Morning Edition: 11 August 2024

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 11 August 2024, straight from the Newstalk ZB newsroom - bringing you everything you need to know in news, politics, business, entertainment and sport.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
No, the news talk said, be newsroom, this is newsfax
end this update. Another golden day in Paris for the
Kiwis golfer Lydia Coe has claimed gold at the Gulf
Nationale and becomes the first golfer to complete a full
set of Olympic medals. She says it feels like a
fairy tale.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I mean, Cinderella's glass sippers is sea through. In my
acm A podium shoes.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Are also see through, so I.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Guess that's something that we have gone for us. But yeah,
I feel like I'm part of the.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Storytale and our greatest kayaker. Dame Lisa Carrington's claimed an
eighth Olympic gold medal, petling to victory and the K
one five hundred if it's continue in Brazil to recover
the remains of passengers on a plane that crashed, killing
all sixty two on board. The crash was captured on camera,

(00:54):
showing the plane dropping vertically before crashing in a residential
area yesterday. A long time advocate for energy efficiency says
thinking more about energy use could help consumers fend off
raising electricity prices. The wholesale price of electricity has increased
fivefold in the past year. Chris Marden, the managing director

(01:16):
of Eco BOLB, says incentivizing and investing in energy efficiency
is a no brainer. He says it's not the only solution,
but it's one that can be put in place quite fast.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
We need new power stations, were new, new polls and wise,
but they take a long time and they cost billions, Whereas.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
I mean we could be changing all light bobs and
young homes by Christmas if we chose to uncertainty over
the future of New Zealand science and innovation. With a
decade's worth of collaborative research ending funding for the eleven
National Science Challenges wrapped up at the end of June,
Prominent science leader James Bewolder says there's a real risk

(01:55):
of losing lessons learned if we don't retain some sort
of investment.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
The chance was almost unique into Ashley as well as
in u Kan.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
I think there's a lot of international interest in what
we're achieving, so therefore we were planning to build on
the game to wed May and that's news. I'm Donna
Marie lever To sport Lydia Coe has completed the trifector
of Olympic medals winning gold in the women's golf competition
at Le Golf Nationale in Paris. The Kiwi sunk a

(02:24):
birdie on the eighteenth for a two shot win, finishing
ten under overall after a under seventy one final round.
It adds to her silver in Rio and bronze in Tokyo,
plus secures entry to the LPGA Hall of Fame. Co
attempted to cut out the noise during the week.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
I wanted to focus on my golf and you know,
nothing else. And that's why I deleted my Instagram because
I just didn't want to be fairzed by what other
people were saying and just enjoy this opportunity.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
And Dame Lisa Carrington's name will forever sit among some
of the greatest Olympians. She claims an eighth gold medal.
The kayaker has paddled to victory in the K one
five hundred, beating silver medalist Hungarian Tamara Cheapish by more
than a second. Carrington now has more golds than gymnast
Simone Biles and is equal with sprinter Usain Bolt and

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