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Speaker 1: We'll go five hundred old athletes from thirty five countries

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Speaker 1: in Queenstown for the Winter Games. This is the largest

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Speaker 1: snowsports event in the Southern Hemisphere. By the way, the

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Speaker 1: CEO of all of this, mighty to me is with us,

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Speaker 1: Marty morning to you. What's the weather and track? Is

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Speaker 1: it snowed enough?

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Speaker 2: Ye? Well, yeah, we've got enough snow on the track,

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Speaker 2: no doubt at all. That's not a problem. We today

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Speaker 2: was just out of our weather window for our free

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Speaker 2: ride events, so that means we picked the very best

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Speaker 2: day in the best conditions and today is not that day,

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Speaker 2: so we won't be kicking off today, but we're into

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Speaker 2: it from here right through to the eighth of September.

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Speaker 1: Do you have what's the quality of the field? I

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Speaker 1: mean you've got some serious operators there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, we got in the LPINT events in particular.

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Speaker 2: I mean we've got a whole number of World Cup races,

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Speaker 2: so you know, for Alice Rompson, our local kind of

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Speaker 2: hero to be able to go up against it, and

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Speaker 2: there's plenty in that space. We have a preliminary entry

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Speaker 2: from Marcel Husho, who's one of the greatest of all

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Speaker 2: time on the Alpine world so if he starts, that's

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Speaker 2: a huge coup down the southern hemisphere. And then in

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Speaker 2: the park and pipe events, we've got two worldcaps which

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Speaker 2: are actually part of the Milano twenty twenty six Olympic qualification,

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Speaker 2: so athletes can gain points now to actually try and

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Speaker 2: you know, earn those spots. So that means the best

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Speaker 2: to the beast of here. So those feel to absolutely step.

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Speaker 1: Correct me if I'm wrong, But our reputation, if not

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Speaker 1: still growing, is certainly good internationally in terms of people

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Speaker 1: coming here in the off season. They're off season and

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Speaker 1: using our facilities. So in other words, we're a good base.

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Speaker 1: A lot of these people will know us and how

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Speaker 1: we operate.

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Speaker 2: Right, yeah, one hundred percent, you know, and we have

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Speaker 2: an advance. We have snow when the northern hemisphere doesn't,

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Speaker 2: so people definitely do come down. And I think we've

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Speaker 2: also athletes track record now means they want to know

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Speaker 2: what they're doing where they're training, because you know that

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Speaker 2: we've now got so many athletes at their world class level.

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Speaker 2: So we've certainly moved a long way forward.

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Speaker 1: That's the truth. The system we've got going in that

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Speaker 1: part of the world's brilliant. The economic boosts generally, what's

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Speaker 1: at worth to the region, do you think in the order.

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Speaker 2: Of six to ten million? Depends on how you count

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Speaker 2: you win their economic compect starts. But when athletes come on,

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Speaker 2: they typically they don't just come on for the three

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Speaker 2: or four days of their event. They'll come and they'll

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Speaker 2: train for a couple of weeks before in maybe two

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Speaker 2: three four weeks afterwards as well, so there's actually quite

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Speaker 2: a long tail. So it just depends on what you

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Speaker 2: what you consider to be there and picked off the event.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic Muddy go well with the Muddy to mey, who's

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Speaker 1: the Winter Game CEO on in Central Otaga one of

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Speaker 1: the I think, to be honest, I think the only

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Speaker 1: region that's back beyond what COVID was in terms of

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Speaker 1: tourism already.

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