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Speaker 1: Here's something potentially very cool on the horizon. Turns out

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Speaker 1: that our work is underway to try to bring the

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Speaker 1: World Athletic Indoor Championships here in four years time, and

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Speaker 1: that will be happening just as we expect New Zealand's

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Speaker 1: interest to pick up after the success of Hamish Kern

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Speaker 1: all those guys over at the Olympics with us now

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Speaker 1: as Athletics New Zealand CEO. Cam, that's your morning.

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Speaker 2: Can morning, Heather?

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Speaker 1: You reckon? This is going to happen.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, we're going to give it a go for sure.

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Speaker 1: How do you rate your chances? I want it to

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Speaker 1: be high, Cam, I'm asking you this for a reason.

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Speaker 1: I want this thing to happen.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, we're quietly confident. I mean, like anything like this,

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Speaker 2: there's big numbers involved, so we've got to do the work.

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Speaker 2: We're just about to embark on a fees of Beilieve

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Speaker 2: study to understand, you know, whether it's possible or not

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Speaker 2: that we can actually put a bit forward. But it's

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Speaker 2: something that we have as an aspiration of ours to

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Speaker 2: bring major events like this for athletics to our shorts.

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Speaker 2: It's an event that we don't typically see in our country,

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Speaker 2: so you know, there's a massive novelty factor there that

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Speaker 2: we think people will get them behind and support it.

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Speaker 2: It's a pretty all event. It's three days, it's the

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Speaker 2: best athletes in the world competing on what's called a

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Speaker 2: short track. So whilst it's called the World Indoors Wood

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Speaker 2: Athletics and twenty three changed the rules so it could

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Speaker 2: actually be a short track, which is a two hundred

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Speaker 2: meter track and can be in an outdoor venue. So

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Speaker 2: that makes it, I guess possible for countries like ours

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Speaker 2: that don't necessarily have massive indoor facilities. Now we could

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Speaker 2: essentially put a two hundred meter track inside Eden Park

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Speaker 2: or a facility like that and run a pretty cool

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Speaker 2: athletics event.

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Speaker 1: Well fantastic, So it's pretty easy for us to be

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Speaker 1: able to do. Were you were you at that meeting

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Speaker 1: between christ Bishop and zeb COO in Paris.

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Speaker 2: Look, we're around, you know, we're obviously spending a lot

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Speaker 2: of time with Word Athletics, ourselves up there and making

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Speaker 2: sure that that we were there aware of our aspiration

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Speaker 2: and ensuring that I guess New Zealand's able to build

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Speaker 2: those important relationships required to deliver events.

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Speaker 1: Like this and so are you getting a sense that

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Speaker 1: this is actually a real thing, that that zib CO

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Speaker 1: is seriously considering.

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Speaker 2: Us A bit in process at World Athletics obviously run through,

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Speaker 2: so you know, I think it's a favorable thing. Oceania

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Speaker 2: don't have a lot of these types of events. So

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Speaker 2: World Athletics is a truly global governing body with two

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Speaker 2: hundred and fourteen nations involved. You know, want to be

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Speaker 2: able to take their events around the globe, and Oceania

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Speaker 2: as an area doesn't typically hold a lot of these events.

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Speaker 2: So there's a process that we need to work through

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Speaker 2: with them. And similarly, there's a process with government through

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Speaker 2: the Major Events Fund that we need to work through.

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Speaker 2: It's a contestable fund, but what we want to be

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Speaker 2: able to do is ensure that everyone's aware of the

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Speaker 2: opportunity and that, as I said, we can sort of

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Speaker 2: put our best foot forward.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, good luck with it.

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Speaker 2: Cam.

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Speaker 1: I'm really into it, Cam Mitchell Athletics using I'm into

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Speaker 1: it because I reckon, Can I tell you I reckon

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Speaker 1: that these kinds of things don't sound that exciting until

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Speaker 1: they're happening, like the fief of Women's World Cup, and

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