August 1, 2024 • 9 mins
Craig goes over the latest medal count from the Olympics. Gives an update on Simone Biles, the Mens national basketball team, and the Womens National basketball team.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Glad to have you with us as well. We'll here's
some more from Longgrn's head football coach, Steve Sarkisian coming
up in a few minutes, so we'll hear some more
of that, and then we'll get you updated on some
baseball and some other things as well. But I didn't
(00:21):
say that we were going to update you on the Olympics,
and I did say last hour spoiler alert. Simone Biles
has done it again. It is to win the Olympic
all Around final, which she did today. So again it's
(00:44):
a spoiler alert. If you're planning to wait until tonight,
I may have already then, you know, spoil it for you.
I apologize if I've done that. But she did win,
beating Brazil's Rebecca and Rotty for a second Olympic all
around gymnastics title. Uh and she wasn't quite perfect today,
(01:07):
but she was good enough. In Paris, she edged out
Androtti with a total of fifty nine point one three
to one, just over a point ahead of Androtti at
fifty seven point nine three to two, one of the
closest finishes that Simone Biles has ever been a part
of in a major international event. Maybe it should be
(01:29):
that way in the Olympics, that it should be that close. Also,
Sinissa Lee, the Tokyo Olympics champion, picked up the bronze
despite spending much of the last fifteen months dealing with
multiple kidney diseases that left her return of the Games
very much in doubt, but she wound up getting the bronze,
and it was the smallest margin of victory in a
(01:53):
major international event since Simone Biles captured the third of
her record herd six World Championships at twenty fifteen. Man
that was when she was a teenager. She's twenty seven
years of age now, so she becomes the third woman
to become a two time Olympic champion, joining Larissa Latirnina
(02:16):
of the Soviet Union at the Melbourne Games in nineteen
fifty six and in Rome in nineteen sixty and Vera
Kaslavska of Czechoslovakia in nineteen sixty four when I was
in Tokyo in nineteen sixty eight in Mexico City. Biles
is also the oldest woman. Get this, who thinks of
Simone Biles as quote unquote old even for gymnastics, But
(02:39):
at age twenty seven, she's the oldest woman to claim
the biggest title in her sport since then. Thirty year
old Maria Gorohavskaya of the Soviet Union won the first
ever Olympic all around in Melbourne in nineteen fifty What's
says Melbourne in nineteen fifty two. If it's Melbourne, it's
(03:01):
nineteen fifty six. If it's nine even fifty two, it's Helsinki.
That's my nerdy goofy contribution to today's program. I happened
in the nineteen I wasn't alive then. But the nineteen
fifty two Summer Games were in Helsinki, Finland. They were
not in Melbourne. They were in Melbourne in nineteen fifty six.
So it either has to be fifty six or fifty.
It either has to be fifty six to be in
(03:23):
Melbourne or fifty two in hel Zincy. But anyway, six
gold medal, ninth overall medal for some own biles. By
the way, those numbers six gold and then the ninth
overall medal. Those numbers the same as. And here's the name.
You may remember Naia komen Each the first gymnast ever
(03:45):
to hit a perfect ten from romanium. And she was
there by the way watching that, and also, and I
think this is really cool. The US Olympic men's basketball
team was there. You know, hey, they're two to zero
Olympic competition. They're headed for the quarterfinals. They've got one
more group stage game against Puerto Rico before they go
(04:06):
into the quarterfinals. But hey, day off, let's go catch
Simon see if she can win gold again. And she did.
She it was close because she misjudged a transition on
uneven bars, which is the weakest of her four events.
She let go of the upper bar a little bit
too soon and it forced her to reach for a
(04:28):
larger than expected gap. She didn't fall, She kind of
muscled her way back into the routine. It did slow
down her momentum and it led to some major deductions
that left her trailing and rotty through two rotations, but
that didn't last. He responded with a pretty much wobble
free balance beam effort fourteen and a half fourteen twenty
(04:50):
five sixty six, highest of the night among the twenty
four finalists, and Androtti had to do a major balance
check during her slightly easier set that dropped her down
the second and heading into the floor exercise and we
all know that's Simone's event is the floor exercise, and
Roddie needed the best floor set of her life to
catch her. She didn't quite as she stepped out of
(05:10):
bounds at one point. It was a minor problem, but
enough to create a little bit of wiggle room. And
then Biles, by the way, if you're wanting to know
what music she used, she used music from Taylor Swift
and Beyonce in the routine. Seventy five seconds that we
began with the opening bars of Ready for It from
Swift feature the hardest tumbling ever done by a woman
(05:34):
in the history of the sport. So there is congratulations
to some Own Biles. She did it, did it again,
got it done again, and another Olympic gold medal for
her and with everything she's been through in her life,
that's really cool. It was good to see that. As
I mentioned, the Olympic men's basketball team will be playing up.
(06:00):
Kevin Durant, by the way, was quoted somebody asked him
about sim Own Biles and he said, I really believe
Goat Biles can catch a lob and finish. Hashtag bounce
he posted today did KD. Also in swimming, Reagan Smith
(06:21):
took silver in the two hundred meters butterfly. Teenage Canadian
star Summer Macintosh won the gold, and Jung of China
Jiang Yuki took home the bronze in that one. For
those of you who are counting on the Americans in badminton,
it did not go well. They lost Beiwen Xiang got beat,
(06:48):
took the first set and then lost the next two.
So that happened. And also Novak Djokovic who won the
other day in that big match up. Evan Rafadanal is
trying to win his second Olympic medal, but he might
have to fight through an injury to get there. During
his match with Stefano Sispas of Greece, they had to
(07:13):
look at his surgically repaired knee. He did not withdraw
and was headed to a third set. Is there so
we'll keep you posted on that. And as good as
the US Olympic men's basketball team is as good as
they have been and favorites though they are to win
(07:34):
the goal, that's how not good the three on three
US basketball team is. They got Jimmer for debt on
that team too, didn't work well. They got beat again.
Lithuania beat him for debt, has been dealing with the
right leg injury and he couldn't even play today, so
(07:56):
they lost their third straight game open pool play. They're
not even going to reach the metal, right they lost
twenty to eighteen, So they got beat in pool play
today and not good news for women's field hockey. Still
win unless they lost a great Britain five to two today.
So there you are with your Olympic update. And again
(08:17):
the biggest news is Simone Biles winning it again. Oh,
for those of you are interested in golf, if Cameron
Parker here, he was all wound up above golf. They
got it underway and it's been stopped twice due to
lightning in the area. So rain has been going on
today drizzles. Expect you to go until early evening and then
(08:39):
they started play later but then and then had lightning suspended.
So anyway, that's where it is. We'll see how that
works and how it works. Also for Scottie Scheffler, he's
been posting on social media a lot of things that
showed him in in the louver with his wife and
(09:02):
they've been doing a lot of parasite scene as well
as getting ready for the golf competition. All right. Up next,
we're gonna hear from Long Worn's head coach Steve Sarkeesian.
Some comments from Sark as Long Worn football team is
underway in its training camp practices at practice number two
is underway, but we'll hear more from sark coming up
on Sports Radio AM thirteen Under the Zone and the
(09:23):
iHeartRadio Am
Glad to have you with us as well. We'll here's
some more from Longgrn's head football coach, Steve Sarkisian coming
up in a few minutes, so we'll hear some more
of that, and then we'll get you updated on some
baseball and some other things as well. But I didn't
(00:21):
say that we were going to update you on the Olympics,
and I did say last hour spoiler alert. Simone Biles
has done it again. It is to win the Olympic
all Around final, which she did today. So again it's
(00:44):
a spoiler alert. If you're planning to wait until tonight,
I may have already then, you know, spoil it for you.
I apologize if I've done that. But she did win,
beating Brazil's Rebecca and Rotty for a second Olympic all
around gymnastics title. Uh and she wasn't quite perfect today,
(01:07):
but she was good enough. In Paris, she edged out
Androtti with a total of fifty nine point one three
to one, just over a point ahead of Androtti at
fifty seven point nine three to two, one of the
closest finishes that Simone Biles has ever been a part
of in a major international event. Maybe it should be
(01:29):
that way in the Olympics, that it should be that close. Also,
Sinissa Lee, the Tokyo Olympics champion, picked up the bronze
despite spending much of the last fifteen months dealing with
multiple kidney diseases that left her return of the Games
very much in doubt, but she wound up getting the bronze,
and it was the smallest margin of victory in a
(01:53):
major international event since Simone Biles captured the third of
her record herd six World Championships at twenty fifteen. Man
that was when she was a teenager. She's twenty seven
years of age now, so she becomes the third woman
to become a two time Olympic champion, joining Larissa Latirnina
(02:16):
of the Soviet Union at the Melbourne Games in nineteen
fifty six and in Rome in nineteen sixty and Vera
Kaslavska of Czechoslovakia in nineteen sixty four when I was
in Tokyo in nineteen sixty eight in Mexico City. Biles
is also the oldest woman. Get this, who thinks of
Simone Biles as quote unquote old even for gymnastics, But
(02:39):
at age twenty seven, she's the oldest woman to claim
the biggest title in her sport since then. Thirty year
old Maria Gorohavskaya of the Soviet Union won the first
ever Olympic all around in Melbourne in nineteen fifty What's
says Melbourne in nineteen fifty two. If it's Melbourne, it's
(03:01):
nineteen fifty six. If it's nine even fifty two, it's Helsinki.
That's my nerdy goofy contribution to today's program. I happened
in the nineteen I wasn't alive then. But the nineteen
fifty two Summer Games were in Helsinki, Finland. They were
not in Melbourne. They were in Melbourne in nineteen fifty six.
So it either has to be fifty six or fifty.
It either has to be fifty six to be in
(03:23):
Melbourne or fifty two in hel Zincy. But anyway, six
gold medal, ninth overall medal for some own biles. By
the way, those numbers six gold and then the ninth
overall medal. Those numbers the same as. And here's the name.
You may remember Naia komen Each the first gymnast ever
(03:45):
to hit a perfect ten from romanium. And she was
there by the way watching that, and also, and I
think this is really cool. The US Olympic men's basketball
team was there. You know, hey, they're two to zero
Olympic competition. They're headed for the quarterfinals. They've got one
more group stage game against Puerto Rico before they go
(04:06):
into the quarterfinals. But hey, day off, let's go catch
Simon see if she can win gold again. And she did.
She it was close because she misjudged a transition on
uneven bars, which is the weakest of her four events.
She let go of the upper bar a little bit
too soon and it forced her to reach for a
(04:28):
larger than expected gap. She didn't fall, She kind of
muscled her way back into the routine. It did slow
down her momentum and it led to some major deductions
that left her trailing and rotty through two rotations, but
that didn't last. He responded with a pretty much wobble
free balance beam effort fourteen and a half fourteen twenty
(04:50):
five sixty six, highest of the night among the twenty
four finalists, and Androtti had to do a major balance
check during her slightly easier set that dropped her down
the second and heading into the floor exercise and we
all know that's Simone's event is the floor exercise, and
Roddie needed the best floor set of her life to
catch her. She didn't quite as she stepped out of
(05:10):
bounds at one point. It was a minor problem, but
enough to create a little bit of wiggle room. And
then Biles, by the way, if you're wanting to know
what music she used, she used music from Taylor Swift
and Beyonce in the routine. Seventy five seconds that we
began with the opening bars of Ready for It from
Swift feature the hardest tumbling ever done by a woman
(05:34):
in the history of the sport. So there is congratulations
to some Own Biles. She did it, did it again,
got it done again, and another Olympic gold medal for
her and with everything she's been through in her life,
that's really cool. It was good to see that. As
I mentioned, the Olympic men's basketball team will be playing up.
(06:00):
Kevin Durant, by the way, was quoted somebody asked him
about sim Own Biles and he said, I really believe
Goat Biles can catch a lob and finish. Hashtag bounce
he posted today did KD. Also in swimming, Reagan Smith
(06:21):
took silver in the two hundred meters butterfly. Teenage Canadian
star Summer Macintosh won the gold, and Jung of China
Jiang Yuki took home the bronze in that one. For
those of you who are counting on the Americans in badminton,
it did not go well. They lost Beiwen Xiang got beat,
(06:48):
took the first set and then lost the next two.
So that happened. And also Novak Djokovic who won the
other day in that big match up. Evan Rafadanal is
trying to win his second Olympic medal, but he might
have to fight through an injury to get there. During
his match with Stefano Sispas of Greece, they had to
(07:13):
look at his surgically repaired knee. He did not withdraw
and was headed to a third set. Is there so
we'll keep you posted on that. And as good as
the US Olympic men's basketball team is as good as
they have been and favorites though they are to win
(07:34):
the goal, that's how not good the three on three
US basketball team is. They got Jimmer for debt on
that team too, didn't work well. They got beat again.
Lithuania beat him for debt, has been dealing with the
right leg injury and he couldn't even play today, so
(07:56):
they lost their third straight game open pool play. They're
not even going to reach the metal, right they lost
twenty to eighteen, So they got beat in pool play
today and not good news for women's field hockey. Still
win unless they lost a great Britain five to two today.
So there you are with your Olympic update. And again
(08:17):
the biggest news is Simone Biles winning it again. Oh,
for those of you are interested in golf, if Cameron
Parker here, he was all wound up above golf. They
got it underway and it's been stopped twice due to
lightning in the area. So rain has been going on
today drizzles. Expect you to go until early evening and then
(08:39):
they started play later but then and then had lightning suspended.
So anyway, that's where it is. We'll see how that
works and how it works. Also for Scottie Scheffler, he's
been posting on social media a lot of things that
showed him in in the louver with his wife and
(09:02):
they've been doing a lot of parasite scene as well
as getting ready for the golf competition. All right. Up next,
we're gonna hear from Long Worn's head coach Steve Sarkeesian.
Some comments from Sark as Long Worn football team is
underway in its training camp practices at practice number two
is underway, but we'll hear more from sark coming up
on Sports Radio AM thirteen Under the Zone and the
(09:23):
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