August 1, 2024 • 22 mins
On Sports Fix Paris 2024 Edition with Jason Pine for 2 August, Gold-medal winning doubles sculler Lucy Spoors joins the podcast to relive their dramatic final.
New Zealand's medal tally increases to five, after our Kiwi rower's win one of each colour; Women's Double Sculls - Gold, Men's Four - Silver, Women's Four - Bronze.
Elsewhere, a great start by Ryan Fox in the golf, but frustration for our sailors as medal racing is postponed due to light winds.
And Tokyo bronze medallist Dylan Schmidt join's Piney ahead of his trampoline event tonight.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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The Triumphs, he is an Olympic Champion.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
The tragedy see and all the gold. Your daily update
from the pinnacle of sport. This is Sports Fix Paris
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Speaker 4 (00:37):
Hello and welcome into the Sports Fixed podcast Paris twenty
twenty four edition. I'm Jason Pine. It's Friday, the second
of August. Day six action all done at Paris twenty
twenty four and what a start to the day. In
the rowing, gold ballists.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
And Olympic champions Brook Francis and Lucy Sports.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Represents it New Field were but not just that, a
full suite of medals, one of each color at the owing.
The day started in the best possible fashion with Lucy
Spores and Brook Francis in the final of the women's
double skulls.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
One hundred meters to go, Brook Francis, Lucy Spores, They've
got their noses in front. Can they maintain the lead
half a boat length? Francis Spores Gold Beckons for the
New Zealand women's double skulls down to the line. That's gold,
gold for New Zealand, Brook Francis, Lucy Spores Olympic champions,
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magnificent from the New Zealand Women's double skulls.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
True, absolutely right. Lucy Spores is with us now on
the Sports Fix podcast. Congratulations Lucy, to you and to Brook.
How does it feel to have a gold medal around
your neck?
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (01:58):
It feels unbelievable and it's just slowly starting to sink in.
I think when you're racing, you can only ever think
so far ahead, and you're always sort of thinking about
the moment and what's.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Ahead of you for that day.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
So to be here now in New Zealand house, celebrating
with family and friends, it's sort of just starting to
all sit in.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
It's been a journey, hasn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I think a lot of people are becoming aware of
your story after Tokyo, a way to start a family
back now a couple of mums who are now gold medalists.
How do you reflect on the last three years of
your life?
Speaker 6 (02:30):
I'm so I'm so proud, I guess and I have
taken some time today to sort of reflect on where
we've come from and what it has taken, because I
guess there was a point there where, yes, we had
both just given birth and I felt so far physically
from where I needed to be as an Olympian, and
(02:52):
also I was going through, you know, such mental changes
as a mother. You know, it really changes who you are,
so together it all together and to persevere.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
When you know that you're.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
You know, sort of scraping up the bottom of the
Rhyean New Zealand team and you're not on form at all.
It has taken a lot of patience, Yeah, and I
think a lot of courage from both of us.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
And I definitely couldn't have done.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
It without Brook because to have someone who was, you know,
just three months ahead of me postpartum, and you know,
to be able to have her to ask questions of
and things like that, it's been amazing and definitely a journey.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Did you always feel as though you would make it
to Paris?
Speaker 6 (03:33):
I think, if I'm honest, we both didn't return to
Sport without believing that we could be in Paris. The
first thing I wanted to take off was obviously qualifying
the boat and getting here, but you know, we both
had silver and Tokyo, and we both I think, had
a real drive to be here, not to just make
up the numbers. So yeah, I think I think there
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has been a deep belief throughout even though from the
outside it probably didn't really look like that for a
really long time.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Well let's look at this race. You were third at
one thousand, then accelerator to take the lead from Romania
around the fifth teen hundred meter mark, and then they
came at you at the end. Was did the race
go to plan? What is it? What you planned?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
We have a very set race plan for obviously different
stages of the race, which I know like the back
of my hand, but today's sort of the main goal
was we went out there thinking that we had to
be brave. The Romanians have been unbelievably dominant for the
last three years since Tokyo, and they're really dangerous, you
know in that last five hundred and going up beside
(04:40):
them in that last five hundred wasn't exactly where I
would I would.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Have said, was the perfect place to be.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
But I also just back, you know Brooks so much,
and I thought, if we get our bow out, I reckon,
we're not going to give it up.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
And I kind of feel like that's exactly what we did.
We just once we got our bow out, we were
just hanging on, hanging on, hanging on, and the rate
was coming up and up. But I think we just knew,
we knew we could hang in there.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I remember the men's double scullers Joseph Sullivan, Nateth and
Cohen winning gold in London and twenty twelve, and from
memory that was a sprint finish as well. Was that
Were you aware of that sort of finish that might
be required to win gold in a rigaanna like this?
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:20):
And it's funny you say that because we've actually told
told a lot of people that today is that we
talked about it if it came down to that, and
we knew that the last couple of strokes would have
to be punchy and really effective, and coming into the
last hundred actually yelled Joe, and I knew exactly what
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that meant. I knew that the margin was super tight.
And I mean it was only sort of an hour
ago that I actually looked at the Times and realized
how plos it was.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
That's amazing that your channeled those guys from twelve years
ago to get you across the line. That's outstanding, of course.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
And I actually I actually wrote nothing like Joe Sullivan,
Like he's a short, powerful guy and I'm much longer,
and I don't actually know that I'm capable of growing
like him.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
But it's what I was thinking about, or.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Whatever it was. It worked. Of course, you won silver
and the women's eight back in Tokyo. How different has
it been with Brooke, just the two of you compared
to a team of eight or nine?
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Actually, yes, And I mean the team of eight was
an amazing experience and I wouldn't change it for the world,
because you know, those girls were absolutely you know, we're.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Friends forever now.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
But to do this with Brook, now that we've done
that as two months together, I can't imagine it working
out so well if I was in a bigger boat
with so many people having to make compromise, you know,
just having us as a unit.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I think all.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Mothers know you've got to be flexible, and things are
changing all the time, and the amount of times we've
had to adapt and change things on the fly, it
has been difficult and it hasn't been easy. And probably
having just the two of us in the one boat
has yeah, given us the ability to do that the
best of times.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Amazing, And you weren't the only spores girl too. Have
a dual with Romanians today. Your sister Phoebe of course
part of the women's four who won bronze and they
were battling away with the Romanians for the back end
of their race as well. Did you get the chance
to watch that race?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (07:20):
I did, and I think I ruined about ten other
people's media interviews in the media shoot because I was
absolutely screaming for thieves. But I was so conscious of
wrapping up my own interviews and getting myself in a
place where I could yell my head off for her
because I really believed that they could also have a
good race. And I feel the same about the whole
(07:42):
New Zealand Rolling team. You know, we're all family, and
I think we're heading into another couple of really exciting days.
You know, all our training partners are about to go
next and it's going to be cool.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
So cool, alright, and just before you go, obviously a
new mum. Now, are your son Rupert? I believe he's
there with you presumably, Yes.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
He is, so Brooke and I have moved into the
hotel and the team hotel in Paris. So he's staying
with my partner and my parents Airbnb, but he's here.
He's been watching every day. Today was really hot for him.
He's been he needs to have a few ice blocks
and calm down. But for an eighteen month old, he said,
(08:21):
some pretty big days.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I remember those days as when my kids were about
that age year. Nothing like an ice block to come
somebody down on a hot day. Outstanding, Lucy, congratulations on
the gold medal. Everybody back here is just utterly delighted
with what you've achieved. More to come, I know from
the rowing team. Thanks so much for taking the time
for a chat.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
That's Lucy Spores, who, along with Brook Francis, became the
first set of mums to win an Olympic robbing medal
for New Zealand gold in the women's double skulls.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
Sportsfix Paris twenty twenty four edition.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Then it was the turn of the women's four Jackie Gowler,
Phoebe Spores, sister of Lucy, of course, Davina Waddi and
Kerry Williams.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
New Zealand have third spot at the moment, coming down
to the line. Who's it gonna be? Is it the
Netherlands or Great Britain? Never or Great Britain to the line,
it's the Netherlands, Great Britain and New Zealand. Bronze medal
in the women's.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Four and that was on the end of it. The
men's four of Logan Olrich, Matt McDonald, Tom Murray and
Oliver McLean were in the medals as well.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
They're almost bout to bow now the New Zealand Crewe McLean,
Olrich Murray and McDonald. Can they run down the US?
I think it's going to be just beyond them. The
USA coming down to the line in first position, gold goes.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
To US silver, New Zealand what am mourning of gold?
Are silver and a bronze. In the rowing meantime, it
was semifinals for our single scolers Emma Twig and the
women's Emma Twig.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Though coming down to the finish line, Emma tweg one
in semi final bat Lithuania two and the USA in
third spot.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
And this is as you would expect, and it was
as well for Tom McIntosh and the men's.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
New Zealand in second spot. Well done, Thomas McIntosh. He
got his nose back in front of Belgium, but Belgium
is thrilled first time Olympian. He raises his arm. I'm
into the A final of the men's single.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Skulls as is Tom McIntosh, so they'll both race finals
on Saturday night. Emma Twig at eighteen minutes past eight,
Tom McIntosh at eight point thirty. Robbie Manson and Jordan
Parry meantime, finished sixth in the men's double skulls finals.
Speaker 9 (10:39):
Every Golden Movement from the Olympic Games.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
It's Sports figs Paris twenty twenty four edition with Jason Vine.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Other stories around today. Race officials continue to hunt for
wind in Marseille. After the abandonment of the men's skiff
sailing final, Isaac McCarty and Will McKenzie were poised to
earn medals, but the race was stopped not once but
twice due to fickle breezes. They'll have another go tomorrow.
The women's skiff crew of Joe La and Molly Meach
were also unable to get their race underway. Windsurfer Josh
(11:10):
Armott will advance directly to the semi finals off the
coast of Marseilles after finishing third across thirteen preliminary races.
His results today included second and third placings to help
him advance Villa ten Half the meantime will contest the
women's quarter finals in the windsurfing after finishing ninth after
her fourteen fleet races. Tom Saunders underwey and the men's
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dinghy twelfth overall after and eleventh and a seventeenth, and
Greta Pilkington finished twenty first in the only women's dinghy
race that was able to be sailed.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
This is Sportsfix Paris twenty twenty four edition, your daily
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Speaker 9 (11:47):
Howard by News talks, I'd.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Be strong start from Ryan Fox to the men's golf tournament.
He's four under and in a share of eighth after
the first round. Fox had five birdies as only blemish
came on sixteen. A little bit of a sloppy three
pot on sixteen, but four under probably felt like as
bad as it was going to be out there today.
Compatriot Daniel Hillyer shot a four over seven to sit
(12:09):
fifty sixth. Twenty twenty one Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama has
the lead at eight under the card. Fin Butcher has
missed the CANU slalom final due to a fifty second
penalty for a missed gate. Initially, his effort looked really,
really good. A job well done, carving out a spot
in the decider with a semi final run of ninety
four point four to zero seconds before the missed gate
(12:32):
was revealed. Fifty points added and Finn Butcher missed out
on the final.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
I mean it was almost exactly how we'd planned to paddle.
I clipped a couple of gates, which not how.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
I planned, but.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Yeah, I mean I was happy when I finished, So
you can't be too much more, too much more unhappy
if the judges saw something that you might not have.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
But it is what it is.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
I'm happy to be here, pretty stoked to race in
front of this crowd. I just what I'd love to
be raising again.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
But that's life. Let's go to the poll. The women's
four x two hundred meter freestyle relay team qualified eighth
for the final and finished eighth in that final. Lewis
Clarebert qualified for the semifinals of the two hundred meters
individual medley, but couldn't reach the final. And Taiko toryp
Ormsby in his debut Olympics nineteenth fastest overall in the
(13:22):
men's fifty meter freestyle, narrowly missing out on the semifinals.
Our BMX race has hit the track. Rico Beaman won
the last chance race. He's qualified for tomorrow's semifinals, but
Leila Walker was unable to emulate him. Judoka Moider de
Villiers has been eliminated in her first round of the
seventy eight kilogram women's class, and the men's black Sticks
(13:45):
remained winless after a five nil hammering at the hands
of Australia.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
Sportsfix Paris twenty twenty four edition.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Dylan Schmidt made his Olympic debut at Rio twenty sixteen,
becoming the first ever New Zealander to compete in trampoline
at the Olympic Games. He finished seventh. Three years ago,
he won our first ever Olympics gymnastics medal bronze in token.
Dylan Schmidt back for a third Olympic Games. He joined
us now on Sports Fix. What have the last few
(14:13):
days been like, Dylan heading into your competition?
Speaker 10 (14:17):
To be honest, it's just kind of getting on the
tram getting the body moving and you're trying to feel
press and stuff.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
I wouldn't particularly call it training.
Speaker 10 (14:24):
All the training's done, I just get up, you know,
sort of roll through the motions and and sort of
go through the skills that I'm going to be doing,
maybe banging out a couple of routines and stuff like that,
and just get the feel for things that maybe aren't
quite clicking and just try and get those little things
to click. And yeah, really just kind of enjoy the trainings,
and you know, my bodies and great shapes. The training
is feeling like relatively easy, which is which is always nice.
(14:47):
And just really enjoy it and just take my time
and yeah, just kind of take it easy.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Really good stuff. Your events Friday night, Friday night, your
time Saturday morning over here for us to tune in
and take it all in. Can you tell us Dallen
about the format what lies ahead of you on on
Friday night over there?
Speaker 10 (15:04):
It's a bit different to normal and it all gets
all over pretty quick. My event starts at six and
is over at eight thirty. That includes the final six
pm over here eight thirty pm finish. So basically there's
sixteen of us split into two flights, and yeah, the
first flight will march out do their routine.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
Then we'll march out to our routine.
Speaker 10 (15:22):
We do get two chances now to get into the final,
so we'll hopefully I'll only do one run routine to
stay fresh, and that routine should be good enough to
make the final. And then basically it's just like straight final,
march out people who don't who don't qualify, I leave
and we stay and do another routine, and that's all.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
That's all. That's all, it's all all that happens.
Speaker 10 (15:42):
So it's yeah, it's pretty pretty small and pretty pretty quick,
unusual really for us. But I've done it twice now obviously,
so I know what it's all about.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
So it's a voluntary routine. There's no compulsory routine that
you do. You just put in a voluntary routine as
you've outlined. You get hopefully only one. You do it once,
do it, well, you're into the final. But it's just
the voluntary routine.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
Yep, that's correct. So that's different from in Tokyo.
Speaker 10 (16:07):
So in Tokyo yet we had to do set like
voluntary compulsory routine that was like an easy routine and
then that got added on to our voluntary score. But
the cycle they've changed the rules so there's no more
compulsory for seniors anymore. We just do a voluntary Usually
it's your best your best two to get into semi finals,
and then you've got one chance in semi finals to
get into finals, and then finals one chance again. But
(16:28):
because there's only sixteen us, this will be the first
competition where like any of us would have had, you know,
two chances to get into the final. So it's likely
going to be that to get into the final, the
score is going to be a little bit bigger because
you know you've got two chances. But you know, we'll
see it's that should be should be interesting, but I'm
definitely ready for it.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Good on you mate, well as I understand it. So
the score is a combination of difficulty, execution and time
of flight. Is that still the case yep.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
Then there's one more element as well, which is basically
a horizontal displacement. So if you land on the cross
you get zero Marx off and sort of every sort
of box you leave from the cross you start to
get deductions.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
So there's there.
Speaker 10 (17:08):
That's the only other ector part of the score. That
that's out of them as well.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Are you as you gain more experience, I mean you've
been doing this for a while now, as I say,
third third Olympic games, are you finding yourself trying more things,
trying different things, or are you just trying to do
the same things better.
Speaker 10 (17:25):
I mean you're always trying to do the same things better.
But you know, this game's I'm doing a pretty difficult routine.
I sort of have to if I want to be,
you know, up there with with those guys. So yeah,
definitely a little bit different to last games. I'm putting out,
you know, my third skill and this routine is what
I started my routine with in Tokyo, so I'll definitely
step in that aspect up. But yeah, obviously trying to
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maintain my height, trying to maintain my execution and stuff
as well. So yeah, I mean for me, this this
competition is yes, basically go hard or go home. Like
I'm just giving it everything, you know, obviously do my
best and the routines, you know, feeling good, So I'm
definitely ready. But you know it's almost like at this
point and sort of where the sport that is, you've
(18:08):
got to sort of take a few risks if you
want the rewards, which for me is quite exciting. You know,
I'm really really excited that, you know, I actually have
to have to push myself a bit more than just
kind of staying in my comfort zone.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
I guess so good.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
So the difficulty part of it, the difficulty part of
the score is where you can really boost your score.
Is that Is that a fair assessment?
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Yeah, difficulty and and time of flight are the two
big ones.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
So you've been working on that pretty hard other last
little while.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
When you're standing there just about to start, what are
the final few things that go through your mind? Or
do you just try and clear your mind as you're
about to start a routine.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
Yeah, for the most part, it's just you know, try
and clear the mind, and you know, just tell myself
basically that it's it's just a sport, right like, whatever happens,
just enjoy it, have fun, embrace the moment, and just
be happy with whatever happens, because you know, all the
work that I've put in.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
Is there, and you know, if it's me be it's
meant to be, it's not, it's not. It's all good.
I'll go home and still have a pretty awesome life.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
So just really like kind of like stay grounded, stay
put everything into perspective, and you know, kind of just
take that weight off your shoulders a little bit before
you go let yourself free. And then generally that's where
my best performance has comes, when I'm really free of
free of outcome and free of emotion and just going
out there and just having fun and enjoying it.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
All Right, we can't wait to see you compete, Dylan.
Thanks for joining us on the Sports Fixed podcast. Dylan Schmidt.
An action on the trampoline. Four o'clock Saturday morning is
the qualifier and ten to six is the final in
the individual men's trampoline.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
Every Golden moment from the Olympic Games. It's Sports Fix
Paris twenty twenty four.
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Editions, quick look ahead to other action on day seven.
Hopefully we'll have that metal race and the men's skiff
at the sailing plus other classes continuing as well. Rowers
Jackie Kittle and Shannon Cox chase a medal in the
women's lightweight double skulls final. It's the first of track
and field. Sam Tanner in the heats of the men's
fifteen hundred meters and Zoey Hobbes in the women's one
(20:15):
hundred meter heats tonight, then Tom Walsh and Jack O'Gill
in shot put qualifying around six o'clock tomorrow morning in
the pool heats for Erica Fairweather and Eve Thomas and
the women's eight hundred meter freestyle, and Cameron Gray in
the men's one hundred butterfly. Dylan Schmidt as mentioned in
the men's trampoline, and Madeline Davidson competes in the women's
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trampoline round two and the men's golf, Luca Jones and
Finn Butcher in the canoe slalom kayak cross. Sydney Andrews
takes part in the women's judo, and the Black Sticks
play their final match of the Games against Ireland.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Sports Vegs Paris twenty twenty four edition to the medal table,
Fifty nations have now won at least one medal.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
China on top with eleven golds. New Zealand are in
twelfth position with two golds, two silvers and a bronze.
Three medals at the rowing on a terrific day six.
Don't forget you can listen to line commentary of the
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We'll leave you today with the Strains of God Defend
New Zealand ringing out for the second time, this time
at the rowing for double scullers Lucy Spores and Brook Francis.
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Speaker 4 (00:37):
Hello and welcome into the Sports Fixed podcast Paris twenty
twenty four edition. I'm Jason Pine. It's Friday, the second
of August. Day six action all done at Paris twenty
twenty four and what a start to the day. In
the rowing, gold ballists.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
And Olympic champions Brook Francis and Lucy Sports.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Represents it New Field were but not just that, a
full suite of medals, one of each color at the owing.
The day started in the best possible fashion with Lucy
Spores and Brook Francis in the final of the women's
double skulls.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
One hundred meters to go, Brook Francis, Lucy Spores, They've
got their noses in front. Can they maintain the lead
half a boat length? Francis Spores Gold Beckons for the
New Zealand women's double skulls down to the line. That's gold,
gold for New Zealand, Brook Francis, Lucy Spores Olympic champions,
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magnificent from the New Zealand Women's double skulls.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
True, absolutely right. Lucy Spores is with us now on
the Sports Fix podcast. Congratulations Lucy, to you and to Brook.
How does it feel to have a gold medal around
your neck?
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (01:58):
It feels unbelievable and it's just slowly starting to sink in.
I think when you're racing, you can only ever think
so far ahead, and you're always sort of thinking about
the moment and what's.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Ahead of you for that day.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
So to be here now in New Zealand house, celebrating
with family and friends, it's sort of just starting to
all sit in.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
It's been a journey, hasn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I think a lot of people are becoming aware of
your story after Tokyo, a way to start a family
back now a couple of mums who are now gold medalists.
How do you reflect on the last three years of
your life?
Speaker 6 (02:30):
I'm so I'm so proud, I guess and I have
taken some time today to sort of reflect on where
we've come from and what it has taken, because I
guess there was a point there where, yes, we had
both just given birth and I felt so far physically
from where I needed to be as an Olympian, and
(02:52):
also I was going through, you know, such mental changes
as a mother. You know, it really changes who you are,
so together it all together and to persevere.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
When you know that you're.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
You know, sort of scraping up the bottom of the
Rhyean New Zealand team and you're not on form at all.
It has taken a lot of patience, Yeah, and I
think a lot of courage from both of us.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
And I definitely couldn't have done.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
It without Brook because to have someone who was, you know,
just three months ahead of me postpartum, and you know,
to be able to have her to ask questions of
and things like that, it's been amazing and definitely a journey.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Did you always feel as though you would make it
to Paris?
Speaker 6 (03:33):
I think, if I'm honest, we both didn't return to
Sport without believing that we could be in Paris. The
first thing I wanted to take off was obviously qualifying
the boat and getting here, but you know, we both
had silver and Tokyo, and we both I think, had
a real drive to be here, not to just make
up the numbers. So yeah, I think I think there
(03:55):
has been a deep belief throughout even though from the
outside it probably didn't really look like that for a
really long time.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Well let's look at this race. You were third at
one thousand, then accelerator to take the lead from Romania
around the fifth teen hundred meter mark, and then they
came at you at the end. Was did the race
go to plan? What is it? What you planned?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
We have a very set race plan for obviously different
stages of the race, which I know like the back
of my hand, but today's sort of the main goal
was we went out there thinking that we had to
be brave. The Romanians have been unbelievably dominant for the
last three years since Tokyo, and they're really dangerous, you
know in that last five hundred and going up beside
(04:40):
them in that last five hundred wasn't exactly where I
would I would.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Have said, was the perfect place to be.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
But I also just back, you know Brooks so much,
and I thought, if we get our bow out, I reckon,
we're not going to give it up.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
And I kind of feel like that's exactly what we did.
We just once we got our bow out, we were
just hanging on, hanging on, hanging on, and the rate
was coming up and up. But I think we just knew,
we knew we could hang in there.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I remember the men's double scullers Joseph Sullivan, Nateth and
Cohen winning gold in London and twenty twelve, and from
memory that was a sprint finish as well. Was that
Were you aware of that sort of finish that might
be required to win gold in a rigaanna like this?
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:20):
And it's funny you say that because we've actually told
told a lot of people that today is that we
talked about it if it came down to that, and
we knew that the last couple of strokes would have
to be punchy and really effective, and coming into the
last hundred actually yelled Joe, and I knew exactly what
(05:41):
that meant. I knew that the margin was super tight.
And I mean it was only sort of an hour
ago that I actually looked at the Times and realized
how plos it was.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
That's amazing that your channeled those guys from twelve years
ago to get you across the line. That's outstanding, of course.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
And I actually I actually wrote nothing like Joe Sullivan,
Like he's a short, powerful guy and I'm much longer,
and I don't actually know that I'm capable of growing
like him.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
But it's what I was thinking about, or.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Whatever it was. It worked. Of course, you won silver
and the women's eight back in Tokyo. How different has
it been with Brooke, just the two of you compared
to a team of eight or nine?
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Actually, yes, And I mean the team of eight was
an amazing experience and I wouldn't change it for the world,
because you know, those girls were absolutely you know, we're.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Friends forever now.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
But to do this with Brook, now that we've done
that as two months together, I can't imagine it working
out so well if I was in a bigger boat
with so many people having to make compromise, you know,
just having us as a unit.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I think all.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Mothers know you've got to be flexible, and things are
changing all the time, and the amount of times we've
had to adapt and change things on the fly, it
has been difficult and it hasn't been easy. And probably
having just the two of us in the one boat
has yeah, given us the ability to do that the
best of times.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Amazing, And you weren't the only spores girl too. Have
a dual with Romanians today. Your sister Phoebe of course
part of the women's four who won bronze and they
were battling away with the Romanians for the back end
of their race as well. Did you get the chance
to watch that race?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (07:20):
I did, and I think I ruined about ten other
people's media interviews in the media shoot because I was
absolutely screaming for thieves. But I was so conscious of
wrapping up my own interviews and getting myself in a
place where I could yell my head off for her
because I really believed that they could also have a
good race. And I feel the same about the whole
(07:42):
New Zealand Rolling team. You know, we're all family, and
I think we're heading into another couple of really exciting days.
You know, all our training partners are about to go
next and it's going to be cool.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
So cool, alright, and just before you go, obviously a
new mum. Now, are your son Rupert? I believe he's
there with you presumably, Yes.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
He is, so Brooke and I have moved into the
hotel and the team hotel in Paris. So he's staying
with my partner and my parents Airbnb, but he's here.
He's been watching every day. Today was really hot for him.
He's been he needs to have a few ice blocks
and calm down. But for an eighteen month old, he said,
(08:21):
some pretty big days.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I remember those days as when my kids were about
that age year. Nothing like an ice block to come
somebody down on a hot day. Outstanding, Lucy, congratulations on
the gold medal. Everybody back here is just utterly delighted
with what you've achieved. More to come, I know from
the rowing team. Thanks so much for taking the time
for a chat.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
That's Lucy Spores, who, along with Brook Francis, became the
first set of mums to win an Olympic robbing medal
for New Zealand gold in the women's double skulls.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
Sportsfix Paris twenty twenty four edition.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Then it was the turn of the women's four Jackie Gowler,
Phoebe Spores, sister of Lucy, of course, Davina Waddi and
Kerry Williams.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
New Zealand have third spot at the moment, coming down
to the line. Who's it gonna be? Is it the
Netherlands or Great Britain? Never or Great Britain to the line,
it's the Netherlands, Great Britain and New Zealand. Bronze medal
in the women's.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Four and that was on the end of it. The
men's four of Logan Olrich, Matt McDonald, Tom Murray and
Oliver McLean were in the medals as well.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
They're almost bout to bow now the New Zealand Crewe McLean,
Olrich Murray and McDonald. Can they run down the US?
I think it's going to be just beyond them. The
USA coming down to the line in first position, gold goes.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
To US silver, New Zealand what am mourning of gold?
Are silver and a bronze. In the rowing meantime, it
was semifinals for our single scolers Emma Twig and the
women's Emma Twig.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Though coming down to the finish line, Emma tweg one
in semi final bat Lithuania two and the USA in
third spot.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
And this is as you would expect, and it was
as well for Tom McIntosh and the men's.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
New Zealand in second spot. Well done, Thomas McIntosh. He
got his nose back in front of Belgium, but Belgium
is thrilled first time Olympian. He raises his arm. I'm
into the A final of the men's single.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Skulls as is Tom McIntosh, so they'll both race finals
on Saturday night. Emma Twig at eighteen minutes past eight,
Tom McIntosh at eight point thirty. Robbie Manson and Jordan
Parry meantime, finished sixth in the men's double skulls finals.
Speaker 9 (10:39):
Every Golden Movement from the Olympic Games.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
It's Sports figs Paris twenty twenty four edition with Jason Vine.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Other stories around today. Race officials continue to hunt for
wind in Marseille. After the abandonment of the men's skiff
sailing final, Isaac McCarty and Will McKenzie were poised to
earn medals, but the race was stopped not once but
twice due to fickle breezes. They'll have another go tomorrow.
The women's skiff crew of Joe La and Molly Meach
were also unable to get their race underway. Windsurfer Josh
(11:10):
Armott will advance directly to the semi finals off the
coast of Marseilles after finishing third across thirteen preliminary races.
His results today included second and third placings to help
him advance Villa ten Half the meantime will contest the
women's quarter finals in the windsurfing after finishing ninth after
her fourteen fleet races. Tom Saunders underwey and the men's
(11:32):
dinghy twelfth overall after and eleventh and a seventeenth, and
Greta Pilkington finished twenty first in the only women's dinghy
race that was able to be sailed.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
This is Sportsfix Paris twenty twenty four edition, your daily
update for the Olympic Games.
Speaker 9 (11:47):
Howard by News talks, I'd.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Be strong start from Ryan Fox to the men's golf tournament.
He's four under and in a share of eighth after
the first round. Fox had five birdies as only blemish
came on sixteen. A little bit of a sloppy three
pot on sixteen, but four under probably felt like as
bad as it was going to be out there today.
Compatriot Daniel Hillyer shot a four over seven to sit
(12:09):
fifty sixth. Twenty twenty one Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama has
the lead at eight under the card. Fin Butcher has
missed the CANU slalom final due to a fifty second
penalty for a missed gate. Initially, his effort looked really,
really good. A job well done, carving out a spot
in the decider with a semi final run of ninety
four point four to zero seconds before the missed gate
(12:32):
was revealed. Fifty points added and Finn Butcher missed out
on the final.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
I mean it was almost exactly how we'd planned to paddle.
I clipped a couple of gates, which not how.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
I planned, but.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Yeah, I mean I was happy when I finished, So
you can't be too much more, too much more unhappy
if the judges saw something that you might not have.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
But it is what it is.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
I'm happy to be here, pretty stoked to race in
front of this crowd. I just what I'd love to
be raising again.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
But that's life. Let's go to the poll. The women's
four x two hundred meter freestyle relay team qualified eighth
for the final and finished eighth in that final. Lewis
Clarebert qualified for the semifinals of the two hundred meters
individual medley, but couldn't reach the final. And Taiko toryp
Ormsby in his debut Olympics nineteenth fastest overall in the
(13:22):
men's fifty meter freestyle, narrowly missing out on the semifinals.
Our BMX race has hit the track. Rico Beaman won
the last chance race. He's qualified for tomorrow's semifinals, but
Leila Walker was unable to emulate him. Judoka Moider de
Villiers has been eliminated in her first round of the
seventy eight kilogram women's class, and the men's black Sticks
(13:45):
remained winless after a five nil hammering at the hands
of Australia.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
Sportsfix Paris twenty twenty four edition.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Dylan Schmidt made his Olympic debut at Rio twenty sixteen,
becoming the first ever New Zealander to compete in trampoline
at the Olympic Games. He finished seventh. Three years ago,
he won our first ever Olympics gymnastics medal bronze in token.
Dylan Schmidt back for a third Olympic Games. He joined
us now on Sports Fix. What have the last few
(14:13):
days been like, Dylan heading into your competition?
Speaker 10 (14:17):
To be honest, it's just kind of getting on the
tram getting the body moving and you're trying to feel
press and stuff.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
I wouldn't particularly call it training.
Speaker 10 (14:24):
All the training's done, I just get up, you know,
sort of roll through the motions and and sort of
go through the skills that I'm going to be doing,
maybe banging out a couple of routines and stuff like that,
and just get the feel for things that maybe aren't
quite clicking and just try and get those little things
to click. And yeah, really just kind of enjoy the trainings,
and you know, my bodies and great shapes. The training
is feeling like relatively easy, which is which is always nice.
(14:47):
And just really enjoy it and just take my time
and yeah, just kind of take it easy.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Really good stuff. Your events Friday night, Friday night, your
time Saturday morning over here for us to tune in
and take it all in. Can you tell us Dallen
about the format what lies ahead of you on on
Friday night over there?
Speaker 10 (15:04):
It's a bit different to normal and it all gets
all over pretty quick. My event starts at six and
is over at eight thirty. That includes the final six
pm over here eight thirty pm finish. So basically there's
sixteen of us split into two flights, and yeah, the
first flight will march out do their routine.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
Then we'll march out to our routine.
Speaker 10 (15:22):
We do get two chances now to get into the final,
so we'll hopefully I'll only do one run routine to
stay fresh, and that routine should be good enough to
make the final. And then basically it's just like straight final,
march out people who don't who don't qualify, I leave
and we stay and do another routine, and that's all.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
That's all. That's all, it's all all that happens.
Speaker 10 (15:42):
So it's yeah, it's pretty pretty small and pretty pretty quick,
unusual really for us. But I've done it twice now obviously,
so I know what it's all about.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
So it's a voluntary routine. There's no compulsory routine that
you do. You just put in a voluntary routine as
you've outlined. You get hopefully only one. You do it once,
do it, well, you're into the final. But it's just
the voluntary routine.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
Yep, that's correct. So that's different from in Tokyo.
Speaker 10 (16:07):
So in Tokyo yet we had to do set like
voluntary compulsory routine that was like an easy routine and
then that got added on to our voluntary score. But
the cycle they've changed the rules so there's no more
compulsory for seniors anymore. We just do a voluntary Usually
it's your best your best two to get into semi finals,
and then you've got one chance in semi finals to
get into finals, and then finals one chance again. But
(16:28):
because there's only sixteen us, this will be the first
competition where like any of us would have had, you know,
two chances to get into the final. So it's likely
going to be that to get into the final, the
score is going to be a little bit bigger because
you know you've got two chances. But you know, we'll
see it's that should be should be interesting, but I'm
definitely ready for it.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Good on you mate, well as I understand it. So
the score is a combination of difficulty, execution and time
of flight. Is that still the case yep.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
Then there's one more element as well, which is basically
a horizontal displacement. So if you land on the cross
you get zero Marx off and sort of every sort
of box you leave from the cross you start to
get deductions.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
So there's there.
Speaker 10 (17:08):
That's the only other ector part of the score. That
that's out of them as well.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Are you as you gain more experience, I mean you've
been doing this for a while now, as I say,
third third Olympic games, are you finding yourself trying more things,
trying different things, or are you just trying to do
the same things better.
Speaker 10 (17:25):
I mean you're always trying to do the same things better.
But you know, this game's I'm doing a pretty difficult routine.
I sort of have to if I want to be,
you know, up there with with those guys. So yeah,
definitely a little bit different to last games. I'm putting out,
you know, my third skill and this routine is what
I started my routine with in Tokyo, so I'll definitely
step in that aspect up. But yeah, obviously trying to
(17:48):
maintain my height, trying to maintain my execution and stuff
as well. So yeah, I mean for me, this this
competition is yes, basically go hard or go home. Like
I'm just giving it everything, you know, obviously do my
best and the routines, you know, feeling good, So I'm
definitely ready. But you know it's almost like at this
point and sort of where the sport that is, you've
(18:08):
got to sort of take a few risks if you
want the rewards, which for me is quite exciting. You know,
I'm really really excited that, you know, I actually have
to have to push myself a bit more than just
kind of staying in my comfort zone.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
I guess so good.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
So the difficulty part of it, the difficulty part of
the score is where you can really boost your score.
Is that Is that a fair assessment?
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Yeah, difficulty and and time of flight are the two
big ones.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
So you've been working on that pretty hard other last
little while.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
When you're standing there just about to start, what are
the final few things that go through your mind? Or
do you just try and clear your mind as you're
about to start a routine.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
Yeah, for the most part, it's just you know, try
and clear the mind, and you know, just tell myself
basically that it's it's just a sport, right like, whatever happens,
just enjoy it, have fun, embrace the moment, and just
be happy with whatever happens, because you know, all the
work that I've put in.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
Is there, and you know, if it's me be it's
meant to be, it's not, it's not. It's all good.
I'll go home and still have a pretty awesome life.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
So just really like kind of like stay grounded, stay
put everything into perspective, and you know, kind of just
take that weight off your shoulders a little bit before
you go let yourself free. And then generally that's where
my best performance has comes, when I'm really free of
free of outcome and free of emotion and just going
out there and just having fun and enjoying it.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
All Right, we can't wait to see you compete, Dylan.
Thanks for joining us on the Sports Fixed podcast. Dylan Schmidt.
An action on the trampoline. Four o'clock Saturday morning is
the qualifier and ten to six is the final in
the individual men's trampoline.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
Every Golden moment from the Olympic Games. It's Sports Fix
Paris twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Editions, quick look ahead to other action on day seven.
Hopefully we'll have that metal race and the men's skiff
at the sailing plus other classes continuing as well. Rowers
Jackie Kittle and Shannon Cox chase a medal in the
women's lightweight double skulls final. It's the first of track
and field. Sam Tanner in the heats of the men's
fifteen hundred meters and Zoey Hobbes in the women's one
(20:15):
hundred meter heats tonight, then Tom Walsh and Jack O'Gill
in shot put qualifying around six o'clock tomorrow morning in
the pool heats for Erica Fairweather and Eve Thomas and
the women's eight hundred meter freestyle, and Cameron Gray in
the men's one hundred butterfly. Dylan Schmidt as mentioned in
the men's trampoline, and Madeline Davidson competes in the women's
(20:35):
trampoline round two and the men's golf, Luca Jones and
Finn Butcher in the canoe slalom kayak cross. Sydney Andrews
takes part in the women's judo, and the Black Sticks
play their final match of the Games against Ireland.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Sports Vegs Paris twenty twenty four edition to the medal table,
Fifty nations have now won at least one medal.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
China on top with eleven golds. New Zealand are in
twelfth position with two golds, two silvers and a bronze.
Three medals at the rowing on a terrific day six.
Don't forget you can listen to line commentary of the
Olympic Games. On Gold Sport and iHeartRadio from seven o'clock
each evening and right through the night, and I'll have
a fresh episode of Sports Fix Paris twenty twenty four
(21:18):
edition and around about the same time tomorrow for you.
We'll leave you today with the Strains of God Defend
New Zealand ringing out for the second time, this time
at the rowing for double scullers Lucy Spores and Brook Francis.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
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