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Speaker 1: So the best Olympics ever. Sadly it wasn't in our

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Speaker 1: time zone, which doesn't help the communal buzz of a

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Speaker 1: nation gather together. But we won more golds, and in

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Speaker 1: my book, that really is what the Olympics is all about.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they've tried to make it about new, weird

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Speaker 1: sports and participation, but for the purest it is about

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Speaker 1: being the best of the best. That is why you

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Speaker 1: sacrifice and give up your life for singular moments that

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Speaker 1: make it all worthwhile. In the end, we equaled our

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Speaker 1: best ever overhaul overall metal hall. But the key to this,

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Speaker 1: I reckon, is the gold, more golds than any games ever.

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Speaker 1: I've decided that gold is disproportionate to silver and bronze.

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Speaker 1: It's not a step up, it's several steps up. I've

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Speaker 1: also decided, as shine through the tears of Lydia co

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Speaker 1: over the weekend, that although there are sports you could

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Speaker 1: argue you don't really belong at the Olympics, even for

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Speaker 1: the most elite of athletes used to winning regularly elsewhere

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Speaker 1: on a global state, representing your country clearly still counts

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Speaker 1: for a lot. Then you get to the weird business

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Speaker 1: of human nature, as remarkable, as Lisa Carrington is. The

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Speaker 1: trouble with being a recidibus winners. You're expected to simply

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Speaker 1: carry on. That's why being number one at anything is

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Speaker 1: relentless and largely thankless. It's expected, which is why the

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Speaker 1: Hamish Curve gold I reckon is the one to remember

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Speaker 1: because it wasn't expected. Was he a prospect? I suppose

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Speaker 1: was he going to win it all? I didn't hear

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Speaker 1: anyone say that. But what about gold? In kayak? Slalom?

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Speaker 1: Odd invented sport with no small measure of luck. So

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Speaker 1: does an invented sport gold beat a classic high jump gold?

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Speaker 1: Not in my book, personally, But there you go. There's

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Speaker 1: the great debate. But here's the real gold on the gold.

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Speaker 1: We don't historically win a lot of them. Seven last time,

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Speaker 1: of course, but that was an outlier eight in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: but that was a long time ago. Apart from those

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Speaker 1: two games, most games we produce one or two, three

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Speaker 1: at most ten in a couple of weeks. Is a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks to remember and reminds us. For a

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Speaker 1: country of five million, there are an outsized group of

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Speaker 1: people who strive and work and are determined to live

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Speaker 1: a dream and be the very best of the best.

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Speaker 1: And for all their stories, we can be grateful for

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Speaker 1: the joy they bring. For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast,

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