🥇 Olympic Hero Steven Bradbury Receives Bravery Award For Rescuing Drowning Swimmers

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda Jamnadeve Bradbury, the ice skater is back in
the news and it's good because last March he rescued
four young kids out of the surf in Caloundra.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Got a bravery, got a bravery ward this, you know,
and it's not about me, but this has happened to me.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
I've rescued young ladies out of the surf, have you.
I've told you that story. Tell me again. The surf
was unpredictable.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
My eyes are closed doesn't mean I'm not listening.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
And I was coming back in on my board and
there was a big sort of muscle band guy on
the beach and he was waving at me.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
Yes, I am Jonesy from the radio.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
That's a matter of fact. It isn't me, he told
your stomach in that long.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Then he was pointing at his girlfriend who was stuck
in a rip, and I went, oh, jeez, okay, so
you know, I was on a stand up paddle board.
I got down on my stomach and I paddled over
to her and I said are you okay?

Speaker 3 (00:51):
And she was had the panic. He looked in her face.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I said, okay, look, this is going to be a
little indelicate, but you're gonna have to lie on the
front of my board.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Was she in a cozy?

Speaker 2 (00:59):
She was in one of those, you know, the new
Brazilian type couzies. And I said, this is just going
to be a little bit, you know, So I had
to paddle back.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
What how what position was she?

Speaker 5 (01:09):
So she was lying on the front of the board
with her bum in your.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Face pretty much. Yeah. So I paddled back.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Like moving ahead to the side to breathe, like you're free,
free styler.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
And I was making some jokes on the way because
she was she was stressed out. She was really worried.
And nothing makes you less stress than someone saying, I
got my face. We haven't even had dinner yet, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
And we paddled back and then the guy said, he said,
thank you, thank you so much, brother, thank you, And
I said, no, no, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Your pleasure was all mine.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
As I said, it's not about me. That's that's what happens.
You don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
The Mighty Mudy Bosstones did a song the impression that
I get, and the line in the song is I'm
not a coward, but I've never been tested.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Is that moment? Are you going to run into the
surf and rescue something, and it's a bit serious with it.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, say, for example, Steve Bradbury on the news last night,
this is how Pee reported it.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
He's already an ASSI hero, but tonight Winter Olympic skull
medalist Stephen Bradbury is being lauded again, awarded for his
bravery after risking his own life to save four teenagers
caught in a rip. I didn't think I would make
it back if they know and had come to rescue us,
says without no chance. Without him, we wouldn't be here.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
It was almost cyclone swell out. The back was two
meters plus and I paddled out and by the time
I got out there, I got close to the head
that I'd seen and realized that there was three more heads.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
He quickly took one girl back to short on his surfboards,
then returned for the other three.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
You know, is in the top few things that I've
done in my life.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
Amazing and lucky it was Steve because seven other guys
went out to rescue them and they got pushed.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Inside by the waves, and Steve forged his way through
and got there, and those guys got no medal either.
They got nothing good on you, Steve, good on your mate,