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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, Welcome friends to the Christian o'connells Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: We have ten shows to go until the Games in Paris.

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Speaker 2: At Over the next ten shows, we counted down with

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Speaker 2: ten golden moments. Australian gold medalists take us back to

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Speaker 2: their golden moments. Today we kick off with a great one.

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Speaker 2: Adam Is actually won two Olympic gold medals, takes us

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Speaker 2: back to her first one Athens two thousand and four.

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Speaker 1: Haven't listened to this Christian O'Connell's golden moments coming down

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Speaker 1: to the Games in Paris. Anime Is at the two

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Speaker 1: thousand and four Athens Olympics in the velodrome for the

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Speaker 1: five hundred meter time trial.

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Speaker 3: I remember walking over to the marshaling area. My legs

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Speaker 3: just felt like two pillars of concrete. They felt so heavy,

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Speaker 3: like I wanted to use both my hands to help

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Speaker 3: pick them up and move them along. And I remember

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Speaker 3: sitting in the chair facing the track, facing the crowd

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Speaker 3: and my coach and brass. He had a big smile

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Speaker 3: on his face as he looked at me and said

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Speaker 3: last right at the Olympics, thirty four one to beat,

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Speaker 3: which has been the same line that he had delivered

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Speaker 3: me in training for two months because he thought it

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Speaker 3: would take an Olympic record to win the five hundred.

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Speaker 3: And from that moment, this sense of calm came over me.

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Speaker 3: I could breathe again, my legs lightened, and I remember

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Speaker 3: walking up onto the track, clipping into the bike. I

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Speaker 3: remember a fly was buzzing around my hands and just

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Speaker 3: annoying me. And once I get my hands set on

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Speaker 3: the bars, I don't like to move them. So I'm

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Speaker 3: ten seconds from the biggest race of my life and

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Speaker 3: I'm flicking my elbows and I'm worried about chewing this flyaway.

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Speaker 3: And then I remember the last beats of the countdown,

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Speaker 3: remember breathing to the countdown, deep breaths in and out.

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Speaker 3: And then I just don't remember much. I remember the

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Speaker 3: halfway poorting having done one lap because the picture of

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Speaker 3: the crowd changed, which told me I was close to

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Speaker 3: the time. And then I remember crossing the finish line

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Speaker 3: and just in desperation looking up to the scoreboard. You

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Speaker 3: know where where am I? What time did I ride?

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Speaker 3: How did I do? And there was this red number

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Speaker 3: one next to my name. Holyh You're the Olympic champions.

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Speaker 3: As I got under the scoreboard, I saw a green

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Speaker 3: box next to my name with a world record wr

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Speaker 3: I'd written a world record. My personal vest to that

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Speaker 3: point was thirty four to thirty four and I'd written

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Speaker 3: thirty three point nine to five to two and had

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Speaker 3: done a lot of first Australian woman to win a

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Speaker 3: gold on the Belodrome, been the first woman to write

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Speaker 3: a sub thirty four second time trial over five hundred meters,

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Speaker 3: wrote a world record, an Olympic record, and my race

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Speaker 3: was two laps and I did six laps in victory.

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Speaker 3: Olympic Champion representing Australia Adams. I still get a bit

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Speaker 3: emotional now, but yeah, it was a great moment.

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Speaker 2: We've got nine more of those guys. We counted down

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Speaker 2: to the Games next Friday in Paris. This is the

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Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell Show podcast