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#054 - Australian - Feet, Rants and BMX, how are they linked.
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Good evening, Sports Biz family, and welcome to episode 54 with more frivolity, fun and pheromones with Mr. Martin Rindell, aka the dog. Happy week, everybody, and myself, John Briggs, or Briggsy, as some of you prefer to call me. This is the only podcast you'll ever need in your life. Because we hit all the open cracks all the time.
SPEAKER_00Because sport is life and life is sport. What is happening, Martin?
SPEAKER_01Well, John, what have we got for this week? There's a few standards, there's a few upcoming. There's a lot of stuff going on for Australia. AFL, NRL. Luckily the Wallabies didn't play. But that's okay. There's some uh other rugby union going on around the world, but we've got a reprieve from the wallabies. Uh cricket. Uh I'd like to touch on some of the um con games. Yeah. Because they're kicking off in a few days. So uh we can go through a bit of the Australian contingent.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Going on to the uh Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, getting ready for that. We've got the Diamond League from London.
SPEAKER_02Yep.
SPEAKER_01Uh, how all the Aussies went over there, getting ready for the com games again. Cool. So uh, and of course, we've got the um World Championships BMXing. Oh, God. It was in Brisbane. Yes. So I look forward to giving you guys the update of what happened there. I can't wait for that one. I'm reckoning you're gonna absolutely be gobsmacked by it. So uh, what have you got, John, to kick us off on this uh July week? I have a joke, Martin. I thought you may. What do you got? Young lad. What do you got? 16-year-old boy. Oh, I thought you were calling me young lad. Hi, you fool! I was gonna go, thank you, old man. Yeah, yeah. There's a young lad. Yes, 16 years of age. Okay, 16. He's all excited.
SPEAKER_00Oh. Because he goes up to his dad and says, Oh, you've got a theme. Hey dad, dad, I've just lost my virginity. Oh, and the proud father says, sit down, son. It's time to celebrate. And the son says, It hurts to sit down, dad. Oh.
SPEAKER_01Boom, boom. No, it's too late, you've missed that. No. Well, that's uh we'll leave that one too. That's a little out of this world. Will he? Isn't it? Wait, but speaking of out of this world, yes, I thought I might join you today. With what? What is ET short for? Well, I always thought it was extraterrestrial, but obviously maybe not in this case. No, little legs.
unknownLittle legs. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01But I'll give you one anyway. It's because he's short. Right. What's it what's E.T. short for? Uh little legs.
SPEAKER_00Legs, sorry.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, in my head. Ladies and gentlemen, the jokes don't work when you have to explain them. I thought I had in my head what is the stand for. Yes, exactly. I was gonna say he didn't because he sat. But anyway, that would be. What's he short for? Mate, we have got the clickerus. Oh, good luck. Did you find it? As always, Martin, I had a bit of trouble. Yep. Can't quite put my finger on it. Right. But it's right on the tip of my tongue. Well, share with us what you found. We got a few this week. Only short ones this time. Oh god, there could be 30 from the one sport.
SPEAKER_00Does the name Sandy Brolo Brondello mean anything? Oh, yes, it definitely does.
SPEAKER_01I might join in with this. I can do this. She's been suspended for a match. She has in the WNBA. Yes. Naughty little thing, that Western Australian. For using the term. Hang on. Think this through. Are you just going to use the term or are you going to give it some context? Are you going to fire that to me? Well, might. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've got them all to hand to you. Oh, um, okay. Protected species. Martin, would you like to continue? Yes, well, Sandy. Yes. Uh, we we all know that when you travel the world and you you go from country to country, not every saying from the country you're from translates so eloquently into another country. Indeed. So, very common, in fact, I could be on a rant right now about protected species in the AFL. Yep. Um, a lot of them wear black and white. Uh-huh. But this is where the saying is most often used in football terms in Australia, usually regarding umpiring decisions and then ongoing match review panels, suspensions, etc. Uh huh. Protected species always seem to get off with very light sanctions for misbehaving. This is a rant, isn't it, Martin? My clickerus has turned into a rant. Yes, well, that's that's where the that's where protected species comes from. Well, question is where can't you use such a term? Before we'll go on to that, she Brandello uh was referring to uh opposite player called Angel Reese. Yes. Who got upset? And why did she get upset, Martin? Well, Angel Reese is upset permanently. Uh-huh. She's always upset at I don't know, uh fouls, missing every shot she takes, umpiring decisions. So this is why Bongiello was referring to her as well. Yes, she was not being uh called for the fouls that she was. And what was the connotation though in the States? Okay, so to be fair, let's paint that picture for anyone that doesn't know Angel Reese, African American basketball player. Uh-huh. Now think to the term when you use the term protected species in America at that point. And to be fair, she didn't use it in a press conference. Right. It was in a timeout huddle just to her team. And the ref. No, no, that was just picked up on the microphones. Okay. Because the Americans stick microphones in everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And uh and it got just picked up as part of the conversation. She was just referring to be aware that they're not gonna have fouls called on them. But that term does not translate to the American populace very well at all. So she had to make a public apology.
SPEAKER_00She did, which was accepted by Reese. But Reese did go on to say that she's glad that the league took action.
SPEAKER_01Yes. So open that bolter. I'm opening the bolter hazy pale ale from Corumban. Didn't one of your Aussies open the bolter last week? Open the bolter last week? Yeah. Dunno. The demon. Oh yeah, he might have. And the bolt. I believe he got him Balter. He opened the open the bolter. Nice. Uh apparently a bit of a weird wedding. But well, I don't know the details of that. But uh what are we cheesing? I'll tell you what we're cheesing. Come on. Sandy. Good work, darling. Fair enough. Love your work, I've been watching. Now the second part to my clickerus. I didn't have to look for this one very much. It just fell out. Fell into your lap, Debbie. Dodgy Sons players. Oh no. Oh. Found and a disabled tool. They've done it. Together. They've done a Caleb Ponger. One or the other. Oh no. I hadn't even thought of that. First joke. Well, I hadn't even thought of that. What were you doing? Mac Andrew. Yeah, I know. And Jamela. No, Jamal. Javari Hugle Hagen. Yes. Who has who's come to the Gold Coast from the Western Bulldogs. Yeah. Because he had a very troubled short career there. Indeed. With the law. Yep. With friends leading him astray, with far too much partying, drinking, and conceivably other curricular activities. Yeah. Yeah, you probably don't want to go to the state of origin and get filmed the two of you walking out of a disabled toilet together. Indeed. Yes, I know. Not good, inappropriate and disrespectful. It does damn unappropriate and damn disrespectful. Well, yes, I would say not so much inappropriate and disrespectful, but more bloody hell. I know. There's only a couple of things you could be doing in there together, and none of them are good. Indeed. None of them are good to wind up the clickeress for today. Oh, there's more. There is more, and it is gone on F L again. Oh no, what have we done?
SPEAKER_00More inappropriate and disrespectful behaviour. But a certain AFL player suspended for GBH on the pitch. Martin, a certain Adelaide Crows player.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god, what are your thoughts? Uh, an absolute travesty of justice. Of course it was. Three matches is a ridiculous penalty. Um he got him high in the tackle. Hang on. No, that was the previous two in the disabled two. It might have been the I I choose my words carefully. Well done. Um he definitely got him high. I guess that means one match automatically. Uh he was concussed and couldn't finish the game. Yeah. Generally, that means two or three. Might be ranting, but I'm gonna try not to. This was a hard and fast rule from the AFL. Doesn't matter how you uh concuss a guy, if you give him concussion and he can't complete the game, you are done for three games. Unless in the last six weeks, they've found three separate occasions where they've decided not to do that. Right. So, weirdly enough, for Collingwood. In particular. But that is actually a protective species. Well, this is where this is where it rolls in. But that's not specific. So the so the AFL took it upon themselves to decide in certain circumstances if you are concussed, fail your head injury assessment and can't finish the game, that doesn't automatically mean a suspension. Sometimes it means a fine, sometimes it means no charge whatsoever, depending on who you are. Yeah. But for Darcy Foggarty, no, sir, absolutely not. Three weeks, and when you appeal, we'll just shut you down and say no. So you gotta start wondering where that comes from. Yeah. And if I was to look at the last three years, and ladies and gentlemen, just give me a chance to look this up. Because this came across this came across my feed today. I have a toilet roll here. Now, this is not would you like me to rip you off a piece? No, no, no, no, not at all. So this is this is not this is not the umpires, this is the match review panel and the sanctions that are handed down to teams. Now, I really believe these days, no team is particularly dirty. I don't believe there is a particularly dirty team out there. Uh it's a bit like not like Argentina, where you know there's a dirty team. So when you look at uh numbers of games in the last three seasons suspended from a team. Right. Adelaide leads the way. Uh-huh. We're 22. Yeah. And we're not a dirty team. That's not good, is it, Mike? So here we go. There is a perceived bias that the Victorian clubs get less of a penalty. So the most penalized team with suspensions is Adelaide. The second most is Greater Western Sydney. The third most is Port Adelaide. The fourth most is Sydney. Exactly. Well, I reckon we were even until Darcy got his three. Because we're only three more. So your team is the filth of the whole thing. Apparently. And when you watch it, it's not. But then you've got Sydney in fourth, North Melbourne in fifth, but then Gold Coast in sixth and West Coast in seventh. So the most penalised. And where's mine? Keeping in mind, Adelaide have lost 22 games to suspension in the same period. Collingwood, three. Well. And this is, and you have what is widely known as the dirtiest player in the league in Maynard. And he doesn't get suspended. Oh dear. So this isn't the city. And who's equal with Collingwood? Carlton. This is a cry. Anyway. It's an astounding anomaly within the match review panel. It is a rant. Screw you, Michael Christensen. Sort your crap out there. Yeah, go on. We're going to rant more here. Oh God. What have we got? Cycle back to the state of origin. Why? That's all said and done. Only a Queenslander would still be completed. Only the result is done. Because I heard a rumour, Martin, from a reliable source. Oh. Do you have the name? I'm not going to buy stuff on such media as well. Excellent work, Darren Hinch. That your sudden allegiance to blues is a very recent thing.
SPEAKER_00And dressing up in a weird blue Smurf outfit was only a brand new thing. Because this person who's known you for around 20 years said, quote, he's not interested in rugby league. He used to laugh at me for getting excited about the state of origin. Now look, without giving any names away, yep, I don't know.
SPEAKER_01So we'll put it to you. Perfect. We can do this, ladies and gentlemen, because I am all over this. I don't have to take this on notice. Don't even have to think about it. Go on. So when you come from uh from Adelaide, you love all sport. Not like up here we only love a handful. Uh-huh. Um St. George in the 80s was sponsored by Penfolds, which is an Australian winery. It is. And so they played. For the Australians who don't know that. Um they played three home games, because it's a South Australian winery, Penfolds, three home games a year at the Adelaide Oval in the late 80s. So because we loved all sport, we went to those home games. We supported St. George because they were the ones playing there with penfolds written on their jumpers, and they were the local team for us. Right. So we all became St. George fans, not great this year, mind you. When we found our first state of origin, which was late 80s, maybe 88, 89, somewhere in there, we looked at the teams and went, don't know anybody in Queensland. Oh, look, there's five St. George players in New South Wales. Oh, there you go. So we all started following New South Wales. Fair enough, too. So late 80s is when I started following St. George for rugby league and New South Wales. Martin. So your source. Merely quoting the source. No, I understand. I'm not picking on you, but I've got a feeling whoever your source is may have also been the butt of your joke. Ah, well, you could well be wrong. As I circle around. You could well be right, my friend. Hey, look. Hang on. Geez at that. And to New South Wales. Yay! Cause we won. I'm not trying to pick on anything here. The wallabies are. Am I wrong? But I thought they won a game the other day. I thought they beat Italy. Did I miss that? I may have done. 57-10. And in fact, if they beat. It's actually a surprisingly good win against Italy. If they did, it's their second win in their last 10 games. Good on you, Wolves. Wolves. Have we played Italy twice? Is that what we've done? Apparently they played pretty well, but they did. Well, the week before, two weeks earlier, yes, and didn't get the win. That's right. Yeah. So things are happening. Italy has become a bit of a powerhouse of rugby union. Yeah. They're better on softer grounds. Yeah. They like Argentina, but we'll talk about that later, because that's one of mine in the international pod. I feel in the international pod that's going to be a 40-minute rant. Well, well, no, because we sort of got our own back. Anyway, that's besides the point. So, well, because you took the forklions. Well, we never had them. No, you never had to take them. Yes. No, did you take the banner? Should have done. Anyway, we we we we digress. We do. Martin, you must have some other important information for us. Uh well, we can stick on the AFL. Yeah. Just quickly. Very quick overview. Yeah. Boy, uh, couple of couple of good games. Frio got up. Yeah. Just bloody Essendon. Essendon Bombers won their second game for the season. I heard. Against GWS. Very weird. The old black and red stripe. Shh. Yeah, with the yellow. Yes. They had a bit of yellow in there. I've forgotten what that's. No, I've forgotten what that's about. Okay. It's some sort of awareness. Oh, of course it is. What's yellow? Daffodil day, isn't it? What's the cancer something? Yeah, yeah. It could be that. It might be that, but it's a it's an awareness thing for something. Yes. Yep. Yeah, uh, out of nowhere, no one expected. Yeah. Isn't it to do that? Uh Adelaide went to Sydney. Um, very hard to win there, pouring bloody rain. Yeah. Uh, but we got away with it. So 16, 18 points. You weren't too sure about that. Yeah. No, I was pretty sure we might drop it until I heard it was going to be really wet. Yes. And then I thought, oh, we might be on here. And uh, yeah, we we uh we did really well. So I don't know, and some people watching and listeners might not know why Adelaide is better in the wet. Uh Adelaide, it's very hard to move the ball cleanly when it's wet and the ground is wet. Yeah. Because the ball's really slippery and the ground is slippery. And Adelaide this season is ranked the number one team in pressure. So we chase the hardest, we tackle the hardest, we create the most amount of pressure all game long against the opposition. So when you put that level of pressure onto an opposition team in wet conditions, slipping over with a wet. That you can't just catch, you can't just mark it. Yeah. Handballs are hard, kicks are difficult because your boots are wet. You're on a winner. Yeah, okay. And we did. There you go. So boom. Very bloody happy with that. Fremantle got over Port, that was good. Uh Port did play pretty well for probably three quarters with half their team. What about the Lions? What did they do? They struggled. They went to the West and beat the West Coast. Um, but they didn't rip it apart. But though look, to be fair, the West Coast are not that bad anymore.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Not at not over there. At Opposite Stadium. They're um they're getting better. So tough game going over there, but they tick the box and now they come home and play port. Yeah. Up here at the Gabba. So yeah, that's a hundred points. Yeah. So Brisbane or what, third? Uh no, Brisbane are fourth. Okay. Yes. Half a game behind Hawthorne. Yeah. One game behind Sydney in second. Uh-huh. And percentage in front of us, Adelaide. Right. Okay. So it's all, and Melbourne, who's in sixth. So uh four, five, and six are all separated by percentage only. And Collywood are, I believe, eight. Yeah, you I think you've secured your wild card weekend final.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So I don't think I don't think you're gonna get knocked out of that spot. So probably not. You've done the work you need to do. Indeed. Can I? You can dive in, mate. What do you got? What have you got? I have. I have. A. Get the foot out of here. I do it. Well, get the foot out of here. And what's what's your foot? What's your football? You wouldn't believe it. I would. Australian sport this week. We've done something good. Oh, it's still on AFL actually, but it's W A F L W. For the Sydney Swans, this lady is very popular. Oh, yes. I think I've come across a Missus Fish. Zippy Fish. Zippy Fish. Drafted from Fremantle. Get this from the sharks. And she's very popular with her friends. Yes. Now, I believe she likes her name. Apparently she does. Yes, well, yeah, I'm sure she does. Zippy. Fish. Well, I haven't even got to the turn ones. Shall we introduce you to Vanny Schmiller? Circling. Because she plays football. Circling. No! We're not going to circle back on that one. She plays football. She's not a downhill skier. No, but they've got something. They've got something they've got. They've probably got more than one thing. Daddy is. That's a different name, isn't it? Just. I would be in the zippy fish. Cheers to Zip.
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SPEAKER_01Cheers to Fishy. Cheers to Zippy. Zippy Fish. I would be in. Not my place to say, but if it's short for something. Or if she's christened Zippy. I would be I believe it is short. Maybe well, what would I feel like that's a whole nother conversation? Zipola or something bizarre like that. I'm not sure exactly what it's about. Zippined. Something like that. Oh no, it's female. That would be male. Zippined's male name. Yes. Oh. Yeah, from Yugoslavia. Ah. Yeah. Yugoslavia doesn't exist anymore. Well, the name probably doesn't exist. There's a good chance I made that up. But it did sound good at the time. Anyway. You've got the comp games. Do you want to talk about that now? Or are we international? No, no, no. Well, I'll talk a little bit about the Australian team, but I just wanted to touch first on a couple of updates. Okay. So uh BMX World Cup. Oh, yes. BMX World Cup. This is a major sport. Australia is looking at not only being male and female Olympic champions, but world champions. Woohoo! We want to just wipe the floor with everybody and make it an Australian sport. Wonderful. Do you remember the weekend, John? Of course I. Do you remember the weekend we had here on the Gold Coast and in Brisbane? Yeah. Yeah. It was a bit windy. It was. It was very windy. Yeah. It was bloody windy. Yeah. And it was postponed. Oh, there are no champions, there are no results. They're a bit soft, don't they? Next weekend. Oh, okay. Yes. Yep. So it's only postponed by a week. Right. Uh this week. Sort of sport postponed because of the wind. Really? Surfing. Yeah, but that's about the only one. Yeah, there aren't many. But you can't ride crosswinds on the track. Not 50, 60, 70k an hour winds. You get blown off the bloody bike. Fair enough. I mean, don't get me wrong, I am not a BMX aficionado. So I don't know the ins and outs of needed weather conditions. Um but anyway, we it was postponed, so we'll have to chat about this again next week and see where we land. So that's an easy one. Right. Uh another update. Yes. Another update. This one's important. I want this one. 31st of August. What happens on the 31st of August? No, I didn't. It is the last day of winter. But it's actually the first day of summer. Wonderful. Now you didn't know that, did you? Because it isn't. But it is. Because what happens on the 31st of August?
SPEAKER_00I don't know. They do a summer salt.
SPEAKER_01Summer of cricket. Kicks off in Darwin. That's not summer, is it? It's the summer of cricket. You're playing Bangladesh, and you've picked all the old farts when they had a brilliant opportunity to blood some new young people. I don't get it. No, we didn't. Yeah. Who the hell were we going to blood that was young? There's heaps of them. Dogger? 31. No, no, you've got some young players in the 30s. Nessa, 35, Boland, Bangladesh. Hello. There's nobody young. There's Bangladesh, and they don't want to risk a possible loss by any stretch by picking players. Well, we got whitewashed in the T20. I think there's a point where you've got to take them seriously. This is home, Martin. Yes, no, we but is it? What do you mean? But is it? But is it? Of course it's home. Yes, technically it's at home. But what advantage does the Australian cricket team have playing in Darwin? We play one game a decade. Well, the pitches would be fast and bouncy. So that might be fair. Yeah. We don't know. I mean, a Yorker to Bangladeshi is over his head, for God's sake. We might own we might only be a good point. We have a segment called Bouncing Off the Helmet. They're all going to be bouncing off the helmet. And that's the full pitch delivery segment. That's right. Yes. So anyway, uh the article I saw, the article I saw was Australia Swings the Changes. Yep. None. For the Bangladesh Test Series. Yeah. So what I can see here is the changes we've made is the players that were injured and now aren't are in the team.
SPEAKER_00Right. There you go. That's it.
SPEAKER_01So it's the exact same thing. Hazelwood. Yes. I mean, he needs a fucking zimper. Lyon, Hazelwood, and Cummins all back in.
SPEAKER_00Stark, obviously. Or is he rested?
SPEAKER_01No, no, Stark, Bolland. Uh the bowlers. They've kept Cameron Green and put in Bo Webster. So glad to see that. Yeah. Because frankly, right now, Bo Webster's a better all round of it. Is Lappier Shame Blaine? Of course, Marnus Lubershane. Lubershane is in. Inglis is still floating around along with Carey. So don't know. They might put him down the order. So head and weatherall to open. Yeah. Labbers uh three. Smith four. Maybe Inglis, oh no, uh Inglis five, green or Webster six, Carey seven. Uh dear. And then your bowlers. And they don't want two-day matches. Well, playing in Darwin, what are you going to get? Like 20 overs a day? The rest of it's just going to be rain? Yeah. It's August, so it's technically it's the dry season. But anyway, we're back. Yeah. It's only six weeks. Yeah. And the summer of cricket is upon us. Well, there we go. And then you've got to be a big thing. But we do have, we do have the other boys are still in the squad. So Nessa, Doggett, Boland, or Bob Boland's in the team. So these guys are all still around. We've got 20. In the next two years, we've got 22, 23 tests. Okay. That we've got to have a squad to play. Okay. So uh it's a lot of tests. We don't often play 11, 12 tests a year anymore. So it feels like it's a lot of tests coming up. There's gonna be nobody dropped for the ashes next summer. In England's summer.
SPEAKER_00Your winter. I should say our winter. I live here. Don't know.
SPEAKER_01I can't smell if they if they intended to, they would have done so by now. Oh, well, we got Bangladesh, we got South Africa. Yep. And then you've got India. As your normal New Zealand and India. New Zealand and India. Yeah. And then England. That's a lot of Test cricket to be played. Yeah. So we can move. But no, there's not many extra batsmen floating around and the bowlers, we know who the replacements are. Yeah. But they they they won't play all those in in the ashes. Yeah. It won't happen. Because Hazelwood can't play five bats. No, I know. What I'm saying is you're not playing any. Let me tell you, if if uh Michael Nesser bowls in England anywhere near what he bowled here, which he absolutely could in those conditions. He might well do. He might have a one of those one of those series. Yeah, you could. Where it's his crowning series in his short international career. Possibly could. Martin, how long have we got? It'd be something else the English lose. Martin? How long have we got? About uh ten minutes, mate. Oh, really? Wonderful, because I'm gonna loop back. Yes. Yes, I'm gonna loop back. Or would you want to loop back?
SPEAKER_00Well, I'm gonna invent a segment on the spot. Bullshit or not bullshit.
SPEAKER_01Toilet paper moment. Okay. Okay. I I have a look of trepidation. You do. Looping back, a couple of weeks ago, we talked about where the Sharon was created. Oh yes. And why? Yes. And the rugby ball being made more aerodynamic to bounce better. Was it Thomas? It was. Thomas Sharon. Absolutely. Yes. What are we looping to? We're looping back to true or false. Collingwood Football Club was the first to use the Sharon ball.
SPEAKER_00Because the sh because of the Sharon family ties to the Collingwood running deep, John and Tom Sher Sharon Jr. both served as presidents of Collingwood. Yeah. They could be original club. Tom Sharon was a founding member of the football club and the club's origin.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Now in 1892. The ball was the first club to use the Sharon ball was Collingwood. Could well have been. It could easily have been. I don't somebody's just texted you the answer. No, that's not the answer.
SPEAKER_00It could well have been.
SPEAKER_01Let me ask you, and I ask this with a heart filled with love in in regards to um this question. Yes. Who cares? Like what are we what's the point we're trying to get to here, John? It is another segment whether it is bullshit or not bullshit, Monty. Oh, that was it. Oh, so is that all it is? We're just going, is this bullshit or not? Absolutely. Well, I call bullshit. Fair enough. We will research. And I have no idea. Absolutely. But it does sound plausible that it could have been. Yes. Although, although, no, maybe back then, pre-1900, there wasn't a set ball that was used. Maybe. In the but also, are we talking about Collingwood just as a club or in a competition? Ah. Well that So I don't know. We will have to dig. You would think whatever competition, let's say it was the VFL. Yep. That they would have all played with the same ball. May have done. But back then, who knows? Maybe each club just supplied whatever ball they wanted. May have done that. Yeah, don't know. We will dig. Yes. Maybe we should write to Collingwood and ask them. I might just do that.
SPEAKER_00You ever thought of it? I'm going to speak to Mr. What's his name? Um, the dude who goes round the clubs who does a podcast. I'm going to get hold of him. Oh, Swanky. Yeah, swinky swanky something or other.
SPEAKER_01I don't know, what's his name? I can't remember. But anyway, we'll find it. Anyway, hey look, you should go to the Collingwood Museum. I'm going to. See if they've got the Sheridan. Well, they will. So, I'm going to quickly move on to great great Aussie legends in sports. Excellent. And then I'm going to chat about the London Diamond League from an Aussie point of view. Okay, cool. Who's our legend? Lionel Rose M B E. Incredibly famous Australian. Lionel. Good on Lionel, I know. Love your work, Lionel. Again, it's one of my favourite sports, which is boxing. Won the world bantamweight skipple for the uninitiated. Skipping when you get your head punched in. Hasn't happened yet. World Bantamweight title.
SPEAKER_00First indigenous fighter ever to win a world title and the first Indigenous person to be Australian of the Year.
SPEAKER_01Is that right? Yeah. I did not know the second one. There you go. But I'm gonna I'm gonna ask a bullshit or not bullshit question here. Yeah. First Australian indigenous person to win a world title. Yes. Not the first indigenous person. Not the first, no. No, okay, no race. I just I wasn't sure if that might have been. Yeah. Because it's a fair while ago. Yeah. Um okay. Yeah, yeah, very cool. I know he beat good great um unbelievable fighter. And he beat a guy called Fighting Harada from Japan in Tokyo on points again. So incredible win. Yeah, well, we all know Fighting Harado. Yeah, exactly. I know. Household name of boxing. He is. Yes. And but to win in a different country on points is astonishing. It's a solid effort. Normally you've got to knock him out when you're not home to get a draw. Yeah, yeah. That's just America. His life inspired the TV series The Battlers. Good old Aussie Battlers. Yes. And I think next year it'll in cricket it'll be the bottlers, but anyway, that's another story. And the mini-series is about uh called Against Rising Against Rose Against the Odds. Have you circled back to bullshit or not? Bullshit. We can't yet because it's next year. How do we circle forward then? 42 fights, professional fights, 11 losses.
SPEAKER_00And most of those losses came right at the back end of his career. So unbelievable person, unbelievable boxer, Lionel Rose. Love your work. Martin, what are you going?
SPEAKER_01Absolute champion. I reckon we we got some future absolute champions. So com games are coming up. Yep. So we know this. Uh, in Glasgow, starting July 23. I believe that's only a couple of days away. Yeah. So they're all flying there. Uh, what I will say about the COM Games is there's no village for the athletes to stay in. So they're just staying in the hotels. I think they're just billeted out to locals. But as we saw like the old uh King Island running race. Yeah, where you go down to do that 32k run when it used to exist, yeah, and you used to get billeted to the locals. Airbnbs. Airbnb, yeah. Yes. So bring an extra pair of undies. Yeah, yeah. Because the washing may not get done. Well, this is true. Yes. Uh uh, but uh Australia. So all of this is is is built towards Glasgow. Yes. So they've timed it in perfectly. So the last Diamond League competition for the athletics is London. Right before we kick off in uh in Glasgow. Uh-huh. So, how did the Aussies? Well, Aussies are starting to get get themselves ready. So we're going to go something that we normally don't talk about. Go on. Four by one hundred relay. Okay. For men or women. Men. Okay. This is not something Australia generally has a lot of depth in. Four by four hundred were a bit better. Not really the four by one hundred. But we roll through in second position at the Diamond League behind England. Wow. Um, now I would suggest England, as long as I've followed athletics, I think England's had better sprinters than deeper sprinters. Yeah. Uh, than uh than Australia. So I reckon that's a pretty good effort. It is. Um Peter Bowl only finished sixth in his 800. So bearing in mind Canada are also in the Commonwealth Games, and they do have a history of good sprinters. They do. So weird to see that they're not. Or they may not have competed. Uh let's keep in mind this was on the weekend. Yeah. And unless you're already all over there, if if those guys are back in Canada competing, they've still got to fly over and acclimatise in Glasgow. Of course. Get ready with some chin music and grow their beards and a bit of a headbutt. Bit of a Glasgow. Glasgow kiss. I was about to say that. Uh Peter Ball, uh, sixth in his race. Diamond League can't be tough for an 800, but he's run a 158-1. So this is his second fastest time. Yep. Um, so he's he's in form. All right. Leading into the com games, which is great. Good. Curtis Marshall, second in the pole vault, 595 again. Uh yeah, second on a countback to Sam Kendricks. American, if we know pole vault. Sam Kendricks is a very well-known name. He's been world champion. Very, very good. Uh, so Sam Kendricks was first, and Armand Duplantis was third, not Mondo Duplantis. Brother of. Well, you see, now here's an interesting thing. I haven't got a bloody clue. I need to look, I need to research into this. But he is from Sweden, so he's not in the con games. Yeah. Uh now we come to where we excelled. High jump. Women's high jump.
SPEAKER_00Oh, alright.
SPEAKER_01We are very good at women's high jump at the moment. Okay. So Nicola Olaslagers. High jump won it, one meter ninety-six. Ola who? Olaslagers is her surname. So she's won Eleanor Pattinson and Nicola have won um Olympic Olympic Gold, Commonwealth Gold between them and World Championship Gold. Olas Lagers Australian. Yes, born in Australia. Yes. Her parents may not have been, but she is. That's a different conversation that we will have. Uh so she's flying high again, topping the the uh the high jump. Flying high. There you go. And then the 3,000 on the track for women. Jessica Hull. Run by Jessica Hull in an 824 for 3K. So that's a pretty solid little hit out. Yeah. Uh only less than a second off the Australian record. Yeah. But Rose Davies, who is not a name that we talk about very often, has run an 825 to finish second. So the Aussies took one and two. Well then. So looking at 1500s on the track, I reckon we're gonna have a really good show. Yeah, okay. In that, mind you, it's the Commonwealth Games. Who knows? There's always a couple of English girls or Scottish girls floating around that are pretty good. And then there's a bunch of Ugandans, oh, Ethiopians, Kenyans. Yeah, I know. And uh yeah, they're pretty challenging to beat. But Jess Hull, she did win a silver in the Olympics. Yes. So she'd be one of the favorites. She'd be right up there. So absolutely. So we are we are booming, ready to go for Com Games. All will be revealed next week.
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