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Speaker 1: Good news for New Zealand and especially our sports cred

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Speaker 1: tower On has been handed the hosting rights for the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight World Triathlon Champs three year deal several

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Speaker 1: events in twenty six and twenty seven leading up. It's

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Speaker 1: also expected to generate about twenty five million and tourism spending. Now.

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Speaker 1: Pete Devitt is Triathlon New Zealand's CEO and is with us.

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Speaker 1: Pete morning, hold on, there's my mouse stand by, you're

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Speaker 1: with us? Yeah, good demand for it. I mean, did

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Speaker 1: you have to compete with the whole lot of countries

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Speaker 1: or cities.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we did. But to be fair, we've been

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Speaker 2: working on this for about three years and tried to

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Speaker 2: position this with World Triathlon quite some time ago, primarily

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Speaker 2: through hosting World Cup events over the last three years

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Speaker 2: and really showing them that we've got what it takes

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Speaker 2: to deliver this event for World Triathlon and for New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, really excited that we're here today and we're

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Speaker 2: able to tell the world about this.

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Speaker 1: How many people would come from New Zealand as opposed

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Speaker 1: to from around the world.

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Speaker 2: So we'd expect to have probably we have about twelve

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Speaker 2: to thirteen hundred age groups racing in the age group

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Speaker 2: race in twenty twenty eight of a field of about

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Speaker 2: four and a half thousand, so a fairly large contingent

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Speaker 2: of New Zealand Actute twould race in the age group race. Yees,

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Speaker 2: So a big interest in the sport from an age

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Speaker 2: group perspective, and obviously great for them to be able

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Speaker 2: to actually compete at home instead of jumping on a

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Speaker 2: plane and having to travel around the world to compete

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Speaker 2: in the world tames.

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Speaker 1: It must have. Did it help? Do you know for

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Speaker 1: a fact it helps that we're actually quite good at

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Speaker 1: this is a sport.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it does help, certainly does help. And I think

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Speaker 2: that's also a large driver for us. Was given that

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Speaker 2: Hayden will likely bow out of the Olympic distance racing

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty eight. It's a fitting endo his career

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Speaker 2: for him to finish it up in Taranto, which is

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Speaker 2: pretty close to his hometown.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And what about Tewrong when you're looking from an

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Speaker 1: international point of view and handing out these sort of prizes,

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Speaker 1: is Tawrong as a gateway or problem as opposed to say,

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Speaker 1: in Auckland, which is easier for the world to get to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not really. I think what we've at is and

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Speaker 2: from a World trialf one perspective, they kind of look

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Speaker 2: at it as iconic cities or beautiful destinations. So I

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Speaker 2: think from our perspective, Taiwano fits the ball of beautiful destinations.

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Speaker 2: And you know, we had the seventy point three World Champs,

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Speaker 2: Ironman World Champs here in Topoin in December last year,

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Speaker 2: over six thousand athletes competing, So I don't think there's

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Speaker 2: too much of a concern around getting athletes from main

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Speaker 2: centers into regional New Zealand. We've proven we can do

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Speaker 2: it before and where we'd easily be able to do

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Speaker 2: it again.

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Speaker 1: Exciting times. Well done, congratulations on a peaked Avot triath

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Speaker 1: on New Zealand CEO.

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