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Speaker 1: Seeing with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: Okay, this morning, we've got Ned Brockman. We absolutely adore

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Speaker 2: this man back in the studio and we are joined

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Speaker 2: by year nine student Hugo Russell. Hugo is from Satahugustin's

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Speaker 2: on the Northern Beaches and you may have seen this

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Speaker 2: story a few weeks ago and we really wanted to

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Speaker 2: get to Hugo in now.

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Speaker 3: Hugo was the national champion at the twenty twenty three

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Speaker 3: Australian Cross Country Championships for the under fifteens multi class. However,

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Speaker 3: this year Hugo and other short statuted athletes were banned

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Speaker 3: from competing in events longer than four hundred meters. Hugo

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Speaker 3: and his Mumbleisha have been fighting for change. They want

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Speaker 3: to change this rule. And so we've got Hugo and

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Speaker 3: Ned Brockman in here to tell us a bit more.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to the studio, Boda had thanks for coming in, Hu,

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Speaker 4: awesome to have you here. I can only assume that

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Speaker 4: Ned has been a huge inspiration for you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's really inspirational, really inspirational person putting his body

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Speaker 5: on the line for a good cause.

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Speaker 4: As Yeah, as far as you your career goes Hugo,

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Speaker 4: you don't need to be completely mental and run and.

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Speaker 1: Smash your knees to pieces like ned broth.

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Speaker 3: Then take you look after your body a little bit

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Speaker 3: more than this man does.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but Hugo, your story is sensational because my understanding

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Speaker 4: is that you wanted to compete in the three k

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Speaker 4: cross country and who said no?

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Speaker 5: Tore you competing like school Sport Australia and Athletics Australia

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Speaker 5: said no.

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Speaker 1: So what happened from that moment onwards?

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Speaker 5: Well, I was going through the course and I got

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Speaker 5: to state and they said that I wasn't going to

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Speaker 5: be able to go to nationals when I came first

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Speaker 5: in the state level.

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Speaker 4: That's ridiculous the reasoning for those that are just catching

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Speaker 4: up on the story.

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Speaker 5: Because apparently my disability is unfit to run and unable

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Speaker 5: to run because it does something to our bodies which

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Speaker 5: I haven't been affected by.

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Speaker 4: Right, So as a short statued person, they were suggesting

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Speaker 4: that they were there were complications or dangers with you running.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you'd proven that you can really well, it

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Speaker 3: must be incredibly frustrating.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it is pretty quite frustrating because it's the thing

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Speaker 5: that I really love and it was like taken away.

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Speaker 6: Ye the hell out of me.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you that, oh well this is this must

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Speaker 2: be something when you hear stories like this, Knit and

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Speaker 2: what you've done over the last few weeks and getting

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Speaker 2: people to take themselves out of their comfort zone. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: Hugo is to you know, to run in a race

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Speaker 2: that's very hard for him, but also to prove himself.

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Speaker 2: Then get told that he's knocked back ned. You must

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Speaker 2: have just been burning inside and thought, I need to

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Speaker 2: do something about this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's terrible.

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Speaker 6: We all should have the exact same opportunities as everyone.

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Speaker 6: So she did the Uncomfortable Challenge and that did three

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Speaker 6: k day for ten days. Amazing, And we came down

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Speaker 6: to Orgies his school, and saw all the boys getting

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Speaker 6: around him at the finish line. It was just I

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Speaker 6: saw that it was truly truly special. So very grateful

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Speaker 6: that he took part in the Uncomfortable Challenge. But I,

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Speaker 6: as I said, I've never been more by someone for

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Speaker 6: taking something on it and raising money as well. I

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Speaker 6: think Hugo beats everyone's fundraising by about one hundred and

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Speaker 6: twenty thousand dollars. Wow, raised one hundred and twenty eight thousand,

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Speaker 6: Is that right?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: It was incredible, mate, So yeah, I'm so inspired you.

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Speaker 2: I was going to say, you actually went and saw

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Speaker 2: Ned out at Home Bush when he was going for

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Speaker 2: the thousand miles. Weren't you What stage did you get

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Speaker 2: Ned at, Hugo?

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Speaker 1: Was he in a good mood at the time? I was, ya,

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Speaker 1: we saw someone that you don't tell it now. Do

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Speaker 1: you take inspiration though, Hugo? When you're doing those three k's,

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Speaker 1: do you think about need?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I thought like, how far he's running. He's doing

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Speaker 5: it for a good cause. And when I was running, I.

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Speaker 3: Was also, yeah, you were doing the same because from

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Speaker 3: what you've just said, then running generally has been something

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Speaker 3: that you really enjoy, you know, and then to have

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Speaker 3: people say that, oh, we're not quite sure whether we

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Speaker 3: can have you participate in this for X, Y and Z,

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Speaker 3: there must have been a different set of thoughts running

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Speaker 3: through your mind when you took on Ned's challenge because

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Speaker 3: you were running for a different reason. Do you know,

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Speaker 3: like I'm guessing you're always running for yourself, but then

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Speaker 3: because people have said you can't do it, did that

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Speaker 3: even that spur you on even more?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Well, the three k's which I ran each day

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Speaker 5: was the length that I was told I can't run.

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Speaker 1: So I awesome.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I tried to like prove them wrong that

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Speaker 5: I could do it.

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Speaker 1: Well you did?

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Speaker 3: You didn't try?

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Speaker 2: You did? I love that so much, so ned Now,

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Speaker 2: can we get behind this? I mean, is there a

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Speaker 2: chance that Hugo could run in the States? Can we

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Speaker 2: can we sign something?

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Speaker 5: I think there's a petition that so far has one thousand,

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Speaker 5: eight hundred signatures and trying to get more.

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Speaker 1: You to change dot org dot let Hugo run.

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Speaker 6: Perfect.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good luck, mate.

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Speaker 2: We want to see you competing in the States and

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Speaker 2: doing really well. Thanks for coming in boys.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely you guys, cheers you.

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