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Speaker 1: Quest.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. We

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Speaker 2: are counting down to the Games in Paris, which kicks

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Speaker 2: off in Paris, the opening ceremony Friday night, which will

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Speaker 2: be three point thirty am us here Saturday morning. So

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Speaker 2: make sure you all set your alarms up there. We

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Speaker 2: have some sort of interpretive dance, don't they. There's hours

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Speaker 2: and hours of nonsense. Yeah, if you wake up at

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Speaker 2: six am, it will still be going, It'll still be

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Speaker 2: going on, the big going and this is to symbolize

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Speaker 2: the French beginning, the French love of onions, and this

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Speaker 2: is to symbolize it goes on. Then you get all

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Speaker 2: the countries wandering in that big megadome, all filming on

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Speaker 2: their phones and like we're watching it. The world is

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Speaker 2: watching right now. You don't need to film it as

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Speaker 2: well on your phone, all right. So over the next

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Speaker 2: couple of shows, and we're counting down to the Games

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Speaker 2: in Paris, and we've got a load of Australian Old

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Speaker 2: Medal winners sharing their golden moments today. Libby Trickets Christian

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Speaker 2: O'Connell's golden moments coming down to the Games in Paris.

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Speaker 2: Libby Tricket winning her first individual gold medal in the

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Speaker 2: one hundred meter butterfly at the two thousand and eight

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Speaker 2: Beijing Games.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever been more nervous before a

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Speaker 1: race than I was before that one hundred meters butterfly.

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Speaker 1: I remember having to find the bins along the walk

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Speaker 1: to the marshaling area because I was afraid I was

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Speaker 1: going to be physically sick. And when I walked out

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Speaker 1: onto pool deck, it was like I walked through this

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Speaker 1: most beautiful I can only kind of describe it as

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Speaker 1: like a curtain of calm. I just knew that everything

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Speaker 1: was going to be okay. I knew that if I

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Speaker 1: did what I had trained my body to do. I

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Speaker 1: knew that if I had, if I put together the

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Speaker 1: race process that I knew that I had trained for

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Speaker 1: for years before this, that it would all be okay, okay.

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Speaker 1: And it was the most powerful feeling, you know. I

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Speaker 1: stood up on the blocks and the start as gun

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Speaker 1: went and it felt like I don't know, it's hard

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Speaker 1: to describe, but I can only kind of describe it

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Speaker 1: as a feeling like I was floating. I was doing

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Speaker 1: what my body had been trained to do. I could

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Speaker 1: feel the water I could feel the power that I

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Speaker 1: was generating, but there was no thoughts amongst all of that,

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Speaker 1: And I remember touching the wall and turning around and

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Speaker 1: seeing the number one next to my name, my name.

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Speaker 1: It was such an interesting experience because you imagine that

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Speaker 1: the first emotion that you would feel would be joy

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Speaker 1: or elation, But first and foremost was relief, and then

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Speaker 1: the joy came later. But the first feeling was I'm

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Speaker 1: so grateful that I was able to put together the

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Speaker 1: race that I knew I was capable of.

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