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Speaker 1: Jason Lawren on one hundred.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Quin's here in the newsroom. Quint, you head to

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Speaker 2: Paris later today for the Olympics and you might be

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Speaker 2: on the plane with our next guest.

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Speaker 3: The road to becoming an Olympian is tough and one

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Speaker 3: our next guest knows a lot about. He's a Melbourne

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Speaker 3: boy who was previously in the Hawthorn Footy Club Youth Academy.

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Speaker 3: He ranked first in the world in twenty twenty for

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Speaker 3: the under eighteen hundred and ten meters hurdles. He won

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Speaker 3: gold at the twenty twenty four Oceania Athletics Championships in Fiji.

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Speaker 3: He is the third all time fastest Australian hurdler and

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Speaker 3: he'll be representing Australia at the Paris Olympics. Please welcome

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Speaker 3: to the show, TAYLORB. Willis, Hey talent.

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Speaker 1: Morning morning.

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Speaker 4: It's quite a resume.

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Speaker 5: Yeah huh, yeah, it's skyrocketed in the last year.

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Speaker 4: What are you?

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Speaker 5: I'm twenty one.

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Speaker 1: I hate our achieving young people.

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Speaker 2: I hate young successful people.

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Speaker 3: Quenton.

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Speaker 1: So what were we all doing at twenty one?

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Speaker 2: We were smoking down seven eleven?

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Speaker 6: I still, hey, Taylor, I mean at twenty one, you're

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Speaker 6: still such a young man. How old were you when

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Speaker 6: you decided this was your dream to go to the

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Speaker 6: Olympics and to be an Olympic hurdler.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, ever since I was a little kid. Honestly, probably

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Speaker 5: ten years old.

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Speaker 4: What are you packing in your suitcase? We asked Harry

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Speaker 4: Garside this same question, and he had some rogue things

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Speaker 4: he's taking with him, just things that make him feel

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Speaker 4: like he's at home.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. I've got a good luck toy I've had for

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Speaker 5: probably five years. It's like this little mini mouse. She's

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Speaker 5: a bit dirty. She's been everywhere. She's been Fiji, Canada,

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Speaker 5: every state in Australia, she's been everywhere, everywhere. Trouble I

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Speaker 5: put her up and then she just gives blessings in

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Speaker 5: the room. It's a bit weird to me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, your lucky charm.

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Speaker 5: Yes, it is my lucky charm. I'll tell you.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what It'll be weird. You got to

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Speaker 2: share rooms over there. When the flatmate walks in and

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Speaker 2: sees the bloody mickey mouse sitting on the legend might

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Speaker 2: be a bit gay.

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Speaker 1: Do you know who your roommate is yet?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 5: I do not, which I'm excited for that because this

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Speaker 5: is my first big international comp so whoever it is,

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Speaker 5: I'll probably get along with them. So hopefully it's like

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Speaker 5: someone like Peter Ball Slide something like that.

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Speaker 4: And what's competition's finished? Hopefully you know you're gonna have

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Speaker 4: a medal around the neck? Are you allowed to stay on?

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Speaker 4: You haw to indulge in some Paris activities, go out

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Speaker 4: to the clubs.

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Speaker 5: I definitely wanted to do that because all seasons been

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Speaker 5: just bed at ten thirty, locked in.

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Speaker 4: Everything that same same.

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Speaker 1: I would Paris before.

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Speaker 5: No, it is my first time going to Europe, so

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Speaker 5: I'm excited. That's so cool.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm not sure if the rule is still in play,

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Speaker 2: but I remember many years ago chatting with Stephanie Rice

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Speaker 2: when she brought back all the medals in the swimming,

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Speaker 2: and the rule was if you won gold or silver,

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Speaker 2: I think it was, you've got to guarantee business class.

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Speaker 4: Playing the way back?

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Speaker 6: Really?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you get a middle when you're down the back.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you get a medal, get upgraded. Have you heard

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Speaker 5: about this? I haven't heard about this. Maybe they think

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Speaker 5: I'm not in contention, but no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 6: No no, you'd only find out afterwards. But that's motivation,

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Speaker 6: isn't it just a little bit fast?

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Speaker 2: I would love to see you on the podium with

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Speaker 2: gold around your neck. And the one thing you chant is.

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Speaker 1: Also, can you not guarantee that, Jason, you might have

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Speaker 1: made that up?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, that's very excited.

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Speaker 2: Was many years ago?

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Speaker 4: Well, Taylor bowlby in Paris? So how about where you

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Speaker 4: hit the town once you finish competitions. Don't roll your eyes.

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Speaker 6: Jase, only if you have a turn at the hurdles.

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Speaker 6: First you have to put on those little running shorts.

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Speaker 2: I have seen him jump many of those velvet ropes

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Speaker 2: to get into a nightclub. Hey Taylor, good on you mate.

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Speaker 2: This is a dream come true for you at twenty one,

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Speaker 2: young Melbourne kid, you know, going to the Olympics. It's

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Speaker 2: such an awesome story.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate that, Taylor.

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Speaker 6: Is anyone going with you? Did you take your mom

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Speaker 6: or anyone in your family? Or are you just over

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Speaker 6: there on your own?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? So I've got my coach, Kyle Vandericutt, he's Australian

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Speaker 5: record holder. I've got John Stevenson, who's my mentor.

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Speaker 1: He'll be in the clubs after the r definitely.

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Speaker 5: And then yeah, my physio as well. Sam Leslie's I

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Speaker 5: got my whole team there, and then I'm bringing my

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Speaker 5: partner because she's been a massive support this whole season.

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Speaker 5: And then she's really close to my sister so she

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Speaker 5: would come as well.

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Speaker 1: Where's going to watch from?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: So because my mum's a single parent, she has to

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Speaker 5: take my little brother and he actually has autism, so

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Speaker 5: she has to kind of support him. So we really

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Speaker 5: wanted her there, but we're trying to think what's the

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Speaker 5: actual smarter option because it's obviously going to be packed

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Speaker 5: there and busy him be a lot for him, So

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Speaker 5: she may be just supporting from home, which is okay.

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Speaker 5: She's in spirit everything, but I'll still have family members

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Speaker 5: and my partner.

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Speaker 2: I have no doubt you will hear your mum, all,

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Speaker 2: I definitely will.

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Speaker 6: Can you imagine being a parent? What your twenty one

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Speaker 6: year old child at the Olympics. Oh amazing. She must

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Speaker 6: be so proud of.

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Speaker 2: You, mate, I'm proud when the kids put their own

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Speaker 2: seat belt on in the car. Imagine seeing the games.

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Speaker 2: What was the moment like when you told you mum,

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Speaker 2: I'm in Ah.

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Speaker 5: She cried and it was crazy because she's she's heard

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Speaker 5: me since I was a little kid saying I want

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Speaker 5: to be here. I want to be Olympics. I want

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Speaker 5: to be there, and she's had to sacrifice so much

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Speaker 5: to get me here. Like I remember training, things like that,

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Speaker 5: I'd be thirty minutes late to get to the car.

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Speaker 5: Everyone's going, I'm like, trust the process. There's a reason

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Speaker 5: why I'm always late. I'm recovering things like that. And yeah,

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Speaker 5: she's dedicated like her whole life to benefiting all of

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Speaker 5: our kids. So with me making it here, it's like

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Speaker 5: a little bit of a like a thank you, you know.

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Speaker 1: She sounds like an amazing man.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and a great kid. Mate. We wish you the

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Speaker 2: best over there.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate that's I'm excited.

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Speaker 6: Cheering you all the way.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, i appreciate it.

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Speaker 6: And when you've got John Stephenson and klinstant Away in

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Speaker 6: your corner, I'll possibly grow. Oh yeah, right to get

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Speaker 6: step On as well. Let's get him on.

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Speaker 2: Arms listening right now, go, My boy's going to come back.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for coming in, mate, I appreciate that.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 6: It's gonna be a good Jason Lauren, Jason Lauren wake

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Speaker 6: up feeling good on Nomber one hundred, Jason Lauren on socials,