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Speaker 1: Winter Olympics, Milano, Cortina, Italy. Seventeen athletes, biggest team ever.

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Speaker 1: Zoe Sadowski Synate. You might have heard of the name,

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Speaker 1: alongside Luca Harrington freestyle slope style, Finn Melville ives of

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Speaker 1: course for free ski half pipe, Alice Robinson, who's doing

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Speaker 1: wonderful things these days in the opine skiing. They're all there.

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Speaker 1: Marty Toomey is the chef de mission and as well as.

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Speaker 2: Morning, good morning, my friend.

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Speaker 1: Are we all set to go and feeling good here?

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Speaker 2: We are that the teams all come and we're just

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Speaker 2: we're u from Courtena at the moment, just welcoming Alice

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Speaker 2: Robinson and her team in. We've done the same in

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Speaker 2: Livigno with all the parking pipe athletes and yeah, everyone's

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Speaker 2: coming in really good shape. Actually they're happy, they're healthy

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Speaker 2: and they're ready to go.

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Speaker 1: What about security, what's that look like?

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Speaker 2: Lots of different as you know probably in the Italian system,

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Speaker 2: lots of different police forces and they're out in force

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Speaker 2: in terms of checking everything, making sure that people don't

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Speaker 2: go places they're not supposed to go and everything right.

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Speaker 2: It feels really safe, feels.

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Speaker 1: Good, good for you, So are you happy with what

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Speaker 1: they're pulling on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what we've seen looks really really good bit of

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Speaker 2: snow happening up in the north at the moment around

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Speaker 2: center around Levigno and over to Courtena. So they'll have

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Speaker 2: a bit of work to do over the next couple

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Speaker 2: of days to tidy up. But they used to it,

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Speaker 2: so I don't think that'll impact.

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Speaker 1: I was going to ask the natural versus the man

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Speaker 1: made the conditions all of that. Does any of it matter?

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Speaker 1: Given it to the Olympics and it will happen anyway?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think these athletes are so used to it,

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Speaker 2: you know, at this kind of level, they do prefer

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Speaker 2: the natural snow, and they've got a good mix of that.

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Speaker 2: They made snow early on which gave them a really

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Speaker 2: good base, and then they've had good natural snow to

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Speaker 2: be able to groom into the slope. So I don't

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Speaker 2: think there be any issues at all in terms of

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Speaker 2: snow quantity. There's heaps of it. They'll just work really

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Speaker 2: hard to get it ready for the athletes to shine.

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Speaker 1: Work us through your team you mentioned elis of course

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Speaker 1: the level of experience, your role in that experience, settling

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Speaker 1: them in and settling them down, expectations and all of that.

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Speaker 2: Yes, So we've got the team we've got this time

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Speaker 2: is made up of seventeen snowsports athletes, so they're actually

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Speaker 2: quite unusual to have everyone coming from one sport, and

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Speaker 2: they've got really good, trusted routines that they work through

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Speaker 2: in terms of their tight team. So Team Alis has

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Speaker 2: got a crew that travels around the world with her,

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Speaker 2: and then the park and pipe team are similar. So

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Speaker 2: in terms of an Olympic environment, our role is to

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Speaker 2: create an environment that helps those athletes to shine. You know,

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Speaker 2: we make sure that the additional security, all those things

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Speaker 2: that they don't normally see aren't an issue. That they

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Speaker 2: just get on and do what they're very, very capable of.

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Speaker 2: So that's our role.

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Speaker 1: Is there enough experience in the team for them to,

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Speaker 1: you know, feel good about the Olympics as opposed to

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Speaker 1: feel overwhelmed by the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the beauty of this team. And we've

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Speaker 2: got people like Zoey Sadowski Singer and Alice who are

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Speaker 2: going to their third Olympic Winter Games and they're still

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Speaker 2: only twenty four, but they've been there, they've done that.

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Speaker 2: Some of them, you know, they've been incredibly successful, so

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Speaker 2: they can pass on that knowledge to the younger ethics

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Speaker 2: and I think that's actually helped the younger ones to

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Speaker 2: come into the Olympic environment really easily. They seem they

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Speaker 2: feel like they're in a really good headspace, which is great.

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Speaker 1: From a New Zealand point of view, Marty, the central

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Speaker 1: otigo feeder system that's clearly working. Now. Is there a

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Speaker 1: direct connection that you can see between us watching these

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Speaker 1: people excel from a system that appears to work, and

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Speaker 1: therefore the next step is more people do these sports

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Speaker 1: and therefore eventually end up where you are now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think one hundred percent. I think if you

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Speaker 2: can see it, you can be it. I think it's

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Speaker 2: a pretty good saying in sport. And you've got athletes

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Speaker 2: growing up, whether it Queenstown, Monica or maybe they come

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Speaker 2: down that way later on for the facilities, but they

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Speaker 2: can ride a chair lift with an Olympic or World champion,

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Speaker 2: so it doesn't feel too far away and they're excited

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Speaker 2: by it. They see these people, they realize they're just

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Speaker 2: really good humans competing in sport. And because of that,

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Speaker 2: I think, you know a lot of the young athletes

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Speaker 2: that are starting to come through and young in this sport.

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Speaker 2: You're talking about eight to ten or eight to twelve

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Speaker 2: are looking up to this crew and they're going, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I want to be like them. Pure it's really good.

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Speaker 2: I think the feeder systems great.

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Speaker 1: Good pressure question medals, how many.

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Speaker 2: Well, most successful games ever where I'd be incredibly happy

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Speaker 2: with with New Zealand with a Snow Sports. New Zealand

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Speaker 2: crew have had their best ever season the last season

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Speaker 2: and you know they've come and to just come off

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Speaker 2: in X games with six medals which was a huge hall.

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Speaker 2: We had three in Beijing. I'd be wanting to go

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Speaker 2: north of that. But you know, on the day when

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Speaker 2: you're on snow you never quite know what's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: That it is true, Marty go well appreciate it. Mardy

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Speaker 1: to me out of Italy this morning the shift mission,

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Speaker 1: it's eighteen to two. Was that the best quality line

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Speaker 1: you've ever heard? I mean, the guy could have been

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Speaker 1: next door. How is it you can have a line

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Speaker 1: that good from here to Italy and yet other days

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Speaker 1: you can't even connect around the corner. I don't understand it.

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