1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: Today's gold Medal update is brought to you by Deacon University, 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: the number one sports science school in the world. Visit 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:09,400 Speaker 1: Deacon dot EEDU dot au to find out more, or 4 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: click the link in today's show notes. Good afternoon and 5 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: welcome to the Daily Ods. It is tda's Metal Moments, 6 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 1: a little bit of a bonus episode for you. It's 7 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: coming twice a week during these spectacular Paris twenty twenty 8 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: four Olympics. I'm coming to you from a position of 9 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 1: not quite realizing what time is anymore. It is merely 10 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: a construct by this stage. I've spent so much time 11 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 1: awake on the couch at three am, five am doesn't 12 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,520 Speaker 1: really matter anymore. It's kind of just dark time and daytime. 13 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 1: But it's all been worth it because the sport has 14 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: been so spectacular. And we are now in week two 15 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,520 Speaker 1: of the Olympics, and what that means is the bulk 16 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 1: of swimming is now done. We still have synchronized swimming 17 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: and marathon swimming remaining, and it's time for track and 18 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: field to take census stage. I don't want to just 19 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: move on from swimming completely. I want to wrap it 20 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: up for you there. But then I'm going to dive 21 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: straight into what's coming up. I want to also give 22 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: you a sense of where we are on the medal 23 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 1: table and what it's looking like for this second and 24 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: final week of the Olympics. But I do have to 25 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: say that, you know, the swimming performance from Australia was 26 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 1: just incredible. I was keeping an eye on how we 27 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 1: were doing compared to other Olympics and it's one of 28 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: our best performances in the pool ever. Had a couple 29 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: more swims gone our way earlier this morning, it would 30 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: have been our most successful swim team in Olympic history. 31 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 1: We just missed that benchmark set in Tokyo last Olympics. 32 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: But nonetheless, over the weekend there were a number of 33 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: gold medals in the pool. We started with Australia's women's 34 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: four x two hundred meter freestyle real a team. They 35 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: also set a new Olympic record when they won that race. 36 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: It was Mollo O'Callaghan, Lannie Pallister, Bianca Throssel and Arian Tidmas. 37 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: They pretty much led from the front. It was the 38 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: same events that they won in Tokyo three years ago. 39 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: They also the world record for that event. Now they 40 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: beat the US in that swim, and despite the silver medal, 41 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: that medal meant that Katie Ledecki, the US Swimming Icon, 42 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: became the most decorated female Olympic swimmer of all time 43 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: and she only added to that tally in the days 44 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: that followed. Then we had Kaylie McEwen and Cam McAvoy. 45 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: They added two more gold medals to Australia's tally. The 46 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 1: following morning, McEwan set a new Olympic record in the 47 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: two hundred backstroke and that meant that she successfully completed 48 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 1: that double double I told you about last week, and 49 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: what that means is that she won both the one 50 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: hundred and two hundred individual races in two consecutive Olympic 51 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: Games in the same stroke. It also meant that she 52 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: became the first Australian to win four individual gold medals 53 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: in history. And then it was really awesome to see 54 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 1: Cam McVoy winning the fifty meter freestyle final. It was 55 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: Australia's first ever medal in that event. Cam McAvoy was 56 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: competing in his fourth Olympics. He's the first Australian male 57 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: swimmer to do so, and that's his first gold meda. 58 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: Then on Saturday night we had one of the feel 59 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: good stories of the Olympics. Australian tennis doubles pairing Matthew 60 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: Abden and John Piers. They won the men's doubles tennis 61 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 1: final at Roland Garross and this had particular significance to 62 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: the broader Australian Olympic team because it meant that for 63 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: the first time Australia had won a gold medal on 64 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: every day of the first eight days of the Olympics. 65 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: And both of them, these tennis veterans, they're both thirty 66 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: six years old. They both said it was their highlight 67 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: of their career. I mean, that's pretty powerful stuff. And 68 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 1: then to wrap up, I think you know, one of 69 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: the key moments of every Olympic Games is the men's 70 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: and women's one hundred meters sprint, and both of these 71 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: races really delivered some incredible stories. So this morning, Noah 72 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: Lyles the American. If you've watched sprint on Netflix, you'll 73 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: get a sense of of who this young man is. 74 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: He won the race by I'm going to get this right, 75 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: five one thousandths of a second, So that zero point 76 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: zero zero five seconds. That means that Lyles is the 77 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: first American to win the men's one hundred since Justin 78 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: Gatland back in two thousand and four. And then in 79 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: the women's race, the favorite going into the final was 80 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: world champion Shaikhari Richardson, also of the US, but the 81 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: race was taken out by twenty three year old at 82 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: Saint Lucian sprinter Julian Alfred. It was the first medal 83 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: that Saint Lucia, which is a tiny group of islands 84 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: in the Caribbean of one hundred and eighty thousand people. 85 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: It was the first medal in Olympic history they won. 86 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 1: And it's pretty spectacular to go for your first medal 87 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: that the country's ever won, to be a gold in 88 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: one hundred meters sprint. The Prime Minister of Saint Lucia 89 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 1: actually declared the third of August, the day that she 90 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: won that medal, juju jay, and it's going to be 91 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 1: an annual celebration of this moment in their sporting history. 92 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 1: Her time was ten point seven to two in that race. 93 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: So where does that leave Australia. Well, as of this morning, 94 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,719 Speaker 1: Australia has twelve gold medals. We also have eleven silvers. 95 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: I haven't even talked about the silvers in this episode 96 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:57,159 Speaker 1: and bronze eight medals. That means we've were the total 97 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: of thirty one medals with plenty of actions still to 98 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 1: come to It means we're tying with France, who also 99 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: have twelve gold medals. China and the US, though are 100 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: miles in front. They've got nineteen gold medals each. The 101 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: US have won an astounding seventy one collective medals together, 102 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 1: nineteen gold, twenty six silver, and twenty six bronze. That's 103 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: a remarkable amount of silverware to be taking home this 104 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 1: early in the Olympics, and I'm sure there's more to 105 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: come as we enter this next week of track and field. 106 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: I mean, it's you know, there's so much going on. 107 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: I mean, we've got women's hockey, basketball, water polo. Some 108 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: of those team events are now starting to reach the 109 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,480 Speaker 1: quarter finals, semi finals, and final stage, and that's where 110 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,039 Speaker 1: we're really going to see the competition whittling down to 111 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: be some of the really competitive close matches. We'll see 112 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: titans of some of these sports come together. But then 113 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 1: track and field, there's a lot going on. So overnight tonight, 114 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: there's four medal events between the hours of three am 115 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: and five forty seven am, So there goes my sleep. 116 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:55,840 Speaker 1: We've got the men's pole vault. Watch out for Australian 117 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: Curtis Marshall. He'll be in the final there. He had 118 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: a really good heat. He cleared five point seven meters. 119 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: He was the bronze medalist at the twenty twenty three 120 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 1: World Championships and he really wants a medal here in 121 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: Paris after not making it through the first round of 122 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: the event back in Tokyo. He'll have to beat Sweden's 123 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 1: armand Duplantis. He is the defending Olympic champion and he 124 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,799 Speaker 1: holds the world record of six point twenty four meters. 125 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 1: That is very very high. Then we've got the women's 126 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:26,679 Speaker 1: discus throw. There's no Aussies in that event. The women's 127 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: five thousand, Watch out for Australian Rose Davis. She finished 128 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 1: third in her heat and at five forty seven am 129 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 1: the women's eight hundred. Now there's no Australian woman in 130 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: that event, but it's always a spectacular one to watch. 131 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: That kind of middle distance running always is super exciting. 132 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: It's not all good news for Australia. The Kookaburras, Australia's 133 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 1: men's hockey team. They're out of the Olympics after losing 134 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: two nil to the Netherlands in their quarter final. Overnight 135 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: they won silver in Tokyo, so this isn't the best 136 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,799 Speaker 1: result for them. We still have Australia's women the hockey ruse. 137 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 1: They are now carrying the nation's hockey hopes. They play 138 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 1: in their quarterfinal against China tonight. The other ones to 139 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 1: look out for tonight eleven thirty five pm. We've got 140 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: the women's kayak cross. Now Nomi Fox, the younger sister 141 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 1: of Jessica Fox, the dual gold medalist. She's in the quarterfinals. 142 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 1: She actually knocked out her sister in the heat. She 143 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: has to finish in the top two to advance to 144 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: the semifinal. That will be at twelve to fifteen am, 145 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: and then it will be directly followed by the final 146 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: at twelve forty three am. So between eleven thirty pm 147 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: and about one am you're going to see a lot 148 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: of action in the canoe slalom. We've also got between 149 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: all of that the men's kayak cross. We've got two 150 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: Australians in the quarterfinals there, so I dare say we 151 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: might see some medals coming out of that course there, 152 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 1: keep an eye on some surfing as well. Over in Tahiti, 153 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 1: surfer Jack Robinson is taking on Gabrielle Medina of Brazil 154 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: in the semi final. But then, yes, plenty of action 155 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: on the track and field throughout all of that. Doesn't 156 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 1: sound like we're going to be doing much sleeping tonight. 157 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: And just as I've done the last couple of episodes, 158 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: I thought I'd put the results from Paris in the 159 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: context of how we've gone in some of those previous 160 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: Olympic Games, particularly Tokyo, which is kind of up there 161 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: is one of the real success stories for our Olympic team. 162 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: So in Tokyo we won seventeen gold medals. That means 163 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 1: we're still five gold medals off the pace there. But 164 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: there's still that week of competition to go. Some of 165 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: these epic teams, the basketball, both the men's and women's, 166 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 1: the hockey, rus both our water polo teams, and as 167 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,679 Speaker 1: well as some of our stars in track and field. 168 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: There could be five medals there. There could even be 169 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: six medals there that would officially make it our best 170 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: Olympics ever. It's going to be a really exciting last 171 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: week of Sport. I'll come back to you again on 172 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon to see how we're tracking and to see 173 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: us through those last couple of days of the Olympics. 174 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: But until then, if you want to sign up to 175 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:43,080 Speaker 1: TDA Sport to see all of this in written form 176 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:46,679 Speaker 1: and not have you know my excitement disrupt you from 177 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 1: those key times you need to know to set your alarm, 178 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: I'll put a link in today's show notes. Until then, 179 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: good luck to all Australians competing over the next couple 180 00:08:55,080 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: of days, and I'll speak to you on Thursday. For 181 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 1: Deacon Universities, Doctor Casey Simon's a sport media expert and 182 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 1: lecturer in communications, Watching the Paris Games means so much 183 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:13,959 Speaker 1: more to her than just who assumes the fastest or 184 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: jumps the highest. 185 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 2: When you think about mega events and a global spotlight 186 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 2: on sport, there's nothing bigger than the Olympics and Paralympics 187 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 2: to bring everyone together on a global level. So why 188 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 2: not use that as a vehicle for social change and 189 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 2: gender equality? We need to really question and. 190 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 1: Doctor Simon's is constantly thinking about that social impact of sport, 191 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 1: what's going right and what we can work. 192 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 2: On that Because I think we're doing some really great 193 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 2: things right now with challenging and changing some systems in sport, 194 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 2: but we still have some ways to go in doing 195 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 2: what we need to do to meet things truly equitable 196 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,559 Speaker 2: in sport for everyone to participate in ways that they 197 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 2: want to. 198 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: These are the types of ideas that they think about 199 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: at Deacon University, the number one sport science school in 200 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: the world. 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