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Andrew Alderson: Ellesse Andrews claims second gold in individual sprint in Paris · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Andrew Ordison, he's here for sport. Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: You think it nice to be nice to be with
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  Speaker 2: you role with that question, that's just roll that grenade
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  Speaker 2: rolled in my direction.
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  Speaker 1: I mean my theory is that and what do I know,
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  Speaker 1: But we're more progressive as a country when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to women's involvement in sports, and potentially I like that theory.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's maridown that hasn't always been the way.
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  Speaker 2: Plus I think there's more. Well, it's a fact that
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  Speaker 2: there's definite balance now can cross the competition. So women
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  Speaker 2: are getting, you know, fifty percent of the positions to
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  Speaker 2: even test in these events. So once upon a time
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  Speaker 2: they are quite skewed in favor of men some of
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  Speaker 2: the like the fragmants late the rowing or kayaking even
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  Speaker 2: and those sorts of things. And that has now gone
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  Speaker 2: back rightfully so so that you do have genuine equality
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  Speaker 2: rather than just paying lip service to it. So that's
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  Speaker 2: that's a good thing. And I think, yeah, I'm reluctant
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  Speaker 2: to sort of weigh in on the you know, or
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  Speaker 2: the women are better than men are better whatever argument,
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  Speaker 2: because I think some of those athletes it just could
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  Speaker 2: be celebrated the middle of the Olympic Games. That takes
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  Speaker 2: a hell of an achievement to do that, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a probably testament to the system and hopefully,
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  Speaker 2: I mean just in the wider context of the Games
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  Speaker 2: now for New Zealand, hopefully we're addressing the well being
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  Speaker 2: element versus the performance and we're still coming up with
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  Speaker 2: the medal, so hopefully that will continue, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: the wake of you know what was some pretty devastating
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  Speaker 2: scenes with the post Tokyo.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely and sticking with with cycling some fantastic yes results.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's the key sport, isn't it really with if
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about the you know, the devastation with Olivia
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  Speaker 2: Podmore posts Tokyo, and it just seemed to me, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just just engauge here and anecdotally that they seem to
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  Speaker 2: speak pretty authentically the cyclist this time. Andrews is a
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  Speaker 2: terrific front person for that. I mean, winning the two
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  Speaker 2: gold and the one silver, but even today we had
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  Speaker 2: Ali Wallaston as well with the bronze to add to
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  Speaker 2: her silver. I just thought they were great and just
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  Speaker 2: it seemed that, yeah, that things may have changed in
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  Speaker 2: their regard, which is an awesome thing in their program.
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  Speaker 1: I watched the Simone Barles documentary yesterday on Netflix. Have
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  Speaker 1: you seen that?
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  Speaker 2: No? I haven't, but I've heard of it. Brilliant little
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  Speaker 2: co quoted something out of it on the weekend when
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  Speaker 2: she when she won so.
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  Speaker 1: And she just talks about that. That's gear change that
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  Speaker 1: they've had to have over there and coaching, where it
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  Speaker 1: was just hard, hard hard work work, work, train train,
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  Speaker 1: train until we break you, whereas now they'll take into account,
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  Speaker 1: you know what you're actually thinking.
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  Speaker 2: About all for the balance, you know, because just well
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  Speaker 2: in the otherwise you're becoming like a the East German
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  Speaker 2: system of the eighties or the Russian system, et cetera,
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  Speaker 2: where you're expendable and you're yeah, like you say, until
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  Speaker 2: you break and then okay, you're worthless to us. Now, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's not that's not sport at the at its
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  Speaker 2: optimum level.
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  Speaker 1: No, speaking of sport, not at its optimum level.
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  Speaker 2: They've picked a good weekend to lose.
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  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, well exactly that they're only losers in town, right,
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  Speaker 1: everyone else's winning gold. But tell me what happened, because
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  Speaker 1: I actually started watching it and I thought, no, this
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  Speaker 1: will win, this and I just went, I did something
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  Speaker 1: else and then we lost.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I didn't see much of either because we were
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  Speaker 2: commentating the Olympic Games, but it's I think, from what
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  Speaker 2: I can gather, the Argentina just gritted it out more
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  Speaker 2: and they've got that incredible forward pack et cetera. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just they were better for the tasking Neil Blecks probably
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  Speaker 2: just need to assess where their game plan is at. Yeah, especially,
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  Speaker 2: I mean I think, yeah, it makes makes the Rugby
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  Speaker 2: Championship all the more intriguing against you know, Straighters to
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  Speaker 2: African Cita.
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  Speaker 1: They true and that actually is They're playing an Auctord
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  Speaker 1: next week coming Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean I know they're talking about not that
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  Speaker 2: many tickets were sold for Wellington, but I'll bet they'll
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  Speaker 2: be sold out this weekend. Andrew, looking for the retribution.
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  Speaker 1: We'll look forward to the game. Thank you very much, Andrew.
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