August 6, 2024 • 20 mins
On Sports Fix Paris 2024 Edition with Jason Pine for 7 August, thrilling action in the 1500 metres with a men's final for the ages, and Kiwi Maia Ramsden reaching the women's semi-finals.
Piney is joined by 1984 Olympian and 1500 metre finalist in Los Angeles, Tony Rogers to analyse both races.
Meantime, our women's track cyclists and kayakers stand out, but it's embarrassment for a pair of New Zealand paddlers...
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Hello there and welcome into the Sports Fixed podcast Paris
twenty twenty four edition. It's Tuesday, the sixth of August.
I'm Jason Pine. He had to wrapped Day eleven action
at the Paris Olympic Games, which started brilliantly at Star
de France with Kiwi Meya Ramsden in the heats of
the fifteen hundred meters Needing a top six finish to
(00:58):
progress to the Semismya Ramsen is making a light bit
down the home straight to try and get into the
top six. She may just have left it a little
bit too late. I think Ramsen's going to be seventh. Well, Tedji,
when's belt checkon? Keep you gone third? And Ramsden might
have just tipped the cheat for six.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
She has Maya Ramsden down the home straight and has
tipped a head of heally and Maya Ramsen has taken
the sixth and final automatic position into the semifinals.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Here.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Terrific from Maya Ramsen. Here she is afterwards.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
My only other experience at this level was kind of
at the World in North Hampson, Glasgow. That was crazy,
but this says like a whole other level. I'm crazy.
So just trying to keep composure.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
You know.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
My coach and I had talked about the last fifteen
meters and he was kind of just like, the race
is not over till it's over. I got kind of jostled.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Around in there.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I'm still learning how to do that, be a bit
more aggressive in there, but coming down the last two
hundred like I've never wanted anything more, so just went
for it.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, wonderful stuff from Maya Ramsden. She'll contest the semifinals
of the women's fifteen hundred meters on Friday morning at
five thirty five New Zealand time, and then in the
night session at St. De France, we experienced a men's
fifteen hundred meter final for the ages. Here is the
race we wanted.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
Kerr is second, Inger Brits are in front and those
two are going to go head to head down the
home Strake Inger Britson, Kerr and in third place one
of the Americans.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I think it's Cole Hawker.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Is he going to have a save?
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Inger?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Britson, Kerr into the home strike their stride for stride
Hawker on the inside, Inger Britson fighting Kerr?
Speaker 8 (02:39):
Is there?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Hawker?
Speaker 7 (02:40):
Is there?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Is there an upset coming Hawker?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Hawker wins.
Speaker 8 (02:46):
Incredible.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
It was all about Inger, Ritson, It was all about Kerr.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
But Cole Hawker in an Olympic record time of three
twenty seven six ' five incredible American Cole Howker coming
from nowhere really to win the men's race ahead of
the far more fancied pair of Yakobinger Britsen and Josh
Kerr Spring in nineteen eighty four Olympian in the fifteen
hundred meters and finalist in Los Angeles, Tony Rodgers. Tony,
(03:15):
how do you even begin to sum up that means?
Race this morning?
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Well, we always knew it was going to be intriguing,
and I was always worried that people were going to
concentrate on two blokes. And I did say that someone
could come unexpected and create some history. And that's what happened,
And interesting enough, I was listening to a scenario from
our own Nick Willis. He did a little podcast earlier
in the week about the different scenarios between Kure and
Inger Brits and how the race d have to pan out,
(03:39):
and he had Hawker the one that could come through
in surprise. And of course we've got to remember that
our own Jordy Beamish beat Cole Hocker into the silver
medal in the World Indoors back in Glasgow, so so
some people he's a bit of a surprise, but for
those fifteen hundred Fishiados, he's definitely no real surprise. But yeah,
the surprise was the time he ran, and that's what
everyone wasn't predicting. I think, was that fantastic time that
(04:01):
these guys did.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, this was a fast race, wasn't that Olympic record
for Hawker three twenty seven sixty five a national record
for a PB four and Goose who won the bronze
six runners under three point thirty. That's quick, isn't it, Tony?
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Yeah? Very quick? And the Goose was the one that
I thought could actually be a surprise if they went
out really hard, because he's run so many hard, fast races,
tucked in behind those guys in the past, but yeah,
really quick and you know, I think you brit some
new people will He'll sit back and think, should I
have gone so hard? That he went really hard on
the first lap and so you know, world record pace
almost in the first lap because they didn't quite get
(04:37):
near that of Algarous three twenty six. Oh, but it's
an interesting battle when you've got to do these fast
races when you don't have all the pace makers that
you have in the Diamond League.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
How technical a race is the fifteen hundred meters or
was this just a straight shootout around speed?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Oh, it's very tactical. And if we sink back and
I mean, kur are we looking back on his race
and reflecting, and you know he lost it by the
smallest of margins. But he made a couple of early
moves that every little move you make at that pace
takes a little bit out of the tank. And he
did spend some I'm sitting wide on Inger Briton when
he could have waited. And then of course Inger Briton
did Hawker a favor by just moving out and pushing
(05:15):
Kerr out right into lane two as they came off
the final bend and that opened up the gack gap
for Hawker as Inger Britson faded to come through and
nudge out here and the goose who was finishing so
fast over the top of them all?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Was Inger Britson fighting a surprise to you?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Oh well, we all know that, you know, leading just
takes that little bit more out of you and you've
become the sitting back, don't you out front like the hair,
So it wasn't a surprise to me. And obviously if
we think back to the last two wheel Champs in
Eugene when he got beaten by Jake Whiteman from Britain
and then this last year by Kerr himself and Budapest,
(05:54):
you know that's what's happened when you have to push
hard and people say he doesn't have a finish, but
maybe he'll have to rethink his tactics for the future.
But yeah, everyone said that if Kirk and I mean
ing Princey could run three twenty eight, he probably wouldn't
be beaten. While he ran three twenty eight point two,
but he was beaten by three other fantastic athletes in
the final.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yes, that's an incredible, incredible fact when Anger, Briton and
Kerr were putting their race plans together, would they mainly
have been focused on the other? I mean, could they
perhaps have forgot about everybody else? Hawker included.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I don't think so. No, They've raced each other a lot.
And you know, if we go back to the Big Dream,
while they had the Bauman Mile the way back in
the beginning of the season at Eugene, it was fantastic
race when Kerr took that out. But you know, the
American system, one thing about it, it teaches you how
to finish, and that's definitely what happens with these young
Americans that come through college. And you know, Hawk has
(06:48):
had a lot of experiences being around. As I said,
you know, he was a silver medalist at World Indoors
and it looked like he had that race won until
the very last nod of the head from Georgie Beemish,
our own his elder. But these guys have got to
think about the different tactics. But it's changes so fast
when you're out there, and that's what you don't know,
and you've got to make you know, you've got to
have more than one strategy. That's for sure. You know,
(07:08):
the Kenyons I thought would be in the mix for
a good way, in which they were. I mean, Chariot
had a nab at it and Comen was up there
early in the position and they they've got the ability
to run three twenty eight. But on the day, Yeah,
it was the man who saved the ground. Howker He
sat back in the first lap when it was going hard,
and he edged his way up to the back of
the bunch and then gradually moved through when the challenges
(07:31):
were being made. And obviously Kerr made that first challenge
down the back straight. I could come upside of Inger
Brickson as he was passing those Kenyons.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah, a wonderful race, a race for the ages will
be watched over and over. What did you make of
Maya Ramsten's final fifteen meters to grab sixth and a
place in the semi when she ran the fifteen hundred
heats in the women's Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Fantastic effort on Myerst part. I mean she was just
point to five outs her own national record and it
was her first big experience. And then she spoke about
it afterwards and you can see that was happening. She
started off really well, got herself up near the front,
and then before the end of the first lap she's
back in twelve position, and so she had to just
edge a way forward again slowly, eleventh after eight hundred,
and tenth after twelve hundred, and then you nab those
(08:13):
final four places with that fantastic finish, which we know
she has through her experience at winning two NCAA titles
in college in America. You've got to be able to
finish bath And yeah, we were urging her up that
home straight. I'm sure the whole of New Zealand was,
and she managed to get that direct route into the semifinals.
So that was fantastic for her, and yeah, a massive
experience for our young twenty two year old.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
How do you write your chances of making the final
or might that be a bridge too far with the
quality field like this?
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Well, once again, it will depend a little bit about
how the races run. And I haven't seen the lineup
of the semifinals yet. It will be two semifinals of
twelve and the top six direct will go through, so
which will play in her favor, I'm sure because they'll
go fast and if she sits back a little bit
like she tends to do in all of the races
and just let things unfold. She does have a very
(09:01):
strong finish, and she'll be getting more and more self
belief for every chance of making the final. Particularly she
we know she's obviously in the best shape. To see
the way she got jostled around, bumped here and there,
and having to change positions from inside on the rail
at webstage back to the outside and run just outside
her own personal best by a quarter of a second
in the national record means that if she gets a good,
(09:21):
clean race, she's obviously in your best form of a life.
So she could break four minutes of purse Key the
gilder around under four minutes if the pace goes on strong.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yeah, the fifteen hundred just continues to deliver terrific entertainment
and great storylines. Thanks for lending us you're an outlass, Tony,
really appreciate.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
It anytime, and we'll wait for the next couple of
days to unfold.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Thanks Tony, great to chat to you, and indeed we
will look forward to much more on the track and
in the field at these Paris Olympic Games. Tony Rodgers
nineteen eighty four Olympian and finalist in the fifteen hundred
meters in La the.
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Speaker 3 (10:02):
Also overnight, the highly anticipated kayak sprint program got underway.
First up Dame Lisa Carrington, Ali Sir Hoskin, Tara Vaughan
and Olivia Brett in the heats of the women's K
four five hundred.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
New Zealand have a four boat length lead over Spain
half a boat length lead at the moment for the
New Zealand crew, Carrington, Hoskin, Brett and Vaughan doing it
comfortably being led by that five time Olympic champion who
is Lisa Carrington. Dame Lisa Carrington brings New Zealand down
to the line first position, qualifying for the final of
(10:37):
the women's K four five hundred meters.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, they'd have to be firm favorites in that final
which is at twenty to midnight Thursday night. To the
women's K two five hundred. Dame Lisa Carrington and Alisa Hoskin.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
As New Zealand just start easing into their work and
are coming down to the finish line. New Zealand will
cross in first position, half a boat length ahead of Belgium,
easily qualifying Carrington and Hoskin for the semifinals of the
women's kayak double five hundred meters, winning their heat by half.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
A Botley Yes, I threw to the K two five
hundred semis ten to nine on Friday night. Here's Dame
Lisa Carrington afterwards, and this is day.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
One and five.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I mean the nerves coming into today, we're pretty high
and we know this is our biggest stage, so we're
not definitely not going to diminish how important this is
for us at the moment, really stoked that we've managed
to do the job so far. We still have formal days.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Unfortunately, Amy Fisher and Lucy Matahidi were unable to join them.
They finished fourth in their heat of the K two
five hundred and then fifth in their quarter to be
eliminated to the me and Max Brown Grant. Clancy, Curtisimri
and Hamish Legarth finished fourth in their heat of the
men's K four five hundred, but were much better in
their quarter final, finishing second to move into the semis
(11:55):
ten o'clock Thursday night. In the K two five hundred,
Curtissimri and Hamish Legarth were fifth in their heat but
fourth in their quarter to just squeak into the semi
at ten past nine on Friday night. But by contrast,
it was an embarrassment in the C two five hundred.
This is where the competitors kneel and use a single
(12:17):
bladed paddle to propel the boat forward. It's a form
of canoe racing that we have absolutely no history in whatsoever,
and that really we shouldn't even be competing in.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
The background here is that canoe racing. New Zealand had
been hoping to get two K two five hundred quota
spots for the Olympics, which would then have allowed them
to select four paddlers who they could then have formed
into a K four crew as well. But they only
got one K two spot via Max Brown and Curtis Marie.
(12:49):
They were fourth in the final at the Oceania Champs,
so in order to qualify two more paddlers they looked
to the C two event instead. Now this is an
incredible story. New Zealand qualified the boat at a highly
questionable and frankly farcical Oceania event in Australia earlier this year.
(13:09):
They raced against just two other boats, paddled by competitors
in their forties, sixties and seventies, now New Zealand one
which achieved the aim of having four paddlers in Paris,
but two of them then had to fulfill the responsibility
of racing in the sea, two which they had little
(13:30):
to know experience in. Max Brown and Grant Clancy did
that with embarrassing results.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
New Zealand are not actually racing. They have pulled out,
they fronted, they were introduced, but they are not competing.
They are not racing and does that surprise us? No,
I don't believe it would not on the basis of
how they got to be in this event. Max Brown
and Grant Clancy were supposed to be in lane two
(14:01):
and they are not there. Maybe the cameras aren't on them.
Do you believe they are still on course? Potentially they
probably are. They were introduced, weren't they at the top
and looking at the split times, New Zealand was twenty
three seconds behind at the halfway point. There they are.
My apologies, they didn't pull out. They are now crossing
(14:23):
the line now, so they have finished last, have Max
Brown and Grant Clancy. They were so far behind the
action I lost complete sight of them.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
They were a long way last Malcolm Jordan, forty four
seconds behind the winner. They then though, had to race
a quarterfinal where they were again a distant last, this
time forty six seconds behind the winner.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
Well, the horror show that is the men's canoe double
five hundred meters, I think they might have actually crossed
the line by George they have. They're literally just in
this race to tick a box so that they can
join the men's K four five hundred. It's all it
amounts to. They weren't putting in any effort whatsoever. And
on the world stage it just looks so poor that
(15:08):
New Zealand should go through the loopholes to get their
K four five hundred together for Paris, which means they've
fronted but very poor from New Zealand and I imagine
that Max Brown and Grant Clancy were doing everything they
could to one keep their boats straight, two to keep
(15:30):
it from tipping over. Hence they were putting in no
effort at all, and they were going as slow as
they could possibly go just to keep their canoe upright
so that they didn't embarrass themselves even further by falling
in the drink, an embarrassment for those in black.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
So they will go.
Speaker 9 (15:47):
To the B Final though, but they won't be there
with the big boys, and neither they should be.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
It couldn't have said a bitter Malcolm. And for the
final insult, as Malcolm said, they have the race one
more time in the B Final on Thursday night Sports.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
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Speaker 3 (16:04):
Let's move on to more positive things. A speed climber
Julian David made his Olympic debut overnight.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Jillian David gets to do his work. By the Ranian,
it's nick and neck through this middle stage, it hits
the wall. Julian David is through. He's got five point two.
I think it's a personal best and he has hammered
it and is guaranteed a spot in the quarterfinals. Tremendous work.
He was like a demented spider weaving his way up
the wall. And boy, what an outstanding showing from Julian David.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
He looks delighted and demented to orders. A demented Spider
Julian David through to the quarterfinals of the climbing speed event,
posting a personal best of five point two oh seconds
to advance from qualifying.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
Yeah, I mean, obviously that was the goal, wasn't I
was going to be happy with the pbe either way,
and then to get a PB that got me through
to the final. You can't be much happier, can you.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Julian David takes on world record holder Sam Watson of
the United States and the final late on Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
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Speaker 3 (17:09):
Let's go to the track cycling where Briani bort Up,
Emily Sherman, Nicole Shields and Allie Williston are in gold
medal contention after their qualifying ride in the women's team pursuit.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
And his littleness coming around, they're through and seeing if
they can indeed get that leading time. It looks like
they're going to do it comforty at the moment, but
they need to build up a buffer for all those
good teams to come. And they come through the finishing
mark and they are indeed the leading group. They finished
in four point zero four points sixty seven nine, So
an outstanding ride from Ellie Williston, Briani Borter, Emily Sherman
(17:44):
and the Cole Shields.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, fastest and qualifying. Ellie Williston's been asked about the
speed of the race.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
We knew it was going to be fast, but to
go out as fast as we did today is yeah,
it's a very pleasant surprise.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
So a win against Italy in the first round tonight
would see them ride for gold tomorrow morning. Meantime, Aaron Gate, Campbell, Stewart,
Keig and Hornblow and Tom Sexton's chances of riding for
bronze have been dashed and the men's suit they blitzed
Belgium in their six v seven ride off, but Denmark
and Italy had better times and they will ride for bronze.
(18:17):
New Zealand will ride for fifth and sixth. NACRA sailors
Michael Wilkinson and Erica Dawson will race for a medal
tomorrow in the mixed multi hull class. The Keywis were
last third and seventh in today's three races, their fourth overall,
but on the same number of points as third placed
Great Britain. Tomorrow's medal race is worth double points, with
(18:37):
Wilkinson and Dawson effectively battling Great Britain and Argentina for
silver and bronze. The men's dinghy medal race featuring New
Zealand's Tom Saunders was canceled due to a lack of wind.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
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So Quick look Ahead Today twelve action more for the
kayak sprint, including Dame Lisa Carrington and Amy Fisher in
the heats of the K one five hundred Track cycling
featuring the men's and women's sprint, the women's Karen and
Team Pursuit medal races hamous curves and high jumpqualifying as
is Tory Peters in the women's javelin and James Preston
(19:13):
in the men's eight hundred, as well as Ethan Oliver
in the men's triple jump, before Eliza McCartney, Emma Jeniiis
and Olivia McTaggart take part in the women's pole vault
final from five o'clock Thursday morning. Michael wilkinsonder Erica Dawson
chasing that medal in the NACRA Sailing class the women's
golfers underweight Lydia Coe looking for a third Olympic medal,
(19:33):
and Kiwi diver Lizzie Russel in the women's three meter springboard.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
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Finally to the medal table. As it stands, the US
have twenty three golds to China's twenty two. The US
also have by far the most overall medals with eighty four.
China are next on fifty eight. New Zealand no medals overnight,
but three golds, five silvers and a bronze, sitting in
twelfth position on the medal table, and seventy six nations
(20:02):
in all have now won at least one medal at
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Hello there and welcome into the Sports Fixed podcast Paris
twenty twenty four edition. It's Tuesday, the sixth of August.
I'm Jason Pine. He had to wrapped Day eleven action
at the Paris Olympic Games, which started brilliantly at Star
de France with Kiwi Meya Ramsden in the heats of
the fifteen hundred meters Needing a top six finish to
(00:58):
progress to the Semismya Ramsen is making a light bit
down the home straight to try and get into the
top six. She may just have left it a little
bit too late. I think Ramsen's going to be seventh. Well, Tedji,
when's belt checkon? Keep you gone third? And Ramsden might
have just tipped the cheat for six.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
She has Maya Ramsden down the home straight and has
tipped a head of heally and Maya Ramsen has taken
the sixth and final automatic position into the semifinals.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Here.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Terrific from Maya Ramsen. Here she is afterwards.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
My only other experience at this level was kind of
at the World in North Hampson, Glasgow. That was crazy,
but this says like a whole other level. I'm crazy.
So just trying to keep composure.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
You know.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
My coach and I had talked about the last fifteen
meters and he was kind of just like, the race
is not over till it's over. I got kind of jostled.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Around in there.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I'm still learning how to do that, be a bit
more aggressive in there, but coming down the last two
hundred like I've never wanted anything more, so just went
for it.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, wonderful stuff from Maya Ramsden. She'll contest the semifinals
of the women's fifteen hundred meters on Friday morning at
five thirty five New Zealand time, and then in the
night session at St. De France, we experienced a men's
fifteen hundred meter final for the ages. Here is the
race we wanted.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
Kerr is second, Inger Brits are in front and those
two are going to go head to head down the
home Strake Inger Britson, Kerr and in third place one
of the Americans.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I think it's Cole Hawker.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Is he going to have a save?
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Inger?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Britson, Kerr into the home strike their stride for stride
Hawker on the inside, Inger Britson fighting Kerr?
Speaker 8 (02:39):
Is there?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Hawker?
Speaker 7 (02:40):
Is there?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Is there an upset coming Hawker?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Hawker wins.
Speaker 8 (02:46):
Incredible.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
It was all about Inger, Ritson, It was all about Kerr.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
But Cole Hawker in an Olympic record time of three
twenty seven six ' five incredible American Cole Howker coming
from nowhere really to win the men's race ahead of
the far more fancied pair of Yakobinger Britsen and Josh
Kerr Spring in nineteen eighty four Olympian in the fifteen
hundred meters and finalist in Los Angeles, Tony Rodgers. Tony,
(03:15):
how do you even begin to sum up that means?
Race this morning?
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Well, we always knew it was going to be intriguing,
and I was always worried that people were going to
concentrate on two blokes. And I did say that someone
could come unexpected and create some history. And that's what happened,
And interesting enough, I was listening to a scenario from
our own Nick Willis. He did a little podcast earlier
in the week about the different scenarios between Kure and
Inger Brits and how the race d have to pan out,
(03:39):
and he had Hawker the one that could come through
in surprise. And of course we've got to remember that
our own Jordy Beamish beat Cole Hocker into the silver
medal in the World Indoors back in Glasgow, so so
some people he's a bit of a surprise, but for
those fifteen hundred Fishiados, he's definitely no real surprise. But yeah,
the surprise was the time he ran, and that's what
everyone wasn't predicting. I think, was that fantastic time that
(04:01):
these guys did.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, this was a fast race, wasn't that Olympic record
for Hawker three twenty seven sixty five a national record
for a PB four and Goose who won the bronze
six runners under three point thirty. That's quick, isn't it, Tony?
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Yeah? Very quick? And the Goose was the one that
I thought could actually be a surprise if they went
out really hard, because he's run so many hard, fast races,
tucked in behind those guys in the past, but yeah,
really quick and you know, I think you brit some
new people will He'll sit back and think, should I
have gone so hard? That he went really hard on
the first lap and so you know, world record pace
almost in the first lap because they didn't quite get
(04:37):
near that of Algarous three twenty six. Oh, but it's
an interesting battle when you've got to do these fast
races when you don't have all the pace makers that
you have in the Diamond League.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
How technical a race is the fifteen hundred meters or
was this just a straight shootout around speed?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Oh, it's very tactical. And if we sink back and
I mean, kur are we looking back on his race
and reflecting, and you know he lost it by the
smallest of margins. But he made a couple of early
moves that every little move you make at that pace
takes a little bit out of the tank. And he
did spend some I'm sitting wide on Inger Briton when
he could have waited. And then of course Inger Briton
did Hawker a favor by just moving out and pushing
(05:15):
Kerr out right into lane two as they came off
the final bend and that opened up the gack gap
for Hawker as Inger Britson faded to come through and
nudge out here and the goose who was finishing so
fast over the top of them all?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Was Inger Britson fighting a surprise to you?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Oh well, we all know that, you know, leading just
takes that little bit more out of you and you've
become the sitting back, don't you out front like the hair,
So it wasn't a surprise to me. And obviously if
we think back to the last two wheel Champs in
Eugene when he got beaten by Jake Whiteman from Britain
and then this last year by Kerr himself and Budapest,
(05:54):
you know that's what's happened when you have to push
hard and people say he doesn't have a finish, but
maybe he'll have to rethink his tactics for the future.
But yeah, everyone said that if Kirk and I mean
ing Princey could run three twenty eight, he probably wouldn't
be beaten. While he ran three twenty eight point two,
but he was beaten by three other fantastic athletes in
the final.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yes, that's an incredible, incredible fact when Anger, Briton and
Kerr were putting their race plans together, would they mainly
have been focused on the other? I mean, could they
perhaps have forgot about everybody else? Hawker included.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I don't think so. No, They've raced each other a lot.
And you know, if we go back to the Big Dream,
while they had the Bauman Mile the way back in
the beginning of the season at Eugene, it was fantastic
race when Kerr took that out. But you know, the
American system, one thing about it, it teaches you how
to finish, and that's definitely what happens with these young
Americans that come through college. And you know, Hawk has
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had a lot of experiences being around. As I said,
you know, he was a silver medalist at World Indoors
and it looked like he had that race won until
the very last nod of the head from Georgie Beemish,
our own his elder. But these guys have got to
think about the different tactics. But it's changes so fast
when you're out there, and that's what you don't know,
and you've got to make you know, you've got to
have more than one strategy. That's for sure. You know,
(07:08):
the Kenyons I thought would be in the mix for
a good way, in which they were. I mean, Chariot
had a nab at it and Comen was up there
early in the position and they they've got the ability
to run three twenty eight. But on the day, Yeah,
it was the man who saved the ground. Howker He
sat back in the first lap when it was going hard,
and he edged his way up to the back of
the bunch and then gradually moved through when the challenges
(07:31):
were being made. And obviously Kerr made that first challenge
down the back straight. I could come upside of Inger
Brickson as he was passing those Kenyons.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah, a wonderful race, a race for the ages will
be watched over and over. What did you make of
Maya Ramsten's final fifteen meters to grab sixth and a
place in the semi when she ran the fifteen hundred
heats in the women's Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Fantastic effort on Myerst part. I mean she was just
point to five outs her own national record and it
was her first big experience. And then she spoke about
it afterwards and you can see that was happening. She
started off really well, got herself up near the front,
and then before the end of the first lap she's
back in twelve position, and so she had to just
edge a way forward again slowly, eleventh after eight hundred,
and tenth after twelve hundred, and then you nab those
(08:13):
final four places with that fantastic finish, which we know
she has through her experience at winning two NCAA titles
in college in America. You've got to be able to
finish bath And yeah, we were urging her up that
home straight. I'm sure the whole of New Zealand was,
and she managed to get that direct route into the semifinals.
So that was fantastic for her, and yeah, a massive
experience for our young twenty two year old.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
How do you write your chances of making the final
or might that be a bridge too far with the
quality field like this?
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Well, once again, it will depend a little bit about
how the races run. And I haven't seen the lineup
of the semifinals yet. It will be two semifinals of
twelve and the top six direct will go through, so
which will play in her favor, I'm sure because they'll
go fast and if she sits back a little bit
like she tends to do in all of the races
and just let things unfold. She does have a very
(09:01):
strong finish, and she'll be getting more and more self
belief for every chance of making the final. Particularly she
we know she's obviously in the best shape. To see
the way she got jostled around, bumped here and there,
and having to change positions from inside on the rail
at webstage back to the outside and run just outside
her own personal best by a quarter of a second
in the national record means that if she gets a good,
(09:21):
clean race, she's obviously in your best form of a life.
So she could break four minutes of purse Key the
gilder around under four minutes if the pace goes on strong.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yeah, the fifteen hundred just continues to deliver terrific entertainment
and great storylines. Thanks for lending us you're an outlass, Tony,
really appreciate.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
It anytime, and we'll wait for the next couple of
days to unfold.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Thanks Tony, great to chat to you, and indeed we
will look forward to much more on the track and
in the field at these Paris Olympic Games. Tony Rodgers
nineteen eighty four Olympian and finalist in the fifteen hundred
meters in La the.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
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Speaker 6 (09:59):
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Speaker 3 (10:02):
Also overnight, the highly anticipated kayak sprint program got underway.
First up Dame Lisa Carrington, Ali Sir Hoskin, Tara Vaughan
and Olivia Brett in the heats of the women's K
four five hundred.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
New Zealand have a four boat length lead over Spain
half a boat length lead at the moment for the
New Zealand crew, Carrington, Hoskin, Brett and Vaughan doing it
comfortably being led by that five time Olympic champion who
is Lisa Carrington. Dame Lisa Carrington brings New Zealand down
to the line first position, qualifying for the final of
(10:37):
the women's K four five hundred meters.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, they'd have to be firm favorites in that final
which is at twenty to midnight Thursday night. To the
women's K two five hundred. Dame Lisa Carrington and Alisa Hoskin.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
As New Zealand just start easing into their work and
are coming down to the finish line. New Zealand will
cross in first position, half a boat length ahead of Belgium,
easily qualifying Carrington and Hoskin for the semifinals of the
women's kayak double five hundred meters, winning their heat by half.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
A Botley Yes, I threw to the K two five
hundred semis ten to nine on Friday night. Here's Dame
Lisa Carrington afterwards, and this is day.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
One and five.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I mean the nerves coming into today, we're pretty high
and we know this is our biggest stage, so we're
not definitely not going to diminish how important this is
for us at the moment, really stoked that we've managed
to do the job so far. We still have formal days.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Unfortunately, Amy Fisher and Lucy Matahidi were unable to join them.
They finished fourth in their heat of the K two
five hundred and then fifth in their quarter to be
eliminated to the me and Max Brown Grant. Clancy, Curtisimri
and Hamish Legarth finished fourth in their heat of the
men's K four five hundred, but were much better in
their quarter final, finishing second to move into the semis
(11:55):
ten o'clock Thursday night. In the K two five hundred,
Curtissimri and Hamish Legarth were fifth in their heat but
fourth in their quarter to just squeak into the semi
at ten past nine on Friday night. But by contrast,
it was an embarrassment in the C two five hundred.
This is where the competitors kneel and use a single
(12:17):
bladed paddle to propel the boat forward. It's a form
of canoe racing that we have absolutely no history in whatsoever,
and that really we shouldn't even be competing in.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Now.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
The background here is that canoe racing. New Zealand had
been hoping to get two K two five hundred quota
spots for the Olympics, which would then have allowed them
to select four paddlers who they could then have formed
into a K four crew as well. But they only
got one K two spot via Max Brown and Curtis Marie.
(12:49):
They were fourth in the final at the Oceania Champs,
so in order to qualify two more paddlers they looked
to the C two event instead. Now this is an
incredible story. New Zealand qualified the boat at a highly
questionable and frankly farcical Oceania event in Australia earlier this year.
(13:09):
They raced against just two other boats, paddled by competitors
in their forties, sixties and seventies, now New Zealand one
which achieved the aim of having four paddlers in Paris,
but two of them then had to fulfill the responsibility
of racing in the sea, two which they had little
(13:30):
to know experience in. Max Brown and Grant Clancy did
that with embarrassing results.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
New Zealand are not actually racing. They have pulled out,
they fronted, they were introduced, but they are not competing.
They are not racing and does that surprise us? No,
I don't believe it would not on the basis of
how they got to be in this event. Max Brown
and Grant Clancy were supposed to be in lane two
(14:01):
and they are not there. Maybe the cameras aren't on them.
Do you believe they are still on course? Potentially they
probably are. They were introduced, weren't they at the top
and looking at the split times, New Zealand was twenty
three seconds behind at the halfway point. There they are.
My apologies, they didn't pull out. They are now crossing
(14:23):
the line now, so they have finished last, have Max
Brown and Grant Clancy. They were so far behind the
action I lost complete sight of them.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
They were a long way last Malcolm Jordan, forty four
seconds behind the winner. They then though, had to race
a quarterfinal where they were again a distant last, this
time forty six seconds behind the winner.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
Well, the horror show that is the men's canoe double
five hundred meters, I think they might have actually crossed
the line by George they have. They're literally just in
this race to tick a box so that they can
join the men's K four five hundred. It's all it
amounts to. They weren't putting in any effort whatsoever. And
on the world stage it just looks so poor that
(15:08):
New Zealand should go through the loopholes to get their
K four five hundred together for Paris, which means they've
fronted but very poor from New Zealand and I imagine
that Max Brown and Grant Clancy were doing everything they
could to one keep their boats straight, two to keep
(15:30):
it from tipping over. Hence they were putting in no
effort at all, and they were going as slow as
they could possibly go just to keep their canoe upright
so that they didn't embarrass themselves even further by falling
in the drink, an embarrassment for those in black.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
So they will go.
Speaker 9 (15:47):
To the B Final though, but they won't be there
with the big boys, and neither they should be.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
It couldn't have said a bitter Malcolm. And for the
final insult, as Malcolm said, they have the race one
more time in the B Final on Thursday night Sports.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Figs Paris twenty twenty four edition.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Let's move on to more positive things. A speed climber
Julian David made his Olympic debut overnight.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Jillian David gets to do his work. By the Ranian,
it's nick and neck through this middle stage, it hits
the wall. Julian David is through. He's got five point two.
I think it's a personal best and he has hammered
it and is guaranteed a spot in the quarterfinals. Tremendous work.
He was like a demented spider weaving his way up
the wall. And boy, what an outstanding showing from Julian David.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
He looks delighted and demented to orders. A demented Spider
Julian David through to the quarterfinals of the climbing speed event,
posting a personal best of five point two oh seconds
to advance from qualifying.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
Yeah, I mean, obviously that was the goal, wasn't I
was going to be happy with the pbe either way,
and then to get a PB that got me through
to the final. You can't be much happier, can you.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Julian David takes on world record holder Sam Watson of
the United States and the final late on Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Every Golden Movement from the Olympic Games, It's Sports figs
Paris twenty twenty four editions with Jason.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Let's go to the track cycling where Briani bort Up,
Emily Sherman, Nicole Shields and Allie Williston are in gold
medal contention after their qualifying ride in the women's team pursuit.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
And his littleness coming around, they're through and seeing if
they can indeed get that leading time. It looks like
they're going to do it comforty at the moment, but
they need to build up a buffer for all those
good teams to come. And they come through the finishing
mark and they are indeed the leading group. They finished
in four point zero four points sixty seven nine, So
an outstanding ride from Ellie Williston, Briani Borter, Emily Sherman
(17:44):
and the Cole Shields.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, fastest and qualifying. Ellie Williston's been asked about the
speed of the race.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
We knew it was going to be fast, but to
go out as fast as we did today is yeah,
it's a very pleasant surprise.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
So a win against Italy in the first round tonight
would see them ride for gold tomorrow morning. Meantime, Aaron Gate, Campbell, Stewart,
Keig and Hornblow and Tom Sexton's chances of riding for
bronze have been dashed and the men's suit they blitzed
Belgium in their six v seven ride off, but Denmark
and Italy had better times and they will ride for bronze.
(18:17):
New Zealand will ride for fifth and sixth. NACRA sailors
Michael Wilkinson and Erica Dawson will race for a medal
tomorrow in the mixed multi hull class. The Keywis were
last third and seventh in today's three races, their fourth overall,
but on the same number of points as third placed
Great Britain. Tomorrow's medal race is worth double points, with
(18:37):
Wilkinson and Dawson effectively battling Great Britain and Argentina for
silver and bronze. The men's dinghy medal race featuring New
Zealand's Tom Saunders was canceled due to a lack of wind.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Sports figs Varrus twenty twenty four edition.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
So Quick look Ahead Today twelve action more for the
kayak sprint, including Dame Lisa Carrington and Amy Fisher in
the heats of the K one five hundred Track cycling
featuring the men's and women's sprint, the women's Karen and
Team Pursuit medal races hamous curves and high jumpqualifying as
is Tory Peters in the women's javelin and James Preston
(19:13):
in the men's eight hundred, as well as Ethan Oliver
in the men's triple jump, before Eliza McCartney, Emma Jeniiis
and Olivia McTaggart take part in the women's pole vault
final from five o'clock Thursday morning. Michael wilkinsonder Erica Dawson
chasing that medal in the NACRA Sailing class the women's
golfers underweight Lydia Coe looking for a third Olympic medal,
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and Kiwi diver Lizzie Russel in the women's three meter springboard.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Sportsfex Paris twenty twenty four edition.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Finally to the medal table. As it stands, the US
have twenty three golds to China's twenty two. The US
also have by far the most overall medals with eighty four.
China are next on fifty eight. New Zealand no medals overnight,
but three golds, five silvers and a bronze, sitting in
twelfth position on the medal table, and seventy six nations
(20:02):
in all have now won at least one medal at
these Olympic Games. Don't forget you can listen to commentary
of the games on Gold Sport and iHeartRadio from seven
o'clock each and every evening and right through the night,
and I'll have a fresh episode of Sports Fix the
Paris twenty twenty four edition at around about the same
time tomorrow for you.
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