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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 B.

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Speaker 2: There a clutch of players on twelve under, including Daniel Hilliot.

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Speaker 2: So exciting third round playing out and no doubt an

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Speaker 2: exciting fourth round to come tomorrow at the New Zealand

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Speaker 2: Golf Open. Great to welcome into the show. One of

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Speaker 2: New Zealand's most successful Winter Paralympians, Paralympic champion, multiple medalist,

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Speaker 2: one of the fastest sit skiers in the world, Corey Peters,

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Speaker 2: who joins US now ahead of the Games which are

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Speaker 2: underway and just under a week. How are you feeling,

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Speaker 2: Corey ahead of your fifth Winter Paralympics.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, feeling good.

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Speaker 4: Actually, we've had a good holding camp here in Italy,

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Speaker 4: so yeah, skims feeling pretty confident, like the schemes are

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Speaker 4: going really well. Had a bit of an up and

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Speaker 4: down season, you know, some good results here in the

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Speaker 4: World Cup along with you know a few not too

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Speaker 4: good results, but yeah, finished finished on a high at

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Speaker 4: the last World Cup in vason Uswitzerland, and from there

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Speaker 4: it's just been tracking really well. So excited to see

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Speaker 4: what I see what I can do in the next

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Speaker 4: couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: Did you believe in momentum? You know, I guess you know,

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Speaker 2: if you if things are going brilliantly, you say, well,

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Speaker 2: I'm going well, but but can you if things have

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Speaker 2: been inconsistent as you've just outlined there, Does that actually

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Speaker 2: matter once a pinnacle of vent or rights.

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Speaker 4: Well, it does to some degree obviously. You know, if

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Speaker 4: I'm scheme, well, then I know it and it sort

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Speaker 4: of helps with self confidence and stuff like that. But

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Speaker 4: in saying that, you know, like I've done it long

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Speaker 4: enough that I know, you know, turning up these big events,

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Speaker 4: how to kind of flick the switch, you know, so

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Speaker 4: to speak, and just turn it on and perform to

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Speaker 4: your best of your abilities. You know, some people sort

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Speaker 4: of crumble I guess under that under that big stage

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Speaker 4: and you know, the pressure, let the pressure get to them.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I think it's been my fourth games. I

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Speaker 4: think I've got the experience now to you know, be

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Speaker 4: able to turn that switch on and hopefully perform to

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Speaker 4: the best of my capabilities.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned a very important word, their experience. How much

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Speaker 2: do you think that matters? You know, having been to

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Speaker 2: multiple games, how much does that matter in terms of

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Speaker 2: being able to flick a switch? As you say, and

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Speaker 2: really turn up on the biggest of big occasions.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think experience plays a massive part, particularly for me.

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Speaker 4: I think in the speed events, you know, it's not

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Speaker 4: and start racing down all just because of.

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Speaker 3: I guess the risk involved.

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Speaker 4: Basically, like you know, you need to have really good technique,

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Speaker 4: good really good fundamental So for me, I think I've

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Speaker 4: built that over the last sort of fourteen years of

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Speaker 4: you know, competing professionally as a sit skier, so I

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Speaker 4: can kind of I just know how to turn that

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Speaker 4: switch on hopefully you know when the when it comes

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Speaker 4: to it. So looking really forward to it.

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Speaker 2: Are you going to it's a little going into these

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Speaker 2: games thinking about defending that gold from last time, that

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Speaker 2: is that your mindset?

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Speaker 4: I try not to think about that. That's kind of

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Speaker 4: like four years ago. I think we come into these

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Speaker 4: games with a new, clean slate. I think if I

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Speaker 4: start putting expectations like that on myself, it's sort.

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Speaker 3: Of, I guess, adds unnecessary pressure.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I think one thing that we've kind of

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Speaker 4: worked on this season is kind of working more towards

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Speaker 4: focusing on the process rather than the outcome, and I

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Speaker 4: guess traditionally like if I do that, then I tend

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: You get the fundamentals right, and you just nail all

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Speaker 4: the small things and the results tend to take care

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Speaker 4: of themselves. So yeah, as much as you know, the

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Speaker 4: goal is obviously to come home with a medal, but

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Speaker 4: that's something that I try and push to the back

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Speaker 3: That's kind of out of my hands. I guess.

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Speaker 4: What your competition does and the end result in a way,

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Speaker 4: So just concentrate on the small things and the things

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Speaker 2: Indeed, it's a high risk, high speed sport that you're

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Speaker 2: involved in, Corey. How do you balance pushing the limits

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Speaker 2: as much as you can without going over them?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a fine line for sure, especially in speed events.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I guess when you look at the competitors

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Speaker 4: mid twenties, pretty fearless, you know, no responsibilities, just completely Yeah,

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Speaker 4: just animals really so for me, you know, the age

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Speaker 4: a half year old, you do start to question how

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Speaker 4: much you push you over that line, But I think, yeah,

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Speaker 4: it just comes back to that experience again, I guess,

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Speaker 4: and just knowing how much you can and can't push.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, we'll just see when we turn up there.

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Speaker 4: We're rive into the village next week, so we'll be

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Speaker 4: snow conditions and yeah, hopefully we get some nice sunny weather.

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Speaker 2: Do you allow yourself to think about your legacy now?

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Speaker 2: I mean, you've meddled at every Paralympic you've been too

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Speaker 2: about to go to your fifth as I say, do

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Speaker 2: you think about the legacy that you're leaving or will

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Speaker 2: that come when you do finally finish?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you reflect on that, like after these games,

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Speaker 4: you know, if I decide to continue or you know,

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Speaker 4: whether or not I call it, you know, that's sort

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Speaker 4: of finished the career sort of thing. But yeah, it's

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Speaker 4: been a pretty special career and you know, pretty life

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Speaker 4: changing for me obviously with my motocross accident back in

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Speaker 4: two thousand and nine.

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Speaker 3: It's been amazing to be able to find a sport there.

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Speaker 4: I could sink my teeth into and excel in and

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Speaker 4: get to travel the world and meet amazing people and

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Speaker 4: collect a lot of our collades along the way. So

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Speaker 4: it's been Yeah, it's been pretty amazing really and sort

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Speaker 4: of turn that adversity into triumph really and so pretty

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Speaker 4: happy with myself, you know in that regards with Yeah,

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Speaker 4: just that sort of perseverance and determination and get up,

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Speaker 4: pick yourself up and carry on in life.

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Speaker 2: So when you haven't decided yet, or you may have,

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Speaker 2: you might just not want to tell us. But what

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Speaker 2: is what's going to inform that decision for you, Cory?

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Speaker 2: What what will make up your mind one way or

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Speaker 2: another whether you whether you carry on beyond these games?

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Speaker 3: Well, I think.

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Speaker 4: It's probably yeah, in my mind that I probably wouldn't

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Speaker 3: So this probably would be my last Paralympic Games.

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Speaker 4: But that's not saying that I won't continue for another

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Speaker 4: and stuff like that next year in France. I think

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Speaker 4: family has a big, big saying that, you know, like

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Speaker 4: it's I've had a pretty good career in fourteen years

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Speaker 4: and it's one that I'm obviously you really proud of.

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Speaker 4: And but there does come a point now where sort

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Speaker 4: of been away for four months at a time, there's

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Speaker 4: definitely hard with a little one at home, and you know,

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Speaker 4: four months is as a third of the year, you know,

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Speaker 4: so it definitely makes it tough been so far away

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Speaker 2: I bet, I bet in just the two of you

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Speaker 2: in the in the team, yourself and Adam Hall in

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Speaker 2: this in this team. Is there another wave coming Corey?

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Speaker 2: Have you since that there'll be you know, if indeed

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Speaker 2: this is your last. I'm not sure what Adam's plans are,

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Speaker 2: you know, is there a new wave to come through.

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Speaker 4: I think there's there's a bunch of guys that are

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Speaker 3: The Warnaka Queenstown area for sure.

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Speaker 4: Whether or not they you know, venture into the racing

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Speaker 4: side of it, you know, the competition side, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it's it would be nice.

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Speaker 4: To have some younger guys coming through, for sure, because

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Speaker 4: I think between Adam and myself we've got a lot

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Speaker 4: of knowledge and experience that we could perhaps pass on

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Speaker 4: of context that that could be certainly on the cards,

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Speaker 4: you know, just passing on, passing the torch on, you know,

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Speaker 4: to the next generation for.

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Speaker 2: Sure, just to finish. I read or heard you describe

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Speaker 2: your run in Beijing as the run of your life.

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Speaker 2: You reckon, You've got one more of those in.

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Speaker 3: You, I hope.

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Speaker 4: So, yeah, it was. It was a pretty special run.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, obviously it was a pretty unique games, you know,

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Speaker 4: with the whole COVID situation and not being able to

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Speaker 4: so this one's certainly different.

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Speaker 3: You know, we've had a proper four year.

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Speaker 4: Olympic cycle, you know, where you competitors a continuing to

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Speaker 4: get better and better, and yeah, the sport's grown so much.

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Speaker 4: Competition will be tough, but I'm definitely going to give

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Speaker 4: them by give it my best and hopefully we can

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Speaker 4: come away with another near perfect run.

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Speaker 2: Looking forward to seeing how you go, mate. Thanks for

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Speaker 2: jelling to us, Corey all the best for the next

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks, and yeah, we'll be watching with great

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Speaker 2: introspect and thanks.

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Speaker 3: For the jet okay, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Corey. Corey paid us ahead of his fifth

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Speaker 2: Winter Paralympic Games.

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