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Speaker 1: Nick Bewley joins me to talk Olympa taller.

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Speaker 2: Nick. Hello, Andrew, it's been a while.

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Speaker 1: It has been a while, so Erica Fairweather, who can

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Speaker 1: forget the tears. However, she's got some more good news today,

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Speaker 1: she does.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she certainly bounced back from that disappointment and you're right,

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Speaker 2: and you shouldn't be disappointed about making fourth place in

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Speaker 2: an Olympic final four hundred meters freestyle against the caliber

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Speaker 2: of swimmers the likes of Arian tipmss Kata Ladecki. But

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Speaker 2: she bounced back, got a good night's sleep, got back

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Speaker 2: in the pool two hundred meters freestyle, made it through

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Speaker 2: to the semi finals and then qualified for the final,

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Speaker 2: which is fantastic. Her favorite event is the four hundred

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Speaker 2: so for her to get back in the pool make

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Speaker 2: the final, which was a goal of w hers. She's

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Speaker 2: qualified seventh fastest for that final, so we'll have the

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Speaker 2: call for that. Jason Pine probably will behind the mic

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Speaker 2: for that one at just before twenty to eight tomorrow morning,

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Speaker 2: so a potential medal there will be to an outside chance.

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Speaker 2: So that was really encouraging for eric A Fairweather. On

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Speaker 2: the flip side, Lewis Claibert his favorite event four on

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Speaker 2: hundred meters individual medley. He had his final and unfortunately

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Speaker 2: for Lewis, finished sixth. But he'll get back into his

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Speaker 2: work later in the program as well, back in the

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Speaker 2: two hundred meters butterfly. So some encouraging results in the

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Speaker 2: albeit we're still that medal's elusive, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: I thought Lewis it was very revealing. He's obviously gutted

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Speaker 1: because he was off his personal best, and you know,

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Speaker 1: and they don't mind not winning a medal. I would

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Speaker 1: think as long as they've gave it, given it, they're all,

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Speaker 1: and not hitting your personal best meant it didn't give

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Speaker 1: it your all. So I'm gutting for him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, Look, you can't begrudge his effort. He

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Speaker 2: was certainly giving it his all, but it was just

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Speaker 2: he acknowledged himself once he got to the breaststroke leg

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Speaker 2: of the medley and then on to the freestyle. He

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Speaker 2: just didn't have enough in reserve, which is a shame

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Speaker 2: when you put it all that preparation into it. But

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Speaker 2: that's elite and pinnacle sport for you.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, forty nine sailors are going well. The forty nine ers.

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Speaker 2: They are going really well. They're going really well. Of

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Speaker 2: course we've got some pedigree in this event. We've had

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Speaker 2: Peter Berling and Bleared Chook in the past. This due

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Speaker 2: this Kiwi r being dubbed the mckeewee's Isaac McCarty and

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Speaker 2: Will McKenzie, and of course all the sailing is not

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Speaker 2: in Paris, it's off in the south of France, off

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Speaker 2: the coast of Marseilles. But McCarty and McKenzie they won

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Speaker 2: their opening race by more than a minute, which was fantastic,

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Speaker 2: and then third and eighth from the subsequent races they

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Speaker 2: said the top of the standing. Still a lot of

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Speaker 2: racing to be done. That's three races done, nine to

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Speaker 2: come and then the medal race. But certainly encouraging it

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Speaker 2: and speaking encouraging Andrew overnight that the Blackburn sevens defending

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Speaker 2: onlym BIT champions from Tokyo. They're looking really good. Another

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Speaker 2: pool game two thirty tomorrow morning against Fiji, then onto

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Speaker 2: the quarter finals.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking to Alan Gilden here as well, Rugby CEO.

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Speaker 1: He's there at the Olympics. I'm talking to him just

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Speaker 1: after five thirty today about everything about the sevens and

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Speaker 1: versus the fifteens, and gee, what a tournament when you

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Speaker 1: have you know, France winning in front of sixty nine

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Speaker 1: thousand people first medal of the Games. How good for rugby.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that later. What about the venues you

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Speaker 1: say Marseille, the Olli Whites are playing in Nice. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you saw the horses they're running around

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Speaker 1: the Versailles Palace and the surfers are in Tahiti. The

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Speaker 1: venues are.

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Speaker 2: Incredible, certainly, and I've seen some amazing imagery as well

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Speaker 2: of the beach volleyball which is right underneath the Eiffel Tower.

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Speaker 2: They are certainly utilizing every picturesque landmark, not only in

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Speaker 2: the French capital, but as you mentioned further afield Tahiti Nice.

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Speaker 2: They've certainly pulled out all the stop. Speaking of venues, though,

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Speaker 2: Andrew one particular area of interest for me, I'm privileged

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Speaker 2: to call the triathlon from tomorrow on gold Sport. A

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Speaker 2: lot of intrigue around the water quality of the River

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Speaker 2: Senne are still bubbling away. Discussions around is it going

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Speaker 2: to be okay in terms of can we have the

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Speaker 2: swimming leg of the triathlon. There'll be more testing done

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Speaker 2: overnight New zeal In time fingers cross as it would

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Speaker 2: be an absolute fast for an Olympic triathlon if it

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Speaker 2: had to be reduced to a duathlon just effectively a

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Speaker 2: run in a bike. So fingers crossed, especially for Hayden

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Speaker 2: Wild who was a real metal prospect.

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Speaker 1: Good Man Nick Bill sports journalists. Can I just say,

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Speaker 1: my son is a wastewater management specialist working for healthy

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Speaker 1: Waters and he looked at the opening ceremony and he

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Speaker 1: saw the rain and he went, oh, well, that's it.

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Speaker 1: The sand stuffed. Because what happens with wastewater we all

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Speaker 1: know it. It rains and then the fecal matter goes

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Speaker 1: straight for any water course they ain't swimming, and that

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Speaker 1: it's filthy, and they knew the risk.

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