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Speaker 1: Dear listeners, you know that on our podcast two Good Sports,

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Speaker 3: There you are, We've missed you. Well.

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Speaker 1: That is our guest today to a tea. I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about a young man who pulled us sickie when he

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Speaker 1: and watch Tourah Bright Wind gold at the Winter Olympics

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Speaker 1: in Vancouver twenty ten.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about a young man who made.

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Speaker 1: His Winter Paralympics debut at fourteen years of age.

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Speaker 3: Fourteen.

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Speaker 2: Let's just sit with that and only a couple of days.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what were you doing, listeners?

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Speaker 3: What were you doing?

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Speaker 1: Probably not that we're talking about a man who most

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Speaker 1: recently won two Paralympic medals in Milano Cortina. We're talking

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Speaker 1: We are talking about a man who, after winning his

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Speaker 1: second medal in Milan, said about how he would celebrate beers, beers, beers, beers, beers.

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Speaker 1: That's five beers, guys, one of us, one of us.

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Speaker 1: We are also talking about a man who likes to

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Speaker 3: Then it's Yoda.

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Speaker 1: has been tud Hope actually been created in a lab

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Speaker 1: tell you he's born on our Lord and Savior, Taylor

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Speaker 1: Swift's birthday. So please may we all be upstanding and

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Speaker 1: welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 4: A team.

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Speaker 2: Firstly, we just love you, and I'm sure that you're

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Speaker 2: aware from that in the intro. How are you? Because

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Speaker 2: it has been a whirlwind?

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Speaker 4: Can we just stop the podcast now?

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Speaker 5: I feel like that inter is good enough. You don't

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Speaker 4: A nah, No, I'm doing good.

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Speaker 5: It's good to be home, had a big season, have

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Speaker 5: the games, but to be back on home soil is amazing.

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Speaker 1: I want to get the reaction about everything that's happening

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Speaker 1: in Milan. But what was the reaction like when you

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Speaker 1: did actually step foot back on home soil. Because I've

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Speaker 1: seen the vision, I've seen people there waiting for the

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Speaker 3: How did that feel?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, that was crazy.

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Speaker 5: Like we've had home receptions before in like past Games

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Speaker 2: Now we're going to go through your medals plural, but

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Speaker 2: And we're on record of going especially bord across, like

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Speaker 1: About one of those variables, Ben because correct me if

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Speaker 1: I'm wrong. Did you dislocate your shoulder at the Paralympics. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and you dislocate your shoulder before you won your medals?

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Speaker 4: This is where the party is?

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Speaker 4: Did this pretty good overtake halfway down.

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Speaker 6: Better, say you're lying, yeah, yeah, but like I'm yelling

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Speaker 6: at my physio coming Nathan, come here, like strap up

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Speaker 5: I don't want my competitants to know, like I'm injured.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, in the semi final, I'm.

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Speaker 5: You worked so hard for four years to be in

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Speaker 4: One of us let out a bit of emotion the tree.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to say, Ben, if it was me,

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Speaker 4: At the end of the day. And it was a

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Speaker 1: So we've got silver in the snowboard cross and then

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Speaker 1: we got bronze in the banks slalom Slalem. I never

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Speaker 1: I always panicked, Ben, I always panic because I'm.

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Speaker 3: Like, which one.

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Speaker 4: You said banked?

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Speaker 5: Okay, people call it bank kids, and it's not where

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you thank you for for acknowledging that. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I am smarter than Ben. Thank you, Ben, Thank you

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Speaker 3: I mean Look, I don't want you to compare the middles.

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Speaker 1: We would never do that, but I want you to

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Speaker 5: The banks was a lot more trilet and a lot

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you the truth. I thought my competition.

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Speaker 5: Won in Beijing, Oh wow, And so I thought he

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Speaker 5: But I'm just happy that a couple of ones that

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Speaker 1: And they definitely do because yes, they were able to

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Speaker 4: Firstly, I'm like, how the hell did they get there?

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Speaker 4: I'm like, Mom, don't look at me, don't look at me.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna, like, gotta be ready for this super medal.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk a little bit about that support, because anyone

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Speaker 4: But I realized kind of recently that they were.

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Speaker 5: And so look I love them like anyone loves the parents,

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Speaker 4: When I was thirteen, fourteen.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but yeah, they they just have supported me every

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Speaker 1: Did you did you get the beers beers beers beers

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Speaker 4: Five? Yeah, yeah, probably five. That's it.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're rounding down.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, let's bound down, you know, but yeah, why did

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Speaker 4: Of two days of parleying, we got three. We did

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but I'm getting back in the chat. I'm

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Speaker 2: still a bit teary about the because I'm just imagine

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Speaker 1: Just now you now have to add a your next podium.

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Speaker 3: You need to look at gelmy.

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Speaker 2: And because I just I just think you know and

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Speaker 2: You just radiate this joy.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: beers and what what is? Do you already start looking ahead?

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Speaker 2: Because I've got a bit. Every time they release where

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Speaker 5: Oh, you've got to give yourself a break, you know,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and so we.

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Speaker 5: Ended the four years of Beijing to Milano, Cortina, and

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Speaker 4: The very very very very very.

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Speaker 7: The very very very very very start for the yeah,

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Speaker 5: I always think I'll be like eighty four at the

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Speaker 2: You're fresh out of the room, thirty and forty with

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Speaker 5: You'll be right when you start at fourteen and you

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Speaker 2: Your shoulders popping out.

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Speaker 3: But then what does what does time off look like

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Speaker 2: Though?

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Speaker 3: Like you said, what are you doing at a time

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Speaker 3: right now? Like what is that?

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Speaker 4: What's kind of funny?

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Speaker 5: I do work a full time job too, So I

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Speaker 5: work in marketing at Burton Snowboards.

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Speaker 2: Well amazing, yeah, yeah, it's the only snowboard brand I know, Yeah,

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Speaker 5: So yeah, I've been working there for two years, which

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Speaker 3: Do you bring your medals to work?

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Speaker 1: Like if you're in a meeting, a marketing meeting, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know, do you just drop the medals on the.

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Speaker 4: Table sometimes if I really have to.

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Speaker 3: Do it, Yeah, sorry, you're actually like a legit.

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Speaker 4: One of us.

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Speaker 5: Look like they were all so excited as a team there,

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Speaker 4: Then I went back to work this week.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Ben, you're just absolutely divine. We love

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Speaker 1: talking to you. Please come on the pod whenever you

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Speaker 1: want to. You just have a standing invitation.

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Speaker 2: You have a lunch that you quite enjoyed, just call us.

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Speaker 2: We'll have you on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just have a little chat.

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Speaker 1: And can you confirm where you're wearing the Yoda socks

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Speaker 1: for both medals?

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I definitely was.

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Speaker 2: Now that's probably an inappropriate time say I've never watched

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Speaker 2: Star Wars on I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I just missed it.

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Speaker 2: Watching I was watching Cool Runnings. You should have a

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Speaker 2: lucky egg, you know your references? Come on, mean.

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Speaker 3: I missed it, miss Star Wars. Yeah, it's an entire galaxy.

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Speaker 2: I was in Western Australia. It's an entire galaxy far

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Speaker 2: far away. Ye were we really were speaking of stars?

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Speaker 2: You are an absolute champion. We so appreciate you giving

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Speaker 2: up your time, especially at the beginning of a campaign

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Speaker 2: where you can probably be sleeping and having beers instead

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Speaker 2: of doing these sort of chats. But we couldn't think

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Speaker 2: of a better ambassador for our country, and we are

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Speaker 2: excited to see what you can pull out in France

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Speaker 2: because we're not letting you retire before then. Thank you

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Speaker 2: something for your time.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Oh you're the best.

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Speaker 4: Thank you