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

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Speaker 1: from Newstalks EDB Paul Vaulter.

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Speaker 2: Olivia McTaggart has vaulted a personal beast overnight.

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Speaker 3: Back to this pole ball then and the bars still

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Speaker 3: at four seventy three. Remember nobody clear out the first

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Speaker 3: attempt at all. Yes, now we have somebody over. Olivia

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Speaker 3: McTaggart at the second time of asking goes clear and

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Speaker 3: is now the competition leader here. And that is a

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Speaker 3: superb clearance for Olivia McTaggart. It's a lifetime best as

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Speaker 3: well in difficult conditions. Well, what a time to produce

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Speaker 3: your best ever effort.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely four point seven to three meters for Olivia McTaggart,

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Speaker 2: two centimeters better than her previous best and good enough

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Speaker 2: to win the London Diamond League event. Olivia McTaggart is

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Speaker 2: with us. How does it for congratulations? First of all,

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Speaker 2: how does it feel to clear a new personal best

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Speaker 2: height and victory in such a big event.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely incredible.

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Speaker 5: Honestly, that's probably aside from World Champs obviously, but that

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Speaker 5: would be one of the competitions that's really up there

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Speaker 5: to want to excel at and to win it. Was

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Speaker 5: just even more than a cherry on top. I knew

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Speaker 5: that height has been there for a long time, but

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Speaker 5: to win the whole thing is wild. I'm so so happy.

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Speaker 2: Did you feel like did this feel like it was

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Speaker 2: coming going into this event? I think you cleared four

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Speaker 2: to seventy one about a week ago, didn't you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? So four days ago.

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Speaker 5: So I've done two seventies and four days and I

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Speaker 5: definitely saw.

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Speaker 4: The seventy three coming.

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Speaker 5: To be quite honest with you, I've believed in that

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Speaker 5: height for a long time and I've just stay consistent.

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Speaker 5: My training's been going amazing, so everything has really been

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Speaker 5: pointing towards these heights.

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Speaker 4: But to do it and to win, it's just yeah,

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Speaker 4: extra little bit.

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Speaker 2: Did you know on the way up that you were

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Speaker 2: going to clear it?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I knew that if I stuck to

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Speaker 5: my cues, and I knew as soon as.

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Speaker 4: I took off that was a good takeoff.

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Speaker 5: And then I just had to really get in the

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Speaker 5: tube upside down and then going over the bar nice

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Speaker 5: and clean. My four seventy one a few days ago

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Speaker 5: wasn't as clean. I got a little bit of bar love,

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Speaker 5: a little bit of a wobble on it, but this

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Speaker 5: was clear and I was just open the moon.

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Speaker 2: What is that feeling like as you're over and I

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Speaker 2: mean it's only a second or two on the way down,

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Speaker 2: I know, But do you feel or what do you

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Speaker 2: feel at that moment?

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Speaker 5: Ah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean a lot of it.

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Speaker 5: How I feel is what you see when I'm on

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Speaker 5: the mat, and so there's a few photos that really

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Speaker 5: encapsulate that moment.

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Speaker 4: For me.

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Speaker 5: I'm someone that really wears my heart on my sleeve,

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Speaker 5: and that's why I do. When I'm out there competing,

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Speaker 5: I'm my most vulnerable and kind of the most self

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Speaker 5: myself I am. So yeah, just being out there and

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Speaker 5: hitting the mat, knowing that I did that, I think

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Speaker 5: I let out a bit of a bit of a

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Speaker 5: scream saying come on.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, it's pretty.

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Speaker 2: Great, absolutely justified. Now I'll see you missed your first

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Speaker 2: attempt at four forty five. Were you just sort of

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I was just warming off into it.

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Speaker 5: My first attempt, I did what was called a blow through,

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Speaker 5: which means you've made the pole too soft. So it

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Speaker 5: literally just meant I did a great jump and I

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Speaker 5: just had to go up to the next pole. So

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Speaker 5: sometimes that happens, and that's just a sport.

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Speaker 4: Of pole vault. But yeah, I was able to take

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Speaker 2: Wasn't quite wit there as well. Did I see?

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Speaker 5: It was a little bit wet pretty much the whole

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Speaker 5: day it was raining. For a warm up, we got

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Speaker 5: pretty lucky, and then as soon as we had our

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Speaker 5: presentation it started raining again. So for my first attempts

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Speaker 5: at thirty and maybe a little bit at forty five,

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Speaker 5: it was raining, but then after that it cleared up

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Speaker 2: And just back to the to the victory itself, Olivia,

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Speaker 2: you know this is a quality field. You know, Katie

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Speaker 2: Moon's in the field, Molly Cordery, the hometown girls in

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Speaker 2: the field. To beat vaulters like that, that must be

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Speaker 2: extremely satisfying.

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Speaker 4: Is it very satisfying?

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Speaker 5: So I went into this competition the lowest ranked, with

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Speaker 5: the lowest PB, and I knew it was little. I

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Speaker 5: was a little bit of an underdog going into it,

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Speaker 5: but secretly I kind of like that. So to come

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Speaker 5: second attempt just goes to show that those first and

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Speaker 5: second attempts make a huge difference. So I've always known that,

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Speaker 5: but I used to be a third attempt jumper, and

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Speaker 5: now we're putting that old Livy in the grave and

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Speaker 5: coming out this season as a new Libby.

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Speaker 2: So what does that look like in terms of your

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Speaker 2: preparation mental and physical, in terms of becoming a second

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Speaker 2: clearance jumper rather than leaving it till the very last attempt.

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Speaker 5: It's taken a lot. To be quite honest with you,

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Speaker 5: I haven't. I didn't have the most amazing start to

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Speaker 5: the season. I had a thirty or forty, I had

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Speaker 5: a sixty, had a good place to jump. About two

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Speaker 5: two and a half weeks ago, I was in Paris

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Speaker 5: and after the competition I was got really emotional and

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Speaker 5: just had a bit of a cry and.

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Speaker 4: Was like, why is this not coming together?

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Speaker 5: I know that it's here, I know that it's coming,

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Speaker 5: but why could I not make it clicking comp and

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Speaker 5: physically I've been there one hundred percent, So it's mentally

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Speaker 5: in the last probably four competitions, I've really turned a

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Speaker 5: corner and believed myself more and just executed real commitment

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Speaker 5: in my jumps.

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Speaker 2: Well onwards from here and the other cherry on top

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Speaker 2: of course, is this qualifies you for the World Champs

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Speaker 2: in Tokyo in September. So how big a box to

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Speaker 2: tick is that?

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Speaker 5: Oh it's great, It's really great, to be quite honest

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Speaker 5: with you.

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Speaker 4: We've already booked my flight brilliant. We're at that confident.

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Speaker 5: But also I just knew i'd be in the top

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Speaker 5: I think it was thirty six girls and currently I'm

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Speaker 5: ranked twentieth, so we had to get onto that early.

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Speaker 5: But to get the I mean that's a world standard

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Speaker 5: and last time I did that was in Puta past

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty three. So yeah, it's just again just another

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Speaker 2: So what that's a couple of months away? So what

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Speaker 2: lies ahead for you between now and the World Champs.

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Speaker 4: So I've got about three weeks off competitions.

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Speaker 5: Now, I've had a good kind of stint of traveling

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Speaker 5: and being on the road and getting competitions in for

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Speaker 5: the last probably six weeks. So now a little bit

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Speaker 5: of times, just keep training through, building that consistency, working

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Speaker 5: on my jump, getting my speed, and then in August

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Speaker 5: I'll probably do four competitions all around the place, and

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Speaker 5: then we'll head into pre camp early September.

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Speaker 4: After Tokyo.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic news for us alt to wake up to over

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Speaker 2: here this morning. Olivia Diamond League champion and a new

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Speaker 2: PB for you of four point seventy three meters. I

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Speaker 2: know this more to come as well. Thanks so much

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Speaker 2: for chatting to us, all right, thank you so much, No,

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Speaker 2: thank you for joining us, Olivia, Olivia mctaggett. For me

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Speaker 2: to seventy three and more to come, you'd have to think.

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Speaker 2: And a winner at the Diamond League event in London overnight.

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