Game time, homie.
Welcome to Global Games, where real Olympians battle it
out with social influencers in games that we invented.
These challenges will test their strength, skill,
and stamina on a level never seen before.
The participants will be competing in pairs
but ultimately fighting to win the most individual medals.
The competitor with the highest medal count
at the end of the eight challenges
will take home the gold and the bragging
rights as the ultimate athlete.
Who will win?
An Olympian or a social influencer?
This is Global Games, olive oil water polo.
I think having all the different athletes here
is kind of awesome.
You get to see people from all over the world that
mastered different disciplines.
I'm super excited to be working with some Olympic athletes.
They definitely have a lot of work ethic,
a lot of focus and drive, so I'm excited just
to glean some of that from them while we're here.
What I know about social influencers?
I don't really know a whole lot.
I follow a bunch of them on social media.
They have a really big presence online,
which is a little bit different from an athlete's standpoint.
So maybe learning some tips from them.
I'm Spice.
And I'm Mike.
And together, we are
Mike and Spice.
Today's game - olive oil water polo.
It's just like classic water polo, which
has been a standard event in the summer Olympics since
1900, but just a bit more slippery.
Teams of two are competing against each other.
It's a no-holds-barred, olive-oily shoot-out.
Whichever team of two scores the most
goals throughout the competition wins.
For the first round, Kelsey and Julia
team up with Tor and Josh, and Ed and Emma
team up with Miles and Séan.
2-1-1!
(GO!)
Miles, with his long arm and reach,
taking control of the court.
Everything's just flying.
Tor with an impressive dive, but can't hang on.
And Miles gains control.
(GOAL!)
And Miles with the first point on the board.
Séan goes for it, but it slips through his fingers.
Yeah, there was a little bit of blood, but you know,
we'll get over it.
A wrestling match ensues between Josh and Ed.
Emma to Miles, and Miles with an impressive shot
between the legs at the buzzer.
That was crazy.
I need a replay, please.
(REPLAY)
Through the legs. Hm, hm.
Through the legs.
Working with Emma and Ed,
Miles and Séan
catapult themselves into
first place with 2 points.
Yeah, they got the better of us, I guess.
I think we need to learn from these guys,
obviously, cos we lost to them.
I think being aggressive is the way to go.
We'll do what they did.
My partner is really interesting because he can
add a different dynamic.
Julia's my partner, and she's awesome.
She's got a really good spirit about her.
Emma's one of the strongest swimmers in the world,
so she knows she has really strong shoulders.
We'll try to be at the front, scoring all the goals.
I'm Emma McKeon. I'm a swimmer from Australia.
I just competed in Rio at my first Olympics,
and I got a gold, two silvers, and a bronze.
It just feels amazing.
I've wanted to be on that podium at Worlds or Olympics
for so long.
I think I'll be more on the fun side.
Maybe some people might be a bit more competitive than me.
Definitely be a lot of fun and I'm excited to compete.
You guys look a little bit nervous out there.
I met Miles this morning, and we get straight
away the connection, so it's going to be
really easy to play with him.
Miles and Séan make quick work of Tor and Josh.
Miles, of course, is an Olympic fencer,
so he has insane reach.
And Séan's football skills help him cover court easily.
We'll see if they can carry that momentum.
(ROUND TWO GO!)
Josh takes control and tees Ed up in front.
Like Miles' spider-long arms.
He's all over the place, kind of.
Oh, and he's unable to capitalise.
Miles launches it
and Séan winds up for a bicycle kick and misses.
Not a move you usually see in water polo.
You can't hold the ball.
Yeah, exactly.
If you try to throw it, it just like hits you in the head.
It's like, you can't hit it where you want it to go.
Yeah.
Tor loses it, and it drops into the hands of Séan.
And Séan launches the ball past Emma for a point.
Competition is heating up!
You didn't really know what to expect.
Every time the ball could slip out of your hands.
(GOAL!)
And there's the buzzer to end game two.
Man, what a game.
With that that last score,
Julia puts herself and Kelsey
on the board, and Miles and Séan tack
on another point to provide
some cushion going into game three.
Like acting lower, doing what's best for the team, but then...
Yeah, but kind of our own best interests at heart.
I'm thinking that's OK, brother.
My name is Torgeir Bergrem and I'm a professional snowboarder.
I was in the Olympics in 2014, in Russia.
I expect it to be a fun week.
Of course we're all competitors. We want to win.
But the goal for me is to just have as much fun as I can.
Let's see who takes the gold.
This is it, gang.
Team!
We're going to finish this thing.
(GO!)
Come on. Try me.
And the ball gently rolls into the able hands of Miles.
Really?
Go, go, go!
Ooh, and Ed unable to make the save.
Nice.
That's a point for Josh and Tor.
Make it!
I got it, guys.
Julia has Séan on skates.
Well, he is on oil.
Miles unleashes, and Ed redeems himself with a great save.
(GOAL!)
Oh!
Ow.
Nice.
Oh!
Nice.
(GOAL!)
Ding, ding, ding!
Yes!
With that, Josh and Tor
move into second place.
Miles and Séan get the W and take the gold with 3 points.
Josh and Tor get the silver with 2 points,
while Julia and Kelsey and Emma and Ed tie for the bronze.
We'll see if they can carry
that momentum into the next match.
(LEADERBOARD)
(COMING UP)
(GLOBAL GAMES)
This is Global Games, short track speed bubble.
And we're back with another competition.
This time, we're going inside the bubble
for short track speed bubble race.
Short track speed skating combines speed and grace
as skaters lean into turns at nearly horizontal angles.
For our challenge, there will be two heats of one lap each.
In each heat, one team member runs the lap
while the other team member stays at the starting line.
If you leave the track for any reason or are hit off,
there is a penalty.
The team with the lowest total time wins.
Do you always close your arms?
I think Kelsey and I are going to dominate the short track
speed bubble today and come out with a W.
I've never been in a bubble before
so it will be a bit of fun.
Is this the right way?
Ed's going to be a good partner
for the short track speed bubble.
He's going to be able to bump some people out.
And I have balance on my side
so I think it's going to be a good combo.
I'm in.
Yeah.
Game time, homie.
Here goes the first heat.
(3, 2, 1, GO!)
Huge collision on the track.
Oh.
Do I think that Miles' strength with my agility is going to
help us rise to the top for the win? I think it could help.
I guess we'll just have to see.
Kelsey comes around the bend, and she steps out again.
Kelsey is all over this course.
The competition is heating up.
Last but not least, Josh there crosses the finish line.
And the white team wins it.
- Hey. - Yes.
She was outside the whole way.
No, she wasn't. It was two seconds, come on.
No, no, no, no!
Hey. Referee, replay, replay.
We've got to run that back.
The judges considered Séan's complaint
but stuck to their original ruling.
I've never tried to run with my arms like this holding
this giant kind of heavy thing.
And then I couldn't pick my legs up
so I just looked absolutely terrible
and I think that's awesome.
Sand in my mouth.
I'm Kelsey Lee. I'm a fitness and lifestyle influencer.
You can find me on social media @kelseyleedotcom.
Spell it out dotcom.
I'm definitely excited to be doing
super crazy hysterical things.
Because these athletes are from all over, we're from all
different sorts of disciplines,
I don't know if there's really anything but an even playing
field because everything's really off the wall.
What are you doing?
Come on, brother. Let's bounce.
What's up?
You don't beat a Frenchman like this, my friend.
My name is Séan Garnier. I come from France.
I'm the world champion of freestyle football
and street football. You can follow me on YouTube.
Séan Garnier.
My discipline is freestyle so basically, I mix football,
basketball, and dance together.
As a freestyler, I'm going to try my best to always do
showmanship and showcase some of the tricks during the game.
Let's go over to the second heat.
(3, 2, 1, GO!)
And they're off. Miles comes blazing out of the gate.
Lightning quick.
Right into a head-on collision with Ed.
(COLLISION)
Go.
Ow! Hey!
Kelsey goes down.
That was crazy.
Did you see that?
This thing is getting intense.
And now she's out of bounds.
Go!
Let's go, let's go. Come on.
That was so fun.
(TIMES IN SECONDS)
(PREVIOUSLY)
- Nice, nice. - It feels really exhausting.
It was physically demanding.
That was super fun, kind of getting to run at people.
Ridiculously difficult but also hysterical.
Can we get bonus points
for knocking a person down three times in a row?
Tall people, we just fall over easy.
I'm the king of the bounce ball.
Tor and Ed do it again, this time for the gold.
And silver goes to Julia and Séan,
and bronze goes to Miles and Kelsey.
Good job.
Tor and Séan are tied for the lead in the medals race
with one gold, one silver each,
but we have a lot of competitions to come.
(COMING UP)
This is Global Games, blob archery.
A send-up of recurve archery, the only archery discipline
still featured in the Olympics since its debut.
South Korea holds the title for most gold medals in archery.
Our competitors will be launched off a blob
toward a floating target.
The outer ring is worth three.
The inner ring is worth six points,
and the bull's-eye gets you a hot and sizzling 10 points.
We've got three rounds, and whichever team gets the highest
combined score wins the gold.
You guys ready for this?
Why you do crazy games?
- I'm scared of heights. - We're going to win this, bro.
We already got a medal. We're good.
- We got a medal already. - I'm confident.
Give us the medals now.
I'm going to keep you safe.
- Thank you. - I promise.
We're constantly reacting to changes and different elements,
and I think this is just a perfect example of us being
able to use our athletic backgrounds.
And we are under way with round one.
And our designated jumper awaits the call.
Séan is up first.
And here he goes.
Major air right here!
Séan starts it out with three points.
Whoa! But he lands outside of the target. No points.
Ed brings in three points.
I think I'm going to try to keep all my limbs together,
so I'm not, like, floating out and ripping something off.
My underwear totally came off! Did you see that?
Extend your hands and just go for it,
and you'll win one metre, two metres, something like that.
I got to ask to my coach.
Hello?
Boom! Emma with a bull's-eye.
Take a look at the replay.
I was confident, I knew it.
And Miles, flailing his long frame.
You know a thing like this. "Hey!"
What do you think? You walk on the air, my friend?
You want to say, "One, two, three," wait a second
- and then brace yourself? - Yeah.
Yeah, let's do this.
Julia, try and go more to the left.
Julia overshot the bull's-eye.
It's really hard to figure out where you are
in the middle of it.
And then the current makes the blob move. But super fun.
Stoked about my jumps.
And Tor ends round one with six points.
You look like a stud muffin, bro.
That was awesome!
And Emma, the Aussie arrow,
hit the bull's-eye for ten points.
And her team-mate, Séan, hits a three,
so now they're in the lead with 13.
Now, let's move on to the second round.
Ed, we need ten!
Ed, we need a ten.
My name is Edward Checo.
I'm from Washington Heights, New York City.
I do freestyle calisthenics.
You can find me on YouTube under Barstarzz.
I think having all the different athletes here is
kind of awesome. We get to see people from all over the world
that mastered different disciplines
and it's inspiring to be around.
Ed kicks off round two with a belly flop for three points.
The competition's got nothing to do with swimming,
so I don't have any advantages.
- That looked painful, yo. - Are you...? Is she OK?
Are you OK?
I got a bit mixed up and ended up landing
on my front on my belly.
It was still fun.
"Just about broke my face, but I'm good."
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, I broke my face. What?
We're not going to make it...
Oh, my God. That's the longest pause of my life.
Hold up, we might have an injury here, folks.
I think she hit her face on the border.
She's crying?
She's really crying.
- Yeah, she's hurt. - She's crying, poor love.
Oh, shit. That's terrible.
Something just happened to my jaw,
cos I tried to close my mouth and it hurt like heck.
And then the next thing I know, I'm crying like a total idiot
and then I'm being brought out on a stretcher
like a total dork and then in a ambulance,
thinking, "How did I get here?"
We hope she's OK.
I know, if that was me, I'd have been crying.
Her body was like...
She was kind of unused to the amount of height she got,
so she just hit her face in one of the noodles.
Hope she's OK.
Kelsey hit the barrier.
A fitness trainer by day,
so she's made of steel and totally OK.
Thankfully, her team-mate Tor got six points for the team.
Julia and Josh did the best on that round,
both hitting the inner ring.
But it wasn't enough to take the lead away
from Séan and Emma, who have 19 points.
While Kelsey takes some time to recoup on the balcony,
her team-mate Tor will take her place on the blob
so the challenge can continue.
And now we're moving on to the third round.
You didn't know what to expect.
You didn't know where you're going to be.
Every jump was crazy. That's it.
Bam!
Where did you go?
Ed belly flops his way to another three points.
Josh jumps into six points.
Séan sinks another three-pointer
and takes the lead.
Julia gets another six points for this round.
With one jump left to go, Tor can grab gold
with six points and take the overall medal lead
for these Global Games.
Oh, ten points for Tor!
And with that last jump, we have a winner.
Tor, scoring a late-game bull's-eye,
gave him and Kelsey the gold.
Julia and Josh get the silver,
and team Emma/Séan will have to settle for bronze.
By adding another gold to his total,
Olympian Tor pulls ahead in the overall medal count
to the number-one spot,
allowing him to edge out influencer Séan.
(COMING UP)
(GLOBAL GAMES)
This is Global Games, paddle rowing gauntlet.
I am absolutely head over heels in love with this place.
And I'm in love with this next competition,
paddle row gauntlet.
Our competitors will face an extreme gauntlet comprised
of all of their opponents.
Each team has to paddle the course as fast as they can,
all while being pelted and hit with noodles.
The team with the lowest total time wins.
First up, Emma and Kelsey.
I have a feeling Emma and I will do just fine today.
There have been some other things
going on where we had some really awesome epic fails.
So we should hopefully get by without injury.
(3, 2, 1, GO!)
Emma and Kelsey now going through the gauntlet.
Ow!
Oh, careful. Getting defensive.
Ooh, they're head hunting out there.
I'm really excited for Emma to be my partner for paddle rowing
because I know she's going to be a beast at that.
Me and Kelsey will actually be pretty good at that.
I've got good balance cos I've
done stand-up paddleboarding before,
and Kelsey would have good balance,
being a fitness instructor.
Coming, Emma! I'm coming!
Oh, and she stays on.
No mercy from the opponents.
I think I was pretty fast. Yeah.
I think that was too easy.
The basketballs hit pretty hard, but we're
pretty good stand-up paddle boarders, I guess.
I think I was struggling, but it was awesome.
Here comes Miles and Josh.
(3, 2, 1, GO!)
Ooh. Oh, the opponents are just giving it to them.
Go long! Go long!
I think Josh couldn't have been a better partner.
He probably has the best balance of anyone here.
I feel we have an advantage because we do parkour
and fencing. Fencing is heavily reliant on balance and the way
he manoeuvres.
And hopefully we can work together and definitely win.
Oh! Right through the five hole.
Let's see that again.
Oh!
That was awesome!
- Did you fall off at all? - Never, brother. Never.
Tor smashed me in the back.
Séan almost took my head off.
Dude, that was...
I'm proud of our team. Proud. Double hand.
Now, that was a good run.
No-one fell, and they got a time of
1 minute and 56 seconds.
How lucky was Miles when that ball went through his legs?
Now let's see what Tor and Séan can do.
Tor is the current overall medal leader right now,
so he'll need a good time here if he
wants to secure that lead.
(GO!)
Séan's going to be a good partner for the paddle rowing.
Paddle rowing is going to be a really interesting game.
He's going to be super good at hitting people.
He's going to be on my team, which means that they're not
going to hit us as much.
You've got nothing against me, my friend.
What a star!
Look at this!
Whoa!
What are you going to do about that?
That was intense. I was freestyling with all the balls.
They were missing, left, right. No-one could hit me.
I was too fast. The white leg, my friend!
You cannot find those white leg in the world.
Only this.
And just like that, we've got a new leader.
Tor and Séan with a time of 1:06, the best so far.
And now for the final run for the gold, Ed and Julia.
Julia is an Olympic freestyle skier.
Will her skills translate to help her secure the W?
Let's go a little deeper and find out more about her.
I'm Julia Marino.
I'm from Paraguay and I compete in slopestyle and ski cross.
At the World Cup level, I have podiumed once in Spain.
I think it's going to be fun, but I
think we all have the inner competitive spirit.
(3, 2, 1, GO!)
Here comes Ed and Julia.
Whoa! Julia's flying.
I think Ed and I have a really solid shot today
to do well at the paddleboard contest.
We both come from backgrounds that
require an incredible amount of core strength.
Whatever new sport she sees, I know
she does a great job learning it and applying her skills
and athletics to it.
No mercy from the opponents.
Ooh!
That fall gets them a 30-second penalty
and could possibly jeopardise the gold.
Ed, you're a lucky man.
You've got an Olympian supporting you.
Good job. Thanks. See my amazing fall?
It's so hard to balance on that thing.
I just felt my board go like that.
And all the different elements coming in
makes it hard to want to go fast because you're
trying to constantly block all the different things
coming your way. I'm actually surprised I was on it
for as long as I did. I was doing pretty good.
Ed took a fall, but they were able to do it anyways
in a time of 30 seconds.
They get a 30-second penalty, making
a total of one minute, which gets them the gold.
Silver goes to Tor and Séan, while Emma and Kelsey take home
the bronze.
That means Olympian Tor is in the lead for the medal count
with two gold and two silver.
And with this win, it puts influencer Ed now
at the number-two position.
Will Tor be able to maintain his lead
going into the next challenge?
(GLOBAL GAMES)