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Jason Kelce recently defeated Olympian Nicole Heavirland in an arm wrestling match, but Travis Kelce isn’t so sure his brother won fair and square.
In the course of the Wednesday, August 28, episode of their “Recent Heights” podcast, the siblings discussed how they spent their time away from the show following the top of its second season in July. While Travis, 34, spent much of the summer at training camp with the Kansas City Chiefs, his older brother got a front-row seat to a few of the biggest events on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
“First Olympics I used to be in a position to go to,” Jason, 36, said. “Obviously once you’re in training camp, you miss the Summer Olympics, and once you’re playing within the football season, you miss the Winter Olympics.”
Though the duo kept up with the Olympics their “entire lives,” Jason said seeing the motion up close was much more “electric.” He traveled to Paris together with his wife, Kylie Kelce, returning to the identical city they honeymooned in after their 2018 wedding.
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The couple “had an absolute blast” cheering for Team USA in field hockey, men’s volleyball, women’s gymnastics and more, but Jason was especially enthusiastic about seeing the ladies’s rugby team make history. This summer marked the primary time the U.S. earned an Olympic medal in rugby sevens, taking home the bronze.
Jason met a handful of the U.S. rugby stars — including Ilona Maher, who recruited him to be the team’s No. 1 celebrity fan — and he even got in on a few of the motion himself when Heavirland challenged him to an arm wrestle. In a social media video that has since gone viral, the 29-year-old ultimately lost to Jason, who was wearing a beret and American flag shorts.
“In case you ain’t cheating you ain’t trying 😂 … thanks for letting him win @nicole406heavirland,” the official “Recent Heights” Instagram account captioned the clip last month.
Within the footage, Jason gripped the table together with his free hand before knocking over Heavirland’s arm. While discussing the challenge on the podcast, Travis and Jason disagreed on whether any rules were broken.
“Everyone knows your off hand must be free,” Travis claimed, to which Jason replied, “That’s not true. Watch any arm wrestling sanctioned event.”
Jason argued, “Any legitimate arm wrestling event, your off hand is grabbing something,” insisting that Travis was “making this up.”
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While the official rules of arm wrestling could be debatable, Travis emphasized that leaving your free hand off the table was an indication of “respect” toward the opposite competitor. “You simply don’t grab anything … ’cause now you’re torquing, you’re using core and also you’re using more muscles,” he said. “Everyone knows this.”
Despite his victory, Jason confessed that he’s not the most important fan of arm wrestling generally. “It’s a lose-lose,” he said. “Especially once you’re challenged by someone smaller who’s than you. Because in case you win, it’s like, ‘Oh, cool. The large guy just won an arm wrestling event.’ In case you lose, it’s like, ‘You simply got your ass kicked by someone much smaller who mustn’t be beating you in arm wrestling.’”
Ultimately, nonetheless, it was a proposal he couldn’t refuse. “I get challenged by an Olympian, what do I do?” Jason explained. “I can’t say no. … And now I even have legitimate arm wrestlers difficult me.”
Going head-to-head with a Team USA athlete made Jason’s entire Olympic experience much more memorable. “We love sports, we love competition, we love world events,” he previously told the Associated Press in regards to the likelihood to go to Paris. “That is such a novel place where the whole world gets to come back together and bond over competition and sports.”
