January 8, 2026 • 29 mins
Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang weave through the storylines and history we’ll be following through the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympic Winter Games! From jaw-dropping comebacks and legendary careers nearing their final chapter to fearless young stars ready to announce themselves on the world stage, Two Guys, Five Rings explains why these Olympics will be must-watch!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Rain Rain, R Ring Ring Rain.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Please pick up because it's another episode of the two
Guys five Rings podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Oh you did well in for Matt Hi, Yes, this
is Matt, so happy to connect and you know Matt.
Last episode we toured Italy and talked about the towns
and venues of the Olympic Games this year twenty twenty
six in Milan fourteen that you didn't hear, go back
to check out episode one.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You gotta check out episode one. It's not required, but
it will help color in the story of the places.
You know what I mean. You're gonna get into Milan quarteena,
you're gonna get into the the sort of a step vibes.
But here we're talking about the characters, okay, because really
this is a story the Olympic Games, and we got
our heroes, we got our villains, and we're truly made
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of a lot of those two stock types here bo.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yes, and a story like theirs has never been told
until now, not until now, and we're going to keep
up our tradition. In twenty twenty four we awarded gold, silver,
and bronze medals to the athletes that really struck us,
that really compel us to follow them. I just want
to say, this is really off the cuff. I cannot
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wait for my multi screen viewing on Peacock and iHeart
because that was kind of the gag of twenty twenty
four in Paris. We were watching round the clock, skipping
around at the different events, not missing a beat.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
No, it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I loved that experience.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I'll remember we were in Peede Down and we had
rented a house and one of the highlights of the
whole thing was watching Simone Biles on Peacock. Absolutely rip
it up, m h. And we could have been watching
many things at once, but we are fixated on Simone.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Absolutely. That was the intersection of all the things we loved,
which was the NBC family recording this podcast, yes, and
rooting for human triumph as at Simone Biles.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
And if Simone was the star of those Paris Games,
which I think we could argue that she was, there
are many contenders for who's going to be the star
of these games, and we're going to get into all
of them on this episode. Now, we're going to look
at these athletes in their individual profiles. Some of the
story lines and the history will be following through these Games. Now,
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there's going to be some juicy themes here. So if
you're someone who gets overwhelmed by drama, sip some water,
take care of yourself.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Meditate before you listen to the rest of us. Actually,
don't meditate while you listen to this, because we promise
you know around you are really running the gamut of
narratives here. There's every kind of story here. We have
comeback narratives, Olympic legends in their final act, young stars
ready to break out. These athletes could also show up
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on your favorite competition based reality shows. Yes, I know
that's right, because thank God for reality television providing another
amazing pipeline for this truly incredible career and to do
something as gorgeous and frivolous but still as compelling as sports.
It's just another kind. It's a sport of the human mind.
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That's what reality shows are.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I mean, I heard they're adding Traders to the twenty
thirty two Games. I heard that Traders is going to
be Olympic sport. That's just what I heard. But that's summer.
It's going to be summer Traders.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
No, I believe you. I'm just confirming with is going
to be a summer event.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It's a summer event. Traders is a summer event, and.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
One that Traders is a summer event.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We will begin in Milan, where the indoor events are
going to be held. Now, inside is where some of
the most incredible athletes choose to do their thing.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
If you're an athlete performing performing competing inside, you say
thank you HVAC H, thank you humidifiers, Yes, thank you restrooms.
These are my kind of people.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, I mean, I have nothing to add, and I
think that one of the people that I'm going to
be most focused on is competing inside amidst all those
things that you were talking about. Have you heard about
the quad God.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
This is someone with the best owned nick name in
a very long time, maybe ever, and.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
May be the best regular nickname of all times, the
quad God. Imagine you walk into a room and they're like, oh,
the quad God's here. You would know that you did
something that no one could ever take from you. In
this case, this is Iliamalinin. He's from Vienna, Virginia, rep
In America, and he is a figure skater who seeks
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to get this boonen Land, the first quadruple axl in
Olympic history. He's a three time reigning US champion twenty three,
twenty twenty four, and twenty twenty five, and a two
time Ranning World champion in twenty twenty four and twenty
twenty five. Malanin has revolutionized the sport with his signature
quadruple actual. He remains the only skater to have landed
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the jump in competition. Crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I feel like this is a plot point in like
a sports movie. It could be a movie. Well, I'm saying,
like a quadruple axle is literally unheard of.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It doesn't seem human for those out there who may
be like, ugh, I don't know what that is. It's four, okay,
quadruple that means four spins in air. I want to
see this guy's quads. I'm actually just gonna I'm gonna
go ahead and look.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You look at Billy as quads.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
He is the quads. The quads are excellent. I mean, like.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
He's his legs, you're trying his legs.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, so I am.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I think we call him the quad God because of
the quadrup relaxle. But I'm sure he has excellent legs.
That's never that was not ed out here.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I am thinking. Okay, So one thing you have to
know about me is when I was a little boy,
one of my sexual awakenings was Apollo ends I no, no,
So you have to understand like a lot of the
Olympic Games for me are looking at the lower bodies
of some of the athletes because they truly do blow
me away. And now I'm gonna look up his age
to make sure I'm not going to get in trouble. Okay,
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I live another day.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That is allowed.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
It's allowed.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Congratulations.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I'm allowed to say. The quads are looking good, okay everybody,
and I'm sure what he will pull off in competition
will also look incredible. He's gonna do it. I think
he's gonna pull it off. I am behind him. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
This is the thing to for me personally. I don't
want I don't want to get ahead of myself and
say that this is my current front runner for gold
in our episode as we reward these medals. But I
really I'm really rooting for ilia quad. God, he's got it.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
See. The thing is like, if he's gonna attempt seven
quads in a single program, that must mean that he's
winning the Olympic Gold. Kind of already right, because it's like,
once you set yourself at a certain level of difficulty,
how does it work. Is it like now you have
more room to fail or less because you're already doing
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more than everyone else.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I think these judges might be a little unforgiving. I
think they said, you set a bar for yourself, and
if you do, and let's see if you meet.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That bar, it's like and bring it on, or she's
like double backhand spring step out, double twisting layout. I'm
the French judge.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And you're the French judge, and that's Kirsten or that's
Big Red.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
No, that was the other the blonde. I think it
was the blonde Eliza dushku Is tasked with doing the
crazy routine. Watch Bring it on, guys. It holds up.
It actually was ahead of its time, absolutely talked about
cultural appropriation when people didn't even know the words.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And look, you didn't even need the vocabulary. Oh, we've
just gotten a huge factoid from our producer, Evince go On.
A quadruple axle. Oh is not a four revolution drump.
It is four and a half. WHOA, don't leave out
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the half four point five? I mean, so that means
you are going three sixty times four. I can't even
do the math, so whatever, that is a lot of degrees.
I don't know how that's humanly possible. You need a vertical,
you need a solid vertical on the jump to even
do the four and a half spins.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
That's a lot of jeez bow. What is this? Star
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Speaker 1 (08:59):
A start as the racers would only dream.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I can only dream of being Ilia.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Quad God twenty years old.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Well, you know over on the the ladies are giving
it too, because Alissa Lou talk about Alisalu.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Alissa Lou became the youngest woman in history at the
tender age of twelve, and the third US woman to
land the triple axle internationally.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Tanya say her name, Tanya Harding started it.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Tanya started it. Alyssa carries on her legacy. At age sixteen,
Lou went to the Olympics in Beijing, won a bronze
medal at the World Championships in France around a month
later in March of twenty twenty two, and then retired,
sick and tired of a life that revolved around scanning.
Oh we love this comeback narrative we love like I
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don't know, like a heist movie where the guy who
like is good with computers, it's like he's retired, and
then Clooney and Brad Pitt have to talk about her retirement.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
YEP.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Imagine being a sixteen year old legend saying no, I'm
done with that life.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
And the words of j Low she said, I'm gonna
live my life.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Say that, keep going, keep talking about a listing.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Well, basically, she was inspired to return to the ice.
In January twenty twenty four, she went on a skiing trip.
She was like, wait, she was actually like she was
quoted as saying way, and so then she was like,
you know what, I enjoy skiing, Like maybe skating is fun,
Like I don't know, let's try it out. She publicly
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announced her comeback plans on March first, twenty twenty four.
She finished second at the twenty twenty five US Championships
and then probably went on to capture her first world
title two months later in Boston. Her performance and when
was the biggest surprise of the twenty twenty four to
twenty twenty five figure skating season. She hopes to surprise
or not surprise if you're a part thinking her to win.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Again, Melissa, come forth, it's your time now, it's your time.
It's your time again again and you have an amazing
retirement waiting for you after that.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, then retire, then live you a life. Your favorite event,
ice dancing, is up next. And we got a pair
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here that is really gonna shock you because her last
name is Madison Chalk, so they're going to Chalk the competition.
She's thirty three. Her partner is Evan Bates, thirty six.
They look to earn the one thing missing from their
career resumes and Olympic medal in the ice dance competition
BO and they're married. See this is the narrative. I
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love they are one, are one. I'm looking at this
picture of them and I'm saying they are one.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Look at them. I'm looking at them. I go they've
They've got it all.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
They've got it all, and by all, I do mean
incredible coordinating outfits. They've been married since June twenty twenty four.
Madison and Evn Bates are the three time reigning world
champions in ice dance and we're part of the US
contingent that won gold medals in the figure skating team
event in twenty twenty two. In their three prior Olympic
performances in the ice dancing competition, the duo, who have
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been skating together since twenty eleven, finished eighth in Soshi
in twenty fourteen, ninth in pyeong Chang in twenty eighteen,
and fourth in Beijing in twenty twenty two, with mistakes
marring their performances each of the past two games. Oh rough,
I'm going to say something.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Go. I think they were thrown by the fact that
they were in Asia for those events. Yeah, it's the
Asian thing.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
It's what's called the Asian thing.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
It's the Asian thing. And I am an authority on this.
You go to Asia, you go where am I discombobulating?
I could be in Russia, I could be in China,
I can be in Korea. I am completely destabilized. My
performance is affected. Oh to say nothing of jet lag
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For an American, it's the furthest place.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, I'm bonus taking me to Japan for the first
time in my life, and I look forward to the disorientation.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
What do you think the Asian thing will do to you?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh, turn me around. I think it will turn me around.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And that's what happened to Madison and Evan. I think
you know what it happens. It happens, okay, Madison and Evan.
But no excuses this son. I'm not saying that. This
is a narrative that I think is in their future.
Come back to Asia and show them what you were
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made of. Yeah, I think they will also coming back
to Asia. Get this bo It's the return of Russian
skaters to international competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union
the ISU, the governing body of the sport. Skaters from
Russia and Belarus have been banned from international competition since
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February twenty twenty two, but
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in December twenty twenty four, the ISU declared there was
a pathway for some athletes to compete as neutral athletes
at the twenty twenty six Milan COURTEENA Games, so they'll
be competing individually internationally. I think I'm gonna say, in
celebration of this banning narrative, this is what I meant
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in episode one, The villains are back. If you are
from possibly a Beluga taviar fortune Petrosian Beluga you've seen
a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
So we're so gay that we know about Petrocia and
Beluga because it was align on Dynasty, because two women
were comparing their taste in Caviare and one of them said,
I prefer Petrussia and Beluga.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
And this is how gay we are, because we're gagged
by Adelia, both for her villain potential and her equal
heroic potential and the fact that she is known for
her jumping prowess. Those are two words that are very
powerful together. Jumping prowess, prowis welcome to the sun.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Since Mario, It's not since Mario have we been so
impressed with someone's jumping prowess. Speaking of I'm looking at
these NHL hockey players and I'm saying bring NHL players
returned to Olympic competition for the first time since twenty fourteen.
The return of NHL players has expected to boost the chances,
in particular of the US and Canadian teams. In the
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five Winter Games in which NHL players competed, which were
in nineteen ninety eight to twos and fourteen, Canada won
three gold medals. The US want a pair of silvers,
coming up short against their North American rivals on North
American soil in both two thousand and two, which is
in Salt Lake City and twenty ten in Vancouver.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
For the US squad, brothers Matthew and Brady Kochuck of
Saint Louis, Missouri, who are also the sons of four
time Olympia in two thousand and two Olympic silver medalist
Keith Kachuck, are expected to be among the team leaders.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Are we going to comment on the last name ku Chuck?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
What does it make you feel.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Ko Chuck? If my last name was Kochuck, you know
that people would be referring to me only by my
last name Ku Chuck. You know what I mean. It's
one of those names where it's like you were gifted
with something.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yo, Kuochuck was a tank last night. But see, this
is the trouble. I think Matthew and Brady like the
Chuck Kochuck bros. Is it like shibsibs works rolls off
the tongue, You have to.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Be hockey players.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Well that's what I thought you were going to say,
which is if your dad is Keith Kachuck and you
saw him win silver in two thousand and two in
Salt Lake. You're going, well, my destiny, my face is sealed.
It was.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, it's like being named Britney Spears and not being
a pop star. It's like if you got Brady Kuchuk
the Sun of Kachuck. You're playing hockey, You're going to
the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
You're going to the Olympics. You might be on Dancing
with the Stars in about eight years. You would slay
Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yes, you would, Yes, you would.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
All right, Well, let's not see.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
The US and Canada are also set for another gold
medal showdown in women's hockey. Yes, were they the only
nations to ever win gold since women's ice hockey was
added to the Olympic program in nineteen ninety eight, with
Canada winning five times in the US winning twice. In fact,
in every game's other than two thousand and six, we
don't talk about that the US and Canada met for
the gold. So this is just a classic tale of
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well heated rivalry. You really, yeah, new show starting two
closeted gay hockey players. But we're not here to talk
about that. No, but we could, we could. But the
fact Is y'all already doing that enough for us? Yes,
we're here to talk about speed skating. We're a once
in a generation talent who has dominated the sport for
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the past three years. Jordan Stoles seeks his first Olympic medals.
The twenty one year old from Kuwaska, Wisconsin, won back
to back world titles in the five hundred meters, one
thousand meters and fifteen hundred meters in both twenty twenty
three and twenty twenty four. Stoles, who first learned to
skate on a pond in his backyard love that, also
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won what is ablieved to be a men's record eighteen
consecutive World Cup races from February twenty twenty four to
February twenty twenty five before his season was unexpectedly.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Impacted by illness. Stoles remains a strong gold medal contender
in all three distances. To get sick right before the games, ugh.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
That's gotta be tough. You know, you are just as
unlucky to get sick before the games as you are
lucky to grew up with a pond in your backyard.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
And God gives and takes, and I'm always saying that.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
You're always saying, Now, how would your life be different
if you grew up with a pond in your backyard?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I wouldn't be here. I'd have fallen through it. One
hundred percent. Man, I'm definitely that kid that's like I wonder.
It's like, hey, I think I'm invincible. Let me go
out on the ice, and that's where you see me,
frozen solid like a cube.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I did not think you would go there. You were
saying you would have died.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I'm saying I have self knowledge.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I have shudder to think. Now I get asking you
because now I think of a world in which I
would not have met you. Oh my heart.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
One of my favorite reads that's ever been said to
me was naomiak Peagan, the great naomiak Pagan. Just one day,
I looked at me and she said, Hm, you're gonna
die accidentally buy your own hand.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
No, Naomi, come on, one of our great comedians. You would
she put a curse on you, that witch. Let's talk
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about three d and those d's are Dutch depth and dominance.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
A common refrain.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
What do we mean by that?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Well? The Dutch one six of fourteen speed skating golds
in Beijing no other country won more than two by
the way, and twelve total medals at the twenty twenty
two Winter Olympics. The next closest nations, Japan and Norway,
each one five. So that's what we mean when we
say Dutch dominance and depth. Okay, so dominant or the
Dutch that it's been more than thirty years since the
Dutch haven't topped the speeds getting medal table for total
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medals and golds at Winter Olympics. So look out for
the Dutch. Don't even try everyone else just hang it up.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
But Jordan's still is our American treasure. I think he
will scare some of these Dutch folks out of their
damn clogs, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
You just need to keep up with the emergency and
the immunity. We need to get stoles a ginger shot
because we can't have history repeating we can't, we can't.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Some wellness formula and a nice air purifier, how about that.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, And just to touch on a hometown hero here,
the most decorated Italian athlete in the history of the
Winter Games and most decorated athlete in short track with
eleven Olympic medals, Ariana Fontana seeks to represent Italy in
both short track for a six Games and also in
the long track version of speed skinting for the very
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first time. Ariana Fontana clearly the Ariana Grande of Italian
short track.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I want to talk about the Lena Dunham of snowboarding.
Go ahead, Chloe Kim. Yes, I call her this because
she's now twenty five. She's hoping to do a three P.
I say she's twenty five. She's in the girls' era
of her life. She's making mistakes, she's running around town,
she's living out loud. She's living out loud.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
She got annoying friends, and a mistake she.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Was not making is being possibly the first snowboarder to
win gold at three consecutive Olympics. Talk about iconography.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I can't wait. I'm a Chloe Kim fan. I cannot
wait to see your shred. She is, you know, like
you said, she could become the fourth US athlete with
three gold medals at the Winter Olympics and any sport,
joining Sean White and speed skaters Bonnie Blair and Eric Heiden.
This is hallowed ground.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
She would be very, very, very iconic for this. But
she already is. She doesn't need this, but it would
be nice to see. Let's talk about my Colorado royalty.
We have seventeen year old Olie Martin from Wollcock, Colorado.
Why ever to break out season last year Alongily became
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the youngest number to land a twenty one sixty six
revolutions and the youngest male to win a World Cup
slope style event in February of this past year. In
twenty twenty five. And of course, Lindsay Vonn from Vail.
This girl grew this is We talked about growing up
with the u pond in your backyard. Imagine a mountain.
Lindsay grew up with a mountain in her backyard, and
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at the edge of forty one, could become the oldest
Olympic Alpine skiing medalist ever of any gender. Lindsay, we
love ya, We're rooting for you.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You are a legend. You might remember she retired in
February twenty nineteen with three Olympic medals. Well, she's back,
she's back. She actually underwent successful partial right knee replacement
surgery on April fifth, twenty twenty four, not with the
goal of returning to competitive skiing at the time, but
rather with the goal of just improving her quality of
life and not dealing with chronic pain, which are great reasons,
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but you know what, She's back and merely by competing
in Courtina, she would also break Body Miller's record as
the oldest UA Olympia in and alpine skiing by nearly
five years.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You are a legend, Lindsay, You are a legend. Also,
we have Mikaela Shiffern seeking redemption after earning no medals
in the twenty twenty two Beijing Olympic Games for alpine skiing,
and from Switzerland, Marco Ortomont looks to make Olympic history
and he's been the undisputed best overall men's alpine skier
for the last four seasons, winning the overall World Cup
in Grand Slaalam Crystal Globe four straight years. Y'all, do
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yourself a favorite. Google the crystal Globe trophy. That looks
chic as heck.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah for real. In cross country skiing news, Jesse Diggins
of Minnesota seeks to be the first US athlete to
win an individual gold medal in the sport, the first ever.
The thirty four year old is already the most decorated
US cross country skier with three career Olympic medals. Diggins
announced you will retire at the end of the twenty
twenty five twenty twenty sixth season. One more chance, one
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more gam.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
And in Bobslad, we have Kaylee Humphries, who could Olympic
records in twenty twenty six she competed for Canada. She
has left and now switched to the US team because
she's married to former US bops letterer Travis Armbruster. That's
a great last name. And she just gave birth to
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a son two summers ago. And I want to say
Bob's led Moms, the reality show Make It Happen.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I'm watching, Yeah, let's go, Let's do it. Finally, in
the biathlon, the US has its best chance to win
its first ever Olympic medal in biathlon with the one
and only Campbell Wright. The twenty three year old was
born and raised in New Zealand to US born parents,
and made his Olympic debut in Beijing in twenty twenty
two for the country of his birth. After winning the
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twenty twenty three World Junior title in the sprint event
while representing New Zealand Right switched his competitive allegiance to
the US Right Choice, citing increased access to financial resources
and equipment. Wright says the opportunity to represent the US
that the Olympics would be pretty epic. I don't feel
super American, but I do really feel a part of
Team USA. Okay, Well, we'll work on those We're going
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to meet, you train.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Them, We'll give them a hamburger to hold in interviews
so they can you can feel American and kind of
like go from there. Mad It's the time they awoarred, gold, silver,
and bronze.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Okay, I'm really excited to say that. I think my
bronze is the return of Lindsay Vaughn. I just think
she's such a star. She really glows through the screen.
I feel like, you know, to have knee replacement surgery
and then show up at the gig again, I means
she truly loves it. She's an icon and I'm rooting
for her. I really would love to see that happen.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I would love to see that happen. I'm gonna give
my silver our silver. Are we sharing these?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I think we are? We share so much? Why not this?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Why not this? I'm gonna share my silver, our silver
medal and give it to a Delia Petrosian. You gotta
love the juice and the Russia coming back to skating,
it's kind.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Of juicy, and I mean listen. To be clear, we
want her to lose, but we wanted to be close.
We must defeat that. We need to defeat the Russians mentality.
We need her to display her jumping prowess and listen.
And I'm not just saying this because we might even
be able to be there and watch this event, because
we are going to be there, like we said in
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the last episode, for the opening ceremony, but also the
figure skinning events. But the quad god is our gold medalist.
In terms of things. We're looking forward to the fact
that we could watch seven quads executed in one routine.
And we know now that it's four and a half
spins in the air. That's how many spins seven times
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four twenty eight five five five five five, It's like
over thirty spins this crazy town.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Crazy town. That's as many spins around the sun I've
had on this earth.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Was my math really bad? There?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I think you were right? Okay, I'm proud of you.
So there you have it. Bronze mental to Lindsay Vaughn,
Silver to Delia Petrosian Gold to Quad god Our King
Ilia Melanin.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Wow, We're off to the races in a major way.
I'm geared up, and I'm not just talking about speed skating.
I'm talking about two Guys five ranks.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
It's so nice to be back. I love learning about
these things with you, my friend.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Together we learn just like together people ice dance, so
we still love the opening ceremony of the twenty twenty
six Milan Courtina Winter Olympic Games. To discuss in a
few big surprises before we get to Milan, So be
sure to follow Two Guys five Rings on the iHeartRadio
app or your favorite podcast platform, and watch on the
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NBC Sports YouTube channel.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Watch and listen to every moment of the Winter Olympics
February sixth through the twenty second on NBC in Peacock
and on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
We finish every episode with the song of the winner.
Allow some rang
Rain Rain, R Ring Ring Rain.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Please pick up because it's another episode of the two
Guys five Rings podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Oh you did well in for Matt Hi, Yes, this
is Matt, so happy to connect and you know Matt.
Last episode we toured Italy and talked about the towns
and venues of the Olympic Games this year twenty twenty
six in Milan fourteen that you didn't hear, go back
to check out episode one.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You gotta check out episode one. It's not required, but
it will help color in the story of the places.
You know what I mean. You're gonna get into Milan quarteena,
you're gonna get into the the sort of a step vibes.
But here we're talking about the characters, okay, because really
this is a story the Olympic Games, and we got
our heroes, we got our villains, and we're truly made
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of a lot of those two stock types here bo.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yes, and a story like theirs has never been told
until now, not until now, and we're going to keep
up our tradition. In twenty twenty four we awarded gold, silver,
and bronze medals to the athletes that really struck us,
that really compel us to follow them. I just want
to say, this is really off the cuff. I cannot
(01:34):
wait for my multi screen viewing on Peacock and iHeart
because that was kind of the gag of twenty twenty
four in Paris. We were watching round the clock, skipping
around at the different events, not missing a beat.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
No, it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I loved that experience.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I'll remember we were in Peede Down and we had
rented a house and one of the highlights of the
whole thing was watching Simone Biles on Peacock. Absolutely rip
it up, m h. And we could have been watching
many things at once, but we are fixated on Simone.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Absolutely. That was the intersection of all the things we loved,
which was the NBC family recording this podcast, yes, and
rooting for human triumph as at Simone Biles.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
And if Simone was the star of those Paris Games,
which I think we could argue that she was, there
are many contenders for who's going to be the star
of these games, and we're going to get into all
of them on this episode. Now, we're going to look
at these athletes in their individual profiles. Some of the
story lines and the history will be following through these Games. Now,
(02:45):
there's going to be some juicy themes here. So if
you're someone who gets overwhelmed by drama, sip some water,
take care of yourself.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Meditate before you listen to the rest of us. Actually,
don't meditate while you listen to this, because we promise
you know around you are really running the gamut of
narratives here. There's every kind of story here. We have
comeback narratives, Olympic legends in their final act, young stars
ready to break out. These athletes could also show up
(03:13):
on your favorite competition based reality shows. Yes, I know
that's right, because thank God for reality television providing another
amazing pipeline for this truly incredible career and to do
something as gorgeous and frivolous but still as compelling as sports.
It's just another kind. It's a sport of the human mind.
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That's what reality shows are.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I mean, I heard they're adding Traders to the twenty
thirty two Games. I heard that Traders is going to
be Olympic sport. That's just what I heard. But that's summer.
It's going to be summer Traders.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
No, I believe you. I'm just confirming with is going
to be a summer event.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It's a summer event. Traders is a summer event, and.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
One that Traders is a summer event.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We will begin in Milan, where the indoor events are
going to be held. Now, inside is where some of
the most incredible athletes choose to do their thing.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
If you're an athlete performing performing competing inside, you say
thank you HVAC H, thank you humidifiers, Yes, thank you restrooms.
These are my kind of people.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, I mean, I have nothing to add, and I
think that one of the people that I'm going to
be most focused on is competing inside amidst all those
things that you were talking about. Have you heard about
the quad God.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
This is someone with the best owned nick name in
a very long time, maybe ever, and.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
May be the best regular nickname of all times, the
quad God. Imagine you walk into a room and they're like, oh,
the quad God's here. You would know that you did
something that no one could ever take from you. In
this case, this is Iliamalinin. He's from Vienna, Virginia, rep
In America, and he is a figure skater who seeks
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to get this boonen Land, the first quadruple axl in
Olympic history. He's a three time reigning US champion twenty three,
twenty twenty four, and twenty twenty five, and a two
time Ranning World champion in twenty twenty four and twenty
twenty five. Malanin has revolutionized the sport with his signature
quadruple actual. He remains the only skater to have landed
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the jump in competition. Crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I feel like this is a plot point in like
a sports movie. It could be a movie. Well, I'm saying,
like a quadruple axle is literally unheard of.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It doesn't seem human for those out there who may
be like, ugh, I don't know what that is. It's four, okay,
quadruple that means four spins in air. I want to
see this guy's quads. I'm actually just gonna I'm gonna
go ahead and look.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You look at Billy as quads.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
He is the quads. The quads are excellent. I mean, like.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
He's his legs, you're trying his legs.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, so I am.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I think we call him the quad God because of
the quadrup relaxle. But I'm sure he has excellent legs.
That's never that was not ed out here.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I am thinking. Okay, So one thing you have to
know about me is when I was a little boy,
one of my sexual awakenings was Apollo ends I no, no,
So you have to understand like a lot of the
Olympic Games for me are looking at the lower bodies
of some of the athletes because they truly do blow
me away. And now I'm gonna look up his age
to make sure I'm not going to get in trouble. Okay,
(06:39):
I live another day.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That is allowed.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
It's allowed.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Congratulations.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I'm allowed to say. The quads are looking good, okay everybody,
and I'm sure what he will pull off in competition
will also look incredible. He's gonna do it. I think
he's gonna pull it off. I am behind him. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
This is the thing to for me personally. I don't
want I don't want to get ahead of myself and
say that this is my current front runner for gold
in our episode as we reward these medals. But I
really I'm really rooting for ilia quad. God, he's got it.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
See. The thing is like, if he's gonna attempt seven
quads in a single program, that must mean that he's
winning the Olympic Gold. Kind of already right, because it's like,
once you set yourself at a certain level of difficulty,
how does it work. Is it like now you have
more room to fail or less because you're already doing
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more than everyone else.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I think these judges might be a little unforgiving. I
think they said, you set a bar for yourself, and
if you do, and let's see if you meet.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That bar, it's like and bring it on, or she's
like double backhand spring step out, double twisting layout. I'm
the French judge.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And you're the French judge, and that's Kirsten or that's
Big Red.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
No, that was the other the blonde. I think it
was the blonde Eliza dushku Is tasked with doing the
crazy routine. Watch Bring it on, guys. It holds up.
It actually was ahead of its time, absolutely talked about
cultural appropriation when people didn't even know the words.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And look, you didn't even need the vocabulary. Oh, we've
just gotten a huge factoid from our producer, Evince go On.
A quadruple axle. Oh is not a four revolution drump.
It is four and a half. WHOA, don't leave out
(08:34):
the half four point five? I mean, so that means
you are going three sixty times four. I can't even
do the math, so whatever, that is a lot of degrees.
I don't know how that's humanly possible. You need a vertical,
you need a solid vertical on the jump to even
do the four and a half spins.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
That's a lot of jeez bow. What is this? Star
dust Racers from Epic Universe, from our parent company Universal.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
A start as the racers would only dream.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I can only dream of being Ilia.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Quad God twenty years old.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Well, you know over on the the ladies are giving
it too, because Alissa Lou talk about Alisalu.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Alissa Lou became the youngest woman in history at the
tender age of twelve, and the third US woman to
land the triple axle internationally.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Tanya say her name, Tanya Harding started it.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Tanya started it. Alyssa carries on her legacy. At age sixteen,
Lou went to the Olympics in Beijing, won a bronze
medal at the World Championships in France around a month
later in March of twenty twenty two, and then retired,
sick and tired of a life that revolved around scanning.
Oh we love this comeback narrative we love like I
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don't know, like a heist movie where the guy who
like is good with computers, it's like he's retired, and
then Clooney and Brad Pitt have to talk about her retirement.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
YEP.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Imagine being a sixteen year old legend saying no, I'm
done with that life.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
And the words of j Low she said, I'm gonna
live my life.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Say that, keep going, keep talking about a listing.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Well, basically, she was inspired to return to the ice.
In January twenty twenty four, she went on a skiing trip.
She was like, wait, she was actually like she was
quoted as saying way, and so then she was like,
you know what, I enjoy skiing, Like maybe skating is fun,
Like I don't know, let's try it out. She publicly
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announced her comeback plans on March first, twenty twenty four.
She finished second at the twenty twenty five US Championships
and then probably went on to capture her first world
title two months later in Boston. Her performance and when
was the biggest surprise of the twenty twenty four to
twenty twenty five figure skating season. She hopes to surprise
or not surprise if you're a part thinking her to win.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Again, Melissa, come forth, it's your time now, it's your time.
It's your time again again and you have an amazing
retirement waiting for you after that.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, then retire, then live you a life. Your favorite event,
ice dancing, is up next. And we got a pair
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here that is really gonna shock you because her last
name is Madison Chalk, so they're going to Chalk the competition.
She's thirty three. Her partner is Evan Bates, thirty six.
They look to earn the one thing missing from their
career resumes and Olympic medal in the ice dance competition
BO and they're married. See this is the narrative. I
(11:58):
love they are one, are one. I'm looking at this
picture of them and I'm saying they are one.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Look at them. I'm looking at them. I go they've
They've got it all.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
They've got it all, and by all, I do mean
incredible coordinating outfits. They've been married since June twenty twenty four.
Madison and Evn Bates are the three time reigning world
champions in ice dance and we're part of the US
contingent that won gold medals in the figure skating team
event in twenty twenty two. In their three prior Olympic
performances in the ice dancing competition, the duo, who have
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been skating together since twenty eleven, finished eighth in Soshi
in twenty fourteen, ninth in pyeong Chang in twenty eighteen,
and fourth in Beijing in twenty twenty two, with mistakes
marring their performances each of the past two games. Oh rough,
I'm going to say something.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Go. I think they were thrown by the fact that
they were in Asia for those events. Yeah, it's the
Asian thing.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
It's what's called the Asian thing.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
It's the Asian thing. And I am an authority on this.
You go to Asia, you go where am I discombobulating?
I could be in Russia, I could be in China,
I can be in Korea. I am completely destabilized. My
performance is affected. Oh to say nothing of jet lag
(13:20):
For an American, it's the furthest place.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, I'm bonus taking me to Japan for the first
time in my life, and I look forward to the disorientation.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
What do you think the Asian thing will do to you?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh, turn me around. I think it will turn me around.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And that's what happened to Madison and Evan. I think
you know what it happens. It happens, okay, Madison and Evan.
But no excuses this son. I'm not saying that. This
is a narrative that I think is in their future.
Come back to Asia and show them what you were
(13:57):
made of. Yeah, I think they will also coming back
to Asia. Get this bo It's the return of Russian
skaters to international competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union
the ISU, the governing body of the sport. Skaters from
Russia and Belarus have been banned from international competition since
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February twenty twenty two, but
(14:19):
in December twenty twenty four, the ISU declared there was
a pathway for some athletes to compete as neutral athletes
at the twenty twenty six Milan COURTEENA Games, so they'll
be competing individually internationally. I think I'm gonna say, in
celebration of this banning narrative, this is what I meant
(14:44):
in episode one, The villains are back. If you are
from possibly a Beluga taviar fortune Petrosian Beluga you've seen
a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
So we're so gay that we know about Petrocia and
Beluga because it was align on Dynasty, because two women
were comparing their taste in Caviare and one of them said,
I prefer Petrussia and Beluga.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
And this is how gay we are, because we're gagged
by Adelia, both for her villain potential and her equal
heroic potential and the fact that she is known for
her jumping prowess. Those are two words that are very
powerful together. Jumping prowess, prowis welcome to the sun.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Since Mario, It's not since Mario have we been so
impressed with someone's jumping prowess. Speaking of I'm looking at
these NHL hockey players and I'm saying bring NHL players
returned to Olympic competition for the first time since twenty fourteen.
The return of NHL players has expected to boost the chances,
in particular of the US and Canadian teams. In the
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five Winter Games in which NHL players competed, which were
in nineteen ninety eight to twos and fourteen, Canada won
three gold medals. The US want a pair of silvers,
coming up short against their North American rivals on North
American soil in both two thousand and two, which is
in Salt Lake City and twenty ten in Vancouver.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
For the US squad, brothers Matthew and Brady Kochuck of
Saint Louis, Missouri, who are also the sons of four
time Olympia in two thousand and two Olympic silver medalist
Keith Kachuck, are expected to be among the team leaders.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Are we going to comment on the last name ku Chuck?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
What does it make you feel.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Ko Chuck? If my last name was Kochuck, you know
that people would be referring to me only by my
last name Ku Chuck. You know what I mean. It's
one of those names where it's like you were gifted
with something.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yo, Kuochuck was a tank last night. But see, this
is the trouble. I think Matthew and Brady like the
Chuck Kochuck bros. Is it like shibsibs works rolls off
the tongue, You have to.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Be hockey players.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Well that's what I thought you were going to say,
which is if your dad is Keith Kachuck and you
saw him win silver in two thousand and two in
Salt Lake. You're going, well, my destiny, my face is sealed.
It was.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, it's like being named Britney Spears and not being
a pop star. It's like if you got Brady Kuchuk
the Sun of Kachuck. You're playing hockey, You're going to
the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
You're going to the Olympics. You might be on Dancing
with the Stars in about eight years. You would slay
Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yes, you would, Yes, you would.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
All right, Well, let's not see.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
The US and Canada are also set for another gold
medal showdown in women's hockey. Yes, were they the only
nations to ever win gold since women's ice hockey was
added to the Olympic program in nineteen ninety eight, with
Canada winning five times in the US winning twice. In fact,
in every game's other than two thousand and six, we
don't talk about that the US and Canada met for
the gold. So this is just a classic tale of
(17:57):
well heated rivalry. You really, yeah, new show starting two
closeted gay hockey players. But we're not here to talk
about that. No, but we could, we could. But the
fact Is y'all already doing that enough for us? Yes,
we're here to talk about speed skating. We're a once
in a generation talent who has dominated the sport for
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the past three years. Jordan Stoles seeks his first Olympic medals.
The twenty one year old from Kuwaska, Wisconsin, won back
to back world titles in the five hundred meters, one
thousand meters and fifteen hundred meters in both twenty twenty
three and twenty twenty four. Stoles, who first learned to
skate on a pond in his backyard love that, also
(18:38):
won what is ablieved to be a men's record eighteen
consecutive World Cup races from February twenty twenty four to
February twenty twenty five before his season was unexpectedly.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Impacted by illness. Stoles remains a strong gold medal contender
in all three distances. To get sick right before the games, ugh.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
That's gotta be tough. You know, you are just as
unlucky to get sick before the games as you are
lucky to grew up with a pond in your backyard.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
And God gives and takes, and I'm always saying that.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
You're always saying, Now, how would your life be different
if you grew up with a pond in your backyard?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I wouldn't be here. I'd have fallen through it. One
hundred percent. Man, I'm definitely that kid that's like I wonder.
It's like, hey, I think I'm invincible. Let me go
out on the ice, and that's where you see me,
frozen solid like a cube.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I did not think you would go there. You were
saying you would have died.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I'm saying I have self knowledge.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I have shudder to think. Now I get asking you
because now I think of a world in which I
would not have met you. Oh my heart.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
One of my favorite reads that's ever been said to
me was naomiak Peagan, the great naomiak Pagan. Just one day,
I looked at me and she said, Hm, you're gonna
die accidentally buy your own hand.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
No, Naomi, come on, one of our great comedians. You would
she put a curse on you, that witch. Let's talk
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about three d and those d's are Dutch depth and dominance.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
A common refrain.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
What do we mean by that?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Well? The Dutch one six of fourteen speed skating golds
in Beijing no other country won more than two by
the way, and twelve total medals at the twenty twenty
two Winter Olympics. The next closest nations, Japan and Norway,
each one five. So that's what we mean when we
say Dutch dominance and depth. Okay, so dominant or the
Dutch that it's been more than thirty years since the
Dutch haven't topped the speeds getting medal table for total
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medals and golds at Winter Olympics. So look out for
the Dutch. Don't even try everyone else just hang it up.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
But Jordan's still is our American treasure. I think he
will scare some of these Dutch folks out of their
damn clogs, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
You just need to keep up with the emergency and
the immunity. We need to get stoles a ginger shot
because we can't have history repeating we can't, we can't.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Some wellness formula and a nice air purifier, how about that.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, And just to touch on a hometown hero here,
the most decorated Italian athlete in the history of the
Winter Games and most decorated athlete in short track with
eleven Olympic medals, Ariana Fontana seeks to represent Italy in
both short track for a six Games and also in
the long track version of speed skinting for the very
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first time. Ariana Fontana clearly the Ariana Grande of Italian
short track.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I want to talk about the Lena Dunham of snowboarding.
Go ahead, Chloe Kim. Yes, I call her this because
she's now twenty five. She's hoping to do a three P.
I say she's twenty five. She's in the girls' era
of her life. She's making mistakes, she's running around town,
she's living out loud. She's living out loud.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
She got annoying friends, and a mistake she.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Was not making is being possibly the first snowboarder to
win gold at three consecutive Olympics. Talk about iconography.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I can't wait. I'm a Chloe Kim fan. I cannot
wait to see your shred. She is, you know, like
you said, she could become the fourth US athlete with
three gold medals at the Winter Olympics and any sport,
joining Sean White and speed skaters Bonnie Blair and Eric Heiden.
This is hallowed ground.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
She would be very, very, very iconic for this. But
she already is. She doesn't need this, but it would
be nice to see. Let's talk about my Colorado royalty.
We have seventeen year old Olie Martin from Wollcock, Colorado.
Why ever to break out season last year Alongily became
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the youngest number to land a twenty one sixty six
revolutions and the youngest male to win a World Cup
slope style event in February of this past year. In
twenty twenty five. And of course, Lindsay Vonn from Vail.
This girl grew this is We talked about growing up
with the u pond in your backyard. Imagine a mountain.
Lindsay grew up with a mountain in her backyard, and
(23:22):
at the edge of forty one, could become the oldest
Olympic Alpine skiing medalist ever of any gender. Lindsay, we
love ya, We're rooting for you.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You are a legend. You might remember she retired in
February twenty nineteen with three Olympic medals. Well, she's back,
she's back. She actually underwent successful partial right knee replacement
surgery on April fifth, twenty twenty four, not with the
goal of returning to competitive skiing at the time, but
rather with the goal of just improving her quality of
life and not dealing with chronic pain, which are great reasons,
(23:53):
but you know what, She's back and merely by competing
in Courtina, she would also break Body Miller's record as
the oldest UA Olympia in and alpine skiing by nearly
five years.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You are a legend, Lindsay, You are a legend. Also,
we have Mikaela Shiffern seeking redemption after earning no medals
in the twenty twenty two Beijing Olympic Games for alpine skiing,
and from Switzerland, Marco Ortomont looks to make Olympic history
and he's been the undisputed best overall men's alpine skier
for the last four seasons, winning the overall World Cup
in Grand Slaalam Crystal Globe four straight years. Y'all, do
(24:25):
yourself a favorite. Google the crystal Globe trophy. That looks
chic as heck.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah for real. In cross country skiing news, Jesse Diggins
of Minnesota seeks to be the first US athlete to
win an individual gold medal in the sport, the first ever.
The thirty four year old is already the most decorated
US cross country skier with three career Olympic medals. Diggins
announced you will retire at the end of the twenty
twenty five twenty twenty sixth season. One more chance, one
(24:53):
more gam.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
And in Bobslad, we have Kaylee Humphries, who could Olympic
records in twenty twenty six she competed for Canada. She
has left and now switched to the US team because
she's married to former US bops letterer Travis Armbruster. That's
a great last name. And she just gave birth to
(25:15):
a son two summers ago. And I want to say
Bob's led Moms, the reality show Make It Happen.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I'm watching, Yeah, let's go, Let's do it. Finally, in
the biathlon, the US has its best chance to win
its first ever Olympic medal in biathlon with the one
and only Campbell Wright. The twenty three year old was
born and raised in New Zealand to US born parents,
and made his Olympic debut in Beijing in twenty twenty
two for the country of his birth. After winning the
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twenty twenty three World Junior title in the sprint event
while representing New Zealand Right switched his competitive allegiance to
the US Right Choice, citing increased access to financial resources
and equipment. Wright says the opportunity to represent the US
that the Olympics would be pretty epic. I don't feel
super American, but I do really feel a part of
Team USA. Okay, Well, we'll work on those We're going
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to meet, you train.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Them, We'll give them a hamburger to hold in interviews
so they can you can feel American and kind of
like go from there. Mad It's the time they awoarred, gold, silver,
and bronze.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Okay, I'm really excited to say that. I think my
bronze is the return of Lindsay Vaughn. I just think
she's such a star. She really glows through the screen.
I feel like, you know, to have knee replacement surgery
and then show up at the gig again, I means
she truly loves it. She's an icon and I'm rooting
for her. I really would love to see that happen.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I would love to see that happen. I'm gonna give
my silver our silver. Are we sharing these?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I think we are? We share so much? Why not this?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Why not this? I'm gonna share my silver, our silver
medal and give it to a Delia Petrosian. You gotta
love the juice and the Russia coming back to skating,
it's kind.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Of juicy, and I mean listen. To be clear, we
want her to lose, but we wanted to be close.
We must defeat that. We need to defeat the Russians mentality.
We need her to display her jumping prowess and listen.
And I'm not just saying this because we might even
be able to be there and watch this event, because
we are going to be there, like we said in
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the last episode, for the opening ceremony, but also the
figure skinning events. But the quad god is our gold medalist.
In terms of things. We're looking forward to the fact
that we could watch seven quads executed in one routine.
And we know now that it's four and a half
spins in the air. That's how many spins seven times
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four twenty eight five five five five five, It's like
over thirty spins this crazy town.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Crazy town. That's as many spins around the sun I've
had on this earth.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Was my math really bad? There?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I think you were right? Okay, I'm proud of you.
So there you have it. Bronze mental to Lindsay Vaughn,
Silver to Delia Petrosian Gold to Quad god Our King
Ilia Melanin.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Wow, We're off to the races in a major way.
I'm geared up, and I'm not just talking about speed skating.
I'm talking about two Guys five ranks.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
It's so nice to be back. I love learning about
these things with you, my friend.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Together we learn just like together people ice dance, so
we still love the opening ceremony of the twenty twenty
six Milan Courtina Winter Olympic Games. To discuss in a
few big surprises before we get to Milan, So be
sure to follow Two Guys five Rings on the iHeartRadio
app or your favorite podcast platform, and watch on the
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NBC Sports YouTube channel.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Watch and listen to every moment of the Winter Olympics
February sixth through the twenty second on NBC in Peacock
and on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
We finish every episode with the song of the winner.
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