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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My heart Air Peninsula. Coming up, A Willa cyclist pedals
over to the Paris Olympics. Hi, I'm Jackie Limb with
iHeart Air Peninsula your weekly local news wrap for the
Air Peninsula and surrounds. But first, the adventures of Australian
explorer Captain Matthew Flinders have finally come to an end.
After his remains went missing for around one hundred and
(00:22):
sixty years. He was reburied in his hometown in Lincolnshire
in the UK over the weekend. His descendants were joined
by dignitaries from Australia and Mauritius, where he was held
captive during the Napoleonic Wars. Port Lincoln Mayordyna Mislov also
attended the service. Flinder's named places including Port Lincoln, Gulf
Saint Vincent and Spencer Golf, while other locations, of course
(00:44):
have been named after him in more recent years, including
the Flinders Highway and Flinders Rangers. Sam Talbot has more
thanks Jack.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yes, of course, Flinda's lasting legacy still has lots of
impact on our area to this day, not just in
the places he named, but also there's still blood connections
like Fiona Salmon, who's the great great great niece of Flinders.
She also happens to work at Flinders UNI as the
director of the Flinders UNI Museum of Art.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Connected through his sister Susanna, who had a daughter who
migrated to Adelaide, and I'm connected to that branch of
the family.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Flinders is probably most well known for being the first
British person to circumnavigate Australia and also giving Australia its name.
But he also meticulously mapped out coastlines and named so
many of the places along the way.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Nobody would probably know about this, but there's a little
outcrop of rocks known as the Pearson Isles or Pearson Archipelago,
and that's located about seventy kilometers southwest of Cape Phinnis
on the west coast of Air Peninsula. And I know
that he named that little cluster after his Susannah, and
(02:02):
so that's my connection, that's the family connection there to Susannah,
and so we have we have a little rocky outcrop
named after her out in the ocean, and of course
Port Lincoln he named, and obviously other places along the closed.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You're also, as part of your role at the Flinders
University Museum of Art. You've got a number of personal
artifacts of Flinder's. Can you tell us about some of those?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Through my family connection, I was able to facilitate, you know,
the gift of these works and have come from the
family of the late mister Allen Flinder's pilgrim and they
include many different things, but perhaps one of the most
stunning things is the small sundial compass that Matthew Flinders
(02:50):
would have carried on his person at the pocket side,
tiny exquisite device cased in timber. He would have had
that with him when he was traveling and failing and
doing his work, So that's a very very special item
item to have. Also some brass buttons from his jacket,
(03:11):
his naval officer's jacket, three of those. There's a necklace
in that collection. It's a coral necklace that Matthew Flinders
is believed to have acquired in Mauritius. He was imprisoned
on Mauritius for many years and he acquired that there
and took that back to his wife Anne. There's also
(03:35):
a family bible. There's a will, the handwritten will that's
in the collection as well, and a number of books,
and of course a copy of his publication Voyaged to
Terror Australis, which is two volumes and has all his
illustrated charts, et cetera in those books.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Honorary Associate Professor at Flinder's UNI, Jillian Dooley is one
of the leading dollars on Matthew Flinders and she was
one of the people that went to Donnington, Lincoln Shere
to be part of the explorer's reinterment.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It was a pretty big weekend and also, I mean
as well as the services, there was marquees, there were parties,
there were fireworks at ten o'clock at night, and the
village was just covered in Australian flags and kangaroos. It
was amazing that, you know, so many people had decorated
their front windows and put up bunting and put out
(04:31):
Australian flags, and so it was incredible.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
According to Jillian, before Flinders, no one had traveled all
the way down and around our golfs. So I asked
her what might have Flinder's been thinking back in eighteen
oh two when he first arrived, when.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
He sort of went to the head of both the
golfs Spencer Golf and the golfers at Vincent, he was
still thinking that maybe there was a big straight between
both two sides of Australia. That was still a theory.
Nobody had come around that far before. So getting to
the head of Spencer Gulf and then the head of
(05:08):
Gulf Saint Vincent, he had to say he'd sort of say, well,
we've proved that, you know, Australia is one whole island continent.
But of course, the thing that happened in Newport Lincoln
where Memory Cove is was that they lost a boat.
A boat was sent ashore to get some water and
(05:30):
it was lost with I think there were six, six
or eight people on board and they were all drowned
and weren't ever found again. They found the boat, but
none of the bodies, so they were the first people
who died on the voyage.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Those men had islands named after them, including the master
of Flinder's ship, which is where the name Thistle Island
comes from. Despite the hardships, though, we could never really
talk about Flinders without also mentioning probably his most famous
ship mate, Trim the Cat. And it turns out a
lot of what we know about Flinders and his expedition
is because of Trim.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
His story about Trim actually gives us a lot of
information about what life was like on the ship, day
to day life, because he describes Trim's day and what
Trim would do at dinner, and what Trim did when
he went and spent time with Bungaree, the Aboriginal interpreter
who was ambassador who was on the ship from Sydney onwards.
(06:30):
So we can learn it from that. Story about Trim
is not just about the cat, I think, but also
about life on board ship and also about about Flinders
himself as a person and as a writer. But I
don't think he went ashore as far as I.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Know, don't.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I very much doubt it because his job ship's cat.
They were serious part of the team to keep the
rodents out of the bread bags.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You know.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
They weren't just pets. They were working and there were
even laws you know that the insurance would say, if
you haven't got a ship's cat, we won't ensure you.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Sam Talbot reporting there I Hardfininsula.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I hardfininsula.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Bat numbers in the region are on the rise. It
comes following research which shows changing climatic conditions and habitat
loss is causing gray headed flying foxes to migrate from
the Eastern States to our regions. Two dead bats were
found in Nappleby last week and another in Peterborough, while
a large colony has also been established in Portagusta and
Port Pirie, so west Over from Bat Rescue Essay says
(07:38):
the sightings of the bats throughout the Spencer Gulf and
Mid North is unusual.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
We have had sightings over the last few years, but
it's only been one one or two here and there,
you know, very spread apart. And now we've got the
colony turned up in Portagusta and now one in Port
Pirie that we know of.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
So why all the bats? Why are they here?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Look at the moment, it's just guest work. I'm thinking,
and this is just my personal opinion. I'm thinking habitat
lost over in New South Wales from deforestation, and they're
looking to they're coming across, but they're heading way too
far north, so their own good unfortunately, because they're not
going to survive. Eight not being the problem. But yeah,
(08:20):
so probably they're looking for food sources that aren't available
into state. People are messaging us and we're getting a
whole much bigger picture now what's happening out there. We're
working on it, you know, with the Department of Environment
as well, trying to work out, you know, what these
bats are doing and why they're doing it. Yeah, I
(08:42):
think the bats are trying to tell us something that
you know, our climate is in trouble with.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
All the extra bats around the place. But Rescue USA
are looking for volunteers in the area. They've never needed
country volunteers before because bats haven't been out here, but
now anyone with a rabies vaccine can help out.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
We've got about fifty people based here in Adelaide and
in the sort of northern southern suburbs, and so we
go out and we rescue stick injured. We even rescue
the deceased bats as well, because by rescuing the deceased bats,
we can weigh and measure them, make sure they're getting
(09:18):
enough food out there, check their weights. And yeah, it's
great because we can tell and like the bats in
Adelaide at the moment, they're all in good, healthy weights.
So we don't think it's the bats for Adelaide coming
up there looking for food. We think they've got enough here,
so it'd be great, you know, And I have had
some photos from some bats that were found over past
(09:43):
the dune away and just looking at the photos I
could tell there was very thin. So although we can't
always get up your way to collect with their bodies,
it would be great if people could send us photos
so that we can see their body weights. And if
anybody does find anything over the weekend, we will have
(10:04):
somebody up in that area from Monday right through to
Wednesday that could possibly come and collect anything and get
it weighed and measured.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
If you want to get involved, get in touch with
Bat Rescue ESA at gmail dot com.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
When I'm up there over the next week, I'll be
dropping loft leaflets into the information centers and all around
the place, all our leaflets so that people can contact
us and ring us any time, even if it's just
to talk about the bats, any advice they want, any reassurance.
A lot of people, you know, there's a lot of
Hollywood myths and things out there about the bats, how
they're evil, when they'll attack you, but they actually don't,
(10:38):
they actually don't want to come anywhere near you. But yeah,
so we're happy to talk to people even if they've
got concerns about them as.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Well, and finally today, Awayala Local is said to represent
Australia in the twenty twenty four Olympic Games in Paris.
Lee Hoffman will form part of the track cycling team
and has just landed in Europe. Lee began cycling at
the Whale of Velodrome when he was just thirteen years
old and over the years has worked his way up
(11:05):
to state and now national selection. He also represented the
region at the Commonwealth Games and World Championships in twenty
twenty two, winning gold at both outings. I spoke to
Lee earlier this week. Congratulations first and foremost, is this
your first Olympic appearance?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Technically second, but first that I'll actually be riding. So
I was a reserve for Tokyo and missed out on riding,
but I got to travel with the team and basic
experience Tokyo twenty twenty one games, but this'll be my
first actually competing really, so twenty day you look.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
At it, So how did selection go this time around?
Obviously a little bit better than last time as a reserve.
This time you're on the team for good.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
So yeah, had a real good seat in the selection period.
It's basically two years in advance of this current twenty
twenty four Olympics, and yeah, like had slipped into a
team pretty well after Tokyo and we've got all of
our results and qualified our team internationally. Australia's qualified in
second for the Olympics. So selection period all went fine.
(12:04):
And yeah, just running the individual sprint as well, which
is great. So basically yeah, just selected for team sprint
and also individual sprint, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So yeah, two different races, So as I understand it,
teams up first and then individual afterwards, you're going to
have to leave a little bit in the tank for
the individual.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Race or yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Yeah, So basically, well, we've got lots of recovery time really,
So the first day of competition is just one right
for the qualifying and then if a team sprint, it'll
be the semi final and final in the next session.
I mean after that, over the next three days we
having individual sprints, so it should have plenty of time
to recover.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Really.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
So is there a bit of a friendly competition within
the team or is it all happy families? How does
it go down between able?
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Yeah, it's definitely happy families from the start because it's
the easiest way to put it it's like doing the
athletics relay first where you've got to run with your
teammates and the relay which is a team sprint for
us on bikes, and then after that it's one hundred
meters for running basically, so you're up against your teammates
trying to do the best times ken. So yeah, definitely
having family sort of start. Then after that you could
(13:07):
be racing against a teammate.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
As far as you know. Heading over to the Olympics
and this time obviously in Paris. You said that you
did go over to Tokyo. What's the Olympic village like
from an inside point of view?
Speaker 5 (13:18):
The last Olympics was pretty COVID lockdown sort of thing,
so we didn't actually stay in the Olympic village at
all and it was all pretty quarantined and stuff. So
it was definitely a different time. But even for us
this year because the track sort of forty minutes out
of Paris, we have our own hotel. But yeah, we'll see.
On the last night, I think we go back to
Olympic village and stay there for the last night and
(13:39):
get the China flight back to Australia. But to be honest,
I've heard the Olympic village could be pretty hit and miss,
so I'm pretty happy having my own room and owned
hotel should be a bit better as.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Far as Whaler goes. If you got anything from Wyaler,
a little trinket or a good luck charm or anything
that you take to races with you, that's a token
of home.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
No, not really.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I guess myself like I'm for a while, so yeah,
I bring myself really, but nothing in particular.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
And how does it all?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
What do you imagine it feels like at the Olympics.
I know you've done it before World Champs and at
the Comm Games as well, but with a OUZSI flag
on your shoulders getting the win, what's that like?
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Amazing. Definitely the most surreal feeling that I've felt in
my life. So yeah, hopefully we can replicate that with
a gold medal wild Jaimini lower Really.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
The men's track events get pedaling on August five. All
the best to Lee and the whole Ossie team. And
that's your weekly news wrap across the Air Peninsula and surrounds.
Don't forget you can hear iHeart Air Peninsula on the
iHeart app or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jackie Limb.
Join us again next week for more local, trusted and
free news.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I heart
My heart Air Peninsula. Coming up, A Willa cyclist pedals
over to the Paris Olympics. Hi, I'm Jackie Limb with
iHeart Air Peninsula your weekly local news wrap for the
Air Peninsula and surrounds. But first, the adventures of Australian
explorer Captain Matthew Flinders have finally come to an end.
After his remains went missing for around one hundred and
(00:22):
sixty years. He was reburied in his hometown in Lincolnshire
in the UK over the weekend. His descendants were joined
by dignitaries from Australia and Mauritius, where he was held
captive during the Napoleonic Wars. Port Lincoln Mayordyna Mislov also
attended the service. Flinder's named places including Port Lincoln, Gulf
Saint Vincent and Spencer Golf, while other locations, of course
(00:44):
have been named after him in more recent years, including
the Flinders Highway and Flinders Rangers. Sam Talbot has more
thanks Jack.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yes, of course, Flinda's lasting legacy still has lots of
impact on our area to this day, not just in
the places he named, but also there's still blood connections
like Fiona Salmon, who's the great great great niece of Flinders.
She also happens to work at Flinders UNI as the
director of the Flinders UNI Museum of Art.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Connected through his sister Susanna, who had a daughter who
migrated to Adelaide, and I'm connected to that branch of
the family.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Flinders is probably most well known for being the first
British person to circumnavigate Australia and also giving Australia its name.
But he also meticulously mapped out coastlines and named so
many of the places along the way.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Nobody would probably know about this, but there's a little
outcrop of rocks known as the Pearson Isles or Pearson Archipelago,
and that's located about seventy kilometers southwest of Cape Phinnis
on the west coast of Air Peninsula. And I know
that he named that little cluster after his Susannah, and
(02:02):
so that's my connection, that's the family connection there to Susannah,
and so we have we have a little rocky outcrop
named after her out in the ocean, and of course
Port Lincoln he named, and obviously other places along the closed.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You're also, as part of your role at the Flinders
University Museum of Art. You've got a number of personal
artifacts of Flinder's. Can you tell us about some of those?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Through my family connection, I was able to facilitate, you know,
the gift of these works and have come from the
family of the late mister Allen Flinder's pilgrim and they
include many different things, but perhaps one of the most
stunning things is the small sundial compass that Matthew Flinders
(02:50):
would have carried on his person at the pocket side,
tiny exquisite device cased in timber. He would have had
that with him when he was traveling and failing and
doing his work, So that's a very very special item
item to have. Also some brass buttons from his jacket,
(03:11):
his naval officer's jacket, three of those. There's a necklace
in that collection. It's a coral necklace that Matthew Flinders
is believed to have acquired in Mauritius. He was imprisoned
on Mauritius for many years and he acquired that there
and took that back to his wife Anne. There's also
(03:35):
a family bible. There's a will, the handwritten will that's
in the collection as well, and a number of books,
and of course a copy of his publication Voyaged to
Terror Australis, which is two volumes and has all his
illustrated charts, et cetera in those books.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Honorary Associate Professor at Flinder's UNI, Jillian Dooley is one
of the leading dollars on Matthew Flinders and she was
one of the people that went to Donnington, Lincoln Shere
to be part of the explorer's reinterment.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It was a pretty big weekend and also, I mean
as well as the services, there was marquees, there were parties,
there were fireworks at ten o'clock at night, and the
village was just covered in Australian flags and kangaroos. It
was amazing that, you know, so many people had decorated
their front windows and put up bunting and put out
(04:31):
Australian flags, and so it was incredible.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
According to Jillian, before Flinders, no one had traveled all
the way down and around our golfs. So I asked
her what might have Flinder's been thinking back in eighteen
oh two when he first arrived, when.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
He sort of went to the head of both the
golfs Spencer Golf and the golfers at Vincent, he was
still thinking that maybe there was a big straight between
both two sides of Australia. That was still a theory.
Nobody had come around that far before. So getting to
the head of Spencer Gulf and then the head of
(05:08):
Gulf Saint Vincent, he had to say he'd sort of say, well,
we've proved that, you know, Australia is one whole island continent.
But of course, the thing that happened in Newport Lincoln
where Memory Cove is was that they lost a boat.
A boat was sent ashore to get some water and
(05:30):
it was lost with I think there were six, six
or eight people on board and they were all drowned
and weren't ever found again. They found the boat, but
none of the bodies, so they were the first people
who died on the voyage.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Those men had islands named after them, including the master
of Flinder's ship, which is where the name Thistle Island
comes from. Despite the hardships, though, we could never really
talk about Flinders without also mentioning probably his most famous
ship mate, Trim the Cat. And it turns out a
lot of what we know about Flinders and his expedition
is because of Trim.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
His story about Trim actually gives us a lot of
information about what life was like on the ship, day
to day life, because he describes Trim's day and what
Trim would do at dinner, and what Trim did when
he went and spent time with Bungaree, the Aboriginal interpreter
who was ambassador who was on the ship from Sydney onwards.
(06:30):
So we can learn it from that. Story about Trim
is not just about the cat, I think, but also
about life on board ship and also about about Flinders
himself as a person and as a writer. But I
don't think he went ashore as far as I.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Know, don't.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I very much doubt it because his job ship's cat.
They were serious part of the team to keep the
rodents out of the bread bags.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You know.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
They weren't just pets. They were working and there were
even laws you know that the insurance would say, if
you haven't got a ship's cat, we won't ensure you.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Sam Talbot reporting there I Hardfininsula.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I hardfininsula.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Bat numbers in the region are on the rise. It
comes following research which shows changing climatic conditions and habitat
loss is causing gray headed flying foxes to migrate from
the Eastern States to our regions. Two dead bats were
found in Nappleby last week and another in Peterborough, while
a large colony has also been established in Portagusta and
Port Pirie, so west Over from Bat Rescue Essay says
(07:38):
the sightings of the bats throughout the Spencer Gulf and
Mid North is unusual.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
We have had sightings over the last few years, but
it's only been one one or two here and there,
you know, very spread apart. And now we've got the
colony turned up in Portagusta and now one in Port
Pirie that we know of.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
So why all the bats? Why are they here?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Look at the moment, it's just guest work. I'm thinking,
and this is just my personal opinion. I'm thinking habitat
lost over in New South Wales from deforestation, and they're
looking to they're coming across, but they're heading way too
far north, so their own good unfortunately, because they're not
going to survive. Eight not being the problem. But yeah,
(08:20):
so probably they're looking for food sources that aren't available
into state. People are messaging us and we're getting a
whole much bigger picture now what's happening out there. We're
working on it, you know, with the Department of Environment
as well, trying to work out, you know, what these
bats are doing and why they're doing it. Yeah, I
(08:42):
think the bats are trying to tell us something that
you know, our climate is in trouble with.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
All the extra bats around the place. But Rescue USA
are looking for volunteers in the area. They've never needed
country volunteers before because bats haven't been out here, but
now anyone with a rabies vaccine can help out.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
We've got about fifty people based here in Adelaide and
in the sort of northern southern suburbs, and so we
go out and we rescue stick injured. We even rescue
the deceased bats as well, because by rescuing the deceased bats,
we can weigh and measure them, make sure they're getting
(09:18):
enough food out there, check their weights. And yeah, it's
great because we can tell and like the bats in
Adelaide at the moment, they're all in good, healthy weights.
So we don't think it's the bats for Adelaide coming
up there looking for food. We think they've got enough here,
so it'd be great, you know, And I have had
some photos from some bats that were found over past
(09:43):
the dune away and just looking at the photos I
could tell there was very thin. So although we can't
always get up your way to collect with their bodies,
it would be great if people could send us photos
so that we can see their body weights. And if
anybody does find anything over the weekend, we will have
(10:04):
somebody up in that area from Monday right through to
Wednesday that could possibly come and collect anything and get
it weighed and measured.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
If you want to get involved, get in touch with
Bat Rescue ESA at gmail dot com.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
When I'm up there over the next week, I'll be
dropping loft leaflets into the information centers and all around
the place, all our leaflets so that people can contact
us and ring us any time, even if it's just
to talk about the bats, any advice they want, any reassurance.
A lot of people, you know, there's a lot of
Hollywood myths and things out there about the bats, how
they're evil, when they'll attack you, but they actually don't,
(10:38):
they actually don't want to come anywhere near you. But yeah,
so we're happy to talk to people even if they've
got concerns about them as.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Well, and finally today, Awayala Local is said to represent
Australia in the twenty twenty four Olympic Games in Paris.
Lee Hoffman will form part of the track cycling team
and has just landed in Europe. Lee began cycling at
the Whale of Velodrome when he was just thirteen years
old and over the years has worked his way up
(11:05):
to state and now national selection. He also represented the
region at the Commonwealth Games and World Championships in twenty
twenty two, winning gold at both outings. I spoke to
Lee earlier this week. Congratulations first and foremost, is this
your first Olympic appearance?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Technically second, but first that I'll actually be riding. So
I was a reserve for Tokyo and missed out on riding,
but I got to travel with the team and basic
experience Tokyo twenty twenty one games, but this'll be my
first actually competing really, so twenty day you look.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
At it, So how did selection go this time around?
Obviously a little bit better than last time as a reserve.
This time you're on the team for good.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
So yeah, had a real good seat in the selection period.
It's basically two years in advance of this current twenty
twenty four Olympics, and yeah, like had slipped into a
team pretty well after Tokyo and we've got all of
our results and qualified our team internationally. Australia's qualified in
second for the Olympics. So selection period all went fine.
(12:04):
And yeah, just running the individual sprint as well, which
is great. So basically yeah, just selected for team sprint
and also individual sprint, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So yeah, two different races, So as I understand it,
teams up first and then individual afterwards, you're going to
have to leave a little bit in the tank for
the individual.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Race or yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Yeah, So basically, well, we've got lots of recovery time really,
So the first day of competition is just one right
for the qualifying and then if a team sprint, it'll
be the semi final and final in the next session.
I mean after that, over the next three days we
having individual sprints, so it should have plenty of time
to recover.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Really.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
So is there a bit of a friendly competition within
the team or is it all happy families? How does
it go down between able?
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Yeah, it's definitely happy families from the start because it's
the easiest way to put it it's like doing the
athletics relay first where you've got to run with your
teammates and the relay which is a team sprint for
us on bikes, and then after that it's one hundred
meters for running basically, so you're up against your teammates
trying to do the best times ken. So yeah, definitely
having family sort of start. Then after that you could
(13:07):
be racing against a teammate.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
As far as you know. Heading over to the Olympics
and this time obviously in Paris. You said that you
did go over to Tokyo. What's the Olympic village like
from an inside point of view?
Speaker 5 (13:18):
The last Olympics was pretty COVID lockdown sort of thing,
so we didn't actually stay in the Olympic village at
all and it was all pretty quarantined and stuff. So
it was definitely a different time. But even for us
this year because the track sort of forty minutes out
of Paris, we have our own hotel. But yeah, we'll see.
On the last night, I think we go back to
Olympic village and stay there for the last night and
(13:39):
get the China flight back to Australia. But to be honest,
I've heard the Olympic village could be pretty hit and miss,
so I'm pretty happy having my own room and owned
hotel should be a bit better as.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Far as Whaler goes. If you got anything from Wyaler,
a little trinket or a good luck charm or anything
that you take to races with you, that's a token
of home.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
No, not really.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I guess myself like I'm for a while, so yeah,
I bring myself really, but nothing in particular.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
And how does it all?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
What do you imagine it feels like at the Olympics.
I know you've done it before World Champs and at
the Comm Games as well, but with a OUZSI flag
on your shoulders getting the win, what's that like?
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Amazing. Definitely the most surreal feeling that I've felt in
my life. So yeah, hopefully we can replicate that with
a gold medal wild Jaimini lower Really.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
The men's track events get pedaling on August five. All
the best to Lee and the whole Ossie team. And
that's your weekly news wrap across the Air Peninsula and surrounds.
Don't forget you can hear iHeart Air Peninsula on the
iHeart app or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jackie Limb.
Join us again next week for more local, trusted and
free news.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
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