Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - MINI: The Podium Podcast!

Episode Date: August 2, 2021

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Now the Olympic Games is on at the moment and it was so awesome to see the athletes from all around the world performing on the world stage and New Zealand did so well particularly on Friday with a golden wee period there in rowing and Emma Twigg in her fourth Olympics won the gold medal for the single

skulls and it was so awesome. Emma Twigg here coming up to the line after those pair of fourth place finishes the fabulous Fern from New Zealand wins the gold. Yeah that's from Sky Sport that audio and yes she got fourth in the last two Olympics and to win gold was just amazing and Eric Murray who's a New Zealand rowing legend, he was watching on TV1 and he was even emotional. She's got like 100 metres left. She's got it.

She'll literally... Oh! Go Emma! Go Emma! She's got it. Oh, that's so good. Oh, how good is that? Such an emotional moment and such an awesome moment.

And she joins us right now. How awesome is this as well? Emma Twigg, congratulations. Great to have you there. Yeah, I'm feeling pretty good, thanks. I can imagine. Congratulations. I noticed you haven't asked how we are. It's not important how we are.

Sorry about that. We're not gold medal winners. I'm having an okay day. It's a bit blasé. Traffic was quite busy on the way. Anyway. Yeah, congratulations in all seriousness. I mean, it must be.

How does it feel, you know, a day or two later? Yeah, it's pretty special. It's sinking in. I guess it's a childhood dream of mine to be standing in the middle of the podium in an Olympic Games. At the time, I couldn't describe it in words, but it's definitely something special. Yeah, it was unreal. Now, not just you two.

I saw some footage today of Eric Murray, who's watching it in the TVNZ studios and he's tearing up. He doesn't look like a cry-y sort of guy. So it meant a lot to him as well. Why is that? Yeah, I mean, I think I cracked both Mahe and Eric on national TV, which is probably more of an achievement than one of the girls.

I guess it's probably what the medal signifies more than anything. It's been a really long time coming, and those guys have experienced all of the highs and lows with me. And I've been so lucky to have shared in their highs and I think maybe that caught up on them, which is kind of cute. That was very cute. It was.

That was very cute. Although he did say the S word a couple of times and it was on the news as well, Eric Murray. I was like, oh, geez, he's really... He's very passionate. They haven't beat that one out. But, I mean, the last Olympics you finished fourth and he sort of took some time out from the sport.

Why did you decide to come back? I guess it was just this innate feeling inside me that I hadn't achieved what I had set out to do and what I knew I could do. And also knowing that it was a real privilege to try and inspire others in sport and, you know, limited time in your life to be able to say that you can do that.

So, yeah, it's all just, I guess, it's come together in a perfect storm. Well, because obviously you got the gold. Would you have had the same feeling if you ended up with silver or bronze? Yeah, I was reflecting on that yesterday and I actually think I would have. I think before the race, I just knew that we as a team had done everything that we possibly could. And I was really proud of that and knew whatever the result, I'm super happy with the campaign and what we achieved. You had your wedding ring around your neck because your wife, Charlotte, you created a lot of your attitude and the turnaround to her, right?

Yeah, definitely. She's been pretty instrumental in, I guess, changing my perspective of enjoying the day-to-day and enjoying the privilege and just being present in what I'm doing. So, yeah, she's a pretty special person. Now, I heard through the rumour mill that you almost, well, you did step away from rowing for a while there and got into roller derby.

Is that right? I don't know what you've been reading, but that is not the case. Okay. Did you start the rumour mill, John? I was trying to get the rumour going. You got into roller derby, I understand. Well, it's good that you've come. Maybe, maybe.

Maybe you could. Maybe. Think about it that you've come. Maybe, maybe. Maybe you could. Maybe. Think about it. Think about it. We're recruiting. Did I just make that roller derby thing up? I think you must have. But what was, I mean, the race must have been pretty physically punishing,

the whole campaign. But what's been more punishing, the race or talking to, like, 100,000 media people afterwards? Oh, no. I've got to say the race is definitely the most punishing part. This is a pleasure and it's all part of enjoying the experience. Okay, who's had a shocker interview with you? You.

You. Apart from that roller derby question, have we been the worst? I mean, roller derby's up there. I want to say, I love your glasses, your sweet sunglasses when you're rowing. Are they specially designed for rowing and out there on the water, or are they just something you saw at a service station, or you saw something and you're like, yeah, these are what I want to wear? No, they're straight off the rack.

Yeah, my friends at Spoken Cycles in Cambridge just picked them straight off the rack. Oh, right. I love how Ben's like, you whipped into the BP Connect and picked up some of the sunglasses with flames down the arms. No, they're cool, though. Yeah, they're very good. Now, did you get drug tested? Sure did.

Straight after the race? Yeah, yeah. Every medalist goes in for a drug test. Oh, really? Really. And not without getting into too much detail. What happens? But get into some detail.

Oh, no. She gets drug tested. Is it like you have to go into a room by yourself or someone follows you in? No, you definitely have someone follow you in and the language barrier sometimes can impede things, but, no, they've got to make sure they can see everything. Wow, the pros.

And so do you know immediately... Sorry, I'm really interested, because do you know immediately whether you've passed or failed or that's a matter of weeks once it goes to the lab? Yeah, no, that takes a while. So it's all done and sent off to a lab, I think, in Switzerland somewhere. And then we get a notification a couple of months down the track. And so are you talking with the person while you're like, hey, how's your day going?

Or is it all very matter of fact? It depends who they are. If it's in New Zealand and we know them, we might have a wee chat while it's all going down, but, yeah, not in Japan. Although it's all going down, literally. How many times have you been drug tested over the last year? How often does it happen? It really depends, but most regattas we go to,

we're tested and then we're subject to random tests. I mean, we've got to be available every single day for an hour of our day to be tested. So someone can turn up at your house and test you? Yeah, yeah. We have to give an hour and they can show up. And if we're not there, then that's a missed test. Wow, that's really...

And what if you're not in the mood for a test? You know, you're not ready for a test. Do they just wait? Yeah, bad luck, basically. Drink, drink, drink. And then, yeah, wait until... Nature's ready for it. Yeah, well, we'll think... Sorry, we've covered some go on. Yeah, well, we've covered

some ground here. Yeah, much like you and the rowing, we've covered a lot of ground. It's escalated. I know, I apologise. You know, when you

weren't sure about your worst interview, well, this is definitely it. But Emma Twig, we're so proud of you here in New Zealand. It was so awesome.

We're all so emotional to see you take home gold. It was such a special moment for New Zealand, but obviously for you. So congratulations and thank you so much for your time today. Thanks, guys. They're proud of New Zealand.

Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Now the Olympics are on and this next guest who joins us live from Japan was already an Olympic legend before these Olympics. He won gold in the last two Olympics for the rowing. And then as part of the men's eight for the first time ever, Hamish Bond took out gold as well.

It's looking like New Zealand, it really is. And their third gold medal in the rowing, first for the men here at Tokyo 2020. It's the Kiwis coming up to the line. Yeah, that audio courtesy of Sky Sport, as I like to say. And he joins us now from Japan, a New Zealand rowing legend with a third gold medal, Hamish Bond. How's it going?

Thanks so much for your time. Yeah, you too. How are you guys going? We're going good. How are you? Congratulations. Thank you. Yeah, no, pretty unprecedented day.

Really, right. How wasted did you get last night? To be honest, I, pretty unprecedented day. It really was. How wasted did you get last night? To be honest, it was pretty tame. We're running a pretty tight ship over here in Tokyo, obviously. Yeah, there's options, I guess, if you wanted to get messed up. There's plenty of hand sanitizer around, but I wouldn't recommend it. Hand sanitizer? What if it's like a prison?

Well, there are three gold medals, three straight Olympics for you. I mean, that is such an amazing achievement. Has it sunk in for you? No, probably not. Probably take a wee while, to be honest. Yeah, look, we ran into that race quietly confident, but also under the realisation that in the eight,

there's a lot of moving parts. Anything can happen. We could end up first or we could end up last. Is any medal win more special than the other for you? Well, I just think they're all unique. But I think that's certainly, well, being fresh, it's obviously pretty cool at the moment. Yeah, I suppose what elevates what Eric and I did

is the fact, you know, how long it was and over such a long time and unbeaten. So that sort of makes those two special but being in the men's eight which is I guess the blue ribbon event of any rowing regatta. Well that event is massive in New Zealand sporting history with the last one in 1972

in Munich. So for us to I guess get back out there 49 years later is pretty cool. Now you have reached legendary status years ago, but now this has just sent you into the stratosphere. There's calls over here for you to be knighted already. Oh, yeah. You know, we do get swept up, admittedly.

Rightly so. I mean, three gold medals, eight world rowing titles. You've even won a bronze in cycling. I mean, yeah, as John has said, you've achieved so many things. Is there more on the agenda, or are you like, oh, I'm done now? I'm certainly going to take a breath. I've got two weeks to steer on things and mull it over in MIQ. So that's definite downtime.

There's not much I can do there. But yeah, I think it's best not to make hasty decisions at these junctures in your career. So yeah, I'll just try and enjoy this Well you know what, making a hasty decision on the hits breakfast with Jono and Ben, that'd be the way to go, make a decision now, let's do it

So obviously this is your third Olympics and this one has been quite different I would imagine with COVID, how many COVID tests are you athletes getting on a day to day basis, does it happen every day or what happens? Yeah, we're just doing daily, but they're only the saliva, so it's not too bad. I generally have overproductive saliva glands, I find,

so it's not a big task for me. Well, you're quite dribbly, are you? I'm a little bit dribbly, yeah. What a moist mouth. And how quickly does the result come back? I think they turn around pretty quick. It'd be within 24 hours, I'm pretty sure. Because obviously if someone's positive,

they want to get that person out of circulation as quickly as possible. And there's been a number of cases, but I've seen two days. Largely under wraps, but, you know, it's just, I guess, part of the experience this time around. Well, yeah, because I noticed that you guys, when you're on the podium, you have to wear your masks. When you guys were taking photos afterwards,

is there protocol set from the Olympics around having to wear masks as well? Yeah, so basically everyone's masked more or less all the time, unless you're sort of in your room with your crewmates, I suppose. I mean, and on the water training, obviously, we're sort of spitting all over each other there. Especially you, with your salivary bowel.

Yeah, so there's not much that can be done there. If one of us gets COVID, we'll probably all go down with the shuttle. Yeah. And so do you have to scarper immediately or you can hang around? We're out tomorrow. So we're on a chartered flight home back to New Zealand to start quarantine.

So the whole plane full of New Zealand athletes? Yeah, so basically everyone who's finished up to this point in the Games and I guess their budget is about a plane load. Yeah, it'll be quite good, I guess. Yeah, direct flight from Tokyo, North Christchurch, I load. Yeah, it'd be quite good, I guess, direct flight from Tokyo, and the Christchurch, I believe. Yeah, and great,

and I tell you what, all the medal winners in business class, baby! Yeah, well, I'm not sure. It depends what sort of plane they've charted. I was mentally thinking that. I was like, yeah, okay, I've won gold. Three times. That means that I'm up front.

I just want that bid. You've got three golds. The entrance to business class is you holding up your medal. Well done, mate. We're so proud of you over here. And you would have seen your former teammate crying. Have you on social media? Yeah, I have seen that video.

Yeah, it's pretty cool, obviously. Very cool. Send me a message afterwards congratulating me and the team and yeah, you's pretty cool, obviously. Very cool. Send me a message afterwards congratulating me and the team. And yeah, you can just sort of see what it means. Because I think from his perspective, he just understands what it takes to get to where the team has been this week and makes you appreciate those moments a little bit more. Well, Hamish, we are so proud of you and the rest of the boys.

It was such an amazing thing to witness. So congratulations and all the best for whatever comes next. Cool. Cheers, guys. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast.

Jono and Ben on the hits. We have been catching up all morning with some of our champion athletes from over there in Tokyo and Grace Prendergast and Kerry Gowler, they won gold in the women's rowing pair. Then they backed it up in the women's eights when they got silver as well.

So they've come home with two medals. And this was such a great moment when they won gold. Kiwis, yeah, they edge on imperiously out to this gold medal. What a performance from the two women. Up to the line then is Prendergast and Gowler, the world champions who now have the Olympic gold medal too. First Olympic gold in the women's pair. We've so got it wrong, haven't we, New Zealand?

We're awesome. I'm not. Well, no, you're true. You're looking at me. I've got no experience. We've got to bring the average down a little bit. But we're catching up right now in Tokyo with Grace and Kerry. Hello, good morning.

There we go. Hi, can you hear us? Yeah, we can. Hey, how are you guys? Good, how are you? God, is this a speakerphone situation? Oh yeah, do you want me to take it off? No, no, I love it. It's crystal clear. I can't believe it.

How many other athletes can hear us barking down the phone right now? We are. Yeah, just us. You can talk about anyone. Oh, that's great. We ought to talk about Hamish Bond. Oh, he's a shocker. No, he's lovely. Well, congratulations. I mean, how do you guys feel?

I mean, obviously taking home gold together and the eight as well as silver. I mean, what an Olympic Games for you two.

Yeah, I feel like it's pretty unreal and I'm unsure whether it's still sunken yet. Do you factor this in with your carry-on luggage?

Because obviously the medal's quite weighty, aren't they? Yeah, I'm genuinely surprised about the weight of the medal, actually. So I think we should definitely get a bit more allowance on our baggages on the way back. Now, you guys had to chase down in your final together. It was the Canadian and the Russian teams, from memory. And then it was you, Kerry, on the news. You said after the race, you were like,

you weren't sure if you'd won. You were like, well, someone is in front of us. You didn't even know that you'd won gold. Yeah, I think like, like obviously in the race, I was like aware of where everyone was. But then when we crossed the finish line, I was like in such disbelief that I was like, maybe someone was again.

Like I don't want to celebrate. Maybe someone got in front. There's nothing better than confusion at the end of a race. Do we what? Do we? That's what you want. No, no, no. Did your coach refuse to watch the race?

Yeah, we know he's pretty nervous, actually. We've never witnessed him watch one of his cruise races, but it sounds like he just hides away and just can't even bear to watch it, eh? Yeah. We finish and he's like, how did it go? Surely that's a pivotal part of coaching is actually watching the end result. Yeah, it hinders the amount of feedback he can give us,

but I think it goes back to what's in the video. How did it go, guys? You could really prank him and be like, we had a shocker, mate. We came in 10th. Yeah, that's the thing. We could tell him anything happened because he's probably off hiding in a bush somewhere and has no idea. It was so awesome to see.

And even Grace, I think your mum was on the news and she was saying she couldn't sleep the night before. She was so nervous. I mean, was she more nervous than you guys? Yeah, I think she would be more nervous than us, to be honest. And I think she's found this whole thing of whirlwind as well. She can't stop going on about how much media she's had to do. So I think she's enjoying her limelight.

I think I've hardly even heard from her after the race. She's like, I'm over here. I'm covering all the media. I'm talking to people in the cloud in Auckland. I'm on TV. Pretty much. Who's the strangest person you've heard from to offer congratulations?

Yeah, your phones must be blowing up with texts and all sorts, right? I wouldn't say the strangest, but the one we're probably most stoked about is Jacinda Ardern that put us on her Instagram.

Oh, that's pretty cool. You hit the big time. How many more followers did you guys get from that? I haven't actually looked yet, but quite a few. I didn't come over here with many followers.

Thanks, Aunty Cindy, for the bit of the Instaboost. It's just helping out on social media. I'm sure now, I mean, you guys won gold in the rowing. I mean, it must be a lucrative beef and lamb commercial. You must be boogying around on TV at some stage. I mean, surely something like that's on the

horizon? I'm hoping no one ever asks me to dance on TV. We'll see what plays out. Do you, the day after a race, do you have to go and train on the rowing machines or it's actually, it's a day off? It's a day off now. I think we have quite a few days off now, actually. I'm not, I don't want to go to the row road machine for quite a while. Yeah. That's probably interesting because you guys obviously won your gold.

And then how soon afterwards did you have to race again with the eight? So we had that afternoon to, like, recover, and we went for another little training row in the eight. And then it was pretty much exactly 24 hours after for the next morning. But, yeah, honestly, not a lot of downtime. It's a bit of a whirl. And that probably is good, and it kind of just keeps the next morning. But yeah, honestly, not a lot of downtime. It's a bit of a whirl and that probably is good and it kind of just keeps the adrenaline going. How sick of rowing are you?

Just be honest. If you could pick a number of months to take off from rowing, what number would that be? I would say it would be in single digits. Oh, that's good. I think it's funny leading up to this. I think you get pretty, like, a bit tired, but then as soon as it's over, I'm like, oh, that was all right.

Like, we could do that again. And then I was like, oh, God, we're exhausted coming into this. How long at the gym would you do on the rowing machine if you went into train? Like, I'm maybe 10 minutes, and then I'm like, oh, I'll move on to something else. What about you guys? Oh, I feel like we'd very rarely do under an hour.

An hour on a rowing machine? Jeez. Between an hour and an hour and a half. Because it's not like, you know, it's not a fun sport. There's no free speed on it. No, it's not an enjoyable action. And I imagine when you're out there just puffing and blowing, it must be hard.

Yeah, we've probably chosen the wrong sport. It's the general day-to-day enjoyment. Yeah, you could have picked an easier. Even boxing would be easier. Getting punched in the face would be easier than what you do. They just got gold. They just got silver. Well, it was so awesome to see you guys,

not just once but twice on the podium. Congratulations. I'm sure this is just a awesome to see you guys, not just once, but twice on the podium. Congratulations. I'm sure this is just a great end to a lot of very hard work, hitting the gym for an hour, an hour and a half on rowing machines. But New Zealand was so proud of you guys. So it's been so nice to talk to you. Congratulations. Thank you so much.

Oh, the sport has been incredible. Thank you so much. Two dads just trying to fill some airtime. Some might say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some air time for us. That is the main thing. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. The Olympics has been so good over there in Tokyo, and I mean, loving watching that, including our Kiwis.

There was a golden couple of, well, almost a couple of days, but particularly Friday in the rowing for New Zealand, and Brooke Donoghue and Hannah Osborne took out silver in the women's double-skull final. How good was this? To the line, Donoghue and Hannah Osborne took out silver in the women's double-scale final. How good was this? To the line, Donoghue and Osborne. It's Romania with a goal. Their first in this event since 1984. New Zealand, the world champions,

are Olympic silver medalists. That audio courtesy of Sky Sport. Literally. I think that's the time where you meant to say it. Yeah, yeah. That'll stop Ben getting sued in the high quarter. But anyway, joining us on the phone, silver medalist Brooke Donoghue.

Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Hello. Welcome. You've got to get that printed on your business cards. I'm sort of like, who? Who are you talking to? Hello. It's you.

Congratulations. Has it sunk in? Yeah, it's definitely starting to sink in. Yeah, it's a pretty surreal feeling. Sorry, I shouldn't talk about sinking when you're a rower, but it's probably not the right term. But yeah, it's such a surreal moment. Did it feel real or does it feel real?

It honestly doesn't. Like, the amount of time and effort I put into training for that one day and, you know, to come away with that result that we're absolutely stoked with and now it's over and done that it just kind of feels weird now. I have quite an important question. We're calling you on your cell phone.

Do you have roaming turned on or are we paying for this? Are we both paying for this? I think you're paying for this. We're happy to take that. That's why I just don't want to charge you as well. Afterwards you're like, oh, I had to talk to those guys. We'll just pick up the pace a little bit, though, okay? Like you're rowing.

No, bro. Can you mingle with other countries? No, no. Two metres apart. Oh, really? So you couldn't even celebrate, I imagine, getting a silver medal to any extent. No, honestly, we had so much media and stuff, which was really special.

It was really nice to share that moment with home. And then Heather and I were wrecked when we were ready for an early night. Oh, I could see, like, the end of the race, you just collapse, don't you? You just put everything into it. The problem is the person at the back kind of has to take the head.

Because you lean back, and Ben, we've done rowing before, and I've leaned back into Ben's crotch before. Just as like, oh, I'm exhausted. Yeah, but then the person at the back doesn't get to lean back as well, right? Yeah, thankfully I was the person at the back. Yeah, you got to take the, yeah,

you kind of... I had a nice embrace. My only bugbear with rowing is, and from what I witnessed through high school was, you start rowing at four o'clock in the morning or something ludicrous like that. Don't you know you can row, you know, during daylight hours? You know, you can have a sleep in and sort of get down there.

Yeah, why do you guys train so early? To be honest, that's only like a school thing because kids have to get to school. And then once it's your job, we're kind of on the water around 7.30 and it gets a bit more leisurely. You just spend all day training, which I don't know whether that's a good sign off on that one. And so what is the coolest free thing you have received over the last week?

I think that's going to have to be the Samsung Galaxy we got. So when we arrived to the village, sitting on your bed waiting was a brand new phones and AirPods and yeah. That's awesome. On every bed? Yeah, every athlete. Through the whole village or was this this is every, or was this just New Zealand

or this all, everyone? Whole village. Whole village. Samsung, jeez. Oh, coming to the party. That's awesome. Oh, you guys deserve it. You work, you work so hard and was so, as New Zealanders, we're all so proud to see you guys race and get up there on the podium. It was such a special moment. That's cool.

Thank you. No worries. Now, listen, this call's been, yeah, it's under the 10-minute mark. It's not going to cost us too much. Too much, yeah. So that's good. Thank you, Brooke. And thank you to Samsung for crystal clear phone quality, too.

That was good. Thank you, guys. Nice to talk to you, Brooke. Congratulations. Thank you, Brooke. And thank you to Samsung for crystal clear phone quality, too. That was good. Thank you, guys. Nice to talk to you, Brooke. Congratulations. Thank you. Experts in semi-accurate, half-remembered information. Vaguely known information, but maybe not correct. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits.

You'll remember, like, two days ago, the first medal for New Zealand in the Olympic Games was Hayden Wilde in the triathlon. Amazing achievement. He was so emotional at the end of the race. Pretty happy, and it's good to get a medal back in triathlon with the men's. A lot of inspiration from my coaches.

It was definitely for my family and for my dad as well. He passed away like 12 years ago, so he never got to see me race. Oh, beautiful speech. It was so awesome. Wasn't it? Yeah, and 20 minutes ago, I kind of hung Producer B Humps out to dry. I said, maybe if Producer B Humps did some work,

we could get someone from the Games. Well, tell you what, he did some work. Tell you what? I think I even mentioned Hayden Wild. Yeah. Because he joins us right now live from Japan. Hayden Wild, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. G'day, Shane.

How are we all going? We're going all right. A bronze medalist, triathlete, all-around legend. I would marry him if I wasn't already taken. Congratulations. Oh, thank you so much, boys. No, I really appreciate it. It's been awesome to get on the socials

and just see how much support it's been back home. It's unreal out of this world, I'll tell you that. Oh, baby, how's that Instagram account looking now, mate? Is it blowing up? Oh, mate, yeah. She's got a couple thousand more followers in the last 20 hours. That's why you do it, eh?

That's why all those log training sessions, they're all worth it for those follows. I tell you, I don't have TikTok, but I'll be told to get a TikTok and see if I can go viral. Yeah, no, jump on it, mate. Jump on it, Hayden. Capitalise, bud. Yeah.

All that capital gains. Wonderful scenes during your race. It really was amazing. And something that I got emotional watching you and just the emotion pouring out of you in that interview straight after the race. You could just tell this was just years and years of probably giving up your life for this task. And you've had a success.

It was amazing to watch. Yeah, I guess it's been quite a journey for sure. I guess I've had a different path than, I guess, a lot of athletes in my sport. Yeah, I only came into the sport about four to five years ago. And, yeah, when I watched the Rio Games, I was like, it looks like a bit of me. I was doing a bit of sport at the time, but I was kind of competing in, like, long-distance stuff,

so, like, the coast-to-coast and whatnot. But I wanted to get to the Olympic Games, and I thought, well, I'm already swimming and biking and running, and might as well try the triathlon, and yeah, four years later, and we made it to Tokyo, and then I wouldn't even dream of getting a medal. Hold on, hold on. Is that how easy your sport is? Like, I can go, oh, next Olympics, I just want to get a medal.

I'll give it a go. I don't think it's that easy. I don't think it's that easy. I don't think it's that. I mean, let, Hayden. I don't think it's that. I mean, let's talk about the training, because, I mean, I go to the gym maybe half an hour, I lose interest after filling up my drink bottle, you know, but you, I mean, how long do you train for?

I mean, because you've got three disciplines. I mean, you must be just gone all weekend, all day, just out swimming, cycling, running. Yeah, it's definitely a big time consumer. I do agree with you. You know, I get pretty bored in the gym. I think I go to the gym and kind of nap most of the time, to be honest.

But, yeah, with the other disciplines, you know, with swimming, I normally get up at 5 o'clock and swim with the swim squad, which is, you know, usually five to six times a week. And then head over onto the bike, which you do, you know, between 300 to 400K a week. And then running is, you know, between 300 to 400k a week, and then running is between 80 to 100k as well.

So you get up to nearly a full-time job an hour-wise, but you're always moving and always doing intense kind of work. It's your life. Literally, it's your life. You wouldn't have time for much else in your life. Can I ask a question? Ben's going to pull me up on this. I was watching the race live,

and I don't know if you were aware, because you might have been a little way behind the first place athlete. First place comes across the line. He collapses. Fair enough. Exhaustion. And then he starts vomiting all over the finish line.

Because they just give it at everything. Yeah, there was a whole lot of vomit, and then there was another one that rolled in it. So then he got wheelchaired off. You wouldn't have seen this. Second place comes in. Again, he's equally exhausted. He then collapses on the ground in first place's vomit.

Were you aware that there was just a mountain of vomit at the finish line? These people, everyone had given it everything, hadn't they? I'd say it was like, I guess everyone like came into the race and they know it was going to be hot, but it was actually probably the coolest day we've had in Tokyo, which for me,

I was actually pretty gutted because I kind of race a lot better in the heat. So I was kind of wishing it was actually just a touch hotter. I think it was only 29 degrees today where it's normally been about 34. So everyone was kind of, I think everyone was kind of a bit low-key gutted because they'd been doing all this ridiculously tough training

in hot, humid conditions, and they come up to the race and it wasn't even that hot. But yeah, I was actually talking to a few mates and they kept on cracking up because old Christian, who won, obviously spewed up in the middle of the finish line. Everyone was just, like, collapsing in his vomit. Yeah, collapsing in his vomit. You might want to just check the bottom of your shoes, mate.

Just give them a hose off before you come back to New Zealand. Oh, mate, you should see my tri-suit because when I was trying to help the guy off the ground, he kind of did a cheeky vomit on my leg. I couldn't believe it. Oh, Jesus, yeah. Protocol-wise, now your event's finished, what happens to you?

Do you have to hop on a plane pretty soon? Yeah, so, well, I'm actually racing again for the mixed-team relay on the 31st, so I've got to cruise around for the next four days. But as soon as your event finishes, because they pretty much want you out of the village in 48 hours, so, yeah, it's a pretty quick turnover, which is fair enough. You know, they want you to kind of be safe and get out of here. So you can't, I guess, embrace and enjoy the rest of the Olympic Games.

You've just got to do your race and get out. And, yeah. Good on you, man. I mean, New Zealand is so proud. It was so emotional watching you win yesterday. And congratulations. So nice to talk to you, mate. Cheers, Jono and Ben.

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