July 22, 2024 • 33 mins
It's less than a week to go until that big sports event in Paris kicks off, and Abbey and Georgie will be keeping you up to date on it all. Two Good Sports: Green & Gold Edition starts from Monday the 29th of July. But in the meantime, as you prepare for two weeks of sleepless nights and sporting fever, here's five more stars to keep an eye on in the Australian team.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm Georgie, Danny and I'm Abby. Tell me and George
what a week it is.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
And by that I mean we are a week out
from the games and things start feeling very very real.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I am excited. You cannot see me, dear listener, but
I am jigging in my chair. Jigging in my chair.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
There's a wiggle. We are so variety.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We are so so close to the opening ceremony, which
means we are so so close to the first events
that we are going to see, which means we are
so so close to all of the medals that Team
Australia is going to win.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I think it's going to be our most successful games ever.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
WHOA Okay, okay, I'm not going that crazy, but that is.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
That a big blue I'm gonna call it. I think
it's gonna be almost in terms of winning. I think
it's gonna be the most successful games ever.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, good thing that we are picking another five members
of the team Australia that you need to know some
of our best metal chances. We're calling it. That is
going to be our deep dive in today's episode. But
first before we get into that good sport bad sport,
jell me, you've already flowed me this episode. What are
you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
My good sport has to be And we did an
episode on him way back when our little Melbournian although
he's not so little anymore, he's a top a podium
Oscar Piastre.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
He has won his first.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
F one race in Budapest and what a race it was,
and it was McLaren went one to Lando Norra's coming second,
and then a little name called Lewis Hamilton rounding about.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Who what has he done?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
But good like honestly to see an Ossie atop the podium.
He's only the fifth ever Australian to do it, and
he just does it with such humility. Although my semi
badsport would be like Norris and the fact that all
the headlines are basically taken over by the fact the
teammate drama because the team kept radioing to Lando basically
saying you have to give back the lead, so they
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did a strategic pit of Lando first then Oscar. So
basically McClaren did everything they could to fumble the ball,
but they still ended up with a one two.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
This sport cannot be like, it could not be not
dramatic if it tried. Do you know what I mean? Like?
It finds drama in absolutely everything. And Lando Norris has
such main character energy and such surly energy and such
what do you mean, I don't get all of the
things that I want todd la tantrum energy, and I
am here for it.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
The fact the team kept being like Lando, Lando, give
back the lead to Oscar, Lando, Lando, We've told you,
and he's like speeding ahead, gave very Toddler.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
At the park energy.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
You're right, But Oscar piastri Is tweeted saying I dreamt
of this day as a little kid back in Australia.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
A truly unbelievable feeling.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Thank you to everyone who's helped me and supported me,
and thanks for the team. Yeah, well done Lando for
this opportunity and all their hard work. Such a specialtay
and he's looking at one of the weirder trophies in
world sport. It looks like something that you'd pick up
at a thrift shop. Have you seen the trophy.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I've not even seen it.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No, No, mareen and yellow ceramic. It looks like is
it Australian. No, No, it's a very soft Beigian green ceramic.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Anyway, it's very odd.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
But Oscar Piastri he has to be my good sport
and bring on the os Open. I say because McLaren
were whipping boys when dan Riccardo was racing for them,
and now they're going one two on podiums.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So I am also going to echo Jelmy with a
bit of a good sport. Now, dear listeners, you may
remember a few weeks ago I gave a fair whack
to the bad sport, that is, the injury gods, for
being really cruel to certain players, and in particular my
Adam Reynolds, who plays for the Brisbane Broncos. But now
my good sport is actually going to be the medical
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marvels and the medical advancements that have allowed Adam Reynolds,
who at the start, or only a few weeks ago,
ruptured his bicep and was like that's a season ending injury.
He played on the weekend for the Broncos. Yes, his
arm was strapped to within an inch of its life,
but for him to get back on the field this
season is insane. And also to add to this good sport,
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another high five to the universe. Dan McStay played for
Collingwood after doing his ACL last year. I think he's
only really been in rehab properly for like seven months,
which is unheard of.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
It is, and the ACL is a particular one that
if we can see quicker recoveries. I think Todd Goldstein
as well ruckman in the AFL, had a really tight
turn around with his ACL, so there is hope and
there was even headlines that we might see Sam Doherty
potentially this season.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You'll remember him as someone.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Who's battle cancer twice and has had a terrible, terrible.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Run with acls.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You did it early in the season and if he
can return for Carlton. But don't get me to the
AFL ladder in the way that's going at the moment.
But it's funny because I'm not talking about AFL because
we don't have time. But Georgie, you're not talking about Origin.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I don't think we have time, Jelmy. I think I
think what's that, Producer James. Producer James, I think it's
cutting in saying oh, we've got to wrap it up,
wrap it up? Look okay? Am I also going to
give a mini bad Sport to New Southwales to break
in my heart? Yes? I am? Have I changed my
hair color? And am I going through a crisis? Yes potentially,
but whatever. There was apparently a series New South Wales one.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Stage three of the Meltdown is Georgie's data hair morone.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Just true facts?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Ah, well, well done to the Blues.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It is.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It is very hard to win decider in Queensland. But
do you know what's not in Queensland?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Paris. Let's get to the games.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So, Jelmy, we have promised to deliver name and I'm
not going to isn't usually name it? What's that way?
We could say name and shame, but not the shame part.
Name and glorify, name and glorify five at least more
athletes going to Paris that we have earmarked to be
potential medal contenders, and our first of the deep dive
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holds a very special place I think in Australia's hearts.
But Jelly, I would argue a very special place in
your heart because what she was able to achieve in
Tokyo when you were hosting the Olympic Games, you got
to see firsthand just how much this meant to the country.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
And how much it meant to her family. I think
at a time when we weren't allowed to hug our family,
a lot of us to see the fact that her mum,
for Jess Fox, was her coach at the time, her
sister was always was there as well because she was
able to travel with the team, and then her dad
was in commentary and we'll play the commentary now because
it is one of those moments that I think it
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takes you back to being on the couch and I genuinely.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Just went, oh is it hot in here?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Because it's just the most beautiful moment in Australian sport
And it couldn't happen to a better person than Jess Fox.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
It's relief and it's like, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
She's such a good paddler, such a good person.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
So he is watching from the other side of the world,
Richard Fox that is in commentary his eldest daughter win
Gold while hugging his wife and his other daughter and
was commentating the race. It's just absolutely beautiful. And of
course they're so involved, the Fox family and are primed
for this Olympics because they're French born and French speaking.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Oh yes, so they are more than ready for the
Paris Games. But also, Jelemy, I feel like in this
sport paddling, whether it be kayak canoe, his family is
probably a leap ahead of anyone else because they all
have such an intricate history or interwoven history with this sport.
They've all competed in it, they've all achieved at it,
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and Jess has just arguably done it the best.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Her mum, Miriam one bronze at Atlanta ninety six, representing France.
She was a two time world champion. Her dad, Richard Fox,
who we just heard, was a five time world champion
and is the current second vice president of the International
Canoe Federation.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
So they could not be more involved.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
And as we just mentioned, her sister Naomi is going
to her first ever game, so Jess is going to
be featuring at her fourth and we know that she
of course won bronze and then that almighty gold in
Tokyo that we just heard the audio from but for
her sister to be competing is just so special for
the family and George, I sent you a link to
where they're staying to describe because they're not in the village.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It looks like they're in like a Versailles offshoot. To
be honest, it looks like they are in a castle.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
They look like they're staying in Champagne. Yeah, Like it's
just I probably it's the most beautiful accommodation. So if
you don't already follow these girls, have a look at
where they're staying, because it's literally it's remarkable. Jess will
be competing for the C one, the K one, and
the Kayak Cross, which is a new addition, which is
where she might meet up with her sister. And if
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this isn't the most sisterly quote I've ever heard, this
is Naomi saying there's something special about being able to
lash out at her because I know she'll forgive me.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I love that my sister will kill you.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
She can't be mad at me for too long.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
We've been great sparring partners, and I think we've been
pushing each other forward quite a long way. Hopefully we'll
line up next to each other in the final that
would be the best possible outcome.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
What was one of my favorite moments was Jess Fox
has been very vocal in her support of her sisters,
to the extent that she says that when her sister
Naomi qualified for this Games, she thinks that that was
the best day of her life, Jess Fox said, thinking
about everything that she has achieved in this for everything
that she's achieved over her life and an individual level,
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it was still seeing her sister make an Olympic team.
That is the greatest thing that's ever happened to her.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
And we talk about Jess and there's a reason why
she's the first athlete that we talk about and has
to be the first athlete that we talked about. She's
already carried a torch for this Olympic. She is hot
favorite to be announced as the flag bear as well.
She has won fifty one individual World Cup gold medals. Mental,
where do I store them? Fifty onefully in a golden canoe? Like,
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that's what she would think from the weight of her gold.
She is the most successful paddler male or female the
world has ever seen. And what really excites me is
there's now a chance for her to win three golden
If you remember back to Tokyo, it was such a
surprise that she won bronze in the K one because
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she was my favorite going in and then all of
a sudden there was this immense pressure. She had been
the best in the world for so long and she
was coming for her chance to win gold, and she
stumbled at that first hurdle, and that's what made that
gold so dramatic and so emotional when it happened. But now,
goodness me, can she win three individual gold and she's
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favorite in all of those events, but she will be
if she does. George only one other Australian shangle. You
might remember her from Survivor back in nineteen seventy Fossom
or in the Pool, but I think modern audiences will
remember her from Survivor as well. Nineteen seventy two she
won three individual gold medals and she's the only Australian
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to ever do it, because when you think about the
Pool and Emma McKee and winning all of her medals,
a lot of those are in relays.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, it's not the individual events.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I And you are right in saying that Jess is,
you know, prime to actually achieve this the most recent
World Cup she won three, so she won three Gold's
most recent So she is coming in at the top
of her game, which is what you always need. Like
she is primed. She is absolutely primed.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
And she's practically I mean, obviously we claim her. She
moved to Australia when she was four years old. But
the gal's pretty much French. Her fiance who her fiance
is French. They I think they're French speaking. When they
go to Paris, they only speak in French. So she's
going to have zero culture shock. She's going to be
like ah, and this is basically a home game for her.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
She's ready, Yes, yeah, she's ready. I actually think I'm
calling it now. I think that she is probably the
person in the team that I think guaranteed gold. Not
to dump more pressure on her, but at least one
of them. I think she's going to win the three,
but I think she will win at least one, So
guarantee gold for Jess Fox. Also special shout out from
all the curly haired girls out there, really big thank
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you to Jess Fox for putting her amazing hair on
the world stage. I know that this isn't what it's
about but hey, it's our podcast, I can say it.
And I adore her because I remember when she first
won I think it was silver at her first Olympic
Games and I was just like, who is that goddess
with the ringlets? And she has carried it through and
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I absolutely love her for it.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Silver in London twenty twelve and Georgie's saying, I need
your shampoo tips.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
What is going on there?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
But drop the routine.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
It does have a heap of hair, which for her sport,
and the fact that you're not allowed to hit different obstacles.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yeah, your eyes.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It's actually quite a challenge.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
She've spoken about it, being like I need to break
it down because it's a challenge anyway. On top of
all of that, she is the most delightful person if
anyone's had anything to do with Jess Fox, what you
see is what you get. She's a dream. She's an
absolute dream, a lovely, down to earth, hardworking. She would
be the perfect choice as a flag bearer, and I
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just think someone that is going to take these games
by storm.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
She's gorgeous. She's gorgeous, and now there's two of her
because her sister's there too. Let's see what she can
do as well. So our number one athlete, Jess Fox,
number two one to watch Jelmy drum roll.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Oh sayahs a Khaki Bara And it's one of those
names as a broadcaster that is terrifying at first, but
once you get it.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
It's quite the flex.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
But she is our BMX world champion and is someone
who her story leading into Tokyo was one of family
heartbreak because in February of twenty twenty, her brother Kai
was placed in a medically induced coma for two months
after he fell during an opening round heat at the
World Cup event in New South Wales. So they were
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very much just in the way that we were talking
about Jess and Naomi.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
They were brother sister duo.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
They did media, they were everywhere together, did World Cup
events together, and he had this most monumental crash.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Where it was horrific, and I think that's so I'm
gonna put him. I think that for this sport BMX itself,
what makes it so exciting is the very danger of it.
It is one of the most exciting sp for you
to watch as a spectator, but the risk involved in
it is life altering, life changing, potentially life ending, and
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when Kai crashed you could see the very real time event,
real world effects of that. His traumatic brain injury is
still with this family. He is unable to compete anymore
with BMX, but he is now currently training for the
Paralympics as a rower. Because these families, they are incredible.
But you think about Saya and the story of Gelmy,
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You're right the sister brothers is to act making their way,
carving their way through their sport and being at the
top of it, and then to have your partner in
crime crash out and no longer with you there to
support you. And that was all upon her shoulders. Heading
into Tokyo.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Where she crashed and suffered a concussion, you think her
family would be saying, we're done with this, BMX, We're
done with this.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
But she may have every right to.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
She missed out on the final and a metal chair
because that crash happened in the third heat. But turn
around now and Saya has won five of the ten
rounds of the UCIBMX Racing World Cup. She is world
number one heading into these games, and I just think
what an incredible story it would be if she can
after all this hardship that's faced her family come out
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and prove that world number one ranking of wing gold.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
The BMX Cross again, it's similar to so we're talking
about the the Kayak Cross. Think about the Kayak Cross
that has been added to that sport and the schedule.
It is absolute chaos at the start. It's like with
the BMX, it's like that eight foot steep drop that
you just like go from nothing, You're off a cliff
and then you're somehow managing to balance on those two
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thin wheels going as fast as you can with a
million other riders either side of you, Like it is
so exhilarating. It's so exhilarating to watch, and she's the
best at.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
It exhilarating And also I would finish that first drop
and be like, where's my medal?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I took it on?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Thank you one hundred percent. Yes, yes, I'm with you
and for and with you.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
For two people that like to fancy themselves as traditionalists,
it's amazing that our next, our next athletes that were
highlighting we've gone from BMX to skateboarding.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Jeremy, I am on the record as saying that skateboarding
one of my favorite events, one of my absolute favorite
events of Tokyo. Was I expecting it to be? No.
I thought that skateboarding had no interest to me, grant
because I fell off a skateboard once when I was
eight years old, and I thought this is.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Not for me.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
But watching it and watching the friendship, watching the camaraderie,
watching the spirit that was on display across all competitions,
whether it be street or park, whether it be men
or women, whether it be I'm gonna say girls or boys.
Because the average age of the medalists who actually won
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in Tokyo would have been somewhere between fourteen to early twenties.
Like that was the They are kids, They are kids
having fun.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I must admit.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
The thing that got me about the skateboarding in Tokyo
and I'm looking forward to it again in Paris is
the commentary. It sounds like you're listening to the surfing.
There's something really calming about it, and they just go,
oh my god, he nailed that.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Like it's just it is the best.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
But we are sending over some superstars, and some stars
are gonna be around for a very long time. They're
dominating the X Games. One than being Arista true fourteen
years old. If you don't mind. We've got another fourteen
year old as well in Chloe. Couple that are going
over there to compete fourteen.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Oh mental and fourteen not only fourteen, but I think
she's ranked number two in the world. She has a
genuine chance of winning gold. And if her name is
sounding kind of familiar, it's because she has made it
into mainstream news. Most recently, in June of last year,
when she was thirteen years of age, Arissa became the
first female to land a seven to twenty in competition,
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which means too full mid air rotations now. That gathered
worldwide attention. It also garnered the attention of mister Tony Hawk,
who called her out personally and was like, oh my gosh,
this is amazing, something that's never been done before. And
I just think, imagine being thirteen years old and Tony Hawk,
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the Tony Hawk knows your name.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
We know Tony Hawk because we're not thirteen.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Does a thirteen year old understand that Tony Hawk's Tony Hawk?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Like they must do. I know they must, but.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Like, I'm thinking about it, and I'm like, and my
favorite thing is Tony Hawk tweeting about people saying, gee,
you look like Tony Hawk, and he says things, oh yeah,
it's a whole If you haven't been following what he does,
he essentially is there is a full chain of Tony
Hawk being like, you look like that skateboarder guarding is like, yeah, unfortunate,
I'm better looking though It's unreal, but so skateboarding. Ozzie's
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sending a strong teams young chances, and I just want
to know how many guardians are going to be at
the game, because I think there's like a ten year
old from Canada that might be going, There's a thirteen
year old from Great Britain, Like this is daycare, this
is daycare under the Eiffel Tower, but I am here
for it. And again, Keegan Palmer, if you can go
back to back, that will be incredible.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
But also there's a lovely little fun fact to jell
me when it comes to Keegan Palma which ties in
very nicely to your good Sport of the week, where
your good sport bad sport kind of thing of the week,
because in March of this year, Keegan Palma, Australian gold
medalist from Tokyo twenty twenty, he set an unofficial world
record of and I'm using quotation marks here. Furthest distance
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traveled on a skateboard towed by a car seems like
a very specific unofficial world record with Lando Norris behind
the wheel. He's had a little collab with Lando to
pull off something world beating or at least world impressing.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
We better push onto a different sport, because if any
parents are listening, they're like, cool, so far, you've told
my child to get a skateboard, the hold onto the
back of a car and to enter BMX where they're
going to fall ten meters.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
So let's move on to hockey.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
And Australians we love our crook a Burros and we
love our hockey Rus, and none more so than Eddie Ochenen,
who has to be favorite to be our flag bearer.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, I think so as well, I think Jelmy and
I don't know if it's realistic or I have just
grown up with an unhealthy expectation that the hockey Rows
and kooko Burros will win everything. I think it must
be because of like the two thousand Olympics, right, and
they were front of mind maybe and I've just like
ever since then, been like, oh yeah, no, we're really
good at field hockey, so obviously we're gonna win it always.
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It's where this has come from.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
They've got Dolphins energy, yes, as in if they're against anyone,
you just believe it's gonna be a chance. And again
we speak about Eddie Ochinden. He's gonna be our first
ever hockey player to make it to five Olympics. Thirty
seven years young, mental has four hundred and fourteen national
team camp since two thousand and six. Insane, that's just.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I don't understand. I don't understand. Like the men, let's
let's put the physical aptitude just to the side for
a second, because your body would have had to held
up incredibly well to make it to five Olympic Games.
But let's just think about the mental fortitude of someone
being able to make it, have the will, have the
discipline to strive to want to get to five Olympics
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and still be competing in a team sport. It's not
even individual. You still have to beat out everyone else
in this country for a spot on the team. Those
five type that's twenty years. I can't it's insane.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
You mentioned that it is a team sport and the
hockey crews recently were in the headlines about some selection
dramas that they had. But for me, that just gives
you an idea of how competitive it is to get
to wear the Green and gold at the Olympics and
to be part of that Olympic squad. So as much
as there are really well known players that have missed
out on going to Paris, to me, that says, my goodness,
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how strong is his team?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Putting an exclamation point on that competitiveness that exists in hockey.
In particular, one of Eddie's teammates, Matt Dawson, has made
an extraordinary move during the week. He's decided to amputate
part of his finger so that he can make it
and he can make it to Paris. So part of
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his I think it's part of his right hands ring
finger he has had amputated because he broke it. He's like,
it's not going to heal in time. We're just going
to get rid of it, some of it and then
strap it up, hope for the best, and then I
can still compete.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
What the doctor essentially said to him, Look, we can
rehabit and your finger will be fine, but you won't
be able to play in Paris.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, or he's like unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You can cut it off.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
It will heal in time and you can go cuok
a burrow your way over there.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And I'm sure book it in doc. Book it in.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
He amputated his finger and he said I got home
and spoke because they interviewed him. They door stopped him
essentially at the airport. He's there with his bandage being like,
oh yeah, the finger that I lost. But this is
not this is something that we've seen across sport. I
think Daniel Chick in AFL because it just kept getting
blown up in tackles.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
He's all right, take my finger off. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah, it happened in Angus Crichton in rugby league as well.
I mean I think it was like twenty seventeen. He
had a ruptured tendon in the middle finger on his
left hand that just would not heal and so he
decided to lop half of it off as well. Six
months later, he was selected for the new Southwales origin
team for the first time. Fast forward to last week
where he was named Player of the Series, like it
was an excellent call for him and it's something he's
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seeing a digit like, I truly you have to relearn
how to do some things. But it's wild to me
that for hockey like he's still Dawson is somehow confident
enough that he's going to be able to relearn those
skills without a finger. Then if he was just going
to let it heal, because there's no way that he
wasn't going to be running out for the kooker Boroughs exceptional.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Two things that have become very clear athletes are wired differently.
Because there's no conversation where I would sit opposite someone
and they go, you lose a finger or don't attend
an event where that's a moment where I really have
to think about it. There's nothing in my life that
I feel that strongly about that I could potentially get
a chance out again. And number two would be you
cannot question how much the Olympics means to these athletes.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Oh yes, yes, yeah, this is this is this is
it underlined in blood.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
And poor Matt Dawson couldn't count number three because it
would now be two and a half because he can't
hold up his three primary fingers because he amputated one
to be in pariss'm it's an amazing and amazing story.
And another person who's speaking of fingers our next athlete,
it's his fingernails that became quite famous because Harry Garside,
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the boxer paints his nail wears skirts, is someone that
has been really outspoken about being colorful and being true
to himself, and that's why we love him. He is
a media talent dream. He's also a medal contender.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
He is a metal contender. He I have been talking
to him very recently and he is very confident that
that medal will be gold. He won bronze in Tokyo.
Why everyone probably remembers Harry Garside and that seeing that name,
I think first off would be the opening ceremony in
Tokyo where he wore a skirt, and he has been
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very vocal and outspoken about just defying gender norms, being like,
why does anyone care? I want to wear what I
want to wear. I want to paint my nails if
I want to, and I can essentially beat up anyone
else who has anything to say about it. And I
think that is the beauty of him.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
That's the power of it as well, is that he
is a heterosexual boxer that likes wearing skirts and painting
his nail and if you've got a problem with that
old deck, you like, there's something really wonderful about it.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
He's a qualified plumber. He grew up in the Melbourne
in the suburbs of Melbourne. He's the youngest of three boys.
He essentially said to his parents, I think he was
about the age of nine when he said he was
maybe interested in taking up boxing, and his parents were
a little bit surprised because he was super close to
his mum and dare I say, more effeminate than his
other brothers, and they thought, wow, that was such a
weird sport for you to choose, But okay. They've supported
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him throughout. He's won at least seven national championships in
the lightweight division. He won bronze in Tokyo and most recently,
why else other people may love him and know him
is because he came second to Queen Liz Liz Ellis
in I'm a Celebrity, Get Me out of Here last
year and he had all of those amazing conversations. He's
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a very deep thinker. He loves a DNM. There's never
been a DNM that Harry has not liked. And he
is a wonderful, wonderful human and Jelmy, you're not going
to believe me when I play you this grab. But
earlier this year he's going to Paris. Everyone he's going
to Paris. But earlier this year we ran into him
at an Australian Grand Prix event. Jelmy, do you remember this,
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and we were asking him how he was going because
he had his hand bandage. Wait you and I did, yeah,
well maybe I did, but you were there. You were
at the event. But I found him. I smelled him
out and I said, Harry, what the hell is happening
with your bandaged hand because you're meant to be winning
me and Australia and I guess gold in Paris? What
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is going on? And then he said this and I
and I said to him, I was like, mate, chop
it off.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I fractionized. I was, I don't need a thumb between
now and your agent thumb to box, No, you need
these knuckles.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
And he's like, mate, if you chop your thumb off,
it's going to take long as he healed in the fracture.
If I do, sur what is with all the lost fingers?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
He was willing to chop his thumb off.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
The thumb is very different from half an index.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I know, and he was willing to do it in danger,
but he was willing to chop it off rather than
have it in danger his chances in Paris. Now, that
was me interrogating him on the project because of course
I take what I wem interested in to a national stage.
But I had confirmation that he was fine. He's training
really well. He like myself, doesn't necessarily love our opening
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ceremony uniforms. That is to the side. But he's very
very confident.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
And if anyone can bring flair to an Australian uniform,
it's gonna be Harry.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
It's that man. Now, Jellmy, you know, our listeners will
know that if there's one other team that we may support,
not more than Team Australia, but we love them very
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very much. That is the US gymnastics team. And fun fact,
oh Strong feels Strong Fields the new Simone bars docker
can recommend I digress. Fun fact of the week is
that that team, the US Gymnastics team, they have an
official emotional support dog who they are taking to the
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Paris Olympics. It is a Golden Retriever named Beacon. What
It's so cute, It's so cute.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Beacon was there during all the trials, so in this
high pressure, intense scenario, they could come off and cuddle
a golden retriever that doesn't know what the judges just
scored you, and Beacon's just happy to see you and like.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
We both love it.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
But what I also love is I need a travel
journey of Beacon. In partis because the dogs are allowed
to go to cafes oh yeah, and eat postries and
a part of life. So how did he get selected
for the greatest role of all time? But I also
have questions because in Australia you can't just take a
dog to Paris.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
So what does Beacon then just become French?
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Well, probably be Coom, Yeah he would be he'd just
be becom Becon like he'd be practicing. Obviously, he's been
getting ready training with the girls, like one thousand percent,
he's ready for this. Who would we take like what
would our emotional support animal be?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Also, is this a way of getting around the fact
that Australian athletes weren't allotted tickets?
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Oh so you weren't.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
We did the story and it was it went around
the country on the fact that you know, you don't
get a plus one. If you're competing at the Games,
you need to buy your tickets. And for some families
they were looking at tens of thousands of dollars to
support family members in Paris.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Well, what if.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Spot the Caneine just wanted to come and travel with
me and watch me in the water polo? What happens then?
Do they take up a seat? I have had a
genuine questions.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
So many questions, how does Beacon get a go?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Like?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Ah, he's just so cute though, But I'll be keep
I'll tell you what. One, I will be watching someone
Bar's best, you believe, But number two, my eyes will
be looking in that gymnasium for Beacon. I'll be trying
to find him wherever he is, and I'll be like,
what the goodest boy, the goodest sport is Beacon.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
He is the goodest sport.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
And that is a perfect way to round out two
good sports sports news told differently.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Next time we see you and we speak to you,
it is.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Going to be all green and gold, because can you
believe it, George, the Games will be underway and just
a reminder we're going to be coming to you is
Monday to Friday to give you all the snapshots, all
the tasty details that you need from Paris. We're going
to tell you what happened overnight, what are the main storylines,
and what do you have to look forward to for
the next day. It'll be a very truncated version of
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Two Good Sports. But we cannot wait because, as you
can tell, we are beside ourselves and we haven't even
touched on because we did track and field last week,
how much success we've just had at the Diamond League
and the fact that Australia won three gold on one day.
We've never done that before. Again, I'm just feeling it.
We're going to have the most successful games ever. Join
us at Two Good Sports, Screen and Gold. It's going
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to be fun.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm Georgie, Danny and I'm Abby. Tell me and George
what a week it is.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
And by that I mean we are a week out
from the games and things start feeling very very real.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I am excited. You cannot see me, dear listener, but
I am jigging in my chair. Jigging in my chair.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
There's a wiggle. We are so variety.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We are so so close to the opening ceremony, which
means we are so so close to the first events
that we are going to see, which means we are
so so close to all of the medals that Team
Australia is going to win.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I think it's going to be our most successful games ever.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
WHOA Okay, okay, I'm not going that crazy, but that is.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
That a big blue I'm gonna call it. I think
it's gonna be almost in terms of winning. I think
it's gonna be the most successful games ever.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, good thing that we are picking another five members
of the team Australia that you need to know some
of our best metal chances. We're calling it. That is
going to be our deep dive in today's episode. But
first before we get into that good sport bad sport,
jell me, you've already flowed me this episode. What are
you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
My good sport has to be And we did an
episode on him way back when our little Melbournian although
he's not so little anymore, he's a top a podium
Oscar Piastre.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
He has won his first.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
F one race in Budapest and what a race it was,
and it was McLaren went one to Lando Norra's coming second,
and then a little name called Lewis Hamilton rounding about.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Who what has he done?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
But good like honestly to see an Ossie atop the podium.
He's only the fifth ever Australian to do it, and
he just does it with such humility. Although my semi
badsport would be like Norris and the fact that all
the headlines are basically taken over by the fact the
teammate drama because the team kept radioing to Lando basically
saying you have to give back the lead, so they
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did a strategic pit of Lando first then Oscar. So
basically McClaren did everything they could to fumble the ball,
but they still ended up with a one two.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
This sport cannot be like, it could not be not
dramatic if it tried. Do you know what I mean? Like?
It finds drama in absolutely everything. And Lando Norris has
such main character energy and such surly energy and such
what do you mean, I don't get all of the
things that I want todd la tantrum energy, and I
am here for it.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
The fact the team kept being like Lando, Lando, give
back the lead to Oscar, Lando, Lando, We've told you,
and he's like speeding ahead, gave very Toddler.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
At the park energy.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
You're right, But Oscar piastri Is tweeted saying I dreamt
of this day as a little kid back in Australia.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
A truly unbelievable feeling.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Thank you to everyone who's helped me and supported me,
and thanks for the team. Yeah, well done Lando for
this opportunity and all their hard work. Such a specialtay
and he's looking at one of the weirder trophies in
world sport. It looks like something that you'd pick up
at a thrift shop. Have you seen the trophy.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I've not even seen it.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No, No, mareen and yellow ceramic. It looks like is
it Australian. No, No, it's a very soft Beigian green ceramic.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Anyway, it's very odd.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
But Oscar Piastri he has to be my good sport
and bring on the os Open. I say because McLaren
were whipping boys when dan Riccardo was racing for them,
and now they're going one two on podiums.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So I am also going to echo Jelmy with a
bit of a good sport. Now, dear listeners, you may
remember a few weeks ago I gave a fair whack
to the bad sport, that is, the injury gods, for
being really cruel to certain players, and in particular my
Adam Reynolds, who plays for the Brisbane Broncos. But now
my good sport is actually going to be the medical
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marvels and the medical advancements that have allowed Adam Reynolds,
who at the start, or only a few weeks ago,
ruptured his bicep and was like that's a season ending injury.
He played on the weekend for the Broncos. Yes, his
arm was strapped to within an inch of its life,
but for him to get back on the field this
season is insane. And also to add to this good sport,
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another high five to the universe. Dan McStay played for
Collingwood after doing his ACL last year. I think he's
only really been in rehab properly for like seven months,
which is unheard of.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
It is, and the ACL is a particular one that
if we can see quicker recoveries. I think Todd Goldstein
as well ruckman in the AFL, had a really tight
turn around with his ACL, so there is hope and
there was even headlines that we might see Sam Doherty
potentially this season.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You'll remember him as someone.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Who's battle cancer twice and has had a terrible, terrible.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Run with acls.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You did it early in the season and if he
can return for Carlton. But don't get me to the
AFL ladder in the way that's going at the moment.
But it's funny because I'm not talking about AFL because
we don't have time. But Georgie, you're not talking about Origin.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I don't think we have time, Jelmy. I think I
think what's that, Producer James. Producer James, I think it's
cutting in saying oh, we've got to wrap it up,
wrap it up? Look okay? Am I also going to
give a mini bad Sport to New Southwales to break
in my heart? Yes? I am? Have I changed my
hair color? And am I going through a crisis? Yes potentially,
but whatever. There was apparently a series New South Wales one.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Stage three of the Meltdown is Georgie's data hair morone.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Just true facts?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Ah, well, well done to the Blues.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It is.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It is very hard to win decider in Queensland. But
do you know what's not in Queensland?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Paris. Let's get to the games.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So, Jelmy, we have promised to deliver name and I'm
not going to isn't usually name it? What's that way?
We could say name and shame, but not the shame part.
Name and glorify, name and glorify five at least more
athletes going to Paris that we have earmarked to be
potential medal contenders, and our first of the deep dive
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holds a very special place I think in Australia's hearts.
But Jelly, I would argue a very special place in
your heart because what she was able to achieve in
Tokyo when you were hosting the Olympic Games, you got
to see firsthand just how much this meant to the country.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
And how much it meant to her family. I think
at a time when we weren't allowed to hug our family,
a lot of us to see the fact that her mum,
for Jess Fox, was her coach at the time, her
sister was always was there as well because she was
able to travel with the team, and then her dad
was in commentary and we'll play the commentary now because
it is one of those moments that I think it
(06:59):
takes you back to being on the couch and I genuinely.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Just went, oh is it hot in here?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Because it's just the most beautiful moment in Australian sport
And it couldn't happen to a better person than Jess Fox.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
It's relief and it's like, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
She's such a good paddler, such a good person.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
So he is watching from the other side of the world,
Richard Fox that is in commentary his eldest daughter win
Gold while hugging his wife and his other daughter and
was commentating the race. It's just absolutely beautiful. And of
course they're so involved, the Fox family and are primed
for this Olympics because they're French born and French speaking.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Oh yes, so they are more than ready for the
Paris Games. But also, Jelemy, I feel like in this
sport paddling, whether it be kayak canoe, his family is
probably a leap ahead of anyone else because they all
have such an intricate history or interwoven history with this sport.
They've all competed in it, they've all achieved at it,
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and Jess has just arguably done it the best.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Her mum, Miriam one bronze at Atlanta ninety six, representing France.
She was a two time world champion. Her dad, Richard Fox,
who we just heard, was a five time world champion
and is the current second vice president of the International
Canoe Federation.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
So they could not be more involved.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
And as we just mentioned, her sister Naomi is going
to her first ever game, so Jess is going to
be featuring at her fourth and we know that she
of course won bronze and then that almighty gold in
Tokyo that we just heard the audio from but for
her sister to be competing is just so special for
the family and George, I sent you a link to
where they're staying to describe because they're not in the village.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It looks like they're in like a Versailles offshoot. To
be honest, it looks like they are in a castle.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
They look like they're staying in Champagne. Yeah, Like it's
just I probably it's the most beautiful accommodation. So if
you don't already follow these girls, have a look at
where they're staying, because it's literally it's remarkable. Jess will
be competing for the C one, the K one, and
the Kayak Cross, which is a new addition, which is
where she might meet up with her sister. And if
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this isn't the most sisterly quote I've ever heard, this
is Naomi saying there's something special about being able to
lash out at her because I know she'll forgive me.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I love that my sister will kill you.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
She can't be mad at me for too long.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
We've been great sparring partners, and I think we've been
pushing each other forward quite a long way. Hopefully we'll
line up next to each other in the final that
would be the best possible outcome.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
What was one of my favorite moments was Jess Fox
has been very vocal in her support of her sisters,
to the extent that she says that when her sister
Naomi qualified for this Games, she thinks that that was
the best day of her life, Jess Fox said, thinking
about everything that she has achieved in this for everything
that she's achieved over her life and an individual level,
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it was still seeing her sister make an Olympic team.
That is the greatest thing that's ever happened to her.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
And we talk about Jess and there's a reason why
she's the first athlete that we talk about and has
to be the first athlete that we talked about. She's
already carried a torch for this Olympic. She is hot
favorite to be announced as the flag bear as well.
She has won fifty one individual World Cup gold medals. Mental,
where do I store them? Fifty onefully in a golden canoe? Like,
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that's what she would think from the weight of her gold.
She is the most successful paddler male or female the
world has ever seen. And what really excites me is
there's now a chance for her to win three golden
If you remember back to Tokyo, it was such a
surprise that she won bronze in the K one because
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she was my favorite going in and then all of
a sudden there was this immense pressure. She had been
the best in the world for so long and she
was coming for her chance to win gold, and she
stumbled at that first hurdle, and that's what made that
gold so dramatic and so emotional when it happened. But now,
goodness me, can she win three individual gold and she's
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favorite in all of those events, but she will be
if she does. George only one other Australian shangle. You
might remember her from Survivor back in nineteen seventy Fossom
or in the Pool, but I think modern audiences will
remember her from Survivor as well. Nineteen seventy two she
won three individual gold medals and she's the only Australian
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to ever do it, because when you think about the
Pool and Emma McKee and winning all of her medals,
a lot of those are in relays.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, it's not the individual events.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I And you are right in saying that Jess is,
you know, prime to actually achieve this the most recent
World Cup she won three, so she won three Gold's
most recent So she is coming in at the top
of her game, which is what you always need. Like
she is primed. She is absolutely primed.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
And she's practically I mean, obviously we claim her. She
moved to Australia when she was four years old. But
the gal's pretty much French. Her fiance who her fiance
is French. They I think they're French speaking. When they
go to Paris, they only speak in French. So she's
going to have zero culture shock. She's going to be
like ah, and this is basically a home game for her.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
She's ready, Yes, yeah, she's ready. I actually think I'm
calling it now. I think that she is probably the
person in the team that I think guaranteed gold. Not
to dump more pressure on her, but at least one
of them. I think she's going to win the three,
but I think she will win at least one, So
guarantee gold for Jess Fox. Also special shout out from
all the curly haired girls out there, really big thank
(12:50):
you to Jess Fox for putting her amazing hair on
the world stage. I know that this isn't what it's
about but hey, it's our podcast, I can say it.
And I adore her because I remember when she first
won I think it was silver at her first Olympic
Games and I was just like, who is that goddess
with the ringlets? And she has carried it through and
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I absolutely love her for it.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Silver in London twenty twelve and Georgie's saying, I need
your shampoo tips.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
What is going on there?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
But drop the routine.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
It does have a heap of hair, which for her sport,
and the fact that you're not allowed to hit different obstacles.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yeah, your eyes.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It's actually quite a challenge.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
She've spoken about it, being like I need to break
it down because it's a challenge anyway. On top of
all of that, she is the most delightful person if
anyone's had anything to do with Jess Fox, what you
see is what you get. She's a dream. She's an
absolute dream, a lovely, down to earth, hardworking. She would
be the perfect choice as a flag bearer, and I
(13:50):
just think someone that is going to take these games
by storm.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
She's gorgeous. She's gorgeous, and now there's two of her
because her sister's there too. Let's see what she can
do as well. So our number one athlete, Jess Fox,
number two one to watch Jelmy drum roll.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Oh sayahs a Khaki Bara And it's one of those
names as a broadcaster that is terrifying at first, but
once you get it.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
It's quite the flex.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
But she is our BMX world champion and is someone
who her story leading into Tokyo was one of family
heartbreak because in February of twenty twenty, her brother Kai
was placed in a medically induced coma for two months
after he fell during an opening round heat at the
World Cup event in New South Wales. So they were
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very much just in the way that we were talking
about Jess and Naomi.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
They were brother sister duo.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
They did media, they were everywhere together, did World Cup
events together, and he had this most monumental crash.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Where it was horrific, and I think that's so I'm
gonna put him. I think that for this sport BMX itself,
what makes it so exciting is the very danger of it.
It is one of the most exciting sp for you
to watch as a spectator, but the risk involved in
it is life altering, life changing, potentially life ending, and
(15:09):
when Kai crashed you could see the very real time event,
real world effects of that. His traumatic brain injury is
still with this family. He is unable to compete anymore
with BMX, but he is now currently training for the
Paralympics as a rower. Because these families, they are incredible.
But you think about Saya and the story of Gelmy,
(15:30):
You're right the sister brothers is to act making their way,
carving their way through their sport and being at the
top of it, and then to have your partner in
crime crash out and no longer with you there to
support you. And that was all upon her shoulders. Heading
into Tokyo.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Where she crashed and suffered a concussion, you think her
family would be saying, we're done with this, BMX, We're
done with this.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
But she may have every right to.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
She missed out on the final and a metal chair
because that crash happened in the third heat. But turn
around now and Saya has won five of the ten
rounds of the UCIBMX Racing World Cup. She is world
number one heading into these games, and I just think
what an incredible story it would be if she can
after all this hardship that's faced her family come out
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and prove that world number one ranking of wing gold.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
The BMX Cross again, it's similar to so we're talking
about the the Kayak Cross. Think about the Kayak Cross
that has been added to that sport and the schedule.
It is absolute chaos at the start. It's like with
the BMX, it's like that eight foot steep drop that
you just like go from nothing, You're off a cliff
and then you're somehow managing to balance on those two
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thin wheels going as fast as you can with a
million other riders either side of you, Like it is
so exhilarating. It's so exhilarating to watch, and she's the
best at.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
It exhilarating And also I would finish that first drop
and be like, where's my medal?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I took it on?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Thank you one hundred percent. Yes, yes, I'm with you
and for and with you.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
For two people that like to fancy themselves as traditionalists,
it's amazing that our next, our next athletes that were
highlighting we've gone from BMX to skateboarding.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Jeremy, I am on the record as saying that skateboarding
one of my favorite events, one of my absolute favorite
events of Tokyo. Was I expecting it to be? No.
I thought that skateboarding had no interest to me, grant
because I fell off a skateboard once when I was
eight years old, and I thought this is.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Not for me.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
But watching it and watching the friendship, watching the camaraderie,
watching the spirit that was on display across all competitions,
whether it be street or park, whether it be men
or women, whether it be I'm gonna say girls or boys.
Because the average age of the medalists who actually won
(17:56):
in Tokyo would have been somewhere between fourteen to early twenties.
Like that was the They are kids, They are kids
having fun.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I must admit.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
The thing that got me about the skateboarding in Tokyo
and I'm looking forward to it again in Paris is
the commentary. It sounds like you're listening to the surfing.
There's something really calming about it, and they just go,
oh my god, he nailed that.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Like it's just it is the best.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
But we are sending over some superstars, and some stars
are gonna be around for a very long time. They're
dominating the X Games. One than being Arista true fourteen
years old. If you don't mind. We've got another fourteen
year old as well in Chloe. Couple that are going
over there to compete fourteen.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Oh mental and fourteen not only fourteen, but I think
she's ranked number two in the world. She has a
genuine chance of winning gold. And if her name is
sounding kind of familiar, it's because she has made it
into mainstream news. Most recently, in June of last year,
when she was thirteen years of age, Arissa became the
first female to land a seven to twenty in competition,
(18:58):
which means too full mid air rotations now. That gathered
worldwide attention. It also garnered the attention of mister Tony Hawk,
who called her out personally and was like, oh my gosh,
this is amazing, something that's never been done before. And
I just think, imagine being thirteen years old and Tony Hawk,
(19:22):
the Tony Hawk knows your name.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
We know Tony Hawk because we're not thirteen.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Does a thirteen year old understand that Tony Hawk's Tony Hawk?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Like they must do. I know they must, but.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Like, I'm thinking about it, and I'm like, and my
favorite thing is Tony Hawk tweeting about people saying, gee,
you look like Tony Hawk, and he says things, oh yeah,
it's a whole If you haven't been following what he does,
he essentially is there is a full chain of Tony
Hawk being like, you look like that skateboarder guarding is like, yeah, unfortunate,
I'm better looking though It's unreal, but so skateboarding. Ozzie's
(19:58):
sending a strong teams young chances, and I just want
to know how many guardians are going to be at
the game, because I think there's like a ten year
old from Canada that might be going, There's a thirteen
year old from Great Britain, Like this is daycare, this
is daycare under the Eiffel Tower, but I am here
for it. And again, Keegan Palmer, if you can go
back to back, that will be incredible.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
But also there's a lovely little fun fact to jell
me when it comes to Keegan Palma which ties in
very nicely to your good Sport of the week, where
your good sport bad sport kind of thing of the week,
because in March of this year, Keegan Palma, Australian gold
medalist from Tokyo twenty twenty, he set an unofficial world
record of and I'm using quotation marks here. Furthest distance
(20:40):
traveled on a skateboard towed by a car seems like
a very specific unofficial world record with Lando Norris behind
the wheel. He's had a little collab with Lando to
pull off something world beating or at least world impressing.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
We better push onto a different sport, because if any
parents are listening, they're like, cool, so far, you've told
my child to get a skateboard, the hold onto the
back of a car and to enter BMX where they're
going to fall ten meters.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
So let's move on to hockey.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
And Australians we love our crook a Burros and we
love our hockey Rus, and none more so than Eddie Ochenen,
who has to be favorite to be our flag bearer.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, I think so as well, I think Jelmy and
I don't know if it's realistic or I have just
grown up with an unhealthy expectation that the hockey Rows
and kooko Burros will win everything. I think it must
be because of like the two thousand Olympics, right, and
they were front of mind maybe and I've just like
ever since then, been like, oh yeah, no, we're really
good at field hockey, so obviously we're gonna win it always.
(21:46):
It's where this has come from.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
They've got Dolphins energy, yes, as in if they're against anyone,
you just believe it's gonna be a chance. And again
we speak about Eddie Ochinden. He's gonna be our first
ever hockey player to make it to five Olympics. Thirty
seven years young, mental has four hundred and fourteen national
team camp since two thousand and six. Insane, that's just.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I don't understand. I don't understand. Like the men, let's
let's put the physical aptitude just to the side for
a second, because your body would have had to held
up incredibly well to make it to five Olympic Games.
But let's just think about the mental fortitude of someone
being able to make it, have the will, have the
discipline to strive to want to get to five Olympics
(22:32):
and still be competing in a team sport. It's not
even individual. You still have to beat out everyone else
in this country for a spot on the team. Those
five type that's twenty years. I can't it's insane.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
You mentioned that it is a team sport and the
hockey crews recently were in the headlines about some selection
dramas that they had. But for me, that just gives
you an idea of how competitive it is to get
to wear the Green and gold at the Olympics and
to be part of that Olympic squad. So as much
as there are really well known players that have missed
out on going to Paris, to me, that says, my goodness,
(23:05):
how strong is his team?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Putting an exclamation point on that competitiveness that exists in hockey.
In particular, one of Eddie's teammates, Matt Dawson, has made
an extraordinary move during the week. He's decided to amputate
part of his finger so that he can make it
and he can make it to Paris. So part of
(23:28):
his I think it's part of his right hands ring
finger he has had amputated because he broke it. He's like,
it's not going to heal in time. We're just going
to get rid of it, some of it and then
strap it up, hope for the best, and then I
can still compete.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
What the doctor essentially said to him, Look, we can
rehabit and your finger will be fine, but you won't
be able to play in Paris.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, or he's like unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You can cut it off.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
It will heal in time and you can go cuok
a burrow your way over there.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And I'm sure book it in doc. Book it in.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
He amputated his finger and he said I got home
and spoke because they interviewed him. They door stopped him
essentially at the airport. He's there with his bandage being like,
oh yeah, the finger that I lost. But this is
not this is something that we've seen across sport. I
think Daniel Chick in AFL because it just kept getting
blown up in tackles.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
He's all right, take my finger off. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah, it happened in Angus Crichton in rugby league as well.
I mean I think it was like twenty seventeen. He
had a ruptured tendon in the middle finger on his
left hand that just would not heal and so he
decided to lop half of it off as well. Six
months later, he was selected for the new Southwales origin
team for the first time. Fast forward to last week
where he was named Player of the Series, like it
was an excellent call for him and it's something he's
(24:44):
seeing a digit like, I truly you have to relearn
how to do some things. But it's wild to me
that for hockey like he's still Dawson is somehow confident
enough that he's going to be able to relearn those
skills without a finger. Then if he was just going
to let it heal, because there's no way that he
wasn't going to be running out for the kooker Boroughs exceptional.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Two things that have become very clear athletes are wired differently.
Because there's no conversation where I would sit opposite someone
and they go, you lose a finger or don't attend
an event where that's a moment where I really have
to think about it. There's nothing in my life that
I feel that strongly about that I could potentially get
a chance out again. And number two would be you
cannot question how much the Olympics means to these athletes.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Oh yes, yes, yeah, this is this is this is
it underlined in blood.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
And poor Matt Dawson couldn't count number three because it
would now be two and a half because he can't
hold up his three primary fingers because he amputated one
to be in pariss'm it's an amazing and amazing story.
And another person who's speaking of fingers our next athlete,
it's his fingernails that became quite famous because Harry Garside,
(25:57):
the boxer paints his nail wears skirts, is someone that
has been really outspoken about being colorful and being true
to himself, and that's why we love him. He is
a media talent dream. He's also a medal contender.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
He is a metal contender. He I have been talking
to him very recently and he is very confident that
that medal will be gold. He won bronze in Tokyo.
Why everyone probably remembers Harry Garside and that seeing that name,
I think first off would be the opening ceremony in
Tokyo where he wore a skirt, and he has been
(26:35):
very vocal and outspoken about just defying gender norms, being like,
why does anyone care? I want to wear what I
want to wear. I want to paint my nails if
I want to, and I can essentially beat up anyone
else who has anything to say about it. And I
think that is the beauty of him.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
That's the power of it as well, is that he
is a heterosexual boxer that likes wearing skirts and painting
his nail and if you've got a problem with that
old deck, you like, there's something really wonderful about it.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
He's a qualified plumber. He grew up in the Melbourne
in the suburbs of Melbourne. He's the youngest of three boys.
He essentially said to his parents, I think he was
about the age of nine when he said he was
maybe interested in taking up boxing, and his parents were
a little bit surprised because he was super close to
his mum and dare I say, more effeminate than his
other brothers, and they thought, wow, that was such a
weird sport for you to choose, But okay. They've supported
(27:26):
him throughout. He's won at least seven national championships in
the lightweight division. He won bronze in Tokyo and most recently,
why else other people may love him and know him
is because he came second to Queen Liz Liz Ellis
in I'm a Celebrity, Get Me out of Here last
year and he had all of those amazing conversations. He's
(27:47):
a very deep thinker. He loves a DNM. There's never
been a DNM that Harry has not liked. And he
is a wonderful, wonderful human and Jelmy, you're not going
to believe me when I play you this grab. But
earlier this year he's going to Paris. Everyone he's going
to Paris. But earlier this year we ran into him
at an Australian Grand Prix event. Jelmy, do you remember this,
(28:09):
and we were asking him how he was going because
he had his hand bandage. Wait you and I did, yeah,
well maybe I did, but you were there. You were
at the event. But I found him. I smelled him
out and I said, Harry, what the hell is happening
with your bandaged hand because you're meant to be winning
me and Australia and I guess gold in Paris? What
(28:31):
is going on? And then he said this and I
and I said to him, I was like, mate, chop
it off.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I fractionized. I was, I don't need a thumb between
now and your agent thumb to box, No, you need
these knuckles.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
And he's like, mate, if you chop your thumb off,
it's going to take long as he healed in the fracture.
If I do, sur what is with all the lost fingers?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
He was willing to chop his thumb off.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
The thumb is very different from half an index.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I know, and he was willing to do it in danger,
but he was willing to chop it off rather than
have it in danger his chances in Paris. Now, that
was me interrogating him on the project because of course
I take what I wem interested in to a national stage.
But I had confirmation that he was fine. He's training
really well. He like myself, doesn't necessarily love our opening
(29:18):
ceremony uniforms. That is to the side. But he's very
very confident.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
And if anyone can bring flair to an Australian uniform,
it's gonna be Harry.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
It's that man. Now, Jellmy, you know, our listeners will
know that if there's one other team that we may support,
not more than Team Australia, but we love them very
(29:49):
very much. That is the US gymnastics team. And fun fact,
oh Strong feels Strong Fields the new Simone bars docker
can recommend I digress. Fun fact of the week is
that that team, the US Gymnastics team, they have an
official emotional support dog who they are taking to the
(30:10):
Paris Olympics. It is a Golden Retriever named Beacon. What
It's so cute, It's so cute.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Beacon was there during all the trials, so in this
high pressure, intense scenario, they could come off and cuddle
a golden retriever that doesn't know what the judges just
scored you, and Beacon's just happy to see you and like.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
We both love it.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
But what I also love is I need a travel
journey of Beacon. In partis because the dogs are allowed
to go to cafes oh yeah, and eat postries and
a part of life. So how did he get selected
for the greatest role of all time? But I also
have questions because in Australia you can't just take a
dog to Paris.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
So what does Beacon then just become French?
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Well, probably be Coom, Yeah he would be he'd just
be becom Becon like he'd be practicing. Obviously, he's been
getting ready training with the girls, like one thousand percent,
he's ready for this. Who would we take like what
would our emotional support animal be?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Also, is this a way of getting around the fact
that Australian athletes weren't allotted tickets?
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Oh so you weren't.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
We did the story and it was it went around
the country on the fact that you know, you don't
get a plus one. If you're competing at the Games,
you need to buy your tickets. And for some families
they were looking at tens of thousands of dollars to
support family members in Paris.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Well, what if.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Spot the Caneine just wanted to come and travel with
me and watch me in the water polo? What happens then?
Do they take up a seat? I have had a
genuine questions.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
So many questions, how does Beacon get a go?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Like?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Ah, he's just so cute though, But I'll be keep
I'll tell you what. One, I will be watching someone
Bar's best, you believe, But number two, my eyes will
be looking in that gymnasium for Beacon. I'll be trying
to find him wherever he is, and I'll be like,
what the goodest boy, the goodest sport is Beacon.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
He is the goodest sport.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
And that is a perfect way to round out two
good sports sports news told differently.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Next time we see you and we speak to you,
it is.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Going to be all green and gold, because can you
believe it, George, the Games will be underway and just
a reminder we're going to be coming to you is
Monday to Friday to give you all the snapshots, all
the tasty details that you need from Paris. We're going
to tell you what happened overnight, what are the main storylines,
and what do you have to look forward to for
the next day. It'll be a very truncated version of
(32:42):
Two Good Sports. But we cannot wait because, as you
can tell, we are beside ourselves and we haven't even
touched on because we did track and field last week,
how much success we've just had at the Diamond League
and the fact that Australia won three gold on one day.
We've never done that before. Again, I'm just feeling it.
We're going to have the most successful games ever. Join
us at Two Good Sports, Screen and Gold. It's going
(33:02):
to be fun.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
It's going to be so good. It's your unofficial preview
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