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Speaker 2: I'm Georgie Tunny and I'm Abby Jelmy, And my goodness,
Speaker 2: has it been an overwhelming week of just feeling so
Speaker 2: privileged that we get to do what we do and
Speaker 2: your feedback on our last episode, Yeah, the term is overwhelming.
Speaker 2: We were inundated with messages about how you'd felt the
Speaker 2: same yep in the reaction to the GWS scandal, but
Speaker 2: also just that women in sport need a voice.
Speaker 1: George, Yes, yeah, And I think what hit me most,
Speaker 1: Jelmy was all of the wonderful feedback from all of
Speaker 1: the listeners, thank you for sending it in, But it
Speaker 1: was the messages from our colleagues as well. Yes, and
Speaker 1: all of the women who have fought like us so
Speaker 1: hard and for so long to get a space at
Speaker 1: the table, whether that be at the back in the
Speaker 1: back corner of the room, but at least they're in
Speaker 1: the room. Who was saying thank you for voicing this
Speaker 1: and speaking about it so eloquently, which is great for
Speaker 1: us because I remember us recording that episode being very
Speaker 1: highly charged and not quite sure what was coming out
Speaker 1: of our mouth.
Speaker 2: That I also couldn't breathe.
Speaker 1: Yes, there were layers to theas there were layers, but
Speaker 1: to know that we were kind of speaking on behalf
Speaker 1: of a cohort and that that cohort really did accept
Speaker 1: and thank us for that and we communicated their thoughts
Speaker 1: is something that will stay with me for a long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we shared some personal stories too, and to
Speaker 2: have them received the way they were. Although I mean,
Speaker 2: the headline that came out of my story was Channel
Speaker 2: seven presenter in disgusting photo incident, which I just feel
Speaker 2: paints me seven and a half months pregnant in a
Speaker 2: really odd light.
Speaker 1: So in my mind I see that, I see that
Speaker 1: headline and I'm like, oh my god, what was she
Speaker 1: doing licking an escalator? Give me a call?
Speaker 2: But we do. While we're on the topic of the giants,
Speaker 2: we did want to have a correction because, as we
Speaker 2: had both mentioned in the episode, but perhaps because of
Speaker 2: our vitriol, we didn't get to it as early as
Speaker 2: what we should have. We both highly respect the Giants
Speaker 2: as an institution and have had.
Speaker 1: All of our dealings with them have always been positive.
Speaker 2: And they have a lot of strong women in their
Speaker 2: leadership group within the club that have been there for
Speaker 2: a very long time, and one of them reached out
Speaker 2: to us and thanked us for the episode, but also
Speaker 2: just wanted to clarify that the club certainly didn't sit
Speaker 2: idly by when these allegations were made, which is what
Speaker 2: had been reported and what we reiterated. The club worked
Speaker 2: hand in hand and recommended sanctions with the AFL, including
Speaker 2: those that were handed down to the leaders, and took
Speaker 2: it very seriously. They did, And I think that what
Speaker 2: we really want to stress is that as much as
Speaker 2: the Giants were the example that had led to us
Speaker 2: really unpacking this cultural issue within the AFL, they are
Speaker 2: not the exception to the rule, no, and that it's
Speaker 2: a wider commentary that we were making, and we believe
Speaker 2: they've got all the right people in place to be
Speaker 2: able to rectify this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but pats on the back all round to everyone
Speaker 1: who listened to that episode took.
Speaker 2: Shared it as well, which is amazing.
Speaker 1: The responses Jelmy has said was overwhelming, and therefore you
Speaker 1: all are our good sports of the week, so thank
Speaker 1: you very very much. It meant a lot to us.
Speaker 1: This is one of the only times I can remember
Speaker 1: in my career that I've had only positive feedback.
Speaker 2: Same and we were ready for pitchforks.
Speaker 1: Yeah we were, We were, which.
Speaker 2: Probably says a lot about our audience.
Speaker 1: It does, so it's really lovely. But of course, Jelmy,
Speaker 1: we are about balance, so I have to have a
Speaker 1: bad sport as well in this episode, and I am
Speaker 1: going toward that to myself because when I saw the
Speaker 1: news that Australia had lost the Constellation Cup in netball
Speaker 1: Australia in New Zealand, we lost to New Zealand for
Speaker 1: the first time in Australia since twenty nineteen. This is
Speaker 1: only the third time that New Zealand has actually won
Speaker 1: the Constellation Cup in history. Did I swear and stamp
Speaker 1: my feet like a toddler? Yes, yes I did, Yes,
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: Bad sport to me, because sometimes you know what, emotions
Speaker 1: just get the better of you.
Speaker 2: And I think it is one of the great rivalries
Speaker 2: in sport, Australia New Zealand in netball, and it always
Speaker 2: seems to go down to the dying seconds.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and always people always come at me, like
Speaker 1: when Queensland won eight in a row, nine out of
Speaker 1: ten series straight in the state of origin, They're like,
Speaker 1: don't you want New South Wales to win? So it's
Speaker 1: a bit more interesting? No, no, no, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't so well done New Zealand. The actual playing cohort
Speaker 1: there at the moment is freaking scary.
Speaker 2: So yeah, but bringing netball up is a great topic
Speaker 2: because it is one of the ten sports that I
Speaker 2: needed to make the cut for the Glasgow Comnwealth Games. Now,
Speaker 2: this Georgie is one of the first topics that we
Speaker 2: covered on Two Good Sports, essentially going is it costing
Speaker 2: six maybe seven billion dollars for Victoria to host this event?
Speaker 2: And what is going to happen with it? Well, we
Speaker 2: haven't touched on it since, but there's been developments this
Speaker 2: week that have really made us think is this format
Speaker 2: viable going forward? And is this the beginning of the
Speaker 2: end for the Commonwealth Games. That's what we're discussing today.
Speaker 1: Jell mey, our dear listeners may have been able to
Speaker 1: hear my little cackles just as you were introducing this
Speaker 1: week's topic, because I tell you what, I haven't laughed
Speaker 1: like I have laughed whenever we talk about the Commonwealth,
Speaker 1: games about your passion for it and how you're like,
Speaker 1: what in the hell is happening? Someone give me an answer.
Speaker 2: You go red. The house is on fire, the houses
Speaker 2: on fire, and no one cares.
Speaker 1: And it's one of my favorite topics in the world.
Speaker 1: So this is me and Pens. This is me building,
Speaker 1: putting the last little nail into the soap box that
Speaker 1: I have constructed here, and I am ready for Jellny
Speaker 1: to take it away.
Speaker 2: Where are we Well, I'm going to wax lyrical and
Speaker 2: take you on a different journey to start with, because George,
Speaker 2: if you were anywhere near a TV in the last week,
Speaker 2: you would have seen Charles and his mate Camilla parade
Speaker 2: around Sydney to hundreds of adoring monarchists in what was
Speaker 2: a very royal visit. The opera house was lit up.
Speaker 2: I mean they did snub royal ramwik people read to
Speaker 2: see him at the races, they didn't go. Leaders were met,
Speaker 2: hands were shook, sausages were turned in what was the
Speaker 2: world's most awkward barbecue, and Camilla proved she was just
Speaker 2: like the rest of us by taking off her shoes
Speaker 2: and dare to go barefoot back up the stairs after
Speaker 2: a long day of service, allah leaving the Flemington members
Speaker 2: after one too many champagnes. Turns out they are just
Speaker 2: one of us. But it was largely hailed a success.
Speaker 2: The Australian Republic Movement dubbed it the Farewell Os Tour, however,
Speaker 2: saying the vast majority of Australians confirmed that they continue
Speaker 2: to see the monarchy as irrelevant to modern Australia. How
Speaker 2: does this link back to sport? Are you asking? Well,
Speaker 2: here are two good sports. We don't want to discuss
Speaker 2: the relevance of the Commonwealth in modern society, but we
Speaker 2: sure as hell do want to discuss the very real
Speaker 2: decline in relevance of the Commonwealth Games in the modern
Speaker 2: sporting landscape, its viability and the slim down version to
Speaker 2: feature only ten sports in Glasgow twenty twenty six, which
Speaker 2: is ironically announced while the two monarchs were swanning around Sydney.
Speaker 2: You know, Australia, the country that dropped the ball and
Speaker 2: led us to this tiere, a miss that we Victorians
Speaker 2: are still paying hundreds of millions of dollars to host nothing,
Speaker 2: to host nothing.
Speaker 1: What I would love producer James to do here is insert.
Speaker 2: Around the ball. I'm just we're in so much debt,
Speaker 2: Victoria is in so much debt, and we have spent
Speaker 2: three hundred and eighty million dollars to have.
Speaker 1: Nothing, to have nothing. Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: So we'll take you back to that and how we've
Speaker 2: got to that point, George, So you take it away.
Speaker 1: Well tell me because as you recall, I know, because
Speaker 1: it lives in your mind. Rent free is what we're seeing.
Speaker 1: But what our listeners may not necessarily recall is that
Speaker 1: in July last year, Victoria abruptly Withdrew as the host
Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty six Commonwealth Games. We talked about
Speaker 1: it a little bit at the time, but one note
Speaker 1: that we actually could not get our wrap our heads
Speaker 1: around was when the then Premier Daniel Andrews said that
Speaker 1: it was going to cost too much money, was going
Speaker 1: to be too high, blowing out from two point seven billion,
Speaker 1: which was the forecast, to six maybe seven becoming the
Speaker 1: count from Sesame Street eight ha ha ha nine ha ha.
Speaker 2: I can't make this stuff up.
Speaker 1: And he said that it was quote to quote him
Speaker 1: I've made a lot of difficult decisions in this job.
Speaker 1: This is not one of them. It's never sat with
Speaker 1: us that particular call. It doesn't make sense. We've always
Speaker 1: been like, excuse me, hang on, can you explain the numbers.
Speaker 1: We're just not sure, bah bah. And as we have
Speaker 1: gone on, we've seen that it hasn't sat that well
Speaker 1: with a lot of people.
Speaker 2: And the reason why Victoria got this over the line,
Speaker 2: and it was a pre election promise, was that it
Speaker 2: was going to be a rural games and they were
Speaker 2: going to build infrastructure in regional Victoria and that's why
Speaker 2: they pulled it, essentially just saying the cost of production
Speaker 2: has blown out so much for these venues that we
Speaker 2: promised that we would build that we just can't be
Speaker 2: seen to be prioritizing six maybe seven billion dollars on
Speaker 2: a one off event when there's a housing crisis. No shit, Sherlock.
Speaker 2: But we have been left so the State Auditor General
Speaker 2: found that five hundred and eighty nine million had already
Speaker 2: been spent on the games that never went ahead. That
Speaker 2: figure includes three hundred and eighty million in compensation to
Speaker 2: the Commonwealth Games Federation, of which two hundred million has
Speaker 2: now been given to Glasgow to go can you do
Speaker 2: something with this shit sandwich? Like, can you please rescue this?
Speaker 2: So the Scottish government agreed for a rescue deal for
Speaker 2: a scaled down version of the twenty twenty six Games,
Speaker 2: with where a multimillion pound commitment was made by Australian
Speaker 2: authorities to save the event. Now they hosted the Games
Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen, yes, and they were seen as an
Speaker 2: overwhelming success. But you'll remember Emingham only hosted the last
Speaker 2: Commonwealth Games, also rescuing this format. Yes, so without footing
Speaker 2: most of the bill, Glasgow are getting to host and
Speaker 2: we are just having the check how does this all
Speaker 2: check out? And how? More the point, did we not
Speaker 2: think of hosting a scale down games when we have
Speaker 2: all the infrastructure and we hosted the Commonwealth Games recently.
Speaker 1: Which is actually what I thought at the time. The
Speaker 1: Commonwealth Games Committee, who we have since paid one hundreds
Speaker 1: of millions dollars of compensation to, did suggest like that
Speaker 1: was part of all of their workings, being like, hang
Speaker 1: on a second, let's not cancel, let's not cancel everything.
Speaker 1: Maybe we can just like rework some things, we can
Speaker 1: figure it out. I feel like that was a conversation
Speaker 1: that wasn't entertained by the Victorian government, and.
Speaker 2: Yet the Scots had it. And I thought, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm going to find. I'm gonna hear a barometer
Speaker 2: for how the Scottish feeling to have the Comonwealth Games.
Speaker 2: And this was the first podcast that popped up that
Speaker 2: I'm found talking about the Games. And if it is
Speaker 2: a reflection of the general view, it's bloody funny.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's some Mackey Moosh games in it.
Speaker 2: Wow, Lord Shay, we're already.
Speaker 3: Heard it in twenty fourteen and it's coming back in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty. Stays because Melbourne, the state of Victorian a
Speaker 3: shoeshes we can't afford to put it on. She when
Speaker 3: can we afford to put it on?
Speaker 2: Believe, can you know.
Speaker 3: What it's going to end up going? Shaudi Arabia. I
Speaker 3: should order bout sporting events school because they give the
Speaker 3: fucking money. He put them on because they've got all
Speaker 3: the money in the world and we're all fucking skin.
Speaker 2: So he has a point. Cost he's a massive issue.
Speaker 2: But the come Wealth Games Australia Boss Craig Phillips said, look,
Speaker 2: we were happy to talk to the Victorian government about
Speaker 2: finding ways of saving costs of the game. If eliminating
Speaker 2: sports from the program was a part of that, we
Speaker 2: certainly would have had the conversation. I've been on the
Speaker 2: record as saying we didn't really get that opportunity to
Speaker 2: have that conversation.
Speaker 1: They weren't interested. The Victorian government wasn't interested in saving
Speaker 1: these games. They they didn't want them to happen.
Speaker 2: Is that because like Devil's advocate here, building the infrastructure
Speaker 2: is the only reason the spend was justified. Yes, and
Speaker 2: if they did a scale down games, those in the
Speaker 2: region would have said, well, you've got your sport, but
Speaker 2: your billion dollar promise to us to make these stadiums
Speaker 2: and for these hotels and for this tourism were taken
Speaker 2: from us.
Speaker 1: I think that that is fair, and I do think
Speaker 1: that as a whole, the Commonwealth Games or large scale
Speaker 1: events like this, they are politically noxious like they they
Speaker 1: put a bad taste in people's mouths when you're talking
Speaker 1: about it when so many people are struggling, there's no
Speaker 1: denying we're seeing that.
Speaker 2: With Brisbane at the moment for the Olympic Game.
Speaker 1: Where's our stadium of which we were the only ones
Speaker 1: that bid.
Speaker 2: That's the thing. Is it seen as this big coup
Speaker 2: that we got it? Yeah, no one else wanted it.
Speaker 2: But we mentioned off the top that it was a
Speaker 2: Dan Andrews government. That again Dan Andrews who's getting a
Speaker 2: statue and he's honor for all of his services to Victoria.
Speaker 2: But we'll leave that there. Jacinta Allen was actually in
Speaker 2: charge of this bid. Oh yes, she was coming back
Speaker 2: to me the Now premiere. Yes, that's right, and she
Speaker 2: this week was queried about o make King and Queen
Speaker 2: being in the country and also about the Goldwealth Game.
Speaker 2: So let's have listened to what she had to say
Speaker 2: to Tom Elliott on three aw the.
Speaker 3: Commonwealth Games that there's a theory doing the rounds that
Speaker 3: you didn't want to see the King because you're embarrassed
Speaker 3: about the Commonwealth Games.
Speaker 2: Is that true? No?
Speaker 4: No, Why are.
Speaker 3: You refusing to release all the information about the decision
Speaker 3: making on the Commonwealth.
Speaker 5: We've released a significant amount of information. Plus the Order
Speaker 5: to General has examined this issue and he's released his report.
Speaker 5: We always said it was the most the Order to
Speaker 5: General was the appropriate with the pro independent agency independent
Speaker 5: agency to have a review of that decision, and he's
Speaker 5: released his report. And meanwhile, Tom, what we're getting on
Speaker 5: with is those investments in regional Victoria, which was why
Speaker 5: why we looked at this in the first place.
Speaker 3: You go to Glasgow.
Speaker 1: Will you go to Glasgow in two years and watch it?
Speaker 2: I doubt it?
Speaker 5: No, Right, I'll be focused Tom on building more homes
Speaker 5: here in Victoria, not heading off overseas to a sporting event.
Speaker 2: Not going on holiday building houses, Tom, building houses, Tom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, moving right along, Tom.
Speaker 2: Moving right along us. Because we've mentioned the ten sports
Speaker 2: and I'm sure you're going which ones made the cut? Yeah,
Speaker 2: in the.
Speaker 1: Scale down version of the Comonwalk games that will be
Speaker 1: taking place in Glasgow that Victoria is essentially paying to
Speaker 1: put on.
Speaker 2: So they will take place from Thursday, the twenty third
Speaker 2: of July to Sunday the second of August in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six.
Speaker 1: That's actually terrifyingly not that far away.
Speaker 2: He's not that far away at all. A total of
Speaker 2: three thousand athletes are expected to compete. That's about half
Speaker 2: the number of athletes that we saw at Birmingham. This thoughts.
Speaker 2: That will feature rum roll here we go, athletics and
Speaker 2: para athletics, track and field, swimming and para swimming, artistic gymnastics,
Speaker 2: feel track cycling and para track cycling, netball, weightlifting and
Speaker 2: para powerlifting, boxing, judo bowls and para bowls, three by
Speaker 2: three basketball and three by three wheelchair basketball.
Speaker 1: I'm just looking down the list. I don't seem to
Speaker 1: see hockey.
Speaker 2: No hockey, or diving, or road cycling or badmington or
Speaker 2: beach volleyball or cricket our. Aussie women not able to
Speaker 2: defend their gold.
Speaker 1: Yeah, rugby sevens No rugby sevens.
Speaker 2: Mountain biking, rhythmic gymnastics.
Speaker 1: Which I actually love. I will always fight for rhythmic gymnastic.
Speaker 2: If it is on your watching, you are watching, you
Speaker 2: can't look away. The hoop, a chance to compete without
Speaker 2: Russia and America come dream jam table jennis and power
Speaker 2: table tennis. And you've got to think about the para
Speaker 2: athletes here as well. So para table tennis, gone triathlon
Speaker 2: and para triathlon and wrestling.
Speaker 1: Huge, huge, so a lot a lot of big outs,
Speaker 1: a lot of really really big out.
Speaker 2: The headline for me, there is hockey.
Speaker 1: Yes, for sure, for sure, the Kookoa baros and the
Speaker 1: hockey RWs. Obviously they dominate. At the Commonwealth Games.
Speaker 2: We want to combine fourteen medals, including seven straight gold
Speaker 2: for the men's team.
Speaker 1: Well that's unfortunately.
Speaker 2: Do you know why we love the comm Games, Georgie.
Speaker 2: We win, we win. We locked the floor with them,
Speaker 2: let us win, and they've just taken it from us.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: We love to win on home.
Speaker 2: Soil, and diving is a big one too. So diving
Speaker 2: a bit in every edition dating back to nineteen thirty
Speaker 2: of the Empire Games, and road cycling had featured since
Speaker 2: nineteen thirty eight. And I mean we didn't have a
Speaker 2: strong road cycling contingent in the Olympics. Oh wait, we
Speaker 2: did Grace Brown our first gold the Games, so I
Speaker 2: wasn't looking forward to seeing that one as well. But
Speaker 2: Commonwealth Games, Georgie. Why I get emotional about it, and
Speaker 2: there are many reasons, is it serves so much of
Speaker 2: a purpose in our Australian sporting landscape. I mean, you
Speaker 2: think Kathy in ninety four when she held both the
Speaker 2: Australian and the Indigenous flag and in nineteen ninety when
Speaker 2: she was the first Indigenous woman to win gold for
Speaker 2: Australia Yep. Those moments happened at a Commonwealth Games. There
Speaker 2: are memories and people that would have been inspired by
Speaker 2: the Games on the Gold Coast that are now competing
Speaker 2: at an Olympic level and that chance to have wear
Speaker 2: the Green and gold and feel that level of pressure
Speaker 2: can't be replicated.
Speaker 1: No, And it's this is the thing about the Commonwealth
Speaker 1: Games one. I think we need to talk about the
Speaker 1: incredible sense of community that it engenders for everyone who
Speaker 1: does take.
Speaker 2: Apart, it's the friendly game. It is.
Speaker 1: It's the Friendly Games. You see the power program integrated,
Speaker 1: which is huge, which is amazing because all that para
Speaker 1: athletes want is to be put on the same platform
Speaker 1: and the Commonwealth Games is one of the best events
Speaker 1: to do that. I also think that because there are
Speaker 1: some of these sports that aren't represented at an Olympic level.
Speaker 1: I was talking to Queen Lizellis last week, yes about
Speaker 1: exactly what those Commonwealth goals that she won in her
Speaker 1: career and that competition meant to her and it means
Speaker 1: the world. I was talking to Karen Murphy, the champion
Speaker 1: lawn bowler who was just inducted into the Sports Australia
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame Yes, that's how good she was. And
Speaker 1: it's like, don't you don't get to replicate. You don't
Speaker 1: get to have that moment at an Olympic Games. You
Speaker 1: have to have it at the Commonwealth Games. And if
Speaker 1: you're taking that away from all of these other sports,
Speaker 1: you're taking those opportunities away for those athletes. Oh, it
Speaker 1: doesn't sit well with me. Regardless of what you think
Speaker 1: about the Commonwealth. There are so many republics that compete,
Speaker 1: so many republic nations compete at the Commonwealth Games. You know, like,
Speaker 1: it's it can't be, it can't be. Shouldn't be this
Speaker 1: hard to hope to have them.
Speaker 2: I just think in the global climate at the moment,
Speaker 2: with how expensive these events are, once you take sports
Speaker 2: off the table, it's really hard to add them back on. Yes,
Speaker 2: and I think like all powder Glasgow for throwing a
Speaker 2: lifeline here so that we actually have the Commonwealth Games.
Speaker 2: But once you remove something, it's very very hard to
Speaker 2: add it back on. I agree. So the question is
Speaker 2: is this, Let's be honest, they look like school carnival events.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yeah. Fun fact three buy three basketball?
Speaker 2: Know is that because it can happen in someone's driveway
Speaker 2: like you don't have to build the infrastructure. Is that it?
Speaker 1: I got to say, that wasn't one of my favorite
Speaker 1: events that was added to the Paris program. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: wasn't sure about that. Fun fact, Queenly's also calls the
Speaker 1: Olympics a glorified swimming carnival that will can't be there,
Speaker 1: So yeah, that is funny.
Speaker 2: I love it. She is the greatest, But I it hurts.
Speaker 2: It does?
Speaker 1: It does, And I think you're right, Jemmy. Does this
Speaker 1: then mean that there will be a time when we
Speaker 1: don't see the Commonwealth Games? I think it's teetering on
Speaker 1: the edge. I honestly do. I think we could go
Speaker 1: one of two ways where it doesn't exist. But then
Speaker 1: where is the platform for our elite athletes to compete.
Speaker 1: I know you'll have World Champs, but it's not the same.
Speaker 2: It's also the accessibility for mine. So if you wanted
Speaker 2: to get to Paris, my goodness, bring your check book. Yes,
Speaker 2: if you were a sporting family and wanted to take
Speaker 2: your kids and expose them to that opportunity, you need
Speaker 2: it to be in the top one percentile of people
Speaker 2: earning around the world. In order to get the flights
Speaker 2: we had athletes saying how exorbitant the tickets were, yep,
Speaker 2: and just accommodation everything else because of the scale of
Speaker 2: it all. When you think about the Commonwealth Games, you
Speaker 2: same bolt ran and won at a Commonwealth Games. Emma
Speaker 2: mckeehon is our most deck rated Commonwealth Games athlete, like,
Speaker 2: these are the best that we've ever seen in the world,
Speaker 2: and you could go for cheaper yeah, and your family
Speaker 2: could actually stay in those areas like it was viable.
Speaker 2: And again it's the feel good games. I just a
Speaker 2: really really worry. And again, unless it goes to Saudi Arabia,
Speaker 2: who can really afford to be hosting these events? And
Speaker 2: we've seen it with the FIFA with the World Cup
Speaker 2: being split across different nations because no one country in
Speaker 2: the current climate can put their hand up to host it.
Speaker 2: So not only does this bring into question the Commonwealth
Speaker 2: Games and its viability, but also the Olympic Games, which
Speaker 2: just makes me sad.
Speaker 1: You can't complain about Saudi shareholders taking over world sport
Speaker 1: if you don't fight for it yourself. And I know
Speaker 1: that it's not a level playing field, but you've got
Speaker 1: to at least look as though that you want it.
Speaker 1: And with the Commonwealth Games. I just don't know if
Speaker 1: that's if that's it, because there are genuine questions to
Speaker 1: be raised about it being a financial element. Those are genuine.
Speaker 1: You know, Birmingham still struggling after it hosted a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, like it's still struggling financially in the
Speaker 1: wake of that.
Speaker 2: In what was seen as a very successful games, it
Speaker 2: has had a negative fiscal impact.
Speaker 1: What we're saying is we will always be advocating for
Speaker 1: the athletes because the opportunities for them to make a living,
Speaker 1: to be full time professional athletes are dwindling.
Speaker 2: And do you know what makes me go, ah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a direct quote, is all of this paves way
Speaker 2: for the Enhanced Games. It's true, George, it is because
Speaker 2: if you're getting one hundred thousand American dollars just to
Speaker 2: qualify as an athlete, and they have a scaled down
Speaker 2: programer think of only five sports, so it's going to
Speaker 2: be a lot more viable to host.
Speaker 1: The future is scary.
Speaker 2: It is scary and potentially druggy. It's a real Genure's
Speaker 2: another quote. But my thing, I love the Commonwealth Games.
Speaker 2: They're the feel good games. I think the integration of
Speaker 2: the power program is something that cannot be underestimated in
Speaker 2: terms of its power of bringing us all together. And
Speaker 2: when you watch Australians win, there's something about it that
Speaker 2: feels really good. And we win a lot at the
Speaker 2: Common Games. So don't take it from me us tell
Speaker 2: me yes, okay us everyone, But twenty twenty six is
Speaker 2: not too far away. We wait and see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and hey, they better be an Australian flag
Speaker 1: put somewhere. We're paying for the Games after all.
Speaker 2: Do you think there is another Commonwealth Games after Glasgow? Yes,
Speaker 2: I'm not so sure, Georgie. Yes, it's time for our
Speaker 2: favorite segment, fun facts. Sometimes they just land in your lap.
Speaker 2: One of our favorite fun facts there's a pineapple on
Speaker 2: top of the Winwooden Trophy. It came to me while
Speaker 2: I was watching Gold Like you win a Larry Emda
Speaker 2: on the chase. I love the chase. Judge me accordingly. Yesterday,
Speaker 2: my dear at the half was having a well earned
Speaker 2: beer because he's been doing a lot of the heavy
Speaker 2: handed parenting at the moment because I can't lift anything,
Speaker 2: and he looked at the lid and said, aren't you
Speaker 2: talking about the con Games this week? And I said, yes,
Speaker 2: yes we are. And he goes, there's a fun fact
Speaker 2: on my lid, and I went, this is a gift
Speaker 2: from the beer gods. From the beer gods, so I
Speaker 2: have brought in said lid.
Speaker 1: She hasn't.
Speaker 2: She's got to read to you a fact that it's
Speaker 2: so fun. A beer company thought it was relevant to
Speaker 2: put under a top. I do not even know anyway.
Speaker 2: Here we go, here we go at the nineteen Oh no.
Speaker 1: It's scrubbed off.
Speaker 4: Oh fact, the fact has been compromised because it turns
Speaker 4: out printing them on the bottom of a bottle cap
Speaker 4: is not very.
Speaker 2: I think it says at the nineteen sixty five games.
Speaker 1: Question mark fact check fact.
Speaker 2: At the nineteen sixty five Comnwealth Games, every single Aussie
Speaker 2: diver won a medal.
Speaker 1: Oh, shut up, that is fun.
Speaker 2: Let's find out if it was the game in sixty five,
Speaker 2: because it can also.
Speaker 1: If we weren't even numbers, Sure.
Speaker 2: That not every every I'm really trying.
Speaker 1: You can hang on, now I have the bottle cap. Okay,
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six? Are you blind?
Speaker 2: Apparently? Is it sixty six?
Speaker 1: Sixty six?
Speaker 2: Oh? There you go, Yeah, that makes sense. Sixty six
Speaker 2: It would have to be even it's a games. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, my two brain cells that are knocking around anyway,
Speaker 2: Diving no longer a Commonwealth game sport. Oh but every
Speaker 2: diver one.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, that's mental. I wonder how many every diver
Speaker 1: won a medal. We do always punch above our weight
Speaker 1: in the diving exactly. Well, look look how fun that
Speaker 1: fact was, and sadly no fun facts like that heading
Speaker 1: into Glasgow possible.
Speaker 2: I'm off to get my eyes.
Speaker 1: I cannot begin to tell you, dear listeners, how easy
Speaker 1: this was.
Speaker 2: It is speckled. Okay, it's aged anyway. Thank you for
Speaker 2: listening and helping me see with two Good Sports in
Speaker 2: Sports News told me differently. Again. I know that we
Speaker 2: said it off the top, but thank you so much
Speaker 2: for the feedback and reaction to our last episode. We
Speaker 2: it was really overwhelming and we're prepreciate it so much.
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Speaker 2: you be a good sport