Speaker 1: Here at two good Sports. We would like to acknowledge
Speaker 1: the traditional owners of the land on which we record
Speaker 1: this podcast, the Werenurie people. This land was never seated,
Speaker 1: always was, always will be. Set Den Girker, News Nouble
Speaker 1: Ran Jame Jelmy. It's a day we will never forget.
Speaker 2: It is the greatest day in Australian Games history, a
Speaker 2: history that dates back to eighteen ninety six. Australia has
Speaker 2: never missed a Games and yet we wake up today
Speaker 2: Georgie at our most successful ever Australian campaign because we
Speaker 2: have eighteen gold medals and it's been the most golden
Speaker 2: day that we've ever had. We've won four gold and
Speaker 2: two bronze to take our tally to just the most
Speaker 2: beautiful thing you've ever seen.
Speaker 1: We're still top three. We are still a top three
Speaker 1: superpower in the world USA, China, Australi. Australi in at
Speaker 1: number three with eighteen golds in total, twelve silvers, eleven bronze,
Speaker 1: forty one medals overall, we're above the host nation in France.
Speaker 1: If everything is looking, if the greens look greener today,
Speaker 1: dear listener, if the golds look golder, that's because they are.
Speaker 2: They are.
Speaker 1: We need to just truly emphasize how monumental the performances
Speaker 1: overnight have been.
Speaker 2: It's a shift, it's oh, it's a shift in how
Speaker 2: Australia are viewed internationally in field and track. Have I
Speaker 2: flipped it for today? Sure you are, because just the
Speaker 2: success that we've seen, and we're going to get through
Speaker 2: who won gold, because we're going to start off with
Speaker 2: Nina Kennedy.
Speaker 1: Oh in the pole vault, Nina, Nina nin.
Speaker 2: If there was any athlete outside of the pool heading
Speaker 2: into these Games where anything other than gold would have
Speaker 2: felt like a loss, yes it was Nina.
Speaker 1: Yes, one thousand percent. And tell me not to give
Speaker 1: ourselves anah about on the back. But I'm gona do it.
Speaker 1: Because who did we talk to in the lead up
Speaker 1: to these games as someone to watch because they were
Speaker 1: going to be one of the golden favorites? Ah Kennedy.
Speaker 2: So she's now won our first ever female field gold
Speaker 2: in Games history. Incredible?
Speaker 1: Like what the twenty seven year old from Bustleton? Am
Speaker 1: I pronouncing it right?
Speaker 2: She's from Busselton, Bustle, Western Australia and we will claim her.
Speaker 2: She's twenty seven years old. And the final went for
Speaker 2: an epic three and a half hours.
Speaker 1: Which, jellmy, you did call that this was going to
Speaker 1: be a marathon event. Twenty girls, there's a million competitors
Speaker 1: in this. You add warm up to that, I mean
Speaker 1: a marathon event. Actually went for the length of two marathons,
Speaker 1: so shout it all up.
Speaker 2: She was a reigning world champion, but she split the
Speaker 2: gold at the World Champs with Katie Moon. Yes, and
Speaker 2: she had become our nemesis because firstly, we love her
Speaker 2: because they both had a chat and they decided to
Speaker 2: split the gold.
Speaker 1: But we like her when it works for us.
Speaker 2: She is the defending champion, she is American, and it
Speaker 2: was her missing her final jump that secured the gold
Speaker 2: for Nina, and Nina went berserve.
Speaker 1: Oh, she went absolutely ballistic. But also Nina had to
Speaker 1: fight back to win this crown because surprisingly she failed
Speaker 1: to clear her first vault. It was four point seven
Speaker 1: was the height, which for her really is child's play,
Speaker 1: but she did not complete her first attempt. She stuffed
Speaker 1: that up, which meant that she was seventh in the field. However,
Speaker 1: then she bounced back very very strongly to I don't
Speaker 1: think she missed until the final, the final jump of
Speaker 1: four point nine. I think she was like straight away
Speaker 1: and that is where you know that she's a champion.
Speaker 2: And Nina Kennedy's one of those athletes where athletics has
Speaker 2: been her life. She started a little lasts at ten,
Speaker 2: was identified very young and she said she was lucky
Speaker 2: that she was a really talented junior because she was
Speaker 2: picked up by the Ais.
Speaker 1: Can't relate.
Speaker 2: And she's been really heavily supported, but she has had
Speaker 2: hardship Georgia and the fact that for the twenty sixteen Games,
Speaker 2: her family all bought tickets because at the World Champs
Speaker 2: she had jumped what would be a qualifying height, but
Speaker 2: then she didn't clear the height, so she never got
Speaker 2: to go to Rio. Her family did, but she had
Speaker 2: challenges going it isn't it isn't it? And then also
Speaker 2: going in Tokyo because she was West Australian, she couldn't
Speaker 2: travel everywhere anywhere and everything shut down. So she has
Speaker 2: had all of these challenges. Baiting the thing that I
Speaker 2: love about this she's never won an individual title. What
Speaker 2: it's always been split. It's always like she's never outright
Speaker 2: won the golden coming into this, she did interviews where
Speaker 2: they're like, you're the best in the world, and she'd
Speaker 2: say kinder because she's split it. But now it is
Speaker 2: outright gold for Australia and she has etched her name
Speaker 2: into the record books as our first ever female Champion
Speaker 2: of Field. And if you glance down the other end
Speaker 2: of the stage de France, there was another Australian on
Speaker 2: the podium and just the fact that there was Green
Speaker 2: and Gold competing at the same time. We'll get to
Speaker 2: Matthew Denny later because we've got so many goals to
Speaker 2: get through, but this in terms of bringing track and field,
Speaker 2: and we've talked about this Georgie. There's a reason why
Speaker 2: Australians loved the first week of the Games because you
Speaker 2: know that Ozzie is going to be there and around
Speaker 2: the medals in Nepool. It's just the way that we are. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, do we dare to think that
Speaker 2: this is Australia going forward? Oh?
Speaker 1: I think it has to be. Oh, I think it
Speaker 1: has to be. You talk about a shift. It really
Speaker 1: is the most impressive thing I think about Nina Kennedy
Speaker 1: for me is yes, all of those hardships mentally, I
Speaker 1: don't think we talk mentally. We don't talk enough about
Speaker 1: how hard pole vault is. Mentally. Yes, we obviously know
Speaker 1: physically it takes a toll on your body. This woman
Speaker 1: has come back from multiple back stress fractures, so it's
Speaker 1: literally an event that has broken her back for her
Speaker 1: to get where.
Speaker 2: She is, and it's never fully healed.
Speaker 1: It's never fully healed. And you just heard that in
Speaker 1: the screen that she released when Katie Moon missed it
Speaker 1: and she knew that she had one gold and it
Speaker 1: was this guttural like she couldn't believe it. She was
Speaker 1: also celebrating with another Golden Girl, Jess Fox in the
Speaker 1: front row of the stud de France, who was there
Speaker 1: to watch her. And I am so excited for Nina
Speaker 1: Kennedy and I'm so excited that Australia will now know
Speaker 1: her as a household name.
Speaker 2: And we said this in the lead up when we
Speaker 2: previewed Nina God, I want to have a beer with her.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yeah, she's one of the girls. Well you
Speaker 1: call her a girl from Bassa, I'm like, I'm a gal.
Speaker 2: She's taking one of the girls. She's just got wonderful chat.
Speaker 2: And again you talk about the mentality of it. She's
Speaker 2: just said I'm enough without it. Yeah, she's just got
Speaker 2: that mental strength that we see with athletes at this level.
Speaker 2: And again, just find me a better role model.
Speaker 1: Oh and also, I would say, if you're feeling like
Speaker 1: a particularly masochistic kind of day, just watch her Instagram
Speaker 1: videos of her training. Oh my gosh, oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: The woman is a gladdy.
Speaker 2: Atina, we love you. The pressure was on and Australia
Speaker 2: screamed with you this morning. It was just unbelievable. But Georgie,
Speaker 2: we've just got so much more gold to get through.
Speaker 1: Keep the screams coming because our new favorite event that
Speaker 1: Jelmy and I we are armchair experts on the sailing.
Speaker 1: Don't you worry about that because we have another gold medal. Mattworn,
Speaker 1: who we have been talking about this week saying he's
Speaker 1: guaranteed a medal. He's in the final. What color is it?
Speaker 1: He's the defending champion from Tokyo.
Speaker 2: He delayed, final, delayed, delayed, enough win, what's happening?
Speaker 1: And going on?
Speaker 2: Gold?
Speaker 1: Gold, gold to Mattworn in the men's dinghy. Now, they
Speaker 1: had a few days out in the water in Marseille.
Speaker 1: They've had a few days out of the water in
Speaker 1: Marseille waiting for the perfect conditions. The twenty eight year
Speaker 1: old put himself in the perfect place during this gold
Speaker 1: medal race. However, the race actually had to be abandoned
Speaker 1: about seventy percent of the way through because the wind
Speaker 1: had dropped too low. So you're in position, your position,
Speaker 1: and you're nearly literally thirty percent of the race to go,
Speaker 1: and they say, Soul's boys, that's.
Speaker 2: The stay, and let's just do it again. Do you reckon?
Speaker 2: He was going about mental resilience.
Speaker 1: I'll get it, I'll get the wind back, I'll.
Speaker 2: Get that's got the portable fan.
Speaker 1: He's like, we can't do it.
Speaker 2: Come on, But he's not short of fans after that performance,
Speaker 2: again defending his gold medal that we did see in Tokyo.
Speaker 2: But he suffered from long COVID after Tokyo. It needed
Speaker 2: to take a break away from the sport. In early
Speaker 2: twenty two his bed ridden, struggling to perform the basic tasks,
Speaker 2: and he admits he even thought that he wouldn't get
Speaker 2: to Paris because it took him so long to get
Speaker 2: his fitness back.
Speaker 1: And I think for these this is why we say
Speaker 1: it again and again and again. But this is why
Speaker 1: we love sport. There's no greater story in sport than
Speaker 1: when you have to overcome adversity, and most sporting stories
Speaker 1: have that. So once again we are seeing an athlete
Speaker 1: who consider giving away his sport or maybe just not
Speaker 1: competing at this level anymore. But one thing, one factor,
Speaker 1: as it usually does happen, his family and for him,
Speaker 1: his wife also competes in this class of sailing, so
Speaker 1: oh high achieve its my goodness. So she would have
Speaker 1: been a big factor and a big driving force and
Speaker 1: motivating factor in him continuing on, and in most incredible scenes,
Speaker 1: she was on hand to celebrate with him. In Marseille.
Speaker 2: We remember that in Tokyo he would have won gold
Speaker 2: and had no one to know.
Speaker 1: One there, had no one, and now he got.
Speaker 2: To celebrate the gold after going through the journey and
Speaker 2: having a partner with long covid to be so difficult because.
Speaker 1: You just see them. You're used to seeing someone at
Speaker 1: the peak of their physical ability, the peak, and then
Speaker 1: for someone to be bedridden, the person that you love,
Speaker 1: and now to see them back on that podium and
Speaker 1: the top spot on the podium.
Speaker 2: I've got girls Pump speaking of defending champions Georgie, it's
Speaker 2: your pet sport.
Speaker 1: What a segue. The skateboarding famously love it, all of it,
Speaker 1: all iterations of it.
Speaker 2: Never said other do not go back and check the records.
Speaker 2: But Keegan Palmer, the twenty one year old, is now
Speaker 2: a duel gold medalist for Australia.
Speaker 1: And I was watching this event overnight and I was
Speaker 1: watching the qualification round before they went into the final,
Speaker 1: and Keegan was behind. He was sitting in like third,
Speaker 1: and then he got up to a second and then
Speaker 1: he produced one of the greatest runs you'll see in
Speaker 1: the park event. And I thought, Keegan, have we wasted this?
Speaker 1: Have we wasted this on the qualification? Yeah, he's gotta
Speaker 1: save it, save it, freeze it, yeah it freeze it.
Speaker 1: I was like, let's give him the gold now. I
Speaker 1: needn't have worried because he had three runs in the final.
Speaker 1: We're very familiar with this event since Arissa True one
Speaker 1: gold just a day ago, but he kind of did
Speaker 1: the opposite of Arissa. Arissa saved her gold medal run
Speaker 1: for her third and last run. Keign pulled it off
Speaker 1: in the first. So ninety three point one point one
Speaker 1: he delivered in his flawless opening run and that was
Speaker 1: enough to win the event.
Speaker 2: And amazingly, he was like, I wanted to have a
Speaker 2: solid first run because I had so many tricks to
Speaker 2: pull out for the rest of it. Yeah, so it
Speaker 2: gave him the freedom to go, I'm going to have
Speaker 2: a crack at something I probably won't land. Heret and
Speaker 2: he didn't. Yeah, but it didn't matter matter. He landed
Speaker 2: on the top of the podium. And a shout out
Speaker 2: to the amazing commentators of the skateboarding. It's just been
Speaker 2: such a joy to listen to, but now so fun.
Speaker 2: The gymnastics is winding down. Obviously, the Star Powers have
Speaker 2: decided that the skateboardings for the snakeboardings for them, because
Speaker 2: of course we know that Tony Hawk was going to
Speaker 2: be their dev and booker Leon.
Speaker 1: Marshall, Oh, Leon Marshall.
Speaker 2: And Landon Norris or just chouting to the twenty one
Speaker 2: year old And this is the bit that I love.
Speaker 2: He could have chosen to represent America.
Speaker 1: That is one of my favorite things about this story
Speaker 1: as well. Jelmy, I've got it written here because he
Speaker 1: is based in San Diego and when you hear him
Speaker 1: interviews is thick. It is a thick San diego An accent.
Speaker 1: He sounds American and you're like, hang on, Hasso, how
Speaker 1: does this happen? But Keegan has always been very firm
Speaker 1: that he wants to represent Australia and loves to represent
Speaker 1: Australia because Australia is where he first learned how to skate.
Speaker 1: So just a kid on the Gold Coast, he learned
Speaker 1: how to walk there. He learned how to talk there.
Speaker 1: Not in that accent, but he learned how to talk.
Speaker 2: Peter risa drue just coming from the Gold Coast Goldie medals, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Coming from the goalie representing, and I think that he
Speaker 1: is honestly one of the coolest cucumbers that you've ever encounted.
Speaker 2: Speaks so well.
Speaker 1: He has that I know he's Australian, but he has
Speaker 1: that American talent. Like he's a journalist's dream. You want
Speaker 1: to chat to this guy because he's just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I pulled out the goligue and then I
Speaker 1: did that whatever the hell they're called with the I
Speaker 1: forgot the kick the kickflip thing. As you know, I've.
Speaker 2: Also never felt older. He drops dude in every second sentence,
Speaker 2: which again is why we're just so indeared to the skateboarders.
Speaker 2: And if Australia wasn't so successful in the skateboarding, would
Speaker 2: we love it? Potentially not, But now no, the vert
Speaker 2: and the vert for some more chances because two of
Speaker 2: our gold medal tally thanks to the skateboarding, and we
Speaker 2: won't have it said that it shouldn't be in the game.
Speaker 1: No, never, never, We love it so much. Something that
Speaker 1: is a sport that is absolutely ingrained in games culture,
Speaker 1: and I would say Australian games culture is the cycling
Speaker 1: a track cycling in particular, the Australian men's pursuit team
Speaker 1: pulled off one of the best goals of the Games.
Speaker 1: And considering we've won more than we ever have, that
Speaker 1: is saying something.
Speaker 2: You said that Keegan peaked too early. These guys had
Speaker 2: a world record in getting through to the gold Metal
Speaker 2: massage and you're like, guys, if you could just do
Speaker 2: that again, it would be a world record, and they
Speaker 2: did it and Georgie three West Australians among them. If
Speaker 2: you don't mind, Oh yeah, I knew, I knew you
Speaker 2: would be on a bad wa Here.
Speaker 1: She goes here, she goes. So the team Sam Welsford,
Speaker 1: Connor Lay, Oliver Bleden and Kell O'Brien the first Ossie
Speaker 1: team to win this event in twenty years. You may
Speaker 1: remember the scenes from Tokyo where a different iteration of
Speaker 1: this team but the same events. We were racing. The
Speaker 1: handlebars of Alex Porter fell off the bike. I remember
Speaker 1: that being like.
Speaker 2: Sorry, and he was putting his full weight as they do,
Speaker 2: leaning on the bars and it just came off. Yeah,
Speaker 2: something that would happen when your dad put together your tricycle,
Speaker 2: potentially not at games level, and it did cost them greatly,
Speaker 2: so they ended up taking out the bronze and it
Speaker 2: was something that their coach has said, we've been to
Speaker 2: helen back with this group. We had so much talent
Speaker 2: heading into Tokyo and people will forget what happened there,
Speaker 2: but we were such a strong team and we ended
Speaker 2: up coming third and they've had to rebuild in that
Speaker 2: time to come out and be well the best in the.
Speaker 1: World, because it is a sport where it takes generational
Speaker 1: talent and everything to fall into place for you to
Speaker 1: pull off these results. So there's an argument that they
Speaker 1: had that in place in Tokyo. They got bronze. Now
Speaker 1: they had it again. They found a new type of
Speaker 1: generational talent to win the gold and I think really
Speaker 1: Sam Welsford, part of the team, summed it up beautifully
Speaker 1: post race when he said I wanted it so effing bad.
Speaker 2: We need to do a compilation of Australians knowing that
Speaker 2: they're going to be on air swearing it's the Beep Games,
Speaker 2: It's the most Aussie sport of all. Can they bring
Speaker 2: it in for La because we would nail it.
Speaker 1: He didn't even double take. He was just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the word I meant.
Speaker 2: I'm a world record holder and a gold man as
Speaker 2: of the last forty eight hours. I'll say what I like.
Speaker 1: So that counted one, two, three, four. Nina Kennedy, matt
Speaker 1: worn Keegan Bama and our track team.
Speaker 2: And if you thought our cyclists had good chat enter
Speaker 2: the arena, our first ever Australian medalist in the discus, Yes.
Speaker 1: Bronze, we love a bronze. Matthew Denny take about I've
Speaker 1: called him mister congeniality one. That is the only term
Speaker 1: I think that best summarizes him as a human. Because also, yes,
Speaker 1: Nina Kennedy, when she won her goal, she was hugging
Speaker 1: Jess Fox, she was hugging everyone. It was all very exciting.
Speaker 1: There was also gentle giant that came up to her
Speaker 1: and said.
Speaker 2: Did you win?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she was like, I won, and he gave
Speaker 1: her this big hugain like lifted her up, having only
Speaker 1: just secured himself a medal in his own event. And
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys that you just want to
Speaker 1: be his friend. We mentioned that on the podcast yesterday.
Speaker 1: In his post event interview, he got really really emotional though,
Speaker 1: Yeah he did. I think it was only just starting
Speaker 1: to sink in that he'd pulled this off.
Speaker 2: And he'd pulled off something again that an Australian had
Speaker 2: never done. So I think the gravity again has ever
Speaker 2: a bronze felt like a rose gold than what it
Speaker 2: did for Matthew Denny. He finished fourth in Tokyo, so
Speaker 2: he got so close to breaking that elusive medal and
Speaker 2: getting on the medal tally then, but he actually won
Speaker 2: the Diamond League final. And what we love about him
Speaker 2: and what I know you love about him, he's just
Speaker 2: a big, lovable Queenslander.
Speaker 1: He came out so we know, you know when the
Speaker 1: athletes get announced and they do their big run out
Speaker 1: and we used to like Noah Lyles, like just pretending
Speaker 1: he's like black panther basically right, yeah, yeah, everyone love me.
Speaker 1: What Matthew Denny did, He went, and this is a
Speaker 1: very niche rugby league reference, so I forgive you, dear listener,
Speaker 1: if you don't know this. He went, that's gold and
Speaker 1: he put his thumbs up and planted it onto his
Speaker 1: other hand. That is a footy show rugby league reference.
Speaker 1: And I thought, my god, Queenslander, he may as well
Speaker 1: worn roan instead of the green and gold.
Speaker 2: But his throw was sixty nine point three one meters
Speaker 2: in his second attempt, which is just four centimeters shy
Speaker 2: of his own personal be so he basically left everything
Speaker 2: out there. I believe it was a games record for
Speaker 2: the win. It was unbelievable throw by the Jamaican but which.
Speaker 1: Was seemed absolutely effortless and surprised everyone. He went from
Speaker 1: eighth to having a games record.
Speaker 2: They are the largest ballerinas you've ever seen.
Speaker 1: You've seen the bureau weetson.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was wonderful to watch. Matt Denny
Speaker 1: also did note that anyone, any of his detractors in
Speaker 1: the lead up to this, anyone who'd ever doubted him.
Speaker 1: He had this phrase for them, which I think should
Speaker 1: be etched up on everyone's maybe body, but definitely stadiums
Speaker 1: around Australia, which was just eat it, Eat it. Anyone
Speaker 1: who's ever doubted me, who didn't think I could get here,
Speaker 1: eat it. Because he's got that bronze medal and he's
Speaker 1: already put Brisbane twenty thirty two in his sight, so
Speaker 1: hopefully we see him for another two games campaigns.
Speaker 2: All I'm saying is that the parade where the athletes
Speaker 2: come home, he'd be the one you'd make a b
Speaker 2: line four to give a high five, because you just
Speaker 2: feel like he would give you all of himself. He
Speaker 2: would just be someone who's so present, he's about the people.
Speaker 2: And it's just a win for the good guys, isn't it.
Speaker 1: It really really is another win for the good guys.
Speaker 2: How is there more medals? There's more medals. There's still
Speaker 2: another metal. There is our friend Jemimah Jemima, doctor Jemima.
Speaker 1: You may remember, listeners, we have already talked about Jemima
Speaker 1: Montag because she's secured bronze. Our first Athletics gold of
Speaker 1: this event in the twenty kilometer individ you Will Walk.
Speaker 1: She teamed up in a new event in Paris with
Speaker 1: a man named Ridy and Cowley, three time Games athlete,
Speaker 1: the marathon race walk mixed relay.
Speaker 2: Rolls off the tongue, rolls.
Speaker 1: Off the tongue and tell me if I ever ever
Speaker 1: did end up in Hell, if there was a real
Speaker 1: place called Hell, this would be what I would be doing.
Speaker 1: Because this this event, apparently there is alternate four to
Speaker 1: ten kilometer stints of a marathon distance, so each leg is.
Speaker 2: How sore her body is. Oh, and she's already medaled,
Speaker 2: and that's the thing. She was like, I needed a
Speaker 2: bit of a carrot, you know, she said to me.
Speaker 2: My coach said, I'm going to dangle a carrot for you.
Speaker 2: There's only been four track and field athletes at a
Speaker 2: Games to get two medals at the championship, and I
Speaker 2: think you're in for a chance. Then I thought, oh gosh,
Speaker 2: anytime someone dangles a carrot, the competitor and me just
Speaker 2: has to take over. So she's like, oh, do I
Speaker 2: really want this? And then the coach basically said, let's
Speaker 2: have a crack now.
Speaker 1: Reason, well the reason as well. I mean, let's just
Speaker 1: add to that history. Let's bring even more context to
Speaker 1: that because the only other Australian woman who has won
Speaker 1: two athletics medals at the Single Games was Railing Boil
Speaker 1: in Munich nineteen seventy two. Little no name, Little no
Speaker 1: name in the Australian history books. And now Jemima Montag
Speaker 1: has put herself there.
Speaker 2: And we talked a bit about Jemimah when she won
Speaker 2: her first medal of the game. Yes, but she is
Speaker 2: someone who gives a lot back to the community. As
Speaker 2: you said, she's working in medicine and also travels around
Speaker 2: to schools educating young girls on the fact that they
Speaker 2: should continue with sport and athletics. Yeah, and now she's
Speaker 2: got two shiny bronze to show to these girls, saying,
Speaker 2: if you stick with it, this is what you can achieve. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think that what does sum her up and
Speaker 1: that attitude of there is she is part of something
Speaker 1: bigger than herself, is that in this event, she also said,
Speaker 1: when I lost motivation to do it for myself and
Speaker 1: it was really hard, I thought about doing it for Ridz.
Speaker 1: So her teammate doing it for our coach who was
Speaker 1: going absolutely bonkers on the sidelines and just doing it.
Speaker 2: Bonkers, bonkers, eat it, eat it, Ridz love it, love it?
Speaker 2: Is there anything more Australia? Now we do need to
Speaker 2: touch on otherwise I'll develop a twitch. We're out of
Speaker 2: the medals and we're into some of the results from yesterday,
Speaker 2: and again we simply can't get through all of them
Speaker 2: because it's been a massive day. But Peter bowl, he
Speaker 2: was flying in the heat as he does. He came
Speaker 2: out and he was leading it after the first lap
Speaker 2: and then he just got absolutely overtaken.
Speaker 1: So this is in the eight hundred meters, the early
Speaker 1: rounds of the eight hundred meters. We have to mention
Speaker 1: it because I really think that all of our listeners
Speaker 1: would reach through their phones or listening device whatever they
Speaker 1: listened to us on and break something if they weren't, like,
Speaker 1: tell me, what on earth.
Speaker 2: Is happening with Peter the repper chargee. So we have
Speaker 2: another chance. And again as much as because he did
Speaker 2: run forth in Tokyo, there was that thought that the
Speaker 2: next progression for him would be can he possibly meddle?
Speaker 2: I mean, have I said that a few times? Sure?
Speaker 2: But he has had injury, he's had a broken lead
Speaker 2: up to the point where he wasn't allowed to compete
Speaker 2: and train with fellow athletes because of that band. So
Speaker 2: he said to himself and in the post race interview
Speaker 2: for this heat, the fact that a matter games, I'm
Speaker 2: really proud of that, and I think that again, am
Speaker 2: I tempering my expectation? Sure, but I'm still number one
Speaker 2: fan and we will wait to see what he does
Speaker 2: in the reper charge. And Australian's great at reper charge
Speaker 2: is what we've learned. We're really good at reperture. We
Speaker 2: love the reper charge, love the reperchange. Dang is also
Speaker 2: going to be in that reper charge. And because we
Speaker 2: started with the gold in the field, it would be
Speaker 2: rude for us not to wrap up the athletics with
Speaker 2: another little possibility of maybe and another doctors.
Speaker 1: Can they all do less in the field, because coming
Speaker 1: up we will have Mackenzie Little and forty two year
Speaker 1: old Katherine Mitchell surprise packet of the Games competing in
Speaker 1: the javelin final.
Speaker 2: They've both made it through in her fourth Games.
Speaker 1: So obviously we will continue to bring you the updates
Speaker 1: of what is going on in everything in the track
Speaker 1: and the field on.
Speaker 2: The medals in the track, so why not at a javelin?
Speaker 2: Why wouldn't you? But Serbia were our arch nemesis in
Speaker 2: the basketball team minus twenty four to forty eight hours
Speaker 2: ago because they did eliminate the Boomers, but different result
Speaker 2: for the opals.
Speaker 1: The opals they got one back, they got one back.
Speaker 1: For US defeated Serbia eighty five to sixty seven, which
Speaker 1: means that they are going to play in a medal
Speaker 1: match for the first time since London twenty twelve.
Speaker 2: That's the good news. What's the bad news. It's against
Speaker 2: the USA. And this is the least fun fact that
Speaker 2: we've ever said.
Speaker 1: Go on, George Hippy the USA Jelmy, Remember, dear listener,
Speaker 1: this is a team that actually can't squeeze Caitlyn Clark
Speaker 1: into it will take her defect. Yeah maybe maybe.
Speaker 2: She Kaitlyn Clark from busso could work.
Speaker 1: Has a nice ring to it when you think about it.
Speaker 1: Because Team USA they are currently riding or in the
Speaker 1: midst of, a fifty eight game winning streak at the Games.
Speaker 1: It dates back to nineteen ninety two. So if you're
Speaker 1: doing maths, yes, that means that they have won seven
Speaker 1: straight gold medals in this event and the Opals will
Speaker 1: be taking on them in the semi final.
Speaker 2: Whatever you know what, George, today we made history that
Speaker 2: dates back to eighteen ninety six. Right, so who's to say, right, USA?
Speaker 2: Be afraid?
Speaker 1: Yeah, be afraid, you'd be afraid? Who's afraid?
Speaker 2: You? Should? Should be?
Speaker 1: Should be?
Speaker 2: Are the Sharks terrifying? Usually? But this time the competition
Speaker 2: is over? But my goodness, they've had such a strong campaign.
Speaker 2: It was their strongest ever finish in the in the
Speaker 2: men's water Apollo. They've never gone that deep into the
Speaker 2: competition at the Games. But it was a heartbreaking loss
Speaker 2: too after we just said this, this is not great USA.
Speaker 1: Whatever usay whatever. It was a penalty shootout they did
Speaker 1: very very well. All of our hopes now ride on
Speaker 1: the Stingers. And also just a psa everyone, if you're
Speaker 1: not following Tilly Kerns from the Stingers on TikTok and
Speaker 1: all of the social media, what are you doing with
Speaker 1: your life? Make sure you do because her game's content
Speaker 1: is ill it.
Speaker 2: Just to recap that is from a twenty four hour
Speaker 2: period at a Games four gold and two bronze for
Speaker 2: our greatest ever day at of Games to take us
Speaker 2: to our greatest ever gold tally at a Games of eighteen.
Speaker 2: This team have achieved the unthinkable and there are still
Speaker 2: days to go of competition and very real medal chances.
Speaker 2: We previewed and we got excited before the games, and
Speaker 2: sometimes as a sports fan you need to temper your
Speaker 2: expectations because you start to look through and you're like
Speaker 2: Nina Kennedy, she could definitely meddle. Like you go through
Speaker 2: and you go, well, that should be gold, that should
Speaker 2: be golden. Sometimes it just doesn't fall that way, but
Speaker 2: it feels like at this Games, if it could, it does.
Speaker 2: And today is a day in sporting history in our country.
Speaker 2: We will never ever forget. George.
Speaker 1: Oh, we will never forget. And also I think it's
Speaker 1: a day that in the future and this will be gelmy.
Speaker 1: I can already see it in the future when you
Speaker 1: havn't a bad day and you're just like, oh, what
Speaker 1: else could go wrong? I hate everyone, I hate everything.
Speaker 1: Remember that time that we beat everyone? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Remember that time that we won four gold medals in
Speaker 1: the single day. Remember that time that we won eighteen
Speaker 1: gold medals at a Games and we still had four
Speaker 1: days left a competition. Oh that's this day.
Speaker 2: It is this day. And I'm really passionate about track
Speaker 2: and field athletes getting their jees and it's something that
Speaker 2: we're seeing on a global stage with docos like Sprint
Speaker 2: with You, Noah Larles really pushing going, we're the best
Speaker 2: in the world. Watch US, watch US, engage with US,
Speaker 2: sponsor US. And for Australian athletes that get their time
Speaker 2: in the that get their time in the sun once
Speaker 2: every four years or so, results like this. We know
Speaker 2: with Australians, we're fickle. We like winners. And do you
Speaker 2: know what we've shown this game? We bloody well? Are
Speaker 2: we bloody well? Are Anyway, We've got a preview the
Speaker 2: next twenty four hours that's coming up next. I'm a
Speaker 2: little emotional.
Speaker 1: Jelmy has wiped away the tears from her eyes, but
Speaker 1: they may reform. Let's be honest, because we have so
Speaker 1: much more athletics action coming up tonight.
Speaker 2: Jelmy, are they tears or sleep? Because at this point
Speaker 2: I can't remember last time I shut my eyes. I'm
Speaker 2: looking fresh. I'm so glad this isn't a visual medium
Speaker 2: because it has been a big twenty four hours but
Speaker 2: it's another big twenty four hours coming up because you
Speaker 2: have the women's for By one hundred meter relay round
Speaker 2: one as Tory Lewis, Ella Connolly, Ebonie Lane and Brie Masters.
Speaker 2: You remember Bree as our semi finalist if you don't mind.
Speaker 2: So this is a big watch. It's the first Australian's
Speaker 2: women's sprint team since Sydney two thousand.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited to watch this Gelby too. You don't
Speaker 1: usually see the Aussies in the relays, at least not
Speaker 1: in the finals, right or we haven't got used to
Speaker 1: seeing it, so I'm thrilled that we're even making a presence.
Speaker 2: If you're telling me there's a chance, we're happy to
Speaker 2: have it. There is more than a chance. Jess Whole
Speaker 2: in the fifteen hundred meters. Now, if you haven't watched
Speaker 2: the men's fifteen hundred meters final, we don't have time
Speaker 2: because it's not green and gold. But it's been called
Speaker 2: the race of the century, yes, so please watch it.
Speaker 2: The pace that they set, oh is just obscene. Please again,
Speaker 2: go watch it in your own time. But at three
Speaker 2: thirty five am, I will be watching. Dear Jess Hole,
Speaker 2: have a crack at the semi final. Go you good
Speaker 2: thing again? Has run the fifth fastest time in history
Speaker 2: in this event. Can she do it? Faith Kip Yagon.
Speaker 2: I mean, she's basically a formality at this point. But
Speaker 2: you're telling me there's a chance.
Speaker 1: I think it's a legit podium chance. Now what we
Speaker 1: all need to do collectively, Australia, Let's do it now.
Speaker 1: Set your alarm five thirty a m. So reasonable, so reasonable.
Speaker 1: This is a perfect perfectly average humans who like exercise
Speaker 1: get up at this time. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: They're not average humans? But go, oh, you're so right,
Speaker 1: You're so right. The men's two hundred meter final starring
Speaker 1: our Noah Lyles. He's trying to do the double. It's
Speaker 1: happening five thirty tomorrow morning. You will not want to
Speaker 1: miss that.
Speaker 2: You remember that we've described that. He said the one
Speaker 2: hundred meters is my mistress, but the two hundred, the
Speaker 2: two hundred's my wife. And he tried his very best
Speaker 2: to be humble in a press conference until Curly was like,
Speaker 2: go on, talk your shit. That's a direct quote. And
Speaker 2: he said they're going to be depressed when I hit
Speaker 2: the bend. The other athletes are going to be depressed.
Speaker 2: That's how much I'm going to win it by. And
Speaker 2: when you do the doubles at a games in particular,
Speaker 2: you start hitting bolt levels. Oh yeah, I mean he's
Speaker 2: not there yet. Yeah, but in terms of track and
Speaker 2: field history, this is significant. Again, five thirty is the
Speaker 2: sun almost up? Of course it is. But you can
Speaker 2: flick at five thirty because in the boxing, guaranteed.
Speaker 1: Medals, guarantee, guaranteed, guarantee.
Speaker 2: But you're going to be seeing this as Charlie Senior,
Speaker 2: the twenty two year old.
Speaker 1: From Way Wait, wait, what the hell?
Speaker 2: Don't have much else going on? We run, we fight,
Speaker 2: sun's out, we swim a bit, we sail recycling. I hear,
Speaker 2: we're outdoorsy. We just we're athletic because there's not much
Speaker 2: else to entertainers. There's not much of a bar scene.
Speaker 2: But we are guaranteed a men's medal coming up in
Speaker 2: the men's boxing. And then also Katelyn Parker, who we've
Speaker 2: identified as someone you're gonna love.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, so just to put a little exclamation point
Speaker 1: on that, we'll talk about her more tomorrow. But we
Speaker 1: have another guaranteed metal chance in the boxing with Katelyn
Speaker 1: park Of, the twenty eight year old from Dromana, the
Speaker 1: Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. I heard an interview on ABC
Speaker 1: Radio with her neighbor, a lovely woman named Amelda, and
Speaker 1: the reporter asked, Emmelda, have you ever seen her like
Speaker 1: running up and down the street doing like the full
Speaker 1: Rocky like getting in the zone. Emelda, bless her, said
Speaker 1: only if there was an ice cream truck. That's all
Speaker 1: you need to know about Caitlyn Parker.
Speaker 2: That is all you.
Speaker 1: Need to know about her. She is in action from
Speaker 1: six to tone.
Speaker 3: Oh god, Melda, will you come on Ossie Teams tomorrow
Speaker 3: at four thirty five am. Their tears of a different
Speaker 3: kind from me. The Stingers face the USA.
Speaker 2: Will they leave us alone in America? Get out of America?
Speaker 2: In a semi final of the women's water polo, this
Speaker 2: team are so inspirational. There's so many stories about the
Speaker 2: women's water polo and if we can medal, it will
Speaker 2: just be unbelievable. And time for my flex about saying
Speaker 2: Maria Favod Sola and jalequal Clans. You're into the semi
Speaker 2: finals of the Women's beach Volleyball. You can watch that
Speaker 2: tomorrow at five am, So maybe get up at five
Speaker 2: beach volleyball, into a little bit of the Noah Isles,
Speaker 2: maybe into a.
Speaker 1: Bit of boxing, bit of boxing, and we'll just is
Speaker 1: there a better morning?
Speaker 2: Are Were you to see you after that for medals? Sure? Sure, sure,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm buzzing about all of this. This is just
Speaker 2: the most ridiculous day.
Speaker 1: I actually feel like it genuinely feels like weave one.
Speaker 2: It's also it's my birthday.
Speaker 1: It's not I'm not going to get it.
Speaker 2: Should be like just for something that we love to
Speaker 2: bring so many Australians together and joy and there's so
Speaker 2: much rubbish that happens in the news. This is the
Speaker 2: same as heavy stories, and this is just camaraderie and
Speaker 2: dedication and perseverance and what people can do when they
Speaker 2: dedicate themselves to something.
Speaker 1: And it's the chance for all of us who are
Speaker 1: watching it to sit back and go, I am so
Speaker 1: happy that they've dedicated their life to doing that. So
Speaker 1: I get to.
Speaker 2: Hear how many little Nina Kennedy's are somewhere going mumkin,
Speaker 2: I actually really want to have a crack at little
Speaker 2: Laths And we've talked about.
Speaker 1: Some of the amazing faces of the games, but someone because.
Speaker 2: We've had so many gold to look at Georgie, we
Speaker 2: have glaringly omitted from our commentary to this point, which
Speaker 2: is an oversight because they've been one of the main characters,
Speaker 2: and it's our fun fact.
Speaker 1: Our fun fact for the day, Snoop.
Speaker 2: Oh see, I was gonna go with Snoop Dog again.
Speaker 2: The fact that I just gives you an indication of
Speaker 2: where we're at. But our fun fact for the day
Speaker 2: is supposedly NBC's special commentator, Snoop Dragon, Snoop Liones, Snoop Dog,
Speaker 2: whatever the iteration has been. If you had have picked
Speaker 2: him in the early two thousands when you and I
Speaker 2: were listening to those two songs as someone that would
Speaker 2: be a face of a games, you would go probably not.
Speaker 2: And yet he is getting paid reportedly half a million
Speaker 2: US dollars I by NBC.
Speaker 1: Believe maybe unpopular opinion, but I actually think popular opinion
Speaker 1: he is earning every cent of it. I love seeing
Speaker 1: him at the events. I love how he dresses up.
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen him and Martha Stewart in full
Speaker 1: Equestrian tales, then bloody well go to it. And look
Speaker 1: at him in that tuxedo with the top hat.
Speaker 2: The fact that he's next to Martha's Stewart, they're both
Speaker 2: they crimps.
Speaker 1: I just love it.
Speaker 2: Really, he's a really od But the thing that I'm
Speaker 2: loving about Snoop is that a lot of the time
Speaker 2: he has specially made outfits, as you mentioned, and a
Speaker 2: lot of the time they're heroing female athletes.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent all of those T shirts. Like he's
Speaker 1: at the gymnastics, he's watching all of the America, the
Speaker 1: USA rugby.
Speaker 2: But he is famous for the dancing horses, the dressage,
Speaker 2: and if you're gonna look at one clip of Snoop today,
Speaker 2: it's him in full dressage kit dancing in front of
Speaker 2: one of the games horses. That's probably worth his half
Speaker 2: day salary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're so right, You're so right. It's honestly, I
Speaker 1: think he has brought so much joy. He's earned it
Speaker 1: because of the coverage that he has been getting NBC
Speaker 1: their coverage, but just the games around the world.
Speaker 2: I love it. There are so many of these little
Speaker 2: bits that Georgie and I are dying to talk about
Speaker 2: from the Games. But as you can probably.
Speaker 4: Tell, it's busy busy covering Australian events, So we're going
Speaker 4: to do a summation of the color around Paris that
Speaker 4: we've been furiously sending each other in me but haven't
Speaker 4: had a chance to talk about because that is a
Speaker 4: massive part of the Games.
Speaker 2: But again, as we take a deep breath, Georgie, Yeah,
Speaker 2: a deep golden.
Speaker 1: Breath, golden breath.
Speaker 2: It feels good.
Speaker 1: It feels good, you.
Speaker 2: Know, it really does.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel like that Harry style song, like I
Speaker 1: am the Harry style song. Golden. That's what I'm going
Speaker 1: to live my life today. That's how I'm going to
Speaker 1: go through life.
Speaker 2: Thank you yeah for joining us on green and gold, gold, gold,
Speaker 2: gold edition of Two Good Sports, your unofficial Games podcast.
Speaker 2: If you can't tell, just go and shake in Australian's
Speaker 2: hand today and say well done.
Speaker 1: Well done US, Well done US, well done us. We
Speaker 1: are winners and until we catch you tomorrow, be a
Speaker 1: good sport.