1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: Fits in obviously. With the Olympics wrapping up this week, 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: I have got into this so much lockdown screaming with 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,560 Speaker 1: the kids at the television and I just love hearing 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: great stories from the Olympics. Now, when I heard this one, 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: I thought, we have to get this lady. On nineteen 6 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: eighty four Los Angeles Olympics, there was a woman who 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,279 Speaker 1: was dubbed the Pistol pack and Mama representing Australia, fifty 8 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: two years of aged in the pistol shooting the beautiful 9 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 1: Paddy Bench. 10 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 2: Beautiful. 11 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 3: Yeah, you are pay and it's an honor to have 12 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:34,520 Speaker 3: you on the show. Patty. 13 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 2: My pleasure to be with you and share my experiences 14 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 2: with you. That's fine, So. 15 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: You're the best. Can you tell us how you got 16 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: into pistol shooting, Patty? 17 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 2: Well, I was married for twenty five years and then 18 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 2: we decided to separate and I was working. I had 19 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 2: four kids, two says the twins, as you know, oh wow, 20 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 2: and I met a guy that was a shooter. 21 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 3: Yeah. 22 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 2: I used to just go out to the range and 23 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 2: sit outside and read a book. And then after a 24 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 2: while they said to me, come on, Patty, come and 25 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,039 Speaker 2: have a shot. I said, nah, I said, I'm hopeless. 26 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 2: I said, I can't look down the sights of my 27 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 2: children's rifles. I said, I'm hopeless. I we'll fix that. 28 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 2: They said. They just put patches on my left eye, 29 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 2: a gun in my hand. Now shoot with your eyes 30 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 2: wide open, and I'm underneath the black and this is 31 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 2: what you do. So I got them all on the target. Wow, jeez, 32 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 2: that was twenty five twenty five meters. That's the lady's 33 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 2: sport pistol. And I said, oh dear, this is good. 34 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 2: So I went and bought myself a gun. And I, 35 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 2: because you have to shoot for a grade like anything, 36 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 2: you have a handicap and the ABCD and I started. 37 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 4: In b Wow. 38 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: So now you're getting the hang of it right and 39 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: you're doing really, really well. Let's fast forward. Did you 40 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: have any aspirations to wrap in Australia? And then when 41 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: was the talk to go to Los Angeles? 42 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 2: Within six months, I was a master grade shooter. And 43 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 2: then after a while John said to me, he said, 44 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 2: you know they're going to have the ladies match in 45 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 2: the Olympics in nineteen eighty four. In nineteen eighty I 46 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 2: bought myself a new Hamley so onyway. I went down 47 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 2: with ray oh beautiful gun two ninety nine at three. 48 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 4: Hundred out of four hard Patty, you knew you were 49 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 4: on Paddy first time I shot the gun and then 50 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 4: because in the Olympics I shot forty nine, forty nine, 51 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 4: fifty fifty fifty. 52 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: Oh she whiz, Patty. If you this was a thing, 53 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: I mean you, you could have won that gold without 54 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: a doubt. If you got your personal best that day, 55 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: you would have brought home gold for Australia. 56 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 2: Well, if they told me the right time, I would 57 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:52,639 Speaker 2: have won it. 58 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 3: Oh what do you mean the right time? 59 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 2: Well got there about half past nine, sat in the 60 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,799 Speaker 2: Australian tent, my boots on, sort of the side to 61 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 2: my gun, and what came in the side door at 62 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 2: half past ten, a half an hour before. This was 63 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 2: all planned in my mind. And when I walked in 64 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 2: the side, everybody's there. Everybody's there, and they said shoot 65 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 2: us to the line. Ten minutes preparation time. Ah no, yeah, 66 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 2: and I'll tell you what. 67 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:25,359 Speaker 4: It's three. 68 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 3: It's all rush. Shoot me. 69 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 2: I'd lost eleven points. I could scream in the first 70 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 2: fifteen shots. 71 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: Ah, it rattled your paddy, which. 72 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 2: It would so I said to myself, you're stupid. Yep, 73 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 2: you can shoot better than this. Yes, I lost four 74 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 2: in the next fifteen. 75 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: The world you were back on, Patty. 76 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 3: Can I ask a question, when was the last time 77 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 3: you had the pistol in your hand out at the range? 78 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 2: Oh? I got eighty eighteen ninety eight, I sold. I 79 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 2: sold my pistol to the local butcher. 80 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 3: Do you think do you think you've still got it? Though? 81 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 2: Paddy a steady hand. Look, honestly, I had no life. 82 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 2: I shot. That was all I was doing was shooting, 83 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 2: going to work, and I never went to the movies. 84 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 2: I mean I shot for what's ten years for Australia, 85 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 2: travel the world. 86 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 1: Good girl. 87 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 2: I was the lady who shot air pistol and twenty 88 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:23,599 Speaker 2: five meter I'm second in the world in air pistol too. 89 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 3: Yes, Patty, I mean if we organized a gun and arrange, 90 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 3: we'd love you to go back down and see if 91 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 3: Patty still got it. 92 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 2: I thought my son, my son took me over to 93 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:40,480 Speaker 2: his range. Come and have a shot, mum. But I know, look, 94 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 2: I'm eighty nine now for worry about it? 95 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 4: Should go? 96 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, when we're out of lockdown, Patty, we might go 97 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 1: up against the pistol pack and mama and see how 98 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: you go. Hey, Patty, I wanted to ask as well, 99 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,799 Speaker 1: when you win the bronze, which is an amazing effort 100 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 1: at your first Olympics, what. 101 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 3: I want to know? 102 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: What's back then? At the Los Angeles it was party central. 103 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 1: After you finish your you're event, you go and party 104 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: with the athletes. What did you do? 105 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 2: Nothing? I just went out to the range every day, 106 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,159 Speaker 2: wandered around, walked around with my medal around my neck. 107 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 2: Everybody asked me for you know, sign this, sign this, 108 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 2: won't your autograph? Want your autograph? I actually actually got it. 109 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:22,679 Speaker 2: They gave me a ticket to go down and see 110 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 2: the racing at the Velodrome and that's all I did, 111 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 2: and then they Then I came home, I went opening ceremony, 112 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:32,919 Speaker 2: and it went to the ceremony. 113 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: I know that there's a beautiful image of you up 114 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 1: on the wall at home with your pistol in your hand. 115 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 1: Where do you keep the medal? 116 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:39,599 Speaker 3: Now? 117 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 2: Oh, I've got it. I've got trophy cabinet with all 118 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 2: my medals in there. I've got medals from all around 119 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 2: the world. 120 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: Great, Patty, I love this story. You are a national 121 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: treasure and we appreciate your opening up and sharing your 122 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: experience at the Olympics with us. 123 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 2: Well, did you know they put me in the Hall 124 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 2: of Fame? 125 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 4: Oh you're in. 126 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:58,799 Speaker 1: That was only just recently, wasn't it, Paddy? 127 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they took them what thirty seven years? 128 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 3: Come on me, hopeless. I would have gone to them 129 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 3: a little bit earlier with my pistol. 130 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: Did you get emotional over that one, Patty? 131 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 2: I was like a big kid. I couldn't go to 132 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:11,160 Speaker 2: sleep that night. 133 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:12,359 Speaker 3: That's awesome. 134 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 2: I was so excited, and because the thing was that 135 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 2: I had won the first medal in pistol shooting in Australia. 136 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 3: Yes, Patty, some phenomenal records and an unbelievable story. 137 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: Thanks for sharing your story with us 138 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 2: Love, Bitsy and Whipper.