Feb. 15, 2026
A 'WTF' Olympics So Far: American Stars Struggling, plus Crotch Filler, A Confession, & Cursing in Curling
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RSS Feed Scandal and controversy are to be expected at every Olympics, but things have gotten weird. From a controversial cheating confession during a post-race interview to the bizarre story about athletes injecting their crotches to F-bombs being throw around in curling ... it's been interesting. But not only that, biggest American stars are faltering in unexpected, even shocking ways.
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Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Sunday, February fifteenth, and we are used to controversies and scandal and heartbreak during the Olympic Games, but this one has been a doozy. Yes, we got a cheating scandal, one having to do with a guy cheating on his ex girlfriend, the other having to do with guys cheating by possibly injecting their penises with acid. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and tj It.
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Speaker 2: What is this stuff?
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Speaker 3: The paluronic acid?
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Speaker 2: Is that what? That is? What?
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Speaker 3: People?
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Speaker 4: It's honestly some of what women put into their lips, the lip flip and the lip.
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Speaker 2: Oh Okay, that's a weird story. We'll get into.
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Speaker 1: But this has robed been a weird Olympics from some of the shockers and the controversy and the scandals and the cheating, but also it's a little weird right now because smart there is no way other way to put this. The biggest names, the biggest faces of the Olympics for America have been faltering, and there's no other way to put that.
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Speaker 4: Yes, they have been falling short of expectations, Like they're definitely gonna meddle, They're definitely gonna win gold, and all of a sudden they're not even on the podium. Yes, that kind of shocking upset.
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Speaker 1: So it's put the US in kind of a weird position right now and is going to struggle to kind of make up some ground and maybe finish ahead in some of these metal counts. But we're going to get to some of those American stars in the second. Let's start and let me just ask you Robes. It was so it was simple during the wind excuse me, Summer Games twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 3: Right, I got my Yes twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 1: Y'all can ask you right now what were the biggest scandals and controversies there? We remember we watched it very closely. But Jordan Chiles and the boxer.
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Speaker 3: Yes, so those were the two that absolutely stood out, whether or not.
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Speaker 4: And Jordan Chiles is stilling to get her bronze medal or at least keep it and be official on the record books in Olympic history that she in fact was, yes, the bronze medal winner. And then of course the boxer, the big controversy where some folks were trying to say she wasn't female, and that was horrific.
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Speaker 3: You know, their imposed.
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Speaker 4: DNA test imposed on them, her having to prove that she's a woman.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that was a huge scandal.
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Speaker 1: So tell me now, see that's easy. You get boom boom, I know what it was? What for you this Winter Games feels to you like the biggest I don't know if it's controversy or scandal or maybe even story. What seems to be the biggest thing coming out of the Olympics at this moment, still got a.
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Speaker 2: Week plus to go.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think right now what pops into my head is quad God just completely falling victim to the what they call the Olympic curse, but basically just getting overwhelmed with anxiety and pressure and just not performing anywhere close to what he's capable of. A La Simone Biles like it reminds me of some on Biles.
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Speaker 3: That's a big one that stands out.
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Speaker 4: Honestly, waking up this morning and you're telling me about the allegations of crotch filler that that is gonna stay.
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Speaker 3: In my brain for a while. I'm gonna remember that probably.
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Speaker 1: You know what that's that sounds better than penile injection. Let's okay, that is much much better but these are some weird, bizarre controversies. Let's start robes, you know what, I ask you? Where you want to start? You want to We're gonna kind of go through a list here of folks. What have been the standout controversy scandals? Which one goes first? Is it the curling, cursing and curling? Is it the injections?
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Speaker 2: Is it?
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Speaker 1: What is the biggest controversy, scandal or whatever that's going on right now.
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Speaker 3: In the I feel I feel like, uh, there are there's not maybe one that stands out, but there are a lot of them, whereas I only can name two from summer. We also don't.
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Speaker 4: Forget have the Norwegian skier who also shoots, the biathlete who basically announced to the world that he cheated on his girlfriend in an effort to win her back, and then had to apologize for apologizing.
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Speaker 1: Let's start there that. You know, that was a big story, a very very big story. And this dude is since that confession, has actually been picking up metals. We just saw him pick up one a second ago.
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Speaker 3: So it's not messing with his head, It's not, is it?
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Speaker 2: Uh?
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Speaker 3: You know what, It's funny he says that sports weren't that important to him this week, that it was the worst week of his life because all he could think about was his ex girlfriend and how he admitted the week before he left for the Olympics that he cheated on her.
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Speaker 4: So then he she dumped him, and yet despite his mental anguish and pain, he is killing it.
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Speaker 1: Serla holm Lagrad from h Norway Right, yes, with the names, you know what. I've been staring at this story for a long time now. But he's Yes, he confessed. Some people said he's a immittedly thought, okay, he's a it's a sweet romantic gesture. At least he admitted it. He's desperate to get her back, and we're in his camp. Then, immediately after Robes, the story kind of changed when you realize you just put your team and this woman in a.
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Speaker 4: Bad position, right, because his teammate had actually won gold. He had won bronze, I believe at that event where he spoke out after that podium, that metal ceremony. But so instead of the story being on his teammate winning gold, the story became about him trying to win his girlfriend back. So we had to apologize to his teammate, had to apologize to his ex girlfriend, because she also publicly stated I don't want any attention and I don't want to be in the middle of any of this, and yeah, I'm not coming back.
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Speaker 1: That might we call it, we say scandaling controversy. That is one of the biggest stories. Maybe not as scandal, maybe not a controversy, but that is a big, big story that folks have been talking about and we will know. We just watched him win a silver in another event. He won another bronze since the convention, so he's picked up two medals and I came in, I said, this commentator gave a great line.
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Speaker 4: Yes, please please share it with our listeners because it was quite funny.
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Speaker 2: Though it was a good line. He said, Well, he might not get his old girlfriend back, but he might get a new one now because he's picking up metals. I mean, what do you do.
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Speaker 1: So that is one of the biggest stories and one that I guess you can kind of smile about a little bit to put some people in a bad position, but it's.
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Speaker 2: Not the end of the world kind of a thing.
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Speaker 1: Next, curling, how does curling get heated roads on the ice?
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Speaker 3: Baby? Yes, this is quite fascinating.
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Speaker 4: So there was a Canadian curler who just started dropping F bombs. He was and they called it an explative laden outburst is how it was described. And curling, yes, after his Swedish counterpart accused him of double touching.
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Speaker 3: That's what it's called.
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Speaker 2: Double touching, double tapping either way, but it's a big no no.
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Speaker 3: Yes, so basically accused him of cheating. Yes, and by the way, the Canadians.
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Speaker 4: Beat the Sweets, so the Swedes were upset that the Canadians won and then started making accusations of cheating and so then of course he started dropping the F bombs and said that they now believe the Canadians.
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Speaker 3: He said he might be the target of a premeditated attack by Sweden. Oh boy, this is what happens when you've got curlers competing for gold.
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Speaker 1: I guess this is not a contact sport to where you would get mad at somebody.
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Speaker 2: It's hilarious. And when you throw in the fact that it's Canada, it's the nice Canada.
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Speaker 3: I don't yeah, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't even rup.
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Speaker 4: But I'm like, it's not like the Irish or the people who are at Scots known for persing Canadians.
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Speaker 1: So I was saying it was funny. We were as we're sitting here, we were just watching France play competing against Canada in hockey, and I said, Bay, this is hilarious. They got into a fight. There was a fight on the ice in hockey. We see fights all the time in hockey and NHL. It was just something hilarious that it was Canada versus France fighting on the ice. So this is the same kound of a thing. It's curling. It's Canada. You know what they are the powerhouse in curling. Oh, let me back off for a second. It's it's for real.
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Speaker 4: It's serious to them, I think, because it looks funny watching this sport and it's just such an oddity and you don't see it anytime except for every four years, And every four.
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Speaker 3: Years, I think, what in the hell is that sport?
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Speaker 4: And I'm not trying to knock the skill that it takes and the dedication that these athletes have put into this, but it's just bizarre to see and it's funny to watch. Frankly, it looks like maybe they're scrubbing the ice, like you know, Janitor's making sure it's all nice and clean.
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Speaker 2: It looks fun, it looks interesting.
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Speaker 3: Yes, sure, Olympians, and apparently it.
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Speaker 2: Gets pretty, it gets heated.
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Speaker 1: Okay, we always have. This is the one you're gonna have to help me with a little bit. The ice dancing controversy we had, so the American team, they're expected to win.
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Speaker 2: Goal bad absolutely right, all right, they.
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Speaker 1: End up in second scoring in ice anything is always a mess, and we got another mess here.
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Speaker 4: This is the problem, even if you think about Jordan Childs and gymnastics, when you have subjective scoring and you have and this is how they try to manage it by having a large number of judges and I believe they dropped the highest and the lowest score. They do their best to try and even out any subjectivity.
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Speaker 3: But when you have yes.
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Speaker 4: Our our American team that was expected to win gold, chalk and baits is what they're called, Madison.
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Speaker 3: Chalk and Evan Bates. That's pretty good cock and baits.
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Speaker 1: Right, that's a reality show or a sitcom or a cop buddy show.
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Speaker 3: A cop duo is what it sounded like. Doesn't sound like a law firm. It sounds like a cop duo.
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Speaker 1: It was Chalk and Baits Chock and Baits or Delicious Miami Vice or something and round.
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Speaker 3: Two Delicious Chalk and Baits today. Okay, sorry, we're going off the rails. It's Sunday. Forgive us you all.
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Speaker 4: We are maybe a little travel tired, but having some fun regardless. But this was a serious controversy because listen to this, and this was like fifteen thousand immediately signatures asking the International Skating Union to review this. But they were favorites going to gold. The French judge gave the French team a score seven points seven to one points higher than Madison Chalk and Evan Bates. That's context ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: Okay, now I know that the judge, I think there were nine judges, five of them had Americans in the top right, but still, how big of a discrepancy or some of those other judges.
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Speaker 3: Not anywhere close? And listen to this.
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Speaker 4: Chalk and Baits got silver by finishing one point four to three points below the French team. So that French judge one hundred percent is the reason why the American team did not get gold.
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Speaker 2: And remind us where the team is from.
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Speaker 1: The got gold France, and the judging question French. These quinkytings happened. These things happen all the time. Were you also put in context for me what ice dancing is.
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Speaker 4: It's just it's it's figure skating, but with flair, I guess, you know, so they're more you know, they're dancing on the ice, they're doing tricks. But it's less about the actual point system.
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Speaker 3: It's it's a lot. You get a lot of artistic expression points.
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Speaker 2: So they have due that. There's an what's the other thing called where the dual, the.
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Speaker 3: The team figure skating, the two.
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Speaker 1: Where it's a man and woman, the pairs, Yes, that's called what pairs figure skating?
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Speaker 4: I think it's pairs figure skating, which.
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Speaker 3: Is it's it's more, it's more showy.
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Speaker 2: It's just immediately what you would think different.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and it's fun. It's showy. There's a lot of artistic expression. But again, all of these.
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Speaker 4: Types of performances are the judging is so subjective, and you see these types of controversies all the time. This one is fairly glaring. However, the International Skating Using Union stood by and they keep calling it a controversial judging decision. But look, if anytime you have a judge from a country give their country a higher score.
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Speaker 3: That happens a lot.
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Speaker 4: But this is this is clearing seven points, seven to one points higher than the US.
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Speaker 1: Is there no talk of not allowing that a judge from you can't you shouldn't score.
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Speaker 4: I actually think that would be so fair. I think that would be so fair. However, that might offset countries who don't like Look, you want to think that judges going into this type of competition the Olympics wouldn't hold any grudges against any country.
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Speaker 3: You know, that stuff happens. You know that stuff bleeds in.
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Speaker 4: So maybe having your own country have a judge there negates or offsets perhaps maybe another country that is I don't know, I don't know if.
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Speaker 3: You just get into it.
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Speaker 1: You just made a suggestion I didn't think about, but now makes sense. And as a damn shame you think that's possible. Those judges at the Olympics are punishing the United States of America.
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Speaker 3: I think people think that all the time.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I guarantee you that chalk and Baits feel that way as well.
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Speaker 2: Okay, chock and.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to just say chock and bits as much as possible, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, it's so much better than Amy and DJ podcasts, the Chalk and Baits show.
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Speaker 3: Holmes and Robock, I guess you could have done that. That sounds like a law firm.
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Speaker 2: Now, Robock and Holmes. Yeah, that's the way she go Anyway.
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Speaker 1: One last controversy we want to get to, and this is one that just I hated.
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Speaker 2: This one. The Ukrainian Yes, what was his event?
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Speaker 3: Skeletons skeleton?
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Speaker 4: He well, he was a competer in the skeleton Loge, correct, is that what it is?
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Speaker 2: But competitor? You competer? They they both mean computer.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's again travel brain.
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Speaker 2: That's your normal brain.
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Speaker 4: That is true, But I like to blame it on something other than just my malfunction. But yes, Vladislav harak Kei you said it so well the last time led is what he goes by, Harris Kevitch. That's how you say it, Lot haras Kevitch. So, yes, he was disqualified by the International Olympic Committee because he wore that what they called a memorial helmet honoring Ukrainian war victims, specifically Ukrainian athletes who were killed during the Russian conflict. And look, the IOC said, you cannot make political statements while you're competing at the Olympics. And that does make a lot of sense. And he refused to not wear that helmet.
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Speaker 3: He could have worn another helmet. I believe they let.
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Speaker 4: Him practice in it even but during competition they said, you cannot wear that helmet.
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Speaker 3: He refused, and so he was disqualified.
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Speaker 1: They said, even even immediately after the race, they can hand you your helmet, do your post race interviews with it under your knock yourself out there. Haven't could compromise. There was another way to do this. And he's standing by. And this guy was not just some guy who wasn't He is a serious contender, So he's good. And what that would have meant to his country to seek to applaud him. Look, he's standing by. This is what he wanted to do. I just hate all this going on in that country. He is able to go to the Olympics but not competing. That's gotta be away. Everybody could I don't know Rhodes. I love the IOC rule that you know what, this is different. We are different. This is not about this is not about countries hating each other. This is one place in the field of competition that we are not making political statements.
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Speaker 2: I'm okay with that.
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Speaker 4: I'm okay with that too, and I think that actually needs to be in place, especially when you have such ah, I mean just some like real conflicts, but emotional conflicts, even perceived conflicts. You want to make sure you say it doesn't matter who you are, what country you're from, we don't allow it.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate that rule as well.
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Speaker 4: And in terms of lad this is a classic example of someone cutting off their nose despite their face. Yes, he could have still made a statement and still competed.
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Speaker 3: He could have.
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Speaker 4: I like the idea of yes, put your helmet on, hold your helmet during your post race interview, talk about your helmet, show it to the world.
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Speaker 3: But just when you're there competing.
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Speaker 4: You're an Olympian, Yes you are representing Ukraine, but you're a part of the Olympic spirit and a part of the Olympic Games, and you have to acknowledge that's a role you're taking on.
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Speaker 1: Didn't they even say that he would allow they let them do a black armband or something. Yes, we made more sessions and I just want to leave space for I have no friends and family. He's probably lost the past three years. This meant something to him, and he stood by it.
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Speaker 2: I just wish he would.
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Speaker 1: Have been able to compete. We're gonna continue here, folks. We're gonna hit on the biggest and they are not bigger names than these Americans. They are literally the faces of the games, and they are faltering left and right and in some ways in the most horrific, heartbreaking and historic ways imaginable. Stay here, Oh, I've just realized. Did you see me reactor by to come out? I just forgot something about the curling situation of the double tap thing. He was mad because we were talking about at the top. If you're listening, you know what we're talking about, the double tap. He did double tap. Of course, everybody went on social media, and you see this curler. Once you release it, you're not supposed to touch it again, and you're certainly supposed not supposed touch it when it goes over a certain line. You see in my opini ropes clearly.
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Speaker 2: Him touching this thing twice. And the second time he touched it, he touched it in an area that, no matter what, a hand is never supposed to touch the granite, and you see his finger. They got freeze frames of it.
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Speaker 4: All though the sol right, but according to the rules correct, they could not go back and review it.
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Speaker 3: That's not part of what they do.
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Speaker 4: So they sent the referees the judges closer to that line to make sure that it didn't happen again. But they don't have the rules set in place where they go back and review tape, which I actually think is unfair.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate the review.
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Speaker 4: I know that it takes time, but you want it to be right and you want it to be fair.
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Speaker 1: Ropes the technology you see with every tennis match you watch right player Challenge. They put up the technology and they can see exactly where that ball landed, where there's in or out. We can do that and you can't tell me. You can tell two fingers touched the damn stone. We shouldn't have a controversy to this. I don't know it that well, but they are trying to make some improvements there. Ropes you talked about at the top, the biggest team USA shockers continue. We just saw a couple of them. Actually today, let's go with Aaron Jackson Robes. She is the first black woman to ever win an individual medal at the Winter Olympics. She did it in twenty twenty two in Beijing.
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Speaker 2: Were you there for that?
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Speaker 3: I was, no, that's the that's the first Olympics we didn't go to. You were supposed to go to.
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Speaker 2: Bag and that's right. It was all still COVID and that we were still quarantine, that's right.
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Speaker 4: And I had just come back from Tokyo that summer because it had been delivered for the pandemic. So that was the first Olympics I hadn't gone to in over a decade.
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Speaker 2: And obviously I knew that, and you were going.
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Speaker 3: Because you were supposed to go.
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Speaker 2: You were supposed to go.
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Speaker 1: But she made history there. So she's coming back to defend her title. In the five hundred meters speech gage oh oh my god, stars in the crowd Snoop was there, Jake Paul was there, right, you see everybody to see her do this thing and robes. She didn't not even not defend her title. She didn't make the podium.
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Speaker 3: She finished fifth. That's a tough time.
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Speaker 4: Anytime I see someone finish fourth, fifth, sixth, that's got Look, it's amazing, you're but that's got to be extra heartbreaking because you're so close. And she was the gold metal defender, So there was a lot of pressure and a lot of expectations placed on her, and look, being the first, I can only imagine how that adds even more pressure. You've just now represented your people in such a magnificent way.
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Speaker 3: You don't see a lot of black and brown people in the Winter Olympics.
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Speaker 2: You just don't.
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Speaker 4: And so to have someone like her win gold and then sort of go back out and get fifth, it's that's heartbreaking.
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Speaker 1: It happens, absolutely happens. The Mikayla Schiffrin thinges I think, right she had all eyes are on Lindsay Gone. But Mikayla Schiffrin is on the world's circuit of skiers, the most dominant skier in the.
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Speaker 4: Past every years, She's in every commercial you see in between the Olympics. I mean, I feel like she's one of the ones I see, yes constantly. Yeah, she's got a cute, marketable look, and so the all of the brand's love for she is all over the place.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, she is a household name. But I did realize. So we watched her race today and she was in did you come in sixth place?
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Speaker 4: I believe this was this giant slalom and but I didn't realize this. Today marked her eighth straight Olympic event where she failed to medal spin disaster. She was having such a tough go at it at the Olympics. She does have one more race on Wednesday, that's the slalom, and this is her strongest event.
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Speaker 3: But again, think about it.
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Speaker 4: So you see the pressure that these Olympians face when they're expected to win gold or they're expected to podium, But how about when you've gone through a streak like that where you haven't gotten on the podium for eight straight events, and you see you're the face of so much of this Winter Olympics, at least from the United States perspective, and now you got one last event people say it's your strongest.
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Speaker 3: That is I would not want to be in that pressure cooker.
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Speaker 1: I can't remember the year, but this this young lady, when was that freak accident she.
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Speaker 2: Had she crashed last year year before.
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Speaker 1: I can't remember when it was rogues, but she actually said it gave her PCSD to where she had a freak accident on a slope and ends up getting punctured by something on the course when she crashes in her abdomen took her a while to come back, and she said, I simply am not skiing with the same fearlessness. She said, I see women going down that slope who are making cuts and turns those same ones. I back off a little bit, so she doesn't have the speed and robe this has been. She was about to pick up the team gold. All she had to do was finish what twelfth or thirteenth? She ended up fifteenth, and they didn't get a medal, so she has had a right now. Oh it's tough.
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Speaker 2: I ugh.
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Speaker 4: I know.
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Speaker 3: They did a side by side of her this morning.
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Speaker 4: I saw where when she was taking the turn to exactly what you're talking about, and you can see the snow flying off of her and the skier who you know, who won gold. There was no snow inter You have to be tight and that takes fearlessness.
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Speaker 3: And she's slowing down deliberately because she doesn't want to fall.
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Speaker 4: She doesn't want to crash, So she's got this big snowplow basically, which slows her down.
00:22:08
Speaker 3: And look, milliseconds count, not just seconds.
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Speaker 2: And rose you talked about pressure.
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Speaker 1: You have one race to get them mount who knows that this will be her last Olympics. But you have one race to get a medal, and then you got to wait four years for this opportunity.
00:22:23
Speaker 2: Again, you talk about pressure ropes, that is it's too much, Yes, it's too much.
00:22:27
Speaker 1: The other of course, Lindsay Vaughn, she's had what three surgeries, and she is she out now getting out.
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Speaker 3: She's getting out today, I believe, of the hospital.
00:22:36
Speaker 1: Of course, she has been the face of American skiing for a long time, in the face of these Olympics, and we were rooting for her for what she was trying to overcome. That was a disastrous moment and scary as hell to see that crash. But that's another big name athlete. This is one. If she didn't metal, we would go, Okay, we get that she was out there. We would have applauded him, been proud, but still to see her break her leg in such a devastating way.
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Speaker 4: At forty one, and she had she was going to be competing in three events, I believe, so this was the first of the three and look, yes, that was devastating. I have to say now, just thank god, I hate to say, just a broken leg, but thank god, that's all it was. She'll she'll be able to you know, she can walk. She can she's just probably.
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Speaker 3: Not going to ski competitively at that level. Ever.
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Speaker 1: Again, she was one of those you're just nervous, you're excited and you want to do well. But that was one if she would have say, you know what, guys, I changed my mind how to say her dad would have to thank God, don't do it. But still the story these Olympics ropes, no matter what happens from here on out, is probably going to be Ilia Malanin.
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Speaker 3: Ilia Malan.
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Speaker 4: If you google when we were looking just to kind of make sure we covered all of the controversies and upsets. When you google that, it's all him, quad God Ilia Malanin. It is probably the biggest story in terms of upsets so far at this Olympics for this twenty one year old figure skater phenom, who, unlike it, had pretty much the opposite situation coming into these games that Mikhaela Schiffrin had. He has won every single competition he has entered for the past two years. I think that's fourteen Street fourteen comes out on top number one.
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Speaker 3: He doesn't fall, Nope, and he does the most dangerous tricks and moves that were previously banned. They're so scary and dangerous and technically difficult. Fawn skates one hundred percent. And when he had seven quad jumps I believe in his program that were scheduled, he fell on two of them, and the and two other ones. He did one.
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Speaker 4: And then he did a double, a single and a double, so he missed completely.
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Speaker 3: In terms of the tech part.
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Speaker 1: You didn't have to be a close follower of figure skating. You don't have to know all the technical stuff. If you were watching his performance, you knew what the hell is this? What's going on? He was coming out of jumps. It was clear to anybody why you didn't to know how many axles he planned on doing, But you just saw him jump in the air and he landed.
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Speaker 2: Weird, what is going on?
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Speaker 1: It was a disaster start to finish robes and I and he was not beaten. Let's be clear here, there is nobody that beat him on the ice except for himself.
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Speaker 2: It was him.
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Speaker 1: This is not one of those This was a complete melt down, not a technical or I miss this or a little mistake or a little uh hey, it just got to him.
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Speaker 4: There are some athletes where the metal is theirs to lose, and that was him.
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Speaker 3: Simone Biles, same thing. There are Michael Phelps.
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Speaker 4: There are a few athletes that you can name on one hand that will go into these games and as long as they don't get in their own way, there's no.
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Speaker 1: One even Yeah, that thing was around his neck kind of a situation. But Robes, this has been and we're excited today to watch USA hockey, so excited about the game. We're back on the East Coast. I am now back in New York. Would change, so it'll be nice. We'll be watching starting what now three in the morning or four.
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Speaker 3: It's going to be four for me letting you know, okay, ok.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we want to hop on and give you some updates, and some of the updates for the United States are not good right now. Behind do you have oh damn it, do you have it in front of you the official.
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Speaker 3: Metal count, official metal count.
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Speaker 1: I have it here now. Norway is still ahead with twenty four overall. Italy now has twenty two. US has seventeen. Now in the gold medal category, the US is way behind, if you will, eleven for Norway, eight for Italy, five for the US five for the Netlands, five for Sweden, but robes there's not that many more opportunities for gold medals for the US. At least it would have to be some surprises, I should say, because some of the expectations of gold medals they were going to pick up have gone away.
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Speaker 3: They yes, evaporated. But it is nice to see Italy.
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Speaker 4: I always think it's fun to see the home country surge.
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Speaker 3: It does speak so highly.
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Speaker 4: Anyone who has been involved in sports, team sports in any way or is a fan of watching you know the home court advantage, it is real, and the Olympics always prove it to be true.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes the home judge advantage if you're ice dancing. But they other disappoint I think every games, the US sends the biggest delegation. It doesn't change in the Winter Games either. We have two hundred and thirty five athletes. We are the largest delegation there. Next up is Canada with about two hundred and ten, and then Italy has one hundred ninety five. Germany has one hundred and eighty nine.
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Speaker 3: I believe you're just rolling off those numbers.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, it's weird. I retain things.
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Speaker 4: Yes, it's really unfortunate when we have an argument because you remember everything.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I can convince you that it's actually.
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Speaker 3: Accurate because I emotionally remember things.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 1: All right, folks, Well it has been an emotional week or so of the Olympics.
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Speaker 2: We are enjoying it. I hope you're enjoying it.
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Speaker 1: But no matter what we talk about athletes faltering, not meeting some expectations, there is I none of us could do a half of what these folks are doing. And they are representing the US. And I am proud of every one of them, maybe no more so than the quad God for bringing home a gold medal for the team in that team event.
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Speaker 2: He's a hero for that.
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Speaker 3: That's very important, important to note. And you know, look, we love the Olympics.
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Speaker 4: We always have, whether we're covering them at the Olympics or watching them actually watching them from home, I feel like I get to see so much more of them when you're actually at the Olympics, you're trying to go to events, and you're you're so pulled in so many different directions. It's hard to keep it all straight. To be able to be with several TV screens like we do it here and watch them all. It is fun to watch people who when you see young and even old. Now you got people in their forties competing at the Olympics. But when you see people so dedicated to hard work, to being the best, it is so inspiring. And even when they follow the fact that they get back up. I get chills thinking about it. The crowd roars because they know it's a feat and an accomplishment just to be there, and it is remarkable to watch. I'm inspired every time I see these athletes go for the unthinkable.
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Speaker 2: Not just the Americans.
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Speaker 1: Every single athlete has a story there that is worth in victory and defeat. You have tears running down your eyes, you know. I'm looking up here another commercial with the young lady from Aaron Jackson. Right, this is their moment, this is their golden moment. And yes, all these brands and ads jump on and they're rolling the dice.
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Speaker 2: They're making bets on these athletes being the ones to get medals, and oh, it is absolutely thrilling.
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Speaker 1: Another week enjoy. We will continue to do so. I always appreciate you spending some time hanging with us. For my dear Amy Roboc I'm TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes. We will talk to y'all soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Sunday, February fifteenth, and we are used to controversies and scandal and heartbreak during the Olympic Games, but this one has been a doozy. Yes, we got a cheating scandal, one having to do with a guy cheating on his ex girlfriend, the other having to do with guys cheating by possibly injecting their penises with acid. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and tj It.
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Speaker 2: What is this stuff?
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Speaker 3: The paluronic acid?
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Speaker 2: Is that what? That is? What?
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Speaker 3: People?
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Speaker 4: It's honestly some of what women put into their lips, the lip flip and the lip.
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Speaker 2: Oh Okay, that's a weird story. We'll get into.
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Speaker 1: But this has robed been a weird Olympics from some of the shockers and the controversy and the scandals and the cheating, but also it's a little weird right now because smart there is no way other way to put this. The biggest names, the biggest faces of the Olympics for America have been faltering, and there's no other way to put that.
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Speaker 4: Yes, they have been falling short of expectations, Like they're definitely gonna meddle, They're definitely gonna win gold, and all of a sudden they're not even on the podium. Yes, that kind of shocking upset.
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Speaker 1: So it's put the US in kind of a weird position right now and is going to struggle to kind of make up some ground and maybe finish ahead in some of these metal counts. But we're going to get to some of those American stars in the second. Let's start and let me just ask you Robes. It was so it was simple during the wind excuse me, Summer Games twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 3: Right, I got my Yes twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 1: Y'all can ask you right now what were the biggest scandals and controversies there? We remember we watched it very closely. But Jordan Chiles and the boxer.
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Speaker 3: Yes, so those were the two that absolutely stood out, whether or not.
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Speaker 4: And Jordan Chiles is stilling to get her bronze medal or at least keep it and be official on the record books in Olympic history that she in fact was, yes, the bronze medal winner. And then of course the boxer, the big controversy where some folks were trying to say she wasn't female, and that was horrific.
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Speaker 3: You know, their imposed.
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Speaker 4: DNA test imposed on them, her having to prove that she's a woman.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that was a huge scandal.
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Speaker 1: So tell me now, see that's easy. You get boom boom, I know what it was? What for you this Winter Games feels to you like the biggest I don't know if it's controversy or scandal or maybe even story. What seems to be the biggest thing coming out of the Olympics at this moment, still got a.
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Speaker 2: Week plus to go.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think right now what pops into my head is quad God just completely falling victim to the what they call the Olympic curse, but basically just getting overwhelmed with anxiety and pressure and just not performing anywhere close to what he's capable of. A La Simone Biles like it reminds me of some on Biles.
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Speaker 3: That's a big one that stands out.
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Speaker 4: Honestly, waking up this morning and you're telling me about the allegations of crotch filler that that is gonna stay.
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Speaker 3: In my brain for a while. I'm gonna remember that probably.
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Speaker 1: You know what that's that sounds better than penile injection. Let's okay, that is much much better but these are some weird, bizarre controversies. Let's start robes, you know what, I ask you? Where you want to start? You want to We're gonna kind of go through a list here of folks. What have been the standout controversy scandals? Which one goes first? Is it the curling, cursing and curling? Is it the injections?
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Speaker 2: Is it?
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Speaker 1: What is the biggest controversy, scandal or whatever that's going on right now.
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Speaker 3: In the I feel I feel like, uh, there are there's not maybe one that stands out, but there are a lot of them, whereas I only can name two from summer. We also don't.
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Speaker 4: Forget have the Norwegian skier who also shoots, the biathlete who basically announced to the world that he cheated on his girlfriend in an effort to win her back, and then had to apologize for apologizing.
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Speaker 1: Let's start there that. You know, that was a big story, a very very big story. And this dude is since that confession, has actually been picking up metals. We just saw him pick up one a second ago.
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Speaker 3: So it's not messing with his head, It's not, is it?
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Speaker 2: Uh?
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Speaker 3: You know what, It's funny he says that sports weren't that important to him this week, that it was the worst week of his life because all he could think about was his ex girlfriend and how he admitted the week before he left for the Olympics that he cheated on her.
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Speaker 4: So then he she dumped him, and yet despite his mental anguish and pain, he is killing it.
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Speaker 1: Serla holm Lagrad from h Norway Right, yes, with the names, you know what. I've been staring at this story for a long time now. But he's Yes, he confessed. Some people said he's a immittedly thought, okay, he's a it's a sweet romantic gesture. At least he admitted it. He's desperate to get her back, and we're in his camp. Then, immediately after Robes, the story kind of changed when you realize you just put your team and this woman in a.
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Speaker 4: Bad position, right, because his teammate had actually won gold. He had won bronze, I believe at that event where he spoke out after that podium, that metal ceremony. But so instead of the story being on his teammate winning gold, the story became about him trying to win his girlfriend back. So we had to apologize to his teammate, had to apologize to his ex girlfriend, because she also publicly stated I don't want any attention and I don't want to be in the middle of any of this, and yeah, I'm not coming back.
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Speaker 1: That might we call it, we say scandaling controversy. That is one of the biggest stories. Maybe not as scandal, maybe not a controversy, but that is a big, big story that folks have been talking about and we will know. We just watched him win a silver in another event. He won another bronze since the convention, so he's picked up two medals and I came in, I said, this commentator gave a great line.
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Speaker 4: Yes, please please share it with our listeners because it was quite funny.
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Speaker 2: Though it was a good line. He said, Well, he might not get his old girlfriend back, but he might get a new one now because he's picking up metals. I mean, what do you do.
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Speaker 1: So that is one of the biggest stories and one that I guess you can kind of smile about a little bit to put some people in a bad position, but it's.
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Speaker 2: Not the end of the world kind of a thing.
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Speaker 1: Next, curling, how does curling get heated roads on the ice?
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Speaker 3: Baby? Yes, this is quite fascinating.
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Speaker 4: So there was a Canadian curler who just started dropping F bombs. He was and they called it an explative laden outburst is how it was described. And curling, yes, after his Swedish counterpart accused him of double touching.
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Speaker 3: That's what it's called.
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Speaker 2: Double touching, double tapping either way, but it's a big no no.
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Speaker 3: Yes, so basically accused him of cheating. Yes, and by the way, the Canadians.
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Speaker 4: Beat the Sweets, so the Swedes were upset that the Canadians won and then started making accusations of cheating and so then of course he started dropping the F bombs and said that they now believe the Canadians.
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Speaker 3: He said he might be the target of a premeditated attack by Sweden. Oh boy, this is what happens when you've got curlers competing for gold.
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Speaker 1: I guess this is not a contact sport to where you would get mad at somebody.
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Speaker 2: It's hilarious. And when you throw in the fact that it's Canada, it's the nice Canada.
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Speaker 3: I don't yeah, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't even rup.
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Speaker 4: But I'm like, it's not like the Irish or the people who are at Scots known for persing Canadians.
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Speaker 1: So I was saying it was funny. We were as we're sitting here, we were just watching France play competing against Canada in hockey, and I said, Bay, this is hilarious. They got into a fight. There was a fight on the ice in hockey. We see fights all the time in hockey and NHL. It was just something hilarious that it was Canada versus France fighting on the ice. So this is the same kound of a thing. It's curling. It's Canada. You know what they are the powerhouse in curling. Oh, let me back off for a second. It's it's for real.
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Speaker 4: It's serious to them, I think, because it looks funny watching this sport and it's just such an oddity and you don't see it anytime except for every four years, And every four.
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Speaker 3: Years, I think, what in the hell is that sport?
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Speaker 4: And I'm not trying to knock the skill that it takes and the dedication that these athletes have put into this, but it's just bizarre to see and it's funny to watch. Frankly, it looks like maybe they're scrubbing the ice, like you know, Janitor's making sure it's all nice and clean.
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Speaker 2: It looks fun, it looks interesting.
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Speaker 3: Yes, sure, Olympians, and apparently it.
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Speaker 2: Gets pretty, it gets heated.
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Speaker 1: Okay, we always have. This is the one you're gonna have to help me with a little bit. The ice dancing controversy we had, so the American team, they're expected to win.
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Speaker 2: Goal bad absolutely right, all right, they.
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Speaker 1: End up in second scoring in ice anything is always a mess, and we got another mess here.
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Speaker 4: This is the problem, even if you think about Jordan Childs and gymnastics, when you have subjective scoring and you have and this is how they try to manage it by having a large number of judges and I believe they dropped the highest and the lowest score. They do their best to try and even out any subjectivity.
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Speaker 3: But when you have yes.
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Speaker 4: Our our American team that was expected to win gold, chalk and baits is what they're called, Madison.
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Speaker 3: Chalk and Evan Bates. That's pretty good cock and baits.
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Speaker 1: Right, that's a reality show or a sitcom or a cop buddy show.
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Speaker 3: A cop duo is what it sounded like. Doesn't sound like a law firm. It sounds like a cop duo.
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Speaker 1: It was Chalk and Baits Chock and Baits or Delicious Miami Vice or something and round.
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Speaker 3: Two Delicious Chalk and Baits today. Okay, sorry, we're going off the rails. It's Sunday. Forgive us you all.
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Speaker 4: We are maybe a little travel tired, but having some fun regardless. But this was a serious controversy because listen to this, and this was like fifteen thousand immediately signatures asking the International Skating Union to review this. But they were favorites going to gold. The French judge gave the French team a score seven points seven to one points higher than Madison Chalk and Evan Bates. That's context ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: Okay, now I know that the judge, I think there were nine judges, five of them had Americans in the top right, but still, how big of a discrepancy or some of those other judges.
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Speaker 3: Not anywhere close? And listen to this.
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Speaker 4: Chalk and Baits got silver by finishing one point four to three points below the French team. So that French judge one hundred percent is the reason why the American team did not get gold.
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Speaker 2: And remind us where the team is from.
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Speaker 1: The got gold France, and the judging question French. These quinkytings happened. These things happen all the time. Were you also put in context for me what ice dancing is.
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Speaker 4: It's just it's it's figure skating, but with flair, I guess, you know, so they're more you know, they're dancing on the ice, they're doing tricks. But it's less about the actual point system.
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Speaker 3: It's it's a lot. You get a lot of artistic expression points.
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Speaker 2: So they have due that. There's an what's the other thing called where the dual, the.
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Speaker 3: The team figure skating, the two.
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Speaker 1: Where it's a man and woman, the pairs, Yes, that's called what pairs figure skating?
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Speaker 4: I think it's pairs figure skating, which.
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Speaker 3: Is it's it's more, it's more showy.
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Speaker 2: It's just immediately what you would think different.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and it's fun. It's showy. There's a lot of artistic expression. But again, all of these.
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Speaker 4: Types of performances are the judging is so subjective, and you see these types of controversies all the time. This one is fairly glaring. However, the International Skating Using Union stood by and they keep calling it a controversial judging decision. But look, if anytime you have a judge from a country give their country a higher score.
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Speaker 3: That happens a lot.
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Speaker 4: But this is this is clearing seven points, seven to one points higher than the US.
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Speaker 1: Is there no talk of not allowing that a judge from you can't you shouldn't score.
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Speaker 4: I actually think that would be so fair. I think that would be so fair. However, that might offset countries who don't like Look, you want to think that judges going into this type of competition the Olympics wouldn't hold any grudges against any country.
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Speaker 3: You know, that stuff happens. You know that stuff bleeds in.
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Speaker 4: So maybe having your own country have a judge there negates or offsets perhaps maybe another country that is I don't know, I don't know if.
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Speaker 3: You just get into it.
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Speaker 1: You just made a suggestion I didn't think about, but now makes sense. And as a damn shame you think that's possible. Those judges at the Olympics are punishing the United States of America.
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Speaker 3: I think people think that all the time.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I guarantee you that chalk and Baits feel that way as well.
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Speaker 2: Okay, chock and.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to just say chock and bits as much as possible, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, it's so much better than Amy and DJ podcasts, the Chalk and Baits show.
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Speaker 3: Holmes and Robock, I guess you could have done that. That sounds like a law firm.
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Speaker 2: Now, Robock and Holmes. Yeah, that's the way she go Anyway.
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Speaker 1: One last controversy we want to get to, and this is one that just I hated.
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Speaker 2: This one. The Ukrainian Yes, what was his event?
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Speaker 3: Skeletons skeleton?
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Speaker 4: He well, he was a competer in the skeleton Loge, correct, is that what it is?
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Speaker 2: But competitor? You competer? They they both mean computer.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's again travel brain.
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Speaker 2: That's your normal brain.
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Speaker 4: That is true, But I like to blame it on something other than just my malfunction. But yes, Vladislav harak Kei you said it so well the last time led is what he goes by, Harris Kevitch. That's how you say it, Lot haras Kevitch. So, yes, he was disqualified by the International Olympic Committee because he wore that what they called a memorial helmet honoring Ukrainian war victims, specifically Ukrainian athletes who were killed during the Russian conflict. And look, the IOC said, you cannot make political statements while you're competing at the Olympics. And that does make a lot of sense. And he refused to not wear that helmet.
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Speaker 3: He could have worn another helmet. I believe they let.
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Speaker 4: Him practice in it even but during competition they said, you cannot wear that helmet.
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Speaker 3: He refused, and so he was disqualified.
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Speaker 1: They said, even even immediately after the race, they can hand you your helmet, do your post race interviews with it under your knock yourself out there. Haven't could compromise. There was another way to do this. And he's standing by. And this guy was not just some guy who wasn't He is a serious contender, So he's good. And what that would have meant to his country to seek to applaud him. Look, he's standing by. This is what he wanted to do. I just hate all this going on in that country. He is able to go to the Olympics but not competing. That's gotta be away. Everybody could I don't know Rhodes. I love the IOC rule that you know what, this is different. We are different. This is not about this is not about countries hating each other. This is one place in the field of competition that we are not making political statements.
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Speaker 2: I'm okay with that.
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Speaker 4: I'm okay with that too, and I think that actually needs to be in place, especially when you have such ah, I mean just some like real conflicts, but emotional conflicts, even perceived conflicts. You want to make sure you say it doesn't matter who you are, what country you're from, we don't allow it.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate that rule as well.
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Speaker 4: And in terms of lad this is a classic example of someone cutting off their nose despite their face. Yes, he could have still made a statement and still competed.
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Speaker 3: He could have.
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Speaker 4: I like the idea of yes, put your helmet on, hold your helmet during your post race interview, talk about your helmet, show it to the world.
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Speaker 3: But just when you're there competing.
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Speaker 4: You're an Olympian, Yes you are representing Ukraine, but you're a part of the Olympic spirit and a part of the Olympic Games, and you have to acknowledge that's a role you're taking on.
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Speaker 1: Didn't they even say that he would allow they let them do a black armband or something. Yes, we made more sessions and I just want to leave space for I have no friends and family. He's probably lost the past three years. This meant something to him, and he stood by it.
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Speaker 2: I just wish he would.
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Speaker 1: Have been able to compete. We're gonna continue here, folks. We're gonna hit on the biggest and they are not bigger names than these Americans. They are literally the faces of the games, and they are faltering left and right and in some ways in the most horrific, heartbreaking and historic ways imaginable. Stay here, Oh, I've just realized. Did you see me reactor by to come out? I just forgot something about the curling situation of the double tap thing. He was mad because we were talking about at the top. If you're listening, you know what we're talking about, the double tap. He did double tap. Of course, everybody went on social media, and you see this curler. Once you release it, you're not supposed to touch it again, and you're certainly supposed not supposed touch it when it goes over a certain line. You see in my opini ropes clearly.
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Speaker 2: Him touching this thing twice. And the second time he touched it, he touched it in an area that, no matter what, a hand is never supposed to touch the granite, and you see his finger. They got freeze frames of it.
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Speaker 4: All though the sol right, but according to the rules correct, they could not go back and review it.
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Speaker 3: That's not part of what they do.
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Speaker 4: So they sent the referees the judges closer to that line to make sure that it didn't happen again. But they don't have the rules set in place where they go back and review tape, which I actually think is unfair.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate the review.
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Speaker 4: I know that it takes time, but you want it to be right and you want it to be fair.
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Speaker 1: Ropes the technology you see with every tennis match you watch right player Challenge. They put up the technology and they can see exactly where that ball landed, where there's in or out. We can do that and you can't tell me. You can tell two fingers touched the damn stone. We shouldn't have a controversy to this. I don't know it that well, but they are trying to make some improvements there. Ropes you talked about at the top, the biggest team USA shockers continue. We just saw a couple of them. Actually today, let's go with Aaron Jackson Robes. She is the first black woman to ever win an individual medal at the Winter Olympics. She did it in twenty twenty two in Beijing.
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Speaker 2: Were you there for that?
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Speaker 3: I was, no, that's the that's the first Olympics we didn't go to. You were supposed to go to.
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Speaker 2: Bag and that's right. It was all still COVID and that we were still quarantine, that's right.
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Speaker 4: And I had just come back from Tokyo that summer because it had been delivered for the pandemic. So that was the first Olympics I hadn't gone to in over a decade.
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Speaker 2: And obviously I knew that, and you were going.
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Speaker 3: Because you were supposed to go.
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Speaker 2: You were supposed to go.
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Speaker 1: But she made history there. So she's coming back to defend her title. In the five hundred meters speech gage oh oh my god, stars in the crowd Snoop was there, Jake Paul was there, right, you see everybody to see her do this thing and robes. She didn't not even not defend her title. She didn't make the podium.
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Speaker 3: She finished fifth. That's a tough time.
00:18:55
Speaker 4: Anytime I see someone finish fourth, fifth, sixth, that's got Look, it's amazing, you're but that's got to be extra heartbreaking because you're so close. And she was the gold metal defender, So there was a lot of pressure and a lot of expectations placed on her, and look, being the first, I can only imagine how that adds even more pressure. You've just now represented your people in such a magnificent way.
00:19:18
Speaker 3: You don't see a lot of black and brown people in the Winter Olympics.
00:19:21
Speaker 2: You just don't.
00:19:22
Speaker 4: And so to have someone like her win gold and then sort of go back out and get fifth, it's that's heartbreaking.
00:19:29
Speaker 1: It happens, absolutely happens. The Mikayla Schiffrin thinges I think, right she had all eyes are on Lindsay Gone. But Mikayla Schiffrin is on the world's circuit of skiers, the most dominant skier in the.
00:19:44
Speaker 4: Past every years, She's in every commercial you see in between the Olympics. I mean, I feel like she's one of the ones I see, yes constantly. Yeah, she's got a cute, marketable look, and so the all of the brand's love for she is all over the place.
00:19:57
Speaker 3: So yeah, she is a household name. But I did realize. So we watched her race today and she was in did you come in sixth place?
00:20:07
Speaker 4: I believe this was this giant slalom and but I didn't realize this. Today marked her eighth straight Olympic event where she failed to medal spin disaster. She was having such a tough go at it at the Olympics. She does have one more race on Wednesday, that's the slalom, and this is her strongest event.
00:20:30
Speaker 3: But again, think about it.
00:20:31
Speaker 4: So you see the pressure that these Olympians face when they're expected to win gold or they're expected to podium, But how about when you've gone through a streak like that where you haven't gotten on the podium for eight straight events, and you see you're the face of so much of this Winter Olympics, at least from the United States perspective, and now you got one last event people say it's your strongest.
00:20:52
Speaker 3: That is I would not want to be in that pressure cooker.
00:20:55
Speaker 1: I can't remember the year, but this this young lady, when was that freak accident she.
00:21:00
Speaker 2: Had she crashed last year year before.
00:21:03
Speaker 1: I can't remember when it was rogues, but she actually said it gave her PCSD to where she had a freak accident on a slope and ends up getting punctured by something on the course when she crashes in her abdomen took her a while to come back, and she said, I simply am not skiing with the same fearlessness. She said, I see women going down that slope who are making cuts and turns those same ones. I back off a little bit, so she doesn't have the speed and robe this has been. She was about to pick up the team gold. All she had to do was finish what twelfth or thirteenth? She ended up fifteenth, and they didn't get a medal, so she has had a right now. Oh it's tough.
00:21:42
Speaker 2: I ugh.
00:21:42
Speaker 4: I know.
00:21:43
Speaker 3: They did a side by side of her this morning.
00:21:45
Speaker 4: I saw where when she was taking the turn to exactly what you're talking about, and you can see the snow flying off of her and the skier who you know, who won gold. There was no snow inter You have to be tight and that takes fearlessness.
00:21:59
Speaker 3: And she's slowing down deliberately because she doesn't want to fall.
00:22:03
Speaker 4: She doesn't want to crash, So she's got this big snowplow basically, which slows her down.
00:22:08
Speaker 3: And look, milliseconds count, not just seconds.
00:22:11
Speaker 2: And rose you talked about pressure.
00:22:14
Speaker 1: You have one race to get them mount who knows that this will be her last Olympics. But you have one race to get a medal, and then you got to wait four years for this opportunity.
00:22:23
Speaker 2: Again, you talk about pressure ropes, that is it's too much, Yes, it's too much.
00:22:27
Speaker 1: The other of course, Lindsay Vaughn, she's had what three surgeries, and she is she out now getting out.
00:22:34
Speaker 3: She's getting out today, I believe, of the hospital.
00:22:36
Speaker 1: Of course, she has been the face of American skiing for a long time, in the face of these Olympics, and we were rooting for her for what she was trying to overcome. That was a disastrous moment and scary as hell to see that crash. But that's another big name athlete. This is one. If she didn't metal, we would go, Okay, we get that she was out there. We would have applauded him, been proud, but still to see her break her leg in such a devastating way.
00:22:58
Speaker 4: At forty one, and she had she was going to be competing in three events, I believe, so this was the first of the three and look, yes, that was devastating. I have to say now, just thank god, I hate to say, just a broken leg, but thank god, that's all it was. She'll she'll be able to you know, she can walk. She can she's just probably.
00:23:18
Speaker 3: Not going to ski competitively at that level. Ever.
00:23:21
Speaker 1: Again, she was one of those you're just nervous, you're excited and you want to do well. But that was one if she would have say, you know what, guys, I changed my mind how to say her dad would have to thank God, don't do it. But still the story these Olympics ropes, no matter what happens from here on out, is probably going to be Ilia Malanin.
00:23:41
Speaker 3: Ilia Malan.
00:23:41
Speaker 4: If you google when we were looking just to kind of make sure we covered all of the controversies and upsets. When you google that, it's all him, quad God Ilia Malanin. It is probably the biggest story in terms of upsets so far at this Olympics for this twenty one year old figure skater phenom, who, unlike it, had pretty much the opposite situation coming into these games that Mikhaela Schiffrin had. He has won every single competition he has entered for the past two years. I think that's fourteen Street fourteen comes out on top number one.
00:24:18
Speaker 3: He doesn't fall, Nope, and he does the most dangerous tricks and moves that were previously banned. They're so scary and dangerous and technically difficult. Fawn skates one hundred percent. And when he had seven quad jumps I believe in his program that were scheduled, he fell on two of them, and the and two other ones. He did one.
00:24:40
Speaker 4: And then he did a double, a single and a double, so he missed completely.
00:24:43
Speaker 3: In terms of the tech part.
00:24:45
Speaker 1: You didn't have to be a close follower of figure skating. You don't have to know all the technical stuff. If you were watching his performance, you knew what the hell is this? What's going on? He was coming out of jumps. It was clear to anybody why you didn't to know how many axles he planned on doing, But you just saw him jump in the air and he landed.
00:25:04
Speaker 2: Weird, what is going on?
00:25:06
Speaker 1: It was a disaster start to finish robes and I and he was not beaten. Let's be clear here, there is nobody that beat him on the ice except for himself.
00:25:17
Speaker 2: It was him.
00:25:19
Speaker 1: This is not one of those This was a complete melt down, not a technical or I miss this or a little mistake or a little uh hey, it just got to him.
00:25:28
Speaker 4: There are some athletes where the metal is theirs to lose, and that was him.
00:25:33
Speaker 3: Simone Biles, same thing. There are Michael Phelps.
00:25:35
Speaker 4: There are a few athletes that you can name on one hand that will go into these games and as long as they don't get in their own way, there's no.
00:25:46
Speaker 1: One even Yeah, that thing was around his neck kind of a situation. But Robes, this has been and we're excited today to watch USA hockey, so excited about the game. We're back on the East Coast. I am now back in New York. Would change, so it'll be nice. We'll be watching starting what now three in the morning or four.
00:26:07
Speaker 3: It's going to be four for me letting you know, okay, ok.
00:26:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, we want to hop on and give you some updates, and some of the updates for the United States are not good right now. Behind do you have oh damn it, do you have it in front of you the official.
00:26:18
Speaker 3: Metal count, official metal count.
00:26:20
Speaker 1: I have it here now. Norway is still ahead with twenty four overall. Italy now has twenty two. US has seventeen. Now in the gold medal category, the US is way behind, if you will, eleven for Norway, eight for Italy, five for the US five for the Netlands, five for Sweden, but robes there's not that many more opportunities for gold medals for the US. At least it would have to be some surprises, I should say, because some of the expectations of gold medals they were going to pick up have gone away.
00:26:47
Speaker 3: They yes, evaporated. But it is nice to see Italy.
00:26:50
Speaker 4: I always think it's fun to see the home country surge.
00:26:53
Speaker 3: It does speak so highly.
00:26:54
Speaker 4: Anyone who has been involved in sports, team sports in any way or is a fan of watching you know the home court advantage, it is real, and the Olympics always prove it to be true.
00:27:04
Speaker 1: Sometimes the home judge advantage if you're ice dancing. But they other disappoint I think every games, the US sends the biggest delegation. It doesn't change in the Winter Games either. We have two hundred and thirty five athletes. We are the largest delegation there. Next up is Canada with about two hundred and ten, and then Italy has one hundred ninety five. Germany has one hundred and eighty nine.
00:27:24
Speaker 3: I believe you're just rolling off those numbers.
00:27:28
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's weird. I retain things.
00:27:30
Speaker 4: Yes, it's really unfortunate when we have an argument because you remember everything.
00:27:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I can convince you that it's actually.
00:27:37
Speaker 3: Accurate because I emotionally remember things.
00:27:39
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
00:27:40
Speaker 1: All right, folks, Well it has been an emotional week or so of the Olympics.
00:27:45
Speaker 2: We are enjoying it. I hope you're enjoying it.
00:27:46
Speaker 1: But no matter what we talk about athletes faltering, not meeting some expectations, there is I none of us could do a half of what these folks are doing. And they are representing the US. And I am proud of every one of them, maybe no more so than the quad God for bringing home a gold medal for the team in that team event.
00:28:06
Speaker 2: He's a hero for that.
00:28:07
Speaker 3: That's very important, important to note. And you know, look, we love the Olympics.
00:28:11
Speaker 4: We always have, whether we're covering them at the Olympics or watching them actually watching them from home, I feel like I get to see so much more of them when you're actually at the Olympics, you're trying to go to events, and you're you're so pulled in so many different directions. It's hard to keep it all straight. To be able to be with several TV screens like we do it here and watch them all. It is fun to watch people who when you see young and even old. Now you got people in their forties competing at the Olympics. But when you see people so dedicated to hard work, to being the best, it is so inspiring. And even when they follow the fact that they get back up. I get chills thinking about it. The crowd roars because they know it's a feat and an accomplishment just to be there, and it is remarkable to watch. I'm inspired every time I see these athletes go for the unthinkable.
00:29:00
Speaker 2: Not just the Americans.
00:29:01
Speaker 1: Every single athlete has a story there that is worth in victory and defeat. You have tears running down your eyes, you know. I'm looking up here another commercial with the young lady from Aaron Jackson. Right, this is their moment, this is their golden moment. And yes, all these brands and ads jump on and they're rolling the dice.
00:29:19
Speaker 2: They're making bets on these athletes being the ones to get medals, and oh, it is absolutely thrilling.
00:29:27
Speaker 1: Another week enjoy. We will continue to do so. I always appreciate you spending some time hanging with us. For my dear Amy Roboc I'm TJ.
00:29:34
Speaker 2: Holmes. We will talk to y'all soon.