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Andrew Alderson: Sports Journalist on Super Rugby, Jannik Sinner's doping ban, Shane van Gisbergen has entering his maiden Daytona 500 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Look who's in the studio is Andrew Ordison got Super Rugby.
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  Speaker 1: You know, during the week I was thinking Super Rubby
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  Speaker 1: too soon, too hot, and then of course what happened.
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  Speaker 1: I watched all of it over the weekend and the
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  Speaker 1: crowds were big and the footy was great. I think
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  Speaker 1: a compelling start and also those closest games as well.
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  Speaker 1: I think it had really helped with keeping you, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: entertained and engaged in all those fixtures. So yeah, good starting.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know when you see that the Blues
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  Speaker 2: are kept on the bottom of the table at the moment,
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  Speaker 2: defending Jambians up for the first week, well you've got
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  Speaker 2: to go that decent competition.
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  Speaker 1: That's because some father called Damian McKenzie, who had a
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  Speaker 1: funny old season last year he was either genius ordatrocious,
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  Speaker 1: shows that he's learned something over the off season.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well that's right, and you know he's got a
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  Speaker 2: guess some of incentive still to go Damian McKenzie to
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  Speaker 2: be in the mix et cent for the All Blacks
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  Speaker 2: later on and those sorts of things. So yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: I mean, whine A Pacific are putting up a good
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  Speaker 2: show as well.
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  Speaker 1: They traveled halfway around the world and took the Western
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  Speaker 1: Force to town and only lost by one US is
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  Speaker 1: it forty five forty four?
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I mean that's all part of it,
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  Speaker 2: is it? But I think most people would be quite
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  Speaker 2: entertained by that first week and just your boats well
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  Speaker 2: for the competition, because I'm always reluctant as well. I
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  Speaker 2: think I'm mid February. Is that really the time to
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  Speaker 2: be starting rugby?
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, great and warm, Yeah, and it made for
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  Speaker 1: some running rub.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly exactly and the part of grounds, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: So that definitely helps two things. Yannick Simmer, the Italian
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  Speaker 1: tennis player, doping and all that sort of thing, tell
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  Speaker 1: me about what's happening with that band?
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  Speaker 2: Well not, it's a bit of a sweetheart deal and
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  Speaker 2: what will be a two year band has been reduced
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  Speaker 2: to three months. Probably some good lawyers involved there, but
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  Speaker 2: it's the fact that it really is we bus ticket
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  Speaker 2: type type punishment and he's not even going to miss
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  Speaker 2: the French Open, so it's three months. So it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of negotiated and it looks like he's had more power
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  Speaker 2: than actually the institutions involved in running the sport. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that he's able to negotiate the deal.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm sorry, the excuse seemed flimsy. Yeah, exactly, exactly so.
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  Speaker 2: And I just think doping's doping, and you've got it.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to be so vigilant about that. And others
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  Speaker 2: have gone for skates for probably lesser crimes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, and that remember, well the other was lucky.
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  Speaker 1: He is lucky. I think so too. Meanwhile, shanevan Gisberg
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  Speaker 1: is doing the Daytona five hundred the super Speedway and
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  Speaker 1: I was hearing that over the news. You know, this
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  Speaker 1: is a very even competition. I actually think he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be quite good because he's an elbows out driver. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I always I don't like that description.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, it's and and of course with the Dayton
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  Speaker 2: five hundred, I think they'd reduce the horsepower down at
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  Speaker 2: least from what correspondents telling us, and that means you
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  Speaker 2: get more pack racing involved in it. And I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: we'll become experts on dayton across the course of the morning.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it's it's another for a by New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand motorsport driver to the top echelon of a certain
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  Speaker 2: discipline and I think we're going to look back on
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  Speaker 2: this as a real golden era for New Zealanders and
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  Speaker 2: most across the board.
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  Speaker 1: So you've seen Liam Lawson playing the guitar, No, it's
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  Speaker 1: on social media, came out.
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  Speaker 2: He just sits.
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  Speaker 1: He's amazing and he can sing. I mean, is there
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  Speaker 1: that right? Is there nothing? This is what we can't do?
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  Speaker 1: Is no end to his talents? Yeah? Look, and also
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  Speaker 1: I really loved all your skiing, your skiing commentary, just
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  Speaker 1: the tricks and the names of the tricks. It's like
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  Speaker 1: you're speaking another language. It is.
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  Speaker 2: I've got no idea what I'm saying, but there I
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  Speaker 2: felt like putting allegedly in front of it. Sick work
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