It’s Day 4 of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, and the heat is on–literally! Broiling temps outside meant it was an indoors day for us–but did we still sweat through our clothes? Of course!
Jill was at badminton for group play, then squeezed into the top of the press tribune for the women’s team artistic gymnastics final, where she had to perform some of her own gymnastics just to watch the competition. Meanwhile, Alison went to table tennis and volleyball, where she had a TBach sighting.
We run down the day’s competition, which includes:
- Archery
- Artistic Gymnastics
- Basketball
- 3X3
- Beach Volleyball
- BMX Freestyle
- Canoe Slalom
- Fencing
- Football
- Handball
- Hockey
- Judo
- Rowing
- Rugby Sevens
- Sailing
- Shooting
- Skateboarding
- Surfing
- Swimming
- Table Tennis
- Tennis
- Volleyball
- Water Polo
Plus, another installment of everyone’s new favorite segment: Toilet Talk.
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Paris 2024 Day 4
Jill: Bonjour, and welcome to day four of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Keep the Flame Alive, the podcast for fans of the Olympics and Paralympics. I am your host, Jill Jaracz, coming to you from the main press center here at Paris 2024. And I’m joined as always by my lovely co host Alison Brown. Alison, bonjour!
How are you?
Alison: Bonjour! I’m realizing that yesterday I talked about my fat fingers. And now I’m looking at my feet, and they are, they are looking kind of fat.
Jill: Well, you know, we talked about the heat potentially being a problem. Oh, it was a hot day today. Today was a tough one. So it was an indoor day for us and I’m
Alison: still just so sweaty.
Well, as we’ll talk about, just because the event is indoors doesn’t mean that there’s not a 25 minute walk. Oh, that’s true too. To the tram after you walk through the entire stadium.
Jill: Oh, good. I’m looking forward to this. We did get some sleep last night, so we’re feeling better.
Alison: Not enough. Maybe you feel better.
I don’t.
Jill: Well, I got close to seven, I think. We also had a, uh, a fire alarm because someone in our hotel floor decided to smoke in their room and set off the smoke, the fire alarm. So it was just like, What do we do? I didn’t even know. I thought it was outside first because I figured, oh, in our neighborhood, there’s alarms.
Alison: There’s alarms going off all the time.
Jill: But no, it was our hotel and we started running for the I didn’t run for
Alison: anything. The only thing I ran for was I was trying to find a clean bra to put on. Because I am not coming out of that room.
Jill: I hear ya. But we’re all okay, we got a little more sleep. I felt a little better, a little more refreshed than it was, so that was good. Uh, why don’t we just begin the baguette?
If you are here in Paris, there is going to be a pop up pin trading event on Friday the 2nd from 11 a. m. to 7 p. m. It will be at the Coke pop up store near Invalides that I talked about yesterday, or the other day when Claire was on. And, uh, you can trade pins also, or you’ll be able to trade pins there.
There’s going to be probably some podcasters. with pins there, at least one of us.
Alison: Possibly.
Jill: Possibly. Because we do have pins to trade. And, uh, you can, if you’re into pin trading, you can also trade them at the French Pin Trading Collectors Group House, which is a stand alone red building at the Parc de Vallette, across from Club France.
They are open 10 to 6 daily. other follow up file. I forgot to mention yesterday the very nice volunteers, cause we, we’ve kind of ragged on the volunteers.
Alison: Oh, we have more.
Jill: We’re gonna, we’re gonna keep ragging on the volunteers, but I did have a very nice one at the bus stop at Chantimars after I got done with judo and I found the bus stop.
With like, no problem. That was the amazing thing. And I raised my hands in victory and the, the volunteer looked at me and said, here, please take my folding chair. You look exhausted and I was exhausted. That was very sweet. It was very, very sweet of her. Um, The other shout out to a volunteer is one of the badminton volunteers was wiping down the press tribune tables at badminton today.
Alison: Thank you.
Jill: I appreciated that because I can get a little grungy.
Alison: A little?
Jill: Yeah. Have you
Alison: seen some of these people sitting at the press table? Oh,
Jill: I’ve smelled them too. I
Alison: mean, and, and, For me, I’m not the only one who has to eat at the press table. So even if you’re, you try to be neat, it’s nice to have them cleaned off.
Jill: That’s right. That’s right. Okay. Uh, anything else cultural that you had today?
Alison: Not that was good cultural. I had a lot of bad cultural experiences today.
Jill: What happened? Just,
Alison: I had a lot of people around me today.
Jill: Mm. Thank you. I’m sorry to hear that. It’s okay. Today I did go, you know, because, what I worry about is when we go home, and people ask us, so what did you do in France?
What did you eat? And we’ve eaten stadium food.
Alison: So, To be fair, I did find a lovely little sandwich shop in the Palais de Congres and they’re always the loveliest girls. I’m now a regular because I’ve been there three days in a row and she said, Oh, bonjour, what are you having today? And they have the same things every day, but I’m going through their menu.
So I have not had the same things every day.
Jill: That’s very good. I did have a sandwich from there. I have twice, I’ve gotten the giant, giant macarons and I keep getting them. The other day I bought two. Because, because the other, the other issue is, we will not know necessarily what time of day it is, and you forget that you, if you don’t eat dinner in a dinner hour, you aren’t eaten that night, and then we’re up until like two or three in the morning, getting work done, and we get back to the night.
the press center and everything is closed. And we have not eaten dinner. And we have no snacks either. That’s Yeah, I don’t think
Alison: we’ve eaten dinner since we went out to dinner with, uh, Ben Wanderer. Yeah, with Ben from Off the Podium last week.
Jill: And, uh, so that’s it. Today, I, I did have a stadium hot dog, my first stadium hot dog at Badminton.
How is a French hot dog? Is it
Alison: a, what is it? No, Chaud is cold. No, Chaud is hot.
Jill: It was Chaud.
Alison: So shou jian.
Jill: No, it was boof. It was a boof hot dog. Let me, I have to look at the picture of the description. And then I got yelled at for taking a picture. Because I wanted to remember because there was stuff on it that I didn’t know what it was.
It was tasty. But I didn’t know what it was. And so the hot dog I had was hot dog boof It was a pan brioche. It was a New England style hot dog bun.
Alison: Oh, did they steam the bun?
Jill: I don’t know if they steamed the bun. It was slid up the top. And I have an aversion to that because I grew up where we have real hot dog buns slid on the side.
Um, and then it had, uh, sauerkraut? That’s what that was? Far out.
Alison: It was French sauerkraut.
Jill: I guess so. Beef knack. I don’t know what that is. knock the boof, uh, which is French. Fried onions and chimichurri. That’s a strange. I know. And it did have, it had, uh, so the fried onions were on top, like bacon bits. I’m pretty sure that was a fried onions or it could have been the beef neck.
I don’t know. You don’t know what you’re eating. I don’t know. And, and no pictures, please. And then I know there was ketchup and mustard in there as well. So that was a treat. I don’t know. Not really.
Alison: It was a dining culinary experience. And,
Jill: and then when I went from badminton to artistic gymnastics near the metro center, the metro station, I saw a boulangerie and I said, I’m going in and buying stuff to take with me to import and got a
Alison: You had a pain de chocolat, I thought.
Jill: Yeah, I did. That was one of the many things I got, because it was just like, uh, you gotta get some food, because you’re gonna eat. So I got a, like, a kebab panini thing. Oh, nice. Kebab in a tortilla, and they, they, uh, How many, wait, how many ethnicities did you have in that meal? I have no idea.
Alison: A kebab panini.
Jill: Tortilla panini. It was a kebab wrap and then they heated it up and then I thought, ooh chicken, and then I was on the train for a while and then it was like, well, but it’s like 95 degrees outside so it stayed warm. Still warm when I got to Art Gymnastics. And I got a pound of Chocolat, which got flattened somehow inside my bag.
It was like a little
Alison: slip of a
Jill: pound
Alison: of Chocolat.
Jill: It was, and there’s just greasy bags everywhere. And then I had to cross the street to get to the metro stop and I saw another different boulangerie. I went, oh, let me get some more bread. So I got a baguette and then I got a cookie and a brownie. No,
Alison: it’s not a cookie.
Jill: Is that what they called it? No, it was a, I got a baguette and then I got a cookie. A chocolate chip cookie. Is that
Alison: really what they called it? It wasn’t a biscuit, it was really a cookie? Well,
Jill: I think, you know, She was talking to me in English. Oh, okay. So maybe, I forgot biscuit, to be quite honest. As a word, I should have remembered that.
And then, uh, a brownie. Which was, you know, close enough. Because I was really shocked to see that. And I haven’t eaten the brownie yet. I know it is a gloppy mess in that bag. It is a brownie. That’s right. So I’ve been munching on bread for dinner. And then we, the Paris Media Center had a lovely little cocktail party.
Alison: Yes. So my dinner tonight was hors d’oeuvres from the Paris Media Center. Thank you. Otherwise there would have been no dinner.
Jill: I appreciate that. And, uh, so yeah, that’s our food situation. So if you want restaurant recommendations, don’t come to us. We don’t, we don’t know anything, but I can recommend not doing a lot of stuff.
All right. what volunteer or officiating job would you like to do today?
Alison: Okay. So, um, to no one’s surprise, I want to be the ball girl at, uh, table tennis, but I noticed something else that they do. So when the ball bounces away and they scoop it up, they put it in a little block in a little box and then they bring the box at the next time out or change over to the official.
Because there’s two officials. There’s the, um, the timing official and then the referee. So they bring it to the timing official and they return the little box. They get another little empty box and they go back to their corners.
Jill: Interesting, interesting. I would like to be a badminton because that’s where I was today.
And the nice thing about coming in at the end of the session is that you get to see the between session activities. And it was the magical hour of vacuuming. There was a vacuumer who was vacuuming the courts. Nice! It was great. I appreciated that. Yes, so now it apparently is every, every games we don’t know what segment will appear to us as being the thing that’s going to stick with these games.
But apparently here, it’s toilet talk. Laughter. It’s quite embarrassing, but that’s all we got. More toilet stories than you know what to do with.
So today I was at Badminton.
Badminton is at, they call it Porte de la Chapelle, but it’s really the Adidas Arena because it’s the brand, one of the two. Couple of brand new arenas they built specifically for Paris and it’s going to turn into a basketball stadium slash community center afterwards You can see that the adidas bit has been covered up already, which is always fun.
Oh that always makes me laugh, but It’s a pretty decent arena and the size wise I think it’s gonna be nice for for their basketball team. So When you got up there there were signs that said Toilets home one way.
Alison: Okay.
Jill: And twi fem the other way. Okay. That’s, that’s not uncommon. Right. When you got to the ettes, there were a Paris 2024 signs slapped on there that said TWIs mixed.
Oh. So I thought this is the venue for you. Yes, that’s, I already
Alison: hung out with the, the German speaking man brushing his teeth in the basement of Grand Palle. Like, doesn’t everybody do that? Yeah. So
Jill: apparently around the media center, the text, the toilets are unisex. Huh. And then the toilet bowls are metal and there is no seat.
This is
Alison: so weird. Did you fall No, I did not fall in the toilet.
But it was I’m sorry. Was it cold on your touchy? It was so refreshing. It was It felt really good. It was so hot today. It was really hot today, and I could totally see that the metal toilet would have, like, I would have, I would not have
Jill: gotten up. I know, well, at first, like, I walked in, and I’m like, prison toilets?
Are you serious? And then I sat down, and I’m like, oh, this feels
Alison: so good. There we go. Anyway, I think this is a great time to bring up Notre Baguette.
Jill: All right, as you can see, we’re, we’re having issues and we’re, we’ve got a little call for, uh, what we call a baguette because we could use some baguette money here. we are a independent podcast, which is fantastic for you because you get to hear the lowdown on everything that happens, including the toilet.
I mean, would NBC have toilet talk?
Alison: Mike Tirico would never.
Jill: No, Mike Tirico would not. And,
Alison: and I would love to hear Mike Tirico do some toilet talk.
Jill: That would be good. That would be very good. that’s the plus factor of being independent media. The downside is that it’s, uh, Very difficult to finance this operation, and we are listener supported.
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We’ve got daily results We missed skateboarding yesterday.
Alison: We missed skateboarding. This was the event that got rescheduled. So on our schedules, it got, it got shuffled around. And this was
Jill: rescheduled because of
Alison: rain. So this was the men’s street skateboarding finals. Gold went to Japan, , Horigomi Yudo, uh, silver and bronze.
Both went to skaters from the United States, Jagger Eaton and Nyjah Houston.
Jill: All right. . Uh, in archery, we had the men’s individual eliminations. Brady Ellison reached the round of 32.
He continues on , he is a big name in America. And then in the women’s, uh, individual eliminations, Shukla Stine, Casey Coffold has reached the round of 32 and she will continue on tomorrow in Artistic Gymnastics. It was a women’s team final, which you were there.
I went to and it was pretty nuts and you said get there early and I did not get there early because I was enjoying the badminton and It was a zoo I will say that it was there was a line to get into the media Accreditation entry I actually had my stuff searched. Because they didn’t like what they saw on the x ray.
This is the first time that’s happened. I had nothing new. so that was tough. And of course, I didn’t even go to the venue media center because it’s probably ten minutes away from the venue. or, you know, 10 minutes away from the Press Tribune because you have to go halfway around the stadium and up a whole bunch of stairs to get to where you see.
And of course, by the time I get there, there’s not many, not much in the way of choice. So I just end up in the back row. And in the back row, instead of a regular chair at your table, they had tall chairs.
Alison: Is that so you won’t flip over and plunge to your death?
Jill: I think it’s to boost you up higher. Oh, so you can see.
Because the Press Tribune
Alison: in gymnastics is very high and very far away. It’s all Obstructed View unless you’re at the very bottom of the Tribune.
Jill: Right. And for people who have been complaining about Obstructed View or worried about Obstructed View tickets on our the parish planning group. There is no worse view than what I had tonight.
I could see the entire vault that was opposite me. Right. I could see half of the floor. If I ducked down, I could see the balance beam underneath
Alison: the
Jill: scaffolding through other people. Oh, okay. And then I could not see the bars really, unless I stood on my chair. So I am on my chair. I have my legs to either side of me.
So I’m straddling the chair all night long, because I didn’t want to be with my legs in front, because if I needed to stand to see something, I would have tipped over that way. Also, I would have been farther away from my computer. It would have been hard to work. That was fun. Then I somehow become surrounded by Italians.
Alison: Well, there were a lot of Italians there. Italian press, I would expect. Yes,
Jill: exactly. They were so much fun. Of course we are. Because the one guy said, he used language I can’t use on, on the show, uh, complaining about how the press press tribune was and how the press were getting treated. And he said Tokyo was also bad for press tribune, but he’s like, we can’t see, we could not see anything.
We really like, I seriously stood up, I had to stand on and stand and balance on this chair. And the one guy left a little early. So then I started balancing on two chairs.
I have to work on, on endurance if this happens again, because I could not stand for an entire floor routine.
Alison: You had your own balance beam event. I did
Jill: have my own balance beam event, because it was, I was kind of hovering, I was hovering above my high chair. Balanced on either of the side rungs. Hoping I’m not falling because it’s a plastic, flimsy plastic.
This is like, you would buy it for five euros at Ikea. Chair. And you know how sturdy that is. The wall behind me, because I’m at the top row, is made of fabric. So there’s no leaning back because I’m going to fall backwards through that thing. I don’t know what’s on the other side. That would not be a good situation either.
Alison: You’d meet my nice medical people that I see at Bercy Arena.
Jill: And then, um, I did choose a spot with a monitor in front of me so I could see if I needed to. And then a couple of Italians sat on the other side of me. Oh, my nice Italian man gave me a Raffaello. It was delicious. It’s the candy. It was delicious.
Yeah, I wouldn’t argue with that. It was so nice. And I, uh, And then the other two guys were like, okay, you know, I’ve made sure they could see the monitors. We were helping each other. He had spelled. He had all the celebrities there. I’m like, how do you know who’s here? And he just, I don’t know how he knew.
Alison: I want to mention the celebrities cause we haven’t talked about this at all. There’s been a lot of the celebrity sighting. Let’s put a pin in that and come back to that in the coming days because I’m, I’m of two minds on this and I want to hear other people’s thoughts before I, I solidify what I’m thinking.
Jill: Okay. So today, apparently Michael Phelps and Anna Wintour and Serena Williams and Natalie Portman and Spike Lee were all there, apparently. Did not know. So many different groups of VIP stuff. So you know how they had the paddles for the IOC family people and they have, they had hospitality paddles for people who had hospitality packages.
They also had special, people had special NBC sticks because I’m sure just a ton of NBC people must have been there as well. It was just a mob scene. Competition was really good. Uh, Nastia Liukin did the three coops. Um, I had to look at the screen because I didn’t put it on the Jumbotron, which doesn’t really matter because I couldn’t see the Jumbotron, but that was another thing.
the finals were gold went to USA, silver went to Italy, and bronze went to Brazil, which is Brazil’s first Olympic women’s team medal. And they struggled on beam, but boy did Rebecca Andraja. bring them back up for their last rotation and vault.
Alison: So she, I think this is Olympics number three for her. And she’s the reason they have a team.
I mean, what she has done for gymnastics outside of Europe and in South America is breathtaking and amazing to see. And this is such a beautiful podium because you’ve got the US, you’ve got Italy. When is Italy won a women’s team medal? Certainly not in my lifetime.
Jill: Right, and they were very good tonight.
Alison: And then Brazil. What, um, this is fun. This is a fun
Jill: podium. It was a fun competition. Of course it was packed in there for Team USA, but you had a decent Brazil contingent. You had a contingent for Canada. You had one for Great Britain. People there for Brazil, or I said that, uh, Italians were there. So it was nice to have a good mix of fans.
Poor Chyna. Chyna was second after the first rotation, and then they just slid down, and they finished sixth. And then, one of the few things I could see on the screen, focusing on one poor girl who’s just in tears. Oh, great. Thanks. Lovely. Um, Canada had been fourth, they dropped to seventh after their floor, they went back to fourth for their vault, and then Great Britain displaced them in the last rotation.
Rebecca Downey? did such a good job on bars. Oh, nice. That was lovely to see. Alicia D’Amato was just solid, pretty, pretty much all night. She’s their big star. And she’s got a,
Alison: she’s got a shot at the individual podium as well. Yeah.
Jill: So that, that will be one to watch for the individual all around, um, top score of the night was 15.
- Guess who got that?
Alison: I’m, I’m looking at you thinking it is not Simone.
Jill: Rebecca Andraja on vault. Oh,
Alison: she’s a killer on vault. And I
Jill: was so, so angry because it’s, it can be difficult to watch gymnastics in person because they have stuff going on. Sometimes they hold different apparatuses. and let two go at once.
Sometimes you’ll have somebody who is on beam and somebody floor routine will start in the middle. D’Amato was on floor. I’m watching her floor. I’m balancing like crazy. And in the middle of it, Rebecca Andraja does her vault and she nails it. And I missed it and they did not replay it.
Alison: Well, we’ll find that on the replay.
We’ll find that because I have not seen any of this, just where I was and all the traveling.
Jill: Go and watch Vault Finals or something. You should see her. I’ve never seen her in person. What a powerhouse. Oh my gosh. She is incredible. I love the fact that Collegiate gymnasts are the mainstay of this team.
Alison: Yes, it has changed the sport significantly.
Jill: Yeah, I like the, the maturity that, that the older generation brings. I also like their choreography better. I don’t, I’m not sure, Suni, Lee, and Jordan Childs, and Simone Biles all did floor. And I’m not sure how Suni Lee’s difficulty was in comparison. Her choreography was just so beautiful.
And, and same with Jordan Childs was having so much fun and her choreography was like the, the college gymnastics has been very, very good at teaching more danceability and it makes the performances a lot better and more from the heart. Then this is what my choreographer told me to do and I need to hit these poses and
Alison: and make the silly and pull the Silly faces and look I’m so cute,
Jill: right?
Another fabulous thing. We’re back to the hooked on classics music, baby. Oh, yeah. Oh my gosh We had a whole bunch of that cuz I just went what decade are we in? Are we in like 1984 88 again? because a couple of the Chinese people pulled out that the other big theme was the dance beat kind of electronica with the choral voices.
Yes. That is another big trend in the music.
Alison: We love a good disco Gregorian chant.
Jill: But it, it’s not a ton of stuff you would recognize. Like you, there was a little recently the songs we’ve all had pop songs, kind of like skating routines you would do, but no, it was all instrumental stuff. It was all really made.
put or put together for gymnastics, not let’s slice and dice a pop song. So it was really kind of interesting to see what was going on. Thankfully, nothing like Roma music with the fiddles, but we did, I was really glad to go back to hooked on classics. Feel that, that, that feeling, not quite exactly hooked on classics.
Alison: But here’s the real question. Did Malaguena?
Jill: I know. I don’t think so.
Alison: Then it is not a competition.
Jill: I’m sorry. Well, I couldn’t go down to, uh, to the press center to get my paper. Well, to even see if they had paperwork. Somebody at Badminton gave me the eye. Like I went to get the paper papers and they did ask, did I have everything I needed because I was trying to take kind of everything and they’re like, well, that is tomorrow.
Like, I don’t care. It’s just a piece of paper that I can draw and then draw and write everything on. So I don’t have to rewrite it or type it up. Anyway, we’ve had our paper beef. Sunni Lee’s bar routine was beautiful. Of course. Um, Simone stepped out of bounds on her floor. Okay. She was power. But, but she had, obviously had a very, very good night.
Uh, and the U. S. placed something like three points ahead. They dominated all night long, basically. And, uh, it was just, it was a good competition. Good, solid competition. Nice to see. A lot of talent from all over the world. So then I went to Badminton. Badminton is next on the list. Uh, Friege was there with a giant badminton racket.
And you could come down, like he’s put, they, they put the Friege on the floor near one of the stairs and you could come down on the floor and take your picture with the Friege.
Alison: Nice! That was really cool. How did his short little arms do with the racket? Yeah. Somehow he held it. Because I also had an experience with the Friege and a racket.
Jill: We’ll get to that, right? Um, there, have you noticed how many videos that they have in the pre, the hype videos, I guess you would say?
Alison: They have multiple versions, so they have the hype video, it’s a great way of calling it, of clips of previous Olympics. Then they also have the pre roll video of the old pictures, but there’s the people are singing pop tunes.
They’ve animated them using AI. That is creepy.
Jill: It is a creepy video. Um, one of the hype videos is a lot of, it looks like Tokyo. No, no, no. It is past Olympics because Katie Moon is in there. That’s really nice to see. Um, they’ve got one, um, That is, they did one with equality. Like the first time I saw the Alice Milat, that was a, uh, that was an equality video, but there just seemed to be more and more videos.
And then today they had projection mapping on the floor. Cause in between sessions, they covered center court on badminton. And I’m like, well, why did they cover center court? Oh, because we have to have another video. And they had a weird, Oh, they had a weird video that was projected onto the floor on gymnastics.
And then they also had a ballet dancer come out with a guy who danced like Michael Jackson.
Alison: Well, yesterday they had, and I forgot to mention this. They had a tumbling crew come out before the men’s team event.
Jill: That would have been more at least that made sense. This was weird. I did tape a lot of it So maybe it’ll show up someplace, but this was just really kind of a bizarre performance to have I will say that So yeah, there’s a lot of like entertainment going on in the venue.
The other thing. Okay, speaking of venue stuff I’m not liking these pictograms. Really? When they are big, they’re really cool. Like in the fencing venue, they’ve got them on the, they’ve got big ones. Some venues will have big ones on the wall. If I’m looking on our MyInfo system, I can’t tell what the sport is.
That is true. When they are small, they are so detailed that you can’t see it.
Alison: I would agree with that because I was actually thinking the opposite, that I liked the pictograms because. Blown up on big banners outside this the arenas. They’re stunning. But absolutely when they have the pictograms on the computer screen, it’s it’s a useless icon.
You can’t you can’t use it to navigate.
Jill: Right? Because they like to have a All of the pictograms up at the top. So you can just click on the pictogram and go to your sport, but I can’t tell what sport it is. I just
Alison: figure it out sort of alphabetically and guess. Like I can guess that, okay, that one’s definitely rowing.
So that’s an R. So if I need to get to skateboarding, if I click down to rowing, it’ll get me close.
Jill: So yeah. Uh, the three coupes for the badminton session that started while I was there was volunteer. So that was nice. So it’s nice that some volunteers get to do that. The people were really into the three coupes. Yes, I have found that as well in all my events. So that was really cool. The French fan section. And, and I think maybe some of the listeners have gotten tickets that, that surprise you’re in the fan section.
They are nuts. They had a drum and an air and a guy with a megaphone today.
Alison: Have you seen the people with the chicken heads? Yes. So there are these hats look, you know, LeCuck and with the red, white and blue of the French flag and there’s a lot of chicken heads running around.
Jill: Um, I did get a French match, which is all exciting and it was a good one.
It was singles. It was women’s. She drew Faye because I kept saying, Xie Faye, Xie Faye,
Alison: nice.
Jill: And then she lost to Kelly Niana now ball Tova from Bulgaria, uh, 21, 18, both games. It was close. So the setup there is three courts, center court, and then Court 2 and Court 3 on either side, and then they had, uh, just kind of rounds come in and out.
So, my first center court was, women’s singles, the side court was women’s doubles, and the other court was men’s doubles. And just play went on. It’s a little chaotic because the referees have microphones or the chair umpires have microphones so that they can talk to their, their particular court. They have a coin toss ahead of time to see who gets, gets to serve.
And I’m sure there’s all procedures around that. I want to know what they, what they do, how high does it have to go, that kind of thing. Um, yeah. But it was just great. I had so much fun watching it. I instantly wanted to go and play.
Alison: Well, there you go.
Jill: It was so good and so fast. I could not tell if the crowd was moving the birdie at all.
Shuttlecock.
Alison: It’s a shuttlecock. I know. Don’t call it a birdie.
Jill: I know. But when Bai Wenjiang told us that they can do that, I bet you noticed it on the floor and you don’t really see it from where we were. But it was just really, really cool. Highly recommend. It’s Super fast and These people can jump high and move and the agility is great.
I just loved it I think
Alison: we should point out that a lot of these sports if you’ve never watched it before and I found this even today when I was watching volleyball because I haven’t I Have watched volleyball but never in person and even table tennis like I know a little bit about tennis
Jill: Mm
Alison: hmm. I could figure out how to the basics enough to really enjoy myself.
So I think it’s important to, to know, you don’t need to know the ins and outs of all these sports. Okay. It’s badminton. You know, it has to go over the net. You know, it has to stay in the lines. The rest of it, you don’t need to know to just start watching.
Jill: Right. So, but do tune in to badminton. Lots and lots of fun.
In basketball, we had men’s group play today. Spain beat Greece. These are, this is close, Matt, or not super close. Uh, 84 to 77. Canada beat Australia, 93 to 83. France beat Japan, 94 to 90. And there was a tie between Brazil and Germany, both at 40 points each. We also had 3×3 action. Both men’s and women’s pools got off the ground.
Wins went to Germany and Canada, Spain and China for the women’s side. U. S. did not win. Germany beat them 17 13. And France, home nation, did not win. They lost to China today in the men’s pools. Winners were Latvia, Netherlands, France, and Serbia. Uh, France just, we saw the end of the France Poland game and they just eked out a win.
That was a squeaker. That was, that was fun to watch. And, uh, Serbia beat the U S 22 to 14. So our Shakhlastani team 0 and 1 right now.
Alison: It’s
Jill: a,
Alison: it’s a pool match. Well, they’re, they’re coming back tomorrow.
Jill: Exactly. There was more preliminary men’s and women’s action at the Beach Volleyball Stadium, which had to be hot today.
That was bad. BMX Freestyle kicked off. In the men’s seeding round, Marcus Christopher and Justin Dowell have advanced. In the women’s seeding round, Hannah Roberts, who we talked with at the Media Summit, she had two amazing runs. Uh, she had, uh, a perfect tuck no hand bar spin. I don’t know what that is, but I’m going to go and find out.
Alison: And it’s funny because I saw an interview with her saying that the bar spin is something that she struggles with.
Jill: Oh, well, that’s good. So
Alison: for her to have a perfect move for that is a big deal for her.
Jill: Exactly. So she has a. Total score of 91. 45. She is leading in the qualified riders to the next round. We also had early rounds in boxing, either round of 32 or round of 16 for the men’s 80 kilograms and 51 kilograms, and on the women’s side they did 54 and 57 kilograms.
Every bout today was a win on points. In canoe slalom, we had men’s K1 heats and women’s C1 heats. Abby Liefarth will be moving on to the semifinals tomorrow. Equestrian in dressage, the team and individual events had their first day of Grand Prix competition. In fencing, the, we had women’s epee team finals.
Alison: Yeah. So, uh, first we’ll talk about what happened to the American women. They did not have a fantastic day. They ended up in seventh place. Uh, so this is Anne Ciboula, Kate Holmes, excuse me, Kat Holmes and Hadley Husissian. And they ended up with the last match being 44 and 30 over Egypt.
Jill: And then the gold medal went to Italy, silver went to France and bronze went to Poland.
Alison: This was a wild gold medal bout. So Italy and France, two huge fencing nations. And where we were at the media center, there were several French fans watching it, when France lost very sadly, walked away. But the interesting thing was that this had to go into Overtime.
I didn’t even know there was overtime in fencing because they were tied 29 all at the end of regular regulation. I mean, what do you call these terms? And then Italy pulled it out at the last second.
Jill: And the bronze medal match, Poland versus China was also tight. Poland won just by one point, 32 to 31. We are continuing group play in football.
Today was men’s day. So winners were, uh, we had a tie between a Dominican Republican and Uzbekistan, but other winners were, uh, Paraguay, Egypt, Argentina, Morocco. of the U. S. beat Guyana 3 0, France beat New Zealand 3 0, and Japan also won its match against Israel. In handball, we had women’s prelims today.
Winners were Germany, Norway, Netherlands, and France. Hungary and Angola got a 31 all tie, and Sweden and Denmark also had a tie at 14. So, uh, the pool is still really tight. The 2 1 is a record for Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, and they’re all at the top of their pool. And on the other side of the pool, France is undefeated.
They are the only undefeated team in the whole competition. In hockey, we had men’s pool stages, uh, a couple of ties, France and Spain tied, Great Britain and Netherlands tied. Then Argentina, Belgium, Germany, and India all won. Netherlands in their pool is the only undefeated team. And then the other pool, Belgium is undefeated.
In Judo, we had the 63 kg round for the women, and men’s 81 kg competed today. In the women’s side, gold went to Andrea Leschke from Slovenia. Uh, silver went to Prisha Awiti Algarez from Mexico. And the two bronze medals, one went to Clarice Agbenenou from France and Laura Fazliou from Kosovo. On the men’s 81 kilograms, uh, gold went to Naga Ri from Japan.
Silver went to Riga, lash from Georgia, and the two bronzes went to Korea’s Lee, June, Juan and, uh, Soman M from Taji Gustan. In rowing, we had, uh, women’s double skull semis. So Christy Wagner finished fifth. Unfortunately, that does not mean she will advance to the medal round. She will race in the B final.
And then in the women’s lightweight double skulls, Michelle Sexer finished second in her semifinal, and she will row for a medal. Go old lady. In Rugby Sevens, uh, the semi final, we had the women’s tournament now. In the semi finals, New Zealand beat U. S. 24 12. Canada beat Australia 21 12. For the bronze medal bout, U.
- won, so we won a bronze medal for the women’s rugby. They, we beat, we, U. S. A. beat Canada. Australia. Were you out there, Jill? No, I wasn’t. Yeah. Uh, can you see me? Oh, yeah, you might see me on a rugby. No, you wouldn’t, because I like my ears. And I like my head, too. I don’t want to get concussed like that. Um, US beat Australia 14 12, and for the gold medal, New Zealand beat Canada 19 12.
Did they do a haka? Do we know if they did a haka?
Alison: Well first, go Silver Ferns.
Jill: Yes.
Alison: And I have not seen any film of this yet, so I would assume that they did. I hope that they did. We will find you your haka.
Jill: Thank you. Uh, sailing, we had more in the regatta for men’s windsurfing and skiff, and also windsurfing on skiff on the women’s side.
Maggie Shea and Stephanie Robel. Our 17th overall right now. In the shooting competition, we had the mixed team 10 meter air pistol finals. Gold went to Zorana Arunovic and Damir Mikic from Serbia. Silver went to, uh, Seval Ilada. Tarhan and Yusuf Dikic from Turkey and bronze went to Manu Bakar and Sarabh Singh from India and in the men’s trap qualification, in the men’s, in the men’s trap finals, gold went to Nathan Hales from Great Britain who got an Olympic record.
Silver went to Chi Ying from China and bronze went to Jean Pierre Broil Cardenas from Guatemala. Uh, surfing is, the finals are ongoing soon, so we’ll have the, the results tomorrow.
Alison: We may still be up on Paris time. They end at 4. 30 in the morning. Oh,
Jill: well, that’s great. In swimming, we had the 100 meters back final.
In swimming, in swimming, we had the women’s 100 meter backstroke final. Gold went to, wow, this is, this is a race. Gold went to Kayleigh McGoan from. McEwen? McEwen? McEwen? Okay. I
Alison: don’t know. We’ll have to check with our Aussie friends. Okay.
Jill: Gold went to Kaylee McEwen from Australia. Silver went to Reagan Smith from the U.
- and bronze went to Katherine Burkoff from the U. S. And in the 800 meter free final, gold went to Daniel Whiffen from Ireland. Wow, there’s a second medal for Ireland in swimming. That’s nice. And then Bobby Fink from the USA got silver . And Gregorio Paltrinari from Italy got the bronze.
Alison: Italy’s doing quite well in swimming this time. We’ve seen a lot of Italian medals.
Jill: Interesting. And it is surprising, Bobby Fink. I am curious to see how he thought about that. We’ll have to look for some of those flash quotes that they put up on MyInfo for us. And then we had the men’s 4 by 200 meter freestyle relay.
Gold went to Great Britain, silver went to the U. S., and bronze went to Australia.
Alison: I think from what we are hearing, there’s a lot of controversy in the U. S. about how the American swimmers are not winning gold.
Jill: I, yeah, that is coming across. I am very curious as to what they think. So
Alison: the one thing I do want to mention about the swimming competition, um, In some semi final action, was the return of my friend, Zack Stubbledecook.
Jill: And is he moving on?
Alison: He is moving on. All right. I believe he won his semi, so yes, we will, we will see him tomorrow night.
Excellent.
Jill: Uh, table tennis. You went to table tennis today.
Alison: I did go to table tennis. So earlier in the day, there was men’s, uh, and women’s early round, uh, games. singles tournaments. I ended up at the medal matches for the mixed doubles. I thought I was going to early round matches. And then they started setting up the podium.
So I mentioned before that the Friege was there. He tried to hit the balls into the crowd. And the first couple he missed because of his short little arms and the little paddle. But then he sort of got the action that that worked. And so there were table tennis balls going into the crowd. Um, the biggest problem at the table tennis venue is that the tribune was packed fine.
The Olympic family area, what they call the Olympic family area was also packed and packed to the point where they had people standing up blocking the view of the tribune. Because apparently there’s no such thing as high demand tickets for Olympic family. If you want to go, you go. Nobody tells you no when you have an Olympic family credential.
Jill: Wow. Which, of course, we’ve, we’ve talked off air about how people standing in your way means that you don’t get to do your job.
Alison: And also at this event were, um, some very unhelpful volunteers who also, all stood up in front of the press tribune, blocking our view. And yes, part of the problem is that I’m short.
But even when I stood up at that point, because there was like, volunteers standing there, clearly not doing a job. They were there, I assume, to do a job, but they were just on their phones taking pictures of the match. And the poor reporter next to me, who clearly was a table tennis reporter, was so incredibly frustrated.
And then I had to go say something. To one of the volunteers who wasn’t in this crowd saying, could you please move these people? We can’t do our jobs. We can’t see because these kids are all standing around taking pictures. And his solution was to have them lean over.
Jill: Oh, that’s going to work for an entire match.
Alison: Right. That was great. And then the bigger problem came as we were moving along. So all the stairways, all the standing areas were filled with people. there was no getting in or out.
Jill: Wow. That’s incredibly dangerous. It was
Alison: incredibly dangerous. And I am shocked that no one took a tumble backwards down these incredibly rickety, steep stairs, because there was pushing, there was shoving, there was all kinds of jockeying for camera shots among the volunteers and then the Olympic family people as well.
Geez Louise.
Jill: Well and what surprised me at handball, and I’m guessing it sounds like it’s the same at table tennis, is that the stands don’t hold a ton of people.
Alison: They do not. And the tribunes are small, and the Olympic family areas, at some places are enormous, but at a lot of places are quite small. It was, it was not a good
Jill: scene.
I’m sorry about that. Yeah. And, and, and to be fair, when you’re putting together these seating things, you don’t want to go overboard because you don’t want to not sell out your tickets. But then when you go under board and you have so much demand in different areas that. Also, it’s not great.
Alison: It is a calculus.
It is difficult. I do not expect them to block off the best seats for the Tribune. But it would be nice to be able to see from the Tribune. So now this is the second event I’ve gone to where the volunteers are preventing me from doing my job. And that is infuriating. It’s bad enough when they don’t know what’s going on.
where the Press Tribune is, which I also had today, where I ran into a volunteer in this huge arena that is volleyball and said, the sign stopped.
Jill: Oh, it was,
Alison: you know, Press Tribune this way, Press Tribune this way. And then they stopped. So I asked the volunteer who’s standing there with this pink foamy finger telling people where to go, where do I go for the Press Tribune?
And he said, I don’t know. So I said, There’s someone who might know. No. That was his answer. So good luck to me. And the worst part was, it was just around the bend. So it was in his section. So there is no way I was not the, I was the only reporter who asked this, this question. Gentlemen where the press room was because the sign stopped.
He’s standing there. It’s a little further along, but it also is a little further along in what looked like was not an accessible area.
Jill: Mm-Hmm. . So I
Alison: wasn’t sure if it was okay for me to walk,
Jill: so I just walked. Good luck to me. I was gonna say that. Good luck to me. It hasn’t stopped us before . Fair enough.
Alison: But I do wanna mention some of the, uh, good things about the, uh. table tennis event. Chinese fans were nuts. Awesome. Wild. Also, don’t tell the Chinese fans that Hong Kong is not a part of China. Oh, no, no. Because there was a pair from Hong Kong in the bronze medal match. And they cheered for them as if they were Chinese and cheered as in They waved their Chinese flags.
Jill: Oh yeah.
Alison: For the Hong Kong team. Mm-Hmm. . Um, the bronze medal went to the Korean pair and this little girl just turned 20 this month.
Jill: Oh.
Alison: And was she an absolute joy? What? Enthusiasm? Fantastic player. Clearly wonderful communication and mm-Hmm. and, um, energy with her partner, but nothing got her down.
Jill: So this is the partnership of Li Hun and Shin.
You’ve been.
Alison: Just really incredible to watch. And then in the gold medal match, you had a pair from China, which is Wang Chu kin and Sung Yi shon. And then the appearance of North Korea, or as they prefer,
Jill: the People’s Republic
Alison: of? The Democratic. Oh, the Democratic. People’s Republic of Korea. Oh, that’s right.
DPRK. DPRK. And It was interesting. There were some DPRK fans. I assume they’re other members of the team because nobody else gets to travel. Um, that’s Ri Jung sik and Kim Kume yong. They got a couple warnings for no time wasting. Oh, so apparently there is a yellow card that comes out. It’s the same in fencing.
We saw this today in fencing and the, she says the referee was a woman. She says no time wasting as she holds up the yellow card either in her left or right hand to, to indicate. Also the coolest thing that I want to mention to you when there is a timeout, the official, Not the referee, but the timing official takes out a box clock and puts it on the table.
Oh,
Jill: that is awesome. And it counts down
Alison: the time. Other thing, they don’t sit like tennis players. They never sit during the match.
Jill: Oh, okay.
Alison: Timeouts, changeovers, they never get to sit.
Jill: That’s interesting. Tennis
Alison: players are lazy.
Jill: Whoa. Fighting words.
Alison: So, medal results were gold to China, silver to PRK, the North Korea, and bronze to Korea.
Jill: In tennis, uh, some, a big day in tennis. So, uh, Men’s singles winners, uh, big name winners, not everybody, but big name winners were Alexander Zverev, Daniel Medvedev, Taylor Fritz, Tommy Paul, and, uh, Felix Auger Aliassime from Canada.
They are all moving on in their round. Uh, and, uh, On the women’s side, Coco Gauff had a shocking loss to Dagna Vekic and that was, that score was 7 6, 6 2. So about I believe 4 2 in the second set or maybe it was, it wasn’t very much into the second set. There was a controversial call where the lineman called it out.
So Coco Gauff didn’t attempt to hit it. You know, it’s one of those, did you play through, because sometimes you don’t know if it’s going to be out or in, do you play, and you play through the ball. Well, the lineman called it out, so she didn’t play through, and then there was a challenge, and then it got, the call got overturned and it was in.
And so, of course, Coco was so frustrated over saying, look, they called it out, we need to replay the point, and they wouldn’t replay the point. And that just kind of Was the turning point in this match for sure This year’s French Open finalist Jasmine Paolini. She lost to Anna Karina Smidlova from Slovakia German Angelique Kerber beat Leila Fernandez from Canada and then Iga Svantek, Daniel Collins and Barbara Kojicova all won as well in men’s doubles, Carlos Alcarez and Rafael Nadal, they are moving on.
So are Andy Murray and Dan Evans from Great Britain.
Alison: I hope that can at least be a semifinal, you know, the way the matchups go. I mean, the final would be too much to ask for.
Jill: I know. So we’ll have to look at the bracket and see how that looks up. And then, uh, uh, Ukraine’s Marta Kostiuk and Diana Yevstremska, they lost to Chinese Taipeis, Xu Sihui and Zhao Chengyi.
doubles, uh, Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz won. So Coco Gauff is still in the tournament. I believe she’s still in the tournament in, in women’s doubles as well.
Alison: Hey, you know, it didn’t happen today.
Jill: How’s the river?
Alison: Nobody was swimming in the Seine today. So a men’s triathlon was rescheduled for tomorrow because the quality of the Seine was excellent.
Unacceptable in parts, in different spots, they found it not okay. I don’t know how that’s going to be okay tomorrow. We’re getting thunderstorms tonight.
Jill: Yeah, we’re supposed to get thunderstorms, so we’ll see what happens there. I saw on my little local weather app for France. Hail might be involved and you want to go to beach volleyball tomorrow.
Well, you know, you never know. So we’ll see because not not good quality in parts means that it’s getting better from the two days of rain that we, we did have. So I don’t know, this is going to be tough. Hopefully they don’t move it to a duathlon. That’s for sure. in volleyball, you went to this as well because you were in the same big
Alison: complex.
So volleyball, handball, and table tennis are all in this same building sports complex. So you can very easily and actually very easily walk between them. I went to the third of the preliminary matches, Slovenia and Serbia. And the announce the announcers at volleyball are fantastic. And the English language announcer said something about, you need to pick a team Before the match started, pick a team and cheer for them as if you were born there.
Well, I think he didn’t realize that a lot of people who were born there were at this match because there was a lot of flags. So clearly people had come prepared, um, which was great. Slovenia has never been in the men’s Olympic volleyball. Wow before so this was their first and Serbia was the final team to qualify.
Jill: Oh, holy cow
Alison: You know the in the end Slovenia Dominated they won three three zero, but there were a couple of really funny moments sweet Caroline All right. And on the playlist, this DJ had a sense of humor though, because at one point, the, and I, and I apologize, I don’t have all the players names. The Slovenian server hit one of his teammates in the back of the head, you know, you have a miss serve and it slips.
And so The DJ starts playing Please Forgive Me by Bryan Adams, but wait, it gets better. So he really hurt him because like the trainer came out and there was some ice involved and then he was decided it was okay and he continued to play. And so the DJ starts playing What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger by Kelly Clarkson.
That’s fantastic. And the reporters next to me, who I believe were, uh, Serbian, um, could not stop laughing. That was, that was the moment that bonded us because when I first heard the, the Brian Adams song, I started laughing and he looked over at me. And then when the Kelly Clarkson, we, we all three of us just, But, uh, by winning this game, even though the pool play isn’t over, Slovenia has qualified for the quarterfinals.
Jill: Oh, okay. So,
Alison: nice first, uh, visit for, uh, Olympic volleyball for Slovenia.
Jill: Excellent. Also, winning today, Italy, U. S. and France in their preliminary rounds. In water polo, we still had, we were, um, men’s tournament today. And honestly, last night, I did think about going back to the water polo venue just to see if they still had that extra wide toilet paper.
I did. We are not
Alison: in the toilet talk segment. Put it away.
Jill: Okay. Um, men’s preliminary rounds, uh, Austria, Australia, Italy, France, and the U. S. all won.
As did Our notes were a little shaky there. Yes, I had to go through the big We get breaking news from Team USA. So every day we get about 200 emails that are all This is breaking news. So
Alison: every Team USA athlete who does anything In early rounds, medals, every team game, we get a breaking news email.
Jill: And the hard bit is that it comes in and it says breaking, and sometimes the rest of the subject is disappearing.
So I always think they’re talking about breakdancing. I think every single release comes in. But breakdancing is not until next week. I know. That’s, that’s the worst part of it. But, uh So
Alison: who else won in men’s? Water polo. So
Jill: if you, the Team USA, which features our Ben Halleck, they were, uh, tied at the end of the first quarter.
The U. S. had six unanswered goals, Romania answered, and then they both had, uh, four goals each in the final thing, but that wasn’t enough for Romania. They got a beat for, uh, U. S. beat them 14 to 8. So it was a big score there. And then other winners today were Greece and Spain in the Pools in Pool A, Italy and Greece are undefeated and in Pool B, Spain is undefeated.
And that’s it for today’s action.
Alison: Which means we get to introduce our new mascot. So we are having three mascots throughout the Olympics. So this middle portion, you are going to meet Serendipity. She is a five year old field spaniel who lives with our Kickstarter supporter, Amy, who is also one of our Shukla Stani authors.
Jill: Yes, and Serendipity is adorable.
Alison: Yes, we will have pictures and videos. Amy sent me a ton of different season videos and Sari engaging in some different activities. So I’ll just tease that out. So thank you very much, Amy, for sharing her with us and also for supporting our Kickstarter that got us here.
Jill: Definitely.
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Oh, then I’m wrong. Okay, not unchanged, but we’ll have to do tallies for tomorrow. Yes. All right. And watching who’s gonna who in Shooklestown is competing tomorrow?
Alison: Kasey Caulfield continues individual eliminations in women’s archery.
Jill: Baiwen Zhang plays an elimination game against Tai Lin Nguyen in women’s badminton.
Alison: Team USA men’s 3×3 face Poland.
Jill: Kelly Chang and Sarah Hughes play their next pool game in beach volleyball against Vieira and Chamoureau of France.
Alison: Evie Liebfarth has two semis in canoe slalom C1.
Jill: Hannah Roberts rides for gold in BMX Freestyle.
Alison: USA Fencing competes in Men’s Team Sabre.
Jill: And it is day four of the sailing regatta for Stephanie Robel and Maggie Shea in Women’s Skiff.
Alison: Morgan Pearson May. Or may not compete in men’s triathlon.
Jill: And then there is more pool play for our hockey, water polo, and volleyball players on Team USA. And that is going to do it for this episode. Special thank you to our researcher, Annaleigh D’Abel.
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