Dame Lisa Carrington has made New Zealand sporting history as an eight-time gold medallist, but she's acknowledged the journey that led to her sporting success.
She's still got her heart set on continuing her canoeing hot streak at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, even with a baby on the way due for September.
She joined Piney to look back on her athletic career and sporting legacy.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from Newstalk zedb.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Ever to wear the fern and to represent us on
the world stage.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Oh, it's gonna be a fight to the finish between
New Zealand and Hungary. The rest have been left behind.
Can Lisa Carrington make it eight gold medals? She's got
the race face on the red Sonnies Carrington coming down
to the line. It is gonna be gold for New
Zealand's Lisa Carrington. It is Paris perfection here.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Dame Lisa Carrington hasn't just rewritten the record books, she
has torn them up. From Olympic gold in London and
twenty twelve to an extraordinary haul of eight Olympic Golds
and nine Olympic medals overall across her four games since.
She is our most successful Olympian of all time. But
those medals only tell part of the story behind the
(01:02):
dominance has been years of relentless discipline, sacrifice, and an
unwavering pursuit of excellence. Now she and husband Michael are
preparing for an exciting new chapter. Dame Lisa will soon
become a mum while still harboring deep ambitions to add
another chapter to her incredible sporting legacy. At the Los
(01:22):
Angeles Olympics in twenty twenty eight, Dame Lisa Carrington joins
us to look back on the moments that shaped her,
the memories she'll treasure forever, and what is coming next.
Dame Lisa, thanks for joining us to help celebrate zb's
one hundredth When you hear the words New Zealand's greatest Olympian,
what goes through your mind?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah, it's I mean it was quite interesting hearing you
have that little intro just then, No, it is, it's unusual.
It's not something I ever thought I could do, and
it's not Yes, I don't wake up every day thinking
that for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
If from some had told the teenage Lisa Carrington from
or Hope that she had become an eight time Olympic champion,
what do you reckon? She would have thought of that?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I think she would have laughed and thought how and
just maybe wouldn't even have started, because that's quite overwhelming,
I think for a teenager.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Who first introduced you to kayaking and what was it
that hooked you in?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
So kayaking really became a part of my life through
surf life saving, So starting in the surf ski at
my local surf club at fuk Tani Surf Club, and
then developing my dad or developing there. My dad took
me along to an Ian ferguson kayak camp. He was
throwing at Lake Latuiti, which was not very far from Fuksani,
(02:59):
so we came along and yeah, and I guess that's
kind of how it started. And I think from the
are I just picked up a realized that kayaking is,
you know, can take me a little bit further than
surf life saving. And I guess I just traveled on
that trajectory, on that path, you know, making New Zealand
teams and that type of thing, and when you start
(03:21):
to be good at something to be recognized, I just
kind of carried on.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, were there moments early on when you realized that
you were capable of taking the sport quite far?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
For you?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
For I think it's hard to know. I think it's
so gradual, and I think it was just small steps
at a time, from you know, the first ambition was
just turning up and racing at a national competition to
then being picked for a New Zealand team a junior
(03:59):
team and then from there becoming one of the best
peddlers in New Zealand. So it's really hard to to
know if I when I I guess the thing that
I find strangers. I knew I could be good the
moment that I started winning international races, which was and
even then the Olympics was still my goal. And sometimes,
(04:22):
you know, I think maybe it's Kiwi culture or how
how I am, but it's really scary to dream really big,
to think, you know, I'm going to one day one
gold medal when you don't know how you're going to
do it. So I think it was just a gradual
thing of general just wanting to be better at something,
recognizing I was good, and thinking, okay, this pass is
(04:45):
this is the one I want to go on.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, it's been a wonderful path with more to come.
The eleventh of August twenty twelve, just a few days
short of fourteen years ago, Dame Lisa, what do you
remember most vividly about the day you won your first
Olympic gold medal?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Oh? That day, I think, you know, I remember waking
up probably around four am and just trying to distract
myself by watching you know, some some TV shows, you know, like,
you know, I was only twenty three, so I start
pretty you know, I was very young, well now compared
(05:20):
to now, And I just remember kind of getting out
there on the race course and hearing this heartbeat that
the loudspeaker was playing as we were kind of rolling
into our start gates, and they're just thinking why would
they play there. It's like it's literally going faster and
faster like that is Oh my gosh, that's that's quite scary. Yeah,
(05:45):
I guess at that point, you know, there was real
I mean, there's not a lot of expectation, and so
my biggest thing there was I I'd been I was like,
I want to win, but I don't have to, you know,
so I was kind of racing with a lot of
freedom and I as we went done the course, I
(06:05):
remember that last fifty meters and I don't I wasn't
winning at that point and just thinking I want this
and kind of recognizing then it's like, wow, okay, I'm
pretty competitive. I'm in the race.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Slips go, so yeah, unreal, unreal stuff. So gold in London,
Golden Bronze and Rio three more Golds in Tokyo. Three
more golds in Paris. How different have each of your
Olympic Games experiences been from one another?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah? If they have been really I guess quite different,
particularly as you get older, you know, four years later
or you know, if we're talking about Tokyo and Paris,
those ones were five you know, Tokyo was five years
posts twenty sixteen, and then Paris is only three years
(06:59):
later from Tokyo. So each one has been really different,
and I think really it's a trajectory of trying to
constantly grow and be better, you know. Adding in twenty sixteen,
I edited racing the K one five hundred, which I
got brozen, and then from there realizing, okay, I really
(07:23):
want to do a bit of there, but I've got
to find out figure out how to kind of push
myself and challenge myself to get better. And that's when
we I started racing team boats, and after that to
go into Tokyo Olympics. And so everyone's kind of an
evolution to constantly try to find more and more capability
(07:46):
and kind of reached the biff that I could do
as a athlete and as a you know, as a person.
So every every Olympics tells a different story, But it
is just like a as constantly.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Live up on the next one, or you know, I
couldn't haven't have done any of those medals in Paris
or Tokyo without the previous Olympics before, So for constant growth.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Really, how much has the way you feel on an
Olympic start line changed? I mean you talked about the
heartbeat going through the speakers in twenty twelve, would I
think would have would have given any of us the
HEBGB spot? Do you still do you still get nervous
on an Olympic start line?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Oh? Yeah, absolutely. I mean the closer I got to,
you know, in Paris it was I think that was
probably the most That's the most physically best and mentally
best I've ever been, and so still on that start
line it just means a lot more. I think as
(08:52):
I have evolved through my athletic career, it just I've
kind of learned how to dig deeper and deeper and
kind of put myself out there more and more. And
so whilst you know, winning in twenty twelve, I just
remember thinking this is only scratching the surface. So I
(09:12):
think there's no way that I've not lined up and
had a great performance without being nervous. I think nerves.
If I'm not nervous, there is something wrong. But to me,
it's like it helps me be sun of myself because
in that moment, I want I wanted it. I'm a
little bit scared of not doing what I'm capable of,
(09:33):
but I'm prepared to go and race the hardest I can.
So there's a real nice mass of confidence. And well,
don't stuff it up.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
We see the medals and the metal races, but what
is it that we don't see what have been the
keys to your sustained excellence.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Yeah, I think while it's it is just every day
trying to be a little bit better. And you know,
it isn't like I said, that's an evolution, sore. Where
I got to and where I am today's not the
same athlete when I started. So I think it's just
been constantly learning how to tune your training, learning more,
(10:16):
turning up, showing up every day, executing because by the
end leading into Paris and really like there was no
fault in my training. So but that took a lot
of time, and you know, there's a lot of you know,
hard moments, and it does become number one and things
(10:40):
fall to the side, like you don't get as much
time with your family, or you're constantly tired, or at
Christmas you've got to go training or New Year. So
there's those moments where there's it's there's a twenty four
seven and but you know, like it you don't get
to those to that place without giving it all. But
(11:01):
it's amazing when you know, we get to do it,
and you do forget when you're on that post them
and you cross the line and you're like, oh, you know,
it worked really hard. But you kind of when you
are in the trenches you kind of forget those hard
moments too, because it is tricky, it is you know,
when it all works out, it's all fine. But yeah,
so there's yeah, there's a lot that goes into it,
(11:23):
but yeah, absolutely wouldn't change it for the world.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
This year has brought very exciting personal news with your
pregnancy and impending parenthood for you and Michael. How much
has that shifted your your perspective on life and on sport.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yeah, I think you well, I'm you know, fundamentally the same,
but I think, you know, it's really taught me to
slow down a little bit and I think, you know,
there's like I see, there's such an evolution to to
(12:00):
my athletic career and to who I am. So I think,
you know, this is really special for us, and it's
so awesome for me to be on this journey. Was
lucky because I think you realize that whilst you know
the middles or the successes are incredible, you can't you know,
(12:22):
you work so hard for it, but ultimately there are
bigger things. So it's really special to me to kind
of feel there and then look at sport in another way,
which is it's not the bill with indoor, which it
really does feel like when you're in it twenty four
to seven. So I think it's a really nice way
(12:44):
to just go. You know what, at the end of
the day, you walk home, you walk in the door
at home, and you know your special people are there.
So I think you know whether sport is or not.
And you know, for sport, for athletes, it stops at
some point were either stop getting good enough, we get injured,
we're yet a bit old. So you know, like, I
(13:05):
think I've just really aware there I'm so privileged to
be doing sport and attempting it while doing this other
crazy thing, which is incredibly late. I mean, every woman
out there will will have their own story, but it's
it's a really special thing and we're both really excited for.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It and Los Angeles twenty twenty eight remains a goal.
Was it always your mindset, Dame Lisa, that you would
be both a mum and continue to be an elite athlete?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
No, Like I think initially or a few years ago,
I thought it wasn't possible, and then just because of
you know, their commitment it takes to do sport, I
didn't think it was And then now we get to
see these amazing families. You know, I say families because
it's you know, there's the there's this female, the female
(14:01):
that has to compete and have the child, but it's
also the support and the you know, the team around
the athlete that really make it happen. So I've seen
a number of scenarios where it's been possible, and I
think it's initially like yeah, like naively a two years ago,
(14:21):
like it's not possible, I can't do it. So then go, well,
I actually still want to do sport. It's it's an
amazing career and I want to be a mum and
so like, I know that there's so much uncertainty in
this space, but I would love to just continue and
come back and do it, you know, do both the
best I can.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
So yeah, I think that's amazing. I think that's amazing.
We're celebrating one hundred years of course here at ZB
and sport has produced so many unforgettable moments over over
those decades. Do you have a favorite sporting moment that
doesn't involve you.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Yeah, it's interesting, you know, I've been, you know, with
watching the Calm Games recently, I've been thinking about the
great moment that I've been able to witness and be
there in person, and you know, like there are moments.
I think it was in twenty sixteen when I I
was racing there we got to watch Mahe Drysdale race
(15:24):
his Olympic final and just been on that finish line
and watching him win that race by a whisker was incredible,
you know, back to back from London, him winning was
quite especially when I think there's something amazing when you
are able to be there and witness it. But also
(15:47):
a little bit more recently was the Women's Rugby World
Cup here in Auckland a few years ago, just the
it could feel the energy and the crowd and the
willingness for our black friends to win the World Cup
was that was effic as well. And I mean that
really thrust a lot of those you know, those players
(16:08):
into the spotlight and really highlighted professional sports. So yeah,
there's some where such a cool We've had so many amazing,
you know, successes over the over the years and such
a little country. So yeah, there's probably a two sex
spring to mind.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Outstanding just to finish when we celebrate our two hundred
years so one hundred years from now, when people are
looking back and we're well gone, what do you what
do you kind of hope people will will think and
say when they when they remember Dame Lisa Carrington.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Yeah, I don't really know. I think I guess, you know,
we don't know if Olympics is going to be the
way we know it today right like it's potentially the
way the world's going it's going to change. So I
think just looking back and thinking, you know, the little
you know, little New Zealand being able to produce excellence
(17:04):
on the world stage and being really proud of that,
I think in believing that, you know, anybody can kind
of work, work hard and do amazing things. So I
hope that just draws a bit of inspiration for people
in an one hundred years time. I'm sure you are
far off memory.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I'm sure it'll be. It'll be forever enshrined in our
sporting history. Dame Lisa, it's been great to chat to you.
All the very best for a tremendously exciting time ahead.
I can highly recommend parenthood. I'm sure you're going to
be great at it and we look forward to seeing
seeing you. Then back on the water and charging towards
LA twenty twenty eight. It's been a great pleisure to chat.
Thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Oh, thank you so much, No.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Thank you, Dame Lisa. Dame Lisa Carrington our greatest Olympian,
eight gold medals, nine all up and an absolute delight
exciting time for her, about to become a mum and
then back on the water.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Ever to wear the fern and to represent us on
the world stage.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Oh, it's gonna be a fight to the finish between
New Zealand and Hungary. The rest have been left behind.
Can Lisa Carrington make it eight gold medals? She's got
the race face on the red Sonnies Carrington coming down
to the line. It is gonna be gold for New
Zealand's Lisa Carrington. It is Paris perfection here.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Dame Lisa Carrington hasn't just rewritten the record books, she
has torn them up. From Olympic gold in London and
twenty twelve to an extraordinary haul of eight Olympic Golds
and nine Olympic medals overall across her four games since.
She is our most successful Olympian of all time. But
those medals only tell part of the story behind the
(01:02):
dominance has been years of relentless discipline, sacrifice, and an
unwavering pursuit of excellence. Now she and husband Michael are
preparing for an exciting new chapter. Dame Lisa will soon
become a mum while still harboring deep ambitions to add
another chapter to her incredible sporting legacy. At the Los
(01:22):
Angeles Olympics in twenty twenty eight, Dame Lisa Carrington joins
us to look back on the moments that shaped her,
the memories she'll treasure forever, and what is coming next.
Dame Lisa, thanks for joining us to help celebrate zb's
one hundredth When you hear the words New Zealand's greatest Olympian,
what goes through your mind?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah, it's I mean it was quite interesting hearing you
have that little intro just then, No, it is, it's unusual.
It's not something I ever thought I could do, and
it's not Yes, I don't wake up every day thinking
that for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
If from some had told the teenage Lisa Carrington from
or Hope that she had become an eight time Olympic champion,
what do you reckon? She would have thought of that?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I think she would have laughed and thought how and
just maybe wouldn't even have started, because that's quite overwhelming,
I think for a teenager.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Who first introduced you to kayaking and what was it
that hooked you in?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
So kayaking really became a part of my life through
surf life saving, So starting in the surf ski at
my local surf club at fuk Tani Surf Club, and
then developing my dad or developing there. My dad took
me along to an Ian ferguson kayak camp. He was
throwing at Lake Latuiti, which was not very far from Fuksani,
(02:59):
so we came along and yeah, and I guess that's
kind of how it started. And I think from the
are I just picked up a realized that kayaking is,
you know, can take me a little bit further than
surf life saving. And I guess I just traveled on
that trajectory, on that path, you know, making New Zealand
teams and that type of thing, and when you start
(03:21):
to be good at something to be recognized, I just
kind of carried on.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, were there moments early on when you realized that
you were capable of taking the sport quite far?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
For you?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
For I think it's hard to know. I think it's
so gradual, and I think it was just small steps
at a time, from you know, the first ambition was
just turning up and racing at a national competition to
then being picked for a New Zealand team a junior
(03:59):
team and then from there becoming one of the best
peddlers in New Zealand. So it's really hard to to
know if I when I I guess the thing that
I find strangers. I knew I could be good the
moment that I started winning international races, which was and
even then the Olympics was still my goal. And sometimes,
(04:22):
you know, I think maybe it's Kiwi culture or how
how I am, but it's really scary to dream really big,
to think, you know, I'm going to one day one
gold medal when you don't know how you're going to
do it. So I think it was just a gradual
thing of general just wanting to be better at something,
recognizing I was good, and thinking, okay, this pass is
(04:45):
this is the one I want to go on.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, it's been a wonderful path with more to come.
The eleventh of August twenty twelve, just a few days
short of fourteen years ago, Dame Lisa, what do you
remember most vividly about the day you won your first
Olympic gold medal?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Oh? That day, I think, you know, I remember waking
up probably around four am and just trying to distract
myself by watching you know, some some TV shows, you know, like,
you know, I was only twenty three, so I start
pretty you know, I was very young, well now compared
(05:20):
to now, And I just remember kind of getting out
there on the race course and hearing this heartbeat that
the loudspeaker was playing as we were kind of rolling
into our start gates, and they're just thinking why would
they play there. It's like it's literally going faster and
faster like that is Oh my gosh, that's that's quite scary. Yeah,
(05:45):
I guess at that point, you know, there was real
I mean, there's not a lot of expectation, and so
my biggest thing there was I I'd been I was like,
I want to win, but I don't have to, you know,
so I was kind of racing with a lot of
freedom and I as we went done the course, I
(06:05):
remember that last fifty meters and I don't I wasn't
winning at that point and just thinking I want this
and kind of recognizing then it's like, wow, okay, I'm
pretty competitive. I'm in the race.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Slips go, so yeah, unreal, unreal stuff. So gold in London,
Golden Bronze and Rio three more Golds in Tokyo. Three
more golds in Paris. How different have each of your
Olympic Games experiences been from one another?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah? If they have been really I guess quite different,
particularly as you get older, you know, four years later
or you know, if we're talking about Tokyo and Paris,
those ones were five you know, Tokyo was five years
posts twenty sixteen, and then Paris is only three years
(06:59):
later from Tokyo. So each one has been really different,
and I think really it's a trajectory of trying to
constantly grow and be better, you know. Adding in twenty sixteen,
I edited racing the K one five hundred, which I
got brozen, and then from there realizing, okay, I really
(07:23):
want to do a bit of there, but I've got
to find out figure out how to kind of push
myself and challenge myself to get better. And that's when
we I started racing team boats, and after that to
go into Tokyo Olympics. And so everyone's kind of an
evolution to constantly try to find more and more capability
(07:46):
and kind of reached the biff that I could do
as a athlete and as a you know, as a person.
So every every Olympics tells a different story, But it
is just like a as constantly.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Live up on the next one, or you know, I
couldn't haven't have done any of those medals in Paris
or Tokyo without the previous Olympics before, So for constant growth.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Really, how much has the way you feel on an
Olympic start line changed? I mean you talked about the
heartbeat going through the speakers in twenty twelve, would I
think would have would have given any of us the
HEBGB spot? Do you still do you still get nervous
on an Olympic start line?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Oh? Yeah, absolutely. I mean the closer I got to,
you know, in Paris it was I think that was
probably the most That's the most physically best and mentally
best I've ever been, and so still on that start
line it just means a lot more. I think as
(08:52):
I have evolved through my athletic career, it just I've
kind of learned how to dig deeper and deeper and
kind of put myself out there more and more. And
so whilst you know, winning in twenty twelve, I just
remember thinking this is only scratching the surface. So I
(09:12):
think there's no way that I've not lined up and
had a great performance without being nervous. I think nerves.
If I'm not nervous, there is something wrong. But to me,
it's like it helps me be sun of myself because
in that moment, I want I wanted it. I'm a
little bit scared of not doing what I'm capable of,
(09:33):
but I'm prepared to go and race the hardest I can.
So there's a real nice mass of confidence. And well,
don't stuff it up.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
We see the medals and the metal races, but what
is it that we don't see what have been the
keys to your sustained excellence.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Yeah, I think while it's it is just every day
trying to be a little bit better. And you know,
it isn't like I said, that's an evolution, sore. Where
I got to and where I am today's not the
same athlete when I started. So I think it's just
been constantly learning how to tune your training, learning more,
(10:16):
turning up, showing up every day, executing because by the
end leading into Paris and really like there was no
fault in my training. So but that took a lot
of time, and you know, there's a lot of you know,
hard moments, and it does become number one and things
(10:40):
fall to the side, like you don't get as much
time with your family, or you're constantly tired, or at
Christmas you've got to go training or New Year. So
there's those moments where there's it's there's a twenty four
seven and but you know, like it you don't get
to those to that place without giving it all. But
(11:01):
it's amazing when you know, we get to do it,
and you do forget when you're on that post them
and you cross the line and you're like, oh, you know,
it worked really hard. But you kind of when you
are in the trenches you kind of forget those hard
moments too, because it is tricky, it is you know,
when it all works out, it's all fine. But yeah,
so there's yeah, there's a lot that goes into it,
(11:23):
but yeah, absolutely wouldn't change it for the world.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
This year has brought very exciting personal news with your
pregnancy and impending parenthood for you and Michael. How much
has that shifted your your perspective on life and on sport.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yeah, I think you well, I'm you know, fundamentally the same,
but I think, you know, it's really taught me to
slow down a little bit and I think, you know,
there's like I see, there's such an evolution to to
(12:00):
my athletic career and to who I am. So I think,
you know, this is really special for us, and it's
so awesome for me to be on this journey. Was
lucky because I think you realize that whilst you know
the middles or the successes are incredible, you can't you know,
(12:22):
you work so hard for it, but ultimately there are
bigger things. So it's really special to me to kind
of feel there and then look at sport in another way,
which is it's not the bill with indoor, which it
really does feel like when you're in it twenty four
to seven. So I think it's a really nice way
(12:44):
to just go. You know what, at the end of
the day, you walk home, you walk in the door
at home, and you know your special people are there.
So I think you know whether sport is or not.
And you know, for sport, for athletes, it stops at
some point were either stop getting good enough, we get injured,
we're yet a bit old. So you know, like, I
(13:05):
think I've just really aware there I'm so privileged to
be doing sport and attempting it while doing this other
crazy thing, which is incredibly late. I mean, every woman
out there will will have their own story, but it's
it's a really special thing and we're both really excited for.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It and Los Angeles twenty twenty eight remains a goal.
Was it always your mindset, Dame Lisa, that you would
be both a mum and continue to be an elite athlete?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
No, Like I think initially or a few years ago,
I thought it wasn't possible, and then just because of
you know, their commitment it takes to do sport, I
didn't think it was And then now we get to
see these amazing families. You know, I say families because
it's you know, there's the there's this female, the female
(14:01):
that has to compete and have the child, but it's
also the support and the you know, the team around
the athlete that really make it happen. So I've seen
a number of scenarios where it's been possible, and I
think it's initially like yeah, like naively a two years ago,
(14:21):
like it's not possible, I can't do it. So then go, well,
I actually still want to do sport. It's it's an
amazing career and I want to be a mum and
so like, I know that there's so much uncertainty in
this space, but I would love to just continue and
come back and do it, you know, do both the
best I can.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
So yeah, I think that's amazing. I think that's amazing.
We're celebrating one hundred years of course here at ZB
and sport has produced so many unforgettable moments over over
those decades. Do you have a favorite sporting moment that
doesn't involve you.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Yeah, it's interesting, you know, I've been, you know, with
watching the Calm Games recently, I've been thinking about the
great moment that I've been able to witness and be
there in person, and you know, like there are moments.
I think it was in twenty sixteen when I I
was racing there we got to watch Mahe Drysdale race
(15:24):
his Olympic final and just been on that finish line
and watching him win that race by a whisker was incredible,
you know, back to back from London, him winning was
quite especially when I think there's something amazing when you
are able to be there and witness it. But also
(15:47):
a little bit more recently was the Women's Rugby World
Cup here in Auckland a few years ago, just the
it could feel the energy and the crowd and the
willingness for our black friends to win the World Cup
was that was effic as well. And I mean that
really thrust a lot of those you know, those players
(16:08):
into the spotlight and really highlighted professional sports. So yeah,
there's some where such a cool We've had so many amazing,
you know, successes over the over the years and such
a little country. So yeah, there's probably a two sex
spring to mind.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Outstanding just to finish when we celebrate our two hundred
years so one hundred years from now, when people are
looking back and we're well gone, what do you what
do you kind of hope people will will think and
say when they when they remember Dame Lisa Carrington.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Yeah, I don't really know. I think I guess, you know,
we don't know if Olympics is going to be the
way we know it today right like it's potentially the
way the world's going it's going to change. So I
think just looking back and thinking, you know, the little
you know, little New Zealand being able to produce excellence
(17:04):
on the world stage and being really proud of that,
I think in believing that, you know, anybody can kind
of work, work hard and do amazing things. So I
hope that just draws a bit of inspiration for people
in an one hundred years time. I'm sure you are
far off memory.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I'm sure it'll be. It'll be forever enshrined in our
sporting history. Dame Lisa, it's been great to chat to you.
All the very best for a tremendously exciting time ahead.
I can highly recommend parenthood. I'm sure you're going to
be great at it and we look forward to seeing
seeing you. Then back on the water and charging towards
LA twenty twenty eight. It's been a great pleisure to chat.
Thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Oh, thank you so much, No.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Thank you, Dame Lisa. Dame Lisa Carrington our greatest Olympian,
eight gold medals, nine all up and an absolute delight
exciting time for her, about to become a mum and
then back on the water.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
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