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Speaker 1: The special Olympic Summer Games have wrapped up in christ Church.

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Speaker 1: Might have seen some of their great footage on the

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Speaker 1: news last night. More than twelve hundred athletes from forty

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Speaker 1: two teams right across the country. It included a collective

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Speaker 1: from here in mid Canterbury, managed and coached by Colleen Lindsay.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back morning, Good morning. How did our athletes get on?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely amazing. We have so many gold, medal, silver, bronze.

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Speaker 1: Oh, name drops for us.

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Speaker 2: I've forgotten who's got bought. I don't know. Oller Gardener

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Speaker 2: she got two golds. Wow. Trevor Nish got a gold.

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Speaker 2: The Botchy players got a gold and a bronze.

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Speaker 1: So we've done well across both codes.

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Speaker 2: This woman, yeah, and the personal best were amazing. Everybody

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Speaker 2: did one did?

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Speaker 1: How did our cheerleaders show their support on the news

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Speaker 1: last night? It was so cool seeing you know, friends

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Speaker 1: and family with banners and chants. Do we have any

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Speaker 1: of that?

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Speaker 2: No, we have. We're a very small teams. Some of

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Speaker 2: our athletes don't have parents or anything.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, I would have meant a lot for them though.

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Speaker 1: I imagine what's been some of the cool feedback from the

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Speaker 1: athletes themselves.

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Speaker 2: They're just so happy they can't believe it that they've

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Speaker 2: done it. And they were dancing around and yeah, and

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Speaker 2: couldn't wait to tell people. And they made lots of friends,

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Speaker 2: friends with everybody sitting around.

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Speaker 1: Us and brilliant. Five massive days of driving up and

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Speaker 1: back of your.

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Speaker 2: Naked absolutely, although I did have a driver.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, as I heard. How's the rest, it's good,

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Speaker 1: thank you, excellent.

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Speaker 2: Two weeks tomorrow and it comes off.

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Speaker 1: Oh god, you'll be hanging out for that is. The

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Speaker 1: weather keeps heating up too. It's achieve yes, stinky. So

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Speaker 1: what's next for these athletes? Everybody gets a bit of

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Speaker 1: a break of a new year this.

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Speaker 2: Time, and then we'll just get back into our normal

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Speaker 2: what we're doing through the year, like ribbon meats and

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Speaker 2: things like that. We go basic reg Nors Canterbury, Canterbury.

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Speaker 2: That's about as far as we'll be going this year,

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Speaker 2: this coming year.

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Speaker 1: Do you think he makes these games happen every four years?

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Speaker 1: Will be some of this team that feature in four

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Speaker 1: years time? You reckon?

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Speaker 2: Yep, there will be some of the younger ones. Neat

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Speaker 2: as we can get them going and keep them up

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Speaker 2: and keep them interested. Oh, but they're great. They were

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Speaker 2: just wonderful, and the people that supported them with donations

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Speaker 2: and bits and pieces and buying rap fulls and things,

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Speaker 2: we say a very big thank you.

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Speaker 1: A lot of community sport and that's what we love

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Speaker 1: to see from around here. Colleen appreciates your wrap and

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Speaker 1: what an experience for our athletes in those special Olympic

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Speaker 1: Summer Games in christ Church,