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Speaker 1: Now, more than twenty five thousand visitors from around Australasia

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Speaker 1: are descending on totaling of this weekend. For the Games Games,

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Speaker 1: fourteen thousand intermediate age kids from around the continent will

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Speaker 1: be complete, competing in twenty seven different sports. Kelly Shishka

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Speaker 1: is the director of the zespri Ames Games and with

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Speaker 1: us Hello Kelly, Hello, are you tonight? I'm very well,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Kicks off tomorrow a way, So is it

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Speaker 1: already mental?

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Speaker 2: It is organized chaos, I think is the best way

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Speaker 2: to describe it. But calm before the storm.

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Speaker 1: What kind of events are we talking about here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So all sporting events are so twenty seven sporting

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Speaker 2: codes at the zespri Ams Games this year. So everything

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Speaker 2: from you know, traditional sports that you'd expect netball and

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Speaker 2: basketball through to orienteering and surfing and almost everything in between.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic And from how far afield are people coming?

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Speaker 2: This year? We have four hundred and thirty one schools

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Speaker 2: represented at the zespri Ames Games from all across New

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Speaker 2: Zealand and we have some schools that we're welcoming from

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Speaker 2: the Cook Islands m Fiji this year as well, which

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Speaker 2: is very exciting.

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Speaker 1: Do we not have the Australians competing.

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Speaker 2: No Australians this year, so hopefully the New Zealand's New

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Speaker 2: Zealanders can take out most of the golds.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, why not? Why did the Australians not come

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Speaker 1: over this year?

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Speaker 2: We haven't had Australia come over in a number of years,

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Speaker 2: so yeah, it's primarily New Zealand schools without Pacific Island

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Speaker 2: friends as well.

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Speaker 1: What happened, Kelly, Why aren't Australia competing anymore? I'm desperate

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Speaker 1: to know now.

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Speaker 2: Oh I'm not sure it was before my time because.

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Speaker 1: They don't have their butts whip. I don't enjoy that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look but that sounds about right to me. Let's

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Speaker 2: go with that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that story. How much is totung A

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Speaker 2: Toto It loves it? Totong It is an incredible host city.

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Speaker 2: We're so lucky to have the community behind us. There's

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Speaker 2: so much buy in with the experience games. They love

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Speaker 2: showing off the city and being great hosts. They really

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Speaker 2: do roll out the recup but for our visit is

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Speaker 2: so yeah, we're very excited to be welcoming everyone tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Brilliant stuff, Kelly, beast of luck with it Kelly Shishka,

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Speaker 1: the Ames Games tournament director.

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