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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from News Talks ed B Racing at the latest su

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Speaker 1: GP event in New York.

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Speaker 2: Are you now thinking terminated race and just get ourselves

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Speaker 2: as far as we can and to get the closest

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Speaker 2: spot we can.

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Speaker 3: Oh, we are.

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Speaker 2: The Flatfoils are just brought it home the Amarus wedding moment.

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Speaker 3: That Todd for the Blatfoils, so they managed to save

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Speaker 3: a day.

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Speaker 1: They'll be loving that.

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Speaker 4: I could assure you, there's nothing that you can enjoy.

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Speaker 2: Well, talk about sneaking up on you. The moment sneaks

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Speaker 2: up on us as we had no idea. Well I didn't,

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Speaker 2: at least New Zealand had one more turn to make.

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Speaker 2: But they bring it home and they get the win.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's New Zealand winning the third and final fleet

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Speaker 3: race on day one after they were second and eleventh

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Speaker 3: and the first two races. So the Black Falls are

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Speaker 3: fourth on the table, but just one point separating second

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Speaker 3: from fourth and three more fleet races tomorrow before the

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Speaker 3: top three go into the final Black Foils. Strategist Live

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Speaker 3: Mackay's with us Levi in general terms, First of all,

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Speaker 3: how do you assess the opening day on the Hudson River.

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Speaker 4: Yes, well, as you nicely worded there, it was definitely

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Speaker 4: a mixed bag today. I mean that eleventh place was

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Speaker 4: you know, really hindered us in the points, but very

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Speaker 4: glad to come away with the win and the last

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Speaker 4: one and the second in that first one, it was

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Speaker 4: a super challenging day out there. They were you know,

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Speaker 4: they brought the racing forward to you know, try and

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Speaker 4: get a hit of the storms that we ended up

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Speaker 4: having this afternoon. But it was definitely made for some

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Speaker 4: really challenging racing and some insane fans that endured some

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Speaker 4: heavy rain out there.

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Speaker 3: So okay, yeah, because that's I think most of us. Well,

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Speaker 3: I know, I did work up this morning thinking racing

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Speaker 3: was going to start at seven thirty our time, and

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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, I look and it's all done.

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Speaker 3: So so a storm rolled in. That's why they brought

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Speaker 3: everything forward.

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Speaker 4: Yes, obviously a very hard call to make because it

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Speaker 4: is not what you know, they want for fans and

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Speaker 4: everything is bringing the schedule forwards not a very usual

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Speaker 4: thing in sport. But we've had, you know, as a league,

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Speaker 4: serious issues with under storms in the past, so they're

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Speaker 4: just trying to mitigate that risk there, and there was

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Speaker 4: big threats of storms this afternoon in the area, so

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Speaker 4: they want to make sure everyone's safe, and so they

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Speaker 4: ended up bringing it forward, which all in all worked

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Speaker 4: out quite well with the wind because as soon as

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Speaker 4: that we finished racing, it actually fully died out, so

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Speaker 4: hopefully it made some good rewatching. But yes, I think

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Speaker 4: it's through a spanner in the works for everyone.

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Speaker 3: Well, race three, you finished on a high for the

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Speaker 3: first time in sol GP racing history. You lapped the

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Speaker 3: entire fleet. Can you talk us through Race three?

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Speaker 4: Well, it's pretty far on for me in those conditions. Actually,

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Speaker 4: I ended up grinding, so they take the two big

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Speaker 4: guys off at the front and I ended up quite

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Speaker 4: hid down, which is it's quite funny, but I didn't

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Speaker 4: really know, to be honest, that we'd lapped everyone until

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Speaker 4: quite well after the race. I think in those conditions

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Speaker 4: we're always just looking for wind and focusing on on

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Speaker 4: where there's clear air and how we can keep foiling.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, it's pretty I'm about to rewatch the racing

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Speaker 4: now and pretty excited to look back on it.

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Speaker 3: We need to take sure, we need to get your

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Speaker 3: grinding more off with it. It's clearly the secret, the

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Speaker 3: secret to lapping the field.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see about that. It was definitely I wouldn't

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Speaker 4: say it was all luck out there, but it was

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Speaker 4: you know you did on days like today, you need

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Speaker 4: a bit of luck, and yeah, obviously got a bit

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Speaker 4: of it in that race.

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Speaker 3: And what happened in race two? Was it just a

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Speaker 3: poor race all round? Was there an air and near

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Speaker 3: the start? What happened in race two?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a mix. It's so we're racing in the Hudson here,

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Speaker 4: which is, you know, a river, and with that comes

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Speaker 4: huge tidal flows. So I'm not sure of what you

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Speaker 4: can and can't see on the broadcast, but we're basically,

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Speaker 4: you know, motoring with our chase boat is nearly as

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Speaker 4: fast as we can trying to go against the tide.

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Speaker 4: Then we get released and come into the start box.

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Speaker 4: But because it's the wind is so up and down

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Speaker 4: and it's really hard to forecast and kind of see

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Speaker 4: that kind of throws the whole start box is not

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Speaker 4: a lucky dip, but it's a lot more random, i'd

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Speaker 4: say than we're used to. So we just got on

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Speaker 4: the back foot there a bit, and then that just

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Speaker 4: accumulated throughout the race. We did have a lot of

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Speaker 4: opportunities to come back, but yeah, unfortunately didn't capitalize on them.

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Speaker 4: So it's something we'll review tonight and yeah, hopefully build

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Speaker 3: And we've heard a lot over the last couple of

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Speaker 3: regattas or last two or three think it is about

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Speaker 3: the new T foils, But were you back on the

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Speaker 3: L foils, the previous foils for this one.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, so it's yeah, it's been a bit like

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Speaker 4: riding a bike for most of the fleet, to be honest.

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Speaker 4: We are waiting on the new lightier tfoils, which should

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Speaker 4: come online later in the season. But yes, the forecast

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Speaker 4: for this weekend was to be super light and very variable,

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Speaker 4: very unknown, so they decided to go with the OL foils,

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Speaker 4: which basically just have a bigger surface area across them,

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Speaker 4: which helps to give more lift to the boats, so

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Speaker 4: a higher chance of foiling in lighter air. So they

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Speaker 4: really want to you know, get obviously the boats up

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Speaker 4: and foiling for you know, some great racing. And that's

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Speaker 4: where they thought was, you know, the best decision for

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Speaker 4: this weekend.

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Speaker 3: And it's been a while and you've been racing hasn't it,

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Speaker 3: you know, with an unscheduled break. I think the last

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Speaker 3: time you raced was in March. How much did you

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Speaker 3: enjoy actually being back out there competing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's definitely been a while between drinks,

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Speaker 4: that's for sure, but it's I mean it almost feels

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Speaker 4: like no time has passed once we're back on the water.

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Speaker 4: I think as a team, we really love New York,

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Speaker 4: so everyone was really excited to get back here, and

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Speaker 4: we've been doing a lot of work between events as

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Speaker 4: a team. We've done actually a lot of you know,

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Speaker 4: mental skills side of stuff, which has been really interesting.

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Speaker 4: So it's been quite a big break, but it's also

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Speaker 4: given us opportunities to you know, look into new areas

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Speaker 4: and experience different things as a team, which will hopefully

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Speaker 4: make us stronger in the long run.

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Speaker 3: Always enjoy chatting with you live. Thanks for making yourself available.

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Speaker 3: All the best on day two. I appreciate you joining

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Speaker 3: us this after.

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Speaker 4: No all good, thank you for having me, No, thank.

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Speaker 3: You for joining us. Love Love Mackay strategist on the

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Speaker 3: Black Foils and grind up on sounds of things this

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Speaker 3: morning on the Arts and River, So New Zealander fourth,

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Speaker 3: but just one point between fourth and second. Three more

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Speaker 3: Fleet races, and then the top three go into the finals.

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