1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: Here at two Good Sports, we would like to acknowledge 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: the traditional owners of the land on which we record 3 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: this podcast. There were injurie people, this land was never seated, 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:10,400 Speaker 1: always was always will be. 5 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 2: Well. 6 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: Hi there and welcome to Doo Good Sports Sports news 7 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: told differently. I'm Georgie Tun and I'm Abby Jelmi, And 8 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:24,280 Speaker 1: my goodness, I'm excited for this week's topic because it. 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 2: Just feels like the Olympics. We're at the starting blocks, 10 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 2: aren't we. 11 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 3: You can feel it coming and there's something about Australians 12 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 3: winning in the pool that just fills my heart with joy. 13 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 2: And sure are all of the swimmers in the pool 14 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 2: Australian at the. 15 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 3: Australian Swimming Trials, absolutely say we are just seeing this 16 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 3: team that are absolutely primed for success. So that's going 17 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 3: to be our deep dive for the first time ever. 18 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:49,160 Speaker 3: Pun intended, Yes, well, domig dive. 19 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 1: Don't think I didn't miss your accidental pun about the 20 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: starting blocks. Thank you, yeah, thank you, Yeah, I noted it. 21 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 2: I definitely didn't write that down. No, we're fine, We're fine. 22 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 3: No, but I'm getting ahead of my Georgia. Good sport 23 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 3: or bad sport? 24 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 2: You love a bad sport? What have you got? 25 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: I have a bad sport. Now, I have a bad sport. 26 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 1: I know I have a bad sport this week and 27 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: I am going to give it. It could be controversial, it 28 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,400 Speaker 1: could be a controversial one, but I'm giving my bad 29 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 1: sport to Christian Petrca from the Melbourne Demons. 30 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 2: Now. 31 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: I love Christian Petraca. I'm a D's fan. He's one 32 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: of my favorite players. What on earth was he thinking 33 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: clearing himself to go back onto the ground after that 34 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: absolute annihilation by Darcy Moore's knee. In that clash, he 35 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 1: had a ruptured spleen, a punctured lung, broken ribs, and 36 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: he thought, you know what, team, I know that you 37 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: need me. I may look gray, but I'll get back 38 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: out there. I think this sport, this will shock you. 39 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: And I think Simon Goodwin said it in the press conference. 40 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: It's very normal for players to play on with broken ribs, 41 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: I know, perhaps not a punctured lung and eruption. Also, 42 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: if someone could please explain what a spleen does, that 43 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: would be It's like the appendix, like what are you 44 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 1: a remnence of that used to function? 45 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 3: Because I don't need a spleen. I never thought of 46 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 3: my spleen doing anything. 47 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: I feel like it's something that you could live without, 48 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: but you probably can't know. It seems to be you 49 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: can you can't get them removed. It seems painful, is 50 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:21,799 Speaker 1: what it seems. It's what it seems. So this was 51 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: in the clash Melbourne v. Collingwood, one of the biggest 52 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 1: clashes of the years. 53 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 2: Monday. 54 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: It's big Freeze Monday, Big Freeze Monday. So I get 55 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 1: that the occasion was gigantic. I get that the D's 56 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: were in trouble and their best player goes down. But Christian, Babe, 57 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 1: just if you can't breathe, if you're crawling off the ground, 58 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 1: just stay off, Just stay off, don't take the needles, 59 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: stay off. 60 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 3: If this isn't a sign of the times, because in 61 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 3: the eighties that'd be a good sport. I mean, have 62 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 3: I won one that almost dies and gets themselves back 63 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 3: out there? 64 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 2: And now we're like, no, you know what? 65 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 3: Your health and vital organs I eat lungs are slightly 66 00:02:57,639 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 3: more important in a game of football. 67 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: It's giving. Remember when Dusty I think it was Dusty 68 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 1: did this and I was like, get the air ambulance. Yeah, 69 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 1: when he had that massive hit and he was like 70 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: walking up and downstairs in the dressing. 71 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 2: Show, He's still trying to get out, still trying. 72 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: To get out there. I'm like, guys, guys, the amount 73 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,079 Speaker 1: of pain that he looked like he was in. Oh, 74 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: my favorite one of these ever was Chris Judd when 75 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: he broke his nose and he looked like Boldemore because 76 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: he'd broken his nose and if you can remember, like 77 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: because he didn't have any hair at the time, they 78 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: taped up his nose so it looked like he was 79 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: going to a fancy dress as Voldemore. I think I 80 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:32,839 Speaker 1: remember seeing that all the blood. 81 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 3: Would have because he'd broken his nose, all the blood 82 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 3: would have been rushing down the back of his throat, 83 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 3: and he just went back out there. 84 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: Oh, Christian, look, we wish you were on your recovery. 85 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: He's ruled out for the rest of the season. I 86 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: don't know what the hell he was thinking, but just 87 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 1: you know, let's think about the spleens out there. 88 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 3: Okay, we're going to keep with AFL for my good sport, 89 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 3: and we do need to preface this. This we're recording 90 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 3: before the weekend so I can't make comment on what 91 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 3: the three hundredth game actually is like and the occasion, 92 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 3: but I would actually like to say a good sport 93 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 3: this week padding up ourselves on the back here the 94 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 3: media and the respect for the fact that Dustin Martin 95 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 3: just doesn't want to do it, and I actually think 96 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 3: the way that it's been reported wildly and it has 97 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 3: been everywhere, this is his three hundredth game. 98 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 2: It's his three hundredth game. He didn't do a press conference. 99 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 3: They got all the three hundred gamers together and did 100 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 3: a photo for Richmond, which a lot of fans are 101 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 3: calling the new Royal family. But it was something I 102 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,799 Speaker 3: just think we understand that as athletes, you are role models, 103 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 3: but you don't necessarily need to be someone that enjoys 104 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 3: putting yourself up and letting people get to know you personally. 105 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 3: You don't necessarily need to let people into your lives. 106 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 3: And he's not someone who picks and chooses when he 107 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:46,039 Speaker 3: does this. He's never done it. 108 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: I was going to say, he's been very firm in 109 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: his hatred is a very strong word, but just is 110 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 1: dislike of any attention, and he just has found himself 111 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 1: to be one of the best NFL players of all time. 112 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: That attention, does you know, it's. 113 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 3: Drawn to that Watate in both individual and team accolades. 114 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 3: He is the greatest player of the modern era. Yeah, 115 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 3: and with that comes interest. But he's also created. 116 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 1: This mystique, yes, very much, because we don't know anything 117 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: about him. I actually don't know anything about this man 118 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: other than he has a Ponchamp for that weird mohawk. 119 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 2: That's it. Do you know? 120 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 3: You can go and get a free one, a free one, 121 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 3: so after the twenty seventeen Grand Final, you could get 122 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 3: dust and haircuts for free. All those kids on Swan 123 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:28,840 Speaker 3: Street they all had that Heady brought it back for 124 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 3: his three hundredth game. You can go and I think 125 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 3: it's the Richmond barber giving out free dust months And 126 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 3: I would actually say he's responsible for that ship house 127 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 3: haircut everyone has at the moment, you know, the one 128 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 3: that's sharper at the sides and the fade clearly must 129 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:44,479 Speaker 3: be maintained weekly. 130 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 2: I don't know whether they get at the time or budget. 131 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 2: These young men, these. 132 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 1: Kids are in the chair longer than you and I 133 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: I gotta say they have to in the commitment. It 134 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: is a commitment and a half. And yes, it's a 135 00:05:55,040 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: relaxed dustin. Yeah it is. It is a relaxed dustin. Okay, 136 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,039 Speaker 1: we're into our deep dive. Tell me one of our 137 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 1: favorite conversations, which is just how well are our dolphins doing. 138 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 2: I'm so excited. 139 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 1: I just love swimming so much. 140 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 2: Like and you know what, We're gonna leave that in 141 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 2: that that's the intro. 142 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 3: That was Georgie just waxing lyrical about how excited she 143 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 3: was for this segment because we were about to go 144 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:32,600 Speaker 3: into it. 145 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 2: But I reckon that's the perfect intro. 146 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 3: That is the genuine enthusiasm that my dear co host 147 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 3: has for swimming because you are a nuffie. 148 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: I am a nuffie. This is the joy that I get. 149 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: We've spoken about it on this podcast before that I love, love, 150 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: love love Australian swimming like I love the swimmers. I 151 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 1: grew up with them before I had fallen in love 152 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: with Darren Lockey and rugby league. I had posters of 153 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 1: Susie One or Grant Hacker and Ian Thorpe on my 154 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: wall like that is what was there? There was nothing. 155 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: I think maybe I had a little photo of Britney 156 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 1: spears and then it was just like, I know, Madam Butterfly, 157 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: like I actually think when I eventually I'm saying when 158 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: we're manifesting, when I eventually meet Susie O'Neil, I think 159 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: it'll be no, and I think it'll be like a 160 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: Darren Locky your effect in that. I will just be like, well, 161 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 1: if you. 162 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 2: Met Darren and you couldn't talk and he couldn't talk, 163 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 2: it would have been it wouldn't have been quite the combo. 164 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:27,679 Speaker 2: Oh god. 165 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 3: Anyway, the reason why we're all about swimming and we're 166 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 3: getting into it is that we've had the Australian swimming 167 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 3: trials going on at the moment and again disclosure, we're 168 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 3: in the middle of them. But it was too exciting 169 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 3: for us not to use it for our main topic 170 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 3: this week, because when you're in the lead up to 171 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 3: an Olympics, there's something about dolphins and the pool that 172 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 3: the patriotism just paus out of you. 173 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: This is the Thunderdome and all Australia is invited. Yeah, 174 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: that's kind of what it is. And it leads into 175 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: my favorite rivalry at the moment, which is Arian Tipmas 176 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: and Molo Callahan. So two swimmers based out of Queensland. 177 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 1: They train together, they're at the same club, they have 178 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 1: the same coach and they have just really it's only 179 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 1: begun this kind of rivalry of theirs because Arion Tipmas 180 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 1: has always been the golden child. Literally she's won so 181 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: many gold medals, the golden child of Australian swimming in 182 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: recent years. So we're only just starting to know or 183 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: hear the name Molo Callahan really since Tokyo and have 184 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: it actually mean something? 185 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 3: And you mentioned they both train at Saint Peter's Western 186 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 3: under Dean Boxhall. And if you like Dean Boxall, how 187 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 3: do I place that man, the one that gyrated so 188 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 3: heavily during Tokyo against the glass balustrat that and during 189 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 3: a time of great lockdown you all just remember the 190 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:45,559 Speaker 3: shot going who let that man in there? 191 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 2: And they're like, oh. 192 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:51,079 Speaker 4: No, that's the coach Y's and arguably the most successful 193 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 4: one in Australian Olympic history because they are just flying 194 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 4: out of that camp and with Annie a little bit 195 00:08:58,160 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 4: of it. 196 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 3: So she was born she was born in two thousand, 197 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,080 Speaker 3: which I love the synergy there because when you think 198 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 3: of success in the pool, even though we've had more 199 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 3: successful Olympics since Sydney. There's something about the super suits 200 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 3: and Thorpy that just. 201 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 2: Takes you back to that time. 202 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 3: So that's when Annie was actually born and at seven 203 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 3: years old she started competing in swimming. In twenty fifteen, 204 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 3: her family moved from Tasmania to Queensland. So again you're 205 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,319 Speaker 3: a teenager and a young teenager and your family have gone. 206 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 2: You've shown enough promise here. 207 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:29,840 Speaker 3: She wasn't a prodigy, but she had promise to go 208 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 3: and train under Dean Boxhel. So she's been like calls 209 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 3: him her best mate. 210 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: Yes, like he has seen her through some of the 211 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: biggest milestones of her young adult license. Yeah, adolescent. So 212 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: there is a very significant bond there. But he's able 213 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 1: to do that as well with all of his swimmers. 214 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: Now that's what makes him such a great coach. 215 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 3: And something that was so wild about this and the 216 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 3: particular event that we're talking about is a two hundred 217 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 3: meter freestyle and if you didn't watch it, firstly, what 218 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:01,560 Speaker 3: were you doing? Secondly it the reason why it had 219 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 3: an Olympic feel is you had two swimmers where you're 220 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 3: watching the world record line nip at their heels. 221 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 1: Yes, they were so far in front of the world 222 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 1: record line, both of them, Molly and Arnie, that you 223 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: were just like, hang on a second. I was checking 224 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: the time, I was checking the clock. I was like this, 225 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: they can't be swimming this fast. It has to be impossible. 226 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 1: And yet here we are, and that world record line 227 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: was set by Molly O'Callahan. 228 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 3: Which it's very fitting that we've only talked about Arnie 229 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 3: to this point, and yet she was the raining world 230 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 3: record holder rain. 231 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 1: Raining world record holder, one two gold medals in Tokyo 232 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 1: in relays. I believe also has a bronze medal to 233 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: her name, and Olympic bronze medal broke that two hundred 234 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 1: meters world record which everyone had thought was Arnie. So 235 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: think about let's just go back to Tokyo. It's one 236 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: of my favorite memories in sport, Arnie v. Katie Ladecki. 237 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 3: Oh, and we all just wanted something to talk about. 238 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 3: That wasn't Dan in his puffa jacket, yeah, or some 239 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:03,200 Speaker 3: sort of fricking COVID tally and we go in our 240 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 3: homes and Katie Ledecki, as God would have it, was 241 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 3: an American. 242 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 2: So it was Australia taking on the. 243 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 3: US and you're like, take me back to the golden era, 244 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 3: and she do it, and she did it was all 245 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:15,600 Speaker 3: about the four hundred. 246 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: Yes, and she did it right. But that was like 247 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: the Phelps Thorpe rivalry. What makes Arnie and Molly special 248 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: is the Hacket Thought rivalry. It's Ozzie the Ossie, and 249 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 1: they're both at the top of the sport. There's no 250 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 1: one faster than these two women. And their race in 251 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 1: the two hundred meters this week proved that because Molly 252 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 1: broke her own world record, it was just that she Yeah, 253 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 1: it was just that she finished second to Arion Tipmas 254 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 1: who smashed the world record. So two women, two women 255 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:46,079 Speaker 1: under world record time. 256 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,320 Speaker 3: And the thing that we're both looking forward to with 257 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 3: Paris is getting to know Molly a little bit better, Yes, 258 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 3: because the narrative has been so much about Arnie. 259 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:57,199 Speaker 1: And so right right, rightfully. 260 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 3: So she's a freak made Arnie and she also seen 261 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 3: to have those bigger endorsements as well, so you do 262 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 3: see that she is more prevalent in the media. She 263 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 3: speaks a lot more, whereas with Molly, I just think 264 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 3: that this is going to be the making of her 265 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 3: and also the fact that we saw when she did 266 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 3: after a media interviews, she was really candid and saying, 267 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 3: I've had a terrible week of sleep. 268 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 2: The anxiety about this has really eaten me up. 269 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 3: You could see she was really upset when she's getting 270 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 3: consoled by Dean Boxel after the event. And again, imagine 271 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 3: being Dean because part of being a coach, particularly if 272 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 3: it's not just a fifty meter, like there's a strategy here. 273 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 3: You're coaching both of your elite athletes on how to 274 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 3: beat each other. 275 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:38,199 Speaker 1: I don't know how he does that. I mean he's 276 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 1: a professional, right, But in my head, I'm like, there's 277 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 1: got to be a favorite. You got to have a favorite, 278 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 1: You got to have a favor. 279 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 2: No, I never do today. 280 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 3: Categorically I can say that I still only have one. 281 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 2: But I'm so sure that they're a favorite. 282 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:57,439 Speaker 3: But I think it's just more when you're seeing world 283 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 3: record lines be almost like after at Yes. 284 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: Yeah. 285 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 3: The thing I love about Annie is she's like, I 286 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:05,839 Speaker 3: need to replicate this for Paris. And if I don't 287 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:07,959 Speaker 3: replicate this in an Olympic event. 288 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 2: What does it mean? Because gold is what gets you remembered, 289 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 2: not world records. 290 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 1: Yes, and that's why I think that Molly's actually poised 291 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 1: here for a You're calling it a strong campaign in 292 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: Paris if she can get a handle on her nerves. 293 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 1: She is younger, she's less experienced, but the results are 294 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 1: there and the way that she swims, her technique it 295 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: is out of this world, out of this world. So 296 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: I think that I'm backing Molly in to do something 297 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: pretty magical in Paris. 298 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 3: We're looking forward to getting to know Molly. Someone that 299 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 3: we've really got to know in Tokyo. Kaylee McEwen, because 300 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 3: she is she is personality. 301 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,559 Speaker 1: Plus, this is the woman if people are like now, 302 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,199 Speaker 1: which one's Kaylee McEwen. She's the woman that swore on 303 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 1: national television after and gave shackers and gay Because she 304 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: also has such an incredible backstory. Her beautiful dad had 305 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: passed away only just before the Olympics, never got to 306 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 1: see her win gold. She's gone on to claim every 307 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: single world record that's possible in backstroke. 308 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 3: Well you remember in October and Budapest she broke back 309 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 3: to back world records in the space of what was 310 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 3: twenty four hours. Essentially in the pool she holds the 311 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 3: fifty meter of the one hundred and the two hundred 312 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 3: for the backstroke and more the point she almost this 313 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 3: week has almost beaten two of her world records. 314 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 2: Yeah. So the line that she's beating. 315 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 3: Is herself, which is really bizarre because she's so far 316 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 3: out in front of everyone else, and then gets out 317 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 3: of the pool and goes, oh, what's it? 318 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 2: Happy with that one? Yeah? 319 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: Actually sure, I wasn't sure how well. 320 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 2: A most almost the greatest anyone's ever done it. 321 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: But I wasn't pleased with my start, you know, six 322 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 1: one hundreds off my own world record. 323 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 3: But she passes the pub test. Yes, I desperately want 324 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 3: to have a beer with her. 325 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's why I think that she again, And 326 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: she's got this great rivalry with Reagan Smith, who's an 327 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 1: American swimmer, So I'm really excited to see what when 328 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: they go head to head in Paris. So she's booked 329 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 1: her ticket with one hundred meter backstroke, two hundred meters backstroke. 330 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: She's going to be in every relay under the sun. 331 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: She I don't think, and she would say this as well. 332 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: She isn't swimming at her best yet, which is a 333 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: scary thought but also key. You don't want to be 334 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 1: swimming at your best at these trials. 335 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 2: She's also a big time performer. 336 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, she can handle that pressure. She's proven performer, 337 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: and so is Arnie. That's where the challenge for Molly's 338 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: going to be. 339 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 2: And you see him waiting and they're all they're jiggling. 340 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 3: They all jiggle they do she flapping their legs and 341 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 3: she's almost she looked at the camera and went cross eyed, ok, 342 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 3: like as if to be like hello, Like the rest 343 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 3: of them are getting in a zone, probably listening to 344 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 3: Eye of the Tiger. 345 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 2: And you can tell Eminem she would want to have 346 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 2: a laugh. 347 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 3: It's like she's like, let let it get out with 348 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 3: having a laugh or just personality. But more the point, 349 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 3: she can have all the personality she wants. She doesn't 350 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 3: need to. What she does in the pool is really 351 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 3: when we were talking last season about who's our most 352 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 3: successful athlete in the world right now, you know, our 353 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 3: minds went to Sam Kerr, you know, maybe Oscar Piastre 354 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 3: because it's so competitive, like where, you know, where do 355 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 3: we go to? Kaylee was so far ahead. And then 356 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 3: the most bizarre thing, technically it's Emma m m. 357 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not even Kaylee. 358 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 3: Not a McEwan not mckea, McKean not. It's difficult for 359 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 3: journalists to get the header. 360 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: I'm excited for all of the present. 361 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 2: Enjoy it. 362 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 1: Enjoy So Emma McKean, our most successful Olympian of all time. 363 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 1: I'm going to dramatic pause there, so that just settles in. 364 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 1: Our most medaled, our most medaled Olympian of all time 365 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 1: is going to Paris, is going to it. She's booked 366 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:43,240 Speaker 1: a spot. 367 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 2: Fanfare as Emma does. 368 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 3: Basically touched the pool, waved, waved in a slight nod 369 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 3: to the. 370 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 2: Family to say thanks for coming. 371 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: This is one hundred meters butterflies. It was just like 372 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:55,479 Speaker 1: not even my guys, I got the free stuff. 373 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 2: Canter probably not, did win it? Probably yes, probably yes. 374 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: So she seems to be in good touch as well, 375 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 1: so I'm excited to see what she does in. I mean, 376 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:06,399 Speaker 1: the one hundred meter freestyle is going to be the 377 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 1: pet event. Full disclosure, we are recording before the trial 378 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: of that gets underway with the Campbell sisters v Emma 379 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:15,719 Speaker 1: mcken I know, but that is going to be always 380 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 1: It's always one hundred meter events when it comes to 381 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 1: the Olympics. They're the blue ribbon events are so those 382 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:23,680 Speaker 1: are the ones I'm really excited to see. And Emma 383 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: McKeon she owns it like she has the sprint that race. 384 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 2: Oh the sprint. 385 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:30,879 Speaker 3: And I actually found this amazing. We have in the 386 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 3: men's a favorite potentially heading into the fifty meter freestyle 387 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 3: where Australia has never meddled. 388 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:40,679 Speaker 1: No never, how have not one of ours? Well not 389 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: in the men's category. We have in the women's yeah, surely, yes. 390 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 2: We have in the X we definitely have in the men's. 391 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 3: Cam McAvoy has become the first male Australian swimmer to 392 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 3: qualify for four Olympics. And again, when you think of 393 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:56,640 Speaker 3: Olympics cycles, yes, the last one's been a weird three years, 394 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 3: but it's twelve years of being at a level where 395 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:06,160 Speaker 3: you are selected in one of our most competitive sports. Yes, 396 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 3: and the training and the upkeep like you don't get 397 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:13,159 Speaker 3: a break. No, there's no off season for swimmers. I 398 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 3: would like to say that Cameron McAvoy one of mine. 399 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 3: I have followed his entire career. 400 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: I have loved him for many of his early pursuits 401 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 1: into the Olympics. He always does well at the Australian trials, 402 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: He doesn't replicate it on the world stage possibly until now, 403 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 1: which I am so thrilled for. 404 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 2: I mean, so, I'm just shocked that you're into a 405 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 2: jocular nerd. That's so out of character, that's so out 406 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 2: of character for you. 407 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: What his nickname is the Professor? 408 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:45,640 Speaker 2: Yes? 409 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: Yes, And he's putting his nickname into great use because 410 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 1: if people are thinking now, Cameron McAvoy, hang on a second, 411 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:54,160 Speaker 1: didn't he retire? 412 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:55,480 Speaker 2: Yes? He did. 413 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: He quit swimming after the Tokyo Olympics. He was like, guys, 414 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: I'm done, I'm done looking at that black line. I've 415 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 1: had enough of it. Da da da da da. But 416 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: what we usually do see, well typically we can see 417 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 1: with athletes is that they lie to us because they're 418 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:12,120 Speaker 1: not done. They can't say goodbye to the sport. So 419 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 1: he dipped his toe, quite literally back into the pool, 420 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:17,760 Speaker 1: overhauled his training regime, was like, I'm only going to 421 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:21,880 Speaker 1: train three times a week. I'm going to incorporate gymnastics, 422 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:25,880 Speaker 1: I'm going to incorporate weights, I'm going to incorporate calisthenics, calisthenetics. 423 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: Calisenetics is that a thing? 424 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 2: Calisthenics, Calisthenics, Kalisthenics. 425 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:33,160 Speaker 1: I my nickname is not the professor Calisthenics. I'm going 426 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:36,199 Speaker 1: to incorporate that, and I'm going to cut forty k's 427 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 1: off my overall training in the pool each week and 428 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 1: see what happens. 429 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:43,639 Speaker 3: So he's essentially gone full scientists. And when you saw 430 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 3: him do some interviews after his trial, he genuinely said, 431 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:51,159 Speaker 3: my dive was off by one degree, which affects my 432 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 3: performance by two percent, which over a fifty meter pool 433 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:55,920 Speaker 3: could be the difference between. 434 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 2: Coming one and fifth. And I'm like, Rado professor like. 435 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: But this is how micro he's taken it right, and 436 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 1: he has. 437 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:05,399 Speaker 2: Look at the longevity yes swimming. 438 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 1: And this is why he's incorporated these different kind of 439 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,120 Speaker 1: techniques because he is just trying to improve the dive 440 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: and the underwater because fifty meters it's literally over in 441 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:17,400 Speaker 1: twenty one point three five seconds, so those point oh 442 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:19,639 Speaker 1: one of a second they really count. So if you 443 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 1: can shave those off when you're underwater, you're halfway there. 444 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 2: If I'm the rest of the swimming fraternity that. 445 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 3: Train every day, yeah, and quite often they'll train, sleep 446 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 3: during the waking hours, and then train again. I'm going 447 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 3: you mean you get in the pool three times a 448 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 3: week and you're going to an Olympics. 449 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 2: Like, what have you discovered, sir? 450 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:43,879 Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I think that this could potentially You'd have 451 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: to be a very specific case as well physiologically, I think, 452 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 1: but potentially this could overhaul the way a lot of 453 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 1: athletes train, maybe swimmers. 454 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 2: I just and his body types changed. 455 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 1: His body type has completely changed. Back in twenty twelve 456 00:20:58,160 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 1: when I first fell in love with him at the 457 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:03,440 Speaker 1: London olymp pigs and those trials, he was a whip it. 458 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 2: You're running out of. 459 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 3: Room on your wall for the posters, by the way, 460 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 3: that's all I know. 461 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,639 Speaker 1: But him, he turned took the poster sideways where to go, 462 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 1: like he was the smallest thing. 463 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 2: He went as they are usually. 464 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, but he was the biggest juxtaposition, right, because you 465 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,639 Speaker 1: think about the Olympus, you think about James Magnuson and 466 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,440 Speaker 1: that Alam man from French who were like the biggest 467 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:23,920 Speaker 1: mountains ever seen. 468 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 3: Right, and then you still be because he's doing the 469 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,679 Speaker 3: doped games, probably the largest he's ever been at this, 470 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 3: so right, you're so right, But then came Hans Sorry 471 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 3: enhanced games. 472 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: Sure, but then there was that Cam was always the 473 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 1: tiny little Italian greyhound, and now he's not. I mean, 474 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 1: he's still very, very fit, but he's not greyhound as 475 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: he once was. And that is just with the limited training. 476 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 1: So it's about training smarter. 477 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,360 Speaker 3: Do you know what's alarming is that we're running out 478 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 3: of time and we're not going to talk about Cole Chalmers. Oh, yes, 479 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 3: concerned a larger Whinnington or Sam Short. 480 00:21:58,480 --> 00:21:59,959 Speaker 2: We have buried the lete. 481 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: Oh because none of those are the best story of 482 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 1: nine of those, none of the best story to come 483 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:10,640 Speaker 1: out of the wheat, because Alexa Leary has stolen hearts 484 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 1: and it's the sort of story that if it was 485 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 1: a movie. 486 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 2: You'd go, Gee, that puts some mayo on that. 487 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, that couldn't possibly have been, couldn't be this lovely 488 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 1: and shouldn't be this lovely. 489 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 3: I'm going to take you on a journey of her story, 490 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 3: but mostly I'm actually going to read an excerpt from 491 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 3: an article about what happened to her and why it 492 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 3: is so remarkable. Because if you saw the parents interview, 493 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:32,640 Speaker 3: I challenge you not to cry. 494 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: Not a dry eye in the house. Alexa Leary booked 495 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,880 Speaker 1: her spot to Paris in a multi class event during 496 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 1: the week. So she is going to the Paralympics. And 497 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 1: why her story is so remarkable and why that seems 498 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,719 Speaker 1: so far fetched is because you just can't believe what 499 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 1: she's been through. 500 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:50,439 Speaker 3: She grew up on the Gold Coast, one of seven 501 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 3: kids and was always one of those kids that had 502 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 3: a smile in her face. Yes, wanted forever to be 503 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 3: an Olympian. That was her gold and she was a 504 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 3: very promising triathlete, so much so at the age of 505 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 3: eighteen in twenty nineteen she won a silver medal in 506 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,639 Speaker 3: the Triathlon World Championships. 507 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 2: So she was getting there right. That was in the 508 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 2: under nineteen character. 509 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 1: Her whole life was dedicated to triathlon. She was going 510 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 1: to be an Olympian. 511 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 2: And I'm going to read this. 512 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 3: It's an article by Lisa Hamilton from Mamma Mia in 513 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 3: July twenty twenty one. It was a chris Saturday morning 514 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 3: just outside Nosa, and Alexa was out bike riding, as 515 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,919 Speaker 3: she often did on weekends. Her father, Russell Leary, her 516 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 3: biggest champion, was tailing behind her. While riding at seventy 517 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:35,359 Speaker 3: kilometers an hour, Alexa clipped the bike in front of her, 518 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,919 Speaker 3: sending her body hurling over the handlebars and landing on 519 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 3: her head. Russell could see up ahead and quickly arrived 520 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 3: at the scene. His daughter lay unresponsive, battered and bruise. 521 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 3: She'd broken her ribs, skull, scapula, and leg. Her lung 522 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 3: had been punctured, and those were just the visible abrasions 523 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 3: to her body. She'd also suffered catastrophic brain damage. Alexa 524 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:01,360 Speaker 3: was helicoptered to the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, where 525 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 3: she went in and out of surgery while in intensive 526 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,160 Speaker 3: care unit, and doctors told Russell and her mum, Belinda, 527 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 3: to prepare to say goodbye. The injuries Alexa sustained and 528 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,199 Speaker 3: the complications that continued to arise from her treatment proved 529 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 3: too severe for any human to survive. The breathing machine 530 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 3: was switched off, but then a miracle happened. Alexa began 531 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 3: to breathe on her own, against all odds. Alexa continues 532 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,119 Speaker 3: to improve over six months. Her parents kept a vigil 533 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 3: at her side in hospital as she learned about her 534 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 3: permanent brain damage and how to walk again. 535 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,359 Speaker 2: Oh sorry, I'm not too pregnant for this. 536 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm sure if she'd ever get on a 537 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:45,639 Speaker 3: bike again, Alexa channeled her natural talent for sports into swimming, 538 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 3: a discipline she had plenty of experience of during her 539 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:51,440 Speaker 3: days as a triathlete. On Tuesday night, almost three years 540 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 3: to the day of her accident, Alexa unlocked a long 541 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:55,880 Speaker 3: lived dream at the Brisbane a chord Ex Center at 542 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 3: twenty two years old. She dove into the pool during 543 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 3: the finals of the S nine fifty meter freestyle. As 544 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 3: her tan touched the wall, she looked up at the 545 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 3: screen and realized that she'd qualified for the Paris Paralympics. 546 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 1: And she's off, She's off, she booked her spot. You're crying. 547 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 2: It was just her parents said goodbye to her eight times. 548 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,679 Speaker 1: Well, this is this is the thing, this is and 549 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 1: this is why. 550 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,680 Speaker 2: She was never meant to talk or walk again. 551 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 1: And this is why I love sports so much, Oh, 552 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 1: because you have moments like this. And you're crying now, Jelmy. 553 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,399 Speaker 1: There was not a dry eye in the house at 554 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,400 Speaker 1: the Brisbane Aquatic Center, on full deck anywhere when this happened. 555 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:34,640 Speaker 1: And that was absolutely accentuated when Roz Kelly went into 556 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 1: the stands to talk to Russell to get his immediate 557 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,160 Speaker 1: reaction to his daughter, who he'd said goodbye to multiple 558 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: times qualifying for Paris. 559 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,399 Speaker 3: It's unbelievable, you know, do you think that you know, 560 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 3: we had six months in the hospital, never meant to 561 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 3: walk the talk again, and she's off to the Olympics. 562 00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 2: My god. 563 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,480 Speaker 1: There was another interview later where he said he hasn't 564 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,360 Speaker 1: stopped crying for three years, like since the accident happened. 565 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 1: So it's just one of those human stories like you 566 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: just your heartbreaks, every parent's worst nightmare, and then you've 567 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 1: just seen your child do the unimaginable. 568 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 3: The other thing about this is that she is a joy, 569 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 3: absolute joy, and that's probably the thing that you see 570 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 3: this person and you go, I believe when they turn 571 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,200 Speaker 3: the machine off that you went, no, you don't. 572 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 2: I've got too much life in me. There's too much 573 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 2: And just she's always. 574 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 1: Been a competitor. Yeah, and they did that and she went, nah, 575 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: no way. 576 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 3: Listen to this interview and the positivity just coming out 577 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,199 Speaker 3: of her. This is after she booked her ticket and 578 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 3: she knew she was going to Paris. 579 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: I'm so proud of myself. I'll really tell you that, 580 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 1: I am so proud of myself. 581 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,399 Speaker 2: What about Dad and Mum? Those messages what did that 582 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:53,400 Speaker 2: mean a lot? 583 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 1: Because they're like, honestly, but I'm gonna be honest. 584 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 2: They're the reason why I'm here. 585 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 4: They never left my side that six months in that hospital, 586 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 4: never left me. 587 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,440 Speaker 5: They're gonna do all the way through to Paris as. 588 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 1: Well, and my siblings they're coming too, on one of 589 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 1: seven and we're all common We can't continue because Jelly 590 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: is now a flood of tears. 591 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,959 Speaker 3: Okay, I may be slightly hyper home, but I just 592 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 3: think her family and. 593 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,440 Speaker 5: What they've been through and the turnaround, and just to 594 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 5: give much in today's world where everyone just beats the 595 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,120 Speaker 5: ship out of themselves to hear someone just go I'm 596 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 5: so proud of me and I've done this and I've 597 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:47,360 Speaker 5: worked so hard, and like I just yeah, yeah, oh, 598 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 5: it's a sell for everything shit going on in the world. 599 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 2: And sorry, I'm swearing that what. 600 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 3: Happens emotional, but I just think like there's something there's 601 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 3: something so beautiful about her and her enthusiasm and her story. 602 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,400 Speaker 3: And if she's not one of the athletes you're most 603 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 3: looking forward to seeing in Paris, check your pulse because I. 604 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 1: Just got goosebumps because I feel that when you are 605 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:13,720 Speaker 1: having your worst day. Remember Alexi Leary, like, think back 606 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,400 Speaker 1: to this, look her up, look at her smile, look 607 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 1: at her family, her beautiful family and what they've gone through. 608 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 1: And you are right, Jelmy. We should get shirts printed 609 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,880 Speaker 1: with oh, I'm on the train, hey Alexa, although not 610 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:35,400 Speaker 1: that one Alex. New Alexa is in town, a new Alexa. 611 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 1: And this is the thing as well, we focused on 612 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 1: how amazing the story is. We haven't even touched on 613 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: how freaking good she is, so she actually may win 614 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 1: in Paris, like she is exceptional. 615 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 3: Get on board because, as she said, she's one of 616 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 3: seven and they're all going to Paris. And one of 617 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 3: the storylines this week has been how completely unaffordable it 618 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 3: is for families to go. 619 00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 2: So I hope they booked in advance. 620 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: Marry On Titmas's family has forked out about twenty grand 621 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: to make sure that they can be there to see her. 622 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,320 Speaker 1: And they would have had, you know, a really decent 623 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 1: idea that their daughter was going to be he. 624 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 3: I love that they said, well, we just weren't sure 625 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 3: that yea of all of all the. 626 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 1: Ones, okay, worries, okay, okay, but I mean I was 627 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,440 Speaker 1: talking to Sam Williamson, who's a two hundred meter breastroke. 628 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 1: He's booked his spot to Paris. I was talking to 629 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: him this week and he said that his family since 630 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 1: his first games, and his family had also gone into 631 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 1: the ticket lottery to try and get tickets to the 632 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 1: pool arena there in Paris for the Games, just in 633 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 1: the hope that he might get there. So then it's 634 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 1: all on to him to be able to qualify. But 635 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 1: this is how far forward you have to be thinking. 636 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 3: Tickets and swimmers they get a better allocation than most. 637 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, you've always had to. I think it is 638 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 1: fair to say you've always had to probably pay your 639 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 1: way to go and support your family when you're over there. 640 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,800 Speaker 1: You don't get freebies some sports that's a little bit different. 641 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 1: But it's just that you've got to think about in 642 00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 1: the context of the world right now at the moment 643 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 1: of everything just is more expensive. 644 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 2: You're looking at. 645 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 1: Speaks, it's Paris. It's Paris. You're also looking at the 646 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 1: first Olympics that we could go to in eight years. 647 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 1: No one got to go to Tokyo other than the athletes. 648 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 1: So for all of those families who missed out on 649 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,959 Speaker 1: seeing seeing their athletes in Tokyo. Of course they're going 650 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 1: to do everything they can to get to get to Paris. 651 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 3: And this came to light and was actually on your 652 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 3: show on the Project because Tillie Kerrents, who's one of 653 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 3: our water polo players, basically came out and said, point 654 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 3: of view, you don't get a single ticket for a 655 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 3: plus one, and the tickets for the water polo are 656 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 3: a thousand euros, which works out to be the equivalent 657 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 3: of about sixteen hundred dollars Australian which, as we know, 658 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 3: Olympic athletes in a lot of disciplines aren't flushed for cash. 659 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,479 Speaker 2: They're doing it for the love of it. And I, 660 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 2: in my ignorance, assumed you'd get a plus one. 661 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 1: I mean, if we could be there with our high 662 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 1: ALEXA t shirts on, we would be. 663 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 3: The other thing before we go is you might remember, George, 664 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 3: we had a little deep dive about the fact that 665 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 3: swimming Australia was on fire. 666 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, the house was on fire. 667 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 3: We might be expelled of all things from well aquatics, Yeah, 668 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 3: because we just couldn't get anything sorted. 669 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 2: Yeah. 670 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,280 Speaker 3: Flash forward and we're like, could this be our greatest 671 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 3: ever Olympic team of all time. 672 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,720 Speaker 1: We're going to top the metal tally because people keep 673 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 1: telling us that we may. 674 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 3: So the question being has Swimming Australia sorted their shit 675 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 3: out or are they just swimming in spite of it? 676 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 3: And I think what we do know about athletes is 677 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,440 Speaker 3: they take care of their own. Yeah, they're going to 678 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,040 Speaker 3: hit the blocks and they're going to swim irrespective of 679 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:31,840 Speaker 3: what's happening at a Foords level. 680 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 2: Yeah. 681 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 1: I hope that they've had, you know, the little ear 682 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 1: muffs on. I'm sure that they have. They've been very 683 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 1: single minded and focused on what the job they have 684 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: to do. They would have with over the last however 685 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 1: many years, and I think that is the case. However, 686 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 1: we have had some developments when it comes to the 687 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,880 Speaker 1: Swimming Australia board and what's going on behind the scenes. 688 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:55,840 Speaker 1: Yes we have a CEO now. If anyone remembers our 689 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,960 Speaker 1: Swimming Australia episode and Gelemy and I were talking about 690 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,400 Speaker 1: just the absolute merry go round that was the. 691 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 3: Change swimmers, change caps, the speedo. 692 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 1: Honestly, honestly, there was like this revolving door of chairman 693 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:15,240 Speaker 1: people who came in with optimism thinking they could create change, 694 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 1: don't hit the Confederated model where each state was like 695 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: no you can't, Yes, no you can't, and then they exited. 696 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,280 Speaker 1: Things do seem to be on the way up because 697 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 1: there is a new CEO. His name is Rob Woodhouse. 698 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 1: Fun fact, he apparently he's Emma McKeon's uncle. He's Emma 699 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 1: McKeon's uncle. So our greatest olimpiads. 700 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 2: Name popped up. I was like, Rob Woodhouse, why does 701 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 2: that ring a bell? What is that? 702 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,600 Speaker 3: And I was like, Emma McKeon comes from like she 703 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,680 Speaker 3: was built to be the greatest on earth. Basically everyone 704 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:40,760 Speaker 3: related to her was a swimmer of some level. And 705 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,640 Speaker 3: he was a comwealth game swimmer. He was a medley swimmer. 706 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure he actually went to Olympics as well. 707 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 3: But now he's Emma's uncle. Yeah, we will know you are. 708 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:53,240 Speaker 1: So Emma's uncle's in charge now as of April this year, 709 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 1: so it's only been a recent don't have a president. 710 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 1: We still don't have a president because board member Susan 711 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 1: Smith was appointed the interim president in September last year, 712 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 1: but she stood down in February of this year, so 713 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,320 Speaker 1: it's still some issues. Can I jump on twenty days 714 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 1: out from the game and claim that I was the 715 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,760 Speaker 1: reason why we won ten gold, which it looks like 716 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,080 Speaker 1: we potentially could. Maybe I feel this was your talent 717 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 1: pool and you were going to step up to a 718 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 1: role I think being president of Swimming Australia during. 719 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,600 Speaker 2: This Golden Era during this Yeah, doesn't sound like a 720 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:25,360 Speaker 2: bad thing. 721 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:33,040 Speaker 3: And if there's no major sponsor, Hey, Alexa. 722 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:37,560 Speaker 1: Fun fact time. Tell me I've got a question for you. 723 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 1: Water or Gatorade sugar free? Gatorade sugar free? Yeah, I'm 724 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 1: preempting diabetes. Oh yeah, okay, yeah, so you've probably. 725 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,720 Speaker 2: Got really personal. Really did gatorade gata Rade? 726 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:54,120 Speaker 1: But did you know that the name gatorade? Do you 727 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 1: know actually where it comes from? 728 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,160 Speaker 2: Alligator? Doesn't? 729 00:33:58,320 --> 00:33:58,400 Speaker 3: It? 730 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 1: Kind of does? It kind of does because gator Road 731 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:05,800 Speaker 1: comes from the University of Florida, where there's lots of alligators. 732 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,640 Speaker 2: Particularly on golf courses, particularly. 733 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,640 Speaker 1: On golf courses, but also because their football team they're 734 00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:14,160 Speaker 1: nicknamed the Gators, and so they actually developed this drink 735 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,719 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty five by scientists at that university in 736 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,680 Speaker 1: order to aid their athletes in combating dehydration. So therefore 737 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,560 Speaker 1: they were helping the football players who were the gators. 738 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:28,759 Speaker 1: It was gator aid. You were aiding the gators gator age. 739 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 2: You know what's ironic. 740 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 3: Alligators would never get thirsty, truly like an alligator. How 741 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:39,719 Speaker 3: does an alligator drink water? Like you can give an alligators. 742 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:42,640 Speaker 2: In in a body of water. They're just getting on. 743 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,279 Speaker 3: Do they actually drink water? 744 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 2: I wouldn't think so. 745 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:46,960 Speaker 1: Do they what absorb it through their scale? 746 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:48,680 Speaker 2: I don't know, same way as a shark would be 747 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:50,640 Speaker 2: because where do they get them? Why it's not shark. 748 00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 2: I've never even thought about that. 749 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,239 Speaker 3: Alligators don't drink and if they did, I'm sure they 750 00:34:59,360 --> 00:34:59,799 Speaker 3: choose gator. 751 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 1: A should put it to the test. 752 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,919 Speaker 2: Some basis. There's been tears, there's been a lot this week. 753 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,479 Speaker 2: I'm fine, I'm fine, everything's fine. Thank you for joining 754 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,640 Speaker 2: us on Too Good Sports. As always, please do. 755 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,440 Speaker 3: Hit us up on social let us know if you've 756 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,160 Speaker 3: got any good sports or bad sports for the week. 757 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,239 Speaker 2: Would love you to do our home week for us. 758 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:24,920 Speaker 3: It's Too Good Sports podcast and as always, George be 759 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:25,520 Speaker 3: a good sport