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Speaker 1: Something else that I'm looking forward to keeping tabs on

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Speaker 1: the Special Olympic Summer Games, which are on in christ

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Speaker 1: Church until Sunday. More than twelve hundred athletes from forty

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Speaker 1: two teams right across the country, competing in ten different

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Speaker 1: sports and a chance to make up for a brain

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Speaker 1: fart last week. Although we can't really hold it against

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Speaker 1: allis braiding a busy working mum this time of the year,

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Speaker 1: I think we can carry some slack. It turns out

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Speaker 1: that yes, we do have Mid Canterbury athletes among them.

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Speaker 1: Colleen Lindsey is in for Alice this week. She's our

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Speaker 1: Mid Canterbury coach and manager. Morning good Mine. How big

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Speaker 1: is our contingent?

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Speaker 2: Ten athletes, six swimmers and four botsy players.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a good question.

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Speaker 2: What's botchy Italian Bowl? How do the OSSI do it

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Speaker 2: different at Spotcher?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? How did the Ossies do it different from say

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Speaker 1: regular bowls?

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Speaker 2: It's unweighted, it's just a round bowl, so you don't

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Speaker 2: have the buyers.

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Speaker 1: Oh, you don't have the book and it's just a.

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Speaker 2: Narrow court you play on. It's about three meters wide

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Speaker 2: three point six fide I think yeah, at about eighteen meters.

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Speaker 1: Long, so you'd have to really watch the beams that

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Speaker 1: you give it. You can't sort of roll it with

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Speaker 1: too much vigor.

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Speaker 2: No, And it's played inside and enflavable edges.

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Speaker 1: So that's it napuna wai if I'm not mistaken. And

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Speaker 1: then the swimmers are competing in the new half a

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Speaker 1: billion dollar part of Curda Center, which is the country's

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Speaker 1: biggest indoor sport and pool doesn't open until the public

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Speaker 1: next week. Have you been for a look through yourself.

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Speaker 2: Only being past the bust will courts which are right

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Speaker 2: beside the pool. I just had a quick look in

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Speaker 2: there on our way in and there's just hundreds of

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Speaker 2: people here are just coming in flat out.

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Speaker 1: So you start to day thirty, you're on you're at

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Speaker 1: ground zero there.

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Speaker 2: I'm just standing right beside the pole.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Is it an impressive facility.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's amazing. The diving tow great.

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Speaker 1: Wow. So the yeah, the open ceremony for this gone underway.

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Speaker 1: Wolfbrook Aerna yesterday and last night. Am I correct in

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Speaker 1: saying there were two mid Canibury rips that got to

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Speaker 1: carry the flame of hope?

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Speaker 2: No, oh, there were two plus a coach up on

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Speaker 2: the stage representing Mid Canterbury. I delivered the coaches.

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Speaker 1: Oath That would have been pretty special.

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Speaker 2: I was very honest.

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Speaker 1: Is that in front of all fifteen people?

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Speaker 2: Well there was eight hundred volunteers, twelve hundred athletes, and

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Speaker 2: then you had the mayor and deputy and the guy

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Speaker 2: from Hong Kong was Singapore got Barrett, he's an ambassador

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Speaker 2: for Did you get did.

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Speaker 1: You get to meet Scotty? No, you would have seen

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Speaker 1: them though. He's a big guy. Oh he's a big guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got the speaker.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so big day talking big stuff, big days competitions,

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Speaker 1: as you mentioned, stuff about eight thirty and they finish

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Speaker 1: about five.

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Speaker 2: And well hopefully yeah.

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Speaker 1: It is our team last night, it goes through until Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Is our team driving up and back each day?

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah we are. We left it. We left at

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Speaker 2: six this morning. Well you didn't get home to nearly

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Speaker 2: nine last night.

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Speaker 1: What sort of support crew does it take to make

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Speaker 1: all this happen?

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Speaker 2: Well, we've got parents and a friend of mine has

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Speaker 2: driven me today, so we need driven you well and

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Speaker 2: two of the other athletes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, can we not drive yourself? Colleen? What's that broken

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Speaker 1: roost to you. So among everything else that you're busy

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Speaker 1: doing this week, you've broken your wrist too. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I hope it doesn't prove too nickly.

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Speaker 2: No, it's getting all right. It's some three weeks since

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Speaker 2: I did it. I did it outside this facility three

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Speaker 2: weeks ago when we were coming in to try the

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Speaker 2: pools out. No nobody that. Somebody called out. I turned

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Speaker 2: around and missed the step.

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Speaker 1: Ah. You put that on the list of dopey injuries.

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Speaker 1: How unfortunate. Doesn't sound like it's getting in the way

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Speaker 1: of a good time. Can you describe for us how

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Speaker 1: much does it mean for these athletes? Like what have

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Speaker 1: they been saying to you? Oh?

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Speaker 2: So just I think they're mind boggled at the moment.

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Speaker 2: They just can't believe it. Yeah, yeah done, They're they're

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Speaker 2: a bit nervous.

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Speaker 1: Did I supot that everybody has matching uniforms? Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: pretty neate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just some amazing Oh they're trying out the

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Speaker 2: sound system. Just some amazing uniforms. Though some of them

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Speaker 2: have really got a designer and undesigned all sorts of things.

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Speaker 1: Makes it feel official, doesn't it? So? Super quick calling

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Speaker 1: before I let you go, because I know that you've

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Speaker 1: got a big day head. I don't want to pick favorites,

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Speaker 1: but do we have some strong metal hopefuls.

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Speaker 2: I'm hopeful that they'll all do their best. I have

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Speaker 2: got one very strong woman.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, who's that, Cody Robin Cody.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you madam. And I'm just hoping that he's going

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Speaker 2: to pull one out. He just loves competing and he

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Speaker 2: rarely pulls out all the stops. But they're all wonderful.

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Speaker 2: They just try their hardest. It's amazing. What competition does.

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Speaker 2: They just all seem to get something extra going.

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Speaker 1: What a magic opportunity. And thank you and and and

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Speaker 1: all the management team for making it happen. Our special

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Speaker 1: Olympians today till Sunday doing battle up in christ Church

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Speaker 1: and we're cheering them on all the way.