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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Raygun. I watched the project's big interview

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Speaker 1: with Raygun. This is her first big interview, and having

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Speaker 1: watched that, this is Raygun the Breakdowns from Australia. By

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Speaker 1: the way, having watched that, I think it's pretty clear

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Speaker 1: you should not waste any of your emotions feeling sorry

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Speaker 1: for Raygun, because Raygun is not feeling sorry for herself yet.

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Speaker 1: She is making the most out of this situation big time.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the natural inclination, obviously is to feel sorry

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Speaker 1: for her because she completely embarrassed herself jumping around like

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Speaker 1: a kangaroo on the Olympic stage, and she's since been

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Speaker 1: the subject of quite a massive global pile on on

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Speaker 1: social media and countless jokes at her expense, and even

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Speaker 1: some accusations that she'd rigged her entry into the Olympics,

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Speaker 1: which do seem to be unfounded. But she does not

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Speaker 1: seem particularly ground down by the situation at all. On

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Speaker 1: the contrary, in that interview last night, she seems to

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Speaker 1: be kind of enjoying the ride. She said, yep, absolutely

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Speaker 1: there will have there have been some tough times, and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there will have been. But on the other hand,

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Speaker 1: she's quite enjoying getting messages from the likes of Richard

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Speaker 1: Branson telling her that he thought her performance was plucky

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Speaker 1: and that he would like to go her to go

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Speaker 1: on some cruises with boy George. Of all people, as

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Speaker 1: she says, what is life and that, by the way,

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Speaker 1: is the least of what is going right for Raygun

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Speaker 1: At the moment, She's already signed up with a talent

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Speaker 1: management agency. She is apparently the subject of a fierce

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Speaker 1: bidding war between TV networks who want to sign her,

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Speaker 1: and apparently Dancing with the Stars for obvious reasons, are

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Speaker 1: desperate to get her on the show. She's been the

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Speaker 1: subject of a skit on Jimmy Fallon's show. A Dale

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Speaker 1: has mentioned her on stage. She has been in so

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Speaker 1: many international newspapers now that I have actually completely lost count.

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Speaker 1: She would, I reckon if she would be one of

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Speaker 1: the most famous athletes to have emerged from the Paris Olympics,

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Speaker 1: if not currently the most famous athlete. I actually admire her,

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Speaker 1: if I have to be completely honest with you, because

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Speaker 1: she is delivering to us right now a masterclass in

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Speaker 1: how to handle online abuse and attention. Take the lemons,

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Speaker 1: make some lemonade, all too often people sit at home

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Speaker 1: in a dark room, they go on to the Twitter,

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Speaker 1: read the trolls, they let it grind them down, and

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Speaker 1: they go in the media and they whine about how

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Speaker 1: sad life is. Raygun's not doing that. Raygun is milking

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Speaker 1: this for all it is worth. She understands the value

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Speaker 1: of what's happening to her right now, and good on

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Speaker 1: her for that. So do not feel sorry for Raygan.

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Speaker 1: Raygun may have lost at the Olympics, but I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you what she is winning at life after the Olympics,

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Speaker 1: isn't she? For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive, listen

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