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Speaker 1: welcome to tda's Medal Moments. This is the second edition.

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Speaker 1: I'm coming to you from Sydney, Australia on Thursday, the

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Speaker 1: first of August in the afternoon. A little bit tired,

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Speaker 1: but I'll tell you what, when you're bringing home as

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Speaker 1: many medals as Australia is, it's pretty easy to get

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Speaker 1: up at all hours of the morning, staying up late.

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Speaker 1: It's been an incredible Olympics so far in Paris. So

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Speaker 1: just to pick up where we left off when we

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Speaker 1: chat it on Monday, Australia had won four gold medals

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Speaker 1: and two silvers. As I'm recording right now, we're sitting

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Speaker 1: on seven gold medals, six silver medals and three bronze medals.

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Speaker 1: So we spent the first forty eight hours on top

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Speaker 1: of the medal tally. And that's traditionally the case with

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Speaker 1: such a strong swimming team. They normally go in the

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Speaker 1: first couple of days, or at least the first week

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Speaker 1: of the Games. But despite the fact that the Games

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Speaker 1: is now a couple of days old, we're still at

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Speaker 1: the top end of town. We're in fourth place and

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Speaker 1: we're sitting behind China They've got nine gold medals, and

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Speaker 1: then France and Japan who have eight gold medals each.

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Speaker 1: So we finished last episode by talking about the gold

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Speaker 1: medal from Jess Fox in the K one canoe slalom event.

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Speaker 1: It was a spectacular effort. But there's another one. She

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Speaker 1: secured her second gold medal in Paris when she successfully

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Speaker 1: defended her canoe slalom C one title. She finished in

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Speaker 1: a time of one on one point six seconds. That

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Speaker 1: means she was two point four to eight seconds ahead

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Speaker 1: of silver medalist Elena Lillik from Germany. Now this is

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Speaker 1: Fox's sixth individual Olympic medal and that means she is

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Speaker 1: officially Australia's most successful individual Olympic medalist. Her Olympic achievements

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Speaker 1: now include those six medals across both the C one

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Speaker 1: and the K one events, across four Games London, Rio,

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Speaker 1: Tokyo and Paris, and she's not even done yet. She

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Speaker 1: will continue her Olympic campaign in the women's kayak a

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Speaker 1: cross time trial qualifying event that's in a couple of

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Speaker 1: nights time, and there'll be another Australian competitor in that event.

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Speaker 1: It's her sister, Naomi. So Jess Fox is responsible for

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Speaker 1: two of the seven golds, and we spoke about the

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Speaker 1: other three on Monday. They were road cyclist Grace Brown,

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Speaker 1: Arin Tipmos in the four hundred meters freestyle and the

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Speaker 1: women's four by one hundred meter freestyle relay, So that

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Speaker 1: leaves two more to talk about today. And they're both

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Speaker 1: from the pool. And I do want to point out

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Speaker 1: the obvious here. Every single gold medal, all seven have

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Speaker 1: come from Australia's female athletes. So on Tuesday morning we

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Speaker 1: woke up to a spectacular site swimmers Mollio Callahan and

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Speaker 1: Arian Tipmos holding hands, celebrating together on the podium after

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Speaker 1: finishing first and second in the two hundred meter freestyle final.

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Speaker 1: These two are training partners, they've got the same coach

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Speaker 1: and the vision of them both taking out the top

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Speaker 1: spot in this race was quite a remarkable achievement. It's

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Speaker 1: the first time Australian women have won the golden silver

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Speaker 1: in the same swimming event at the Olympics since Susie

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Speaker 1: O'Neill and Patriots Thomas came first and second in the

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Speaker 1: two hundred meters by the fly back in nineteen ninety six.

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Speaker 1: I was two years old in Atlanta. The last time

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Speaker 1: Australian men finished first and second was Grant Hackett and

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Speaker 1: in Thorpe in the four hundred meter freestyle at the

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Speaker 1: two thousand and four Athens Games. I've got a funny

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Speaker 1: feeling that Morio Callahan could be on track to be

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Speaker 1: one of Australia's most successful Olympians ever, if she's not

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Speaker 1: already in that category right now. She's twenty years old,

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Speaker 1: she's got four gold medals on her resume, and she's

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Speaker 1: expected to be part of Australia's four x two hundred

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Speaker 1: meter freestyle real, a team who will swim in their

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Speaker 1: heat later tonight. Now that's a team that currently holds

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Speaker 1: the world record in that event, so gold medal number

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Speaker 1: five could be on its way this Games. But we

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Speaker 1: also need to remember that Morio Callahan, at twenty, probably

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Speaker 1: has two more Olympics at least left in her should

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Speaker 1: everything go well, so this could really just be the start.

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Speaker 1: I did also want to recognize Arion Timmas's incredible swim

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Speaker 1: in that race with the silver medal. That was her

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Speaker 1: sixth Olympic medal, and we're going to see more of

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Speaker 1: her before the swimming wraps up in Paris, will see

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Speaker 1: her in the eight hundred meter freestyle and potentially in

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Speaker 1: some of those relay teams. The other big moment was,

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Speaker 1: of course, Kaylee McEwan. On Wednesday morning, she successfully defended

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Speaker 1: her one hundred meter backstroke title with an Olympic record

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Speaker 1: of fifty seven point three three. That means she just

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Speaker 1: pipped American world record holder Reagan Smith, she recorded a

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Speaker 1: fifty seven point six six. Kaylee McEwan, though, is in

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Speaker 1: a funny situation for a swimmer in these games, where

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Speaker 1: she's still got four of her five races to compete

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Speaker 1: in and she's the medal hope in all of them,

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Speaker 1: particularly the two hundred meter backstroke, and I think that's

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Speaker 1: wins that, she's going to claim the double double, and

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Speaker 1: that means that she would have won both the one

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Speaker 1: hundre hundred and two hundred in the same stroke at

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Speaker 1: two consecutive games. To quickly fly through the other medals

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Speaker 1: that have come through because coming second or third in

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Speaker 1: the world is probably worth a recognition. On this podcast,

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Speaker 1: Chris Burton won silver in the equestrian individual eventing and

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Speaker 1: this morning we scored another two silver medals in the pool,

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Speaker 1: Zach's double d Cook in the two hundred meter breaststroke

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Speaker 1: and Kyl Chalmers in the one hundred meter freestyle special.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to Kyl Chalmers. At the halfway point, so

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Speaker 1: fifty meters into that one hundred meter freestyle race, he

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Speaker 1: was coming last and he somehow turned that around in

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Speaker 1: the final fifty to storm home into silver. And that's

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Speaker 1: not all. We've also won three bronze medals since we

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Speaker 1: last spoke. We won one in the four x two

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Speaker 1: hundred meter freestyle relay team and then overnight Penny Smith

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Speaker 1: won bronze in the women's trap shooting competition and Natalia

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Speaker 1: Deem won Australia's first ever women's BMX freestyle medal. She

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Speaker 1: took home bronze in that event overnight as well, and

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Speaker 1: it's definitely a post race interview worth watching. So on Monday,

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Speaker 1: one of the things I did to wrap up was

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Speaker 1: go and look at how we're going compared to our

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Speaker 1: most successful games by gold medals, and that was a

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Speaker 1: tie between Athens and Tokyo. But let's go with Tokyo.

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Speaker 1: So how are we going compared to Tokyo where we

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Speaker 1: brought home seventeen golds. So by the end of day

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Speaker 1: five in Tokyo we had six golds, one silver and

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Speaker 1: eight bronzes. Now right now in Paris we're on seven golds,

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Speaker 1: six silvers and three bronze medals. We're tracking better than Tokyo.

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Speaker 1: Could this be our most successful games yet? Things are

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Speaker 1: feeling pretty good. I'll chat to you again on Monday.

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Speaker 1: I'm absolutely petrified with how much sport we're going to

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Speaker 1: have to sum up from the Olympics on Monday's episode,

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Speaker 1: but I think I'm up to the challenge. It's my

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Speaker 1: own version of the Olympics. I hope everybody has a

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Speaker 1: sensational weekend. I'll throw a link to TDA Sports newsletter

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Speaker 1: in the bio. We'll speak to you again on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Here's to more Golds for Australia. For Dekn University's doctor

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Speaker 1: Casey Simon's a sport media expert and lecturer in communityations.

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Speaker 1: Watching the Paris Games means so much more to her

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Speaker 1: than just who assumes the fastest or jumps the highest.

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Speaker 2: When you think about mega events and a global spotlight

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Speaker 2: on sport, there's nothing bigger than the Olympics and Paralympics

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Speaker 2: to bring everyone together on a global level, So why

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Speaker 2: not use that as a vehicle for social change and

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Speaker 2: gender equality. We need to really question.

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Speaker 1: And doctor Simon's is constantly thinking about that social impact

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Speaker 1: of sport, what's going right and what we can.

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Speaker 2: Work on that, because I think we're doing some really

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Speaker 2: great things right now with challenging and changing some systems

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Speaker 2: in sport, but we still have some ways to go

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Speaker 2: in doing what we need to do to make things

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Speaker 2: truly equitable in sport for everyone to participate in ways

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Speaker 2: that they want to.

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Speaker 1: These are the types of ideas that they think about

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Speaker 1: at Deacon University, the number one sports science school in

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