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Looking to keep up with all the latest Olympics news? Wondering who to watch out for in Tokyo and Beijing? Wanting insight into the new events being introduced? Ascending Olympus will keep you up to date on Olympics content on Thursdays every week. Socials: @AscendingOlyPod Edge of the Crowd Website: www.edgeofthecrowd.com EOTC Socials: @EdgeOfTheCrowd
Jacqui and Dan close out Ascending Olympus' Birmingham 2022 coverage, looking at the final two days of competition and looking back at our favourite moments from the Commonwealth Games.
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Stuey joins Dan to look back on Days 8 & 9 of Birmingham 2022, as redemption and revenge is on the menu, plus the boys decide that they’d like to keep in penalty shootouts, not join the Diving team, and are all in on the Diamonds.
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Stuey joins Jacqui on Ascending Olympus to recap the next 3 days of Birmingham 2022 as the Athletics kicks off and the swimming programme comes to a close as aussies continue to medal all over the programme.
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Dan and Jacqui are joined by Jason to look at their favourite moments of days 3 and 4 of Birmingham 2022 which featured a plethora of Aussie golds both in and out of the pool, including in a few unexpected events.
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Jacqui and Dan are joined by Stuey for the a look back on their five favourite moments from each of the first two days of Birmingham 2022 looking at the incredible results from the Aussies and giving the Ugandan Rugby 7s team rave reviews.
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It's our last episode before the Opening Ceremony of Birmingham 2022 we take a look at some of the Aussie athletes to watch, the Tour de France is over and Dan was perpetually wrong but he's feeling good about his predictions for the Tour de France Femmes and World Athletics is over and two Aussies have emerged as World Champion in the high jump and javelin.
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With one week to go until Birmingham 2022 our Aussie athletes are in fine form at worlds, winning a few medals in the athletics while the hockeyroos take out bronze at the World Cup. Figure skating's Yuzuru Hanyu announces his retirement from competitive skating and we talk about his legacy while Dan gives us an update on the Tour de France and a preview into the Tour de France Femme. Follow Edge of the Crowd on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/edgeofthecrowd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/edgeofthecro... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edgeofthecr... Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@edgeofthecrow...
Jacqui and Dan are back once again with two weeks to go until Birmingham 2022, after a decorated career Aussie moguls skier Britt Cox announces her retirement, Wimbledon wraps up and prompts discussion about the state of tennis and its athletes and Mo Farrah comes forward with his tragic story of being a victim of human trafficking at aged nine.
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With 20 days to go until Birmingham 2022, the Hockeyroos have got a World Cup to finish off, the Rugby 7s teams have officially been announced and Dan takes us through the opening days of the Giro Donne and the Tour de France.
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This week Jacqui and Dan take a look at the massive addition to the Australian athletics team for Birmingham 2022, have a look at the Giro Donne and Tour de France right before they kick-off and another look at FINA World Championships and Mollie O'Callaghan's dominant performance.
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Jacqui and Dan are back on this week's episode of Ascending Olympus to discuss FINA's decision regarding trans athletes, the FINA World Championships in Budapest, Lauren Jackson's return to the Opals squad ahead of the World Cup and the new teams headed to Birmingham in July.
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Ascending Olympus is back after a few weeks off to talk about all things Comm Games, the World Para Swimming Championships and Australia gaining entry to a fifth consecutive FIFA World Cup
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Two Australian Commonwealth Games teams have been named, Hewitt and Gill have picked up a win at mixed curling worlds and Russia and Belarus banned from all events by ISU for the 2022/2023 season. It's been a big week and Jacqui and Dan have all the latest for you.
After taking a week off Ascending Olympus is back to talk about a huge two weeks for Australia's Olympic and Paralympic athletes including the Stallwell Gift, para world selection for swimming and a silver medal at junior worlds in the figure skating.
This week on Ascending Olympus Dan joins Jacqui to talk about Australian national championships for the rowing, athletics and track cycling, meanwhile the 'street' sports for Paris 2024 could have their own four sport qualifier series and we talk about some of the sports that are missing from the Olympic Programme that are included at the Commonwealth Games.
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The first lot of National Championships for Australia's summer athletes started last week with Track Cycling nationals and the Athletics Track and field Nationals meanwhile in the winter sports Valentino Guseli claimed world cup bronze and Shoma Uno and Kaori Sakamoto took out World Championship gold in Singles figure skating after winning bronze in Beijing.
On this week's episode of Ascending Olympus Jacqui is joined by Jason and Michelle to talk about the Aussie success on the slopes in France and at the World Indoor Athletics Championships, as well as previewing the World Figure Skating Championships which kicked off on Wednesday.
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Michelle and Jason join Jacqui on this week's episode of Ascending Olympus to wrap up the Beijing 2022 Paralympics with their favourite moments from the closing ceremony and the Games, then they get to some more recent news discussing Jakara Anthony's World Cup win in her first competition back after winning Olympic Gold and FIGs decision to not ban Russian athletes from competition and the consequences of that choice.
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Jacqui and Dan are back on Ascending Olympus to talk all about the final three days of the Beijing 2022 Paralympics, focusing on the Aigner siblings in the Alpine, Oksana Masters in the cross country skiing and biathlon and China's continued rise in the team sports.
Days 5 and 6 were slower ones for the Beijing 2022 Paralympics with just nine gold medals handed out across the two days, China is a chance to medal in the curling and para ice hockey and we're seeing more double sport medallists in the nordic events.
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Jacqui and Dan are back to cover day 3 and 4 of the Beijing 2022 Paralympics, looking at Australia's first medal of the games, the cross country skiing and an absolutely insane wheelchair curling win.
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We're just two days into the 2022 Winter Paralympics and already Oksana Masters has two medals in two different sports, the Alpine Skiing has seen huge wins for New Zealand's Corey Peters and China debuts in the para-ice hockey looking like it could potentially shake up the medals. Socials: @AscendingOlyPod Edge of the Crowd website: www.edgeofthecrowd.com EOTC Socials: @EdgeOfTheCrowd
There's just one day to go until Beijing 2022's Winter Paralympics and Jacqui, Jason and Michelle come together to discuss what they think is going to happen and what events they're looking forward to as well as briefly discussing how the sporting world has reacted to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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In our first episode post Beijing 2022 Michelle Jacqui and Dan take a look at their favourite Olympics moments featuring Australians and non-Australians, the top news stories they couldn't stop talking about and the heroes and villains of this Olympics as well as gushing about the icon of this Olympics Bing Dwen Dwen
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The final day of Beijing 2022 saw medals handed out in several events including the four-man bobsleigh, mixed team parallel slalom, ice hockey and curling with Jason and Jess recapping the last events of the 2022 Olympics
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It was a busy day on day 15 with wild winds affecting the snow events while Germany continued to dominate on the bobsleigh track, Sweden won curling gold and Chinese pair Sui and Han won gold in the pairs figure skating. Socials: @AscendingOlyPod Edge of the Crowd Website: www.edgeofthecrowd.com EOTC Socials: @EdgeOfTheCrowd
Day 14 was another busy day for Beijing 2022, with Eileen Gu making history as the first freestyle skier to win three medals in the one Olympic Games, Johannes Thingnes Bo winning his fourth gold of this Olympics and Timothy LeDuc made history in the pairs skating while Sui and Han broke another world record
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Day 13 of Beijing 2022 was filled with plenty of ups and downs with Aussies Greta Small and Sami Kennedy-Sim out on the snow, meanwhile on the ice there was a draw off in the curling a Canadian gold medal in the hockey and chaos in the figure skating.
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On day 12 of Beijing 2022, the men's aerials took to the sky, the slopestyle came down to earth and Australia had athletes in the men's slalom event and the men's and women's team cross country sprints. Dan and Jess also talk more on the Kamila Valieva situation and the response they've seen from active athletes and coaches.
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It was another big day on day 11 of beijing 2022 with the Figure Skating causing even more controversy, the speed skating and bobsleigh saw more medals handed out and the snowboarding competition came to a closeSocials: @AscendingOlyPod
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As the weather faired up on day 10 the Australians took to the sky in the Aerials, slopestyle and big air events, meanwhile Bree Walker hit the track on the bobsled and Canada reached the women's ice hockey gold medal match, but we get into the nitty gritty of why Kamila Valieva is allowed to compete and what changes have been made to the competition because she can compete?
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On day nine of Beijing 2022, Jacqui and Jess talk about the Alpine Skiing, the cross country skiing, the biathlon, the ice hockey as well as the figure skating, as well as a bit of a chit chat about the wild weather that's been blowing in Beijing over the weekend.
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On day 8 on Beijing 2022 Jackie Narracott won silver in the women's skeleton Australia crashed out in the mixed snowboard cross teams, and Norway's brother duo won gold and silver in the Biathlon and much more.
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On day 7 on Beijing 2022 Scotty James won silver in the men's halfpipe, Australia found out who is named on its mixed snowboard cross teams, more details about the Kamila Valieva issue unfolded, Jackie Narracott is in the gold medal position in the Skeleton and so much more.
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On day 6 of Beijing 2022 Jacqui and Michelle discuss the Aussies in the Snowboard Cross, Skeleton and Cross Country Skiing, Chloe Kim's second Olympic Gold Medal and the figure skating including what's going on with that team event medal ceremony and why everyone is now talking about Kamila Valieva. This episode features Jacqui Dodd and Michelle Guo Socials: @AscendingOlyPod Edge of the Crowd website: www.edgeofthecrowd.com EOTC Socials: @EdgeOfTheCrowd
On today's episode of Ascending Olympus Dan and Jess look at day five of Beijing 2022, focusing on the snowboard cross and halfpipe, Men's ski big air, the alpine skiing and the luge.
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On today's episode of Ascending Olympus Jacqui and Dan look at day three of Beijing 2022, focusing on the Curling, Ice Hockey, ski super G, Cross country skiing and another dramatic day in the figure skating.
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On today's episode of Ascending Olympus Jacqui and Michelle look at day three of Beijing 2022, focusing on the Curling, Ice Hockey, ski giant slalom, speed skating and an incredibly dramatic day in the figure skating.
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On today's episode of Ascending Olympus Michelle and Bec look at day two of Beijing 2022, focusing on the Curling, Figure Skating and Australia's medals in the Moguls and Snowboard Slopestyle!
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On today's episode of Ascending Olympus Jacqui and Jason look at day one of Beijing 2022, focusing on the Curling, the Moguls, and some of the big medal winners
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On today's episode of Ascending Olympus Jacqui and Jess look at the first three days of competition of Beijing 2022, focusing on the Curling, the Moguls, the Ice Hockey and the Figure Skating
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On the last episode before competition gets underway for Beijing 2022 Dan Jacqui and Sarah make some predictions, some safe bets and others so far out of left field that they're silly for saying them.
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With just eight days to go until the Beijing Winter Olympics we talk about some of the latest news heading into the head up of the games and touch on Four Continents last weekend.
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On this special episode of Ascending Olympus, Jacqui and Dan take a look at the 44 Aussie athletes that are headed to Beijing in February for the Olympics
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This week on Ascending Olympus we look at Australia's massive medal weekend with the Aussies taking home five medals in four days including gold for Jackie Narracott in Skeleton, Beijing 2022 to be invite only for fans and a look at Four Continents Championships this weekend.
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The Aussies have one week of world cups to finalise Olympic quota spots, Laura Peel didn't have her best weekend last week but she's been seen showing off a quadruple twisting backflip in training and as the United States and Canada pick their Olympic teams for ice sports there's plenty of drama.
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There's just one month to go until Beijing 2022 and the Australian Olympic Team has released its formal uniforms, Yuzuru Hanyu attempted a quad axel at Japan Nationals over Christmas and with hardly any snowfall there's now a race to make enough artificial in time for the Olympics.
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It's been a massive year and we're taking you through 21 moments in 2021 that involved Olympians and Paralympians both at Tokyo 2020 and the events throughout the summer and winter seasons.
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Australia's winter Olympian hopefuls had another fantastic weekend, collecting medals left right and centre. NHL now has questions looming over its players heading to Beijing and Yuzuru Hanyu is set to make his season debut at Japan Nationals.
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With just 50 days to go until Beijing 2022 Australia's mixed curling team Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt have qualified for the Olympics meanwhile 2018 silver medallist Matt Graham suffered an injury at a world cup event in Sweden last weekend.
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The Australian Government has announced a diplomatic boycott of Beijing 2022 and we don't think it is going to make a major difference, Cyclo-Cross is pushing for a 2030 entry into the Winter Olympics and the Grand Prix Final of Figure Skating has been cancelled but we make our predictions of who might have won if it went ahead.
As more Aussie winter athletes start to compete the Australian's found success last weekend in the monobob and rugby 7s, we take a look at some of the athletes to watch on the ice for Beijing 2022 and the new Omicron variant may force organisers to change some of the health protocols at the Winter Olympics this year.
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Plenty of Australian Winter Olympians had their first competitions of the seasons last weekend with World Cups galore, Ian Thorpe enters a unique class of Australian athletes being elevated to Legend status in the AHOF and Chinese Skier Eileen Gu suffers an injury in training but looks like she'll still be good to go for the Winter Olympics.
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The environmental costs for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics could be at an all time high, Modern Pentathlon axes show jumping in favour of cycling and who needs to step up to protect young athletes from turning minor injuries into something more serious?
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In this special episode we list our top 10 Olympics memories, giving a few honourable mentions to those that missed out on making it onto our lists and a few memories about recording Ascending Olympus over the past 50 episodes.
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Australia's Paralympians have had a big week with Madi De Rozario winning the New York Marathon and Lauren Parker taking the para-triathlon World Championship by storm, Dylan Alcott has announced he will retire following the 2022 Australian Open and despite not being much competition there's plenty to talk about for Beijing 2022
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There's just three months to go until Beijing 2022 and Jacqui and Dan look at the events they're looking forward to the most, Australia finally sits at the top of the medal table at the fourth leg of the swimming world cup and the Grand Prix of Figure skating is almost at the halfway mark with two time Olympic Gold Medalist Yuzuru Hanyu yet to compete.
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This week Australian discuss athlete Dani Stevens announced her retirement after a historic career, Japan and China dominate the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships and as the Winter Sports season heats up one 2018 Gold medallist's Olympic chances are over and Mikaela Shiffrin notches her 70th career win.
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The Olympic Torch was lit earlier this week with just over 100 days until the opening ceremony of Beijing 2022, Paralympian Oksana Masters is aiming for her sixth Paralympics in 10 years and finally NHL Players will be permitted to represent their countries at the Winter Olympics should they be selected.
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We're less than four months until Beijing 2022 and less that 300 days away from the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham next year. Olympic Season is kicking off for the winter sports this month and looking at how Australia's swimmers have performed at the FINA World Cup events in Germany and Hungary.
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Team USA's likely vaccine mandate for Beijing 2022, talking about that revealing Simone Biles interview, recapping the Cycling World Championships Men's and Women's Road Races and an in-depth look at Nebelhorn Trophy.
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Two time Paralympic Gold Medalist Rowan Crothers joins to chat about his Paralympics experience and what it's like being an E-Sports gamer. Plus a catch up on the World Cycling Championships at the half way point and a preview for Figure Skating's final qualifier event ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
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Australian Shooter Sergei Evglevski joins Ascending Olympus to talk about his Tokyo 2020 experience and returning home to hotel quarantine and lockdowns. We go around the grounds to look at the Aussie performances in the Diamond League, US Open and the upcoming cycling events since Tokyo 2020 has ended.
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Looking back on the Paralympics while it's still fresh in our minds and how this year's Paralympics has been a positive game changer for the future of the games.
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The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics have come to a close with Ellie Cole carrying the flag for Australia, a final week filled with medal success and the podium sweep that also saw a Paralympic Record get broken by an athlete off the podium
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The rain is pouring and Japan National Stadium and chaos comes with it in multiple events, the Road Cycling kicks off with the time trial and Australia bags a bunch of medals and Alcott worries us for a moment with the Golden Slam still on the line.
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It has been a big weekend for the Australians at the Paralympics with medals and world records tumbling, and there's plenty more in store in the coming days.
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It's been a big opening few days of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics with the Aussies experiencing a Gold Medal Rush on day one and continuing to stun in the next couple of days.
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Last night's Opening Ceremony was a fantastic production showcasing not only the athletes set to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics but also performers from Japan. The team talks about what they're looking forward to, in particular the Australian athletes that are set to improve on the performances from Rio 2016.
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We're just days away from the Opening Ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, Australia is sending its biggest overseas team ever and there are some fantastic stories coming out of the team.
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Volunteers deserve a lot of thank yous, remembering a few golden moments and which sport can we remove from the Olympics
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The Marathon was the first of the last events and 30 of the 106 athletes were unable to finish, The United States took home Gold in Men's and Women's basketball and France did the very same in the Handball and we look back at some of our favourite moments.
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On the penultimate day of Tokyo 2020 the Boomers won their first-ever Olympic Medal beating Slovenia in the Bronze Medal Match, Nicola McDermott stuns the world as she claims High Jump silver and the team talks about some of their favourite moments with just one day left.
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Canada won the Women's Football Gold defeating the last remaining member of the Group of Death, Sweden. Kelsey Lee Barber wins Javelin Bronze and Italy's 2021 reign of supremacy over Great Britain continues in the 4x100m Men's relay.
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Day 13 was a big one with five medals for Australia including two Gold in the Park Skateboarding and Canoe Sprint, the decathlon ends after two days and we're obviously experts about it now and it was a brutal day for the Australians in the team sports losing 3/4 matches.
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From Peter Bol finishing 4th in the 800m Final, Hall and Hull reach the Women's 1500m Final and Ash Moloney is only second best halfway through the Decathlon. Park Skateboarding was the star of the show on day 12 and the Opals bowed out in a brutal loss to the United States.
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It might have been a medal free day for the Australians today but we've guaranteed at least three in the coming days, it's just a question of colour now. Simone Biles came back for the final apparatus final and snagged bronze on Beam, we've got three team sports matches against the USA in the coming days carrying the rivalry from the swimming onto the court and field.
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The Hockeyroos are out after a quarter-finals loss, the Matildas are going to have to fight for bronze, but the Opals have snuck into the quarter-finals by two points. Track Cycling and Canoe Sprint started today with mixed results for the Aussies.
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Oh Australia's best medal day of all time, Logan Martin wins the first Men's BMX Freestyle Gold Medal, Peter Bol gets better and better finishing first in his semi-final and breaking another national record and how about the Aussies in the pool at Tokyo 2020?
Featuring The Inner Sanctum's Alex Catalano and Sarah Wildy
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With the first week ending the time in the pool is coming to a close, but at least the athletics has started and it's already been exciting for all to watch. Meanwhile, a favourite to win Gold Novak Djokovic exits both the Men's Singles and Mixed Doubles without a medal to his name.
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Emma McKeon gets her first individual Gold Medal and her fourth medal for Tokyo 2020, The Matildas have a massive win against Great Britain in extra time and the Opals are 0-2 but can a big win carry them into the finals?
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If you were paying attention you might have seen a brief period of time that the athletics event was thrown into chaos after a pole-vaulter tested positive. Jess Fox and Zac Stubblety Cook won Olympic Gold and Australia has hope in the tennis with Barty/Peers advancing to the mixed doubles semi-final.
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It's been a dominant day in the pool and the rowing on day five winning three gold medals and two bronze inside of an hour. Some of the Aussie teams are overperforming whilst others are underperforming. Then there's Japan who is radiant at its home Olympics with more medals likely to come.
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There's plenty of attention on the ROC win in the Women's Artistic Gymnastics final and the shock withdrawal from Simone Biles, Australia's Kaylee Mckeown wins gold, with the Olympic Record getting broken for the 5th time in this event at Tokyo 2020, Owen Wright snags a surfing Bronze and the Australian Sharks steal a massive win away from Croatia.
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Day 3 saw Australia snag gold in the pool with Ariane Titmus winning what is likely round one of three in her battle against American Katie Ledecky, looking back to the last match of day 2 we talk about that Team USA loss to France and talk about Luka Doncic's chances of carrying Slovenia to a medal and the Hockeyroos nabbed another win looking more and more like medal contenders with each match.
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Australia won three medals in the pool today, smashing World and Olympic Records in multiple events. Ash Barty crashed out in straight sets, meanwhile, there was chaos in the Road Cycling event with nothing going to script in the end.
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The first big day of competition kicked off with over 100 different events including a whole host of Aussie athletes. China leads the medal tally after day one with three gold and one bronze.
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Tokyo 2020 has officially been opened, Aussies battled through the archery but reached three finals in the Rowing with other athletes setting Olympic and World Records on Day 0 of competition.
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The Olyroos stunned everyone with a 2-0 win over Argentina, The Aussie Spirit got onto the winners list over Italy and Steeplechaser Ed Trippas qualified for the Olympics two and a half hours ahead of the deadline.
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Australia walks away from day -2 with a win and a loss, going down in the softball against Japan while the Matildas got a win over New Zealand. Meanwhile Brisbane was officially named as host of the 2032 Olympics.
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The final news episode ahead of Tokyo 2020, Covid enters the village, Aussie replacements are named at the last minute and we give our predictions for the games from medals to anything a little bit whacky that might happen.
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The Australian Olympic Committee has named two flag bearers for Tokyo 2020, There will be no fans attending the games after a state of emergency is enforced and the final Australian selection news comes in.
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Sponsors race to get their name attached to Tokyo 2020 once more, FINA's bizarre swimming cap ban for natural black hair, a look in at some of the global selection news and the team talk about their expectations for the tennis and basketball events in Tokyo.
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Just when you thought super selection week was big the Australian Olympic Committee announced over 200 names headed to Tokyo to start the month finalising the team. From athletics to gymnastics the team takes a look at all the announcements that we've seen.
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Part two of this week's doubleheader has the team looking at the big Australian selection news, some insights in the Hockeyroos and Kookaburra's final games together ahead of Tokyo and a look into the return of Baseball and Softball at Tokyo 2020.
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Japan eases restrictions as the vaccination effort drastically improves over the past month. Simona Halep and Stan Wawrinka join Nadal and Williams in withdrawing from the Olympics due to injuries. Simone Biles dominated the USA WAG trials and will lead Team USA to a likely gold on top of her own individual medals.
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Olympic organisers approve 10,000 or 50 per cent capacity entry for fans, Ryan Lochte might be out but Allyson Felix, Katie Grimes, Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi all have their tickets booked for Tokyo, Australia's Super Selection Week finishes off with the massive swimming team announcement and The Inner Sanctum's Hamish Spencer joins to explain Fencing.
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Japanese fans may be able to attend the games under strict capacity limits, Mo Farah has been granted one final chance to qualify for his last Olympic games and we cover the first half of Australia's Super Selection Week that saw over 100 athletes named in the Australian Olympic team.
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As the IOC continues to assert there will be no delay in the Tokyo 2020 games going ahead, 10,000 volunteers have quit. The Queensland Premier gets the Covid vaccine in case she needs to fly to Japan, hinting at a potential 2032 announcement and Sally Fitzgibbons overwhelmingly wins the World Surfing Games
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With 50 days to go Japan has had to extend its State of Emergency as Cornovirus cases decline, The Australian Softball team flew out to Japan this week for its pre-Olympic training camp and with no fans sounding more and more likely is there a chance the tennis world number one, Novak Djokovic will not compete?
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The team explore whether it is possible for Tokyo city to step in and cancel the games as public favour swings further against them, the Australian Olympic Committee announced their women's water polo and basketball teams this week and Simone Biles stuns us all with a double Yuchenko pike vault cruising to a US Classic All-Around victory.
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As COVID impacts legs of the torch relay and the Olympic chiefs postpone their visit to Tokyo ahead of the games, favour swings further against the Olympics going ahead from the Japanese public. After a week of questions as to whether Liz Cambage would boycott Tokyo, she confirms she's back in. David McNeill qualifies for his third Olympics and the panel reflects on the medal chances in the track events and takes a look at the hockey and Hockeyroo's chance of a fourth Olympic gold.
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With questions looming about how the 78,000 volunteers can be protected, Japanese citizens have voiced anger at the prospect of 500 healthcare professionals needing to volunteer for the games. 8-time Paralympic international medalist Blake Leeper has been barred from competing at the Olympics due to rulings regarding his prosthetics. Sun Yang awaits a ruling to be permitted to compete at the Olympics having to skip Chinese Nationals. The team breaks down the road and track events in the cycling and do the Matildas stand a chance from the group of death?
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With just under three months to go until the Tokyo Olympics commence the Japanese Government has introduced a snap State of Emergency, meanwhile, Australian athletes will receive the vaccine ahead of the games. The team comes together to discuss whether anyone can beat Simone Biles whilst the men's gymnastics event will be a far closer competition, and what are Nina Kennedy and other Australian's chances in the field events in Tokyo?
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