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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, here you.

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Speaker 3: Going, good buddy watching the pole vault. It's bloody brave

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: There's three dangers that I see. One is you can

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Speaker 2: Heard that has been known to happen. Yes, did that

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Speaker 2: happen that your year that you won it? Steve?

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Speaker 1: Did that happen to one of the competitors. You've seen

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Speaker 4: I haven't seen a guy that was jumping around the

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Speaker 2: He says Steve, was he all right after that.

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Speaker 4: It's really it's a horrible story, like he had actually

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Speaker 2: It was brutal.

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Speaker 1: Actually in Beijing the year that you won it, just

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Speaker 1: before you actually did the gold medal jump, Steve, you

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Speaker 1: Nelly stuffed up. There was one jump that you went

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was my last attempt at five meters eighty

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Speaker 4: silver medal position. And I don't know, It's the Olympics,

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Speaker 4: you know, there's there's no second chances at it. So

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Speaker 2: Was it was ugly, but it got the job done?

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Speaker 2: Can I can? I? All right?

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Speaker 1: So I've got the raw. So this is the stadium noise, right,

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Speaker 1: Steve already had two attempts at five meters ninety six

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Speaker 1: That was the Olympic record, Is that correct, Steve?

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Speaker 2: And you miss He missed them.

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Speaker 1: So this is his final attempt, no commentary, This was

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Speaker 1: the This was the noise in the grand stand in Beijing, okay,

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Speaker 1: Ohow that gives me me too.

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Speaker 2: Just listening to that. It must do you remember that moment, Steve?

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Speaker 4: Honestly, it's all a bit of a blur now looking back,

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Speaker 4: but I do. The biggest noise I remember was not

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Speaker 4: I didn't. I just had no idea that was no

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Speaker 2: So literally eighty six.

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Speaker 4: And then I started running and it gets louder and

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Speaker 2: Everything in my world was just vibrating.

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Speaker 4: Eighty six thousand people screaming at me and autopilot. Luckily,

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Speaker 4: like you, I jumped the bar and it was a

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Speaker 3: Steve, who do you keep the goal? Mate?

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Speaker 1: Where is it?

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Speaker 3: He got a handy nearby under the car at.

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Speaker 4: It's just it's in a cupboard back here somewhere at

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Speaker 1: So it's been your highlight of this Olympic Steve, For

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think I think there's never been an

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Speaker 1: All right, Steve, this is what the situation I'm going

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Speaker 1: to put you under. You're going to wrap for us neck.

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Speaker 1: So what it's like is that you are going for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is what it's like, rapping.

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Speaker 3: But eighty six now, So sorry, five hundred thousand clapping

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Speaker 1: So I'm getting nervous just thinking about it because I'm

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Speaker 4: But you asked you, Yes, it's the break, So wrap

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Speaker 5: Stevene said, do you want me to go first or

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Speaker 5: do you want to go first?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll see what you put up and then I'll.

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Speaker 3: I love it when you rap battle on Friday. You

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Speaker 3: don't know how much Dad, We're away. That's the letter

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Speaker 3: on bussy.

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Speaker 1: Here we go. Now, I've got a credit you guys

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Speaker 1: in this one, because okay, Steve Hooker is such a

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Speaker 2: I know, I couldn't find too much. I had to.

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Speaker 1: I had to. And there's a lot of rhyming with polka.

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Speaker 2: Goal.

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Speaker 4: Got to be careful with the polevolvernacula.

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Speaker 2: There's plenty to.

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Speaker 1: Work with the.

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Speaker 3: All right, what is okay? You've got this, buddy, Don't

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Speaker 1: All right, there we go, Stevie Hooker, jump into the fold.

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Speaker 1: When it comes to rap, you ain't winning gold. You

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Speaker 1: touching you with a ten foot pole. And with that

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Speaker 2: Amajing. I love that word.

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Speaker 1: What rhymes with whole MDG is a massive troll.

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Speaker 2: There are we going to have to go with male

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Speaker 2: whipper soul?

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Speaker 5: You had the flash of ginger hair, that red hot

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Speaker 5: an emergency flat ta tub and dusted. You want to rap, well,

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Speaker 5: I'm disgusted. Keep competing, Steve in the scene is you'll

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Speaker 3: Strong, really strong, Steve?

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Speaker 2: Do they do a scene? Is? Is it like a

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Speaker 2: master stole? There is?

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Speaker 3: Would you do it?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 2: I'm done. I've had enough. How is your body now?

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Speaker 1: Are you struggling or are you doing okay?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 4: little bit of food this year.

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Speaker 2: Actually right, I've.

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Speaker 4: Played some country footy this year, so I.

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Speaker 2: Was a bit less generoud. You don't hate you guys.

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Speaker 2: Here we go. You need a lot of guts for

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Speaker 2: you forget. If you need an Olympic flame, just hold

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Speaker 2: me by my neck.

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Speaker 7: Sydney two thousand fifty thought his game was strong two thousand.

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Speaker 7: That's the goals he missed playing for the Swans. He

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Speaker 7: danced with Kylie at the opening ceremony.

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Speaker 4: But didn't that go wrong, especially when Kyli caught you

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Speaker 4: playing with the wrong thigh.

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Speaker 8: Fitzy, you think you're a sportsman, spare me, please the yom.

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Speaker 8: The metals you've got is the metal in your knees.

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Speaker 8: it's what you say.

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Speaker 6: You can still sprint to leave the office at nine

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Speaker 6: reader Matt. He's been out of a relationship in ten

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Speaker 6: seconds flat. It's not you with me, he's when he's off.

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Speaker 4: And said oh one time on their promber horse and

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Speaker 2: I I won't believe it. I was a fire cracker.

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Speaker 4: It's because I used that pole that stuck up with

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Speaker 2: I bought for the Olympics.

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Speaker 7: I can't believe you letters then he popped back into

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Speaker 7: series boat around bears so many moments watching winning attack.

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Speaker 7: I haven't read that much since you guys asked me

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Speaker 7: to wrap No gold, no silver, no bronx. You missed

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Speaker 4: Chance in the Bob's laid Oh you're not John candy.

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Speaker 3: Man I spent most of it with a pole in

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Speaker 3: my bummed and not Stevie your dog.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah, that all fun.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you didn't stop and you had a cool

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Speaker 3: Runnings reference.

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Speaker 1: Definitely Stevie SAME's It was close.

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Speaker 2: Guys, that was funny.

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Speaker 3: You're a superstar, Maiden. Thank you for coming on the show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 4: Guys.

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Speaker 2: That was awesome. Good on your stage.

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Speaker 6: It fits and Whipper