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Speaker 1: To the Games. Of course, it's been a golden knight

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Speaker 1: fin Butcher the canoe slalom cross. He is a winner

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Speaker 1: and he is with us. Good morning, good morning, How

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Speaker 1: are we very well? Indeed warmest congratulations. Does it feel

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Speaker 1: like you thought it would?

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Speaker 2: Yep, it does. It feels pretty good. It definitely hasn't

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Speaker 2: sun Cap. We've been we've been flat out since then

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Speaker 2: with all sorts of things. But yeah, man, I'm pretty

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Speaker 2: pretty start.

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Speaker 1: Take us through the event itself. Do you like the

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Speaker 1: canoe slalom cross? Obviously, because you won gold, you must do,

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Speaker 1: but as an event, do you like it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I reckon, it's awesome. It's been like it's obviously

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Speaker 2: the first time in the Games, but yeah, we've been

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Speaker 2: doing it for quite a while, and it's it's pretty

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Speaker 2: spectator friendly, you know, like people love to head to head,

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Speaker 2: love crashes if there's any blood. That's also a bit

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Speaker 2: of a fan favorite. But yeah, it's it's pretty crazy.

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Speaker 2: It's it's definitely enjoyable and exciting.

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Speaker 1: Did you have an assessment of the field going into

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Speaker 1: the tournament at the start of all of this or not? Really?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, like we knew that most

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Speaker 2: of the top guys are here. Yeah, there's different qualification

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Speaker 2: rules and things like that, which which meant maybe one

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Speaker 2: or two of the the best around the best anyway,

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Speaker 2: not here, but I think most of the top ten

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Speaker 2: in the world ranking you here, and we we also

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Speaker 2: race each other a lot over the season anyways, so

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Speaker 2: we pretty much pretty much know who's who. And there's

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Speaker 2: no one coming out of the woodwork randomly at the time.

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Speaker 1: So can you is it? Is it cross? Is it crossable?

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Speaker 1: If you like it? For want of a much better expression,

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Speaker 1: if you're doing slalom, you can do the cross. If

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Speaker 1: you can do the cross, you can do the slalom.

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Speaker 1: Or individual skills needed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean a lot of people, well, most of

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Speaker 2: us double up. It's definitely there's some there's some individual skills,

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Speaker 2: but you know, like most of our fitness and strength

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Speaker 2: workers all coming from from our slalom training, and then yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're pretty much all of us would have started and

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Speaker 2: slalom really and then gone from there. But even know,

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Speaker 2: maybe you know, in the next ten years we might

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Speaker 2: see some some specialists coming out, but at the moment, yeah,

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Speaker 2: most people were doubling up.

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Speaker 1: You got friends and family to celebrate with you.

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Speaker 2: I do, Yeah, I do. I'm pretty excited to get

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Speaker 2: to them. They are meeting us out at New Zealand

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Speaker 2: House a bit later on, so yeah, once we once

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Speaker 2: were clear out of the venue and get things moving,

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Speaker 2: I hopefully catch up with them. That they were all

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Speaker 2: at the course today, so I was bloody good to

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Speaker 2: have them in the stands.

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Speaker 1: Man, I reckon, it was all right mate, go well,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it very much for Butcher. Kayak slalom Cross is

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Speaker 1: what we're officially calling that, but a golds of gold

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Speaker 1: and we're happy about that. Or from the mic Asking Breakfast.

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