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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Simon Barnett and James Daniels Afternoons

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Speaker 1: podcast from News Talk zb Hi.

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Speaker 2: Guys, these Olympic athletes are indulging in this because they

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Speaker 2: want to do it. It's for their own pleasure. I'm not

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Speaker 2: putting any pressure on them to do it if they

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Speaker 2: cannot self fund and find another job. You a hard man, Jake, Yeah, Hello, Jane, Hello,

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Speaker 2: how are you good? Thank you? Thanks for calling.

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Speaker 3: That's my pleasure. I think that last text doll is

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Speaker 3: a little bit ouchy. I certainly think that, you know,

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Speaker 3: as athletes, they put in a huge amount of their time, energy,

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Speaker 3: effort and money in this country because we just don't

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Speaker 3: have the infrastructure, we don't have the backing. And you know,

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Speaker 3: it's all sports specific. So if you are already on

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Speaker 3: the world stage, already winning something, you will get funded

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Speaker 3: partially funded, you will never get folly funded. And if

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Speaker 3: you are trying to make it or qualify, then you

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Speaker 3: don't really get anything apart from probably a little bit

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Speaker 3: of help for sports psychology or high performance. Just has

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Speaker 3: sort of different levels of assistance that they can give

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Speaker 3: the athletes.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Jane, it sounds like you know what you're talking.

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Speaker 3: About just a bit. Yeah, I'm a three time Paralympian.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. What Olympics?

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Speaker 3: Did you go to Atlanta, Sydney and Athens?

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Speaker 2: Oh? How impressive you are? What sport Jane, If you don't.

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Speaker 3: Mind, it was a really difficult one equestrian which was

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Speaker 3: very difficult. It was Atlanta was the first time we

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Speaker 3: did equestrian and that was on borrowed horses, which was

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Speaker 3: quite quite difficult. And then of course it moved onto

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Speaker 3: your own horse, which was logistically very difficult coming from

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Speaker 3: New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: Is your surname Craig, Yes, ah, well it's an honest

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Speaker 2: at all.

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Speaker 3: You wanted to be on your program.

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Speaker 2: I don't think we can put them in the same category.

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Speaker 2: There different And so what was the experience for you

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Speaker 2: as an athlete like in the village?

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Speaker 3: I guess in the village amazing, absolutely amazing. You just

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Speaker 3: can't describe that kind of atmosphere when you're you're in

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Speaker 3: with everybody else that is has a singular view of

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Speaker 3: doing the best that you can for your country, for yourself,

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Speaker 3: for your family, for your sport, and you know it's

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Speaker 3: varying degrees. You look around, you see people who have

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Speaker 3: won and who haven't, and your emotions are amazing. You

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Speaker 3: just go from high to low and and you just

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Speaker 3: can't you can't see it anywhere else.

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Speaker 2: In the world.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's what it gave me. I mean,

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Speaker 3: even when you're you're winning a gold you're you're on

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Speaker 3: top of the world, and then you come back to

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Speaker 3: the village and somebody's somebody's you know, sitting in a

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Speaker 3: corner because they didn't make it, and you just get

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Speaker 3: brought back to earth. It's a leveling thing. But at

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Speaker 3: the end of the day, people have to realize, yes,

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Speaker 3: you know that last text has said they want to

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Speaker 3: go and they should self fund. I yeah, my husband

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Speaker 3: and I we mortgaged our house for me to go

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Speaker 3: quite a few times and represent my country, and I'm

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Speaker 3: proud to do so. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 3: I'm still paying for it now, how many years later,

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Speaker 3: And you know, yeah, it's an honor, it definitely is,

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Speaker 3: and I wouldn't swap the experience for the world. But

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Speaker 3: getting there, the self funding, you know, just all the

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Speaker 3: things that we had to go through, the psychology of it,

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Speaker 3: the ups and the downs, the sacrifice that we made Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's difficult. It's not as easy as people think. They

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Speaker 3: see the people at the end result, and that end

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Speaker 3: result is sometimes heartbreaking, and you can't show it. You've

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Speaker 3: got to show that you know, you're still going to

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Speaker 3: be up there on the world stage and you know

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Speaker 3: even if you come forth and you're so close.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the thing. That's the thing, Jane. I

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Speaker 2: don't know if you saw Lewis Clearbert in his favorite

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Speaker 2: event yet, like that photograph of it was almost like shock.

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Speaker 2: He was just desperate, sitting on the edge of the

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Speaker 2: pool and have face said it all. I fine enough.

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Speaker 2: I was having a shower that night. I don't I

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Speaker 2: was thinking about Lewis Cleare but maybe the water. But

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Speaker 2: that's his second campaign. So that's eight years. Yeah, eight

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Speaker 2: years of four am starts training three hours before work,

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Speaker 2: and you know he moved towns. Of course, he went

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Speaker 2: to Wellington and couldn't find a pool and so he

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Speaker 2: went to Auckland and oh my gosh, it's eight years

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Speaker 2: of one's life and to come away empty handed. That's

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Speaker 2: pretty devastating, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely so people really have to have art where that's

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Speaker 3: concerned and really support our athletes that are trying to

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Speaker 3: do their best, but at the end of the day,

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Speaker 3: we just don't have enough money to go around, don't

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Speaker 3: have enough infrastructure in this country. You know, we're just

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Speaker 3: nowhere near we should be. And that's a really big

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Speaker 3: shame because obviously Sports New Zealand would like to do more,

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Speaker 3: High performance would like to do more, and even down

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Speaker 3: to the grassroots, you know, that has to come through

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Speaker 3: and we just don't have that funding.

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Speaker 2: Jane Craig, whereabouts are your medals? Your silver and gold medals.

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Speaker 3: They're in my house in my safe.

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Speaker 2: How great? What's the number to your safe? And you know,

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Speaker 2: last thing, because somebody mentioned about the effect that the

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Speaker 2: Olympic Games and their athletes have on the community. If

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Speaker 2: you see somebody winning a gold or a silver, and

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Speaker 2: I just think of the number of those athletes that

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Speaker 2: I've seen images of, Jane with I've gone around schools

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Speaker 2: and the kids and that have you done that and

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Speaker 2: what can you just give people an understanding when kids

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Speaker 2: see your meddle, what reaction they have.

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Speaker 3: Oh, just out of this world. They'd want to touch it,

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Speaker 3: so that you know, when they can actually look at

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Speaker 3: it and hold it, it just blows blows me away

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Speaker 3: to see how proud everyone is and how how much

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Speaker 3: of a buzz they get, you know. For and I've

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Speaker 3: had people come up to me when I've been at

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Speaker 3: a horse show or an event and they said, you know,

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Speaker 3: you encouraged her. My daughter seeing you on television encouraged

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Speaker 3: her to pick up horse riding and now she's successful

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Speaker 3: doing this and that and that. Just that's so, it

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Speaker 3: just is really gives me a lot of pride.

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Speaker 2: Well said Jane. Last thing, what did you think of

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Speaker 2: the opening ceremony.

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Speaker 3: And tell us as usual? No, I just thought it

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Speaker 3: was a shame for the athletes in a sense of

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Speaker 3: you cannot reproduce the atmosphere that you get in the

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Speaker 3: stadium where all the athletes by each other in that

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Speaker 3: stadium and everything is working around within that. And I

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Speaker 3: think it was an amazing It was amazing, but it

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Speaker 3: was more for television than it was for anything else.

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Speaker 3: But I think they did a job. But yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 3: you'd have to be there, I suppose to really know

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Speaker 3: what it felt like.

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Speaker 2: Jane, We have loved chatting with you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for calling in Hey, thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: I love your show.

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