Christian.

Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Monday morning is to Christian O'Connell's show.

So we're into the last week of the Games in Paris.

And by an extraordinary chance, I've got a new neighbour.

Five doors down a couple of months ago, Steve Hooker moved in.

Now, Steve Hooker won gold in the Pol Vault in 2008 in 2008 in Beijing. So Steve is

actually part of the Channel 9 coverage. You can hear them this week commentating all the track

event. And Steve is live in Paris right now. Steve Hooker, are you there? Christian, how are you

mate? We're good. So take a suit. First of all, before we get into the athletes and what's going on this week,

describe to us then what the games are like in Paris.

Pretty amazing here, actually.

Paris itself is quiet.

It's safe and quiet.

It's safe and quiet as I've ever seen it.

So if you're a tourist in Paris, you can get straight up the Eiffelieu.

It's pretty amazing. But I've just left the track of field tonight. And tonight was the night. We won silver and bronze

in the women's tie jump and Noah Lyles won the 100 metres. It was a pretty unforgettable evening

to start the front. And so what can we get excited about over the next couple of days? Because

your old event is coming up, isn't it, in about 24 hours time?

Yeah, that's right. Curtis Marshall takes on the greatest of all time, Mando de Plantis,

and bear in mind, it's the greatest of all time at 24 years of age, so there's a long time to go

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