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Speaker 1: Len podcasting. Now one of the biggest things to come

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Speaker 1: out of the know all this self isolation and all

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Speaker 1: the devastation that coronavirus has sort of wrought on the world,

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Speaker 1: is tragically that the twenty twenty Tokyo Olympics has been postponed.

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Speaker 1: And look, you and I can't even try to understand

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Speaker 1: the amount of anguish that would that would wreak on

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of Olympians who obviously spent you know,

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Speaker 1: probably the whole lives angling for this event. But someone

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Speaker 1: that can is Luke Matthews. He's an eight hundred meter

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Speaker 1: runner for the Australian Olympic team, picked up a bronze

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Speaker 1: at the Commonwealth Games Beautiful Areas and he joins on

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Speaker 1: the phone right now, Good I Luke Clarker to the show.

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Speaker 2: Hey guys, thanks having me.

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Speaker 3: You're welcome mate. More importantly, how are you feeling made

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Speaker 3: fresh off the news that the Olympics has been canceled

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Speaker 3: for this year? How have you taken the news?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, it's kind of been an interesting one.

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Speaker 2: I think obviously it's very sad and it's.

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Speaker 4: It's kind of for the whole world because the Olympics

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Speaker 4: are kind of something that brings everyone together and it

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Speaker 4: brings a lot of joy to people. But at the

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Speaker 4: same time, it's for US athletes with our qualifying and

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Speaker 4: you know, our racing plans and our travel, there's been

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Speaker 4: there's been so much uncertainty, and yeah, a bit of

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Speaker 4: mixed emotions, happy that you know.

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Speaker 2: That we know what's happening, but also at the same

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Speaker 2: time very sad that there's not going to be an

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Speaker 2: Olympic Games this year. So, yeah, it's an interesting.

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Speaker 1: One from my understanding from Olympic Games. Obviously, you're trying

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Speaker 1: to fine tune yourself to be at peak performance for

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Speaker 1: when the Olympics is on, right, Yeah, yeah, so you can,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure like all your changing and all your

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Speaker 1: training and stuff would change leading up to that moment.

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Speaker 1: Would there be some people who, yes, as you said,

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Speaker 1: devastated on the one hand because they actually were on

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Speaker 1: track to be perfectly primed for this, and then some

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Speaker 1: other athletes who are thinking, jeez, I could actually do

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Speaker 1: with the extra twelve months.

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Speaker 4: On the track.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I suppose I probably fit into the ladder of

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Speaker 2: the health So.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're getting to be slobby, were you with your training,

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Speaker 3: what's going on now we get.

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Speaker 1: Down to the truth of it. So when you say

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Speaker 1: it's a bittersweet, you're actually tough because you can finally

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Speaker 1: put some work into the rig.

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Speaker 2: Not quite, not quite, but yeah, speaking specifically for my support, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's there's obviously people that you know, this might be

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Speaker 2: their last Olympics. But then yeah, I suppose there is

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Speaker 2: some people that are on the on the flip side,

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Speaker 2: like myself, where yeah, I've actually been I've actually been

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Speaker 2: a little bit injured and a little bit banged up,

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Speaker 2: and I've kind of made a bit of a bit

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Speaker 2: of a mess of my foot and the way things

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Speaker 2: were going, Qualifying for the Olympics and going to the

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Speaker 2: Olympics are going to be pretty tough for me. So

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Speaker 2: to get it to get.

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Speaker 3: A beautiful time, pandemic for you, Luke, beautiful time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one of those things that you know, it's

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Speaker 2: working my favor, but of course it's come at the

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Speaker 2: expense of Yeah, yeah, a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 2: greater and wider spread issues than of course.

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Speaker 3: Just a personal one for you. Man, I've heard your

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Speaker 3: girlfriend is in quarantine because she came home from Canada.

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Speaker 3: So fourteen days of isolation, no seeing you. How are

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Speaker 3: we handling that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty rap. Well she teached me to begin

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Speaker 2: with to go skiing in Whistler.

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Speaker 3: I was pretty um, yeah, this is a real double

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Speaker 3: whammy here.

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Speaker 1: Well, man, thanks much for joining us, and I appreciate

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Speaker 1: all the perspective and stuff made it sounds like you know,

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Speaker 1: as you said, bitter wait for you because you get

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Speaker 1: to get a bit of another run and maybe you

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Speaker 1: can put down the pizza within the next twelve months

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Speaker 1: before the twenty twenty one Olympics.

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Speaker 2: Mate, I think.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on the show. Really appreciate it, mate,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully well speak to your head of twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: Ye know, boys, thanks having me see what you're hearing.

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