August 9, 2024 • 6 mins
Hour 3 of Friday's program continues with updates from the 2024 Paris Olympics from Craig and Cam. Team USA Track and Field suffered a dissapointing result in the 4x100 relay after being disqualified from the race. Noah Lyles announced his Paris Games were over after testing positive for COVID.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Glad to have you with us here on this Friday
as we get you ready for the weekend. And we've
talked quite a bit about the Olympics, kept you updated
on that US women's basketball team won its semifinal handily
eighty five sixty four over Australia. Today they move into
(00:20):
the gold medal game on Sunday, and of course the
men's basketball team plays it's gold medal matchup against France
tomorrow afternoon at two thirty, so that'll be happening. Additionally,
Shakerri Richardson leading the relay, the four by hundred meter
(00:43):
women's relay team to the gold medal. She ran the
anchor leg and was like when she got the batade
who was in third place and then blew pass the
others to win it. So the and then the men's
four by one hundred, which has had trouble with stumbles
and a ton issues, did it again and got de
queed as a result of that, and that was very strange. Canada,
(01:10):
by the way, one that four by one hundred meter relay,
Andre de Grosse had a great last leg. They were
the silver medalist in twenty twenty, their second gold in
the event. Following their win in nineteen ninety six. But
it was weird because Christian Coleman got him off to
(01:32):
a good start, but he ended up kind of colliding
with Kenny Bednarik at the first handover. They recovered, but
they finished well back in the field. They weren't going
to meddle anyway. But then they were disqualified as the
exchange was illegal. Coleman said, it just didn't happen. Maybe
we could have put in some more work. I just
think in the moment it didn't happen. Since nineteen ninety five,
(01:56):
in the Olympics and the World Championships, the US has
now dropped had eleven drop drop batons or qualification disqualifications
or bands. So eleven times have you either dropped the baton,
had a disqualification like they did today, or being banned
from it? And uh Carl Lewis, of course we know,
(02:22):
you know how good he's been twice one Olympic gold
in the four by one blasted US team officials for
the performance. His tweet today was it's time to blow
up the system. This continues to be completely unacceptable. It's
clearer than everyone at US a t F. That's US
United States of American Track a field is more concerned
(02:44):
with relationships than winning. No athlete should step on the
track and run another relay until this program has changed
from top to bottom.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So it was a two days ago and I don't
know if it was for the gold now, but there
was an anchor race with the women's side and the
US one of the one of the I think was
the third leg. I don't know it was the anchor,
but she was out of the position to where when
she received the batond where she was standing originally on
the track, they would have been disqualified. And if not
(03:17):
for an Olympic official who actually like pointed towards the
runner and totlet you got to get back in the zone.
US finished first, but they would have they would have
been disqualified for that. So it's stuff like that, and
the the the Olympic announcers were like, how has that
even happened in the Olympics where you don't know where
you're supposed to be positioned. So it does seem like
Carl Lewis has a point, But the anchor relays have
(03:37):
been giving the track and field on the US side
some trouble throughout the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, very weird. Yeah, it's been bizarre. By the way,
Noah Lyles did not run in the four by one.
He was so in the wheelchair. Yeah, off the track. Well,
you got to give the dude some credit, the guy
they want to bronze while being COVID positive.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
You know, I got through it, but he did not
run in at.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
And congratulations by the way, we had not mentioned this yet,
but it bears congratulation. Olivia Reeves won the United States
first gold medal in weightlifting in twenty four years. She
lifted one hundred and seventeen kilograms that's three hundred and
ninety pounds in the snatch and one forty five that's
(04:24):
three hundred twenty pounds and the clean and jerk for
a total of two hundred and sixty two kilograms to
beat Mary Leavis Sanchez of Columbia by five kilograms in
the women's seventy one kg division. So the US last
won and Olympic gold medal in weightlifting in Sydney in
two thousand, when Tarak Not won the lightest women's division.
(04:47):
This was the first Olympic Games to include women's weightlifting
on the program.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
So that's cool. So and and by the way, that followed.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
A historic bronze medal for Hampton Morris, the first Olympic
medal of any kind for a US men's weightlifter since
the La Games in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
So the medal count continues to rise.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
They continue to add gold, they continue to add total medals.
They're up to one hundred and eleven total medals. They
have a twenty seven medal lead total on China for
total medals. Now they are tied with the Chinese for
most golds, both with thirty three the US he easily
(05:35):
out distancing China and the silvers thirty nine for the
United States, twenty six for China, and then thirty nine
bronze to twenty five for China. So it's one eleven
eighty four. The golds is going to get pretty close. Course,
if the US men's and women's basketball team both win golds,
that helps as well, and we'll see how the rest
of the weekend does for that. The We also mentioned
(06:02):
the fact that the Spain won the men's soccer gold
medal needed extra time, but they won it five to
three an extra time they had two goals in the
extra time, So Spain is your Olympic soccer gold medalist
(06:23):
team there on that. All right, coming up, we're gonna
shift over to baseball with some baseball conversation. Geane Watson
from the Chicago White Sox front office joins us. We'll
talk about how these division races are tightening up across
the board and just kind of look back now that
the trade deadline is coming gone out of the teams
(06:44):
are trying to get things organized for the stretch drive,
so we'll get his thoughts on that. We'll talk some
baseball that's up next. We'll continue on sports Radio AM
thirteen hunderd the zone of the iHeartRadio app.
Glad to have you with us here on this Friday
as we get you ready for the weekend. And we've
talked quite a bit about the Olympics, kept you updated
on that US women's basketball team won its semifinal handily
eighty five sixty four over Australia. Today they move into
(00:20):
the gold medal game on Sunday, and of course the
men's basketball team plays it's gold medal matchup against France
tomorrow afternoon at two thirty, so that'll be happening. Additionally,
Shakerri Richardson leading the relay, the four by hundred meter
(00:43):
women's relay team to the gold medal. She ran the
anchor leg and was like when she got the batade
who was in third place and then blew pass the
others to win it. So the and then the men's
four by one hundred, which has had trouble with stumbles
and a ton issues, did it again and got de
queed as a result of that, and that was very strange. Canada,
(01:10):
by the way, one that four by one hundred meter relay,
Andre de Grosse had a great last leg. They were
the silver medalist in twenty twenty, their second gold in
the event. Following their win in nineteen ninety six. But
it was weird because Christian Coleman got him off to
(01:32):
a good start, but he ended up kind of colliding
with Kenny Bednarik at the first handover. They recovered, but
they finished well back in the field. They weren't going
to meddle anyway. But then they were disqualified as the
exchange was illegal. Coleman said, it just didn't happen. Maybe
we could have put in some more work. I just
think in the moment it didn't happen. Since nineteen ninety five,
(01:56):
in the Olympics and the World Championships, the US has
now dropped had eleven drop drop batons or qualification disqualifications
or bands. So eleven times have you either dropped the baton,
had a disqualification like they did today, or being banned
from it? And uh Carl Lewis, of course we know,
(02:22):
you know how good he's been twice one Olympic gold
in the four by one blasted US team officials for
the performance. His tweet today was it's time to blow
up the system. This continues to be completely unacceptable. It's
clearer than everyone at US a t F. That's US
United States of American Track a field is more concerned
(02:44):
with relationships than winning. No athlete should step on the
track and run another relay until this program has changed
from top to bottom.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So it was a two days ago and I don't
know if it was for the gold now, but there
was an anchor race with the women's side and the
US one of the one of the I think was
the third leg. I don't know it was the anchor,
but she was out of the position to where when
she received the batond where she was standing originally on
the track, they would have been disqualified. And if not
(03:17):
for an Olympic official who actually like pointed towards the
runner and totlet you got to get back in the zone.
US finished first, but they would have they would have
been disqualified for that. So it's stuff like that, and
the the the Olympic announcers were like, how has that
even happened in the Olympics where you don't know where
you're supposed to be positioned. So it does seem like
Carl Lewis has a point, But the anchor relays have
(03:37):
been giving the track and field on the US side
some trouble throughout the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, very weird. Yeah, it's been bizarre. By the way,
Noah Lyles did not run in the four by one.
He was so in the wheelchair. Yeah, off the track. Well,
you got to give the dude some credit, the guy
they want to bronze while being COVID positive.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
You know, I got through it, but he did not
run in at.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
And congratulations by the way, we had not mentioned this yet,
but it bears congratulation. Olivia Reeves won the United States
first gold medal in weightlifting in twenty four years. She
lifted one hundred and seventeen kilograms that's three hundred and
ninety pounds in the snatch and one forty five that's
(04:24):
three hundred twenty pounds and the clean and jerk for
a total of two hundred and sixty two kilograms to
beat Mary Leavis Sanchez of Columbia by five kilograms in
the women's seventy one kg division. So the US last
won and Olympic gold medal in weightlifting in Sydney in
two thousand, when Tarak Not won the lightest women's division.
(04:47):
This was the first Olympic Games to include women's weightlifting
on the program.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
So that's cool. So and and by the way, that followed.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
A historic bronze medal for Hampton Morris, the first Olympic
medal of any kind for a US men's weightlifter since
the La Games in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
So the medal count continues to rise.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
They continue to add gold, they continue to add total medals.
They're up to one hundred and eleven total medals. They
have a twenty seven medal lead total on China for
total medals. Now they are tied with the Chinese for
most golds, both with thirty three the US he easily
(05:35):
out distancing China and the silvers thirty nine for the
United States, twenty six for China, and then thirty nine
bronze to twenty five for China. So it's one eleven
eighty four. The golds is going to get pretty close. Course,
if the US men's and women's basketball team both win golds,
that helps as well, and we'll see how the rest
of the weekend does for that. The We also mentioned
(06:02):
the fact that the Spain won the men's soccer gold
medal needed extra time, but they won it five to
three an extra time they had two goals in the
extra time, So Spain is your Olympic soccer gold medalist
(06:23):
team there on that. All right, coming up, we're gonna
shift over to baseball with some baseball conversation. Geane Watson
from the Chicago White Sox front office joins us. We'll
talk about how these division races are tightening up across
the board and just kind of look back now that
the trade deadline is coming gone out of the teams
(06:44):
are trying to get things organized for the stretch drive,
so we'll get his thoughts on that. We'll talk some
baseball that's up next. We'll continue on sports Radio AM
thirteen hunderd the zone of the iHeartRadio app.
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