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Speaker 3: You're listening to the Jonesy and Demander podcast.

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Speaker 1: Before he became Australia's first Winter Games a medalist, Stephen

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Speaker 1: Bradbury survived two career ending crashes, a collision with an

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Speaker 1: ice skate where he lost four liters of blood.

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Speaker 3: I was lying on the ice with three quarters of

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Speaker 3: my blood spilled around me and I said to myself,

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Speaker 3: if you lose consciousness, you're going to die.

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Speaker 1: And a broken neck.

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Speaker 3: Skater in front of me falls over. I go over

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Speaker 3: the top of him, headfirst into the barrier of Raymont.

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Speaker 3: Had to have a halo brace screwed into my head

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Speaker 3: for about two and a half months.

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Speaker 1: Well spoiler alert. He got himself back up and went

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Speaker 1: on to make history, going on to become the first

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Speaker 1: Australian to win a medal at the Winter Games, and

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Speaker 1: with the Games in full swing over in Italy and Milano,

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Speaker 1: we couldn't think of anyone better to have on the show.

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Speaker 1: Stephen Bradbury.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, Hello, he gods, what a great name for

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Speaker 3: the show Gold Gold, That's.

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Speaker 1: Right, it is, mate, Yeah, Luckily we're not called silver,

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Speaker 1: or we'd all be in trouble or bronze or bronze.

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Speaker 1: Do you think we have a love affair with the

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Speaker 1: Winter Olympics because it is so dangerous. There's few events

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Speaker 1: you can watch where any given moment someone can hurt themselves.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, you know, you look at the Summer Games

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Speaker 3: and you've got people going up and down a black line.

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Speaker 3: There's not too many injuries there in the Winter Games

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Speaker 3: where we saw Lindsey Yvonne get cuted off in a helicopter. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: amazing pitchers there. And you know, with the exception of

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Speaker 3: curling too dangerous that one. The rest of the sports

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Speaker 3: at the Winter Games are incredibly fast. My sports speeds

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Speaker 3: going to about sixty kilometers an hour, and that's one

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Speaker 3: of the slower ones.

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Speaker 1: The narrative has been around you at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: well what a lucky win. But I've seen you as

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Speaker 1: a motivational speaker and you're so incredibly effective because you

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Speaker 1: say it wasn't a lucky win. I worked so hard

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Speaker 1: to be there. I was in the final, and it's

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Speaker 1: all about hard work. There's no luck to be had.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I wouldn't say no luck. I mean, there's

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Speaker 3: a pair when the rest of the world falls over

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Speaker 3: in front of you. There's a little bit of luck

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Speaker 3: there for sure. You know. The point is that, you know,

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Speaker 3: I think it's a good lesson for kids these days

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Speaker 3: that if you're prepared to give all of yourself to

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Speaker 3: something and you specialize like I did in speed skating,

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Speaker 3: then you get good and one day you put yourself

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Speaker 3: in position to capitalize when things go wrong for the competition,

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Speaker 3: because that happens in lots of different areas in life,

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Speaker 3: not just in speed skating at the Winter Olympics.

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Speaker 2: It's true. And watching your story again just the other

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Speaker 2: night on Channel nine, I forgot about how your coach

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Speaker 2: at the time said just hang back, just hang back,

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Speaker 2: and that became part of your strategy.

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Speaker 3: It did. The strategy was to stay out of the

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Speaker 3: way because the other four skaters were prepared to go

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Speaker 3: through each other to win. We never imagined that that

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Speaker 3: strategy would be a gold medal though. The play was

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Speaker 3: to go out there and skate for a bronze through

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Speaker 3: other people's mistakes, and I would have been very happy

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Speaker 3: to take the bronze medal after that final, but it

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Speaker 3: turned out a little bit better than bronze.

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Speaker 1: When you were growing up to be obsessed with this sport,

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Speaker 1: was that seen as a really unusual thing?

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Speaker 3: It was. Yeah. Once the kids at high school find

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Speaker 3: out that you wear a full body like or a

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Speaker 3: skin suit for your sport, you're not exactly the most

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Speaker 3: popular kid at high school in Australia. It's not like

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Speaker 3: in the Netherlands where speed skating is the national sport.

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Speaker 3: But you know, for me the Bradbury family, my dad

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Speaker 3: was the national champion back in his day and I

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Speaker 3: got introduced to it as a kid. My dad pushed

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Speaker 3: me real hard and I hated him for it in

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Speaker 3: the beginning, but then I made it onto the national team.

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Speaker 3: When I was fifteen. I saw the sport internationally and

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Speaker 3: I watched the best skaters in the world at the

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Speaker 3: World Championships in Amsterdam when I was fifteen, and I

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Speaker 3: said to myself, I'm doing that, and from there the

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Speaker 3: fire was lit and it wasn't about if I'd make

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Speaker 3: the Olympics. It was about how many I was going

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Speaker 3: to go to and where I was going to finish.

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Speaker 2: So it's all about manifesting. You were doing manifesting before

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Speaker 2: all those hippies would do it.

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Speaker 3: That's a strange analogy.

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Speaker 2: But when you were skating on the eye, because I

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Speaker 2: used to ice skate when I was a kid, and

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Speaker 2: they'd always have the DJ playing the music, what was

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Speaker 2: your jam when you were going around the ice skating

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Speaker 2: rink flat out?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, back in the day, that was where people

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Speaker 3: used to go on a Friday or Saturday night to

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Speaker 3: go and pick up a chick. Yeah, that was where

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Speaker 3: my parents met it at the ice rink in Bush,

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Speaker 3: which I believe now is a is a freeway overpass.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I've always been a I've always been a

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Speaker 3: heavy metal fan and a song that I used to

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Speaker 3: pump through was a song called song by Henry Rowlards

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Speaker 3: off the Wait album, which is the last time on

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Speaker 3: the album. So if you're really heavy metal, have a

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Speaker 3: listen to.

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Speaker 1: That romantic song for you on couple's Night.

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Speaker 2: That'll get you through. Well, it's just great to catch

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Speaker 2: up with you, Steve, really and it's always great to

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Speaker 2: see your story when it comes out again, especially at

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Speaker 2: this time of year. We get very sentimental for you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, you know, it's nice to be remembered for

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Speaker 3: something that I did a long time ago. Now I

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Speaker 3: usually tell people it was six years, but may have

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Speaker 3: been a few more than that. The Winter Olympics is

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Speaker 3: something that Ozzie love and as many of us watch

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Speaker 3: it as we do the Summer Games, and it's amazing

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Speaker 3: to see Australia a punch above its weight. And at

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Speaker 3: the moment our record metal hall for a Winter Games

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Speaker 3: is four. I'm predicted that we get six here in Milan,

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Speaker 3: with a couple of those being gold. So yeah, make

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Speaker 3: sure that you're glued to nine and stand to watch

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Speaker 3: the Australian medals.

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Speaker 2: Stephen Bradbury, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Thanks guys. Save