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Speaker 1: Nineteen to six on newstalks 'B.

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Speaker 1: Sports Tuddle with us this evening newstalks 'DB sports news

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Speaker 1: director Clay Wilson and newstok's 'b Rugby commentator Paul Allison,

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Speaker 1: Calcudawa Calder Jack Jack And let's start off with the

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Speaker 1: Warriors this evening ten o'clock. They're up against the Raiders

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Speaker 1: and Clay, it's a tough ask. Are they stuffed without

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Speaker 1: Toahu Harris.

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Speaker 3: Ah, stuffed in what context? Stuffed in terms of making

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Speaker 3: the top eight or stuffed in terms of well both

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Speaker 3: winning a premiership. In terms of winning a premiership, I

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Speaker 3: think they were already up against it.

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Speaker 1: Winning a premiership is very tricky.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And making the eight, I don't think so. I

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Speaker 3: think the NRL is such an open competition. There's seven

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Speaker 3: rounds to go still and they're only three points out

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Speaker 3: of it. I wouldn't be shocked either way. If they

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Speaker 3: make it, no surprise. If they don't make it, no

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Speaker 3: surprise either. Those teams around the eight, inside the eight,

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Speaker 3: there's not much between them, and yes, Wiley's a key play.

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Speaker 3: I think they've got enough depth there and enough good

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Speaker 3: players in the team they could still make it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, I mean, I mean that's the thing with

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Speaker 1: the worries, right, they might they could or they could

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Speaker 1: be disastered. We never know. There's why we love them, Paul.

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Speaker 1: How much do you think they're hurting from losing Tohu

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Speaker 4: Oh, that'll hurt them, no doubt about that. Nicol cole

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Speaker 4: STD's not there tonight. Neis Montoya and Jamal Foggerty's back

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Speaker 4: for the Raiders. But you look at where they are

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Speaker 4: in the season. They've had seven wins out of seventeen.

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Speaker 4: Last year you needed thirteen wins to make the top eight.

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Speaker 4: The previous year you needed fourteen. You go back to

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty one, it was ten wins. So they've got

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Speaker 4: seven games left and five of those teams are above

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Speaker 4: them on the table. We know they're hot and cold.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes they perform superbly well, other times they're at the

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Speaker 4: cellar door, So you really start to wonder whereabouts they

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Speaker 4: might be. They need to be consistent. The Raiders are

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Speaker 4: in a similar position on the table. Clay's right. I mean,

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Speaker 4: they can certainly still make the top eight, but every

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Speaker 4: win from here on is pretty well crucial. I think

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Speaker 4: they need it least five out of the next seven

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Speaker 4: next to win it. And if you don't do that,

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Speaker 4: and the fact that, as I said, five of the

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Speaker 4: remaining seven games they've got teams above them on the table,

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Speaker 4: it's not going to be an easy ask. And I

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Speaker 4: think you talk about Taho Harris, his loss will probably

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Speaker 4: certainly hurt them. But we've seen in the passmen they

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Speaker 4: had some key players out. That's when sometimes just sometimes

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Speaker 4: they performed their best.

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Speaker 1: Paul, looking at that squad for tomorrow's All Bags match

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Speaker 1: against Fiji in San Diego, of course, do you reckon

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Speaker 1: there is a risk that Raiser is maybe taking Fiji

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Speaker 1: just a little lightly with such a debutante heavy squad.

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Speaker 4: Well, he's got to play them somewhere. He's picked thirty

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Speaker 4: two and it added two more, so he's got thirty four.

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Speaker 4: We saw he's very consistent in that English series and

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Speaker 4: he has experienced guys and didn't really give any deputantes

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Speaker 4: a chance apart from Radom and gotta run in that

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Speaker 4: second Test. This is the opportunity to do it Fiji. Sure,

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Speaker 4: they went really well at the World Cup last year.

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Speaker 4: They've got a lot of players there from that Fiji

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Speaker 4: and drew It super rugby team. This year they played

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Speaker 4: Georgia and beat them twenty one twelve. Earlier this month

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Speaker 4: they got beaten by the bar Bars, but they haven't

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Speaker 4: got the same depth of squad as the All Blacks.

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Speaker 4: I don't think he's taking a risk. I think he's

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Speaker 4: doing exactly the right thing. And I think he's got

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Speaker 4: to love them somewhere because it doesn't get easier for

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Speaker 4: the All Blacks after this. This will probably be one

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Speaker 4: of the easiest tests that they play in the twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty four calendar season.

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Speaker 1: Dangerous words there, poor.

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Speaker 2: Whill you go?

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Speaker 4: Paul I hopefully it doesn't come back and yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: We'll be clipping up those comments as we speak. Well,

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Speaker 1: what is going to be gameplay from having this game

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Speaker 1: in San Diego outside of a quick buck.

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Speaker 3: Well, every sport in recent memory has been after the

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Speaker 3: US market. It's such a massive market financially obviously, the viewers,

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Speaker 3: you can attract, sponsorships, all those things. And yes, while

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Speaker 3: you might argue that rugby is never going to be

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Speaker 3: four that dominate in the US and other sports. If

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Speaker 3: you can gain even just a chunk, a small chunk

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Speaker 3: and for World rugby. If they can increase rugby's presence

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Speaker 3: rugby globally. So I get why they're doing it.

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Speaker 1: I just prefer to say the game and suver. I know,

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Speaker 1: I know they're making money. I know this might well

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Speaker 1: make them a whole lot more money in the Fijian

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Speaker 1: Union than they would if they were hosting this game

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Speaker 1: in Fiji. I just it's always going to be a

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Speaker 1: massive off broadway sport in the US. They try and

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Speaker 1: explain the breakdown, Try and explain, oh, the scrum has

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Speaker 1: to reset because this prop didn't have his buying right like,

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Speaker 1: try and explain that.

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Speaker 3: It's not going to work American football. You know, we

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Speaker 3: compare American football to rugby. It's just so dominant.

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Speaker 1: But it's a spectacle. American football a TV and made

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Speaker 1: for TV spectacle. It is arguably better suited to introducing

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Speaker 1: it to a new audience. I'm not I love Rugby.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying I.

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Speaker 3: Guess New Zealand rug in the position they are and

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Speaker 3: are looking at, they're really trying to maximize what they're

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Speaker 3: doing financially. I mean you only have to look at

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Speaker 3: what's going on with the governance stuff right that they're

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Speaker 3: trying to get financially back on track and this is

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Speaker 3: this is part of that, whether some people like it

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Speaker 3: or not. I would prefer to see the game in

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Speaker 3: Suver as well. I'm sure a lot of Keywis would.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we're back with the U S Talk

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Speaker 1: Z'B sports Huddle in a couple of minutes. Clay Wilson

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Speaker 1: Paul Allison with us this evening.

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Speaker 1: Paul Allison Clay Wilson on the huddle this evening. An

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Speaker 1: amazing report from Liam Napier in The Herald Today suggesting

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Speaker 1: that Ardie Savia might be set to leave the Hurricanes

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Speaker 1: and join Moana Pacifica instead. Paul, what do you think.

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Speaker 4: Well, my understanding, that's exactly what he wants to do,

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Speaker 4: and it's just a matter of making that fit. I

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Speaker 4: think it's an outstanding decision that Moana Pacifica Ken greb

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Speaker 4: his services. Obviously he's got some own here atage, born

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Speaker 4: in Wellington, one hundred and thirty one games or something

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Speaker 4: for the Hurricanes already and get a bigger name signing

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Speaker 4: for Mowana Pacifica, who have been really mucked around since

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Speaker 4: they've come into this competition three years ago. They haven't

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Speaker 4: had a stable home base, that've been shoved around all

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Speaker 4: players that have got a lot of influence, and Artie

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Speaker 4: Savia would be the perfect fit for them to be

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Speaker 4: able to launch them to another level. I think it's

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Speaker 4: a great decision because the Hurricanes, let's face it, they've

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Speaker 4: got a richer you know, the sport for riches and

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Speaker 4: the loose forwards with Lackey and Jose and Shields and

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Speaker 4: Careffe and Flanders and the like. So they're not going

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Speaker 4: to miss him too much. He's an outstanding player. But

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you what he's going to be met every

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Speaker 4: for Minor pacifica than what he probably will be for

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can only imagine what it would do for

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm massive, And I think Artie Severe has talked

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Speaker 3: about this probably. I'm sure he has spoken about this already,

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Speaker 3: about how much you love the concert of Mowana and

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Speaker 3: then how he could see himself later in his career

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Speaker 3: going there. And I think it makes sense at this

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Speaker 3: time where the Hurricanes are performing well and like Paul says,

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Speaker 3: while disappointing, I'm a Hurricanes follower fan, but I think

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Speaker 3: it's a great move for him to go to to Mowaana,

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Speaker 3: lead the side and really you know, be a role

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Speaker 1: So what a leader, man, what a leader he's getting.

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Speaker 1: I mean he is already obviously, but for that team,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just like you think about the money he will

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Speaker 1: So we are less than a week away now, about

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Speaker 1: a week away from the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Paul,

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Speaker 1: where is your hype level at building?

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Speaker 4: It's starting to build. I'm really quite excited about some

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Speaker 4: ninety five. We've got ninety seven women's spread across twenty

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Speaker 4: But we're well covered. I think we've actually got a

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Speaker 4: They talk about it. I'm really excited by it. I'm

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Speaker 4: not quite sure how they're going to get on the

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Speaker 4: Sane river though, because I see the Paris met had

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Speaker 1: It would be so embarrassed. Again, what do you think

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Speaker 1: as your hype level for the games?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like Paul building and I think it's one

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Speaker 3: we get into it because we love our sport and

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Speaker 3: it's not just the Kiwi events, it's it's all everything

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Speaker 3: that comes with it. One hundred meters you know, the pool,

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Speaker 3: the pool, all those things. It's great obviously.

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Speaker 1: Becoming an expert of sports that you haven't watched at

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Speaker 3: The track coming and the rhythm. Yeah, we all become

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Speaker 3: forward to it with great interest and it's going to

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Speaker 3: be a great two and a half weeks.

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Speaker 1: Very good. Thanks so much for your time, Guys, Klay Wilson,

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