D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on the Olympic men's triathlon being postponed due to pollution levels in the Seine

Pollution levels in the Seine have forced the Olympic organisers to postpone men's triathlon.

The event was set for 6pm this evening - and has been pushed back to 8:45pm tomorrow night, straight after the women's event.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains how this delay will impact the Olympics.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dow see. Wilder Grave joins us, Oh, my goodness me,
the great punt to see if we can get the
sand halfway clear to have a swim in it. And
it's come and rained on their face and on their parade.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
And to add to this, it was not only the
pollution and the sand, the possibility of E. Coli, which
is quite killy.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
This is because the storm water and the wastewater are
actually still all combined like Auckland, just.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Like Awkland, except they haven't got like a surf break
there either. So, but the flow rate, because the rain
was so heavy, the actual sein's going too fast. It's
going over a meter per second, which means that they
probably couldn't do it then anyone.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Now you just do it the other way and then
you get a whirl.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
You go back and forth.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Oh I see, I think. So you go into it,
then you go out to it.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
So when you when you're going with it like a
two hundred meters world record pace, when you go the
other way.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
You just still all go backwards.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah. So as being postponine, it' supposed to be six
o'clocks eight forty five. Sorry, it's evenings eight forty five
tomorrow evening, and that's hard on the heels of the
women's race, which is set to go at six tomorrow.
So four athletes are in the Zell and involved in
those races.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
How long to do a triathon? Can they get it?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:09):
What's three hours? Four hours?

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah? No, No, they've got enough.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
They can good enough time to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
They can fight and they're all Monstery're in the water.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Can you imagine this? It's between them?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I think i'd actually haven't seen the actual course. I
don't think they're going.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
To Can you imagine how good this event would have
been in the south of France at the Deserve, perhaps
off the beach of Cairn or somewhere like that. How
pretty it would have been, how wonderful would have been.
But that that's their call. So it's been postponed one day,
could be postponed two, and then they have to change it.
Is that the way it's going to work.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
August the second is the last day for that and
if that's the case, they're going to have to make
it a giathon, so which shortens it. But I believe
the case here. Hayden Wild one of our athletes, one
of the guys that might actually meddle here swimming is
it's not as strong as it's not so the ghost's Jiathon.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
There's a silver lining.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
It don't have a big asterisk next to it, but
that's okay, Gold's gold, right, But yes, so that's all
beingde and Pete Dewett is going to join us on
the show to talk about this evening.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
We've got Hayden's coach on the show at ten past five.
We'll find out exactly how the sin is and what
it tastes like.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Today it's the CEO of trithtal On, New Zealand. Just
by the way, this coach is with me.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
At ten past five, Drone Gate carries on and of
course Canada is now at zero points. They're appealing the
six point loss.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Wronghill to die on guys, like take your medicine like
grown ups. You're cheated, you get hammered, walk away with
some dignity whatever you've got left.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
It's collective responsibility. It's a team sport.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Well this is it. And I don't know how much
information from the drone over how many years has been
leaked out to the players, but in essence it would
have to otherwise what's the point in doing it right,
So I don't.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Can you imagine being in the team talk and they go, okay,
if New Zealand does this, they're going to do this.
You do that? Can you imagine the full back going,
how do you know they're going to do that?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
But we've got a cunning plan. Very good em twig
tonight yep, I think seven thirty Emma twig up and running.
Here there's another single scullar whose name just eludes me
because I'm thinking of so many athletes right now.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
You know what I saw its going to be going.
I saw the eights and they were racing, I said.
He turned around to Clay Wilson and said if we
couldn't eat, and he went, no, we don't. And that
New Zealand without an eate I think is a great,
great pity.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well there's a shame, but we got the joy of
the eight last time around. So let's just sit there
and hold that and carry it for a while and
be happy with what we had.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
All right, text through saying the triath And is the
biggest stuff up since the Rainbow Warrior.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
I wouldn't climb down that route because that's a bit testy,
but anyway, the text is quiet and we're going to
be talking to Dave Curry tonight on the show too.
The Dave Curry, of course is shift the mission for
three Commonwealth Games, three Olympic Games. Are Paralympics as well,
or also the former race director of The iron Man,
the trython iron Man, a lot of experiences with you're

(04:09):
selling cricket for a while there too, So he'll talk
about because I think a lot of people now going
when are we gonna win?

Speaker 1 (04:14):
When are we going to win? When are we gonna win?
And it happens every game, so.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
We'll talk about there. Well, yeah, because like the last
there were three consecutive like two thousand and took nine
days Athens and four eight days Beijing. It took eight
days and then on one day they won five.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, it's great that it's good. That's good research. Thank
you so much, and more of that at seven with
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