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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nison.

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Speaker 2: We're just a few days into the Games, but already

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Speaker 2: our Aussie athletes are cleaning up in the pool. That's

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Speaker 2: what we would do great and cleaning up in the pool.

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Speaker 2: If anything I can do is clean a pool very well.

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Speaker 2: You have always been a good pool boy.

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Speaker 1: The vacuum going slowly down the side of the pool.

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Speaker 2: I've never heard it called that before. But our swimming

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Speaker 2: expert on stand Sports Olympic coverage is none other than

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Speaker 2: Grant Hackett. What would he know about swimming plenty?

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Speaker 3: Hello mate, morning guys. How you doing great?

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Speaker 1: Morning?

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Speaker 3: Grant?

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Speaker 1: How are you?

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Speaker 2: Mate?

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Speaker 1: We met about twenty five years ago at a function.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I do, I do. I think we did a

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Speaker 3: bit of a bit of work I think on TV

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Speaker 3: at some stage, but again I think that was probably

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Speaker 3: about twenty years ago, Scotty. But you are.

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Speaker 1: You are a superstar. And I want to ask you

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Speaker 1: about Emma mckenn's how she's become the most successful Olympian

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Speaker 1: for gold? Is that six goals she's got? But isn't

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Speaker 1: there some I'm confused because Ariana Tipnas has got a

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Speaker 1: similar amount of gold, or she's got more medals in total.

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Speaker 3: So the way it works, I mean, yeah, there's kind

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Speaker 3: of two scoreboards on this one. There's the amount of

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Speaker 3: gold medals, which Emma mckein's got six and she's got

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Speaker 3: twelve in total. But it's hard to get a like

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Speaker 3: for like with someone like her and Arian Tipness because

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Speaker 3: Arian Tipness can only really do one relay, which is

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Speaker 3: the women's four x two freestyle relay. You don't get

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Speaker 3: the other realized, such as the mixed relay, the medley relay,

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Speaker 3: and the women's four by one sprint freestyle relay. So

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Speaker 3: it's often the sprinters will end up collecting a lot

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Speaker 3: more metals if you are in some of those relays

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Speaker 3: as well as your individual events. So I mean it's

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Speaker 3: really hard to split your splitting hairs when you talk

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Speaker 3: about performances in terms of our own Tipmas and Emma McKean.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, Emma has certainly got the most medals and

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Speaker 3: most gold medals after beating in Thorp, who had five

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Speaker 3: gold medals in total with that women's four by one

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Speaker 3: freestyle relay on the first night. And with the.

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Speaker 2: Rivalry we've said a lot of the rivalry between US

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Speaker 2: and the US, how real is that.

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Speaker 3: It's very real, very real, particularly on that first night

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Speaker 3: where we took two gold medals and two silver medals

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Speaker 3: out of four events that were on offer. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's always been fierce. I mean, actually I talked to

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Speaker 3: Michael Phelps throughout the course of the competition and we're

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Speaker 3: always sort of towing and throwing over you know, who's

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Speaker 3: going to win what event. But yeah, over the years

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Speaker 3: that that rival has always been there. And you know,

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Speaker 3: we're a small country where twenty eight million people gets

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Speaker 3: three ound and fifty million people, so we always batting

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Speaker 3: above our weight. We're always the underdog against the US,

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Speaker 3: but we certainly know how to throw the gauntlet down

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Speaker 3: to them, and particularly on the women's side. I mean,

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Speaker 3: they are unbelievable and there's still a lot of gold

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Speaker 3: medals that we're going to see come from their events.

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Speaker 1: Yet it is amazing about that population difference and how

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Speaker 1: good we go against the rest of the world. It's incredible.

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Speaker 1: Now make grant you two thousand and two thousand and four,

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Speaker 1: well on the padium with gold, with the anthem going

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Speaker 1: and every person in Australia, the average person like Jones myself,

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Speaker 1: who dream I was standing on that podium with the

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Speaker 1: anthem going, what is that like?

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Speaker 3: It's it is pretty hard to describe, to be honest,

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Speaker 3: because you know people see that moment, but it's I mean,

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Speaker 3: I started swimming when I was four, and I was

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Speaker 3: doing sixteen kilometers per week, six days a week, you know,

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Speaker 3: to get myself to an Olympic Games and to give

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Speaker 3: people a bit of an insight into how far I

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Speaker 3: would swim every four years effectively effectively swim from Sydney

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Speaker 3: to la and halfway back. And I couldn't just you know,

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Speaker 3: plod up and down. You have to do it better

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Speaker 3: once you get that that very very small window to

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Speaker 3: win an Olympic Games, you want to make sure you

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Speaker 3: take it. And that's what makes the Olympic so special,

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Speaker 3: the fact that it is every four years.

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Speaker 2: And you could talk about all that stuff and then

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Speaker 2: you look at the synchronized divers and just one bad

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Speaker 2: bounce on the diving board and you robbed of all

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Speaker 2: those all that I was just in like a nanosecond.

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Speaker 3: Well, so for every gold medalist that you see there,

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Speaker 3: there's probably about another one hundred or another thousand that

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Speaker 3: reality of the Games. You know, if you're not on

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Speaker 3: to that day mentally, you're just not there. Got a

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Speaker 3: of you can comes up and frightens you a little bit,

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Speaker 3: don't execute that perfect race or to your point there, James,

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Speaker 3: is that perfect dive. That's the difference between gold and

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Speaker 3: silver or a metal and going home with tin and

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Speaker 3: being and fourth because it's.

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Speaker 1: That brutal and the Australia's behind everybody no matter what

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Speaker 1: you do, and we know the effort that's gone into it.

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Speaker 1: It's incredible and you know when we see that heartbreak,

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Speaker 1: we're all feeling it at the same time because we

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Speaker 1: know the effort that's gone into it. Mate, who should

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Speaker 1: we start looking keeping a class eye on coming up

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Speaker 1: in the next.

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Speaker 3: Couple the next couple of days. So overnight you're going

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Speaker 3: to see the women's trying to meet a freestyle. Now,

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Speaker 3: this could be the only event in the Olympic Games

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Speaker 3: and across any sport, male or female, that you could

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Speaker 3: see first the second so we've got Arion Tipmus, who's

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Speaker 3: the world record holder in this race in great form,

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Speaker 3: already won the women's find MIU of freestyle. But then

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Speaker 3: she's going up against her fellow Austrain, who is the

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Speaker 3: former world record holder in this event, Molly O'Callahan. Now

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Speaker 3: she's already been part of the four x one freestyle

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Speaker 3: women's freestyle gold medal that was one a night one

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Speaker 3: one and two and perhaps a world record along with that.

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Speaker 3: And then later on the week we've got to see

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Speaker 3: the likes of Kaylen McEwen of course in the backstroke events,

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Speaker 3: and also look out for Cole Chalmers and that men's

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Speaker 3: hundred of freestyle. He looks sensation all the men's four

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Speaker 3: by one. He took a second off in that last

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Speaker 3: one hundred in his leg. He took a second off

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Speaker 3: the reigning Olympic champion, and the men's hundred and that

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Speaker 3: in great form. So yeah, we got we've got plenty

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Speaker 2: I think we're both getting our eagle tattoos on our chessman, Scotty.

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Speaker 1: I've got one wing done already, got to go back

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Speaker 1: for the other.

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Speaker 2: I'm just worried about my man boom Mine. It's gonna

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Speaker 2: work out a little bit well, Grant, it's not going to.

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Speaker 3: Look quite the same. I'd love to see it.

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Speaker 3: Us, nor thanks for having me on JIMS to you, boy,