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Ryan Bridge: I love watching the Olympics, but there have been a few dampeners · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: I love watching the Olympics. I've told you this before,
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  Speaker 1: and you know I'm still watching. I'm still excited, but
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  Speaker 1: there are just a few little niggly things that are
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  Speaker 1: putting a slight dampner on it for me. The river
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  Speaker 1: sin dirty again. Did you see that in the news overnight?
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  Speaker 1: That's the second day with no practice. I mean, you've
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  Speaker 1: got to do a triathlon. You want to practice swimming
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  Speaker 1: in the river that you're going to compete in, but
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  Speaker 1: you can't because it's dirty. It's filled with the coalie
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  Speaker 1: and it rained in the weekend. It's still affecting the
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  Speaker 1: water quality. So that's the second day in a row
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  Speaker 1: with no practice and you won't know whether you're going
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  Speaker 1: to swim in the Sein until four hours before the
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  Speaker 1: race is due to start. Could this have been avoided?
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  Speaker 1: Could you have picked another river you know to swim?
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  Speaker 1: And I would have thought so. The opening ceremony, that's
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  Speaker 1: another thing. I mean, obviously Celendon was amazing, but the
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  Speaker 1: weird meandering lead up to Selene was the athletes themselves
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  Speaker 1: are actually complaining about the beds being uncomfortable, the room's
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  Speaker 1: been too hot, the food is bad, and they say
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  Speaker 1: this is affecting their chance of breaking world records. That's
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  Speaker 1: not great. Donna Demeyo actually is going to talk to
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  Speaker 1: us about that shortly from Australia. The other thing is
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  Speaker 1: that we've got no medals. And I'm not complaining because
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  Speaker 1: obviously I'm not there racing myself. I'm not jumping in
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  Speaker 1: the pool and swimming, so I'm not going to complain
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  Speaker 1: about that. But it is nice to win a medal,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it, And we haven't done that yet. And then
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  Speaker 1: there's the Canadian football team who've cheated. They now want
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  Speaker 1: the points that have been deducted put back on. Should
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  Speaker 1: you still be able to remain in the Olympics when
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  Speaker 1: you've essentially cheated? I mean, imagine if the Canadian women's
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  Speaker 1: football team actually got the gold medal even though those
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  Speaker 1: sent drones up in the air. Does that seem fair?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. So there's just a few problems that
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  Speaker 1: seem to be quite avoidable, a few rules that seem
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  Speaker 1: to be a little bit unfair. However, in saying all
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  Speaker 1: of that, I'm still watching and for more from News
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