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Speaker 1: Twenty three talented young athletes are heading to Brisbane this

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Speaker 1: week to compete in the All Schools Athletics Championships. All

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Speaker 1: Schools is the national titles for young people age from

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Speaker 1: thirteen to seventeen. The NT team proudly consists of teens

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Speaker 1: from right across the territory as far as Nolan Boy

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Speaker 1: Millan Gimbee, Alice Springs, Katherine Darwin and everywhere in between.

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Speaker 1: They'll be competing in springs, middle distance, jumps and throws.

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Speaker 1: There are two para athletes taking part as well. Now,

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Speaker 1: these kids are awesome. I'm very lucky to get to

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Speaker 1: hard work and the dedication that they've put into preparing

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Speaker 1: to compete against some of Australia's best athletes. Last week

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Speaker 1: I caught up with some of the team and their coach,

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Speaker 1: Roger Chin while they were out training at Marara. Take

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Speaker 1: a listen, Hi, I'm on your doubt.

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Speaker 2: I'm fourteen and I'm running in the one hundred and

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Speaker 2: the two hundred at All Schools.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever competed in an event like this interstate before?

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Speaker 3: Anya, No, I haven't.

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Speaker 4: It's my first time.

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Speaker 1: Are you pretty excited.

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Speaker 3: I'm very excited, but very nervous.

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Speaker 1: Now with your one hundred and your two hundred? What

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Speaker 1: are your goals when you're.

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Speaker 3: Away to hopefully run a PB mainly in the two hundred?

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Speaker 1: Why don't you tell the Northern Territory just how fast

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Speaker 1: you can run a two hundred? What's your PB twenty

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Speaker 1: seven oh seven for the two hundred meter time you're

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Speaker 4: Like a twenty six ninety five or something. My name

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Speaker 4: is Besias, Britain and I'm sixteen years old.

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Speaker 1: Presias, what are you competing in when we go to

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Speaker 1: all schools in Brisbane?

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna do meter to at Long John.

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Speaker 1: How you're hoping to go when you get there? You're

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Speaker 1: hoping for a PB a medal? What are you after?

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Speaker 4: My Pean medals? Yeah? And can wait to see my

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Speaker 1: You went away to the nationals earlier in the year

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Speaker 1: your events there. Tell me how you went. When you

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Speaker 1: were in Adelaide, I felt so excited and I knew

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Speaker 1: really great. Hi.

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Speaker 3: I'm Reagan hon and I'm seventeen Reagan.

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Speaker 1: What events are you racing him when you go to Brisbane?

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Speaker 5: The one hundred, two hundred and the four hundred.

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Speaker 1: How long have you been running for?

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Speaker 3: About eight years? Since I was ten?

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Speaker 1: And what is your favorite event?

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Speaker 5: Definitely the one hundred because two hundred four hundreds a

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Speaker 1: Long, a bit harder on you've been training really hard.

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Speaker 1: What are you hoping to do while you're in Brisbane?

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Speaker 1: What are you hoping to achieve?

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Speaker 5: Definitely more pvs? Maybe in my four hundred hopefully well

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Speaker 5: anti champs. I ran my four hundred in a minute

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Speaker 1: Break the minute?

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Speaker 3: Hopefully things crust.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you're the only one who's hoping for

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Speaker 7: Hi, my name is Brondie Bellett and I'm thirteen years old.

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Speaker 1: And what are you competing in when you go away

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Speaker 3: I'm running in the four hundred and eight hundred.

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Speaker 1: What are you hoping to do while you're at the Nationals?

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Speaker 1: Have you got a PB you're trying to get it?

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Speaker 1: You're hoping to make a final.

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Speaker 7: Yep, I'm hoping to make a final and break sixty

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Speaker 1: What's your current personal best one oh one thirty.

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Speaker 3: I think so pretty close.

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Speaker 1: What do you have to improve? Do you reckon to

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Speaker 7: Yes, lots of different training. Yeah, mostly two hundreds and

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Speaker 4: A bit of everything.

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Speaker 8: Lachland Petrie and I'm sixteen, Lockie.

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Speaker 1: What are you racing him when you go away to Brisbane?

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Speaker 8: I'm doing the two hundred, four hundred and high jump?

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Speaker 8: It is my second time going so far, but I

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Speaker 8: Right, Yes, definitely, you know Nationals is no easy task,

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Speaker 6: Just to get there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Hi, my name's Alicia David and I'm fourteen years old.

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Speaker 1: Alicia. What are you competing in when you go to

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Speaker 1: the All Schools in Brisbane?

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Speaker 3: I'm the one hundred and two hundred meters.

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Speaker 1: And this is your second time going to the All Schools.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it is so to be really good.

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Speaker 1: Now, last time was in Perth. Wasn't it so excited

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be any track and see for good. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now in terms of your races, what are you hoping

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Speaker 2: Hoping to get some PBS in my one hundred and

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Speaker 2: hopefully they get some good outcomes.

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Speaker 2: I'm currently in the tryouts for under sixteen so yeah,

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Speaker 1: And with your like with your athletics, obviously hoping for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty nerve wracking seeing how many lack seats

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Speaker 3: But like, you just have to stay confident in yourself.

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Speaker 6: I guess my name's I'm fourteen years old.

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Speaker 1: Are you pretty excited to be going away in Brisbane

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Speaker 6: Yeah? Pretty nervous and excited at the same time.

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Speaker 1: Now tell me what events are you competing in?

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Speaker 6: The one hundred, two hundred meter and high jump?

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Speaker 1: Now you're a gun high jumper. Just how high can

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Speaker 6: One meter and one centimeters.

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Speaker 1: One meter and eighty one centimeters that's your peb. Do

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Speaker 1: you know how high can the kids that you're going

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Speaker 9: A little bit higher. I think the gold medal will

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Speaker 1: I reckon, you're going to go awesome. I've seen your

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Speaker 9: I run usually like eleven sixty ish and one hundred

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Speaker 6: Going to go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean, like, what's your aim? Are you

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Speaker 9: My goal is just to get a gold medal. That's

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Speaker 9: that's my only goal, no matter what event. Just the

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Speaker 1: That'd be absolutely awesome. Now, Leon, your dad might kill

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Speaker 9: Yeah, my dad was Olympian and my mom, Yeah, she

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Speaker 1: I reckon. That's wonderful. Now, in terms of the training

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Speaker 9: I been training at least like four times every week

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Speaker 1: Hi.

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Speaker 10: I'm Emily Hatton and I'm seventeen.

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Speaker 4: Emily.

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Speaker 1: You're heading away for the All Schools in Brisbane next week.

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Speaker 1: Pretty excited. What are you competing in?

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Speaker 10: I'm competing in long jump, triple jump and the four

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Speaker 1: Now tell me about your long jump and your triple jump.

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Speaker 1: What's what's your PB for both of those jumps?

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Speaker 10: My chiple jump is eleven twenty and my long jump

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Speaker 1: Year that'd be awesome. I mean top five in Australia

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 10: So I went to Oceania Athletics Champs in Fiji earlier

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Speaker 1: Any long term goals for your athletics what are you thinking?

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Speaker 10: I'm just trying to see where it goes. I mean,

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Speaker 11: I'm Roger Chen, the Northern Territory athletics team coach for

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Speaker 11: the All Schools Athletics Championships.

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Speaker 1: Now you've got kids coming from absolutely right across the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory. It's wonderful to see, aged between thirteen and

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Speaker 1: seventeen years old. What kind of events are they going

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Speaker 1: to be competing in?

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Speaker 11: They're competing in all the events from one hundred, two hundred,

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Speaker 11: four hundred and all the throws, plus the high jump,

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Speaker 11: triple jump, and long jump.

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Speaker 1: Jo hope. I suppose with the athletes.

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Speaker 11: My hope is that they all get PEB. If they

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Speaker 11: That's right. Unlike the Southern States, we don't have regular

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Speaker 1: And that race experience as well.

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Speaker 11: That's right. If they don't know how to raise, all

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Speaker 11: they're doing is running, same as jumping. You know, everyone

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Speaker 1: Now, Roger, I'm not asking you to pick favorites, but

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Speaker 11: There's a couple out here that I know, if they

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Speaker 11: but she might be related to the interviewer. Yeah, Rontie.

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Speaker 11: If she runs to her potential, she'll do really well.

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Speaker 11: Last year or sorry. This year at Junior Nationals she

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Speaker 1: So Roger, I understand you've also got an incredible power athlete.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about Prasias all right.

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Speaker 11: Precias is the current under seventeen national two hundred and

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Speaker 11: looking forward to her running at the Oar Schools this year.

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Speaker 1: It can be really difficult for the kids though, right

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Speaker 1: Like it's a bit of a mental hurdle as well

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Speaker 1: I tell you what, You've got some awesome athletes to

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Speaker 11: I have, And it's a problem that I really enjoy

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Speaker 1: Well. It's been nice interviewing them all because they've literally

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Speaker 11: It does. That's the thing that we always strive for

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Speaker 11: important part. Medals are great. If you can't get a

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Speaker 11: You run a PB and you get a medal, that's

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