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Ryan Bridge: Our biggest ever athletics team heading to Paris - and it's quite exciting · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Amous Kerr, you might recall the name. He's our high jumper,
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  Speaker 1: one gold at the Calm Games so far, hasn't won
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  Speaker 1: anything at the Olympics, hasn't got an Olympic medal. But
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  Speaker 1: boy is he looking good for Paris. He's apparently in
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  Speaker 1: great shape, great form. The opening ceremony kicks off this
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  Speaker 1: Saturday morning, by the way, very excited. Yeah, apparently he's
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  Speaker 1: peaking right at the just at the right time. He's
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  Speaker 1: taken up the men's high jump title at the London
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  Speaker 1: Diamond League Athletics meet. He cleared two point three meters there.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine that, clearing two point three meters in the high jump.
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  Speaker 1: He also won in Monaco earlier this month, where he
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  Speaker 1: cleared two point three to three and that equaled his
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  Speaker 1: personal best in an outdoor event. So the men's high
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  Speaker 1: jump for those who are interested, is on August the seventh,
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  Speaker 1: which local time, which means it'll be the eighth for us.
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  Speaker 1: The opening ceremony is this Saturday morning. The time is
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  Speaker 1: five thirty am, so set your alarms, get up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit early. Apparently the ceremony will peak at seven
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  Speaker 1: thirty in the morning because that'll be the sunset and Paris. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I just love this. It's our biggest ever athletics team
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  Speaker 1: heading to Paris this year, apparently heading to the Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: And there's nothing quite like sitting down on the couch
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  Speaker 1: for hours on end with some Bicki's and a cup
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  Speaker 1: of tea, watching these incredibly disciplined, unbelievably skilled and fit
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  Speaker 1: athletes perform for the world. It's almost like because you're
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  Speaker 1: watching them do such athletic things that you don't feel
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  Speaker 1: lazy for essentially just sitting and watching television for hours
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  Speaker 1: on end. It is incredible. It is great to watch,
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  Speaker 1: and there's something emotional about the games too. There's always
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  Speaker 1: tears and joy and exhaustion. It's humans who are dedicating
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  Speaker 1: themselves to something for years, for their life sometimes and
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  Speaker 1: knowing all of that comes down to just a few
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  Speaker 1: seconds in a race or a game or an event.
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  Speaker 1: It's perseverance and dedication on full display. And I just
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  Speaker 1: love it. So Hamish Kurr to the record seventeen athletes
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  Speaker 1: that we are sending from the athletics team and the
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  Speaker 1: entire team of one hundred and ninety five kiwis who
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  Speaker 1: will be wearing the fern in Paris, good luck. We'll
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