D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on a rowers completing a medal box set in Paris

New Zealand rowers enjoyed a fruitful day out on the water in Paris, completing a medal box set. 

The day started with Brooke Francis and Lucy Spoors winning gold in the women’s double sculls, followed by the women’s coxless four obtaining bronze, and the men’s coxless four winning the silver. 

Sportstalk host D’Arcy Waldegrave joined Andrew Dickens. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's a Friday. That means Darcy water Grave has dressed
up formal Friday, formal Friday, looking great. You're all in black.
I'm talking black shirt, black tie, black jackets. It's a
bit funereal. Oh black birds a little bit of color
on the sock.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Well they are chameleons on my blacks, of course they are.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah, and you have gray hair. So is this a
funeral or none?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm Johnny Cash today. I am Johnny Cash and Trent
Reasoner all rolled into one. I'm hurt.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Have you got a burning ring on fire?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh? Wouldn't you like to know? It's all about celebrating winter?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
All right, very good, very good, Hey, very nice night
watching the I'm enjoying the Olympics. We're all staying up
too late. But last night, of course it was like
what are we gonna watch? What are we going to watch?
What are we going to We watched the walking for
a bit. That's a crazy old sport, watching a whole
lot of ducks waddle. But then we ended out going
to see the rowing and the rowing was magnificent and
it was New Zealand's day and of course the pair

(00:58):
the women did so well. We're talking Lucy Spores and
Brook Francis and that both mums. In fact, there was
another mum in the field as well, and everyone was
going three mums proving that they could rock and then
the falls was amazing and that's the big thing, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
I celebrate that, and I think that we all should
when you consider how fast they got back into the
boat again after becoming mums. He con'ser only a couple
of years old and they were there. They've been there
the whole time, and I think that anyone who's been
through parenthood would know how incredibly stressful and tiring it
is being a mum, being a dad anywhere involved in

(01:34):
bringing up a small child, especially when their brand new.
That's to get back in a boat and then not
only do that, and they haven't one right up and
till this for regatta, and then when the gold medal
that is nothing short of phenomenal, absolutely blew us well.
Of course, both of those characters won a silver medal
last time around as well, so they know what it

(01:55):
takes to do it. Double skulls silver medal love time
from Brook and part of the eight as well, so
not or not.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
What it takes did you notice the character difference between
the two of them. Then we've got you've got one,
the blonde, who's actually very sensible, very straight, you know,
and keep quite calm, and then the other who was
just like fizzing fizzing, fizzing fizzing, and was so excitable
and was also the one that cried. She totally cried
during the anthem. And when I see people crying during
the anthem, I start crying during the anthem and I thought, oh,

(02:27):
I thought she. I thought she was delightful. Yeah, hard
on sleeve, so much to like.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
And then of course the other crews doing well. So
we've got that box set of the gold, the silver
and the bronze, and again on our bums facing the
wrong way on the water, come stop us.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Speaking of which, we're sailing again tonight.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
You go got the single skull still to come as well.
True forget that som twig defending her title. That's beg
you lots of sailing. I don't know if we've got
too much of a chance. The only place to really
look as the forty nine ers for the Guys forty
nine FX Metal Race, But so far out with the
lay and meets that is not going to work. Saundas

(03:09):
in the in the dinghy for the men, I don't
think he's in with a chance. But they've still got
a couple of races to go. Their very big field.
Are you watched any of that last night?

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Enormous fields and the late bos, the board foiling right,
how quick? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:26):
How good is that?

Speaker 1 (03:27):
They've already done thirteen races. So when we're talking a
regatta in the Olympics, it goes on forever, which is
why Joe Lay and Mitch Yeah, that's why they're already
out of medical contention because there were so many races
in there, so far behind.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, they started poorly out of the first couple of rounds,
so it didn't work well for them. But there we've
got again overnight. I don't know what to look at.
Did you watch any of this morning? Rico Berman in
the BMX, So this was a last chance, a last
ditch effort to win to get through the semi finals.
The sideline banks later, Wow, very very impressive. So that

(04:04):
was good. See Dylan Schmidt will be bouncing up and
down early tomorrow morning. Rico Beam and of course, as
I mentioned, to be back and then we'll start the
athletic Can I.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Just stop you, Nil Walsh, I'll just stop you there
and say Dylan Schmid is a trampolinist because he's going
to be bouncing up and down, and said, there's a
lot of people going to be bouncing up and down,
fair enough, not all of them are trampolinis. No, and
you are on from seven tonight, he could be a
bungee jumper.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
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