D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host ahead of the Olympic K4 500m event

Kiwi Kayakers Max Brown and Grant Clancy are coping well with the controversy of them competing in the canoeing pair event at the Olympic Games.

The duo finished distant last in their heat and quarterfinal in Paris after they were forced to compete in the kneel-down canoeing C2 500 - which was qualified so they could compete in the K4 500 event.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy water Grade sports stokhosters with me.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hey Dars, we're both trying to read the Olympic program,
Amn't I trying to work out what's on where wyan
Howe in the middle of the night. I've got ten
of these in front of me, trying to work out
what I need to record now I change and how
many screens I've got going because it's one o'clock.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
The news are out again tonight. Ah I Cano.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Kayak sprint K four five hundred semi final two is
at ten to ten tonight. That's Clancy, Legarth, Emory and Brown.
And when it comes to Emory, I'm sorry, not Emory
and Brown. When it comes to Brown and Clancy, they
are the two blokes. Yeah, the C two five hundred.
Now they've got a B final at twenty past eleven tonight,

(00:41):
and there's a potential that the K four men and
the five hundred, well those guys still there, of course,
will be in the final.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's ticket again.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well, well okay, let's just get this right. So the
two canoeists who have apparently embarrassed the whole nation are
going to do their canoe semi final, No, their kayak
semi final ten to ten. Then they go do the
canoe final B final.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, B final, no medals.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
There, no no medals there. That's a twenty past eleven.
And then after that, if they've made it into the
kayaking final, which dear God, I hope they have because
that's the whole point of being there.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Lending they're doing that at ten to twelve.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
And that's a ten to twelve and so that's hard
on the heels of Carrington, Vaughan, Brett and Hoskin who
are going to be in the final of the K
four five hundred and four women pressure munch.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Strategy question for you, Well, all of my knowledge of
canoe right, so.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Here we go. Okay, strategy question.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
So, if they make it through the K four semi final,
which means that they have to in the space of
like half an hour, do a C two B final,
a canoeing B final, and then a kayaking final, do
you just and you can't not turn up to the canoeing,
which you're crappy at. Do you just start rowing and
then tip the boat because you want to conserve your energy.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
And we could say loud, I argue if you want
to do we were doing this three months, we forgot
how to stay up in these really hard to stay up,
just dunk yourself and fall on either that will just
lie down.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, and then and then you can conserve you your
arms because you're going to need them in a half
an hour.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, the way they row, I'm really not sure that
there's any energy expelled anyway. It's so slow around though
that you're going to keep your motor running, right, So
now you're getting a bit of a pedal keep you
from seizing.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
A sicking strategy question.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
If they do not make it through the semi final
for the kayaking, and then they know they're not going
to make the final for the kayaking, the only thing they've.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Got left to do is the canoeing.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Do they just go hard? Yeah, I'm surprising, but their
technique is pants. So yeah, that's very very difficult, Okay,
very difficult.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Maybe they could redeem it, well they.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Might, but I think we're all leaning on what happens
because if they can get to the K four final,
suddenly everything's okay, we saw your master plan. We're all
good with that.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Okay, I like it. I like it. Okay, what do
you think about Razor Squad.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
It's good that team to come up against Argentina. We
have very sensible selections in the first couple of tests.
Now we're starting to stretch awee bit and he said,
you know, Rico, not entirely sure if you really a center.
So I'll just stick you on the bench and you
can cople wing and center if we need you. Anton
jump in there and have a look. I like the
cut of your jib a little meta. I thought maybe
Procter might get a roll in there, so I think

(03:21):
that's the biggest call. Nice to see TJ. Bittenarra back
playing at home again. I think that's good. We've got
very thin lockstocks, gossamer thin lockstocks. We get blocks keep
dropping out, so we've got I think I'm wrong having
eighteen test matches between the two starting locks and not
a great but I think the development we're seeing here

(03:45):
with Scott Robinson and his side and what he's wanting
out of these players, it can only be good. So
I think the Wellington crowd will be But because that
be the best results of recent times I've heard there
were still tickets available. Come on, Wellie, what do you do?

Speaker 3 (04:00):
I mean they've had a whole bunch of people lose
their jobs in Wellington, haven't they. They're the hardest hit,
aren't they, as a cozy lives as hitting them heart.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Well, you live down there, you'd know most of them
work for the government, don't they.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
That's exactly what I mean. I feel so yeah, yeah, Okay,
what a bummer. Thanks Water Grape Sports stock Coaster. We
that's more of this misery at seven o'clock.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
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