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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk ZEDB.

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Speaker 2: Well, what a six months it has been for Paris

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Speaker 2: bound three thousand meter steeple chaser Jordi Beamish. In January

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Speaker 2: he decimated the New Zealand five thousand meter record running

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Speaker 2: thirteen oh four thirty three at the John Thomas Terrier

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Speaker 2: Classic at Boston University. Then in the fifteen hundred meter

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Speaker 2: final at the World Indoor Champs in Glasgow and March

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Speaker 2: he did this.

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Speaker 3: And look at beamsh Jordy Beamsh chans gold for New Zealand.

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Speaker 3: The team from New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: Are on fire in Glasgow, absolutely on fire, World Indoor

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Speaker 2: champion in the fifteen hundred meters and as I say

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Speaker 2: off to Paris in the three thousand meter steeple chase,

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Speaker 2: Jordy Beamish is with us on Weekend Sport as he

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Speaker 2: puts the final touches on his Olympic preparations. Just on that, Jordie,

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Speaker 2: I caught one of the that you've been a bit

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Speaker 2: croc lately, are you? Are you okay?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Jason, you're well informed.

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Speaker 1: I'm all right.

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Speaker 3: I got I got really sick in Europe a few

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Speaker 3: weeks ago on a bit of a racing trip and

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Speaker 3: just been struggling to knock knock this bug whatever it is.

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Speaker 3: But got a doctor's appointment tomorrow and hoping to be

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Speaker 3: on the mend a set.

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Speaker 2: It's terrible timing for something like this, she'd have to say,

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Speaker 2: Is it in any way going to affect your build

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Speaker 2: up to Paris?

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Speaker 3: Well, it's better timing than six weeks from now. Yep. Yeah, uh,

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Speaker 3: not built up, Still going to plan. You know, it

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Speaker 3: hasn't hasn't changed the racing schedule or you know, hasn't

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Speaker 3: affected training too much. Just had to dial it back

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Speaker 3: in the last couple of weeks, but otherwise we'll going

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Speaker 3: to plan. You know, got got one more race before

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Speaker 3: the Olympics lined up on on July seventh, so hopefully,

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Speaker 3: hopefully I'll be feeling one hundred percent by then.

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Speaker 2: Well it's been quite the year for you mate. You

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Speaker 2: broke the New Zealand five thousand meter record in January,

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Speaker 2: then you won gold in the fifteen hundred meters at

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Speaker 2: the World Indoor Champs in Glasgow in March. Can we

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Speaker 2: zero one on that? How do you reflect on that

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Speaker 2: performance in Glasgow?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, it's been it's been a hell of a year. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: That performance in Glasgow was definitely the highlight. Just I mean,

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Speaker 3: such an incredible weekend by the New Zealand team as

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Speaker 3: a whole and just just so special to be a

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Speaker 3: part of and to kind of put the icing on

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Speaker 3: the cake in the last event of the weekend was

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Speaker 3: was really really special and you know I share it

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Speaker 3: with with Hamish and Tom and the rest of the

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Speaker 3: New Zealand team. Was incredible.

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Speaker 2: Did you have expectations of a podium finish, a gold

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Speaker 3: I don't know about expectations, but in the fifteen under

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Speaker 3: you know anything, anything is possible, and you know you

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Speaker 3: see it time and time again that that the favorites

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Speaker 2: I've read a couple of reports just to refresh my

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Speaker 2: memory about it, and one I found was was some

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Speaker 2: terrific words here, a scintillating final lap and you came

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Speaker 2: from the depths of hell to win the rights. That's

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Speaker 2: see what it felt like.

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Speaker 3: I don't know about the depths of hell I think

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Speaker 3: I was. I mean, yeah, I was quite far back.

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Speaker 2: So in breaking the five thousand meter New Zealand record,

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Speaker 2: chas national record. What has led to your improvements over

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, it has felt like in the last eighteen months,

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Speaker 3: quite a long time at this point. I'm not as

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Speaker 3: the last yeah, year and a half couple of years.

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Speaker 2: What does that look like training wise, Jeordie. Have you

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Speaker 2: What have you done, if anything differently over the last

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Speaker 3: For the most part, it's doing doing the same stuff

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Speaker 3: But I think probably the main thing was was kind

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Speaker 3: I can't remember when I went to college twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 3: h I think the difference in the last couple of

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Speaker 3: I can run a bit a bit more than I

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Speaker 3: used to and run consistently. And yeah, just put a

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Speaker 2: So the three thousand meters steeple chase in Paris, was

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Speaker 2: it always the plan to focus on just the three

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Speaker 3: Uh, the schedule makes it very difficult. I believe I

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Speaker 3: definitely didn't want to have a go at the five k.

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Speaker 3: Running a five k in the heat of a European

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Speaker 3: summer is absolutely brutal, and I'm not I'm not cut

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Speaker 3: I really really struggle in the heat and those those

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Speaker 3: So yes, it's pretty much impossible. But no, all all

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Speaker 2: You're going to be the first New Zealand steeple chaser

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Speaker 2: someone with a black singleer do it again after all

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Speaker 2: this time. What is it about the event that you.

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Speaker 3: Like, Yeah, I didn't know it had been that long.

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Speaker 3: That's pretty cool. I think it's I think it's a

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Speaker 3: and I mean cheat the hurdles. The hurdles hopefully provides

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Speaker 3: people get caught up in the hurdles, and yeah, I

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Speaker 3: it each time you do it. And yeah, just nice

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Speaker 2: Have you thought about what you might might target beyond Paris?

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Speaker 2: I know, the Olympics, so you focus well and truly,

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Speaker 2: but I mean, will you become a like is just

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Speaker 2: a fifteen hundred meter runner? Fifteen five? You know, combination?

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Speaker 1: What have you?

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Speaker 2: What have you're sort of thinking about beyond har else?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think I think the combination works

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Speaker 3: the Steel Chase from you know, I didn't even look

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Speaker 2: Good stuff. So you mentioned before, just one more race

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Speaker 3: Still in Boulder, Colorado for a couple more weeks and

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Speaker 3: then heading to Paris for the Paris Diamond League. Going

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Speaker 2: Amazing. Have you ever fallen over in the water jump?

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Speaker 2: YEP in.

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Speaker 3: Twenty thirteen at New Zealand camps and the two case

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Speaker 2: Well, we can put that well behind us. We can

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Speaker 2: put that well behind us. Hey, Jeordie, it's been great

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Speaker 2: how you go in the three thousand meters steeple chas

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Speaker 2: in Paris. Mate, thanks for taking the time for a chat, Chess.

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Speaker 3: Really appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: No, appreciate your time, JORDI. Thanks indeed, Jordy Beamish there

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Speaker 2: three thousand meters steeple chaser at the upcoming Paris Olympic

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Speaker 2: Games one to look out for. His trajectory is well

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Speaker 2: and truly on the up, smashing the New Zealand five

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Speaker 2: the three thousand meter steeple chase. The first New Zealand Mail,

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Speaker 2: in fact the first New Zealander because I don't think

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Speaker 2: the females are on the three thousand steeples. I should

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Speaker 2: know this, but certainly the first New Zealand Mail to

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Speaker 2: compete in that event since Peter Renner at the Los

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Speaker 2: Angeles Olympics all the way back in nineteen eighty four.

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Speaker 2: Jeordy Beamish want to look out for as Paris quickly

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