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Speaker 1: Well, Maggie, we are on the cusp with the open ceremony.

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Speaker 4: The place is buzzing.

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Speaker 3: These Americans come in, They're looking at the menu. They go, no, no, no,

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Speaker 4: I love that.

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Speaker 1: They love it. They love it. I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: Just come back from Marseille. Went down there for them

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Speaker 1: the Matilda's versus Germany. First, I got to say, Marseilles

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Speaker 3: All the swimmers generally come down from that region Marseille.

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Speaker 3: So Flora Menadu, who's kind of the face of the Games.

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Speaker 1: I would say, no, no it didn't. What wasn't much

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Speaker 1: No, it wasn't was it was interesting, missile. The day

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Speaker 4: They're feeling that now tomorrow is the big day.

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Speaker 3: I'm saying Tipmos is our greatest swimmer of all time,

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Speaker 5: Absolutely incredible, just amazing. It's one of the nicest things

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Speaker 1: It's a great team. So, like I hear around Tipnus

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Speaker 1: I love you very nice to have an enormous time.

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Speaker 1: Oh mate, Dawn Fraser, just what a champion? What it

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Speaker 1: like mean? Tough? The Riverview Hotel in Balmain, that's a

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of who else may be involved.

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Speaker 3: This is what I got thinking the other day, Mattie.

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Speaker 4: The cardboard ones, one of the cardboard ones, one of

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Speaker 3: So I got to thinking about that and I thought, look,

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Speaker 3: swim team, in particular hired guns. You come in late,

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Speaker 3: no opening ceremony, straight into the swimming. You know we're

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Speaker 3: expecting seven, eight, nine gold medals in this from this

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Speaker 3: swim team. You finish competing off, you go, no closing ceremony,

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Speaker 3: no Olympic life. You can't make the most of that

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Speaker 3: food hall and eat all the things you wish you

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Speaker 3: could have, all those things that are the Olympic experience gone.

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Speaker 3: And I feel sorry for those athletes, and I'll always

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Speaker 3: stand up for those athletes and advocate for those athletes,

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Speaker 3: as much as the organization may not like that.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, got it? Now, Missile to finish with a

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Speaker 1: bit of fun. Now, we one of the things we're

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Speaker 1: going to do here, we're looking to either confirm or

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Speaker 1: dispel French stereotypes. One of the things one of the

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Speaker 1: biggest French stereotypes is they hate the British. Yes, so

451
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Speaker 1: we went to a We went to a bar, myself

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Speaker 1: and Missile and I pretended to be a pomp and you, well,

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Speaker 1: just yourself, you're an Australian and we sat at separate

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Speaker 1: tables and we see how we're truated.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: I was like, hey, a mate, I can I have

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Speaker 1: a paint? And I was totally ignored. It took basically

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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes for me to get a beer. Meanwhile, you

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Speaker 1: had three drinks in that time, So.

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Speaker 3: We can confirm confirmed that stereot confirm.

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Speaker 1: Right, I'd finished week we're going to do five to

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Speaker 1: one also as well. We got people's opinions on it today,

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Speaker 1: five to one favorite Olympians of all time?

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Speaker 3: You lead off, all right, I'm going to go with

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Speaker 3: my number five, Michael Klim sitting on the lane rope,

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Speaker 3: biceps out that come on the air guitar.

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Speaker 4: He was on my childhood heroes.

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Speaker 1: How's he traveling at the moment?

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Speaker 4: Been, he's doing a little bit better now.

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Speaker 3: So he's basically got a degenerative disease that's slowly eating

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Speaker 3: away at his muscles and some of his bodily functions.

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Speaker 3: So he's walking with the cane shout out to claiming

473
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Speaker 3: if he's watching or listening to this, the whole swimming

474
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Speaker 3: community has really got behind him. But it's a little

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Speaker 3: bit rattling to see as another athlete, and he was

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Speaker 3: one of my heroes.

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Speaker 4: What can happen to you? And how human you are?

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Speaker 1: Okay, I've gone well obvious one. Dawn Fraser is one

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Speaker 1: of mine.

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Speaker 3: All right, I'm going to go number four. Susie O'Neill,

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Speaker 3: Madame Butterfly again. Grew up watching her Sydney Olympics. She

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Speaker 3: was box office love. The nickname Madame butterfly, multiple goals

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Speaker 3: at Olympic Games, and a great person outside the pool.

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Speaker 1: I've gone Michael Johnson, champion two hundred and forty and

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Speaker 1: four hundred meter runner, just incredible. You know, had the

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Speaker 1: swagger as well a real arrogance, but you can afford

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Speaker 1: to when you're that good.

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Speaker 3: Love it, love it all right. I'm going to go

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Speaker 3: a controversial one for my number three. I was originally

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Speaker 3: thinking Grant Hackett. Big fan of Grant and he's a

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Speaker 3: good friend as well. But I'm going to throw into

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Speaker 3: modern day one already Arian Tipmas.

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Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, for all the reasons forbody discussed.

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Speaker 4: And I expect her to climb on that list after Paris.

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Speaker 1: I've gone Edwin Moses the four hundred meters heard like,

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Speaker 1: can you think of a tougher sport like four hundred

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Speaker 1: meters run? But the four hundred meters hurdles. I heard

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Speaker 1: a story once might have been might have been the

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Speaker 1: sole Olympics. They said they walked into the food hall

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Speaker 1: and when he walked in, he just walked and everyone

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Speaker 1: watched him, just smooth walking across. And he went and

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Speaker 1: he got his soup and he sat down. He won't do.

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Speaker 4: He is.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 4: Number two.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to Ian Thorpe speaks for itself. Sydney Olympics.

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Speaker 3: My first Olympic memory Ian Thorpe in that two hundred

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Speaker 3: three style, probably his best Athens race of the century.

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Speaker 3: Thorpe Packett vn and hooger Man Phelps.

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Speaker 1: Thorpe prevails Kathy Freeman, and I think when I think

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Speaker 1: Kathy Freeman, it's pressure lighting the cauldron and then a

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Speaker 1: couple of days later having to having to win. The

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Speaker 1: pressure would have been mind blowing, but she delivered.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've gone number one Kathy Freeman. I think I've

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Speaker 3: sampled a percentage of that pressure. But remembering her before

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Speaker 3: that race, I remember the butterflies in my stomach watching her.

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Speaker 3: I think of the twenty million Australians at the time,

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Speaker 3: you would have probably got nineteen point nine million watching

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Speaker 3: Kathy in that race. I remember the full body suit

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Speaker 3: which actually added more pressure. Again, she lit the flames.

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Speaker 3: She'd done the whole thing far out. I could not

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Speaker 3: believe at the time that she was able to digest

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Speaker 3: that pressure and still get the gold.

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Speaker 1: My number one, John Sebany had blasphemy. I remember in

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Speaker 1: eighty four as a young kid watching John Sebin and

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Speaker 1: of course it was the two hundred Butterfly, and he

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Speaker 1: swum in the wake of Michael Gross, the Great West

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Speaker 1: German swimmer. And for me, like straight away, like my

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Speaker 1: favorite at school carnivals was a butterfly mate after this

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Speaker 1: day and I actually I broke the forty second second

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Speaker 1: the first person process.

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Speaker 4: Up there we go.

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Speaker 1: But I heard a great story once about John Stephen

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Speaker 1: Laurie Lawrence said was training him. He said he was

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Speaker 1: a real scally wag, like a good time. He gave

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Speaker 1: him a day off for his birthday. He went out

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Speaker 1: and had an all nighter. The next day, Laurie got

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Speaker 1: him to the pool, swung his backside off, and then

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Speaker 1: made him run fifteen k's home.

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Speaker 3: Wow, you don't get that work ethic anymore

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Speaker 1: Right, missile, Let's go and enjoy ourselves opening Serenady coming up,