August 8, 2024 • 46 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Zitim podcast Network.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Play Splitform and Haley on today's Fact of the Day
of the fortnight, Vaughan limbers up for two weeks.
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Of facts about the Games.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's time for.
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Fact of the Day.
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Day day day, day.
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Yeah, I do do do do do do do do
do do do do do do do do do do do.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
This week's the theme for Fact of that Day is
the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
The Olympics.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Going on about happening makes sense that happen, Ah, And
I just thought maybe even for for the full length
of the Olympics, there's a lot of facts about the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yeah, we have been around for a while, been around for.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
A long time.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
And that's kind of what today's Fact of the Day
kind of touches on. Because I noticed Greece were like
first out the blocks for the opening ceremony because it's
the thing. But Bengo, Yeah, that the Home of the Olympics.
They come out really high up the order. Do you
remember we went to Athens, didn't we Dusty Athens and
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we went to was.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
That the original? Yeah, you can go to the original
like track.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
The Home of the Olympics from eighteen ninety four. You
had the first modern Olympics and they yeah, they've got
the stadium set up there and it all kind of
happened in this one area. But despite them being the
home of the Olympics, they've never won a Winter Olympics medal.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Oh, Greece, not one.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I've never been to the northern parts of Greece, but
surely there's some mountains with some snow on them, some
cold spots. Yeah, or they would have just had to know,
like New Zealand, like you just have ice skaters and yeah,
well we've got snowy mountains, skiss and stuff. And the
last time that Greece placed in the top ten at
the summer Summer Olympics nineteen oh four. Goodness, since then,
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have never got it all downhill. It's all been downhill,
but not downhill skiing because they've never won and made
it Winter Olympics now. Yeah, so yeah, Greece, they just
and they did not cracked the top ten since nineteen
oh four. They've not even come close. They mostly sit
in the twenties or did not rank that.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I feel a little bit embarrassing. It's like something and
they're not being great at it.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Yeah, it's not even when they had the Athens Olympics.
They didn't have like a bumper year.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
No, they never.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
They had a good year, but not a bumper year.
Didn't give them in the top ten because that was
two thousand and four. That's why there's a great metro
into Athens. Yeah, from the Olympics. I mean, they'll bankrupt
the country and you get a great metro, you get
a great metro utilities. Yeah, the city has afterwards that
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then they've got to maintain that they couldn't even afford
to build in the first place. That's why we need
a few more America's Cumps in World Cups. Well, we
were just saying they were we Yeah, you get nice
new things because I saw a picture of like downtown
Auckland before the America's Cup and it was very different.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
And then again before the Rugby World Cup.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
The Rugby World couple gave us when you'd caught it.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yeah, just seeing if your city is struggling, why not
have a large scale international event that could very well
bankrupt the city. I could live it with a couple
of nice restaurants, yes, and some nice sum plazas.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
A couple of lass is a lovely outdoor areas and
cobblesteins and some plant boxes, some plant of boxes with
some hedges.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Who is responsible for these hedges?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
These Grisellinio are just dying with front and center. So
today's factor the day and the first of the Olympics
themed week is, despite Grease being the home of the Olympics,
I never want a Winter Olympics meddle and having placed
in the top ten since the Summer Olympics of nineteen.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
O four, play and Haley, Today's.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Olympic factor of the day is where does the name
Olympics come from?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Grease? Grease?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Correct? Any furgo limb doing on the skateboard?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah? Perfect?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
And they were the best, they were the best pecks
olymp Olyipex. It is in reference to Mount Olympus. It's
a mountain in Thessaly. So I've looked up that that's got.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Is that the one in Athens? No? No, no, no, no, no,
not with the pantheon at the top. No, that's on
the border of Macedonia in Greece.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Okay, you need to travel with the.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Pantheons and Athens.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
No, that's the Acropolis, the pan in the.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Buildings on the top of them, isn't it? Isn't it
in Rome? The pantheon? Yeah, yeah, I've been ready. I've
never been to Greece.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I've been there. There welis beside.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Beside, I don't know. I thought it was the pantheon Greece.
Can you can we get a map of the you
know what happened? He spent way too much time on
Roman orgies and her Street Greek orgies. That's why I thought, right,
a temple of all gods. The word pantheon derives from
the Greek pantheon, literally a temple of all gods. There
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is a pantheon at the top of that thing, but
it's just what they call a It's.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Not what the world would know as the pantheon, as
in the one.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
And rologized to everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I won't I'm surrounding pantheon.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
You know, one of the many one of pantheons. I mean,
I just mean our warehouse, not dumpy house.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I mean an industrial warehouse. Why are you putting me
in this red polo?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I simply said warehouse, no, no, where ever, and gets
a bargain.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That's what I said.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I said, there are bargains to be had. Everything.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
So the Mountainlympus is in like northern Greece, by Macedonia,
and in the Parthenon.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
People are texting him being like, there's a Parthenon in Greece.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Was he on a path? Someone else said, mum, what's
an orgy? A lot of oranges?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
You have a lot of oranges. Everyone brings an orange.
You have an orange? Roman days, Orange parties, booboo, parting on,
parting On is in Greece, the panth in Rome.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
The past one is in Greece, the Pantheon there everyone knows. Ah.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
So Mount Olympus is so massive and high. It's the
highest mountain peak in Greece. They believe that was the
home of the gods. Yea, they believe it was a
mountain so high I was a constant to the heavens,
such a round start to watch humans as the Zeus
and et cetera. They all live up on Mount Olympus.
So the Olympics were kind of like two things. To
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honor the gods they were before, and be like, look
at how great we have become. Your creations faster than ever,
and they can jump high than before.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Look at our break dancing, Look.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
At our sex flips, horses, yeah, yeah, doing a trot.
Watch a woman with what looks like a crazy rifle,
hold perfectly still and take one breath in and then
on a slower eas house pull the trigger.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
And now the bull's away. That's right.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I was watching a bit of God's So good.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Watch us climb this wall vertically in six seconds. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes yes.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Watch our bottoms as we play beach volleyball.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I'm watching this, I'm watching the ball. Me too, go
over the.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Net, me too? From the Pantheon in Grease. So they
did they did it. And also the thought was that
if you were like on par the gods might be like,
you can come up over here, you can come up here.
Well you could have sn you could have seen wow
to live on Mount Olympus. So it was the Olympics
Mount Olympus. But then Olympiad because you know they say
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it's the seventy fifth.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, Olympiad is a period of four years. Yeah does that?
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Do it?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Every four years? Is right from the get go. It
was like a budget thing and that was expensive, which
you just wait four years because you're already be building
in the next city, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, well you need some downtime.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
But the music festivals that are like, we just need
a couple of years break because they're not coming back.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
We're not coming back, and they're not coming back.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
They're not coming back. If they're gone for that long.
It's not the Olympics, man, They're not coming back four years.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
They just Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
So today's Olympic Factor the Day is the Olympics are
named for Mount Olympus, which was believed to be the
home of the golds in the pantheon in Rome. Well
our pantheon a temple of all gods, you say, Playbourne
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and Hale well love it's Olympics themed Fact of the Day.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
By end, I've been sent a few thinking maybe there's enough.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Facts about the Olympics to do facts about the Olympics,
or the entire length of the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
How many days is the Olympics?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Careful, we might get a bit tired of that.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
How many days.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Days the Olympillas the last two two weeks.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
It's twenty sixth of July to the eleventh of August, So.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Your two weeks, that's easy.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
That just said that. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, I don't know. We'll see, we'll do it. We'll
vibe check on Friday. Okay, there are today's Fact of
the Days.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
There are sixty countries that have never won a single
Summer Olympic.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Medal, and we're just one one this morning.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Yeah, and a further forty countries that have never won
a single gold medal. So we've got we've got lots
of Olympians who have won more medals individually than entire
countries have.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Have you ever held one an Olympic goals.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Someone brought We had them in's studio. Feel half touched
one heavy?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Eric Murray's Yeah, they're heavy. They're real heavy, real nice.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
These ones look. Look, look booty this year.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
This one's look and they get a little box of
sparklers or something or in sense, what are they getting
in that box?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Sense? Little stick? That's not very French, Shannon. Social media is.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
What's in the box that they're giving the Olympics.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Really cute poster, but they can also but they can
also go.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Out in the middle of TV hats and you unfold it,
you put on your wall and you look at it
and you're like.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, and then thirty years later he'd be problematic.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
The Olympians can also though, go to the Olympic village
and buy the posters, so it's kind of not super special, like.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Any Olympia can have it. Those stupid stuff.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Yeah, so cute, but you see the Olympians when they
get handled it, they all look quite confused.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Give me a bouquet in a medal.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
They're real cute, Okay, yes, showing a cartoon version of
Paris or the picture of the big red Eiffel Tower
and the CNN surrounded by sports taking places.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Did you say that the river? Did you see that
the river's already like super polluted? Like what vents have
been canceled because they're like it is gross? Is it's
actually pretty French? Poose?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
So the country with the largest population that has never
won an Olympic medal is give us a clue.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Give us a clue. The country the largest population.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Hasn't always been called this used to have a different name,
is right, African?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
No Asian?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
The thing is that have to win so many medals
to even beyond the per capitol.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Right, I'll just I'll just put you out of misery.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
No, we can play this game until the end of
the show.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Bangladesh seventy one million people and never won an Olympic medal.
They had never had an athlete who qualified for the
Olympics via merit. They just qualified because they were entitled
to had to submit someone. The Rio flag bearer and
the first person from Bangladesh to ever qualify for the
Olympics on merit played Golfah, he represented them at the
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Rio Olympics and he came fifty five out of sixty.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Okay, I didn't realize they were so bad at sports.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
But the cricket teams getting better. Yeah, yeah, it is
always winning some games now. Yeah, but there's times like
and heaps of countries you've heard of Albania never won
a medal.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
What is it about Bangladesh? You know, it's very country. Oh,
they're not good at it because they're not good at
swimming because there's no water around you, it's not there.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Yeah, or they never won a Winter Olympics medal because
it would never have seen.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, it's just like an accessibility thing.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Yeah, but no, it's I believe it's Bangladish is a
very poor nation, so it doesn't have you know, it's
most nations that do well have a little discretionary and
shout a load of track pants though.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Oh that's sadly.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Probably most of the Olympic country's uniforms have been made
in Bangladesh.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, God, everything's made in Bangladesh.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Congo rules, wander Bosnia hurts a gover. Those are some
other countries that medals. But Bangladesh has got the largest
population for a country that's never won.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
So we really dodd.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
We always go on about being on the per capita
table in New Zealand. We're punching regardless, aren't we because
we're just so wet, we're so weirdle and we should
chuck a couple of handball teams or something. Again, there's
a whole lot of sports that I don't even think
even offered. Yeah, what could we do offered?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Up?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I want one of these medals, but I don't want
to work that hard. Like, so, what's a skill that
we've already got going?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Are they still doing clay bird? They call it? Are
you Olympic good or are you just a couple of wines?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And when I say I've done it once in my
life and I didn't suck, is what I mean by
that's good enough?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
That's that is the first step on the road to
Olympic glory. Maybe that's what we need Hens doos Wo'd
be good at those and Britain would beat us at those.
Hell yeah, the travel they traveled in European countries, we
just like catch a ferry to Wahiki and come back
b Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
So today's fact of the day is there are sixty
countries that have never won a single Olympic medal, and
the one with the highest population to have never won one, Bangladesh.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Plays.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Play today's and we continue our fact of the day Olympics. Yeah,
the fact of that about the Olympics. Now, I was
sent this one in from Jess Cunliff. She says, born,
do you know American swim Michael Phelps is the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Goat with twenty three gold medals.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
If he was a country, he would be fortieth in
the all time rankings for gold medals. Well, has it
got just we were speaking yesterday some countries don't even
have a single medal. No, then that's what spurred jest
to say, if he was a country, Michael Phelps would
be the fortieth highest ranking country of all time, including
all the modern Olympics.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Isn't that insane?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah? They is pretty amazing.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Twenty three gold and that's just in the gold medals.
He's also got three silver and two bronze. Went across
five games. He's got how many middles and only three
of them are silver?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Yeah, and only two of them are bronze?
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Twenty six, twenty eight middles and twenty three of those
gold medals.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Do you remember when it was a trend to try
to eat Michael phelps diet. Yes, I was just thinking that.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
They'd always say here's what he eats in a day,
and it was like eight calories, yeah, thousand calories?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Was it between eight thousand and ten thousand calories a day?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
And it wasn't even like healthily distributed calories. Wasn't he
smashing like whole pizzas?
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
He was just turning it eight to ten thousand calories
a day. To put a perspective, like most people would
eat adults would be like two thousands.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
They have two thousand, right, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Where it would go, Like I'd just be like constantly,
he'd get up early, so'd have a longer day.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Yeah, he'd be training a lot, so you'd be burning. Yeah,
he'd still be.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Oh yeah, oh my god poops on cal sized poops.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah, I reckoned, purpose shot him at the pedit. I reckon,
but toilet can't handle a lot of meat in it.
And you know that floating around. She's amazing. Who's come
close to her? No one, but I'm on it. Oh,
because I was including she's got world records.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Sorry, yeah, but someone. There's not as many gymnasts he
was doing one hundred meters, fifty meters, two hundred meters,
four hundred meters. Midley's like, there's so many swimming events
only thinks he could win. He just dominated, and that's
why people I've looked up like Usain Bolt.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
He was like the fastest man alive and like everybody.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Knew who he was.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, but he would only run the one hundred.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
There's not as many running events as there were. There's
one hundred meter sprints, but he couldn't turn that into hurdles.
He'd do part of the four by one hundred relay,
which he won medals for as well, so that was
also dependent on three other people.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Felts was just this.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Unit second place for Korea medals as a Soviet gymnast.
Lolisa Latania, the winner of eighteen meddle. She was back
in the day, right, Oh, yes, the fifties and sixties,
all like four disciplines.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
And then there's a Norwegian that's won fifteen medals and
various cross country skiing and winterlymps with fifteen medals. But
isn't that insane? He's just miles a heeare leagues ahead
of everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
What he's literally a walking upside down triangle the shoulders
that I haven't seen him lately.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
I mean he's probably at these Olympics right because he's
so he'll be.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
He's blown out, but toned down from a ten thousand
calorie diet back to a two thousand.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Literally, people like stretched and flabby, like fill me up. Yeah,
surely it's still.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Swim right, like for fun.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I don't want to see a pot. We got to
get another, got to get another hobby.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
So today's back today is that thanks to Jess who's
submitted that if Shannon just said.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
His son one his first swim at a primary school,
Oh that's cute. Oh my god, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
But yeah, imagine the swimming sports and they're like a
lane three, little Joey phelps and you won't even bother coming.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
This is why I was thinking about it because Michael
Phelps some gave Snoop Dogg a swimming lesson in France
just the other day. Snoop Dogg is so skinny, so skinny. Yeah, yeah,
they jumped into a pool and did like a fun
like social media thing. Is really like a high is
the face of this? Why he's the full face of
the Olympic because he's the man. He's got a.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Pin and it's him smoking a joint and blowing the
Olympic rings.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Snoop deal double gm.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
And it's an official Olympics.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Is he even French? Forshizzle?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Of course he's French. What are you talking about it?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Of course famous French rapper from the LBC Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Forshizzle? Where Shizzle?
Speaker 5 (18:51):
So Today's fact to today Thanks the Jest, is that
if Michael Phelps is his own country had be the
fortieth most successful country for a gold medal haul in.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
His play and Haley.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Today's fact of the Day tell Us comes off the
back of yesterday's Fact of the Day when Cooper text
messaged in saying what did Coops say?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Coops?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
One of the scoops.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Can you please investigate the factor that I have someone
has ever gone to the same Olympics for two more
different sports like swimming and running.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Please, my gosh, overachiever.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I did a little bit of Google, and one thing
about the Olympics is that it is meticulously recorded.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yes, it is all the details, all the record.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
There is a Wikipedia page called list of athletes who
competed in multiple sports at the Summer Olympic Games.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
So you're not including I did the one hundred meters
and the two.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Hundred, so I did some investigation into who had won
medals for it. But to be honest, I and this
might be a controversial take, and I believe if you
go for road cycling but also participate in track cycling,
that's just cycling.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, you want, we want different sports, different sports.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
However, I would put diving, swimming, and water polos three different,
completely completely different. The pool is the only consistent there, Yeah,
because the most common one.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Was road cyclists that also did.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Some track cycling at the earlier Olympics, because there were
two different disciplines but different super specialized like they are now. Yeah,
you know it probably was on an old penny Farthing
for example, and they smoked a pipe as they were
doing it, and they had to tip their peaky blinder
to everybody they who every.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Time they went past someone coming past called bab, called dab.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
And there were people who won a different swimming but
I'm kind of like swimming same butterfly and freestyle, yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I mean completely different, yeah, but still the same same. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
But there are some ones who went and there's actually
such a massive list of them.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Coops.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
I was thinking I might just tell you about New Zealanders.
I am, people who have done extremely well on one
medals in multiple different events. Yeah, that is like a
thousand people that have been for more than one. But
as I say, most of them road cycling or some
form of swimming. New Zealanders again skip that the most
all cycling cycling, cycling cycling, Well, I mean I'm not
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taking anything away from you. You can cycle significantly better than me.
Well done two disciplines.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
But cycling cycling, I'm going on an e bik.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Remember Steve Ferguson, Yeah from Fergs Kayaks, Yes, yeah, he
went to onknew he went for canoeing. Yeah, Steve Ferguson
and Ian who were they were the duos and they
said the front ways canoeing and they were unbeatable. They
won gold medals and I remember as a child it
was very, very exciting.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
But Steve Ferguson.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Also went to the Olympics for swimming.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Huh how about them? Okay, well that does that take
your box? That takes my box?
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Both water involved, but two very different sports. But all
the other ones that have been have been cyclists that
have done road cycling and track cycling and mountain bike.
My mountain biking and road cycling as well. But then
there's a list of athletes that did multiple events. Vigo
(22:16):
Jensen is from Denmark. He did weightlifting, sports, shooting, gymnastics, oh.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
My god, and track and field land.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
So he did.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
But I will say the Olympics he went to were
in the early nineteen hundreds where if you went it
was hard to get there. You kind of did as
much as you could when you got there, right. Also
the case with Carl Schumann, who was a German athlete
and competed at the German Games. He did gymnastics and
(22:48):
wrestling and weightlifting. Well, he just loved the likerate didn't
the feats of stream yeah, yeah, anida mustache like an
old school strong man too.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
There's a guy called Lorcious and Elliott who was British
and he.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Competed in weightlifting and he was.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Also a bit of a bodybuilder, bit of any spinky,
but of course bodybuilding is in an the Olympic sport,
so he went to the Olympics for a few different
sports as well, mostly feats of strength, but weightlifting and
track and field and two two females have.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Competed at multiple sports.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Sheila was a swimmer, Sheila great name for her great.
She also did the triathlon and the four x two
hundred meter running Wow and Truce clapped work as the
final from the Netherlands.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
She went to the Early Games as well.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
She did the four by one hundred meter swimming ree
freestyle and she also did diving at the three meter
and ten meter platforms.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
We've had a couple of texts about the Paralympics. Dylan
Orcott went to the Olympics. At the Paralympics for wheelchair
basketball and tennis medals and bars. Wow, and look up
Eve Rimmer, she's a para Olympian. Even remember, I can't
remember what sports she did, right, multiple parallel, multiple sports.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yeah, very very clever.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Always makes you feel like so many different things, you know, mul.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Multi festa. I hope that answers your question. Yeah, people
can google stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
So me having to think of something to do on
Friday sent me in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
And so next week, you know, we're staying with the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
It's two weeks long.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I reckon another week of fact that the days about
the Olympics. I like it a lot, quite fascinating today
in the Olympics, more than one.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Sports flitchborne and hapect to the day.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
My daughter told me this, So I was like, that's
a good one.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Because fact of the day, I'm still how the kids
suggest back to the days and I'm like, yeah, my kids,
my geniuses.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I've got a real future in this fat business. Apparently
having a.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Secon day to day.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
I've just been told and I told a that she's
been playing never allowed to sick day. I think once
like either like a limb hanging off like my just
just by his kingdom and I go to school. I
had the zombie virus. Yeah, and made me go to school.
But that was great because gosh, there were.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Some children, and I ate their brains.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, yeah, I'm delicious. The Olympic rings.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
The Olympic rings, right, the Olympic rings.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
There's five of them, Oh my god, really it's five
of them, and they represent the five continents that participate in.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
The I don't think I knew that.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I didn't know that, because then doesn't have to compete.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
We've got a couple of idiots and studio. Yeah, does
antarget can compete? No, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
What are you looking in a mirror? What you see?
This couple of idiots in studio? I said, what are
you looking in a mirror?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (25:57):
So the five continents that compete Africa the Americas. Now
that's where they'll get you because technically, if you're counting continents,
you count North America and Southern America has two different continents. Yeah,
but they counted them as one, the Americans, because then
that that along with Antarctica, you got seven. Yeah, he's
cutting his key with for it and rings again, Olympic rings.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
That's pretty cute. Better be the same.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
So Africa, the America, is Asia, Europe and Oceania. Why
are they the colors? They are black? Green, red? Is
Is it a pride thing.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
It's not a pride thing.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
It's not amps.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Now. That's so it's the right way up to me,
because if you've done that from your perspective, you put
three on the bottom of toil.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
And bottoms. Okay, you can pick them.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Anyone does.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
So the colors apparently they needed they had five rings. Yeah,
they picked the five most popular flag colors blue and
be like, our flag is represented there?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
What is it is? The red, blue, yellow, green, black? Yep? Yeah, yeah,
you're right, yep.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
The reason they're interlocked they never used to be the
first every ones. They weren't interlocked. They were just beside
each other. But then the interlock represents they get flung away.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
When they were just all, oh, should we lost another ring? People,
it was like a regular game.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
As her line, is it anyway up there?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
We should connect them.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
So we connected them because that represented the unity and
the meeting of athletes from around the world at the
Olympic Games.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
And we all know what goes on in the village unity.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
And they should always be displayed on a white background. Okay,
And that's what I was told about the Olympic rings. Okay, yeah, okay,
So today's back to the Day is. There's five Olympic rings,
each ring representing a continent that takes part in the Olympics,
and the colors were chosen because they were the most
popular colors of.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Flags at the time of a stepish.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Play play today's fact the day is about American swimmer
Kadie Lidecki.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Have you heard of her?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Lideki just won. Has she wont to fly like a
country mile?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
And she's the Is she eight hundred meter freestyle one
hundred free style? Yes?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yes, yes, you know how you do with the swimming.
It's like there's that line and it goes like booooo
and you're like, which country came first? It was like boop.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Yeah, it was like wait wait, So she is at
her fourth Olympic Games. She has just won her ninth
gold medal and her fourteenth medal overall, meaning that she
is tied for the most successful female athlete going by medals. Yeah,
with Larissa Latinina, the Soviet gymnast who won nine golds
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in the fifties and sixties.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
It was a Ford rolling her.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yeah yeah, but la pants around.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Seeing the comparison of gymnastics like the black and white
coverage of gymnastics in like the sixties versus what it
is now.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Like spin on the floor and whatnot.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
And then some mom by was like and then it's
also like my parents buying a house in nineteen seventy
eight and me trying to buy a house and twenty
twenty four.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Good stuff.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
The memes have been good. Yeah, top, top tier, top memes. Well,
here's the fact about Katie Ladecci. She actually holds the
top eighteen times and the eight hundred meter freestyle swimming
for women.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Oh why would you bother? For Bes, No eighteen.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Times in history belonged to one woman.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
So that's why no one's coming even close to her.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Yeah. Wow, So she was for this this year in
February she was beaten for the first time and the
eight hundred since twenty ten. She was beaten by a
Canadian swimmer for some reason, didn't swim the eight hundred
at the summer Macintosh didn't swim the eight hundred. Maybe
her arms fell off, or maybe it'd be a real shame.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
So she's got that.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
She's got the eighteenth fastest time in history. Out of
the top twenty five times, Ladecki has twenty four of them. Wow,
she's just one ten times, nineteen of the top twenty times,
as that Macintosh comes into eighteenth and twenty four of
the top twenty five times when it comes to the
eight hundred meters srea and that's why she lost that
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one range. She was like, I want to even bother.
I'm going to win that go on and then she's like,
oh my god, that Canadian. Yeah okay, my next time,
I guess why is she so fast?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
She's just found her event. Yeah, she and she just
nails it. Eight hundred meters is the perfect distance for her.
It's late that time.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Do you remember when I had that arcade machine at
work and I just really concentrated on Donkey Kong, really
nailed in my and I had all top ten schools
on Donkey Kong. Only Donkey Kong was at the Olympics.
You have found your sports. So what's what's in record
time for doing eight hundred meters eight minutes, four seconds
and for a second. Yeah, wow, okay, so that's quite Yeah,
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that's a long swim. So she seems to have taked
in twenty sixteen. I heard two top times are in
twenty sixteen. This guy that can did you hear that. Yeah,
she's pegged.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Over the hill. She's last year.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Last year she got her third best time, twenty eighteen
was her fourth best.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Twenty fifteen was her fifth best.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
When I swim like a kilometer, it will take me
like seventeen and a bit minutes or sixteen maybe if
I'm going real fast, sixteen forty five.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
She's basically harsh. She's like, she's double your machine.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Yeah, and to keep going.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
That's a long swim, not like the little sprinty swim.
So it's like dud, she's just going and going and going.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Yeah, eight hundred meters worth of absolutely a sane, stroking forward.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
She done. Is she going to think? I think, well
four more years?
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Hold on, I did see how old she was here,
and she's definitely like I'm slowing down. Yeah, she's sort
of like women.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
She no, she she's washed up. Did you say washed up?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
I didn't say washed up. I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
She got cancers at what you're worried about.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
When she can have kids.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Oh, she is hoping to compete in twenty twenty eight
if her body allows her to.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Where are they in LA? The next game? Yes?
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Los Angeles are nineteen twenty eight, that's.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Correct, well, nineteen twenty eight, No, twenty twenty eight, twenty
nineteen eight, No.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Are you only one hundred years old?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
We're only six months away from the veinding time travel.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
The next Solember games will be in Los Angeles and
nineteen twenty twenty twenty eight, and I are the next
even just saying twenty twenty eight, it's wild like next
he's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Yuck, yuck.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah, that's not good man, what a machine name?
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Yeah, So today's spect to the day is American swimmer
Kate Katie LADICKI holds the top seventeen times in the
Woman's eight hundred swim.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Play sidiums Flitchborne and Hailey.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Today's spect to the day is about the first ever athlete.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
I must also thank mmm no work herself, Anthony seen
in the Lazy Anthony Will will send.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
In some great facts.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Thank you, Anthony. A regular fact of the Day contributed
Anthony or Anthony.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Um, Anthony, I've got okay, but I may.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Sometimes you don't hit it. Yeah, Anthony, you did, right,
So Anthony Hopkins, well Wikipedia is not working, so that
the game's up. Well, now you're going to have to
come up with your own facts. Look forced your hand.
You have to do your own.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Working.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Let me give this a refresh.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I have to go to before I was working like
Google was working.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Right.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Let's see if the Guinness World Records is working, because
this is a current standing Guinness World Record.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
I love watching the Olympics when they when they break
a work spot.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
On your phone, horn spot on your phone, Guinness World
Records opening. Let me try refreshing Wikipedia.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
I mean, you did have quite a quick chat.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I did what that It's not working?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
No, harm's gonna leligendo.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Yeah. He was the first person to ever get disqualified
at the Olympics for testing positive to a banned substance
or what drug? Okay, that was where I was leading
because I opened what was the sport shooting? Oh yeah,
oh what drugs did they for shooting? Maybe something that
makes exactly like our Turkish dude love him? He said
(34:28):
he was just kind of who said, by the way,
he's just joking about his dog. Oh you did you
read that thing on the person He's like sharing I
want my dog back, and everyone's like give him what
he wants. He's going to have a scenario on our hands,
he said.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Had put a photo of his dog.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, I'm going to say it some kind of what
year was this, nineteen.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Sixty eight at the Mexicos of marijuana.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
I'm going to say some kind of anthetamine to keep
him awake.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I'm going to say marijuana to keep Karma's nerves because
it was nineteen sixty eight. It was beer.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
He drank beer prior to pistol shooting. And it is
a band substance because it relaxes your nerves. Alcoholanol technically
is the band's substance.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Right.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
It lowers your heart.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Rate, so then you can be hand and still a
hand for the pistol shooting.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Oh wow. Also like not great to have a beer
and then hold a gun, no, regardless of what you're
shooting at.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Yeah, that's a sort of a generally agreedable.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Generally we agreed.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
I did.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
I don't have the exact words of the thing, because
I don't know if you guys caught it just before
I said wikipedia crash. Yeah, he won't load all right,
But I went through the history of doping at the
Olympic Games. He was the first and only at that
first one. But then it's kind of like that was
the landslide. I don't know if testing got better or
from there on out. Tell you what decade you reckon
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was the biggest. Nineties Yeah, yeah, nineties was massive for doping.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Everyone's getting jacked up, wanted to be faster, bigger, stronger. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Yeah, and they started busting different sorts of because obviously
after the nineties, when they like, these are the ones
we can catch, then everyone started thinking a bit sneaky creative,
and they started catching a lot of different ones in
the two thousands.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
But the first one ever in today's Factor to the
day is the first person ever disqualified at the Olympics
Olympics for testing positive for a banned substance was a
shooter at the nineteen sixty eight Olympics who had a
couple of.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Beers plays flech.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
Voorn and Haley.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Today's fact of the day is that an engraver.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Was almost primarily responsible for the reboot of the modern Olympics.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
What an engraver because they took a break from the well.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
They finished in like ancient Greece.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Yeah, full stop revitalized in eighteen ninety six, the first
modern Olympics, as it is called the modern Olympics.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Did heat to stand some business had some trophies on
the go. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
This guy, Joseph Struts his name at an early age
yet quite a strong string.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Joseph Strutt Lorner. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
If he's not a strutter, if he's a wanderer, he's
just yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
One of the people. He had to kind of move
around like I'd never call you Vaughn Strutt meander.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Yeah, like people that drive to Suzuki Swift's.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
It is so slow, like it's actually quite swift. Yeah,
it's the chymney, that's the slow poke of them.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
Well, Strut was born to his parents. Elizabeth was his mother,
finally enough who warned his parents and his father time
of the day because it's crap.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
No, no, no, this is just warming up, which is
warman up here.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
He was educated and at the King Edward the sixth
Grammar School, and that is where he kind of developed
a little bit of a taste for engraving, which at
the time engraving wasn't just like on pieces of metal
or signs. It was also how they printed a lot
of books, so that engraved them in mirror and then
use a printing press too. Oh there were the ones
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where you could set them out. But of course when
it came to illustrations, you couldn't use pre cut letters.
And so he became a little bit of an illustrator
with the tool of engraving, which when you think about it,
you want the black lines to stick out, you've got
to engrave everything around it.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
You've almost got to carve it. Yes, So he wanted to.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Write himself a book, so he undertook a massive task
of the book called the Sports and Pastimes of the
People of England, Rule and Domestic Recreations, may games, mummeries, shows, processions,
pageants and pomperus spectacles from the earliest period to the
present time. Illustrated worth one hundred and forty engravings. And
they were his engravings which I have here on my screen,
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all the various recreational tasks.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
This hunting, here's a man hunting a piggy old school illustration.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
That digging a fox out of a fox. Oh, you
probably wouldn't do that nowadays.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
It's a bit rough.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
They are hunting a deer bit rough. This is when
she's showing him food.
Speaker 5 (39:02):
No, she's showing him a hunting Olympics, flashing your you're
fad spot Spot. They're out hunting and it's muddy ground
and she's holding a dress up so it doesn't get
mud on.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Oh I thought she was flashing Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
Here I come the food Flash from New Zealand represented
New Zealand in the food Flash.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
It's haby spring. How would you win the food flash?
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Just the faster you're fastest to flash?
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Okay, So then it talks about I've seen in the
quickest amount of time. I don't know sports developed from hunting,
because of course archery was primarily for hunting and warfare.
But then you know, outside of how to war fair?
So he basically does all these engravings. And a man
at the called doctor William Brooks founded the Winlock Olympic Games.
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And there was these Olympic Games in the eighteen fifty
which was just too in the working class in the
middle of summer to make everybody be like, hey, let's
have some finally steps, some competitions, let's give out some prizes.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
They were like sports stay at school? Yeah, but what
sports are were going to play? And he had a
copy of this book, right, and it was like archery
in and he went through.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
This book ticking a last year food flashing, the food Flash,
and then he had an argument with the people he
was involved with, Yeah, and split off and formed the
Wenlock Olympic Society, who then got in touch with Greece
at a later time and said, you guys are kind
of running a little bit of an Olympics thing, but
you were only allowed to inter if you spoke Greek.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Oh and we'd quite like to get involved. And so
through them they developed it.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
And it's all put down to the fact that this
guy did a book of engravings of all of England's pastimes.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
That got the Olympics back on track.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
I got the Olympics back on track. Oh gosh, incredible.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
I cannot wait to proudly wear the silver fern on
my skirt. Eight. Yeah, you could be flag bearer.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
You could walk in because they always have a few
facts about the flag bearer. We were in the flag
for news and this opening ceremony is four years ago.
Didn't even know this was a sport. But the footh
Flash has become a patient.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Ye never thought she'd make it to the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
And now yeah, one of the world's best.
Speaker 5 (41:11):
She's given us at the taste of things to come,
absolutely incredible, a.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Little bit of a breeze off.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
He was caught up under the skirt. If you went
old by, you were duck.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Get that dark Duck's a kid.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
So today's factor the day is the rebirth of the
modern Olympics.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Can kind of be pinned down to an engraver play
play it's.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
The last Olympics fact of the day.
Speaker 5 (41:38):
And I thought we might discuss medals, okay, because you
I don't know if you ever thought about this, but
the ancient Greek Games, the original Olympics, back of ancient Greece,
they never gave out medals. There was no there was
no medals. We'll talk about how hard it would have
been to make medals, yeah, especially of valuable material. The
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victor received a crown made from olive leaves and was
entitled to have a statue on themself set up at
Mount Olympia at Olympia, but had to like sort that
out themselves if they wanted it.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
You someone to make your statue. Yeah, So at these.
Speaker 5 (42:17):
Athletic festivals, olive leaves at Olympia, a wreath of laurel
at Delphi, and pine trees at i Mathieva.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
And if you won at Nemea, you won Parsley.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
Oh that's why laurels, you know, like the post on yours. Yeah,
you got the laurels around you, like palm door or
like Calm Film Festival.
Speaker 5 (42:40):
Yeah, it was the one because it was like the
same as like a my and exactly we've talked about that.
The origins of the saying don't rest on your laurels
is that you can get the laurel and you're like,
well done done. Yeah, I'm trying to put this on
my head and rest Yeah, but don't rest on your laurels.
And at the first Modern Games, held in Athens and
eighteen ninety six, there was no gold medals silver for
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first place with an olive reath because it was too expensive,
and second place runner ups got a copper based bronze
colored medallion.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Ryme lame O Lamo Lama.
Speaker 5 (43:11):
So there was just just no gold because it wasn't
right before the Modern Olympics. You know, in your mind, gold.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
Is first place. So they get a free cheeseburger for
player of the day. They got a cheeseburger for player
that yeah, which is nice, which is nice.
Speaker 5 (43:24):
So then it was in Paris in nineteen hundred that
they were like, silver's good, but you know, gold's more valuable,
so let's have a gold medal. So then it was
Saint Louis Games in nineteen oh four and London and
nineteen oh eight. Those are the only times that an
actual fully gold medal were given to the Olympic woh wow.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (43:43):
It was straight after that they started making them predominantly
out of silver with a gilded layer of gold rhyme
over the top, the furnace layer of gold because gold
was a very very heavy and be very expected. Those
original gold medals anywhere like a museum, it have to
be a museum would be and they would be worth
so much money. The Paris nineteen hundred medals, where the
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first time that gold popped its head up, were rectangular medals,
because of course now we just figured they're going to
be circular, but different designs. These were rectangular, and Stockholm
in nineteen twelve they were oval medals.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
So it hasn't always been.
Speaker 5 (44:23):
You know, all of the medals, if you added together
all of the gold, silver, and bronze medals won by
the United States, which is the country with the most
medals one in the history of the Olympics, it'd be
worth a million pounds.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
Wow if you mounted down all.
Speaker 5 (44:39):
Those medals, because somebody said at the Paris Olympics the
medals have a five hundred and twenty nine grams yes
of gold in them. But if it was pure gold,
each medal would be forty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
Yeah, am of the Eiffel Tower og in a bit?
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Yeah is that how much?
Speaker 3 (44:55):
That way if you imagined that, they put it around you,
Nique and you're like, goes down.
Speaker 5 (45:00):
So and the current gold medals are ninety five point
five percent silver, three point four percent wrought iron which
was the part of the Eiffel Tower, and one point
one percent gold huh okay, and costs about one hundred
pounds to make from the medals at the wholesale middle price.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
As of now, we'll just go get those gold coins,
chocky gold coins.
Speaker 5 (45:24):
Gold coins, choky gold coins, choky gold coins.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
Chucky gold coin.
Speaker 5 (45:33):
In the chocolate industry make the chocolate better, yeah yeah,
why make a.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
Chocolate coins made a sack of choky gold coins, I
would lose my mind. I get one of a Christmas yeah.
Speaker 5 (45:45):
Otherwise that Australian oily Garrabelly Yeah yeah, no no, no, no, no,
no no no someone worth, Chalky gold Coins, Choppy gold Coin,
chocy gold Coins, Whitaker's Chucky gold Coin map.
Speaker 3 (45:58):
Make it happen. We'll tell everybody about it.
Speaker 5 (46:00):
Today's fact of the day is that at the first
modern Olympics there was no gold medal.
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
Play Splitform and Haley on today's Fact of the Day
of the fortnight, Vaughan limbers up for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Of facts about the Games.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's time for.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Fact of the Day.
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
This week's the theme for Fact of that Day is
the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
The Olympics.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Going on about happening makes sense that happen, Ah, And
I just thought maybe even for for the full length
of the Olympics, there's a lot of facts about the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yeah, we have been around for a while, been around for.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
A long time.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
And that's kind of what today's Fact of the Day
kind of touches on. Because I noticed Greece were like
first out the blocks for the opening ceremony because it's
the thing. But Bengo, Yeah, that the Home of the Olympics.
They come out really high up the order. Do you
remember we went to Athens, didn't we Dusty Athens and
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we went to was.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
That the original? Yeah, you can go to the original
like track.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
The Home of the Olympics from eighteen ninety four. You
had the first modern Olympics and they yeah, they've got
the stadium set up there and it all kind of
happened in this one area. But despite them being the
home of the Olympics, they've never won a Winter Olympics medal.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Oh, Greece, not one.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I've never been to the northern parts of Greece, but
surely there's some mountains with some snow on them, some
cold spots. Yeah, or they would have just had to know,
like New Zealand, like you just have ice skaters and yeah,
well we've got snowy mountains, skiss and stuff. And the
last time that Greece placed in the top ten at
the summer Summer Olympics nineteen oh four. Goodness, since then,
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have never got it all downhill. It's all been downhill,
but not downhill skiing because they've never won and made
it Winter Olympics now. Yeah, so yeah, Greece, they just
and they did not cracked the top ten since nineteen
oh four. They've not even come close. They mostly sit
in the twenties or did not rank that.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I feel a little bit embarrassing. It's like something and
they're not being great at it.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Yeah, it's not even when they had the Athens Olympics.
They didn't have like a bumper year.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
No, they never.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
They had a good year, but not a bumper year.
Didn't give them in the top ten because that was
two thousand and four. That's why there's a great metro
into Athens. Yeah, from the Olympics. I mean, they'll bankrupt
the country and you get a great metro, you get
a great metro utilities. Yeah, the city has afterwards that
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then they've got to maintain that they couldn't even afford
to build in the first place. That's why we need
a few more America's Cumps in World Cups. Well, we
were just saying they were we Yeah, you get nice
new things because I saw a picture of like downtown
Auckland before the America's Cup and it was very different.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
And then again before the Rugby World Cup.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
The Rugby World couple gave us when you'd caught it.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yeah, just seeing if your city is struggling, why not
have a large scale international event that could very well
bankrupt the city. I could live it with a couple
of nice restaurants, yes, and some nice sum plazas.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
A couple of lass is a lovely outdoor areas and
cobblesteins and some plant boxes, some plant of boxes with
some hedges.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Who is responsible for these hedges?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
These Grisellinio are just dying with front and center. So
today's factor the day and the first of the Olympics
themed week is, despite Grease being the home of the Olympics,
I never want a Winter Olympics meddle and having placed
in the top ten since the Summer Olympics of nineteen.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
O four, play and Haley, Today's.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Olympic factor of the day is where does the name
Olympics come from?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Grease? Grease?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Correct? Any furgo limb doing on the skateboard?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah? Perfect?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
And they were the best, they were the best pecks
olymp Olyipex. It is in reference to Mount Olympus. It's
a mountain in Thessaly. So I've looked up that that's got.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Is that the one in Athens? No? No, no, no, no, no,
not with the pantheon at the top. No, that's on
the border of Macedonia in Greece.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Okay, you need to travel with the.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Pantheons and Athens.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
No, that's the Acropolis, the pan in the.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Buildings on the top of them, isn't it? Isn't it
in Rome? The pantheon? Yeah, yeah, I've been ready. I've
never been to Greece.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I've been there. There welis beside.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Beside, I don't know. I thought it was the pantheon Greece.
Can you can we get a map of the you
know what happened? He spent way too much time on
Roman orgies and her Street Greek orgies. That's why I thought, right,
a temple of all gods. The word pantheon derives from
the Greek pantheon, literally a temple of all gods. There
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is a pantheon at the top of that thing, but
it's just what they call a It's.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Not what the world would know as the pantheon, as
in the one.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
And rologized to everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I won't I'm surrounding pantheon.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
You know, one of the many one of pantheons. I mean,
I just mean our warehouse, not dumpy house.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I mean an industrial warehouse. Why are you putting me
in this red polo?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I simply said warehouse, no, no, where ever, and gets
a bargain.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That's what I said.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I said, there are bargains to be had. Everything.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
So the Mountainlympus is in like northern Greece, by Macedonia,
and in the Parthenon.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
People are texting him being like, there's a Parthenon in Greece.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Was he on a path? Someone else said, mum, what's
an orgy? A lot of oranges?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
You have a lot of oranges. Everyone brings an orange.
You have an orange? Roman days, Orange parties, booboo, parting on,
parting On is in Greece, the panth in Rome.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
The past one is in Greece, the Pantheon there everyone knows. Ah.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
So Mount Olympus is so massive and high. It's the
highest mountain peak in Greece. They believe that was the
home of the gods. Yea, they believe it was a
mountain so high I was a constant to the heavens,
such a round start to watch humans as the Zeus
and et cetera. They all live up on Mount Olympus.
So the Olympics were kind of like two things. To
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honor the gods they were before, and be like, look
at how great we have become. Your creations faster than ever,
and they can jump high than before.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Look at our break dancing, Look.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
At our sex flips, horses, yeah, yeah, doing a trot.
Watch a woman with what looks like a crazy rifle,
hold perfectly still and take one breath in and then
on a slower eas house pull the trigger.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
And now the bull's away. That's right.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I was watching a bit of God's So good.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Watch us climb this wall vertically in six seconds. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes yes.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Watch our bottoms as we play beach volleyball.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I'm watching this, I'm watching the ball. Me too, go
over the.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Net, me too? From the Pantheon in Grease. So they
did they did it. And also the thought was that
if you were like on par the gods might be like,
you can come up over here, you can come up here.
Well you could have sn you could have seen wow
to live on Mount Olympus. So it was the Olympics
Mount Olympus. But then Olympiad because you know they say
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it's the seventy fifth.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, Olympiad is a period of four years. Yeah does that?
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Do it?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Every four years? Is right from the get go. It
was like a budget thing and that was expensive, which
you just wait four years because you're already be building
in the next city, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, well you need some downtime.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
But the music festivals that are like, we just need
a couple of years break because they're not coming back.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
We're not coming back, and they're not coming back.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
They're not coming back. If they're gone for that long.
It's not the Olympics, man, They're not coming back four years.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
They just Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
So today's Olympic Factor the Day is the Olympics are
named for Mount Olympus, which was believed to be the
home of the golds in the pantheon in Rome. Well
our pantheon a temple of all gods, you say, Playbourne
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and Hale well love it's Olympics themed Fact of the Day.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
By end, I've been sent a few thinking maybe there's enough.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Facts about the Olympics to do facts about the Olympics,
or the entire length of the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
How many days is the Olympics?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Careful, we might get a bit tired of that.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
How many days.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Days the Olympillas the last two two weeks.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
It's twenty sixth of July to the eleventh of August, So.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Your two weeks, that's easy.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
That just said that. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, I don't know. We'll see, we'll do it. We'll
vibe check on Friday. Okay, there are today's Fact of
the Days.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
There are sixty countries that have never won a single
Summer Olympic.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Medal, and we're just one one this morning.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Yeah, and a further forty countries that have never won
a single gold medal. So we've got we've got lots
of Olympians who have won more medals individually than entire
countries have.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Have you ever held one an Olympic goals.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Someone brought We had them in's studio. Feel half touched
one heavy?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Eric Murray's Yeah, they're heavy. They're real heavy, real nice.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
These ones look. Look, look booty this year.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
This one's look and they get a little box of
sparklers or something or in sense, what are they getting
in that box?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Sense? Little stick? That's not very French, Shannon. Social media is.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
What's in the box that they're giving the Olympics.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Really cute poster, but they can also but they can
also go.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Out in the middle of TV hats and you unfold it,
you put on your wall and you look at it
and you're like.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, and then thirty years later he'd be problematic.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
The Olympians can also though, go to the Olympic village
and buy the posters, so it's kind of not super special, like.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Any Olympia can have it. Those stupid stuff.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Yeah, so cute, but you see the Olympians when they
get handled it, they all look quite confused.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Give me a bouquet in a medal.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
They're real cute, Okay, yes, showing a cartoon version of
Paris or the picture of the big red Eiffel Tower
and the CNN surrounded by sports taking places.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Did you say that the river? Did you see that
the river's already like super polluted? Like what vents have
been canceled because they're like it is gross? Is it's
actually pretty French? Poose?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
So the country with the largest population that has never
won an Olympic medal is give us a clue.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Give us a clue. The country the largest population.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Hasn't always been called this used to have a different name,
is right, African?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
No Asian?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
The thing is that have to win so many medals
to even beyond the per capitol.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Right, I'll just I'll just put you out of misery.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
No, we can play this game until the end of
the show.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Bangladesh seventy one million people and never won an Olympic medal.
They had never had an athlete who qualified for the
Olympics via merit. They just qualified because they were entitled
to had to submit someone. The Rio flag bearer and
the first person from Bangladesh to ever qualify for the
Olympics on merit played Golfah, he represented them at the
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Rio Olympics and he came fifty five out of sixty.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Okay, I didn't realize they were so bad at sports.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
But the cricket teams getting better. Yeah, yeah, it is
always winning some games now. Yeah, but there's times like
and heaps of countries you've heard of Albania never won
a medal.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
What is it about Bangladesh? You know, it's very country. Oh,
they're not good at it because they're not good at
swimming because there's no water around you, it's not there.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Yeah, or they never won a Winter Olympics medal because
it would never have seen.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, it's just like an accessibility thing.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Yeah, but no, it's I believe it's Bangladish is a
very poor nation, so it doesn't have you know, it's
most nations that do well have a little discretionary and
shout a load of track pants though.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Oh that's sadly.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Probably most of the Olympic country's uniforms have been made
in Bangladesh.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, God, everything's made in Bangladesh.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Congo rules, wander Bosnia hurts a gover. Those are some
other countries that medals. But Bangladesh has got the largest
population for a country that's never won.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
So we really dodd.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
We always go on about being on the per capita
table in New Zealand. We're punching regardless, aren't we because
we're just so wet, we're so weirdle and we should
chuck a couple of handball teams or something. Again, there's
a whole lot of sports that I don't even think
even offered. Yeah, what could we do offered?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Up?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I want one of these medals, but I don't want
to work that hard. Like, so, what's a skill that
we've already got going?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Are they still doing clay bird? They call it? Are
you Olympic good or are you just a couple of wines?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And when I say I've done it once in my
life and I didn't suck, is what I mean by
that's good enough?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
That's that is the first step on the road to
Olympic glory. Maybe that's what we need Hens doos Wo'd
be good at those and Britain would beat us at those.
Hell yeah, the travel they traveled in European countries, we
just like catch a ferry to Wahiki and come back
b Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
So today's fact of the day is there are sixty
countries that have never won a single Olympic medal, and
the one with the highest population to have never won one, Bangladesh.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Plays.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Play today's and we continue our fact of the day Olympics. Yeah,
the fact of that about the Olympics. Now, I was
sent this one in from Jess Cunliff. She says, born,
do you know American swim Michael Phelps is the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Goat with twenty three gold medals.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
If he was a country, he would be fortieth in
the all time rankings for gold medals. Well, has it
got just we were speaking yesterday some countries don't even
have a single medal. No, then that's what spurred jest
to say, if he was a country, Michael Phelps would
be the fortieth highest ranking country of all time, including
all the modern Olympics.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Isn't that insane?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah? They is pretty amazing.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Twenty three gold and that's just in the gold medals.
He's also got three silver and two bronze. Went across
five games. He's got how many middles and only three
of them are silver?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Yeah, and only two of them are bronze?
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Twenty six, twenty eight middles and twenty three of those
gold medals.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Do you remember when it was a trend to try
to eat Michael phelps diet. Yes, I was just thinking that.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
They'd always say here's what he eats in a day,
and it was like eight calories, yeah, thousand calories?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Was it between eight thousand and ten thousand calories a day?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
And it wasn't even like healthily distributed calories. Wasn't he
smashing like whole pizzas?
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
He was just turning it eight to ten thousand calories
a day. To put a perspective, like most people would
eat adults would be like two thousands.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
They have two thousand, right, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Where it would go, Like I'd just be like constantly,
he'd get up early, so'd have a longer day.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Yeah, he'd be training a lot, so you'd be burning. Yeah,
he'd still be.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Oh yeah, oh my god poops on cal sized poops.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah, I reckoned, purpose shot him at the pedit. I reckon,
but toilet can't handle a lot of meat in it.
And you know that floating around. She's amazing. Who's come
close to her? No one, but I'm on it. Oh,
because I was including she's got world records.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Sorry, yeah, but someone. There's not as many gymnasts he
was doing one hundred meters, fifty meters, two hundred meters,
four hundred meters. Midley's like, there's so many swimming events
only thinks he could win. He just dominated, and that's
why people I've looked up like Usain Bolt.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
He was like the fastest man alive and like everybody.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Knew who he was.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, but he would only run the one hundred.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
There's not as many running events as there were. There's
one hundred meter sprints, but he couldn't turn that into hurdles.
He'd do part of the four by one hundred relay,
which he won medals for as well, so that was
also dependent on three other people.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Felts was just this.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Unit second place for Korea medals as a Soviet gymnast.
Lolisa Latania, the winner of eighteen meddle. She was back
in the day, right, Oh, yes, the fifties and sixties,
all like four disciplines.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
And then there's a Norwegian that's won fifteen medals and
various cross country skiing and winterlymps with fifteen medals. But
isn't that insane? He's just miles a heeare leagues ahead
of everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
What he's literally a walking upside down triangle the shoulders
that I haven't seen him lately.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
I mean he's probably at these Olympics right because he's
so he'll be.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
He's blown out, but toned down from a ten thousand
calorie diet back to a two thousand.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Literally, people like stretched and flabby, like fill me up. Yeah,
surely it's still.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Swim right, like for fun.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I don't want to see a pot. We got to
get another, got to get another hobby.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
So today's back today is that thanks to Jess who's
submitted that if Shannon just said.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
His son one his first swim at a primary school,
Oh that's cute. Oh my god, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
But yeah, imagine the swimming sports and they're like a
lane three, little Joey phelps and you won't even bother coming.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
This is why I was thinking about it because Michael
Phelps some gave Snoop Dogg a swimming lesson in France
just the other day. Snoop Dogg is so skinny, so skinny. Yeah, yeah,
they jumped into a pool and did like a fun
like social media thing. Is really like a high is
the face of this? Why he's the full face of
the Olympic because he's the man. He's got a.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Pin and it's him smoking a joint and blowing the
Olympic rings.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Snoop deal double gm.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
And it's an official Olympics.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Is he even French? Forshizzle?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Of course he's French. What are you talking about it?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Of course famous French rapper from the LBC Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Forshizzle? Where Shizzle?
Speaker 5 (18:51):
So Today's fact to today Thanks the Jest, is that
if Michael Phelps is his own country had be the
fortieth most successful country for a gold medal haul in.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
His play and Haley.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Today's fact of the Day tell Us comes off the
back of yesterday's Fact of the Day when Cooper text
messaged in saying what did Coops say?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Coops?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
One of the scoops.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Can you please investigate the factor that I have someone
has ever gone to the same Olympics for two more
different sports like swimming and running.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Please, my gosh, overachiever.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I did a little bit of Google, and one thing
about the Olympics is that it is meticulously recorded.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yes, it is all the details, all the record.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
There is a Wikipedia page called list of athletes who
competed in multiple sports at the Summer Olympic Games.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
So you're not including I did the one hundred meters
and the two.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Hundred, so I did some investigation into who had won
medals for it. But to be honest, I and this
might be a controversial take, and I believe if you
go for road cycling but also participate in track cycling,
that's just cycling.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, you want, we want different sports, different sports.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
However, I would put diving, swimming, and water polos three different,
completely completely different. The pool is the only consistent there, Yeah,
because the most common one.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Was road cyclists that also did.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Some track cycling at the earlier Olympics, because there were
two different disciplines but different super specialized like they are now. Yeah,
you know it probably was on an old penny Farthing
for example, and they smoked a pipe as they were
doing it, and they had to tip their peaky blinder
to everybody they who every.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Time they went past someone coming past called bab, called dab.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
And there were people who won a different swimming but
I'm kind of like swimming same butterfly and freestyle, yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I mean completely different, yeah, but still the same same. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
But there are some ones who went and there's actually
such a massive list of them.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Coops.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
I was thinking I might just tell you about New Zealanders.
I am, people who have done extremely well on one
medals in multiple different events. Yeah, that is like a
thousand people that have been for more than one. But
as I say, most of them road cycling or some
form of swimming. New Zealanders again skip that the most
all cycling cycling, cycling cycling, Well, I mean I'm not
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taking anything away from you. You can cycle significantly better than me.
Well done two disciplines.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
But cycling cycling, I'm going on an e bik.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Remember Steve Ferguson, Yeah from Fergs Kayaks, Yes, yeah, he
went to onknew he went for canoeing. Yeah, Steve Ferguson
and Ian who were they were the duos and they
said the front ways canoeing and they were unbeatable. They
won gold medals and I remember as a child it
was very, very exciting.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
But Steve Ferguson.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Also went to the Olympics for swimming.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Huh how about them? Okay, well that does that take
your box? That takes my box?
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Both water involved, but two very different sports. But all
the other ones that have been have been cyclists that
have done road cycling and track cycling and mountain bike.
My mountain biking and road cycling as well. But then
there's a list of athletes that did multiple events. Vigo
(22:16):
Jensen is from Denmark. He did weightlifting, sports, shooting, gymnastics, oh.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
My god, and track and field land.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
So he did.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
But I will say the Olympics he went to were
in the early nineteen hundreds where if you went it
was hard to get there. You kind of did as
much as you could when you got there, right. Also
the case with Carl Schumann, who was a German athlete
and competed at the German Games. He did gymnastics and
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wrestling and weightlifting. Well, he just loved the likerate didn't
the feats of stream yeah, yeah, anida mustache like an
old school strong man too.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
There's a guy called Lorcious and Elliott who was British
and he.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Competed in weightlifting and he was.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Also a bit of a bodybuilder, bit of any spinky,
but of course bodybuilding is in an the Olympic sport,
so he went to the Olympics for a few different
sports as well, mostly feats of strength, but weightlifting and
track and field and two two females have.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Competed at multiple sports.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Sheila was a swimmer, Sheila great name for her great.
She also did the triathlon and the four x two
hundred meter running Wow and Truce clapped work as the
final from the Netherlands.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
She went to the Early Games as well.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
She did the four by one hundred meter swimming ree
freestyle and she also did diving at the three meter
and ten meter platforms.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
We've had a couple of texts about the Paralympics. Dylan
Orcott went to the Olympics. At the Paralympics for wheelchair
basketball and tennis medals and bars. Wow, and look up
Eve Rimmer, she's a para Olympian. Even remember, I can't
remember what sports she did, right, multiple parallel, multiple sports.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yeah, very very clever.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Always makes you feel like so many different things, you know, mul.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Multi festa. I hope that answers your question. Yeah, people
can google stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
So me having to think of something to do on
Friday sent me in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
And so next week, you know, we're staying with the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
It's two weeks long.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I reckon another week of fact that the days about
the Olympics. I like it a lot, quite fascinating today
in the Olympics, more than one.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Sports flitchborne and hapect to the day.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
My daughter told me this, So I was like, that's
a good one.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Because fact of the day, I'm still how the kids
suggest back to the days and I'm like, yeah, my kids,
my geniuses.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I've got a real future in this fat business. Apparently
having a.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Secon day to day.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
I've just been told and I told a that she's
been playing never allowed to sick day. I think once
like either like a limb hanging off like my just
just by his kingdom and I go to school. I
had the zombie virus. Yeah, and made me go to school.
But that was great because gosh, there were.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Some children, and I ate their brains.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, yeah, I'm delicious. The Olympic rings.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
The Olympic rings, right, the Olympic rings.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
There's five of them, Oh my god, really it's five
of them, and they represent the five continents that participate in.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
The I don't think I knew that.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I didn't know that, because then doesn't have to compete.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
We've got a couple of idiots and studio. Yeah, does
antarget can compete? No, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
What are you looking in a mirror? What you see?
This couple of idiots in studio? I said, what are
you looking in a mirror?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (25:57):
So the five continents that compete Africa the Americas. Now
that's where they'll get you because technically, if you're counting continents,
you count North America and Southern America has two different continents. Yeah,
but they counted them as one, the Americans, because then
that that along with Antarctica, you got seven. Yeah, he's
cutting his key with for it and rings again, Olympic rings.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
That's pretty cute. Better be the same.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
So Africa, the America, is Asia, Europe and Oceania. Why
are they the colors? They are black? Green, red? Is
Is it a pride thing.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
It's not a pride thing.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
It's not amps.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Now. That's so it's the right way up to me,
because if you've done that from your perspective, you put
three on the bottom of toil.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
And bottoms. Okay, you can pick them.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Anyone does.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
So the colors apparently they needed they had five rings. Yeah,
they picked the five most popular flag colors blue and
be like, our flag is represented there?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
What is it is? The red, blue, yellow, green, black? Yep? Yeah, yeah,
you're right, yep.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
The reason they're interlocked they never used to be the
first every ones. They weren't interlocked. They were just beside
each other. But then the interlock represents they get flung away.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
When they were just all, oh, should we lost another ring? People,
it was like a regular game.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
As her line, is it anyway up there?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
We should connect them.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
So we connected them because that represented the unity and
the meeting of athletes from around the world at the
Olympic Games.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
And we all know what goes on in the village unity.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
And they should always be displayed on a white background. Okay,
And that's what I was told about the Olympic rings. Okay, yeah, okay,
So today's back to the Day is. There's five Olympic rings,
each ring representing a continent that takes part in the Olympics,
and the colors were chosen because they were the most
popular colors of.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Flags at the time of a stepish.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Play play today's fact the day is about American swimmer
Kadie Lidecki.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Have you heard of her?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Lideki just won. Has she wont to fly like a
country mile?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
And she's the Is she eight hundred meter freestyle one
hundred free style? Yes?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yes, yes, you know how you do with the swimming.
It's like there's that line and it goes like booooo
and you're like, which country came first? It was like boop.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Yeah, it was like wait wait, So she is at
her fourth Olympic Games. She has just won her ninth
gold medal and her fourteenth medal overall, meaning that she
is tied for the most successful female athlete going by medals. Yeah,
with Larissa Latinina, the Soviet gymnast who won nine golds
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in the fifties and sixties.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
It was a Ford rolling her.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yeah yeah, but la pants around.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Seeing the comparison of gymnastics like the black and white
coverage of gymnastics in like the sixties versus what it
is now.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Like spin on the floor and whatnot.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
And then some mom by was like and then it's
also like my parents buying a house in nineteen seventy
eight and me trying to buy a house and twenty
twenty four.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Good stuff.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
The memes have been good. Yeah, top, top tier, top memes. Well,
here's the fact about Katie Ladecci. She actually holds the
top eighteen times and the eight hundred meter freestyle swimming
for women.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Oh why would you bother? For Bes, No eighteen.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Times in history belonged to one woman.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
So that's why no one's coming even close to her.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Yeah. Wow, So she was for this this year in
February she was beaten for the first time and the
eight hundred since twenty ten. She was beaten by a
Canadian swimmer for some reason, didn't swim the eight hundred
at the summer Macintosh didn't swim the eight hundred. Maybe
her arms fell off, or maybe it'd be a real shame.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
So she's got that.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
She's got the eighteenth fastest time in history. Out of
the top twenty five times, Ladecki has twenty four of them. Wow,
she's just one ten times, nineteen of the top twenty times,
as that Macintosh comes into eighteenth and twenty four of
the top twenty five times when it comes to the
eight hundred meters srea and that's why she lost that
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one range. She was like, I want to even bother.
I'm going to win that go on and then she's like,
oh my god, that Canadian. Yeah okay, my next time,
I guess why is she so fast?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
She's just found her event. Yeah, she and she just
nails it. Eight hundred meters is the perfect distance for her.
It's late that time.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Do you remember when I had that arcade machine at
work and I just really concentrated on Donkey Kong, really
nailed in my and I had all top ten schools
on Donkey Kong. Only Donkey Kong was at the Olympics.
You have found your sports. So what's what's in record
time for doing eight hundred meters eight minutes, four seconds
and for a second. Yeah, wow, okay, so that's quite Yeah,
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that's a long swim. So she seems to have taked
in twenty sixteen. I heard two top times are in
twenty sixteen. This guy that can did you hear that. Yeah,
she's pegged.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Over the hill. She's last year.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Last year she got her third best time, twenty eighteen
was her fourth best.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Twenty fifteen was her fifth best.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
When I swim like a kilometer, it will take me
like seventeen and a bit minutes or sixteen maybe if
I'm going real fast, sixteen forty five.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
She's basically harsh. She's like, she's double your machine.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Yeah, and to keep going.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
That's a long swim, not like the little sprinty swim.
So it's like dud, she's just going and going and going.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Yeah, eight hundred meters worth of absolutely a sane, stroking forward.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
She done. Is she going to think? I think, well
four more years?
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Hold on, I did see how old she was here,
and she's definitely like I'm slowing down. Yeah, she's sort
of like women.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
She no, she she's washed up. Did you say washed up?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
I didn't say washed up. I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
She got cancers at what you're worried about.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
When she can have kids.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Oh, she is hoping to compete in twenty twenty eight
if her body allows her to.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Where are they in LA? The next game? Yes?
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Los Angeles are nineteen twenty eight, that's.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Correct, well, nineteen twenty eight, No, twenty twenty eight, twenty
nineteen eight, No.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Are you only one hundred years old?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
We're only six months away from the veinding time travel.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
The next Solember games will be in Los Angeles and
nineteen twenty twenty twenty eight, and I are the next
even just saying twenty twenty eight, it's wild like next
he's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Yuck, yuck.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah, that's not good man, what a machine name?
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Yeah, So today's spect to the day is American swimmer
Kate Katie LADICKI holds the top seventeen times in the
Woman's eight hundred swim.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Play sidiums Flitchborne and Hailey.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Today's spect to the day is about the first ever athlete.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
I must also thank mmm no work herself, Anthony seen
in the Lazy Anthony Will will send.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
In some great facts.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Thank you, Anthony. A regular fact of the Day contributed
Anthony or Anthony.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Um, Anthony, I've got okay, but I may.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Sometimes you don't hit it. Yeah, Anthony, you did, right,
So Anthony Hopkins, well Wikipedia is not working, so that
the game's up. Well, now you're going to have to
come up with your own facts. Look forced your hand.
You have to do your own.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Working.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Let me give this a refresh.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I have to go to before I was working like
Google was working.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Right.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Let's see if the Guinness World Records is working, because
this is a current standing Guinness World Record.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
I love watching the Olympics when they when they break
a work spot.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
On your phone, horn spot on your phone, Guinness World
Records opening. Let me try refreshing Wikipedia.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
I mean, you did have quite a quick chat.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I did what that It's not working?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
No, harm's gonna leligendo.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Yeah. He was the first person to ever get disqualified
at the Olympics for testing positive to a banned substance
or what drug? Okay, that was where I was leading
because I opened what was the sport shooting? Oh yeah,
oh what drugs did they for shooting? Maybe something that
makes exactly like our Turkish dude love him? He said
(34:28):
he was just kind of who said, by the way,
he's just joking about his dog. Oh you did you
read that thing on the person He's like sharing I
want my dog back, and everyone's like give him what
he wants. He's going to have a scenario on our hands,
he said.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Had put a photo of his dog.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, I'm going to say it some kind of what
year was this, nineteen.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Sixty eight at the Mexicos of marijuana.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
I'm going to say some kind of anthetamine to keep
him awake.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I'm going to say marijuana to keep Karma's nerves because
it was nineteen sixty eight. It was beer.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
He drank beer prior to pistol shooting. And it is
a band substance because it relaxes your nerves. Alcoholanol technically
is the band's substance.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Right.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
It lowers your heart.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Rate, so then you can be hand and still a
hand for the pistol shooting.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Oh wow. Also like not great to have a beer
and then hold a gun, no, regardless of what you're
shooting at.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Yeah, that's a sort of a generally agreedable.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Generally we agreed.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
I did.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
I don't have the exact words of the thing, because
I don't know if you guys caught it just before
I said wikipedia crash. Yeah, he won't load all right,
But I went through the history of doping at the
Olympic Games. He was the first and only at that
first one. But then it's kind of like that was
the landslide. I don't know if testing got better or
from there on out. Tell you what decade you reckon
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was the biggest. Nineties Yeah, yeah, nineties was massive for doping.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Everyone's getting jacked up, wanted to be faster, bigger, stronger. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Yeah, and they started busting different sorts of because obviously
after the nineties, when they like, these are the ones
we can catch, then everyone started thinking a bit sneaky creative,
and they started catching a lot of different ones in
the two thousands.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
But the first one ever in today's Factor to the
day is the first person ever disqualified at the Olympics
Olympics for testing positive for a banned substance was a
shooter at the nineteen sixty eight Olympics who had a
couple of.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Beers plays flech.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
Voorn and Haley.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Today's fact of the day is that an engraver.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Was almost primarily responsible for the reboot of the modern Olympics.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
What an engraver because they took a break from the well.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
They finished in like ancient Greece.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Yeah, full stop revitalized in eighteen ninety six, the first
modern Olympics, as it is called the modern Olympics.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Did heat to stand some business had some trophies on
the go. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
This guy, Joseph Struts his name at an early age
yet quite a strong string.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Joseph Strutt Lorner. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
If he's not a strutter, if he's a wanderer, he's
just yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
One of the people. He had to kind of move
around like I'd never call you Vaughn Strutt meander.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Yeah, like people that drive to Suzuki Swift's.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
It is so slow, like it's actually quite swift. Yeah,
it's the chymney, that's the slow poke of them.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
Well, Strut was born to his parents. Elizabeth was his mother,
finally enough who warned his parents and his father time
of the day because it's crap.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
No, no, no, this is just warming up, which is
warman up here.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
He was educated and at the King Edward the sixth
Grammar School, and that is where he kind of developed
a little bit of a taste for engraving, which at
the time engraving wasn't just like on pieces of metal
or signs. It was also how they printed a lot
of books, so that engraved them in mirror and then
use a printing press too. Oh there were the ones
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where you could set them out. But of course when
it came to illustrations, you couldn't use pre cut letters.
And so he became a little bit of an illustrator
with the tool of engraving, which when you think about it,
you want the black lines to stick out, you've got
to engrave everything around it.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
You've almost got to carve it. Yes, So he wanted to.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Write himself a book, so he undertook a massive task
of the book called the Sports and Pastimes of the
People of England, Rule and Domestic Recreations, may games, mummeries, shows, processions,
pageants and pomperus spectacles from the earliest period to the
present time. Illustrated worth one hundred and forty engravings. And
they were his engravings which I have here on my screen,
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all the various recreational tasks.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
This hunting, here's a man hunting a piggy old school illustration.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
That digging a fox out of a fox. Oh, you
probably wouldn't do that nowadays.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
It's a bit rough.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
They are hunting a deer bit rough. This is when
she's showing him food.
Speaker 5 (39:02):
No, she's showing him a hunting Olympics, flashing your you're
fad spot Spot. They're out hunting and it's muddy ground
and she's holding a dress up so it doesn't get
mud on.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Oh I thought she was flashing Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
Here I come the food Flash from New Zealand represented
New Zealand in the food Flash.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
It's haby spring. How would you win the food flash?
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Just the faster you're fastest to flash?
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Okay, So then it talks about I've seen in the
quickest amount of time. I don't know sports developed from hunting,
because of course archery was primarily for hunting and warfare.
But then you know, outside of how to war fair?
So he basically does all these engravings. And a man
at the called doctor William Brooks founded the Winlock Olympic Games.
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And there was these Olympic Games in the eighteen fifty
which was just too in the working class in the
middle of summer to make everybody be like, hey, let's
have some finally steps, some competitions, let's give out some prizes.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
They were like sports stay at school? Yeah, but what
sports are were going to play? And he had a
copy of this book, right, and it was like archery
in and he went through.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
This book ticking a last year food flashing, the food Flash,
and then he had an argument with the people he
was involved with, Yeah, and split off and formed the
Wenlock Olympic Society, who then got in touch with Greece
at a later time and said, you guys are kind
of running a little bit of an Olympics thing, but
you were only allowed to inter if you spoke Greek.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Oh and we'd quite like to get involved. And so
through them they developed it.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
And it's all put down to the fact that this
guy did a book of engravings of all of England's pastimes.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
That got the Olympics back on track.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
I got the Olympics back on track. Oh gosh, incredible.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
I cannot wait to proudly wear the silver fern on
my skirt. Eight. Yeah, you could be flag bearer.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
You could walk in because they always have a few
facts about the flag bearer. We were in the flag
for news and this opening ceremony is four years ago.
Didn't even know this was a sport. But the footh
Flash has become a patient.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Ye never thought she'd make it to the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
And now yeah, one of the world's best.
Speaker 5 (41:11):
She's given us at the taste of things to come,
absolutely incredible, a.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Little bit of a breeze off.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
He was caught up under the skirt. If you went
old by, you were duck.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Get that dark Duck's a kid.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
So today's factor the day is the rebirth of the
modern Olympics.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Can kind of be pinned down to an engraver play
play it's.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
The last Olympics fact of the day.
Speaker 5 (41:38):
And I thought we might discuss medals, okay, because you
I don't know if you ever thought about this, but
the ancient Greek Games, the original Olympics, back of ancient Greece,
they never gave out medals. There was no there was
no medals. We'll talk about how hard it would have
been to make medals, yeah, especially of valuable material. The
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victor received a crown made from olive leaves and was
entitled to have a statue on themself set up at
Mount Olympia at Olympia, but had to like sort that
out themselves if they wanted it.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
You someone to make your statue. Yeah, So at these.
Speaker 5 (42:17):
Athletic festivals, olive leaves at Olympia, a wreath of laurel
at Delphi, and pine trees at i Mathieva.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
And if you won at Nemea, you won Parsley.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
Oh that's why laurels, you know, like the post on yours. Yeah,
you got the laurels around you, like palm door or
like Calm Film Festival.
Speaker 5 (42:40):
Yeah, it was the one because it was like the
same as like a my and exactly we've talked about that.
The origins of the saying don't rest on your laurels
is that you can get the laurel and you're like,
well done done. Yeah, I'm trying to put this on
my head and rest Yeah, but don't rest on your laurels.
And at the first Modern Games, held in Athens and
eighteen ninety six, there was no gold medals silver for
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first place with an olive reath because it was too expensive,
and second place runner ups got a copper based bronze
colored medallion.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Ryme lame O Lamo Lama.
Speaker 5 (43:11):
So there was just just no gold because it wasn't
right before the Modern Olympics. You know, in your mind, gold.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
Is first place. So they get a free cheeseburger for
player of the day. They got a cheeseburger for player
that yeah, which is nice, which is nice.
Speaker 5 (43:24):
So then it was in Paris in nineteen hundred that
they were like, silver's good, but you know, gold's more valuable,
so let's have a gold medal. So then it was
Saint Louis Games in nineteen oh four and London and
nineteen oh eight. Those are the only times that an
actual fully gold medal were given to the Olympic woh wow.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (43:43):
It was straight after that they started making them predominantly
out of silver with a gilded layer of gold rhyme
over the top, the furnace layer of gold because gold
was a very very heavy and be very expected. Those
original gold medals anywhere like a museum, it have to
be a museum would be and they would be worth
so much money. The Paris nineteen hundred medals, where the
(44:05):
first time that gold popped its head up, were rectangular medals,
because of course now we just figured they're going to
be circular, but different designs. These were rectangular, and Stockholm
in nineteen twelve they were oval medals.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
So it hasn't always been.
Speaker 5 (44:23):
You know, all of the medals, if you added together
all of the gold, silver, and bronze medals won by
the United States, which is the country with the most
medals one in the history of the Olympics, it'd be
worth a million pounds.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
Wow if you mounted down all.
Speaker 5 (44:39):
Those medals, because somebody said at the Paris Olympics the
medals have a five hundred and twenty nine grams yes
of gold in them. But if it was pure gold,
each medal would be forty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
Yeah, am of the Eiffel Tower og in a bit?
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Yeah is that how much?
Speaker 3 (44:55):
That way if you imagined that, they put it around you,
Nique and you're like, goes down.
Speaker 5 (45:00):
So and the current gold medals are ninety five point
five percent silver, three point four percent wrought iron which
was the part of the Eiffel Tower, and one point
one percent gold huh okay, and costs about one hundred
pounds to make from the medals at the wholesale middle price.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
As of now, we'll just go get those gold coins,
chocky gold coins.
Speaker 5 (45:24):
Gold coins, choky gold coins, choky gold coins.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
Chucky gold coin.
Speaker 5 (45:33):
In the chocolate industry make the chocolate better, yeah yeah,
why make a.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
Chocolate coins made a sack of choky gold coins, I
would lose my mind. I get one of a Christmas yeah.
Speaker 5 (45:45):
Otherwise that Australian oily Garrabelly Yeah yeah, no no, no, no, no,
no no no someone worth, Chalky gold Coins, Choppy gold Coin,
chocy gold Coins, Whitaker's Chucky gold Coin map.
Speaker 3 (45:58):
Make it happen. We'll tell everybody about it.
Speaker 5 (46:00):
Today's fact of the day is that at the first
modern Olympics there was no gold medal.
Speaker 4 (46:06):
Fact of the day, day day day day Do do
do do do do do do do do do do
do do do do do do be serious.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Be a grown up.
Speaker 5 (46:21):
Please chocky coin, Chocky gold coins, Choky gold good Shivers.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
Guys, ten out of ten podcasts that one year. I
think two of us were teen out of ten and
one of us wasn't or who was that? Which one?
We'll just leave there. We'll just leave that there. Well,
if you enjoyed today's podcast, give us a rainning and review.
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Please do this is a bad one.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Don't know, don't bother?
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Yeah no, don't don't bother.
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