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Speaker 1: Well, we know there's plenty happening when it comes to

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Speaker 1: exciting news is that our Australian Dolphins are heading north

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Speaker 1: for one last camp on Australian soil before they jet

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Speaker 1: off to Singapore. It is part of the preparation for

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Speaker 1: the World Aquatics Championships which is taking place this month

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Speaker 1: and it's going to see Territorians able to get in

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Speaker 1: biggest names now joining us on the line to tell

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Speaker 1: us a little bit more. It's nt swimming CEO Warren Dobson,

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Warren, Morning Katie, how are you again?

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Speaker 1: Really good mate? Tell us a little bit more about

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Speaker 1: who's coming to Darwin as part of this preparation.

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Speaker 2: Well, all the Australian Dolphins are coming at some point

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Speaker 2: with the World Championships obviously is that are in Singapore

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Speaker 2: and so yeah, it starts through the open water guy.

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Speaker 2: So they're actually arriving on Sunday this week and they'll

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Speaker 2: be training up in Darwin up until the twelfth and

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Speaker 2: that's where you're going to have the opportunity to swim

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Speaker 2: with those Australian open water swimmers out at the waterfront

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Speaker 2: on Wednesday. How good.

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Speaker 1: So that's happening this coming Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it this coming Wednesday? The nights? Yes? Do you

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Speaker 2: have to be.

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Speaker 1: An elite swimmer to go along?

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Speaker 2: Warrant?

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Speaker 1: Or can anybody go and take part? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Look, everyone can come down and have a meet and

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Speaker 2: greet with the swimmers. The whole team will be there,

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Speaker 2: the coaches will be there to be able to jump

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Speaker 2: the aqua park, so you've got to be able to

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Speaker 2: confidently do that. But you do have to register. Obviously

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Speaker 2: they are in the middle of preparations for the World Champs,

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Speaker 2: so we can't push them too hard and have three

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Speaker 2: hundred odd people down there wanting to go for a swim,

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Speaker 2: So you do have to register.

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Speaker 1: No, which is fair enough. I think that's a good

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Speaker 1: thing to do. So anybody out there listening, that's keen.

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Speaker 1: It kicks off Wednesday and that is going to be happening.

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Speaker 1: Is it three? Or get there at two o'clock in

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Speaker 1: the RVO and then the swim.

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Speaker 2: At three thirty yeah, so the squad will be there

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Speaker 2: from about one point thirty to do their sort of

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Speaker 2: pre workout and then then they're jumping in to do

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Speaker 2: then the community swims from three point thirty to.

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Speaker 1: Four o'clock and what else can we expect then over

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Speaker 1: the coming sort of weeks, is there going to be

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Speaker 1: further training sessions happening or further swimmers coming here?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? So the entire pool teams are heading up for

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Speaker 2: the following Saturday, so on the twelfth, So that's all

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Speaker 2: the name swimmers that people would recognize from all the

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Speaker 2: Olympics and World Championships of sort of past years gone by.

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Speaker 2: But so they'll be up for almost a couple of

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Speaker 2: weeks from the twelfth to about the well, I think

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Speaker 2: they're leaving around the twenty third before they head over

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Speaker 2: Pool where everyone's available to come in and meet them,

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Speaker 2: get some selfies, have some autographs. We'll be having a

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Speaker 1: How good, now, Warren, where if people are listening this

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Speaker 1: morning and they're thinking, oh, my kids would be so

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Speaker 2: So we are putting some stuff out on social media,

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Speaker 2: information up on our website. So yeah, there's plenty of

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Speaker 1: Hey, and we know as well that we've now seen

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Speaker 1: to go ahead. How excited is the swimming community about this?

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Speaker 2: It's going to be really beneficial for the swimming community.

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Speaker 2: The you know, it's basically it's our going to be

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Speaker 2: our legacy piece in the lead up the Brisbane Olympics,

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Speaker 2: having that there for all of our swimmers and just

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Speaker 2: attracting the hot water sort of training camp seemed to

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Speaker 2: be the way of the future now. So people want to.

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Speaker 1: Are we see.

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Speaker 2: People, Yeah, that's the thing.

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Speaker 1: The elite swimmers are wanting to come to the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 1: If you want warm water, We've got it here in

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Speaker 2: Well I was in Melbourne over the weekend and not

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Speaker 2: going to assure you, I was wishing I was in Darwin.

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Speaker 2: We had a we had a camp on last week

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Speaker 2: where we had you know, about eighty odd kids running

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Speaker 2: do that. It's a great environment, it is, it really is.

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Speaker 1: Well it sounds as though it's going to open doors

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Speaker 1: if we have got that facility that you know, once

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. We've filded plenty of questions from high performance squads

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Speaker 2: We've also obviously fielded a lot of interest from in

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Speaker 2: the state people as well as international people. Have had

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Speaker 2: a few national teams sort of reach out and talk

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Speaker 2: garnering a lot of interest around the world and you know,

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Speaker 2: having all these high performance sports people come to the

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Speaker 2: NT and you know it's I think sport at the

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Speaker 2: it's really great to be a part of.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you and our swimmers are doing

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Speaker 1: fantastically well, Lauren. Always good to catch up and find

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Speaker 1: the Northern Territory. Mate, thanks so much for your time.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, there's plenty on and yeah, thank you keeping.

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Speaker 1: You busy, no doubt about that. Good only Lauren, thank

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