Another round of sports gets underway at the Paris 2024 Olympics, and Jill and Alison are here for it. Alison spends the day at the pool for diving and artistic swimming. Meanwhile, it’s Jill’s turn to visit la pharmacie before heading to the Stade de France to see TKFLASTANI Katie Moon compete in the women’s pole vault finals.
Also, the US figure skaters who won the Team Figure Skating event at Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics finally received their gold medals.
Plus, there’s a surprise turn of events in wrestling that upends a final match, and TKFLASTAN earns more medals!
Sports on today’s program:
- Artistic Swimming
- Athletics
- Basketball
- Beach Volleyball
- Boxing
- Canoe Sprint
- Diving
- Golf
- Handball
- Hockey
- Sailing
- Skateboard
- Sport Climbing
- Table Tennis
- Taekwondo
- Track Cycling
- Volleyball
- Water Polo
- Weightlifting
- Wrestling
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Paris 2024 Olympics: Day 12
Jill: Bonjour, and welcome to day 12 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 Maine Press Center at Paris 2024, joined as always by my lovely co host, Alison Brown. Alison, bonjour. How are you?
Bonjour. I think we are both on the upswing. Oh, thank goodness. Yes. I did go to La Pharmacie today. Was it lovely? It was. I’m so glad. I got a number of medicines. I have, um, I have Mal de Gorge, which is a lidocaine spray. And I put a picture of this in our Facebook group because this is no joke. It comes with like a big plunger.
thing that, or a big spray attachment. It’s a two piece set up with this antiseptic spray that goes for my throat. And then I had some kind of ibuprofen mixed with some other medicine that I was supposed to take a couple times a day. And then I got like, I think, nighttime cough syrup. Excellent. I’m so excited about that.
And I drank a liter of orange juice this morning. Oh, I
Alison: know. Some orange juice would be lovely. I have not seen an orange. I scored a peach today. But it’s rock hard, so it might be Friday before I can eat it.
Jill: Yeah, well, let’s, uh, speaking of eating, let’s begin the baguette.
What did you do today culturally?
Alison: I went out to lunch. Hey! And I couldn’t eat it because it was raw. Oh. So I got myself a salmon bowl and I understood what all the ingredients were. Did not understand that the salmon was going to come uncooked. Oh no. Yeah.
Jill: So one, one bite and done.
Alison: I kind of picked around the vegetables that didn’t taste like raw fish.
Jill: Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. Not disappointing. Not much of a raw fish person either. Uh, Ben and I went to cafe Indiana. Today.
Alison: Oh, that’s like going home for you. What
Jill: made it Indiana? None. Well, the, the, our lovely waiter said, apparently, the, the chef, the boss. Went to Indiana and loved it so much, he decided to make it.
Let’s hold it together, everyone. He loved Indiana so much, he decided to come back and make a restaurant named after it. But it was, it’s like, it’s got an Indian mascot. I guess you could say there’s an Indian sheephead on its logo.
Alison: Okay. But was the food in Indiana? Why am I having trouble with this?
Because we’re Hoosiers. Oh, that’s
Jill: why. Um, we did have, I think, Ben had like Indiana tenders, but it was basically like chicken tenders. There were a few things that were like Indiana. Was it
Alison: cooked? It was cooked. Well, then, you know, you were, you know, Uh, miles ahead of my lunch. So,
Jill: but it was basic bar food, I guess you would say, you know.
Alison: You know what? Some corn and some chicken tenders right now would be so tasty.
Jill: And a
Alison: ginger ale. I have been craving ginger ale for two days. Oh,
Jill: I’m sorry. I had a Gimber tonight or Gimbel, whatever our ginger drink is. Our ginger
Alison: beer things, but that is not ginger ale. And they have Schweppes here.
But no Schweppes ginger ale. I know it’s not Schweppes, but I like saying it that way.
Jill: Oh, well, I’m sorry to hear that. Maybe tomorrow. Tomorrow is a new day. Tomorrow is a new day and it’s
Alison: going to be a new venue for me tomorrow. So who knows what’s going to happen. That’s
Jill: going to be exciting. Excellent.
Excellent. All right. What volunteer job would you like to do today?
Alison: So I got to artistic swimming early enough to see the ladies practicing. Oh. That was nice. And after they were finished, a very nice young man came out with a wet dry vac and vacuumed. The whole front section where they oh, do their deck work, where they emerge, where they do their deck work and where they emerge so that it was properly prepped for them.
Jill: Oh, nice, nice. Um, I was back out at, at athletics so many more. jobs that I didn’t see before. So, uh, I was impressed with the hurdles because they had very good precision on their placement and the whole operation. Um, I had seen something with cones on TV earlier in the day, and I believe that was, it was during the steeplechase that cones came back out.
Alison: Just because they divert the track. The way they have the steeplechase set up is there’s a section at the, the Top of the field before you get to the track where they have the water. Yes feature and then they’ve they’ve moved cones So that the riders don’t get confused.
Jill: Yes, so I think and you know, I I’d have to go back to make sure I got this right.
They might do a lap without the water. Yes,
Alison: they do
Jill: Okay. Thank you, and then they They have to take the cones off very quickly. Yes. And then, of course, there’s always, like, cameramen going in the way because, um, uh, there are people celebrating victories on that side of the track. So, it got a little confusing.
So, I liked cones, but I did like the discus fetcher, who all his job was, was to pick up the disc and put it in the little slot in the car and send it back.
Alison: Did he talk to his car like my guy did?
Jill: I didn’t notice. It was hard to pay attention to discuss tonight. He probably said, you go
Alison: a little water.
Drive fast to the athletes.
Jill: Alright, everybody’s favorite segment, toilet talk.
Alison: I was spared much toilet action today, thankfully. They were all very normal, but I did have to deal with a games wide open situation, again. Men, this is not difficult. Hold. Close the door behind you. Did you not learn this when you were five? Maybe
Jill: they don’t do that in European companies, countries.
Alison: You know, I, I don’t think those were all Europeans.
Jill: Okay. Well,
Alison: um, they were Europeans.
Jill: You had a mission today in water polo. Did they have the extra wide toilet paper? They
Alison: did not.
Jill: Oh, I think that was a one and done. That was just a fluke. And now it’s like
Alison: because I was there the whole day because I was a diving and then artistic swimming, which is the same facility as the water polo prelims.
So I was in several different bathrooms on the fluke. Well, I was there the whole day. Um, and I did not see any oversized toilet paper.
I’m
Jill: sorry. It’s like my rosebud.
Listener Cheryl also was at a water polo last night and reported on our Facebook group that, uh, the toilets had no toilet seat in the women’s stalls, large privacy stalls. She counted the tiles. Thank you Cheryl for going the extra mile. 48 by 70 inches. Oh, that’s pretty nice. Yeah, it was a pretty big size.
Yeah. So good. I noticed. Um, We haven’t talked about dryers at all.
Alison: We have not. And there are multiple types of dryers and many of them do not work. So that in that way there, it’s like the United States.
Jill: But I also think it’s me. That’s the, that’s the problem is that I go to some of these dryers, especially Paris Media Center, those don’t work.
And I go there and I put my hands under and it doesn’t work. Doesn’t work. And then because it did work at the beginning. Yes. And now it doesn’t. So we broke it. Wet hands. There are the dryers here in the main press center that you have to stick your hands into. To, to forcefully dry them.
Alison: But it, those do work.
Yes. But it, they do feel a little gross.
Jill: At Athletics, I’d forgotten they had the roll, the towel roll.
Alison: Like something from Kaldor’s in 1978. Right.
Jill: It, it really is the roll on a sheet and you pull down the, the, the fabric y towel till you get a clean and dry section and go to town. I’m so impressed that that still exists.
I don’t know why, but it does.
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Alison: Buoyed the spirit a bit, I have to say.
Jill: Exactly. Time for some daily results.
Alison: You went to Artistic Swimming. I went to Artistic Swimming. So this was the final round, the acrobatic routine. So this was for the medals for the team event. This sport does not play over TV. Oh, really? When you are there, the energy is there.
in the room is fantastic. And I think we need to get better ambient sound on the television because this crowd was into everything these women were doing. They would come out on the deck, the doors would slide open and the crowd went nuts the minute every single team came out. So there’s 10 teams in the final.
It moves extraordinarily quickly. There is no long wait for scores. Of course it helps that it takes them a couple minutes to swim out of the pool. Okay. So it doesn’t feel like a long wait for scores. Okay. And in between programs, it is quick. We were done with 10 programs in an hour 15. Wow. Yeah. It was no joke.
And they’re like four minutes long? They’re a little over three minutes. Okay. It’s like three and, and I think 315 is the limit. Okay. Um, yeah. And that’s not including the few seconds of deck work. Some teams, because they changed the deck work rules, some teams do very, very minimal deck work and start in the pool.
And other teams do a little bit more elaborate deck work and dive in, but very quickly. You don’t see the long deck work, um, that we saw in, in previous Olympics, but you do see some and some of them are fun. They’re, they’re, how they get into the pool is always. Always a challenge and an excitement and you can’t see the speed at which these girls are swimming on TV because the camera moves with them.
You can’t see how they place things in the pool. They don’t use the whole pool, but they place things and change where they’re focusing from side to side and back and forth. And it’s hard because they just switch cameras. So they’re always looking at the camera, but that’s not what’s really happening. So that was interesting.
And the wildness of this was not off putting in person. It was just fantastic. Cause sometimes on TV, I know when we were, when we watch Tokyo, we’re like, this is really out there. Japan was an alligator and it was amazing.
Jill: I have to watch this now.
Alison: Definitely watch it. And I know you were going to try and go to duet in person.
And I think you’ll get that, that impression of they, the, the swimmers change who they’re focusing on at any given moment. They, it’s a, it’s a. full circle that they focus.
Jill: Okay.
Alison: Not just because there’s judges on both sides.
Jill: Okay.
Alison: By the way, when they introduced the judges that were in charge of synchronicity, they waved in sync.
So, should we go over the music sheets first or results first? Let’s do results. Okay. So, uh, gold went to China. Silver goes to partially Shukhfustan to the United States. So Magoomy Field and Daniela Ramirez pick up a couple silvers for us along the way. And bronze goes to Spain. And, uh, Jacqueline Siminoe and Canada finished.
Hold on. Sixth.
Jill: Very nice. You know, this is the U. S. ‘s first medal in 20 years in this event.
Alison: Yes. And it was a very big deal. The women were extremely excited. I thought it was interesting that the top three, uh, did not match the top three of the medals. So for this routine France finished third, but ended up fourth just because it wasn’t enough to pull them up, uh, past Spain.
France, they did a can can.
Jill: I saw that in the music sheets. And they said it wasn’t, they had, their previous routines had not been French enough or correct. They
Alison: said they just, so this was a new routine for this event and they said it wasn’t French enough. They wanted to be very French and not only was it very French, they came out in their swimsuits and as they were doing the deck work, they changed the middle panel of their swimsuits.
So then it was the French flag. I don’t know if it was like a flip or like a. Fold. I couldn’t see it. And all of a sudden I said, wait a second, their costumes. We had a costume change on a bathing suit.
So yes, as, as we mentioned yesterday, I think each team has to submit a mute, what’s called a music sheet for each routine. So there’s sheets for this, for each, uh, section of the competition. So we specifically looked at the ones for today. And as I mentioned, Japan. They have to give the theme of their routines, the music and some more information.
So at the top, it’ll say theme of routine and Japan says alligator,
Jill: which when I saw these, I
Alison: just went, this is gold. And let me tell you something. It was very clearly an alligator. They had green costumes. They did alligator hand motions. They became a single alligator at one point with the chompy chompy.
Then they list out the music. You know, none of this music was familiar to me and the order and the things. And then they are asked for a couple of highlights of the routine. And I figured out after having read these sheets, this thing goes to the in house announcer. Oh, okay. Who uses it to explain to us what is happening.
Okay. So yes. So This is the best one from Japan. At the turn of the second lap, two alligators are expressed through connection moves and pose. And let me tell you something. Watch the routine. You will see alligators.
So then they asked them a series of questions as, as part of the sheet. You know, why this music? What, what is this? What’s your team about? So Japan answered why this music? We wanted to perform a new theme that only we could do. I think they’re right. I think they’re absolutely right. And uh, how long has your team been together and how long have you been using this choreography?
This was a new routine for them. Only three, only use this spring. And the, the, what’s a short presentation of your athletes and their coach. So our team is strongly united as one team of all swimmers, coaches, and staff. So I thought that was, it’s really interesting to read this because you do get a sense of what the team wants you to know about them.
The other one I know we talked about was Australia. They were cheerleaders. And again, from the second they came out, they were clearly cheerleaders and their music was all move your body. I did not recognize it, but that’s okay.
Jill: What I loved was the US’s one, because in the list of questions that they gave like so many detailed answers.
Alison: Yes, they really got into it. Let me pull that one up. So they were sorceresses. And honestly, you could really see it. Yeah. So they went to a whole three paragraphs about their team. Being. Young and their average age, and they’re looking to inspire and swim to grow. But the theme of sorceresses, captivates coach Fuentes due to the profound mystery and magnetic energy they embody, representing something far greater than what we see on the surface.
They really get into it. In these sheets, and then there’s one sheet, and I will not call this team out, who clearly hadn’t done it and needed to get it in at the last possible second, because this is required. You can be prevented from competing. This is one of the rules, and it’s a photocopy, and it’s got like one scrawled sentence for each answer.
But
Jill: yeah, they have like fun facts about the team. And because there’s some of the questions, okay, what are your goals for the future? Please provide at least one fun fact about the swimmers, the team or the coach. And it would be like, well, Megumi Fields, her favorite TV show is Disney’s Inside Out.
Daniela Ramirez gained a large social media following on TikTok, displaying how artistic swimmers knocks their hair before competition. It just went on and on. And it was, this adds to the. Bizarre factor in a good way, in a fun way of the sport. And I’m,
Alison: I’m wondering now, if sheets like this exist for gymnastics, for the women, for their floor routines, and for figure skating, they must, because remember you had your music Appreciation factor, but I
Jill: had a sheet like that.
Alison: Oh just a list. Yeah,
Jill: you had a you have a The the rundown in front of you does it and it probably doesn’t have music on there? No, it doesn’t have music just
Alison: simply had the starting list with scores. Okay, so I had my score sheet,
Jill: right? So for figure skating I had a similar start list, but they just had the music in listed in there.
This, this goes to a whole different level.
Alison: Well, now we know to look for this. Yes. So I’m going to dig and see if gymnastics has anything like this, even though I know that competition is over.
Jill: Exactly.
Alison: But yeah, so if you did not check this out, you must because you will see cheerleading, Can Can, a Venice Carnival, a hip hop classic from the Canadians that will blow your mind.
The Mexican goddess of water. Oh, yeah. And, uh, then China, even though they were stunning, they to me had the most disappointing theme. I did not get the theme, the music or the choreography connection at all.
Jill: Okay. It
Alison: was light of life, but they had this very angry, uh, hip hop music. It made no sense to me, but they were gorgeous.
Jill: Very good. So two thumbs up would recommend. Absolutely. Excellent. I went to athletics tonight.
Alison: And it got wild. Oh my
Jill: gosh. It was such a good night of athletics. And even, even with all of the myriad of events going on, I was a little bit more calm because I kind of knew what to look for and I was really focused on one event, which was Katie Moon’s pole vault.
But the day really started in the morning with the Marathon Racewalk Mixed Relay Final. Gold went to Alvaro Martin and Maria Perez from Spain, Brian Daniel Pintado and Glenda Morohan from Ecuador won silver, and Reidyn Cowley and Jemima Montag from Australia won bronze. Our Evan Dunphy was paired with Olivia O’Neal.
Lundman, and they ranked 20th with a combined time of 3. 04. 57. Evan did really well in his legs. He was seventh and ninth, respectively. Olivia had a little bit of trouble. She got a three minute penalty on her second leg. So first time this event has happened at the Olympics, and I believe Olivia might be a newer racer, so good on you.
Pay her for, uh, repping Schuchlist on well. So big pole vault final tonight. We had, it was a long thing because sometimes the competition would stop for other races and they’d be sad. Like I wondered how they could sit around for so long and stay warm and stay warmed up. But apparently there was also a delay because of a technical issue with the bar.
And we didn’t realize it in the press area. We just thought, Oh, they’re getting stopped for a lot of races. Cause they had other races going on around them. But, um, that happened near the end. Uh, Nina Kennedy, who’s been the world leader so far this year from Australia. She won the gold. Our Katie Moon won silver and Alicia Newman from Canada won the bronze.
She got a personal breast and a national record and is. Is Canada’s first Olympic medal in pole vault since 1912.
Alison: Canada decided to bring a field team this year. Yeah. To just clean up. Yeah, exactly. And I am here for it.
Jill: Katie looked great most of the night. So, uh, she made it to, uh, 5. 85. Wow. She missed, that was the first time she missed.
She made that 5. I’m sorry, 4. 85. Let’s correct that record. She was at 4. 85. There were only five altars left at that height. That was the first time she missed all night. She made it on her second attempt. Uh, Then they moved the bar up to 4. 90. Only three vaulters were getting through. So Katie was guaranteed a bronze.
She missed on her first attempt. She passed on her second attempt because, excuse me, Nina Kennedy had made 4. 9. So she passed to have another try at a higher height and missed both sides. First time she ran through and then the second time she just barely nicked the bar with her thighs. So that was.
Nina’s been great all year. I think Katie was really happy. She said, you know, after, uh, cause I went down to the mix zone and went to the wrong spot in the mix zone. So I got into Katie’s part a little bit late, but, um, she seemed to be pretty happy. She’d been, you know, coming back from injury. So that did really well.
She said, uh, she’s moving Tulsa. Wow. Yeah. She sold her house. She’s moving to Tulsa. She had been in Georgia with her coach because there’s a big pole vaulting community there, but her husband is a rowing coach and he lives in Tulsa. So she is moving to be with him. And so there, but in the mix zone, I made some friends with Kenyans.
Alison: Oh, so fantastic. Now
Jill: I’m supporting because I gave them pins and they didn’t have pins. They were like, you’re coming back tomorrow, right? Like, no, we’re not coming back tomorrow. Um, but they gave me a bracelet. Oh, I see that. A handmade, uh, beaded bracelet of the Kenyan flag. That’s beautiful. This took some getting on.
They had to help me get it over my wrist. And it’s, you’re never
Alison: taking that off.
Jill: No. And the guy, the one guy goes, Oh, I’ve had this one on for five years. You’re a Kenyan now. They’ve adopted you. So that was fun. We had semifinals in the men’s 100 meter hurdles or 110 meter hurdles. Sorry.
We had a semifinals in the men’s 110 meter hurdles. All I have to say is Grant Holloway. Whoa. He just blew everyone away. It was such, and this was a semi-final, but I think in a lot of the semi-finals that were happening tonight, people were giving it their all because there was no letting up. And we had some surprises later on with who did not make it into the finals.
So, um, you had to really work hard to make it. We also had 400 meter men’s hurdle semis. And like, I didn’t realize all this stuff was happening because I was so focused on pole vault. And I’m like, get to see Karsten Varholm.
Alison: Did he rip open his shirt? No. Oh, too bad.
Jill: So, uh, 400 meter hurdles, semifinals, Alison DeSantos and Karsten Varholm were in the same semifinal.
Who came up with that plan? Right? So Varhom is clearly in the lead. He is. Oh my gosh. He’s so amazing to see in person. And he almost led up too much because Clement Ducos from France, Put on a burst of speed at the end and he nicked Dos Santos. So Dos Santos, that was the first heat. They had to wait for the next two to see if Dos Santos would qualify.
And he luckily did. He had the fourth fastest time, so he managed to sneak into the finals. Uh, Rye Benjamin was in the last semifinal. He’s from the U. S. Farah Holman is from Norway. And, um, And Dos Santos is from Brazil. And they’ve just been on the top of hurdles for a long, long time. Roy Benjamin was just on another level in his heat.
It was, he coasted in to first. It was beautiful. We had the men’s 200 meter semis.
Alison: And these notes that you have written are making my jaw hit the table.
Jill: It is. So our Kenny Bednarik was in the same heat as Andre de Grasse from Canada. Kenny came in first, then followed by, uh, Dominican Republic’s Alexander Ogondo, who came in, uh, nine hundredths of a second later.
Andre de Grasse came in third. So Kenny was at 20 seconds flat. Andre de Grasse, third in the heat, 20. 41. He is the defending gold medalist in the event. Did not qualify for the final. He did not qualify for the 100 meter final either and we had gotten That’s when stuff started clicking I started doing a little bit of research and then Things started clicking because we are randomly getting statements from the Canadian Olympic Committee.
We got this random statement about a coach and The coach’s name is Rana Reeder or Rana Ryder and Accredited as a personal coach You they made a statement, just said, state, here’s a statement about the accreditation status. of Rana Ryder, and that person was accredited as a personal coach with access only to athletes, uh, athletics warm up area and training venues. The decision to provide him with that access was based on the understanding that his probation with the U.
- Center for Safe Sport ended in May this year, that he had no other suspensions or sanctions and otherwise met our eligibility requirements. On Sunday, August 4th, we learned of new information about the appropriate of him remaining accredited by Team Canada and, uh, in discussion with Athletics Canada, it was agreed that his accreditation be revoked.
This happens to be the coach of, um, Andre DeGrasse and, uh, Marcel Jacobs. Oh,
Alison: geez. So their personal coach was removed from access to training venues.
Jill: So that was when I, when I started putting stuff together, I’m like, Oh, this is why we got this random email.
Alison: Yeah. But I mean, the one, the one thing that, that we are, I think we’re really struggling with is the amount of information that we have both access to and that comes at us.
We get several dozen Doesn’t,
Jill: I feel like we get like a hundred emails a day.
Alison: It does feel that way. And sometimes if it’s a name we recognize or we can kind of put two and two together because we’ve heard this rumor or we, we saw this news headline, but this, I said, Oh, what is this? And then just put it out of my head.
Jill: Yeah.
Alison: Now this makes a lot more sense. Exactly. Exactly. Also competing
Jill: in the 200 meter, Noah Lyles. He was in the second heat. He finished second in his heat, but he qualified. So I think he, he’s. Just going on that. I just need to qualify thing. We had discus throw finals, um, Lithuania’s Mikolas Alenka threw a 6’9.
97 meters with his second throw. He took down his father’s Olympic record.
Alison: Nice.
Jill: Which was, uh, which his father got at Athens 2004.
Alison: That’s a long time for a field record to stand. Exactly.
Jill: And that, but it didn’t stand for very long because Jamaica’s Roy Estona, uh, threw 70 point, 70 meters flat a little bit later.
And so, and that took the gold medal. Uh, Roy’s from Jamaica. His coach is Ryan Krauser, our shot put champion. Yes.
Alison: Wait a second. Wait, wait. Wait. So Ryan Krauser, along with winning his own third gold medal, is now coaching other throwers and they’re winning medals. Yes. Because Ryan Krauser just can’t control the world of throwing enough.
No. And I am here for it.
Jill: Exactly. So my mind is getting blown in a myriad of ways right now. Um, so, uh, Stona wins gold for Jamaica, um, Mika Lisalenka from Lithuania got the silver, and Matthew Denny from Australia got the bronze. So
Alison: did they,
Jill: did they
Alison: I don’t even know how to ask this question. Was Ryan Krauser there?
Like, did they ever show him on the screen?
Jill: Um, I did not notice because I, I was focused in the other direction. I was focused in the other direction and I had, um, there was also triple dome qualification. So I ended up putting that on the, the monitor in front of me and I probably should have put discus on instead.
Alison: Okay. So American TV audiences, did we see coach Krauser hanging out?
Jill: Good question. men’s 400 meter final.
Alison: I was watching this on the feed here in the media center.
Jill: Oh my gosh. Uh, America’s Quincy Hall was fourth going into the final turn and you just saw on his face. He was making this happen. He hurt so badly. It must have been, but his, he was just determined and did it. He won gold.
That’s the first US gold since 2008. He managed to sneak in ahead of Matthew Hudson Smith from Great Britain who took silver and Missoulu Samakonga from Zambia who got the bronze.
Alison: We were sitting here, another, uh, journalist and I, and as we’re watching it, all of a sudden we both pop up and started making noises and we’re just, Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, because he’s a 400.
So there’s, there’s almost time to see it happen. And it just kept happening. He kept moving up. Yeah. It was
Jill: incredible. Great race. It was really incredible. And it was also fun to watch how they, the volunteers take off some of the blocks so they don’t cover the finish area and they can run through, but not all of the blocks.
Oh,
Alison: they didn’t?
Jill: I don’t think so, no.
Alison: Huh.
Jill: So that was interesting. And the final, uh, we had Men’s Triple Dome qualifying, but the final, uh, event of the night was the Men’s 3, 000 Meter Steeplechase.
Alison: Okay, now you got to see the steeplechase. Did it feel odd to you like it felt to me?
Jill: No, I, I dig steeplechase.
Oh, see, now that’s interesting. So, and I, I have found an article that I have not read yet about the history of steeplechase, so we’ll work on that.
Alison: Okay, good. Why, why are we making people into horses?
Jill: Right. But I think it’s, I think it’s a cool event.
Alison: I think it’s a cool event too. I was just so confused by it.
Jill: Well, um, this was some race because on the last lap, uh, world record holder, Lamiche Grima from Ethiopia fell headfirst onto the track after clipping his knee on the hurdle. And he was down for, he just didn’t, they took him off on a stretcher, but he was down, everybody finished, not moving. Uh, he’s been hospitalized.
Apparently the injury is not life threatening, but he’s going to need time to recover. So, best wishes to you, uh, Lamiche. That, that was really scary to see, to be quite honest. Uh, gold, and this went to Sufjani El Bakali from Morocco. Kenneth Rooks from the USA took silver and Abraham Kibowat from Kenya took bronze.
Basketball, it’s getting good. Women’s quarterfinals, uh, Australia beat Serbia, 85 67. Belgium beat Spain 79 66. France beat Germany 84 71. Producer Ben was watching this, said it was very intense.
Alison: I think he was being kind and slightly reserved in his opinion on this one.
Jill: And then USA beat Nigeria 88
Alison: So the women’s semifinals on Friday will be France versus Belgium and USA versus Australia.
Jill: Beach Volleyball, we had women’s quarterfinals tonight, Brazil, or Canada’s.
Alison: Okay, I’m gonna, let me explain this, because I have been so confused when we’ve been doing results and we keep saying Melissa and Brandy, they’ve gone the Brazilian route of using their first names.
This is Humana Paradis and Wilkerson. This is the same Canadian beach volleyball team we’ve had for quite a few years. So if you have been equally confused, it’s the same people. But they’re just now Melissa and Brandy.
Jill: All right. And they beat Alvarez and Moreno from Spain 2 0. And then Ana Patricia and Duda from Brazil beat Tina and Anastasia from Latvia 2 0.
This is setting up some classic big names in the, uh, sport. So your, your semifinals are going to be huge. We also had men’s quarterfinals. Mol and Sorm from Norway beat Herrera and Gavira from Spain 2 0. And, uh, Sheriff and Ahmed from Qatar beat Partin and Banesh from USA 2 0. In boxing, we had some more finals.
Tonight was the men’s 63. 5 kilograms. Gold went to Erislandy Alvarez Borges from Cuba. There we go. They’ve been boxing, finally. Uh, silver went to Sofiane Ouima. From France, and the bronzes went to, uh, Lasha Guruli from Georgia and Sanford, or Wyatt Sanford from Canada. In the men’s 80kg final, gold went to Oleksandr Kishnigok from Ukraine.
Silver went to Nurbek Olar uh, Ororbi Bey from Russia. Kazakhstan and bronzes went to Arlen Lopez Cardona from Cuba and Christian Javier Pinales from Dominican Republic. And then we had bronze medal matches in the men’s 92 kilogram or plus 92 kilograms. Those went to Jamili Dini Abudu. Mwanza from France and Melvi Rama Tiavak from Germany and then the women’s 57 kilogram bronzes went to Ezra Yildiz Karaman from Turkey and Nesti Padesio from Philippines.
Sorry, Patrick, if I pronounce it wrong, but another medal for Philippines.
Alison: Philippines is having, Philippines, Ireland, they’re having games that they just, you know, haven’t seen before. It’s fantastic.
Jill: Exactly. We’ve had, um, in canoe sprint, there were, um, heats and quarterfinals of the men’s and women’s C1 event and K2 event.
Our Nevin Harrison competes in heat two tomorrow. In diving, we had men’s three meter springboard semifinals. You were here.
Alison: I was at the women’s. Okay. But, uh, in the three springboard semis, our Andrew Capobianco did not qualify for the finals. He finished up in 15th. I then was there for the women’s three meter springboard prelims and Alison Gibson is not one of her people, but I did want to mention that on her first dive, she was doing an inward and just foot slipped, blew the dive, got a zero, never recovered.
And it was such a strange slip. She kept, when she came out of the pool, she kept looking at her foot. So I don’t know if she ended up getting hurt or was hurt previously. It was one of those moments where We all know this can happen in diving and we’ve all seen it on TV, but to see it in person where just clearly this is a failed dive and there’s that split second of absolute terror of everyone in the audience saying, is this kid just going to slam her head against the board or really get hurt?
It reminds you how hard these things are because they make it look so easy. And you think, Oh, three meter springboard, that’s not 10 meter platform. They’re not going to get hurt. Oh yeah. Yeah. They are going to get hurt.
Jill: They go high. They go really high. They don’t fool
Alison: around and they double and triple bounce.
And it, it is a beautiful sport. I love it. And it is scary when that happens.
Jill: I will say when I saw Diving Practice, it was so much more fun to watch diving in person than it is on TV, even though I do like watching diving on TV, but it’s much easier to see things in person. And we always wondered how judges can make these calls so quickly.
It’s just, it’s a lot easier to see live. I guess it’s a little bit more 3D, obviously, because you’re here. It’s not flat.
Alison: But the judges in a box were just, they throw those scores up. So quickly. And what’s amazing to me today, I noticed it more than in, in other competitions, lot of consistency. You know, you would get six, six and a half straight across the board.
You know, there was not a lot of spread in, in most of these scores, which is reassuring in that we’re seeing a consistency in the scoring, but also how fast they just look and go, boom. They hit their little squirt. I don’t know what that thing is that they’re holding, but they hold it. They don’t even look at it.
They just hit a button. I was watching the judges in a box.
Jill: They’re pros.
Alison: They are pros and they are amazing.
Jill: In golf, we had the women’s round one, uh, in leading ahead is a Celine Boutier from France. She is seven under par. Second is Ashley Buhai from South Africa. She is four under, and then we have four tied for third place at two under.
I forgot to mention that after my experience at skateboarding, I actually looked up how to get to golf because I thought, well, that might be fun.
Alison: What is wrong with you?
Jill: Well, I was sick. Okay.
Alison: I’m gonna, you know, that could be the end of the show if you go to golf.
Jill: That would have been funny though, if I just showed up and went, well, I went to golf today.
I would have been, and I know people like, I know some of you like golf and like Olympic golf. It’s just not for us. We don’t. Well, then I’m, cause I wondered like, what do you do when you watch, like as press, how do you watch a golf tournament?
Alison: You don’t. Is what you do. But how, would it have been hard? Was it very far away?
Jill: It was hard to get to, so. Not going to go see golf.
In handball we had men’s quarterfinals today. Oh my goodness. Yes, we did. First up, uh, Spain beat Egypt 29 28. Spain was trailing Egypt by one point with 30 seconds left. They scored, sent the contest into overtime. They both got gold and extra play. Alex Gomez got a penalty shot with 25 seconds left. Gave them a 29 28 win.
That was exciting. Then we had France and Germany and we saw a little bit of this on TV this morning Because again, I was watching France’s ADD coverage of the games because it would really be okay. We’re gonna watch France do this We’ve got to cut to France doing that. We’re gonna cut back to this.
We’re gonna cut to that We’re gonna show you a race and in the middle of a race, let’s cut to commercial and then we’ll show you another race But oh, it’s the One o’clock in the afternoon. So we have news time. It’s news time. And then you have to remember, let me go to the other France channel because then that the race is on and still going.
Alison: Right. Because there’s three channels on the, on tell, I guess this is normal television, not the Euro sport streaming that will have coverage during the day.
Jill: Yes. So we had a little bit of handball on and, and we didn’t stay and watch the whole game. Probably a mistake. Germany beats France 35 34. When I saw this final score, I was shocked because France was winning by a few, a couple of goals and maybe, maybe a minute, minute and a half left.
And they decided to pull their goalie. That was a mistake because Germany caught up. They were ahead by like four goals. All you needed to do was keep your goalie in. And why would you do that? I don’t know. I don’t know.
Alison: I mean, I understand pulling the goalie in hockey when you’re losing to try and get the extra skater.
But what could possibly be the logic?
Jill: Don’t
Alison: know.
Jill: We should ask her friend, Chris.
Alison: Yeah. Chris will know.
Jill: Yes. Um, we’ll find out.
So they went into extra time, and, uh, Then, they had, uh, They tied again, 15 seconds left. Four seconds to go. Germany scores. And Germany gets into the, to the last match, uh, last international match for Nicole, Nicola Karabatic, who got a standing ovation from the crowd. He’s now retiring, uh, from France. So this is the first time in 20 years that France’s men’s handball team will not be in the semifinals.
And Germany progresses to face Spain. In the other quarterfinals, Denmark beat Sweden 32 31 and Slovenia beat Norway 33 28.
Alison: I mean, we knew handball has been fun and these matches have been tight, but these men’s quarters are really tight.
Jill: Yes, it’s going to be incredible. If you’re in Lille and you’ve got tickets, they’ve got to be amazing.
In hockey, go ahead. In hockey, we’ve had a women’s semifinals. Netherlands beat Argentina 3 0. This is a Netherlands sixth successive Olympic final. Uh, so that’s going to be one to watch. And then China beat Belgium. They were tied 1 1 and China won the penalty shootout 3 2. So
Alison: many. Extra time, penalty shootouts, all of the team tournaments, with the exception pretty much of basketball, have been so tight.
We keep saying, Oh, it was tied at the end of regulation, water polo, volleyball has been close, which is great because that means that the sports worldwide. are, are a lot of these teams are moving up and you’re not having one or two teams dominate and the tournaments become so much more interesting and exciting.
Jill: And, and people who thought they paid a lot for their tickets got extra play.
Alison: Also a bonus.
Jill: In sailing, uh, some of the races have been rescheduled to tomorrow. They had some weather, but they were able to finish the men’s dinghy medal race. The
Alison: men’s dinghy. We
Jill: still have a couple more days to say dinghy too.
Uh, gold went to Australia’s Matt Wern. Uh, silver went to Pablo’s Contidas from Cyprus. And bronze went to Stefano Pesceira from Peru. So Wern is the first man to win back to back gold medals in this class. He has successfully defended his Tokyo title. Uh, Contidas is a silver medalist from London, 2012.
And, uh, he got silver again now. So that was really cool. And then, uh, The battle for bronze, uh, Peshira got it at the wire. They got, he got course penalties along with the man in fourth, uh, Michael Beckett from Great Britain. Uh, but, uh, Peshira was able to hold on to third for over overall points. Oh, this is just Cyprus’s second Olympic medal.
Wait, didn’t
Alison: Contetus have two medals now? So does that mean he’s the only Cypriot to Yes. Medalist? Yes.
Jill: And then Pesceira won Peru’s first Olympic medal in any sport since 1992.
Alison: We’ve been saying that a lot. South America has also done. We said Colombia and Central America with Guatemala, and just the, I’ll be very excited to really take a good look at the medal table when we’re done, because I think we’re going to see, especially in comparison, we’re going to see more countries on the medal table.
Then we’ve seen in in recent Olympics and also more countries with multiple medals like there’s always a whole list of one I think we’re gonna see a whole bunch of threes and fours that we’re not used to seeing
Jill: You know what? I’m bummed about that didn’t happen. Remember San Marino picked up their first medals in Tokyo and they just weren’t shooting That’s time.
I don’t I don’t know what happened but I, I was bummed to not see them come across on the, uh, medal results, but that’s okay. Still, we’ve had a great distribution. Uh, in the women’s dinghy race, Gold went to Merit Bowmeister. She is a three time Olympic medalist. Uh, no, no, she’s four time Olympic medalist.
She is the most successful woman in women in, in Olympic sailing. Silver went to Anne Marie Rindem from Denmark and bronze went to Lind Flem Host from Norway.
Alison: Then we got some skateboarding, men’s park, finals. The gold went to Australia’s Keegan Palmer, uh, silver to Tom Share of the United States and bronze to Augusto Akiyo from Brazil. Oh, look at these ages.
Jill: Yeah.
Alison: 21, 24 and 23 respectively. Yeah. So I’ve been having conversations about medalists on some social media, which is always a bad place to have conversations.
And people seem to keep making the argument at me that, Oh, girls really have only been able to do competitive skateboarding for the past 10 years.
Jill: So then why aren’t they? older girls who were like, you know, skater
Alison: girls. To which I say BS, first of all, I don’t think that that’s really true because, okay, it was in Tokyo.
And if it was in Tokyo, there had to be a, a robust enough international competition for the IOC to allow skateboarding to be even in, which means you have had to have had a world championship. a couple of years prior to this election. So I think this girls have only competed for 10 years is a little, I think it’s a little bit of a false flag.
Yes. Women and girls were kept out of skateboarding and it was a very misogynistic environment. All of that is true. To which I say, where are the 16 year olds from Tokyo? Why are they still not competing? And we’re not seeing 19 and 20 year olds. Why are we still seeing 13, 14, 15?
Jill: Yes, that was on my list and I did not look.
So, back on the list with skateboarding. But yes, even if they’ve only been competing for 10 years, you would have somebody who, who maybe was 9 or 10. And that’s plenty early to pick up a sport.
Alison: Right. And means Kai Brown came back. She was 13 at the time. So she came back at 16. And at 16, she’s old for the sport.
There’s something wrong in the sport. If that’s your, your age range, there’s something not okay happening there. And I will, you cannot convince me otherwise. Cause we’ve seen this and I will scream this from the rooftops when we look at how much better gymnastics is this time around when we’ve got women in their twenties on the podium.
They’re healthier. The sport is better. The competition is way more fun. And we as fans don’t have to feel icky watching the sport.
Jill: In sport climbing, we had a semi finals of men’s boulder and lead, and then we had the women’s speed finals. Gold went to Aleksandr Miroslav from Poland, silver went to Deng Lijuan from China, and bronze went to Aleksandr Kaluka from Poland.
Alison: I got taken to task a little bit. Yeah, I saw that. On the Facebook group for not enjoying sport climbing, to which I will say this.
I will try it again from the comfort of my living room in some shade with a drink with ice. And I’m sure I will like it very well from that position.
Jill: I’m sorry I haven’t been able to make it out there. And that’s just, it’s just one of those things with scheduling. It’s not going to happen, but
Alison: you don’t want to see the queens of Paris.
It’s like Queens, New York, because it’s right by the airport, and the neighborhood is very similar.
Jill: I do want to see it, but it’s just, it’s not going to work out. Table tennis, we had women’s quarterfinals and men’s quarterfinals and some men’s team semifinals action. In the women’s quarterfinals, China beat Taipei 3 0.
Germany beat India 3 1. In the men’s, China beat Korea 3 0 and France beat Brazil 3 0. So we’re going to have some excitement going on in table tennis. Then we saw the end of the semifinals between Sweden and Japan. That went the limit.
Alison: So Sweden beat Japan 3 2 and we got to watch the celebration on the feed.
And apparently nobody celebrates the way the Swedish table tennis team celebrates. Knocking down barriers. Haha. Throwing, uh, uh, paddles in the air was great.
Jill: And Japan put up what an effort and the man who lost the final point was just, he was devastated, but I will say good for his coach for being like, Hey, you did a great job.
Alison: Yeah. Let’s get back and we’ll grow in for the bronze. Yeah, exactly. Keep your spirits up.
Jill: Yeah. But that was, that was a stunner in Taekwondo. We had a men’s 58 kilogram final gold went to Park Tae joon from Korea, uh, just age 20. He was dominant against, uh, the silver medalist, uh, Ghashim Magarovov from Azerbaijan.
In the second round, uh, the Azerbaijani withdrew. So I don’t know what caused that. We had a little bit of Taekwondo action on, we saw a little bit of, one of the bronze medalists earlier action. We were more. wondering how men’s bodies could kick backwards like that and hit somebody in the head.
That’s what always gets me on Taekwondo. How you can maneuver your body to like kick backwards and still face forwards and whip it around and kick somebody in the head.
I don’t know, man. I just don’t know. But,
bronzes went to Syrian Marvette from France and Muhammad Khalil Jandubi from From Tunisia.
Alison: I can try to do the women’s results, but I know you practice, but I’m going to try. So, uh, in the women’s 49 kilograms, gold went to Penapak, Wong Patek Nakhit from Thailand. Uh, silver went to Kwao Kee. from China. Bronzes went to, uh, Lena Stokovich from Croatia and Mobina Nematzadeh from, uh, Iran.
Jill: And, uh, Pani Pak is the defending champion.
So she has won two in a row. First Thai athlete in any sport to become a two time Olympic champion. In track cycling, we had a bunch of, Excuse me, early rounds in the men’s sprint. I saw a little bit of early rounds in the Kirin.
Alison: Oh, you do love a good Kirin. I love the
Jill: Kirin. But we
Alison: did get some medals for men’s team pursuit.
Uh, gold went to Australia. Silver went to great Britain, bronze to Italy. Um, Oh, and then in the women’s team pursuit. Wait, wait, wait,
Jill: wait, wait, wait. In the men’s. Oh, you have men’s. Australia hasn’t won this title for 20 years.
Alison: Oh, we, we love a good comeback.
Jill: Yes, exactly.
Alison: And in the women’s team pursuit, gold goes to the United States, silver to New Zealand, go silver ferns, and bronze to Great Britain.
But look at this list of, uh, cyclists for the United States, Kristen Faulkner. Who wasn’t even supposed to be on the team is coming away with two gold medals out of these Olympics. She is
Jill: now the third woman to win gold medals in two different disciplines. So that’s track cycling and road cycling at one games.
The others are Leon Tjens Zilliard van Morsel from the Netherlands who won in track and road cycling as well in 2000 and Esther Ledeska from Czechia in Alpine skiing and snowboarding in 2018.
In volleyball we had
Alison: I was going to try and save you a little bit. We had men’s semifinals. So Poland beat the United States 3 2 and France beat Italy 3 0. So Poland and France will be playing for the gold medal.
Jill: And that is Poland’s first gold medal match since 1976. So this is exciting. And they didn’t have their libero from, uh, for during the third set because, uh, Paweł Zatorski.
got injured. They didn’t have a replacement. So they went without. And they, they seem to do
Alison: okay. Yeah. Seem to work out for them.
Jill: Yes, exactly.
Alison: Then we had some men’s quarterfinal action over in water polo. Uh, Croatia beat Spain, 10, eight Greece beat Serbia. No, excuse me. Serbia beat Greece, 12, 11 hungry beat Italy, 12, 10 and the U S.
beat Australia in an absolute barn burner. 11 to 10. It was an overtime shootout.
Jill: In weightlifting, we had, uh, first medals, I think. Yeah, this is it.
Alison: Yep. This is first medals for weightlifting. It was the men’s 61 kilogram, which included, oh, a little Shook Flastani called Hampton Morris. Oh, look. Gold went to, uh, Li Feibin with an Olympic record from China. Silver went to Therapong Selache from Thailand.
And, ooh, bronze went to Hampton Morris from the United States and Shuklastan. Exactly. Which means that the United States won its first men’s weightlifting medal since 1984. How is that possible?
Jill: And Li Fabin, second, two time defended his title. Um, then we had the women’s 49 kilogram.
Alison: Yep. So gold went to Hu Zhiyu for China. She had an Olympic record for the clean and jerk portion of the competition. Silver went to Mahalia Valentina Campe from Romania. And bronze went to Surichana Kambakbao from Thailand.
And our Jordan Delacruz finished fifth.
Jill: Wrestling, it was a crazy day in wrestling today. And a lot happened. So we talked yesterday about India’s Vinesh Vinesh going to be in the finals first. It was going to be India’s best metal performance ever in women’s wrestling. She did not make weight today. And not
Alison: weight by over a hundred grams.
Yes. Just a hundred grams over the line. That’s like nothing. That’s like a cup of water. I, I don’t even understand how that’s possible.
Jill: Right. But sadly she did fail the weigh in. Uh, who she beat in the semifinals that was, uh, Yslaenis Guzman Lopez got elevated to the final match. And then, um, Suzaki Yui and Livach Oksan became a bronze medal match.
So in that, uh, women’s freestyle, 50 kilograms, Sarah and Hildebrandt from the U S ended up winning gold,
Alison: which I think is the best U S wrestling result
Jill: so far.
Alison: So far,
Jill: I believe. Well, no, we had Elora Ahmed. Oh, that’s right.
Alison: That’s right.
Jill: Um, so, uh, you slain, uh, you slain this, uh, Guzman Lopez from Cuba won silver and Sasaki Yuki.
Yui and, uh, Fung FG from China won the bronzes. Then we had Men’s Greco-Roman 77 kilogram finals. Gold went to uh, au from Japan. Silver went to Deu Z Drive from Kazakhstan, and bronzes went to, uh, Maas am moan from Armenia and Ul Maol from Kirstan. And then in the men’s Greco Roman, 97 kilograms. Gold went to Mohammadi Sohrabi from, uh, Iran.
Silver went to Arturo Akselanyan, Akselayan, Alexia, Artur Aleksanyan, I’m having trouble with this. And I’ve said Greco Roman really well today. You
Alison: did! I didn’t want to jinx you by saying anything.
Jill: So, Alexian from Armenia won silver. And Gabriel Alejandro Garcia Quindalan from Cuba won bronze. Along with Uzor Jusopikov.
from Kyrgyzstan.
Alison: Kyrgyzstan. There was a, when I went to wrestling, I don’t even remember what day that was. There was a big, uh, Kyrgyzstan group with the hats outside doing a whole chant and taking pictures and, and making a, a, a big spectacle, which is fantastic. So clearly the, the Kyrgyzstanis were in the house for these events.
Excellent. And
Jill: that
Alison: concludes
Jill: today. It’s been a good day.
Alison: It’s been a wild day. I’m a little tired.
Jill: I’m tired as well, but I’m at least feeling better.
Alison: I’m so glad. And I, I tried to pick up a little from you. I know everyone’s probably yelling at me going, Alison, do the results. I don’t do the results because I murder everybody’s name and I feel terrible about it.
Jill: Well I just murdered poor Arturo’s name. But you
Alison: can just be, I’m sick, I couldn’t do it. But you know who never murders anything is our mascot, Theodore. He’s perfect.
Jill: He is an angel.
Alison: And he is the official mascot for Chekhovsan for the last two days of the Olympics. Theo has two human brothers that he has taught to cause all kinds of trouble.
Good. Can you imagine the three of them? Oh my gosh, must be mayhem with superfan Sarah. So thank you to Sarah for sharing Theo with us and for supporting our Kickstarter campaign that got us to Paris. And we have more medals than Shook La Sta. We do. So we added a silver, uh, three silvers and a bronze. So we have six golds, seven silvers and five bronze.
Doing well. And tomorrow is going to be another big day in Choclestown. Okay, I can handle this because I know these names. Kenny Ben Narek and Team USA run in the first round of the men’s 4×100 meter relay. But Kenny’s also running in the finals of the men’s 200. Jess Davis Savner starts competition in modern pentathlon with the fencing ranking round.
Evita Grishkenis competes in individual qualification for rhythmic gymnastics. Brooke Raboteau continues in the semis of the women’s combined event in sport climbing. Team USA faces Australia in the semi finals of women’s water polo and Team USA faces Brazil in the, wait, no, I switched that. No, I had it.
Team USA faces Brazil in the semifinals of women’s volleyball. I need to trust my notes. There you go. And some Kickstarter shout out. So thank you to some more people who helped get us to Paris. So Meredith Briskey, Jason Bryant, George Herthler. Who? The Dulcet Tones of Jason Bryant, George Herthler, and Pete Malinowski.
Jill: Thank you all so much for supporting us and making sure we got here. And speaking of the Dulcet Tones of Jason Bryant, he is selling his wrestling guide that’s got everything you need to know to watch these games. Well, including name pronunciations, which I used, you had it in the notes, I had it in the notes and I just couldn’t spit it out right.
But they’re excellent. Oh my gosh, those name pronunciations are excellent. And as is a lot of the history that he puts in and work he puts into the guide. You can save 5 if you use discount code flame alive. That’s at matttalkonline. com slash Paris. And that is going to do it for this episode. Special thank you to our researcher, Annalee Davel.
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