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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from News Talks EDB.

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Speaker 2: Let's get you across the Tasman and bring in our

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Speaker 2: Australian correspondent Adam Peacock in the car on the way

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Speaker 2: to golf. I think that's the weather for your game today,

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Speaker 2: a man, and good afternoon.

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Speaker 3: Good afternoon. Yes the sun's out but the wind is up.

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Speaker 3: Let's give me interesting to the Test match later the

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Speaker 3: Sarto and Sydney accelling with the Wallabies. But yeah, I

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Speaker 3: think I've just basically decide because I play on a

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Speaker 3: links course. It's basically, well, you guys are watching so

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Speaker 3: much at the British Open at Troon, you can bloody

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Speaker 3: play it as well.

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Speaker 2: That's what we're in for, Lynks golf, love it all right. Well,

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Speaker 2: before you get to the course, A couple of things

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Speaker 2: I wanted to kick around with you. I saw ESPN

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Speaker 2: publish their list this week of the top twenty five

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Speaker 2: Australian athletes of the twenty first century. So this is

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Speaker 2: obviously from the year two thousand onwards. Ian Thorpe at

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Speaker 2: the top. Then Ash Party, the tennis player, basketballer Lauren Jackson,

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Speaker 2: cricketer Elise Perry and footballer Sam Kerr of the top

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Speaker 2: five Ian thought. Would he be generally recognized as number

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Speaker 2: one of the last twenty five years or so?

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Speaker 3: Probably not, But you can't argue with it. I can

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Speaker 3: understand it because he was he was so good as

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Speaker 3: a kid at the two thousand Olympics and he was

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Speaker 3: verging on dominant at the two thousand and one World Championships.

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Speaker 3: In two thousand and four Athens Olympics, he backed it

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Speaker 3: all up, so I've an amazing swim. I don't think

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Speaker 3: we fully appreciate how he did what he did. I

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Speaker 3: mean he burst onto the scene of the World Championships

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Speaker 3: when he was fourteen or fifteen and did what he

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Speaker 3: did at the Sydney Olympics when he was seventeen. It

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Speaker 3: was just like otherworldly. So yeah, incredible athlete. Can't argue

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Speaker 3: with that. The only thing that has got my head

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Speaker 3: scratching about this list, and look, but I've seen a

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Speaker 3: few of these pop up around the world at the

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Speaker 3: moment twenty five for twenty five years is Kathy Freeman.

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Speaker 3: She's come up with the best Australian sporting moment of

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Speaker 3: the twenty first century. At the Sydney two thousand Olympics

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Speaker 3: and she's way down the list. It's a difficult wander

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Speaker 3: weigh up. I don't envy the person who actually had

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Speaker 3: to carry out the instruction, but yeah, is there a right?

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Speaker 3: Is there a wrong? And so it's a really hard one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, widthless of this sort. As you know, you've probably

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Speaker 2: been asked to put them together yourself at your top

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Speaker 2: five and my top five might cross over a little bit,

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Speaker 2: but there's always discussion points. Keen on your thoughts on

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Speaker 2: Ash Barti and her she's number two on this particular list.

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Speaker 2: Her contribution to tennis and your country and to Australian sport.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she is universally love of a nationwide love Ash Party.

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Speaker 3: I should say universally because we're just one country in

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Speaker 3: the universe. But you know what I mean, everyone loves

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Speaker 3: ass Party. No one has a bad word to say

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Speaker 3: about her. Incredibly humble human being. I've done some good

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Speaker 3: things for indigenous sport and tennis and a fantastic tennis

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Speaker 3: player as well to throw in there, and probably we're

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Speaker 3: talking about someone if she stayed playing, and fair play

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Speaker 3: to her for not because he didn't want to someone

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Speaker 3: who wins ten twelve Grand Slams. But she won what

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Speaker 3: she won and did it in a style that everyone

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Speaker 3: loved here in Australia. It wasn't a grinding style. It

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Speaker 3: had a bit of style about it. So yeah, no

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Speaker 3: argument is there, Absolutely not all.

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Speaker 2: Right, And the sport most represented in the top ten

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Speaker 2: is cricket at least Perry. I mentioned it four, Ricky

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Speaker 2: Ponting six, Shane Warn seven. An any argument that that's

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Speaker 2: not the right order at least Perry, Ricky Ponting, Shane Warn.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Warning did a bit of his did a bit

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Speaker 3: of his thing in the other century, So I get

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Speaker 3: all that. At least Perry probably goes so high because

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Speaker 3: she's actually scored in a women's football World Cup as well,

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Speaker 3: like multi sport, and look, she's for a sport that

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Speaker 3: is hurtling towards more and more publicity and eyeballs and everything,

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Speaker 3: women's cricket. She was at the forefront of it. She's

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Speaker 3: a bit of a tildblazer. And every kid now who's fifteen,

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Speaker 3: they're in awe of Elisee Perry, not just fans of her, like,

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Speaker 3: they just absolutely love her. So yeah, a huge name

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Speaker 3: and probably deserves to be in that top ten somewhere

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Speaker 3: all right.

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Speaker 2: As to say, these lists are debated endlessly but always

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Speaker 2: good food for thought and for discussion. Just before you go,

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Speaker 2: I see Ange posta cooglu and charge of Spurs. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: the Australian boss has been talked about as a possibility,

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Speaker 2: a possibility as a successor to Gareth Southgate as England's

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Speaker 3: No, I don't know. That's more hope than anything else,

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Speaker 3: but I'd be amazed. Yeah, you can't rule anything out,

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Speaker 3: And I mean, if the financial package is good enough,

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Speaker 3: he might, but I just can't see it on his radar.

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Speaker 3: He's a club coach. He got so frustrated as soccer boss. Sorry,

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Speaker 3: I'm just reversing my car. That's the beat. That's just

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Speaker 3: not my car reacting to us talking about and the

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Speaker 3: possibility of oaking England. But I just can't see it

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Speaker 3: happening at this stage of his life. He might go

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Speaker 3: on to become a national team coach somewhere again, but

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Speaker 3: that's in a decade, not now.

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Speaker 2: All right, Hey, you've got to leave there, Adam. We

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Speaker 2: need to get to San Diego. Not putting you on

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Speaker 2: hold of course, but we'll look forward to chanting to

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Speaker 2: you next week, by which time the Olympics will be underway.

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Speaker 2: I know you're part of stand Sports coverage of the

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Speaker 2: Olympics on that side of the Tasman. Looking forward to

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Speaker 2: chatting about your various medals and hopefully some of ours

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Speaker 2: as well. Good to chat to you, Adam Peacock, our

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Speaker 2: Australian correspondent.

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