August 12, 2024 • 24 mins
The Games have come to a close, and as promised, Georgie and Abbey are back with a special bonus episode. The closing ceremony featured some French and not so French themes, as Paris handed the baton over to Los Angeles for 2028. Plus, some honourable mentions for some the quirkier stories from the past two weeks.
Look out for a full episode tomorrow, wrapping up the final medals for team Australia and our favourite Games moments from Paris.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Tell me we're starting this very special bonus episode of
two Good Sports at the end because it's the end
of the games. The closing ceremony has literally just wrapped
up at the time of record.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I can't believe, and we will mention it is halftime
because we do have the Power Games coming up and
we cannot wait. So we get two weeks to get
our sleeping schedule back on track.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Because I am tired.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Did someone set the alarm on Saturday morning thinking Jess
Hull was running at four am?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Then?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
And wonder why we're watching the four hundred? Really?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Did I wake up this morning to.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Watch the entirety of the closing ceremony because I knew
that we were talking about it. Absolutely, So let's take
you through. We're literally in pajamas. Are they the athletes pajamas?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yes they are, Yes, they are, Yes they are.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We have somehow got our hands on some very comfortable
pjs just in honor of our athletes eventually touching back
down on us.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
By roving enterprises.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
But let us have a look. What did you think
the closing ceremony? First and foremost, just like all of
the gold medal predictions, did we or did we not
tell you as a fun fact that Tom Cruise would
be involved?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We told you it was a potential fact confirmation fact fact,
it's a fact fact. And did we say potentially that
he would be repelling down from the stud de France?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Aha? Yeah, did that happen? Aha?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, we are once again psy kick geniuses. But before
we get to Tom Cruise, jell me, I have to
admit I was in and out. I was in and
out of the closing ceremony. I was watching, then I
wasn't that I was watching again, then I wasn't. So
my notes upon the actual overall event little bit haphazard.
So let's go for it. Number one note that I've
(01:44):
written here golden hummingbird.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
There seemed to be.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
A whole plot point that I missed exactly what the
context was. But there was a golden humming bird making
its way around a stage, a very very decorative looking step,
lots of angles.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And I'm not sending what was just ended via a cable,
and I at first thought went, oh my god, it's
Tom Cruise and he's golden, and there's lasers everywhere, and
this is what happens.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
But how did Tom get in circle?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
In true French style, there was a real apparently it
was extraterrestrial.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
So we're in this. Firstly, we're not on the seend.
We're not on this. We're in and so we're watching
the exit now.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
And for me, the closing ceremony gives a vibe of
when the year twelves have left school and they've got
one more assembly they have to sit through where the
principal still has to speak and they're kind of in
party mode and they're like, right, oh, like we're all here,
we're all mingling. And that is the amazing thing about
the closing ceremony. And it's been since the fifties where
someone said, you know what, let's have the athletes all
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walk in together.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, and so that happened again.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So you come just.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Arriving as part of your country under your nation's flag,
and then they have all the flag bearers come first,
and then the athletes just roll on in and you
can tell they are ready to party. They started their
own chance at one point, the unofficial anthem that is
no nonanaaah. They all just started launching into it on
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their own accord. Yes, listen to Thomas Bark.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, I got I got a bit confused about that,
because that was a part where I had then came
back in, So I tapped back into the coverage and
I thought, hang on, what's happening here? I've missed some
key plot point? Where did that hummingbird goes? Then I
tapped back out and then tapped back in in time
to see Phoenix the band perform who everyone would remember
the days of big day out at any festival that
you used to have gone to, Zoomers, good luck. You
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don't know who on a Phoenix is as a band.
I don't, No, you.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Do, honestly, as they were everywhere, literally said I don't
know who this is.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I'm also even worse.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Listomania.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
You know that Listomania came on and I went, oh,
I know this, and I went my oh my god,
it's happened.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I've become my mother. It's happened because.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
This is clearly a band that is so that everyone
knows who it is. And then the opening bars of
Listener it happened and I was like, oh, this is
a begger.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I know this one. What upset me?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Okay, I've just let everyone know that I'm a loser.
Point one, but point two there had been rumors and
the expectation. I would go so far as to say,
the expectation that the icon of the Games, yeah Snoop
mister Snoop Doggy, would be performing as a stage to
France in front of all these athletes that have been
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obsessed with him, getting photos with him, trading pins with
him throughout the last two weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yep, we were carving it in stone. That's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And even the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And if I'm an if I'm an athlete that's just
gone through a Games, I'm like, I deserve this.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I deserve a front road where concerts.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
My gift, after the gift that I gave you with
my performance, time for me to be rewarded.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
They performed, and thankfully I know who they are.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
It was a re record and they were supposedly in
a beach in.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
La So here's they were nowhere near the stadium. I
would have rid.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Okay, So hang on, hang on, hang on, let me
get this right. If we're going through just an order
of events, We've got the hummingbird. We don't know where
the hummingbird goes. Then there is Phoenix. They're playing something.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
There's very beautiful.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Oh there is a piano. The floating piano. There was
a floating piano. It was all very confusing. I was like,
is he playing a little bit beautiful? How was he
doing that? That was exceptional. Kazinski played a song from
Drive AKA one of my favorite movies with Ryan Goslin
and Gary Mulligan.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And I.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Know this song I'm gooding you were No. Basically it
was me being like, he's French. Woll oh my god,
they're French.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Wow. Incredible.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And then we had the moment of the transition, so
where we were gifting the games to La to see
what was happening, Tom Cruise ab sails his way down
to the center of the stadium. Absolutely no, no one
steals the Olympic flag. We said, he's steal something so
I mean a micro flag.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
At some point he gave a lovely hug to the
goats Biles who was holding the flag, and then he
proceeds to drive through a relatively and surprisingly empty Paris.
In a pre recorded section, Sarah on a motorbike with
the flag before getting it to La and donning or
what did he do here? Essentially, he like base jumped
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out of a plane to make the Hollywood sign, which the.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Rings yes, and I thought that was really cool.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So they basically had incorporated the two o's on the
Hollywood sign, which had become the symbol of the Games.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
And I thought that's clever. Yeah, that's holy. I liked that.
I liked that.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
And then we went to Venice Beach, where as Gelmy,
you were right in pointing out.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
The greatest concert happened ever in front of twenty extras.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
To I was like, that's not real people, real people
in the crown.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Do you know who were real people?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Our athletes that were made to dress like they were
private school kids.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
On an excursion.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
And I'd also like to say that the female colourway
looks like a Medicare car. It's really hard when you
scan a large crowd and all the Australians aren't together,
and they're not in green and gold, they're in beij
Safari style shorts. A belt that no one's worn since
the early nineties.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Now the belt.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Can we talk about the belt?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
No? I can't. It does because it does.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
It's giving oshkosh b gosh.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Now that is our.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Next reference that something I know certain people I don't
know funny, got it, but they're hideous.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
But meanwhile, the American athletes come out in ralph Lorin
looking like sexy astronauts.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, sexy astronauts.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
They look so cool. We look so lame.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, the new host of the Games, where they're the
sexy astronauts that are taking us, you know, the advanced
AP class kids off on an excursion around NASA.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Granted it was still thirty three degrees and people had
fans like they were trying to keep themselves. Was cool,
So I'm guessing that the breatheable linen was probably very
handy for our athletes.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
But I just thought, really, really, why why are we
in these colors? They're not even like.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Not everyone and again showing that I went to a
private high school. Not everyone tucked their shirts in. There
was no uniformity in how everyone decided to wear this stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
It just looked, I mean, so terri closing ceremony flag
bearers in Kaylee McEwan and Matt ware, who we've talked
about a lot during our two Good Sports Green and
Gold addition, is there a part do you think where
they're like, Oh, I'm in that, I'm in that I'm wearing.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Kaylee's part of glasses can only do so much.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
They can only they can only try to elevate so much.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I am I am sad that it wasn't Snoop. I'm
sad that we didn't get Snoop live.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
It would have.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
It was such a layup. It was such a layup
to have everyone lose their mind. Yeh, he had have descended,
like if he had have just walked on, because.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
He doesn't need to ab sail off anything.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
He just needs to walk out in the middle or
maybe on a dressage horse like this itself.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Let's think about that, right, imagine itself. Imagine Snoop doggubj God.
I was being like Noah LA's there couldn't spell being
a Snoop Dogg just on a dressage horse getting led
by Martha Stewart, his friend.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
He's great friends obviously.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Like you're right, it does right itself.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
But what does bring warmth to your heart is there
is something amazing about seeing all of these athletes just
clearly release the shackles in the stress of their lives
leading up to this point and how much they would
have anticipated their performance. There was also a rendition of
we are the champions, so DJ read the room very well,
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so they're all belting out we are the champions and
swaying together.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
And again it's that blur of different countries. I did.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
One of my first notes when the athletes were entering,
was like, gee, this would look prettier at night because
they ended while it was still daytime. But then of
course it descends into night, so you do you get Oh,
I missed the start effect. I do feel they also
handed out what you get at a Taylor Swift concert
on the wristbands and then light up. They give you
an idea. And the stage itself was I think designed
(10:11):
to look like the moon.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
There was movement, there was same.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I got confused about the stage because when I was
looking at it, I was like, hang on a second,
are they all the continents of the world and they've
done it in like an abstract version, But then when
they zoomed out, it kind of looked like a dog
holding a scepter.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, And there was the return of our mast vigilante.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Oh, so he came.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
He came back because the golden guys come down, so
he's back flipping around. There's there's a Greek flag, there's
a lot of things going on, But essentially I'd love
to go to a closing ceremony if I was ever
going to fake being.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
An athlete, I'd go in there and be like.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Whoo, do you know what I think they nailed? They
absolutely nailed with the closing ceremony is that they farewell
to Paris with an high art interpretation of an ancient
myth that no one really quite understood. Yes, and don't
you think that that right?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
And then went to a.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Beach in La and went this this year get may
as well have had Katy Perry come out and seen
California girls and just be done with it.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And I just say, the cleanest I've ever seen that
Venice beach look the cleanest it has ever looked.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
But Snoop and his lack of performance at the State
of France, we say he should have been there because
he's one of the icons of the Games. And George,
we have been so busy talking through all of the
Australian medals because it has haranged, we haven't had a
chance to talk about some of the things that are
really sports news told differently, and one of.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Those has to be the Turkish assassin.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yo, the Turkish shooter came silver. Our matte Yusuf is
what we're calling.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
He won.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
He won silver in the shooting, and I mean, this
is Jeremy one of those rare times where I can't
tell you who won the gold.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Oh no, you can't.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I don't care who won the gold, because you know
what that silver is gold. He won the games. He
won the games with his celebration.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
If you haven't seen this in me, where have you been?
Because it has gone to the point where he has
infiltrated celebrations of athletes around the world.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Nina Kennedy did it, our mate Mondo did it. The
Jamaican who won the discus did it.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
So you Basically, it's where you look super relaxed, you
put one hand in your pocket and you make the
other one a pistol. Because the guy had absolutely no
equipment and looked so nonchalant on his way to silver,
while everyone else looked like they had a half a
hardware store on their head trying to help them see
that's the thing was made at Iconic.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It looked like, I mean, Google glasses or whatever, whoever's.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Totally good virtual reality, virtual.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Reality, good luck. Everyone's using everything to try and live
in the matrix and then old mate just comes out
with his reading glasses and goes bam.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
And he's not someone that looks modelesque.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
He looks like someone's dad that came to pick him
up from a party and said where's my daughter?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
And you're like sorry, yousuf.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, like he does. He looks like someone that you
do not want to mess with. But I say this
because Jordan Clark from Fremantle is using that celebrations in
the AFL.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Now when does it get too old?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
When does it get too old?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I mean for him never, he's allowed to do it whenever.
It's actually also genuinely his technique for shooting.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
But when is it too horror recond it or probably
the end of the Power Games. Yeah, I reckon it's
going to have its circuit and have its time, but
you never know. It could it could go beyond that.
But in terms of icons to come from the Games,
he certainly has to be.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
He's up there, he's up there. I think something else
jell me. Because of course the city of Love, that's
another term that we used to describe Paris and another iconic.
I've got that in quotation marks because I'm not sure
how I feel about Luckily, I do know how I
feel about this iconic thing we saw at the Games
was a lot of proposals, a lot of wedding like
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marriage proposals for athletes, and I hate it. I just
hate it. I hate it so much.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
You know how I feel about this.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
It reminds me of the time that someone during a
Test match at the Gabba proposed to their partner in
the pool and I just went.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
All glass, not the pool, in the pool. Cricket Land.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
We actually, we actually saw over the weekend a proposal
in the AFL.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
No for Melbourne. No, that's happened, so it is not
I have you been.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I have gone to Broncos games before where they've proposed
and they've said no, there.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Was no, they were multiple. No, I'm sorry. If you're
proposing in I like Yoda, it's multiple.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
But if you're proposing at a football game or oh
you see it and like, I guess this sort of
originated from the US, where there's sort of the jumbo
troll or you're up on a big screen and it
can be organized. But for me, something about the Olympics
where it's like it's a sacred space. I would like
to highlight Alice Fino, the French steeple chase runner for
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the three thousand meters. She then at the end of
her race proposed to her partner and it went viral
because the Olympics posted it and her quote was, I
ran under nine minutes and nine is my lucky number.
We've also been together for nine years, so I thought,
I do it if I'm the partner.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I'm like, wait, so you run ten and you don't
drop a knee.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
How circumstantially in the balance so much our future.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And also everything about the lead up to this month
hasn't been about me, babe, Like.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
What I hate it so much. I remember I saw
it at the badminton. We also saw it after the
rhythmic gymnastics, where in my mind it's ingrained.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
One of them was on a podium.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Oh, an athlete from Italy. She just literally just got
off the podium and her partner drops to a knee
and I think she said, yes, look I each to
their own it could be the happiest moment of their lives.
I if someone did that to me, automatic, No, I
am on a podium. This has nothing to do with you.
It is about my relationship with the sport that I
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have dedicated my life to and that's been in my
life for far longer than you.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Get out of my space. This is the.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Time for me. I am so mad about it all,
all of that.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I hate it.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I love the idea of you stepping back onto the
podium to use it as your soapbox.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Just say no, get up and go absolutely not no.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And look, I completely agree with you the fact that
you can't wait a week just to let everything settle
down and to not But we do need to go
through some honorable mentions of some things that we love.
Talking about the guy that became obsessed with the chocolate
muffins in the village, to the point where people have
now created hacks of what you can do with the
coals or Woolworth's cake.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I would say that also, do you think that those
countries just eat a lot healthier than us, because I
feel like our ones at Woolies and Coals are just
as good. They're just good, They're just as good. But
this was all because the athletes. There was a lot
many a TikTok about just how shit the food was.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Total and the beds and the experience and it might
be eco, but I'd like some air conditioning, please.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
So therefore a mate I think he was a was
he Dutch? He was Christians and that's yes, Dutch, yepish. Anyway,
he was a swimmer and he went viral for doing
his reviews on food and then he decided that chocol
muffin was the greatest thing that he ever eaten.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
They it exploded.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
It exploded so much so that the village then had
to release a statement they thought that they were going
to In the end, I think it was bake one
hundred thousand of these, because two thousand were being consumed today.
At one point it was really hard to even get
them because it screen doesn't it really really doesn't. So
obviously honorable mention to the icon that was chocolate muffin. Man.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Oh, the horse guy, he's pomerhorse guy. Our next honorable mention.
He was part of the USA gymnastics team that was
such a nerd that I think he can complete the
Rubik's Cuban under twenty seconds, under ten under ten.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
He does it for fun as a way to take
his mind off his nerves.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
But the reason why everyone fell in love with him
was that he wears glasses so it looks like Clark
Kent and then he just takes them off. And the
only discipline that he competes in is the pomber horse.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
And my god, does he own the pommel horse?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And all of the United States has just gone, who's
Clark Kent that we only pull out for this one
discipline that help helped the medal.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
It was so funny.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And the reason that he takes his glasses off is
because he does have a pretty serious vision impediment. He's
cross eyed. It has a fancy scientific name, but essentially
he's cross eyed, and obviously with the pommel horse fair bitted,
jerking kind of movements there, you can't hold glasses on
your face, so what it is you actually can't really
see what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
It's all feel. It's all feel when he's on the horse,
and you need to see how good he is at this.
It's incredible. It's very impressing.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Incredible people that wouldn't look impressive on a pommel horse.
The guy in the swimming that had the colorful speeders
and the very average physique a dad Bob.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
After two weeks of.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Watching swimmers where you're like you could bounce a coin
off any part of any of their bodies, like they
are just zero percent body fat.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yes, but this he had to go and retrieve a cat.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Not all heroes wear capes, chealmy, they only indeed wear
those colorful speeders because I'd never actually thought or spared
any second to think about. Lots of the athletes wear
double caps because apparently it saves them up no point
zero one of a second, right, but all of you.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
The resistance on the goggles then is lower, so they
might not have water resistance.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
So he happens if one of those caps falls off
and then it's stuck in the pool. Oh my god, delay, delay, Delay.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
You can't have athletes named him Bob.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
No one knows if that's actual name, but they're like,
Bob had to go in and swim.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
And also he could have just had a regular pair
of speedos on. No, you did not need to have
that many colors on them.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
It wreaked of like we needed to get in and
he's like, oh, but I've only got my colorful jocks.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I did not know today.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
So here is another icon, and just quickly a final
honorable mention to a story that really captured our hearts.
And I know that romance riders everywhere have already got
a first draft in the works. Because the tennis lovers
won the mixed doubles. Oh my goodness, they've broken They've
been together four years, broken up in the lead up.
The two Czech athletes broke up in the lead up
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to the game, so they want to focus more on
their individual careers, but they'd already committed to competing in
the mixed doubles.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
They win gold and they embrace, and you're like, tell
me you're not back in love. Yeah, yeah, hang on it,
tell me that you're not already In my head, I'm like,
mixed doubles, mixed feelings?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Is that the headline? Like? What are we all? Do
you have to run? Do you have to pun on love?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
But this again, because we've been so focused on the
athletic outcome, there are the little things that Georgie and
I have had a twitch to talk about, and if
you can't tell, there's some of them.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
But that is the beauty of the games.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Is if someone had told you at the start of
this adventure in Paris that it would be a Turkish
shooter that won silver, that would become the icon of
the Games and Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
I really would have wondered what happened.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Late late entry for the icon status.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Reygun the greatest breaker that you've ever seen, choreographed by
Chris Lily and cath day Night on the world stage,
jumping around as a kangaroo.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Now there's been a lot said about Raygun.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And breaking at the Games as a general.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
And breaking at the Games, it's not going to be
there in La. Everyone calmed down is not going to
be there in LA. But really I would say it
wasn't the best spectacle that I've ever seen at the Olympics.
And ray Gun's performance, if we're just being objective and
we're just being blunt, wasn't in the top million percent
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or any cinn She's not making it enter any step
up film is my review.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I find this whole story really uncomfortable because I'm always
someone that thinks if people are laughing at and not
with someone on a really big stage, it makes me
super uncomfortable. Yes, and the fact that this is her
discipline and as Animirs said, she is the best breakdownser
that Australia has that we've sent to participate and represent
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our country. The fact that she's been really made the
butt of a joke. She's an icon.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
She's an icon.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
She's for all the reasons that you don't expect someone
to be yes.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
But then there's also layers to this because she's an academic.
She's studying breaking. That's how she initially got in.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
She used to be a classical dance yah.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Latest phenomenon about it.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I just think at the end of the day, she's
an Olympian and who the hell are we? But my god?
Am I glad it's not featuring in LA because when
you think about some of the gold that we've seen, oh,
I think a gold for breaking just shouldn't be in
the same category.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Another reminder here, and I think I'm contractually obliged as
a friend of Lizzelli's. Nepple's not in the Olympics, so
let's just let's just give it that And final word
on the breaking should go to our other Ossie competitor,
Jay Attack, who said I had a lot of fun
even though I was slaughtered.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Goodbye Bak.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Just to summarize, we like surfing, we like skateboarding because
we're good at them. But breaking can absolutely get on
its bike, it can go. But Iconic Games, Honestly, Iconic
Games is the highlight. If I think of Paris' top line,
I think of a blue smurf on a plate.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Oh yeah, obviously it has to be there, has to
be there.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Leil mush On, who we actually didn't mention from the
opening ceremony, but he was the one that went and
got the flame for the cauldron at the start.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yes, for them to extinguish the flame. It was a
lovely touch. When the chant of Leon Leon went.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Up through the stadium was great and it would be
the most spectacular venue at the base of the Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
That will be the visual for me.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
The beach, volleyball and going how they pulled off venues
that just seem so stunning. I will forever be upset
that we didn't get snoop at the State France.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
But that's okay, that's okay, that's okay.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
But I'm truly excited for what's going on going to
be La because it's going to be the most extra
Hollywood vibe.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I'm also excited for the fact that tomorrow drops our
wrap up of all we're going to do a summary
of basically the medals that we won, how Australia went.
We're going to be talking about jess Oh because while
we didn't have an episode over the weekend, my god,
I need to.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Talk about it, but happened.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
But please check us out tomorrow because we are going
to put a neat bow on. We're going back to
the actual outcomes. We're talking back about athletes. We're not
going to be talking about chocolate muffins. It's going to
be all about green and gold. Well, apparently we're gonna
find out
Tell me we're starting this very special bonus episode of
two Good Sports at the end because it's the end
of the games. The closing ceremony has literally just wrapped
up at the time of record.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I can't believe, and we will mention it is halftime
because we do have the Power Games coming up and
we cannot wait. So we get two weeks to get
our sleeping schedule back on track.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Because I am tired.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Did someone set the alarm on Saturday morning thinking Jess
Hull was running at four am?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Then?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
And wonder why we're watching the four hundred? Really?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Did I wake up this morning to.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Watch the entirety of the closing ceremony because I knew
that we were talking about it. Absolutely, So let's take
you through. We're literally in pajamas. Are they the athletes pajamas?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yes they are, Yes, they are, Yes they are.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We have somehow got our hands on some very comfortable
pjs just in honor of our athletes eventually touching back
down on us.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
By roving enterprises.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
But let us have a look. What did you think
the closing ceremony? First and foremost, just like all of
the gold medal predictions, did we or did we not
tell you as a fun fact that Tom Cruise would
be involved?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We told you it was a potential fact confirmation fact fact,
it's a fact fact. And did we say potentially that
he would be repelling down from the stud de France?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Aha? Yeah, did that happen? Aha?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, we are once again psy kick geniuses. But before
we get to Tom Cruise, jell me, I have to
admit I was in and out. I was in and
out of the closing ceremony. I was watching, then I
wasn't that I was watching again, then I wasn't. So
my notes upon the actual overall event little bit haphazard.
So let's go for it. Number one note that I've
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written here golden hummingbird.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
There seemed to be.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
A whole plot point that I missed exactly what the
context was. But there was a golden humming bird making
its way around a stage, a very very decorative looking step,
lots of angles.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And I'm not sending what was just ended via a cable,
and I at first thought went, oh my god, it's
Tom Cruise and he's golden, and there's lasers everywhere, and
this is what happens.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
But how did Tom get in circle?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
In true French style, there was a real apparently it
was extraterrestrial.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
So we're in this. Firstly, we're not on the seend.
We're not on this. We're in and so we're watching
the exit now.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
And for me, the closing ceremony gives a vibe of
when the year twelves have left school and they've got
one more assembly they have to sit through where the
principal still has to speak and they're kind of in
party mode and they're like, right, oh, like we're all here,
we're all mingling. And that is the amazing thing about
the closing ceremony. And it's been since the fifties where
someone said, you know what, let's have the athletes all
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walk in together.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, and so that happened again.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So you come just.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Arriving as part of your country under your nation's flag,
and then they have all the flag bearers come first,
and then the athletes just roll on in and you
can tell they are ready to party. They started their
own chance at one point, the unofficial anthem that is
no nonanaaah. They all just started launching into it on
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their own accord. Yes, listen to Thomas Bark.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, I got I got a bit confused about that,
because that was a part where I had then came
back in, So I tapped back into the coverage and
I thought, hang on, what's happening here? I've missed some
key plot point? Where did that hummingbird goes? Then I
tapped back out and then tapped back in in time
to see Phoenix the band perform who everyone would remember
the days of big day out at any festival that
you used to have gone to, Zoomers, good luck. You
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don't know who on a Phoenix is as a band.
I don't, No, you.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Do, honestly, as they were everywhere, literally said I don't
know who this is.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I'm also even worse.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Listomania.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
You know that Listomania came on and I went, oh,
I know this, and I went my oh my god,
it's happened.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I've become my mother. It's happened because.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
This is clearly a band that is so that everyone
knows who it is. And then the opening bars of
Listener it happened and I was like, oh, this is
a begger.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I know this one. What upset me?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Okay, I've just let everyone know that I'm a loser.
Point one, but point two there had been rumors and
the expectation. I would go so far as to say,
the expectation that the icon of the Games, yeah Snoop
mister Snoop Doggy, would be performing as a stage to
France in front of all these athletes that have been
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obsessed with him, getting photos with him, trading pins with
him throughout the last two weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yep, we were carving it in stone. That's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And even the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And if I'm an if I'm an athlete that's just
gone through a Games, I'm like, I deserve this.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I deserve a front road where concerts.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
My gift, after the gift that I gave you with
my performance, time for me to be rewarded.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
They performed, and thankfully I know who they are.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
It was a re record and they were supposedly in
a beach in.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
La So here's they were nowhere near the stadium. I
would have rid.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Okay, So hang on, hang on, hang on, let me
get this right. If we're going through just an order
of events, We've got the hummingbird. We don't know where
the hummingbird goes. Then there is Phoenix. They're playing something.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
There's very beautiful.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Oh there is a piano. The floating piano. There was
a floating piano. It was all very confusing. I was like,
is he playing a little bit beautiful? How was he
doing that? That was exceptional. Kazinski played a song from
Drive AKA one of my favorite movies with Ryan Goslin
and Gary Mulligan.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And I.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Know this song I'm gooding you were No. Basically it
was me being like, he's French. Woll oh my god,
they're French.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Wow. Incredible.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And then we had the moment of the transition, so
where we were gifting the games to La to see
what was happening, Tom Cruise ab sails his way down
to the center of the stadium. Absolutely no, no one
steals the Olympic flag. We said, he's steal something so
I mean a micro flag.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
At some point he gave a lovely hug to the
goats Biles who was holding the flag, and then he
proceeds to drive through a relatively and surprisingly empty Paris.
In a pre recorded section, Sarah on a motorbike with
the flag before getting it to La and donning or
what did he do here? Essentially, he like base jumped
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out of a plane to make the Hollywood sign, which the.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Rings yes, and I thought that was really cool.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So they basically had incorporated the two o's on the
Hollywood sign, which had become the symbol of the Games.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
And I thought that's clever. Yeah, that's holy. I liked that.
I liked that.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
And then we went to Venice Beach, where as Gelmy,
you were right in pointing out.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
The greatest concert happened ever in front of twenty extras.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
To I was like, that's not real people, real people
in the crown.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Do you know who were real people?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Our athletes that were made to dress like they were
private school kids.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
On an excursion.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
And I'd also like to say that the female colourway
looks like a Medicare car. It's really hard when you
scan a large crowd and all the Australians aren't together,
and they're not in green and gold, they're in beij
Safari style shorts. A belt that no one's worn since
the early nineties.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Now the belt.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Can we talk about the belt?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
No? I can't. It does because it does.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
It's giving oshkosh b gosh.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Now that is our.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Next reference that something I know certain people I don't
know funny, got it, but they're hideous.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
But meanwhile, the American athletes come out in ralph Lorin
looking like sexy astronauts.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, sexy astronauts.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
They look so cool. We look so lame.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, the new host of the Games, where they're the
sexy astronauts that are taking us, you know, the advanced
AP class kids off on an excursion around NASA.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Granted it was still thirty three degrees and people had
fans like they were trying to keep themselves. Was cool,
So I'm guessing that the breatheable linen was probably very
handy for our athletes.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
But I just thought, really, really, why why are we
in these colors? They're not even like.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Not everyone and again showing that I went to a
private high school. Not everyone tucked their shirts in. There
was no uniformity in how everyone decided to wear this stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
It just looked, I mean, so terri closing ceremony flag
bearers in Kaylee McEwan and Matt ware, who we've talked
about a lot during our two Good Sports Green and
Gold addition, is there a part do you think where
they're like, Oh, I'm in that, I'm in that I'm wearing.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Kaylee's part of glasses can only do so much.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
They can only they can only try to elevate so much.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I am I am sad that it wasn't Snoop. I'm
sad that we didn't get Snoop live.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
It would have.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
It was such a layup. It was such a layup
to have everyone lose their mind. Yeh, he had have descended,
like if he had have just walked on, because.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
He doesn't need to ab sail off anything.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
He just needs to walk out in the middle or
maybe on a dressage horse like this itself.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Let's think about that, right, imagine itself. Imagine Snoop doggubj God.
I was being like Noah LA's there couldn't spell being
a Snoop Dogg just on a dressage horse getting led
by Martha Stewart, his friend.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
He's great friends obviously.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Like you're right, it does right itself.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
But what does bring warmth to your heart is there
is something amazing about seeing all of these athletes just
clearly release the shackles in the stress of their lives
leading up to this point and how much they would
have anticipated their performance. There was also a rendition of
we are the champions, so DJ read the room very well,
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so they're all belting out we are the champions and
swaying together.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
And again it's that blur of different countries. I did.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
One of my first notes when the athletes were entering,
was like, gee, this would look prettier at night because
they ended while it was still daytime. But then of
course it descends into night, so you do you get Oh,
I missed the start effect. I do feel they also
handed out what you get at a Taylor Swift concert
on the wristbands and then light up. They give you
an idea. And the stage itself was I think designed
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to look like the moon.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
There was movement, there was same.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I got confused about the stage because when I was
looking at it, I was like, hang on a second,
are they all the continents of the world and they've
done it in like an abstract version, But then when
they zoomed out, it kind of looked like a dog
holding a scepter.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, And there was the return of our mast vigilante.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Oh, so he came.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
He came back because the golden guys come down, so
he's back flipping around. There's there's a Greek flag, there's
a lot of things going on, But essentially I'd love
to go to a closing ceremony if I was ever
going to fake being.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
An athlete, I'd go in there and be like.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Whoo, do you know what I think they nailed? They
absolutely nailed with the closing ceremony is that they farewell
to Paris with an high art interpretation of an ancient
myth that no one really quite understood. Yes, and don't
you think that that right?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
And then went to a.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Beach in La and went this this year get may
as well have had Katy Perry come out and seen
California girls and just be done with it.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And I just say, the cleanest I've ever seen that
Venice beach look the cleanest it has ever looked.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
But Snoop and his lack of performance at the State
of France, we say he should have been there because
he's one of the icons of the Games. And George,
we have been so busy talking through all of the
Australian medals because it has haranged, we haven't had a
chance to talk about some of the things that are
really sports news told differently, and one of.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Those has to be the Turkish assassin.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yo, the Turkish shooter came silver. Our matte Yusuf is
what we're calling.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
He won.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
He won silver in the shooting, and I mean, this
is Jeremy one of those rare times where I can't
tell you who won the gold.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Oh no, you can't.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I don't care who won the gold, because you know
what that silver is gold. He won the games. He
won the games with his celebration.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
If you haven't seen this in me, where have you been?
Because it has gone to the point where he has
infiltrated celebrations of athletes around the world.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Nina Kennedy did it, our mate Mondo did it. The
Jamaican who won the discus did it.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
So you Basically, it's where you look super relaxed, you
put one hand in your pocket and you make the
other one a pistol. Because the guy had absolutely no
equipment and looked so nonchalant on his way to silver,
while everyone else looked like they had a half a
hardware store on their head trying to help them see
that's the thing was made at Iconic.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It looked like, I mean, Google glasses or whatever, whoever's.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Totally good virtual reality, virtual.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Reality, good luck. Everyone's using everything to try and live
in the matrix and then old mate just comes out
with his reading glasses and goes bam.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
And he's not someone that looks modelesque.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
He looks like someone's dad that came to pick him
up from a party and said where's my daughter?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
And you're like sorry, yousuf.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, like he does. He looks like someone that you
do not want to mess with. But I say this
because Jordan Clark from Fremantle is using that celebrations in
the AFL.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Now when does it get too old?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
When does it get too old?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I mean for him never, he's allowed to do it whenever.
It's actually also genuinely his technique for shooting.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
But when is it too horror recond it or probably
the end of the Power Games. Yeah, I reckon it's
going to have its circuit and have its time, but
you never know. It could it could go beyond that.
But in terms of icons to come from the Games,
he certainly has to be.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
He's up there, he's up there. I think something else
jell me. Because of course the city of Love, that's
another term that we used to describe Paris and another iconic.
I've got that in quotation marks because I'm not sure
how I feel about Luckily, I do know how I
feel about this iconic thing we saw at the Games
was a lot of proposals, a lot of wedding like
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marriage proposals for athletes, and I hate it. I just
hate it. I hate it so much.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
You know how I feel about this.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
It reminds me of the time that someone during a
Test match at the Gabba proposed to their partner in
the pool and I just went.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
All glass, not the pool, in the pool. Cricket Land.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
We actually, we actually saw over the weekend a proposal
in the AFL.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
No for Melbourne. No, that's happened, so it is not
I have you been.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I have gone to Broncos games before where they've proposed
and they've said no, there.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Was no, they were multiple. No, I'm sorry. If you're
proposing in I like Yoda, it's multiple.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
But if you're proposing at a football game or oh
you see it and like, I guess this sort of
originated from the US, where there's sort of the jumbo
troll or you're up on a big screen and it
can be organized. But for me, something about the Olympics
where it's like it's a sacred space. I would like
to highlight Alice Fino, the French steeple chase runner for
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the three thousand meters. She then at the end of
her race proposed to her partner and it went viral
because the Olympics posted it and her quote was, I
ran under nine minutes and nine is my lucky number.
We've also been together for nine years, so I thought,
I do it if I'm the partner.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I'm like, wait, so you run ten and you don't
drop a knee.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
How circumstantially in the balance so much our future.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And also everything about the lead up to this month
hasn't been about me, babe, Like.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
What I hate it so much. I remember I saw
it at the badminton. We also saw it after the
rhythmic gymnastics, where in my mind it's ingrained.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
One of them was on a podium.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Oh, an athlete from Italy. She just literally just got
off the podium and her partner drops to a knee
and I think she said, yes, look I each to
their own it could be the happiest moment of their lives.
I if someone did that to me, automatic, No, I
am on a podium. This has nothing to do with you.
It is about my relationship with the sport that I
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have dedicated my life to and that's been in my
life for far longer than you.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Get out of my space. This is the.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Time for me. I am so mad about it all,
all of that.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I hate it.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I love the idea of you stepping back onto the
podium to use it as your soapbox.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Just say no, get up and go absolutely not no.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And look, I completely agree with you the fact that
you can't wait a week just to let everything settle
down and to not But we do need to go
through some honorable mentions of some things that we love.
Talking about the guy that became obsessed with the chocolate
muffins in the village, to the point where people have
now created hacks of what you can do with the
coals or Woolworth's cake.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I would say that also, do you think that those
countries just eat a lot healthier than us, because I
feel like our ones at Woolies and Coals are just
as good. They're just good, They're just as good. But
this was all because the athletes. There was a lot
many a TikTok about just how shit the food was.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Total and the beds and the experience and it might
be eco, but I'd like some air conditioning, please.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
So therefore a mate I think he was a was
he Dutch? He was Christians and that's yes, Dutch, yepish. Anyway,
he was a swimmer and he went viral for doing
his reviews on food and then he decided that chocol
muffin was the greatest thing that he ever eaten.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
They it exploded.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
It exploded so much so that the village then had
to release a statement they thought that they were going
to In the end, I think it was bake one
hundred thousand of these, because two thousand were being consumed today.
At one point it was really hard to even get
them because it screen doesn't it really really doesn't. So
obviously honorable mention to the icon that was chocolate muffin. Man.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Oh, the horse guy, he's pomerhorse guy. Our next honorable mention.
He was part of the USA gymnastics team that was
such a nerd that I think he can complete the
Rubik's Cuban under twenty seconds, under ten under ten.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
He does it for fun as a way to take
his mind off his nerves.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
But the reason why everyone fell in love with him
was that he wears glasses so it looks like Clark
Kent and then he just takes them off. And the
only discipline that he competes in is the pomber horse.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
And my god, does he own the pommel horse?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And all of the United States has just gone, who's
Clark Kent that we only pull out for this one
discipline that help helped the medal.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
It was so funny.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And the reason that he takes his glasses off is
because he does have a pretty serious vision impediment. He's
cross eyed. It has a fancy scientific name, but essentially
he's cross eyed, and obviously with the pommel horse fair bitted,
jerking kind of movements there, you can't hold glasses on
your face, so what it is you actually can't really
see what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
It's all feel. It's all feel when he's on the horse,
and you need to see how good he is at this.
It's incredible. It's very impressing.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Incredible people that wouldn't look impressive on a pommel horse.
The guy in the swimming that had the colorful speeders
and the very average physique a dad Bob.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
After two weeks of.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Watching swimmers where you're like you could bounce a coin
off any part of any of their bodies, like they
are just zero percent body fat.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yes, but this he had to go and retrieve a cat.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Not all heroes wear capes, chealmy, they only indeed wear
those colorful speeders because I'd never actually thought or spared
any second to think about. Lots of the athletes wear
double caps because apparently it saves them up no point
zero one of a second, right, but all of you.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
The resistance on the goggles then is lower, so they
might not have water resistance.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
So he happens if one of those caps falls off
and then it's stuck in the pool. Oh my god, delay, delay, Delay.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
You can't have athletes named him Bob.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
No one knows if that's actual name, but they're like,
Bob had to go in and swim.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
And also he could have just had a regular pair
of speedos on. No, you did not need to have
that many colors on them.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
It wreaked of like we needed to get in and
he's like, oh, but I've only got my colorful jocks.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I did not know today.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
So here is another icon, and just quickly a final
honorable mention to a story that really captured our hearts.
And I know that romance riders everywhere have already got
a first draft in the works. Because the tennis lovers
won the mixed doubles. Oh my goodness, they've broken They've
been together four years, broken up in the lead up.
The two Czech athletes broke up in the lead up
(19:52):
to the game, so they want to focus more on
their individual careers, but they'd already committed to competing in
the mixed doubles.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
They win gold and they embrace, and you're like, tell
me you're not back in love. Yeah, yeah, hang on it,
tell me that you're not already In my head, I'm like,
mixed doubles, mixed feelings?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Is that the headline? Like? What are we all? Do
you have to run? Do you have to pun on love?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
But this again, because we've been so focused on the
athletic outcome, there are the little things that Georgie and
I have had a twitch to talk about, and if
you can't tell, there's some of them.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
But that is the beauty of the games.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Is if someone had told you at the start of
this adventure in Paris that it would be a Turkish
shooter that won silver, that would become the icon of
the Games and Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
I really would have wondered what happened.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Late late entry for the icon status.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Reygun the greatest breaker that you've ever seen, choreographed by
Chris Lily and cath day Night on the world stage,
jumping around as a kangaroo.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Now there's been a lot said about Raygun.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And breaking at the Games as a general.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
And breaking at the Games, it's not going to be
there in La. Everyone calmed down is not going to
be there in LA. But really I would say it
wasn't the best spectacle that I've ever seen at the Olympics.
And ray Gun's performance, if we're just being objective and
we're just being blunt, wasn't in the top million percent
(21:19):
or any cinn She's not making it enter any step
up film is my review.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I find this whole story really uncomfortable because I'm always
someone that thinks if people are laughing at and not
with someone on a really big stage, it makes me
super uncomfortable. Yes, and the fact that this is her
discipline and as Animirs said, she is the best breakdownser
that Australia has that we've sent to participate and represent
(21:43):
our country. The fact that she's been really made the
butt of a joke. She's an icon.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
She's an icon.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
She's for all the reasons that you don't expect someone
to be yes.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
But then there's also layers to this because she's an academic.
She's studying breaking. That's how she initially got in.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
She used to be a classical dance yah.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Latest phenomenon about it.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I just think at the end of the day, she's
an Olympian and who the hell are we? But my god?
Am I glad it's not featuring in LA because when
you think about some of the gold that we've seen, oh,
I think a gold for breaking just shouldn't be in
the same category.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Another reminder here, and I think I'm contractually obliged as
a friend of Lizzelli's. Nepple's not in the Olympics, so
let's just let's just give it that And final word
on the breaking should go to our other Ossie competitor,
Jay Attack, who said I had a lot of fun
even though I was slaughtered.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Goodbye Bak.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Just to summarize, we like surfing, we like skateboarding because
we're good at them. But breaking can absolutely get on
its bike, it can go. But Iconic Games, Honestly, Iconic
Games is the highlight. If I think of Paris' top line,
I think of a blue smurf on a plate.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Oh yeah, obviously it has to be there, has to
be there.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Leil mush On, who we actually didn't mention from the
opening ceremony, but he was the one that went and
got the flame for the cauldron at the start.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yes, for them to extinguish the flame. It was a
lovely touch. When the chant of Leon Leon went.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Up through the stadium was great and it would be
the most spectacular venue at the base of the Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
That will be the visual for me.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
The beach, volleyball and going how they pulled off venues
that just seem so stunning. I will forever be upset
that we didn't get snoop at the State France.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
But that's okay, that's okay, that's okay.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
But I'm truly excited for what's going on going to
be La because it's going to be the most extra
Hollywood vibe.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I'm also excited for the fact that tomorrow drops our
wrap up of all we're going to do a summary
of basically the medals that we won, how Australia went.
We're going to be talking about jess Oh because while
we didn't have an episode over the weekend, my god,
I need to.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Talk about it, but happened.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
But please check us out tomorrow because we are going
to put a neat bow on. We're going back to
the actual outcomes. We're talking back about athletes. We're not
going to be talking about chocolate muffins. It's going to
be all about green and gold. Well, apparently we're gonna
find out
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