Guy Heveldt: 1News Olympics Reporter on the gender eligibility rules in boxing, if athletes are at the Olympic standards

It was raining rowing medals in Paris overnight. 

New Zealand’s medal tally has been brought up to five with the addition of a Gold in the women’s double sculls, Silver in the men’s four, and Bronze in the women’s four.  

But while the Kiwis are succeeding, not everything at the Games has been smooth sailing.

1News Olympic Reporter Guy Heveldt joined Mike Hosking to give an update on some of the bigger stories coming out of the Games. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Just that we need to get to Paris for a
couple of quick things and catch up with guy Guy
evening morning whatever, how are.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
You evening morning? Yeah, very good, thank you. And then
over now after it's just started absolutely bucketing down. But yes,
very good, very good, loving it.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
It's funny. I was watching I can't remember what I
was watching earlier on this morning, but it was some
sort of race that wouldn't have been the marathon, but anyway,
they're running through the streets and it looked wet. Again.
How much rain have you.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Had the twenty kilometer walk it would have been that
was it, no doubt, looked like they were running. We
haven't had a lot here in Paris, but we are
getting a lot right now. Well, actually, I lie. We
had about a two day period around the opening ceremony
where it did bucket down, and now it's just started
to rain promptly again. I'd say for the first time
since been Other than that, it's been pretty nice, and

(00:49):
in the last few days it's been very very hot,
as you, no doubtsaw during that triath on yesterday.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Okay, a couple of quick ones for you. The Chinese
doping thing, the Chinese testing thing, plus this Algerian boxer.
How big a deal is this?

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, I've got to be honest, if you, Mike. Until
your producer texts me a little bit earlier on in
the day about the Algeria boxer thing, I didn't even know.
That's how kind of in the zone we are with
what we're doing around New Zealand. I hadn't seen it yet.
In saying that that's a big story, I just think
this is the sort of thing that they need to

(01:24):
figure out very quickly, because it's obviously something that's happening
in society a lot more in terms of people changing
their genders and that sort of thing. But I don't
really think it's a in those sorts of sports like boxing,
particularly where it is so physical and that sort of
thing that is something where you can't take risks in
terms of the gender side of things. So I think

(01:46):
this will be a very, very big story over the
next twenty four hours. The fact that the Italian just
walked off after forty six seconds of about that's not
a great look for the IOC particular.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, while I've got your Djokovic the other day and
has complained about the test, how many sports they are,
in your view, are not of what you would call
Olympic standard or have participants in there where you think,
you know what, this is bollocks, whereas there are others,
you know, the Simone Biles, the greatest thing you'll ever see,
versus people who can barely hit a ball or run.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah too right. I mean things like athletics, swimming, triathlon, gymnastics,
as you mentioned, no sorts of sports. They are absolutely
Olympic sports. But then you look at sports like rugby
sevens and football and tennis. You know, like these men
and women don't play tennis to win Olympic medals. They
play tennis to win Grand Slams. And it's the same
with the golf. They don't play golf to win Olympic medals.

(02:38):
They play golf to win major championships. They don't play
football to win Olympic medals. They play football to win
the World Cup. And in the football as well, there
are under twenty it's mainly an under twenty three competition.
Bar are a couple of players who are over that
eight so that to me seems a bit ridiculous as well.
I think there are a few sports they could get
rid of and saying that they're adding sports like break
dancing or breaking as it's called in these So which

(03:01):
would you rather? Would you rather those sports that I
mentioned or would you rather things like breaking? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Fair enough? All right, go well mate, we'll catch up Monday.
Appreciate it very much. Guyer Belt in the What's about
ten to eleven at night? Not that he was going
home or anything. Sammy was worried he might be in
bed tonight, that he's actually he's out on the He
was out on the town. But a ras with old
guy on a on a Thursday night.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
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