Christopher Reive - Winter Games

Christopher Reive is our Winter Games Guru from NZHerald who shared what Alice Robinson was facing into the Super G event. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Day twelve of these Winter Olympics and go to Guru
from the New Zealand Herald, Christopher Reeve. Morning.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
I think Confirmer chapelone was very good at Laney.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Oh you were there.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
I was there.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
I heard that she shed a bit of a d
and m about halfway through. How things are so good
in the States and she felt right at home here
in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah. Yeah, people loved it excellent.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Also loving these Olympics from Afar. We've got two medals secured,
the chance to equal our best tally tonight, Alice Robinson
in the alpine skiing something called the Super G. So
give us a load down on this. What is super G?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yes? So super G is sort of the speed race
for Alice Robinson. It's similar to the giant slalom, which
is her preferred discipline, but it's more about getting down
in the hill fastest the gates are further apart. It's
kind of a combination of downhill and giant slalom. It's

(01:00):
just something a little bit different. Especially quite fun to
watch because they do have that aspect of just trying
to send it down the hill, but they also have
to keep it quite technical. To make sure they're not
so not taking off too much of the course when
they're going around the going around the marks. So quite good.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Everything about these games has been fun to watch. We've
got cam Melville ives who's on the half pipe at
the moment. I've got the TV screen here in the studio,
and I mean, this thing looks like it's kilometers long.
Apparently it's only one hundred and eighty meters. But you know,
they're doing all tricks, so that's sort of been a
theme this week, is going over jumps and doing tricks
and flips and whatnot in the air, whereas tonight Ellis

(01:42):
Robinson is more about just keeping those skis planted and
getting around there. The we gate things.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, I mean you can you can find sort of
what you want at the Winter Games, whether you're looking
for cool tricks and the half five, or whether you're
looking for cross country skin, whether you want to watch
people fating each other in ice hockey.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
It's all there. So, I mean, on what we've seen,
we've had two heart in the mouth comeback wins from
Zoe and Luca. Do you think there's a chance it'll
play out the same with Alice Tonight or is she
picked to be pretty dominant.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Well, this one's not her preferred discipline. She has had
some success at the sort of at the start of
the season. I would almost say surprise success in this one.
She'd never been on the podium in the Super g
before this season, and she went out and won the
race and then got on the podium at the next one.

(02:36):
So she comes in with some form. So I think
on the back of that, you have to say she's
definitely a chance at the medals. I don't know if
i'd call her a lock in this event. I think
I'd be a lot more confident in the giant slalam
with Alice, but certainly a medal.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Chant no good for the heart rate following this thing,
and also for the sleep pattern eleven thirty tonight if
you wanted to stay up to catch that. Talk us
through some other medal hopes or just key was in
general that we've got nextion into the weekend.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, so over the next sort of week in a bit,
I guess lest of the games obviously as Zoe Sadaki
Siner is back in action next week in the slop style.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
That's once she won golden last time. Mate.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, Yeah, she's got gold in that one. Luca Harrington
Jon bronze yesterday. He's back in action later as well.
Finn Melville ives you mentioned his brother Cam in the
half five at the moment, so Finn is also half
five athletes. He's on the skis and he's world champion.
He's very very good at what he does, and he's

(03:40):
not the only chi wee in that event who's a
medal chance. I think Luke Harold, seventeen year old, won
the Youth Games a few years back. He's also one
to watch. So we definitely have a few medal chances
here and it's really nice to see. I think we
talked about it last time that this is the biggest
contingent we've sent over, and it really felt like there

(04:04):
were a lot of metal chances in this group. And
you only look back to twenty eighteen where we had
only one medal before that game, and now all of
a sudden, we're producing all these young talented athletes who
get genuinely at the top of the game on the
global scale. It's great to see