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Speaker 1: it's different.
Speaker 2: This morning it hit differently. Welcome to Two Good Sports,
Speaker 2: Green and Gold edition, your unofficial games podcast. And it
Speaker 2: physically pained us to not have episodes over the weekend.
Speaker 2: We were going to just come in here and press
Speaker 2: record ourselves because it was the most unbelievable hour of
Speaker 2: power that we thought that we'd see in sport that
Speaker 2: happened over the weekend. But then Georgie me minutes ago
Speaker 2: we witnessed one of the greatest Games finals of all
Speaker 2: times in the men's one hundred meter final, and my god,
Speaker 2: Noah Lyles, after all the build up after the sprint docco,
Speaker 2: he did it, and we have a new hero in
Speaker 2: world track.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, we will get to Noah. But first of all,
Speaker 1: dear listener, we will just have a little bit of
Speaker 1: a summary about exactly what you have missed since the
Speaker 1: last time we chatted, because if we look at the
Speaker 1: medal tally in real time, Australia sits in number four silver.
Speaker 1: We're still number four twelve golds overall. Sorry I should
Speaker 1: say that again, twelve everyone you're listening. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to rush through that. Twelve golds, eleven silvers, eight bronzes,
Speaker 1: thirty one medals since we last spoke four golds, five silvers.
Speaker 2: Four bronze and Australia having twelve golds after day eight
Speaker 2: of competition it's now day nine, but after day eight
Speaker 2: is the best that we've ever done at a Games.
Speaker 2: So we had eleven in Athens yea, and we had
Speaker 2: ten in Sydney. So the pantos So if you feel
Speaker 2: like Ossie's are flying, it's because we are. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: we absolutely are. And we have made Australian track and
Speaker 2: field history. So we will be getting to that later,
Speaker 2: but for now, Noah last.
Speaker 1: Yes, let's go back. Let's go back to where we
Speaker 1: started because Noah Lyles now, two good sports listeners who
Speaker 1: listen every single week will know that we have had
Speaker 1: a kind of recent obsession with this man after the
Speaker 1: Sprint documentary series on Netflix, and I tell you what
Speaker 1: didn't he live up to the hype, jommy, one of
Speaker 1: the greatest events you called it, that we have ever seen.
Speaker 2: When his welcome was a fifty meter run. Yes, the life.
Speaker 2: He ran out to the crowd and put his arms
Speaker 2: up and honestly was halfway down the track that he
Speaker 2: was about to compete on. I went, has any athlete
Speaker 2: in history talked the talk before they walked the run? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: And just to give for those who haven't seen it,
Speaker 2: please go back and have the better ten seconds of
Speaker 2: your life, because how close this was is they were separated.
Speaker 2: He and Kashane Thompson were separated by five thousandth of
Speaker 2: a second one to eight In the men's one hundred
Speaker 2: meter final, who all ran under ten seconds, were separated
Speaker 2: by point one two of a second.
Speaker 1: It was the greatest men's one hundred meter final I
Speaker 1: think that I've ever seen. And I'm including some of
Speaker 1: you sain Bolts totally races in that because those weren't close.
Speaker 1: I love them for completely different reasons because I got
Speaker 1: to see bolt just absolutely leg it. But this was
Speaker 1: one where we did not know who had won. The
Speaker 1: athletes didn't know who had won for so long.
Speaker 2: Afterwards, fare a thought for the director who put a
Speaker 2: close up on Thompson. Yeah, so someone in real time
Speaker 2: has thought the Jamaicans got him here quick put a
Speaker 2: close up on him.
Speaker 1: But he else had thought who he'd won it? Noah
Speaker 1: Lyles himself, Yes, he said. He went up to him
Speaker 1: and he was basically being like, congratulations, I think you've
Speaker 1: got me. I think you've done it. And then you
Speaker 1: just see the complete switch where he sees that his
Speaker 1: name is above Thompson's and he goes.
Speaker 2: Oh, I thought he had it.
Speaker 1: I'm amazing.
Speaker 2: And also Thompson who came out and basically his warm
Speaker 2: up was to act like the Hulk. Oh yeah. And
Speaker 2: that is why there are some moments Steorgy that just
Speaker 2: make you think, I love sport and you can get
Speaker 2: way down sometimes with some of the stories that we
Speaker 2: have to cover and we'll do an episode after the
Speaker 2: games because it's too nuanced to talk about it now.
Speaker 2: But what we're seeing in women's boxing and just some
Speaker 2: of the storylines where you feel like there are no
Speaker 2: winners in this race. It just let you, as the spectator,
Speaker 2: sit there in complete anticipation and watch these people do
Speaker 2: the unthinkable and know that it was a culmination of
Speaker 2: their life work and see a dream come true and
Speaker 2: there is nothing nothing more magical.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think that what makes Noah Lyle so
Speaker 1: special is that you and I care about him so much.
Speaker 1: And he's not a story.
Speaker 2: He's American. We're wired to feel otherwise.
Speaker 1: And we're like hoping that he wins above all, hope.
Speaker 1: I was so nervous. I was so anxious in the
Speaker 1: lead up to that race. They also held them on
Speaker 1: the start for a million years.
Speaker 2: Before million years, we need to find out how many
Speaker 2: times nine point seven eighty four goes into how long
Speaker 2: they had to wait on the blocks.
Speaker 1: Honestly, it was such a great race. Everyone spare yourself
Speaker 1: the nine point seven eight four seconds because what a
Speaker 1: time to be alive. And jelmy, I want to stay with.
Speaker 2: The track because just before this event, Yeah, just before.
Speaker 1: This event, we achieved something very very rare for Australia,
Speaker 1: for Team Australia, and that was two medals in the
Speaker 1: one event.
Speaker 2: What so it's the first time since nineteen sixty eight
Speaker 2: that Australia won two medals in the same track and
Speaker 2: field event. I get if we count the way the
Speaker 2: Americans do. We technically won the Hydro, We won the
Speaker 2: Hygi and that was thanks to Nikola Olislagger's who you
Speaker 2: remember won silver in Tokyo. So she backed it up
Speaker 2: back to back silver, which is incredible. And Eleanor Patterson,
Speaker 2: who I feel like sometimes is lost in the wash
Speaker 2: with how great Nikola is, but she is a star
Speaker 2: in her own right, and she died for bronze with
Speaker 2: the Ukrainian. It was very Australia Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Isn't it?
Speaker 2: Yes, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Ukrainians very good at high jump, but also us two turns.
Speaker 2: Out it is so Nikola's peeb is two point zero
Speaker 2: three meters and so the jump that eventually won gold
Speaker 2: was two point zero two. So Nicola did clear out
Speaker 2: two meters. And dear listener, if you're talking about these
Speaker 2: sort of numbers at home, I find your tape measure,
Speaker 2: get two meters out and mark it on something in
Speaker 2: your house, and then imagine running and jumping over it,
Speaker 2: because it is unbelievable what they achieve. And Nicola, you remember,
Speaker 2: is the lovely, very spiritual girl that writes in her
Speaker 2: diary after every jump, and what you see is what
Speaker 2: you get. I swear if you break her open, there's
Speaker 2: butterflies and rainbows. She is just such a wonderfully sweet,
Speaker 2: positive person. She's been with the same coach since she
Speaker 2: was twelve. She's so consistently performed on this stage, and
Speaker 2: to see her so thrilled with back to back silver
Speaker 2: in track and field for Australia just doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: I would say that I think that our track team
Speaker 1: has out achieved anything we've ever really imagined in the athletics. Yes,
Speaker 1: for a long time, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, I think it's I have to correct you
Speaker 2: only because field athletes get very.
Speaker 1: Angry i'm referred to.
Speaker 2: But it is a thing because I think track, as
Speaker 2: we've talked about today, is the glamour events. Yes, and
Speaker 2: all of Australia, all of Australian field, is going high there. Yeah, hey, guys,
Speaker 2: you want a metal chance holding up the team, get
Speaker 2: on our back. We are already carrying the shot put.
Speaker 2: Why don't we just carry you as well? Because it
Speaker 2: is going to be amazing and we still have so
Speaker 2: many track athletes, see I'm doing it as well. We
Speaker 2: still have so many field athletes left that have good chances.
Speaker 2: But I think that it was amazing to see that
Speaker 2: in the high jump, and again just wonderful athletes. It's
Speaker 2: wonderful competitors. And we do need to mention a quick
Speaker 2: note to the women's eight hundred meters with Abby Caldwell
Speaker 2: and Claudia Hollingsworth. Remember the name because she is only
Speaker 2: nineteen and they both had valiant efforts in their debut,
Speaker 2: bowing out in the semi final. But to reach a
Speaker 2: semifinal at nineteen years of age, yeah, watch.
Speaker 1: Out la very. Oh yes, I think that that is
Speaker 1: one to watch. Jell me just to quick check in
Speaker 1: welfare check how you doing, because athletics is your thing.
Speaker 1: How you feeling? How's our hearts?
Speaker 2: I physically leapt off the couch this morning, which is
Speaker 2: very difficult to do twenty four weeks pregnant, like I
Speaker 2: genuinely think I strained something. Watching the men's one hundred
Speaker 2: meters it is it lights me up, and it's every
Speaker 2: now and then you have moments where you realize I
Speaker 2: can't believe I get to talk about sport for a
Speaker 2: living and I somehow pulled this off. I would be
Speaker 2: talking to anyone who would listen today the way that
Speaker 2: you and I have spoken off the top and it
Speaker 2: is just a joy to watch and be a part of.
Speaker 2: But it is very if the welfare check is am
Speaker 2: I able to do anything else in life over the
Speaker 2: next week.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely not absolutely solutely. You're gonna say, people say hi,
Speaker 1: and you'll be like, did you see Noah?
Speaker 2: Please just don't don't look at me, don't talk to me.
Speaker 2: So that is the track and field events overnight. But
Speaker 2: again in swimming, we've wrapped up swimming. We almost almost
Speaker 2: beat the US in the traditional way of counting gold.
Speaker 2: We were one one less. But amazing to see Meg
Speaker 2: Harris in the fifty meter freestyle just pull out all
Speaker 2: the stops of PB to win silver, silver.
Speaker 1: And I have to say, I feel like, dear listener,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna watch anything back after Nola I was
Speaker 1: winning the one hundred meters, then watch this race. Because
Speaker 1: Meg Harris's reaction to that silver medal, you'd think she'd
Speaker 1: won fourteen golds like it was just pure joy. It
Speaker 1: was shock. She couldn't believe it. She was in one
Speaker 1: of the outside lanes, she was not in the middle.
Speaker 1: Sarah shows from one once again, the incredible sprinter from.
Speaker 2: She has been swimming for four hundred years.
Speaker 1: Four thousand years. Yeah, it's actually really a personal attack
Speaker 1: when you find out she's actually only thirty, so younger
Speaker 1: than both of us.
Speaker 2: And I was like, she's been.
Speaker 1: Swimming since I was a child.
Speaker 2: Does she need age to help her swim at fifty? Oh,
Speaker 2: she's thirty. Cool, thank you. It's wild.
Speaker 1: But Meg Harris, you may remember we have mentioned her
Speaker 1: already on our Green and Gold edition of this podcast
Speaker 1: because she won the gold in the four by one
Speaker 1: hundred meter freestyle relay on like day one or two
Speaker 1: of the games, right, and Jelmy was made the very
Speaker 1: stude observation that she has a hearing disability.
Speaker 2: Yes, and so she'd.
Speaker 1: Had to teach herself about how to know when to
Speaker 1: go in the realize, and the same thing counts. When
Speaker 1: she's on the block. She will often go on go,
Speaker 1: so it's like set, go, and then average athletes will
Speaker 1: just go somewhere in between the set and the go,
Speaker 1: they'll already start to get the best advantage. But not
Speaker 1: for Meg. She has to wait till the go and
Speaker 1: she's still finished second.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so she said, basically, growing up, they had the
Speaker 2: hearing test at school where they said, press the button
Speaker 2: when you hear something, and they took the headphones off
Speaker 2: her and she said, oh, are we going to start
Speaker 2: and they said, oh, it's over. And that's how she
Speaker 2: discovered that she needed hearing aids, and she said it's
Speaker 2: been so helpful for her. But it was actually Kate
Speaker 2: Campbell going, you've got someone who is actually legally death
Speaker 2: and they think that it was nerveat damage that happened
Speaker 2: when she was a child. And yet, as you said,
Speaker 2: taught herself, yeah to hear the starters. And she's like, well, gratefully,
Speaker 2: everyone goes quiet, yes, And she's also said that, well,
Speaker 2: the good thing is after a race, journalists tend to
Speaker 2: ask one of three questions. So I kind of watched
Speaker 2: their lips and try to guess which of the three
Speaker 2: standard questions they've asked me. And sometimes I really stuff
Speaker 2: up because in those loud stadium environments she can't hear.
Speaker 1: I also think this was extra special because it was
Speaker 1: an individual medal totally, and she's been such a great
Speaker 1: team player. She's been on so many relays in the heats,
Speaker 1: she's been a heat swimmer, but this is hers out right,
Speaker 1: and I think that that just hits a bit differently too.
Speaker 1: We want another silver. Jemmy in the pool to wrap
Speaker 1: the women's four by one hundred meter medley relay, little
Speaker 1: known names, Molly O'Callahan, Kaylee McEwen in the water again,
Speaker 1: Emma McKean.
Speaker 2: And they jumped in with their full tracksuits on, which
Speaker 2: you love to see because their swimmers they hold their
Speaker 2: emotions so close to their chest the whole way through.
Speaker 2: We saw that with Arnie and it was actually after
Speaker 2: her final individual race that she let it out and went, oh,
Speaker 2: I feel like I can talk about the gold that
Speaker 2: I won on day one now and we're on day
Speaker 2: eight of competition, because I haven't allowed myself to feel anything.
Speaker 2: But can I just say, speaking of Arnie Molly O'Callahan
Speaker 2: with the clutch, we were nowhere near silver when she
Speaker 2: got in for the final leg of the women's four
Speaker 2: by one hundred meter medley, and that freestyle leg was
Speaker 2: unbelievable to watch. I implore you to go back because
Speaker 2: again it was another silver that felt like a gold
Speaker 2: because America they were running their own range.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they were the only ones in the pool.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: To be honest, did you have a moment of just dying.
Speaker 1: I almost died when they jumped into the pool. I
Speaker 1: know that they were alive, but I remember that time
Speaker 1: when we jumped in the pool and then all hell
Speaker 1: broke loose because it was like, are you just qualified now?
Speaker 1: Like I can't, I'm the wounds are still rang, like
Speaker 1: I know, you're fully clothed, and you're no longer in
Speaker 1: the competition and everyone's out of the pool and it's
Speaker 1: been a few minutes.
Speaker 2: But part of me goes, just find another way to celebrate.
Speaker 2: It doesn't hurt my heart, but we do need to mention.
Speaker 2: So that is the last that we'll see it of
Speaker 2: Emma McKean at this level of competition, and again just
Speaker 2: another medal for her to add to her tally. She
Speaker 2: has been a champion for so long and she'll be
Speaker 2: the first to admit these are not the games that
Speaker 2: she envisaged. She had a lot of challenges in the
Speaker 2: last couple of years physically to get herself up, but
Speaker 2: what a service she's provided.
Speaker 1: She finishes her game's career with fourteen medals to her name,
Speaker 1: almost decorated athlete at this level like it, it's incredible
Speaker 1: what her legacy will be and I'm so excited that
Speaker 1: I think it's quite a nice passing of the baton
Speaker 1: see rele pun to Molly O'Callahan. What a way for
Speaker 1: her to finish in a race that has the future?
Speaker 2: Do you know what I mean? Totally?
Speaker 1: It was very special.
Speaker 2: They are the events that happened overnight, but we must
Speaker 2: mention what's happened over the weekend, So we're going to
Speaker 2: do that next.
Speaker 1: Tell me you know that I like to daydream some things,
Speaker 1: and sometimes I make outlandish statements like sat Kilda will
Speaker 1: finish in the top four. Other times we are pi kick.
Speaker 1: We are freaking psychic, and I am going to use
Speaker 1: the hour of power that we witnessed over the weekend
Speaker 1: to prove it, because you and I in the lead
Speaker 1: up to our Green and Gold edition, recorded a few
Speaker 1: episodes about athletes to watch, swimmers to watch, etcetera, etcetera,
Speaker 1: among them Cameron McAvoy, Kaylee McEwen and Saya Sakakibara on
Speaker 1: the BMX track and what did they do over the weekend?
Speaker 2: My god, it aged well like French cheese, if you will,
Speaker 2: aged well while I went for cheese rather than champagne.
Speaker 2: No one will ever know However, let's circle back, because
Speaker 2: it was arguably one of the better seventy seven minutes
Speaker 2: of Australian sport you will ever witness. And I am
Speaker 2: so cool. I am so grateful for pregnancy insomnia because
Speaker 2: I didn't set my alarm, but I just happened to
Speaker 2: be up and I was like, oh, I'll just watch this.
Speaker 2: Can the man Macavoy winning the fifty meter freestyle After
Speaker 2: all that he's been through, After the fact that he
Speaker 2: said he's cut his training by ninety percent, the fact
Speaker 2: that this is his fourth Games and he is finally
Speaker 2: a top the podium, it was the most ridiculous thing
Speaker 2: to watch. And all I could think of was he's
Speaker 2: one of Georgie's yea of the one of Georgie, He's
Speaker 2: one of mine.
Speaker 1: I have followed him his entire career. I've said on
Speaker 1: this podcast how much I love him. I've also said
Speaker 1: how he only usually performs on a national level, maybe
Speaker 1: a world championships, he never performs at the Games.
Speaker 2: Well well, well, well, well, wellastenis he reckons?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the galithens And honestly, he said that he's going
Speaker 1: to drop his program about exactly what he's been doing.
Speaker 1: Because he got the biggest advertisement for it, which is
Speaker 1: a gold medal and event that we have never ever
Speaker 1: ever meddled.
Speaker 2: He was so clever in every post race interview, just saying,
Speaker 2: you know, I just think I've re revolutionized training and swimming.
Speaker 2: I love him, so I just can't wait for everyone
Speaker 2: to share my program. And I'm like, just drop your app,
Speaker 2: just drop your axe, and he's going to break the world.
Speaker 2: But the other thing about Cam and I know that
Speaker 2: you'll love this because he's so wide like us, is
Speaker 2: the first time that he saw the race back and
Speaker 2: we're talking about fifty meters.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's twenty one seconds.
Speaker 2: He's sitting on the desk in the commentary and they're like,
Speaker 2: we're gonna watch it back, and they watched it and
Speaker 2: he goes, oh, the touch wasn't great.
Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, I knew he'd be unhappy with that.
Speaker 2: Hehi in real time.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, he's gliding.
Speaker 2: He's gliding. Also, you just won Games gold and you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I could have lifted on that. I'm better than that,
Speaker 2: but he is. He's just it was spectacular. And then
Speaker 2: so that was the first time that we've ever won
Speaker 2: a medal in the fifty meter men's freestyle, and we
Speaker 2: just start by doing it in gold. But if we're
Speaker 2: going to talk about game's history, yeah, what was achieved
Speaker 2: by a little lady called Kaylee McEwen.
Speaker 1: She defended her title in the two hundred meter backstroke,
Speaker 1: so that means that she won the double and she
Speaker 1: backed up the double double. So in her career she
Speaker 1: won the one hundred meters and the two hundred back
Speaker 1: in Tokyo. She's backed that up with thee hundred meters
Speaker 1: and two hundred meter golds in Paris. Her fourth career
Speaker 1: individual gold medal goes to Kaylee McEwen. She was also
Speaker 1: as she loves to do. We've talked about it already
Speaker 1: in the Green and Gold edition. She did give up
Speaker 1: a little bit of a lead, but I would say
Speaker 1: that she won comfortably in the end against her all
Speaker 1: time rivals, Like it was such a wonderful, wonderful performance
Speaker 1: and I didn't have to stress too much, which was
Speaker 1: the best.
Speaker 2: She's now edited her caption that she put online about this,
Speaker 2: but initially it said on days Evan, I hit a
Speaker 2: small milestone in my career becoming the first woman to
Speaker 2: ever win the one hundred and two hundred meters backstroke
Speaker 2: and no comments lit up being like, oh the old
Speaker 2: game's history, is it? Kaylee? Like that's so her to
Speaker 2: just play it down so much.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, she is the coolest of cucumbers until
Speaker 1: you get a celebrating and I love it. And then
Speaker 1: she went back into the pool and won bronze, but
Speaker 1: in an interesting way. I know there was a just qualification,
Speaker 1: but accounts bronze in the two hundred meter im, which
Speaker 1: was something that she was just trying out, just trying out,
Speaker 1: but jelmy, you gave me the start that then I
Speaker 1: think in every single event that she's ever raced at
Speaker 1: a game.
Speaker 2: She's medal. He's made what and it genuinely we talk
Speaker 2: about Arnie a lot. Of course we talk about Emma,
Speaker 2: but Kaylee needs to be in the conversation. Yes, of
Speaker 2: our best swimmers of all time. So you're talking your
Speaker 2: dorm phrases, your Shane Goulds, you're Ian Thorpe's. She is
Speaker 2: in that phrasing. Yeah, for what she has achieved, and
Speaker 2: perhaps because of her nature, because she is so joking
Speaker 2: and fun and young, you forget just the severity of
Speaker 2: the athlete that she is.
Speaker 1: I also think though, it's even just the stroke itself. Yes,
Speaker 1: like backstroke's not a sexy stroke, and I can say
Speaker 1: that I was a former backstroker, so it's just not one.
Speaker 1: It's not the free it doesn't get it doesn't get
Speaker 1: the glory of that. However, her glory can nothing can
Speaker 1: be taken away from it because she is one of
Speaker 1: our goats, I have to say.
Speaker 2: Speaking of goats, and I'm so glad that I just
Speaker 2: kept talking about her leading into these games, being like,
Speaker 2: I know no one cares about BMX racing, but say,
Speaker 2: as the Khaki Bara and her story and the journey
Speaker 2: of her family with her brother, Kai is going to
Speaker 2: be one of the prevailing narratives of the games if
Speaker 2: she can perform to reflect her number one world ranking
Speaker 2: the way that we know that she can. And she
Speaker 2: actually stammered at the World Championship, so she wasn't the
Speaker 2: world champ so she said, well, I'm gonna have to win.
Speaker 2: So coming into these Games, she had so much pressure
Speaker 2: on herself to be able to do what she knew
Speaker 2: that she could. It was the most comfortable heats watch
Speaker 2: of all time. And then the final itself she started
Speaker 2: from the inside lane, and it looked like she was
Speaker 2: in a league of her own.
Speaker 1: She was so fast, like so fast again. I didn't
Speaker 1: have to feel too nervous before this, before this race,
Speaker 1: because I knew what she had done. I'd had your
Speaker 1: messages sending me all these texts being like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: losing it, Sia. Sire is looking good, Sia is looking comfortable,
Speaker 1: so I's not even trying. I think Sia's gonna win.
Speaker 1: Sire's new week really was she has not lost away race.
Speaker 2: It was just watching the emotion wash over her. Oh
Speaker 2: I can't her brother Kai in the stands who again,
Speaker 2: I'm sure that you've all seen this story, but the
Speaker 2: fact that he was in a coma for six weeks
Speaker 2: and suffered a traumatic brain injury, and she was there
Speaker 2: through all of it, and he suffered that doing BMX racing,
Speaker 2: which Sire only got into because she was following Kai
Speaker 2: around the way that sisters do. And for her to
Speaker 2: stand up there and say I've been able to do
Speaker 2: this for him, and to also drop three of the
Speaker 2: better f bombs that you'll ever see in an interview
Speaker 2: where she was like, let's just I knew, I just
Speaker 2: had to effing go and then I effing.
Speaker 1: Went and it was just the most effort and I.
Speaker 2: Just thought, and you could see the emotion in that
Speaker 2: interview slowly hit her with the gravity of what she'd done.
Speaker 1: It was beautiful though. And I think that if you
Speaker 1: watch that race, you watch the celebrations at the end,
Speaker 1: if you don't cry or at least tear up, you
Speaker 1: don't have a heart, like I'm sorry, you must be
Speaker 1: a sociopath. Like it doesn't it doesn't register for me
Speaker 1: how that's even possible. For me. It was the squeal.
Speaker 1: So as soon as she crosses the line, she just
Speaker 1: has this unbridled it's completely involuntary and she just starts
Speaker 1: screaming and it's like she just cannot believe.
Speaker 2: That was very accurate. And do you want the best
Speaker 2: part is is that she said I screamed like a
Speaker 2: little girl. And I was like, no, you won gold
Speaker 2: like a girl. Yes, because it's our girls that are
Speaker 2: holding us up. You won gold like an Australian female
Speaker 2: at the moment, because they are the ones that are
Speaker 2: just absolutely dominated.
Speaker 1: And this point we still only had one gold from
Speaker 1: a man, yes, and that was Cam Macavoyd, which had
Speaker 1: happened in the same hour. Yes, previously we had an
Speaker 1: out of anything.
Speaker 2: It was again, it's just one of those stories that
Speaker 2: reminds you of the power of sport and the fact
Speaker 2: that we're going to glaze over the next thing I'm
Speaker 2: about to say really upsets me, but we don't have time.
Speaker 2: Arnie Tipmus winning silver in the women's eight hundred meters
Speaker 2: and the way that she took it up to Katie Ledecki,
Speaker 2: who has done the unthinkable to be the Games champion
Speaker 2: back to back to back to back. So she has
Speaker 2: been the best in the world the DECKI for twelve years.
Speaker 1: Isn't that just mental? I mean, but Arnie was right there.
Speaker 1: Arnie was right there, and she also swam I think
Speaker 1: it was her fastest time.
Speaker 2: It was an Oceania record. Yeah, So on day eight
Speaker 2: of being absolutely buggered in her words.
Speaker 1: Yes, she was going going for it, pushing Leadecki the
Speaker 1: goat really of females, something that we've ever seen right
Speaker 1: to the death. And also Arnie did point out, jelmy,
Speaker 1: what you've done when she had started, she had been
Speaker 1: watching Katie Leadecki win this race since Arnie was eleven,
Speaker 1: that's how long Katie has dominated.
Speaker 2: That she just kept with her. It was honestly one
Speaker 2: of the more gutsy swims I've seen of the Games,
Speaker 2: and it was a silver to me, that felt like gold,
Speaker 2: and I just fell more in love with Annie if
Speaker 2: that was possible, I know, just because of the effort
Speaker 2: and what she dug deep to find.
Speaker 1: I find that the photo at the end of that race,
Speaker 1: when it's Arnie and Katie both holding hands, lifting their
Speaker 1: hands the lmanship, that's what but that's girlhood. Just put
Speaker 1: that on billboards, That's what that is.
Speaker 2: And again we're just going to rattle through the rest
Speaker 2: of the weekend results. Our mate Gray Morris, who won
Speaker 2: silver in the windsurfing after knowing that he was going
Speaker 2: to secure bronze at the very least, there was some
Speaker 2: weather delays which Georgia he was in gold medal position
Speaker 2: that if the weather was too bad that they never
Speaker 2: got out there again. In the windsurfing, you would have
Speaker 2: won gold. But in your classic Aussie style is at
Speaker 2: twenty year old, He's like, I wanted to get out
Speaker 2: there and actually have a crack, and they did, and
Speaker 2: he eventually did.
Speaker 1: And I think that this is the longest event Gelemy
Speaker 1: and I've learned things, dear listener over the course of
Speaker 1: our Green and Gold podcast. Maybe the longest event in
Speaker 1: the history of the world. The same the windsurfing, so
Speaker 1: many days of competition. But Gray Morris, just I mean
Speaker 1: he's won a grave sorts, hasn't he?
Speaker 2: He had very very good So it was our first
Speaker 2: medal in the windsurfing since ninety two. He had to
Speaker 2: raise ten thousand dollars himself to get to Paris due
Speaker 2: to being the first Aussie mail to compete in the
Speaker 2: Games since two thousand and four. And he just seems
Speaker 2: to be this one wonderful character. Again only twenty and
Speaker 2: we know sailors can sail for a very long time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so hopefully we look forward to seeing him in la
Speaker 2: But just one of those amazing, amazing characters.
Speaker 1: And tell me there was another gold of course over
Speaker 1: the weekend from Team Australia, and it came from a team,
Speaker 1: our tennis team, our duo Matt Ebden John Piers won
Speaker 1: gold against Team USA, which also, as we always know,
Speaker 1: just means that little bit more at the Games, you know,
Speaker 1: it really does. They won in three sets, so they
Speaker 1: did it the hard way. Take a look at this
Speaker 1: actual scorecard, six seven seven six seven six.
Speaker 2: Bomb vomit, bomb vommit.
Speaker 1: But they held their nerve to pull off something that
Speaker 1: we have not seen since nineteen ninety six, since.
Speaker 2: The Woodies what the Woodies. And the one thing well
Speaker 2: I light here is Matt Ebden and his story arc
Speaker 2: at the Games, because you will remember that he got
Speaker 2: subbed in when the Demon was like, oh you know what,
Speaker 2: I'm actually too injured tingles in the single, So yeah,
Speaker 2: we've got a spot here for I was and he's like,
Speaker 2: I'll have a crack. Whom I against in the first round,
Speaker 2: Novak Djokovic And to say that he got the floor
Speaker 2: wiped the Serbian just what he's got clay still on
Speaker 2: his nose from what was an absolute demoralization. And at
Speaker 2: one point Matt Ebden went to the crowd and gave
Speaker 2: his racket to a child and said, you want to
Speaker 2: have a go, you want to try here? But then
Speaker 2: in the beauty of the Games, and he has said
Speaker 2: in an interview since how it started versus how it's going,
Speaker 2: I've never wanted to be on a court less than
Speaker 2: when I was getting absolutely smashed by the Joker. And
Speaker 2: yet within a week in the same stadium. I'm now
Speaker 2: an Olympic gold medalist and the two of them, they're warriors.
Speaker 2: They're not those glamour tennis players that you see.
Speaker 1: They've been on the circuit for very most of their lives,
Speaker 1: you know, their mid thirties. They've got families being there
Speaker 1: with the kids, celebrations with them on the court at
Speaker 1: Roland Garros, I thought was so special again. Put that
Speaker 1: on billboards, like them throwing their kids up in the air.
Speaker 1: John Pierce's daughter Ellie in the stands at gold medal
Speaker 1: point and she had her fingers crossed. I was just
Speaker 1: and didn't let it go until they actually secured the
Speaker 1: gold medal. They had four gold medal points. Can I
Speaker 1: just say so, they're just actually testing us now. They
Speaker 1: were having a laugh, but she had those little fingers
Speaker 1: in the cross, just waiting for her dad to be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we want it.
Speaker 2: And she had to get permissioned to not be at school.
Speaker 1: I know, like it's honestly, honestly, it's such a glorious story.
Speaker 1: But staying on those clay courts, gellmy this morning, I
Speaker 1: know it's not green and gold, but Novak Djokovic did
Speaker 1: pull off a singles win against Carlos al Karaz seven six,
Speaker 1: seven six, and that makes him the oldest gold medalist
Speaker 1: for men's tennis at thirty seven years of age. And
Speaker 1: also he has called it the highlight of his career.
Speaker 1: He said it's one of the things that it's one
Speaker 1: of the achievements that has meant the most to him,
Speaker 1: which over the course of Novak Djokovic's career, that is saying.
Speaker 2: He's finally over his recollected what they call the Golden Slam, Yes,
Speaker 2: the which I think they're meant to do it in
Speaker 2: one calendar year for it to technically be a Golden Slam,
Speaker 2: but it was the one thing that had been elusive
Speaker 2: to him, and he got up there and said how
Speaker 2: much are meant to Serbia? And he was taking on
Speaker 2: kyls Hakaraz, who they just faced off at Wimbledon, so
Speaker 2: I'm sure that they just keep looking at each other
Speaker 2: being like hello you in the passing of the torch
Speaker 2: and this time it did fall to Novak and again
Speaker 2: his kids were in the stands. It was one of
Speaker 2: those things where when you see someone who's been a
Speaker 2: champion so often, especially on the ATV tour, but then
Speaker 2: you see how different a gold medal means and how
Speaker 2: proud he was to be bringing that home for Serbia.
Speaker 2: It has to be one of the moments of.
Speaker 1: The Games for someone who has won literally everything in
Speaker 1: there to have that be the one thing that you
Speaker 1: can't get a personality like joker. I believe hi when
Speaker 1: you say it means more than anything else.
Speaker 2: Totally our favorite two words that were allowed to say
Speaker 2: only when they actually are guaranteed. Now we have guaranteed
Speaker 2: medals coming up in the boxing, so thanks to Kitlin
Speaker 2: Parker and Charlie Senior, we are going to get both
Speaker 2: a men's and a women's at least bronze. Huge in
Speaker 2: the boxing, so if you're not aware of the boxing
Speaker 2: by the time they get to the semi final bouts
Speaker 2: they both get silver.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's confusing, It is confusing, but it will talk
Speaker 1: more about it when they actually secure their.
Speaker 2: Great stories, particularly for Kate and Parker, that'll be the
Speaker 2: first time that Australia has ever won a women's boxing
Speaker 2: medal at a game. It's huge, so credible. We will
Speaker 2: elaborate once we know where on the podium they sit.
Speaker 2: But the fact that we have guaranteed medals. Make sure
Speaker 2: that you watch their bouts as they are coming up.
Speaker 2: But we're going to rattle through some other Aussie team
Speaker 2: results the opals.
Speaker 1: There they won. They defeated France. Huge, huge, This was
Speaker 1: a must win game. They won. They are into the
Speaker 1: next round and that was due or die, so that
Speaker 1: is huge for them. Unfortunately, the Kooka bars.
Speaker 2: I said, I had feels about our hockey and our
Speaker 2: success and it was exactly at that moment that they
Speaker 2: went to nil down in the quarterfinals to the Netherlands.
Speaker 1: The AFP once again is waiting our time. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: are coming for me.
Speaker 2: Are going to push onto the water polo because the
Speaker 2: sting is one another penalty shootout. They love to do
Speaker 2: it dramatically, this time over world number two Hungry to
Speaker 2: go top of their group, undefeated and to book a
Speaker 2: spot into the quarterfinals. The Sharks our men's side, after
Speaker 2: beating Serbia, who are the two time defending champions I
Speaker 2: never don't mind, have then gone on to beat Hungary,
Speaker 2: who are the most decorated in games history. In the
Speaker 2: water polo. We can't overstate how well the water polo
Speaker 2: is going. I'm not going to say that I smell
Speaker 2: of gold in the water, don't. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I didn't say it.
Speaker 2: I didn't say it, So it's not happening. But we
Speaker 2: are do what is happening after. We're going to tell
Speaker 2: you what's coming up after the break.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, jell me. I mean, we may as
Speaker 1: well just stay awake, like I don't think there's any
Speaker 1: point in us sleeping maybe ever again, because how could
Speaker 1: we when there's so much action to watch.
Speaker 2: I'll sleep when I'm dead, surrounded by the gold that
Speaker 2: Australia may or may not win in track and field,
Speaker 2: because we do have a stacked calendar coming up, and
Speaker 2: we're only going to preview what's happening in the next
Speaker 2: twenty four hours. But Curtis Marshall in the men's pole
Speaker 2: vault again, I feel without Nina Kennedy, our Nikola Olislager's
Speaker 2: we haven't really been focusing on Curtis. But he is
Speaker 2: a dual Comwalth Games gold medalist. We know that he's
Speaker 2: had an injured ankle coming into these meets, And why
Speaker 2: don't we say injured like broken?
Speaker 1: We mean he's pole vaulting with a broken out like
Speaker 1: a like such an awful awful injury. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: he had necrosis with that ankle injury, and that it's
Speaker 1: all I know is that necro means something to do
Speaker 1: with dead so dead skin and that's not good.
Speaker 2: But he is in action at three am tomorrow, So
Speaker 2: get around that. Tory lewis in the reperchide round of
Speaker 2: the two hundred meters and I will say she recorded
Speaker 2: a PB and still didn't make it through her heat.
Speaker 2: That is just how competitive track and field is. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And tell me me, I would like you to explain
Speaker 1: to me and the listeners what repor charge means, because
Speaker 1: I've been hearing it's thrown around on the coverage a lot,
Speaker 1: and I got no Ouda out.
Speaker 2: So it is the inaugural Games where they've brought in
Speaker 2: the reper charge for track and field. It only happens
Speaker 2: in the hurdles, the two hundred, four hundred, eight hundred
Speaker 2: and fifteen hundred and Georgie. You'll remember previously at Games
Speaker 2: you would have automatic qualification for the best performers in
Speaker 2: each heat, yes, or where you finish where you finish,
Speaker 2: and then they would sort of wait, could there be
Speaker 2: left over spots to decide those places on times, so
Speaker 2: you'd have to be the best placed third person across
Speaker 2: a lot of heats and rights to progress, whereas now
Speaker 2: they have automatic qualification for so many maybe the first two,
Speaker 2: and it is different for all of these events. And
Speaker 2: then they have another race called the reper charge, which
Speaker 2: essentially is giving all athletes a second chance. So if
Speaker 2: you finish last in your heat doesn't matter, you still
Speaker 2: have a chance at the reper charge. Again, it's the
Speaker 2: first time that it's been brought in. It's been a
Speaker 2: little bit controversial because then and we saw this with
Speaker 2: the women's eight hundred meters, in order to go through
Speaker 2: into the semifinals with the reper charge, you needed to
Speaker 2: win your heat, which naturally there's going to be stronger
Speaker 2: some of the heats are going to have stronger fields.
Speaker 2: So is that fair? I personally like it because the
Speaker 2: other thing is a sudden death. I like it because
Speaker 2: it just adds more more races.
Speaker 1: Well, it adds more races, but also imagine if you
Speaker 1: somehow ended up on the podium after having to fight
Speaker 1: your way through the reper charge, Like what a story.
Speaker 2: You're doing it the hard way, and that's the love
Speaker 2: it That's the other thing too, is they're saying it's
Speaker 2: motivating athletes to want to just get through in their heat,
Speaker 2: especially if you're looking at something like a fifteen hundred meters.
Speaker 2: It means that you don't have to race again. So
Speaker 2: there is an advantage for those athletes that do well
Speaker 2: in their.
Speaker 1: Head, they want to have fast heats, not cruising on you,
Speaker 1: not just going oh yeah, I'm just not the older
Speaker 1: over one hundred meters, just looking down the line, which
Speaker 1: blows my mind.
Speaker 2: Noah allows no Las have to mention him again. We
Speaker 2: are talking about a fox in the canoe slalam, but
Speaker 2: this time it's not our girl Jess, because it's got
Speaker 2: through no waymy.
Speaker 1: She has a chance to meddle in the kayak cross,
Speaker 1: or as I call it, the extreme kayak.
Speaker 2: I would I cannot begin to tell you how much
Speaker 2: I would capsize if someone dropped me from that height
Speaker 2: in a boat into the water. I've just watched the start, Just.
Speaker 1: Watch the start. But then what I've learned is they
Speaker 1: go underwater, they submerge themselves and do like a full
Speaker 1: three sixty.
Speaker 2: And it's a contact sport. They whack each other, they
Speaker 2: hit each other. It's their paddles extreme. But the quarterfinals
Speaker 2: are going to be happenying just before midnight than the
Speaker 2: semifinals at quarter past and then at one am the final.
Speaker 2: But if we do see another Fox on the podium,
Speaker 2: what what done?
Speaker 1: That's incredible, That's insane. If that happens. Also tomorrow the
Speaker 1: surfing gelmy three thirty six am. I know that it's early,
Speaker 1: but that's already up watching.
Speaker 2: You haven't even contact sleep.
Speaker 1: So this is the semifinals inter and we have Jack Robinson,
Speaker 1: our great hope, who was up.
Speaker 2: Against Gabriel Medina.
Speaker 1: Pretty solid surfer, pretty solid surfer, gave me the best
Speaker 1: in the world. If you don't know who he is,
Speaker 1: just think about that incredible photo that you've seen over
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Where he's levitating in his hands in the air next
Speaker 2: to a serf. He is. It's going to be hard
Speaker 2: for Jack, but you've just got to You've got to
Speaker 2: ride the wave. Who knows because a gold medal match
Speaker 2: will be at six forty five in the morning, So
Speaker 2: if he does progress, you'll be able to wake up
Speaker 2: and have your weedies and watch that the undefeated hockey
Speaker 2: rus have a quarter final meeting with China tonight.
Speaker 1: I'm nervous.
Speaker 2: That's at six pm. I'm not even going to talk
Speaker 2: about how I feel about our chances because that has
Speaker 2: not gone well.
Speaker 1: Right, that's right in the hockey sofar. Doing that, you.
Speaker 2: Rus and just to round it out because we don't
Speaker 2: mention her, then we're going to get a taser. But
Speaker 2: Simone Biles is gunning for more history. In the beam final,
Speaker 2: say you'll be watching.
Speaker 1: I'll be watching because it's at a very friendly time.
Speaker 1: Eight thirty six. She takes to the balance for the
Speaker 1: final and then the floor final ten twenty tonight, so
Speaker 1: you can see Simone Biles win hopefully more gold medals.
Speaker 2: She's won her seventh Games gold.
Speaker 1: In the in the vaults, the vault, which is insane.
Speaker 1: It's the thing she can do that no one else
Speaker 1: can do. That Your chenko whatever, it is her special thing.
Speaker 1: It'll because it's now the Biles too. It's the most
Speaker 1: like your chenko can go out of bills in but
Speaker 1: files in. If you've made it this far, well done,
Speaker 1: because it has been a monster weekend to recap a
Speaker 1: monster overnight. And again, if you feel like Australia are
Speaker 1: doing well, it's because we are Yeah, this is on
Speaker 1: So this is on track to be our greatest ever
Speaker 1: games performance and the joy that today sport brings me
Speaker 1: and hopefully brings you, just spread it, spread it. Which
Speaker 1: also to go back to us being psychic. You called that,
Speaker 1: you said that this was going to be our greatest
Speaker 1: games ever.
Speaker 2: Don't. We can't. It's it's very early. It's very early,
Speaker 2: and the fact that we to get I don't know,
Speaker 2: five six more gold for that to be the case
Speaker 2: makes me very uncomfortable. But Georgie love you know what
Speaker 2: our fun fact is going to be that it was
Speaker 2: a very long ap That's our fun fact today. So
Speaker 2: we will save it. I reckon, we will save it.
Speaker 2: We'll give you another one tomorrow. Again, thank you so
Speaker 2: much for joining us.
Speaker 1: Jeremy's heart rate went to nine thousand and four during
Speaker 1: the men's one hundred meter final today watching our Noah
Speaker 1: Lyle's win in a photo finish.
Speaker 2: Claim it, claim it. Thank you so much for joining
Speaker 2: us on two Good Sports, a Green and Gold edition.
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Speaker 2: of you are listening. It's really great and wonderful. Hopefully
Speaker 2: the joy that we're feeling today is palpable.
Speaker 1: I think it is. I think it is, And until tomorrow,
Speaker 1: where we will be more joy personified the good sport