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Speaker 1: Together do for Sea Allen coming up eighteen past five hours.

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Speaker 1: We've been discussing on the show. The Kiwi canoeists at

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Speaker 1: the Olympics have caused quite a stir with their performance,

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Speaker 1: which was pretty bad. They finished about a minute later

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Speaker 1: than all the other boats in the C two five

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Speaker 1: hundred overnight because neither of them are actually any good

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Speaker 1: at the event, they were so far behind the pack.

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Speaker 1: Our commentator Malcolm Jordan thought they dropped out of the race.

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Speaker 1: My apologies. They didn't pull out. They are now crossing

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Speaker 1: the line now. They were so far behind the action

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Speaker 1: I lost complete sight of them. Greg Adlam is the

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Speaker 1: chair of Canoe Racing New Zealand with us now, Hey Greg, Hi.

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Speaker 2: How are you? Oh Greg? You sound deflated, Not at all. No,

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Speaker 2: the water sports have been fantastic and the kayakers are

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Speaker 2: going fantastically well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well they are right now, do you reckon? People

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Speaker 1: are being rough a little rough on these two guys.

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Speaker 1: Given they're not actually there to canoe, they're there to kayak,

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Speaker 1: and they just have to canoe in order to be

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Speaker 1: able to kayak.

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Speaker 2: It's probably an understanding of the selection process. Maybe that

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Speaker 2: may help outline why they paging the way they are,

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Speaker 2: and that's about when we're trying to qualify for Olympics.

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Speaker 2: In the year prior to Olympics, your World Championships, we're

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Speaker 2: trying to qualify as many seats as we can at those,

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Speaker 2: which is for the men there is six kayaking men,

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Speaker 2: six kayaking women six but similarly, if we were had

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Speaker 2: a seaboat program, it'd be six in each of those.

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Speaker 2: As a result of World Championships last year, we qualified

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Speaker 2: four women and zero men. So you come back to

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Speaker 2: Oceani yourragana and we qualified two more women out of

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Speaker 2: that to get our six, and we're able to qualify

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Speaker 2: three men. But we're also able to do which we did,

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Speaker 2: which was to qualify in the canoe discipline the two

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Speaker 2: and in the kayak discipline two and we're able to

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Speaker 2: under the rules, put those two together to make up

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Speaker 2: our K four for the men, which we did as

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Speaker 2: the K four men was seven fastest in the world

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Speaker 2: last year. But what we must do is we've got

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Speaker 2: to line up in the K boat and the seaboat.

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Speaker 2: And so what these two lads have done is a

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Speaker 2: tremendously good job at a very very difficult boat. Tremendously tippy.

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Speaker 2: I've tried one once and all I did was fell

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Speaker 2: out of it. So these guys have done a great

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Speaker 2: job in skillect position and being able to paddle that

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Speaker 2: boat up the course and acknowledging what your commentator said.

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Speaker 2: The commentator on the television outlined it pretty well. They said,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's one thing for kayakers to get into

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Speaker 2: a canoe boat and to paddle it, but it's another

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Speaker 2: one to actually lay down power to get it up

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Speaker 2: to the course. And that's the phase that we're out now,

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Speaker 2: and we're looking for these boat and it's disciplined to

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Speaker 2: be something for us for New Zealand and canar racing

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Speaker 2: and potentially not an next Olympic cycle maybe, but certainly

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Speaker 2: the one after for Brisbane. So it's a start and

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Speaker 2: it's a really very strong start and I think what

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Speaker 2: they're doing is tremendous. They are really displaying a new

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Speaker 2: avenue of sport for New Zealand and atams nationally. But

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Speaker 2: it hasn't really been available to this some time.

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Speaker 1: So there's been a little bit of criticism of you

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Speaker 1: guys for using this technicality in the loophole to get in.

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Speaker 1: Is that fair?

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Speaker 2: The the rules are there, and we've we acknowledged and

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Speaker 2: as has and has been there for some time. And

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Speaker 2: we're not the first country to take this path, and

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Speaker 2: depending on what the International CANU Federation, so we may

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Speaker 2: be the last. I don't I don't know, but at

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Speaker 2: the moment, the rules are there and we've used those

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Speaker 2: rules to get out get our K four through.

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Speaker 1: Now the lad's okay, because I mean they are copying it, right,

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Speaker 1: Have you checked in on them?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, yep. They're in really good spirit, actually really

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Speaker 2: good spirit. And I think you saw that on the

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Speaker 2: start line. You know, Max is a is a pretty

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Speaker 2: a pretty how do you the best describe it isn't

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Speaker 2: is a great lad and he's very happy to show

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Speaker 2: a very happy emotion, which was good. And Grant's similar

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Speaker 2: behind them and pretty pretty stoked to be able to

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Speaker 2: do this. And Grant is also as already said, you know,

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Speaker 2: post of them, if he'd like to be able to

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Speaker 2: take this around the true to demonstrate to other people

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Speaker 2: how cool is support it is?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well how about making other people sit on that

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Speaker 1: boat and see how it goes for them? Hey? Greg,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. Greg Adlam Canoe Racing New Zealand

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Speaker 1: board chair see nothing to worry about is all.

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