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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian o'connells Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's play today's brand new golden moment. This is

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Speaker 2: like no other athlete you've heard a story from. So

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Speaker 2: these golden moments. I've been lovely hearing all these Australian

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Speaker 2: gold medal winners share take us back to various games

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Speaker 2: that they've won. Golden Russell Mark is a very unlikely athlete.

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Speaker 2: Haven't listened to this. I think he actually lives out

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Speaker 2: your way passion where yeah, sounds like it.

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Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell's Golden Moments coming down to the Games in Paris.

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Speaker 1: Russell Mark on winning gold in double trap shooting at

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Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety six Atlanta Olympic Games shooting.

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Speaker 3: Like any other Olympic EVMVSE days is a fully professional

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Speaker 3: sport pick consumed by life. I've won all the other

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Speaker 3: major titles. The Olympics was the last one I needed

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Speaker 3: to win to be the first sugar in history to

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Speaker 3: win all four of the world's majors, and that played

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Speaker 3: on my mind a lot. But did say to the

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Speaker 3: coach of our team today, I will win win. The

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Speaker 3: event pretty much went to plan. I went into the

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Speaker 3: final in first place and never lost it. I got

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Speaker 3: into a position where I knew I was going to

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Speaker 3: win because I got that far in front, and to

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Speaker 3: have the last five minutes of the Olympic final in

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Speaker 3: a position where you couldn't lose. It was the first

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Speaker 3: time I looked back into the crowd and back at

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Speaker 3: all the people that had really helped me win the

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Speaker 3: gold medal. But we're never going to get the recognition.

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Speaker 3: They were really openly crying about it. They were quite emotional.

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Speaker 3: It is a team effort. I'm the idiot pulling the trigger,

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Speaker 3: but these guys are the people behind the team. I

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Speaker 3: was really pleasing to see them for five minutes really

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Speaker 3: enjoy what was about to unfold. For the last five minutes,

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Speaker 3: I enjoyed the Olympics because up until that stage it's

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Speaker 3: not an enjoyable event. Anyone that says to you just

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Speaker 3: go have fun at the Olympics, it's not fun. The

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Speaker 3: last shots for fight and this was a tradition in

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Speaker 3: the Australian team that when you become a gold medal

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Speaker 3: they hoist you on this. I was pretty strong back

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Speaker 3: in those days, so they picked me up. I threw

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Speaker 3: the two empty holes that I fired into the crowd.

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Speaker 3: Stupidest thing I've ever done. I should have kept them

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Speaker 3: because that would have been worth an absolute fortune. It's

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Speaker 3: an interesting time getting on the podium because if you're

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Speaker 3: being really honest with yourself, you're winning for yourself first.

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Speaker 3: And when you finally do win, then you think about

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Speaker 3: winning for Australia and the Metal Tally. But once you

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Speaker 3: get on the dais and hear the anthem, then I

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Speaker 3: think you feel the pride come in from the Australian

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Speaker 3: flag going up the pole. Yeah, there's not a day

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