to the Cheeky Armchair Expert Daily Recap for Tuesday the 6th of August. We are going to talk through the key events from last night, including the Men's 1500m Finals and then the Women's 1500m Heats, and then preview what's to come for the events kicking off on Wednesday. How are you Going Phoebe?
thanks Anna, Brad and Early here in Australia. How are you?
know, you are actually looking very bubbly and bright
Am
5 11 a. m.
I'm, I'm still pumping full of adrenaline after that men's 1500m final.
Oh my gosh, that was insane. Should we, should we kick off with that?
Yeah, I reckon. I'm so keen to debrief it with you.
So keen. So the men's 1500 final finished, what, approximately 10 minutes ago. and as, like, if people aren't aware, there is huge rivalry in the men's 1500 between The Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen and the great British athlete Josh Kerr, have a Google of the, conflict. They've both been pretty open, about their, disdain for each other and how they just think that the other per they're better than the other person. The gun went.
Oh wait, but before the gun went, I have a question. What did you genuinely think was going to happen?
Um, I thought Inga Britson was going to win easily.
Really?
Yeah. What did you think? And I thought Josh would come second. Josh
Ethan, did you come second? I was watching the line up at the start, and I thought Inga Britton looked so nervous. I thought he
Oh, really?
Yeah, and I was like, Oh, I don't think he's got this. Cause Josh Kyle looks like. So focused in the zone, like loving life. And I was like, okay, Josh, it looks like he's in a way
He's, Yeah. like head's face. Yep.
But I didn't predict what actually happened. So
actually
through that. Yeah. Talk us through what, how did the race go?
so the first lap, it was, it was Interesting. because I wasn't sure. if it would just be very much like tactical cat and mouse, like, or if they would actually go for it, but they like set a pretty good pace right from the start. which I quite, I like that because then I feel like it means, I like fast timed races in the sense that it means that I feel like the best person wins rather than just being like the most strategic, I guess.
They were like all, they were pretty much all bunched up like in a, in a single file, but in like the whole pack was together for the better part of like all majority of the race, really. but like Ingebrigtsen at the, at the front. As, but which is to be expected.
yeah, and why, why is that to be expected? Why does he like to go out and push the pace?
I think because he's racing style. I mean, he's been so dominant for a long time, uh, particularly in, like he's, I think he's the fastest on paper.
Yeah, yeah,
yeah. And so I think he's sort of a race strategy, which is fair enough is just to go as hard as possible because he believes that he's actually just Yeah. naturally faster than everyone else. So it's like he'll make them push until they can't hold on anymore. and were you surprised to see like Josh not going in front, Josh Kerr not going in front at all?
Um, nah. Yeah, no, I thought Kerr would come around with, would attempt to come around with a few hundred metres to go if he was still in the picture. It would take two hundred metres to go because he's, he's obviously, he's got an incredible kick and apparently has been like, all he's been doing is working on his English.
Kick and it's whole game plan was just like, keep up with Ingebrigtsen for as long as possible and kick past him and so yeah, let's talk about like those final few hundred meters because basically even though Ingebrigtsen was pushing the pace a lot, he still had kind of four people with
Mm. Right on him. Yeah.
Yeah, and, and
There was actually with 300 meters to go. or 350 meters to go,, Dave actually made the comment that it was, Ingebrigtsen, Kerr, Chariot, the Kenyan, and then it was USA456.
Yeah, they did so
Which is insane. Yeah. and then Inga Britson actually put a little bit of space into them with like 200. and then Josh Coyher bridged that gap and then, so coming around with 120, 100 meters to go, Josh Coyher had come on the outside of Inga Britson, but I'll say, I say they were like still pretty even.
Yeah, yeah. And, you know when I knew that Ingrid's wasn't gonna win? He was like looking up at the camera
At the screen, yeah, I saw that.
on the screen, yeah,
can't be doing that.
yeah, he's, he's not in the zone. He's not, he's obviously not feeling good, because he keeps checking on where they are.
Yeah. I get people that do that In semi finals and stuff, but surely, look, it's a hundred metres to go. You're not looking anywhere but the finish line.
well it just shows how much he was hurting, because he was like, Have I held them off? Where are they? And he hadn't, and so it was this, so basically, It's, Ingebrigtsen coming into the straight, and Kerr is coming around him on the outside, and neither of them seem to really notice.
It's Cole Hawker, the American runner, sneaking up on the inside, and then all of a sudden like the three of them are neck and neck, but it's Cole and Kerr who are able to push past, and then it was Cole who actually took out the gold medal, and the wildest thing is that Yara Neguse, who's another American runner, he, he
Crowd favourite. I like him. He seems really nice.
Yeah, he seems really
just very smiley. Just seems quite genuine.
Yep, yep, and he came around and he actually took Ingebrigtsen pretty much on the line to get bronze
Yeah,
is just
insane So the favorite of the race and the world record holder didn't even finish with the ME medal.
The medal, do you know what I really found? When he was like, out there just like, pushing the pace, pushing the pace, I weirdly was rooting for him, Ingebrigtsen, even though like, I don't,
Even though you don't really like him
and I, he's not the underdog, and yeah, but when he was
so
like, Just, I don't know, but he was putting it on the line and like pushing as hard as he could. I was like, God, you want this so badly.
bad. Yeah,
you have wanted this more than anyone. Like this means more to you than anyone. And I was like, maybe I want him to win. But then I was, I was really happy with what happened. So,
yeah.
came first, third, and fifth, Hobbes Kessler came fifth, who is a collegiate athlete.
cool I feel like there's a lot to, I mean, this could be like a whole episode. I feel like there's a lot to unpack about the U. S. athletics team. Um, particularly, and I don't know what it comes down to, I just feel like they perform so well on the biggest stage, like in the Olympics. Like, none of their PB's, their PB's, it's not as though them as a country, their PB's are like, you know, on another level to other nations.
But I wonder, like, the only thing that I can think of is, how their trials is like life and death. doesn't matter who you are, doesn't matter how many world records you have, or how many Olympic gold medals you have, if you're not the top three,
Yeah.
you don't get in. And I almost, I wonder if the practice of that, only a couple months before, of that really, really cutthroat nature translates well over to when the games actually start?
That's so interesting because, yeah, it does, it indicates that it would, it would favour people who can perform under pressure.
Yeah, and it's the same. Like, their swimming team is the same. So, they, um, have always done that. So, they've had their trials, like, not long before the Olympic Games. And whoever is in their, like, top two, they go. No one else does. And I remember Australia actually changed their swimming selection policy because we used to pick the team like quite a long way out. and then never really performed quite as well as just say like America, for instance, at the actual games.
Whereas now ours is the same. it doesn't matter who you are. What world record do you have? If you're not in the top two at the Australian Olympic trials for swimming, you don't get to go. And so like, I mean, the proof's in the pudding, like this year we, we have more golds than U S in the swimming. Um, and obviously that's just like the nature of like the generation that's coming up. But Yeah. I don't know. I feel like there's, I feel like there's, there's something in that.
Especially when, I mean, our athletics, not that our selection is anything like that. But even our nationals, where we do a lot of our selecting, is what, months before the Olympics. Um, but
far.
that
It's like four months beforehand, and it's also not cutthroat. like it's not, if you're, yeah.
I feel like they just can't rely on Australian athletes coming back to Australia.
Mmm, yeah,
the Australian are know, all going to be in Europe for that season, or they live in the U. S. And it's actually a lot to ask them to Pay to come back to compete at something that's not even like guaranteed selection. So, I
Yeah.
so
to say that you need the Australian Olympics? Oh, I mean, I was going to say, who's to say you need the Australian Olympic Trials in Australia, but I mean, for people that are sort of like the underdogs or may just have like a stellar performance that like they might not actually travel somewhere else. Yeah.
Yeah. Cause, cause even like, and you know, Kenya obviously have their trials, have their trials in the U S right for some of their
Hmm, for the 10k, yeah.
but they have, you know, 40 people who could qualify for the 10 K and they just find them all over. Whereas we've got so many up and coming juniors who are breakout stars each year. And
yeah. but I remember even with the Kenyan, the trials, there was a lot of talk about only obviously the ones that were already sponsored could afford to fly over
Yeah, yeah,
and comers who are, aren't well funded, well supported, who's to say that they might not have um, like one or placed in the top three. So Yeah, Anyway. all right. Onto the, should we chat about the women's 1500 heats that took place this morning?
Let's do it. Um, so three Aussies in three separate heats.
Yeah. I liked that.
Yeah, I did too. I don't know if they do that on purpose, but I feel like that's happened with a lot of the events. The Aussies are in separate heat. So we had, Georgia Griffith in heat number one, we had Lyndon Hall in heat number two, and then we had Jess Hull in heat number three. how did heat number one go, Anna?
So Georgia Griffith was in heat one. and she looks, she looked really good. She sort of stayed out of trouble, was up the front in the top three or four. The whole race. But she always looked very comfortable. Like you would have thought, well I sort of thought just looking at it, that, they must be going well. Slow ish, just because she looked so good. but they didn't like, she finished in, she broke four minutes, which I think she's only actually done twice before.
So, that is a, Yeah, that's a really, really good sign, I think. I just, like she was never in doubt. And she finished quite comfortably. So there's three heats, the top six go through to the semi finals, and the rest go to the record charge. So she came fourth, but it was all within, you know, The first place was in, within half a second, and that was Segai, who, one, ended up winning her heat, who's one of the favorites, I guess, as well, and, who you all might, recognize her name from.
She was in the 1500 last night that sort of like famously had that, battle with Faith Kipyagon. And then the past Olympic medal winner, Laura Muir, was second in a heat. But yeah, Georgia just, she ran really well. It was a tough heat, yeah.
I loved how she positioned herself, I feel like. Right from the start, her intention was clear, which is, I'm making it through to the semis. Like I'm not, just because she hasn't, she's hasn't competed at the Olympics for this event before, et cetera. But she was like, nah, I deserve to be in the semis. I'm putting myself in a position to be there. And she did it.
Yeah.
Well done,
No. Well done, Georgia. what about Heat two?
2 was Linden Hall. this was a really tricky one, so straight off the bat, it was, it slowed up really quickly.
Mm.
like, trips and pushes. It looked really, like, drossly in there. And Linden, obviously, A, wanted to get out of there, and B, wanted to push the pace a little bit. And, so, Lyndon went to the front pretty much straight away, and led the entire race, which is like a lot of heavy lifting to do,
Mm.
not her, like, necessarily her natural race style, I'd say. and then, yeah, with a few hundred meters to go, she got kicked past pretty much by, I think she ended up coming back I want to say
She came Eighth, yeah. With sort of like three fifty meters to go, she just sort of got swallowed up And never really looked in it really.
yeah, it was surprising because she definitely, I was like very confident that she'd get through and like looking at her times, she showed up. So I think everyone was like, well what happened there? Was it from like, you know, doing too much heavy lifting and the leading? But then it's come out since, that. And, she's confirmed this, that she actually tore her calf ten days before the game started, and she decided to race anyway. which is, that's insane. Like, what do you think of that?
Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's, I don't know the, like, I don't know the full details. I mean, I assume it's okay, because you genuinely just wouldn't be able to actually run if you had, like, A high grade, tear. So, assuming it's, like, safe ish for her to run, but yeah, so good.
tear, yeah.
Yeah. but like she didn't look, but obviously it was like such a hindrance and would have really interrupted her training. but the thing that I thought was good, I mean she obviously didn't have like the kick at the end and I wonder if that maybe was part of like the calf. Because I assume you wouldn't be able to really Increase your speed heaps because you're like way more up on your toes, but I'm also no, um, running technique expert. Um, but Yeah. I think it's a, it's amazing job.
really feel for her. Like she came fourth at the last Olympics in the final and she would have been really good. Oh six, sorry, six, sorry. Um, she would have been like really gunning for, um, the final. So I just, I hope her calf has like pulled up okay for the repercharge, which is tomorrow.
yeah, I mean she ran 4. 03. 89 in the end, which is obviously like,
Hmm.
off her PB.
Hmm.
she was able to actually conserve some energy towards
Yeah. Yeah.
a really tough heat, I'll say, she had Faith keep Ye gone.
Yeah.
Godwin a favorite for this event. uh,
Hiltz. from the U. S. Bell, who has just, Is one of my new, new girls that I like.
right? She's on the list.
But she trains with Keely.
Ah, okay. then, um, great run from Maya Ramsden from New Zealand as well.
across the ditch.
six. Snuck into the top six. And she looked stoked. It was so good to see.
Yeah, I did feel a bit sorry for the Irish girl Sarah Healy, who also trains with Keely. She fell across the finish line, but hopefully she's okay for the repercharge tomorrow.
Hopefully, yes, that's right.
So, Heat 3, we had our girl, Jess Hull. this was insane because this is the first time, I reckon, like, I've ever seen in my life, there's like A middle distance, like I know it was only the Heat, but there's a middle distance event. And the main person that's being spoken about, and the person that has majority of the, camera on them is an Australia, is an Australian, sorry. So Yeah. like Jess Hull was the favorite going into this, this heat.
I'm pretty sure her PB is five second, was five seconds faster than like the second fastest in the heat, which is
Yeah. She's just in a different category now. I agree. I found that, like, I was listening to, you know, American commentators, and all they're doing is talking about Jess Hull. And the camera just, like, keeps panning back to her
It was so cool. So cool. what did you make of the race?
I think it was a really great race. I think Jess ran very, intelligently. She sat behind the leader for the entire race and whenever anyone made a move or jumped into the lead, she would just reposition herself and get behind them. Like, Her ability to position herself is actually really impressive. She can get herself out of any little bit.
I don't know if she like commands this like respect on course now, but she, yeah, so she just sat on the shoulder of the winner the whole time, finished in second in 4. 02. 70, which is like a stroll in the woods for Jess Hull, I feel, at
I was gonna say, it's like 12, it's like 12 seconds slower than her, um, PB, which is actually crazy. It's sort of, it's strange, it's Like, things like that where you realise how quickly she is.
Oh my god, I
How quick she is, sorry. Cause I'm like, oh that's a fast time. But then at the same time it's like, oh wait, that's 10 seconds slower than her PB. Anyway.
was also like, oh for Jess that's a slow time.
Mmm.
the field wasn't bunched up, like, everyone, for everyone else this is a really, still a really, like,
Yeah. Yeah. I liked the quote that she gave, Mitch Dyer from straight at it. I really, I thought it was really interesting. She said it was different coming in today in previous years. This is the most nerve wracking round. Whereas in a way there wasn't nerves today. It was just anticipation. I was ready to start and get into these next five days. Like ideally it's a little more comfort zone now. Which I just think, speaks volumes about, her confidence.
Her confidence
Which is, pretty cool.
Her mindset. Yeah,
Yeah.
It made me, I mean, I'm already so excited for these next few days, but it like, she's so ready to go.
ready. if you haven't listened yet, I highly recommend you listen to our 1500m deep dive, episode because at the end of that we have an interview with Jess Heil for like 15 minutes and she was so generous with her answers and an all round lovely impressive woman. Very, comes across very lovely, which I'm sure she is, but she is a beast when she gets onto the track.
Yeah, that's it. So, rapper challenge of 1, 500 meters is done. Tonight, Australian time, I think, close to 9 p. m. and obviously we'll have Lyndon Hall competing in that. What's your predictions for the Rapid Charge, Emma?
I think, oh, I don't want to say it, but I feel like if Lyndon's a way, a world in which She, gets through. But I'm hoping I'm wrong, and I am often wrong, so.
She, I mean, she does have the benefit of like, she would have one of the fastest, easily one of the fastest PBs out of anyone in the Rapid Charge rounds.
Yeah, oh Yeah. for
never run under four minutes. So,
definitely.
Yeah, Yeah,
Um, and
on.
Yeah, and then, so also tomorrow, we've got the men's 5k, the heats in, Paris morning time. So, it'll be the evening for you guys all in Australia. so in that we've got Stewie McSween in Heat 1, and then Morgan MacDonald in Heat 2. So, this event is the first eight in each heat advance to the final. So you gotta be top eight, there's nothing on times.
any predictions here?
I reckon Morgan Oh, nah, I actually, I don't. I don't. I I really hope Chewie gets through. And I really hope Morgan gets through. Surprise, surprise.
I hope that the Aussies get through. I reckon gonna get through. I feel like he's, he's had some incredible races. He, yeah, and I think, if he's in, if he's in form, he should, he should
And then there's also the men's 800 metre heats tomorrow So this kicks off at, just before 8pm Melbourne time or 11. 55pm local time.. so we've got the young Peyton Craig in heat one. and then Joseph Deng in the third heat, and then Pete Boll in the fourth heat. So similar to the Women's 800, it. is the first three in each heat advance to the semi final, and then all others advance to the rep charge round.
yeah. And do you have any 800m predictions?
I reckon Peyton Craig will get through, and I think he'll be the Aussie to get through.
What makes you think Peyton will?
I just feel like he's young, up and coming, he's kind of got nothing to lose, and I feel like if That's anything to go by with the women's races, like they seem to just be the ones that are shining through.
That's true? Yep,
Mmm, what do you reckon?
Um, I'd like to think Pete. I mean, I just think Pete Boll can perform really well in these And so, Yeah, he's got the most experience at this stage and I think he's got the time in his heat to hopefully get through as well. Yeah,
event of them all tomorrow is the women's pole vault with our gal Nina Kennedy, one of the favorites for the event. I'm so pumped to watch this. I love watching pole vault and like, if it's anything, if the men's pole vault yesterday was anything to go off, this final is going to be so sick. So it's on tomorrow.
Wednesday at, 6. 15pm local time, so it's about 2. 15am Melbourne time, so not the most ideal time for watching, but I highly recommend putting it on, because I reckon it is going to be so good. I'm
it does go
in Nina, I reckon she's going to win,
gold. Yeah, she's the world world isn't she?
She's a, she's a joint world champ, with Katie Moon from America. But she? has said there will be no sharing of medals
Oh,
round.
yes, Nina. good.
alright, nice to chat to you.
Same to you. Um, hope you enjoyed listening and we'll be back this time tomorrow with our next Daily Recap.
Woo, see ya!