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Speaker 1: Well, we spoke a couple of weeks ago about the

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Speaker 1: National Masters Swimming Carnival coming up in Darwin. I'm so

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Speaker 1: pleased to say that it's getting underway on a Friday.

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Speaker 1: We're expecting swimmers to converge from all over the nation

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Speaker 1: to the Perap swimming Pool. And joining me on the

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Speaker 1: line to tell us a little bit more that what

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Speaker 1: we can expect. It is the organizer and committee member

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Speaker 1: for the Master's Master's Swimming Carnival, Pat Moore, Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you, Pat.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Pat. It's going to be a huge event. How many

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Speaker 1: swimmers have we now got that are going to be

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Speaker 1: competing at Perap on Friday and over the course of

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Speaker 1: the weekend.

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Speaker 2: We have five hundred and forty seven competitors, which is amazing.

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Speaker 2: It'll make this the largest single sporting sport event with

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Speaker 2: the most number of single competitors that we've held up here.

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Speaker 2: So wow, huge, Yep, that's massive.

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Speaker 1: Those numbers seem to have sort of ballooned over the

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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, did they that?

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Speaker 2: Yes, they have. We were thinking, you know, three to fifty,

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Speaker 2: maybe four hundred, but they're just lowing us out of

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Speaker 2: the waters. So we have about eighty territorians yep, and

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Speaker 2: all the rest are coming from interstate, plus eight from overseas.

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Speaker 2: Is that right?

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Speaker 1: How awesome? I was expecting you to say, you know

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Speaker 1: that the large majority might be from the end, but

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Speaker 1: the fact that they're from other parts of Australia, it's

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Speaker 1: so wonderful in terms of the competition. But it's so

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Speaker 1: wonderful in terms of that event and sport event tourism.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it is because it's the Masters event. Although I

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Speaker 2: have to be clear that Masters for swimming. Our youngest

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Speaker 2: competitor is eighteen, so we have very young competitors, so

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Speaker 2: very elite swimmers. Not the Olympic ones, we don't have them.

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Speaker 2: We have the retired Olympic ones. They'll be quite a

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Speaker 2: few of those here. And our oldest swimmer will be

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Speaker 2: ninety five. Oh, that is so clear, broad range.

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Speaker 1: That is so cool. Now tell me pat where what

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Speaker 1: are some of the locations that they're coming from.

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Speaker 2: All over Australia, Just every state and territory in New

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Speaker 2: South Wales. I don't have the list of location from overseas.

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Speaker 2: I know we've got one from Argentina. I know we've

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Speaker 2: got one from the US, and I know we've got

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Speaker 2: one from Singapore, and I'm not sure where the others

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Speaker 2: have come from. I haven't seen that breakdown.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Pat you said that there might be some

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Speaker 1: retired Olympians any names that we know.

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Speaker 2: Well, I haven't gone through the list, but certainly I

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Speaker 2: know at the last Masters people like seamill compete. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Last year at the Championships in Hobart, there were six

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Speaker 2: world records broken, so we're hoping we'll have more records broken.

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Speaker 2: Parap is a wonderful pool. We've just had it surveyed,

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Speaker 2: so it's perfect for breaking world records. Who knows.

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Speaker 1: Who knows.

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Speaker 2: We've got great competition and with that number of compared

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Speaker 2: it is, we'll have some really wonderful swimmers here. So

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Speaker 2: master's swimming is fabulous because we don't have heats and finals.

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Speaker 2: So you're doing the Olympics, you have one go at it, yep.

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Speaker 2: So it's a time final. You just have to do

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Speaker 2: as well as you can in that particular swim and

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Speaker 2: you will be swimming in your event against people with

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Speaker 2: the same time as you. So even if it's the

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Speaker 2: same age, if I swim, I might have a ninety

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Speaker 2: year old in the main next to me, and on

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Speaker 2: the other side, I might have an eighteen year old,

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Speaker 2: but we've all put the same time into that event.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Pat, tell me in terms of some of the

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Speaker 1: wonderful Northern Territory swimmers that we've got, because I, you know,

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Speaker 1: I have I've got kids that swim. So I've been

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Speaker 1: at some of the carnivals recently where we've got some

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Speaker 1: of our Darwin Masters swimmers somewhere in light their seventies eighties.

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Speaker 1: We've got some phenomenal swimmers, don't we that have been

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Speaker 1: swimming for quite some time.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we do. We've got Maggie Robertson's one of our

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Speaker 2: swimmish She competed at the World Masters in Tokyo last year.

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Speaker 2: She was invited to compete there after being in ten

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Speaker 2: events in the top ten in the world in her

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Speaker 2: age group last year. But our swimming club always has

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Speaker 2: people in the top ten in the world in their events.

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Speaker 2: They just keep swimming. They're amazing. They're an inspiration to

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Speaker 1: They truly are. I think it's I think it's really

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Speaker 1: wonderful to hear now, Pat, when exactly are thing's kicking off?

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Speaker 1: Can anybody come along and watch.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the pool will be open. It will obviously be closed.

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Speaker 2: Both pools, the twenty five meter and the fifty meter

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Speaker 2: pool will be closed. The twenty five meter will be

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Speaker 2: used for warm nths. Spectators are encouraged to come down.

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Speaker 2: It's pre entry will have food vands there. Swimmers are

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Speaker 2: very hungry everybody, so we're really hopeful we get lots

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Speaker 2: and lots of people. So it's on Friday. We start

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Speaker 2: at eight o'clock in the morning. Our first event is

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Speaker 2: the eight hundred meters and we've got a lot of

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Speaker 2: entries in the eight hundred meters that will take quite

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Speaker 2: a few hours to get through that. Then they start

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Speaker 2: getting very quick. So then Saturday, Sunday, Monday all at

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Speaker 2: Parratpool and on Tuesday morning we have the open water

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Speaker 2: event which is two distances one point six ky's and

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Speaker 2: three point two k's and that will be held at

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Speaker 2: the waterfront and that will start it. I think it

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Speaker 2: might be seven point thirty. I'll have to check on that.

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Speaker 2: Between seven and eight it will beginning.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how great. Look I actually love you know, I

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Speaker 1: love saying sport come to the Northern Territory in a

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Speaker 1: capacity like this, where I mean when you're talking about

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Speaker 1: five hundred and forty seven competitors, presumably a lot of

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Speaker 1: them traveling with family, with friends, maybe with somebody else.

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Speaker 1: It's a real like, it's a real boost that sport event.

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Speaker 1: Tourism provides a real boost to the Northern territory.

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Speaker 2: It does. We've got swimmers down there, we see them

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Speaker 2: each day training at parrap who have traveled up here.

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Speaker 2: And because we're a master's club, we have a lot

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Speaker 2: of retired people who make the most of it and

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Speaker 2: come up for a holiday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It brings a lot of money, a lot of money,

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Speaker 2: a lot of tourism dollars into the territory.

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Speaker 1: Well, Pat, wonderful to talk to you this morning. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so very much for having a chat with us,

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Speaker 1: and all the best for over the weekend. Are you

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Speaker 1: yourself competing?

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Speaker 2: I am, yes, good on you. You've got a couple

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Speaker 2: events in between everything else.

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Speaker 1: It's hard, isn't it, competing while also organizing? But I

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Speaker 1: reckon you'll give it a red hot guy.

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Speaker 2: We will. Yeah, well, and we hope we see you

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Speaker 2: and lots of your listeners down there over the four days.

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Speaker 1: Oh for sure. Good on you. Pat. Lovely to speak

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Speaker 1: to you this morning. Thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thanks Kay, thank you