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Speaker 1: Elliott Smith Weekend Sports Hosters with Us. Elliott, welcome back,

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. You were just telling me you

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Speaker 1: were away for five weeks. Yes, did you miss the

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Speaker 1: New Zealand food, all the healthy stuff or were you

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Speaker 1: eating quite well over there?

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Speaker 2: No, it was getting quite well. We're Japanese to start with.

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Speaker 2: England Ireland. Yeah, it's somebody to hear. French food, Italian food,

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Speaker 2: a lot of paste.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's not bad actually risotto. Yeah, yeah, Well

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Speaker 1: it's a wonder you came home exactly.

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Speaker 2: All was considering just.

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Speaker 1: How are we going in the cricket.

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Speaker 2: We're going all right, but now not so much one

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Speaker 2: hundred and eighty six or four England a good partnership

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Speaker 2: at the moment, only opened, Harry Brook. Did you just

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Speaker 2: threatening to take not to take the game away from

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Speaker 2: the Black Caps. But they made some end roads off

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Speaker 2: four down shortly after lunch and now a good partnership

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Speaker 2: for England. So they're settling in at the moment and

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Speaker 2: knuckling down and New Zealand's still a head one hundred

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Speaker 2: and sixty two. Bart This partnership, if it goes on

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Speaker 2: a bit further, could just put some pressure on the

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Speaker 2: Black caps. We took our last book at about one

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Speaker 2: hundred runs ago. Off the top of my head, it

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Speaker 2: was just after lunch, so we're looking it to a

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Speaker 2: three hours ago.

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Speaker 1: Now, yeah, okay, okay, Now eagersh Fion Teks has tested

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Speaker 1: positive for a banned substance. Yes, what was it.

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Speaker 2: It's called teams as. It's got a longer name, but

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to try and pronounce it. It's It

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Speaker 2: was in Malatona and it was lake medicine she was taking,

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Speaker 2: so it's part of that and she took it as

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Speaker 2: part of her routine because she's flying around the globe

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Speaker 2: and has been cleared from doing so. We'll give it

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Speaker 2: a one month ban, but effectively being cleared for doing

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Speaker 2: so on the basis that it was not purposely taken. Now,

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Speaker 2: this seems it odds for me against every other rule

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Speaker 2: that goes and intensity. You know, Mary shop Over got

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Speaker 2: done for fifteen months a few years ago for taking

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Speaker 2: heart medicine. Now, it's the responsibility of the athletes to

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Speaker 2: take what they're putting in the body. That's always what

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Speaker 2: these drug free agencies say, it's your responsibility. And yet

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Speaker 2: we've had this year, we've had the world number one

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Speaker 2: Eagerson Tech now and we had Nick Cinny. You might

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Speaker 2: remember that the men's world number one for a handspray

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Speaker 2: basically effectively cleared of that despite testing positive twice to

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Speaker 2: a banned substance. So beginning to feel like there's one

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Speaker 2: rule for some players, some athletes in one rule for another.

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Speaker 2: These are two high profile tennis players. I am staggered

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Speaker 2: that she's been able to get away with a one

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Speaker 2: month ban this.

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Speaker 1: Thing that she's tested positive for. What does it do

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Speaker 1: to you to does it make you a better player?

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Speaker 2: No, well, it's a banned substance. Effectively, in theory it would.

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Speaker 1: It's not always the case, but not the case. But

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Speaker 1: because some sports, for it, is this like just the tennis.

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Speaker 2: Is it just a tennis rules or is this the world?

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Speaker 1: Because if you test positive for marijuana, you get banned,

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Speaker 1: and that does not make you a better player or

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Speaker 1: it doesn't.

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Speaker 2: Think it's a banned substance. So it's banned from yeah,

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Speaker 2: so and same for any other illicit drug or any

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Speaker 2: performance enhancing drug. This is on the list. So I'm staggered.

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Speaker 2: Given the amount of education that these athletes get around,

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Speaker 2: as I say, putting these things into your body. All

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Speaker 2: of them are so careful, well most of them are

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Speaker 2: so careful around what they eat and what they do,

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Speaker 2: whether it's a subs or vitamins, whatever it might be,

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Speaker 2: that they check it rigidly and they look on the

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Speaker 2: registers and everything like that. To get away with one

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Speaker 2: month band seems staggering to me.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Elliott, thanks for I really appreciate that. That's Elliot Smith.

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Speaker 1: We can Sport hosts will be back midday to three

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Speaker 1: pm tomorrow and Sunday.

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