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Speaker 1: It's a special Will and Woody podcast mini.

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Speaker 2: The Olympics are on in two days and to talk

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Speaker 2: all about it. We are one of our greatest ever Olympians.

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Speaker 1: Our next case is no stranger to the Olympic Games.

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Speaker 3: He won a total of sixteen medals.

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Speaker 1: During his career as a swimmer before he homebook.

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Speaker 2: The Budgie Small Glazz in twenty nineteen, which wakes him

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Speaker 2: the perfect person to chat about choosing great active.

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Speaker 1: Way, what the heck is going on in Tokyo at

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Speaker 1: the moment, and what a cardboard bed prevent.

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Speaker 3: The fleas from hooking up from the village. Welcome to

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Speaker 3: the show. The Magnet, the Missile. It's James Magison.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the missile himself looking home right now, Jimmy boy

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Speaker 2: looking so hot right now.

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Speaker 3: I mean we lean into that straightaway, Missile.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of talk about the well, the intimate

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Speaker 1: activity that goes on at these Olympic villagers, so much

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Speaker 1: so that the Tokyo or the Japanese have been stilled

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Speaker 1: some cardboard beds to stop that intimacy.

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Speaker 3: Just how wild is it in that Olympic village?

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Speaker 4: Look, I think it's definitely more wild after your events

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Speaker 4: are over. Most of the athletes there have got a purpose.

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Speaker 4: But as far as the cardboard beds, I feel like

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Speaker 4: where there's a will, there's a way. Like we're talking

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Speaker 4: about world class athletes here, they can play on more

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Speaker 4: than one field.

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Speaker 2: I believe that is true.

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Speaker 1: Hey, with COVID though, miss ile, I'm interested by this.

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Speaker 1: If you were in the Games this year, and I

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Speaker 1: think today there were sixty seven possible cases that have

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Speaker 1: come out of the Olympic village, how would you be

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Speaker 1: feeling about it, Like, would you be still on board

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Speaker 1: or would you be thinking it should be off?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, I think it's an athlete, you'd still be

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Speaker 4: on board. Particularly for Olympic sports, you only get a

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Speaker 4: shot every four years at this kind of event. I

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Speaker 4: think it'd be really disappointing for the athletes that a

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Speaker 4: lot of this COVID stuff has taken the shine away

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Speaker 4: from the Games a little. I mean, we haven't been

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Speaker 4: speaking much about the Olympics and we're only two days

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Speaker 4: away from the opening ceremony, which I think is a

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Speaker 4: little disappointing for the athletes. But I just hope by

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Speaker 4: the time, you know, the swimmers get on the blocks

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Speaker 4: on that first day it's it's front center of all

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Speaker 4: our minds.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure it will be. It tends to happen like

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Speaker 2: that a bit. I know you're saying, we haven't spoken

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Speaker 2: about the movies a lot. But for people that aren't

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Speaker 2: in the Olympic sphere you aren't and the you know,

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Speaker 2: the sporting spheres you it does tend to happen a

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Speaker 2: bit that way. Like you sit down on the couch

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Speaker 2: on a Friday night, you have half a bottle of wine,

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Speaker 2: You flick over to Channel seven, and then all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden, you're like, holy shit, I've got two of

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Speaker 2: the best badminton players in the world going at it.

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Speaker 3: I might stay up for another two or three hours.

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Speaker 2: What the body else going on here? But that's how

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Speaker 2: it works, right Like it does tend to come out

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Speaker 3: It does.

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Speaker 2: It catches us by surprise all the time. I feel like,

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Speaker 2: we all want to watch. I think they just kind

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Speaker 2: all this uncertainty.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think I've spoken to a few of

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Speaker 4: them because it has been put off for that extra

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Speaker 4: They won't believe that the thing's going ahead until they're

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Speaker 4: like at any moment they could pull the pin.

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Speaker 2: Well, I thought I was saying that today. I thought

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Speaker 2: that the head of the Olympic Committee was saying, I'm

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Speaker 2: still willing to pull the pin on this thing, which

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Speaker 2: is just I mean, what did that feel like? You know,

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Speaker 2: you're working four years to get there. Are you just

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Speaker 2: mental breakdowns? What would that be like? Like if you could

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Speaker 2: put yourself in their issues. You've been working five years

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Speaker 2: Are you worried about some of your former colleagues.

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Speaker 4: There, Yeah, I am. I think if they pulled the

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Speaker 4: fellow swimmers pushed on just for that one more Olympic. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and if they took this Olympics away from them, that

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Speaker 4: have huge repercussions on a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you would have to be devastating for them.

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Speaker 3: Really, hope it stays.

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Speaker 2: I've never worked for anything for five years, no, apart

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Speaker 3: No, that's and I had to do that. Yeah, and that,

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Speaker 3: to be honest, doesn't really matter.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, I mean, miss

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Speaker 1: so you swim the one hundred and forty seven seconds, So really,

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Speaker 1: when you break it down, you've got four years of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's it.

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Speaker 4: That's pretty wild. I think that's probably why that eleven

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Speaker 4: days afterwards goes so high.

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Speaker 3: Seven seconds eleven.

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Speaker 2: Days after Olympics, only a couple of days away. And

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Speaker 2: we've got James Magnuson who joins us right now.

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Speaker 3: He's the end of.

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Speaker 2: News Corps Daily Olympics Newsletter, which I'm sure a lot

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Speaker 2: of you have been following along for Daily Olympic News

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Speaker 2: by Jimmy Magnuson, delivered straight jury box. Visit Tokyo News

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Speaker 2: dot com dot au. So, James, is you're covering the

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Speaker 2: Olympics in totality, not just the swimming side. Of things.

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Speaker 2: But what because what do you know, we're talking about

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Speaker 2: this the other day. What sport would you happily see go?

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Speaker 4: Happily see go? I think the ones where it's not

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Speaker 4: the pinnacle, like golf for the last one, felt pretty

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Speaker 4: empty for me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because they've got other stuff stuff to do.

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Speaker 4: They've bought in a few you know, like x I'll

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Speaker 4: call them X game sports like surfing, dating and stuff

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Speaker 4: like that, where I think X games would be the pinnacle.

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Speaker 2: Okay, And what about the biggest surprise packets of the Olympics,

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Speaker 2: because you've obviously got a bit of behind the scenes

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Speaker 2: their stuff, like you know, the people doing ribbon stick

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Speaker 2: gymnastics just absolute firecrackers when it comes to the drinking

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Speaker 4: But I think you know, one of the funny ones

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Speaker 4: at something like a Commonwealth Games, they have lawn bowls.

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Speaker 4: Yawn bowlers grow up around the RSL club, so pretty

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Speaker 4: season drinkers really.

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Speaker 2: And they're all like seventy five as well.

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Speaker 3: I miss, You're you're right, just go again.

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Speaker 1: Going back to your time at the Olympics, I remember

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Speaker 3: It was whether it was rio or it was London.

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Speaker 1: But you were going in as the hot favorite, which

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Speaker 1: the pressure that comes with that. I'm really interested to

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Speaker 1: ask you, just from your perspective, given that you've lived it,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty tough. It's like unlike anything else I

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Speaker 4: think you can really experience because you kind of shoulder

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Speaker 4: I found hard for coming up through the age group

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Speaker 4: unknown then going into an Olympic Games as a favorite.

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Speaker 4: Everybody was stopping me in the street. I was seeing

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Speaker 2: Actually, I actually think that was right because I'm only

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Speaker 2: just realizing this now that obviously so with with your

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Speaker 2: four years. Yeah, you're right, like all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: This person is before my life. And I remember with you.

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Speaker 2: It must have been in London. You came out of

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Speaker 3: I remember reading it, the hell is this guy the

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then and then from there, then how did

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, I think it was hard at first, and

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Speaker 2: I felt so for you mate, Like Jena, I remember

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Speaker 4: I actually had a pretty good race that night, sens

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Speaker 4: So at the time I was super hard on myself

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Speaker 4: be over the moon, you know. Career highlight, life highlight.

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Speaker 4: Then to not only go to an Olympic Games, we

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Speaker 4: So he kind of have to put things in perspective

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Speaker 4: a little bit, because it's really hard to do at

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Speaker 4: the time when you're kind of getting pumped by the

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Speaker 4: media back here in Australia as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, mate, well well done on the maturity that you

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Speaker 3: At the end of the day. They couldn't take away

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Speaker 3: the eleven days of partying.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely not, they were going to stop.

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Speaker 4: They handed out medals for that.

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Speaker 2: James, it's been a pleasure to talk to you mate, honestly,

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Speaker 2: thanks so much for coming on the show and for

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Speaker 2: all your insights about the Olympics and for everything you've done.

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Speaker 2: You're a champion of the sport, champion of Australia as

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Speaker 2: an Olympian really, like truly, you've been amazing, amazing mate,

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Speaker 2: So thank you so much for joining us and hopefully

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Speaker 2: have you work on the show soon.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for having legends. Keep in touch.

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Speaker 3: Hear more of your boys on the Full Show podcast.

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Speaker 4: You know you want to