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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's.

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Speaker 2: Let's get on down to the Jonesy Demander arms where

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Speaker 2: the opinions are flowing freely. And the IOC pushes ahead

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Speaker 2: with the Tokyo Olympics planning. There's six months to go

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Speaker 2: until the Olympics start, and one of the International Olympics

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Speaker 2: Committee's most senior people says it's happening, man, Well, that's right.

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Speaker 1: It says it's going to go ahead even if athletes

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Speaker 1: can't be vaccinated beforehand. There aren't really two schools of

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Speaker 1: thought here, aren't there. One is we look at the

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Speaker 1: Australian the Australian Open and the measures that Melbourne's having

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Speaker 1: to go to to stop disease coming back through their

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Speaker 1: state when they've worked so hard to keep coronavirus at

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Speaker 1: bay for the last six months, and all the complaints

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Speaker 1: from the athletes, and it just seems what a shammozzle?

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Speaker 1: Can the world handle Olympics. The other school of thought

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Speaker 1: is we need the Olympics, We need them, and if

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Speaker 1: we put all those things in place and we do

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Speaker 1: what we can. The NRL, the AFL, the cricket, the rugby,

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Speaker 1: they've all managed to have completes seasons, why not the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: In Saturday's paper, I was reading a column from Julian

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Speaker 2: Linden and he wrote, the whole planet should be supporting

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Speaker 2: Japan's efforts to hold the Olympics and Paralympics this year

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Speaker 2: instead of bagging it more than ever. The world needs

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Speaker 2: to chase the light at the end of the tunnel

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Speaker 2: because the council culture has had its day, even if

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Speaker 2: the pandemic has been deadlier and more contagious than anyone

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Speaker 2: ever expected. We need to learn how to live with

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Speaker 2: the coronavirus. And I tend to agree with that a

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Speaker 2: little bit.

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Speaker 1: We do have to live. We love to with the virus,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't you love to? But look at the Australian Open.

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Speaker 1: How possible is it? Is it going to be an

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Speaker 1: even playing field? Will athletes from some countries be better

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Speaker 1: equipped than others? They're coming from some countries that have

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Speaker 1: no policy in place at all? How is it going

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Speaker 1: to work? So what do you think? They are forging ahead?

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Speaker 1: That's what they're saying. The International Olympic Committee is pushing

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Speaker 1: ahead for the Tokyo Olympics. They are starting July twenty three.

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Speaker 1: They've said they'll go ahead even if athletes can't be

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Speaker 1: vaccinated beforehand. They have a number of countermeasures that they've developed,

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Speaker 1: including quarantine, testing, personal protective equipment, contact tracing, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: There are many critics for this, saying we can't even

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Speaker 1: do the Australian Open without all this. Who are without

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Speaker 1: aeroplanes being filled with people who now have the virus?

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Speaker 2: But it hasn't the Australian Open hasn't actually started yet.

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Speaker 2: It hasn't happened yet.

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Speaker 1: No, but the lead up there's there have been things

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Speaker 1: that they didn't anticipate. I think other people are saying, Look,

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Speaker 1: NRL's managed it, AFL's managed it, we've had cricket, all

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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: Well, Julian Lindon on Saturday, I rating an opinion piece.

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Speaker 2: It won't mark the end of the pandemic, but the

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Speaker 2: opening ceremony will serve as an everlasting reminder that anything

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Speaker 2: could be overcome if the wheel is there.

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Speaker 1: Well, what do you think the Tokyo Olympics going ahead

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Speaker 1: just past the pub test?

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Speaker 2: Not at all? But not what does COVID run around that?

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Speaker 1: We've got to be said, absolutely.

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Speaker 2: We've got to be said. No, I don't think it does.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that it's the right time though this

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Speaker 2: virus is still rampant in the world.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't think it passed the pluck test.

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Speaker 2: I think with the situation with COVID, and that's my

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Speaker 2: first negative for the Olympics going ahead. And the second

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Speaker 2: one is I'm not sure whether anyone gets into the

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Speaker 2: Olympics anymore. I mean, it's got time to sit down

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Speaker 2: and watch it.

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Speaker 1: No, of course it doesn't. There's so many countries still

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Speaker 1: don't do regular testing, So how can you do this?

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Speaker 1: And I think it's so silly when I still can't

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Speaker 1: even go down the pub to see a band, and

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Speaker 1: we're looking to get everyone together for the Olympic.

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Speaker 2: Games through that, how do you socially distant? In Greco

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Speaker 2: Roman wrestling, that's Turkey's oil wrestlers.

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Speaker 1: It my mistake, That's what they all say. Jonesy and

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Speaker 1: Amanda's