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Speaker 1: So the men's triathon at the Olympics has been postponed.

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Speaker 1: The race was going to happen tonight, I believe six

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Speaker 1: pm our time. It's now scheduled to take place at

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Speaker 1: eight forty five pm tomorrow, New Zealand time. This is

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Speaker 1: after the women's triathan Ki we hate and Wild of

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Speaker 1: course is hoping to get a medal in the men's

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Speaker 1: triathm when it does finally happen and Hayden's coach Craig

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Speaker 1: Kurtwood joins me.

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Speaker 2: Now, Hello, Craig, good, good morning or good evening for

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Speaker 2: news ELND. So frustrating, yes, yeah, frustrating, a bit of

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Speaker 2: an annoyance, but it was It had been forecast for

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Speaker 2: a while that there could be delays due to water quality,

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Speaker 2: so it's not completely unexpected, but we were really hoping

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Speaker 2: we'd be able to race this morning.

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Speaker 1: Well, they tell you about the river.

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Speaker 3: Just at the El Cola. Levels were too high based

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Speaker 3: on the rainfall that was occurred over the weekend, which

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Speaker 3: didn't seem like a huge amount of rain, but I

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Speaker 3: think any runoff causes a bit of a stir in

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Speaker 3: the river and causes levels to spike. So we've had

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Speaker 3: two days fine, we her now and we're on to

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Speaker 3: our third So hopefully this is the last of the

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Speaker 3: high cola levels and it'll be good. First one.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Look, you are a triath and coach, but

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Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you for the weather forecast. So

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Speaker 1: we've got dry conditions for a while.

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Speaker 3: That's that's my understanding is that it's going to be nice.

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Speaker 1: Yet, what time are you told.

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Speaker 3: We had We got to report through about four o'clock

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Speaker 3: this morning local time, which we knew was coming. They

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Speaker 3: do a meeting of three thirty am in the morning

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Speaker 3: here and then report on the water quality and what

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Speaker 3: other things any other.

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Speaker 1: Might occur o'clock. What local time is the race? When

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Speaker 1: local time was the race supposed to go? What was

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Speaker 1: at six o'clock in the morning or seven eight this morning?

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Speaker 3: So we had four hours four hours warning.

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Speaker 1: You had four hours warning. And Hayden, of course, we

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Speaker 1: went to bed the night before. He had done all

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Speaker 1: the dietary preparations. I would have presumed to get ready

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Speaker 1: for race the next day at four in the morning,

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Speaker 1: I presume he's still asleep.

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Speaker 3: He was still asleep. Yeah, he woke up. He woke

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Speaker 3: up about five o'clock. As did Dylan McCulloch, and they

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Speaker 3: came out of their rooms. We've got a small apartment

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Speaker 3: just close to the race, then you for the night

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Speaker 3: before the race, so we moved in yesterday afternoon. And

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Speaker 3: so yeah, they woke up this morning at five and

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Speaker 3: came out of the room, and I got in the

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Speaker 3: news and they promptly went back to bed and felt

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Speaker 3: went back asleep. So they're still in bed to sleep.

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Speaker 1: Now, Well, how debilitating is this for some of the

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Speaker 1: most finely tuned bodies on the planet who have spent

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Speaker 1: four years practicing, eating and working towards a particular day

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Speaker 1: and a particular race.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny you say that because Hayden's comment was

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Speaker 3: I've wasted all these mornings getting up at six am

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Speaker 3: for an eight am start when I you know, if

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Speaker 3: it was going to be ten forty five, I would

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Speaker 3: have got up later to all my training sessions. So,

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think one of the key things about

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Speaker 3: being an a lead athlete is that you're adaptable and

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Speaker 3: you're able to take these kind of things in your

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Speaker 3: stride and not let it bother you. So, you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm sure both these two boys here will be We'll

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Speaker 3: be doing that for the rest of the day and

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Speaker 3: then we'll just get ready. We have to go again tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: This is a fascinating story, but with terribly late I've

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Speaker 1: got one big question for you. Would you be shocked

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Speaker 1: if the race was postponed again? And what would happen

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Speaker 1: if it becomes a dew athlete. How do you feel

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Speaker 1: about that?

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't be shocked. I'd be disappointed if it was

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Speaker 3: cancer again. We're postponed again. They do have some other

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Speaker 3: dates later in the in the schedule for the Olympics

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Speaker 3: to run the event if that's if it comes to that,

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Speaker 3: so and the last resorters it turns into a duathlon. Personally,

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Speaker 3: I think the juathalone would suit Hayden really well. Like

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Speaker 3: he's a real, very strong runner and he better expose

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Speaker 3: Alex Ye on the bike on a kind of one

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Speaker 3: on one match up almost so we've actually seen him

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Speaker 3: really well. But no one wants to win an Olympic juathlon. No,

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Speaker 3: this is right, I'll.

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Speaker 1: Have an asterix becide it so well said, mate, Look,

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Speaker 1: pass on all our condolences to Hayden and you and

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Speaker 1: all the team and in fact all the competitors. It's

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Speaker 1: terrible that you're having to put that up with all

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Speaker 1: of this, but as always all of New Zealand, which

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Speaker 1: is who are the very best of like?

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Speaker 2: Go well mate, yeah, thanks very much, appreciate it.

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