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Speaker 1: Now MT swimmers are currently training for the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four Masters Swimming Australian National Championships and they are happening

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Speaker 1: here in the Northern Territory, So just one month to

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Speaker 1: go until the big event. There are still two weeks

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Speaker 1: as I understand it, until registrations close. Now joining me

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Speaker 1: about the event is Master's Swimming Australian National Championship Committee

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Speaker 1: member Hayden Valley.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Hayden.

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Speaker 3: Hi they Eddy, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, great to have you in the studio. Thank you

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Speaker 2: so very much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 1: Problem now tell me two weeks to go and or

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Speaker 1: two weeks left to register? I should say, have you

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Speaker 1: got lots of registrations?

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Speaker 2: Lots of people keen to swim a lot?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we now have over three hundred registrations, which we're

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Speaker 3: very proud of. Twenty percent of those total registrations have

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Speaker 3: occurred in the last ten days alone, so rightly cheering

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Speaker 3: for that four hundred market if we can get to it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, I think it'd be wonderful to see such

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Speaker 1: a huge number of people here in territory for the event.

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Speaker 1: Is it the first time we've had the Masters for

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Speaker 1: swimming the nationals here in the territory before.

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Speaker 3: We've had it once before, as I understand it, back

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Speaker 3: in two thousand and seven. I personally wasn't here back then.

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Speaker 2: Probably weren't a master yet either.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't quite a Master of two and seven, that's true. Yeah, So,

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Speaker 3: and that was such a successful event that I guess

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Speaker 3: fifteen years later they wanted to come back and do

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Speaker 2: How wonderful.

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Speaker 1: And look, the thing I love about sports based events

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Speaker 1: I was going to say sports based tourism, but it's

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Speaker 1: sports based events is the number of people that it

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Speaker 1: brings to the Northern Territory and what it does like

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Speaker 1: economy and bringing those visitors to the territory too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, very true. The majority of participants will be from

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Speaker 3: interstate and we also have a sprinkling of people that

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Speaker 3: are international as well, which is we feel very privileged

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Speaker 3: in Darwin, which is I think something that Darwin doesn't

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Speaker 3: often get to do. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, particularly in that master space, something really different. And

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Speaker 1: the nationals like we're talking people from all over the country.

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Speaker 1: Are there any locations where they're sort of coming from

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Speaker 1: that most popular or such, or you know, the most

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Speaker 3: Naturally, it will always be the largest states just in

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Speaker 3: terms of they've got the bigger population, and swimming has

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Speaker 3: a particularly large presence on the East Coast. But as

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Speaker 3: I just mentioned, you're off air Masters Swimmers as the

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Speaker 3: largest club up here in Darwin, bigger than anywhere else,

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Speaker 3: which is quite a title that we're proud of and

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Speaker 3: celebrate often.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so sounds like there's lots of Masters that swim

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Speaker 1: here in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, we have at least almost two hundred members

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Speaker 3: here in the Northern Territory across Darwin and Alice Springs mostly,

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Speaker 3: and there are at least four different clubs now, so

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Speaker 3: if you're not a member, you know, hardly encourage you

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Speaker 1: You need to be a member of the club as

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Speaker 1: well to be able to take part in the Masters Yes,

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Speaker 1: that is yeah, no, and you find that with most carnivals, right,

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Speaker 1: whether it's swimming, athletics, any sport. Really you do need

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Speaker 3: That's that's exactly right. A community won't want to continue

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Speaker 3: to foster. But there's also insurance implications.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now tell me, Hayden, how old do you have

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Speaker 1: to be to be a master?

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Speaker 2: Because this is a question that a lot of people ask.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, it's probably conintruitive to a lot of people,

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Speaker 3: to be above the age of eighteen. Yeah, that's it. So, yeah,

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Speaker 3: we're I know I'm in my thirties, but I'm not

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of people in their early twenties as

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Speaker 1: Well, look, it's great in this sense that it means

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Speaker 1: I don't know what level you'd call it, where you're

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Speaker 3: Yeah, very true. We try and accommodate a very diverse

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I reckon it's awesome.

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Speaker 1: I think it's fantastic then that the Masters are happening here. Now,

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Speaker 1: tell me people have got just a couple of weeks

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe nineteenth of April Friday. I believe that

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Speaker 3: that will be our last day to register. So if

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Speaker 1: It all right, Fridays and nineteenth And it's happening there

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Speaker 1: at the Parat Pool, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just around the corner from here, Yeah, Parrat Pool.

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Speaker 3: It's just such a great facility. When you go into state,

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Speaker 3: you better appreciate what swimming facilities that we have here.

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Speaker 3: It's really really great.

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Speaker 1: How many days does the Masters go across? Is it

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Speaker 3: It will be from May the third through to May

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Speaker 3: the seventh, so it's approximately five days that'll cut across

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Speaker 3: the long weekend that's here in Darwin at the same time, and.

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Speaker 1: Tell me in terms of like with the Masters, does

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Speaker 3: Yeah, as much as we possibly can, we try and

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Speaker 3: make it as homogeneous and equal as possible in terms

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Speaker 3: end of the day, that's not everybody's goal. Simply getting

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Speaker 2: Look, I love it.

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Speaker 1: I think even recently at the NT Championship. So I

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Speaker 3: Ah, Yeah, they're an inspiration. It keeps me motivated every

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Speaker 1: It's truly amazing. And as one of the referees you know,

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Speaker 1: on the on the sideline had said to me, Katie,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you watch out, Katie, you'll be peer pressured in

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Speaker 3: the darning us.

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Speaker 1: I am the daughter of a swimming coach, so I

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Speaker 1: used to have to swim all the time.

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Speaker 2: I stick to dry.

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Speaker 1: Land at the moment, I'm more go for my runs.

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Speaker 1: But no, I just think it's wonderful. I love sport

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Speaker 1: and I love what it brings to the community. You know,

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Speaker 1: in your twenties, your thirties, eighties, it's a wonderful thing

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Speaker 1: to all get together and you go swimming and be active.

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Speaker 1: It's stay healthy. But it's also the social element of

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Speaker 3: Much, very much, so I think that's what keeps us

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, Hayden.

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Speaker 1: If there's anyone listening this morning that's maybe thinking, hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm not quite up to maybe swimming at the Masters,

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Speaker 1: but I'd love to come along and maybe join the

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Speaker 1: go to? What's the best advice for them? All right?

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Speaker 3: I reckon the easiest way to get in touch would

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Speaker 3: be to look at for our social media profiles that

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Speaker 3: exist Facebook and Instagram. And if that's not a cup

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Speaker 3: of tea, then just google Masters Swimming Australia and if

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Speaker 3: you follow the links you should be able to find us.

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Speaker 2: Wonderful stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well look all the best, and I reckon it's going

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Speaker 1: to be a fantastic event. Can't wait to see everybody

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Speaker 1: here converging on Darwin and taking part. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: I think it's really wonderful to see such a huge

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Speaker 1: event taking happening here in the territory. Wonderful, wonderful stuff

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Speaker 1: and great to speak with you this morning.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Katie, and thank you for all

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Speaker 3: the work that you do for swimming. In the end,

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Speaker 3: he is greatly appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: No look, I love like I said, I love seeing

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Speaker 1: everybody out there in active, no matter what sport it is,

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Speaker 1: so thank you so much, Haiden, much appreciated Jeers