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Hey guys. Hi, Meme. Oh man, what a day. Look, we're running lean today. Still dealing with the after effects of a virus that swept the entire studio, plus people on vacation. But I think we have what it takes here. We've got the right stuff. Yeah. I have a question.

I'm going to start with Mike Ryan. Mike, what did you have for dinner last night? I, what did I have for dinner? Oh, I cooked a Turkish street cart turkey bowl. Very nice. Jessica, what did you have for dinner last night? Lehman made me chicken thighs and Brussels sprouts, carrots, and I think that was it. Chicken thighs, the most underrated part of the chicken.

Roy, what'd you have for dinner? I baked the chicken breast and had carrots. Okay. Two for two on chicken? Big carrot. A lot of bunnies here. A lot of chicken and carrots, yeah. What'd you got? I had spaghetti and meat sauce. Okay. You know what Noel Owls had? He had the bronzinos!

Oh, yeah. Nice and grilled, ladies and gentlemen, with a little squirt of lemon on it. All right. I have questions because I think it was weird because normally... What, that setup? Well, that was also odd. And he didn't tell us what he had for dinner. Oddball, by the way.

But so a lot of people enjoyed Noah Lyles' failure. I understand why, but that usually goes against the Olympic spirit. But I've seen an extra dash of spice from people that come from basketball. Oh, really? I hadn't noticed that at all. You know what I did notice? So if you don't know, Noah Lyles, who –

won the gold in 100 meters, which isn't his strong suit. We've been talking about this whole time. But it does give him the distinction of fastest man in the world. Absolutely. Now, the interesting thing is, even if you didn't know that that 200 meter is his main event, right? That's his wife. The other event is his mistress. Mistress. If you watched 100 meter, you

That was his quote, Jessica. We didn't just come up with that. I was going to say, how did you come up with that? I didn't. Siciliano did yesterday. Siciliano didn't. That's what Noah Lyles said. Noah Lyles did a lot of talking. And before the race, he did a lot of meme posting. And this was, as Siciliano again pointed out yesterday, for all the Wheaties boxes, this was where he can become Carl Lewis, especially if he backs up all that talk. This is...

He becomes one of the all-time greats. Yes, he does. And so if you watched the 100-meter, you can tell because he is a notorious slow starter. And then as the race goes, he picks up speed and he closed out in the 100-meter. In the 200-meter heats...

He lost in the semifinals, I believe. But it doesn't matter. You have to be top two in order... But he doesn't usually lose heat. Yes. And his face kind of said something that his mouth and fingers weren't. So, but...

He runs a race. He comes in third. And then afterwards, we learned that he tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. And everyone's like, oh, my gosh, he must have been so exhausted and everything. And they had to come out and bring out the wheelchair. We have a picture of the wheel. There he is. Oh, my gosh. The poor guy. How did he even run the race? If you didn't, if you just watch the race, you would say, yes, clearly there was something wrong with him. But here's the problem. This was him moments before the race.

doing his signature "I'm the most energetic man in the world" routine. Look at him, folks. He's jumping, he's prancing, he's dancing, arms out, he's basking in the energy of the thousands of people in the Stade de France. - Jennifer Love Hewitt, "What are you waiting for?" spin.

I just want to point out that Noah Laos is asthmatic. So, no one in the wheelchair is probably a condition of that. Sure. These are all super fair. Wheelchair for asthma? Yes. Yeah, yeah. I mean, can you walk, Wong? Tony, I'm mildly asthmatic. You can run? I am mildly asthmatic. I can tell you right now, nothing triggers an asthma attack like getting my ass beat. I swear to God. All of us, like if I lose at something, oh, I can't breathe at all. Mildly.

Man, I'm telling you, that whole video of me with the jump shot, I had to hospitalize her. You were in a wheelchair. You dick. Why didn't you tell us?

We would have completely dropped that whole bit, by the way, if you had just told us this was during an asthma attack. It hit immediately after the ball released. It was amazing. Right after it. American Ninja Warrior, the same thing happened there? Ninja Warrior. When I took that first step, all of a sudden that asthma started to creep up on me. I mean, athletes know their body pretty well, and he was gassing himself up, not just right before the race, but sending out memes before the race. I mean, he...

oozes confidence. And he's certainly not oozing confidence at the end of that race. If he felt at all impacted by COVID-19 physically, don't you think he would have hedged a little bit? He didn't cut any of that stuff back.

maybe he didn't know exactly until he got into it. I think it's a very fair thing. We're still learning so much about this virus. I do find it funny that we've gone from canceling the Olympics and shifting it a year to like, okay, yeah, you go ahead and race with it, track and field athlete. And then he did an interview post-race and he had a mask on on NBC with the mic and I said, you got to trash that mic immediately, right? Given what we know about the river, I don't think the safety of the athletes, the health and safety of the athletes is really as paramount as it used to be.

I was actually surprised to learn that there weren't any COVID protocols at this Olympics. I kind of assumed that if you tested positive, you wouldn't be allowed to participate, but apparently it's left up to the team if you can participate or not. So I think the obvious concern is, did he get anyone else sick? Because if he wants to compete...

anyone, I think any one of us would try to if we were in that position. And these are all athletes that have had parts of their careers significantly impacted by COVID. Not just if they were in the Tokyo Olympics, but they've had to deal with all of these travel restrictions and getting sick and recovering and all of these things that we've all had to deal with too. Worst timeline to be a professional athlete, especially in those non-revenue sports. It's a terrible time for them. And some athletes miss the Olympics altogether because the peak of their athleticism

athleticism was 2020 and you shifted 2021 and there goes my shot. - Now, Jessica, you asked if you got anybody else sick and there was actually an outbreak of people who were just sick to the stomach. That's everybody who hates on USA Basketball, you MFers.

double middle fingers. I'm not going to do it because we're live on air right now, but double middle fingers to all of you because guys, we got the game. First of all, I know Noah Lyles was sick watching that. Oh yeah. It's so weird. Oh my God. Hold on, wait, can we just like unpack this mindset? Because I think there's a lot of

fans that are Noah Lyles haters because they're NBA supporters. Goddamn right. If you're an NBA supporter, you're either a Jokovic defender or you're a... Novak? Yeah, whatever his name is. Joker. The Joker. The Joker. They're both just... I knew I was going to...

You had your bets. Or you're an American NBA fan rooting for Team USA. But I feel like there's all these sort of branches coming off of this tree right now. I'm very confused what the mindset is. It's like Game of Thrones. I get it. I understand why NBA folks and basketball folks wanted to go at Noah Lyles. I'm curious if Noah Lyles, after that failure...

Turned on the Serbia-USA game and became the biggest Serbian basketball fan on the planet. Mike, let me tell you, I was watching that game and I don't think I've ever, ever, other than watching South Sudan, I don't think I've ever cared about Olympic basketball as much as you. I was like, come on, man! Get him, B-Dot!

Get out of there! LeBron had that layup. First of all, no. Embiid in the second half. In the second, yeah. But there was plenty of frustrating international ball Embiid there. I'm just telling you, like, you know, first of all, shout out to Grant Hill because he had the foresight. He knew this day was coming. If you needed him for one game, it was against Serbia, and he came in and he delivered. But when LeBron hit that layup that was like this where he could have gone up with his left hand, but he went up with his right hand instead, and they went up one, I think. That's his offhand, as you know.

Yes, he's quick to remind us that his right hand is his offhand. Dude, I let out the loudest, most partisan, most xenophobic cheer. I was so ecstatic, man. To feel in those ways, I need Team USA to go up against a team that you respect with high stakes. International basketball, especially for the U.S., it's such a skewed perspective because they just kind of sleepwalk.

through the qualification process. For the World Cup in soccer, it's hard to get to the World Cup. The actual tournament, what's known as the World Cup, that's actually the finals. They call it the World Cup finals. The qualification process takes years and years, and it's very hard. For Team USA, they sleepwalk through the entire thing. They usually...

somewhere along the way, automatically qualify. So you don't really have the connection points to those teams. You need them to actually... You need to fear. And you feared yesterday because they were live underdogs. They were plus...

They were plus 250 at one point entering that fourth quarter, and then they go on this incredible run. When my boy hit that four-point play, I was like, oh, my God, this is over. Who's your boy? I don't know the guy's name. Abramovich. Some vich somewhere. Yeah, Abramovich. He was killing it. He was ripping from three. But at that point, I was like, oh, I think that put him down 14. And I was like, oh, my God, this can't be happening. So I think that was in the second half. Teamers had cut it to, like,

Five or six and then we're like, okay now we play times over and then Serbia went on that run again I'm like, oh crap like this is gonna need a vintage performance And we got a vintage performance from LeBron James and Steph Curry at the same time It was so damn cool. They were cooking at the same time with steaks. I never thought I would say this right dream team 92 obviously all the legends there redeem team 2008 like that

forcefulness and whatever. But I think yesterday was the greatest moment in USA basketball history because we got to see LeBron and Steph Curry at the same time being great on the same team. While Melo was coaching them. I'm going to

I think I'm still going to go with the redeemed team because that Spanish team was really special. That's not to say the Serbian team isn't special in its own right. They probably have the best basketball player on the planet in their own right. The international basketball, because of stuff like the dream team, has totally changed. But that redeemed team narrative was legitimate and Spain was...

almost every bit as good as that team and it took Dwyane Wade coming off the bench, you had Kobe, you have and time has been kind to that redeemed team. Melo, LeBron, peak of the powers LeBron even though yesterday it kind of seemed like it was peak of the powers LeBron. Triple-double, first triple-double in Olympic history. But we got to see KD, Steph, LeBron all cooking at the same time and it was genuinely special.

It's really cool to watch LeBron kick out to Steph Curry and Steph Curry realize, I'm rarely this open and I'm just going to absolutely cook this guy. What was he, 9 of 14 from 3? 9 of 14 from 3, 36 points on 12 of 19 shooting overall. And he could have had more. Steve Kerr pulled him out. The record, I think, for Team USA is 37 is mellow. He could have had more. But, I mean, it was...

I can't describe. And it's the combination of, wow, what a great game. Obviously, Jokic, as you said, is the best player in the world. But they had to, you know, because in a 40-minute game, we talked about this yesterday. It's like having depth only means so much. Like if you've got a guy who can play 38 out of 40 minutes, like what are you going to do having said that?

With the Noah Lyles thing hanging over it, it made it so much more like the stakes. That's why I say it's the best ever because the stakes have never been higher. If they lost that game, dude. Dude, I think the stakes were higher against Spain. No way. Redemption was the arc.

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She was on it once and an instructor who was playing Grateful Dead 2. So let's do that. Okay. Why don't we go for a run? Outside. Guided run. Peloton. Me and you. That's something we can do together. Okay. Turn on the app. Me and you. Go outside. Enjoy the summer. Call yourself a runner with Peloton at onepeloton.com slash running. All right. Don Libetard. Offhanded to me and Chris before we started playing. He's like, seems like that Tony guy gets triggered pretty easily. Yeah.

And I laughed the hardest out loud I've ever laughed in my life. Still got triggered pretty easily. That's so ridiculous. It's the most incredible thing. It's crazy. It's crazy. You know what I've realized? People love putting their athletic insecurities on me. Don't project that shit on me. You suck. Not my problem. Chris Cody leaves a game early. Oh, let's support Chris Cody. Whatever the f*** Billy does.

does. Let's support that. Mike Ryan, let's go to Buffalo. All of us go to Buffalo. Like, give me a break. That's some bullshit. Tony, you totally proved that you weren't at all unhinged. Thank you. Thank you. This is the Dan Levatard Show with the Stugats.

I want to get into the mindset of someone that roots against Noah Lyles, but also roots against Team USA because they like Jokic so much. Because that person definitely exists, and probably there's more of them than we can imagine. I might be sitting in the studio with him because Amin's got such a complicated relationship. No, but he was rooting for Team USA yesterday.

I always root for USA basketball. The only time I don't South Sudan is the only time I'm like, I want South Sudan. But it seemed as though your rooting interest wasn't necessarily so much the USA as it was anti-Noah Lyles. No, yeah, I should adjust that. I honestly don't care most of the time who wins, but like yesterday was one of those ones I'm like, oh, is this what it feels like to be a fan? Like, were you like, I can't,

have my team lose because then I gotta walk in to this room tomorrow or later today and have to hear it from this dude. And so, like, the combination of him losing and them winning... There isn't a Serbian Bill Simmons. I think you would've been fine. There is a... Look, so, what Jessica's referring to, and we got the tweets,

from Kevin Durant responding. Who was cooking all night and all morning in Paris. Good for him, man. Excellent job by Kevin Durant here. You got someone saying, cheering against Team USA? You mean like all those Americans who are making fun of Nola not winning gold in his latest race? Good old double standards.

And my man KD said to all you Nuggets fans, nobody gives a . Y'all lames believe he's the best player in the league. Players got major respect for the Joker. We don't worship him like y'all do, but most are in all of his brilliance. Trolling you cornballs for rooting against us is part of the game. Deal with it. He did the athlete a part, which is a part, one word, as opposed to a part.

He also went on, someone tweeted, this exact thing he's talking about has existed since the inception of the NBA. You think people weren't worshipping MJ and Bird and being divisive then? I hate to be that guy. But it only seems like it's a problem now, like guys like Giannis and Jokic are getting the same treatment.

And KD responds, that's what y'all do. Y'all clowns. Use players to push these corny agendas y'all got. This is a brotherhood, fam. You not a part of. Again, there's the athlete apart. It's a problem now because social media got you clowns walking around with your chest out like you mean something. You don't. Your takes don't matter.

He told you, Wes. That's another one. That's an odd way to prove to somebody their take doesn't matter. Your takes don't matter in all caps. Yeah. He gives off a lot of I don't care. Here's the last one. But you read the actions and he very clearly cares. And that's fine. That's his fuel. And I'm not going to talk anymore because he'll hop in my mind. Does he still follow you? Yeah, he does. Learned a lot about U.S. sports culture today.

A lot of flexing for only just beating a nation of 6.6 million in a sport they invented. Acting like Jokic fans are committing treason. We here would never do this to a small Pacifica nation in a rugby league. We blah, blah, blah. Nobody cares, Josh Barnett, wherever the hell you're from.

Katie says, let's talk about the fan culture that's been created recently. A lot of huge egos who believe they are the reason for the advancement of a sport. A lot of idol worship. A lot of hate and division based off wins and losses. A lot of disrespect of the work being put in by these incredible athletes. Mostly by people who don't know what it takes to be good at anything. Is that the athlete a lot? Besides talking. Yeah.

It was the first one. Go do something and get out the way. Too long, didn't read. No. That's a paragraph. This is a nuanced quote tweet. Always. It's just the bulk of it. It just always, it always gets skimmed. You think KD paid for the blue check?

No. No? I don't think so, because LeBron didn't pay for the blue check. No. He made a point to not, and then he just got one. This all started with an account that tweeted, Serbia just took the most talented team in the history of the planet to the wire with a medal on the line. Team USA was a 16-point favorite. The whole country should be proud. With a picture of Jokic. And then Kevin Durant replied, where are you from? And that was at like 5 a.m. local time in France. Oh, wow.

But, like, that's a good point. I mean, I mess with it. Like, credit to him. Sometimes he'll... He does a lot of hopping in DMs, too, from what I've heard. Because I've had friends that, like, they put tweets out there and he'll just... He won't put it out for public consumption. Like, and he'll go at folks. You're sitting next to someone who's been a victim of the KD DM. He goes...

He goes at it for hours. Yeah, I had an asthma attack immediately after. In a wheelchair. Whatever fuels him, man. It's a joy to watch him play. It's a joy to watch this team. I don't think it's the most talented one, though. Oh, I don't think it's the most talented one. I'm just saying. That was the most invested I've ever been, including 2008, which, by the way, I worked for Team USA 2008. I got a t-shirt for the gold medal, by the way. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Where is it? It's at home. It's one of the...

It's literally one of those. Like a lapel pin. Team USA won gold medal at the Olympics. Do you have an Olympic ring tattoo? Cause I think that qualifies. If you work for like team USA, you get, you can do that. Oh man. Look, I've, if I, if I start traveling, no,

I didn't. This is all remote. This is all from Phoenix. I'm like, I basically, yeah, I had an asthma attack. I couldn't get on the plane for that. You get the Olympic logo tattooed on yourself? Nah, man. Oh, come on. Yeah, that's what we're saying. Like, if he traveled, though, I think he qualifies. He can do that. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I didn't travel, so I did it all from the safety of my home or my office, I should say. Steve Kerr should get it.

steve kirsch it is a pretty buttoned up operation we we notoriously here in this country don't fund our olympic programs but usa team usa basketball is a pretty decent operation shout out to the man who kicked that ball rolling which is jerry colangelo he got it to a place where they were making money fundraising and stuff like that and in turn it has funded a bunch of other programs the youth programs the women's program all that stuff that's jerry colangelo got that going in grant hill

is continuing that legacy. Again, USA beat Serbia 95-91 after being down double digits for a lot of that game. And I was elated. Elated. And combining that with Noah Lyles in that wheelchair. So strange. The first thing I thought of was like, you know what's the difference between Noah Lyles and NBA players? Our guys in wheelchairs walk away with the gold. Or with poop in their pants. And the gold, though.

And a goal ball. I find the Noah Lyles hate a bit strange because he did win the 100-meter. Jess, I'm putting blinders on right now. If anyone can get down with the idea of an athlete really emphasizing an injury or a health scare because they lost, it's the NBA. It's NBA players.

What are you talking about? Oh, come on. What am I talking about? What are you talking about? I also think Noah Lyles is so great for the Olympics and for track and field. There was a press conference, I think we have video of it, of Tobogo who won the 200 meter. He's from Botswana. And he was asked like,

Do you think you could be the face of athletics? And his answer was so funny. I hope we have this video. I think we have the video. I think we do have the video. By the way, I love the idea that his name is Tobogo because it reminds me of Trinidad and Tobago. We apparently don't have the video, but I would love to hear the perspective of someone that is in their starting game as Noah Lyles is doing the Jennifer Love Hewitt's hand. I'd be like, please stop.

What is this? I'd be so insulted by that display. And I know he does it all the time, but he's got to be met with so many eye rolls from the other athletes. Like, congratulations, you're a nose hair faster than me. What is this? Mike, what would you do if you were running the 200?

I would take an asthma attack probably. You saw him coming out and you did that. I'd be pissed. I'd be pissed. Let's say like if I were an athlete of comparable speed, I'd like to say like I'm going to get out of this starting block so well because I think it – I mean I do kind of –

the athlete that I am with like a Louisiana shaped bruise on my hip because I missed a beer league soccer ball and crashed into the pole. I do kind of think... Did you take Alphabrain that day? I did. I mean, I got my hands to it, but then it ricocheted off and then I ran into the pole. It's actually pretty nasty. I'll show you during the break. But there are times like, you know, you get in heated arguments and

Some guy talks shit to you. And I do kind of feel like I lock in a little bit more. That's the kind of gamer I am. I mean, if I had seen him come out and do all that stuff, I would say, no, no, your asthma, the COVID, it might've drained you.

You hate her. Shut up. I mean, is it? You want a goal. It's weird, though. No, it doesn't matter. It does not matter. He hates USA Soccer. You know what? Where are you with that now? Well, now, I don't know if you guys talked about this, but there was a rumor that Thierry Henry might be the next manager. Yeah, I'm not crazy about that. I'm going to tell you right now, if you want to get me back,

Why? Because, man, that's... I like Thierry Henry just as much as the next guy. I think he's a great personality. I think he was a wonderful player. Got away with a handball. Knocked out Ireland from World Cup qualification. I am part Irish. So I resent him for that. Who is the Emma Hayes of men's soccer? Because that's what the men's team needs. Yeah, they do. And there's rumors that they're talking to Pochettino right now to take over the men. I do... Let's not even get to my poach takes because he was a Chelsea manager and I got plenty of them. He's a career loser and I'd

God damn, he's a career loser. He's a career loser, dude. He found a way to not really rack up trophies with PSG. That's amazing when you consider how game the system is for PSG in that league. But I do want to concentrate a little bit about U.S. women's soccer because this is a massive game and it's great storylines because Marta is an icon, one of the greatest soccer players ever, men or women. And she has her send-off game in the gold medal game against Team USA, which...

which Emma Hayes, it may be frustrating sometimes. I know from a substitution perspective, we can dive in a little bit deeper, Jess, but you know how big of an Emma Hayes fan I am because I used to work with Chelsea. How are you feeling headed into this gold medal match? Honestly, like I had very little expectations for this tournament because the team has had such a small amount of time with Emma Hayes so far to get

prepped for this Olympics they've only played a handful of games together so I was like okay if they make it out of the group stage and win one knockout round game I think that would be a really good like a good follow-up from last year where this team was like at rock bottom a year ago when they lost to Sweden in the World Cup I'm

curious who Amin is rooting for though because I know he's a big Brazilian men's soccer question and a Team USA hater in a lot of sports but not basketball so what do we do with women's soccer I love US women's national team I think they deserve a lot more resources given that they are successful and they are popular unlike the guys on the other side of the aisle uh

but this is a tough one for me because I typically root for a U.S. women's national team, but Brazil is Brazil, man. Are you a big Marta guy? I am. Oh, come on, man. She's amazing. If they lose this one, I think that everyone that is a fan of the game can acknowledge this is a really cool way for Marta to go out. Yeah, I'm

definitely rooting for USA here like I'm also a big fan of them but like that would be one small thing that would make it the the loss not sting as hard plus you get a silver medal yeah there's yeah there's a joy in winning a silver and silver is better than bronze

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From Mr. Tobogo, who won the gold medal in the 200-meter race, this is what he had to say. Let's roll it if we could. I think for me, I can be the face of athletics because I'm not an arrogant or a loud person like Noah. So I believe Noah is the face of athletics. Is that a Team USA teammate of Noah's right there next to him? Look at the face. Can we...

I want to play that one more time because the quote itself is good for the audio audience. But for video, let's focus on Kenny Bednarik's face here. Teammate slash opponent because they do race against each other, but they're also on Team USA together and do relays together. I think for me, I can be the face of athletics because I'm not an arrogant or a loud person like Noah. So I believe Noah is the face of athletics. Yeah.

That's a cosign. Yeah, yo, absolutely. That's a cosign. One of my favorite stories is if you watch Kobe getting punched by Chris Childs. Oh, in the throat. Yeah, in the throat, right? If you watch that video.

go back and watch Shaq. And it's like Shaq is, there's so many fights I've seen where Shaq just comes in and starts shoving people. And when Chris Child's two-piece him, Shaq is just like chilling back there. And I said, that speaks volumes. It's the same thing with Caitlin Clark earlier this year when she got roughed up by Kennedy, uh, Kennedy Carter.

It's not that she got roughed up or whatever. It's like nobody on her team even reacted or flinched. That speaks volumes, man. And so right there, my man not being offended in any way. And finding the humor in it. Oh, my God. But it's like the classiest put down ever, right? He literally asked, you want to be the face of the athletes? I can't be because I'm not a jackass. Like, no, that's why he's the face.

It was so matter of fact. And yeah, Ben Eric has like made comments about Noah Lyles in the past too. And like just Noah Lyles obviously is known for his antics as well as for being incredibly speedy and fast. And I also heard yesterday, he will not be competing in the four by 100 relay because of COVID. I think he like kind of announced it, but said,

made it not definitive in his announcement, but it seems like that probably wouldn't be a good idea. So TBD if they're able to break that four-by-one curse because the men's four-by-one relay team hasn't been doing well lately. I kind of feel for Noah Lyles as someone that I don't follow track and field outside of these major events, and I know the character's there, but he is the world's fastest man and somewhat...

a punchline at the exact same time and I don't understand how you manage that. You're the world's fastest man and everyone's having a go at you for not being fast. By his own doing though. Yeah. Everybody's taking a hack at him. We're all looking for who did this. Exactly. Who did this? He should run into the taco costume. He has a lot of fans too. Like I don't think everyone hates him. I think he's got a lot of fans and I think people do find his whole thing like

pretty funny and entertaining. And like, look, we're talking about men's track for like an entire 30 minute segment today. And I think it's because he's such a huge personality. Like the guy who beat him in the 200 said. But Jess, I want to say like, if you think about Usain Bolt, who's always going to be the standard, like we talked about him for damn near entire shows. We still talk about him.

Because there's a way to do it that's fun and not aggravating. Yeah, and it's not like he lacked for confidence. He was also, though, like one of the great, like no one will ever do what he did. So kind of sets himself apart from just one win in the Olympics, which is what Noah Lyles has. Beyond the performance, though, like as a character, like there's a positivity that Usain Bolt got at. Like you guys were losing to Usain Bolt and be like, oh.

I agree with you. I'm just saying I don't think it's universal like we all hate this guy. I do see that he has a lot of fans. Yeah, but people that follow the NBA certainly feel some kind of way about him. I know we're in the days of stand-up and you have to feel really passionately about it. I do kind of have some sympathy for what he's going through right now because...

But at the same time, I do find the humor in that you're to blame. Like, if you just did all this humbly, and if you knew that you were sick, like, why aren't you putting out precautionary measures beforehand to kind of, like, let people know that you're going through some stuff? But he wasn't changing his demeanor at all. He kept

True to himself. I would have rather let the whole Olympics end and then reveal, you know, by the way, I was tested positive for COVID, but I still tried and did it out there, whatever. It didn't seem like he wanted it to get out from what I could tell. What about getting in the wheelchair? What's that? I think he was having a legit, like he couldn't breathe attack afterwards. He also couldn't win. Okay.

Yeah, he didn't win. There are other things going on there. And we got to acknowledge that COVID does probably compound. It's a respiratory illness. That definitely compounds his asthma. And it also compounds as an event goes on. If you're before an event and then 20 seconds later, it's so bad. I've got to be in a wheelchair. But before it, I can jump and hop and do everything. Before he hadn't sprinted a 200-meter sprint for a medal in the Olympics. So I buy it if your asthma acts up

after the race. What if he wins gold?

What are we doing if he wins gold? Is he in the wheelchair if he wins gold or is he running around? No, he's running around. Okay, just making sure. But he is telling us that he won gold while having COVID for sure. Yeah. It's a double-edged sword because on one side, A, I won bronze but I'm in a wheelchair, my asthma, but then I overcame if I won gold. I had COVID, I have asthma, like all this stuff. It's like you can't have both sides. It's safe to assume. He does not lose heats. It's safe to assume that he had COVID during the heat as well. So...

I mean, if you have a guy, that's his best event, and he loses, I understand. He did all the cocky stuff on the front end. But it's safe to say this had an impact on him.

I don't care. That's fine. You can be a hater. You're entitled to being a hater. I'm down with that. I'm glad that you're just wearing it. I'm trying to show the other side so this show isn't just us being a bunch of haters all the time. I also think that we always complain about, oh, this guy's so boring, or this is boring, this sport's boring, blah, blah, blah. And so for someone to inject some personality in it, whether you like it or not, I think generally is fun. I got another Olympic thought. Especially in August.

that goes with this theme of people talking trash. Do you guys see the men's 1500 meter? - Oh yeah. - The rivalry between Kerr of the UK. - Ingbertson. - And Ingbertson of Norway. - I'm struggling with names today. - No, explain it to me. - Okay, so Ingbertson won gold at the last Olympics, right? And he is generally considered the best at the 1500 meters in the world, right?

But then Kerr, who's from Britain, wins gold at...

the World Championships last August and starts talking a lot of trash and so what we've had over the last year pretty much is this war of words of it's not a cold war it's very outwardly you don't really see it in that sport where guys are like I don't like him I think he's a clown da da da and the other guys like he never says that when I'm around he never says it to my face and so we had this whole build up of these two guys who's gonna win gold the world champion or the defending Olympic champion and then the 1500 meter race happens and

And Team USA comes from nowhere to win gold and bronze, right? And...

It was basically neck and neck between Kerr and Engbertson until the last 100 meters. Yeah, the last 100 meters. And Engbertson, I can't say that name, he was setting the pace the whole race, and he was going so fast that the entire time the announcing team was like, this is a blazing speed. This is going to be really hard to keep up for the entire 1,500 meters. And sure enough, he pulled up towards the end and didn't even end up meddling. But do you know what the tactical...

Mistake he made he's running he had the inside lane the American runner Hawker Cole Hawker Cole Hawker was like he's not gonna be able to pass if you're gonna try to pass you have to go all the way on the outside that would have been crazy, but because Kerr was on Engelbert's right and

He was so concerned. They were racing each other. Yeah. And so he goes away from the inside and that opened the way for Cole Hawker to just zoom right up. And I think when that happened, it broke him. It broke Engbertson because he was so concerned about Kerr. He was like, what the hell? They didn't get that license plate over there. And

Zooms right in. Hawker wins. Kerr comes in for the silver. And then Nguese for USA comes in for the bronze. Who went to Notre Dame, by the way. Did he? Yes, he did. Yared Nguese. There was a lot. Team USA has been killing it in track and field this Olympics, which is why I feel like I've been so locked in. Yesterday, Tara Davis Woodhull won the long jump, which was just crazy.

she jumped over seven meters and her boy or her husband is a Paralympian. So their celebration afterwards was like, I, it was a real tearjerker in my household. They were on the today show this morning. Oh really? Good for them. That's cute. Uh, and then Sydney McLaughlin,

McLaughlin-Lavrone with the 400-meter hurdles, just, like, doing the Katie Ledecky thing of, like, she's so far ahead that the rest of the runners weren't even in the picture when she crossed the finish line. Winning her second gold medal was crazy. And then Grant Holloway, who's the 110-meter hurdler for the U.S., he won gold, too, yesterday. So all of this between, like...

14 o'clock and like 16 o'clock yesterday. I was just so locked into Team USA. Opening ceremonies tend to matter more for the Olympics. It's kind of strange, but Katie Ledecky, you mentioned her. She's going to be the flag bearer for the closing ceremonies.

While it's an honor, the opening ceremonies is the assignment that you want because Coco was a flag bearer in the opening ceremonies. Coco is already back, working on her career. She's not going to hang around for the closing ceremonies. Why is that? We got Tom Cruise for this thing. No one really ever talks about the closing ceremonies. I'm sure it probably costs a lot of money to stick around past when you're... Not that it matters for someone like Coco, who probably has a lot of money from playing tennis professionally for four years already, but...

it probably is like you got to get back at some point and train if katie ledecky maybe doesn't need to get back right away for any sort of you know she doesn't have the us open coming up in a week so yeah exactly i think that's the big thing is do you have competition that's happening if you have competition happening you can't waste time hanging out but for a lot of these as you've mentioned jess like a lot of these athletes are people who have day jobs

Right. Like these are regular people who happen to be amazing at something. And so for them, yeah, I'm going to continue this paid vacation in France and hang out in the Olympic Village and eat the chocolate muffins that everyone's raving about. Apparently, the chocolate muffins in the Olympic Village look incredible. Insane. Not croissants, but there's muffins. But there's also worms in the food. Allegedly, the Olympic organizers are like, no, there's not.

What are you talking about? There's no worms here. Look at how great we've been treating everybody. Forcing them in the E. coli river. RFK Jr. is nowhere near the Olympic coach. This has been a bad Olympics for Paris, right? Yeah. Just not a good look for them. So I look forward to everybody in four years discovering that L.A. has no public transportation and LAX is the second worst airport in the entire world.

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