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Speaker 3: Hi there and welcome into a new week and a
Speaker 3: new episode of the Sports Fixed podcast from Monday, December sixteenth.
Speaker 4: I'm Jason Pine. Thanks for our downloading and listening in.
Speaker 3: Hayden Wild is with us today off the back of
Speaker 3: his performance at the Ironman seventy point three events in
Speaker 3: Topoor yesterday, much longer than the usual Olympic distance events
Speaker 3: that Hayden Wild is known for. Buddies still came home
Speaker 3: in second place. Remarkable stuff. Haiden Wilganu are unpacked that
Speaker 3: for us. Elijah a few pops into the chamber for
Speaker 3: a chat about the lack of Test cricket after this
Speaker 3: current Test and whether or not the darts at Ali
Speaker 3: Pally is capturing his attention. We'll look at the big
Speaker 3: sports stories floating around today as well, so let's get into.
Speaker 2: It in other news.
Speaker 3: And as always we do begin with the big sports
Speaker 3: stories leading your news today. White Ferns coach Ben Sawyer
Speaker 3: wants his side to carry their T twenty Cricket World
Speaker 3: Cup momentum into their first home ODI series of the
Speaker 3: summer against Australia Stardom on Thursday at the Base of
Speaker 3: the Reserve.
Speaker 5: We spoke about that all along the times there when
Speaker 5: things weren't exactly going our way. It's hard to believe
Speaker 5: that you are making progress and obviously when you start
Speaker 5: winning games, you need that and then you believe it.
Speaker 5: And now the girls know that you can compete with
Speaker 5: the world's best and be the world's best.
Speaker 3: Meantime, across the Tasman, a spicy start between Kiwi's Finn
Speaker 3: Allen and Adam Milne to open the Big Bash.
Speaker 6: She's so it's kind of the same, la, Welcome to
Speaker 6: the Big first fin.
Speaker 2: Ellen for six says have some of that you hear me?
Speaker 6: Sticks with your.
Speaker 3: Palms, yeah, sticking out from Finn Allen at the hands
Speaker 3: of Adam Milne. And Manchester United have scored twice in
Speaker 3: the last five minutes done Crosstown rivals Manchester City two
Speaker 3: one in the Premier League.
Speaker 6: It did mean get even better for Manchester United. I'm
Speaker 6: from one little jin the an chestinan liften of churn
Speaker 6: and around use Candabinion.
Speaker 1: It's Sportsfix with Jason Lyne.
Speaker 3: Here's a list of cricket scores for you. Fifty one
Speaker 3: not seventy seven, fifty eight, fifty six, one, one hundred
Speaker 3: and eight not out, thirteen, forty two, one hundred and
Speaker 3: seventy six, forty three, fifty four, two hundred not out, four,
Speaker 3: one hundred and four not out, two hundred and fifty one,
Speaker 3: forty three, one hundred and thirty three not out, forty
Speaker 3: four and currently one hundred and eight not out. Those
Speaker 3: are Cain Williamson's Test innings at seven Park, twenty one
Speaker 3: innings across twelve Test matches, an incredible fifteen hundred and
Speaker 3: sixty six runes at the even more extraordinary average of
Speaker 3: ninety seven point eighty seven as we speak, seven hundreds,
Speaker 3: including a couple of double centuries, our best ever Test
Speaker 3: score of two fifty one against the West Indies there
Speaker 3: four years ago, a further five fifties and just four
Speaker 3: times dismissed in single figures. Oddly enough, two of those
Speaker 3: were in his first three Knox one and nought. But
Speaker 3: after that it has been buckets and buckets of runs
Speaker 3: in Hamilton for a bloke who trades in that currency
Speaker 3: for a living. Speaking of which as we speak, Kin
Speaker 3: Williamson now has approaching nine two hundred and fifty Test runs.
Speaker 3: That's over fifteen hundred more than our next best Ross Taylor.
Speaker 3: So you have to think the ten thousand run milestone,
Speaker 3: which has been achieved by just fourteen men in the
Speaker 3: entire history of Test cricket, is well and truly within
Speaker 3: Cain Williamson's reach. The only thing really that will stop
Speaker 3: him getting there is playing enough Test matches. But the
Speaker 3: way he's going, it'll only take him another ten or
Speaker 3: maybe a dozen Test matches to bring up ten thousand runs.
Speaker 4: Here's an idea. If New Zealand.
Speaker 3: Cricket wants to speed that process up, they should display
Speaker 3: every single Test match at home at Seddon Park.
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Speaker 4: We've got just the ticket.
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Speaker 3: On the Sports Fix podcast. A podium finish for Kiwi
Speaker 3: triathlete Hayden Wilde in his first iron Man World Championship
Speaker 3: event in Topoor yesterday. The Olympic Selve medalists play second
Speaker 3: behind Belgian Yellaheens whild coming home in three hours, thirty
Speaker 3: three minutes and twenty two seconds. Hayden wild is with
Speaker 3: us on Sports Fix. Congrats on a terrific performance yesterday, Hayden.
Speaker 3: How's the body and how do you reflect on yesterday?
Speaker 2: Yeah, body is tired, I can tell you that, free, but.
Speaker 7: Really happy I raced and yeah, like happy to raise
Speaker 7: on my own terms and go out as I like
Speaker 7: to race and make it relatively entertaining. And yeah, they're
Speaker 7: not not bad finishing second second overall with yeah, my
Speaker 7: kind of my Yeah, my first seventy point three this year.
Speaker 7: Last one I raced was in Melbourne in November last year.
Speaker 7: So you're pretty happy with kind of how the body
Speaker 7: was able to hold up in that sort of distance.
Speaker 3: How does it compare to completing the shorter Olympic distance events.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty tough a obviously, you know. It's it's
Speaker 2: purely on.
Speaker 7: Yeah, pacing, you know, it's it's really hard hard to
Speaker 7: do and hard to kind of master that.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 7: I went out on the run and it was just
Speaker 7: like for me, you know, and then we run outs
Speaker 7: at sub three minute kilometers and you know, to hold
Speaker 7: back and run, you know, trying to slow down as
Speaker 7: was extremely hard to do. Just like bi mechanically, my
Speaker 7: body likes to run fast and to hold it back
Speaker 7: is really hard to do, and you know with learning
Speaker 7: that that will will come in time. But it's just
Speaker 7: like more of a patience game more than a dual.
Speaker 7: You can to get the finish line first, and you're
Speaker 7: obviously like the intensity is still extremely high in this
Speaker 7: sort of distance, but it's at the same time it's
Speaker 7: all about patients in waiting. But it's just like more
Speaker 7: of like a muscle fatigue than just like pure blowing up.
Speaker 2: You're just kind of grinding all out.
Speaker 3: You must take a huge degree of confidence, though, do
Speaker 3: you given the fact that you don't race this distance
Speaker 3: very often, haven't, as you've said, done it for over
Speaker 3: a year, do you take confidence of the fact you
Speaker 3: competed so well yesterday despite.
Speaker 7: That, Yeah, definitely. You know, like I was in the
Speaker 7: unknown of what to expect, and you know I raced.
Speaker 7: There was guys in the start line that went to
Speaker 7: the Olympics, and you know they were, you know, a
Speaker 7: good three four minutes behind me, so like taking them
Speaker 7: to retrospect, you know, pretty stoked of where I finished.
Speaker 7: And as you said, like these guys have been racing
Speaker 7: this distance for the last few years and all like
Speaker 7: the year round, and you know, they've got their body's
Speaker 7: kind of tailored to the sort of race and the
Speaker 7: patients and the and their own pacing, and you obviously
Speaker 7: I've still a little bit to work on on the
Speaker 7: pacing side. I know I'm capable of, you know, extremely
Speaker 7: fast runs off the bike, but it's just like, you know,
Speaker 7: tailoring your body into the race, like you can't. You
Speaker 7: can't be training for a half marathon and expect to
Speaker 7: do well on a marathon, you know. So it's just
Speaker 7: one of those those like little things that's kind of
Speaker 7: relatable to some people. So yeah, obviously I'm normally normally
Speaker 7: running ten k, not twenty one k, so it's you know,
Speaker 7: it's a different kitler fish.
Speaker 2: But I really enjoyed it out there. It was awesome.
Speaker 3: So then as you look ahead, I understand you're keen
Speaker 3: to do more of the longer distances, but still keep
Speaker 3: your hand in and the shorter distances. And obviously with
Speaker 3: a look ahead to the next Olympics. So in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five, how will you find that balance?
Speaker 7: Yeah, that was the main The main goal was to
Speaker 7: do do it, like, not be super focused on World series.
Speaker 7: You know, I'll still do one or two to keep relevant,
Speaker 7: then keep a small ranking, so maybe one or two races,
Speaker 7: but like, I just want to change and have a
Speaker 7: different kind of mindset into some racing. And the soon
Speaker 7: you point through racing and the T one hundred series
Speaker 7: are more or less around that three to three and
Speaker 7: a half hours, and you know, it's the same kind
Speaker 7: of intense, it's just below the intense that we're doing
Speaker 7: for Olympic distance. It's just getting faster and faster. So yeah,
Speaker 7: not too worried about that. I think it would just
Speaker 7: more so make me a good base over the next
Speaker 7: few years. And then for the supertry stuff is just
Speaker 7: to kind of you know, keep that speed and that
Speaker 7: aggression and that kind of you know, high octane race
Speaker 7: kind of mentality as well.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's going to be an.
Speaker 7: Interesting year next year and it's going to be going
Speaker 7: to be fun and we will see how we go.
Speaker 4: So what is your next event?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so my.
Speaker 7: First race actually will be an ABBI so it's just
Speaker 7: like a World Series race. It's in February for me. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I'll just be gone on that race to to show face. Essentially,
Speaker 7: I won't be I won't be super fit, but you know,
Speaker 7: I like turning out to race, and I was going
Speaker 7: to be in uber w anyway for training camp, and
Speaker 7: then you know, a few months after that will be
Speaker 7: the first the half distance in Singapore, so yeah, now
Speaker 7: looking forward to that, and then yeah, the season will
Speaker 7: carry on until December again. So our seasons are getting
Speaker 7: longer and longer, which is as part of the body.
Speaker 7: But as long as you kind of maintain it and
Speaker 7: keep you know, sensible in training and racing, you know,
Speaker 7: you can kind of make it.
Speaker 2: But it's pretty it's pretty rough, all right.
Speaker 3: And with twenty twenty four now then in the books
Speaker 3: remarkable year for you hate them with what you achieved
Speaker 3: Olympics yesterday in topor you know, World Series, all of
Speaker 3: that stuff. How do you reflect on twenty twenty four
Speaker 3: as a whole.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like it's been an incredible season.
Speaker 7: You know, my goals, my ambitions were to win obviously
Speaker 7: the Olympics, the World Series, the Super Try and the
Speaker 7: seventy point three and to podium and it's three and
Speaker 7: to win one that is not is not bad at all.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm pretty happy with that.
Speaker 7: And obviously you know, the coming out at the start
Speaker 7: of the year and having those as my goals was
Speaker 7: going to be an extremely hard challenge. It's three different,
Speaker 7: three different distances and three different kind of intensities, so
Speaker 7: to kind of come away and be podium and all
Speaker 7: those as it was as a pretty awesome as a
Speaker 7: pretty awesome year. So real stoked of how I finished up,
Speaker 7: and yeah, it's been an awesome Now I can reflect
Speaker 7: a little bit personally and then see what we can
Speaker 7: do for next year to try and you know, up
Speaker 7: those results and you know gets get.
Speaker 2: Some even even more wins over that that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well we look forward to seeing what plays out
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty five. In the meantime, Hayden, congratulations on
Speaker 3: a terrific twenty twenty four with your result in top
Speaker 3: or yesterday, just the latest today, a long list of
Speaker 3: excellent achievements for you. Thanks for joining us on the
Speaker 3: sports Flex podcast. It's Hayden Wild. The Chamber is now
Speaker 3: in session on sports Fix on the.
Speaker 4: Sports Flex podcast. Into the People's Chamber we go.
Speaker 3: This is a feature of our Monday which has become
Speaker 3: very popular. When Elijah It was not here, we get
Speaker 3: howls of protest and a lot of complaints via mail,
Speaker 3: email and the regular stuff.
Speaker 4: Good day. Have you here today though?
Speaker 1: Mate?
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Not see that.
Speaker 8: I'd rather be in the chamber than outside right now
Speaker 8: because it is raining. Unfortunately. I thought it was going
Speaker 8: to be the start of summer. But a slight blip
Speaker 8: there just for today.
Speaker 3: Well, you're in our Auckland studios. I'm in Wellington and
Speaker 3: I can tell you it's the same here. But we're
Speaker 3: sort of used to it down here.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: You get a beautiful day in Wellington and then all
Speaker 3: of a sudden you get reminded about where you are,
Speaker 3: and here we are, Monday, sixteen December.
Speaker 4: All sorts of rain around. Anyway, we digress, we digress.
Speaker 3: Let's talk a couple of sporting issues while the Test
Speaker 3: is ongoing in Hamilton for today, presumably tomorrow and maybe
Speaker 3: even Wednesday as well. That will be it, Elijah, as
Speaker 3: far as Test cricket is concerned for the summer. So
Speaker 3: by the eighteenth of December, our test cricket for the
Speaker 3: summer here at home will be done, all done.
Speaker 4: It's early, isn't it.
Speaker 8: It's very early and it's probably not the Christmas present
Speaker 8: you'd want if you're a Test cricket fan. Having a
Speaker 8: look at next year's schedule, it looks as though we're
Speaker 8: likely to go to face Zimbabwe and Western These on
Speaker 8: the calendar, which is probably not the most appealing Test
Speaker 8: schedule when you look at things. Obviously, twenty twenty six
Speaker 8: is going to be a nice big year against Australia
Speaker 8: and India and England likely, but yeah, next year, yeah,
Speaker 8: not looking too pleasing if you're a big fan of
Speaker 8: the format.
Speaker 3: I mean, I love my cricket, I absolutely love it,
Speaker 3: and I'm a self confessed red ball cricket fan. I
Speaker 3: could easily sit on the bank at the Basement Reserve
Speaker 3: and watch a game of planket shield, let alone Test cricket.
Speaker 3: It is my favorite type, but I do like all
Speaker 3: types of cricket. So I'm trying to get enthused about
Speaker 3: the international season ahead. But I look at it and
Speaker 3: I see three T twenties against Sri Lanka at the
Speaker 3: back end of December and into early January, then three
Speaker 3: One Day internationals against Sri Lanka between January five and eleven,
Speaker 3: then nothing until March when Pakistan arrived for five T
Speaker 3: twenties and into April three one day internationals. So I
Speaker 3: don't know, I'm just finding it hard to get into thosday.
Speaker 3: It always feels as though, you know, when February March
Speaker 3: rovels around, a team should be arriving with their whites
Speaker 3: and they're red balls and be ready to play some
Speaker 3: Test cricket here.
Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure, and it's definitely going to be the
Speaker 8: summer of T twenty crickets. We've seen over the last decade.
Speaker 8: Also how slowly tea twenty cricket has become and it's
Speaker 8: led to all these global franchise leagues around the world,
Speaker 8: and obviously our international calendar here in New Zealand is
Speaker 8: going to be full of Tea twenties, so we're going
Speaker 8: to have to get used to some of these immediate
Speaker 8: results within twenty overs rather than things dragging out over
Speaker 8: a maximum of five days.
Speaker 4: But yes, it's going to be different. I'd definitely say that.
Speaker 3: I guess what it does do if there is a
Speaker 3: silver lineup here is it makes a lot of players
Speaker 3: available for their provinces at a time where again it's
Speaker 3: the white ball stuff, it's the super smash over the
Speaker 3: sort of Christmas New Year into the back end of January.
Speaker 3: But I guess with the fact that there's you know,
Speaker 3: those games against r ANKA and that's all I guess.
Speaker 3: You know, presumably these players will make themselves available. You
Speaker 3: might get to see the likes of Right and Revenge
Speaker 3: Ra and Kane Williamson and Glenn Phillips and others actually
Speaker 3: turn out for their provinces. I know they do it,
Speaker 3: you know, here and there, but maybe it'll be a
Speaker 3: bit more regular over the sort of January February period.
Speaker 3: Having said that, though, I know a couple of them
Speaker 3: meeting off to play some franchise cricket in South Africa,
Speaker 3: for example, Kane Williamson and Devin Conway are doing that.
Speaker 3: So it's all swings and roundabouts, isn't it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I guess if you're a player like King Williamson,
Speaker 8: you know, part of the reason you decided to sign
Speaker 8: a casual contract was because you still love Test cricket.
Speaker 8: But unfortunately you might if you're a player like King Williamson,
Speaker 8: you probably feel as that you're being sold a little
Speaker 8: bit short in terms of not having that healthy appetite
Speaker 8: of Test cricket at home. Yes, there's an opportunity to
Speaker 8: turn out for your province if you want to, but
Speaker 8: Cain's decided that South African teed Twiny Crickets franchise cricketers
Speaker 8: best for him over January. So yeah, I think I
Speaker 8: don't blame a guy like Ken Williamson opting to go
Speaker 8: that route and you know, trying to make this coming
Speaker 8: summer as best as it could be for him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well we'll make the best of it. We'll watch
Speaker 3: these games, we'll comment on them, we'll get along to them.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's just a shame that the red ball
Speaker 3: and the white clothing will be going away in about
Speaker 3: forty eight hours, not to be seen again, as you say,
Speaker 3: like just until the middle of next year when we
Speaker 3: head to Zimbabwe. Another feature of this time of the
Speaker 3: year is the World Darts Championships. This has ground and
Speaker 3: popularity at Ali Pali Alexandra Palace in London. It started today.
Speaker 3: I think this morning was the first, the first session.
Speaker 3: It goes through past Christmas into the new Year. You're
Speaker 3: a fan of the arrows, fan of the darts.
Speaker 8: I think I'm more of a fan of the actual
Speaker 8: atmosphere at Ali Pelly. I mean, if you want to
Speaker 8: have fun, that's probably the place you want to be.
Speaker 8: Everyone all dressing up and the atmosphere, the noise, everyone
Speaker 8: holding the one hundred and eighty signs. There's such a
Speaker 8: great environment to be a part of. But I guess
Speaker 8: the big thing around the World Dares Championship is every
Speaker 8: year it seems to be a story of an unknown
Speaker 8: who comes out of nowhere. That last time around was
Speaker 8: Luke Littler, the sixteen year old who you know took
Speaker 8: the world by storm. Really and hopefully we see another
Speaker 8: person this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Luke Littler, Luke Humphries.
Speaker 3: They were the two finalists last year, wentn't they with
Speaker 3: Luke Humphries winning the world title. Luke Littler, though, was
Speaker 3: the name on everybody's lips. Yeah, who knows what names
Speaker 3: will emerge over the next month or so.
Speaker 4: I see kere we.
Speaker 3: Ben Robb is playing his first round match tomorrow morning
Speaker 3: at Alipelly. But it has to be a bucket list,
Speaker 3: doesn't it? For sports Fest. They don't seem to have
Speaker 3: any trouble selling tickets, oh for sure.
Speaker 8: And I imagine if Ben Robb is the story that
Speaker 8: comes out of the torn And I don't want to
Speaker 8: drink something because he hasn't played yet, but imagine he
Speaker 8: doesn't make a late change for the Holbur if he
Speaker 8: you know, it makes it all the way to the
Speaker 8: final and he may go beats Luke hemp Freeze in
Speaker 8: the final.
Speaker 4: Imagine that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, well, hey, a darts player as the supreme
Speaker 3: Helberg winner.
Speaker 4: Whoever thought we'd see the day?
Speaker 3: Well look, look is nothing is off the table, as
Speaker 3: we often say, and the People's Chamber, nothing is off
Speaker 3: the table.
Speaker 4: I think though.
Speaker 3: That brings to an end the People's Chamber for twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four because this is the last week of the
Speaker 3: Sports Fix podcast before the pot itself takes a summer break.
Speaker 3: So thank you for all your contributions during twenty twenty four. Elijah,
Speaker 3: I hope you have a great summer break if indeed
Speaker 3: you are getting one, and I will invite you back
Speaker 3: into the Chamber when twenty twenty five rolls.
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