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Speaker 1: Quest.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian o'connells Show podcast.

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Speaker 1: We are counting down end of next week the Games

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Speaker 1: in Paris. Nine shows to go to the Games in Paris,

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Speaker 1: and over the next nine shows we have our golden moments.

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Speaker 1: We're hearing from Australian gold medalists and are taking us

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Speaker 1: back to their golden moments. Today we go back to

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Speaker 1: Sydney and two thousand. It's the fifteen hundred meters freestyle

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Speaker 1: Grant Hacket. Do you remember there's taken on Australian national treasure.

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Speaker 1: Karen Perkins has here from Grant now and his golden moment.

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Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell's golden moments coming down to the Games in Paris.

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Speaker 2: Grand Hacket at the two thousand Sydney Olympics winning gold

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Speaker 2: in the fifteen hundred meter freestyle.

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Speaker 3: Going into those Olympics, so I guess I was the

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Speaker 3: red hot favorite, but going up against a national icon

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Speaker 3: in Kiaren Perkins, you get one chance every four years,

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Speaker 3: you get one day if you're off, there's eight years

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Speaker 3: in between opportunities. The day of the final, I remember

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Speaker 3: just diving into that race and wanting to establish a lead,

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Speaker 3: which I did. Wasn't wasn't easier to really work for it,

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Speaker 3: but then I was just trying to push Kieran as

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Speaker 3: back as best I could. Sort of led that race

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Speaker 3: from start to finish. I remember touching that wall, looking

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Speaker 3: up and I looked at the diving board scoreboard, and

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Speaker 3: I looked across and I saw I think it was

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Speaker 3: fourteen minutes forty eight at the time, and then I

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Speaker 3: saw the number one next to my name, Kieran Perkins.

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Speaker 3: I have an interesting relationship with him. This guy became

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Speaker 3: an icon and became my hero, and then he became

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Speaker 3: my rival, my number one rival, and he lent over

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Speaker 3: La Lane Row after finishing second to me at those

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Speaker 3: Olympics and said you deserve this, And I just thought

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Speaker 3: to myself, what a champion. You know, the guy barely

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Speaker 3: spoken to me for forty years of racing him at

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Speaker 3: international level, but to say those words really meant it

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Speaker 3: well with me, and they'll sit with me for the

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Speaker 3: rest of my life. To win in front of a

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Speaker 3: home crowd. I remember having a moment after all of that,

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Speaker 3: and of course they played the man at work. You know,

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Speaker 3: I come from Land down Under and every time I

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Speaker 3: hear that song, I think about doing that that lap

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Speaker 3: of honor around the pool post the metal ceremony. But

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Speaker 3: I had that moment when I was cooling down. I

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Speaker 3: was on my own, my head was in the water,

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Speaker 3: and I just thought to myself, I did it like

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Speaker 3: I did it, Like I can't believe I actually won

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Speaker 3: the Olympic Games. Like that was really a special sort

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Speaker 3: of moment for me.

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Speaker 1: More of those coming up over the next nine shows

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Speaker 1: Who Counting Down with the Golden Moments and the Games

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Speaker 1: in Paris. The Christian O'Connell show podcast