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Speaker 1: the traditional owners of the land on which we record

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Speaker 2: This land was never seated, always was always will.

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Speaker 1: Be Hello, Hello, Hello, dear listeners, and won sure I

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Speaker 1: shall how remiss of me?

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's where I am. The only thing that I

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Speaker 3: this before because I went to a very Catholic high school.

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Speaker 2: But that is a really weird.

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Speaker 3: Way of starting an intro to what is already one

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Speaker 3: of my favorite episodes Georgia. And usually we tease who

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Speaker 3: the guest is, but I don't care. We've already had

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Speaker 3: an o Amy Fox day on this podcast where she

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Speaker 2: Today we're one upping it and she's our special guest.

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Speaker 1: She's here, she's here, and dear listeners, just so you know,

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Speaker 1: do not worry.

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Speaker 2: I am checking Jelmy's pulse. I'm checking it.

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Speaker 1: If at any point she looks like she's gonna faint,

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Speaker 1: I'll catch her. Or hell, why doesn't know?

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Speaker 2: Amy? Maybe catch her.

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Speaker 3: Well, let's tell this story while she's not on the line,

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Speaker 3: so that this doesn't get really awkward. But we were

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Speaker 3: at a schmancy event for the F one. It was

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Speaker 2: Hi, Yesoyet always been my favorite.

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Speaker 3: Christian Horner was there like it was oh my god,

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Speaker 3: it was like Channing Tatum was there. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: There are layers to this, still listener, because Jelmy and

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Speaker 1: My our canon like bonding event, was going to see

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Speaker 1: event with Jelmy our song and will tell anyone who

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Speaker 3: Obviously that's when I think I must find Georgie in

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Speaker 2: So Channing Tatum means a lot to us, way too much.

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Speaker 3: And so it was a really it was actually a

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Speaker 1: You began that person you're there with like, guys, do

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Speaker 2: Anyway?

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Speaker 3: That was way too much name dropping for this early

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Speaker 3: But what I will say is the crowd parted and

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Speaker 3: I saw Noemi across the room, and instead of playing cool,

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Speaker 3: Like hi, and yeah, she said that she remembered listening

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Speaker 3: to the Bermuda triangle of You're not getting.

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Speaker 2: Rid of us? Yes, yes, and you will eventually come

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Speaker 1: I say, a genuine good sports, a genuine good sport,

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Speaker 1: Good sport, bad sport. Jeremy, I'm gonna kick things off.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna kick things off with a good sport. And

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Speaker 1: Held this press conference just for us. It's not often

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Speaker 1: All or at all, But Scottish Cheffler, I'll tell you

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Speaker 3: Like if that didn't make me a better person or

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Speaker 3: just like to say I think I do bathe in

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Speaker 1: Or you're good, Like I said Scheffler and myself, we

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Speaker 1: What I will say though, for Scotti Scheffler is that

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Speaker 2: Which is his net worth.

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Speaker 1: So as a soul sibling, maybe can I ask for alone, Babe?

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Speaker 1: Looking out of this beautiful window? Yes, the glass was

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Speaker 3: George looking into renovation prices and anyone who's done that

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Speaker 3: and you all shakes your life. But speaking of affluence, yes, unnecessarily, yes,

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Speaker 3: you would have known what this is. People who love sport,

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Speaker 2: It's me, Hi, I'm the problem.

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Speaker 3: It's me because oh my god, is this my area?

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Speaker 3: People dressing like they're at the Ralph Lauren Country Oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: That's dangerous, divine.

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Speaker 3: I'm also all about the Royals. I'm all about the

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Speaker 1: Yes, I'm all for the fact that our Princess beck

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Speaker 2: Stay behind behind the Royals final Yes. Directly behind the

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Speaker 1: and Andrew Scott. I'm sorry, why was anyone no offense?

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Speaker 1: It's the greatest, It's the greatest pinnacle of events for us.

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Speaker 2: It's met Gala. It is the Metcala, the new met Gala.

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Speaker 2: It's more exclusive than the Met Gala. It is it

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Speaker 3: And now I believe that the OZ, opened by association

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Speaker 2: I agree with you. I agree with you.

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Speaker 5: It's hit a different pinnacle. If one's getting there, one's cool.

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Speaker 5: But I just think OZ Open hits a whole new level.

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Speaker 1: Well Open as well, which we've talked about before, is

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Speaker 2: There's marquees like what used to beat the Melbourne.

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Speaker 1: Car exactly, And if you can't get the incredible tickets

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Speaker 1: at rod Labor, you can still see legitimate high profile

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Speaker 1: So I would agree with you in saying it is

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Speaker 1: still just above F one because you have slightly greater

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Speaker 2: Have you seen Brad.

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Speaker 3: Pitt go around in the McLaren No, Brad Pitt, who

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Speaker 3: we won't talk about the problematic press tool that he's

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Speaker 5: We're just glaze over the fact I'm in love with him.

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Speaker 5: It doesn't matter what he does.

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Speaker 3: Basically, they let him get in a current McLaren car

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Speaker 3: been like there's many perks in my job, this is

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Speaker 2: Jesus, what's the insurance?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but Lando's they have been like hate Flando,

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Speaker 6: especially in front of someone like Yeah, Kimberly Wood's raigning

440
00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:16,359
Speaker 6: world champion, one of the biggest pioneers in our sport

441
00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,240
Speaker 6: for ki cross and I don't want to say the

442
00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:20,359
Speaker 6: scariest one on the circuit, but you know, she makes

443
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,959
Speaker 6: me nervous, so to do that in front of her

444
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,240
Speaker 6: was huge for me. And I think just such a

445
00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:29,680
Speaker 6: after all of those rounds as well, like under fatigue,

446
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,120
Speaker 6: under high pressure. I think it's something that I'm just

447
00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,640
Speaker 6: so proud of for being that like in my race

448
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,639
Speaker 6: and so fearless in that sense. And so when I

449
00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,399
Speaker 6: had the gate and I knew that I flicked it

450
00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,439
Speaker 6: out and was coming out first, that was when it

451
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:46,879
Speaker 6: was just like this, like shut up of just wow,

452
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,720
Speaker 6: we did it. And it didn't really hit until the

453
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,320
Speaker 6: podium because I was under so much adrenaline, and then

454
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,200
Speaker 6: the few days after that as well, because yeah, it

455
00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:58,840
Speaker 6: takes a lot to kind of process that you won

456
00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,920
Speaker 6: the Olympic Games already just thinking like wow, I'm here,

457
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,000
Speaker 6: Like wow, I'm in the final and then just letting

458
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,920
Speaker 6: yourself realize and letting that sink in. It definitely takes

459
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,480
Speaker 6: a lot of time, but it's the most incredible feeling,

460
00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,239
Speaker 6: and I wish I could just you know, I've got

461
00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:16,000
Speaker 6: it bottled up, and from time to time I let

462
00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,080
Speaker 6: myself kind of you know, when I'm having low days,

463
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 6: I'm like.

464
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Speaker 2: You know us too. Every now and then we just

465
00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:24,240
Speaker 2: think about it and we need to live well on that.

466
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Speaker 2: Do you watch Have you watched the race again?

467
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Speaker 1: I say this now aiming as someone who has watched

468
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Speaker 1: Queensland's origin victory.

469
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Speaker 2: Come on, then you're talking to a pan.

470
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Speaker 1: I know, I understand, but I've watched it twice since

471
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:39,680
Speaker 1: it actually was live to air.

472
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,919
Speaker 2: So do you let your so emotional support game it is?

473
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Speaker 1: It is? Do you let yourself be like I think,

474
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna watch it again.

475
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 2: Let's let's watch me when gold.

476
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Speaker 6: So after the games, it probably took like two months.

477
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Speaker 6: I remember my my nan watching it because she doesn't

478
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Speaker 6: watch live. She cannot watch live. She couldn't even watch

479
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 6: my mum race life. She gets so nervous, but then

480
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,679
Speaker 6: once she knows the results she can watch it. So

481
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,600
Speaker 6: I remember kind of like briefly watching it with my

482
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Speaker 6: with my nan which was and then you know, with

483
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,520
Speaker 6: the whole family. We watched it at Christmas as well

484
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,880
Speaker 6: with my partner's family when we went skiing with them.

485
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:21,160
Speaker 6: But I've only like really concentrated and like watched it.

486
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 6: I'd say one was for a replay for the Dotter Ward.

487
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 6: We did an interview in the lead up and that

488
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,960
Speaker 6: was quite emotional doing watching it then. And then I've

489
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 6: done a lot of you know, keynotes or school talks

490
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 6: where I'll play it. But it's funny, I have completely

491
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,920
Speaker 6: detached myself from it, Like I don't let myself really

492
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,600
Speaker 6: watch it because otherwise it just there's a lot of

493
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:46,400
Speaker 6: emotion in it. I think for me, there's a lot

494
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 6: of like whoa, it's surreal, you know, to see myself

495
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 6: do that on the front on the world stage and

496
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 6: the music behind it with the Channel nine editor that

497
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:58,440
Speaker 6: they do. But yeah, so I've watched a few times,

498
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 6: but like I've watched in total, probably quite a lot

499
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 6: that really detached to stay professional and to still bespeaking.

500
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 3: Same well, speaking of detaching and staying professional, one of

501
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 3: the great joys in not only your sport but Australian sport.

502
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 3: Is listening to your dad commentations when his girls are

503
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 3: competing and there are there is so some of his

504
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 3: pregnant pauses are so loud because you can just hear

505
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 3: the fatherhood and the gulps and and oh my gosh,

506
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 3: she's doing it and the emotion like, oh my god.

507
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 2: Richard's just an icon.

508
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,439
Speaker 3: But it is so rare to have your entire family

509
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 3: so entrenched in this sport and the scenes when you won,

510
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 3: when everyone's in, Mom's in Jess and dad's in commentary,

511
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 3: he's running, Dave Convit's like, go, go, go join and

512
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 3: be part of it. Like is at those moments, like

513
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:51,919
Speaker 3: do you have those photos around the house, Like what

514
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 3: do you do as a family?

515
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 2: Do you print them? Like how do you reflect on that?

516
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:58,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're a bit everywhere, but you also don't want

517
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 6: to just make your living based a shrine for the Olympics.

518
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 6: But it's hard not to have them and to have those,

519
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 6: you know, reminders. I you know, I'm looking at one.

520
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 6: There's like a frame that we got for Paddle Australia

521
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 6: for the Olympics and yeah, I've got a big photo

522
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,919
Speaker 6: of that moment up there. Just in my eyesight. So

523
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 6: it is a bit everywhere, and it's hard not to

524
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,639
Speaker 6: want to have it everywhere because it's the most like,

525
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 6: it's the most surreal thing ever and it's the most

526
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,879
Speaker 6: magical moment and you couldn't have scripted it better. I

527
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 6: think same dad. He wanted to be involved in a

528
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 6: way that wasn't just in the crowd, because one he

529
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 6: would get too nervous, and two, you know, he he

530
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,399
Speaker 6: knows he can be useful, and he also wants to

531
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,919
Speaker 6: kind of like let us do our thing, but you know,

532
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 6: keep himself busy, and he loves Dave and he loves commentary.

533
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 6: So for the finals, he was a bit quiet because

534
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,120
Speaker 6: I think it's.

535
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Speaker 5: Like, this is all me.

536
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 2: No one wants to hear from me.

537
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Speaker 6: Sure, He's like, they're going to do it. They're going

538
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 6: to do it, and you know, no words are there,

539
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,480
Speaker 6: and I think for me as well. He he just says,

540
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 6: oh my god towards the end and yeah, it's it's

541
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 6: just such a a like just a magical No one

542
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:16,879
Speaker 6: I don't want to say no one could have expected it,

543
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 6: but for us to win the kayak, the canoe and

544
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 6: the kayak cross, it's just in Paris as well. It

545
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 6: was just the most insane insane, couldn't have scripted it

546
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 6: at a moment. And I think a lot of it

547
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:30,879
Speaker 6: goes to show that, yeah, we were so well supported

548
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 6: by our family, by you know, the Australian Olympic team,

549
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 6: by our own federation, and also just like loving being

550
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:40,879
Speaker 6: in Paris. I was one of you know, Paris is

551
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 6: my second I imagine my city. It's like I love France,

552
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 6: I love Paris, and it's magical, it's beautiful. There was

553
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,159
Speaker 6: just such an air of like, I don't know, you know,

554
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,439
Speaker 6: it was alive during the Olympic Games, and there was

555
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 6: so much beauty to see in it and so much

556
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,479
Speaker 6: to like take in and we were just taking that

557
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 6: all in and regardless of the result, even before the race,

558
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 6: I just kept on thinking like how lucky am I

559
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,160
Speaker 6: to been here in Paris? And and so I think, yeah,

560
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 6: it was just the most incredible experience of my life.

561
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 6: And then you add on top of that performance and

562
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 6: the gold medal, and yeah, you just want to paint

563
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 6: your house and you know those photos.

564
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 3: Of well, speaking of wanting to paint your house, something

565
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 3: that lives rent free in my mind is the chateau

566
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Speaker 3: that you guys stayed in.

567
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,360
Speaker 2: Oh, I remember seeing a shopping.

568
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 3: Am I being punked right now, this is where the

569
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 3: water sport. It was like you were in some sort

570
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 3: of field like Bridgeton, but the French version, yes, literally

571
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 3: up and go.

572
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:43,360
Speaker 2: Are they joking?

573
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Speaker 6: I think during the Games we were a little bit

574
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 6: like hesitant to just post too much.

575
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 3: Of everyone from hardboard beds and Prince William ha to

576
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 3: pop out and you be like, well that checks out.

577
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:56,119
Speaker 2: Hello.

578
00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 6: There was that element of like performance. So we were

579
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 6: close to our venue, which is an hour and a

580
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 6: half away from the Olympic village, so we're really east

581
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 6: of Paris, and so this chateau was a ten minute

582
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,439
Speaker 6: drive and it meant that you know, rowing and canoe

583
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 6: sprint and canoe slalm could all be together. And when

584
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 6: we did. When we arrived, it was just like I

585
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:23,640
Speaker 6: cannot explain that excitement. It's like ten times the most

586
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 6: excited kid on Christmas date. You know, you arrive and

587
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,959
Speaker 6: you're just like, oh my god, was my home and

588
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,640
Speaker 6: it was the most beautiful experience ever. And I think

589
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 6: now that it's a year on, I'm going to start like, yeah,

590
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 6: reliving that and sharing the insides of the chateau, but

591
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 6: being with the rowing girls as well was just the

592
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 6: best thing of all time. And yeah, a Bridgeton Castle

593
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 6: with incredible food as well, like all locally sourced. And

594
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,719
Speaker 6: on the last day, the lady who would post us

595
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 6: was amazing and she knew that I was having very

596
00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 6: simple breakfast, like sometimes just plain bread and you know,

597
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 6: a banana because it's all like a stomach, and she

598
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 6: was making pancakes and crapes. And then on the morning

599
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 6: what's wrong with this woman? The morning after I one,

600
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 6: she gave me the most beautiful totella crepe and she's like,

601
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 6: you can eat this now, because I couldn't stomach half

602
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 6: of their Like I just need a simple food. And

603
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 6: it was so hard to know that the most beautiful

604
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 6: food and cheeses and desserts were there for us.

605
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 2: This is why we can't be Olympian. You're describing or

606
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 2: describing like us.

607
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 1: What we imagine Hogwarts is like we're still waiting for

608
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: the We're still waiting for the letter.

609
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 2: But any day now, I'm sure.

610
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 3: But I just remember seeing the snippet of it and

611
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 3: going I messaged it directly to Georgia. You know, well,

612
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 3: we like, surely this is Ai, like they cannot be

613
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 3: staying there our life choices. But you mentioned how special

614
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 3: it was to be in France, like it is literally

615
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 3: your second home. Your mum, Miriam obviously is French as well,

616
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 3: and your dad is British. And you talk about being

617
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 3: at the two thousand Games and having some sort of

618
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 3: was it like an Australian flag, a British hat and.

619
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 2: Some sort of French like a very confused little girl.

620
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 3: Did any harder you ever consider, because no, I mean

621
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 3: you could have defected to represent two other nations and

622
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 3: qualified the Olympics a lot earlier than what you did,

623
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Speaker 3: or at least know that that opportunity might be more

624
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 3: open than I don't know, needing to go up against Jess.

625
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 3: Is that something that you ever considered, because a weaker

626
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 3: person would have.

627
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, Look, it definitely did cross my mind. UK,

628
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 6: I have to say not so much. It's interesting, like

629
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 6: I think because we live in Australia, it's like I've

630
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 6: merged UK and Australia in one. But I feel very

631
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 6: heavily tied to my French roots. Obviously I was also

632
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 6: born there, just was born there, and my grandparents. You know,

633
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 6: my name calls me every single day. Like we are

634
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 6: extremely close with my French side of the family, and

635
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,239
Speaker 6: my pop had a Kai club and you know they

636
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 6: would also say, oh, why can't you race for France.

637
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 6: But I think, you know, there was something about doing

638
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 6: my first junior team with the Australian team and then

639
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 6: having the Australian system invest in me as an athlete,

640
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 6: and like in terms of you know, patriotism, I don't

641
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 6: want to say I feel equal French and Australian, but

642
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 6: in terms of representing a country, I knew pretty early

643
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 6: on that I couldn't not represent Australia. And I think

644
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 6: it was one of those things that I had accepted

645
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 6: that if I didn't make it, I didn't make it,

646
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 6: and if I made it, it would be for that

647
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 6: Australian team. There's something so incredible in terms of the

648
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 6: history of the Australian Olympic team. You know, I grew

649
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 6: up idolizing, being infatuated by Ian thorpe and swimmers and

650
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 6: and you know anime is after that.

651
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 2: I call myself a dolphin and you know.

652
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 6: Going to those welcome homes and that quantious.

653
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 2: Beautiful shots of you and Jess when you're tiny.

654
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 6: Well, so we kind of grew up with that and

655
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 6: you know, I still have there's in that video that

656
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 6: I share when we're getting autographs. I still have that book.

657
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 6: So it was definitely like, you know, the Olympic team

658
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 6: I wanted to be part of, but also there's a

659
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 6: lot of incredible athletes in our sport, the current world

660
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 6: number two in canoe and then I think three or

661
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 6: four in kayak that have never been to the Olympic Games.

662
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 6: Because the world number ones are from the same country.

663
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 6: So I kind of just knew it would be my fate.

664
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 6: It was just hard knowing that it was. You know,

665
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 6: my sisters and my whole family are Olympians and I'm not.

666
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 6: So at one point I was like, do I just

667
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 6: choose a different country, seeing as mum was friends stab

668
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 6: as GB just as Australia. Maybe I'll just choose like Cambodia,

669
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 6: like around a different country. But at the end of

670
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 6: the day, I think it is so special when you

671
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 6: want to represent your country and when you're part of

672
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 6: that team. You know that, especially in the Australian team,

673
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:02,719
Speaker 6: when you put on the green and gold, you have

674
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 6: like this national duty of doing the best possible, you know,

675
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 6: the best of your ability, and being so inspired by

676
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 6: other people on that team and the team that we

677
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 6: had in Paris. I just remember thinking like there's no

678
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 6: other team that I could have ever represented, Like this

679
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 6: is the most special team led by Anna, with so

680
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 6: many incredible athletes, Like it was just Yeah, I think

681
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 6: the proudest moment of my life was being on that

682
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 6: Australian Olympic team.

683
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: That's still a lot of pressure as well, though, Yeah,

684
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: that you're that you know, you're you're putting on yourself,

685
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: the country's putting on you, the family's putting on you.

686
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: I mean you say you couldn't eat the delicious Natella crepes? Like,

687
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: how did you handle your nerves? In all seriousness? How

688
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 1: did you get a handle on them?

689
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 6: Yeah? It was I think a long work in progress

690
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 6: because I'm generally quite a nervous person, quite someone that's

691
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 6: like focused on the results or not to like embarrass

692
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 6: myself or let other people down. Like I think that's

693
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 6: inherently who I am. And today I think I'm dealing

694
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 6: with more pressure or more nerves, especially ahead of say

695
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,760
Speaker 6: a home World Championships in September as a raiding Olympic champion.

696
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 6: But for Paris, It's interesting. I had nerves, but I

697
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 6: think I was just more like the cup was more

698
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 6: full of like excitement and like pride and like I

699
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 6: don't know, this willingness to go out there knowing that

700
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 6: I finally had my shot. I never thought obviously I dreamt,

701
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 6: but I genuinely didn't think I would ever get to

702
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 6: go to the Olympic Games. And that was, you know,

703
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 6: kind of just what I had accepted. And when the

704
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 6: door opened a little bit, you know, I gave it

705
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 6: absolutely everything. And when I qualified for Prague, it was

706
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 6: just the biggest dream come true to earn my qualification

707
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:52,839
Speaker 6: spot for Paris in Prague. And from there it was like, look,

708
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 6: you went through the hardest qualification system. You've got the results.

709
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,359
Speaker 6: Like now you have nothing left to lose and no one,

710
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,399
Speaker 6: you don't have to prove anything. You're here. You can

711
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 6: just go out and do your best. And there was

712
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 6: a lot of, you know, an incredible support team around me,

713
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 6: and every day it was just you know, taking the

714
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 6: good bits, read a lot of you know, positive reinforcement,

715
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 6: a lot of like writing down why you know I

716
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 6: could do it, and then that I had the skills

717
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 6: to be there, because up until even the day before,

718
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 6: sometimes you think like what if I'm out in the

719
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 6: quarterfinal or what if you know I'm here just for this,

720
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 6: and what if I get knocked out after the time trial.

721
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 6: I think there's always those thoughts, but doing a lot

722
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 6: of like positive reinforcement, having you know, a coach. My

723
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 6: coach was actually my partner who came specifically with the

724
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 6: kayak cross and you know, there.

725
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,839
Speaker 3: Was what your coach is your partner, so you rather

726
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 3: coach is kind of your mom.

727
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 6: Like plot twist. We had multiple kayaking staff and so

728
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 6: my mum is mainly Jess as coach and for my

729
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 6: my coach in every day but for cross and for

730
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 6: that qualification in Prague, we needed an extra person to

731
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 6: come and my partner happens to be under twenty three

732
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 6: and kite cross specific coach, so he was brought up

733
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 6: in qualification and because we won the quota and I

734
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,399
Speaker 6: got that spot, he then came on for the team

735
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 6: and helped obviously helped Jess and helped Tim and Tristan

736
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,800
Speaker 6: as well in kite cross, and so there was that

737
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 6: element of career.

738
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 2: So sorry, so no I'm so sorry that I'm interrupting you.

739
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 1: So no trust there, But how do you take instructions

740
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: from your part because we can't and what survive let

741
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 1: alone win gold?

742
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 3: Just just a context, Georgie just came back from the

743
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,399
Speaker 3: amazing race that hasn't gone to a yet, but I'm

744
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 3: going to predict that there are points where Roberts giving

745
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 3: you direction.

746
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 2: You're like, don't tell me.

747
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, oh, are you an Olympic champion? But

748
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like you could be like, well, yeah,

749
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: strange dynamics.

750
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 6: It is a strange dynamic and I think that's why,

751
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 6: like I don't like not that I don't talk about it,

752
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 6: but I think often like, yeah, it is something about

753
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 6: a lot of people thing I never could have done that,

754
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 6: but there is something so unique about wanting something so badly,

755
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 6: and for me that was obviously that quota in Prague

756
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 6: and having people that have the competencies to help you

757
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:23,320
Speaker 6: and wanting to help you, and then you know, trusting

758
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 6: that they can help you get there, so that we

759
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 6: were so aligned in that sense. There was also a

760
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 6: lot of trust. I think in an everyday basis, it

761
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 6: would be really hard for him to coach me because I,

762
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 6: you know, snap back. I even snap back at my mum.

763
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 6: We're very similar in that sense. But I think for

764
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 6: the quota there was so much you know, vulnerability there

765
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 6: as well, like so much fear of not getting it,

766
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 6: but also so much like drive to go get that

767
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 6: and him knowing exactly what I needed to do. So

768
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 6: there was that element of like it was a very

769
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 6: unique situation. And then for Paris, you know, it worked

770
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 6: and we trusted each other in that sense, and so

771
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 6: he carried on that quota and carried on from the

772
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 6: quota to come to Paris, and also knowing that he

773
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,320
Speaker 6: wasn't there just for me made things a lot easier

774
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 6: because he's already you know, a staff member of the

775
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 6: Paddle Australia team. So it is an interesting dynamic. And

776
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 6: today we think like, thank god that worked, because it

777
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 6: definitely not worked out. But I really do think it

778
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 6: was that uniqueness of like the vulnerability of wanting something

779
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 6: so badly and understanding that you really need help and

780
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 6: that these people have the competencies to like help you

781
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 6: in that sense. But today, yeah, today, no, no.

782
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 3: No, I've listened to arguably too much of you speaking

783
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 3: since the games because I'm I'm a massive.

784
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 5: Fan, as you will know.

785
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 3: But you spoke about there was a moment where people said, oh,

786
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 3: you know, what do you clearly remember and you said

787
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,320
Speaker 3: my coach, which I now think were you talking about

788
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 3: your partner said take a moment to take this all

789
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:54,879
Speaker 3: in because you're here.

790
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 2: Was that your partner who said that?

791
00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 6: Yeah? So I think originally I didn't say my partner

792
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 6: because I knew that so many there was already so

793
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 6: much going on right media wise. I knew that it

794
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 6: could have just also been a flurry and in an

795
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 6: explosion of like different media, and I was just like

796
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 6: content with where we were at that I just would

797
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 6: say my coach this, my coach that. And then it

798
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 6: did get to a point where I was like, poor thing,

799
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:19,320
Speaker 6: he's getting removed from like the whole.

800
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 3: Narrative because I remember hearing you say, not to paraphrase

801
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 3: what you said yourself, but essentially that there's so much

802
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 3: noise going on as an athlete that you try to

803
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 3: shut out. It was your coach that said, take a

804
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 3: moment to go. You hear, yeah, you've achieved it. Enjoy

805
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 3: it here. It's like feel it all because if you

806
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 3: don't feel it all. It can go so quickly, and

807
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 3: now I realized yeah, And.

808
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 6: So essentially we had like this little routine that we

809
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 6: would do, you know before like after each heat, there

810
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 6: would be like half an hour to forty minutes if

811
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 6: I remember, and I'd go to the tent and I

812
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 6: like write down my little things kind of like you know,

813
00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 6: behind like Nicola and I would just you know, take

814
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 6: a moment, and then we come back and we do

815
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 6: our like little activations, have a bit of a pep talk,

816
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 6: and then for the final after, you know, coming down

817
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 6: from the tent. He didn't want me to go to

818
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 6: the tent. He wanted me to go to one of

819
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 6: the rooms we had. But hearing the crowd was just

820
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 6: the most incredible thing ever. They were blasting music, knowing

821
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 6: my friends were there, it was just like one of

822
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 6: those moments where I just was getting pretty hyped, but

823
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 6: it was just I wanted to let myself kind of

824
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 6: live that. And so then we went down did our

825
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 6: little like activations, and he kind of broke character for

826
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 6: the first time because he's very stoic, very calm, and

827
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,720
Speaker 6: that's why we work well together and I think also

828
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 6: in real life. But he had he kind of broke

829
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 6: character and was like like take a moment, like take

830
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 6: it in and was kind of smiling, and uh yeah.

831
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 6: I was like, Okay, don't get emotional, like don't freak out,

832
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:55,879
Speaker 6: but like, yeah, we're here. And so I went back

833
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:57,760
Speaker 6: onto the and then I had like my little routine

834
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 6: when I'd go on the climbing up the rare, like

835
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 6: I would hold my boat. A lot of the people

836
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 6: were getting them carried, but for me, it was kind

837
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 6: of like that shielding myself from the outside world for

838
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 6: a few minutes and doing like my little reinforcement. Every

839
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 6: step would be like a word, so it would be

840
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 6: like courage, persistent, strive, courage persistent, strive, just to kind

841
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 6: of like just have that in my head, and so

842
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 6: that when I was on the ramp, i'd be like,

843
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 6: you know ready. So yeah, he broke character a little bit,

844
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 6: but I think it was something that did remind me

845
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 6: to like look up, because otherwise it just goes and

846
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:32,879
Speaker 6: then you think, whoa, I don't even remember what it

847
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 6: was like, or it's all a blur, or like I

848
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 6: came forth and I didn't even let myself, you know,

849
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 6: enjoy it. I didn't want.

850
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:45,240
Speaker 1: That is that courage, persistence drive. Is that still something

851
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: that you've told yourself in competition since and is it

852
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:50,839
Speaker 1: something that you're looking to employ at that home World

853
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:52,800
Speaker 1: Championships in Pinrith.

854
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 2: It's a home one for you in September.

855
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 6: Yeah, But then you know, you get to the point

856
00:41:57,840 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 6: where you do the same thing that you did at

857
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 6: the Olympics and doesn't work, and you're like.

858
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 2: Damn it. You're like the coach, your code doesn't fly.

859
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 2: The coach was the code infraction? Oh gosh.

860
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 6: But yeah, I think there's definitely like little elements that

861
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 6: I take, especially when I guess, say like nervous or

862
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 6: when things just kind of there feels like there's a

863
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 6: lot of pressure. It's like having little mechanisms that you

864
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 6: do and you know work. And yeah, a home World

865
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 6: Championships in September, So the last weekend of September will

866
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 6: be big for me because I'll be for the first time,

867
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 6: like the favorite and the one that's being chased. And

868
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 6: I've always been the underdog, and I've loved being the

869
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 6: underdog because there's something about, you know, chasing that is

870
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 6: just I find So I don't know, like it just

871
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 6: works for me, and so.

872
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 2: No, you're not a Queensland.

873
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: I was like, babe, I can teach you. I can

874
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: teach you if you need. I can be a consultant coacher,

875
00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 1: because it obviously.

876
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,399
Speaker 2: Was I think the wrong of coaching. Partner's already taken.

877
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 3: If you're if you're paying attention, but you do mention

878
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 3: the facilities in Penrith. We may or may not have

879
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 3: had the Prime Minister on the podcast and he was

880
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 3: talking about the Brisbane Games and what they're going to

881
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 3: do with the different facilities in this country, and this

882
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,440
Speaker 3: is what he had to say about the rowing.

883
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 2: Take a listen.

884
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 6: Are we really going to do rowing in Rockhampton on

885
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 6: the fit Troy River when there are some pretty good

886
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,839
Speaker 6: facilities at Penrith? Yeah?

887
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the Fox girls they yeah, thats ther.

888
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 3: They're I do realize he was talking about rowing it

889
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 3: I still put you up.

890
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 2: In retrospect. I'm like rolling kayak and canoe potato.

891
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 3: But data the Fox girls, how do I get them

892
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 3: into conversation? But what would it mean for your family,

893
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 3: who was so intrinsically linked to those facilities in Penrith

894
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,399
Speaker 3: to have the games there and to have everyone fill

895
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 3: it out?

896
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 2: Is that something that you think should happen.

897
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's interesting. Like I say, both ways, part of

898
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 6: me things, Oh, it could be incredible, you know, knowing

899
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:08,479
Speaker 6: that the legacy of the Penrith facility was for two

900
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 6: thousand and already for US now to have twenty five

901
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 6: years on a World Championships and then potentially Brisbane twenty

902
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 6: thirty two. But at the same time I see that

903
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 6: for our sport to grow it does need another venue.

904
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 6: If there's an algae issue again, to have another venue

905
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 6: and Brisbane there's just so much more of a clearer

906
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:30,720
Speaker 6: pathway to enter canoeing from you know, from surf life saving,

907
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 6: from already a lot of water sports, and I think

908
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 6: for sports to grow there has to be being such

909
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:40,839
Speaker 6: a huge geographic nation, you know, it's so massive. To

910
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 6: have another facility would be incredible for the growth of

911
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 6: our sport. Also to have a facility that is designed

912
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 6: to be more sustainable, to have a longer lasting legacy

913
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 6: as well, because you know that one was designed back

914
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:56,320
Speaker 6: in two thousand. In terms of efficiency with the pump system,

915
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 6: it's not the best, but it is also long standing

916
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 6: and one of the the best design courses out there,

917
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:06,240
Speaker 6: and it was designed twenty seven years ago now exactly.

918
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,280
Speaker 6: That's also amazing, But part of me would be super

919
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 6: excited to see that Red Lens venue be made and

920
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 6: to know that there could be a better pathway to

921
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 6: our sport because the reality is being in Penrith thing

922
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 6: closed off with the Regata Center. It is really hard

923
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 6: to get people into kayaking, to get people to stay.

924
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 6: It's an expensive sport. Equipment's expensive, and it is you know,

925
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 6: forty dollars for one session on whitewater as well unless

926
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 6: you're refunded athletes. So there's a lot of like financial

927
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 6: and geographical barriers into getting into kayaking, and we've brought

928
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 6: in a lot of exposure, but we want people to

929
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 6: discover rivers. We want people to discover what kayaking is,

930
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 6: and I think a new venue would also help that.

931
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: Essentially, who do you think would be better at kayaking?

932
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:55,760
Speaker 2: No way me, jail me or myself? Don't.

933
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 3: You don't have to answer that because you know the answer.

934
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,320
Speaker 3: I can't be swim.

935
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you've got long limbs and I feel like

936
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: that would help with the Well.

937
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 6: You know what what I can do is we'll take

938
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 6: you down and we'll find out, Yes, I'm not good

939
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:09,839
Speaker 6: for much.

940
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 3: I've got forty bucks. I reckon, I reckon, we can

941
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 3: do it.

942
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 2: You know what. I would absolutely do it. I would

943
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:16,439
Speaker 2: do it.

944
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 5: I would do it just for the drop, although I'm

945
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 5: sure that's not how they start.

946
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 2: Oh there's and again I know beginnings.

947
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 1: Don't to be all Queenslander about this, but there's the

948
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: theme park on the gold Cloth called dream World, and

949
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 1: there was a ride there called the Tower of Terror,

950
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 1: and that is the when you're talking about that drop

951
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,720
Speaker 1: to start the car cross, all I am thinking about

952
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:33,720
Speaker 1: is that's my Tower of Terror.

953
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 6: See I can you can not pay me to do

954
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 6: the Tower of Terror. But like fucking ramps, I'm fine.

955
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 6: You know, really.

956
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 1: Really have you Who do you think would be the

957
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: biggest name that sort of reached out to you or

958
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 1: wish you were congratulations when you won gold.

959
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 6: Oh I've actually had a lot which has been insane. Yeah,

960
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 6: and a lot that I can't even remember now, which.

961
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 2: Sounds it would been a way.

962
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 6: You know a lot of Australian legends. I've had Nick Fanning,

963
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 6: I've had who you know, huge fan of I've also

964
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 6: had Rufus Rufus and I think they sing it to.

965
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 5: Up there did you say you know I can't get

966
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:19,280
Speaker 5: enough of you?

967
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 6: But yeah, I've had like I think that's been Like

968
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,840
Speaker 6: the craziest thing is sometimes seeing like who followed me

969
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 6: and taking a screenshot and sending it and being like WHOA,

970
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 6: How do I like say, is it weird to say

971
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 6: thanks for the phone?

972
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 2: You're?

973
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 6: Like?

974
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 5: Do I casually use one of their songs in my.

975
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:40,840
Speaker 3: Story as I like, I see you, thank you for

976
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 3: your time?

977
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 6: Like play cool, play it cool, but like so, yeah,

978
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,879
Speaker 6: there's been a lot of I feel like tonight I'll

979
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 6: be like, how did I not say that?

980
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 2: No?

981
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 6: No, I remember flag bearer and when she was elected

982
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 6: flag bearer, I remember saying, you realize, like people like

983
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 6: Hugh Jackman are going to know who you are, Like

984
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 6: they're going to know that you're waving the flag, or

985
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 6: like Beyonce, if she watches We're right before the USA,

986
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 6: she's gonna hear that Jessica Fox is the flag Barrel.

987
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 3: I don't love you because I was expecting you to

988
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 3: be like you know Lebron's and said you're like h Jackman.

989
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 6: We saw Lebron stop. It's one of my top I

990
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 6: don't want to say top three highlights but it is

991
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 6: up there. We were basically on our way to the

992
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 6: opening ceremony in the bus, and at one point the

993
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 6: buses were just stopped. We were really close to getting out,

994
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 6: and I was sitting next to the window and a

995
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 6: bus rolls up next to us, and we can see

996
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 6: they're the US, and it just starts creeping forward. And

997
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 6: at one point Lebron is on the backseat and he's

998
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:44,240
Speaker 6: in what because he was in and he's just looking

999
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 6: at us, and he's like nodding his head, and I

1000
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 6: think everyone was like in shock. And then two seconds

1001
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 6: later everyone went and then we didn't even have time

1002
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 6: to get our phones out or anything, and just like

1003
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 6: creeped forward. But everyone was just just like shocked by

1004
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:02,720
Speaker 6: his presence. And you could feel the aura just from

1005
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 6: you know, the separation of the buses. It was insane.

1006
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 3: So what was your Because you tried to semi immerse

1007
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 3: yourself in the village as much as you could and

1008
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 3: the activities and activations, even though you were very much

1009
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 3: in gay mode, was there something about the games that

1010
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 3: stood out. We've heard of people getting free tattoos, the

1011
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,360
Speaker 3: muffins went the muffins went viral.

1012
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 2: And if you kind of have an a teller crape.

1013
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,959
Speaker 3: You weren't holing into muffins, but was there something about

1014
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 3: the village that really stood out to you?

1015
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 6: The muffins were really good. I think what I loved

1016
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 6: about the village the village. I literally felt like I

1017
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:38,279
Speaker 6: was made to be an athlete in the village. It's

1018
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 6: really hard to say, but I was like, I'm such

1019
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 6: a merch girlie. I love like, you know, chatting to

1020
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:47,720
Speaker 6: different people. It was amazing to be in the village,

1021
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 6: especially to be in the village post competition in a

1022
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:52,920
Speaker 6: good mood, you know. I think there was something so

1023
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 6: special about having a week in the village. But what

1024
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:58,439
Speaker 6: I loved was like all the little things you could

1025
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 6: do and collect, Like, like I said, my merch collector,

1026
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:06,359
Speaker 6: so we could get like post stamps made with our

1027
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:08,799
Speaker 6: faces and actually like send them off. So I wrote

1028
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:11,799
Speaker 6: a postcard to my Grandma and put my face on

1029
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:13,840
Speaker 6: the stamp, which was insane.

1030
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 3: There was like a photos they probably made them, yeah,

1031
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 3: And then there.

1032
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 6: Was also the oz post ones that we received later on,

1033
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 6: but we could there was like photo booths everywhere and

1034
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 6: it was all like in the Paris colors and just

1035
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:31,280
Speaker 6: you know, walking around and the oz HQ, I think

1036
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 6: above all was the coolest thing ever. We obviously had

1037
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 6: like a barista and just hang out there. And the

1038
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 6: coolest thing ever was after the closing ceremony, we all

1039
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 6: came back to our HQ and just danced until like

1040
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:48,800
Speaker 6: two am. That was the coolest thing ever because everyone

1041
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:51,279
Speaker 6: was just you know, together as a team, and we

1042
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 6: saw like countries kind of trying to get in and

1043
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 6: we had a security guard that was like Australia's a

1044
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 6: nightclub where it's like so Australian. HQ was just the

1045
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 6: funnest thing ever. And the only song that we had

1046
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:16,880
Speaker 6: was the Freed from Desire. We listened to it at

1047
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:19,919
Speaker 6: least twenty times because they'd be like okay, okay, last song,

1048
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 6: we have to shut down, and then like there'd be

1049
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 6: silent and then you'd hear do do start again, and

1050
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,280
Speaker 6: so yeah, it was just that song. We were pretty

1051
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 6: saturated by the end of it.

1052
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm just I'm getting a glimpse at the life

1053
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: in a parallel universe if I had talent and cardiovascular.

1054
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 2: Capabilities that I may have had. You know, you're speaking

1055
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 2: all my language. You were speaking my language.

1056
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 1: No Amy Another thing that we share in common is

1057
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:50,760
Speaker 1: a deep, deep love for our grandmothers. I've lost mine

1058
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 1: by one that I loved more than anything. But I

1059
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: love your Instagram because you constantly put in I'm gonna

1060
00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 1: call her your mammy, mammy.

1061
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 6: Or mammy mammy.

1062
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 1: Me beautiful, your mammy, Like what what does that mean

1063
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 1: to you?

1064
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:07,760
Speaker 2: I mean, she got to see you at the games,

1065
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:10,319
Speaker 2: you got to take her to the seaside recently.

1066
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 1: I mean, at its heart, sport is about the humans

1067
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:15,919
Speaker 1: that you share it with, and you got to share

1068
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: it with your memmy.

1069
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's really special. I mean, we live so far

1070
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 6: and I think that's the hardest thing, especially as she

1071
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:26,400
Speaker 6: gets older. She just had one child and that's my mom,

1072
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 6: and then we have two grandkids. So it is really hard.

1073
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 6: Being so far away and having that close connection to

1074
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:34,720
Speaker 6: Marseille and being able to go there and just spend

1075
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 6: time with her is so cut feeling. And you know,

1076
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 6: being in Paris and being able to do sometimes have

1077
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:43,720
Speaker 6: two days off and go down to Marseilles three hours

1078
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:46,360
Speaker 6: in the train was just the most incredible thing. And

1079
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 6: to feel like I was home and resetting and then

1080
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:51,400
Speaker 6: being sent back to Paris with like you know, little

1081
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 6: goods and cookies and biscuits, and she always sends me

1082
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 6: off with biscuits, which is so special. But it's funny.

1083
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:02,239
Speaker 6: She is terrified of our sport and it's because she

1084
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:05,360
Speaker 6: grew up on the river bank and she would watch

1085
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:08,280
Speaker 6: my mom paddle and be like, this is too scary.

1086
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 6: You know, she wasn't from a paddling family. It was

1087
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 6: her husband that got my mom into the sports, and

1088
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:17,360
Speaker 6: my granddad, and she just was too scared of it.

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00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,479
Speaker 6: I think she's naturally a bit of a scary cat

1090
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:22,759
Speaker 6: and it gets really nervous. But she wants us to

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00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 6: do well, and she wants us to just enjoy what

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00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 6: we're doing. So when she knows that we are we

1093
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:30,320
Speaker 6: love what we're doing, or that you know, we're happy

1094
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:33,239
Speaker 6: with the results, she'll watch it. And she's by far

1095
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 6: the most you know, our biggest cheerleader and our biggest

1096
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 6: fan of what we do. So being able to share

1097
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 6: that with hers is definitely so special. And yeah, Mom's

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00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:46,360
Speaker 6: Atlanta nineteen ninety six medal is still at her house.

1099
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 6: And so when I finished Paris, I had like the

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00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,279
Speaker 6: two men. I have to say, Mums looks like very

1101
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 6: gold compared to like a bronze, so it doesn't look

1102
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:56,280
Speaker 6: like a really nice bronze.

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00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:58,320
Speaker 2: If you squench, it's like gold.

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00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:00,839
Speaker 6: Although I do love one of my it's definitely a gold.

1105
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 2: One of my.

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00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,239
Speaker 3: Favorite grabs that your dad just had to take on

1107
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 3: the chin was when you finish and you were like,

1108
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 3: don't be like dad, don't not get a medal.

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00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 6: I felt so bad saying that. Afterwards, you know, I

1110
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:14,800
Speaker 6: was like, whoa, I really it just makes you realize,

1111
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 6: you know, everything can just be broadcast to the world.

1112
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 2: But if we're in the moment and Dad's like, ha ha.

1113
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:26,320
Speaker 6: I just didn't want to be four, then I knew

1114
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 6: how heartbreaking it was. And your mom still like obviously

1115
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 6: it doesn't talk about it now, but like I remember

1116
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 6: growing up and being like, oh, you know, he had

1117
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 6: he should have won gold, and it was fourth and

1118
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 6: gold would have changed his life. But the Olympics wasn't

1119
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:44,760
Speaker 6: in the Olympic program for canoe wasn't in the Olympic

1120
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 6: program when they were at their peak. It only came

1121
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 6: in for ninety ninety two, and they were at their

1122
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:52,919
Speaker 6: peak in the eighties, so I think, you know, it's

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00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:56,400
Speaker 6: something that they think, well, the Olympics is life changing

1124
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 6: and to live their Olympic dreams now through their kids

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00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 6: something that is so amazing. And Mum recently said in

1126
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 6: ninety two, when she had just the most disastrous Olympics

1127
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,879
Speaker 6: as world rank number one, she said, if she could

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00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,239
Speaker 6: have known that her two kids would have won goal

1129
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 6: later on, she would have been like, I'm done, I

1130
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 6: don't care. Yeah, it's all worth it. So I think, yeah,

1131
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:21,280
Speaker 6: it's amazing for them as athletes that know how hard

1132
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 6: it is and know how hard an Olympics is. To

1133
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:29,399
Speaker 6: see us, you know, perform and do well. I think, yeah,

1134
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:30,560
Speaker 6: it's very special.

1135
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:33,839
Speaker 3: The Olympics is life changing and you know that now

1136
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:36,400
Speaker 3: in terms of you become a household name and just

1137
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 3: what your family mean to us as Australians.

1138
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 2: And again people like me are cost you at parties

1139
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:42,040
Speaker 2: thinking that we.

1140
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:44,839
Speaker 3: Know you when we're open because we were so part

1141
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 3: of that journey. But what makes you know amy away

1142
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 3: from kayak and canoe and that world. What gives you

1143
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:55,399
Speaker 3: your sense of you? And what do you if you're

1144
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:58,319
Speaker 3: crystal balling and looking ten twenty years down the track,

1145
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 3: what do you think a fulfilled, happy life looks like

1146
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:01,760
Speaker 3: for you.

1147
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 6: That's a deep question. And then I feel like I'm

1148
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:07,320
Speaker 6: doing a lot of thinking about that at the moment,

1149
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:09,840
Speaker 6: and sometimes you're like, what do I like?

1150
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome again, this is this podcast? Welcome?

1151
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 5: Yes, Yes, that could be the name about the podcast.

1152
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 2: What do I like? What do I like? What's our hobbies?

1153
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:23,720
Speaker 2: Who is she I think?

1154
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:24,000
Speaker 6: You know?

1155
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:24,279
Speaker 3: Like?

1156
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 6: Because the Olympics always seemed far fetched, I definitely tried

1157
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 6: to develop myself outside of the sport to not have

1158
00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:36,320
Speaker 6: you know, disappointment or bad results or like average results

1159
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:38,760
Speaker 6: just be my sense of identity, because that's the reality.

1160
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 6: Sport can be pretty brutal when you're just investing in

1161
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 6: that and you feel like the results aren't paying. It's

1162
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 6: really easy to kind of attach your identity and your

1163
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:50,680
Speaker 6: self worth to results, and especially you know, as young

1164
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:54,919
Speaker 6: female athletes, that can be really challenging. So always had

1165
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:57,799
Speaker 6: something on the side to kind of, you know, make

1166
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 6: me feel like I was also good in another domain,

1167
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 6: and so I did a lot of studied in media,

1168
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 6: did management, did a master's at Sydney UNY, and then

1169
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:12,520
Speaker 6: went to do like a huge internship in Switzerland in

1170
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 6: twenty twenty during COVID, And that's when I realized that,

1171
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:18,560
Speaker 6: oh wow, like there's life outside of sport and you

1172
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:21,960
Speaker 6: can go and create also other opportunities that are amazing,

1173
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 6: and you know, you can really live big emotions even

1174
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:29,200
Speaker 6: though you know sport. Often we say you can only

1175
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:32,800
Speaker 6: live these emotions through like sport and the Olympics and

1176
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 6: things like that. So that kind of made me realize, Oh,

1177
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 6: there's life outside of this. But I realized I actually

1178
00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 6: still really love my sport and I want to, you know,

1179
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 6: give it a big crack. But I think today I

1180
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 6: am kind of like in this this like into what's

1181
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 6: the world, like this phase where I am just doing

1182
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:56,120
Speaker 6: sport and because it's the first year that I can

1183
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:59,080
Speaker 6: live off my passion and give back to different ways,

1184
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 6: do school talks, do you know, different corporate talks or

1185
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 6: things like that, and feel like I'm you know, giving

1186
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 6: back or doing valuable things. But I do miss having

1187
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:11,280
Speaker 6: like a job on the side or something else that

1188
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 6: kind of is outside of sport. And that's where I'm

1189
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 6: kind of figuring out my next steps of you know,

1190
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:21,760
Speaker 6: what I do, because I know it's not just kayaking,

1191
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,080
Speaker 6: but I feel like I'm trying to kind of figure

1192
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 6: out what that is and dabbling in different areas or yeah,

1193
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,320
Speaker 6: I don't know. I'm open to like career mentoring at.

1194
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 2: This stage, Same babe, same again, Welcome, welcome again.

1195
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:39,560
Speaker 5: And we only say that through the lens of we

1196
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 5: love what we do.

1197
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 3: But I also think sometimes you sit back and you're like,

1198
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 3: what else is out there?

1199
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Speaker 2: What is like? Or do we now? Do we keep

1200
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 2: and again? Do you keep applying your training?

1201
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:53,040
Speaker 3: Like do you go into administration in sport after you

1202
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 3: stop being an athlete because obviously you're studying, would lean

1203
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 3: that way? Or do you try something? Do you open

1204
00:58:57,800 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 3: a home just for greyhounds?

1205
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 6: You know, my god, you know my dream. My dream

1206
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 6: is to have like a sanctuary where I have like donkeys, greyhounds,

1207
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 6: different like rehomed animals, horses. But then I'm like, but

1208
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:14,120
Speaker 6: then I can't travel. Then I can't do you know,

1209
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 6: hiking in the summer in the Alps and things like that,

1210
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:20,960
Speaker 6: which is also something that we love skiing in winter.

1211
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 6: I'm definitely a huge traveler and so I've landed my

1212
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 6: dream sponsorship in that sense with Intrepid, which is a

1213
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:32,520
Speaker 6: travel company, and actually going to Antarctica in March, which

1214
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 6: is so excited about. So yeah, I can't have a

1215
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 6: sanctuary if I'm going traveling as well.

1216
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:41,440
Speaker 3: And dear listeners any one day if you miss that context,

1217
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:42,240
Speaker 3: they have a greyhound.

1218
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Speaker 2: I just didn't.

1219
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:45,960
Speaker 5: Randomly that wasn't the animal that first came to my

1220
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 5: mind that.

1221
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Speaker 1: You went with donkeys. You went with donkeys as your

1222
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 1: first thing. I was like, of course you did the

1223
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 1: work horses of the world.

1224
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:54,720
Speaker 2: Yes, someone thinking.

1225
00:59:54,560 --> 01:00:00,040
Speaker 6: The donkeys have incredible characters as well. Funny. That's but

1226
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 6: people don't realize how funny they are. And I am

1227
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 6: such a fan. It's like my Instagram is a lot

1228
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:08,040
Speaker 6: of donkeys.

1229
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Speaker 2: Thank you.

1230
01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:14,120
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, this I love see now I did not

1231
01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 1: know that about you, but I love you even more.

1232
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:18,600
Speaker 3: But I also from the very beginning, the second that

1233
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:20,320
Speaker 3: we met, I said to Georgie, I was like, Miami

1234
01:00:20,360 --> 01:00:21,000
Speaker 3: and I became friends.

1235
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:23,440
Speaker 2: But more the point she's so one of out the

1236
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 2: whole way through this chat when you're.

1237
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:27,240
Speaker 3: Like, I'm emerged girl, Georgie's just looked at me as

1238
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:29,120
Speaker 3: if you're like with this glare, as if to be like,

1239
01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 3: did we just become best friends?

1240
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:34,440
Speaker 2: I think because she would have every badge every body.

1241
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:37,480
Speaker 1: I have final question from us, no Ami unless we

1242
01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:39,720
Speaker 1: think of others, because we've spent you know, nineteen hours

1243
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:42,600
Speaker 1: talking to you at this point. But I mean, the

1244
01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:46,440
Speaker 1: relationship between you and Jess, it is so special. Gelemy

1245
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:49,760
Speaker 1: and I both have sisters. We can understand the comparisons

1246
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 1: and the rivalry to a certain extent, and we've never

1247
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:56,920
Speaker 1: had Olympic gold on the line or an Olympic qualification

1248
01:00:57,240 --> 01:01:02,040
Speaker 1: on the line. Firstly, it's a two prong question. First like,

1249
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 1: how do you navigate that as a pairing because you're

1250
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 1: still so so close, anyone can see that bond. And secondly,

1251
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:13,600
Speaker 1: I know Jess is doing something pretty special at the moment,

1252
01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 1: so I want to give you a chance to give

1253
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:17,120
Speaker 1: that a shout out. But yeah, talk to me about

1254
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 1: the bond between you two.

1255
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:22,880
Speaker 6: It's definitely special and unique. I think something that we're

1256
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:26,440
Speaker 6: both really aligned on is that sport is quite sleeding

1257
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 6: and it is just a specific chapter in our lives.

1258
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 6: And then we have hopefully a very long life together

1259
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 6: as close sisters. And my mum is an only child

1260
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:39,360
Speaker 6: and so she's always wanted us to be, you know,

1261
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 6: friends and close and to have each other, and it

1262
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:45,959
Speaker 6: is easy for that to be kind of ruptured through

1263
01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:50,320
Speaker 6: sport and especially just having one person go to the Olympics,

1264
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:53,920
Speaker 6: and it is definitely challenging at times. But just as

1265
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:58,280
Speaker 6: someone that she's just so like humble and caring and generous,

1266
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 6: it is hard to be mad at her. Is hard

1267
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 6: to be jealous of her.

1268
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:02,640
Speaker 2: That's annoying.

1269
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:07,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, excels in every bloody domain. Was ducks

1270
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:09,960
Speaker 6: of her school, got a ninety nine point one atar

1271
01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 6: Like you know, you think, well, I'm just going to

1272
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 6: be the disappointment. This is character, But I think, you know,

1273
01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:19,880
Speaker 6: she's so generous in that sense that she's always tried

1274
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 6: to lift me up with her and for Kia Cross

1275
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 6: when we knew that there was just one quota, she

1276
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:28,440
Speaker 6: was my sparring partner. She even was like, look, I

1277
01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:30,880
Speaker 6: know a lot of like different contacts that could help

1278
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:34,560
Speaker 6: you handle with nerves and and things like that. You know,

1279
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:37,280
Speaker 6: she was definitely a big mentor in that sense. And

1280
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:42,080
Speaker 6: I think what I'm so like happy and proud of

1281
01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:43,640
Speaker 6: is that We've got to be on that Olympic team

1282
01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:47,520
Speaker 6: together because Jess has previously been the only girl on

1283
01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 6: an Olympic team, and knowing that we could be like

1284
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:52,439
Speaker 6: you know, hype girls for each other on that Olympic team,

1285
01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 6: and that she could as an experienced I don't want

1286
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:58,400
Speaker 6: to say veteran Olympian, but you know, experience full time olympian,

1287
01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:02,320
Speaker 6: could see like the magic through my eyes of a newbie,

1288
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:05,920
Speaker 6: of like a golden retriever, easily excited, and and for

1289
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:08,720
Speaker 6: her she could be for me, she could be my

1290
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:11,480
Speaker 6: mentor and like someone that could help me deal with

1291
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:14,520
Speaker 6: the pressure and the nerves, and so we really you know,

1292
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,960
Speaker 6: balanced each other out. And to see her win no

1293
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:19,800
Speaker 6: matter how, you know, when I haven't been on the

1294
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:21,919
Speaker 6: Olympic team, or even if I missed this, it would

1295
01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:25,200
Speaker 6: have been a win for the sport, a win for me,

1296
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:28,360
Speaker 6: a win for you know, her obviously above all. But

1297
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:31,840
Speaker 6: it really is such a you know, how hard someone's

1298
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:34,720
Speaker 6: work that you know they're deserving. So I think there's

1299
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:38,880
Speaker 6: obviously inherently been like frustration as to how come I

1300
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:40,960
Speaker 6: can't learn as quickly as her? How come she's so good?

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Speaker 6: How Come I didn't get all the special ingredients of

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01:03:43,520 --> 01:03:45,560
Speaker 6: the magic ingredients that she has. How Come I'm so

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01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:49,800
Speaker 6: slow to like, you know, learn things. But it's not

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01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 6: at her and she's really done everything she could to

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01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:56,480
Speaker 6: like lift me up with her, and that's something that

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Speaker 6: I'm incredibly grateful for. And now we have these memories

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01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:03,320
Speaker 6: to share for the rest of our lives, and I

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01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 6: think it's it's definitely special. But you know, even tomorrow,

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01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:09,200
Speaker 6: I might be like, we might do Ki cross and

1310
01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:11,080
Speaker 6: she might beat me, and I'll hold a bit of resentment.

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01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:14,040
Speaker 6: You know, that's fine, but I'll be like, it's never adults,

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01:04:14,280 --> 01:04:17,320
Speaker 6: let me have this one. But I think, you know,

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Speaker 6: what we shared was so so incredible, and she really is,

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01:04:22,680 --> 01:04:26,320
Speaker 6: you know, someone that inspires me so much in different

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01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:29,120
Speaker 6: aspects and areas that she does. And obviously being on

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Speaker 6: the Olympic Athletes Committee Athletes Commission of the International Olympic Committee,

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Speaker 6: I got to see and do the Congress with her

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Speaker 6: in March, and to see her in a different role

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Speaker 6: as well, and the value she brings with all these

1320
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:47,800
Speaker 6: incredibly you know, intelligent or like important people in a

1321
01:04:47,880 --> 01:04:50,800
Speaker 6: room was just mind blowing for me to also see that.

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01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:54,600
Speaker 6: So yeah, it's been really amazing to me on that

1323
01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:57,640
Speaker 6: team and to be with her, but also to realize,

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Speaker 6: you know, what she brings to the Pig team more

1325
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 6: to the Olympic movement, because I think It's really easy,

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01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:06,560
Speaker 6: especially when you're like in the same family or in

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01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:10,680
Speaker 6: the same sport, to like dismiss someone's impressiveness or to

1328
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:15,280
Speaker 6: dismiss someone's like talent and what they bring because you

1329
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:16,800
Speaker 6: kind of just get so used to it.

1330
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:18,520
Speaker 5: You're almost built up an immunity to it.

1331
01:05:18,840 --> 01:05:22,520
Speaker 6: I think so and I think around it. So yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 6: and it's been really special.

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Speaker 3: It's so interesting listening to you talk to me because

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01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:29,680
Speaker 3: in a weird way, George, not that we're sisters, but

1335
01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 3: we navigate what it's like being in a similar industry.

1336
01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:35,640
Speaker 3: You know, both Brunette, so clearly the same person, but

1337
01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:39,320
Speaker 3: in sports media where the other will get opportunities and

1338
01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 3: you go, oh my god, I'm so happy for you.

1339
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Speaker 5: But man, I would have loved to have done that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, But in all of that context, it's really special

1341
01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:50,040
Speaker 3: bomb where it's like you can talk to that person

1342
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:52,080
Speaker 3: about things that are going on in your professional life

1343
01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:53,640
Speaker 3: and you're like, and you're the only one.

1344
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:56,920
Speaker 6: Who gets this. Yeah, and that's the reality today. Like

1345
01:05:57,040 --> 01:05:58,960
Speaker 6: I think there's been a lot of stuff like, oh,

1346
01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:02,160
Speaker 6: you knows this, like normal, should I be charging for

1347
01:06:02,200 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 6: this or should I accept this sort of thing? Like

1348
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:05,960
Speaker 6: obviously I have management as well. But then there's been

1349
01:06:05,960 --> 01:06:09,160
Speaker 6: a lot of like life things like oh, you know,

1350
01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:10,919
Speaker 6: I feel like I've got so much on my plate,

1351
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:13,680
Speaker 6: I'm not managing this, or like how how do you

1352
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:15,360
Speaker 6: do it? And you know, how do you also find

1353
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:18,000
Speaker 6: ways to come back? Like I think that's the biggest

1354
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:20,000
Speaker 6: thing for me right now is coming back after winning

1355
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:22,840
Speaker 6: gold and trying to still feel important or trying to

1356
01:06:22,840 --> 01:06:25,880
Speaker 6: still feel like I have, you know, the ability and

1357
01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 6: to back up a performance or to keep kind of

1358
01:06:28,640 --> 01:06:32,320
Speaker 6: evolving as a person or finding ways to give back.

1359
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:35,800
Speaker 6: And you know, just just recently has launched this charity

1360
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:39,000
Speaker 6: with high impact athletes. For every clean gate that she

1361
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:41,760
Speaker 6: does on the circuit, she's pledging ten dollars to have

1362
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:45,720
Speaker 6: cleaner water for a lot of you know, vulnerable environments

1363
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:48,720
Speaker 6: or communities and things like that. You think, oh wow,

1364
01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:52,080
Speaker 6: you know, it's impressive to be around someone that's constantly

1365
01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:55,400
Speaker 6: finding ways to like use a platform and to you know,

1366
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:59,520
Speaker 6: evolve or find ways to to I guess give back.

1367
01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:01,880
Speaker 6: And that's kind of where I'm at now. It's like

1368
01:07:01,960 --> 01:07:05,040
Speaker 6: I realize I have a platform, I have opportunity potential,

1369
01:07:05,120 --> 01:07:07,800
Speaker 6: and it's like what do I do with that because

1370
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:09,760
Speaker 6: you know you don't want it to just be fleeting,

1371
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:11,320
Speaker 6: you don't want it to go, and you want to

1372
01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:13,680
Speaker 6: make sure that you've kind of left a legacy.

1373
01:07:14,360 --> 01:07:17,640
Speaker 1: Well I know that comparison, as we say on this podcast,

1374
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:19,280
Speaker 1: is the death of sanity.

1375
01:07:21,920 --> 01:07:27,800
Speaker 3: Peep of joy like death sanity.

1376
01:07:27,320 --> 01:07:30,080
Speaker 1: And as people who would consider themselves to be quite

1377
01:07:30,200 --> 01:07:33,760
Speaker 1: high achievers in life, No Amy, it's good to see

1378
01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:39,480
Speaker 1: that we still got so much talk. So like, can

1379
01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:43,480
Speaker 1: only say thank you so much for making our second

1380
01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:45,480
Speaker 1: official Amy.

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01:07:45,280 --> 01:07:46,040
Speaker 6: Day on Too.

1382
01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:50,360
Speaker 1: A little bit extra special because you are just such

1383
01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:53,080
Speaker 1: a joy. We fell in love with you, our listeners

1384
01:07:53,080 --> 01:07:54,640
Speaker 1: fell in love with you, and the country fell in

1385
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:58,160
Speaker 1: love with you, and hey, potentially even Beyonce content.

1386
01:07:58,400 --> 01:08:01,800
Speaker 6: You know, you just got a girl can dream, you know.

1387
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:04,680
Speaker 6: Thanks for having me, Georgie.

1388
01:08:04,720 --> 01:08:08,200
Speaker 3: Thanks you drop in anytime, my friends. Oh yeah, because

1389
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Speaker 3: we will not be dropping in on the kayaks.

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Speaker 6: You never know,