overall Teen USA doing fairly well in Sochi but one group
from TTS is not doing well the speed skaters in effect they have not gotten
any medals at all at least up until when we're filming this and they have an
interesting explanation for why that is that has to do with their clothing
now the clothes clothing is provided by Under Armour it's the mock
39 and that was being sold to them under armour said that it outperform nike's
swift suit that's what they use back in 2002
in Salt Lake City company also told the skaters at the new seats were designed
specifically for conditions inside
Adler arena Skating Center that one place apparently has very specific
conditions and
with features like dimples to make this is soup slippery in the win
a slick fabric inside the ties to reduce friction
which is useful hall and off site has some ash exactly yes
and so I has a special Mass for venting body he but that the actual teen in teen
if they believe that that might
influence their speeds and it could in fact be slowing them down when I started
the story John
I thought that it was a the shouted just super super whiny
when you look like we have the best speed skater in the world are one of
them anyway and shiny davis who's won twice in
that he finished a and then I'm another the top church bridger the US
Tucker Fredricks finished 26 but we're getting hammered
and that job they might be on to something i mean the differences between
gold and 10 is in speed skating mentioned it right friend could be
fractions of seconds depending on the test so
team that was supported by that supported by Steven Kolb air doesn't
feel actually no
I think once the US male speed skating team and on
an episode earlier this week key team now it's me getting ok out earlier this
week they had
no with anybody whatever the old action Hall character
the super gay kids in our hair you know an interview that is weird but yeah i do
anything I'm filming a video where he was beating so maybe I'm being there
so he's blamed please don't let all blame Steven call that yeah so
I A don't care at all about the winter olympics I made that clear but evacuate
two different articles on this cuz this I find interesting and
because up the mystery is that this suit or not and when you read into the
details is almost certainly the suit
tablet makers in every other competition they've done so well
and as a team every single one of them is doing so poorly
I even though they rank so well the competitions before but that's not the
only variable that's changed in the last couple to share this it would be a local
thing it could be that everything could be food the BA or they can be just like
Mayweather a lot of variables in so do you like when they were doing their time
trials was it bad when they were using warm about that that would happen out
there was a Roman Catholic
yeah I know when they get a chance be okay that's not so
some will have a different outfit the other day it is it's an Olympic rule
that you must
all wear the same outfit if you're on the same that he and all-new so they're
getting their own up it's a mail to them
plus Under Armour of course is in a period
yeah and they're trying to fix it as best as they can II Dorsey house the
Shi'ite opposition to fix it
you know he bakes probably gonna slowing down even further I don't know how it
works out nicely
and they use lockheed martin to help here when you crazy I mean you see like
how many things that they screw up for military
was in a meeting that may not have made the more effective but I'm sure that at
like five hundred million dollars to the cost nearly a day
that Under Armour in this panic another like we don't know if we're gonna put on
a shirt or not
I'll be sure they should put on this earth there's no harm in putting no
shootout address delivered
and you tell me that Under Armour get get 5700 malaysians
working like 36 straight hours to get there should be done well what these
people do
I'm UN divers they want to go back tonight yeah so
so here's my take away from someone who is not actively watching the Winter
Olympics I watched the summer to some exactly like witness and I think that's
about it
so when I look at this and JR Jackson in the production meeting agreed with me
if the difference between one soon another is the difference between 1st
place in 27th place
then maybe you should have them where are all the same suit know they look if
you don't bat that let you just
like 500-yard your eyes out along
hit baseball we don't say yards in baseball but meters
whatever behavioral issue
it was a first for the soviet yeah okay so let's say that the difference in one
pair of shorts and volleyball is the difference between being blocked nothing
like
they wouldn't let you wear the shorts I can only buy what rather be in
it supposed to be about the actual you know if you're OK let your ballot
I okay okay I'll irrational as a no no other like no no I'll go her there
I'll go for the show in NJ are use run track to USC's
in and so here's some experience and how close can affect when you're running in
different
and sadism get really great track star so so he would know it but hit
yeah okay but look I think this invalidates
min the whole court but not just all sport but many sports
because like all the US would normally just great that we do
but a palace cuz we have the better suits yeah so how's Ghana Ghana could be
with us in speed skating is no way that I was gonna suits as us
you know what the differences between britain twenty say for sure gotta get to
be with us in spirit
yeah perhaps that's why I use examples
yeah the difference in their times from being grade
to being disastrous is one second so if the suit makes a one second difference
in one second as
all the difference you need when we have no idea who is faster
we only know once a pastor in that particular silly love Charlie just up
the road because you're leaving out the important that might be true and it's a
it's it's part of the discussion that people
of it out but now ask our as well likelier cars faster
stop talking about this your car faster but I'll Drive the same car and she
absurd that part that bomb but what they're saying here is that
we had suits that were presumably like other people search before
and it was still on their armored Nike made in 2002 but Under Armour made 0
the World Championship suits that they did well and so Under Armour has come
through before
they added some stuff and maybe this at addition
maybe suits worst than everybody else is and that fixing it would just put
everybody
essentially on the hard way the scientist in me cannot help but a
we are focusing on one up like 50 variable
and how like you will find all the while one by having them where are all the
same out
change that one see what happens but don't make this huge media firestorm
around it
it must be the suit it could be one up so many things and now they can see
Miami
in Russia sorry my bus all rights the suit for sale that's and then we'll go
to your dashboard is the third yeah
and and by the way we john is saying is really important not have every US
Olympic everywhere aims to everybody all of them have to wear the same sOooo as
you know I Do's bashary
it to an extent but one thing that I know about you know I have a very good
friend has a professional dancer for example
and day are so specific about their shoes because yes from the
outside for example everybody wearing the same suit is going to eliminate
variability
but you have different physiology and so somebody who has a different shape
foot for example in dance will need a different brand
you don't need a different and you see all the time in professional basketball
they're always in uniform but a lot of them have different shoes on
and that's because they have different I'm just saying if if one team had shoes
that allowed them to have a significantly higher free throw
percentage or something they wouldn't allow that are for me than 25 percent
faster
they wouldn't allow it performance enhancing close exactly you have that
much variability based on a simple piece of going right after my hard for me to
buy this story to be honest
yeah if this mash they did something that created a drag and
everybody on the team is where we read that strikes me as that
that that that reads in the realm of possibility
yet and in look it john's right if you have cleats and football that allow you
to get seven more meters every time you run
we can have affected