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Speaker 1: Now, last week we heard from some of the Northern

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Speaker 1: and two of them joined me in the studio right now.

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Speaker 1: Two of the territories most talented masters. Michelle Coleman, good

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Speaker 1: morning to you, good morning, lovely to have you in

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Speaker 1: the studio. And Sandy, Hi, lovely to have you in.

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Speaker 2: The studio, good morning, Thank you for having us.

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Speaker 1: It is wonderful to have you both in the studio.

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Speaker 1: I love sport and I love seeing people do sport,

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Speaker 1: play sport involved in sport of all ages. Now have

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Speaker 1: I got the youngest and the wisest in the studio

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Speaker 2: Do you think the for the swimming or a bit

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Speaker 2: of both? For Darwin stingers we've got.

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Speaker 3: I think from their twenties right through to their eighties competing.

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Speaker 3: What's amazing and what I love about masters swimming is

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Speaker 3: that age is really no barrier. We've got those swimmers

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Speaker 3: And I just think, if they can do it, well,

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Speaker 1: There's no excuse for us, right, there's absolutely no excuse

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Speaker 1: And that's the attitude of our Master's swimmers.

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Speaker 2: Right exactly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you continue to give it a go and I

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Speaker 1: love that. Now, tell me a bit more about the

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Speaker 1: carnival that you're heading away for, Michelle.

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Speaker 3: Well, we head off in about seven weeks, exactly seven

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Speaker 3: weeks today, so we're both competing in a range of events.

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Speaker 3: For me, it's the fifties ever competed in a World

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Speaker 3: but I'm really excited about it. It's just such a

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Speaker 3: And just give it your best. Try, you know, try

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Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, so, Michelle. What races are you competing in?

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Speaker 3: I'm competing in all the fifties, yep. My main focus

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Speaker 3: I'm not quite sure why I've entered the fifty meter

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Speaker 3: but hey, why not?

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Speaker 2: Why not? Why not you as well?

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Speaker 3: But I love the feeling of I'm still sprinting at

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Speaker 1: It's great, absolutely, And how good to have a goal

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Speaker 1: what are you competing in?

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Speaker 4: I'm competing in two hundred preston back and one hundred

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Speaker 1: It will be yeah, once in a lifetime. Now, you

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Speaker 4: Mine is mostly pool work and concentrating on breaststroke and

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Speaker 4: They're all different, but you all benefit from their advice.

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Speaker 2: How awesome.

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Speaker 1: Yes, seven life you can.

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Speaker 1: Literally, it is a skill that you've got for life.

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Speaker 1: That's right, That's so incredible. What about you, Michelle?

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Speaker 3: competing in the World's as well, the Darwin Buffalo's.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, yeah, And we're getting some race practice now

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Speaker 1: How wonderful. Good on you ladies. Now, have you got

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Speaker 3: I don't think there's much chance. My goal is I

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Speaker 3: that's actually my goal.

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Speaker 2: How awesome. And what about you, Sandy.

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Speaker 4: Oh, look, it's going to be a life experience and

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Speaker 4: just like magic, So I'll be just hoping to do

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Speaker 4: personal best and just having the camaraderie of other Australians.

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Speaker 4: I think there's maybe two or three hundred Australians altogether

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Speaker 2: How wonderful.

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Speaker 1: And do you know what I love as well about

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Speaker 1: You can go overseas and be competing at a carnival.

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Speaker 1: What a wonderful thing to be demonstrating to everybody around you.

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Speaker 3: It's just that exercise doesn't end when you're a parent,

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Speaker 3: part of the joy and health of life no matter

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Speaker 3: where you're at Hey.

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Speaker 1: If anybody's listening this morning and they're thinking, do you

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Speaker 1: know what I want to be part of the Darwen

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Speaker 2: What can they do? Where can they have a look?

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Speaker 3: They can head onto the Darwenstingers Facebook and Instagram pages.

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Speaker 3: They can contact us there, or there's also the Masters

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Speaker 3: Swimming NTE pages. Yeah, we will definitely respond.

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Speaker 4: They can get involved, or they can just come down

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Speaker 1: Wonderful stuff, ladies, all the very best. I might catch

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Speaker 1: I hope that you smash those goals and we can't

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Speaker 1: you so much for having Thank you wonderful to speak

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Speaker 1: to you both. Michelle Coleman and of course Sandy Hide

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