MINI: Sporting Failures
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Things haven't gone so well for one Australian at the Winter Games this year. So we want to hear about your sporting fails!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Madonna, like a prayer, 25 to 8, Tuesday morning, Christian O'Connell Show. |
| 0:10.9 | This morning, dig deep, go into your hurt lockers and tell us your story of sporting failure. |
| 0:19.4 | I'll be really honest with you, right? |
| 0:21.3 | I'd rather hear stories about sporting failure than success. |
| 0:25.4 | We take them from the pros. |
| 0:27.5 | We love them. |
| 0:28.6 | However, what's funnier than success is failure? |
| 0:32.5 | So this morning, we're diving into it. |
| 0:34.2 | Your stories of sporting failure. |
| 0:35.9 | I remember in 1989, there was a British title |
| 0:40.7 | boxing fight and won the boxers Tony Wilson has been so badly beaten by his opponent, Steve McCarthy. |
| 0:46.5 | His mum came to the corner of the ring, took her shoe off and started hitting the opponent. |
| 0:52.7 | This was live on TV for a national |
| 0:55.0 | middleweight title. Your mum, your grown-up dude, you're a professional boxer. He retired |
| 1:01.1 | after that, Tony Wilson. His mom took her shoe off and started hitting the other guy. You're a |
| 1:05.2 | bad boy attacking my son. All right, sporting failure. Steve, good morning. Good morning, gang. |
| 1:11.7 | Happy Tuesday. |
| 1:12.6 | Happy Tuesday. |
| 1:13.8 | Way back in 1983, I think it was, 84, when I was much more awesomer than I am now, |
| 1:21.1 | I was in the nightclub, and it was kind of late in the nightclub day. |
| 1:25.3 | And the word went out, we're going to all have a push-up competition. |
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