Speaker 1: Already and this is this is the daily This is
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Speaker 1: and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Friday, the twenty
Speaker 1: sixth of July. I'm Sam, I'm Zara. It is the
Speaker 1: final countdown. The twenty twenty four Paris Olympics opening ceremony
Speaker 1: is this weekend. In today's podcast, I'm going to guide
Speaker 1: you through a traditional pre exam cram session. What you
Speaker 1: need to know to get up to speed right now
Speaker 1: so that you deliver a gold medal performance in what
Speaker 1: I think is the most hotly contested sport of watching
Speaker 1: as much Olympics as you possibly can before we get there, though.
Speaker 1: Here's what's making headlines.
Speaker 2: Two helicopter pilots have died after a mid air collision
Speaker 2: in WA's Kimberly region. WA Police said two helicopters, which
Speaker 2: were being used to herd cattle, crash shortly after taking off,
Speaker 2: claiming the lives of a twenty nine and a thirty
Speaker 2: year old man. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is now investigating.
Speaker 2: The incident comes after an Italian military aircraft crashed in
Speaker 2: a remote part of the NT yesterday after participating in
Speaker 2: an international defense drill. The pilot ejected himself from the
Speaker 2: plane while flying and was treated for injuries in a
Speaker 2: Darwin hospital.
Speaker 1: Two federal senior cabinet ministers have announced their stepping down.
Speaker 1: Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney and Skills Minister Brendan O'Connor
Speaker 1: will both leave their portfolios immediately and have announced they
Speaker 1: won't contest the next election. They're the first two people
Speaker 1: to quit Prime Minister Anthony Alberanze's cabinet since Labor won
Speaker 1: the election back in twenty twenty two. The move has
Speaker 1: triggered a reshuffle on the front bench, which will be
Speaker 1: unveiled on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has delivered an address to
Speaker 2: the US Congress where he said America and Israel must
Speaker 2: stand together. Yahu said he was confident that hostages taken
Speaker 2: by Humas on the seventh of October can be returned.
Speaker 2: The presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and current President Joe
Speaker 2: Biden did not attend the address. Netaniahu's address triggered mass
Speaker 2: protests both inside and outside the Capitol, with protesters calling
Speaker 2: for an end to the war in Gaza.
Speaker 1: And today's good news. A breakthrough test for the deadly
Speaker 1: infection sepsis could speed up diagnoses and possibly save lives.
Speaker 1: Sepsis can be a life threatening condition where the human
Speaker 1: body's infection fighting processes backfire, turning on the vital organs
Speaker 1: instead of the viruses one sepsis has set in. It
Speaker 1: can lead to a person's death within twelve hours, but
Speaker 1: researchers from Soul's National University in South Korea have found
Speaker 1: a new method to diagnose sepsis within thirteen hours, cutting
Speaker 1: down the detection window by a potentially life saving amount
Speaker 1: of time.
Speaker 2: I'm almost more excited for the Olympics to begin, not
Speaker 2: for the sport itself, but because you've been speaking about
Speaker 2: this every single day for nearly a year, and I'm
Speaker 2: excited for you.
Speaker 1: I can hardly stay still in my chair that excited.
Speaker 1: I would say that this is my Olympics, but it is.
Speaker 1: This is my Olympics.
Speaker 2: Excellent starting off with the Dad Joe. For people that
Speaker 2: perhaps aren't as excited as you are, are more getting
Speaker 2: across the excitement day by day. Let's start with the basics.
Speaker 2: How can anyone that's listening actually follow the Olympics from Australia.
Speaker 1: So if you're a casual fan and you just want
Speaker 1: to have a touch point with the Olympics once a
Speaker 1: day where you can understand what's big, what's happening, what
Speaker 1: time you need to turn on the TV, who's winning medals.
Speaker 1: This is not me being biased, but I would sign
Speaker 1: up to the TDA Sport newsletter. We're going to be
Speaker 1: doing a special Olympics edition every day with.
Speaker 2: Every single day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with all of those key details, it's going to
Speaker 1: take a couple of minutes to read. We're also going
Speaker 1: to be doing two special afternoon editions of this podcast
Speaker 1: each week of the games to make sure that our
Speaker 1: podcast listeners are up to speed as well. But for
Speaker 1: those with a bit more time and investment, perhaps passion
Speaker 1: for the Olympics, you're going to spend a lot of
Speaker 1: time on Channel nine. They've got the official broadcast rights
Speaker 1: of the game. They paid three hundred and five million
Speaker 1: dollars for the rights to Paris and then the next
Speaker 1: two Summer Olympics and two Winter Olympics, so that takes
Speaker 1: us to Brisbane and the Paralympics two in a separate deal.
Speaker 1: So nine are going to broadcast the games on freeware
Speaker 1: TV and the coverage is going to be on their
Speaker 1: main channel and on nine GEM. And what that means
Speaker 1: is that if you don't have pay television or digital television.
Speaker 2: Which we have spoken about before on as point we.
Speaker 1: Have covered that, then your TV aerial will serve you
Speaker 1: just fine. But we also know that there's an increasing
Speaker 1: portion of Australians, particularly young Australians, who don't have a
Speaker 1: TV plugged into a TV aerial. Some don't even have
Speaker 1: traditional TVs, and that's where nine Now and STAN are
Speaker 1: going to come in for all of the digital streaming.
Speaker 2: I'm really good at watching TV. I'm less good at
Speaker 2: staying up late, which I don't think will serve me
Speaker 2: well for these games. What are the times we're talking
Speaker 2: about with some of these Olympic.
Speaker 1: Events, Well, this is key primetime viewing, and by primetime
Speaker 1: I mean probably the worst possible time for Australians to
Speaker 1: wake up. So the opening ceremony, for example, that's kicking
Speaker 1: off tonight, and by tonight I mean four am Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: That is known in the sporting community as the single
Speaker 1: worst time to start an event because there's not like
Speaker 1: a two am where then you can go to sleep
Speaker 1: after it's not the six.
Speaker 2: Am you're awaken tied for the rest of the day.
Speaker 1: It's pretty crap, but it's the Olympics and if they
Speaker 1: can set new world records and everything, then we can
Speaker 1: get up and have a bit less sleep.
Speaker 2: And so for those who are braving the four am
Speaker 2: wake up tomorrow morning for the opening ceremony, what can
Speaker 2: they expect from that?
Speaker 1: So you and Mr spoke this week about some of
Speaker 1: the more serious aspects, the security and the logistics. I'll
Speaker 1: focus on perhaps the fun stuff fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sam drops in once a week to deliver the
Speaker 2: daily fun Disney Dad.
Speaker 1: Instead of being held in a stadium, this ceremony is
Speaker 1: going to be taking place on the River Send and
Speaker 1: that's significant for two reasons. It's going to be the
Speaker 1: biggest live audience ever for an opening ceremony of an Olympics.
Speaker 1: They're expecting a few hundred thousand people to line the
Speaker 1: banks of the river, and obviously you can't do that
Speaker 1: in the stadium because it doesn't have the capacity to
Speaker 1: do that. It's also the first time though the majority
Speaker 1: of spectators are going to be there for free, and
Speaker 1: they're going to see quite a spectacle. They're going to
Speaker 1: see a massive convoy of boats carrying athletes and performers
Speaker 1: down the river, and it's the six kilometer stretch that
Speaker 1: actually goes past landmarks like the Affel Tower, the Louver
Speaker 1: and Notre Dame Cathedral.
Speaker 2: I have vivid memories of the Spy Skills performing at
Speaker 2: the London opening ceremony. I don't know that we're getting
Speaker 2: the Spy Skills again, but who knows. What are we
Speaker 2: expecting from the opening ceremony performance.
Speaker 1: One of the really cool parts of the Olympics is
Speaker 1: that we typically only find out who's the headline performer
Speaker 1: of the opening ceremony when they pop up, normally in
Speaker 1: the middle of the stadium. In this case, they're going
Speaker 1: to pop up on the boat. And there's always this
Speaker 1: crazy rumor game. So the lead rumors for who's going
Speaker 1: to perform is Celendion and Lady Gaga. They've both been
Speaker 1: spotted in Paris in the last few days.
Speaker 2: I just watched Celendion's documentary.
Speaker 1: Maybe she's doing a bit of a press tour, yeah, maybe. Then.
Speaker 1: We've also heard rumors about Aya Nakamura. She's the most
Speaker 1: streamed French singer in the world. Then there's some wild
Speaker 1: rumors about Taylor Swift, who has a mysterious gap in
Speaker 1: the Eras tour that fits just perfectly around an appearance
Speaker 1: at the opening ceremony. Nothing's going to quite hit Nicky
Speaker 1: Webster and Vanessa Amirosi. But I think this kind of
Speaker 1: combination I might tip Celendi on they'll go okay, okay.
Speaker 2: So we're expecting a spectacle from that opening ceremony. But
Speaker 2: that is just the tip of the iceberg. That's just
Speaker 2: the first day. I want to move on to the
Speaker 2: actual games itself and Australia's metal hopes. There are we
Speaker 2: expecting to do well as a country at this Olympic Games.
Speaker 1: Well, there's some really high hopes on the Australian team
Speaker 1: and that's kind of being driven by the Australian Olympic
Speaker 1: Committee it's self, the organization that represents the athletes gets
Speaker 1: them ready for the Games. I did a podcast about
Speaker 1: how much money is being sunk into winning gold. I'll
Speaker 1: put it in the show notes. But the pressure is on.
Speaker 1: So in Tokyo we finished sixth on the medal table.
Speaker 1: We won seventeen golds. The pressure is on us to
Speaker 1: go better this year. Our best games in terms of
Speaker 1: the number of gold medals was Athens in two thousand
Speaker 1: and four. That's where we won seventeen golds and sixteen silvers,
Speaker 1: and that just pips Tokyo, where it was seventeen and
Speaker 1: seven silvers.
Speaker 2: I presume a large portion of those golds come from swimming,
Speaker 2: which were as a country are very good at doing. Right.
Speaker 1: It's almost the national sport at the moment. You know,
Speaker 1: there is such a presence of how good Australia is
Speaker 1: in international media. I was listening to a Washington Post
Speaker 1: Olympics preview this week and they'd spend more time talking
Speaker 1: about the Australian swimmers than they did about the American swimmers.
Speaker 1: So the whole world's watching a lot of the kind
Speaker 1: of predictions of how we're going to go. Says that
Speaker 1: the swimmers will account for sixty to seventy percent of
Speaker 1: our medals. We've got around Tiitmas trying to defend her
Speaker 1: two hundred and four hundred style titles. Kaylee McEwen is
Speaker 1: a force to be reckoned with in backstroke, but I'm
Speaker 1: also excited about some of the young talent like Molly
Speaker 1: O'Callahan and Sam short.
Speaker 2: One of my problems in watching the Olympics is that
Speaker 2: I deeply care about the swimming, and that once the
Speaker 2: swimming is over, I feel a bit lost.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, the second half tumble.
Speaker 2: We call it what happens after the swimming. Where do
Speaker 2: we get our gold medals from after that?
Speaker 1: Oh? Mate, it's just beginning. So we've got the women's
Speaker 1: soccer team, the Matilda's, you might be familiar with them.
Speaker 1: They're going to be looking to build on their success
Speaker 1: from last year's World Cup. They could get gold if
Speaker 1: things go well. The men's rugby sevens team is targeting gold.
Speaker 1: Jessica Fox is an amazing canoeist. She's targeting.
Speaker 2: She's our flag bear.
Speaker 1: She's our flag bearer tomorrow morning. She's targeting two gold
Speaker 1: medals in her events. And then I'm just going to
Speaker 1: go through the other medal hopes super quick because there
Speaker 1: are so many. We've got Grace Brown looking good in
Speaker 1: road cycling, Logan Martin in the BMX, he will defend
Speaker 1: his gold medal he won in Tokyo. And in the athletics.
Speaker 1: Keep an eye on Nina Kennedy in the pole vault
Speaker 1: and nikola Oli Sanger's in the high jump. She wants
Speaker 1: silver in Tokyo. Then we've got the Kokabaras, the Australian
Speaker 1: men's hockey team and the Australian women's rugby sevens. They're
Speaker 1: both hot favorites in their competitions. And I have not
Speaker 1: even mentioned basketball, skateboarders, sailors, rowers, Alex Demonor and the
Speaker 1: tennis surfers, golfers, boxes shooter as water power weightlifter is
Speaker 1: a questra in triathlon, diving and beach volleyball. And I
Speaker 1: guarantee you in that list there'll be some surprises.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think I get the picture. There's a lot,
Speaker 2: and you're not breathing.
Speaker 1: I'll speak to you in three weeks.
Speaker 2: But lots of excellent chances that Australia is up for
Speaker 2: any number of medals and lots of excitement there. One
Speaker 2: of the things I'm really looking forward to is breaking,
Speaker 2: which I have learned is not break dancing. It's breaking.
Speaker 1: Yes, the cool kids are calling it breaking. This is
Speaker 1: a new sport at the Olympics. It's going to be
Speaker 1: awesome to watch. So the competitors are known as bee
Speaker 1: boys and be girls and they'll face off in these
Speaker 1: one on one dance battles and they'll showcase their best moves.
Speaker 1: It kind of feels like a gymnastics floor routine in
Speaker 1: some ways, like the same level of athleticism and power
Speaker 1: is on display to really cool music, amazing costumes. I'm
Speaker 1: super excited to watch that. It's not the only thing
Speaker 1: that's changing, though. We've got sport climbing, and that debuted
Speaker 1: in Tokyo, but that's now got two separate events, a
Speaker 1: combined category of bouldering, which I know is very popular
Speaker 1: as a pastime here in Australia and lead and there's
Speaker 1: also a speed climbing where you just have to get
Speaker 1: to the top as quick as you can. Then there's
Speaker 1: also kiteboarding and sailing and a new variation in canoeing
Speaker 1: called kayak cross.
Speaker 2: It's always interesting to understand this modernization and trying to
Speaker 2: keep up with new sports as they arise and certainly
Speaker 2: as they are considered Olympic events. But what I did
Speaker 2: find interesting is that breaking won't be included in the
Speaker 2: next Games in LA so they've introduced it in time
Speaker 2: for this but then not again at the next Games.
Speaker 1: The selection of sports by the International Olympic Committee can
Speaker 1: be really political, and they're often thinking for eight twelve
Speaker 1: years ahead, and sometimes what they'll do is introduce a
Speaker 1: sport and say it's a one year activity that doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily all it out for the next one where they
Speaker 1: can do a bit of back by popular demand. It
Speaker 1: kind of gives it room to be dropped off if
Speaker 1: it's not a success.
Speaker 2: I now feel successfully caught up on everything I need
Speaker 2: to know ahead of the Olympics beginning. Thank you, Sam.
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Speaker 2: in today's show notes. Have a great weekend, watch the
Speaker 2: Olympics and go Australia.
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