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Speaker 1: So the Commonwealth Games. It looks more likely that Glasgow

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Speaker 1: will actually host this in a couple of years time

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Speaker 1: they've officially submissive submitted their proposal. The games will be

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Speaker 1: small though, only ten sports, only four venues, a budget

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Speaker 1: opening and closing ceremony, and no athletic village. Nicki Nickel

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Speaker 1: is the NZIOC chief executive.

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Speaker 2: Hey Nikki, Hey, how are you? Heather?

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Speaker 1: Very well? Thank you. Do we know which sports have

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Speaker 1: made it through?

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Speaker 2: No, we don't at this stage. All we do know

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Speaker 2: is that swimming and athletics are in because that's been

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Speaker 2: part of the Commonwealth Games blueprint, and we are waiting

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Speaker 2: like the other sports. What we do know is that

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Speaker 2: there are a number of venues that have been named

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Speaker 2: and those of the venues will be utilizing a number of.

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Speaker 1: Sports, so they can tell from the venues, like as

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Speaker 1: one of the venues a cycling venue.

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Speaker 2: So we're just waiting like everyone else, and I think

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Speaker 2: for us it's just we haven't speculated because we just

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Speaker 2: don't want to put more anxiety out for the athletes.

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Speaker 2: But we're waiting and we'll work with the sports as

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Speaker 2: soon as we know to work on Plan A or

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Speaker 2: Plan B.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the thing about it is, right, cutting from

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Speaker 1: twenty one sports last time to ten this time is

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Speaker 1: quite a drastic reduction. Ah, there's going to be quite

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Speaker 1: a few athletes who are disappointed.

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Speaker 2: So if we look at Glasgow in twenty fourteen, they

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Speaker 2: had eighteen sports. We know Victoria we're looking to have

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Speaker 2: more sports. So the games have been around that eighteen

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Speaker 2: to twenty for quite some time. So yeah, cutting to

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Speaker 2: ten is a big change. But I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: we have to recognize the unprecedented time that we're in

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Speaker 2: with Victoria pulling out and so on the back of

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Speaker 2: that very disappointing decision from our friends across the ditch,

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Speaker 2: we have had to pivot. And you know, I mean

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Speaker 2: I have huge gratitude and support for what Scotland have done,

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Speaker 2: and you know they have said, well, look, if we

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Speaker 2: can work within a financial envelope that has no drain

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Speaker 2: on their community, they can deliver something really special and

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Speaker 2: I think they will do that, but again, just won't

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Speaker 2: be at the same scale that we used to.

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Speaker 1: Do. You think this is the last Games?

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Speaker 2: No, I do not think this is the last Games.

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Speaker 2: And I think for many reasons, and certainly for the

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Speaker 2: community that I live in Commonwealth Games is a really

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Speaker 2: important event and having just been to Paris as well,

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Speaker 2: and we're still in the glow of the success of Paris.

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Speaker 2: Many of the athletes there, sixty percent of the athletes

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Speaker 2: that competed in Birmingham made the top eight at the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: So from our perspective, from a high performance perspective, it's

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Speaker 2: really important. What we need to do is make it sustainable.

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Speaker 2: And actually that is one of the benefits of the

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Speaker 2: work that Scotland have done as they've taken out costs,

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Speaker 2: they've optimized the delivery model for the Games and hopefully

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Speaker 2: that will make the next games twenty thirty and twenty

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Speaker 2: thirty four much more sustainable. Therefore we'll have, you know,

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Speaker 2: be back to the good old commonwork games in world.

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Speaker 1: Who's hosting twenty thirty not.

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Speaker 2: Confirmed, So I think we still consideration have been have

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Speaker 2: been focused.

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Speaker 1: Are we still going for twenty thirty four?

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Speaker 2: We have still an expression of it just around twenty

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Speaker 2: thirty four, and certainly what we have learned through this process,

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Speaker 2: and I've spent a little bit of time with our

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Speaker 2: friends from Scotland and I'm going over there again later

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Speaker 2: this year is to actually understand their whole new economic

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Speaker 2: model that sits behind it, because that again will make

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Speaker 2: it much more attractive for us to be able to

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Speaker 2: consider what a feasibility and that could look like.

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Speaker 1: Niki, thanks for talking to us through it. Nicky Nicole

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Speaker 1: in zoc's chief executive nineteen Away from six.

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