1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: Good morning, and welcome to today's Daily OHS. It is Tuesday, 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: the twenty seventh of July. I'm Zara Seidler and I'm 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: joined by co founder of the Daily os Sam Pozowski. Sam, 4 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: what is making news today? 5 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 2: Besides from the facts that we are now very used 6 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,120 Speaker 2: to watching swing finals in the morning and heats at night, 7 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:20,600 Speaker 2: the other big stories include a wrap up of COVID 8 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 2: news from overnight, a mandatory anti harassment training in Federal Parliament, 9 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 2: some good news from the Olympics, and we're going to 10 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 2: have a deep dive pun intended into the swimsuits that 11 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 2: have previously been banned and why you're seeing so many 12 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 2: records that haven't been beaten since two thousand and nine. 13 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,159 Speaker 1: I can't wait. Let's just get the rest out of 14 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: the way so that we can talk about swimsuits. Hopefully, 15 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: some good news coming for our Victorian listeners today. The 16 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: Victorian government is set to announce whether or not the 17 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: state's lockdown will be lifted tonight as expected. Yesterday, the 18 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: state recorded eleven new locally acquired cases. Meanwhile, South Australia's 19 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: lockdown is definitely lifting tonight at eleven fifty nine, with 20 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: restricts on home gatherings, density limits, weddings and funerals to 21 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: remain in place. I just wanted to include this grabbers 22 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: Stephen Marshall saying well done to South Australians. 23 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 3: I've got to say I am very proud of South 24 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 3: Australian and I am very grateful to all South Australians 25 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:17,120 Speaker 3: for the way that they've adhered to the restrictions that 26 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 3: have been put in place. 27 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: The tone was not really the same in the New 28 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: South Wales press conference, though we did have amazing testing 29 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: numbers yesterday. The States still recorded one hundred and forty 30 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 1: five locally acquired cases and within that there were fifty 31 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 1: one cases infectious in the community. The state also recorded 32 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 1: another four COVID nineteen deaths. 33 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 2: To Federal politics now and government ministers and their staff 34 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 2: are going to be forced to complete mandatory anti harassment training. 35 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 2: This comes after the federal government accepted all ten recommendations 36 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 2: made in a review on workplace incidents in Parliament House. 37 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 2: So the government has also agreed to set up an 38 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,279 Speaker 2: independent complaints body in Parliament House to deal with really 39 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 2: serious incidents in the workplace. Brittney Higgins tweeted yesterday the 40 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 2: reforms will quote in sure Parliament House is a safer 41 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 2: workplace for all future employees. 42 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 3: There are a. 43 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,919 Speaker 1: Lot of instances of really significant flooding occurring across the world, 44 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 1: and so today we're talking about the flooding in India, 45 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:16,799 Speaker 1: where the death toll has now resen to one hundred 46 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: and twenty seven as the military continues to try and 47 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: assist rescue workers in searching for the dozens and dozens 48 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: of people who are still missing. So far, we know 49 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: that one hundred and thirty thousand people have been rescued 50 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: from an estimated nine hundred villages as strong rainfall continues 51 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: in parts of the country. PM Nerendromodi tweeted yesterday that 52 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: the situation is being quote closely monitored and that assistance 53 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: is being provided to the affected areas. 54 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 2: And today's good news straight from the Olympics. Australian Ariane 55 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 2: Tipmas has won gold in the women's four hundred meter 56 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 2: freestyle at the Olympics in Tokyo. This is Timmos's first 57 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 2: Olympic Games. She's only twenty years old, and she reflected 58 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 2: after the race that she couldn't believe she had pulled 59 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:03,960 Speaker 2: it off. For those of us who might have been 60 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 2: a little bit young or not sport fans at the time, 61 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 2: We're going to revisit a really fascinating chapter in Olympics history, 62 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 2: specifically in swimming. I know that swimming is pretty much 63 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 2: all that anyone is talking about at the moment, especially 64 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 2: in the last few days. I'm in a pretty rowdy 65 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 2: sharehouse and we are all quiet huddled around the TV 66 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 2: night and day watching the Olympics. But what you'll notice 67 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 2: is that quite a few of the records haven't been 68 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 2: broken since two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, 69 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 2: and there's a reason behind that. Today, I want to 70 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 2: introduce you to the laser Raser. This is the name 71 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 2: of the swimsuit made by Speedo in their collab with 72 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 2: NASA where they set the challenge to NASA to basically 73 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 2: make the fastest swimsuit on the planet. It's very sciencey. 74 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 2: Here is actually one of the designers of the suit 75 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 2: giving an explanation as to what makes the suit special. 76 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 3: In a traditional suit, there's a lot of skin movement. 77 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 3: This just moves all over the place. So what these 78 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 3: new suits are doing is actually controlling a lot of 79 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 3: that extra movement. So it again keeps the water flow 80 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 3: a lot closer to the body, makes it much more streamline, 81 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 3: so you move through the water a lot more cleanly. 82 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 2: So the most iconic of these suits would be probably 83 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 2: Ian Thorpe's he wore in two thousand. However, the suits 84 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 2: over the next eight or nine years actually got bigger 85 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 2: and better in terms of how much buoyancy they allowed 86 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 2: the swimmer to create and how much drag they eliminated 87 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 2: from the swimmer's strokes. In two thousand and eight, a 88 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 2: new suit was released, another version of the laser Raser, 89 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 2: and this was really when the record started to tumble. 90 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:39,159 Speaker 2: In one meet there was thirteen world records broken, and 91 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 2: at the two thousand and eight Olympics in Beijing, ninety 92 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 2: eight percent of metal winners in swimming competitions one while 93 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 2: wearing this particular swimsuit. This threw up a whole number 94 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 2: of issues in competitive sport. Basically, the issues centered on 95 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,039 Speaker 2: one key point that it was a technological advantage in 96 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 2: the pool. It was basically doping technologically, and the traditionalists 97 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 2: in swim wanted to get back to what swimming is 98 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 2: all about, which is peak performance of the human body 99 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 2: and preparation and the mental games that happened in the pool. 100 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 2: The other big issue with the laser raser was that 101 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 2: it was extremely expensive, so it was about five hundred 102 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 2: and fifty dollars US a suit, and this meant that 103 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 2: athletes from disadvantaged countries couldn't compete with elite competitors. 104 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: So you've run us through what happened in two thousand 105 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 1: and eight. In two thousand and nine, what was the 106 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 1: next step then. 107 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,280 Speaker 2: So feena, which is this peak body for swimming, They 108 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 2: introduced a rule that you could only wear a swimsuit 109 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 2: called a jamma. And a jamma is a suit that 110 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 2: goes from the knee cap to the navel, so to 111 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 2: your belly button for men and from the knee to 112 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 2: the shoulder for women. 113 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: And what was the difference there between the other suit 114 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:43,839 Speaker 1: we were talking about. 115 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 2: They're often full body, so they often go right from 116 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 2: the bottom of the ankle, full onto the wrists and 117 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 2: up to the neck. Two key differences. One the fabric. 118 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 2: The fabric couldn't be this special kind of Polyutheran NASA 119 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 2: designed buoyancy flotation device that they were wearing. It has 120 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 2: to be so it has to be like the swimsuit 121 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 2: that you and I would wear when we go to 122 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:05,679 Speaker 2: the beach. The other big thing is that the suit 123 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 2: can't have any fastening devices attached to it, and fastening 124 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 2: devices is really just a fancy way of saying a zipper. 125 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 2: And the reason for this is that people were compressing 126 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 2: their body to be more streamlined, and it wasn't so 127 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,239 Speaker 2: much about how much you weighed as it was about 128 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 2: how tightly you could zip up your body. I guess 129 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 2: an important caveat is that just because there has been 130 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 2: a ban on these suits since two thousand and eight nine, 131 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 2: that doesn't mean that records haven't been broken. A particular 132 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 2: shout out should go to Katie Ladecki, and she has 133 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 2: smashed records in the last five six years without ever 134 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 2: having the advantage of wearing one of these suits. The 135 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 2: most dominant male swimmer at the time when these suits 136 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:43,839 Speaker 2: were a big thing in swimming was, of course, probably 137 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 2: the most legendary swimmer of all time, Michael Phelps. Here's 138 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 2: what Michael Phelps had to say on the ban. It's 139 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,039 Speaker 2: interesting to note that Michael Phelps is the anomaly here. 140 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 2: His times didn't actually slow down when the suits were 141 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 2: taken away. 142 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: I think it's going to be good for the sport 143 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 1: to actually have swimming any actually have to work you know, 144 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: you actually have to work on you know, go back 145 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 1: to the basics and work on your core strength and 146 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 1: you know, be in better shape. And you can't just 147 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: train a little bit and then throw a suit on. 148 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: So we know that these swimmers were swimming faster with 149 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: the suit on. Retrospectively, where any of the Olympians disqualified 150 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: for having worn the outfit. 151 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 2: There was a little bit of a transition period in 152 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 2: twenty ten, I remember a number of athletes were banned 153 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 2: from a big swimming championships in Rome for having elements 154 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 2: of the then banned suit incorporated into their current swimwear. 155 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 2: In terms of the records that were set while the 156 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 2: suits were on, because it was not against the rules 157 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 2: at all to where these suits. It was totally within 158 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 2: fena's regulations. Every single world record from that time still 159 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 2: stands today. There's a big theory in swimming that these 160 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 2: records could take twenty thirty years to be broken because 161 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 2: there is such a gap in what humans can achieve. 162 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: Even if you were not a sport enthusiast, watching these 163 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: Aussie legends swim in the pool is really something to behold, 164 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 1: and it's nice to be united when there is a 165 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: lot of news and a lot of political talk about 166 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 1: being separated and about the differences between us, whether that 167 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:08,559 Speaker 1: be at a state level or at a federal level. 168 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 1: On that note, we hope you have a fabulous date. 169 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: If you want some updates on the latest COVID news 170 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: in your jurisdiction, follow us on Instagram at the Daily 171 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 1: Os where over one hundred and fifty thousand people get 172 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: their news every day, and we would love to welcome 173 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: you to our community.