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Speaker 1: If you haven't heard the name Sam Ruth, you have now.

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Speaker 1: The fifteen year old running sensation from Todong has just

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Speaker 1: become the youngest person in the world to run a

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Speaker 1: sub four minute mile. It all went down last night

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Speaker 1: in the rain on Mount Smart Stadium's number two ground,

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Speaker 1: sneaking in with a time of three point fifty eight

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Speaker 1: thirty five. Have a listen. Here, come Sam Ruth onto

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Speaker 1: the shoulder. Now it's a fifteen year old. Can he

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Speaker 1: be the youngest in the world to set this magic mark?

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Speaker 1: The crowd rules them down the home straight, Eric Comediam

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Speaker 1: out Smart Stadium. Sam Tanna's smiling. Sam roads right now.

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Speaker 1: He did it and he's with us. Now, Sam, how

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Speaker 1: are you?

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Speaker 2: Hey, Brian, I'm actually really good, really happy at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Why is that wouldn't have anything to do with the

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Speaker 1: race yesterday?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, sir from there.

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Speaker 1: Tell me how you're feeling and what did to celebrate

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Speaker 1: last night?

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Speaker 2: I felt amazing when I crossed the line to have

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Speaker 2: all my mates, then all my family supporting me, and

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Speaker 2: then it's pretty late, so our celebration was just a

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Speaker 2: drive through burg King?

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Speaker 1: How good was How good was that? Burger King?

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Speaker 2: Ah? So good? Like Bitsburger, King of my life.

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Speaker 1: I'd say so three minutes fifty eight seconds, thirty five split.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic result. But it was raining. Tell us about the conditions,

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Speaker 1: how hard it was to actually get this done.

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Speaker 2: Ah Well, a couple of hours before the race was

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Speaker 2: hammering down and I was getting a bit scared. I

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Speaker 2: was like, oh, hopefully it eases up a bit before

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Speaker 2: the race because I'm like staying on the top of

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Speaker 2: a hotel right now too. So it was real windy

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Speaker 2: where I was, and I was like, oh no, this

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Speaker 2: isn't going to be good. And then about fifteen minutes

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Speaker 2: before the race, like all the rain cleared, like the

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Speaker 2: clouds went away, and then I wasn't windy at all,

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Speaker 2: so really cleared up.

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Speaker 1: So is the wind the bigger problem than the rain?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, wind is definitely a bigger problem than the rain,

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Speaker 2: because rain doesn't really fit you, but one definitely slows

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Speaker 2: you down a bit.

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Speaker 1: You had your pacer there, Sam Tanner, who's the Olympian

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Speaker 1: who everybody knows and loves. He's your training buddy, But

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Speaker 1: you're giving him a bit of a run for his money, now,

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Speaker 1: aren't you.

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Speaker 2: He's got me in any race to be fear. He

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Speaker 2: was just he was just cruising that race. He could

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Speaker 2: have done much harder, Like straight after the race finished,

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Speaker 2: he just started doing a session. Lovely to have such

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Speaker 2: a good training partner though, like best best miler in

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Speaker 2: New Zealand, pacing me couldn't couldn't be much better.

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Speaker 1: What's happening was school today? Sam?

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Speaker 2: I'm actually not going to school today. I'll go to

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Speaker 2: school tomorrow. I go to drive back to town today.

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Speaker 1: So you stayed in Auckland last night, but you're driving

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Speaker 1: back to Tagan today. I think you can have the

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Speaker 1: day off school, Sam, tell me about your Tell me

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Speaker 1: about your dream. What's your dream?

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Speaker 2: I don't really think too far into the future, so

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Speaker 2: my dreams always just just relatively sure into the future.

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Speaker 2: But at the moment, it's probably the one Arcadia. So

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Speaker 2: that's on the twelfth Debight Pril and that's that's a

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Speaker 2: big race in America, so I love to win that.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like there's enough of a community. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned Sam, but is there enough of a community?

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Speaker 1: Is there enough support for you to go all the

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Speaker 1: way with us?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, totally, so much support, Like am I community

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Speaker 2: in my community, in my training group, Sampan and Hate

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Speaker 2: and Wilt have both done it, so they've really just

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Speaker 2: guided the pathway for me. Well, I got to do

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Speaker 2: the work.

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Speaker 1: Well, keep doing the business, Sam, Sam Ruth keep runner

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Speaker 1: here has just set a record, Well he's created a

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Speaker 1: new one. I suppose sneaking in with a time of

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Speaker 1: three minutes, fifty eight and thirty five. For more from

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