August 13, 2024 • 13 mins
With the 2024 Paris Olympics finalized, it's time to look ahead to the next summer games that will take place on U.S. soil in 2028. It will look different because a few sporting events have been added, a few have been removed. Did your favorite sports get canned? Listen to today's show to find out!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, welcome you.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Now our number two here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
hundred The Zone, Craig Way alongside the.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Producer Cameron Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
We're glad to have you with us, and we're with
you each and every weekday from Monday through Friday from
two to five, so we're glad to have you with
us alongside they they're coming up. We're going to have
some more conversation. We're going to hear more from long
(00:27):
Orange Hit football coach Steve Sarkegian, so we'll have that
and additionally, we'll get you updated on some NFL things
and NFL topics as well. We've got Major League Baseball
to get to, so there's other there's some other topics
to get to, so we'll do that. But the one
(00:49):
thing that we wanted to mention was kind of an
Olympic update where things were with regard to the Olympics
and the unfortunate news that it looks like is going
to take place from with regard to Jordan Chiles that
(01:13):
it does not look as though she's going to be
able to hold on to her bronze medal and the
women's floor exercise. This thing has gone back and forth
as we know it started off with initially. Initially during
the competition, the ruling was Anna Barbosu of Romania finished third,
(01:41):
and the Team USA appealed and said that Jordan Childs
was not given the proper scores for some of the
more difficult disciplines within her routine. The judges agreed and
gave her the point or point oh one that moved
(02:06):
her to third place. Then the Romanian side, which was
very upset, saying that they shouldn't have made that decision,
said that the appeal was made too late. You have
one minute to make your appeal after that, and they
(02:31):
said that the appeal was four seconds beyond the one
minute time limit for scoring inquiries, and.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
On Monday, USA Gymnastics came right back and said that's
not true. We have video evidence that shows the appeal
was launched at forty seven seconds and a second appeal
came fifty five seconds, so both were inside of that
which would have made it legal at that point, would
(03:08):
have made it within the time. However, the court said nope,
not changed her mind. The rules do not allow.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
For an arbitteral award to.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Be reconsidered even when conclusive new evidence is presented. That
was according to the USA Gymnastics. He said, we're deeply
disappointed by the notification and will continue to pursue every
possible avenue and appeal process, including to the Swiss Federal Tribunal,
to ensure the just scoring placement and metal award for Jordan.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So now that they've.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Come back and the International Olympic Committee said meantime, okay,
you do that. The meantime, we're going to be in
touch with you, the US Olympic Committee to get Jordan
Child's to return her bronze medim and the US Olympic
Committee says she's not returning it until this gets rule
hold on and any appeal go could go to Switzerland's
(04:04):
highest court, the Swiss Tribunal or the European Court of
Human Rights. All this is over a bronze medal. You
know there there have been some of both sides that
said what they ought to do is just give give
them both the bronze. Some have said give three, four
and five, give all of them because there was two last.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Everybody gets a medal. Now, Flavor did give Childs his
own bronze medal he did, which may even be better
than an actual bronze medal.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, we've seen now the bronzing has come off of
some of the mids and flavor Flave.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You know, he's he's been a big supporter of the Olympians,
especially at the discus thrower Veronica Freeley.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
But he posted on X that he made a.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Bedazzled bronze medal for Childs as a potential replacement while
the US fights the powers that be. The replacement is
in the manner of a clock. Of course it is
because it's flavor flav. He where's the clock around his neck?
Since he was in public enemy. By the way, he's
a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. This public enemy
is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Jordan
(05:17):
Childs's mom replied on X Gina Chiles, thank you means
the world. She's not on socials right now, as you
can imagine. I'll share it with her.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
He's not on socials right now. Yeah, yeah, so she's not.
She and she had said yesterday that she uh did
not want to said she needed a mental.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Health break from it is the way that that was
going to go.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
She said that she was going to need a mental
health break.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Okay, here's something else I wanted to mention, and I
mentioned it's going into the top of the The next Olympics,
says we know, of course, are in Los Angeles. Every
Olympic Games, everyone going back decades, Every single one features
(06:13):
sports that are added, returning.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Or dropped.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So as Paris is passing the torch to Los Angeles,
the International Olympic Committee has already adjusted the event schedule.
A year ago, the IOC approved proposals for the five
new sports at the twenty twenty eight Olympics, some of
(06:42):
which have not been seen at the Games in more
than one hundred years, and as of this month, those
five sports have been approved for twenty twenty eight. So
here are the five sports that have been approved. First
of all, you should know there is the return of
both baseball and softball. There we go, and h and
(07:05):
our good friend and regular contributor to this program, Jane Watson,
the Chicago White Sox front offices on the selection committee
m for that twenty twenty eight Olympic team. So he'll
be part of that. Mike Socia will be the manager
of that Olympic team. So how is that going to
work with the baseball season.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
We'll just kind of be like golf where it's just
your or actually like MLS where the season continues and
if you're on the team or just not with your
professional baseball team.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I think so because I think it may be largely
minor leaguers and collegiate players. I don't think this will
be like the NHL or the WNBA would just shuts down,
yeah for a couple of weeks during Yeah, So I
don't I don't see that happening.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
So it was a shame because the last World Baseball Classic,
when you had the US first Japan, and you had
Otani going against Mike Trout, you know exactly what fun.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So baseball and women's softball. Now, the softball events are
going to be in Oklahoma City at the Softball Hall
of Fame where they have the women's College World Series. Now,
according to one report, I've said it said, the baseball
events will not be hosted in Los Angeles either. So
(08:23):
we'll see. If first he was a demonstration sport and
then it was officially including an Olympic program in the
ninety two Barcelona Games. Softball was introduced in Atlanta ninety
six as a women's only event. It wasn't until Tokyo
that they returned as a combined sport baseball and softball. Well,
while both sports are related, they were historically separated at
(08:43):
the Olympic level, with baseball as a men only sport
in softball as women's only.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
So well, the OCO will be open in twenty twenty eight. Well,
be any baseball being played there?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, that's right, it'll probably be torn I think that. Yeah,
aren't they going to tear down and build a new?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Thought of had it?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
You were out last week that there's that there was
funding approved to build a brand new recreation and business
park community in that area. Now, I didn't necessarily say
that the coliseum was going to be torn down, but anyway,
so they will return. You know what else is returning.
Lacrosse is returning for the third time of the game's
(09:22):
history in the form of lacrosse sixes. It's a more
fast paced version of field lacrosse for the modern player.
It only previously appeared at the nineteen oh four nineteen
oh eight Games, so this inclusion is a seminal achievement
for the sport. They say cricket, which appeared one time
(09:44):
back in nineteen hundred and there were only two teams
that played it, England in Canada in nineteen hundred and
so England won it, Canada won the silver, and England's
B team took the bronze, B for bronze. So cricket
(10:05):
will be back as well. New sports, well one other, yeah,
new sport. Squash, not the vegetable, the racket sport played
by two people within four enclosed walls kind of you know,
just it's a longer racket, kind of like racketball a
little bit there.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
And everyone playing it has to be over the age
of sixty. Let's stop that.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
First player to reach a score of eleven wins a game.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
First to win three games wins the entire match.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
That squash, says the guy by the way, who's playing
pickleball these days, you're playing.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Pickleball, and I want pickleball to be in the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Okay, that'd be fun. Well, maybe this opens the door
to it if squash works. And then flag football heck yeah, baby,
Now it's not quite the flag football that we've been
customed to seeing.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I mean it is. It's teams of five.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, okay, yard field for flag football men's and women's
flag football. US women's flag football is the reigning world
champion two times over. Oh uh huh, So there you go,
all right, So those are the sports that will be there.
The ones that are not going to be there. Breaking, oh,
(11:20):
it's not going to be back. Maybe they called it
break dancing.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
You'd be back because breaking just I don't like it, Greg,
it just sounds weird.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It said.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
While viral breakout star Ray gun the real name Rachel
Gunn of Australia, made a splash with her unique style
of breaking, the event seemingly didn't make enough of an
impression to bring the sport back. And then the other
one that may be surprised, it's not completely out yet,
but there's a decent boxing boxing may be pulled.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
This is for a different reason.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Up until twenty twenty, the International Boxing Association was the
governing body responsible for overseeing regulations of avent qualifications and
comp TII within the Olympics. However, due to allegations of
corruption imagine that boxing corruption, and failures to implement reforms
around governance and finance, the IOC stripped the IBA of
(12:13):
recognition in twenty twenty three. They have not made a
definite decision on that, but they will by early next year.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
That was an event that I really did not pay
too much attention to in his past Olympics. Yeah yeah, boxing,
and a lot of it does have to do with
all the corruption and all of the scandals involving.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
It's right, it's a shame. It's a shame when you
think about.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You know, Muhammad Ali was a gold medal winning boxer
rom in nineteen sixty wow, you know when he.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Was cash his clay. You know.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Also George Foreman one in nineteen sixty eight won the
gold medal and that sugar Ray Leonard. I mean, there
were great boxers who were gold medalists at the Olympics,
but it was a different time then.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
So we'll see how it goes. Thanks for there all, right.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Coming up next, we'll hear from Longhorn's head football coach,
Steve Sarkesian and we'll talk some other football topics as
well as we continue here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
under the Zone in the iHeartRadio app.
Well, welcome you.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Now our number two here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
hundred The Zone, Craig Way alongside the.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Producer Cameron Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
We're glad to have you with us, and we're with
you each and every weekday from Monday through Friday from
two to five, so we're glad to have you with
us alongside they they're coming up. We're going to have
some more conversation. We're going to hear more from long
(00:27):
Orange Hit football coach Steve Sarkegian, so we'll have that
and additionally, we'll get you updated on some NFL things
and NFL topics as well. We've got Major League Baseball
to get to, so there's other there's some other topics
to get to, so we'll do that. But the one
(00:49):
thing that we wanted to mention was kind of an
Olympic update where things were with regard to the Olympics
and the unfortunate news that it looks like is going
to take place from with regard to Jordan Chiles that
(01:13):
it does not look as though she's going to be
able to hold on to her bronze medal and the
women's floor exercise. This thing has gone back and forth
as we know it started off with initially. Initially during
the competition, the ruling was Anna Barbosu of Romania finished third,
(01:41):
and the Team USA appealed and said that Jordan Childs
was not given the proper scores for some of the
more difficult disciplines within her routine. The judges agreed and
gave her the point or point oh one that moved
(02:06):
her to third place. Then the Romanian side, which was
very upset, saying that they shouldn't have made that decision,
said that the appeal was made too late. You have
one minute to make your appeal after that, and they
(02:31):
said that the appeal was four seconds beyond the one
minute time limit for scoring inquiries, and.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
On Monday, USA Gymnastics came right back and said that's
not true. We have video evidence that shows the appeal
was launched at forty seven seconds and a second appeal
came fifty five seconds, so both were inside of that
which would have made it legal at that point, would
(03:08):
have made it within the time. However, the court said nope,
not changed her mind. The rules do not allow.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
For an arbitteral award to.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Be reconsidered even when conclusive new evidence is presented. That
was according to the USA Gymnastics. He said, we're deeply
disappointed by the notification and will continue to pursue every
possible avenue and appeal process, including to the Swiss Federal Tribunal,
to ensure the just scoring placement and metal award for Jordan.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So now that they've.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Come back and the International Olympic Committee said meantime, okay,
you do that. The meantime, we're going to be in
touch with you, the US Olympic Committee to get Jordan
Child's to return her bronze medim and the US Olympic
Committee says she's not returning it until this gets rule
hold on and any appeal go could go to Switzerland's
(04:04):
highest court, the Swiss Tribunal or the European Court of
Human Rights. All this is over a bronze medal. You
know there there have been some of both sides that
said what they ought to do is just give give
them both the bronze. Some have said give three, four
and five, give all of them because there was two last.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Everybody gets a medal. Now, Flavor did give Childs his
own bronze medal he did, which may even be better
than an actual bronze medal.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, we've seen now the bronzing has come off of
some of the mids and flavor Flave.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You know, he's he's been a big supporter of the Olympians,
especially at the discus thrower Veronica Freeley.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
But he posted on X that he made a.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Bedazzled bronze medal for Childs as a potential replacement while
the US fights the powers that be. The replacement is
in the manner of a clock. Of course it is
because it's flavor flav. He where's the clock around his neck?
Since he was in public enemy. By the way, he's
a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. This public enemy
is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Jordan
(05:17):
Childs's mom replied on X Gina Chiles, thank you means
the world. She's not on socials right now, as you
can imagine. I'll share it with her.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
He's not on socials right now. Yeah, yeah, so she's not.
She and she had said yesterday that she uh did
not want to said she needed a mental.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Health break from it is the way that that was
going to go.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
She said that she was going to need a mental
health break.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Okay, here's something else I wanted to mention, and I
mentioned it's going into the top of the The next Olympics,
says we know, of course, are in Los Angeles. Every
Olympic Games, everyone going back decades, Every single one features
(06:13):
sports that are added, returning.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Or dropped.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So as Paris is passing the torch to Los Angeles,
the International Olympic Committee has already adjusted the event schedule.
A year ago, the IOC approved proposals for the five
new sports at the twenty twenty eight Olympics, some of
(06:42):
which have not been seen at the Games in more
than one hundred years, and as of this month, those
five sports have been approved for twenty twenty eight. So
here are the five sports that have been approved. First
of all, you should know there is the return of
both baseball and softball. There we go, and h and
(07:05):
our good friend and regular contributor to this program, Jane Watson,
the Chicago White Sox front offices on the selection committee
m for that twenty twenty eight Olympic team. So he'll
be part of that. Mike Socia will be the manager
of that Olympic team. So how is that going to
work with the baseball season.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
We'll just kind of be like golf where it's just
your or actually like MLS where the season continues and
if you're on the team or just not with your
professional baseball team.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I think so because I think it may be largely
minor leaguers and collegiate players. I don't think this will
be like the NHL or the WNBA would just shuts down,
yeah for a couple of weeks during Yeah, So I
don't I don't see that happening.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
So it was a shame because the last World Baseball Classic,
when you had the US first Japan, and you had
Otani going against Mike Trout, you know exactly what fun.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So baseball and women's softball. Now, the softball events are
going to be in Oklahoma City at the Softball Hall
of Fame where they have the women's College World Series. Now,
according to one report, I've said it said, the baseball
events will not be hosted in Los Angeles either. So
(08:23):
we'll see. If first he was a demonstration sport and
then it was officially including an Olympic program in the
ninety two Barcelona Games. Softball was introduced in Atlanta ninety
six as a women's only event. It wasn't until Tokyo
that they returned as a combined sport baseball and softball. Well,
while both sports are related, they were historically separated at
(08:43):
the Olympic level, with baseball as a men only sport
in softball as women's only.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
So well, the OCO will be open in twenty twenty eight. Well,
be any baseball being played there?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, that's right, it'll probably be torn I think that. Yeah,
aren't they going to tear down and build a new?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Thought of had it?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
You were out last week that there's that there was
funding approved to build a brand new recreation and business
park community in that area. Now, I didn't necessarily say
that the coliseum was going to be torn down, but anyway,
so they will return. You know what else is returning.
Lacrosse is returning for the third time of the game's
(09:22):
history in the form of lacrosse sixes. It's a more
fast paced version of field lacrosse for the modern player.
It only previously appeared at the nineteen oh four nineteen
oh eight Games, so this inclusion is a seminal achievement
for the sport. They say cricket, which appeared one time
(09:44):
back in nineteen hundred and there were only two teams
that played it, England in Canada in nineteen hundred and
so England won it, Canada won the silver, and England's
B team took the bronze, B for bronze. So cricket
(10:05):
will be back as well. New sports, well one other, yeah,
new sport. Squash, not the vegetable, the racket sport played
by two people within four enclosed walls kind of you know,
just it's a longer racket, kind of like racketball a
little bit there.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
And everyone playing it has to be over the age
of sixty. Let's stop that.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
First player to reach a score of eleven wins a game.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
First to win three games wins the entire match.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
That squash, says the guy by the way, who's playing
pickleball these days, you're playing.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Pickleball, and I want pickleball to be in the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Okay, that'd be fun. Well, maybe this opens the door
to it if squash works. And then flag football heck yeah, baby,
Now it's not quite the flag football that we've been
customed to seeing.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I mean it is. It's teams of five.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, okay, yard field for flag football men's and women's
flag football. US women's flag football is the reigning world
champion two times over. Oh uh huh, So there you go,
all right, So those are the sports that will be there.
The ones that are not going to be there. Breaking, oh,
(11:20):
it's not going to be back. Maybe they called it
break dancing.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
You'd be back because breaking just I don't like it, Greg,
it just sounds weird.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It said.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
While viral breakout star Ray gun the real name Rachel
Gunn of Australia, made a splash with her unique style
of breaking, the event seemingly didn't make enough of an
impression to bring the sport back. And then the other
one that may be surprised, it's not completely out yet,
but there's a decent boxing boxing may be pulled.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
This is for a different reason.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Up until twenty twenty, the International Boxing Association was the
governing body responsible for overseeing regulations of avent qualifications and
comp TII within the Olympics. However, due to allegations of
corruption imagine that boxing corruption, and failures to implement reforms
around governance and finance, the IOC stripped the IBA of
(12:13):
recognition in twenty twenty three. They have not made a
definite decision on that, but they will by early next year.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
That was an event that I really did not pay
too much attention to in his past Olympics. Yeah yeah, boxing,
and a lot of it does have to do with
all the corruption and all of the scandals involving.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
It's right, it's a shame. It's a shame when you
think about.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You know, Muhammad Ali was a gold medal winning boxer
rom in nineteen sixty wow, you know when he.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Was cash his clay. You know.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Also George Foreman one in nineteen sixty eight won the
gold medal and that sugar Ray Leonard. I mean, there
were great boxers who were gold medalists at the Olympics,
but it was a different time then.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
So we'll see how it goes. Thanks for there all, right.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Coming up next, we'll hear from Longhorn's head football coach,
Steve Sarkesian and we'll talk some other football topics as
well as we continue here on Sports Radio AM thirteen
under the Zone in the iHeartRadio app.
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