Michael Burgess: NZ Herald Sports Reporter gives an update from Paris, Maddison-Lee Wesche's silver medal in women's shot put

Maddison-Lee Wesche has produced a personal best of 19.86 metres to win silver in the women's shotput final at Stade de France at the Paris Olympics. 

The Kiwi's been pipped for gold on the final throw by Germany's Yemisi Ogunleye, who launched a heave of 20 metres for gold. 

NZ Herald Reporter Michael Burgess joined D'Arcy Waldegrave to update the latest from overnight.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the All Sport Breakfast podcast with Darcy
Waldegrave from News Talk SEDB, taking.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Now live to Paris, the Home of the thirty third
Olympia or the Games of the thirty third olympiad Michael
Burgess joins us into your Herald Reporter. I can hear
the energy in the background. I believe you just caught
up with Maddi. Wishy, Michael, come on and house tricks.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Tricks are amazing, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
It's just it's just turning into quite an incredible Olympics,
it really is. I think before this Olympics, a lot
of people thought, including me, we couldn't match Tokyo, we
couldn't match Rio because they were just both exceptional but
far out.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
We might be on track to do better than Tokyo.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Tell us about Maddie and what happened there, because, for
the life of me here in the office, people were
jumping around like she'd actually managed to project beyond the
twenty meter mark. That's what it looked like. Not the case.
Not to take anything away from her silver medals outstanding,
but it looks like we've got another star when it
comes to throwing things around the around the field.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
She was amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
I mean she she she you know, she told me
there was there was mixed emotions because she would have
loved to have the gold, and she was very close
to the.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Gold, as close as you can get really, but she.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Was so proud to have silver and you know, to
throw a PB in Olympic final.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
It's pretty amazing at her age. And also I think
it's a bit of a consolation.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
She was involved in one of the great Olympic jewels,
you know, Olympic shop with jewels. It was just incredible
back and forth between her and the chairman. So yeah,
she was, she was amazing. She was a bit disappointed
with her last stir obviously she thought she could rise
to the challenge once more after after doing that in
the fifth round.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
But overall, I think an immense feeling of of.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Pride and I think I could sense a bit of
disbelief as well.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
We said, at her age, she has still got so
much growing and developing an experience to pack up. We
could see her floating around the Olympic Games for quite
a few years to come, now, couldn't we.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
That's the thing to us.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
I mean, woman shot put, you know, you can compete
for a long time, as Valerie Adams showed, as a
lot of her rival showed.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
So what future this girl has got, you know? And
I asked her as well, you know, were you feeling
the pressure out there as an Olympic final?

Speaker 4 (02:31):
And she said, not really, you know, not really sure
it's the Olympics, But to me, it's just another competition.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
I was going to go out and enjoy it and
do my best, and that you could tell. That's what
she did. That's what it felt like.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
I just felt like she had an incredible flow in
rhythm the whole time and finished well ahead of a
lot of very experienced rivals.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Did she think twenty five years old incident the people
don't know? Did she think she was going to meetle
Was she surprised at the fact she picked up silver
even got on the days?

Speaker 4 (03:05):
I did ask you that what her expectations were, and
she said she was actually feeling pretty confident because she
was really good and qualifying.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
We've got to remember. So I think from there she's like, Okay,
I'm ready to go.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
I'm feeling good. My preparation has been good, and I
can handle this arena. And she certainly came out and
showed that tonight a really nice mix of confidence, self belief,
humility and just being older again.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Rise to the occasion at the best possible time.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Talking about rising to the occasion, I don't know what
happened last night, Hoskin and Carrington. That was extraordinary, Michael Burgess,
We've just actually had Alisia on the program, but what
a display from those two kayakers.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
It was remarkable to us.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
I mean, you know, I think sometimes we start to
take it for granted what Carrington is doing because of
what she's done so regularly. But that final had the
two best crews from Germany, the two best crews from Hungary,
it had some other really good crew from big kayaking nations,
and they just.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
They just blew them away. You know, it was almost
two boat lengths more than two seconds.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
I was, you know, it was in the media center afterwards,
a couple of journalists who cover the sport, you know,
all the time, in and out kayaking, and they were
they were sort of shaking their heads, and one of
them sort of said, you know that that shouldn't happen
an Olympic K two final.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
It just shouldn't happen. That margin and that kind of
summed it.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Up for me that they just blitzed a quality field
by an incredible distance.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
It was an absolute and I love this term beat
down and on that will leave you to get on
with you evening. Michael Burgess, thanks so much for joining us.
What a wonderful sound in the background, the murmur of
the crowd start to France the games, the thirty third Olympiad.
This has been incredible.

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