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Yes. And your boys, Matt and Alex are taking a different look at Paris all week. It's up to a Friday. What a week of action that's been. Matt Okine sitting fourth on the medal tally and importantly, a few bronze starting to get into the mix which, if you represent Australia, will net you $10,000 in a little bit of a bonus, uh, bonus. Cash bonus. Uh, but yeah, if you're from New Zealand, it's donuts. That's a shame, isn't it? Uh, they don't get anything.
We. I mean, should we set up a sort of fund to help our our fellow athletes across the ditch to, uh, you know, bring home a bit of bacon?
Yeah, I could look into it. We'll see. But a lot of athletes are struggling, you know, not the few of the big ones the golfers started. You know, they get paid pretty well. The tennis players outside of things get paid pretty well. But people like, um, Veronica Fraley here, um, like American discus thrower, put up a tweet saying I compete in the Olympic Games tomorrow and can't even pay
my rent. My school only sends about 75% of my rent. Um, but they pay football players who haven't won anything to buy new cars and houses. puts that, puts that up on mine. Guess who? Guess who? Matt responds to it.
Who? Flavor Flav saved the water polo team.
It's our boy.
Flavor. Are you kidding? Flavor.
Right back on it saying I got you. DM me. I'll send payment today so you don't have to worry about it tomorrow. I'ma be rooting for you. Let's go.
Well, look, she could have taken things into her own hands. Like the New Zealand rower did Robbie Manson. He has set himself up with an OnlyFans account. Yeah, so. And he said he's making it probably double what he makes as an athlete on the on the off. So there you go.
In both he's working with a cox. So that's that's good. Good for him. Hey we got Georgie Parker joining us. She's an Olympian. She knows what she's doing.
But now it's just us. Matt and Alex going for bronze.
Let's get this show on the road.
Let's go. Here we go, here we go, here we go.
And an integral part of the team is joining us in the studio right now with a nine wide World of Sports baseball cap atop her head. It's our commentator and former Hockeyroo Olympian Georgie Parker today. G'day, Georgie. Hello.
I'm a company lady. That's what I am.
Yeah, the old salary, man. Love it, love it. Uh, repping the colours at all time. Now, Georgie, were you ever a little athletics person?
No, I wasn't I couldn't handle that pressure. I remember doing my first 400 and then throwing up after, and I was like, I'm sick. Worked out that it was just, uh, exertion, like, you see, with the triathletes after. So. No, I worked out that was the worst part of sport, and I don't know why anyone wants to do that for their sport. They're just nuts.
I remember wonderful little athletics, tried javelin for the first time, go through, throw, hit myself in the back of the head with the pole. I'm like, don't think this event is for me.
Well, I wonder how some of them get involved in it. Like pole jump. Who's who's doing that?
Yeah. Who. Pole vault. Yeah. It's it's difficult to get into but Nina Kennedy looking very very good for hopefully a medal. We've got everything crossed for the Aussies that hit the track and field, uh, across the next seven days. But Georgie, uh, we were watching The Walking last night. What's going on?
Well, we won a bronze medal, but did you get did you get PTSD? Do you get PTSD when you watch walking? Yes.
Oh, bro I because when I found out that the Aussie, uh, Jemima montag got the gold in the 20 K walk, I. Where did you go? Yes, got the bronze and I immediately I immediately went back. Georgie, I know what you're talking about.
Two year 2000. When we think of 2000, in athletics, we think of Cathy Wu. Cathy in the bodysuit winning. We forget about Jane Saville. Oh my goodness.
Walking into Homebush Stadium, her hometown home Olympics miles ahead walking for gold. She had about what, 450m to go. About to go into the tunnel.
In the stadium.
And the the judge on the side holds up her third red paddle. She's out. And then she's inconsolable, crying, and there's no one around. Okay. Can we imagine.
Being that massive party pooper home Olympics?
No. Do you know what? I reckon whoever it was, I reckon they were sick with power. Yeah, I reckon they were absolutely frothing. They would have, they would have said, I cannot wait to show this paddle because I.
Know how she felt, because same back at the Warrnambool Athletics Club. Um, doing my walk, me and Billy Hernan got disqualified red card and I was in tears afterwards like I was walking.
Were you winning?
Uh. Probably not.
Well, look, it probably.
Wasn't the Olympic Games. It was a grass track. It was, um, I mean, a little bit low key.
We've got to remember that for the for the walking judge, that's their Olympics. To like this would have been. This would have been their moment. Like, oh my God, I'm about to disqualify someone on the biggest stage of my career. This is the biggest disqualification ever.
They're on the phone to their mum. Quick, mum, put the TV on. I'm about to go live.
I'm about to ruin someone's dream. Please watch it hit record on the VCR. Please. Mum.
That's actually probably a pretty good, uh, good, um, profession to get into because I judge how fast people walk all the time, like they're in front of me. I'm like, can you guys hurry up, please?
My walkers. I go for races when you're in the airport and they take the travelators and I'm like, oh, guys, please. Do you think that's walking? Yeah.
Well, look, there's been a few other disqualifications in the in this year's games which we're going to get to up next. Men, today we are in the studio with Georgie Parker, our good friend. Hello, Georgie.
Good friend. Is that where we're moving to pretty quick.
Oh, mate. Oh, we're bros now. I'm loving this. I want us to, you know, do this every day. We don't need to do it for the Olympics. Exactly.
Let's Olympics ends. Why wait four years? We can talk rubbish. We can judge all to one.
In the world. Um, now, look, Georgie, we forgot to mention we were talking during the song that, uh, that we didn't give Jane Savile the credit that she deserves for, um, after the after getting disqualified at the Sydney Olympics.
Yeah, she did win a bronze four years later. So we should mention that particularly on this show where we're all striving for that greatness of the bronze medal. Exactly.
Bravo. Good work. But that's the thing. In the Olympics, sometimes the judging, the false starts. I was watching the. I mean, the Aussie girls in the four by 200 meter swimming last night. Got the gold. Brilliant stuff. But I was watching the heats and I saw a changeover. I thought, she's gone early.
0.3 seconds.
0.03 seconds, three hundredths of a second. The contact between the wall when the feet left the podium to jump in. It was so close to not getting that gold in the heats.
Yeah, absolutely. And a British swimmer actually got, uh, disqualified after his event. So he was swimming and he ended up actually going underneath the water from the push off of the wall on his turn for too long. So he was just too strong. You know what?
I hate that you can get disqualified for swimming too far underwater like that should be a gold medal in itself. Like you're showing off. Well done.
Well, we were talking about sports that used to be in the Olympics. Swimming as far as you can. Underwater. Used to be one. Like a guy got 60m back in the early 1900s, 60m underwater. It took him about a minute, 68.4 seconds.
Yeah. Congratulations to gold medal winner of the 1900 Olympics, Charles Devin de Ville from France.
That's a 1900s name, isn't it? Guys, I have a bit of an admission, though, from nearly. Well, we made a final, but we shouldn't have. Yeah. This is a world exclusive. This is a world exclusive. I've actually never admitted this anywhere before.
Are you. Is this. Oh my God. Okay, this is on the edge of my seat. Go on.
This scene.
Forensics. But it was a World Cup and it was a semi-final. And we went to penalty shootout. So in hockey, it's eight seconds. You have one player against the goalkeeper. And I was one of these players, obviously as a star with this hockey side and uh, we're playing the Yanks and they scored a goal very late. That shouldn't have been a goal. And you get referrals in hockey. But we'd already used ours and they got this goal
and equalised. And then we went to penalties. Anyway, it was my turn to take it and I hit it in and I walked back very quickly to my teammates, and a teammate came up to me and goes, did that hit the back of your stick? And I looked at it and I go, I think so. And in hockey, it's not meant to hit the back of your stick or no one picked up on it. We made it to the final. But my the way I can live with myself if they shouldn't have got there in the first place.
Oh, okay.
It was the way they always talk.
About the footy gods. The hockey gods smiled upon you that day and even things up. Even the ledger.
I felt like Stuart Broad just standing there in 2013. Ashes. That's how I felt. And so I try to keep quiet about that.
Right. That's it. Yeah. You just zip the lips. Don't say a word. And if the ref didn't pick up on it, there's the chips, man. That's the game.
Exactly, exactly. But my one friend, Ash Nelson, she saw it. She goes, did that hit the back? I think so.
How can you sleep at night, Georgie? Very well.
Uh uh, except for during these games, because you are commentating late at night on the hockey. If you want to watch it, George, you'll be picking up every tap of the back of the stick. Uh, courtesy of channel nine. Thank you very much, Georgie. It's always a pleasure to hang out.
Matt and Alex, we are going for bronze. Hope you having a good Friday and Alex Dyson. My Friday just got better when I realized that the women's high jump is on tonight. Two Aussies in the group stages, Nicola Olieslagers and Eleanor Patterson. Thankfully they're not in the same groups, so hopefully they'll face off against each other in the final.
Maybe do what the, um, men did three years ago. Share a gold medal was the first time in high jump history. Remember the Qatari and the Italian share in that gold?
Absolutely I do. Yep. Snapped it right in half. Eight. The chocolate in between. Loved it. Loved seeing them share that one that was in.
There's so much great stuff coming out of the games and lots of photos, great photos coming out of the games like that. Brazilian Olympic surfer Gabriel Medina, who was pictured after, you know, shooting off an excellent wave. This French photographer took a photo of him finger to the sky, levitating next to his board, which was also levitating at Chapu.
That was incredible. The photo of the, uh, the five four, uh, Japanese basketballer Yuki Togashi, next to the seven four Victor Wembanyama from.
Have you seen this? It's like the Japanese guard, I swear, is up to Victor's waist. Like how you were supposed to defend events against someone like that is unbelievable.
You need two Yuki's in a trench coat to equal equal one victor in that one. Uh, but there is one photo mat which has gotten an Australian in hot water. Yeah, it was a photo that was posted, uh, by Australian surfing judge Ben Lo.
Yeah. I feel so bad for Ben Lo. Um, Australian surfing judge. It's. He's been removed of his duties at the Paris Olympics after being photographed posing with, uh, Australian surf star Ethan Ewing. Um. And he also took a photo next to the coach, Bede Durbidge. Uh, they're all in Tahiti, obviously. Yeah. And and he's. And, um, the judge, Ben Low, is just, you know, the photo says three straddie boys doing their stuff at the Olympics.
Yeah. shout out, it's shouting out Stradbroke Island, I guess where they're all from. But when you're in the Olympics and you're an Olympic judge, you need to remain impartial. I mean, we all know the jokes about the Russian judge in the diving seems to be giving a lot of leniency, uh, to the country, men and women. So the the boss has seen this and said, oh, you can't be posting photos like that. We shall remove you of your duty.
What do you reckon? I reckon that's so harsh. I mean, it's not. He's not giving them a perfect ten. He's just taking a snap with them.
Well, people have these policies, Matt, that you need to stick with. I mean, even yesterday here on, uh, going for bronze, which we did give, we're talking about the, um, the water in Camperdown. We gave the load of water authority a call to ask him about it, though. Oh, sorry. We need these kind of requests. Take 3 to 4 days to go through, which is fair enough. You know, when the government's involved, you've got to make sure that you're, uh,
you're doing and saying the right thing. So they checked with their bosses. Um, so maybe, uh, poor old Ben Low should have checked with the higher ups as well.
Yeah, absolutely. Uh, but, you know, we asked you, when have you checked with when should you have checked with your boss?
Yeah. We want you to get in touch right now. When should you have checked with the boss but didn't? We'd love to hear your stories when you're building a house and build it with the wrong roof. Well, you're digging a hole and you dug it in the wrong trench. Whatever it is, let us know. Here on triple M, you're with Matt and Alex. Drippy and we're going for bronze as part of the big Paris Games. A little unofficial look at what's going on, and I'll tell you what.
Out of the medal tally, Matt Okine Australian surfing judge Ben Low has been removed of his duties for posting a photo with the Aussie competitors. You don't want to have a conflict of interest, and you don't want to appear to have a conflict of interest. So instead of asking the boss, go and always alright, if I chuck up a selfie with the other strategy boys, he's just gone and done it and it's cost him his job at the games. So, uh, we've asked you when should
you have checked with the higher ups at work? Nick has given us a ring. G'day, Nick. How are you going, mate?
Good. Matt and Alex. How are you?
Oh, good. Thanks, Nick. Uh, very excited to hear. Why? Why did you, uh, you know, get in trouble? What? Should you have checked with the boss first?
Well, I used to. I was a storeman for a, uh, for a mining company, and we had, like, lots of sites out west, and and, uh, my boss asked me to send something out urgently. You know, we sent things on freight, on trucks and and planes all the time. So I've, um. I booked this thing onto a plane, not knowing what it was. And, uh, anyway, it got out there, everything was fine. And about, uh, four weeks later, the boss comes to me and she's like, what's this
invoice for? Um, it turns out that the pallet weighed about three tons and they dropped it on a plane, and they charged us $15,000 to send this thing out to say.
Oh, no, that's just for the freight. That's just for the freight. Yeah.
Oh, a $15,000 courier there, Nick. So, uh, you should have checked which kind of transport we should be freighting this with.
Yeah, I probably should have checked with the boss. Yeah.
Mate, at $15,000, I would have bundled myself into that package and had a free holiday. Yeah.
Travel in first class on your nick. Good stuff, mate. Thanks for the call. We've also got Chris from Hawthorn. Chris, what happened at the tree company?
Nat and Alex, love your work. Um, yeah. I used to work for a tree company in late 90s, and we had to go to unit two number three, and we actually went to number 23. Now, I was just a bag, a branch dragger. I wasn't I wasn't the boss, but, uh, we cut down this, um, a tree. This guy had grown for 40 years.
This beautiful flowered.
Tree.
That.
His.
Father had.
Planted who'd passed. And. Yeah. And we cut that down and then. Yeah, but I guess somebody just should have checked with the bus guys. You know what I mean? Chris.
You you cut you cut down the the deceased dad memorial tree by mistake.
Year old tree was beautiful, had these beautiful flowers. And I was thinking, why are we cutting that look so healthy?
And you're just trying to carrying the limbs off. Oh goodness.
Me.
Well, kicking it in the old churner up. Just hope you gave him a big pile of wood chips in an urn. Said. There you go. Sorry, mate. Hope they did. So thanks.
Chris. And if you're out working today, maybe just give that extra check to the boss right now. You listen.
To Matt. Now this is going for bronze.
Mitt is your boys, Matt and Alex, and we've been going for gold this week and next as part of the big Paris Games on Triple M.
But mainly bronze. Yeah, we'll let we'll let the professionals go for gold. Matt. We're the kings of low expectations. So we're going for bronze.
Gold. I mean you can find it in VCR cables. You know, it's it's it's nothing fancy about that. I want the good stuff.
Whereas bronze had its own age, the Bronze Age. So there you go. That's what we're doing this week. It is a Friday, so we've got to take you into the weekend with a little bit more sports commentary. And if you've been listening in you might have heard that. Yeah. All the good all the good ones were taken. You know, Bruce Mcavaney, he's already got the gig. Georgie Parker's already commentating The Hockey on Channel nine, so we had to look far and wide for the third best, the bronze
medal commentators, and we found them commentating. Bingo. Uh, over at the old, uh, Caroline Springs RSL. Uh, there from Granny Bingo. So let's see what sport they're checking in with right now. Over to you, grannies.
And thank you, Matt and Alex. It is, uh, Edith and Maureen here with Nange Wide World of Sport coming to you from the Melbourne end of parish. And, uh, today we are taking a look at the road cycling.
Road cycling of course a hot favourite for Australia in the gold medal. I mean, Edith, you are a champion through and through of this sport.
Yes, I have played quite a few. I'm very excited. We've got a few hot contenders here, of course, from Uzbekistan we've got Hussein Zubatov and uh, Jackie Hansen, uh, from Australia. That little Pauline's nephew? Yes. Plucky little player from, uh, up north up in Cairns. Should be doing very well. Road cycling. Some countries, it's traffic. Other countries it's a sport.
The Netherlands, they they turn this off.
They would. They would say why I'm watching. That's right. I'm watching a video of me riding to work. That's boring for me. But for us it's exciting. Of course, they do like to train in Melbourne, uh, because you have to dodge the cars and the trams and there is no bike path. No bike anywhere. so the Aussies are a bit of an advantage with that training.
Often you see at the world on the world stage, Australians turning up for road cycling and not really knowing what to do. That's right. Yeah. They just sort of get to go on and then and then all of a sudden someone honks them and then they freak out and get the train instead. And I don't think getting the train I'm not an expert in this sport either, but I don't.
Oh, he's just taken a little tumble there. Yeah. No, that's, uh, that's going to take several layers of skin off that.
I just wish they'd bloody slow down a little. And I've got another question.
See the one now? See that motorbike in the background? He will lose points for riding a motorbike. Uh, that's not that's not permitted.
I get my dinner delivered sometimes from the app on my phone, and sometimes it says they're going to be on a bike, but they come in a car.
Yes, similar thing can happen.
One star. Yes. I don't like the lying. Yeah.
Interesting move. They're coming around that corner. Uh, I it's been a long time since I've played. I am a world champion. Of course, I did win the 1956, uh, road cycling champions here in Melbourne. I commentated that, Maureen. I know, I've got to be honest with you. I know nothing about this sport whatsoever. The win that I had in 56 was purely by accident. Of course, Melbourne
was hosting the Olympics. It was very exciting. Some of you might be old enough to remember, and I was just down at Coles New World in Fitzroy, picking up some groceries before I picked the kids up from school. And I was on my bicycle and I came up Elgin Street. I turned left on Nicholson Street. I didn't realise I was in the bloody race. I had the milk in my in my little basket. I had the bread hanging off the handlebars and made little tassels flapping in the wind. I was like to pick the kids
up from school. That's why I was riding so fast.
There's a podium ceremony. They go.
On forever. They go on forever. So, you know, that's. That's actually how I won. It was a complete accident, and I.
Noticed there was no shopping on their handlebars here.
So they have it a lot easier these days. These young competitors. Yeah.
These sports, they've gone a bit soft.
I think they have. I think they have anyway.
We'll have more of the games, more road cycling tomorrow and mountain biking, which, uh, for those of you that will have a screen access to the games for mountain biking, just looks like a bunch of people having a midlife crisis. And they bought a new bike and ridden through the dandenongs for it. We'll bring all of that to you. Back to you, Matt and Alex.
And together, we've put together a big old week of games. Adjacent contents. When it comes to what's happening in Paris. And it's been a marathon. Matt Okine are we going to be finishing with a gold medal, or are we going to be finishing, like, the guy who died, who invented the marathon by running from marathon to say, what did he say to the Greeks again, said, oh, there's a battle or something, I.
Don't know, but he should have used a rideshare anyways. Look, are we at the end of every single show? We like to give out our own medals to people we think are deserving of our very important awards. And today's got bronze medal. Um, you know, you might have seen that the United States have gotten a little bit of a boost in the medal tally. They currently coming second with nine gold just underneath China. Uh, they have overtaken us.
Finally took him some time though, but I couldn't help but have a little chuckle at, uh, this Instagram clip from the Ugandan actor Abby Tumusiime.
If the USA is so great, then why did someone make a USB?
Perfect.
Very good question, Abby. Good question.
Silver today goes to tennis legend Andy Murray, who officially called his retirement after a loss in the doubles of the quarterfinals of Paris. And it did not take him long to throw his entire career in the trash bin. He's 37. He's the only tennis player to win two Olympic singles golds London 2012 and 2016. Um, plus his three Grand Slam singles titles. And, um. As soon as the game was over, he got online and he put on his Twitter account. Never even liked tennis. Anyway, uh,
changing his bio from I play tennis to I played tennis. So, uh, Eddie dropping it like it's hot when it comes to a glittering tennis career.
Which leaves us with only the gold to give out. And who could we look past? But, uh, the Italian athlete Giorgia Villa, who recently got a silver medal in the artistic gymnastics at this year's games but has gone on to get a little bit of viral fame because she's actually sponsored by a parmesan cheese company. So I'm pretty.
Sure just by parmesan cheese, like, is there a cup? I think by like the type of cheese she's sponsored by. Parmesan, cheese. Unless it's a brand name, you can only say it in France.
That's true. Well, there's just all of these pictures with her and cheese. Like big wheels of cheese. They're all over the internet. Uh, I've never seen cheese look so good. So this today's gold medal goes to a wheel of parmesan cheese. Congratulations to the wheel of cheese.
I mean, I've always been powered by cheese, but I've never been sponsored by cheese. That's the next step to to glory, isn't it?
Here's here's the question, though. When you take a photo with a wheel of cheese, what do you say to the cheese to make it smile?
Are you saying because you just can't just say cheese? And.
Yeah, the cheese say cheese.
The cheese. Like I'm here.
Beautiful.
What do you want me to do?
Well, just like the marathon runner. We died at the end. Um, absolutely. Carked it there. But thank you for listening this week. If you missed any of the show, if you missed the grannies, you missed Georgie Parker. The Matinales podcast is continuing as normal. Uh, so jump on the listener app, jump wherever you get your podcasts, and have a tune in. Until then, we'll see you midday on Monday to wrap up the weekend of games action. Until then, have a good one. Got something to add to the show?
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