These Aussies are chasing Olympic glory

Jermayne Takapautolo alongside his 6 mates have flown up to Canada for the North America Cup where they hope to hit a qualifying score and secure their ticket to Italy next year.

For more, Jermayne, Reesce, Adam, Dan and Ben joins.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now to the Aussie Bob's leedding blokes currently chasing a
spot at the Winter Olympics. Jermaine Tucker Patolo, alongside his
six mates have flown up to Canada for the North
America Cup, where they hope to hit a qualifying score
and secure their ticket to Italy next year just one
hundred days to go. Despite being quite new to the sport,
the group are very keen and ready to have a crack.

(00:22):
Jermaine and Reese, Adam, Dan and Ben join us. Now,
great to have you with us. Jermain, first to you,
what do you reckon? Can you make it? Oh?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Absolutely, We've just got to focus on things that we've
been talking about a lot, so just got to We've
got a plan, we've just got to stick to it
and just execute day by day. So looking forward to it.
Dixi's ahead of.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Us, Ben, Australia aren't very well known for Bob's letters,
but we have had a team in the Olympics before.
Do you think that we have an advantage? They won't
see us coming.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, absolutely, big big underdogs, but we back each other
and we know what we can do, so yeah, a
chance we get there. We're just going to do all
the right things, take it race by race and run
by run and do everything we can.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Adam, you're on the ice now, which is one thing
that you know you don't get a lot of time
to do in Australia. We've seen you in your budgy smugglers,
let's be honest. We've set it on social media. We
know that you guys like training in the heat. Well,
the budgies come out on the ice again.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, the budgies will definitely come out throughout the season.
They'll definitely be displayed all over the social media. So
definitely get it.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Do you reckon? Do you reckon? That's the secret weapon.
You know everyone's watching you guys and your budgies and
they're not paying attention to their own work.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, I definitely see that as a big win for us.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's a big win for everyone by the looks of it. Hey, Jamaine,
you're a radiographer in Brisbane. Of course, for any Olympic athlete,
it's it's a juggle, isn't it. You know, work life
and making sure you get the right amount of training in.
How do you guys manage it? How do you manage
the workload.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah, it's definitely tough throughout the year, you know, not
just for myself but all the other boys as well.
So we currently don't have any sponsorships, so the biggest,
one of the biggest things is definitely trying to find
our season, so getting the right equipment, being able to
afford accommodation in these expensive parts of them for the
world so unfortunately a lot of us have to work
full time, so managing time and energy is a big

(02:20):
thing and we just had to do it. And that's
just part of being Brazilian. It's just one of those
values that we hold as a team.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
I love that and I love that you're representing Australia
on the world stage. You're the underdogs over there, you're
our top dogs back here. You're the best team we have,
so give it a crack. We'll stay right behind you
as we build up towards Milan and Cortina. All the best,
big thanks, Chevy it on you guys.