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Speaker 1: Last month, three incredible Territory girls traveled to Adelaide for

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Speaker 1: the Australian Athletics Championships. Aviva dan Janovic, Brasias Britain and

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Speaker 1: my daughter Bronte, who I know you've all heard about

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Speaker 1: by now. Now all three did the Northern Territory proud

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Speaker 1: and I caught up with Aviva and Brazias to find

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Speaker 1: out more about their trip and their plans for the future.

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Speaker 2: Now. Aviva competed in the.

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Speaker 1: Nationals in the open age group, so I'm talking racing

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Speaker 1: against those trying to qualify for the Olympics. Brazius Britain

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Speaker 1: competes as a para athlete and absolutely cleaned up. Take

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Speaker 1: a listen to Aviva and Brazius.

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Speaker 2: Aviva, how did you go when you're in Adelaide? I

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Speaker 2: went really well.

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Speaker 3: I was really happy with my performance. I competed in

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Speaker 3: the one hundred, which I got a personal vest in,

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Speaker 3: which was my first personal vest in like five or

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Speaker 3: six years. Really happy with that, and in the two hundred,

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Speaker 3: still really happy with my time. It's not personal vest,

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Speaker 3: not what I wanted, but the silver feather competition to

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Speaker 3: improve myself.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's always something to learn, right when you go

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Speaker 1: away from a huge for a huge event like that,

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Speaker 1: because you're racing against like the best in Australia. It's

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Speaker 1: not just the best in the territory or the best

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Speaker 1: around dah, when it's literally the best athletes across Australia.

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Speaker 2: No, it really is.

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Speaker 3: It really is a privilege racing against like the future Olympians,

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Speaker 3: especially this year. Really excited that I had the opportunity

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Speaker 3: a great time doing it as well.

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Speaker 2: It's so cool.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, obviously I went along with my daughter,

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Speaker 1: so I got a bit of an understanding of just

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Speaker 1: how big.

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Speaker 2: The event is. At the Nationals.

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Speaker 1: How nervous do you get before those races because in

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Speaker 1: a spring like, you know, a good start, commit everything.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, oh god, I get so nervous, especially when

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Speaker 3: I was looking at the start list for my races,

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Speaker 3: scene that like seventy to eighty, like women can be

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Speaker 3: with me, which is just so daunting, Like it's just

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Speaker 3: it's no wrecking, just yeah, preparing myself and just trying

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Speaker 3: to get in the mindset and it's just awful.

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Speaker 1: So you're twenty years old now, so you compete in

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Speaker 1: the you're in the open se or is it the

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Speaker 1: under twenties that you're in.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, competing in the opens, so competing against really any

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Speaker 3: age group and.

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Speaker 1: Literally women that are trialing for the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it is.

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Speaker 3: It's really it's really daunting here.

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Speaker 2: How many years have you been have you been running for?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 3: I've been running for the past eleven years. That's when

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Speaker 3: I got into athletics in about twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: and just loved it ever since.

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Speaker 2: And you're part of the Rural Athletics club, aren't you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, part of Rural Athletics, have been for the past

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Speaker 3: six five six years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're so often here training at Marara when

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Speaker 1: we're down here for a run. What kind of training

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Speaker 1: goes into going away for something like the nationals.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's lots of training, lots of different parts. It's

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Speaker 3: like getting my stars all down, getting my speed indurance

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Speaker 3: in little sprints and just tweaking everything, making sure I've

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Speaker 3: got everything prepared.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And if you had injuries over the years as well

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Speaker 1: that you sort of had to deal with or not

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Speaker 1: had to worry too much about that.

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Speaker 3: I've had plenty of injuries. Yeah, I just had Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I had a really bad injury back in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 3: I was out for about nine months and it was

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Speaker 3: really hard to just get back into it, you know,

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Speaker 3: keep finding the love for the sport and just continue on.

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Speaker 2: But here and there I've been.

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Speaker 3: A right good I don't have anything else.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh good on you. Now what's next for you

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Speaker 2: this year? What are you training for now?

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Speaker 3: So coming up, I've got the Oceania Athletics Championships in Fiji,

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Speaker 3: so that's coming up in June, and after that maybe

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Speaker 2: And what are your goals like long term?

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Speaker 1: Is it just to really keep enjoying athletics and just

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Speaker 1: try to keep improving.

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Speaker 2: What do you have any big goals one day at

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Speaker 2: a time at this point?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Just really are you trying to make sure that I

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Speaker 3: train smartly, not overtrained, not undertrain, just making sure I'm

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Speaker 3: healthy and fit and just constantly proving, just slowly, slowly

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Speaker 3: getting towards my goals.

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Speaker 1: Well, we're keen to catch up with you again before

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Speaker 1: you go away for the Oceana. I think you've done

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Speaker 1: phenomenally well, you know, like to PB and to raise

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Speaker 1: at that level is so incredible in itself, so big

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Speaker 1: congratulations on your efforts. The territory is proud of you,

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Speaker 1: and we'll catch up with you again very soon.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thanks for joining us, Precise.

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Speaker 1: You've just come back from the Australian Championships for athletics.

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Speaker 2: How did you go? I came first for.

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Speaker 4: Two hundred meta and four hundred and I came second

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Speaker 4: for one hundred and I camp third for long jump.

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Speaker 2: I saw some of your races.

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Speaker 1: I watched you on TV and you were absolutely incredible.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel proud of what you've done?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I feel proud and so excited. It was great.

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Speaker 1: It was so awesome, so awesome to see you compete

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Speaker 1: and to see how well you went.

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Speaker 2: What's your favorite events? Do you know?

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Speaker 4: I'd like two hundred meter and four hundred, one hundred

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Speaker 4: you're like them all?

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Now tell me how old are you? I'm fifteen

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Speaker 2: years old? So what age group did you compete in?

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Speaker 4: Under seventeen?

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Speaker 1: Under seventeen's and how long have you been running?

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Speaker 2: Sent as?

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Speaker 4: I was ten?

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Speaker 3: It?

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Speaker 2: Oh wow? Now you live in Darwin now? But where

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Speaker 2: are you from. Where's your family from.

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Speaker 4: I'm from Remeding and Manuitra. My mom's from Remeding and

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Speaker 4: my dad from Manuita.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, Now how did all your family What did

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Speaker 1: they think when they heard how well you went?

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Speaker 2: Or did they get to watch you on tv?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: They look in the Facebook and the TV. They were

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Speaker 4: so proud of me.

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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised because you were so awesome. They would

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Speaker 1: have been so proud of you. You did incredibly well.

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Speaker 1: Now what's next for you? What's the next big carnival

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Speaker 1: that you're training for? To Chun's phil yep and the nationals? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: now that's a little bit later in the year. How

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Speaker 1: much training do you do? How many days a week

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Speaker 1: do you usually train?

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Speaker 2: Three days? Do you like it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? You love to run? Yeah yep.

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Speaker 1: Now tell me what have you got some long term

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Speaker 2: Would you like to go to something like the Olympics?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's my room to go Olympics one day.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, You've done so well. You should be

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Speaker 1: so proud of yourself. And as another territory and that

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Speaker 1: was obviously away. At the same time watching you, I

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Speaker 1: felt really proud of your efforts.

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Speaker 2: You should be really really happy with what you've done.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Thank you, lovely to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Precious Britain there and I've Viva dan Shanovic and Precias

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Speaker 1: competing as a para athlete and Aviva competing at the

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Speaker 1: Open nationals, so she's literally up against those that are

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Speaker 1: trying to qualify for the Olympics. As I said earlier,

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Speaker 1: pretty incredible stuff from both of those young women.