August 10, 2024 • 16 mins
On Sports Fix Paris 2024 Edition with Jason Pine for 11 August, we wrap a historic three-gold day for New Zealand in Paris!
Lydia Ko and Hamish Kerr join Piney on the podcast to celebrate their success and Dame Lisa Carrington elevates herself further into our sporting stratosphere with an astonishing eighth Olympic Games gold medal.
Plus our cyclists stay in contention for more medals on the final day of the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
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The triumphs, he is.
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An Olympic champion.
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The tragedy, silver for new Field and all the gold.
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Paris twenty twenty four edition.
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Speaker 4 (00:36):
Hello and welcome into the Sports Fixed podcast. Paris twenty
twenty four edition, Sunday, the eleventh of August. I'm Jason
Pine here to wrap the action on Day fifteen at
the Paris Olympic Games. And what and historic day it was,
with not one, not two, but three Olympic gold medals
to savor. Let's get into it starting at the kayaking
(00:58):
and if there was any doubt about who the greatest
of all time is, it was well and truly put
to bed.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Charrington now has her bow in front. She's a meter
ahead of Cheapish of Hungary. Oh, it's gonna be a
fight to the finish between New Zealand and Hungary. The
rest have been left behind? Can Lisa Carrington make it
eight gold medals? Carrington, She's putting the stroke right up
she's half a boat length ahead of Cheapish. She's got
(01:28):
the race face on the red Sonnies. It's Carrington Charrington.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Coming down to the line.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
It is gonna be gold for New Zealand's Lisa Carrington.
It is Paris perfection for Lisa Carrington.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Absolutely remarkable from Dame Lisa Carrington completing a second successive
hat trick of gold medals. Paddling to victory in the
K one five hundred. She had to overhaul silver medalist
Hungarian Tomato Cheapish, who led at the halfway mark, but
the key we eventually stopped the clock in an Olympic
best time of one minute forty seven point three six seconds.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
You put goals out there to try, obviously, when because
everyone that turns up he wants to do that. That's
not fair if you tune up here to come last
or whatever. So I think it's more than the medals
for us to be to have my team here, no
matter that the result. At the end of the day,
we as a team have grown and just you know,
(02:28):
done amazing things together.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
So I just.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Feel it's more than the medals. It's the people behind
my teammates. So yeah, I don't know, it's just an
amazing feeling. I feel so privileged to be in this position.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I think we should feel privileged to be alive at
the same time as damely securing toon just quietly. Her
eight career gold medals now eight move her ahead of
American gymnast Simone Biles and equal with Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt,
having won her semi final. The other key we in
the field, Amy Fisher, came home fourth in the final.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
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From the kayaking to the golf.
Speaker 8 (03:11):
Lydia Coe, the teenage sensation who has been a household
name here in New Zealand for well over a decade.
There's two parts here for gold the boy would she
love a Birdie Co puts through.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
And it's down.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
A golden glow for Lydia com runner up in Rio two,
back in Tokyo and at top of the podium in Paris.
The fairy tale is complete. Lydia Co is an Olympic champion.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
She is indeed winning gold and the women's golf at
LA Golf National simultaneously securing entry into the LPGA's Hall
of Fame are one other seventy one. Sinking that birdie
on the eighteenth to finish ten under overall for a
two shot win. It completes the trifecta for lydia Co Gold,
Silver and bronze. Now Andrew Aldous caught up with lydia
(04:09):
Coe shortly after the middle ceremony.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, you know, I think I stayed really patient today.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
I was nervous, and I knew going into the day
that I was going to be nervous, but I stuck
to the same routines as any other day and tried
to take a lot of deep breaths. And I've been
doing a lot of good work with my coaches, and
I felt like like all those training and all those
moments were were you know, I guess working, and like
(04:40):
I was able to, you know, prove to myself that
I could do it for this moment. So it's honestly
so cool that all, you know, all of the hard work,
not only just from myself but from my team is
like paid off and honestly paid off at the biggest
event in my hometime life.
Speaker 9 (04:56):
Oh that was amazing. I mean, a Hall of Fame
effort as a result as well. I mean, but just
take us through the context when you are heading over
the water onto the green on the eighteenth there, just
what's your mental price is there?
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Yeah, I mean I heard I wasn't the best contact
off the T shirt, but I knew being at the
bail way it was crucial, and you know, I worked
through the numbers patiently with my Katie Paul, and having
that wedd shirt was efiting a nice way to kind
of approach the green, but I didn't want it to
be greedy. But at the same time, just like focus,
(05:34):
focus on what I've got to do, and just know
that it's never over until the end, So just put
on effort in until that board drops.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
And equally, when you put the ball into the water
on the on the with the double bout with the thirteenth,
et cetera, how did you recover from that? Because that
requires some mental strength in those circumstances.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
I imagined, Yeah, you know, I actually didn't hit like
a bad shot for it to go in the water.
So I think in ways like because I knew, like
obviously I made nemestic I didn't like take it to
the head right away. And you know, with fourteen being
a part of five, I knew that it was like
(06:17):
where I could potentially make a brody and kind of
come back and find my momentum again. And even though
I didn't, I just stayed patient and just know that, hey,
there's still holds left, and just got to focus on
what's in front of me and not what happened, not
what has already happened.
Speaker 9 (06:33):
And a lovely quote for you, I think on skoy
at the end there where you said that it's up
to me to write my end, something that I think
someone Biles has said in the past as well, and
that that sort of sums it up that you can
take control of your own Yesterday if.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
You like, Yeah, I saw her documentary and it said
and she said, I get to write my own ending.
And that's what I tried to embrace today. I didn't want,
you know, somebody else playing bad or good to dictate
how I was approaching it. So I just wanted to
focus on me and made sure that I got the
job done.
Speaker 9 (07:04):
Indeed, And just what does that mean when you're out
there on the course. A couple questions for you Lydia
with Easter and her performance, and she was in the clubhouse,
you know, with the I think it was I Donda.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Were you aware of that at the time.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
You look at the school board as you're going around, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
I mean there's a lot of scoreboards, so it's hard
to like miss it. So I knew what the situation was.
So I think hitting quality iron shots. I'm fifteen and sixteen,
I knew was going to be the most important factors
where you know, I was going to take like big
numbers out of the way. So and you know, I
had I hold two good three footers for par on
(07:42):
those two holes to kind of you know, reset myself
and get ready for seventeen and eighteen. So yeah, I
would have preferred a little bit more of a cushion
going down the last, but you know, eighteen being apart five,
I wanted to just stick to my game plan and
you know, just take it one shot at a time,
(08:02):
and to be able to finish with the birdie was
it really couldn't have been any better.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
Oh it was.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
It was wonderful to say, Lydia, and you just perform
so brilliantly. I mean, across three Olympic Games. Now, I mean, Preps,
just put this one in context and what that means
over what you've achieved over eight years.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
Yeah, you know, it means a lot of you know,
to be able to represent New Zealand and to do
it at the Olympics three times. I'm very proud to
call myself a three time Olympian and now a three
time Olympic medalists and to collect.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Both all all colors of the of the medal. It's
it's honesty, surreal and yeah, you know, I I think
when I lost in the playoff in Tokyo, I wished
I had, you know, one silver, but you know, maybe
it was a golfing god's way of saying, hey, get
(08:52):
ready for gold in Paris.
Speaker 9 (08:54):
And just finally, Preps, so where do you compare that?
So compared to your major victories? Where does this one
rank given the international context?
Speaker 7 (09:01):
If you like, I think every win is special in
its own way. You know, my bronze and silver they
are just as up there as any of my other wins.
So it's kind of hard to compare that. But for now,
this is you know, it feels like the biggest moment
in my career.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
That is Lydia Coe speaking to our own Andrew Allison
a gold for her in.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
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Speaker 4 (09:27):
So Carrington and co. And if that wasn't enough, then
we had Hamish Kerr in the most dramatic of men's
high jump finals. Let me paint the picture for you.
He and Americans Shelby McEwan, with the last two left
in the competition, with two meters thirty eight on the bar,
both missed, and having both had two previous misses, they
went to a jump off for gold. It stayed at
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two thirty eight, they both missed. It went down to
two thirty six, they both missed. It went down to
two thirty four. Shell be missed at two thirty four,
leaving Hamish Kerr edding to clear two thirty four to
claim the gold. Weeks and years of training, Hamis Kerr
for the gold. Middle Kiwi's can.
Speaker 11 (10:11):
Fly and Hamous Kurr scales his everest and his high
jump Olympic champion and he is away. Hamous Kerr sprinting
around this arena arms wide. He is an Olympic champion.
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In the most dramatic of high jump finals, Hamous Kerr
brings it home for New Zealand's what a moment and
it couldn't happen to a better bloke.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
High jump gold the Hamish Kerr, who joins us now
on the Sports Fixed podcast. Hamish, can you process what
it is that you've done here? You're an Olympic champion?
Speaker 7 (10:55):
No?
Speaker 12 (10:56):
No, I haven't. It's been pretty pretty crazy since then.
I've sort of been pushed and shoved in various directions,
but it's you know, it's just such an amazing, amazing
night and to be able to share it with with
not only my coach and the rest of my team
and my friends and family, it's just yeah, it's a
dream come true.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Two thirty four on the bar a height. You know
you're capable of a clearance needed to win. How are
you feeling at the top of that run and take
us through that jump? Oh?
Speaker 12 (11:23):
I'm stoked day, Like That's that's the kind of That's
that's what dreams are made of, right there. Like, I mean,
you know, as a as a jumper, you you dream
of those moments where you can have one jump to
make all the difference. And that's what was going through
my head, you know, I wasn't afraid of failing. I
wasn't afraid of the water ifs. I was just accepting
(11:44):
the fact that, you know, I could land on that
mat in the bar, could still be up and the
rest of the history. And that's that's what happened.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
How much of you thought back to your third leap
at two twenty and qualifying without without that, you're not
even here.
Speaker 12 (11:56):
Right, Yeah, Look, that was the hardest jump of that
this whole this whole competition, that's for sure, And probably
not only knowly that, but it's probably one of the
hardest moments of my life. You know, to face what
could have been disaster, looked at in the eyes and
(12:17):
just accept the fact that that's not that's not what's
going to define me. Was was a pretty scary moment.
It was pretty raw, and I was pretty emotional afterwards,
you know, even through the twenty five and the twenty
seven and qualifying, I was I was pretty much holding
back tears. But at the same time, like, I think
that that's what I knew I had in my bag
coming into this final. You know, I was battle hardened.
(12:39):
I I'd earned the right to be there, and I'd
really fought and that was That was the thing that
got me over that that final jump in that and
that jump off you.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Needed three attempts at two thirty one in the final
as well. Was it a similar feeling, Nah, that.
Speaker 12 (12:56):
Was so much less stressful. Yeah, which seems weird, but
I think at the same time, like you know, I
knew I was in good shape today and and I
knew that it wasn't a matter of if it was
a matter of win. And you know, to have three
three well, you know, two decent cracks and then and
then one one clearance at thirty one, that was Yeah,
that was completely on the Bingo card. Having a having
(13:18):
a face and qualifying was not quite on the Bingo card.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Hints. It was a little bit tougher.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Amazing, And we've got a proud history of middle distance
running and then shot put, but young Kiwis haven't really
had a high jumper to look up to. How proud
are you that they now do?
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (13:36):
Look, I mean that's that's the amazing thing with sport
at the moment. You know, I'm obviously re running history
in high jump, but.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Not only that.
Speaker 12 (13:43):
We we have such an amazing team of people throughout
all events now and you know, with with sprints and
jarmts and polevolt and throws. It's it's great that Kiwi
kids can can look up and see idols and almost
all of those event groups. So yeah, I think that's
the great legacy that we we're leaving and hopefully we're
going to have heaps of track and field medals in
(14:05):
the next few years.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
It provided us with goosebumps at breakfast time back Homish
congratulations mate, absolutely amazing. Thank you for joining us, mate,
and enjoy the rest of your evening.
Speaker 12 (14:14):
Awesome thanks thanks mate.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
That is hamous Kerr, our latest Olympic champion and the
third of three on a wonderful Day fifteen at Paris.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Every Golden moment from.
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The Olympic Games.
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Four edition at the Velodrome. In other action on Day fifteen,
Aaron Gate and Campbell Stewart came fourth in the men's
madison final, narrowly missing a medal there. Elise Andrews, though,
is through to the semifinals in the women's sprints, of
a chance for her to add another medal to her
ever growing collection. Sean Fulton, though missing out beaten in
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a rapper charge and Sam Dakin is through to the
quarterfinals in the men's karen. At the weight lifting, David
Letti in the over one hundred and two kilogram these
are the big boppers. He had a best snatch of
one hundred and eighty four kilograms, a top clean and
jerk of two thirty one that to combine four hundred
and fifteen kilos an eighth placed finish. David Letti Sports
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figs Paris twenty twenty four editions. So looking ahead today sixteen,
the final day of competition at these Olympic Games, Camille
French is in the women's marathon, which gets underweight a
round about six o'clock to night, New Zealand time, and
then back to the Vlodrome to finish. Ali Wollaston in
the women's omnium, Elise Andrews in the women's sprint and
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Sam Dakin in the men's kern. New Zealand now have
nine gold medals. That is more than any other previous
Olympic Games. Add in the seven silver and the two
bronze and it's eighteen in total. That has joined second
best in our history with Rio in twenty sixteen, and maybe,
just maybe the twenty from the last Games in Tokyo
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is under threat. On the final day, New Zealand sits
twelfth overall on the medal table. You can listen to
live commentary of the Olympic Games on Gold Sport and
iHeartRadio from seven o'clock tonight as we bring the curtain
down on Paris twenty twenty four, and I'll have the
final episode of Sports Fix the Paris twenty twenty four
edition at around about the same time tomorrow for you,
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but for Carrington and Co and Kerr, for Dame Lisa
and Lydia and Hamish. It was the top step of
the podium on Day fifteen and the national anthem played
in their honor as Olympic champions.
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The triumphs, he is.
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An Olympic champion.
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The tragedy, silver for new Field and all the gold.
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Paris twenty twenty four edition.
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Hello and welcome into the Sports Fixed podcast. Paris twenty
twenty four edition, Sunday, the eleventh of August. I'm Jason
Pine here to wrap the action on Day fifteen at
the Paris Olympic Games. And what and historic day it was,
with not one, not two, but three Olympic gold medals
to savor. Let's get into it starting at the kayaking
(00:58):
and if there was any doubt about who the greatest
of all time is, it was well and truly put
to bed.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Charrington now has her bow in front. She's a meter
ahead of Cheapish of Hungary. Oh, it's gonna be a
fight to the finish between New Zealand and Hungary. The
rest have been left behind? Can Lisa Carrington make it
eight gold medals? Carrington, She's putting the stroke right up
she's half a boat length ahead of Cheapish. She's got
(01:28):
the race face on the red Sonnies. It's Carrington Charrington.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Coming down to the line.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
It is gonna be gold for New Zealand's Lisa Carrington.
It is Paris perfection for Lisa Carrington.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Absolutely remarkable from Dame Lisa Carrington completing a second successive
hat trick of gold medals. Paddling to victory in the
K one five hundred. She had to overhaul silver medalist
Hungarian Tomato Cheapish, who led at the halfway mark, but
the key we eventually stopped the clock in an Olympic
best time of one minute forty seven point three six seconds.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
You put goals out there to try, obviously, when because
everyone that turns up he wants to do that. That's
not fair if you tune up here to come last
or whatever. So I think it's more than the medals
for us to be to have my team here, no
matter that the result. At the end of the day,
we as a team have grown and just you know,
(02:28):
done amazing things together.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
So I just.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Feel it's more than the medals. It's the people behind
my teammates. So yeah, I don't know, it's just an
amazing feeling. I feel so privileged to be in this position.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I think we should feel privileged to be alive at
the same time as damely securing toon just quietly. Her
eight career gold medals now eight move her ahead of
American gymnast Simone Biles and equal with Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt,
having won her semi final. The other key we in
the field, Amy Fisher, came home fourth in the final.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
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From the kayaking to the golf.
Speaker 8 (03:11):
Lydia Coe, the teenage sensation who has been a household
name here in New Zealand for well over a decade.
There's two parts here for gold the boy would she
love a Birdie Co puts through.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
And it's down.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
A golden glow for Lydia com runner up in Rio two,
back in Tokyo and at top of the podium in Paris.
The fairy tale is complete. Lydia Co is an Olympic champion.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
She is indeed winning gold and the women's golf at
LA Golf National simultaneously securing entry into the LPGA's Hall
of Fame are one other seventy one. Sinking that birdie
on the eighteenth to finish ten under overall for a
two shot win. It completes the trifecta for lydia Co Gold,
Silver and bronze. Now Andrew Aldous caught up with lydia
(04:09):
Coe shortly after the middle ceremony.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, you know, I think I stayed really patient today.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
I was nervous, and I knew going into the day
that I was going to be nervous, but I stuck
to the same routines as any other day and tried
to take a lot of deep breaths. And I've been
doing a lot of good work with my coaches, and
I felt like like all those training and all those
moments were were you know, I guess working, and like
(04:40):
I was able to, you know, prove to myself that
I could do it for this moment. So it's honestly
so cool that all, you know, all of the hard work,
not only just from myself but from my team is
like paid off and honestly paid off at the biggest
event in my hometime life.
Speaker 9 (04:56):
Oh that was amazing. I mean, a Hall of Fame
effort as a result as well. I mean, but just
take us through the context when you are heading over
the water onto the green on the eighteenth there, just
what's your mental price is there?
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Yeah, I mean I heard I wasn't the best contact
off the T shirt, but I knew being at the
bail way it was crucial, and you know, I worked
through the numbers patiently with my Katie Paul, and having
that wedd shirt was efiting a nice way to kind
of approach the green, but I didn't want it to
be greedy. But at the same time, just like focus,
(05:34):
focus on what I've got to do, and just know
that it's never over until the end, So just put
on effort in until that board drops.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
And equally, when you put the ball into the water
on the on the with the double bout with the thirteenth,
et cetera, how did you recover from that? Because that
requires some mental strength in those circumstances.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
I imagined, Yeah, you know, I actually didn't hit like
a bad shot for it to go in the water.
So I think in ways like because I knew, like
obviously I made nemestic I didn't like take it to
the head right away. And you know, with fourteen being
a part of five, I knew that it was like
(06:17):
where I could potentially make a brody and kind of
come back and find my momentum again. And even though
I didn't, I just stayed patient and just know that, hey,
there's still holds left, and just got to focus on
what's in front of me and not what happened, not
what has already happened.
Speaker 9 (06:33):
And a lovely quote for you, I think on skoy
at the end there where you said that it's up
to me to write my end, something that I think
someone Biles has said in the past as well, and
that that sort of sums it up that you can
take control of your own Yesterday if.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
You like, Yeah, I saw her documentary and it said
and she said, I get to write my own ending.
And that's what I tried to embrace today. I didn't want,
you know, somebody else playing bad or good to dictate
how I was approaching it. So I just wanted to
focus on me and made sure that I got the
job done.
Speaker 9 (07:04):
Indeed, And just what does that mean when you're out
there on the course. A couple questions for you Lydia
with Easter and her performance, and she was in the clubhouse,
you know, with the I think it was I Donda.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Were you aware of that at the time.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
You look at the school board as you're going around, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
I mean there's a lot of scoreboards, so it's hard
to like miss it. So I knew what the situation was.
So I think hitting quality iron shots. I'm fifteen and sixteen,
I knew was going to be the most important factors
where you know, I was going to take like big
numbers out of the way. So and you know, I
had I hold two good three footers for par on
(07:42):
those two holes to kind of you know, reset myself
and get ready for seventeen and eighteen. So yeah, I
would have preferred a little bit more of a cushion
going down the last, but you know, eighteen being apart five,
I wanted to just stick to my game plan and
you know, just take it one shot at a time,
(08:02):
and to be able to finish with the birdie was
it really couldn't have been any better.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
Oh it was.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
It was wonderful to say, Lydia, and you just perform
so brilliantly. I mean, across three Olympic Games. Now, I mean, Preps,
just put this one in context and what that means
over what you've achieved over eight years.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
Yeah, you know, it means a lot of you know,
to be able to represent New Zealand and to do
it at the Olympics three times. I'm very proud to
call myself a three time Olympian and now a three
time Olympic medalists and to collect.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Both all all colors of the of the medal. It's
it's honesty, surreal and yeah, you know, I I think
when I lost in the playoff in Tokyo, I wished
I had, you know, one silver, but you know, maybe
it was a golfing god's way of saying, hey, get
(08:52):
ready for gold in Paris.
Speaker 9 (08:54):
And just finally, Preps, so where do you compare that?
So compared to your major victories? Where does this one
rank given the international context?
Speaker 7 (09:01):
If you like, I think every win is special in
its own way. You know, my bronze and silver they
are just as up there as any of my other wins.
So it's kind of hard to compare that. But for now,
this is you know, it feels like the biggest moment
in my career.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
That is Lydia Coe speaking to our own Andrew Allison
a gold for her in.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Paris Sports Figs Paris twenty twenty four edition.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
So Carrington and co. And if that wasn't enough, then
we had Hamish Kerr in the most dramatic of men's
high jump finals. Let me paint the picture for you.
He and Americans Shelby McEwan, with the last two left
in the competition, with two meters thirty eight on the bar,
both missed, and having both had two previous misses, they
went to a jump off for gold. It stayed at
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two thirty eight, they both missed. It went down to
two thirty six, they both missed. It went down to
two thirty four. Shell be missed at two thirty four,
leaving Hamish Kerr edding to clear two thirty four to
claim the gold. Weeks and years of training, Hamis Kerr
for the gold. Middle Kiwi's can.
Speaker 11 (10:11):
Fly and Hamous Kurr scales his everest and his high
jump Olympic champion and he is away. Hamous Kerr sprinting
around this arena arms wide. He is an Olympic champion.
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In the most dramatic of high jump finals, Hamous Kerr
brings it home for New Zealand's what a moment and
it couldn't happen to a better bloke.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
High jump gold the Hamish Kerr, who joins us now
on the Sports Fixed podcast. Hamish, can you process what
it is that you've done here? You're an Olympic champion?
Speaker 7 (10:55):
No?
Speaker 12 (10:56):
No, I haven't. It's been pretty pretty crazy since then.
I've sort of been pushed and shoved in various directions,
but it's you know, it's just such an amazing, amazing
night and to be able to share it with with
not only my coach and the rest of my team
and my friends and family, it's just yeah, it's a
dream come true.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Two thirty four on the bar a height. You know
you're capable of a clearance needed to win. How are
you feeling at the top of that run and take
us through that jump? Oh?
Speaker 12 (11:23):
I'm stoked day, Like That's that's the kind of That's
that's what dreams are made of, right there. Like, I mean,
you know, as a as a jumper, you you dream
of those moments where you can have one jump to
make all the difference. And that's what was going through
my head, you know, I wasn't afraid of failing. I
wasn't afraid of the water ifs. I was just accepting
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the fact that, you know, I could land on that
mat in the bar, could still be up and the
rest of the history. And that's that's what happened.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
How much of you thought back to your third leap
at two twenty and qualifying without without that, you're not
even here.
Speaker 12 (11:56):
Right, Yeah, Look, that was the hardest jump of that
this whole this whole competition, that's for sure, And probably
not only knowly that, but it's probably one of the
hardest moments of my life. You know, to face what
could have been disaster, looked at in the eyes and
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just accept the fact that that's not that's not what's
going to define me. Was was a pretty scary moment.
It was pretty raw, and I was pretty emotional afterwards,
you know, even through the twenty five and the twenty
seven and qualifying, I was I was pretty much holding
back tears. But at the same time, like, I think
that that's what I knew I had in my bag
coming into this final. You know, I was battle hardened.
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I I'd earned the right to be there, and I'd
really fought and that was That was the thing that
got me over that that final jump in that and
that jump off you.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Needed three attempts at two thirty one in the final
as well. Was it a similar feeling, Nah, that.
Speaker 12 (12:56):
Was so much less stressful. Yeah, which seems weird, but
I think at the same time, like you know, I
knew I was in good shape today and and I
knew that it wasn't a matter of if it was
a matter of win. And you know, to have three
three well, you know, two decent cracks and then and
then one one clearance at thirty one, that was Yeah,
that was completely on the Bingo card. Having a having
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a face and qualifying was not quite on the Bingo card.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Hints. It was a little bit tougher.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Amazing, And we've got a proud history of middle distance
running and then shot put, but young Kiwis haven't really
had a high jumper to look up to. How proud
are you that they now do?
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (13:36):
Look, I mean that's that's the amazing thing with sport
at the moment. You know, I'm obviously re running history
in high jump, but.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Not only that.
Speaker 12 (13:43):
We we have such an amazing team of people throughout
all events now and you know, with with sprints and
jarmts and polevolt and throws. It's it's great that Kiwi
kids can can look up and see idols and almost
all of those event groups. So yeah, I think that's
the great legacy that we we're leaving and hopefully we're
going to have heaps of track and field medals in
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the next few years.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
It provided us with goosebumps at breakfast time back Homish
congratulations mate, absolutely amazing. Thank you for joining us, mate,
and enjoy the rest of your evening.
Speaker 12 (14:14):
Awesome thanks thanks mate.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
That is hamous Kerr, our latest Olympic champion and the
third of three on a wonderful Day fifteen at Paris.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Every Golden moment from.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
The Olympic Games.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's Sports Figs Paris twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Four edition at the Velodrome. In other action on Day fifteen,
Aaron Gate and Campbell Stewart came fourth in the men's
madison final, narrowly missing a medal there. Elise Andrews, though,
is through to the semifinals in the women's sprints, of
a chance for her to add another medal to her
ever growing collection. Sean Fulton, though missing out beaten in
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a rapper charge and Sam Dakin is through to the
quarterfinals in the men's karen. At the weight lifting, David
Letti in the over one hundred and two kilogram these
are the big boppers. He had a best snatch of
one hundred and eighty four kilograms, a top clean and
jerk of two thirty one that to combine four hundred
and fifteen kilos an eighth placed finish. David Letti Sports
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figs Paris twenty twenty four editions. So looking ahead today sixteen,
the final day of competition at these Olympic Games, Camille
French is in the women's marathon, which gets underweight a
round about six o'clock to night, New Zealand time, and
then back to the Vlodrome to finish. Ali Wollaston in
the women's omnium, Elise Andrews in the women's sprint and
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Sam Dakin in the men's kern. New Zealand now have
nine gold medals. That is more than any other previous
Olympic Games. Add in the seven silver and the two
bronze and it's eighteen in total. That has joined second
best in our history with Rio in twenty sixteen, and maybe,
just maybe the twenty from the last Games in Tokyo
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is under threat. On the final day, New Zealand sits
twelfth overall on the medal table. You can listen to
live commentary of the Olympic Games on Gold Sport and
iHeartRadio from seven o'clock tonight as we bring the curtain
down on Paris twenty twenty four, and I'll have the
final episode of Sports Fix the Paris twenty twenty four
edition at around about the same time tomorrow for you,
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but for Carrington and Co and Kerr, for Dame Lisa
and Lydia and Hamish. It was the top step of
the podium on Day fifteen and the national anthem played
in their honor as Olympic champions.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
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