April 24, 2025 • 26 mins
We’re running full speed into one of Australia’s most iconic events: the Stawel Gift. From prize money to prestige, we unpack why athletes obsess over this unique 120-metre sprint, and how the unusual handicap system aims to level the playing field between weekend warriors and Olympians.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Here at two Good Sports.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the
land on which we record this podcast. There were innerie people.
This land was never seated, always was always will be. Hello, Hi,
how are you welcome to do good sports? Sports news
sold differently? I'm Georgie.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
He's still not used to you being here and me
not having to do the intro. It's a beautiful world.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Look, no hair, I know, I know, but look, it's
actually been quite a full on week for me, joby
because there's been a lot of sports news. I'm not
match fit and I've been trying to like put everything
into this brain which is struggling able to catch up. Yeah,
and I'm like, whoa, there's so much. I've enjoyed it thoroughly,
but there's a lot of things happening.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
What was the headline for you? What was your biggest
thing that you watched during the week.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Biggest thing was watching the Brisbane Broncos absolutely implode once again.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
But other than that, still gift, still gift had.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
To be had to everyone's favorite race that we become
experts in handicaps sprinting.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Guilty see I am now I think the all knowing
factor when it comes to the store gift and I
have a lot of thoughts.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
We do have a lot of thoughts, and namely the
fact that the headlines in Goutgut and Lackie Kennedy didn't
even make the men's final, but Brerizzo, what a performance
it was from her. So the best example of when
handicapping goes right, the best example of when handicapping goes wrong.
And somewhere in the middle we land in Australia's richest
foot trace.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's right, that's right, and there's so much, there's so
much to discuss.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
It is a spectacle.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
But before we do that, you know what's time for
Georgie good sport?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Good sport.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
The Australian Swimming Championships are happy happening currently. And I
mean I may have mentioned on this podcast one or
two times that I consider myself to be an honorary Dolphin.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
On did you befriend Bronchie Campbell?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I did that.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I was like as soon as I saw I was like,
we are the same, like nos, like here we go.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Game recognizes game. She's gonna be like, have I seen
you at a junior carnival somewhere? You look like you
could swim instead. She said, Hi, my name's Bronzie. I
think that's where we were.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You know, that was the conversation that I had when
that eventually goes to where do I have footage of
Robert Mills attempting to race Bronti Campbell?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah? I do, I do.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
That's just a little spoiler. Bronti was taking on everyone
in the amazing race. And look, but there was a
water leg sometime. There was water somewhere. I can't tell
you where, but there was water somewhere that we could
compete against an Olympic.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Why didn't you nominate?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Well, because I didn't need to know that.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You know, game recognizes game jelly, So obviously I don't
need to compete against Bronti.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I know, because you know, I know I doesn't know.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Robert, you get in this television.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's crazy, Robert so Yes.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Continuing on that theme with the Championships happening right now,
just two special shout outs. One to a friend of
the pot, Alexa O'Leary. We love her so much. She's
smashed record and she's just the delight for those of
you who may not remember, she's the incredible para swimmer
who did incredible things at the Paralympics.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I think she won how many goals did she win?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
A lot?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And she's the leading swimmer in her field and she
was that one had that wonderful moment in the qualification
rounds where she goes, I'm just so proud of myself.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
And this is someone who was a star triathlete and
then had a terrible accident on a bike and left
her with some physical impairments as well as mental impairments.
But you would not know. And her dad crying in
the crowd about the fact that they's been told to
say goodbye to her and then he's watching her qualify
for a Paralympics.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It's it's just the best. So it's great love her.
She's still informed. She unlike me, has managed to maintain
her fitness over the course of many, many years, so
she is doing alexa things. Also, big shout out because
Cam McAvoy, the professor, one of my faves, fresh off
his gold medal in the Olympics in the fifty meter freestyle,
he's absolutely smashed the fifteen meter freestyle earlier on in
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this meet, and he has clocked a time of twenty
one point four to eight, which is just zero point
zero five off the fastest time in the world this year.
He's only recently got back into the pool. And for
those who may not remember, he does that kind of
he's one that trains back. Yes, that's stripped back to
win more and it sounds great and it's working.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It just keeps on working for him and.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Kaylee McEwan as well. The fastest time that we've seen
this year.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yes, standard, our Dolphins just continue to do incredible things.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Those obviously good sports, good sports.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It feels very Olympic today. Not to quote cool runnings,
but my good sport bad sport. I'm gonna leave it
to you, George, to decide if this is a good
sport or a bad sort.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I love passing judgment.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yes, yes, what are you for? You got to your
school carnival to watch your kid and they are so
pair of participation, and part of you is like, look,
it was already hard enough to get here and make
sure the kids had their shoes. But sure, I'll run
in one hundred meter. You line up, you'll look to
your left, you look to your right, and on your right.
His three time Olympic champion, ten time old champion Shelley
(05:01):
Anne Fraser Brice, and you just think this isn't where
I parked my car because the Jamaican superstar and it's
almost like I need to put some more supers ahead
of that. We all recognize her as the pint sized,
wig wearing Jamaican phenomenon in sprinting. Lined up for a
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son's parent one hundred meter run and you have to
see this footage because it's not so much a race
as a drone trying to keep her in the shot
with the other parents. It was just the most phenomenal, brutal,
no mercy. She hits the full pace and I love
this quote where she goes, well, they haven't banned me yet,
(05:44):
so I'm still gonna line up is where a sun
zion And again the fact that she went away, had
a kid and then has still returned to be at
Olympic level. When we saw her in Paris and then
she had that weird incidence where she missed.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
The bus so odd, it was very it was very,
very very confusing. Good to see though she's taking it
out on just regular parents.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
He's a good sport or a bad sports She's very
good at sport.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
But come on, Shelly, Oh oh, I'm thinking, look for
me good sport. If I was one of the parents,
I'm like, come on, just you need to have like
talk about handicap racing. Start in the next country, Start
in the next country, and then begin the run and
I will start at the same time.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
When you watch the footage, and I'm for you to
google it. She could run on one leg, she could
have she could have done the triple jump over the
one hundred and still absolutely annihilated. I just I watched
it and I was like, oh, to be that good
at anything and be like here at a school carnival.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I just want to know what her son like, Zion,
what's he thinking? There? Is he thinking, go Mama is thinking?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Oh mom, so embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
The great thing is she'd done it previously and smoked them.
That's the only reason why someone thought we better get
a drone. We better get a drone to get that
footage of the hang on.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I mean, whether or not it was good sport bad sport,
I want to know whether you would do that, like
if you were Shelleyanne Fraser Price, There's no way that
Gelmy is not being like I am putting all the
burners on and smoking you all.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Georgie in the duo that is, which of the two
parents of my children is being nominated the ex athlete,
Sorry Kate head on in, but I am going to
be the psycho screaming from the line of because I
like push everyone. I know him, that parent, I know
him that parent, low Ribbons. Only this I like and
(07:38):
why do we want no laugh?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Look for someone who has been competing in a race
most recently, and I've learned things about myself, which is
number one that I'm what you may call unattractively competitive,
and I.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Think what you may or what Robert told you after.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah it could be they could have come up. Yeah,
they could have come up.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
So I feel that both you and I we would
just be like doing the old Lizzello's Queen Lee's, which
is elbows at the ready, take your marks, elbows out go.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I just don't have the skills to back up how
competitive I am in most things.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
No same here.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
That's where I'm like, I'm desperate to win, but I
don't want to train.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh well, Shelly and Fraser Price, well done, well done,
are doing it for us.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
We will post the footage. We'll find it on social
because it is just it's phenomenal. It brought me so
much joy, just about as much joy as Alexilary. So
that were they was some two good sports.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
There, most amazing, most amazing.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Anyway, should we continue talking about sprinting?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yes, yes, we definitely should We definitely sure.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Let's getting too our main chat now.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Jell me on my men travels to various desinations that
I cannot disclose. Remember I said there was one sporting
story really that was able to kind of get my
grab my attention and made it overseas, and that was Gout,
Gout v Locky Kennedy.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And I tell you what.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
When the store gift came up and they were going
to be competing, I was like, Yes, this is amazing.
The entirety of the country, not just Abby jellmy cares
about track and field.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
This is gonna be amazing.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Wow. And they were just coming off nationals where they
weren't competing together because they're not in the same age division.
So we've seen them do so well in Perth, we've
seen them race against each other at the Mury Plant me.
But this the Stall Gift on over one hundred and twenty,
which is going to favor Gout. Yes, because he's over
a longer distance. He seems to really wind up. Where's
Locky Burst out of the blox? Who's going to win.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
The ultimate rivalry?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
We are going to have a deciding race and we
will know once and.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
For all who is the fastest man and we get
to watch it eating chocolate. Yes, it always happens over
the Easter weekend, so this is the perfect And also
it's Bruce mcaveany, it's Tamsa Manu, It's Jason Richardson, who
we love, who's a formal winner doing the boundary. It's
just Dave Colbert. This feels to me like an Australian Olympics.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It is an Australian Olympics.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And I was so excited to follow every single second
of this day and this event unfold and listeners.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
If you're not someone who like us, was weirdly into
this foot race, let me give you a bit of
a context. The store Gift used to be called the
Easter Gift and has been run every year except for
five since eighteen seventy eight, so it has only been
stopped by a couple of world Wars and a little
thing got COVID. But it is one of the most
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prize sporting events in the country, and it's one of
those things that if you are a sprinter, you really
deeply care about who wins the stall, and once you're
a winner, you're up in lights forever.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yes, it's something that I remember covering as a young
journal when I just started, and I remember thinking, now,
how much of like you know, are people aware of this?
Is it just because I work in this field and
I followed this race. I remember when it came to
the finals and stall gift day every single time in
the newsroom, and it would be everyone just crowds around
your desk, yes, because they want to see what's going
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on and what's happening. It's the fifteen seconds, let's say,
where everyone cares about running.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
It feels decidedly amateur because it is. It's amateur athletes
taking on professionals. So you do have these athletes that
you would have seen at the Olympics that are our
national champions that sometimes and it's also an invitational they
sometimes have athletes come from all around the world to compete,
but it's on grass as opposed to a synthetic surface,
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which I've heard it described as if you're going to
put like ten units of energy in Usually, if you're
on a synthetic track, you might get eight out in
terms of bounce. Oh, whereas if you're on this.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
You lost me with the science.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I was like, what, well, I've heard Jason Richardson describe
it this way, so it must be true. But then
if if you put that much energy into grass, anyone
who runs on grass will tell you don't bounce back up.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I don't bounce on anything. But yes, yes, the grass.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I find it a completely different technique where you sort
of instead of putting pushing off, you need to sort
of skim over the top.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Oh geez, okay, because it's different.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
It's like running on sand ryes. Do you know that?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Most recently, sorry to go off on a little tangent here,
I figured out that I don't run properly. It will shock,
you know, because I don't think I push off on anything.
So you're talking about this, I think I just run
up and down.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Oh no, you've got to push off.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I don't. That's really hard.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Because then I was like, maybe I'll just run a
little bit trying to do. You're the balls of your
feet at least, yeah, I am, but just up and
down like it's like I'm essentially a pogo stick, is
what I've figured out. And I try, and then I
was like, okay, actually, hang on, let's propel myself forward
out of breath within three strides.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I was like, well, but anyway, the stall gift is
not about me.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
We digress, so we get to the stall gift that
is being headlined by these two now too. But let's
be honest. One seventeen year old superstar.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
And household names like Gout gou Everyone knows goutgaut now
you know it's We've been talking about him for a.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Little while on this podcast.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Well done as but like Gout Gout has just infiltrated
every single Australian home.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
And then, in one of the great travesties and tragedies,
neither Gout nor Locky make the final I think.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I when the news came through that neither of them
had qualified for the final, I messaged you immediately.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
That vitriol and I was so mad.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I was like, something has gone terribly wrong? What is
going on here?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Because as a spectacle as the centerpiece for the sport
as a centerpiece for the event. You want your strongest
runners in the final. And I understand handicap racing. I
understand that it is.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Handicap racing is so difficult to get your head around,
and I've really tried, and there are still nuances in
terms of bonuses that the amateur athletes can get in
their times in qualifying for a race like the Stall
Gift that blow my mind a little bit.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
But I understand that at its heart, you're essentially wanting
to see the amateurs up against the big names. I
get that, because you want it's almost like the Fa Cup, right,
It's the Fa Cup of running. But you still need
the best athletes there in order to create the best race.
You need them to be able to make it to
the final. But you're right, Jelmy, I have been going
through exactly when this happened.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I've been out.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I would call myself a semi expert on handicapping. That's
not noxymore, because you are right, there are a lot
of intricacies that the general running fan maybe just comes
into attention every time there's an Olympics or a stall
Gift would miss. When it comes to this yes, and
one of those being you're right. The amateur circuit for runners,
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they can compete in different events and if they do well,
that means that they will have meters taken off the race.
So if you start out with one hundred and twenty meters,
that is what the stall gifts sprint length is. And
if you take one hundred and twenty meters, yes, and
say you're starting at a nine point seventy five meters,
that means that you move your starting block forward nine
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point seventy five, so you're only running one hundred and
ten point twenty five God mass, well done, Mas, that's
now your distance. So someone starting from scratch's running.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
The full hundred and twenty, which is what we saw
in the women's where Brie Rizzo came from the absolute
clouds and one from scratch. So we saw the example
in the women's of how handicapping can be done right
because her run was fantastic. We know that she made
a semifinal in the Olympics, so you had this Olympic
level runner up against amateurs, so they had to basically
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put away you know what it can be likened to
horse racing, yes, where they do put different weights on
different horses to try to make it even in a
handicap So that's basically what they're doing here, but in
distance right.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yes, I've heard that the goal for handicappers when it
comes to the men's race is that you're wanting everyone
to finish the same time and you're looking for a
time about twelve point two five seconds.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yes, benk over one hundred and twenty and.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
So since then we have had Locki Kennedy's coach come
out and essentially say, look, I know that there's a
lot of outcry about this, but at the end of
the day, when you have a winner at John Evans,
this is his Olympics. Yes, this is what he's been
tapering for training for. This is his mecha. This what
he's dreamt of winning. You've got Lockie and Gout who
get paid very handsomely to be there, but they were
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looking at nationals, so they're not tapering their training, they're
not specializing on these softer tracks in order to optimize
their performance over that distance. So it goes both. But
I'm with you in that it was on freeware TV. Yes,
it was another show piece for Australian Athletics that was
just for mine, you need to at least slightly ring
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it just so that they get into the final.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Also, maybe just take into consideration the conditions. Like before
Gout and Lockie Kennedy raced, it was essentially a swim,
it was trential, and also the handicap is based on
the runners too fast at times that season I believe
averaged out and that's where you at least start in
terms of how you handicap the full heat. Once again
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track versus you know, the grass, and then you've got
the rain.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And amateurs and pros and it's slightly.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Uphill, yeah, slightly uphill, you're on a gradient, yeah yeah,
and upward gradient, so they're sprinting uphill.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Sorry, I'm if I'm Bree Rizzo and I'm looking at
the back of someone who's ten meters ahead of me
on a slight incline on a surface that I don't
usually run on. I'm like, I don't need to be
doing this, and I don't need to be doing this
on television. I'll give you the hot tip. Yes, probably
why I'm not nothing.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I I know, I know, but I think that there
is an argument, and I mean the head handicappers said
himself that maybe will revisiting it where you just really
do have to see if you're giving too much of
a handicap away at the set, like for the back bass,
like I mean it's it's they were gout was flying harh.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, don't get me wrong. And Lockey Kennedy did well
in his eer.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Shots of his heat was just beautiful.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
It was incredible.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
But you still want to have your best races competing
in the final. So obviously, and this is no disrespect
to John Evans, he deserved that win, but something has
gone wrong.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah John Evans, who's a school teacher. Yeah yeah, who
can now say that he beat Locky Kennedy and gowgut
that he's going to see running in the Olympics. That's
the beauty of this.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Can you imagine going into your class and every one
of them would just be like, oh my god, how
was gout?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Gout?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
And he's like, well ie won. But yeah, it's really cool.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I don't even know that he teaches sport. Oh yeah, no,
I don't think I don't think he does. She looks
like a bizarre, bizarre alignment. But one of the favorite
stories to come out of me is the fact that
Brie Rizzo's now won and her husband was the winner, yes,
Matt riezoz back in twenty seventeen, and the fact that
they met after the after party of the twenty nineteen
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store gift, which is when she actually decided to focus
on track running at all. And his pickup line, you
only get one shot with the Riz that was That's
a direct quote of what the pickup line was. Do
you think because she said it was mentioned in their vowels?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Oh no, yeah, that's how.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
That's how I know about this. I was listening to
a race and I'm like, oh, Brie, tell me you
put him in his place?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Do we?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Then?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Can we unequivocally say that the Rizzos themselves have actually
coined the frame Riez, don't worry about jen Z, it's them.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
If you have the Riz, you've just got that Rizzo factor.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Do you know what is perfect is she has Riz.
When you watch that race, you could not Oh my god,
but you couldn't watch anyone else. No, she was captivating
and she got in this zone where I was like,
I've never been in that zone. Tell me what that
looks like or feels like, because she just there was
a level of performance there. That was just it was
so good to watch. It was so cool and for me,
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anytime that you have Bruce mcavani calling a race, it's
a good times.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
It's special. And that's why I was well done, thank you.
That's why I just wish that the in itself. When
it came to the men the women's race, incredible, Bree
was exceptional. I just think overall incredible for the sports
like that, it would have been packed out. Everyone was watching,
Like imagine every single fan who you know, withstood the
torrential rain to get a glimpse of Gout.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Gout. You know, it's just they will live with that forever.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
But give me the pair of it. Give me over
one twenty.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I wanted to see it.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
The same handicapped because what we saw.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Was that Gout was coming at the Morrow Plant. Yeah,
like they're two very different athletes and it's just like
twenty I think it gets him.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, I think so too. I think so too.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
And I just look maybe next year, maybe next year,
you know, unless Gout might be off tackling Noah Lyle,
so we'll see our mate, our mate Noah also just
af I would love to give a recommendation for our
dear listeners, who if you are, if this has piqued
your interest in the store gift search. Kathy Freeman nineteen
ninety six. I think she obviously was in like the
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four hundred meter event. He starts from fifty four meters
back from the.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Rest of the field, so she's off. Yeah, she's fifty
four z conic.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
That's what the handicap that they that everyone else has,
and she, spoiler wins. So just do yourself a favor,
go watch that. It is amazing. This is pre the
four hundred meters in Sydney. It is amazing.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
And again it's when handicapping can be done well, yes, yes,
because it adds to the spectacle of how good she is.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah, and also once again just look at her and
see how.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
She's barely puffing at the end, and just ask yourself, wow,
some of us are just.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Bill different different, because ah am not. The four hundred
for me, is the most brutal distance. I hated the
four hundred.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh you think I've attempted it?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Come now, you never did a four hundred at school,
not willingly.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
No, No, I did a two hundred, and I was like,
that's enough.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I was one of those unfortunate people that was the
best at my school but so far the worst. Add
into schools, so that Elliot, so you'd know, but then
you'd get like, I'd be okay in my year, and
then I'd get to the inter schools. It's a long run.
It's a long when you're getting smoked, when you're giving
away fifty four meters and it's not a handicap. It's
a really feeling last hundred meters. I'll give you the
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hot tip. It's like a sprint that feels like it
should be a job. By the time you're getting over
that distance. I just feel like it shouldn't be considered.
That's friends, George, you've got fun back.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I sure do.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I sure do.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
It wouldn't be a chat about sprinting or running if
we did not mention the name you Saint Bolt.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Fun fact Jellmy is that.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
You don't know this. He's got a lot of mentions
this season. By the way, we basically could be a
U Same Bolt Specialist podcast.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Do you want me to Okay?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
It's because Murphy talked about the time where a friend
decided to plump herself down on a table and say
do you mind if we sit here? And this guy
was like yeah, no worries. Then Murphy came up with
the drinks and the guy was Usain Bold. No, and
they've just sat on the table with the world's fastest runner.
And then Laurence Birway told us about the time that
a friend of hers was in a bath club with
him or like something sort of spa. So we don't
(23:02):
mean to be very Usain Bolt centric. We just have been.
We just to be there's a catch up and if
you haven't listened to it, that's picture's interest listeners go back.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Well, now I want to contact Murphy and ask what
Usain Bolt was eating because fun fact, at the two
thousand and eight Olympics in Beijing, Usain Bolt ate only
and I mean only chicken nuggets.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
For ten days.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
No, yes, no.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
So while he was there beating everyone in the world,
in beaging all the things in Beijing, he ate. He
would say thousands of chicken nuggets, maybe one hundred a
day because for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, that's all he
had chicken nuggets and water.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah, my kind of man.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I just firstly, how's your intergestion?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well, this is why he did it vault.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
He did it because when he first got there, he
had a Chinese meal and in his own book, you
would say, and it's not like we do Chinese, it's
proper Chinese food, and it didn't really sit well with me.
So he refused to risk it. It's so he's like,
so no chicken cash you. So he's like, I'm not
(24:22):
risking it. Better just eat a million nuggets and that
powered him.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I'm sorry his results. He was Olympic champion off nuggets.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, fastest man in the world off chicken nuggets. I
can do anything, guys, if you just believe or is
he just but.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Even a nugget handicap doesn't because you can't you kind
of optimum performance off a nugget.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Well, no, I mean but water to water too, you know,
a ration diet chicken nuggets and water.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
That's how good he was was That's.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
What most toddlers are running off and they're going, okay,
but that's wild.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I know, fun fact, a bit of fun.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
How do you have abs with chicken nuggets?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
This is a question I've been asking myself my entire life.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Where are they?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Where are they.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Get bolt home at doing everything I can, everything I can.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Oh, I'm implementing you send a bolt.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Diet to the d to the nuggets and water. That's
that's so strange, that's so strange for mine. But I
love that. Love that you're welcome also makes me feel
kind of sick. Sure, thank you for listening to just
very unhinged and very impassioned episode of Two Good Sports.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
George, what would be your meal, dear listeners, if you
could only eat one meal for the rest of your life,
let us contact us. Also, just thank you so much
for everyone who's always riding in we see everything.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Thank you so much. We appreciate it very very much.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
We love a topic, we love a topic you're interested in,
and we'll try to follow in. But this has been
a particularly unhinged one. We basically came from the perspective
of the ill informed but angry. That will take time.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
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Speaker 3 (26:16):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the
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This land was never seated, always was always will be. Hello, Hi,
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Speaker 3 (00:21):
He's still not used to you being here and me
not having to do the intro. It's a beautiful world.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Look, no hair, I know, I know, but look, it's
actually been quite a full on week for me, joby
because there's been a lot of sports news. I'm not
match fit and I've been trying to like put everything
into this brain which is struggling able to catch up. Yeah,
and I'm like, whoa, there's so much. I've enjoyed it thoroughly,
but there's a lot of things happening.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
What was the headline for you? What was your biggest
thing that you watched during the week.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Biggest thing was watching the Brisbane Broncos absolutely implode once again.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
But other than that, still gift, still gift had.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
To be had to everyone's favorite race that we become
experts in handicaps sprinting.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Guilty see I am now I think the all knowing
factor when it comes to the store gift and I
have a lot of thoughts.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
We do have a lot of thoughts, and namely the
fact that the headlines in Goutgut and Lackie Kennedy didn't
even make the men's final, but Brerizzo, what a performance
it was from her. So the best example of when
handicapping goes right, the best example of when handicapping goes wrong.
And somewhere in the middle we land in Australia's richest
foot trace.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's right, that's right, and there's so much, there's so
much to discuss.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
It is a spectacle.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
But before we do that, you know what's time for
Georgie good sport?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Good sport.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
The Australian Swimming Championships are happy happening currently. And I
mean I may have mentioned on this podcast one or
two times that I consider myself to be an honorary Dolphin.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
On did you befriend Bronchie Campbell?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I did that.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I was like as soon as I saw I was like,
we are the same, like nos, like here we go.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Game recognizes game. She's gonna be like, have I seen
you at a junior carnival somewhere? You look like you
could swim instead. She said, Hi, my name's Bronzie. I
think that's where we were.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You know, that was the conversation that I had when
that eventually goes to where do I have footage of
Robert Mills attempting to race Bronti Campbell?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah? I do, I do.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
That's just a little spoiler. Bronti was taking on everyone
in the amazing race. And look, but there was a
water leg sometime. There was water somewhere. I can't tell
you where, but there was water somewhere that we could
compete against an Olympic.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Why didn't you nominate?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Well, because I didn't need to know that.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You know, game recognizes game jelly, So obviously I don't
need to compete against Bronti.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I know, because you know, I know I doesn't know.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Robert, you get in this television.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's crazy, Robert so Yes.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Continuing on that theme with the Championships happening right now,
just two special shout outs. One to a friend of
the pot, Alexa O'Leary. We love her so much. She's
smashed record and she's just the delight for those of
you who may not remember, she's the incredible para swimmer
who did incredible things at the Paralympics.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I think she won how many goals did she win?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
A lot?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And she's the leading swimmer in her field and she
was that one had that wonderful moment in the qualification
rounds where she goes, I'm just so proud of myself.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
And this is someone who was a star triathlete and
then had a terrible accident on a bike and left
her with some physical impairments as well as mental impairments.
But you would not know. And her dad crying in
the crowd about the fact that they's been told to
say goodbye to her and then he's watching her qualify
for a Paralympics.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It's it's just the best. So it's great love her.
She's still informed. She unlike me, has managed to maintain
her fitness over the course of many, many years, so
she is doing alexa things. Also, big shout out because
Cam McAvoy, the professor, one of my faves, fresh off
his gold medal in the Olympics in the fifty meter freestyle,
he's absolutely smashed the fifteen meter freestyle earlier on in
(03:55):
this meet, and he has clocked a time of twenty
one point four to eight, which is just zero point
zero five off the fastest time in the world this year.
He's only recently got back into the pool. And for
those who may not remember, he does that kind of
he's one that trains back. Yes, that's stripped back to
win more and it sounds great and it's working.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It just keeps on working for him and.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Kaylee McEwan as well. The fastest time that we've seen
this year.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yes, standard, our Dolphins just continue to do incredible things.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Those obviously good sports, good sports.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It feels very Olympic today. Not to quote cool runnings,
but my good sport bad sport. I'm gonna leave it
to you, George, to decide if this is a good
sport or a bad sort.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I love passing judgment.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yes, yes, what are you for? You got to your
school carnival to watch your kid and they are so
pair of participation, and part of you is like, look,
it was already hard enough to get here and make
sure the kids had their shoes. But sure, I'll run
in one hundred meter. You line up, you'll look to
your left, you look to your right, and on your right.
His three time Olympic champion, ten time old champion Shelley
(05:01):
Anne Fraser Brice, and you just think this isn't where
I parked my car because the Jamaican superstar and it's
almost like I need to put some more supers ahead
of that. We all recognize her as the pint sized,
wig wearing Jamaican phenomenon in sprinting. Lined up for a
(05:22):
son's parent one hundred meter run and you have to
see this footage because it's not so much a race
as a drone trying to keep her in the shot
with the other parents. It was just the most phenomenal, brutal,
no mercy. She hits the full pace and I love
this quote where she goes, well, they haven't banned me yet,
(05:44):
so I'm still gonna line up is where a sun
zion And again the fact that she went away, had
a kid and then has still returned to be at
Olympic level. When we saw her in Paris and then
she had that weird incidence where she missed.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
The bus so odd, it was very it was very,
very very confusing. Good to see though she's taking it
out on just regular parents.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
He's a good sport or a bad sports She's very
good at sport.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
But come on, Shelly, Oh oh, I'm thinking, look for
me good sport. If I was one of the parents,
I'm like, come on, just you need to have like
talk about handicap racing. Start in the next country, Start
in the next country, and then begin the run and
I will start at the same time.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
When you watch the footage, and I'm for you to
google it. She could run on one leg, she could
have she could have done the triple jump over the
one hundred and still absolutely annihilated. I just I watched
it and I was like, oh, to be that good
at anything and be like here at a school carnival.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I just want to know what her son like, Zion,
what's he thinking? There? Is he thinking, go Mama is thinking?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Oh mom, so embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
The great thing is she'd done it previously and smoked them.
That's the only reason why someone thought we better get
a drone. We better get a drone to get that
footage of the hang on.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I mean, whether or not it was good sport bad sport,
I want to know whether you would do that, like
if you were Shelleyanne Fraser Price, There's no way that
Gelmy is not being like I am putting all the
burners on and smoking you all.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Georgie in the duo that is, which of the two
parents of my children is being nominated the ex athlete,
Sorry Kate head on in, but I am going to
be the psycho screaming from the line of because I
like push everyone. I know him, that parent, I know
him that parent, low Ribbons. Only this I like and
(07:38):
why do we want no laugh?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Look for someone who has been competing in a race
most recently, and I've learned things about myself, which is
number one that I'm what you may call unattractively competitive,
and I.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Think what you may or what Robert told you after.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah it could be they could have come up. Yeah,
they could have come up.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
So I feel that both you and I we would
just be like doing the old Lizzello's Queen Lee's, which
is elbows at the ready, take your marks, elbows out go.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I just don't have the skills to back up how
competitive I am in most things.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
No same here.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
That's where I'm like, I'm desperate to win, but I
don't want to train.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh well, Shelly and Fraser Price, well done, well done,
are doing it for us.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
We will post the footage. We'll find it on social
because it is just it's phenomenal. It brought me so
much joy, just about as much joy as Alexilary. So
that were they was some two good sports.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
There, most amazing, most amazing.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Anyway, should we continue talking about sprinting?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yes, yes, we definitely should We definitely sure.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Let's getting too our main chat now.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Jell me on my men travels to various desinations that
I cannot disclose. Remember I said there was one sporting
story really that was able to kind of get my
grab my attention and made it overseas, and that was Gout,
Gout v Locky Kennedy.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And I tell you what.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
When the store gift came up and they were going
to be competing, I was like, Yes, this is amazing.
The entirety of the country, not just Abby jellmy cares
about track and field.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
This is gonna be amazing.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Wow. And they were just coming off nationals where they
weren't competing together because they're not in the same age division.
So we've seen them do so well in Perth, we've
seen them race against each other at the Mury Plant me.
But this the Stall Gift on over one hundred and twenty,
which is going to favor Gout. Yes, because he's over
a longer distance. He seems to really wind up. Where's
Locky Burst out of the blox? Who's going to win.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
The ultimate rivalry?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
We are going to have a deciding race and we
will know once and.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
For all who is the fastest man and we get
to watch it eating chocolate. Yes, it always happens over
the Easter weekend, so this is the perfect And also
it's Bruce mcaveany, it's Tamsa Manu, It's Jason Richardson, who
we love, who's a formal winner doing the boundary. It's
just Dave Colbert. This feels to me like an Australian Olympics.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It is an Australian Olympics.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And I was so excited to follow every single second
of this day and this event unfold and listeners.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
If you're not someone who like us, was weirdly into
this foot race, let me give you a bit of
a context. The store Gift used to be called the
Easter Gift and has been run every year except for
five since eighteen seventy eight, so it has only been
stopped by a couple of world Wars and a little
thing got COVID. But it is one of the most
(10:45):
prize sporting events in the country, and it's one of
those things that if you are a sprinter, you really
deeply care about who wins the stall, and once you're
a winner, you're up in lights forever.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yes, it's something that I remember covering as a young
journal when I just started, and I remember thinking, now,
how much of like you know, are people aware of this?
Is it just because I work in this field and
I followed this race. I remember when it came to
the finals and stall gift day every single time in
the newsroom, and it would be everyone just crowds around
your desk, yes, because they want to see what's going
(11:17):
on and what's happening. It's the fifteen seconds, let's say,
where everyone cares about running.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
It feels decidedly amateur because it is. It's amateur athletes
taking on professionals. So you do have these athletes that
you would have seen at the Olympics that are our
national champions that sometimes and it's also an invitational they
sometimes have athletes come from all around the world to compete,
but it's on grass as opposed to a synthetic surface,
(11:44):
which I've heard it described as if you're going to
put like ten units of energy in Usually, if you're
on a synthetic track, you might get eight out in
terms of bounce. Oh, whereas if you're on this.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
You lost me with the science.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I was like, what, well, I've heard Jason Richardson describe
it this way, so it must be true. But then
if if you put that much energy into grass, anyone
who runs on grass will tell you don't bounce back up.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I don't bounce on anything. But yes, yes, the grass.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I find it a completely different technique where you sort
of instead of putting pushing off, you need to sort
of skim over the top.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Oh geez, okay, because it's different.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
It's like running on sand ryes. Do you know that?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Most recently, sorry to go off on a little tangent here,
I figured out that I don't run properly. It will shock,
you know, because I don't think I push off on anything.
So you're talking about this, I think I just run
up and down.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Oh no, you've got to push off.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I don't. That's really hard.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Because then I was like, maybe I'll just run a
little bit trying to do. You're the balls of your
feet at least, yeah, I am, but just up and
down like it's like I'm essentially a pogo stick, is
what I've figured out. And I try, and then I
was like, okay, actually, hang on, let's propel myself forward
out of breath within three strides.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I was like, well, but anyway, the stall gift is
not about me.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
We digress, so we get to the stall gift that
is being headlined by these two now too. But let's
be honest. One seventeen year old superstar.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
And household names like Gout gou Everyone knows goutgaut now
you know it's We've been talking about him for a.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Little while on this podcast.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Well done as but like Gout Gout has just infiltrated
every single Australian home.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
And then, in one of the great travesties and tragedies,
neither Gout nor Locky make the final I think.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I when the news came through that neither of them
had qualified for the final, I messaged you immediately.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
That vitriol and I was so mad.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I was like, something has gone terribly wrong? What is
going on here?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Because as a spectacle as the centerpiece for the sport
as a centerpiece for the event. You want your strongest
runners in the final. And I understand handicap racing. I
understand that it is.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Handicap racing is so difficult to get your head around,
and I've really tried, and there are still nuances in
terms of bonuses that the amateur athletes can get in
their times in qualifying for a race like the Stall
Gift that blow my mind a little bit.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
But I understand that at its heart, you're essentially wanting
to see the amateurs up against the big names. I
get that, because you want it's almost like the Fa Cup, right,
It's the Fa Cup of running. But you still need
the best athletes there in order to create the best race.
You need them to be able to make it to
the final. But you're right, Jelmy, I have been going
through exactly when this happened.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I've been out.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I would call myself a semi expert on handicapping. That's
not noxymore, because you are right, there are a lot
of intricacies that the general running fan maybe just comes
into attention every time there's an Olympics or a stall
Gift would miss. When it comes to this yes, and
one of those being you're right. The amateur circuit for runners,
(14:46):
they can compete in different events and if they do well,
that means that they will have meters taken off the race.
So if you start out with one hundred and twenty meters,
that is what the stall gifts sprint length is. And
if you take one hundred and twenty meters, yes, and
say you're starting at a nine point seventy five meters,
that means that you move your starting block forward nine
(15:09):
point seventy five, so you're only running one hundred and
ten point twenty five God mass, well done, Mas, that's
now your distance. So someone starting from scratch's running.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
The full hundred and twenty, which is what we saw
in the women's where Brie Rizzo came from the absolute
clouds and one from scratch. So we saw the example
in the women's of how handicapping can be done right
because her run was fantastic. We know that she made
a semifinal in the Olympics, so you had this Olympic
level runner up against amateurs, so they had to basically
(15:41):
put away you know what it can be likened to
horse racing, yes, where they do put different weights on
different horses to try to make it even in a
handicap So that's basically what they're doing here, but in
distance right.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yes, I've heard that the goal for handicappers when it
comes to the men's race is that you're wanting everyone
to finish the same time and you're looking for a
time about twelve point two five seconds.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yes, benk over one hundred and twenty and.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
So since then we have had Locki Kennedy's coach come
out and essentially say, look, I know that there's a
lot of outcry about this, but at the end of
the day, when you have a winner at John Evans,
this is his Olympics. Yes, this is what he's been
tapering for training for. This is his mecha. This what
he's dreamt of winning. You've got Lockie and Gout who
get paid very handsomely to be there, but they were
(16:28):
looking at nationals, so they're not tapering their training, they're
not specializing on these softer tracks in order to optimize
their performance over that distance. So it goes both. But
I'm with you in that it was on freeware TV. Yes,
it was another show piece for Australian Athletics that was
just for mine, you need to at least slightly ring
(16:50):
it just so that they get into the final.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Also, maybe just take into consideration the conditions. Like before
Gout and Lockie Kennedy raced, it was essentially a swim,
it was trential, and also the handicap is based on
the runners too fast at times that season I believe
averaged out and that's where you at least start in
terms of how you handicap the full heat. Once again
(17:15):
track versus you know, the grass, and then you've got
the rain.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And amateurs and pros and it's slightly.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Uphill, yeah, slightly uphill, you're on a gradient, yeah yeah,
and upward gradient, so they're sprinting uphill.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Sorry, I'm if I'm Bree Rizzo and I'm looking at
the back of someone who's ten meters ahead of me
on a slight incline on a surface that I don't
usually run on. I'm like, I don't need to be
doing this, and I don't need to be doing this
on television. I'll give you the hot tip. Yes, probably
why I'm not nothing.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I I know, I know, but I think that there
is an argument, and I mean the head handicappers said
himself that maybe will revisiting it where you just really
do have to see if you're giving too much of
a handicap away at the set, like for the back bass,
like I mean it's it's they were gout was flying harh.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, don't get me wrong. And Lockey Kennedy did well
in his eer.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Shots of his heat was just beautiful.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
It was incredible.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
But you still want to have your best races competing
in the final. So obviously, and this is no disrespect
to John Evans, he deserved that win, but something has
gone wrong.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah John Evans, who's a school teacher. Yeah yeah, who
can now say that he beat Locky Kennedy and gowgut
that he's going to see running in the Olympics. That's
the beauty of this.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Can you imagine going into your class and every one
of them would just be like, oh my god, how
was gout?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Gout?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
And he's like, well ie won. But yeah, it's really cool.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I don't even know that he teaches sport. Oh yeah, no,
I don't think I don't think he does. She looks
like a bizarre, bizarre alignment. But one of the favorite
stories to come out of me is the fact that
Brie Rizzo's now won and her husband was the winner, yes,
Matt riezoz back in twenty seventeen, and the fact that
they met after the after party of the twenty nineteen
(18:53):
store gift, which is when she actually decided to focus
on track running at all. And his pickup line, you
only get one shot with the Riz that was That's
a direct quote of what the pickup line was. Do
you think because she said it was mentioned in their vowels?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Oh no, yeah, that's how.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
That's how I know about this. I was listening to
a race and I'm like, oh, Brie, tell me you
put him in his place?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Do we?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Then?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Can we unequivocally say that the Rizzos themselves have actually
coined the frame Riez, don't worry about jen Z, it's them.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
If you have the Riz, you've just got that Rizzo factor.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Do you know what is perfect is she has Riz.
When you watch that race, you could not Oh my god,
but you couldn't watch anyone else. No, she was captivating
and she got in this zone where I was like,
I've never been in that zone. Tell me what that
looks like or feels like, because she just there was
a level of performance there. That was just it was
so good to watch. It was so cool and for me,
(19:48):
anytime that you have Bruce mcavani calling a race, it's
a good times.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
It's special. And that's why I was well done, thank you.
That's why I just wish that the in itself. When
it came to the men the women's race, incredible, Bree
was exceptional. I just think overall incredible for the sports
like that, it would have been packed out. Everyone was watching,
Like imagine every single fan who you know, withstood the
torrential rain to get a glimpse of Gout.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Gout. You know, it's just they will live with that forever.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
But give me the pair of it. Give me over
one twenty.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I wanted to see it.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
The same handicapped because what we saw.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Was that Gout was coming at the Morrow Plant. Yeah,
like they're two very different athletes and it's just like
twenty I think it gets him.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, I think so too. I think so too.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
And I just look maybe next year, maybe next year,
you know, unless Gout might be off tackling Noah Lyle,
so we'll see our mate, our mate Noah also just
af I would love to give a recommendation for our
dear listeners, who if you are, if this has piqued
your interest in the store gift search. Kathy Freeman nineteen
ninety six. I think she obviously was in like the
(20:57):
four hundred meter event. He starts from fifty four meters
back from the.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Rest of the field, so she's off. Yeah, she's fifty
four z conic.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
That's what the handicap that they that everyone else has,
and she, spoiler wins. So just do yourself a favor,
go watch that. It is amazing. This is pre the
four hundred meters in Sydney. It is amazing.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
And again it's when handicapping can be done well, yes, yes,
because it adds to the spectacle of how good she is.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah, and also once again just look at her and
see how.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
She's barely puffing at the end, and just ask yourself, wow,
some of us are just.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Bill different different, because ah am not. The four hundred
for me, is the most brutal distance. I hated the
four hundred.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh you think I've attempted it?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Come now, you never did a four hundred at school,
not willingly.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
No, No, I did a two hundred, and I was like,
that's enough.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I was one of those unfortunate people that was the
best at my school but so far the worst. Add
into schools, so that Elliot, so you'd know, but then
you'd get like, I'd be okay in my year, and
then I'd get to the inter schools. It's a long run.
It's a long when you're getting smoked, when you're giving
away fifty four meters and it's not a handicap. It's
a really feeling last hundred meters. I'll give you the
(22:11):
hot tip. It's like a sprint that feels like it
should be a job. By the time you're getting over
that distance. I just feel like it shouldn't be considered.
That's friends, George, you've got fun back.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I sure do.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I sure do.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
It wouldn't be a chat about sprinting or running if
we did not mention the name you Saint Bolt.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Fun fact Jellmy is that.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
You don't know this. He's got a lot of mentions
this season. By the way, we basically could be a
U Same Bolt Specialist podcast.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Do you want me to Okay?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
It's because Murphy talked about the time where a friend
decided to plump herself down on a table and say
do you mind if we sit here? And this guy
was like yeah, no worries. Then Murphy came up with
the drinks and the guy was Usain Bold. No, and
they've just sat on the table with the world's fastest runner.
And then Laurence Birway told us about the time that
a friend of hers was in a bath club with
him or like something sort of spa. So we don't
(23:02):
mean to be very Usain Bolt centric. We just have been.
We just to be there's a catch up and if
you haven't listened to it, that's picture's interest listeners go back.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Well, now I want to contact Murphy and ask what
Usain Bolt was eating because fun fact, at the two
thousand and eight Olympics in Beijing, Usain Bolt ate only
and I mean only chicken nuggets.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
For ten days.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
No, yes, no.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
So while he was there beating everyone in the world,
in beaging all the things in Beijing, he ate. He
would say thousands of chicken nuggets, maybe one hundred a
day because for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, that's all he
had chicken nuggets and water.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah, my kind of man.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I just firstly, how's your intergestion?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well, this is why he did it vault.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
He did it because when he first got there, he
had a Chinese meal and in his own book, you
would say, and it's not like we do Chinese, it's
proper Chinese food, and it didn't really sit well with me.
So he refused to risk it. It's so he's like,
so no chicken cash you. So he's like, I'm not
(24:22):
risking it. Better just eat a million nuggets and that
powered him.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I'm sorry his results. He was Olympic champion off nuggets.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, fastest man in the world off chicken nuggets. I
can do anything, guys, if you just believe or is
he just but.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Even a nugget handicap doesn't because you can't you kind
of optimum performance off a nugget.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Well, no, I mean but water to water too, you know,
a ration diet chicken nuggets and water.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
That's how good he was was That's.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
What most toddlers are running off and they're going, okay,
but that's wild.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I know, fun fact, a bit of fun.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
How do you have abs with chicken nuggets?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
This is a question I've been asking myself my entire life.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Where are they?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Where are they.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Get bolt home at doing everything I can, everything I can.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Oh, I'm implementing you send a bolt.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Diet to the d to the nuggets and water. That's
that's so strange, that's so strange for mine. But I
love that. Love that you're welcome also makes me feel
kind of sick. Sure, thank you for listening to just
very unhinged and very impassioned episode of Two Good Sports.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
George, what would be your meal, dear listeners, if you
could only eat one meal for the rest of your life,
let us contact us. Also, just thank you so much
for everyone who's always riding in we see everything.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Thank you so much. We appreciate it very very much.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
We love a topic, we love a topic you're interested in,
and we'll try to follow in. But this has been
a particularly unhinged one. We basically came from the perspective
of the ill informed but angry. That will take time.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Two Good Sports, Ill informed but angry. Don't wait to
see that on billboards until next week.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Be Sport
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