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Speaker 1: Try in Paris is turning into a shambles. The rivers

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Speaker 1: do dirty. The event has been delayed, of course, so

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Speaker 1: where are we actually at? Translin, New Zealand. Boss Platts

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Speaker 1: withers from Paris morning.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Mike, it's fifty What are.

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Speaker 1: Your feelings on this? Is this a mess?

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Speaker 2: It's a fairly big distraction, to be honest with you.

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Speaker 2: But I think at the end of the day, we've

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Speaker 2: known that there have been some challenges, So it's just

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Speaker 2: about trying to adapt in the moment and ensure that

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Speaker 2: we're as prepared as we can be.

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Speaker 1: And how literal, where literally are we at? When's the

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Speaker 1: decision made? And will the decision be final?

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Speaker 2: So there's a three thirty am meeting every morning to

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Speaker 2: discuss the quality of the water and we normally get

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Speaker 2: communication after that between four and four fifteen ams, so

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Speaker 2: and that's local times. So at four point fifteen tomorrow

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Speaker 2: we all know what the pan is for tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: When does it get turned into a duathlon? If it does.

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Speaker 2: So, if they have to postpone tomorrow, they do have

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Speaker 2: another reserve day, which is the second of August, which

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Speaker 2: is Friday, so they'll do the same thing. There'll be

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Speaker 2: a meeting on Friday morning at three point thirty at

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Speaker 2: four fifteen, they'll let us know whether the quality of

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Speaker 2: the water is good enough to swim in, and if

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Speaker 2: it isn't, then it'll change thirchiathlon.

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Speaker 1: Given what we know about the sin historically speaking, was

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Speaker 1: this always going to be troubled?

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Speaker 2: I think we expected that it might be, But if

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Speaker 2: you consider the amounts of investment that they've made in

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Speaker 2: trying to improve the quality of the water through all

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Speaker 2: the filtration systems that they've put in, we were pretty

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Speaker 2: hopeful that it might sort itself out. But yet it

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Speaker 2: certainly hasn't helped that we've had the weather that we had,

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Speaker 2: which was kind of unexpected given they hadn't ready had

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Speaker 2: that level of grain in July. So yeah, I mean

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Speaker 2: it's yeah, we're just we're just trying to focus on

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Speaker 2: what we can control and providing a good environment for athletes,

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Speaker 2: and you know, that's really what we're trying to do

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Speaker 2: on the ground.

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Speaker 1: How do you explain to an athlete who's training their

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Speaker 1: whole life for this moment that, sorry, mate, there's only

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Speaker 1: two events instead of three. It's a duo, not a try.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the athletes are pretty aware of that.

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Speaker 2: It wouldn't be the first time that they've had opportunities

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Speaker 2: where water quality hasn't been good and events been turned

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Speaker 2: to a jaffline. Obviously, it's not an Olympic Games, so

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Speaker 2: that's pretty unprecedented and they'd certainly be disappointed. But at

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Speaker 2: the end of the day, we know what's in front

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Speaker 2: of us. I'm hoping that the athletes will accept that

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Speaker 2: if that's what comes their way. But yeah, we've got

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Speaker 2: to remain positive and hope that tomorrow we get these

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Speaker 2: two triathlons.

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Speaker 1: Under way and go well. Peter, who's the head of

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Speaker 1: Trifle on New Zealand.

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