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Barra's Bits - His Mission In Life Is Way Beyond The Pool · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: When you hit off with your mates and you'll just
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  Speaker 1: crack gags, added a lot of color hum time.
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  Speaker 2: He went to boss level for Bara's fears.
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  Speaker 1: Have some of this bang goals Bara's this morning. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Six more gold for the Aussies overnight as well. So
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  Speaker 1: we're up to thirty five now at the Koonwawf Games
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  Speaker 1: and they had the one hundred meter final, the sprint final.
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  Speaker 1: Lockie Kennedy broke the national record nine to eighty five.
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  Speaker 1: Tory Lewis broke the national record as well. But some
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  Speaker 1: things are much more important than that, and for me,
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  Speaker 1: the most incredible moment of the Games has been this
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  Speaker 1: inspirational Scottish swimmer Archie Goodburn. Have you seen him? He
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  Speaker 1: broke down after his race. He wanted to make the
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  Speaker 1: final of the fifty breast stroke final at the Koonwath Games. Right,
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  Speaker 1: he's a twenty five year old. That's his childhood dream
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  Speaker 1: to race in a major final. And then he reveals
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  Speaker 1: that he's battling untreatable terminal brain cancer and his real
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  Speaker 1: mission in life. Life is beyond way beyond that. It's
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  Speaker 1: about the pool trying to find a cure for brain cancer,
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  Speaker 1: because it's the biggest killer under the age of forty
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  Speaker 1: in the UK, for people under the age of forty
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  Speaker 1: in the UK, that brain cancer, So mate, did he's
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  Speaker 1: a surprising stat Yeah, I know. I was staggered too.
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  Speaker 1: So he touched the world's everyone's heart. I suppose this
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  Speaker 1: is him straight after the race. He's just finished seventh.
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  Speaker 1: He's achieved his childhood dream and this is what he
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  Speaker 1: talks about.
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  Speaker 2: My dream was made the phone about you know, I
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  Speaker 2: would say the pool. I dream like really fast. I
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  Speaker 2: have a future where brain cancer isn't the biggest killer
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  Speaker 2: of those under forty, where the UK government established a
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  Speaker 2: national brain cancer need to make that change, and much
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  Speaker 2: before that change is made, and that dream is completed
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  Speaker 2: than any of my personal goals in the pool, because
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  Speaker 2: what families young people are going through out there is
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  Speaker 2: there really beyond the comprehension of and so many people
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  Speaker 2: out there and certainly far harder than anything I've ever
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  Speaker 2: had to do as a world gass sports.
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  Speaker 1: But what a great opportunity which he took to get
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  Speaker 1: that message across. Absolutely he may not get past forward
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  Speaker 1: to himself, but he wants to make a difference. So well,
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  Speaker 1: douneto you Archie Goldburn. That's my highlight of the game.
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  Speaker 1: So first world on Archie