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Speaker 2: Split Born and Haley.

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Speaker 3: On today's Fact of the Day of the Week, Bourne

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Speaker 3: plunged himself on the couch for a week of Paralympics.

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Speaker 1: It's time for Fact of the Day.

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Speaker 2: Do do doo doo. I wondered why that was. It

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Speaker 2: didn't sound right cphone.

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Speaker 3: I actually think it might be flitch because before I

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Speaker 2: I think so too, because I didn't touch that it

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Speaker 2: was and I had to go like that. Feel free

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Speaker 2: to feel free to operate your own microphone at your will.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's actually your job because you've got the buttons, and.

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Speaker 4: He's responsibilities to fellow employers. I don't want to.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to. I don't want that. Write that down,

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Speaker 2: Write that down, write that down. We're here to bring

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Speaker 2: this vibe higher, and I bring the scene.

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Speaker 4: Blame for anything, hands off, hands off, and the ViBe's right.

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Speaker 4: I'm doing my job and I don't know. It feels

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Speaker 4: pretty good. Vibe feels pretty good, right, it's a Paralympics

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Speaker 4: themed fact of the week this weekday where month?

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Speaker 2: Yeah h, no further comment. You're for the comment, your honor.

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Speaker 4: So I found this a fascinating story, a fascinating story.

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Speaker 2: The Paralympics.

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Speaker 4: People who compete may have sustained a life altering injury.

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Speaker 4: Perhaps they were born differently abled. This is the story

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Speaker 4: about Oksana Masters, who was born in nineteen eighty nine.

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Speaker 2: That's the year I was born, and Taylor Swift in

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Speaker 2: the Ukraine. Yeah, three years after the Ukraine. I don't

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Speaker 2: say that, I do appon it's not and it's not

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Speaker 2: the Vorn star Ukraine it is. It's not there to

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Speaker 2: addressed in fletch, the Vorn and the definitive Vorn. Could

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Speaker 2: it be a fletch above orn and somehow?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, she was born in Ukraine in nineteen eighty nine,

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Speaker 4: three years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Well that caused a lot of birth defects,

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Speaker 4: She was born with severe physical defects okay, because of

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Speaker 4: the exposure to the radiation, including six toes, webbed fingers,

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Speaker 4: missing some Organs. Oh god was as well as I

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Speaker 4: have been to Chernobyl.

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Speaker 2: Is this going to start? Am I going to go

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Speaker 2: to kick organs? To go do account on your organst

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Speaker 2: start growing extra couple of toes.

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Speaker 4: You know, she was born there, she was in utero,

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Speaker 4: her mother was in the zone, was in the zone right,

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Speaker 4: and she was conceived and it affected the the the

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Speaker 4: fetus she was born. These were some of her birth defects. Right,

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Speaker 4: You think, what a disadvantage start to life. She won

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Speaker 4: a gold medal at the Paralympics across country skiing far out.

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Speaker 2: What have you done? Have won lots of gold medal?

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Speaker 3: You were born at the same Yeah, yeah, I know,

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Speaker 3: but not near Taylor.

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Speaker 4: Sell out to us, this woman, all these disadvantages go

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Speaker 4: go middle at the Paralympics, Hailey Sprout TBC.

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Speaker 3: Hailey Sprout TBC when my life is still just developing.

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Speaker 3: I'm still extremely young. I'm still on this side of thirty.

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Speaker 2: Are you going to win anything like you were nominated?

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Speaker 1: Win a lot?

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Speaker 2: I've won a lot. Marching doesn't count. The marching isn't

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Speaker 2: a sport.

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Speaker 3: Why not?

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Speaker 2: What have you done? Come down?

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Speaker 1: Wow?

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Speaker 2: Really the nerve there?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, come down sight up, give us a smile then.

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Speaker 4: So she won two of the five medals she won

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Speaker 4: at the Paralympics in Tokyo as well, even though they

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so she was raised in the US and that's

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Speaker 4: what she competes for because she was adopted by a

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Speaker 4: she said she was missing weight bearing bones in her legs.

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Speaker 4: Her knees were described as floating. They weren't really supported

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Speaker 1: Like, all of it.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine? All of this is doubt to her.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So how did she was what she said, the

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Speaker 2: So what was it? Cross country skier? Yes? So did they?

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Speaker 2: How did she adapt the skis? I don't. I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I don't know the adaptations or even what because you

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Speaker 3: S twenty and see something or rather all stands for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the different stuff. That's just and they'll tell you what.

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Speaker 4: The Olympics is cool, you watch it, But the Paralympics

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Sometimes the gym and I just say.

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Speaker 4: That not to no reason why And you've got.

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Speaker 3: Everything slight tinge in the knee, too much to overcome,

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Speaker 2: And better go home. You'll just laid down and kill over. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So today's fact of the day is it's time to

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Speaker 4: a gold medal at the Paralympics across country.

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Speaker 1: Scamp plays Faugh and Hailey.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be Paralympic facts all this week is the

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Speaker 2: We've got two silvers and a bronze already.

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Speaker 4: Something says one of our very talented athletes said to

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Speaker 4: time in the Paralympics. But the Paralympics is I thought

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Speaker 4: we're going to let the history of the Paralymics and

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Speaker 4: how it started well. Doctor Ludwig Gutmann was a Jewish

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Speaker 4: they would do them more regularly for their rehab.

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Speaker 2: Of the Olympics.

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Speaker 4: II with altering injuries. Wow, that meant that they couldn't

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Speaker 4: In nineteen seventy six the first Winter Paralympics Games took

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Speaker 4: today's fact of the day is the Paralympics started because

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Speaker 1: Play play We're talking about the Paralympics all week this week.

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Speaker 4: And I watched some of the swimming last night, and

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Speaker 4: It's nuts, how it is everything you watch at the

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Speaker 4: Paralympics so inspiring, amazing, I said yesterday the Olympics, you're.

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Speaker 4: At the Paralympics, you're like, wow, that's amazing and awfully

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Speaker 4: INSPI hiring and making me feel terrible. Yep, but boy,

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Speaker 4: some athletes there. So we're concentrating on the Paralympics all

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Speaker 4: week this week. Producer Shannon sent me this yesterday saying,

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Speaker 4: what about the fact of the day about people that

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Speaker 4: have competed at both the Olympics and the Paralympics. Oh, okay,

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Speaker 4: One A New Zealander narrowly Fairhall was born in nineteen

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Speaker 4: forty four on christ Church. She took up archery following

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Speaker 4: ending her previous athletics career. She'd always been out there

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Speaker 4: Commonwealth Games Young Brisbane for archery in nineteen eighty two.

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Speaker 4: She competed at the Los Angeles Olympic Games in nineteen

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Speaker 4: the Summer Paralympics in nineteen seventy two, nineteen eighty, ninety

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Speaker 4: eighty eight, in the year two thousand, okay, for archery.

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Speaker 4: So that's a new Zealand are doing it well?

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Speaker 1: She was, she was.

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Speaker 4: Paraplegic Okay, when she competed at the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna ask what she was so good?

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Speaker 4: She as partlegic competed at the Olympics, okay, and also

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Speaker 4: went to the Paralympics.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of the same year. Because I guess, Untrie is

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Speaker 2: you're either standing or sitting right, like, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Now, the first person to have won and one

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Speaker 4: You know when the blind cycling, the vision impaired cycling. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Play CDMs Fleedsvaughn and Hailey.

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Speaker 4: There is the Paralympics, which is an amazing event and

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Speaker 2: Naughty, naughty Spain.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, some naughty Spanish people running through. So ten of

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Speaker 4: There's cheating at the Paralympics as well, and perhaps no

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Speaker 4: Very few of them ever had anything that would qualify

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Speaker 4: The Paralympics medals are a little bit different to the

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Speaker 4: Yes, how well, I'll go back to twenty twelve, okay,

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Speaker 2: It's a wayward trial. I'll say it's all over the

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Speaker 2: show London. I'm going to call it a shit storm. Sure, okay,

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Speaker 4: London's Paralympics medals were more or less the same, except

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Speaker 4: it had braille writing on it. Oh. Yes, The reverse

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Speaker 4: featured the rim around it read London twenty twelve Paralympic Games.

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Speaker 2: Can I ask a stupid question? Is braille in? Is

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Speaker 2: It's just Mambraille.

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Speaker 4: Braille was developed by and named after Louis Braille. Yes,

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Speaker 4: Brailer is not a universal languages some people assume. Although

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Speaker 2: There is different braills. Interesting sow twelve they had brailgy accepted.

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Speaker 2: Fletch twenty didn't apologize, Well, it's accepted anywhere. I am

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Speaker 2: not let my apology I have received. He wasn't wrong.

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Speaker 2: He was because you said, no, it's not in all

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Speaker 2: There's a Spanish brail, there's German brails. Laughed because he

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Speaker 2: It's fine with jo. Okay, I'm confused.

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Speaker 4: So twenty twenty, in Tokyo, the they again had Braill

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Speaker 3: Bronze medal had three ins. Oh, okay, so that was

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Speaker 3: what did that signify? No, I'm kidding, I got it.

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Speaker 2: He was a dama.

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Speaker 4: Now the Paralympic medals this year for twenty twenty four

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Speaker 2: It's my favorite view of the Eiffel Tower. Get up

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Speaker 2: underneath and the perverts. It looks bigger from a lower end.

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Speaker 4: Upstating any big buildings skytower with a large base. I

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Speaker 4: is Brail on this one, and different engravings on the

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Speaker 4: I think the coolest Paralympic medals were those of the

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Speaker 2: Rio did. They're all my favorite Olympics, my favorite form

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but real Degenera had Braille. But each medal also

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Speaker 2: What's inside it? Different things? Rice, rice or whatever they

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Speaker 5: So come with their own sound. Rattle inside gives off

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Speaker 5: Visually impaired athletes tell the difference between each award the gold.

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Speaker 4: But that's the coolest because it had braille on it

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Speaker 2: So if you went to and you did, you did

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Speaker 4: Had a lot of my medals and you had them

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Speaker 2: the end of Paralympics week. It is the end of

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Speaker 2: Paralympics Week. I've enjoyed it thoroughly. Yeah, afterday simply made

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Speaker 4: It wasn't a huge at the office, but it's really

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Speaker 2: On DVD and.

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Speaker 4: Huge control and calendar week. So today's back to today

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Speaker 4: is the Paralympic medals are just a little bit different.

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