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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Rewrap.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay, there, welcome to the Rewrap for Monday. All the
best bets from the Mike Hosking breakfast on News Talks.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
They'd be in a sillier package.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I am Glen Hart and today you know what, We're
just gonna make it all about the Olympics because we've
all just got Olympics fever right at the end, haven't we?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Did Mike ever catch Olympics fever. Let's fight out.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
So the best Olympics ever. Sadly it wasn't in our
time zone, which doesn't help the communal buzz of the
nation gather together. But we won more golds, and in
my book, that really is what the Olympics is all about.
I mean, they've tried to make it about new, weird
sports and participation, but for the purest it is about
being the best of the best. That is why you
sacrifice and give up your life for singular moments that
(01:08):
make it all worthwhile. In the end, we equlled our
best ever overhaul overall metal Hall. But the key to
this I reckon is the gold more golds than any
games ever. I've decided that gold is disproportionate to silver
and bronze. It's not a step up, it's several steps up.
I've also decided, as shine through the tears of Lydia
co over the weekend, that although there are sports you
(01:30):
could argue don't really belong at the Olympics, even for
the most elite of athletes used to winning regularly elsewhere
on a global state, representing your country clearly still counts
for a lot. Then you get to the weird business
of human nature. As remarkable as Lisa Carrington is, the
trouble with being a recidibus winner is you're expected to
simply carry on. That's why being number one at anything
is relentless and largely thankless. It's expected, which is why
(01:52):
the Hamish Curve gold I reckon is the one to remember,
because it wasn't expected. Was he a prospect? I suppose
was he going to win it all? I didn't hear
anyone say that? But what about gold? In kayak slalom?
Odd invented sport with no small measure of luck. So
does an invented sport gold beat a classic high jump? Gold.
Not in my book personally, but there you go. There's
the great debate. But here's the real goal. On the gold.
(02:14):
We don't historically win a lot of them. Seven last time,
of course, but that was an outlier ate in Los Angeles,
but that was a long time ago. Apart from those
two games, most games we produced one or two, three
at most ten in a couple of weeks is a
couple of weeks to remember and reminds us. For a
country of five million, there are an outsized group of
people who strive and work and are determined to live
(02:36):
a dream and be the very best of the best.
And for all their stories, we can be grateful for
the joy they bring.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Honestly, this morning, as I was hearing the spout all
that stuff off, I couldn't believe what I was hearing,
what I was watching, because yeah, this is the same
guy he said I'm just not feeling it on Friday
and has been quite disbarraging about the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
So we wrap it's just the time zone.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Guess what The Olympics usually happen in the Northern Hemisphere anyway. Anyway,
there was a pity more where that came from.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Mike was lucky enough to grow up with the Carrington
family in Fakatani. Also see Lisa get a first gold
in London twenty twelve at a Champion Mike great into view.
The most important statement she made was I'm not on
social media. What can be achieved by focusing on the
important not the mundane. It's not a bad point, Wayne
Mike Worth noting there's a bit of this around the
place at the moment and we tread on some delicate ground.
But Mike Worth noting that eight of the ten golds
(03:34):
have gone to our women. I tried to explain this
last week, not that whoever wins a gold or whoever
wins a medal isn't a great story, because it is.
But the money goes to the sport. It's not a
gender based funding system, So it goes to thus cycling
program in Cambridge, it goes to the rowing program on
the river down the road from the cycling program in Cambridge.
(03:55):
And therefore the fact that there happened to be women
this time successful is brilliant. But it's not directly linked
to the funding or any other it's just it just
happens to be.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
There's a not just sort of more link to the
fact that our the superior a gender could.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Be that they could be coming into their own long
last Glenn, Now, I also don't like doing this to
tell you what I did do. I had some numbers
not of the matter. I mean, two point six million
of us watch something of the games over the last
couple of weeks, doesn't include the weekend. We've got these
numbers off sky. I read a broad based article that
suggested globally, because largely of streaming, more people are watching.
(04:28):
Because I watched a very good example. I was on
the bike yesterday and I was on YouTube and I
punched in Hamish ker gold Bing little package came up,
so I watched him.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Can we just remind everybody this is a stationary bike.
You went out on the.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Station stationary bike. Well, I do occasionally, you know, on
the on the road and watch the phone at the
same time, but it gets a bit problematic when the
rain comes down and the buses pull out. Anyway, so
I watched Hamish cur and I watched Lydia Cohen Highlights package. Now,
I don't know if I'm included in those numbers of
the two point six three hundred and thirty thousand people
streamed on sky sport Now and sky go All. It
seems that globally more people watch because of the streaming
(05:03):
and the ability to just punch up stuff that you
want to watch. I didn't have time to watch eighteen
holes of Lydia co I did have eight minutes to
watch Lydia Coo. In the highlight. She choked on one hole,
put it in the water and then the puts went soft,
but she got there in the end. Hamish Kerr I
think is my favorite gold medal and I'll tell you why,
because once again we can I don't like doing this.
If you look at the gold medal tally at ten,
(05:24):
I think we're the most successful country in the world
if you do it on a per head population. Not
only are we the most successful country in the world
by so far, it actually doesn't matter because we are.
If you look at Australia, who had their best games,
they will tell you, and I'm sure sure Steve will
mention this, they only got eighteen golds, but they've got
over five times the population. They should have fifty goals.
They don't. America has what fifty times our population, whatever
(05:47):
you want to say, so they should have five hundred golds.
They don't.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well, you look at some of the some of the
countries that are behind us, the populations of the Philippines.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah, they won four medals in total.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Spain eighteen medals in total, five golds Spain, There's millions
of them.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
South Africa. It's one gold.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
So I don't like going down that track. But I
will tell you this. My favorite gold was Hamish Kurr
because one you didn't expect it, and I'm into the golds.
I'm not into the silvers, and I'm not into the bronze.
For the individual stories, for the families and stuff, it's
brilliant if you celebrate the silver. I saw a woman
from Australia come second in the fifteen hundred. She you
may as well have given a gold. She clearly wasn't
(06:28):
expected it, expecting it. It was the greatest day of
her life. She had the best type fantastic. I'm into
winning and the Olympics is about winning. It's about being
the champion or you aren't. And we don't cover sport
in the same way. And you were outside of the Olympics,
do we think about it? We very rarely report in
any great way shape or form the person who comes third.
We don't care. If you win, you win. If you don't,
you don't. You want to see a highlight Steph Curry,
(06:50):
Steph Curry in the final four minutes of the basketball
between the US and France. Turns out I watched quite
a bit of the Olympics, isn't it? And the final?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
You are like the biggest fan in the country, and I.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Watch more than I did. As it turns out that
guy is a freak.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
He's certainly seen more of it than I have, by
the sounds of things.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
My favorite moment was actually the Swedish pole vaulter who
he won gold easily and then went for the record.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
And which was quite a lot higher than what he
won gold at.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I think I think six ' ten was what he
won gold with, and then he had to go for
six twenty five to get the record.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
I don't know if he saw this, and of course
he had the.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Whole crowd behind him, and he missed his first two attempts,
this beautiful Swedish girlfriend and the crowd thinking he might
have to bring up the dating apps so he doesn't
get this, and then he did get it, and yeah,
that was pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I enjoyed that.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And what's even cooler is that we are so far
ahead of Sweden on the medal table. Rerap and the
feedback on the Olympics just kept on coming.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I think most people have noticed that it's been happening.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Like to your point about Homers Kurz gold. The high
jump has been contested since the first modern Olympics in
eighteen ninety six. It's a fundamental measure of human capability,
not a game or control contest to pull in viewers. Sorry, Dave,
we were enjoying it. It's my point being if you
look at the athletic pursuits. I'm a traditionalist at the Olympics.
This break dancing thing, it's just bollocks. But if you
(08:22):
look at the traditional stuff. So I was watching the
shot put you whind a couple of times, heave it forward.
The high jump is unusual in the sense you come
in a forward, go sideways and then turn around backwards
and through.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
You didn't always, of course.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
No I know, and you still don't have to if
you've worked out a way to do it differently. But
they've worked out the way going backwards is the best
way to do it. But the pressure you exert on
your body, particularly your back, and why you wear loose pants.
The women don't Why you wear loose pants like that
when you're so close to the bar. I've never understood.
But I give Hamish curR the gold of golds. He
(09:00):
was the best. He came seemingly from nowhere. He had
the day of his life, and so that's the best
gold for me.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I don't know the necessarily came from nowhere. I mean,
he's a Commonwealth champ.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
He it's have a look here, he's the world indoor champ.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
He's got a bronze medal let the world indoor chance before.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Okay, he's only racked fifty eight for some reason, but.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Okay, i'll him. I'll let him have that one.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Rewrap now.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
So it's all finished. Where does it go next to LA?
Can they afford it? That's a question, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I'm ringing over the weekend. The problem with the Olympic
Games financially untenable. They all the economists have looked into
and go, you just really can't do it. Budget overruns, debt,
wasteful infrastructure, displacement, gentrification, political strife, environmental harm, blah, blah blah.
And so this is going to be the first games,
the Paris Games since Sydney. With the total costs are
(09:57):
under ten billion. Basically, the IOC is running out of
cities who can do it because those who have done
it don't worry about it. LA is different because they
made a surplus last time, they're backing themselves this time.
Some cities have spinned upwards of one hundred million dollars
on the bidding process alone, so that needs to change.
But this one included five of the past six head
(10:18):
inflation adjusted cost over runs of more than one hundred percent,
and you just can't run it like that.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Hey, if you ever want to see.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Some calls at a background to what it takes for
a city to become the host of the Olympics and
the costs and you know what the benefits may or
may not be, you've got to watch Billions, the TV
program Billions. I know it's a documentia or anything, but
I feel like it rings pretty true if you if
you're not a fan, go and check it out. Certainly
(10:49):
the last couple of seasons anyway. And yeah, the Olympic
stuff of theirs, that's quite I a rerap right.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
We're going to finish up.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, oh, talking about the Olympics, and let's focus a
little bit on lydia cod because of course, yeah, this
is one of those sports that shouldn't be an Olympics sport,
and yet it has been for a while and she
turns out as really good at it when it comes
to the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Mike, I'm not into watching or playing golf, but was
captivated by watching co She showed what it means to
play for a nation. Brilliant concentration combined with undoubted class. Yeah,
she does that every week. She's a professional golfer. You
see the same thing. But what I've found is interesting
is there must be something psychological. And she looks fantastic too.
I mean I haven't spent a lot of time watching
(11:37):
her play, but her stroke is brilliant. It's a glorious
looking stroke, and there must be something because you can't
once you could argue luck twice you're thinking, I wonder
if there's a three, is there's something there? Because why
doesn't she apply that whatever it is each and every
week Because it's the same field, they're the same people.
(11:59):
It's not like you know you're dealing with people you've
never seen before on courses you've never been to. Most
of the players apparently hadn't played that particular course, but
she had. That might have had something to do with it.
But you can't tell me that turning up every four
years and winning a medal each and every time isn't
something very specific mentally that you're able to click into,
(12:19):
as opposed to turning up on a weekly basis against
the same people and not quite achieve the same thing.
I was watching the basketball, the Americans against France, and
somebody said it was a thriller. I didn't think it
was a thriller at all. It was sort of It
wasn't a pasting, but it was a relatively easy win.
The last three or four minutes they I think the
French came back within six and the crowd got a
(12:41):
bit excited by it. But then Steph Curry went crazy
and just tossed the ball loosely into the air and
it happened to fall into the hoop each and every time.
It's an amazing thing to watch a guy like Steph Curry,
who normally is thus star of a team, then go
to the Olympics and is among many other stars, some
of whom, like Lebron, you'd argue, are bigger than he is,
(13:01):
and yet he outshines the lot of them by so
far it doesn't matter, and it seemed to them, And
I think I stand corrected on this because my argument
originally arose was around these guys that play all the
time and have all the money and the success and
the fame and the attention. Is the Olympics really a
thing for them? Certainly the golf appeared to be both
men's and women's, and the basketball they seem to be
(13:22):
relatively stoked that they could represent their country and do
something that they hadn't ordinarily done. So maybe some of
those sports do deserve. But the modern tatlon I am
told is changing next time because they're dropping the horse
event and putting in a ninja warrior aspect to it.
(13:42):
So no more horse, but.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
More Just to clarify it's an obstacle, course, it's you know,
they're not having to stand there and throw throwing stars
at each other.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
But from having a horse to having no horse and
being a rider to a ninja warrior seems to me
to be quite quite the leap.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Well, shall we do it all?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Again in four years time. Have the same arguments, and
it's about some of the same supports.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Probably.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I just want to keep reminding me that that Neil
on one knee canoe sprint thing, it's been there since
nineteen thirty six. So I gleand hearts see back here
again tomorrow. We'll probably do more than one topic tomorrow.
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Rewrap.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay, there, welcome to the Rewrap for Monday. All the
best bets from the Mike Hosking breakfast on News Talks.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
They'd be in a sillier package.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I am Glen Hart and today you know what, We're
just gonna make it all about the Olympics because we've
all just got Olympics fever right at the end, haven't we?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Did Mike ever catch Olympics fever. Let's fight out.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
So the best Olympics ever. Sadly it wasn't in our
time zone, which doesn't help the communal buzz of the
nation gather together. But we won more golds, and in
my book, that really is what the Olympics is all about.
I mean, they've tried to make it about new, weird
sports and participation, but for the purest it is about
being the best of the best. That is why you
sacrifice and give up your life for singular moments that
(01:08):
make it all worthwhile. In the end, we equlled our
best ever overhaul overall metal Hall. But the key to
this I reckon is the gold more golds than any
games ever. I've decided that gold is disproportionate to silver
and bronze. It's not a step up, it's several steps up.
I've also decided, as shine through the tears of Lydia
co over the weekend, that although there are sports you
(01:30):
could argue don't really belong at the Olympics, even for
the most elite of athletes used to winning regularly elsewhere
on a global state, representing your country clearly still counts
for a lot. Then you get to the weird business
of human nature. As remarkable as Lisa Carrington is, the
trouble with being a recidibus winner is you're expected to
simply carry on. That's why being number one at anything
is relentless and largely thankless. It's expected, which is why
(01:52):
the Hamish Curve gold I reckon is the one to remember,
because it wasn't expected. Was he a prospect? I suppose
was he going to win it all? I didn't hear
anyone say that? But what about gold? In kayak slalom?
Odd invented sport with no small measure of luck. So
does an invented sport gold beat a classic high jump? Gold.
Not in my book personally, but there you go. There's
the great debate. But here's the real goal. On the gold.
(02:14):
We don't historically win a lot of them. Seven last time,
of course, but that was an outlier ate in Los Angeles,
but that was a long time ago. Apart from those
two games, most games we produced one or two, three
at most ten in a couple of weeks is a
couple of weeks to remember and reminds us. For a
country of five million, there are an outsized group of
people who strive and work and are determined to live
(02:36):
a dream and be the very best of the best.
And for all their stories, we can be grateful for
the joy they bring.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Honestly, this morning, as I was hearing the spout all
that stuff off, I couldn't believe what I was hearing,
what I was watching, because yeah, this is the same
guy he said I'm just not feeling it on Friday
and has been quite disbarraging about the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
So we wrap it's just the time zone.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Guess what The Olympics usually happen in the Northern Hemisphere anyway. Anyway,
there was a pity more where that came from.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Mike was lucky enough to grow up with the Carrington
family in Fakatani. Also see Lisa get a first gold
in London twenty twelve at a Champion Mike great into view.
The most important statement she made was I'm not on
social media. What can be achieved by focusing on the
important not the mundane. It's not a bad point, Wayne
Mike Worth noting there's a bit of this around the
place at the moment and we tread on some delicate ground.
But Mike Worth noting that eight of the ten golds
(03:34):
have gone to our women. I tried to explain this
last week, not that whoever wins a gold or whoever
wins a medal isn't a great story, because it is.
But the money goes to the sport. It's not a
gender based funding system, So it goes to thus cycling
program in Cambridge, it goes to the rowing program on
the river down the road from the cycling program in Cambridge.
(03:55):
And therefore the fact that there happened to be women
this time successful is brilliant. But it's not directly linked
to the funding or any other it's just it just
happens to be.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
There's a not just sort of more link to the
fact that our the superior a gender could.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Be that they could be coming into their own long
last Glenn, Now, I also don't like doing this to
tell you what I did do. I had some numbers
not of the matter. I mean, two point six million
of us watch something of the games over the last
couple of weeks, doesn't include the weekend. We've got these
numbers off sky. I read a broad based article that
suggested globally, because largely of streaming, more people are watching.
(04:28):
Because I watched a very good example. I was on
the bike yesterday and I was on YouTube and I
punched in Hamish ker gold Bing little package came up,
so I watched him.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Can we just remind everybody this is a stationary bike.
You went out on the.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Station stationary bike. Well, I do occasionally, you know, on
the on the road and watch the phone at the
same time, but it gets a bit problematic when the
rain comes down and the buses pull out. Anyway, so
I watched Hamish cur and I watched Lydia Cohen Highlights package. Now,
I don't know if I'm included in those numbers of
the two point six three hundred and thirty thousand people
streamed on sky sport Now and sky go All. It
seems that globally more people watch because of the streaming
(05:03):
and the ability to just punch up stuff that you
want to watch. I didn't have time to watch eighteen
holes of Lydia co I did have eight minutes to
watch Lydia Coo. In the highlight. She choked on one hole,
put it in the water and then the puts went soft,
but she got there in the end. Hamish Kerr I
think is my favorite gold medal and I'll tell you why,
because once again we can I don't like doing this.
If you look at the gold medal tally at ten,
(05:24):
I think we're the most successful country in the world
if you do it on a per head population. Not
only are we the most successful country in the world
by so far, it actually doesn't matter because we are.
If you look at Australia, who had their best games,
they will tell you, and I'm sure sure Steve will
mention this, they only got eighteen golds, but they've got
over five times the population. They should have fifty goals.
They don't. America has what fifty times our population, whatever
(05:47):
you want to say, so they should have five hundred golds.
They don't.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well, you look at some of the some of the
countries that are behind us, the populations of the Philippines.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah, they won four medals in total.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Spain eighteen medals in total, five golds Spain, There's millions
of them.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
South Africa. It's one gold.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
So I don't like going down that track. But I
will tell you this. My favorite gold was Hamish Kurr
because one you didn't expect it, and I'm into the golds.
I'm not into the silvers, and I'm not into the bronze.
For the individual stories, for the families and stuff, it's
brilliant if you celebrate the silver. I saw a woman
from Australia come second in the fifteen hundred. She you
may as well have given a gold. She clearly wasn't
(06:28):
expected it, expecting it. It was the greatest day of
her life. She had the best type fantastic. I'm into
winning and the Olympics is about winning. It's about being
the champion or you aren't. And we don't cover sport
in the same way. And you were outside of the Olympics,
do we think about it? We very rarely report in
any great way shape or form the person who comes third.
We don't care. If you win, you win. If you don't,
you don't. You want to see a highlight Steph Curry,
(06:50):
Steph Curry in the final four minutes of the basketball
between the US and France. Turns out I watched quite
a bit of the Olympics, isn't it? And the final?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
You are like the biggest fan in the country, and I.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Watch more than I did. As it turns out that
guy is a freak.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
He's certainly seen more of it than I have, by
the sounds of things.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
My favorite moment was actually the Swedish pole vaulter who
he won gold easily and then went for the record.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
And which was quite a lot higher than what he
won gold at.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I think I think six ' ten was what he
won gold with, and then he had to go for
six twenty five to get the record.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
I don't know if he saw this, and of course
he had the.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Whole crowd behind him, and he missed his first two attempts,
this beautiful Swedish girlfriend and the crowd thinking he might
have to bring up the dating apps so he doesn't
get this, and then he did get it, and yeah,
that was pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I enjoyed that.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And what's even cooler is that we are so far
ahead of Sweden on the medal table. Rerap and the
feedback on the Olympics just kept on coming.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I think most people have noticed that it's been happening.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Like to your point about Homers Kurz gold. The high
jump has been contested since the first modern Olympics in
eighteen ninety six. It's a fundamental measure of human capability,
not a game or control contest to pull in viewers. Sorry, Dave,
we were enjoying it. It's my point being if you
look at the athletic pursuits. I'm a traditionalist at the Olympics.
This break dancing thing, it's just bollocks. But if you
(08:22):
look at the traditional stuff. So I was watching the
shot put you whind a couple of times, heave it forward.
The high jump is unusual in the sense you come
in a forward, go sideways and then turn around backwards
and through.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
You didn't always, of course.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
No I know, and you still don't have to if
you've worked out a way to do it differently. But
they've worked out the way going backwards is the best
way to do it. But the pressure you exert on
your body, particularly your back, and why you wear loose pants.
The women don't Why you wear loose pants like that
when you're so close to the bar. I've never understood.
But I give Hamish curR the gold of golds. He
(09:00):
was the best. He came seemingly from nowhere. He had
the day of his life, and so that's the best
gold for me.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I don't know the necessarily came from nowhere. I mean,
he's a Commonwealth champ.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
He it's have a look here, he's the world indoor champ.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
He's got a bronze medal let the world indoor chance before.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Okay, he's only racked fifty eight for some reason, but.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Okay, i'll him. I'll let him have that one.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Rewrap now.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
So it's all finished. Where does it go next to LA?
Can they afford it? That's a question, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I'm ringing over the weekend. The problem with the Olympic
Games financially untenable. They all the economists have looked into
and go, you just really can't do it. Budget overruns, debt,
wasteful infrastructure, displacement, gentrification, political strife, environmental harm, blah, blah blah.
And so this is going to be the first games,
the Paris Games since Sydney. With the total costs are
(09:57):
under ten billion. Basically, the IOC is running out of
cities who can do it because those who have done
it don't worry about it. LA is different because they
made a surplus last time, they're backing themselves this time.
Some cities have spinned upwards of one hundred million dollars
on the bidding process alone, so that needs to change.
But this one included five of the past six head
(10:18):
inflation adjusted cost over runs of more than one hundred percent,
and you just can't run it like that.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Hey, if you ever want to see.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Some calls at a background to what it takes for
a city to become the host of the Olympics and
the costs and you know what the benefits may or
may not be, you've got to watch Billions, the TV
program Billions. I know it's a documentia or anything, but
I feel like it rings pretty true if you if
you're not a fan, go and check it out. Certainly
(10:49):
the last couple of seasons anyway. And yeah, the Olympic
stuff of theirs, that's quite I a rerap right.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
We're going to finish up.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, oh, talking about the Olympics, and let's focus a
little bit on lydia cod because of course, yeah, this
is one of those sports that shouldn't be an Olympics sport,
and yet it has been for a while and she
turns out as really good at it when it comes
to the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Mike, I'm not into watching or playing golf, but was
captivated by watching co She showed what it means to
play for a nation. Brilliant concentration combined with undoubted class. Yeah,
she does that every week. She's a professional golfer. You
see the same thing. But what I've found is interesting
is there must be something psychological. And she looks fantastic too.
I mean I haven't spent a lot of time watching
(11:37):
her play, but her stroke is brilliant. It's a glorious
looking stroke, and there must be something because you can't
once you could argue luck twice you're thinking, I wonder
if there's a three, is there's something there? Because why
doesn't she apply that whatever it is each and every
week Because it's the same field, they're the same people.
(11:59):
It's not like you know you're dealing with people you've
never seen before on courses you've never been to. Most
of the players apparently hadn't played that particular course, but
she had. That might have had something to do with it.
But you can't tell me that turning up every four
years and winning a medal each and every time isn't
something very specific mentally that you're able to click into,
(12:19):
as opposed to turning up on a weekly basis against
the same people and not quite achieve the same thing.
I was watching the basketball, the Americans against France, and
somebody said it was a thriller. I didn't think it
was a thriller at all. It was sort of It
wasn't a pasting, but it was a relatively easy win.
The last three or four minutes they I think the
French came back within six and the crowd got a
(12:41):
bit excited by it. But then Steph Curry went crazy
and just tossed the ball loosely into the air and
it happened to fall into the hoop each and every time.
It's an amazing thing to watch a guy like Steph Curry,
who normally is thus star of a team, then go
to the Olympics and is among many other stars, some
of whom, like Lebron, you'd argue, are bigger than he is,
(13:01):
and yet he outshines the lot of them by so
far it doesn't matter, and it seemed to them, And
I think I stand corrected on this because my argument
originally arose was around these guys that play all the
time and have all the money and the success and
the fame and the attention. Is the Olympics really a
thing for them? Certainly the golf appeared to be both
men's and women's, and the basketball they seem to be
(13:22):
relatively stoked that they could represent their country and do
something that they hadn't ordinarily done. So maybe some of
those sports do deserve. But the modern tatlon I am
told is changing next time because they're dropping the horse
event and putting in a ninja warrior aspect to it.
(13:42):
So no more horse, but.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
More Just to clarify it's an obstacle, course, it's you know,
they're not having to stand there and throw throwing stars
at each other.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
But from having a horse to having no horse and
being a rider to a ninja warrior seems to me
to be quite quite the leap.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Well, shall we do it all?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Again in four years time. Have the same arguments, and
it's about some of the same supports.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Probably.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I just want to keep reminding me that that Neil
on one knee canoe sprint thing, it's been there since
nineteen thirty six. So I gleand hearts see back here
again tomorrow. We'll probably do more than one topic tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
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