August 27, 2024 • 29 mins
What makes the Olympics so captivating, and how do nations truly measure victory? Join Bearded, Nova, and Morph as they explore the fascinating world of Olympic medal counts, from the U.S.'s obsession with total medals to other countries prioritizing golds. Hear about the awe-inspiring achievements of athletes from the smallest nations and the quirky sports that have graced the Olympic stage. From a 58-year-old ping pong debutant to a 14-year-old skateboarding prodigy, this episode is packed with extraordinary stories of triumph and dedication.
Ever wondered about the more unusual events in Olympic history? We reveal the surprising past of painting and sculpture competitions and the bizarre inclusion of pistol dueling. Our excitement for future Olympics in Los Angeles and Brisbane is palpable, but so is our frustration with modern Olympic coverage. We discuss the challenges of following the games without traditional TV and the stark financial contrasts between commentators and Olympians. Despite these hurdles, we celebrate the love and commitment athletes bring to their sports.
Gender pay disparities in sports remain a hot topic, and we dive deep into the contrasts between the NBA and WNBA, as well as the FIFA World Cup, examining revenue and compensation differences. Cricket and rugby may be prominent globally, but they remain relatively obscure in the U.S. We wrap up with our unique take on balancing Olympic enthusiasm with our responsibilities as dads, promising more engaging discussions on fatherhood and modern life in future episodes. Tune in for an episode that combines sports, history, and heartfelt reflections.
Josh aka Bearded_Nova
I'm from Australia and am what you would call a father who games. I have 5 kids so not as much time to game as I used to. But I still game and stream when I can. So come join me on Twitch in chat as we chill out.
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Josh aka Moorph
I'm a US-based husband and father of two boys. I work full-time and have been a content creator since 2000. I'm a YouTube partner, Twitch and LiveSpace streamer who founded a content creation coaching company called Elev8d Media Group (elev8d.media). I'm a blogger, streamer, podcaster, and video-er(?).
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Turning off normal human male mode.
Switching to dad mode.
Welcome in to dad mode Withyour hosts Bearded, Nova and
Morph.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
But we're actually bringing it back to Olympics.
Olympics are half my first.
It's been very interesting thisyear, the Olympics I'm fighting
.
There's lots of things I didn'tknow.
One of them was how Americadoes the medal cap compared to
every other country in the world.
I didn't know that wasdifferent.
Doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
They usually do well, but this year they seem to do
exceptionally well.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
No, no, no, it's the, the olympic committee and
majority I think.
I think it's like the wholeworld out the medals as golds
and if there's buying gold, youuse silver to break up.
Who's got, so you go.
You know you could have twopeople on 20 gold medals, but
then one's got 10 silver and theother one's got 20 silver, so
(01:05):
the one with 20 silver isactually ahead because they've
got.
You know, it's basically tierbreaking up and and that's how
the olympic committee countsgold, like ranks every the teams
.
So when you look in the pressacross the world over the the
thing, america might be third orfourth in the list because they
were slow to get their golds atthe start.
They waited till the trackevents came.
(01:27):
But if you looked at americareporting the whole time,
they're at number one becausethey had a whole lot of bronzes.
So they were counting the totalmedals, not just the gold
medals.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
We see total.
Yes, we see total I never knewthat four or five days ago we
had 88 and china was closest,next close to like 61, yeah, uh,
and then like they're like,yeah, and they might have more
gold, but whatever, we have alot someone someone pointed that
out this ago said we have afeeling that america changed
their way many years ago becausechina was beating them in gold,
(01:58):
so then they just went.
Well, we can't be less thanchina, so we'll just count total
, total it's just, it's not evenfair for companies like for
these, like, uh, us and china,because they have so many people
who you know, gigantic, youknow contingents of athletes
over there and like, um, saintlucia, like I think they won,
(02:20):
they won, I don't know whattrack, track they got a gold,
but that was the first middleever.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
It's same with the dominican republic got a gold,
but that was the first medalever.
It's the same with theDominican Republic got a gold,
and their population's less thanSt Lucia, I think, they're only
like 74,000.
So when you look at thepopulation, the gold medal thing
, they're just worlds ahead ofeveryone else because it's such
a small yeah it's crazy.
One of the highlights I saw was,just like a lot of older
(02:46):
athletes there and I want to sayit was Brazil, but I could be
wrong, south America, I justdon't know if it was a South
American country A woman wasdebuting for the Olympics at age
58, for ping pong At age 58?
I'm like that's awesome, likethat is, that is unreal, that
(03:09):
that actually happened.
You know, you got that theturkish shooter like look at him
, he was so casual.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, you know, I saw .
I saw a lot of funny memesabout that, like people couldn't
believe that america didn'tfinish first in that category.
I think that's the memes where alot of there's a lot of post
office staff members that couldhave gone, instead of something
um, so I was just typing ingoogle because I was thinking
there's some weird sports thatare in olympics, like curling in
the winter, and so I typed ingoogle weirdest and it
(03:36):
automatically filled in olympicsports because I think
everybody's looking at it.
So here's some of the some ofsports that have been in the.
They're not always in here, butTug of War existed from 1900 to
1920.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yes, that would have been cool.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
This one blows my mind.
I don't get it Solo,synchronized, synchronized.
Who are you synchronizing?
Yeah, okay, okay, okay.
Life-saving that lasted Okay.
Oof Ski ballet I'm watching alittle gif of it.
That's weird.
They're on skis.
That sounds dangerous.
Hot air ballooning lasted oneyear.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, there's a lot of sports that only last one
year.
Like breaking this year is onlyBreaking is this year only what
is that Break dancing?
her breaking is this year.
What is that break dancing?
Why?
Why?
Why is?
Why?
Is that in there?
I don't know, but you have togoogle the australian woman.
I just saw it on tiktok today.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna watch thehighlights after this of it, but
apparently her break dancing ishilarious.
(04:38):
It's, it's, yeah, really bad,really bad.
I was actually only finishingthe women's park skateboarding.
Oh, jumping onto this, we haveour youngest ever gold medalist.
He won the women's park eventand 14.
(04:59):
Wow, it's really interestingSkateboarding in the Olympics.
Since it started in tokyo andthis year the women obviously
don't have massive.
Yeah, it's been predominantly amale sport, so many women got
in.
There have been some greatwomen skateboarders over the
years, but they don't have thebank like men's do.
(05:19):
So when you go to the olympics,that the age category for the
women is like 14 to 17.
It's like the oldest you'll see.
But then when you go to themen's, it's shifted up to like
38 as a top end, down to like 24.
Yep, it's just awesome to heara young 14-year-old winning gold
(05:41):
14 year old winning gold.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
So I, I think the us women uh, four by 400 relay,
yeah, and the anchor was likethe 17 year old girl and it's
just like my kid is almost 13and he, uh, he doesn't listen to
this.
Okay, my kid is almost 13 andhe just learned how to tie and
this this woman is four yearsolder than him and ran an anchor
leg in the olympics and wongold.
Yeah, what?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so, um, soyeah, breaking talking about new
(06:11):
olympics.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Did you see that we're getting a esports olympic?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
no, yes.
So I play games.
We're not athletes.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
It's not in his event , not as an event.
Okay, the IOC actually approved.
This was before Paris started,I think Saudi Arabia's hosting
it for 2025.
So you'll have your normalOlympics, your Paralympics and
then your Eastport Olympics.
(06:41):
They're actually going to splitit off to be.
You know what that looks like,you know, but you know what that
looks like, you know, but youknow it's a step.
Who knows what that could be?
You got to think that thedigital simulated racing is a
big thing.
You know Gran Turismo.
There's massive money in GranTurismo, to the point that they,
(07:02):
you know, use that to progress,to actually racing cars.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Heineken do a simulated racing.
The alcoholic beverage companyyeah, they do.
Sponsors a driving event, yeah,even virtual.
Yeah, okay, yeah, right, justmake yeah like it's.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I think it's virtual free or something like that.
But yeah, I'm interested to seewhat an esports olympics is.
Where do you go with that?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
call me elitist, but any sport where you can hold a
beer and drink it while you'redoing said sport, it's not
really a sport like it's um.
Did you know that for 36 years,painting and sculpture was no
1912 to 19?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
wow, that's probably because all the equipment got
destroyed in world war.
Thought they had left wasbrushes uh, this one's not
surprising.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
This lasted one year old, uh, pistol dueling that
someone got gold.
Someone did.
When was that?
That was 1908 and 1908.
Only, okay, 2008.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Wow, who's that?
Next Olympics is LA, yeah, yep,and then one after that is
actually Wartown.
Is it really yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
32 is, so was that 32 .
So 24, yeah, yeah, yeah so I'mgonna I'm gonna.
I want to try to get to theolympics in 2032 over well, my
wife and I I says I already didit.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I said you gotta put your name down to try and get
some tickets, like I don't knowhow that I know how I don't know
how that works, type of thing,but but I was like, you know,
we've got to put that in and seewhat that looks like, I guess.
But apparently it's a lotteryfor locals.
Locals get more becauseobviously you're not paying for
(08:59):
accommodation, I think theyleave so many tickets open to
the public Further, and thenthere's a limited amount for
local residents which they'llraffle out, basically, and they
go.
Okay, cool, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I think one of my favorite parts about watching
Olympics is like I'm lying inbed.
I got a beer bag of chips, mybelly's hanging out watch the TV
and I'm like I know there's alot more of you out there that
can relate to that than arewilling to admit it, but yeah, I
don't think we should be sayingso, it's interesting because we
watched like the olympics athome and my wife and I watched
(09:39):
totally before.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So my wife's well into equestrian you'll watch all
the equestria events and lovesdoing that.
I'll watch it with her.
But at the same time I'm likecool, when's this going to end
so we can switch it over to thenext?
I'm interested in a whole lotof other different things.
To be honest, the coverage thisyear has been horrible on the
(10:02):
air end, has it?
I hate it.
I keep forgetting that I couldwatch it through nbc, I think
posting over your side.
Yeah, I keep forgetting thatI've got peacock and I should
probably fire up peacock andwatch.
I remember that story.
Yeah, I keep forgetting.
I should just fire up that andprobably watch your coverage
better.
But here, change of networkdoing it.
(10:23):
Just, they have this.
This is like an old man gripehere.
Free to air channel a lot ofthe free to air channels.
I have their own.
They're tied into a streamingplatform, I guess yeah yeah,
kind of like nbc and peacock oramazon, you know.
Anyway, they have thefree-to-air digital thing.
(10:47):
Do your streaming catch-ups,that stuff.
That's the thing that'sabsolutely horrible.
However, they do have astreaming platform that you can
pay 20 a month to get on, whichis okay, right.
But if you pay an extra 10 tothat, then you get their Olympic
coverage on there.
Apparently, the Olympiccoverage is way better on their
(11:11):
paid service than it is on thearena.
Yeah, and it really grinds mygears.
It really grinds my gearsbecause the Tokyo Olympics was
done by a different channel, inAustralia, and they did a great
job.
It was great.
And when I was like cool, Ican't wait because you just jump
on, find the sport, do thehighlights you know different,
polymerase whatever.
(11:32):
It was taking forever to appearon this one this year it might
not show up for a day or twoafter the event happened and you
don't.
It was just horrible.
It's just horrible.
That's why I'm catching up likeI'm slow, to watch the events
we're waiting.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
This year's been the hardest for me because I got rid
of regular tv so I watch allthe events as replays, all right
, so that's been making it alittle bit more challenging, but
so I I haven't watched any ofthe bmx stuff like I focus a lot
on.
Like uh, track and field eventsin basketball is like my
favorite thing, because I canalways say, like I used to do
that, not like that.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I I find, yeah, I haven't watched any of the
traditional sports likebasketball, rugby union, soccer.
I haven't watched any of any ofthem.
Actually, like the big timeframe, I guess it's the best way
to put it, I've stayed low onit.
But, yeah, I get, I get, I getyou about cutting back.
(12:29):
We can't get.
There's nothing on you for us.
Third party yeah, I wish Iactually want to go watch all
the snoop dogg and kevin hartstuff.
We don't get that.
Why don't we pay some weirdpeople to cover?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
it.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Apparently he's making insane money.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I heard rumors of up to it was something like 400
pounds a day that Snoop Dogg'sgetting paid, plus expenses Wow,
plus expenses if he needsexpenses, jesus, with a
potential to be over 1,200,potential to be over a 12
million pound for the wholecoverage, to just be more than
any Olympian getting paid.
They make like 100 or 200 grandat the tops right.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
A lot of.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Olympians, do it for free, I can look this up A lot
of Olympians don't get paid.
How much do?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Olympians make.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
A lot of Olympians make money through endorsements.
If they're good enough, yeah,like it's.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
It's a love for the us.
Gold medalists earn 38 000,silver medalists 23 000 and
bronze medalists 15 000.
Yeah, imagine being best, thebest at something out of every
any human on the planet, andthey're only like here's 38,000.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
But it changes there's a couple of countries
that are paying insanely wellfor their gold medalists, that
countries don't that rarely geta gold medal.
They'll pay them the same moneybecause obviously they've just
highlighted the country on them.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yeah, I mean right, that said, people that are
olympians, like you said.
They're sponsored full-time totrain and do other events.
So they they.
Yeah, they may not win a ton ofmoney for the medals, but
they're fine, they're doing finesome some.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I know a british athlete he lives not far from us
and I think I want to say shedoes discus and and shop it some
, or javelin, like it's.
It's a track, a field event and, yeah, she has to pay her own
way.
A lot of athletes pay unlessyou're really good at what you
(14:43):
do and you're bringing a lot.
You know, like your michaelphelps, your ian forbes, like
your big, big swimmers, you knowthat they, they get paid money
obviously, but yeah you movedown to say, like ping pong
athletes and stuff, they're not,they're not, they're totally
different.
It's it's sadly much likewomen's sport to men's sport
(15:08):
when it comes to like the wmbaand the nba, you know.
I mean, it's what brings in,what brings in the eyes and what
brings in the money.
That's how you get paid.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
I'll touch on that in a second.
I just found a list of the top10, 15, 20 countries and what
they pay out for gold.
Hong Kong pays $768,000 for agold medal.
The lowest on this list nooffense is Australia.
They pay out $13,000 for gold.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh really.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yeah, singapore pays $745,000.
Indonesia pays $300,000.
Israel pays $371,000.
Yeah, $13,000.
Yeah, yeah, china's not even onit, so they're below $13,000.
But anyway, the women's sportsthing is is interesting soccer,
(16:00):
the I know us women's soccerteam has always complained about
the pay difference, um, whichwas always kind of bs because
they did draw as many people asthe men's.
Oh, really, wnba and nba yeah,the wnba and the nba vastly
different.
They don't bring in any people.
In the wnba they're like well,why did this guy make this and
we only make?
(16:20):
Because you can only pay whatthe league brings in.
Yeah, it's, it's.
I don't think it's thatcomplicated and I know it sounds
like it's a gender disparity,but if you want to earn more,
you have to get more people towatch.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, yeah actually it was interesting to to
highlight, I guess, that how itworks, the world cup, women's
world cup last year, soccer,they always.
I think the prize pool went uplike $100 million between the
two years because it got so muchmore attention, which obviously
(16:59):
FIFA are going to be making waymore money.
So it was, it was an actualjump.
You actually saw the women getactually paid a decent amount
for competing in the World Cup,and it showed because we're
making more money out of youguys, we're going to pay you
guys more money.
They didn't shove their handsin their pocket, and when you
look crazily enough though and Idon't want to sound sexist in
(17:23):
any way, but if you look at thepercentage of what women's
athletes get paid to, how muchthe sport makes, that percentage
is actually way higher than themen's, because I believe when
you look at the world cup inmen's, you know women it's
something like six percent orsomething, or what they're
(17:44):
making moves back to women, andthen, when it comes to men, it's
back to single like way less inan odd way, trying to look for
the n and the wnba.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah, so, um, so, oh, okay, so, all right.
So here is a disparity betweenthe nba, wmba uh, this is from,
I don't know what this is from.
In the nba, players receive 50of nba basketball related.
In the wnba players receive 10of basketball related.
What was that?
Make 50% of all money thatcomes into the league.
(18:16):
The men the NBA players get 50%.
Women the WNBA players onlyearn 10% of the money coming
into the league.
That is.
But I think some of that has todo with the fact that there's a
base amount of things that haveto be set up to run the league.
You know what I mean.
So like when the league yeah,you know what I mean.
So like when the league, thenwmba, just the nba has to sign
a contract for like 76 billionover 11 years, of which I think
(18:40):
the nwmba gets like two or threebillion of that, and that's
gonna like skyrocket salaries,you know.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
So it's like yeah, all right, I found, I found the
one I was looking for.
It's great.
You just said that you know,50% of revenue for men, 10% for
women.
Women's World Cup get paid 20%of total revenue.
Okay, okay, and you know, let'sput that into a thing the
Women's World Cup generated $163million.
(19:10):
I think it was Okay.
Yep, the men's get paid sevenpercent, but their revenue
generates six billion.
Oh, wow, it is a.
It is a gender pay gap.
But when you're looking at as abusiness model, on revenue, on
revenue, yeah, which one do youwant to be?
(19:32):
If you're a business, you wantto be making six.
I want huge revenue with lower,low costings.
Underneath.
On my players, I'm profiting.
Could you imagine how muchthose players would be making if
they were getting males weregetting a 20 revenue cut?
That is insane money in sixbillion.
Six billion, all right.
(19:53):
It's the biggest sport in theworld.
It's funny when you think aboutsome of the.
You know the biggest events inthe world.
You have fifa world cup, thenyou've got the olympics.
The other one, cricket, is onelike.
There's all these events, butmajority of them are not
american-based sports yeah, sowe don't ever know about them.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Like cricket is huge.
Like I work, the industry Iwork in, I tend to work with a
lot of people from india.
Oh yeah, you and they're alwaystalking about, they're always
talking about cricket.
I'm like, how does that evenwork?
Do they look at me like I'mcrazy?
Because it's like it's, it'sthe sport over there.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
It's the sport.
It's the sport.
We know about indian cricket alot because we're australian, we
play cricket.
You know it's a commonwealthsport.
I guess the best way to put itcomes from from off.
Why isn't that cricket?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
and if you tell me this, I feel really bad.
I think it has been, I think ithas been in the in the past.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I, I swear I have never even seen.
Yeah, I swear it wasn't thepast.
Cricket returns it.
Here we go.
Cricket returns to the olympicsat 28 oh there you go.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I wonder why the us do have likea yeah, it didn't
make an appearance in paris.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
You got to figure.
If it's going to be olympics,you, the us, might actually put
a team together, right?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
yeah, they do.
Us does have, does have cricket, just like u.
Us has a rugby rugby union teamand rugby league team rugby was
.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I watched the rugby rugby's.
I don't want to ever play it,but it's a lot of it's fun yeah
that's not a good one either.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Like unions are right , I like league more.
So there's.
There's two types of rugby'srugby union, rugby league, the
one you would see all the timeis rugby union.
Rugby league, I find is a lotmore faster and harder.
Oh, yeah, yeah, we actually.
We actually had a few gamesplayed out of las vegas at the
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start of the year.
First few rounds, the firstfirst round or second round or
something.
A couple of the teams or fourto vegas and they all played in
vegas for a bit so yeah, thereis a united states national
cricket team.
Yeah, I, yeah no one knows aboutthem.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
No, it is.
I literally have not heard ofthis in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, it's like soccer soccer really wasn't a
thing, it's.
David becker came over toamerica and joined the galaxy,
you know, I mean then and evennow it's still kind of quiet,
still quiet, quiet, yeah.
But I mean, when he came over,that was kind of what made that
whole splash over in the us gotsummertime.
Yeah, was that?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
like when a popular club in europe doesn't win the
world cup or something Like, thecountry is devastated.
Right when the U S men's andwomen don't win the world cup,
everyone's like, okay, um, whatwas I doing?
Yeah, yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, no, no, we it was.
The women's world cup forsoccer was massive for us Cause
our, our women's team actuallydid quite well.
They got to the quarterfinals,so it was every so often yeah,
all right.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
So the I'm looking at the medal count, by the way,
because you mentioned thisearlier.
Yeah, what matt?
What's important is the total.
That's really what we're um,you know, I mean, but if you
look at the gold, sure, chinaand us are tied at 33, but us
has got 111 total.
So well shit, we're rankedthree good on us was russia a
(23:24):
lot, a lot in the no, no, russiahasn't been.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Russia hasn't been in for a lot.
They're still out.
How long were they banned, doyou remember?
I don't know, but they're alsowith.
Oh, there's another.
There's another country,belarus is also banned yeah, I
mean has got 11 medals.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
When?
Where do they when and where dothey get time to practice?
I mean, who knows?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
who knows that?
You know that shot put theirshot put.
Champion is probably the bestgranite grenadier canceled.
Probably probably.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah, russia got it really they were gonna compete
shooting uh events, but theydidn't have any bullets.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah yeah, russia, russia really got banned because
they got confused when theysaid set up a javelin event it's
been a great life that's beengreat um more to the un.
Yeah, this is our best night,our best, best games, I think I
think our record was 17 goldthough do you see this guy, um,
(24:28):
from the us.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
He won a goal two days ago in a bronze today and
he had after he won the bronze.
He really couldn't breathe.
They had to pull him off thetrack and he won a bronze medal
in a track event with.
I'm surprised he was leavingeverybody at home when you're
just like I can't go to work forfour weeks.
This dude ran in the olympicsand won a medal with covid I'm
(24:51):
surprised he was allowed outwith covid.
He apparently was wearing a mask.
Okay, then he goes I didn'tknow, I had it.
Yes, you did.
You probably get tested all thefucking time.
Yeah, you do your event, I getit.
I get it.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I get it.
It would have sucked to missout on it.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
You seem a little irresponsible to your fellow
athletes.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
It does seem highly irresponsible.
That's that point that I'mlooking at.
That seems a bit selfish, butokay.
But no, a lot of Russianathletes are allowed to appear
on ROC.
What's ROC?
That's Independent RepublicanRefugees.
Oh, I don't.
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There's two Olympic teams onthe Olympics.
It's.
I think it's, yeah, a Republicrefugee Olympic, something like
that.
But there's a couple of teamswhere, if your country can't
compete, they felt like it was,they weren't going to let them
at all.
No, russians were allowed to,but then they felt it was a
(25:55):
horrible idea to ban athletespurely because of the country.
I guess you know what I mean.
It's unfair to crack down on anindividual for a nation.
That's why they're allowed andthey come under.
I think it's the ref.
There's two teams where, if youdon't have a team, you can
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compete just so yeah, which isit's?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
it's.
You were talking about themedals per capita.
Yeah, earlier.
Yeah, the us is winning roughlyone medal for 3.5 million
citizens.
Australia is winning one medalfor every 570 000 citizens look
up india.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I think india is on that list uh, I don't.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
It's not showing me a whole list.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Yeah, no, probably wouldn't, but they, you know
their populations way more and amedal per uh last year.
So the band I'm just trying tolook into, the russian man, yeah
they're winning one medal per6.2 million.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah, oh sorry, I didn't scroll that.
Sorry.
They're winning one medal per281 million.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah the russia's ban was lifted to be after tokyo,
like 2022, but then they gotrebanned because of the on,
because of ukraine.
Oh, wow, yeah, it's therussia's being banned for its
fourth consecutive olympic gamesthrough summer and to winter.
Uh, I don't think.
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Anyone, I don't know.
I thought they always addedsome words to some events.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I'm just trying to serve some controversy on the
podcast.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah, they do, they qualify, they can still compete
going through this.
No, it doesn't say when they'reunbanned.
Probably there'd be a periodafter the war with Ukraine.
Yeah, but that makes you.
I get it.
You get Russia's ban forUkraine.
Why is there nothing around theMiddle East With Palestine and
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that Just put it out there.
Yeah, palestine and Israel.
Yeah, they've always been inwar, but they're the Olympics.
That is when you think about it.
That's weird, with the lead upand then the lead up and after,
like during, it's still beengoing on, like I know.
Yeah, we don't hear too muchabout the ukraine war like we
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did when it started.
It's very much there, a lotless than what it was, and we're
all about palestine, israel, atmoment, but we are hearing all
about that there in the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
That's crazy.
I bet people didn't know whenthey tuned into the dad mode
this week that you would begetting our Olympic coverage.
You're welcome, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
We probably wrapped that up.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I think the next time we talk more non-Olympic
coverage, I hope you.
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
But we're actually bringing it back to Olympics.
Olympics are half my first.
It's been very interesting thisyear, the Olympics I'm fighting
.
There's lots of things I didn'tknow.
One of them was how Americadoes the medal cap compared to
every other country in the world.
I didn't know that wasdifferent.
Doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
They usually do well, but this year they seem to do
exceptionally well.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
No, no, no, it's the, the olympic committee and
majority I think.
I think it's like the wholeworld out the medals as golds
and if there's buying gold, youuse silver to break up.
Who's got, so you go.
You know you could have twopeople on 20 gold medals, but
then one's got 10 silver and theother one's got 20 silver, so
(01:05):
the one with 20 silver isactually ahead because they've
got.
You know, it's basically tierbreaking up and and that's how
the olympic committee countsgold, like ranks every the teams
.
So when you look in the pressacross the world over the the
thing, america might be third orfourth in the list because they
were slow to get their golds atthe start.
They waited till the trackevents came.
(01:27):
But if you looked at americareporting the whole time,
they're at number one becausethey had a whole lot of bronzes.
So they were counting the totalmedals, not just the gold
medals.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
We see total.
Yes, we see total I never knewthat four or five days ago we
had 88 and china was closest,next close to like 61, yeah, uh,
and then like they're like,yeah, and they might have more
gold, but whatever, we have alot someone someone pointed that
out this ago said we have afeeling that america changed
their way many years ago becausechina was beating them in gold,
(01:58):
so then they just went.
Well, we can't be less thanchina, so we'll just count total
, total it's just, it's not evenfair for companies like for
these, like, uh, us and china,because they have so many people
who you know, gigantic, youknow contingents of athletes
over there and like, um, saintlucia, like I think they won,
(02:20):
they won, I don't know whattrack, track they got a gold,
but that was the first middleever.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
It's same with the dominican republic got a gold,
but that was the first medalever.
It's the same with theDominican Republic got a gold,
and their population's less thanSt Lucia, I think, they're only
like 74,000.
So when you look at thepopulation, the gold medal thing
, they're just worlds ahead ofeveryone else because it's such
a small yeah it's crazy.
One of the highlights I saw was,just like a lot of older
(02:46):
athletes there and I want to sayit was Brazil, but I could be
wrong, south America, I justdon't know if it was a South
American country A woman wasdebuting for the Olympics at age
58, for ping pong At age 58?
I'm like that's awesome, likethat is, that is unreal, that
(03:09):
that actually happened.
You know, you got that theturkish shooter like look at him
, he was so casual.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, you know, I saw .
I saw a lot of funny memesabout that, like people couldn't
believe that america didn'tfinish first in that category.
I think that's the memes where alot of there's a lot of post
office staff members that couldhave gone, instead of something
um, so I was just typing ingoogle because I was thinking
there's some weird sports thatare in olympics, like curling in
the winter, and so I typed ingoogle weirdest and it
(03:36):
automatically filled in olympicsports because I think
everybody's looking at it.
So here's some of the some ofsports that have been in the.
They're not always in here, butTug of War existed from 1900 to
1920.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yes, that would have been cool.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
This one blows my mind.
I don't get it Solo,synchronized, synchronized.
Who are you synchronizing?
Yeah, okay, okay, okay.
Life-saving that lasted Okay.
Oof Ski ballet I'm watching alittle gif of it.
That's weird.
They're on skis.
That sounds dangerous.
Hot air ballooning lasted oneyear.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, there's a lot of sports that only last one
year.
Like breaking this year is onlyBreaking is this year only what
is that Break dancing?
her breaking is this year.
What is that break dancing?
Why?
Why?
Why is?
Why?
Is that in there?
I don't know, but you have togoogle the australian woman.
I just saw it on tiktok today.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna watch thehighlights after this of it, but
apparently her break dancing ishilarious.
(04:38):
It's, it's, yeah, really bad,really bad.
I was actually only finishingthe women's park skateboarding.
Oh, jumping onto this, we haveour youngest ever gold medalist.
He won the women's park eventand 14.
(04:59):
Wow, it's really interestingSkateboarding in the Olympics.
Since it started in tokyo andthis year the women obviously
don't have massive.
Yeah, it's been predominantly amale sport, so many women got
in.
There have been some greatwomen skateboarders over the
years, but they don't have thebank like men's do.
(05:19):
So when you go to the olympics,that the age category for the
women is like 14 to 17.
It's like the oldest you'll see.
But then when you go to themen's, it's shifted up to like
38 as a top end, down to like 24.
Yep, it's just awesome to heara young 14-year-old winning gold
(05:41):
14 year old winning gold.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
So I, I think the us women uh, four by 400 relay,
yeah, and the anchor was likethe 17 year old girl and it's
just like my kid is almost 13and he, uh, he doesn't listen to
this.
Okay, my kid is almost 13 andhe just learned how to tie and
this this woman is four yearsolder than him and ran an anchor
leg in the olympics and wongold.
Yeah, what?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so, um, soyeah, breaking talking about new
(06:11):
olympics.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Did you see that we're getting a esports olympic?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
no, yes.
So I play games.
We're not athletes.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
It's not in his event , not as an event.
Okay, the IOC actually approved.
This was before Paris started,I think Saudi Arabia's hosting
it for 2025.
So you'll have your normalOlympics, your Paralympics and
then your Eastport Olympics.
(06:41):
They're actually going to splitit off to be.
You know what that looks like,you know, but you know what that
looks like, you know, but youknow it's a step.
Who knows what that could be?
You got to think that thedigital simulated racing is a
big thing.
You know Gran Turismo.
There's massive money in GranTurismo, to the point that they,
(07:02):
you know, use that to progress,to actually racing cars.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Heineken do a simulated racing.
The alcoholic beverage companyyeah, they do.
Sponsors a driving event, yeah,even virtual.
Yeah, okay, yeah, right, justmake yeah like it's.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I think it's virtual free or something like that.
But yeah, I'm interested to seewhat an esports olympics is.
Where do you go with that?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
call me elitist, but any sport where you can hold a
beer and drink it while you'redoing said sport, it's not
really a sport like it's um.
Did you know that for 36 years,painting and sculpture was no
1912 to 19?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
wow, that's probably because all the equipment got
destroyed in world war.
Thought they had left wasbrushes uh, this one's not
surprising.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
This lasted one year old, uh, pistol dueling that
someone got gold.
Someone did.
When was that?
That was 1908 and 1908.
Only, okay, 2008.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Wow, who's that?
Next Olympics is LA, yeah, yep,and then one after that is
actually Wartown.
Is it really yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
32 is, so was that 32 .
So 24, yeah, yeah, yeah so I'mgonna I'm gonna.
I want to try to get to theolympics in 2032 over well, my
wife and I I says I already didit.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I said you gotta put your name down to try and get
some tickets, like I don't knowhow that I know how I don't know
how that works, type of thing,but but I was like, you know,
we've got to put that in and seewhat that looks like, I guess.
But apparently it's a lotteryfor locals.
Locals get more becauseobviously you're not paying for
(08:59):
accommodation, I think theyleave so many tickets open to
the public Further, and thenthere's a limited amount for
local residents which they'llraffle out, basically, and they
go.
Okay, cool, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I think one of my favorite parts about watching
Olympics is like I'm lying inbed.
I got a beer bag of chips, mybelly's hanging out watch the TV
and I'm like I know there's alot more of you out there that
can relate to that than arewilling to admit it, but yeah, I
don't think we should be sayingso, it's interesting because we
watched like the olympics athome and my wife and I watched
(09:39):
totally before.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So my wife's well into equestrian you'll watch all
the equestria events and lovesdoing that.
I'll watch it with her.
But at the same time I'm likecool, when's this going to end
so we can switch it over to thenext?
I'm interested in a whole lotof other different things.
To be honest, the coverage thisyear has been horrible on the
(10:02):
air end, has it?
I hate it.
I keep forgetting that I couldwatch it through nbc, I think
posting over your side.
Yeah, I keep forgetting thatI've got peacock and I should
probably fire up peacock andwatch.
I remember that story.
Yeah, I keep forgetting.
I should just fire up that andprobably watch your coverage
better.
But here, change of networkdoing it.
(10:23):
Just, they have this.
This is like an old man gripehere.
Free to air channel a lot ofthe free to air channels.
I have their own.
They're tied into a streamingplatform, I guess yeah yeah,
kind of like nbc and peacock oramazon, you know.
Anyway, they have thefree-to-air digital thing.
(10:47):
Do your streaming catch-ups,that stuff.
That's the thing that'sabsolutely horrible.
However, they do have astreaming platform that you can
pay 20 a month to get on, whichis okay, right.
But if you pay an extra 10 tothat, then you get their Olympic
coverage on there.
Apparently, the Olympiccoverage is way better on their
(11:11):
paid service than it is on thearena.
Yeah, and it really grinds mygears.
It really grinds my gearsbecause the Tokyo Olympics was
done by a different channel, inAustralia, and they did a great
job.
It was great.
And when I was like cool, Ican't wait because you just jump
on, find the sport, do thehighlights you know different,
polymerase whatever.
(11:32):
It was taking forever to appearon this one this year it might
not show up for a day or twoafter the event happened and you
don't.
It was just horrible.
It's just horrible.
That's why I'm catching up likeI'm slow, to watch the events
we're waiting.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
This year's been the hardest for me because I got rid
of regular tv so I watch allthe events as replays, all right
, so that's been making it alittle bit more challenging, but
so I I haven't watched any ofthe bmx stuff like I focus a lot
on.
Like uh, track and field eventsin basketball is like my
favorite thing, because I canalways say, like I used to do
that, not like that.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I I find, yeah, I haven't watched any of the
traditional sports likebasketball, rugby union, soccer.
I haven't watched any of any ofthem.
Actually, like the big timeframe, I guess it's the best way
to put it, I've stayed low onit.
But, yeah, I get, I get, I getyou about cutting back.
(12:29):
We can't get.
There's nothing on you for us.
Third party yeah, I wish Iactually want to go watch all
the snoop dogg and kevin hartstuff.
We don't get that.
Why don't we pay some weirdpeople to cover?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
it.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Apparently he's making insane money.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I heard rumors of up to it was something like 400
pounds a day that Snoop Dogg'sgetting paid, plus expenses Wow,
plus expenses if he needsexpenses, jesus, with a
potential to be over 1,200,potential to be over a 12
million pound for the wholecoverage, to just be more than
any Olympian getting paid.
They make like 100 or 200 grandat the tops right.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
A lot of.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Olympians, do it for free, I can look this up A lot
of Olympians don't get paid.
How much do?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Olympians make.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
A lot of Olympians make money through endorsements.
If they're good enough, yeah,like it's.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
It's a love for the us.
Gold medalists earn 38 000,silver medalists 23 000 and
bronze medalists 15 000.
Yeah, imagine being best, thebest at something out of every
any human on the planet, andthey're only like here's 38,000.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
But it changes there's a couple of countries
that are paying insanely wellfor their gold medalists, that
countries don't that rarely geta gold medal.
They'll pay them the same moneybecause obviously they've just
highlighted the country on them.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yeah, I mean right, that said, people that are
olympians, like you said.
They're sponsored full-time totrain and do other events.
So they they.
Yeah, they may not win a ton ofmoney for the medals, but
they're fine, they're doing finesome some.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I know a british athlete he lives not far from us
and I think I want to say shedoes discus and and shop it some
, or javelin, like it's.
It's a track, a field event and, yeah, she has to pay her own
way.
A lot of athletes pay unlessyou're really good at what you
(14:43):
do and you're bringing a lot.
You know, like your michaelphelps, your ian forbes, like
your big, big swimmers, you knowthat they, they get paid money
obviously, but yeah you movedown to say, like ping pong
athletes and stuff, they're not,they're not, they're totally
different.
It's it's sadly much likewomen's sport to men's sport
(15:08):
when it comes to like the wmbaand the nba, you know.
I mean, it's what brings in,what brings in the eyes and what
brings in the money.
That's how you get paid.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
I'll touch on that in a second.
I just found a list of the top10, 15, 20 countries and what
they pay out for gold.
Hong Kong pays $768,000 for agold medal.
The lowest on this list nooffense is Australia.
They pay out $13,000 for gold.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh really.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yeah, singapore pays $745,000.
Indonesia pays $300,000.
Israel pays $371,000.
Yeah, $13,000.
Yeah, yeah, china's not even onit, so they're below $13,000.
But anyway, the women's sportsthing is is interesting soccer,
(16:00):
the I know us women's soccerteam has always complained about
the pay difference, um, whichwas always kind of bs because
they did draw as many people asthe men's.
Oh, really, wnba and nba yeah,the wnba and the nba vastly
different.
They don't bring in any people.
In the wnba they're like well,why did this guy make this and
we only make?
(16:20):
Because you can only pay whatthe league brings in.
Yeah, it's, it's.
I don't think it's thatcomplicated and I know it sounds
like it's a gender disparity,but if you want to earn more,
you have to get more people towatch.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, yeah actually it was interesting to to
highlight, I guess, that how itworks, the world cup, women's
world cup last year, soccer,they always.
I think the prize pool went uplike $100 million between the
two years because it got so muchmore attention, which obviously
(16:59):
FIFA are going to be making waymore money.
So it was, it was an actualjump.
You actually saw the women getactually paid a decent amount
for competing in the World Cup,and it showed because we're
making more money out of youguys, we're going to pay you
guys more money.
They didn't shove their handsin their pocket, and when you
look crazily enough though and Idon't want to sound sexist in
(17:23):
any way, but if you look at thepercentage of what women's
athletes get paid to, how muchthe sport makes, that percentage
is actually way higher than themen's, because I believe when
you look at the world cup inmen's, you know women it's
something like six percent orsomething, or what they're
(17:44):
making moves back to women, andthen, when it comes to men, it's
back to single like way less inan odd way, trying to look for
the n and the wnba.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah, so, um, so, oh, okay, so, all right.
So here is a disparity betweenthe nba, wmba uh, this is from,
I don't know what this is from.
In the nba, players receive 50of nba basketball related.
In the wnba players receive 10of basketball related.
What was that?
Make 50% of all money thatcomes into the league.
(18:16):
The men the NBA players get 50%.
Women the WNBA players onlyearn 10% of the money coming
into the league.
That is.
But I think some of that has todo with the fact that there's a
base amount of things that haveto be set up to run the league.
You know what I mean.
So like when the league yeah,you know what I mean.
So like when the league, thenwmba, just the nba has to sign
a contract for like 76 billionover 11 years, of which I think
(18:40):
the nwmba gets like two or threebillion of that, and that's
gonna like skyrocket salaries,you know.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
So it's like yeah, all right, I found, I found the
one I was looking for.
It's great.
You just said that you know,50% of revenue for men, 10% for
women.
Women's World Cup get paid 20%of total revenue.
Okay, okay, and you know, let'sput that into a thing the
Women's World Cup generated $163million.
(19:10):
I think it was Okay.
Yep, the men's get paid sevenpercent, but their revenue
generates six billion.
Oh, wow, it is a.
It is a gender pay gap.
But when you're looking at as abusiness model, on revenue, on
revenue, yeah, which one do youwant to be?
(19:32):
If you're a business, you wantto be making six.
I want huge revenue with lower,low costings.
Underneath.
On my players, I'm profiting.
Could you imagine how muchthose players would be making if
they were getting males weregetting a 20 revenue cut?
That is insane money in sixbillion.
Six billion, all right.
(19:53):
It's the biggest sport in theworld.
It's funny when you think aboutsome of the.
You know the biggest events inthe world.
You have fifa world cup, thenyou've got the olympics.
The other one, cricket, is onelike.
There's all these events, butmajority of them are not
american-based sports yeah, sowe don't ever know about them.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Like cricket is huge.
Like I work, the industry Iwork in, I tend to work with a
lot of people from india.
Oh yeah, you and they're alwaystalking about, they're always
talking about cricket.
I'm like, how does that evenwork?
Do they look at me like I'mcrazy?
Because it's like it's, it'sthe sport over there.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
It's the sport.
It's the sport.
We know about indian cricket alot because we're australian, we
play cricket.
You know it's a commonwealthsport.
I guess the best way to put itcomes from from off.
Why isn't that cricket?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
and if you tell me this, I feel really bad.
I think it has been, I think ithas been in the in the past.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I, I swear I have never even seen.
Yeah, I swear it wasn't thepast.
Cricket returns it.
Here we go.
Cricket returns to the olympicsat 28 oh there you go.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I wonder why the us do have likea yeah, it didn't
make an appearance in paris.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
You got to figure.
If it's going to be olympics,you, the us, might actually put
a team together, right?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
yeah, they do.
Us does have, does have cricket, just like u.
Us has a rugby rugby union teamand rugby league team rugby was
.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I watched the rugby rugby's.
I don't want to ever play it,but it's a lot of it's fun yeah
that's not a good one either.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Like unions are right , I like league more.
So there's.
There's two types of rugby'srugby union, rugby league, the
one you would see all the timeis rugby union.
Rugby league, I find is a lotmore faster and harder.
Oh, yeah, yeah, we actually.
We actually had a few gamesplayed out of las vegas at the
(21:46):
start of the year.
First few rounds, the firstfirst round or second round or
something.
A couple of the teams or fourto vegas and they all played in
vegas for a bit so yeah, thereis a united states national
cricket team.
Yeah, I, yeah no one knows aboutthem.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
No, it is.
I literally have not heard ofthis in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, it's like soccer soccer really wasn't a
thing, it's.
David becker came over toamerica and joined the galaxy,
you know, I mean then and evennow it's still kind of quiet,
still quiet, quiet, yeah.
But I mean, when he came over,that was kind of what made that
whole splash over in the us gotsummertime.
Yeah, was that?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
like when a popular club in europe doesn't win the
world cup or something Like, thecountry is devastated.
Right when the U S men's andwomen don't win the world cup,
everyone's like, okay, um, whatwas I doing?
Yeah, yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, no, no, we it was.
The women's world cup forsoccer was massive for us Cause
our, our women's team actuallydid quite well.
They got to the quarterfinals,so it was every so often yeah,
all right.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
So the I'm looking at the medal count, by the way,
because you mentioned thisearlier.
Yeah, what matt?
What's important is the total.
That's really what we're um,you know, I mean, but if you
look at the gold, sure, chinaand us are tied at 33, but us
has got 111 total.
So well shit, we're rankedthree good on us was russia a
(23:24):
lot, a lot in the no, no, russiahasn't been.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Russia hasn't been in for a lot.
They're still out.
How long were they banned, doyou remember?
I don't know, but they're alsowith.
Oh, there's another.
There's another country,belarus is also banned yeah, I
mean has got 11 medals.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
When?
Where do they when and where dothey get time to practice?
I mean, who knows?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
who knows that?
You know that shot put theirshot put.
Champion is probably the bestgranite grenadier canceled.
Probably probably.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah, russia got it really they were gonna compete
shooting uh events, but theydidn't have any bullets.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah yeah, russia, russia really got banned because
they got confused when theysaid set up a javelin event it's
been a great life that's beengreat um more to the un.
Yeah, this is our best night,our best, best games, I think I
think our record was 17 goldthough do you see this guy, um,
(24:28):
from the us.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
He won a goal two days ago in a bronze today and
he had after he won the bronze.
He really couldn't breathe.
They had to pull him off thetrack and he won a bronze medal
in a track event with.
I'm surprised he was leavingeverybody at home when you're
just like I can't go to work forfour weeks.
This dude ran in the olympicsand won a medal with covid I'm
(24:51):
surprised he was allowed outwith covid.
He apparently was wearing a mask.
Okay, then he goes I didn'tknow, I had it.
Yes, you did.
You probably get tested all thefucking time.
Yeah, you do your event, I getit.
I get it.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I get it.
It would have sucked to missout on it.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
You seem a little irresponsible to your fellow
athletes.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
It does seem highly irresponsible.
That's that point that I'mlooking at.
That seems a bit selfish, butokay.
But no, a lot of Russianathletes are allowed to appear
on ROC.
What's ROC?
That's Independent RepublicanRefugees.
Oh, I don't.
(25:32):
There's two Olympic teams onthe Olympics.
It's.
I think it's, yeah, a Republicrefugee Olympic, something like
that.
But there's a couple of teamswhere, if your country can't
compete, they felt like it was,they weren't going to let them
at all.
No, russians were allowed to,but then they felt it was a
(25:55):
horrible idea to ban athletespurely because of the country.
I guess you know what I mean.
It's unfair to crack down on anindividual for a nation.
That's why they're allowed andthey come under.
I think it's the ref.
There's two teams where, if youdon't have a team, you can
(26:16):
compete just so yeah, which isit's?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
it's.
You were talking about themedals per capita.
Yeah, earlier.
Yeah, the us is winning roughlyone medal for 3.5 million
citizens.
Australia is winning one medalfor every 570 000 citizens look
up india.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I think india is on that list uh, I don't.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
It's not showing me a whole list.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Yeah, no, probably wouldn't, but they, you know
their populations way more and amedal per uh last year.
So the band I'm just trying tolook into, the russian man, yeah
they're winning one medal per6.2 million.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah, oh sorry, I didn't scroll that.
Sorry.
They're winning one medal per281 million.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah the russia's ban was lifted to be after tokyo,
like 2022, but then they gotrebanned because of the on,
because of ukraine.
Oh, wow, yeah, it's therussia's being banned for its
fourth consecutive olympic gamesthrough summer and to winter.
Uh, I don't think.
(27:31):
Anyone, I don't know.
I thought they always addedsome words to some events.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I'm just trying to serve some controversy on the
podcast.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah, they do, they qualify, they can still compete
going through this.
No, it doesn't say when they'reunbanned.
Probably there'd be a periodafter the war with Ukraine.
Yeah, but that makes you.
I get it.
You get Russia's ban forUkraine.
Why is there nothing around theMiddle East With Palestine and
(28:00):
that Just put it out there.
Yeah, palestine and Israel.
Yeah, they've always been inwar, but they're the Olympics.
That is when you think about it.
That's weird, with the lead upand then the lead up and after,
like during, it's still beengoing on, like I know.
Yeah, we don't hear too muchabout the ukraine war like we
(28:23):
did when it started.
It's very much there, a lotless than what it was, and we're
all about palestine, israel, atmoment, but we are hearing all
about that there in the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
That's crazy.
I bet people didn't know whenthey tuned into the dad mode
this week that you would begetting our Olympic coverage.
You're welcome, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
We probably wrapped that up.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I think the next time we talk more non-Olympic
coverage, I hope you.
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