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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 EDB.

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Speaker 2: News Talks HEB one twenty seven. Luke Hetzel is General

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Speaker 2: manager of High Performance at snow Sports New Zealand. Look,

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Speaker 2: thanks for joining us on Weekend Sport. We've just heard

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Speaker 2: from Alice Robinson. Clearly she's doing amazing things as the

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Speaker 2: Winter Olympics draw closer. How excited are you about her

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Speaker 2: recent form?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're well, I've still digesting, really, so Alice has

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Speaker 3: had quite a run with giant slalom and on an

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Speaker 3: absolute tear and tracking really well for the Olympics, and

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Speaker 3: then all of a sudden first place in Super G

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Speaker 3: and kind of proving she's a double metal threat and

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Speaker 3: first podium and that discipline and yeah, yeah, digesting really

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Speaker 3: it's awesome, Yeah, it really is.

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Speaker 2: You've kind of alluded to my next question. She's obviously

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Speaker 2: a huge chance in the giant slalom, which I guess

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Speaker 2: you'd call her specialist event, but might she also contend

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Speaker 2: for the podium and Super G.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Alice has been really focused on giant slalom

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Speaker 3: this Olympic quad, but she said she's had quite a

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Speaker 3: history of super G as well, and with the coaching

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Speaker 3: team she was with in the last Olympic squad. She

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Speaker 3: put a fair bit of effort into super G, so

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Speaker 3: a lot of experience there, and you know, it's not

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Speaker 3: they are different sports. Superg's fatter, disciplined, supergs faster, and

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Speaker 3: things are spaced out a little bit more. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: she's still Alice Robinson. She's still on skis, so they're

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Speaker 3: not so far different that we wouldn't see crossover skill

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Speaker 3: and we've seen that now it's podium so you know,

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Speaker 3: it's not the same as GS. She hasn't done ten

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Speaker 3: podiums in a row or wherever sheees at now, but

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Speaker 3: certainly put herself on the radar and.

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Speaker 2: Chatting to her, she seemed to think, and I guess

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Speaker 2: it's natural that the location of these games, Milan Cortina

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Speaker 2: is going to be a lot more familiar in the

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Speaker 2: last two in China and in South Korea. Will that

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Speaker 2: also be the case for the other athletes who go

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Speaker 2: from a New Zealand point.

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