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Speaker 2: We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the

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Speaker 3: It is so good to be back in Paris. It's

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Speaker 3: so good to me. And this I'm gonna call it.

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Speaker 4: This is going to be my favorite episode that we've

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Speaker 4: great sporting events in the world, one of our favorites,

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Speaker 4: the Paralympics. Oh my, we've had the entree. That's what

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Speaker 4: we call the Olympics. Yes, the main is these absolute

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Speaker 4: superheroes in the Green and Gold Australia do so well.

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Speaker 4: Bring on the Paris. It starts on Wednesday. Yes, so

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Speaker 4: we're going to preview the athletes that you need to know.

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Speaker 4: But I'm getting ahead of myself.

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Speaker 1: That's nonelike hu jure.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: We are usually we have tempered all expectations and excitement.

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Speaker 1: We are professional till the end.

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Speaker 3: But not professional at the beginning. So George, good support,

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Speaker 3: bad sport. What have you got?

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Speaker 2: I have a bad sport, Oh bad sport this week yep,

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Speaker 2: and it is actually a public service announcement, and that

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Speaker 2: is that to the dickhead who threw the botte at

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Speaker 2: the goal umpire over the weekend in that do or

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Speaker 2: dieash Carlton Saint Kilda.

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Speaker 1: What in the actual hell?

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Speaker 2: As at time of this recording, they still have not

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Speaker 2: been found this person. Apparently they were someone that just

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Speaker 2: wandered on down through the Carlton supporters section through this

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Speaker 1: He needed stitches.

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Speaker 2: He couldn't take part in the match anymore. There was

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Speaker 2: all blood down his cap and down the back of

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Speaker 2: his neck. I mean, was it a glass bottle?

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Speaker 3: Is my next question?

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Speaker 1: Like, no, it was just a water bottle.

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Speaker 2: It was just a plastic mount Frank And watched him

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Speaker 2: and absolutely he needed stitches. And I just think that

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Speaker 2: there is imagine being that person waking up today.

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Speaker 3: What are you?

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Speaker 4: And also just how pathetic and of course this person

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Speaker 4: when the AFL finds out who they are, and they

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Speaker 4: will because a lot of people had their phones out

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Speaker 4: and as you mentioned, it was right near the Carlton

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Speaker 3: Yes, they'll never be able to go to a football

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Speaker 4: But what Peanut thinks it's impressive to throw a bottle

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Speaker 3: It is the ultimate bad sport.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, ultimate bad sport.

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Speaker 2: And if that person happened to be I mean one

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Speaker 2: they're not a fan of football, I would argue for

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Speaker 3: If they just don't.

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Speaker 1: See it, oh we never see it. We never see it.

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Speaker 2: And if they are alleged, if they comes out and

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Speaker 2: they say that they're a Carlton fan or they're a

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Speaker 2: same Kilder fan, then I think that a Patrick Crips

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Speaker 2: whatever it is and be like, veto you will never

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Speaker 2: you don't belong in this game.

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Speaker 1: We don't want you.

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Speaker 4: Patrick Crips is too busy crying after the result yesterday,

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Speaker 4: although they did eventually slide into the finals. So this

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Speaker 4: that has been so close, and Georgie, you've already expressed

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Speaker 2: I know, which is crazy for me really, because did

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Speaker 4: That is the beauty of it, and it almost felt

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Speaker 4: to let these poor bagg of fans finally make the finals.

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Speaker 3: And then Jack Higgins just decides that he's going to

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Speaker 4: And Ross Lyon who said we're gonna be the grinch

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Speaker 4: Never have Victorian fans been so engaged in a match

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Speaker 4: we just look like they should play vinyals and then

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Speaker 2: It was very very close and a shout out here

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Speaker 2: who you are.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how.

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Speaker 3: She's the male version of Sports News told differently.

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Speaker 2: He is watching. His reaction was almost better than watching

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Speaker 2: deal listener, you know I would like it knowing that

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Speaker 2: I said famously, they will lose it with three seconds

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Speaker 2: written in stone. She's still psychic, Carlton.

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Speaker 3: What on earth?

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Speaker 4: Georgie also said Sin Kilda would make the finals or

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Speaker 4: was it the top four?

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Speaker 3: It was almost the tall reference, but wonderful for sport.

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Speaker 4: It's the best part of footy when you're not even

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Speaker 3: That's just good sports.

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Speaker 1: Yep. So look, I'll take I'll take back what I

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Speaker 2: But I'll choose to bring it back when it suits me.

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Speaker 3: Right now. As tup predictions, who wins a flag.

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Speaker 1: Oh, actually, well I think Brisbane will win.

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Speaker 1: That's they're not winning. That team's not winning. And now,

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Speaker 2: They'll win, They'll win, right.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so we're got to time code this and play

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Speaker 1: Jomie, are you feeling hungry always?

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Speaker 3: I'm pregnant time.

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Speaker 4: I'm literally never stated I will always be snacking, but

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Speaker 1: That intro went far better than I can imagine.

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Speaker 4: The Paralympics. We are so so excited. Georgie's remembered to

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Speaker 4: should have remembered, but I did not. That we are

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Speaker 1: In this event.

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Speaker 3: Your first podcast Paralympics.

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Speaker 2: My very very first podcast, I had the honor of

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Speaker 1: Called you Little Ripper. He's still a part of it.

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Speaker 2: And through that podcast and getting to know him, I

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Speaker 2: got to know some of these incredible athletes and their

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Speaker 3: These are just some of the best personalities.

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Speaker 2: So I mean, dear listener, think about the enthusiasm and

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Speaker 2: Those two weeks of the Olympic magnify it magnifying, Oh

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Speaker 3: So let's give you some key facts.

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Speaker 4: There are twenty two sports on the program, and again

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Speaker 4: they don't they're not the same program as what you

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Speaker 4: see at the Olympics. Like there's even some mixed events,

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Speaker 4: which is really interesting. There's more than four thousand athletes

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Speaker 2: Yes, the Paralympics first established in its current form in

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Speaker 2: which has always been I think such a wonderful, wonderful

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Speaker 4: Going as absolutely and Australia has participated in every official

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Speaker 3: And we're bloody good.

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Speaker 1: We are good.

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Speaker 3: We are bloody good.

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Speaker 4: We've always been competitive. In Sydney two thousand, we topped

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Speaker 1: Of course we did.

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Speaker 3: Of course we did well.

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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised.

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Speaker 4: We topped the table with one hundred and forty nine medals, sixty.

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Speaker 3: Three gold oriel.

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Speaker 1: It's incredible. He is a movie. He is Captain America.

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Speaker 4: as an able body person in his legs and all

447
00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:00,199
Speaker 4: that sort of stuf. Whereas a lot of the paralympians go,

448
00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,600
Speaker 4: you know what, we don't actually want our disability to

449
00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,720
Speaker 4: be highlighted any differently than that person has blue eyes

450
00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,000
Speaker 4: or grows us. It's just part of who I am,

451
00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,480
Speaker 4: and I don't need it to be a positive spin

452
00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,160
Speaker 4: to be put on it, because that infers that it's negative,

453
00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:17,520
Speaker 4: whereas this is just this is just me. And one

454
00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:19,879
Speaker 4: of the people that speaks like that is our flag bearer,

455
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,800
Speaker 4: Madison de Versario. You may recognize her from a barbie

456
00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:27,680
Speaker 4: that was released in twenty twenty, and she is like

457
00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:28,760
Speaker 4: the package.

458
00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:29,920
Speaker 1: Oh she's one of the hottest.

459
00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:35,280
Speaker 2: She's usc Oh my god, she is gorgeous, gorgeous.

460
00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:36,920
Speaker 1: She also happens to be very talented.

461
00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:40,399
Speaker 3: Sad note s note.

462
00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,000
Speaker 4: She is the defending gold medalist in two events coming

463
00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,080
Speaker 4: out of Tokyo, the eight hundred meters and the marathon.

464
00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:49,200
Speaker 4: She's actually won both in New York and the London

465
00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:52,879
Speaker 4: marathon if you don't mind. But she just is someone

466
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,200
Speaker 4: that if you were a brand, you'd be doing anything

467
00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,639
Speaker 4: to get your logo anywhere near this person. She is

468
00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,560
Speaker 4: just phenomenal and to have her as a flagbary is

469
00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:03,240
Speaker 4: just so fitting.

470
00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:07,360
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, what this woman has achieved, and what

471
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,680
Speaker 2: I love about her is because Jelmy, she is finding

472
00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:13,080
Speaker 2: that voice, and I would say especially over the last

473
00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:17,960
Speaker 2: definitely over the last Paralympic campaign, but arguably even before that,

474
00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,040
Speaker 2: she's started to find her voice and speak up for

475
00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:23,880
Speaker 2: all of the issues that she is that are really

476
00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,840
Speaker 2: important to her, and she's definitely sees her future away

477
00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,120
Speaker 2: from sport in that advocacy space.

478
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,840
Speaker 1: What I love about her is that she.

479
00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,719
Speaker 2: Began her career as a teenager, like she was a

480
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 2: baby as well, and she really had that mentality as

481
00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,879
Speaker 2: most athletes do, of you know that killer instinct and

482
00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:44,080
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get you and all this da da da da.

483
00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:45,840
Speaker 1: But it led her to be quite burnt out.

484
00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:47,679
Speaker 2: Yes, so then she had to take a step back

485
00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 2: and be like, hang on a second, this isn't really

486
00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,000
Speaker 2: working for me. The sport's not working for me, Like

487
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,080
Speaker 2: maybe I just have to give it away. She reassessed

488
00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:57,120
Speaker 2: everything and she figured out that, hang on a second,

489
00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,639
Speaker 2: I'm really not that competitive in my everyday life. In

490
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:04,120
Speaker 2: her own words, if her family was having a board game,

491
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 2: they wouldn't pick her to be on their team because

492
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,919
Speaker 2: she's always the timekeeper, because she just doesn't really care.

493
00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:11,679
Speaker 4: I'll see, my family don't pick me to be on

494
00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,000
Speaker 4: their team because I'll stab you in the eye if

495
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,920
Speaker 4: you don't guess my pictionary drawing and we lose. So

496
00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,439
Speaker 4: pers perhaps some very different people, Madison, but that's okay.

497
00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 3: I love it.

498
00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,960
Speaker 2: I love it, and she's I mean one hundred percent.

499
00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:27,600
Speaker 2: You know, you and I we'd have to like tie

500
00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,040
Speaker 2: our hands behind our backs so we can injure call

501
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,680
Speaker 2: mame our family members. But also just to put it

502
00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,679
Speaker 2: like a finer point on that she's taken that into

503
00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:40,040
Speaker 2: her racing in that you know, we might see remember

504
00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 2: when Michael Phelps would come out, he'd have like.

505
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 1: The big headphones on. It's like listening to before Eraces.

506
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,119
Speaker 2: You know, he's got that pump up mix. Maddie de

507
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,440
Speaker 2: Rosario listens to, in her words, a sad girl playlist,

508
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:56,000
Speaker 2: which is headlined by Hosier. She's listening to Hosey on

509
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,760
Speaker 2: the start line just to chill because she's like, yeah,

510
00:22:58,760 --> 00:22:59,760
Speaker 2: this is what this works.

511
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 1: For me, and doesn't it just doesn't it? Just with

512
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 1: that approach she led to gold Gold Gold, Gold Gold

513
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:05,680
Speaker 1: in Tokyo.

514
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 4: So Maddie's story as to how she became a paralympian

515
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,640
Speaker 4: is that she is in a wheelchair. At age four,

516
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 4: she caught the flu, but she said she didn't have

517
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 4: any symptoms, and there was a rare autoimmune disease that

518
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,240
Speaker 4: then developed and it basically started attacking the flu, but

519
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 4: then also her body itself and the spinal cord. So

520
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 4: while she says, I don't actually have any memories of

521
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,399
Speaker 4: being able bodied, I can like sort of kind of

522
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,560
Speaker 4: remember dancing, but really this has just been me and

523
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 4: my life. And she credits her parents and so such

524
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,439
Speaker 4: a common thread with a lot of these paralympians is

525
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,680
Speaker 4: just how incredible their parents were with giving them every

526
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,120
Speaker 4: opportunity and just treating them like every other kid, which,

527
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 4: of course they are.

528
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 1: The village that it takes.

529
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 2: Yes, right, we often talk about the village that it

530
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:53,200
Speaker 2: takes to raise an athlete. That village is amplified when

531
00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:54,920
Speaker 2: it comes to para athletes.

532
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,639
Speaker 1: Yes, for sure, for sure. Yeah, And I think that

533
00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,439
Speaker 1: one thing. One other thing.

534
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:01,119
Speaker 2: I've got so many fun facts about Maddie because I

535
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 2: just love this much, but I love her coach. And

536
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 2: I think that for people who have just you know,

537
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:09,640
Speaker 2: have seen the Paralympics in their periphery, they're not really

538
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 2: too much across it. I guarantee you know the name

539
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 2: Louise Savage, yes, because she was the in credible Paralympian

540
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,400
Speaker 2: for Australia and I remember watching her at the two

541
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 2: thousand Sydney Paralympics and I would remember her and I

542
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,639
Speaker 2: remember Kurt Fernley, and those are the names that really

543
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 2: did hold up the entire event, let alone just parasport

544
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 2: as a genre, I think, for quite some time. And

545
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,480
Speaker 2: so she now is the one that is mentoring training

546
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:42,480
Speaker 2: and really you know, kind of building these sort of

547
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,640
Speaker 2: foundations and that advocacy into Maddie. And I don't think

548
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:46,639
Speaker 2: that that is a coincidence.

549
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,320
Speaker 4: Louise needs to be in the discussion of one of

550
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:51,160
Speaker 4: our greatest athletes of all time, all time, and.

551
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 2: She's just damn lovely as well, ya so lovely that

552
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 2: which brings us too. So Maddie's going to be a

553
00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 2: flag bearer, you need to flat.

554
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:00,159
Speaker 3: So we've gone.

555
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 4: Captain captain flag bearer now into flag bearer.

556
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 3: Was a lot of leadership.

557
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,160
Speaker 2: Roles and we are heading back to the pool because

558
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 2: one of our most incredible athletes is Brendan Hall, who

559
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 2: was going to be competing at his fifth Paralympic Games

560
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,439
Speaker 2: and that he is going to have the honor of

561
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 2: being a flag bearer as well. He's a three time

562
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:25,119
Speaker 2: Paralympic gold medalist. As you do, as you do again.

563
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 2: I think growing up it was like I was such

564
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 2: a big fan of Matt Cowdrey in the pool, Like

565
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 2: remember him with his little frosted tips and he was

566
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 2: so gorgeous and he was like he was the para

567
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 2: swimmer that I was like, obsessed with everything that you're doing.

568
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 1: The one who was next to him in all.

569
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Speaker 3: Of those places was Brendan Hall.

570
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 1: Was Brendan Hall.

571
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 4: And his events are one hundred meters backstro s nine,

572
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 4: the one hundred meters butterfly s nine, and also the

573
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 4: four hundred meter freestyle S nine.

574
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 2: Too many events, I mean, and too many specialties.

575
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,639
Speaker 4: He's the reigning world record holder in the four hundred,

576
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,399
Speaker 4: the eight hundred and the fifteen hundred.

577
00:25:58,520 --> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 1: What I love with over.

578
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 2: Each overachiever is that when you do get slightly older

579
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 2: and you get more mature, and you have that experience

580
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 2: and you really back what you know works for you,

581
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,679
Speaker 2: it opens up a lot more doors and you get

582
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 2: the freedom to do a lot of different things, try

583
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:15,360
Speaker 2: some different training techniques. For Brendan, that has really transpired

584
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 2: in the love that he's developed for open water swimming.

585
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 2: And so he loves doing it because he says, it's

586
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 2: pretty much a level playing field really when you're out

587
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 2: there in the open water, so he is everyone everyone's

588
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 2: getting smashed, right, and so I think that that him

589
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 2: that's allowed him to get a little bit more fun

590
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 2: in what we know can be a very very grueling regime.

591
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 2: He's also faud he's done avoid, he's done a can

592
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Speaker 2: macka voice.

593
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 3: Let me see later in my career if I can

594
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 3: check this up and make it interesting. Yeah, And I

595
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 3: think it's cool.

596
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 2: This is going to be his farewell games. But he

597
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,159
Speaker 2: has also found a new sense of purpose out of

598
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 2: the pool too. He's got a two year old named

599
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 2: Body who is just.

600
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 4: So slashed across the Classic. He's there carrying him with

601
00:26:58,200 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 4: his ticket to Paris.

602
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,919
Speaker 2: He's just started swimming lessons like he's so gorgeous and

603
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:04,440
Speaker 2: he's got one on the way. So actually he really

604
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 2: doesn't have time when you think about it, to go

605
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 2: from another Paralympic campaign, because he's gonna be busy.

606
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 4: If you to have one child another one on the way,

607
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 4: no one you want to swim into open water, just

608
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 4: keep going and give yourself a break so that no

609
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 4: one can reach you from personal experience.

610
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 3: But someone who we love here to you. We have

611
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 3: to mention col Piers.

612
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 4: You may know him from a certain wulworsad where there

613
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 4: is a jam in a small dairy town and you

614
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 4: can tell they've created a lane by using milk cuttons.

615
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 4: This is a story of Coal Piers and that town.

616
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 4: He says there's more cows than people. It is on

617
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 4: the border of New South Wales and Victoria. And you

618
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 4: just cannot hear this person speak and k not go oh,

619
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 4: I love him. He's your classic Aussie Alarican and his

620
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 4: attitude is incredible, so much so that he lost part

621
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 4: of his foot when he was two years old with

622
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 4: a right on lawnmower accident, which he goes, yeah, it

623
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 4: sounds bad, but it wasn't a big deal, like I

624
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 4: don't remember it, like whatever, like whatever, I don't really

625
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,439
Speaker 4: remember it. And he was like all through school like

626
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:13,640
Speaker 4: I competed with all my mates and by that, I'm

627
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 4: sure you want me to say able bodied people, but

628
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 4: sure like he just was never treated any differently and that's.

629
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Speaker 3: The key, right totally.

630
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 2: He even credits like the doctor who treated him at

631
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,160
Speaker 2: the Royal Children's Hospital way back when for telling his

632
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 2: parents to let Cole.

633
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 1: Do whatever he wants.

634
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 2: We'll put him back together if he hurts himself again,

635
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 2: you know, let him be a kid. And I think

636
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,919
Speaker 2: that that is so key for people who have a

637
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 2: disability if they get one and later in life, if

638
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 2: they get one when they are this young, because there

639
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 2: is that sense of agency that's often taken away from

640
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 2: them in so many different areas to life, but sport

641
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 2: gives it back to.

642
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 4: Them absolutely, and that this I absolutely love because it

643
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 4: is at the core of why the Paralympics are so important.

644
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 4: At nine years old, after London, he met Ellie cole

645
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 4: No and saw her medals and was saying, just saw

646
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 4: her gold and he was like, as a nine year old,

647
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 4: I just went, that's it, like this, this is.

648
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 3: What I'm doing.

649
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 4: And he also he said he'd found swimming in that time,

650
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 4: but it was the first time that he was like, well,

651
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 4: she doesn't have a leg. Yeah, I mean I don't

652
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 4: have a foot, so if she can do it, I

653
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 4: can do it. Like I'm like, I'm going gun ho

654
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 4: for this, and he went so gun ho that at

655
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 4: fourteen years old it was a massive decision for his family.

656
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 4: He moved to Melbourne to allow himself to train and

657
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 4: moved in with his sister, who was twenty five at

658
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 4: the time. This is he said that the town that

659
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 4: he grew up and had more cows than people. So

660
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 4: that's a massive jump, huge culture to then be in

661
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 4: moni ponds and trying to have a crack at something.

662
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 4: But you remember, and this is why the Wooly story

663
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 4: is so fantastic because during COVID he went back to

664
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 4: the farm ye and there was nowhere for him to train,

665
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 4: So he created a lane in a family damn at

666
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 4: the farm that he went, if you duck dived down,

667
00:29:57,920 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 4: you ain't coming back up. No one knows what's in

668
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 4: this damn. And he said it got so cold, like

669
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 4: we're talking to zero zero degrees that he had to

670
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 4: swim in a wetsuit until his body actually warmed up

671
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 4: enough that he could do.

672
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 3: But such was his dedication and want to do it.

673
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 4: And I just love that this ad campaign hasn't been

674
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 4: running just in the lead up to the Power Games.

675
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 4: It was arguably the hero campaign of the Olympics. He's

676
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 4: on billboards around Australia and I just think again, the

677
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 4: more that you get to know Cole and his story

678
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 4: and also his personality, the fact that he's like, how

679
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 4: am I on billboard?

680
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 1: Like that?

681
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 3: That's the worst accent ever And that's not how he talked.

682
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 1: I'm sorry Cole listens to that.

683
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 4: But it's more like he's just your classic Aussie Alaric

684
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 4: and that you can't help but love. And on top

685
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 4: of that, he's actually ranked number one in the world

686
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 4: in the men's individual medley.

687
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: Yes I'm expecting huge things, ye, huge things.

688
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 4: That's him in the two hundred meters, so he's like

689
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 4: his peedivent was always a one hundred meter fly. He

690
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 4: wasn't happy about how he performed at the trials, but

691
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 4: in the medley, which is only recently found, he's like,

692
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 4: I'm going in the Hunted, which I don't mind, like

693
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 4: I like, I'll take that on. But the thought of

694
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 4: him winning gold just or just like just cold.

695
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 2: He's got to touch to the Molo Callahan's about him

696
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 2: that in that have both red hair, both nervous athletes,

697
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 2: like really because he does kind of I think he

698
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 2: would run the race before like he's even in the water,

699
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 2: if that makes sense.

700
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: He's going through absolutely everything.

701
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 2: So if he can handle those nerves wrangle them into energy,

702
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 2: that's going to help him be able to perform the

703
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 2: best that he can. I'm expecting podium one thousand percent.

704
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 2: Does he have the MO.

705
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: I'm not sure.

706
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 2: We'll see he's going to swim with the mo because

707
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 2: sometimes he doesn't do well with the MO and he's

708
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 2: like the mos gone and he.

709
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: Shaves it off. I love him. I love him.

710
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 3: Go col Go, col Go.

711
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 2: Col Oh my goodness, jellmy, do we have time for

712
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 2: one more?

713
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 4: We do because we can't not mention it Alexilary. We've

714
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 4: already spoken about Alexilary on this podcast, and again honorable

715
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 4: mentions to Vanessa Lo, who it can only be described

716
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 4: as a superhero.

717
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 3: We need to jump up. I think we'll go her

718
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 3: next week, we'll give her an airtime.

719
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 4: But Alexa Leary just stole the hearts of the entire

720
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 4: country with one of the most heartfelt and beautiful post

721
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 4: race interviews that you'll ever see. Dad crying, Mum crying

722
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 4: because Georgie, I mean, in her own words, she's not

723
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 4: meant to be here. She had a terrible cycling accident.

724
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 4: She was a very promising and by promising, I mean

725
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 4: winning national titles as a triathlete growing up. Had an

726
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 4: accident on her bike and the damage that she caused

727
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 4: to her brain, her neck. She also had several bones

728
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 4: broken and punctured her lung.

729
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: That was only in twenty twenty one.

730
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 4: One hundred and eleven days in hospital with a mum

731
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 4: and dad by her side, and they were told several

732
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 4: times to say goodbye. They turned off the machine and

733
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 4: it became clear that Alexa wasn't breathing for herself, so

734
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 4: they turned it back on and basically brought her family

735
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 4: in and said you need to say goodbye.

736
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, multiple times, multiple times. I've been fortunate enough to

737
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 2: interview her family, her gorgeous parents and Alexa and the

738
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 2: love that they have for each other, but also you

739
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 2: can see it in her parents' faces.

740
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: There's almost like it's they're kind of haunted.

741
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 2: It's like they always look at her because they can't

742
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 2: believe that she's there because they were told so directly,

743
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 2: make peace with it. Right now, she's not going to

744
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 2: come back. And then at every single step that was

745
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 2: the choice was there for her, she took the other

746
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 2: one and she's lived, lived, lived, She's always chosen life.

747
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 2: She gets out of hospital, she starts her training because

748
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 2: she's like, well, I can be an athlete again. I

749
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 2: was an athlete before, I'll be an athlete now. And

750
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 2: some athlete that she has become because at those national

751
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 2: swimming trials I think it was in June or July

752
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 2: of this year where she qualified for the Paralympic team.

753
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 2: It's her smiling face that everyone remembers, and it is

754
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 2: this post race interview where she's secured her spot on

755
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 2: the plane to Paris that lives rent free in our mind.

756
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of myself. I'll really that, I am

757
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: so proud of myself.

758
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 3: What about Dad and Mum? Those messages?

759
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 2: What did that mean a lot?

760
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 4: Because they're like, honestly, but I'm gonna be honest, there

761
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 4: the reason why I'm here.

762
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: They've never left my side.

763
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 3: That six months in that hospital never left me. They're

764
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 3: gonna do all the way through to Paris as well.

765
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 2: Chah and my siblings they're coming too, on one of

766
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 2: seven and we're all common. I remember when we played

767
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 2: that when it happened, Jelly, and you were a puddle

768
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:29,800
Speaker 2: of tears.

769
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:30,800
Speaker 1: And I can see.

770
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:34,359
Speaker 2: It right now, you're trying not to cry one day.

771
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 4: Oh here Alexis story and it won't make me emotional today.

772
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,839
Speaker 3: It's not that day. And it doesn't matter how many

773
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 3: times I hear it.

774
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 4: I just think what her parents have been through, what

775
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 4: she's been through, her amazing disposition. In a world where

776
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 4: there are some headlines that are just rubbish, she's just

777
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 4: this shining beacon of joy and Australia has wrapped her

778
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 4: arms around her.

779
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 3: She's been in the feature cover of magazines.

780
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she's been on the front cover of Della. Yeah,

781
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:01,399
Speaker 1: don't mind if you do.

782
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 3: Look like an amaze glamour.

783
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 4: So she's in the fifty meter freestyle in the S

784
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 4: nine classification. That's what she wanted. The Australian Swimming Trials.

785
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 4: You'll remember, but just a start to watch someone we've

786
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 4: fallen in love with. And again, I hate to say

787
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 4: it because people used to say it before I became

788
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 4: a parent and shut up. But when you become a parent,

789
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 4: the thought of sitting at your kid's bedside and thinking

790
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,760
Speaker 4: they're not going to be there, and then the journey

791
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 4: to then watch her at trials as Australia cheered her

792
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 4: home and her dad being hysterically, Oh I can't.

793
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 2: Her dad just makes me cry. I look at his face.

794
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 2: I cry if.

795
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 4: He doesn't get the same coverage as Steve Tipmas at

796
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:42,479
Speaker 4: these games.

797
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 3: I'm going to write, I'm actually going to write, I

798
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 3: want he will locked off camera? He will, he will

799
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 3: locked off camera.

800
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 2: And we talked about how Maddie de Rosario uses Hosier

801
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 2: to chill out before her races.

802
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,760
Speaker 1: DJ slightly different, slightly different for Alexa.

803
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 2: She's a DJ, and what I loved when I to

804
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 2: talk to her I asked her about her love for music,

805
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 2: and she's always liked it, but since her brain injury,

806
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,399
Speaker 2: music has taken on a whole different meaning because there's

807
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 2: a part of her brain now that really is just

808
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 2: so in touch with music and it's the beat of

809
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 2: it and it's how it makes her feel.

810
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: So yes, she's.

811
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 2: DJing when she's out of the pool, and she's always dancing,

812
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 2: she's always singing, and she is just joy personified.

813
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: We wish her well.

814
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 4: It is almost uncomfortable how many stories we have to

815
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 4: leave out.

816
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: I know, but I refuse to leave this one out.

817
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 2: Sorry, okay, just really quickly, just really quickly, I'm like, oh,

818
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 2: I just want to give a really quick shout out

819
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 2: to Dan Michelle, who is our leading botcher player. He

820
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 2: won bronze in Tokyo. And really this is just a

821
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 2: PSA for you all to think about the sport botcher.

822
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: Try and find it. It is one.

823
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 2: It's a sport along with goldball at the Paralympics that

824
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 2: does not have an Olympic counterpart. It's essentially the best

825
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 2: way that I can describe it. It's like lawn bowls,

826
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 2: but times by a thousand, and it's for people who

827
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 2: have very severe physical disability. They'll be in their mobility

828
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 2: chairs and often with Dan at least, Dan can't use

829
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 2: his arms, so when he's playing botcher, which is essentially

830
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 2: getting one ball as close to the jack as possible,

831
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 2: he needs his ramp assistant who's a lovely, gorgeous girl

832
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 2: named Ash Madden, who can kind of she's not allowed

833
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 2: to see anything happening. She can't know where the ball is.

834
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:20,919
Speaker 2: You can't see that. She just has to look at Dan.

835
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 2: He'll tell her where he wants the ramp to go.

836
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 2: She'll position it, and then Dan will actually use a

837
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 2: device in his mouth that then sends the ball down

838
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 2: this ramp and it goes and it's like that's his

839
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 2: perfect throat essentially. And so for me, it's one of

840
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 2: those sports that you just don't usually get to see

841
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 2: every day, and it's one that you go wow wow.

842
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 2: And for someone like Dan who grew up loving sport,

843
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 2: he's a mad Roosters fan, you can't have it all.

844
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:49,720
Speaker 3: We don't like the Roosters.

845
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: Dan, I'm so sorry.

846
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:52,800
Speaker 3: Sounds like a good bloke up until.

847
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: Until that point.

848
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 2: Until that point, but he grew up with Cronulla with

849
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 2: his younger brother and his younger brother mad sports. Family

850
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 2: could play all of the sport that Dan couldn't. He

851
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 2: always wanted to and then he found Botcher and it

852
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 2: just opened up so much life for him. And I

853
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:07,879
Speaker 2: encourage everyone.

854
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 3: To watch the stories.

855
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 4: Oh that we're going to get to hear yes about

856
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 4: these one hundred and sixty odd athletes that we are

857
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 4: sending to Paris, and I just think, engage in it.

858
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 4: Talk to your family about it, talk to your.

859
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: Mate about the video, share.

860
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 4: All of the engage in it, because like even they're

861
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 4: just the most this is what sport's about. This is

862
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 4: what sport is about. And we couldn't be more pumped.

863
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 4: And it's again upsetting that we can't run for four

864
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 4: hundred hours here because I couldn't because we could go

865
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 4: through every single athlete and champion then. But we are

866
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 4: already so bloody proud. Go Australia, Georgie. Yes, I've got

867
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 4: a fun fact that wasn't a fun fact until a couple.

868
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 3: Of days ago. Have I got you hooked?

869
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:56,479
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you got me hooked?

870
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 3: Thank you hooked?

871
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 4: A bizarre tattoo band has been lifted days outed from

872
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 4: the Paris Games for the Paralympics, because in the lead

873
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 4: up to this episode, I was like, well, do we

874
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 4: need to discuss to sist because Paralympians aren't able to

875
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 4: have tattoos that are branded, I e. If they were

876
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 4: to have the Olympic rings, which we know some para

877
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 4: athletes do because they were previously Olympians and now competing

878
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 4: in the Para Games, they faced disqualification because those rings

879
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 4: are technically a brand again, something else that you're like, oh, cool,

880
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 4: para athletes being subject to rules that able body athletes.

881
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, what a load of rubbish.

882
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: Yes, anyway, where's the common sense?

883
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 4: Mere days ago and we're talking the twenty fifth of

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Speaker 4: August because of the outcry nationally about how terrible a

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Speaker 4: rule that was, they've lifted it.

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Speaker 3: So now Paralympians can have the Olympic rings.

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Speaker 4: That is a fun fact because it was a very

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Speaker 4: You might have seen their headlines because I know that

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Speaker 4: we ran it in news as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they ran whole stories on it, being like isn't

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Speaker 2: this crazy?

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Speaker 1: You could see Paralympians discuss the projects if they.

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Speaker 2: Were showing that branding, branding being the Olympic rings. Now,

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Speaker 2: do all Paralympians want a tattoo of the Olympic rings? No,

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Speaker 2: the Paralympics do have their own different logo, different logo.

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Speaker 2: But for those athletes who it does affect, this is

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Speaker 2: huge that they are now able to just like carry

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Speaker 1: What a stupid rule.

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Speaker 4: And also, do you know what, I will give it

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Speaker 4: credit for so much of the stories that we saw

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Speaker 4: during the Olympics. Hello a monk lyf showed the worst

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Speaker 4: side of social media where people just jumped on the

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Speaker 4: back of something and things escalated and it wasn't great.

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Speaker 4: People jumped on the back of this, It escalated and

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Speaker 4: it got resolved.

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Speaker 3: Hey, power to the people. Power to the people.

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Speaker 4: Go and get whatever tattoos you want, get the golden

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Speaker 4: arches on your chest for all we care.

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Speaker 1: Please and we will see you next week. Until then, though,

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Speaker 1: watch the Paralympics.