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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks. B Smith's underway.

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Speaker 2: A couple of somersaults to start smooth. It gets that

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Speaker 2: momentum up and he works his way towards the right

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Speaker 2: of the man struggling in his off days af Terylan Schmidt.

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Speaker 2: He's unable to complete his routine and that's disappointment for

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Speaker 2: the New Zealand.

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Speaker 3: Just absolutely gutting watching Dylan Schmidt fall from the tramp,

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Speaker 3: ending his hopes of a medal. It was still pretty

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Speaker 3: raw when I spoke to Dylan Schmidt shortly after that

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Speaker 3: to find out how he was feeling about what had

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Speaker 3: played out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, look, it's I guess getting there. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 4: tough one to swallow. Yeah, I mean, campaign was great,

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Speaker 4: leader was great, Training has been really really good.

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Speaker 5: Body's feeling good, Pooty really into training and we're really

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Speaker 5: hard and didn't come off, which is obviously heartbreaking.

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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, look, it's it's a tough one to pin

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Speaker 4: point what actually went wrong in the final. Obviously fell

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Speaker 4: off onto the floor, which never helps. But yeah, look,

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Speaker 4: I mean it's just one of those days.

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Speaker 5: Just wasn't my day.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, credit to the the other boys deserving of

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Speaker 4: the podium. Yeah, incredible athletes and wish I could have

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Speaker 4: been up there or at least pushing them. But yes,

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Speaker 4: wasn't my day.

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Speaker 3: Was it something that happened quickly or was it over

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Speaker 3: a couple of moves previous? So have you been able

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Speaker 3: to process how it happened?

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Speaker 5: Ah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, I think the first skill is really strong,

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Speaker 4: seeking skill potentially drifted a little bit. Yeah, pushed really

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Speaker 4: hard into the third, and I mean I was I

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Speaker 4: was pretty close after that, and then you know, I

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Speaker 4: never I never stopped. I always go from anywhere, and

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Speaker 4: that's probably you know why I fell on the floor,

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Speaker 4: just because I wasn't going to give up and I

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Speaker 4: wasn't going to stop. I was going to keep going

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Speaker 4: until I was wasn't on the trampoline. So yeah, it sucks,

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Speaker 4: you know, you just want to take it back and

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Speaker 4: have another go. Well, I was feeling really good, to

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Speaker 4: be honest, So it's hard to spin point what went wrong,

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Speaker 4: but sometimes these things have happened.

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Speaker 3: And yes, and qualifying, I mean you look you look

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Speaker 3: good well to my untrained eye, and qualifying, did you

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Speaker 3: feel pretty pretty good during qualifying for the final.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I felt all right, like it still didn't feel

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Speaker 4: probably how I how I wanted to feel. But I

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Speaker 4: did what I needed to do to get into the final,

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Speaker 4: and yeah, put a pretty solid routine. I knew I

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Speaker 4: could have done better, but you know, enough to get through.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, I was just.

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Speaker 5: Really hoping to laid out and put it out there

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Speaker 4: And you know, it just sucks because I know I

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Speaker 4: can do more, and I know I can do bigger scores.

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Speaker 4: And yes, never how you.

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Speaker 5: Want to injure Olympic campaign? Is it?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 3: And I mean you'll you'll probably go through a few emotions.

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Speaker 3: I guess are you able to feel any pride at

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Speaker 3: making another Olympic final or will that probably have to wait?

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Speaker 5: No, I mean, I'm I'm I'm proud of myself, how.

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Speaker 4: Of the work I put in, proud of how I

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Speaker 4: handled everything that up to this coach coaches back home,

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Speaker 4: she had to go, so that through a bit of

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Speaker 4: a spinner in the works, But you know, I really

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Speaker 4: think I dealt with it well. And it's not know

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Speaker 4: any of the reason why everything's going wrong, but it

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Speaker 4: sucks that you know, I can't she can't be here.

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Speaker 4: I guess to celebrate I guess all the work we

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Speaker 4: put in regardless of the result. So yeah, I'm incredibly

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Speaker 4: proud of myself. Yeah, so much, so much more thought

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Speaker 3: Dylan Schmidt, who I spoke to a couple of hours

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Speaker 3: We spoke to him a week ago in the lead

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Speaker 3: him in qualifying and he was he was really good.

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Speaker 3: I thought, man, he's he's going to deliver here, he's

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Speaker 3: Just awful. And as he was walking away, I thought

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Speaker 3: to myself, exactly what he said. He must just wish

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Speaker 3: he could turn back time and have another crack at it. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: not to be. Our other trampoline athlete at these Games

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Speaker 3: is Maddie Davidson. Now, she finished seventh in the Women's

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Speaker 3: trampoline Finals. She qualified for the final with a best

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Speaker 3: score of fifty four point seven to four to oh

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Speaker 3: I spoke also to Medline Davidson shortly after she had competed,

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Speaker 3: I suggested that she'd be pretty happy with making it

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Speaker 6: Oh, honestly, I'm so stoked. I knew it was going

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Speaker 6: to be a push to make the finals. There's a

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Speaker 6: really talented group of girls out there, and when you

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Speaker 6: were going to have to hustle, and then when I

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Speaker 6: kind of all that I had.

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Speaker 5: Made that top A, I was. I was pretty stoked,

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Speaker 5: pretty heavy.

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Speaker 3: Tell us about your two routines and qualifying, in particular

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Speaker 3: the one that got you into the final.

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Speaker 6: I think one about main focuses has been my height,

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Speaker 6: So that's always a bit nerve wracking when you know

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Speaker 6: you've got to really push as hard as you can.

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Speaker 6: And that was just what I was really concentrated on today,

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Speaker 6: trying to have nice rhythm, trying to jump as high

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Speaker 6: an every single routine, so I can't complain with that.

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Speaker 6: Pretty stoked and yeah, I just you know, felt like

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Speaker 6: I was really connected in with the trampoline today. I

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Speaker 6: just need to get a little bit closer to the cross.

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Speaker 3: Is that the horizontal displacement? Is that the metric that

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Speaker 3: they talk about when you get close to the cross?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And as I've been jumping a bit higher, I've

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Speaker 6: been going a little bit hayyi from that cross. But

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Speaker 6: you know, those things, those things happened, That's all right.

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Speaker 3: How did you feel coming into the Olympic Games? Did

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Speaker 6: To be honest, I had a pretty rocky road coming

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Speaker 6: We had a lot of logistical things kind of go wrong.

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Speaker 6: But you know, I think that's kind of one of

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Speaker 6: at all the work by coach and I had done,

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Speaker 6: just coming together on the floor.

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Speaker 3: What was the injury that you carried in or that

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Speaker 3: you had to had to manage as you as you

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Speaker 6: I got a compressed our five vertebrae, which is not

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Speaker 6: the most comfortable is we probably think when you're jumping

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Speaker 6: on a trampoline. But it's just one of the things

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Speaker 6: we had to manage through and you know, push push

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Speaker 6: a really great support team around me that was helping

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Speaker 3: I compressed vertebrae. That sounds that sounds painful when you're

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Speaker 3: doing nothing, let alone jumping on a trampoline. Man, how

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Speaker 3: how how you know how challenging was it to continue

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Speaker 5: It's pretty tough.

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Speaker 6: I think it's hard when your your body and your

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Speaker 6: brain is telling you to stop because you're in pain.

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Speaker 6: But like I said, I have an amazing support team.

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Speaker 6: We have great physios, I have an amazing sports site

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Speaker 6: that helped me deal with it because we knew we

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Speaker 6: could kind of make me as comforable was possible. And

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Speaker 6: I think it was a real chance of showing a

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Speaker 6: bit of resilience and you know, pushing through those tough.

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Speaker 3: Times outstanding And what about the logistical challenges your face.

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Speaker 3: What did you get not get the right travel plans

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Speaker 6: Oh, I just think it was just one of those things.

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Speaker 6: You know, there's never smooth, never smooth entry. I haven't

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Speaker 6: heard anybody have a smooth.

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Speaker 5: Entry into the Olympics. So it's just one of those things.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 6: Probably since January we've been having a couple of hack ups,

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Speaker 6: so but you know, it's just one of those things.

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Speaker 6: Like I said, you know, we're resilient athletes hopefully, and

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Speaker 3: So what are we thinking here? Madeline? Is twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: eight now on your radar, and now that you've made

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Speaker 3: another Olympic cycle?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely?

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Speaker 6: I think as soon as you finish, you're like, man,

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Speaker 6: I just want to go again. So definitely, and it

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Speaker 6: was always in my plan, definitely going for twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 6: I'll just have a bit of a holiday first and

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Speaker 6: have a little bit of a relax and then we'll

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Speaker 6: get back into it again when we get home.

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Speaker 3: Well, congratulations, I love the big smile at the end

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Speaker 3: from you having made the final and perform so well.

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Speaker 3: Everybody back, every proud Dale thanks for taking the time

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Speaker 3: for a chat, No, thank you so much.

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