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August 3, 2024 • 10 mins

In this bonus Episode I chat with another Paris-Crazed Sport enthusiast Keeley and we talk about some of the weirder things we found relating to the games.

Tune in tomorrow to catch up on all the action that happened over the weekend.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Sport Report unofficially the best way to follow the
Parisian Action CBA.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, everybody. I am the voice inside your speaker, Tana,
and welcome to this very special episode of The Sport Report.
As a bonus weaview episode, I invited my good friend
and colleague Keeley to the microphones to talk about some
of the weirder things we discovered while trapped in Paris Fever.
You might recognize her as the intro vio for this podcast.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Welcome Killy, Hello, Hi Kelly.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Today we're going to discuss some of the stranger aspects
of the Olympics, some things that maybe you didn't know,
maybe you did but made me laugh. So you'd like
to take it away, Kelly, What have you brought to
the table Topay, I've brought two bits to this segment.
I've brought you an Italian gymnast. She is a Paris
Games athlete and she's now won the silver medal. She

(00:50):
is actually sponsored by Parmiano Reggiano.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Like the cheese.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
The cheese, Yes, the official Consortium of Authentic Palms and
cheese producers.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
And I assume this is an Italian company.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
Yes, And she's also not the only Italian athletes.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
But oh there are others.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
You mentioned this to me the other day and I
thought it was so funny that someone could be sponsored
by literal cheese.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
So there's a tennis player named Yannick Sinner, a fencer
named Tao Nary, a basketballer named Nico Mannion, and a
Paralympic swimmer named Giuliana Giretti. And then the Italian gymnast
is Giorgia Villa.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
And what was that six?

Speaker 4 (01:28):
That's six? Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Parmaziano Reggiano has come out and said parmesan is suitable
for the sports. Diet and health experts would agree that
the hard cheese is highly nutritious, being full of protein,
energy dents, and is naturally lactose free.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Really, yes, what do they make parme.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, obviously there's no lactose in the milk that they use,
or the deduction of the parmesan cheese gets rid of
the lactose.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Gotcha, Parmagiano Reggiano, do they just make parmesan cheese.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
They are the consort of parmesan cheese.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Oh so they are the peak bodies, like they're big cheese.
They are big cheese, chili, big cheese. That's so funny.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, and so Villa has posted over twenty times on
her Instagram, Facebook and tech TikTok all posing with just
a giant wheel of cheese.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
It's great.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I wish there's that race in Ireland. I want to say,
the cheese wiel race.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, they're great and Ossie won that for the first
time recently.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah, the last race they had and Aussie one.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
That's so funny.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
I feel like cheese and sports clearly need to have
higher representation. It's nice to see that there's finally some
cheese representation. That's big cheese representation representation.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Love it.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
And the other person slash subject I've brought is Robbie Manson,
who is a New Zealander rower, and to keep his
Paris Games dreams alive, he joined the adult subscription service
Only Fans. I get more than double what I would
be on otherwise as an athlete. Read into that as
you will. But I'm making more on only fans than

(02:59):
I am from rowing at.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
This stage, and so he's using this money to fund
him Yes, to fund Paris.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
So he says that the funding from rowing New Zealand
covers his training costs, but he says that he needed
to find other sources of income and the governing body
has no problem with it whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
I mean, if the governing body has no problem with it,
good on him.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, And he said that he was inspired to create
the profile by the Australian diver Matthew Mitcham, whose Olympic
gold in Beijing Games was the first ever won.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
By an openly gay athlete.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
There you go, and he described his only fans as
artistic nudes, just a.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Little a little taster.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I never realized how expensive going to the games is.
I know that there are some athletes who get it
subsidized through the sports that they do and whatnot, and.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Then through sponsorships through the sports.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
So obviously like big cheese, big cheese, but obviously they're
also sponsored by other people. But however many athletes there are,
they've got to go towards different things. And because rowing
isn't a hugely publicized sport, he was saying that he
really did need to get something else because he's training
costs and everything were covered, but he needed to be
able to live and he couldn't live without getting another job.

(04:07):
And because you're training like that. It's hard to have
another job.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah. Interesting, Yeah, so good name.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
He does what I need to do, I mean, making
double what he would as a rower and problem solving. Yes,
figured out a way to do both, living his best life.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Staying in the realm of weird things that are related
to the Games. I came across an article that was
written in the Britannica back in twenty sixteen by a
lady by the name of Amy Tickenan. I apologize if
I've just pronounced that, and I assually come back up
because it was talking about some of the sports that
were in the Games back in nineteen hundred.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
Oh awesome.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
I'm going to run you through three sports which I
came across. They're not in the Games this year, but
they were over one hundred years ago.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
And so are we petitioning to bring them back or
are we?

Speaker 2 (04:46):
I think definitely one of them should cool. The first
one is called plunge for distance, you can imagine that
it's long jump and swimming in one. So the process
is one other time you stand on a diving block,
uh huh, you jump in, you dive, you can't propel
yourself and you just have to sort of vibe as
far down as you can. You get one minute face down,

(05:08):
you've got to hold your breath underwater, and as soon
as you either take a breath or if one minute
is up, however far you have made it, that's your distance.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Apparently they had to introduce a one minute time and
I don't know why. I couldn't figure out exactly why,
but I assume.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Because it's dangerous.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
I think it was originally done in a river and
whoever could hold their breath the longest just got the
furthest so they changed it to me one minute because
of the courage. So in games after that, the sport
was no longer run because the consensus of the general
public was that it didn't require much athleticism.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
I think is actually just bravery and lung capacity.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yeah, it's just diving. It's diving, but horizontal.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
And it's not a pretty dive like it's not the
amazing divers that we have.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
No, it's practical because you've got to get as far
as can so it's not like it's got a little
splash or anything.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
It's it's just to dive.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
So every man and their dog could do.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
It literally, so that's that's plunge for distance. This next
one I think we should bring back. This was also
back in the Games, back in nineteen hundred. They used
to have water obstacle courses. Is that al still the thing? No,
they're not the inflatable ones that you might be thinking.
I really wish they were. I think we should bring
those into the Olympics.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
I would do that.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
I would do it.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
I would one hundred percent represent Australia.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
I'm a man.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Let's get sponsored by a cheese.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Let's get sponsored by Biga cheese.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
Cheese.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Hit us up.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
So they didn't have inflatables. They used to use boats, ropes, poles.
You had to basically climb over poles, climb over ropes,
swim under.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Boats a little bit, I guess. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
So it's just park or in the water.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
It's just park or in the water.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, And I just think it sounds super interesting and
I'd love to watch that. I think the only reason
it got discontinued is because there was only a handful
of competitors that went into it, all American.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Oh yeah, that doesn't surprise me.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
I think we should bring water obstacle courses back. I
would be there in a heartbeat. I would agree watch
that NonStop, the final one. I want you to guess
and pat that shouldn't be an Olympic sport?

Speaker 1 (07:02):
There's many, yeah, say radio host one thing that should
be a Olympic sport? Should or shouldn't?

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Should it?

Speaker 2 (07:09):
I wonder if you could have a competition for the
commentators of the games. Could you have a gold medal commentator?

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Well, usually they're all X competitors. Yeah, so makes sense
in a way, they probably do.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
I want you to think more outside the box, like,
what's an occupation that should never, in any feasible way
have a competition based around it? Ah, astronaut, I actually
think that would make almost more logic than this.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
That's great.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
There used to be a competition for architecture. You could
be a gold medal architect.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Is that like going back to like ancient Greek times?

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Genuinely?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Like no, no, no, So this wasn't back in ancient times.
This was in the nineteen thirty six Berlin Games, So
less than a hundred years ago you could be a
gold medal architect.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
I wonder what classification, like, how they judge that.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
I don't even fully understand how they compete it.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
It's not very clear. It says that.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Are they given a brief. It's like an exam. They're
given a brief and then whoever does it the best.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
From my understanding from the research that I've done, you
just have to combined sport and architecture. So a lot
of them are related to the buildings that the apes
were held in.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
So some of the arenas, it's just a really elaborate
job interview. I mean, potentially you've got gold, you got
to design the next I think often it.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Was in retrospect, so rather than winning it and then
designing the next one, it would be the people who
designed the buildings for the currents.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
They would compete in the architecture.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
That does doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
I agree, That's why I thought it was very weird.
So in a similar vein they also had competitions around
art literature.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Did know that, but they're not sports. They're not sports,
so that makes sense where they're no longer in it. Yeah,
I think we should petition to bring that back.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
To though, which were architecture, no.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
Art, and they have to design the next mascot.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
See that's fine.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
I was trying to think of how could you turn
arc contect you into a sport? And I was thinking,
you know the block yep, make that, but you've got
ten hours to build go yeah or run down to buntings.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
All they have to like it's like endurance sport and
so they have to design something while going through like
whitewater rapids.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Whoever can can draw the straightest bridge? I watch?

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yes, who can design the prettiest column while on a
whitewater raft?

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Love that?

Speaker 2 (09:27):
If anyone's listening, And do you have any sort of
control over which sports? Because it added into the roster
hit us up. I think we've got a lot of
great ideas well. Thank you Killy for joining me on
this special episode, and thank you once again for doing
the intro to this podcast.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
You're so welcome. I like having my voice everywhere. I'm
arrogont like that great. I appreciate it. You're welcome and
that's it for today. Thank you for listening, and make
sure to tune in tomorrow when we catch up on
all things that happened over the weekend and keep up
to date with the events schedule.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Catch it then.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Amplify CB is neither a sponsor to the Paris Olympics,
nor affiliated with any other rights holder.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
I think it was actually no, that's a nothing sentence.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
If I could stop a sentence before I said it, yeah,
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