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Speaker 1: In France, Catherine, feel very good morning to you. Good

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Speaker 1: morning mate, got yourself a good dose of mushall mania, yet,

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Speaker 1: are you susceptible to mushall mania?

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Speaker 2: Leon Lapousson they're also calling him Leon the fash. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: everyone's going absolutely crazy about this guy. He really has

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Speaker 2: a touch to touched is a very patriotic nerve view.

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Speaker 2: It's what four gold medals, one bronze, only twenty two

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Speaker 2: years old, didn't think he'd become an Olympic swimmer like

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Speaker 2: his parents were, went off to Arizona. Everyone just loves

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Speaker 2: him because he's very humble, very good on TV was

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Speaker 2: quotes afterwards, and it has kind of lifted everyone's spirits

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Speaker 2: because France isn't traditionally very good at the swimming and we're,

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Speaker 2: you know, France is heading into a bit of a

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Speaker 2: lack of medals as we go into the track and

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Speaker 2: field events.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to upset you in any way, Catherine,

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Speaker 1: but I was watching a little bit of the cycling yesterday,

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Speaker 1: and the cycling right through the sea to Refrance, and

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Speaker 1: it looks beautiful and beautiful aerial shots, but I was

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Speaker 1: astonished at the amount of graffiti on the buildings it

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Speaker 1: looks like it's just been let loose by thugs at

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Speaker 1: night with spray cans. Is that fair or unfair? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Lovefair, mite, love fair?

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Speaker 1: I think okay, all right, just seeing a lot of

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Speaker 1: painting on the side of the walls. By the way.

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Speaker 1: The other thing, once again, I don't want to upset you,

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Speaker 1: the triathlon, the mixed relay. Do you think, in the

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Speaker 1: fullness of time the whole scene thing will be seen

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Speaker 1: as a bit of a mistake.

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Speaker 2: I think it's already been seen as a mistake, mate,

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Speaker 2: simply because we now know more about what it takes

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Speaker 2: to get the sand clean. We all know more about

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Speaker 2: bacteria levels. If you'd asked the basic prision a year

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Speaker 2: even sounds ago, would you swim? As they've said no,

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Speaker 2: they'll probably still say no today. That most people now

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Speaker 2: know all about how you measure bacteria in the water,

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Speaker 2: and they all seem to know, well, the only testing

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Speaker 2: for two particular types of bacteria, and rivers have lots

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Speaker 2: of other bacteria in it, So they really were a

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Speaker 2: hostage to fortune. On that one might But as you've

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Speaker 2: been seeing, you you've got the cycling went right through

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Speaker 2: the streets and up and down the hills of Manmatre,

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Speaker 2: and they just really wanted to have those shots of

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Speaker 2: swimmers in the Seine, and I think they really are

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Speaker 2: regretting it. It's also because you people have been looking

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Speaker 2: at the shots from the nautical place right out in

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Speaker 2: the east of Paris and man and they've been looking

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Speaker 2: at this fabulous area that they've got set out there

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Speaker 2: for the rowing, the canoeing and the kayaking and saying, well,

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Speaker 2: you know, we actually did have somewhere else who could

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Speaker 2: stage the triathlon.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. And then we come to the boxing. How

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Speaker 1: big a story is the boxing and all that surrounded it.

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Speaker 2: This is a strange one, isn't it, Mate, Because you

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Speaker 2: do have these two boxes who are competing in the

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Speaker 2: women's section, and the question has been over fairness, safety,

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Speaker 2: over and usion. The IOC says it has its own

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Speaker 2: rules on eligibility. The International Boxing Association says they have

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Speaker 2: their own rules. Now, of course, the IBA are no

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Speaker 2: longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee, so there is

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Speaker 2: that it Certainly it has come out of nowhere, and

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Speaker 2: I think the problems for the IOC MIC has been

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Speaker 2: they just are not when they come out and talk

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Speaker 2: to the press about it every morning. They don't talk

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Speaker 2: about the signs of it. They keep coming out and saying, well,

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Speaker 2: that's what it says on their passport. There was a

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Speaker 2: press conference here in Paris on Monday morning the International

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Speaker 2: Boxing Association, which was absolutely disgraceful. It was completely crazy.

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Speaker 2: The lights didn't work, the microphones didn't work. There are

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Speaker 2: a few sort of loud bangs, and then the president

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Speaker 2: of the association came on the line from Moscow. It

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Speaker 2: said all sorts of very derogatory remarks about the IOC,

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Speaker 2: and they didn't actually come up with any evidence about

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Speaker 2: to boxers who are now almost certain to get medals

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Speaker 2: at these.

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Speaker 1: Games exactly all right, we'll catch up, So I appreciate

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Speaker 1: Katherine Catherine Field out of Paris just before we leave Europe.

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Speaker 1: The if sixteens have arrived in the Ukraine, Zelenski's out

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Speaker 1: sprooking those. We don't know how many. He didn't say

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Speaker 1: how Manybody did thank those who had delivered them. And

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Speaker 1: that's the other question. They don't actually still have enough

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Speaker 1: trained pilots to fly them all. So we think they

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Speaker 1: came from Denmark, the Netherlands and the US. About sixty

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Speaker 1: five have been pledged, but as I say, what they

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Speaker 1: pledge and what they get a two different thing. So

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Speaker 1: that's an update on that particular part of the world

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