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Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Her with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: This lady has been dominating Paul Side every morning. Watch

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Speaker 2: her every minute of the Paris twenty twenty four Olympics

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Speaker 2: on nine and nine out it's the magnificent jan Really, hello.

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Speaker 1: Tame, how are we do?

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Speaker 3: We're good and how wonderful to speak to you? Can

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Speaker 3: I ask a very very boring question to start with,

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Speaker 3: I'll go for it. No, it's more of a standard question.

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Speaker 3: Can you please describe to us, because I'd give anything

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Speaker 3: to be there what it's like the atmosphere pool side

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Speaker 3: when a race is on.

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Speaker 1: It is absolutely bonkers with us the only way to

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Speaker 1: describe it. It is the first one we've had a

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Speaker 1: swimming meat of this size with seventeen thousand people in

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Speaker 1: the stand and it start contrast because remember, of course Tokyo,

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Speaker 1: no one was there with an empty stadium and so

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Speaker 1: for even as us as commentators, this is the first

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Speaker 1: time we've been back around Poolbeck for a long long time.

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Speaker 1: And of course because the French ap are swimming so well,

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Speaker 1: the crowds are packed every night and it nearly lifts

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Speaker 1: the roof off the stadium. A French athlete walks out

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Speaker 1: any is incredible.

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Speaker 4: It must be hard on the sideline sometimes you'll put

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Speaker 4: you know, pull side. Being a very successful athlete yourself

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Speaker 4: make you want to get in there or you know

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Speaker 4: what I mean, do you have a little swim at

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Speaker 4: the end of the day because you're just jealous of

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Speaker 4: everybody else in the water.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm actually going to disappoint you greatly, Kate Richie.

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Speaker 1: It is twenty years since I won my liquid gold medal.

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Speaker 4: I was like yesterday, no disappointment, never disappointed in you,

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Speaker 4: g I have never I haven't saw.

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Speaker 1: A lapse since the day I retired eighteen years ago,

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Speaker 1: and I have no desire whatsoever to jump in the

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Speaker 1: foot pool. In fact, I get far more nervous and

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Speaker 1: excited for our athletes that are simming now. I feel

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Speaker 1: almost like a proud mum on the sideline watching the

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Speaker 1: more complete. So it is such a distant memory for me,

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Speaker 1: but it also it gives me the goose and the children.

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Speaker 1: Every time I here our national anthem, the hair stand

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Speaker 1: up on the back of my neck. You know, I

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Speaker 1: think loudly, proudly, badly, but loudly and proudly because it

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Speaker 1: takes me right back to those moments.

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Speaker 2: Okay, can you please there's a couple of urban myths

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Speaker 2: going around that I need for you to deny or

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Speaker 2: if this is actually true. Over there with a swimming

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Speaker 2: jown number one, everyone's saying that the pools shallower than

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Speaker 2: it usually is and it's a slow pool. Can that

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Speaker 2: actually be true?

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Speaker 1: Well not really, no, it's a shallow When they used

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Speaker 1: to talk about fast pools and slow pool a fast

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Speaker 1: pool used to be a shallow, warm pool, right, A

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Speaker 1: slow pool used to be a deep, cold fool. And

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Speaker 1: so now these days all the pools have to be

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Speaker 1: within the same parameters because that allows the world records

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Speaker 1: to be ratified and set. So that's always on it,

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Speaker 1: even and even here.

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Speaker 2: If you like.

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Speaker 1: So, yes, I can understand why people are saying the

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Speaker 1: pool is slow, but it's just more so that I

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Speaker 1: think it's the Olympic occasion. It's the enormity in the

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Speaker 1: pressure of the Olympics, and so all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: the athletes are not swimming for a time. Here, we

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Speaker 1: haven't seen world records be broken. They're not swimming for

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Speaker 1: a time. They're racing the athletes next to them, which

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Speaker 1: sounds really silly. I know, but everyone wants to win,

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Speaker 1: so therefore some race plans are going out the window

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Speaker 1: because you're just becoming a pure racer and racing what

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Speaker 1: is required of you in the moment. And we've seen

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Speaker 1: that time and time again here, which isn't resulting in

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Speaker 1: fast time, but it's resulting in epic finals with close

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Speaker 1: finishes and amazing performance.

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Speaker 3: Okay, And can I just ask you as an athlete,

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Speaker 3: if it's a fast pool, right, can you feel that

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Speaker 3: as an athlete that it's a fast pool when you're swimming.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think it's more so how your your preparation

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Speaker 1: has been and if you take her is hit on

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Speaker 1: points and everyone wants to have a first time in

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Speaker 1: a competition pool because they get a feel for it,

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Speaker 1: and they get a hit out, they blast the cobwebs down.

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Speaker 1: We've been lucky with a lot of our athletes that

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Speaker 1: they have been able to either get true heats or

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Speaker 1: have a relay or something like that where they've had

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Speaker 1: that opportunity. But really, this is such a wise, experienced,

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Speaker 1: well performing team, but nothing really phases. That's why we've

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Speaker 1: been able to pump them up for so long.

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Speaker 2: That was like Kyle Charmers in the four one hund

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Speaker 2: relay and his time with his split. Here's the other one.

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Speaker 2: Because we was going around the office, Jehn telling everyone,

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Speaker 2: did you know that in the medals over there there's

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Speaker 2: materials from the Eiffel Tower? Is this true or not? Jian?

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Speaker 1: That is absolutely correct? And someone said, hold on a step,

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Speaker 1: and if they're giving out thousands of medals, won't the

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Speaker 1: Eiffel Tower fall over? Where they got? But they renovated

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Speaker 1: the Eiffel Tower a little while ago and they kept

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Speaker 1: pieces from the Eiffel Tower. Every medal here in Paris

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Speaker 1: has part of the Eiffel Tower in the metal works.

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Speaker 1: Incredibly special, great bit of history. So you're not as

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Speaker 1: silly as we think.

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Speaker 2: Just look, we need to talk about Kyle Charmers because

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Speaker 2: this is going to be massive. Tomorrow morning we could

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Speaker 2: be competing for another gold medal. This would be an

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Speaker 2: amazing effort by Kyle to I mean, is this his

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Speaker 2: third fourth Olympics, third Olympics.

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Speaker 1: Third Olympics, and so to talk about he won Rio

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Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen as an eighteen year old.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he was.

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Speaker 1: Silver in Tokyo by the smallest of margins. And then

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Speaker 1: if he can get on the podium and particularly win

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Speaker 1: it tomorrow night, Paris time, then he will go down

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Speaker 1: as one of the greatest printers in history. Wow, this

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Speaker 1: is an absolutely huge momentous occasion for Kyle and what

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Speaker 1: he's got up his sleeve and what makes him so

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Speaker 1: good is what I was just talking about before. He

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Speaker 1: is a racer. We know that it doesn't matter about

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Speaker 1: times with Kyle. It doesn't matter about what's happened in

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Speaker 1: past ten it doesn't matter who's the world record holder,

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Speaker 1: or who's a favorite, or who's the champion or whatever

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Speaker 1: it is. For Kyle, he is just a pure racer

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Speaker 1: and he finds something in the big meat moment. So

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Speaker 1: he wanted to lay his hand on the wall first.

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Speaker 1: So he's got a big ask against him with David Popovich.

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Speaker 1: But for Kyle, I just think he will find a way.

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Speaker 4: Do you know what I want you to? Like sell

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Speaker 4: my next house or the way you are selling the swimming,

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Speaker 4: the Olympics, the feeling, the excitement, the racing. Oh, we

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Speaker 4: will all be tuning in. It's been wonderful to watch you.

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Speaker 1: And Okay, well we've got three metal chances or four

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Speaker 1: metal chances tomorrow night. That's somebody Cook is going to

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Speaker 1: defend his two hundred breastroke Olympic championship, and then Molly O'Callahan,

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Speaker 1: Shane and Jack in the women's hundred three. We could

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Speaker 1: go one too.

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Speaker 3: And Jian just quickly request from my wife if you

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Speaker 3: could hand her phone number to the Italian swimmer that

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Speaker 3: had a win yesterday. She hasn't stopped talking about him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's not the first.

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Speaker 2: And you can watch every minute of the Paris Olympics

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Speaker 2: on nine and nine. Now you're doing a great job

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Speaker 2: and we know how busy you are. Thanks for your time.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to chat to you guys. Got in Australia, Go WI.

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