1 00:00:06,667 --> 00:00:10,387 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport Podcast with Jason Vine 2 00:00:10,707 --> 00:00:11,787 Speaker 1: from News Talk ZEDB. 3 00:00:13,107 --> 00:00:16,547 Speaker 2: Back to back Olympic medals for single sculler Emma Twig. 4 00:00:16,707 --> 00:00:21,067 Speaker 3: Florine still has the lead the Netherlens Florine could see 5 00:00:21,107 --> 00:00:24,027 Speaker 3: Emma Twig closing in and she's up to her stripe 6 00:00:24,067 --> 00:00:27,627 Speaker 3: rate and we're almost back to one boat legs difference 7 00:00:28,067 --> 00:00:31,467 Speaker 3: between the Netherlands and New Zealand. It looks like it's 8 00:00:31,507 --> 00:00:34,387 Speaker 3: gonna be silver for New Zealands. Emma Twig coming to 9 00:00:34,427 --> 00:00:39,867 Speaker 3: the line. Caroline Florine of the Netherlands gets the gold medal. 10 00:00:40,147 --> 00:00:40,787 Speaker 2: New Zealands. 11 00:00:40,787 --> 00:00:45,867 Speaker 3: Emma Twig gets silver and she's exhausted. She's given it 12 00:00:45,947 --> 00:00:46,307 Speaker 3: her all. 13 00:00:46,587 --> 00:00:48,787 Speaker 2: She certainly has, and she's won a silver medal to 14 00:00:48,787 --> 00:00:51,187 Speaker 2: go with the gold that she picked up in Tokyo 15 00:00:51,307 --> 00:00:55,307 Speaker 2: three years ago. Emma Twig is with a long day. 16 00:00:55,387 --> 00:01:00,307 Speaker 4: How are you feeling, I'm I'm it's all sinking in. 17 00:01:00,787 --> 00:01:03,787 Speaker 4: But it's been an awesome day and you're super proud 18 00:01:03,787 --> 00:01:06,907 Speaker 4: of today. Yeah, a nice way to kind of kept 19 00:01:06,987 --> 00:01:07,867 Speaker 4: things off for the team. 20 00:01:08,267 --> 00:01:11,067 Speaker 2: Talk us through the race from start to finish and 21 00:01:11,227 --> 00:01:12,947 Speaker 2: the and the key moments in it for you. 22 00:01:14,547 --> 00:01:16,787 Speaker 4: Uh, yeah, because we had a plan and I know 23 00:01:16,987 --> 00:01:19,147 Speaker 4: the quality of the girls that I'm racing and how 24 00:01:19,187 --> 00:01:20,867 Speaker 4: they've raced in the past, So the idea. 25 00:01:20,747 --> 00:01:23,707 Speaker 5: Was to keep in touch with Carolyn, and that's kind 26 00:01:23,707 --> 00:01:24,587 Speaker 5: of how it unfolded. 27 00:01:24,627 --> 00:01:28,667 Speaker 4: And at moments I thought that I was gonna walk through, 28 00:01:28,747 --> 00:01:31,547 Speaker 4: but unfortunately the legs lasted until about the last hundred 29 00:01:31,587 --> 00:01:33,987 Speaker 4: meters and then it was just a matter of surviving 30 00:01:34,067 --> 00:01:35,547 Speaker 4: and getting across the line in one piece. 31 00:01:36,467 --> 00:01:39,267 Speaker 2: She's I mean, she's been, you know, quite dominant, hasn't 32 00:01:39,267 --> 00:01:42,827 Speaker 2: she in this particular you know event, I mean, to 33 00:01:42,907 --> 00:01:45,747 Speaker 2: get as close as you did, you know, you do 34 00:01:45,867 --> 00:01:47,947 Speaker 2: you take a certain amount of pride out of that. 35 00:01:49,587 --> 00:01:52,507 Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, she's she's been dominant in the last three years. 36 00:01:53,147 --> 00:01:55,547 Speaker 4: She's got some real pedigree, and yeah, it's been It's 37 00:01:55,547 --> 00:01:58,427 Speaker 4: been pretty awesome racing someone of her caliber, and she's 38 00:01:58,427 --> 00:02:00,507 Speaker 4: definitely had to target on her back for the Olympic cycle, 39 00:02:00,627 --> 00:02:02,107 Speaker 4: so to push her as hard as I did today, 40 00:02:02,547 --> 00:02:05,187 Speaker 4: I'm super proud of that. And yeah, it's also just 41 00:02:05,267 --> 00:02:07,667 Speaker 4: lovely to be standing on the podium with someone that 42 00:02:07,747 --> 00:02:10,067 Speaker 4: you've shared some pretty good times with over the last 43 00:02:10,067 --> 00:02:10,507 Speaker 4: three years. 44 00:02:11,027 --> 00:02:14,147 Speaker 2: What about what about the last eight years for you, though, Emma, 45 00:02:14,267 --> 00:02:16,667 Speaker 2: you know, eight years ago, could you have imagined the 46 00:02:16,787 --> 00:02:18,107 Speaker 2: eight years you've just had. 47 00:02:20,267 --> 00:02:23,387 Speaker 5: Probably not, to be honest. Yeah, Obviously, hanging up the 48 00:02:23,427 --> 00:02:25,227 Speaker 5: oars after Rio, I thought that was that. 49 00:02:25,547 --> 00:02:27,187 Speaker 4: And to be able to now say that I'm a 50 00:02:27,267 --> 00:02:30,427 Speaker 4: two time Olympic medalist is Yes, It's kind of what 51 00:02:30,547 --> 00:02:33,547 Speaker 4: dreams are made of. So yeah, it's just today it 52 00:02:33,627 --> 00:02:35,547 Speaker 4: was nice to kind of go out there and not 53 00:02:35,667 --> 00:02:37,987 Speaker 4: have anything to prove and just race the best that 54 00:02:38,067 --> 00:02:41,067 Speaker 4: I possibly could, and a silver medal for me today, 55 00:02:41,467 --> 00:02:43,467 Speaker 4: there's equally as much pride in that story as there 56 00:02:43,627 --> 00:02:46,187 Speaker 4: was the one that I got in Tokyo. 57 00:02:46,467 --> 00:02:48,627 Speaker 2: That's so cool. Can you just take us back to 58 00:02:48,707 --> 00:02:50,867 Speaker 2: the decision to pick the oars back up again and 59 00:02:52,227 --> 00:02:55,547 Speaker 2: what you know informed that decision after Rio, because I 60 00:02:55,627 --> 00:02:57,547 Speaker 2: know how gutting Rio was for you. 61 00:02:59,667 --> 00:03:01,667 Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess it's something that I reflect on now, 62 00:03:01,787 --> 00:03:04,507 Speaker 4: especially as people also have similar results to those fourth 63 00:03:04,547 --> 00:03:06,627 Speaker 4: places that I had, and just the kind of brings 64 00:03:06,667 --> 00:03:07,787 Speaker 4: back the fields to that time. 65 00:03:09,147 --> 00:03:11,147 Speaker 5: But I guess on reflection and taking some. 66 00:03:11,227 --> 00:03:14,267 Speaker 4: Time away, it just it made me appreciate that actually 67 00:03:14,347 --> 00:03:18,067 Speaker 4: it's everything else around winning medals that is the thing 68 00:03:18,147 --> 00:03:20,627 Speaker 4: that motivates me and gets me up in the morning, 69 00:03:20,747 --> 00:03:25,187 Speaker 4: and the training sequal is challenging to me, is racing 70 00:03:25,267 --> 00:03:27,347 Speaker 4: in these finals. So yeah, that was kind of the 71 00:03:27,427 --> 00:03:30,067 Speaker 4: logic behind the return, and I think with that mindset 72 00:03:30,227 --> 00:03:32,107 Speaker 4: it's become so much more enjoyable for me. 73 00:03:33,027 --> 00:03:37,507 Speaker 2: And beyond Tokyo, it was always the plan to head 74 00:03:37,547 --> 00:03:39,827 Speaker 2: for Paris or was that a decision you thought a 75 00:03:39,907 --> 00:03:40,547 Speaker 2: bit about as well. 76 00:03:42,587 --> 00:03:44,827 Speaker 4: To be honest, I thought Tokyo would be the last. 77 00:03:45,547 --> 00:03:48,227 Speaker 4: But I guess what Tokyo proved to me was that 78 00:03:48,747 --> 00:03:51,627 Speaker 4: you can really enjoy what you're doing. And I'd worked 79 00:03:51,667 --> 00:03:53,827 Speaker 4: for twenty years to achieve that result, and I kind 80 00:03:53,867 --> 00:03:56,427 Speaker 4: of wanted to make the most of an Olympic cycle. 81 00:03:56,467 --> 00:03:59,507 Speaker 4: I guess the three years was also much more appealing 82 00:03:59,547 --> 00:04:02,547 Speaker 4: than for and just make the most of kind of 83 00:04:02,627 --> 00:04:07,227 Speaker 4: being a defending champ and yeah, just enjoy what would 84 00:04:07,227 --> 00:04:08,827 Speaker 4: be the last three years of my career. And it's 85 00:04:08,947 --> 00:04:10,947 Speaker 4: been exactly that. It's been a real joy, all right. 86 00:04:11,027 --> 00:04:12,667 Speaker 2: So that is it now. 87 00:04:14,307 --> 00:04:17,227 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm saying it's a last on flat water, but 88 00:04:17,747 --> 00:04:20,787 Speaker 4: yeah it's I mean, I've learned in the past and 89 00:04:20,867 --> 00:04:23,587 Speaker 4: never say never, but I can pretty safely say that 90 00:04:23,707 --> 00:04:26,187 Speaker 4: the single skull, I've achieved all that I want to 91 00:04:26,427 --> 00:04:27,227 Speaker 4: a netboat class. 92 00:04:27,267 --> 00:04:29,387 Speaker 2: For sure, it's been incredible and as far as the 93 00:04:29,427 --> 00:04:32,027 Speaker 2: New Zealand team is concerned that this regatta again is 94 00:04:32,187 --> 00:04:35,267 Speaker 2: just absolute stand out. Had the pleasure of speaking to 95 00:04:35,307 --> 00:04:37,507 Speaker 2: Lucy Spores yesterday on the radio and what a delight 96 00:04:37,587 --> 00:04:40,147 Speaker 2: she is. What a terrific regatta for the New Zealand 97 00:04:40,187 --> 00:04:40,587 Speaker 2: team mate. 98 00:04:41,547 --> 00:04:43,427 Speaker 4: Yeahlus is actually sitting right next to me now and 99 00:04:43,467 --> 00:04:45,987 Speaker 4: she's giving me grief for saying that it's only the 100 00:04:46,067 --> 00:04:49,907 Speaker 4: single that I'm done in. But yeah, I'm absolutely so 101 00:04:49,987 --> 00:04:53,147 Speaker 4: proud of our whole team, especially the woman's double and 102 00:04:53,227 --> 00:04:55,987 Speaker 4: what they did and how they did it. So yeah, 103 00:04:56,027 --> 00:04:58,187 Speaker 4: it's just I think, you know, of the five games 104 00:04:58,227 --> 00:05:01,067 Speaker 4: I've been to, this team is super tight and everyone's 105 00:05:01,107 --> 00:05:04,747 Speaker 4: just excited for each other and achieving so well, and 106 00:05:04,867 --> 00:05:07,547 Speaker 4: it's yeah, it's pretty unique really, and there's some memories 107 00:05:07,587 --> 00:05:09,387 Speaker 4: from this last tour that will stick with me for 108 00:05:09,427 --> 00:05:10,067 Speaker 4: a very long time. 109 00:05:10,267 --> 00:05:11,747 Speaker 2: Is she trying to get you into a crew boat? 110 00:05:13,147 --> 00:05:15,667 Speaker 4: Well, she's whispering in my year, But Judith that our 111 00:05:15,747 --> 00:05:18,107 Speaker 4: high performance director is also having a little giggle in 112 00:05:18,147 --> 00:05:18,867 Speaker 4: the front too, so. 113 00:05:20,627 --> 00:05:23,387 Speaker 2: Well, I'll leave those discussions to you guys and the celebrations. 114 00:05:23,587 --> 00:05:26,147 Speaker 2: Great to get the chance to chat Emma, huge congratulations 115 00:05:26,147 --> 00:05:29,547 Speaker 2: everybody back here. Just totally delighted. Thank you so much, 116 00:05:29,707 --> 00:05:32,227 Speaker 2: thank you for joining us. I'm Emma Twig, silver medallist 117 00:05:32,387 --> 00:05:34,787 Speaker 2: in the women's single skulls to go with the goal 118 00:05:34,867 --> 00:05:36,827 Speaker 2: that she won three years ago. Yeah, what a story 119 00:05:36,867 --> 00:05:40,067 Speaker 2: that is. Fourth in London twenty twelve, fourth at Rio 120 00:05:40,187 --> 00:05:42,867 Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, and just decided, look, I can't do this anymore. 121 00:05:43,227 --> 00:05:45,267 Speaker 2: I can't keep doing this if it's going to come 122 00:05:45,347 --> 00:05:48,267 Speaker 2: up short of the podium. But clearly some thinking done 123 00:05:48,347 --> 00:05:51,507 Speaker 2: after Rio. Back in the boat golden Tokyo silver here 124 00:05:51,587 --> 00:05:54,427 Speaker 2: and who knows? Who knows? I mean they you know? 125 00:05:55,467 --> 00:05:58,467 Speaker 2: No more the what do you call it? Flatwater meaning? 126 00:05:58,507 --> 00:06:00,907 Speaker 2: I guess you know, there's not a lot of not 127 00:06:01,027 --> 00:06:03,987 Speaker 2: a lot of splash from the single skulls, but maybe 128 00:06:04,027 --> 00:06:06,707 Speaker 2: a crew boat who knows. Lucy Spores seem to be 129 00:06:06,707 --> 00:06:10,827 Speaker 2: getting an arrear. So to the high performance coach, So 130 00:06:11,187 --> 00:06:14,827 Speaker 2: a terrific regatta for our rowers again, they've led the way. 131 00:06:14,867 --> 00:06:17,427 Speaker 2: We've got seven medals, they've got four of them gold 132 00:06:17,507 --> 00:06:20,707 Speaker 2: in the women's double skulls, silver for Emma Twig and 133 00:06:20,827 --> 00:06:24,107 Speaker 2: for the men's four, bronze for the women's four. It's 134 00:06:24,387 --> 00:06:29,107 Speaker 2: again a great return and historically I think rowing would 135 00:06:29,147 --> 00:06:35,107 Speaker 2: probably be the highest deliverer of Olympic medals in our history. 136 00:06:35,147 --> 00:06:37,267 Speaker 2: I can't think of another sport that's delivered more medals 137 00:06:37,307 --> 00:06:39,507 Speaker 2: at Olympic level than rowing. Would have to be it, 138 00:06:39,507 --> 00:06:39,907 Speaker 2: wouldn't it. 139 00:06:40,827 --> 00:06:43,987 Speaker 1: For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, Listen live 140 00:06:44,107 --> 00:06:47,387 Speaker 1: to news Talk said B weekends from midday, or follow 141 00:06:47,467 --> 00:06:49,027 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio.