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Speaker 1: Dumb mission with Jones and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: We were just talking earlier about the Kathy Freeman docco

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Speaker 2: last night, and I was hugely emotional watching it back,

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Speaker 2: and it's showing those opening moments of the opening ceremony,

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Speaker 2: you know, when the horses all came out and the

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Speaker 2: was at the time because what a great sense of

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Speaker 2: self we had. Then we had the Olympics. It was

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Speaker 2: pre September eleventh. A lot of we'd been excited when

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Speaker 2: Sydney got the Olympics, and then the lead up to them,

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Speaker 2: a lot of people were all, look at all this construction,

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Speaker 3: That was pretty much us at the time. Would you

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Speaker 2: But we all came together, Yeah, this common thing. It

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Speaker 4: And leading up to we were broadcasting. I was working

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Speaker 4: over at Triple M at the time. We were broadcasting

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Speaker 4: from Darling Harbor and we're in this like IBM surf shack.

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Speaker 4: It was this floating pontoon thing. It was beautiful every

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Speaker 4: day it was beautiful. But the most beautiful part about

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Speaker 4: it was. I'd ride my motorbike and you know the

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Speaker 4: little monorail bridge there, the Pimont Bridge. Think i'd park

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Speaker 4: shack doing the show. If you're a motorcyclist, appreciate this.

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Speaker 4: You and McGregor is coming up a bit later on

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Speaker 4: the show, he'll appreciate this. But when you park your motorbike,

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Speaker 4: you want to be able to see it. You want

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Speaker 4: know where it is. So I'd be doing my broadcast

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Speaker 4: and I'd be there's my bike, just sitting over there.

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Speaker 2: So that was your personal best, well.

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Speaker 4: My pb up until the two parking inspectors walked up

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Speaker 4: to it on Here we Go.

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Speaker 3: So while a Nickelback song was playing, I wandered over.

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Speaker 3: So you know what's going on, guys, and I said, ah, no,

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Speaker 5: That's who we were.

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Speaker 3: Don't worry about it. It's all right. It's not in

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Speaker 4: You know these days they'd say, oh, you got to

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Speaker 4: park it fifteen k's away and then you've got an

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Speaker 4: you fifty million dollars.

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Speaker 3: But back then that was my PB.

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Speaker 2: You know, my PB isn' after years of IVF. During

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Speaker 2: the Olympics, I remember it so clearly. Actually, when we

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Speaker 2: were first told we were getting the Olympics, I remember thinking,

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Speaker 2: was thinking, Wow, imagine when the Olympics come to Sydney,

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Speaker 2: I might have a seven year old child.

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Speaker 3: Yeah that was ninety three.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as it happened, we were still trying.

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Speaker 6: Wow.

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Speaker 2: And during the Olympics, for the first time ever, my

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Speaker 2: They carried the Olympic torch below us. It was the

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Speaker 4: So this is the world My PB is parking my

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Speaker 2: Well, maybe yours was being a volunteer and how great

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Speaker 2: the volunteers were.

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Speaker 4: Maybe yours was maybe you're held onto your volunteer outfit

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Speaker 3: Remember that I've enjoyed the glory of a little.

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Speaker 4: Sorry the volunteer outfit about six months later.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, dude, let that thing go.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you got tickets and you were excited, because remember

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Speaker 3: Maybe you're Kathy Freeman and you're listening to this show.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, Well you may not be Kathy Freeman, or you may.

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Speaker 2: But what was your Olympic.

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Speaker 3: Peb tribal drouble beat for this your Olympic story?

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Speaker 2: Yeah snoil, big dumb, doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: What did you got? We've got beck with us beck.

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Speaker 2: What was your PB in the Olympics?

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Speaker 5: Good morning? My PB was we got winds that the

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Speaker 2: Who carried it, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: It was a guy. I can't remember when I was

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Speaker 5: that torch. I was Katie Freed, and I ran.

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Speaker 3: All the way, so you ran.

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Speaker 4: Indeed, you were running next to next to whoever was

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Speaker 5: How old were you bet? I was, oh god, young,

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Speaker 5: about twenty something and I was this pumping in the air.

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Speaker 5: I was time my last.

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Speaker 3: It's nice hello, Michelle, how are you hi?

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Speaker 7: How are you today?

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Speaker 1: Very well?

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Speaker 3: What's your story? Michelle.

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Speaker 7: I was a volunteer at the Olympics and I was

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Speaker 7: ceremony amongst other knights, and very excited. A you know,

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Speaker 7: And we went back to the office and they said, okay,

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Speaker 3: So it was fantastic, Wow, getting getting a free ticket

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Speaker 7: Oh, it was amazing. It was just amazing.

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Speaker 3: And do you still have your Olympic volunteer outfit?

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Speaker 7: I do?

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Speaker 2: Do you put it on your wedding dress every year?

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Speaker 2: You pop it on to see how you're going.

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Speaker 7: No, the kids have worn it for school for different

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Speaker 3: Because there was the mambo one, and then there was

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Speaker 2: It's one that was just a bit more beige.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, which one did you have, Michelle?

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Speaker 7: I had the beige pants, but then I had the

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Speaker 3: It's a terrible combination when you think of it beige.

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Speaker 2: And blue, but you know they were the friendliest faces

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Speaker 3: Were friendly.

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Speaker 4: But the problem is with beige, if you've got an

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Speaker 4: not a flattery, it's not a good color where I'm

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Speaker 4: sure Michelle your bottom was fine in them.

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Speaker 7: But oh, in those days it.

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Speaker 3: Was I'm sorry we had to make with Michelle, you are.

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Speaker 4: What a backside's with us?

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Speaker 3: Hello? When hi? Very well?

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Speaker 2: What's your peb? What happened in those two weeks?

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Speaker 8: Well, my wife and I were volunteers and all doing

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Speaker 9: Wow, that's what she said.

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Speaker 3: What what a pb?

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Speaker 1: I was My family believes I was responsible for costing

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Speaker 1: Ian Thorpe a gold medal. What well? I was a

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Speaker 1: same pool as Inga Dbrun and Peter Vand and hoogen Band. Yes,

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Speaker 1: well i'd never heard of Peter Vand and Hoogenband. In

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Speaker 1: Ian Thorpe is going to flog you. You've got no chance.

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Speaker 1: and Thorpe's silver medal.

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Speaker 3: There it is. I don't know where you're getting praised

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Speaker 2: So you riled up Peter Van.

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Speaker 3: Stirred up Peter Van hoogod Man and he flew through

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's a true story, and I still get blamed

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Speaker 9: The PB was that we had six athletes from the

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Speaker 2: So you we had a billet system. Did other people

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Speaker 2: do that?

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Speaker 3: I don't remember.

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Speaker 9: Well, we stayed upstairs. We had a flat upstairs from

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Speaker 9: stayed upstairs and we actually had mattresses on which they

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're athletes. They're nice to look at it.

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Speaker 2: It's not like now, but how weird in the lead

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Speaker 3: Where they are on the old spins on your floor.

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Speaker 2: What was your Olympic PB?

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Speaker 10: My PB was quite embarrassing actually, I used to baby

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Speaker 10: and I was that excited that we'd won tickets to.

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Speaker 10: I thought the finals of the rowing and I'm thinking, yes,

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Speaker 10: see jeff and James, you know, win the Olympics. And

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Speaker 10: I was heavily pregnant with twins at the time, six

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Speaker 10: been an omen We got there, we went to go

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Speaker 10: are you serious. Anyway, I just felt like crying, as

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Speaker 10: I said, I had a five year old son throwing up,

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Speaker 10: I'm pregnant with twins. We're sitting there and my husband

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Speaker 10: to somebody. Anyway, I think they just took one look

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Speaker 10: get to see like the length out at Pendris Lakes

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Speaker 10: of my one year old sitting there with an Australian flag.

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Speaker 10: We packed up and come back home.

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Speaker 2: Or ask them to restage the race for you can.

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Speaker 6: So I was supposed to be in the opening ceremony. Yep,

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Speaker 9: Yes, there was.

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Speaker 6: Meant to be. The harbor bridge was meant to come

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Speaker 6: after three months of training, they canned the bridge part.

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Speaker 6: And I've never seen the opening ceremony.

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Speaker 2: Why didn't you see it? So you did you watch

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Speaker 9: Correct, So why do they can it?

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Speaker 3: Robin? It's really cool.

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Speaker 6: I know it was really cool. But someone told me

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Speaker 6: like the Harbor Bridge. It just wasn't Logistically, it wasn't

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Speaker 6: The timing wasn't working, and they just basically said to us,

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Speaker 2: How disappointed were you, Robin?

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Speaker 11: Oh?

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Speaker 6: So disappointed, so disappointed. But we'll be getting on the

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Speaker 6: train and we're now overalls and we've got to eat

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Speaker 6: just so disappointing.

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Speaker 3: But it wasn't your rope handling abilities. That a good rope.

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Speaker 3: It was just that the whole thing was large.

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Speaker 2: And so on the night of it, what did you do?

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Speaker 6: I can't remember.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember.

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Speaker 6: Probably cried so you didn't watch?

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Speaker 3: Tell you poor thing? You know what? For you, Robin?

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Speaker 3: For you, Robin?

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Speaker 2: And you weren't those callouses on your hands?

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Speaker 8: You did?

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Speaker 3: You'd be proud, Robin. I wish I saw it. Sally's

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Speaker 11: Hi, jamesy Hi many, Going very well, Sally.

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Speaker 2: What was your Olympic peb.

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Speaker 11: I was actually pregnant. I was to two days. It's

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Speaker 11: and the Olympic torch was actually going past my house.

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Speaker 11: The roads were closed when I had him. I had

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Speaker 11: to have him at home.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 11: The ambulance came five minutes after I had him, so

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Speaker 11: Mason?

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Speaker 2: So not after anyone. So did you start to panic

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Speaker 2: when you looked at the traffic and you just thought, what,

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Speaker 2: we're not going to get out?

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Speaker 11: Well, I didn't even get in the car. I really

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Speaker 11: and I said, it's my first Maybe I'm stop bleeding.

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Speaker 11: My contractions are pretty you know, they're they're far apart,

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Speaker 11: but there I can feel them coming. They are feeling something.

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Speaker 11: And I said, I know you've got ages. You've got ages.

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Speaker 11: You know you don't dress You've got ages. There, I said, okay, no.

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Speaker 3: Out, you've got ages. Well, Sally, this is for you.

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Speaker 3: That's you, Sally.

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Speaker 2: That's an Olympic moment.

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Speaker 3: That's the sort of spirit that we had back in

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Speaker 1: With join z and Amanda