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Speaker 1: Plenty of it's over in Italy. The Winter Olympic Games

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Speaker 1: are being held across the most geographically spread area ever

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Speaker 1: for the Games, twenty two thousand square kilometers. One of

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Speaker 1: the venues that Fiona Boyer from Mount Hut is heading

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Speaker 1: home from is Courtina. She's been lucky enough there soaking

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Speaker 1: up the atmosphere. Have you managed to get to any

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Speaker 1: of the other venues, Fiona, No, I.

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Speaker 2: Haven't been able to get to. Milan is obviously holding

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Speaker 2: a lot of the sort of land based events, and

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Speaker 2: then Levigno a lot of the New Zealand crew, the

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Speaker 2: other eighteen athletes are over there, the snowboard ski and

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Speaker 2: you know, pipe in free ski athletes, and then the

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Speaker 2: men's alpine ski racing has been in Bormeo, which is

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Speaker 2: again another venue. So we've been, you know, it's been

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Speaker 2: an interesting games. They actually haven't attended a Winter Olympics before,

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Speaker 2: but it's very spread out, so that all we saw

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Speaker 2: if you weren't going to travel. Another sort of two

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Speaker 2: hundred and three hundred kilometers was the women's alpine ski race,

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Speaker 2: which in itself was an absolutely spectacle. It has been absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic because you and Alice Robinson are good buds. She

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Speaker 1: spends a bit of time each season up at our

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Speaker 1: Mount Hut, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we are always up there with Alice when she's

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Speaker 2: at her Mount Hut camp, and that's a really important

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Speaker 2: venue for her and her build up to the World

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Speaker 2: Cup circuit which starts later in October. She always has

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Speaker 2: a very extended camp at Mount Hut, loves the terrain,

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Speaker 2: flying down plattyspladder and her coaches believe it's a perfect

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Speaker 2: setup for her each year, just before she hits the

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Speaker 2: World Cup opener and sold in Austria, which happens around

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Speaker 2: the anywhere between the twentieth and thirty first of October

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Speaker 1: What's not to like? So what's it been like cheering

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Speaker 1: her on in person? There? I feel like we don't

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Speaker 1: have a full appreciation when watching on TV of the

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Speaker 1: inclines and the speeds and the sheer athleticism, the physicality.

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Speaker 2: Yes, look, honestly, she alis race the Super g on

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Speaker 2: Thursday Europe time, which would have been Thursday night end

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Speaker 2: Zed time, and you know they're going up to well

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Speaker 2: over one hundred and twenty hundred through the caves an hour.

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Speaker 2: They do they do now wear air bags under their suits,

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Speaker 2: which is which is great, and I really yeah, they

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Speaker 2: have to because obviously they're they're flying down the hill

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Speaker 2: and she thought you might have seen Lindsey vonn had

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Speaker 2: a pretty bad accident in the and the downhill.

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Speaker 1: Know that was hard to watch. I didn't see her

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Speaker 1: blow up like that character and Charlie and the chocolate factory.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm imagining. Is they blow up into like

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Speaker 1: a beach ball. Is that? What is that? What happens?

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Speaker 2: No, that's a good point. I didn't see the airbag either.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I think maybe she didn't hit in the way

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Speaker 2: the bag. I'm not quite sure. It's actually not a

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Speaker 2: specialist in their space, but certainly it was her leg

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Speaker 2: that took the impact. But no, Alice has been you know,

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Speaker 2: eights and the Super g and eights in the Giants

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Speaker 2: but you know she was zero point one eight of

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Speaker 2: a second off a medal out. Oh she is. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know we eventually she came out to us and

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Speaker 2: everyone's heading off the hill and all the security we're

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Speaker 2: we just refused to go and tell you see. So

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Speaker 2: she eventually came away from all the media, which they

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Speaker 2: the athletes and the team. But they eventually made their

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Speaker 2: way over to us and the kiwis were, you know,

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Speaker 2: she really enjoyed. Her whole family has been here, her

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Speaker 2: and all of their kids. So it was just Robinson

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Speaker 2: like festival. The kids come from Australia, the UK.

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Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you, and a boy from Mount Hut lucky

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Speaker 1: be Ellis's physio. So there's the connection there. Anyway, we

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Speaker 1: seen any cool sights?

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Speaker 2: The Italian president was here the other day. That was

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Speaker 2: just all the big brands are out. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: also Europe's great I mean, the skiers here are very

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Speaker 2: they're all very good sk years. It was pretty impressive

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Speaker 2: actually to see, you know, the way skiers conduct themselves

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Speaker 1: So so hold on, did you manage to get some

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Speaker 1: aren't for the games, like you're able to yourself?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you could actually, And also we skied in another

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Speaker 2: But when you're getting to the venue, pretty high security.

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Speaker 2: You had to come in on event shuttles. You couldn't

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Speaker 2: very type security. So rightly, so you know, there was

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Speaker 1: You just get used to it, you know, it's normal

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Speaker 2: Sometimes, Yeah, it has been. You kind of also feel

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a few more quick questions. What's been your biggest

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Speaker 2: Probably the first time I came out and may she

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Speaker 2: morning and go, oh my god. But also I'm here.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of when you first see just the huge

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Speaker 2: But when you see them and you see Pedarecabrioni, and

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Speaker 2: see the big names Paula Maltzon and Kemi Raft and

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Speaker 2: of you sit there and you really like hearts pounding,

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Speaker 2: my God, that's probably my biggest time. My god moment

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Speaker 2: is where she's about to come down in your hearts,

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Speaker 2: what it's then it's all over her. So she's been

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Speaker 2: amazing and what an ambassador for New Zealand. She is

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Speaker 1: Wow. And finally the burning question that everybody wants to know,

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Speaker 1: how cold was it? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Well, one of the has been pretty cold, like not

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Speaker 1: The Kiwis by the fact that there were still rocking

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Speaker 2: There's plenty of Kiwi flags around. I think we did.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, cool. But you know, like everyone loves New

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Speaker 2: And it's been great.

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Speaker 1: Nat Fionda, thank you so much for your time. We'll

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Speaker 1: let you catch that plane safe trebles home and hopefully

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Speaker 1: we can turn on some summer for you by the

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Speaker 1: time you get back.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you will awesome. We'll see you approach check