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Speaker 1: And to something a bit more cheery, more chances of

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Speaker 1: the sailing disciplines. Isaac McCarty and Willim mackenzie competing in

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Speaker 1: the men's forty nine er FX the skiffs. They're in

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Speaker 1: the medal race. We've got a foiler. Josh Armatt looks

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Speaker 1: poised for possible medal. Barbara Kendall is a former Olympian

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Speaker 1: with us now. Hello Barbara, morning, oh afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Not quite sure what it is there at the moment.

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Speaker 1: This, ladies and gentlemen, is because Barbara Kendall isn't a

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Speaker 1: heity at the surfing competition of the Olympics. Now, why

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Speaker 1: are you there? You're a windsurfer, you don't need waves.

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Speaker 2: That's correct. I actually joined the International Surfing Association as

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Speaker 2: a vice president, was elected in twenty fourteen. So I've

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Speaker 2: been here now for ten years, helping the Surfing Association

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Speaker 2: background the whole time for ten years. And it's been

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Speaker 2: so rewarding to be here in Tahiti to watch it.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I've been I've been a lucky one.

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Speaker 1: How good is this wave? It's just the most perfect wave. Now, look,

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Speaker 1: we're here actually to talk about sailing because we've got

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of races tonight. Now, first we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about Joe La and Molly Meach who can't

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Speaker 1: win a medal? Can they no points?

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Speaker 2: Wise? It's it's quite it's impossible because the medal race

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Speaker 2: is worth double points, so and the girls that are

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Speaker 2: from their race races, Joe and Molly can't reach that

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Speaker 2: the metal position, which is a shame. But you know,

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Speaker 2: they have given it absolutely everything that they've got. And

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Speaker 2: even if they could win the medal race, which is

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Speaker 2: to bow out of the competition. You know, they've had

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Speaker 2: ups and downs all through the competition. I think it

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Speaker 2: sounds like it's been quite shifty and gusty and changeable

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Speaker 2: conditions out there and hard, long days. But I know

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Speaker 1: You've been a flag bearer, so as Joe Lay, does

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Speaker 1: being a flag bearer distract?

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Speaker 2: I know it did me, to be honest, you know

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Speaker 2: I carried was the flag bearer for New Zealand and Atlanta,

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Speaker 2: and it was a bit of a distraction because you

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Speaker 2: become the team leader and the icon and a role model,

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Speaker 2: and it just puts that little bit of pressure and

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Speaker 2: expectation on. That was my opinion. I think Joe's probably

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Speaker 2: handled it really really well. Yeah, but it did for

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Speaker 2: was an incredible honor to be a flag bearer, so

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Speaker 2: they weighed each other out really.

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Speaker 1: Now to the forty nine Xes and this skiff, we've

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Speaker 1: got Isaac McCarty and Will mackenzie. Any chance there.

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Speaker 2: Definitely those boys have been sailing incredibly well. They've done

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Speaker 2: a lot of work mentally, physically and technically. They've put

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Speaker 2: in some serious hours over the life four years. And

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Speaker 2: you know, the metal race sometimes has that element of luck,

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Speaker 2: and so if they've definitely got that lucky star there,

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Speaker 2: I know that they've got enough skill and speed to

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Speaker 2: and that would be amazing for sailing. New Zealand sailing

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Speaker 2: really needs some metals to carry us through into the

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Speaker 1: And finally, I want to move on to the foiling. Now,

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Speaker 1: the foiling replaces your event, which was the sail boarding

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Speaker 1: Now they're actually they've got a parachute and wires and

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Speaker 2: It's still exactly like windsurfing, so it's exactly windsurfing. They

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Speaker 2: just have the foils underneath. It's the it's the kite

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Speaker 1: This is good to know. This is why you're on

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Speaker 1: the program, by the way.

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Speaker 2: So there's four classes. There's four so there's two classes.

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Speaker 2: then there's windsurfing, which is exactly what I did, but

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Speaker 1: Would you have been able to cope with the foils?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I would have loved I would have loved. I would.

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Speaker 2: I would love to have done it. I'd love to

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Speaker 2: I've actually I do foil myself on a on a

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Speaker 1: This interview is going far too long because it's far

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Speaker 1: too much fun, and I've got to finish it off

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Speaker 1: by saying we've got to foiler Josh Ammittt who will

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Speaker 2: Is looking really good. But v also has a chance

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Speaker 2: because and the metal race is very different to the

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Speaker 2: IQ foiling, and even if you're in tenth place, because

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Speaker 2: It's a different format to other sailing.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic, really looking forward to it. And it's been a

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Speaker 1: delight talking to you, Barbara, Thank you so much.

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