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Speaker 2: Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters

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Speaker 2: that this podcast is recorded on.

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Speaker 3: Hi.

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Speaker 1: I'm Claire Murphy.

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Speaker 2: This is Mumma MEA's twice Daly news podcast, The Quickie

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Speaker 2: Coming up in a dick. The Quickie's own Taylor Strano

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Speaker 2: is going to join me to chat about the Olympic

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Speaker 2: sports you never knew existed, including one that my own

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Speaker 2: great grandfather won a gold medal in. But first let's

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Speaker 2: get the latest from the Quikie newsroom. Tuesday, August sixth,

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Speaker 2: the lawyer representing Senator Linda Reynolds at her defamation trial

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Speaker 2: against Britney Higgins, has criticized Miss Higgins for continuing to

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Speaker 2: post on social media during the trial. Martin Bennett told

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Speaker 2: the court after Senator Reynolds had finished her first day

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Speaker 2: of testimony yesterday that Miss Higgins, who is still in France,

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Speaker 2: had posted on Instagram while her former boss was on

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Speaker 2: the stand, a picture of a book titled how Many

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Speaker 2: More Women, How the Law Silences Women, with the caption

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Speaker 2: pertinent reading. Mister Bennett says he hopes someone will advise

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Speaker 2: her to give up commentary miss Higgins lawyer Rachel Young

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Speaker 2: said it was a repost and had nothing to do

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Speaker 2: with the trial, but outside court mister Bennett said the

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Speaker 2: post could add twenty damages awarded to the senator. Experts

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Speaker 2: are predicting the cash rate will remain on hold after

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Speaker 2: the August RBA meeting, following as expected inflation numbers. Mortgage

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Speaker 2: Holders hoping for an interest rate cart will have to wait,

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Speaker 2: despite calls from the Australian Council of Social Services calling

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Speaker 2: on the RBA to start decreasing interest rates, with modeling

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Speaker 2: by comparison website Canstar suggesting another hike would push the

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Speaker 2: percentage of before tax income going towards repayments to as

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Speaker 2: high as forty five percent for some homeowners, leaving very

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Speaker 2: little leftover to cover their cost of living. Inflation remains

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Speaker 2: above the RBA's target of between two and three percent,

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Speaker 2: rising from three point six percent annually in the March

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Speaker 2: quarter to three point eight percent in June. US polling

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Speaker 2: specialist Nate Silver has declared that for the first time,

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Speaker 2: Kamala Harris has overtaken Donald Trump as the most likely

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Speaker 2: winner of the November election. Harris has been gaining on

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Speaker 2: Trump's poll lead since she was declared Joe Biden's successor,

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Speaker 2: but she still trailed Trump in the polls until now,

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Speaker 2: with Silver saying according to his modeling, Vice President Kamala

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Speaker 2: Harris is now a fifty point five percent chance of

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Speaker 2: winning compared to Trump, who's now on forty eight point

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Speaker 2: before Biden dropped out, was at forty one point one

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Speaker 2: would mean Harris would scrape in a win if the

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Speaker 2: election were to be held now. Angelina Jolie and Brad

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Speaker 2: Pitt's son Pax is now out of the ICU after

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Speaker 2: crashing his e bike in La last month. The twenty

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Speaker 2: A source telling people that he now has a long

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Speaker 2: road to recovery, including a lot of physical therapy, and

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Speaker 2: the fast actions of first responders and the outstanding medical

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Speaker 2: care he has since received. Law enforcement officers explained that

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Speaker 3: The Pulse on Paris thanks to move by Mamma MIAs

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Speaker 2: In Paris, the Nomi Fox has added another gold to

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Speaker 2: the family collection, winning the women's kayak cross. The Fox

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Speaker 2: women's canoe slalom program. In Paris, it was silver for

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Speaker 2: Simone Biles in the gymnastics floor final, the gold going

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Speaker 2: down to the one thousandth of a second. That's what's

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Speaker 3: Next.

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Speaker 2: A lot has been said about breakdancing being added to

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Speaker 1: In twenty thirty two.

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Speaker 2: We're wondering what new sports might be included. Now, every

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Speaker 1: According to IOC.

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Speaker 2: Rules, only sports that comply with the Olympic Charter, the

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Speaker 2: That's an absolute bloody cracker. A game In Athens in

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Speaker 2: two thousand and four we saw freestyle wrestling and saber

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Speaker 2: In London twenty twelve we saw women's boxing for the

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Speaker 2: men's rugby and golf returned, while women's rugby competed for

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Speaker 1: We know that all these other gold medal winners, and

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Speaker 2: The Tokyo Organizing Committee added their five picks to the

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Speaker 2: The Paris Games organizers continued with surfing, climbing, and skateboarding,

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Speaker 2: But while we await the debut of Breakdancing, set to

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Speaker 2: The Quickie as opposed from behind the scenes to in

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Speaker 1: Welcome.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much for having me.

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Speaker 3: I feel very excited to be here on a topic

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Speaker 2: We're very passionate about the games and we have been

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Speaker 1: But we're taking you through some of the sports that

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Speaker 2: Involved in Olympic Games of the past and that are

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Speaker 2: let's head back to Paris nineteen hundred, shall we. To

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Speaker 2: start with, there were hot air balloon races at this

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Speaker 3: It's giving around the world in a day, really, but

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Speaker 2: So it's like this time where things were being invented

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Speaker 3: I'm not here to pu pooh people's hobbies and passions

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Speaker 3: And does it require athletic ability? And I'm not sure

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Speaker 3: Cricket has been in the Games before. It made a

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Speaker 1: What a game's nineteen hundred's turning out to be?

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Speaker 3: The groundbreaking revolutionary games, I'll say. Yeah. So cricket is

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Speaker 3: Americans even play cricket? Well, apparently they don't just play cricket,

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Speaker 1: Netball in that.

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Speaker 2: back again, was it? Nobody else played cricket after that?

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Speaker 4: We don't speak about.

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Speaker 2: the sports from games of the past that I have discovered.

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Speaker 4: What's it called? Like a compact dive? Yes, sort of

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Speaker 1: Lacrosse used to be in the Games, and I weirdly

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Speaker 4: When we think about sports.

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Speaker 2: I feel like too, the US has a big lacrosse

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Speaker 1: You play lacrosse.

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Speaker 4: That's cool.

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Speaker 2: This is my lame claim to Olympic fame, and this

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Speaker 1: You are one hundred percent wrong.

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Speaker 2: So my great grandfather, Albert Ireton was part of the

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent was an Olympic sport back then. It

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Speaker 2: It wasn't unusual for countries to into more than one

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Speaker 1: I don't know where that medal is. I don't know

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Speaker 3: Okay, well that was my follow up question, but I

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Speaker 4: Correct tug of war kind of ticks all those bloxes.

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Speaker 2: And there are still professional tug of war competitions out there.

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Speaker 2: And I don't mean just like school fate ones like

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Speaker 2: Nineteen thirty six a very controversial Games of course held in.

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Speaker 2: It was called the sport of kings. It was considered,

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Speaker 4: Only eighteens.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't, and also it feels like you've already pretty

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Speaker 1: The gold, silver, and bronze medalists are going to be

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Speaker 2: Now, this I believe is the most controversial sport, and

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Speaker 4: We talked about tug of war, so I don't know,

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Speaker 2: At least tug of war involves using your actual body

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Speaker 1: The Olympic Games awarded medals to artists.

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Speaker 4: Okay, yeap, hang on, they were kind of artists.

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Speaker 1: Things pretty much do.

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Speaker 2: the submissions had to be sport orientated, so like you

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Speaker 4: Like it was.

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Speaker 2: It was all very like lovely and fancy and they

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Speaker 1: But funnily enough, very.

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Speaker 4: No, you're kidding.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't highly regarded enough to put in a gallery.

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Speaker 3: I just like art is one of those things that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't quite have the same field.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't grandiose sort of nature.

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Speaker 2: However, whoa doesn't count because after art was kicked out

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Speaker 4: That's really hard.

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Speaker 2: There's one hundred and fifty one medals and they just

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Speaker 1: How se Leader's book painting in the Olympics. So what

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Speaker 2: I mean, we're all looking forward to break dancing, which

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Speaker 4: So there's a few different things they have to do.

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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry all the.

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Speaker 4: Cricket and the boxing day test loves out there are

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Speaker 1: Sorry, guys.

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Speaker 3: There's a couple of other boring bits and pieces like

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Speaker 3: And the reason we've probably seen break dancing included this

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Speaker 4: So this is their youth action plan.

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Speaker 2: I want to say, well, I can't wait for the

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for taking us through some of

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Speaker 2: this today. We look forward to seeing the debut of

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Speaker 2: some of these new sports. And do we know what's

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Speaker 2: coming up in Brisbane? Have Brisbane put forward any of

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 3: I wanted to ask you about this because a couple

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Speaker 4: I wonder did he give you any hints.

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Speaker 1: He didn't.

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Speaker 2: He was very hush hush on a lot of the details.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, you wouldn't tell me what the mascot was,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, is this the year that the Diamonds

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Speaker 1: There's so many countries that play netball.

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Speaker 3: Well I looked it up and according to World Netball,

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Speaker 4: May I also propose four square?

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Speaker 1: Four square?

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Speaker 4: Yes Australian.

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Speaker 1: I just got projected back into my childhood self.

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Speaker 4: Okay, that feels very Australian.

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Speaker 3: It means that we could probably have our youngest ever athletes.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking like twelve and under.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, eight year olds are sick for a bit of

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Speaker 1: four square. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I love that food for thought.

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