August 7, 2024 • 18 mins
On Sports Fix Paris 2024 Edition with Jason Pine for 8 August, history for our track cycling team with a first ever Olympic Games medal in team pursuit; a silver for our women!
Dame Lisa Carrington and Aimee Fisher remain on track for a K1 500m showdown.
Hamish Kerr overcomes some nervy moments to reach the high jump final, while three kiwis take part in the women's pole vault decider.
And Canoe Racing NZ CEO Graham Oberlin-Brown explains the reasons behind the farcical scenes from our men's C2 crew.
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
Hello and welcome into the Sports Fixed podcast Paris twenty
twenty four edition.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
It is Thursday August the eighth.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I'm Jason Pine here to wrap the action on a
bumper Day twelve at the Paris Olympic Games with our
medal tally now in two double figures. The women's track
cycling team pursuit team of Brannie Borter, Emily Sherman, Nicole
Shields and Ali Williston lined up against the United States
in the gold medal race.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
It's dropped down below one point five. Can you see
it'll produce something in these later stage is the last
stance of thereserve.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
This race, there's the bowel.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
The Americans are in front, but they've lost a bit
of shape, digging into the oxygen taps to try and
pull out a gold medal victory. The Americans coming down
to the line and the United States take the win
in four minutes oh four point three to ZH six.
New Zealand hauled back towards the end. It was only
point six of a second in the end, but it's
silver for New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Nonetheless, it is silver, indeed, our first medal ever in
the team pursuit discipline at an Olympic Games. Alie Williston
describes what that means for.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Shops that tempsuit hasn't been up there more often, so
to come away with the first ever women's insuit medal
is amazing and yeah, something that I actually didn't think
about until yeah, the last few days to realize how
monumental of a.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Thing that is.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And Briani Borta says others deserve credit for the result.
Beyond the quartet.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Stands by me every day.
Speaker 7 (01:59):
It's that's called culture that we have and ask for
us standing here.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
But we owe a lot to our teammates Mikayla Drummond
and Sammy Donald ay Herboucus gets where we are right now.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
We won't be able to be here without them.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
So a silver for New Zealand in the women's team pursuit.
Earlier in the day at the Valandrome, Elise Andrews lined
up in the heats of the women's Karen comes through.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Now, so then to the final lap, Andrew's well placed
in second. Still she's looking to work your way through
on the outside. Catchy power through on the final straight. Here,
no one else is going to get past her. They know, Yes,
I think she got there. I actually won it, Elise Andrews,
and they'll guarantee her a place to the quarter finals.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yes, Alise Andrews safely through to Friday morning's quarters.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
It felt really good, actually, I think it was just
really nice to get out there, get that first right
under the bout and just fill out the.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Track a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Fellow key we Rebecca Pitch was fifth in her heat,
but then second in her reper charge to also make
the quarters.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Pitch makes her move around the track with two laps
to go and HiT's the front.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Rebecca Pitch. Now she's got to stay there.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
It's going to require some power from the other riders
to catch them.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
Now.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Rebecca Pitches indeed going with Barts as part of the
top two riders in that report charge. Excellent tactics from
Rebecca Pitch. She made her move and she backed herself
and went all the way.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
So a good day at the Vlodrome, although Sam Dakin
did fail to progress in the men's sprints.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
This is Sports figx Paris twenty twenty four edition, your
daily update from the Olympic Games. Howard by News Talk.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
ZEDB Amy Fisher and Dame Lisa Carrington have made storming
starts to their K one five hundred Olympic kayaking campaigns.
World record holder Amy Fisher was in the first heat.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
And Amy Fisher is laying down the gauntlet. She is
eleven meters ahead of the nearest opposition, who is Argentina.
She's got her game face on concentration emments and she's
gonna win by at least three boat lengths. As Amy
Fisher comes down to the line now to win her
Heat one easily in the women's kayak single five hundred.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Meters, Amy Fisher very happy with her outing.
Speaker 9 (04:02):
Yeah, I'm really happy of how that went.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Good to get that first K one on the board.
Speaker 10 (04:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Now, a couple of days off and then Saturday the
big showdown.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
And then it was Dame Lisa Carrington's turn in the heats.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
As Carrington crosses New Zealand's Lisa Carrington and first and
we await Lisa Carrington's time. Amy Fisher one minute forty
nine point one six Lisa Carrington one minute forty eight
point five to one. Carrington says, take that Fisher. We're
in this game together and they are going to be
(04:32):
fighting it out head to head, you would imagine for
the gold medal.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Dame Lisa Carrington relishing the match up with Amy Fisher
on Saturday.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
I mean, you can't disregard every other lump folks and
every other female that has been before, but you know
it's going to be an awesome race. There's also been
some incredible peddlers that I've been able to race in
the past. They obviously have been through their time, and
you know, I think you look back to Denuda Kozak.
She also she also won three gold medals in Rio
(05:05):
in the K two, K one, and K four, so
and she was an incredible peddler then, So you know,
be yes, you do want the best peddlers prepared, the
mostly canon paddling their best at the moment.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
So I look forward to say that, yeah, we were
looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
The K one Women's Semifinals and gold medal race are
both on Saturday evening.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Sports figs Paris twenty twenty four editions.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Let's get to start de France, Imaginiis, Olivia McTaggart and
our best medal hope Eliza McCartney were in the women's
pole vault final.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Here comes McCartney up, she goes and clips the bar.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
At the top.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Not to be today for Eliza McCartney as the bar
comes down for a third time at four meters eighty yeah,
so the Rio bronze medalist bowing out with the best
jump of four point seven meters, finishing at a tie
for sixth. Imagineieris and Olivia McTaggart twelfth equal after both
cleared for sixty. That was a new personal best for
(06:01):
Imagen Eiras. Meantime, Hamish Kerr was in high jump qualifying.
He cleared two point fifteen easily at the first attempt,
but had some trouble at two meters twenty.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
He does not want to leave himself in sudden death
alley right hand side Hamish cur and it's not working
out for Hamish Curve just jumping into the bar. So
two misses at two meters twenty so it was all
or nothing on the third attempt at two twenty for
Hamish curve, third and final attempt at two meters twenty
(06:32):
What a disappointment it'd be if he can't get over here,
eliminated in a high jump qualifying little smile on the
face of Hamish cur orange shoes flashing right handed approach.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
He's over comfortably. Why did we have a doubt? So
the nerves of a nation were eased.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Hamous Kurr cleared to twenty four at the second attempt
and then lined up to twenty seven on the bar.
Two meters twenty seven on the bar for Hamish curve.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Right handed approach, and he's over.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
At two twenty seven and that will all but garret
see the KeyWe a place in the high.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Jump final Sunday morning. It did, indeed, but a bit
of a roller coaster for Hamish Curve.
Speaker 11 (07:14):
So only mixed emotions going through my head right now,
like obviously I'm I'm stoked to have made it, but yeah,
I just bloody hate qualifying it. It's just the worst
thing in the world for me personally. You know, obviously
it's necessary, but yeah, that thirty teen to two twenty
was I had to dig deeper that I genuinely, you know,
I had to go to a dark place to get
that jump, and I think, you know, I showed what
(07:38):
I had by getting better and better through the comp
But at the same time, yeah, I'm just so glad
it's over.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I think we all are. The high jump final is
on Sunday morning. Elsewhere at the track and field, Tory
Peters was in women's javelin qualifying.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Peters strides it out comes out through the runway and
gives it.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
A heave out.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
It goes out towards the sixty mark. So that's a
much better effort from Tory Peters. And there it is
fifty nine point seven to eight. So Tory Peters, do
you give usself a slip from there? I suspect to
fifty nine point seven eight it might be touching other
Group B still to come of which there are a
couple of Olympic medalists last Games.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Unfortunately that throw wasn't enough to make the twelve athlete final,
Tory Peters finishing nineteenth. James Preston was eighth in his
heat of the men's eight hundred meters. He'll run a
rapper charge tonight around ten o'clock and ethan olifair hasn't
progressed beyond qualifying in the men's triple jump.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Reaction and analysis It's Sportsfix Paris twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Editions with Jason Vine, Lucas Walton Kim and Justina Kitchen's
Olympic kite falling campaigns are over. A lack of wound
at Marseille prevented any racing today, meaning the pair missed
any last chance to earn a top ten spot and
advance to tomorrow's semi finals. The conditions meant fewer than
half of the scheduled sixteen opening series races were held.
(09:02):
Mixed multi hull salers Michael Wilkinson and Erica Dawson were
moments away from a start in them all race before
a lack of breeze forced a twenty four hour postponement.
Wins did allow the completion of the men's dinghy event.
Tom Saunders, finishing seventh overall, lydia Co's carded and even
past seventy two to sit tied for twelfth after the
(09:23):
first round of the women's Gulf The two time Olympic
medalist mixed four birdies with two bogies and a double bogie.
Francis Celine Boutier has a three stroke lead at seven
under and Kiwi diver Lizzie Raussell hasn't made the final
of the women's three meter.
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Springboard Sportsfix Paris twenty twenty four edition.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
One of the big stories of yesterday was the very
mediocre performance of the New Zealand pair in the C
two to five hundred at the kayaking. These two paddlers
have no experience in this event. New Zealand only looked
to qualify a C two boat in order to get
two more paddlers to Paris who could then be used
to make up a K four crew. What that led
(10:07):
to was probably the worst showing by a New Zealand
team in recent memory at an Olympic Games, which was
hardly surprising given the fact that paddlers aren't there for
that race at all, but it has caused a few
eyebrows to be raised. Darcy water Graves spoke with Canoe
Racing New Zealand's CEO Graham Oberlin Brown to try and
(10:28):
get an explanation.
Speaker 10 (10:29):
Yes, as you would have seen so the men's K
four at last year's World Championship needed to make the
a final to qualify for the Olympics.
Speaker 9 (10:40):
They completed the sixth fastest.
Speaker 10 (10:44):
Time in that regatta, but were in the fastest semi final,
which didn't qualify them for this year's Olympics. So the
way that the qualification system works is that you can
use K or kayak boat quota spots interchangeably with C
boat quota spots, and so the discipline of canoeing also
(11:06):
comes under canoe Racing New Zealand, as does kayaking, and
so we set about a way to qualify.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
You know, what we felt was a crew that was very,
very capable of competing.
Speaker 10 (11:21):
In in in the final at the Olympics. C two
boating is not an easy discipline to pick up. The
boat doesn't have a rudder, you're in an upright kneeling
position and it's a very narrow hull. And so the
boys have have have worked very hard over the last
(11:42):
three to seven months as a squad, all of them
trying to come up to speed with seaboating. It was
a steep learning trajectory and as you've seen, there's still
a bit of time to be made up in terms
of getting them to be competitive in a seaboat part
class distinctly. However, the boys have have performed very well,
(12:08):
as you would have seen in the K four quarterfinal
yesterday where they placed second behind the current world champions
Australia and.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
Set the sixth fastest K.
Speaker 10 (12:20):
Four qualifying time for this Olympics. So yeah, that's effectively
how we've got to the position where we are today.
Speaker 12 (12:28):
So the K four, when we talk about qualifying, we're
qualifying paddlers, not necessarily boats.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Of the K four.
Speaker 12 (12:36):
Didn't manage to get through under its regular steam. How
does it come through this time around.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
It's a wee bit.
Speaker 12 (12:42):
I'm slightly confused about Graham.
Speaker 10 (12:45):
Yeah, so if we'd qualified the K four, then the
boys could have raced and just the K four or
the K four plus K two's and C two s
or K ones. So you can use your quota spots
in that manner, but you must compete in the event
that you qualify the boat, as well as being able
(13:06):
to enter an additional events. So what we have done
is we've qualified the C two boat and the K
two boat, which means that we must compete in those
events even though our crew that's meeting the performance standard
is actually the.
Speaker 9 (13:21):
K four boat.
Speaker 10 (13:22):
So by putting the K two and the C two together,
we end up with a world class K four.
Speaker 12 (13:29):
So you can enter the K four even though you
didn't qualify that boat a few months back.
Speaker 9 (13:35):
Correct. Correct, Because we've got four quota spots.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
In total for the boys, we can add the C
two and the K two quota spots together and race
the K four.
Speaker 12 (13:46):
Yeah, a cunning plan means to an end. I suppose
who picked up on that one, because it is essentially
a loophole, wasn't it, Graham?
Speaker 10 (13:56):
Yeah, So my understanding was that at the last Olympics
there was a Canadian kayaker who was unable to qualify
through the World Championships subsequently qualified the kayak discipline and
won an Olympic bronze medal and the canoe discipline. So
(14:16):
it's not it's not a new it's not a new ruling.
It has been used before, and.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
So yeah, I guess.
Speaker 10 (14:26):
But within the team that was that was recognized and
you know, we want to provide our world class athletes
with Olympic opportunities, and so this was a means for
the boys to try and achieve the very best Olympic
result that they can in the K four, but a
prerequisite to that was that they did need to learn
(14:47):
this new different discipline.
Speaker 12 (14:50):
Be comfortable with sending a team regardless of the outcome.
We know what you wanted to achieve and plainly you
did it, so it was a success. But how comfortable
are you about sending a pair out there a boat
knowing they were going to get roundly thrashed on the
Olympic stage.
Speaker 11 (15:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (15:08):
It has been a steep learning curve to learn this
discipline for the boys. So when we selected this crew,
we didn't know how steep how quickly we could achieve
a world class standard in sea voting. There's not a
wealth of coaching gifts in sea voting in New Zealand,
so we've had.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
To be incredibly resourceful with.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
Getting coaching expertise to try and develop the discipline to
get the boys up to speed. So we feel like
we've done everything we can and.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
The boys have done everything they.
Speaker 10 (15:46):
Can and actually has added a lot to their team
culture that the whole squads has. The whole squad of
boys have learned to do sea voting to enable this opportunity.
But the boys have been all on noting that the
K four was their best chance of Olympic success.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
That is Graham Oberlin Brown is the CEO of Canoe
Racing New Zealand, speaking with Darcy Watergrave. That's the explanation
and I think we can probably all understand the explanation.
Whether we agree with what's played out here. I guess
a is a case by case basis for each of
us to decide.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Don't miss a moment from the Olympic Games.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
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Speaker 3 (16:32):
Looking ahead to Day thirteen action at the Games. More
from the kayak sprint with semis and finals in the
K four. Both New Zealand crews involved and chasing Gold
will also get to see our C two Kinnue is
one more time in their B final. Track cycling featuring
women's Karen quarterfinals and Aaron Gate for the first time.
(16:52):
In the men's Omnium, Julian David Is in quarter final
action and the men's speed climbing and at Star de France,
Maya Ramsden in the semi finals of the women's fifteen
hundred meters. James Preston runs the eight hundred meter Rapper
Charge and Maddi Weshi and Women's shop port qualifying. We
also have Round two in the women's golf with Lydia
(17:13):
co out on course. Again to the medal table, the
United States have twenty seven golds to China's twenty five.
The US also have by far the most overall medals
with ninety four. China renext on sixty five. The Team
Pursuit Silver means New Zealand now have three golds, six
silvers and a bronze. That's ten medals total to sit
(17:35):
thirteenth and eighty nations have now won at least one
Olympic medal.
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Hello and welcome into the Sports Fixed podcast Paris twenty
twenty four edition.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
It is Thursday August the eighth.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I'm Jason Pine here to wrap the action on a
bumper Day twelve at the Paris Olympic Games with our
medal tally now in two double figures. The women's track
cycling team pursuit team of Brannie Borter, Emily Sherman, Nicole
Shields and Ali Williston lined up against the United States
in the gold medal race.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
It's dropped down below one point five. Can you see
it'll produce something in these later stage is the last
stance of thereserve.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
This race, there's the bowel.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
The Americans are in front, but they've lost a bit
of shape, digging into the oxygen taps to try and
pull out a gold medal victory. The Americans coming down
to the line and the United States take the win
in four minutes oh four point three to ZH six.
New Zealand hauled back towards the end. It was only
point six of a second in the end, but it's
silver for New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Nonetheless, it is silver, indeed, our first medal ever in
the team pursuit discipline at an Olympic Games. Alie Williston
describes what that means for.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Shops that tempsuit hasn't been up there more often, so
to come away with the first ever women's insuit medal
is amazing and yeah, something that I actually didn't think
about until yeah, the last few days to realize how
monumental of a.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Thing that is.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And Briani Borta says others deserve credit for the result.
Beyond the quartet.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Stands by me every day.
Speaker 7 (01:59):
It's that's called culture that we have and ask for
us standing here.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
But we owe a lot to our teammates Mikayla Drummond
and Sammy Donald ay Herboucus gets where we are right now.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
We won't be able to be here without them.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
So a silver for New Zealand in the women's team pursuit.
Earlier in the day at the Valandrome, Elise Andrews lined
up in the heats of the women's Karen comes through.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Now, so then to the final lap, Andrew's well placed
in second. Still she's looking to work your way through
on the outside. Catchy power through on the final straight. Here,
no one else is going to get past her. They know, Yes,
I think she got there. I actually won it, Elise Andrews,
and they'll guarantee her a place to the quarter finals.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yes, Alise Andrews safely through to Friday morning's quarters.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
It felt really good, actually, I think it was just
really nice to get out there, get that first right
under the bout and just fill out the.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Track a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Fellow key we Rebecca Pitch was fifth in her heat,
but then second in her reper charge to also make
the quarters.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Pitch makes her move around the track with two laps
to go and HiT's the front.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Rebecca Pitch. Now she's got to stay there.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
It's going to require some power from the other riders
to catch them.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
Now.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Rebecca Pitches indeed going with Barts as part of the
top two riders in that report charge. Excellent tactics from
Rebecca Pitch. She made her move and she backed herself
and went all the way.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
So a good day at the Vlodrome, although Sam Dakin
did fail to progress in the men's sprints.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
This is Sports figx Paris twenty twenty four edition, your
daily update from the Olympic Games. Howard by News Talk.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
ZEDB Amy Fisher and Dame Lisa Carrington have made storming
starts to their K one five hundred Olympic kayaking campaigns.
World record holder Amy Fisher was in the first heat.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
And Amy Fisher is laying down the gauntlet. She is
eleven meters ahead of the nearest opposition, who is Argentina.
She's got her game face on concentration emments and she's
gonna win by at least three boat lengths. As Amy
Fisher comes down to the line now to win her
Heat one easily in the women's kayak single five hundred.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Meters, Amy Fisher very happy with her outing.
Speaker 9 (04:02):
Yeah, I'm really happy of how that went.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Good to get that first K one on the board.
Speaker 10 (04:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Now, a couple of days off and then Saturday the
big showdown.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
And then it was Dame Lisa Carrington's turn in the heats.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
As Carrington crosses New Zealand's Lisa Carrington and first and
we await Lisa Carrington's time. Amy Fisher one minute forty
nine point one six Lisa Carrington one minute forty eight
point five to one. Carrington says, take that Fisher. We're
in this game together and they are going to be
(04:32):
fighting it out head to head, you would imagine for
the gold medal.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Dame Lisa Carrington relishing the match up with Amy Fisher
on Saturday.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
I mean, you can't disregard every other lump folks and
every other female that has been before, but you know
it's going to be an awesome race. There's also been
some incredible peddlers that I've been able to race in
the past. They obviously have been through their time, and
you know, I think you look back to Denuda Kozak.
She also she also won three gold medals in Rio
(05:05):
in the K two, K one, and K four, so
and she was an incredible peddler then, So you know,
be yes, you do want the best peddlers prepared, the
mostly canon paddling their best at the moment.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
So I look forward to say that, yeah, we were
looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
The K one Women's Semifinals and gold medal race are
both on Saturday evening.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Sports figs Paris twenty twenty four editions.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Let's get to start de France, Imaginiis, Olivia McTaggart and
our best medal hope Eliza McCartney were in the women's
pole vault final.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Here comes McCartney up, she goes and clips the bar.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
At the top.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Not to be today for Eliza McCartney as the bar
comes down for a third time at four meters eighty yeah,
so the Rio bronze medalist bowing out with the best
jump of four point seven meters, finishing at a tie
for sixth. Imagineieris and Olivia McTaggart twelfth equal after both
cleared for sixty. That was a new personal best for
(06:01):
Imagen Eiras. Meantime, Hamish Kerr was in high jump qualifying.
He cleared two point fifteen easily at the first attempt,
but had some trouble at two meters twenty.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
He does not want to leave himself in sudden death
alley right hand side Hamish cur and it's not working
out for Hamish Curve just jumping into the bar. So
two misses at two meters twenty so it was all
or nothing on the third attempt at two twenty for
Hamish curve, third and final attempt at two meters twenty
(06:32):
What a disappointment it'd be if he can't get over here,
eliminated in a high jump qualifying little smile on the
face of Hamish cur orange shoes flashing right handed approach.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
He's over comfortably. Why did we have a doubt? So
the nerves of a nation were eased.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Hamous Kurr cleared to twenty four at the second attempt
and then lined up to twenty seven on the bar.
Two meters twenty seven on the bar for Hamish curve.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Right handed approach, and he's over.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
At two twenty seven and that will all but garret
see the KeyWe a place in the high.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Jump final Sunday morning. It did, indeed, but a bit
of a roller coaster for Hamish Curve.
Speaker 11 (07:14):
So only mixed emotions going through my head right now,
like obviously I'm I'm stoked to have made it, but yeah,
I just bloody hate qualifying it. It's just the worst
thing in the world for me personally. You know, obviously
it's necessary, but yeah, that thirty teen to two twenty
was I had to dig deeper that I genuinely, you know,
I had to go to a dark place to get
that jump, and I think, you know, I showed what
(07:38):
I had by getting better and better through the comp
But at the same time, yeah, I'm just so glad
it's over.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I think we all are. The high jump final is
on Sunday morning. Elsewhere at the track and field, Tory
Peters was in women's javelin qualifying.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Peters strides it out comes out through the runway and
gives it.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
A heave out.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
It goes out towards the sixty mark. So that's a
much better effort from Tory Peters. And there it is
fifty nine point seven to eight. So Tory Peters, do
you give usself a slip from there? I suspect to
fifty nine point seven eight it might be touching other
Group B still to come of which there are a
couple of Olympic medalists last Games.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Unfortunately that throw wasn't enough to make the twelve athlete final,
Tory Peters finishing nineteenth. James Preston was eighth in his
heat of the men's eight hundred meters. He'll run a
rapper charge tonight around ten o'clock and ethan olifair hasn't
progressed beyond qualifying in the men's triple jump.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Reaction and analysis It's Sportsfix Paris twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Editions with Jason Vine, Lucas Walton Kim and Justina Kitchen's
Olympic kite falling campaigns are over. A lack of wound
at Marseille prevented any racing today, meaning the pair missed
any last chance to earn a top ten spot and
advance to tomorrow's semi finals. The conditions meant fewer than
half of the scheduled sixteen opening series races were held.
(09:02):
Mixed multi hull salers Michael Wilkinson and Erica Dawson were
moments away from a start in them all race before
a lack of breeze forced a twenty four hour postponement.
Wins did allow the completion of the men's dinghy event.
Tom Saunders, finishing seventh overall, lydia Co's carded and even
past seventy two to sit tied for twelfth after the
(09:23):
first round of the women's Gulf The two time Olympic
medalist mixed four birdies with two bogies and a double bogie.
Francis Celine Boutier has a three stroke lead at seven
under and Kiwi diver Lizzie Raussell hasn't made the final
of the women's three meter.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Springboard Sportsfix Paris twenty twenty four edition.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
One of the big stories of yesterday was the very
mediocre performance of the New Zealand pair in the C
two to five hundred at the kayaking. These two paddlers
have no experience in this event. New Zealand only looked
to qualify a C two boat in order to get
two more paddlers to Paris who could then be used
to make up a K four crew. What that led
(10:07):
to was probably the worst showing by a New Zealand
team in recent memory at an Olympic Games, which was
hardly surprising given the fact that paddlers aren't there for
that race at all, but it has caused a few
eyebrows to be raised. Darcy water Graves spoke with Canoe
Racing New Zealand's CEO Graham Oberlin Brown to try and
(10:28):
get an explanation.
Speaker 10 (10:29):
Yes, as you would have seen so the men's K
four at last year's World Championship needed to make the
a final to qualify for the Olympics.
Speaker 9 (10:40):
They completed the sixth fastest.
Speaker 10 (10:44):
Time in that regatta, but were in the fastest semi final,
which didn't qualify them for this year's Olympics. So the
way that the qualification system works is that you can
use K or kayak boat quota spots interchangeably with C
boat quota spots, and so the discipline of canoeing also
(11:06):
comes under canoe Racing New Zealand, as does kayaking, and
so we set about a way to qualify.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
You know, what we felt was a crew that was very,
very capable of competing.
Speaker 10 (11:21):
In in in the final at the Olympics. C two
boating is not an easy discipline to pick up. The
boat doesn't have a rudder, you're in an upright kneeling
position and it's a very narrow hull. And so the
boys have have have worked very hard over the last
(11:42):
three to seven months as a squad, all of them
trying to come up to speed with seaboating. It was
a steep learning trajectory and as you've seen, there's still
a bit of time to be made up in terms
of getting them to be competitive in a seaboat part
class distinctly. However, the boys have have performed very well,
(12:08):
as you would have seen in the K four quarterfinal
yesterday where they placed second behind the current world champions
Australia and.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
Set the sixth fastest K.
Speaker 10 (12:20):
Four qualifying time for this Olympics. So yeah, that's effectively
how we've got to the position where we are today.
Speaker 12 (12:28):
So the K four, when we talk about qualifying, we're
qualifying paddlers, not necessarily boats.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Of the K four.
Speaker 12 (12:36):
Didn't manage to get through under its regular steam. How
does it come through this time around.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
It's a wee bit.
Speaker 12 (12:42):
I'm slightly confused about Graham.
Speaker 10 (12:45):
Yeah, so if we'd qualified the K four, then the
boys could have raced and just the K four or
the K four plus K two's and C two s
or K ones. So you can use your quota spots
in that manner, but you must compete in the event
that you qualify the boat, as well as being able
(13:06):
to enter an additional events. So what we have done
is we've qualified the C two boat and the K
two boat, which means that we must compete in those
events even though our crew that's meeting the performance standard
is actually the.
Speaker 9 (13:21):
K four boat.
Speaker 10 (13:22):
So by putting the K two and the C two together,
we end up with a world class K four.
Speaker 12 (13:29):
So you can enter the K four even though you
didn't qualify that boat a few months back.
Speaker 9 (13:35):
Correct. Correct, Because we've got four quota spots.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
In total for the boys, we can add the C
two and the K two quota spots together and race
the K four.
Speaker 12 (13:46):
Yeah, a cunning plan means to an end. I suppose
who picked up on that one, because it is essentially
a loophole, wasn't it, Graham?
Speaker 10 (13:56):
Yeah, So my understanding was that at the last Olympics
there was a Canadian kayaker who was unable to qualify
through the World Championships subsequently qualified the kayak discipline and
won an Olympic bronze medal and the canoe discipline. So
(14:16):
it's not it's not a new it's not a new ruling.
It has been used before, and.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
So yeah, I guess.
Speaker 10 (14:26):
But within the team that was that was recognized and
you know, we want to provide our world class athletes
with Olympic opportunities, and so this was a means for
the boys to try and achieve the very best Olympic
result that they can in the K four, but a
prerequisite to that was that they did need to learn
(14:47):
this new different discipline.
Speaker 12 (14:50):
Be comfortable with sending a team regardless of the outcome.
We know what you wanted to achieve and plainly you
did it, so it was a success. But how comfortable
are you about sending a pair out there a boat
knowing they were going to get roundly thrashed on the
Olympic stage.
Speaker 11 (15:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (15:08):
It has been a steep learning curve to learn this
discipline for the boys. So when we selected this crew,
we didn't know how steep how quickly we could achieve
a world class standard in sea voting. There's not a
wealth of coaching gifts in sea voting in New Zealand,
so we've had.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
To be incredibly resourceful with.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
Getting coaching expertise to try and develop the discipline to
get the boys up to speed. So we feel like
we've done everything we can and.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
The boys have done everything they.
Speaker 10 (15:46):
Can and actually has added a lot to their team
culture that the whole squads has. The whole squad of
boys have learned to do sea voting to enable this opportunity.
But the boys have been all on noting that the
K four was their best chance of Olympic success.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
That is Graham Oberlin Brown is the CEO of Canoe
Racing New Zealand, speaking with Darcy Watergrave. That's the explanation
and I think we can probably all understand the explanation.
Whether we agree with what's played out here. I guess
a is a case by case basis for each of
us to decide.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Don't miss a moment from the Olympic Games.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It's Sportsfix Paris in twenty twenty four editions with Jason Bine.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Looking ahead to Day thirteen action at the Games. More
from the kayak sprint with semis and finals in the
K four. Both New Zealand crews involved and chasing Gold
will also get to see our C two Kinnue is
one more time in their B final. Track cycling featuring
women's Karen quarterfinals and Aaron Gate for the first time.
(16:52):
In the men's Omnium, Julian David Is in quarter final
action and the men's speed climbing and at Star de France,
Maya Ramsden in the semi finals of the women's fifteen
hundred meters. James Preston runs the eight hundred meter Rapper
Charge and Maddi Weshi and Women's shop port qualifying. We
also have Round two in the women's golf with Lydia
(17:13):
co out on course. Again to the medal table, the
United States have twenty seven golds to China's twenty five.
The US also have by far the most overall medals
with ninety four. China renext on sixty five. The Team
Pursuit Silver means New Zealand now have three golds, six
silvers and a bronze. That's ten medals total to sit
(17:35):
thirteenth and eighty nations have now won at least one
Olympic medal.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Sports FIGX Paris twenty twenty four edition Don't Forget.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
You can listen to live commentary of the Olympic Games
on Gold Sport and iHeartRadio from seven o'clock tonight and
every evening right through until the end of the Olympic Games.
We go right through the night and finish at around
nine o'clock the following morning, and I'll have a fresh
episode of Sports Fix the Paris twenty twenty four edition
at around about the same time tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
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