
Speaker 3: You see, you're showing it.
Speaker 1: It's happening right there, and he was in it, and
Speaker 1: I think somebody finally came and got him, and that
Speaker 1: was his team doctor. Actually he was hugging someone who
Speaker 1: has helped this Team USA with a lot of their
Speaker 1: mental health struggles, tends to them physically and mentally, and
Speaker 1: it was just a tough moment. We've done this plenty
Speaker 1: in television before. To where I have I have insisted
Speaker 1: after interviews I do. I said, do not put the
Speaker 1: part of them crying into the teas because that feels
Speaker 1: like we're exploiting in some ways, it's a.
Speaker 3: Little too far. We'll put it in there.
Speaker 1: They cried, fine, but at some point it feels like
Speaker 1: it's too much like you're exploiting it for your own.
Speaker 2: That's a good way to pay purposes. Yeah, And because
Speaker 2: that's a decision by the director to stay on the shop.
Speaker 2: The cameraman's been told you stay on it, stay on it.
Speaker 2: There are all these decisions being made in the booth
Speaker 2: in real time, and it's okay. To second guess them
Speaker 2: and wonder if it was the right one.
Speaker 3: But did you mind it?
Speaker 2: I thought it was a little too much, you know,
Speaker 2: showing it and acknowledging it is one thing, but I
Speaker 2: think at one point then it just becomes like this
Speaker 2: is a private moment that he should be able to experience.
Speaker 2: And I'm glad he was able. His doctor was able
Speaker 2: to get him far away from the camera's lens. That
Speaker 2: was the right call we should mention. Though It's not
Speaker 2: as if he will go home without any medals. You
Speaker 2: may remember, he's going to bring home one gold medal
Speaker 2: from Paris the four by four hundred meter freestyle relays.
Speaker 2: He is not going home empty handed.
Speaker 1: That fifty Again, these these examples of just how devastating
Speaker 1: the Olympics, just how heartbreaking it would be. The fifty meter.
Speaker 1: He came in sixth place in the fifty meter and
Speaker 1: this one was means. Of course, he didn't get a medal,
Speaker 1: but his time in this one was twenty one point
Speaker 1: sixty one seconds. Twenty one point sixty one seconds. He
Speaker 1: won this event at twenty one point oh seven seconds
Speaker 1: last time around. That is a half a second. You
Speaker 1: can barely get your head around that you can barely
Speaker 1: just that is not even Yeah, is how much of
Speaker 1: a difference and it called went that goes from goal
Speaker 1: to not being on the metal stands.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine competing in those margins. I just I
Speaker 2: cannot imagine.
Speaker 1: Oh we got some Uh, this will be fun to
Speaker 1: watch the men's tennis final. It's actually going to feature
Speaker 1: two superstars on the tour, one all time great, uh,
Speaker 1: the other working to become an all time great. But
Speaker 1: they happen to be now the the oldest man and
Speaker 1: the youngest man to ever play in the Olympics final,
Speaker 1: Novak Djokovic thirty seven years old, and Carlos Alvraz of
Speaker 1: course twenty one. He's the new stud from Spain, who's
Speaker 1: a lot of people seeing as the next Nadal. But
Speaker 1: those two are going to go ahead to head and
Speaker 1: it's funny. The oldest man to ever be in the
Speaker 1: final and the youngest man ever to be in the
Speaker 1: final gonna be in the final together.
Speaker 2: And the crazy thing is Djokovic has the most Grand
Speaker 2: Slam wins in history, twenty four, but he does not
Speaker 2: have a gold medal. It is the one thing he
Speaker 2: does not have, so you know, he wants that.
Speaker 1: I think he's oh in three, oh and two, he's
Speaker 1: oh in three and see this is.
Speaker 2: His yeah, and this is his fourth attempt at his
Speaker 2: first gold medal. That's status. Well, you can take it
Speaker 2: for what it is.
Speaker 1: Can helper kind of root for him because you know
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna be his last around, But that'd be
Speaker 1: a fun match to watch. We have an American runner
Speaker 1: that has done something that Americas just don't do that much.
Speaker 1: In fact, an American has only done it four times
Speaker 1: now in the history of the Games. When a medal
Speaker 1: in the ten k race.
Speaker 2: It's funny. When you said ten k, I was like, wait,
Speaker 2: ten k, and then I looked it up. It's also
Speaker 2: known as the ten thousand meter because a ten k
Speaker 2: is one thing. But to have to run a ten
Speaker 2: k around a track? How many loops? Is that?
Speaker 3: Around? Five?
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, because if you're a runner, that would
Speaker 2: be oh, I would have a really hard time with it,
Speaker 2: just around and around and around.
Speaker 3: But six miler you do that? You sleep?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but in a linear fashion, yes, running to a
Speaker 2: destination two and from I'll even do one loop, but
Speaker 2: twenty five.
Speaker 1: But in the Olympic stadium, everybody's yelling your name, me
Speaker 1: and the kids.
Speaker 2: You're like losing. How wait what lap miler?
Speaker 3: Ya? You would be the one I would be.
Speaker 2: I'd be like, wait, is it twenty three or twenty two?
Speaker 2: I forgot? Do I have one more to go? Anyway?
Speaker 2: Grant Fisher grabbed a bronze in the ten k or
Speaker 2: ten thousand meter and the last time an American medal
Speaker 2: in this event was back in twenty twelve, but before that,
Speaker 2: the last times were in nineteen sixty four, in nineteen twelve.
Speaker 2: It's not really our event, No, it isn't, but this
Speaker 2: year it.
Speaker 1: Was Okay, gods damn. He does have the five k
Speaker 1: as well. But this kid, Graham Fisher talks about. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been out there for a while. He says he's
Speaker 1: had a lot of fourth and fifth place finishes. He said,
Speaker 1: coming up in the US, you're always told you're never
Speaker 1: going to be as good as the East African runners,
Speaker 1: You're never going to be good as those European runners,
Speaker 1: and he's been trying and trying to get to this point.
Speaker 1: It was actually a photo finish between second and third.
Speaker 1: He almost got a silver. But it's just nice to
Speaker 1: see and he's trying to put kind of long distance
Speaker 1: American running on the map. And this is the longest
Speaker 1: distance race in track and field. You got the marathon,
Speaker 1: but this is the longest race you see.
Speaker 2: Around that track twenty five times. Yes, I didn't even honestly,
Speaker 2: because when I saw ten thousand meters, I was like,
Speaker 2: what what is that? Ten k makes more sense for me? Now,
Speaker 2: all right, this is well, it depends on your feelings
Speaker 2: about the story. I initially thought it was a beautiful story,
Speaker 2: but then you raised.
Speaker 3: Question, she is not a beautiful story.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, so here's what happened. She got off
Speaker 2: the podium and her boyfriend got down on one knee.
Speaker 3: That sounds that's a great start to a story.
Speaker 2: I see. I think this is a beautiful story, a
Speaker 2: great start a marriage proposal for mixed doubles bad minton champion.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try to say her name right, Huang Chung
Speaker 2: after winning the gold, going through the medal ceremony, her boyfriend,
Speaker 2: who was also a member of the Chinese bad minton team.
Speaker 2: He did not win a gold, but he pulled out
Speaker 2: a ring and proposed when she got off the podium.
Speaker 1: And if you haven't seen it. Please go look up
Speaker 1: the images. It's a really cool picture because she has
Speaker 1: the gold medal on and then give her flowers with that.
Speaker 1: So she's already got the flowers in her hand, she's
Speaker 1: outfitted in the Chinese the Olympic sweats, and he's there
Speaker 1: and it's just everybody smiling.
Speaker 3: She says, Yes, that's an Olympic moment. That's awesome. What
Speaker 3: are you talking about.
Speaker 2: Wait, you're the one who asked if whether or not
Speaker 2: that like took away that's a gold medal, And I
Speaker 2: would just say, as I can only speak for myself,
Speaker 2: I think it would just be like the cherry on top.
Speaker 3: Really, yes, okay, it.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't steal away from my moment of winning gold. It
Speaker 2: would cement that moment as the greatest moment of my life.
Speaker 2: Because two of the most beautiful things that could happen happen.
Speaker 1: Why can you not separate those moments and have two
Speaker 1: of the greatest moments in your life?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: So, what my question there is is it good? Would
Speaker 1: you want somebody to propose to you on your birthday?
Speaker 1: Do you want somebody to propose to you on Christmas?
Speaker 1: Do you want big days to be kind of conflated
Speaker 1: like that, not that it takes away from surely it
Speaker 1: adds to. But you guys just got a gold medal.
Speaker 1: The marriage hopefully it lasts. From my experience, sometimes they don't.
Speaker 2: But well, I was just gonna say, here's the deal,
Speaker 2: looking back reflecting on if they stay married and have
Speaker 2: a beautiful life together, then that's the most amazing story.
Speaker 2: But now if it doesn't work out, then you're always
Speaker 2: like man, every time you think about your gold medal,
Speaker 2: you think about your failed relationship.
Speaker 3: I'm going to use your words against you. Now.
Speaker 1: You cannot be invested in the result. Who says just
Speaker 1: because the marriage doesn't work out that this moment was.
Speaker 2: I will just say it would not bother me. In fact,
Speaker 2: I would think it was a beautiful moment. Now, the
Speaker 2: funny thing is you mentioned what if she had Well,
Speaker 2: you would said if she hadn't won the gold, but
Speaker 2: he still had proposed, right. But it's funny because her
Speaker 2: partner in this mixed doubles race, who won gold as well,
Speaker 2: said wow, three years ago he did the same thing,
Speaker 2: but he had lost, so he said this is this
Speaker 2: is sweeter that they had won and the proposal all
Speaker 2: happened at once. I think it's all around win win, Okay.
Speaker 1: But my other question there what if she had gotten
Speaker 1: a silver, a bronze, What if she didn't get a
Speaker 1: medal at all?
Speaker 3: Would he have still proposed?
Speaker 2: I don't know if he would have proposed publicly. I
Speaker 2: don't know. Maybe not. I think maybe he had he
Speaker 2: had it in his pocket just in case and it
Speaker 2: all worked out.
Speaker 3: Is it inappropriate after she loses to propose.
Speaker 1: I would not want even that night, no later that
Speaker 1: that weekend.
Speaker 2: Separation from the loss from I don't think yeah, that
Speaker 2: that would not have felt so euphoric. That would have
Speaker 2: been like, really, could you have picked a better time?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: Timing is everything, isn't that what they say?
Speaker 1: Congratulations to them both for the metal and for the ring. Now,
Speaker 1: can we give the Can we give the update about
Speaker 1: seth Ryder now and the sand river in the nasty water?
Speaker 2: Yes? So we once we finished recording yesterday, we got
Speaker 2: on the phone with my dad Microbach, the microbiologist, and
Speaker 2: he gave us some very scientific and resolute opinions about
Speaker 2: whether or not you can microdose. What happens when you
Speaker 2: try to familiarize your body with any sort of bacteria
Speaker 2: or E. Coal I if you're preparing to travel in
Speaker 2: the river sin in anyway. And what did he say, Well.
Speaker 1: Uh, I'm trying to put this the right way. He
Speaker 1: essentially says, no, you can't do that. He was definitive
Speaker 1: in saying it, because this story kind of went viral,
Speaker 1: this idea that seth Ryder, a triathlete from America, was
Speaker 1: saying that he was not going to wash his hands
Speaker 1: in the days and weeks leading into the Olympics because
Speaker 1: he was preparing his gut. He was preparing his body
Speaker 1: to take on potentially some of the E. Coli that
Speaker 1: was in the water. Micro doosing to try to build
Speaker 1: up some immunity was what he was saying. And he
Speaker 1: did say it was backed by science.
Speaker 2: What he said, yeah, and my dad, who is a scientist,
Speaker 2: said that's he's full of. He didn't say this, We'll
Speaker 2: put words in his mouth. Essentially, he said he's full of.
Speaker 1: But again, this is an expert. We're not just joking around.
Speaker 1: He about to dad, he is a microbiologist. This is
Speaker 1: what he does. He's saying the idea, the thought that
Speaker 1: you can do that is asinine, essentially, because a couple
Speaker 1: of reasons. One, there are so many strains of you.
Speaker 1: The one in your body likely ain't the same as
Speaker 1: whatever is in certainly is not, certainly is not. So
Speaker 1: you're not you're getting no immunity because it's not the same.
Speaker 1: E cola too. He said, even if it was the
Speaker 1: same and you could do that, it would take and
Speaker 1: his word, a lifetime pursuit to try to build up
Speaker 1: immunity that way to eat cola right, just impossible.
Speaker 2: To which you had a huge belly laugh because it
Speaker 2: just basically said impossible, And it's hilarious that he even
Speaker 2: tried or put it out there. So if you're in
Speaker 2: any way trying to uh, he said, like personally vaccinate yourself,
Speaker 2: you will not acquire immunity, So don't try this at home.
Speaker 2: That was the that was my headline from my dad, and.
Speaker 3: He was laughing about it. He just thought the idea
Speaker 3: was so silly.
Speaker 1: But seth Ryders come out later and said, in fact,
Speaker 1: he said, oh I was just joking. If he was,
Speaker 1: if he knows it wasn't, That's what he said. At
Speaker 1: this point, we've had some fun with it, but it's
Speaker 1: been a story and the river will continue to be
Speaker 1: a story until all the racers are done. Still think
Speaker 1: they have a marathon or relay or something they have
Speaker 1: to do in the water, So we shall.
Speaker 2: See, yes, But what we are looking forward to is today.
Speaker 2: I mean, there is so much to watch. There were
Speaker 2: so many must see events that are overlapping one another,
Speaker 2: so I think this is going to be another multiple
Speaker 2: screen day for US.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: Gymnastics obviously going to be huge today. Simone Biles going
Speaker 2: for gold once again. She's competing on the vault, where
Speaker 2: of course she is a significant favorite to say the least.
Speaker 2: And on the men's side, we are going to see
Speaker 2: our favorite pommel horse. What do they call him? The
Speaker 2: pommel horse geek? Is that is that his There's a
Speaker 2: couple of guests glasses and he's just got this kind
Speaker 2: of viral sensation going now because people are just in
Speaker 2: awe of what he can do on that pommel horse.
Speaker 2: Stephen Etta Rozik will compete for Team USA on seid
Speaker 2: pommel horse, where he already matched the best score in
Speaker 2: the preliminaries in the event so far, so he is
Speaker 2: a really good shot. We're excited about that.
Speaker 1: Also, the US women's soccer we had we're not going
Speaker 1: to miss this. Of course, playing Japan this morning again
Speaker 1: is now win or come home for America. This is
Speaker 1: the knockout stage now at playing Japan this morning, and
Speaker 1: Katie Lydekki, this is going to be our last chance
Speaker 1: to see her.
Speaker 2: It's her last race of the Games today and she's
Speaker 2: going to attempt a third straight Olympic gold medal, and
Speaker 2: this is going to be in the women's eight hundred
Speaker 2: meter freestyle that happens this afternoon. But that medal would
Speaker 2: give her an unprecedented fourteenth medal, which is just remarkable
Speaker 2: for her and for women in the sport. And there
Speaker 2: are nine swimming events scheduled today, by the way, including
Speaker 2: the men's one hundred meters butterfly final, So a lot
Speaker 2: of things to look forward.
Speaker 1: To in the pool and track and field. We've all
Speaker 1: been already been watching a lot of that this morning.
Speaker 1: But yes, to carry richardson, she is now about to
Speaker 1: go for goal. We will see a gold medal final
Speaker 1: in the women's one hundred, so that title of fastest
Speaker 1: women in the world is going to be up for
Speaker 1: grabs in USA. Also got a four by four hundred
Speaker 1: relay in a heavy favorite to win goal. There Noah Lyles.
Speaker 1: We told you we've been seeing him in his early heats.
Speaker 1: Put a warning out. We saw him in a live
Speaker 1: interview after his heat. The rest of the field is
Speaker 1: in trouble now because I just realized the mistake I
Speaker 1: made and it's done.
Speaker 3: It's over, So watch out. That is the word from
Speaker 3: him this morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the semifinals for tomorrow, so we're going to
Speaker 2: continue to see a lot of him, which we're excited about.
Speaker 2: Men's basketball, Lebron James and Team USA back in action
Speaker 2: in their final group play game. They're taking on Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2: That also happens around eleven o'clock this morning, and also
Speaker 2: around eleven o'clock this morning. What we've been talking about.
Speaker 2: Women's boxing of course in man Khalif she will be
Speaker 2: taking on that Belgian opponent. That all happens, and the
Speaker 2: women's welterweight quarterfinals. So it is going to be quite
Speaker 2: the day in sports.
Speaker 1: We have to get go and get started early to
Speaker 1: they get the girls together, get the food together, get
Speaker 1: the drinks are flowing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we know how to do that. It's going
Speaker 2: to be quite the day and it's going to be
Speaker 2: spent in front of the television.
Speaker 1: Folks, we appreciate you all as always spend some time
Speaker 1: with us. I hope you continue to enjoy the Olympics.
Speaker 1: You're about to say.
Speaker 2: Hungry, So I'm just sorry. That's why I was slowing
Speaker 2: down because I saw your face and like, wait, I
Speaker 2: just said something wrong, So my apologies. Yes, Khalif is
Speaker 2: fighting her Hungarian opponent Anna Luka Hamori, so my apologies.
Speaker 2: It's Hungry, not Belgium.
Speaker 1: So if you all heard there at the end as
Speaker 1: we were wrapping up voices kind of slowed down and
Speaker 1: we kind of worn't saying.
Speaker 2: I immediately was going back to see where I made
Speaker 2: a mistake.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that's what happened at the end. Sorry by that.
Speaker 2: Yes, thank god it's not the Olympics because I would
Speaker 2: have been disqualified everybody, So yes, thank you for listening
Speaker 2: to us each and every day. We are going to
Speaker 2: come to you tomorrow with another edition of the Tea
Speaker 2: from Perry.
Speaker 3: I'm married to that name.