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Speaker 1: There has been a lot happening when it comes to

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Speaker 1: swimming in the Northern Territory recently. And joining me in

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Speaker 1: the studio is the swimming and CEO Warren Dobson. Good

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Speaker 1: morning to you, morning, Katie.

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Speaker 2: Great to be back.

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Speaker 1: It's good to have you on the show. And there

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Speaker 1: is so much happening when it comes to swimming in

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Speaker 1: the NT right now.

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Speaker 2: There is a lot on.

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Speaker 1: There is a lot busy, man, and you've got the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins here at the moment now, not the footballing Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: the swimming Dolphins.

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Speaker 2: The Australian pool team here is here at the moment.

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Speaker 2: So they've been here since Saturday and they're here until

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Speaker 2: next Wednesday. So they're loving the weather. Obviously, they've all

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Speaker 2: come from places where it's in some instances below zero,

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Speaker 2: so they're absolutely loving it here at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. So they're here obviously to train and

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Speaker 1: to acclimatize before they go to Singapore for the World chaps. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So talk me through like have they how long have

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Speaker 1: they been training here for and what kind of you know,

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Speaker 1: like what kind of hours are they doing at the pool.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's obviously different. They're training morning and night every day.

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Speaker 2: They arrived on Saturday when the open water team left. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: they left Saturday morning. These guys arrive Saturday afternoon and yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's basically been doubles every day. Obviously the intensity changes.

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Speaker 2: Last night was quite an intense set for all of them.

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Speaker 2: They were all looking a bit worse for wear yesterday afternoon,

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Speaker 2: but today was a bit This morning has been a

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Speaker 2: bit light on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, they're laughing at it. And I said, it's really

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Speaker 2: interesting to watch, and some of the kids that are

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Speaker 2: training in the morning before them, it's fantastic for them

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Speaker 2: to see.

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Speaker 1: It's so good for the young ones to see, you know,

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Speaker 1: like that saying you can't be what you don't see

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Speaker 1: is so like, it rings so true. And I think

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Speaker 1: it's really awesome for territory kids to have that exposure

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Speaker 1: to these elite athletes.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and the guys have been so fantastic and giving

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Speaker 2: up their time as well while they're preparing for training

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Speaker 2: to talk to the kids. And you know, more of

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Speaker 2: that will happen on a bigger scale tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's right, So tomorrow there's an event that's lined up.

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Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit more about it.

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Speaker 2: Just so it's a community opened a it's been builled

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Speaker 2: as a pool party. I just want to clarify that

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Speaker 2: it's not actually an in water but yeah, no, there

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Speaker 2: will be a couple of hours there from eight o'clock

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Speaker 2: till ten o'clock tomorrow morning where you'll be able to

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Speaker 2: meet and greet the with the dolphins and have a

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Speaker 2: chat to them, get their autograph and selfies, and there'll

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Speaker 2: be a few giveaways and all that sort of stuff

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, come along and how did the event with

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Speaker 1: the open water Australian swimmers guy?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, really good. It was absolutely packed down the water

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Speaker 2: that day, so it was there. It was really great

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Speaker 2: to see and good to see that the Australian guys

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Speaker 2: jump in the water and they took some of the

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Speaker 2: kids and some of the older guys came down as

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Speaker 2: well from the master's side of things, and there was

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Speaker 2: a couple of people from the community right there that

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Speaker 2: just said, oh can I jump in? Absolutely right our head.

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Speaker 2: So no, that was really really good and it was great.

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Speaker 2: They loved it up here as well and water and

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Speaker 2: acclimatized and it's obviously worked well for yeah.

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Speaker 1: Oh and they're going quite well aren't they talk us

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Speaker 1: through some of those results at the moment with the

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Speaker 1: Open Water World Championships underway.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So Kyle Lee won a bronze medal yesterday in

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Speaker 2: the ten k. That was his first ever individual medal,

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Speaker 2: so that was fantastic. And then Milusha Johnson's just literally

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Speaker 2: twenty thirty minutes ago, won her second gold medal, So

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Speaker 2: she won both the five k and the ten k.

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Speaker 2: It seems crazy to me that you can back up

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Speaker 2: one after the other and win gold medals.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: That's yeah, fantastic achievement and it's great to know that

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Speaker 2: they had the lead up in here with Darwen and

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Speaker 2: they've gone on to have such great success.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Like, I really like the fact that Darwin is

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Speaker 1: sort of becoming this hub at the moment. And I

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Speaker 1: don't know whether it's just because it's coinciding with some

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Speaker 1: but I really love the way that we are seeing

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Speaker 1: and to train. It's a fantastic thing to see.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I look, there's a lot going on in sport

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Speaker 2: in the NTA at the moment and it's really great

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Speaker 2: to be a part of. And you know, with the

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Speaker 2: training facility that we're working through at the moment, all

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Speaker 2: the head coaches for all the performance squads are very

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Speaker 2: very excitful when it comes up and they're already trying

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Speaker 2: to book in places for next year.

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Speaker 1: So and does it mean as well? And I like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but does it mean as well when

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Speaker 1: you look at different sports and when you look at

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Speaker 1: those training facilities and when you've got your international teams

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Speaker 1: or your Australian teams going away for international meets coming here,

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Speaker 1: then you've got the swimming body or the you know

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Speaker 1: whatever a sporting body it is prepared to contribute and

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Speaker 1: be part of it. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Swimming Australia have been fantastic and contributing a lot

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Speaker 2: towards the gym with the equipment and because there's been

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Speaker 2: a little bit of delay that it's actually worked in

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Speaker 2: our favor for the gym because they're actually providing more

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Speaker 2: stuff now they've been up here and they see what

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Speaker 2: they need and what they can fit in. So it's

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Speaker 2: been They've been really supportive all the way through the process.

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Speaker 1: That's good. It is really good to hear. Hey, So

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Speaker 1: tell us just for tomorrow what times it kick off again?

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Speaker 2: Kicks off at eight o'clock in the morning. Yeah, got

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Speaker 2: till ten. There'll be a probably about a half hour

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Speaker 2: opportunity to get some signatures and some selfies. Then you'll

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Speaker 2: be able to watch the guys in the pool while

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Speaker 2: they switch over because they're operating in two sessions, and

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Speaker 2: then again there'll be another half hour session at the end.

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Speaker 1: Talk us through some of the names that we have

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Speaker 1: got here at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Kaylee, McEwen, Cole Chalmers, Mollio Callahan. The entire time, everyone

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Speaker 2: that you know is here. It's incredible just to just

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Speaker 2: me being there during the week having conversations with them all.

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Speaker 2: It's great and seeing them interact with everyone that's it's around.

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Speaker 1: I consider myself to be pretty fit, and whenever I

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Speaker 1: see people like that training, I'm like, oh wow, generally

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Speaker 1: very inferior.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to hide in a room while they're all outside,

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Speaker 2: definitely so I don't get thrown in the water and drown.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's it's really it is.

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Speaker 1: It's so good. Hey, one of the other announcements that

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory government announcing that they're going to be providing

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Speaker 1: funding who will employ an all abilities swim coach. Have

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Speaker 1: we got much detail on that at this point.

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Speaker 2: Look, it was a bit of a surprise, a great surprise, obviously.

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Speaker 2: It's something that we're looking to get more involved in

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Speaker 2: that all ability space and para space before that. We

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Speaker 2: do have the para team coming up here as well

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Speaker 2: in September, so that'll be a great tie in with that.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's very very new. We're working through it

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Speaker 2: with the government and hopefully we'll be able to work

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Speaker 2: with them and the NTSA to sort of finalize what

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Speaker 2: that actually looks like. But yeah, it's a great opportunity,

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Speaker 2: and we are running an anti swim ability program we're

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Speaker 2: calling it, which is starting next Thursday, which was already

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Speaker 2: on the cards anyway, but it ties in very very well.

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Speaker 2: So if there is anyone out there with a child

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Speaker 2: with a disability, have a look on socials or come

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Speaker 2: down to Casarina Pool on Thursdays and we're going to

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Speaker 2: be having some sessions down there for a four thirty

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Speaker 2: five point thirty every afternoon on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Well, good to catch up with you this morning,

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Speaker 1: Warren Dobson. Of course the swimming en t c e

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Speaker 2: Awesome, Thanks Coty, thank you,