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Speaker 1: Well, the Olympics proper are about to kick off. The

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Speaker 1: opening ceremony is just slightly more than twelve hours away now,

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Speaker 1: and these guys are going to go large, right, instead

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Speaker 1: of the traditional parade around the stadium track, they're going

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Speaker 1: to have more than eight thousand athletes from around the

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Speaker 1: world boating down the river sin. There will be floating pianos,

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Speaker 1: there will be helicopters, there may even be some submarines.

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Speaker 1: The Olympic in z Shift mission. Nigel Avery is with

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Speaker 1: me right now. Hey, Nigel, hey's I'm very well, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Are you fizzling for this?

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Speaker 2: Here we are? It's it's just going to be so

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Speaker 2: unique the first time either and I think Cermany has

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Speaker 2: been held outside of stadium, so it's going to be

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Speaker 2: very interesting to see what happens.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's obviously a little bit more risk involved

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Speaker 1: being on a boaterre you slightly concerned about your athletes.

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Speaker 2: Here, Look, I don't think so. You know, the freet

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Speaker 2: are just going out of their way to make sure

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Speaker 2: that the efflets are safe in all respects, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I've got confidence in that. We've we're on the one

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Speaker 2: of the tributes of the scene here or are on

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Speaker 2: the scene at the village and you know there's police

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Speaker 2: boats cruising up and down all the time. And you know,

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Speaker 2: we had a briefing yesterday about the opening ceremony what

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Speaker 2: that would look like, Not the content, I guess, but

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Speaker 2: more about the you know, the guts of it. And

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Speaker 2: you know, there's definitely there's there's there's medical, there's the security,

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Speaker 2: there's all sorts of stuff floating around. Literally, I wasn't

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Speaker 2: worried about security.

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Speaker 1: I was worried about falling off the boat.

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Speaker 2: Nigel, Well, look at the dry Games, you know, so

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Speaker 2: there's at least that, and there's no Tom foolery. Look, no,

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Speaker 2: I think there's life Jake servery person So they're taking

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Speaker 2: it pretty seriously.

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Speaker 1: Hey, do you know yet? I mean, we have been

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Speaker 1: having these reports and rumors for days now that Celendon

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Speaker 1: and Lady Gaga in town and might be performing. Do

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Speaker 1: you know.

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Speaker 2: We have I haven't heard those rumors, so I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're looking for all right, what are we going

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Speaker 1: to do about the Canadians? Are they going to dock

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Speaker 1: them the points from winning the game this morning?

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Speaker 2: Look, I don't know, So we have or football MW

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Speaker 2: Zealanders later conplacate with FIFA, and so they're going through

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Speaker 2: the process. The Canadians are investigating. There's a process there,

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Speaker 2: and they've also asked the IOC for, you know, to

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Speaker 2: see what they're going to do. We've also mentioned it

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Speaker 2: to the Ethics Committee, and so we're just waiting for

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Speaker 2: all those those bodies to follow the process. And at

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Speaker 2: the moment, we kind of all we can do is

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Speaker 2: just ask for hey, how's it going, you know, because

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Speaker 2: a status on on things, there's not really much more

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Speaker 2: we can do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how long do we have to wait? Though? I mean,

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Speaker 1: because we can tell me, Nigel, if these guys I

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Speaker 1: mean they won last time, right because gold medal last time.

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Speaker 1: We can't seriously end up in a situation with them

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Speaker 1: standing on the podium when they have been busted cheating,

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Speaker 1: can we.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. It's a bit of a complex

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Speaker 2: situation right that, because we're really at the wrim of

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Speaker 2: FIFA and the IOC. So as I said, all we

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Speaker 2: can really do now is to keep on asking for hey,

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Speaker 2: what is happening and hope that they come to some

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Speaker 2: sort of result, whatever that may be. You Prior to

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Speaker 2: pool play, finishing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not sufficient what they've done with bad

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Speaker 1: priestsman sending a home that's not sufficient, right, you need

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Speaker 1: the points stopped.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's not really up up to me. It's it's

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Speaker 2: up to you know what that what the FIFA and

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Speaker 2: what the IC you have, because I guess the the

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Speaker 2: issue is that it's not a it's not a fee

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Speaker 2: for tournament. It wasn't in the field of play, and

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Speaker 2: so there's the EVER is trying to figure out, you

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Speaker 2: know what your jurisdiction this falls under. So there's a

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Speaker 2: I guess there's a bit going on behind the scenes

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Speaker 2: and we just have to wait and see how that

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Speaker 2: plays out.

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Speaker 1: Fair Enough, now, what happened with the sevens team? Is

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Speaker 1: this bad juju for the games?

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Speaker 2: No, it's not bad ju do for the games at all.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously we're extremely disappointed, you know, for the guys.

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Speaker 2: It's certainly not the result they wanted or we did either.

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Speaker 2: And you know, sometimes in sport, little moments if they

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Speaker 2: don't go your way, or if an error is made

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Speaker 2: or either, it can have a quite a significant impact

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Speaker 2: on the result. And it seems like that's what's happened,

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Speaker 2: you know, last idea out of time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough, Nigel. Listen, go well and I hope

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Speaker 1: you guys are all in a huge number of medals.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your time. That's Nigel Avery Shift a

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