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Speaker 1: So the highlight of a very good night for rowing

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Speaker 1: was the gold, of course, and the women's doubles. Men's

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Speaker 1: forgot silver, women's forgot bronze. Brook Francis is with us

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Speaker 1: from Paris. Morning, good morning, this is particularly good morning.

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Speaker 1: It is a particularly good morning. Are you wearing your medal?

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Speaker 2: I am. I think I've only taken off once a shower.

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Speaker 1: As far as far as medals go. Is it a

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Speaker 1: good looking one?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this one's particularly good looking. It's got a we

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Speaker 2: pieces Eiffel Tower in the middle, and yeah, the French

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Speaker 2: do a pretty good job of everything.

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Speaker 1: I'd say fantastic. Now take us through the race. Did

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Speaker 1: you need to make it that exciting?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got some fierce competitors in the women's double

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Speaker 2: this whole olymp haad. The Romanians have actually been, you know,

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Speaker 2: leading the charts, and there's been some big battles going

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Speaker 2: on in the woman's double field. Our coach had said

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Speaker 2: to us before we got on the water that where

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Speaker 2: we're going to need to be brave today, and it's

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Speaker 2: what we tried to do through every five hundred and

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Speaker 2: to hear it was going to be tight to the

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Speaker 2: line and as we came into the finish, I made

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Speaker 2: a call and the call was Joe, which meant we

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Speaker 2: needed to wind like Joe and Nathan from the from

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Speaker 2: the London Olympics, and we managed to come out on

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Speaker 2: the right side of the finish line.

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Speaker 1: Because I was going to ask, you are how cognizant

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Speaker 1: of what's happening in the race when you're that pressured.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you definitely see a lot out of your peripheral vision,

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Speaker 2: but then it comes back to doing what you can

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Speaker 2: in your boat. And I knew Lucy was laying down

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Speaker 2: the watts and that's what I needed to do behind

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Speaker 2: her to keep our boat accelerating.

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Speaker 1: Did you have anything left at the end?

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Speaker 2: No, that was that was us spent. And I think

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Speaker 2: that's a credit to the Romanians that we were up

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Speaker 2: against our crew that you know, leave leave no phone unturned.

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Speaker 2: And the day before they had come from fourth place

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Speaker 2: to win in the last two hundred and fifty meters

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Speaker 2: of their race, so we knew they've got extra years

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Speaker 2: and we were just trying to make sure our bow

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Speaker 2: got out in front and then we covered that.

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Speaker 1: It's brilliant. You're not unfamiliar, of course, with World Championships.

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Speaker 1: With the middle and Tokyo. Where does this today sit

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Speaker 1: for you?

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Speaker 2: It's extremely special, but again still probably hasn't quite sunkin.

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Speaker 2: And I think it's been a rollercoaster over two years,

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Speaker 2: coming back from Tokyo, having a year off and then

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Speaker 2: deciding to start a family and continue my athletic career.

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Speaker 2: There's been so many highs and lows that you know,

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Speaker 2: no one would ever see. But that's been something that

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Speaker 2: I've been able to share with Lucy this whole time,

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Speaker 2: and we've had that belief in ourself that this is

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Speaker 2: something that we can do, and we yeah, we want

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Speaker 2: other mothers to know that hopefully they can pursue amazing

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Speaker 2: careers alongside being great mothers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking at funnily enough, I'm looking at a

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Speaker 1: photo of you and your daughter and your husband. Does

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Speaker 1: your daughter get it?

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Speaker 2: No, But she's been excited to hold my middle and

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Speaker 2: she knows it's a circle, and she knows it's gold.

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Speaker 2: And she did a great job of cheering and the

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Speaker 2: crowd today I got to watch her on the middle ceremony,

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Speaker 2: lifting both her arms up and giving us a huge,

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Speaker 2: big chair. But I think she was just probably happy

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Speaker 2: to see marm because it's been ten days, you know,

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Speaker 2: away from seeing her.

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Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Speaking of family, the Spoor family will be

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Speaker 1: fairly happy. Is Lucy beside herself?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And Lucy's words and Phoebe's words, their mum's been

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Speaker 2: she's turned into a puddle with all the tears. Basically,

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Speaker 2: it's been a phenomenal a day for the sports family.

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Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, And and a phenomenal day for Rowing New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: What does it say about our ability to keep producing champions?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're, you know, hopefully creating a really

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Speaker 2: good legacy. Our day started off with Tom and Emma

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Speaker 2: qualifying in the semi finals to get through the A finals.

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Speaker 2: And we're all a family and we know that if're.

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Speaker 1: Going well, we're all going well.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's something that gave our means a

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Speaker 2: woman's for a lot of confidence in hopefully with the

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Speaker 2: lightweight double tomorrow and the men's woman's singles on Saturday,

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Speaker 2: they're going to feel a lot of confidence and through

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Speaker 2: their races.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let's hope. So enjoy the night, Brook. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you time very much. Book Francis out of Paris

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