Peter Sagal
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Yes.
Even more so, in the Summer Olympics, racewalking is a staple.
Now, there may be, I don't know, 200 racewalkers in the United States, but in parts of Eastern Europe, like in Romania or something, you know, racewalkers are like Michael Jordan, apparently.
1992 in Barcelona, I'm hosting the Olympics, and there's a package of highlights, and it ends with a bunch of race walkers.
And you know what it looks like, right?
It looks like gotta go, gotta go, gotta go right now, is what it looks like.
15-minute shorts who really need to use the restroom, I understand.
Right, exactly.
So I come off of it, I think it's completely harmless, and the people on the set laugh.
I said...
Isn't a competition to see who can walk the fastest a little bit like a contest to see who can whisper the loudest?
Eventually, don't you just like cross over and start running?
Now, you would think that was completely harmless, but the very small race walking community wanted my head on a pipe.
And that's why you can never go back to Romania.
Well, Bob Costas, it is such a pleasure to talk to you.
And we've asked you here today to play a game we're calling... And the Emmy goes to... We are right now in the eye of the Emmy storm.
The Creative Arts Emmys were last weekend.
The Primetime Emmys are this weekend.
So no one is talking about anything but the Emmy Awards.
Ooh.