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Speaker 1: Now. My next guest is an Australian Olympic gymnast who

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Speaker 1: competed in the two thousand and eight Summer Olympics. She

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Speaker 1: also became the first woman in Australian Ninja Warrior to

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Speaker 1: advance to Stage two of the Grand Final, and in

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, she competed in the inaugural Ninja World Championships

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Speaker 1: in Moscow, Russia, winning a gold medal in four minutes

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Speaker 1: and well zero seconds. I think her name is Olivia

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Speaker 1: Vivian and she joins us on the line right now.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Olivia.

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Speaker 3: Ah, thank you so much for having me. What an intro.

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Speaker 1: I know, right my producer Danielle is a fan and

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Speaker 1: certainly did her research so made sure that I had

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Speaker 3: Olivia, I know I've forgotten half of that stuff. You

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Speaker 3: did really good. I was reliving some memories when you

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Speaker 3: brought it up.

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Speaker 1: Well, we're so excited because you're actually in Darwin.

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Speaker 2: At the moment.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I know it was a bit of a random,

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Speaker 3: last minute sort of decisions, but you know, Ben and

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Speaker 3: I sort of moved to Brisbane and we're trying to

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Speaker 3: and you know, Mark over there is pretty tough with

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Speaker 3: these borders. So I was like, you know what, instead

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Speaker 3: I was like, I'm going to go to Norman Territory.

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Speaker 3: I haven't seen much of it. And everyone keeps apologizing

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Speaker 3: to me. They're like, oh, sorry, it's not the light season.

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Speaker 3: You've come at the wrong time of the year. And

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Speaker 3: I'm like, what are you talking about.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing, Well, it is warm, it's certainly warm at

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Speaker 1: the moment, but what have you been up to over

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Speaker 2: What have you been to sea?

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Speaker 3: I had one of my girlfriends come and stay with

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Speaker 3: we booked everything and anything. Like the second we touched down,

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Speaker 3: we went and did the Cage of Death at the

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Speaker 3: Crocodiller's place of the crocod there's so many We saw

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Speaker 3: a cross almost every day. We did a full tour.

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Speaker 3: I went to Lichfield, we saw the jumping crocs or

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Speaker 3: it was just jumping crops because I guess it's not

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Speaker 3: the right season. But we got one ye with that. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and the new buggy tour with Double seven tomorrow, I'm

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Speaker 3: doing a beautiful sunset cruise and maybe the Masquerade Ball

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Speaker 3: and anything wonderful stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's great to hear, and you know, I reckon

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Speaker 1: it's it's great when you do go somewhere new that

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Speaker 2: So have you ever been to the territory before?

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Speaker 3: To Darwin, No, I haven't. I have not seen much

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Speaker 3: so I came to Darling. I guess there's a lot

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is certainly a very laid back place and

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Speaker 1: there is it's such a unique place as well. You know,

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, you know, I think given my sort of experience

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Speaker 3: And yeah, we're going to do some fun Ninja sessions

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Speaker 1: I reckon they're going to be incredibly excited. I've got

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Speaker 2: Warrior as well. What was it like for.

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Speaker 1: You, you know, doing so well and being the first female

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so all about It looks like the Year one,

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Speaker 3: Why don't I go to the top. You don't have

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Speaker 3: I truly believe that we're capable. You know, we might

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, you are absolutely amazing to watch and you know,

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Speaker 1: How does that training though, as a gymnast, when you

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Speaker 2: Because it is such a mental game as well, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: What is this?

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Speaker 3: you shouldn't see it as too hard. You just have

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Speaker 3: And that's where that the lentless lentless sort of attitude

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Speaker 1: Such good advice and no doubt you'll have all of

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Speaker 1: those young kids hanging on every word over the weekend, Olivia, when.

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Speaker 2: You have a chat to them.

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Speaker 3: And not wait, it's going to be so much fun.

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Speaker 1: Well, Olivia Vivian, it's been lovely speaking to you this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so very much for catching up with us.

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Speaker 3: Oh my pleasure, Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: That's Olivia Vivian there, as many of you will know

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Speaker 1: as the Australian Ninja Warrior.

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Speaker 2: Of course, I reckon.

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Speaker 1: She's just about everybody's favorite ninja warrior. Definitely Dannielle, my

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Speaker 1: producer's favorite ninja warria, my daughter Bronte's favorite ninja warria

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