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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell's show podcast.

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Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell's Golden Moments coming down to the Games in Paris,

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Speaker 1: Shane Gold winning her first of three gold medals at

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Speaker 1: the nineteen seventy two Olympics in Munich.

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Speaker 2: The moment came to be on the blocks to get

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Speaker 2: ready for swimming and racing this two hundred meter individual medley,

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Speaker 2: my first final at an Olympic Games. Now, I tried

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Speaker 2: to take in the energy from the crowd, but not

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Speaker 2: let it overwhelm my confidence and my physical ability that

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Speaker 2: was going to win the race. It wasn't the crowd.

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Speaker 2: It win it for me. It was me. It was

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Speaker 2: all on me. And so as I powered down that

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Speaker 2: last lap, you know of lungs bursting and this strong exhale,

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Speaker 2: and you know, I was starting to thrash a little

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Speaker 2: bit because of a fatigue and excitement, and as my

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Speaker 2: father used to sackamy, head down, tailor girl and go

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Speaker 2: for it. So my father's words were in my ears

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Speaker 2: and I just went hellful ether and could see my competitors,

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Speaker 2: and I tried my Darnda's head down. Taylor saw my

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Speaker 2: name listed first, and then the time next to it

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Speaker 2: a world record, and I was just shocked to start with,

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Speaker 2: but also elated. And the arson on the cake was

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Speaker 2: that it was a world record. That okay, that's my

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Speaker 2: first gold medal. I don't know how she does it,

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Speaker 2: but Dawn Fraser just seems to be everywhere. She shoved

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Speaker 2: a toy kangaroo into my hands and get to the

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Speaker 2: diace and then stand there with this kangaroo. I put

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Speaker 2: the kangaro up in the air and so that became

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Speaker 2: an iconic image. The national anthem. The music was so stirring,

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Speaker 2: the flags raising and then the crowds cheering, and then

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Speaker 2: I did weep. You weep with relief, weep with happiness.

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Speaker 2: But that was my opportunity, is just let it all

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Speaker 2: down and be really joyful and but again a relief, relief.

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