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

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk ZEDB.

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Speaker 2: SO the Sporting We witnessed the most dramatic of men's

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Speaker 2: high jump finals, Hamish curR and American Shelby McEwan with

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Speaker 2: a last two left with two meters thirty eight on

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Speaker 2: the bar. Now both missed all three times at two

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Speaker 2: thirty eight and having both had two previous misses, they

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Speaker 2: went into a jump off for gold. Now they kept

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Speaker 2: it at two thirty eight. They have one jump they

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Speaker 2: both missed. They bring it down to two thirty six.

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Speaker 2: They each had one jump they both missed. They brought

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Speaker 2: it down to two thirty four and shall be missed

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Speaker 2: at two thirty four, which left Hamish curR needing to

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Speaker 2: clear two thirty four to claim gold.

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Speaker 3: Weeks and years of training, hamers Kurr for.

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Speaker 4: The gold medal.

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Speaker 3: Kiwi's can fly and Hamuskurr scales Everest and his high

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Speaker 3: jump Olympic champion and he is away. Homoss cur sprinting

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Speaker 3: around this arena arms wide.

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Speaker 2: He is an Olympic champion.

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Speaker 4: In the most dramatic of high jump finals, hamous Kerr

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Speaker 4: brings it home for New Zealand's what a moment and

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Speaker 4: it couldn't happen to a better bloke, and.

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Speaker 2: That bloke Hamish Kurr joins us now out of Paris,

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Speaker 2: Hamish Olympic high jump champion, with a few hours to reflect.

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Speaker 2: Have you been able to process what you've done? Gold

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Speaker 2: medal mate?

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Speaker 5: No? No, I haven't. It's been pretty pretty crazy since then.

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Speaker 5: I've sort of been pushed and shoved in various directions.

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Speaker 5: But it's you know, it's just such an amazing, amazing

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Speaker 5: night and to be able to share it with with

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Speaker 5: not only my coach and the rest of my team

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Speaker 5: and my friends and family, it's just yeah, it's a

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Speaker 5: dream come true.

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Speaker 2: Two thirty four on the bar a height. You know

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Speaker 2: you're capable of a clearance needed to win. How are

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Speaker 2: you feeling at the top of that run and take

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Speaker 2: us through that jump?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 5: I'm stoked day, Like that's that's the kind of That's

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Speaker 5: that's what dreams are made of, right there. Like, I mean,

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Speaker 5: you know, as a as a jumper, you you dream

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Speaker 5: of those moments where you can have one jump to

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Speaker 5: make all the difference. And that's what was going through

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Speaker 5: my head, you know, I I wasn't afraid of failing.

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Speaker 5: I wasn't afraid of the water. If so, I was

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Speaker 5: just accepting the fact that, you know, I could land

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Speaker 5: on that mat in the bar, could still be up

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Speaker 5: and the rest of the history. And that's that's what happened.

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Speaker 2: How much of you thought back to your third leap

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Speaker 2: at two twenty and qualifying without without that, you're not

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Speaker 2: even here.

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Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, Look, that was the hardest jump of that's

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Speaker 5: this whole this whole competition, that's for sure, And probably

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Speaker 5: not only knowingly that, but it's probably one of the

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Speaker 5: hardest moments of my life, you know, to face what

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Speaker 5: could have been disaster, looked at in the eyes, and

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Speaker 5: just accept the fact that that's not that's not what's

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Speaker 5: going to define me. It was a pretty scary moment.

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Speaker 5: It was pretty raw, and I was pretty emotional afterwards,

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Speaker 5: you know, even through the twenty five and the twenty

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Speaker 5: seven and qualifying, I was. I was pretty much holding

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Speaker 5: back tears. But at the same time, like, I think

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Speaker 5: that that's what I knew I had in my bag

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Speaker 5: coming into this final. You know, I was battle hardened.

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Speaker 5: I I'd earned the right to be there, and I'd

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Speaker 5: really fought and that was that was the the thing

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Speaker 5: that got me over that that final jump in that

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Speaker 5: and that jump off you.

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Speaker 2: Needed three attempts at two thirty one in the final

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Speaker 2: as well. Was it a similar feeling.

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Speaker 5: Nah, that was so much less stressful. Yeah, which seems weird,

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Speaker 5: but I think at the same time, like you know,

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Speaker 5: I knew I was in good shape today and and

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Speaker 5: I knew that it wasn't a matter of if it

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Speaker 5: was a matter of win. And you know, to have

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Speaker 5: three three well you know, two d and the cracks

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Speaker 5: and then and then one one clearance at thirty one,

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Speaker 5: that was Yeah, that was completely on the Bingo card.

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Speaker 5: Having a having a face a thirty and qualifying was

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Speaker 5: not quite on the Bingo card. Hints. It was a

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Speaker 5: little bit tougher.

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Speaker 2: Amazing, And we've got a proud history of middle distance

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Speaker 2: running and then shot put, but young keyw Weis haven't

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Speaker 2: really had a high jumper to look up to. How

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Speaker 2: proud are you that they now do?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Look, I mean that's that's the amazing thing with sport

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Speaker 5: at the moment. You know, I'm obviously re running history

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Speaker 5: in high jump, but not only that. We we have

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Speaker 5: such an amazing team of people throughout all events now

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Speaker 5: and you know, with with sprints and charts and pole

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Speaker 5: volt and throws, it's it's great that Kiwi kids can

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Speaker 5: can look up and see idols and almost all of

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Speaker 5: those event groups. So yeah, I think that's the great

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Speaker 5: legacy that we we're leaving mid and hopefully we're going

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Speaker 5: to have heaps of track and field medals in the

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Speaker 5: next few years.

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Speaker 2: He provided us with goosebumps of breakfast time back here.

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Speaker 2: How much congratulations mate, absolutely amazing, Thank you for joining

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Speaker 2: this made and enjoy the rest of your evening.

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Speaker 5: Awesome thanks hates mate, No, thank.

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Speaker 2: You, Hamish, Hamish Kurr. Now this tells you all you

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Speaker 2: need to know. It's currently quarter past two in the

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Speaker 2: morning in Paris and there's Hamish Kurr taking our call

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Speaker 2: to have a chat to us. And I can tell

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Speaker 2: you we are not the first and probably won't be

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Speaker 2: the last media interview he does, but I guess that's

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Speaker 2: what you get when you're an Olympic champion. Great to

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Speaker 2: get the chance to chat with Hamish Kurr after a remarkable,

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Speaker 2: remarkable high jump competition this morning.

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