1 00:00:06,707 --> 00:00:10,467 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine 2 00:00:10,747 --> 00:00:11,787 Speaker 1: from newstalk ZEDB. 3 00:00:12,787 --> 00:00:15,627 Speaker 2: They turned for home. Let's look at the splits. Let's 4 00:00:15,667 --> 00:00:18,347 Speaker 2: see where Erica Fairweather is. She's gained a spot, She's 5 00:00:18,427 --> 00:00:20,907 Speaker 2: up to fifth. Has she got more to give? Can 6 00:00:21,027 --> 00:00:23,947 Speaker 2: she climb on the Decie La Deckie in third looks 7 00:00:23,987 --> 00:00:27,507 Speaker 2: to be slowing. It's Tatmas's race. Has Fairweather got a kick? 8 00:00:27,827 --> 00:00:31,547 Speaker 2: Can she find enough to get her bronze medal? Tipmos 9 00:00:31,947 --> 00:00:35,907 Speaker 2: coming for home? It's her gold medal? Ari On Timos. 10 00:00:36,267 --> 00:00:40,747 Speaker 2: When's gold and it's fourth for Erica Fairweather. 11 00:00:40,987 --> 00:00:44,107 Speaker 3: Yeah, heartbreak for the Dunedin's swimmer this morning. Fourth ari 12 00:00:44,267 --> 00:00:47,827 Speaker 3: On Tipmas of Australia winning gold ahead of Canada's Summer Macintosh. 13 00:00:48,227 --> 00:00:50,987 Speaker 3: Cadie Ladecci of the United States was in third, but 14 00:00:51,187 --> 00:00:54,467 Speaker 3: Erica Feather fair Weather was closing the gap down the 15 00:00:54,587 --> 00:00:58,147 Speaker 3: final fifty meters and just ran out of Paul Unfortunately. 16 00:00:58,467 --> 00:01:01,387 Speaker 3: Shortly after the race finish, I spoke with Olympic Lead 17 00:01:01,507 --> 00:01:04,667 Speaker 3: for Swimming New Zealand, Gary Francis, and I suggested that 18 00:01:04,907 --> 00:01:07,427 Speaker 3: very thing to Gary. If there be another twenty meters, 19 00:01:07,947 --> 00:01:09,907 Speaker 3: Erica probably would have won the bronze medal. 20 00:01:10,587 --> 00:01:13,867 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you've You're exactly right, Jason. I think 21 00:01:13,947 --> 00:01:16,507 Speaker 4: that she just run out of run out of meters 22 00:01:16,547 --> 00:01:19,907 Speaker 4: at the end there. It was a very nervous final, 23 00:01:20,027 --> 00:01:23,467 Speaker 4: wasn't it. You know, the four fastest girls pretty much ever, 24 00:01:24,587 --> 00:01:26,947 Speaker 4: and none of them really swum anywhere near their best. 25 00:01:27,027 --> 00:01:32,347 Speaker 4: You could just see how tense it was. And yeah, 26 00:01:32,507 --> 00:01:34,707 Speaker 4: I think that she just she just didn't get close 27 00:01:34,787 --> 00:01:36,467 Speaker 4: enough in the in the middle part of the race. 28 00:01:37,707 --> 00:01:41,747 Speaker 4: Always knew that get to the last fifty seventy five 29 00:01:41,827 --> 00:01:44,827 Speaker 4: meters and regardless of the fact that all the three 30 00:01:44,867 --> 00:01:46,947 Speaker 4: other girls actually have a faster two hundred and one 31 00:01:47,027 --> 00:01:50,347 Speaker 4: hundred time on paper than Erica, we know, we know 32 00:01:50,507 --> 00:01:52,427 Speaker 4: the last the last part of the race. She's very 33 00:01:52,507 --> 00:01:55,867 Speaker 4: strong and she came through again. But yeah, just a 34 00:01:55,907 --> 00:01:57,627 Speaker 4: little bit too much for her to do this time. 35 00:01:58,027 --> 00:02:00,787 Speaker 3: How did you assist the way she swum in the 36 00:02:00,907 --> 00:02:03,347 Speaker 3: heat this morning? She got there ahead of some americantosh. 37 00:02:03,387 --> 00:02:06,147 Speaker 3: I know you always hold something back in a heat. 38 00:02:07,187 --> 00:02:13,267 Speaker 4: Heat, Well, because the heat was that wasn't the last 39 00:02:13,307 --> 00:02:15,507 Speaker 4: heat that it was the second, it was the first 40 00:02:15,587 --> 00:02:17,987 Speaker 4: of the two seeded heats. You can't afford to be 41 00:02:18,107 --> 00:02:24,067 Speaker 4: too complacent because you know four oh three made the final, 42 00:02:24,147 --> 00:02:27,067 Speaker 4: and you know they were four four oh two's. I 43 00:02:27,147 --> 00:02:29,187 Speaker 4: think the most important thing is to try to touch 44 00:02:29,227 --> 00:02:32,747 Speaker 4: the wall first, and to touch the wall first with 45 00:02:33,107 --> 00:02:35,267 Speaker 4: using the least amount of energy, and I think she 46 00:02:35,387 --> 00:02:37,907 Speaker 4: did that really well. She's found that beautifully this morning 47 00:02:37,987 --> 00:02:41,747 Speaker 4: and she certainly, you know, was she She felt really 48 00:02:41,827 --> 00:02:45,987 Speaker 4: good and she had plenty left, so we're really I mean, 49 00:02:46,067 --> 00:02:48,747 Speaker 4: she she did a really good job this morning and 50 00:02:49,627 --> 00:02:52,347 Speaker 4: she was ready to go tonight, and it just wasn't 51 00:02:52,387 --> 00:02:52,907 Speaker 4: quite enough. 52 00:02:53,187 --> 00:02:55,827 Speaker 3: As you say, the star power though in those middle lanes, 53 00:02:56,147 --> 00:02:59,107 Speaker 3: four of the fastest women ever over four hundred meters, 54 00:02:59,187 --> 00:03:01,587 Speaker 3: four of five who have gone under four minutes for 55 00:03:01,667 --> 00:03:03,987 Speaker 3: this distance. But as you say, it's it's funny what 56 00:03:04,587 --> 00:03:07,627 Speaker 3: what occasion can do to people. As you pointed out, 57 00:03:07,667 --> 00:03:10,427 Speaker 3: it wasn't really the perfect race from any of them, 58 00:03:10,787 --> 00:03:10,907 Speaker 3: was it. 59 00:03:11,627 --> 00:03:14,547 Speaker 4: No, No, not at all. I think the race was 60 00:03:14,587 --> 00:03:17,707 Speaker 4: predictable in that we always know how Tipmas is going 61 00:03:17,787 --> 00:03:19,867 Speaker 4: to swim, she's going to gun it, and she's going 62 00:03:19,907 --> 00:03:22,427 Speaker 4: to try and destroy everybody in the first two hundred. 63 00:03:23,907 --> 00:03:27,747 Speaker 4: We weren't too sure how Macintosh would swim. She's you know, 64 00:03:27,947 --> 00:03:31,507 Speaker 4: she's she's done it in different ways in the past, 65 00:03:31,787 --> 00:03:33,867 Speaker 4: and we know that Katie Leadecki will also swim the 66 00:03:33,947 --> 00:03:36,747 Speaker 4: middle and the end part of the race strong, and 67 00:03:37,787 --> 00:03:39,667 Speaker 4: you know, Erica's job was just to be right in 68 00:03:39,787 --> 00:03:43,827 Speaker 4: there and not be in with a chance to swim 69 00:03:43,907 --> 00:03:45,907 Speaker 4: people down at the end, and she just wasn't quite 70 00:03:45,987 --> 00:03:49,547 Speaker 4: close enough. But it was it was really interesting to 71 00:03:50,107 --> 00:03:55,347 Speaker 4: see that the times were actually quite slow and four 72 00:03:55,427 --> 00:03:59,507 Speaker 4: minutes we've got got a medal. And you know, it's 73 00:03:59,667 --> 00:04:03,467 Speaker 4: just that's sport at this level. It's not really no 74 00:04:03,547 --> 00:04:05,467 Speaker 4: one cares if you break the world record. It's about 75 00:04:05,627 --> 00:04:08,707 Speaker 4: getting the medal, isn't it. And in the end, tipmas 76 00:04:08,827 --> 00:04:12,747 Speaker 4: and and and Macintosh were able to do that, and 77 00:04:13,547 --> 00:04:15,707 Speaker 4: and Decky was able to hold off Erica at the end. 78 00:04:15,827 --> 00:04:19,667 Speaker 4: So always lessons learned. But yeah, it was, it was. 79 00:04:19,867 --> 00:04:20,707 Speaker 4: It was a tough race. 80 00:04:20,947 --> 00:04:23,867 Speaker 3: It must be hard to process for Erica as well. 81 00:04:24,027 --> 00:04:27,147 Speaker 3: You know, obviously these pinnacle events are what you know, 82 00:04:27,307 --> 00:04:31,067 Speaker 3: our top athletes work their way towards and we've arrived 83 00:04:31,107 --> 00:04:33,507 Speaker 3: here and she she hasn't quite been able to achieve 84 00:04:33,587 --> 00:04:36,427 Speaker 3: the goal that she set for herself. How do you 85 00:04:36,467 --> 00:04:40,267 Speaker 3: assess her ability to to process it. Obviously to be disappointed, 86 00:04:40,307 --> 00:04:43,147 Speaker 3: but she's still got other events to swim, hasn't. 87 00:04:42,947 --> 00:04:47,267 Speaker 4: She Well, I'll you know, I watched at the end 88 00:04:47,267 --> 00:04:48,787 Speaker 4: of the the end of the race as she walked 89 00:04:48,787 --> 00:04:52,267 Speaker 4: back past myself and her coach Lars, and she was 90 00:04:52,467 --> 00:04:55,107 Speaker 4: in tears. Obviously she's very, very upset, but at the 91 00:04:55,147 --> 00:04:58,907 Speaker 4: same time she she her tears were tears of you know, 92 00:04:59,467 --> 00:05:03,387 Speaker 4: a mixture of disapointment. But through frustration. She's gone back 93 00:05:03,467 --> 00:05:08,227 Speaker 4: to our team area. She's stripped in to her dogs 94 00:05:08,267 --> 00:05:11,747 Speaker 4: to swim down and she's already now starting to process. 95 00:05:11,907 --> 00:05:15,027 Speaker 4: She'll think about the swim. She wants to get back 96 00:05:15,067 --> 00:05:16,987 Speaker 4: into pool tomorrow and try and do a better job 97 00:05:17,027 --> 00:05:20,787 Speaker 4: in the two hundred. So yeah, there'll be time to 98 00:05:21,787 --> 00:05:25,547 Speaker 4: reflect on this. But already now it's right, Okay, that 99 00:05:25,627 --> 00:05:27,667 Speaker 4: one didn't that one didn't work. I've got to get 100 00:05:27,707 --> 00:05:29,707 Speaker 4: on with it. I've got another race tomorrow. And she's 101 00:05:29,827 --> 00:05:32,187 Speaker 4: really you know, this is a sign of her maturity. 102 00:05:32,347 --> 00:05:35,867 Speaker 4: She's already starting to think about tomorrow. She can't dwell 103 00:05:35,907 --> 00:05:38,187 Speaker 4: on this for too long. Just in the same way 104 00:05:38,267 --> 00:05:41,147 Speaker 4: that had she got the medal, we couldn't over celebrate it. 105 00:05:41,267 --> 00:05:44,187 Speaker 4: Got to get back in and get on with it. 106 00:05:44,387 --> 00:05:48,867 Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean it's a tough one to take, 107 00:05:49,267 --> 00:05:53,587 Speaker 4: but it's I think the fact that the rest of this, 108 00:05:53,747 --> 00:05:56,667 Speaker 4: you know, if they'd all swim around three fifty five, 109 00:05:56,827 --> 00:05:58,827 Speaker 4: maybe the world record had gone and Erica had gone 110 00:05:58,867 --> 00:06:01,027 Speaker 4: four oh one, I think she would have been like, well, 111 00:06:01,187 --> 00:06:03,427 Speaker 4: what's going on? You know, why did I swim so badly? 112 00:06:03,507 --> 00:06:05,907 Speaker 4: But I think that in the context of the race, 113 00:06:05,987 --> 00:06:07,907 Speaker 4: we can so that it was there must have been 114 00:06:07,947 --> 00:06:09,347 Speaker 4: a hell of a lot of tension in the core 115 00:06:09,427 --> 00:06:11,947 Speaker 4: room beforehand, and and again she went down to the 116 00:06:11,987 --> 00:06:13,547 Speaker 4: core room, she was in you know, she was in 117 00:06:13,667 --> 00:06:15,747 Speaker 4: the right frame of mind. But it just shows you 118 00:06:15,827 --> 00:06:18,027 Speaker 4: at this level, for all of those swimmers, how it 119 00:06:18,107 --> 00:06:19,867 Speaker 4: affected them absolutely right. 120 00:06:19,947 --> 00:06:22,707 Speaker 3: Well, she's back in action tonight, as you say, that's 121 00:06:22,747 --> 00:06:25,067 Speaker 3: tonight for us, overnight for you, back in the poll, 122 00:06:25,667 --> 00:06:29,547 Speaker 3: as is Lewis clearbirt in one of his in fact, 123 00:06:29,587 --> 00:06:33,467 Speaker 3: his favored events. Look, I don't want to jinx anything here, Gary, 124 00:06:33,507 --> 00:06:36,467 Speaker 3: but what feeling do you get from from Lewis at 125 00:06:36,467 --> 00:06:36,787 Speaker 3: the moment. 126 00:06:37,667 --> 00:06:39,587 Speaker 4: Well, I think one of the things that look, Lewis 127 00:06:39,747 --> 00:06:43,187 Speaker 4: was in this morning and he's had it. He's been 128 00:06:43,227 --> 00:06:45,747 Speaker 4: observing what's been going on. He looked at the heats 129 00:06:45,787 --> 00:06:49,987 Speaker 4: this morning. Again, the heats were quite nervous all round 130 00:06:50,107 --> 00:06:54,267 Speaker 4: in all of the events this morning. You know, he's 131 00:06:54,947 --> 00:06:58,147 Speaker 4: he's kind of a I mean this in the nicest way. 132 00:06:58,387 --> 00:07:01,867 Speaker 4: Lewis is kind of a predator. He's a real racer 133 00:07:02,387 --> 00:07:05,027 Speaker 4: and he will you know, he's pretty good at detecting 134 00:07:05,107 --> 00:07:08,827 Speaker 4: any kind of tension and weakness. So if he can 135 00:07:09,027 --> 00:07:12,307 Speaker 4: latch onto that and not get affected himself, I think 136 00:07:12,347 --> 00:07:15,907 Speaker 4: he's going to go pretty good tomorrow. You know, he's 137 00:07:16,547 --> 00:07:22,027 Speaker 4: he's pretty experienced. He does race well under pressure. But 138 00:07:22,387 --> 00:07:25,547 Speaker 4: I guess there's pressure and then there's the Olympics, isn't there. 139 00:07:26,227 --> 00:07:29,347 Speaker 4: So we will see tomorrow. You know, I don't want 140 00:07:29,347 --> 00:07:30,987 Speaker 4: to jinx him and I don't want to put any 141 00:07:31,027 --> 00:07:35,147 Speaker 4: extra kind of expectation on him, but hate his preparation 142 00:07:35,227 --> 00:07:38,067 Speaker 4: has gone really well, as has all of the swimmers. 143 00:07:38,627 --> 00:07:43,107 Speaker 4: And this I think we may not have seen the 144 00:07:43,227 --> 00:07:46,427 Speaker 4: fastest times so far tonight. We saw the men's four 145 00:07:46,507 --> 00:07:49,467 Speaker 4: hundred and three promise and still come up short of 146 00:07:49,507 --> 00:07:54,227 Speaker 4: a world record. But the overall, the overall feeling of 147 00:07:54,347 --> 00:07:57,027 Speaker 4: the standard here and what we're seeing in the warm 148 00:07:57,107 --> 00:08:01,747 Speaker 4: up pool and in the training areas. The sport has 149 00:08:01,907 --> 00:08:05,627 Speaker 4: moved to an different level, and I think we're starting 150 00:08:05,667 --> 00:08:09,787 Speaker 4: to see the Olympics in the pool becoming similar to 151 00:08:09,867 --> 00:08:12,787 Speaker 4: the Olympics on the track. You've got to be strategic, 152 00:08:12,907 --> 00:08:16,387 Speaker 4: you know. It's about it's about winning the medal. The 153 00:08:16,507 --> 00:08:19,267 Speaker 4: time is great if you get it, but it's about 154 00:08:19,307 --> 00:08:22,507 Speaker 4: winning the medal. So we shall see how we go tomorrow. 155 00:08:22,627 --> 00:08:24,667 Speaker 3: Indeed, can you tell us a bit about the complex 156 00:08:24,747 --> 00:08:27,907 Speaker 3: the aquatic center there, Garrett looks amazing on television. Well, 157 00:08:27,907 --> 00:08:28,827 Speaker 3: it's quite new, isn't it. 158 00:08:30,587 --> 00:08:35,747 Speaker 4: Will it's actually this Racing ninety two's Rugby stadium. Yes, 159 00:08:36,667 --> 00:08:40,387 Speaker 4: it's an amazing, an amazing stadium. It's forty thousand seats 160 00:08:40,547 --> 00:08:45,347 Speaker 4: if it was a rugby stadium. The pool is actually 161 00:08:45,707 --> 00:08:48,667 Speaker 4: for the people at home to picture it. The poor 162 00:08:48,787 --> 00:08:52,267 Speaker 4: is actually set up across it would be across the 163 00:08:52,347 --> 00:08:57,227 Speaker 4: twenty two, so it's in the tri zone and up 164 00:08:57,267 --> 00:08:59,907 Speaker 4: to the twenty two across the stadium, so it gives 165 00:08:59,947 --> 00:09:02,067 Speaker 4: you an idea of the size of the stadium. And 166 00:09:02,147 --> 00:09:05,947 Speaker 4: then the spectators are wrapping around what would be behind 167 00:09:05,987 --> 00:09:10,507 Speaker 4: the gold hosts, and then the press and media area 168 00:09:11,387 --> 00:09:15,587 Speaker 4: is pretty much from I guess from somewhere between the 169 00:09:15,627 --> 00:09:18,187 Speaker 4: twenty two and the ten yard line and the or 170 00:09:18,267 --> 00:09:21,107 Speaker 4: the ten meter line and then the halfway line, and 171 00:09:21,587 --> 00:09:24,267 Speaker 4: then the other side of that is the warm up 172 00:09:24,347 --> 00:09:29,867 Speaker 4: area and the warm up paul stretches at right angles, 173 00:09:30,147 --> 00:09:31,787 Speaker 4: so the warm up paul pretty much goes to the 174 00:09:32,067 --> 00:09:34,347 Speaker 4: far end of the rugby field and then the rest 175 00:09:34,427 --> 00:09:37,067 Speaker 4: of the area is for the team preparations. It's an 176 00:09:37,267 --> 00:09:41,747 Speaker 4: unbelievable stadium, it really is. And the noise in here tonight. 177 00:09:41,907 --> 00:09:45,307 Speaker 4: I mean I've been in Rio which was pretty bloody 178 00:09:45,347 --> 00:09:50,027 Speaker 4: noisy when the you know, the crowd was stamping on 179 00:09:50,147 --> 00:09:52,387 Speaker 4: the on the on the on the ground and the 180 00:09:52,547 --> 00:09:56,507 Speaker 4: stadium was actually moving, But that tonight was something else. Again. 181 00:09:56,587 --> 00:09:58,427 Speaker 4: It was really pretty special, amazing. 182 00:09:58,587 --> 00:10:00,267 Speaker 3: Gary. Thank you so much for joining us painting a 183 00:10:00,347 --> 00:10:02,747 Speaker 3: picture for us. Much more to come in terms of 184 00:10:02,827 --> 00:10:06,227 Speaker 3: events for our New Zealand swimmers to compete in power. 185 00:10:06,427 --> 00:10:09,027 Speaker 3: Look forward to staying in touch and again, thank you 186 00:10:09,067 --> 00:10:10,107 Speaker 3: for taking the time for a chat. 187 00:10:11,427 --> 00:10:14,107 Speaker 4: Always a pleasure. Thanks very much, Jason, No, thank you, no. 188 00:10:14,147 --> 00:10:16,987 Speaker 3: Thank you, Gary. Gary Francis there. He is the Olympic 189 00:10:17,147 --> 00:10:21,707 Speaker 3: lead for swimming New Zealand twelve twenty. If you watched 190 00:10:21,747 --> 00:10:24,947 Speaker 3: that this morning. I just felt gutted for her. I 191 00:10:25,067 --> 00:10:27,027 Speaker 3: kind of watched Derek affair Weather over the last three 192 00:10:27,107 --> 00:10:29,147 Speaker 3: or four years since she made the Olympic final and 193 00:10:29,267 --> 00:10:32,107 Speaker 3: Tokyo as a seventeen year old. Remember she was still 194 00:10:32,107 --> 00:10:35,027 Speaker 3: at school at the last Olympics. You get how young 195 00:10:35,107 --> 00:10:38,947 Speaker 3: these athletes are. And over the last three years she's 196 00:10:39,027 --> 00:10:43,947 Speaker 3: gradually improved and become someone who I guess we started 197 00:10:43,987 --> 00:10:46,867 Speaker 3: to pin our hopes on and if not, you know, 198 00:10:47,347 --> 00:10:50,147 Speaker 3: if not that, then certainly we thought that she may 199 00:10:50,227 --> 00:10:52,947 Speaker 3: be a chance, had to be a chance of a medal. 200 00:10:53,027 --> 00:10:56,267 Speaker 3: You look at that stacked four hundred meter freestyle field 201 00:10:57,147 --> 00:11:01,987 Speaker 3: and it's you know often, you know, you get a 202 00:11:02,067 --> 00:11:05,507 Speaker 3: generational swimmer right to Michael Phelps, and you say, why 203 00:11:06,347 --> 00:11:08,027 Speaker 3: how am I going to beat him? But in that 204 00:11:08,227 --> 00:11:14,067 Speaker 3: field there are three absolutely generational swimmers that eric A 205 00:11:14,147 --> 00:11:17,107 Speaker 3: fair Weather came up against, and it is no disgrace 206 00:11:17,787 --> 00:11:22,547 Speaker 3: to be fourth behind those three La Decki, Titmas Macintosh, 207 00:11:23,147 --> 00:11:28,387 Speaker 3: three absolutely outstanding swimmers as is eric A Fairweather. Now 208 00:11:28,467 --> 00:11:31,227 Speaker 3: she's got to get back in the pool tonight, and 209 00:11:31,667 --> 00:11:34,027 Speaker 3: I wonder whether that's you know something that maybe they 210 00:11:34,067 --> 00:11:35,787 Speaker 3: often say, you know that you want to get back 211 00:11:35,827 --> 00:11:37,787 Speaker 3: on the horse after a bad game. A team wants 212 00:11:37,827 --> 00:11:40,147 Speaker 3: to get back out there. I don't know whether that's 213 00:11:40,187 --> 00:11:43,707 Speaker 3: true or not for swimmers, whether there'll be this lingering 214 00:11:43,787 --> 00:11:47,067 Speaker 3: disappointment for Erica. I mean, you could tell afterwards, and 215 00:11:47,107 --> 00:11:49,627 Speaker 3: we'll play some wadeo in a moment, just how guarded 216 00:11:49,667 --> 00:11:50,827 Speaker 3: she was and what wouldn't she be? 217 00:11:51,227 --> 00:11:51,387 Speaker 4: You know. 218 00:11:51,627 --> 00:11:55,787 Speaker 3: I was actually not pleased necessarily, but it was nice 219 00:11:55,827 --> 00:11:58,627 Speaker 3: to see some emotion. And she's always just been, as 220 00:11:58,667 --> 00:12:02,867 Speaker 3: I say, so laid back, so authentic, so real. Still 221 00:12:02,947 --> 00:12:07,107 Speaker 3: only twenty, I mean, she'll be younger than I think, 222 00:12:07,227 --> 00:12:11,387 Speaker 3: certainly younger than Ladeci and Titmas at the next Olympic 223 00:12:11,467 --> 00:12:14,667 Speaker 3: Games in terms of how old they are now. So 224 00:12:14,787 --> 00:12:17,787 Speaker 3: another four years it must seem hard, though, right, must 225 00:12:17,827 --> 00:12:20,267 Speaker 3: have to look ahead. It must be like losing a 226 00:12:20,347 --> 00:12:23,907 Speaker 3: Rugby World Cup, that old phrase the George Gregan. Four 227 00:12:23,987 --> 00:12:26,307 Speaker 3: more years it must seem like an awfully long way 228 00:12:26,387 --> 00:12:29,667 Speaker 3: away to get the chance to achieve that dream of 229 00:12:30,227 --> 00:12:33,907 Speaker 3: an Olympic medal. Having said that, she's in another couple 230 00:12:33,947 --> 00:12:36,227 Speaker 3: of events, Erica Fairweather. She swims in the heats of 231 00:12:36,267 --> 00:12:39,707 Speaker 3: the two hundred freestyle tonight She's also in the eight 232 00:12:39,827 --> 00:12:43,307 Speaker 3: hundred meter freestyle and in the four x two hundred 233 00:12:43,347 --> 00:12:45,067 Speaker 3: meter freestyle relay. 234 00:12:45,867 --> 00:12:49,027 Speaker 1: For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live 235 00:12:49,147 --> 00:12:52,427 Speaker 1: to news Talk zed B weekends from midday, or follow 236 00:12:52,467 --> 00:12:54,027 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio