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Where triathlon meets real talk. Hosted by two seasoned triathletes and one Sarah, this podcast takes a deep dive into the controversies, challenges, and triumphs of the triathlete world.
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Unknown
All righty, ladies and gentlemen, this is a bit we doesn't. I know, I know, just us two all alone. The big bad podcast game. It's a it's actually just feels good to be back in the podcast studio. It's so much better than being on that fucking Riverside link that was getting so annoying. That was hard. Because even with, even when it was obviously a bit of a delay.
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Unknown
So like, you guys would talk and Sarah would talk and that I'd be like trying to jump in, but then you've already moved on to my cough. Like I missed my shot. Yeah. No lucky. And we didn't hear much of you. Yeah, I did go on the podcast. I know, I know, either way, this is episode 21.
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Unknown
Episode 21. The podcast is back. Round of applause.
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Unknown
Okay. That's enough. Yeah, the podcast is back. Yes, we did nearly fold. Yes, it's been a couple weeks. We apologize for not being in the house as of late. But we're here regardless, and we're back. We just want to thank our new sponsors. JK lager, the official brick. It's official B official Bako. Official beard. That is the name of the official Co JK lager.
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Unknown
Yeah. And had a couple of days on the weekend. We've actually got a couple of them. Just. Yeah, we did. We've actually got a couple cans sitting around. There's some Yeti lager out there, some more JK lager, 20, 32 lager. Yeah, that'll be big one. That will be big one. Yeah, exciting for us will be racing racing in the Olympics and then scaling them after.
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Unknown
Yeah we will be but yeah. Like I said, big shout out to Pod fire especially for, for letting us keep the lights on. And we really do love hosting this show. I know we're just a little small community, in the trough. Well, but we really do love it. We love hearing, what the athletes and parents and fans of the sport have to say about us.
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Unknown
And, you know, I think for us, it's a bit, it's even mind blowing sometimes. How many people do listen to this and some of the names of the athletes that do listen to this. I know we've both been, many races now where people have come up to us and said, you know, they're fans of the show and they listening.
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Unknown
And it's that's pretty wild for for the two of us. So, yeah, we're super excited that pod fire in official Bay have kept the community going, kept it going. Yeah. We thank you very much. And we couldn't stop. There was no way no way had to keep going. Especially after all that shit we spoke about. You know, the podcast.
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Unknown
It get to 20. Yeah. We couldn't. So we couldn't be one of those statistics. No we couldn't obviously there has been a change and, we are very sad to say, that producer Sarah will no longer be, a host on the show. She will no longer be a part of our show. We did have a bit with her.
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Unknown
And because she didn't run sub 30 in the five K, she's no longer allowed to be part of the show. It's just, it's not as. Oh, just kidding. It's a joke. It's a joke. You did? I didn't laugh, but, it's because I had the joke already. Yeah, I did run it by. It wasn't too far off.
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Unknown
Yeah. Make sure you laugh. No. In all seriousness, Sarah was really good for us. We were really. Shit when we first started this. We've gotten better every single episode. And, our confidence is grown in running this show. So now, Yeah, Sarah's moved on, and she's doing her own thing, and, you know, she's still, doing her comedy and she's off working for, you know, other podcasts.
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Unknown
So, now she's been really good, and we thank her. Yeah, she put in a lot of work to, I guess, get this little, little baby viewers off the ground. Yeah. Yeah. So grateful for. Thank you very much, Sarah. And we, we do wish you the best. Maybe we'll have her on as a guest. Yeah, I'll know, and maybe next year, gold coast five K might see you back.
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Unknown
Yeah. Might see you back. That'd be cool. That's another check in for the sub 30. Yeah. That's exciting. It has been a few weeks. Yeah. So probably three weeks since we last recorded nearly a month. The longest time we haven't done a podcast. So, yeah, I know we missed like one week. And I think, like, we hated missing one.
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Unknown
Yeah. No. Yeah I think three we were we were texting back and forth on all right what's going on. And we've got to get back off the ground. Is it done dusted. Yeah. You know the thing the fans I thought who what what's happening? What's happening. Rumblings in the whole triathlon community. I know we're getting down left, right and center.
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Unknown
I know that, really. But, we can pretend, what's been going on the last few weeks hasn't gone on. Well, we did the Gold Coast five and then had a bit of an off season and, trying to get right back into training, but I've been saying. Are you. Yeah. I haven't seen you get training. Yeah. I mean, see.
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Unknown
Oh, I've not seen you once last week was my week where I'm like, yeah, back into it, snap back into it. You know, it's funny that you have any training. You haven't been at training, but I've seen you on the weekend at my house training a few beers. So yeah, the sickness excuse doesn't know how that's flying. No no no no no.
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Unknown
Yeah. But yeah. Back where where where you coming back. That little little break, little reset. Enjoying I don't know whatever during life. Yeah. Life as a normal person. Yeah. And then now we're back into it. I have a I have been running. I just haven't been swimming. That is the worst one. Yeah, that is the no motivation to get up at 5:00 and and have have our swim coach yell at you for being for.
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Unknown
No no no, you got to be. It's going to be at your. Yeah at five. Yeah. Two minutes late you gain roasted. Yeah. You do a butterfly. Yeah at 5 a.m. and it's bloody cold. So that must mean it has been lacking where you haven't seen me but I've been running. So that's what we're, that's what we're trying to improve on.
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Unknown
You've got a bit of a change in program. Yeah. So the end of the season I decided to switch things up. It seems like a lot of people have. Not that it's. I mean, yeah, it's a bit of a coincidence that everyone's kind of switch things up. But I kind of thought, yeah, I need change things out.
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Unknown
So I've left my couch doing my own thing now focusing on, I guess, a different kind of aspect of the triathlon, how I'm going to take it. That's a couple factors. Like I've had to increase my uni, so kind of training load and everything like that has to change. So I've got to just change it up. And I think change is good.
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Unknown
Yeah, yeah, I prioritize a few things. I think change is like I think a lot of people are super excited at at what's next and what's to come. Yeah, it's weird that a lot of guys that we know right now are changing things up, and it's just so happened to me, I don't know why now, but, everyone's kind of changed things up, which is pretty cool.
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Unknown
Like we said, there's always a bit of a lull year post Olympics. So I think like post Olympics, even though I, we weren't really in the same of last year's Olympics, we still are kind of going through okay. We need to make decisions now that are going to set us up for the next, you know, three year cycle.
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Unknown
Yeah. Like the Olympic point starts next year. So if we want to be you know in the conversation come 2028, like we need to sort of solidify the process now. Yeah. And that's that's probably true. It doesn't take only a year for something to work with. A new coach takes a couple years. So I guess you got to give it a bit of time to go.
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Unknown
Okay. I could stay off this coach for another year. If then that delays the process and you process of another year. So I guess that's just weighing that off isn't it. Yeah. Yeah, it is something new. I feel as if you know in yourself when you need to change it up. So I knew that at the probably middle of the season.
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Unknown
Yeah. Need to change things up. It's gutsy. It's gutsy to actually like act on that. But then yeah, this is what once once you become comfortable with your coach in that environment, it's it's it's pretty easy to stay easy to stay. It's tough to then leave that. Yeah. But yeah, yeah, yeah. All things new. Exactly. It's exciting.
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Unknown
Well, one thing that I learned. What did you do on your little off season? Oh, well, I really need to. You're back. I'm back, I go back. One thing I learned is that, I'm no longer going to be taping myself. Yeah, I think that's valid. I think myself like the the first, the first time that I've taped myself in two races and did not finish and disqualified for.
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Unknown
I just want to clear out for those who I've got quite a few people asking me on the night off the TV and DMs I did not cut that. So you can on purpose. I know, I know, I think we've called people out about these. Oh, you and I have been on the people that this is. Well, see, like, this is where it gets eating dogs.
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Unknown
I've literally covid butchered is like, not like if you're doing that on purpose. Your dog. I didn't do it on purpose. If anybody's raised before, you know how chaotic it is, it's three laps for a sprint distance. My head got a little fuzzy. I was a little bit in my own head. I thought the third can was the last can, and I knew when I turned.
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Unknown
So I turned around the can thinking it was the last can. I kind of got a half way back. Looked back, I thought, oh, I might have, I might have cut the course there. I've definitely miss it. I wasn't, I wasn't definite, it wasn't like a I've definitely misses like a, I was about 60 to 70% sure I missed the.
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Unknown
Yeah. But at that point you swimming in it's like yeah I've, I've got to just go I don't go, I just go. You can't change it now. No. Turns off there wasn't. But if you've ever seen TV it's literally yeah you can see everything. Everyone's watching. If I miss a can you know I've missed all these guys. It's kind of gone of the days where you can kind of color swim.
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Unknown
Boy in a race, everyone's in it. Once you've done it, you're done. Yeah, yeah. Is it straight up disqualification? No, no. So I finish the road, I finish the race. So I, I wasn't told that nothing. There was no penalty on the board, but they just disqualify you after the race. Now I wasn't even told after the race.
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Unknown
I had like one of the old tri coaches coming. She's like, I think you cut the cane. And then the other one was like, no, you definitely cut the kid. And then I was like, oh, that's a bit annoying. And then I was like sitting on my phone. And one of my mates sent me a screenshot of the thing and he was like, what the fuck?
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Unknown
You got the kid? I was like, I've been disqualified. Oh, okay. Then no one says anything. They just take you. I thought I didn't know whether you got a ten second penalty or not. Nah. False stop. Nah, I did false start and have 10s. Yeah, yeah, but no, a penalty. I only cut the course is a little more savvy, which makes sense.
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Unknown
Fair enough. It's fair enough. Look, I'll own up to it. I did do it. I did not mean to do it. I'll cut the disqualification. No arguments were made. And you're not going to pick yourself next. Next? That's. It's going to be so hard to do. But yeah, you got to have you go for it. And just to suck it out for a minute.
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Unknown
That's my main set. It was Sarah and I said, who like it before we recorded the last episode before tizzy. Like, is lucky going to double down and pick himself? I think because the first thing that would be great if he double down and picked himself for the win, but then you pick yourself in the second and still.
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Unknown
Yeah, yeah, I think, I think because the DNF, I was like, that wasn't my fault. You know, that was avoidable. Yeah. Yeah. Avoidable. Yeah. That's what avoidable wear or misfortunate. Yeah. No sorry. Out of your control DHSc was avoidable but yeah yeah that was have. Yeah yeah you're right. It was out of my control. Yeah. But yeah well well we live in we learn what happens happens.
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Unknown
Let's get into the thick of it. Yeah. Because you've called it. I did call it the last episode where you had, Layton's predictions. I feel like Mystic Mac out here. I mean, okay, he's back. That's that's my new prediction for the no, no, no, no, you got to settle down because you've you've been in the tri suit half the season.
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Unknown
Yeah. Okay. Rocco diamonds, as we said before. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Anyway, we'll Australia has come back. Well well I said Australia is a triathlon nation is back. And what was proven was done. Hamburg. Bang that didn't make much sense. It didn't. But what was proven was done. What we said was done, what was said or what you said proven.
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Unknown
I just don't know. Anyway. Hamburg, Australia World champions Matt Houser leading the series. We have three of the top 20 men in the world at the moment. Yeah we do yeah. Houser Willian and Copeland. Copeland 20th. Yeah. Wow that's huge. So and I think it's back and world champion real world champions in the mixed team relay which is unreal I'll almost except you know that's okay for not picking me in the team.
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Unknown
I'll take it back step. That's okay. You know, picking me because you guys won. Yeah. Yeah. So I think it's valid. Not good on him. I it was, it was such a cool relay to watch and the whole team did. Well. The whole team did exceptionally well. But fuck me has. He's a different breed.
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Unknown
He's. He's just an animal right now like that. That to be 20s down and then still just just out of the game alone. The swim alone. He brought back 13 seconds. Yeah. 13 seconds. And then as soon as he was on that front pack, it was like, well, okay, who's out running him? I should say he did you see how he ran out?
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Unknown
He was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. I think he's on a mission. I thought maybe Cody's and Graf. That was the only two that could potentially challenge him, because that just got had such. Yeah. And they looked good over the short. Whoops. They've really good over that distance. But it was still like a they're going to have to has is going to have to have a shit day.
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Unknown
And they're going to have to have a very good day and just fine on he was he was just too good after the win the day before. He just wasn't he wasn't going to lose that. Not Australia. Do you think he's got the series wrapped up. Has Matty Houser wrapped up the series. Oh this is the big one because I think he's back in Australia now.
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Unknown
He is training. Yeah. So we don't know everyone's plans. No that's true. There's three races left before the. Well yeah. For the grand one to count in the world Championship it's three races and then the world championship. So she's three best results and World championships is double points. So at the moment I know Houser has two wins and a second and a second.
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Unknown
Pretty good. That's pretty good. That's nearly perfect. You've nearly got a perfect score there. But there's I mean Del Miguel Hidalgo who isn't that far behind. No. And I'm pretty sure it sounds as if houses got this wrapped up in the bag. I don't I don't think it's as easy as what it sounds because he can come out.
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Unknown
What? Let's have a look at the data. So it's it's I know it's obviously French Riviera. I have a feeling Houser is going to French Riviera. European I think has is going there. That's the 31st of August I think House is going it's only in a month I think has is going. Do you think he's doing to European trips?
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Unknown
I think so and that course will suit him to the grand. So if he I think House is going to go there try win it which I think he could because that race suits him to the ground and then miss out on Karlovy Vary. And why? Because those two races don't suit him as well. Just get a massive blocking, massive block leading into this is I prediction as well.
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Unknown
I think he's yeah he'll have he'll have three wins if he wins French Riviera. Yeah three three wins. Or you can do all you can do. And then he'll have a huge block leading into Wollongong. Yep. Mardell Hidalgo he's only 300 points behind. He races really well on those two. What's he got? If I was medal Hidalgo I would go.
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Unknown
I would aim for Karlovy Vary and say hi to hilly bike courses. He's very strong on the bike and he's light and he can run, fought and they're Olympic distance. And especially if he has it doesn't race them. And if he has, it doesn't race him. Then that's three wins. Yeah. If he wins, then two. That's three wins for him.
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Unknown
You're going in with a tide series into Wollongong with Del Hidalgo. Matty has a well. Oh that's huge. So that's a storyline. That is a storyline. That's a great story I actually could oh that's so annoying. I was out injured song. It's only gets up into third and Matty has a wins I've Pete first. That's a bit dark horse.
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Unknown
Hey he's I didn't think he would be in fourth song in lame and in fourth in the world series for the men Vasco Veloster in third. Oh, I could have actually. Actually I could have now this quite surprising. Well, I didn't stuffed it up. And how do all do stuff me out. Broke himself in two. Yeah he did.
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Unknown
We'll get onto him a bit. But they know the the women's as well is really close. I be fair loving that Beth Paula in first Liana Perry are in second. Only maths 35 points behind I'm loving. That's right. Mario's in second because I feel like she's such an underrated athlete. And then Lisa turns in third and she's only 100 points behind them.
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Unknown
This is actually really exciting. What Cassandra by your on and she could and she could make she's racing French Riviera. No way to be saying she's in fifth. Yeah. I like she could make a last minute dash. Yeah, well, it's all to play for. It is really a thrilling World Series at the moment. So basically, to wrap that up, Matty Hauser, I don't think he's wrap the series up.
00:17:19:23 - 00:17:38:12
Unknown
Not yet. I don't I don't think we can say he's wrap the series up. I mean it's all going to come down to Wollongong realistically. Yeah. Double points. Yeah. Yeah. So it's going to be you know how they do the maths with all the races and they're like oh he's going to come. Yeah yeah. If this happens. Yeah I love what they've done in previous years and I can't remember.
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Unknown
They did it last year. I remember seeing in 2023 where they had a live scoreboard, online positions. So like every time someone would come through it was almost like if they finished in this position, then this would be the World Series. Yeah, right. Overall, which is so cool because I remember it was like 2023, or you had the Frenchies and like Haydn and Alex were in like the second or third parks that were really far behind and it was just swapping constantly.
00:18:04:01 - 00:18:22:05
Unknown
Yeah. Like the Germans, the French mixed in. It was it was so cool. I was even down to when they finished, they were still kind of unsure of who actually had what happens. Yeah, that's super exciting. I mean, I think we're not going to have as close as that. Yeah. As that. It's either going to be Hidalgo. Oh hell yeah.
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Unknown
That's still super exciting. That is especially it would be massive him winning world champs at home. Yeah. Or Hidalgo just nah nah nah, we don't want to hear it, but I don't. Well I mean I don't want I picked out of a win. Yeah I, another thing that we noticed, in Hamburg and, and this is not to discredit the Aussie team.
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Unknown
A lot of countries are putting youth over experience. You saw the the British, I know, I mean, they had Beth Potter and. Oh, who's our other girl. Oh. Leave Matthias live. Matthias. Yeah, but she's still quite young. She is still young, but she's got a bit of experience and more experience. I mean, and then on the men's side, you had,
00:19:02:04 - 00:19:24:10
Unknown
Michael. Gabby. Gary. Yeah. And kind of. Bentley corner. Bentley's got a little bit of experience. Yeah. Didn't race too good last year in the relay, so he came back for a bit of redemption. But those two boys held their own, like they, Michael, I think he was tagged in about third around that round that any any tagged in fourth for the next leg.
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Unknown
So he held his own and kind of held his own for fourth as well. I feel as if the relays the place where you can throw people in there, that is that that's the place where and you see it now. We saw it in the first relay of the year over in Abu Dhabi. They chucked in young some young blood.
00:19:42:02 - 00:20:03:16
Unknown
I think you can this year. Yeah. From next year onwards you can't because you saw the experience of the Aussies. Yeah. Did just. Oh yeah. They want the cake. They want the floor. And like they like you had you had Emma Jeffcoat I think she swam from eighth position up to third like just in the swim alone. So I think yeah.
00:20:03:16 - 00:20:26:21
Unknown
Experience does trump youth majority of the time. Which, which we saw again Codex was then to run into second away from Henry Graff and Connor Bentley. So experience does usually tend to pay. Yeah. But it's cool to see other countries experimenting. Yeah I think that yeah, you see it more and more over the next two years. Probably next year will happen again.
00:20:26:23 - 00:20:45:15
Unknown
And then the nations will start to really dial in their mixed team relay. They'll start to shuffle between like 2 to 3. Yeah. Like yeah, it'll be three girls, three boys in each team that they'll switch in and out. They'll find what's the best because they have the order now don't they. It's go boy. Good boy. Yeah.
00:20:45:15 - 00:21:01:24
Unknown
Go boy. Changes every four years. Yeah. So they've changed that now. So it changes it off a bit as well. The dynamic. I don't know whether it's more favorable for the Aussies or. Well it worked I think is more favorable. Yeah. We've got we it's no lie that we've got a stronger contingent on the men's side at the moment.
00:21:02:00 - 00:21:18:10
Unknown
So we've got some very strong females obviously we had Sophie Linton and Jeff Carter, who I think are our two best real athletes at the moment. But yeah, I mean, you put it Matty has a last. Yeah. You just showed in 20 20s like, what do you have to do to how much time you have to put in time?
00:21:18:10 - 00:21:40:15
Unknown
Yeah, 30. You have to put 30s on him and then even then, really run it. Ten. Yeah, yeah. So, it's cool to see the youth getting a bit of a crack. Again, even in the Aussies, we had Brian Mercer. He had his dubs shadows. Yeah, yeah, we had two, two Aussies. That were debuting. I wish we knew all the countries in there and their debutants, the Kiwis.
00:21:40:15 - 00:22:00:06
Unknown
Yeah, they, they get a good run. You Aussie, Saxon, Saxon and James on there. So it's again it's a year where countries experiment, athletes experiment. And we'll sort of say that for probably the rest of the year and potentially next year, next year as well. And then I think they'll go, okay, where into who are the hitters.
00:22:00:06 - 00:22:22:07
Unknown
And, and I feel as if, weirdly, now that there's no home games for the Commonwealth nations. Yeah. They've kind of gone, okay, we don't need an A-Team all the time. You know what I mean? So if it's coming up to a Commonwealth Games in 2026, 2025 would still be big for home games selection. Yeah, or something like that.
00:22:22:09 - 00:22:44:14
Unknown
Where they go, okay, we need to qualify a team for the home games. So we're going to put in our, you know our best British team. Like we've got Alex. Yeah coming back and all those guys. Now we're talking the young guys as no come off guys. We've got actually a whole four years to actually. Yeah yeah. Figure something out and see see what happens.
00:22:44:14 - 00:23:13:05
Unknown
Because those kids right now I call them kids that your age, that they're going to be the ones that will be vying for the spots in 2028 and 32. And the countries are looking eight years ahead. Yeah, yeah. You say to lager 2032, baby. With the I guess, sort of putting in of the youth we've seen the Super League style is coming out.
00:23:13:05 - 00:23:42:10
Unknown
Yeah. Very, very young very young athletes. It is interesting. Do the old Super League versus the new Super League preference I feel is if nostalgically I go the old Super League, I just don't know how you can't. Yeah I think it was so good. It was great. And the weird thing and we've talked about this in triathlon, the team aspect.
00:23:42:13 - 00:24:03:06
Unknown
Don't know if I'm a fan. Yeah. I can't get around the Super Leagues. What are they. Eagles. You know, like, I'm not here. I'm not an Eagles fan. You know, I, I'm not really getting around the Eagles as a as a group. Have you know where where I think it differs is that the British have a British team.
00:24:03:06 - 00:24:21:08
Unknown
The Americans have an American team. Yeah. There's no Aussies, there's no French. There's no Spanish. There's no like Japanese. Like not every country has a team. So I think you're losing like you always see it on all the posts. The British guys are going all up the team down. Sharks like go to the sharks because they're all British on.
00:24:21:08 - 00:24:38:10
Unknown
They're not. Oh no. But now it's Brownlee racing isn't it. It is. I mean they're still so British. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. So yeah I think people are associating. But then you know Stars and Stripes. Yeah. Yeah. You take away the Americans like Americans, the British. Well I can't really support either of them. You lose it. A big audience there.
00:24:38:10 - 00:25:00:16
Unknown
I think I've got the Bahrain. Yeah, I'm going yeah, yeah, yeah I don't know I think I the old Super League before the, before Covid times 2019. I think that's just peak. Yeah I like how there was a changing format. It was a different format every single race. A lot the jerseys, the jersey, the tour de France kind of style.
00:25:00:16 - 00:25:19:12
Unknown
I know he's the swim leader. There's a bonus for this. He's the run leader. He's he's we're watching out for him in the run. Yeah. He's coming from the back. Yeah. And we've got the bike rider hopefully splits it up. Yeah, yeah. And also you had it was quite literally it's almost like they had the world ranking sheet and they went first.
00:25:19:12 - 00:25:40:05
Unknown
Do you want to spot second do on the spot. And they just went the best guys yet this and this isn't me. This isn't me being better because if I had a contract in front of me I'm telling everyone signing I'm doing it. I'm racing. What do I think I should be racing Superleague? No, no, because I don't think that my results have shown that I'm the top 20, whatever it is in the world.
00:25:40:05 - 00:26:02:01
Unknown
Yeah, I'd still take it. And a lot of these youngsters, a lot of these youngsters have taken it and they've. Yeah I'm still on. Yes. Good on. Yeah. Professional contract. You get your name out there, you get a professional contract. You got some money on your side. Go for it. Do I think it's right for the for for viewership and spectators and getting a no because that unfortunately they're just not the best athletes in the world.
00:26:02:02 - 00:26:23:05
Unknown
There's guys like Brayden Mercer, Aspen Anderson, Ollie Conway. Those people probably very well could be the best in the world at some point like we've seen. We've spoken about Brian Mercer. You know, he's World Cup podiums. Ollie Conway just had an incredible win in Morocco. He's going to be a future champion. Aspen Anderson spoken about her. She's going to be champion raise Madison Hayes and be a future champion.
00:26:23:10 - 00:26:43:23
Unknown
But are they realistically the top 20 in the world right now? No, no. But I think why you aren't getting the top 20 in the world. They're all racing team 100. You got it. Money's elsewhere. Yeah. The money's going elsewhere out of Super League. Yeah. If league doesn't have the pole that it did the monopoly that they wanted five years ago.
00:26:43:24 - 00:27:00:18
Unknown
Yeah. Where everyone was like I got I got need to go race to play because this is where I'm going to go get my cash. I don't think houses racing Super League this year. Yeah. We haven't won. I'm sure I'll get a start somewhere. He's probably focusing on the World Series, to be honest because I mean great opportunity.
00:27:00:18 - 00:27:21:10
Unknown
Go get real change shifts. Yeah. And there's more money that way. Yeah, but Hiding World hasn't gone well. I'm racing super like this year. He's. It's got to be a contract out of two 100. Vince Lewis isn't racing Super League. He could have easily retired and gone. Well there's no hey 100. I'm going keep racing Super League like Brownlee did.
00:27:21:10 - 00:27:41:22
Unknown
Yeah for a couple of years. Go I'll love this. Like he can be super good at it. He'll still be at the pointy end, but he's gone. I can I'll go race long. Course, that's where the money is. Yeah. And afford doesn't have the draw that it did have the Super League again back in the day. Yeah. Well we are in a sport where yes, we do tend to sort of chase where the money is.
00:27:41:22 - 00:27:57:13
Unknown
Yeah. It's it's the nature of it, nature of the sport. It's hard to find you know. So when it comes knocking, which is exactly what these youngsters have done, in which why I do not hold anything against them. If that contract comes knocking, you take that with two hands. Yeah. A lot of these guys have. They've been in good opportunities.
00:27:57:15 - 00:28:23:11
Unknown
But is that going to be harmful for to say. Yeah, like we know we know Ollie Conway and Brian Mercer and Aspen Anderson and, Marcus, Marcus. They've been raised raise venison. Does everybody else know? Yeah, yeah. That's it. It's like, are you going to be able to promote promote these? It's hard because I guess you can promote the new generation of athletes, which is a way you can go down it.
00:28:23:11 - 00:28:43:02
Unknown
But then it's also a lot of saying the old dogs. Oh, yeah, the veterans. I've got Vince Louie Racing and Alex. Yeah. And I don't want yeah I want to watch that I would just so good that would just about Richard Murray and Mario Mola battling it out on the run. No, that's so cool. I still do like I'm still going to watch it.
00:28:43:04 - 00:29:01:19
Unknown
Yeah. 100. And I'm just a fan of the sport. I'm going to watch it. But I did love Super League. What they had, where they had the young athlete like the white jersey. It was like Ollie Turner in the, this guy field was one at this. Yeah. So locked in way back when he was racing like no one knew.
00:29:01:19 - 00:29:19:14
Unknown
Matt has it when he was, like 17 racing super like really. He was a world champion once again. A bit trying to prove a point. Yeah, yeah. But he was giving it off to me in a white jersey, and I was like, oh, he's the watch. He's the young kid who will go out there race, probably real stupidly.
00:29:19:20 - 00:29:39:03
Unknown
And he did. He ran off the front at one point. Yeah. And great. Yeah. How good is that to watch. Yeah, I like it. And, yeah, I like it, but I don't like it. Yeah. It's, I just don't think you can help Super League keep developing or stay on top like it was. I think it's slowly burning, I think to.
00:29:39:08 - 00:29:59:10
Unknown
Yeah. Oh, it's called super try now as well. So I think it could. I don't want it to, but I do think Super League could be slow. But don't you just think that there's now a few too many factions of triathlon like you've got to say 100, you've got Iron Man, you've got two hours. Yeah, you've got the Ironman Pro Series, you've got 70 point threes.
00:29:59:16 - 00:30:19:10
Unknown
We've got the World Series w X World Cups, Kony Cups. Yeah, and then Super League and then T 100. We've already had that did I. Yeah it's at the first anyway there's a lot there's like there's like seven different world champions. Yeah. You can be it's becoming a bit like turning into higher rocks. Yeah. No boxing. You know there's like 15 World Championships here against.
00:30:19:10 - 00:30:44:18
Unknown
All right. And you've got like the WBA oh WBA all that stuff. Yeah. It's like well who is the world champion. Were they, were they saying take 100 Martin Van real world champion. Like yeah yeah he's the world champion. Then you have to world champion and then you. True. I mean in the long course saying you had Martin Van Real 100 K distance world champion yellow guy in 70.3 world champion and Patrick Lang of the Iron Man world champion.
00:30:44:22 - 00:31:05:20
Unknown
Yeah. It's three long course world champions. Yeah 70.3 and and then and then the challenge world champion. Oh that's bullshit. Yeah. Now I don't even know that. Who was that? I'll do that. Who knows? It gives a fuck. Yeah. Well, yeah. Well, that's our opinion. That's our opinion. Take it or leave it. Fuck off. That's what we're here for.
00:31:05:22 - 00:31:28:23
Unknown
Now, random opinion on what's going on in the world. Triathlon. I said we would touch on him a bit later. I just think this is silly, impressive. And I don't know if this is a good thing, but Hayden Wilde has announced that he's going to be back on a start line. Yeah. That's impressive. Let me tell you, 103 months since he absolutely broke himself, what is it?
00:31:28:23 - 00:31:53:04
Unknown
Hit by a car. Broke his scapula in five ribs? Yep. Can you even fathom recovery from that? Well, yeah. I mean, I've got incredible, immunity, but like somebody else, I just don't know. You're a no good back. Yeah. Welcome back to the lucky. Yeah. It's insane. Like, when I saw his name on the star, everyone was like, oh, Hayden's back.
00:31:53:04 - 00:32:07:15
Unknown
I was like, oh, yeah, you just had a bit of a break. But I was like, hang on. No, he got hit by a car. Yeah. He got. Yeah. And absolutely shattered. Yeah, yeah. You know, just like a couple bumps and bruises. Like he was back pretty quick. And it makes me think like, you say like, what's he taken?
00:32:07:17 - 00:32:34:24
Unknown
Well, no, that's. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. You're getting a lot of calcium. Vitamin C. Yeah, it's probably science. Yeah. Good, good. What is it? Cows up in Andorra? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've got two training. Yeah, to kill cows. Makes me think of the, like the world tour riders. The, to a tour de France riders that literally break themselves in half, half the time if they probably are on something.
00:32:35:01 - 00:32:57:16
Unknown
Yeah, they probably are, but they really they break their collarbone every second week and they're on the bike within 3 or 4 weeks. Yeah, that's not as impressive. Like I said, they probably juicing. But but when you're a cyclist, yes there is I guess like you obviously are holding the bars and there's pressure on the collarbone there. And when you're going over cobbles, I guess that would be pretty painful because you're bouncing up on a broken collarbone.
00:32:57:18 - 00:33:17:09
Unknown
But it's not swimming. Well, you have that full shoulder rotation. Like that's what's impressive is that that's true. You have ribs as well. Like. Yeah. Just breathing. Yeah. The brain even just to break the running the hunched over and the like like it's honestly I don't know how good he'll be now whenever he's just back. And it's could be a bit of it.
00:33:17:09 - 00:33:32:22
Unknown
It might be a bit of an ego thing. Like is he just back because he does that good? Yeah, I'm that guy. I'll show you that I'm that guy. Really. He's going to go get smoked by yellow again. And Rico Bogan and some of those guys who knows. I think it's too early. I think it's too it. I think it's silly.
00:33:32:22 - 00:33:55:21
Unknown
I think playing around with your health, especially this year, like he said, he could have just had a break and then come to Wollongong, race to Taiwan 105 or whatever that is, because he's he's getting a start in whatever race he wants. Yeah, exactly. Unless, unless this is the only thing that I can think of. He has to come back for this rise and rise every other day, 100 to fulfill his contract or he doesn't get paid?
00:33:56:01 - 00:34:18:02
Unknown
Maybe. Surely he's got enough commercial sponsorship elsewhere. Yeah, unless he has a clause where it can be like, if you break yourself, you know, you just. That's whatever. It's just my manager, but I reckon, I reckon he might have to fill a contract. That's maybe my take. Well, I guess we'll see how he comes out in in a couple of weeks in, in London.
00:34:18:02 - 00:34:36:19
Unknown
But these boys at far like you wouldn't want to even be, like, slightly off. No, no, that's what I mean. I mean, the only thing is I saw the London start list. Have you seen it? Yeah, it's pretty decent still, but there's still only 16 people in the start list. Yeah, I'll fill it with, wildcards. They just announced the,
00:34:36:24 - 00:34:52:06
Unknown
Oh. That was just the women's wildcard the other day. Right. Okay. Oh, I just saw the men start this. I don't see any of the those 16 people. I thought, are you kidding? Surely, again, you won't. Yeah. I'll do it for the pay. I need to get a time travel, right. Yeah, I'll do it on my roadie. Yeah.
00:34:52:08 - 00:35:12:09
Unknown
80 K's in the roadie Ray guy Bogan just pushing 300. Oh. What's the matter? Yeah. Go 40 K now, it's probably irony. Now I will say hopefully he does. Well, hopefully recovers, but we'll see. Yeah. Anyway, that's I think that's basically it for us. We didn't want to we don't want to go too heavy on his first episode back.
00:35:12:12 - 00:35:32:15
Unknown
First one. Like we said there will be a few changes. Sarah's not here. So, if there's any questions on things you guys want to hear, because we don't have Sarasota chirping in and making us have another opinion. Yeah, it would be good to have another opinion. So, that is it from us today. This is, episode 21.
00:35:32:15 - 00:35:55:09
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