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Speaker 1: Rowing is the big winner from the funding given out

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Speaker 1: by a high performed sport and therefore Simon Wickham from

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Speaker 1: Rowing New Zealand here is the CEO, joins us on

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Speaker 1: the program. Congratulations mate, you must be the biggest sport

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Speaker 1: in the land.

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Speaker 2: Welly, Andrew, We're pretty pleased with the outcome. We're thankful

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Speaker 2: for every dollar of support we get from both you know,

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Speaker 2: New Zealand taxpayers through high performance sport in New Zealand

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Speaker 2: and many donors and supporters behind us. And you know

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Speaker 2: we're our sites are said on Los Angeles in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty eight the Brisbane in twenty thirty two.

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Speaker 1: Does this level of funding come with great pressure?

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Speaker 2: There's always great pressure in the system. I think we've

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Speaker 2: certainly delivered good return on investment today having one twenty

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Speaker 2: five percent of all the medals New Zealand's one since

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Speaker 2: Sidney two thousand. But that certainly creates more pressure as well.

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Speaker 2: There's there's legacy history behind the sport and equally there's

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Speaker 2: a real challenge moving forward to take on the likes

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Speaker 2: of Great Britain, Australia, et cetera. Most of ites have

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Speaker 2: got at least double the support that we've got.

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Speaker 1: It's not though about medals, is it, because it's also

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Speaker 1: about the sport? And are you seeing this level of

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Speaker 1: support resonate in increased numbers of participation.

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Speaker 2: A really good example from the last weekend we had

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Speaker 2: the largest regatt at Cadapiro ever in history. Over twenty

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Speaker 2: seven hundred athletes took part and we're definitely seeing it

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Speaker 2: at both ends. We're seeing it obviously with people like

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Speaker 2: the Golden Mums Brook and Lucy in Paris, and we're

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Speaker 2: seeing it from all sorts of people now taking part

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Speaker 2: in rowing and its numbers are definitely growing.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is all great, du Is. Congratulations mate. You

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Speaker 1: know how I originally said it's not about the medals. Yes, sure, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it is actually about the medals. You better win a

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Speaker 1: whole heat.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've got a team that's certainly up for the

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Speaker 2: challenge and we need every bit of funding out there

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Speaker 2: to support those athletes and coaches that do what they

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Speaker 2: do every day at this time of the morning to

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Speaker 2: put themselves on track to do it again. Eat Los

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Speaker 2: Angeles twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: Well done. And that is Simon Wickham, running New Zealand CEO. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that time of the morning. They all trained very very early.

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Speaker 1: This is why I didn't do the sport. Also a

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Speaker 1: total absence of upper body strength.

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