August 16, 2024 • 22 mins
On this episode of Kaleidoscope Kids, you'll hear from various people chatting about the Olympic Games.
2:22 Global Voices
Hear from Mr Cameron an IGS Science Teacher and Olympian, at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
9:37 Community Connections
People from the IGS Community talk about their favourite moments from the Olympic Games.
13:05 Cultural Exchange
Listen to the history of the Olympic Games.
14:03 Global Voices
Hear from Mr Rosandic, who IGS students interview about his involvement with sailing.
17:44 Community Connections
IGS student Gabriel chats about his recent win in a local fencing competition.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:20):
We're talking about the OlympicGames.
Every four years, the OlympicGames are held in different
cities around the world.
This year, they are in Paris,france.
Hi, my name is Ryder.
I'm a proud Kamaluri girl.
Hi, my name is Akira.
I'm a proud Kamaluri girl.
Before we get started, we wantto acknowledge the Gaggle people
(00:41):
of the country.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh, Gajo Woo.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Banamari.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, gajo Banamari.
Gajo Gajo Gajo Banamari.
Gajo Gajo Gajo Banamari.
Gajo Gajo Gajo Banamari.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
At IGS we acknowledge the First Nations peoples of
Australia.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We acknowledge the strong, resilient and ingenious
Gadigals.
They transmit culture, historyand songs for generations.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
They have always been connected with the country.
They have raised the land,water and sky.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
We are proud of Gadigal and the people, the land
, the water and the sky.
We are all of the same.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
At the Fess and Lantig.
We are all trying to find theperspectives to be re-enacted
From the most ancient culturesstill existing today in the
world Baranian, yagu, baraboo,aboriginal Vanuatu this always
was and always will beAboriginal land.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Aboriginal land.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Alkira, who's your favourite Olympian?
Jessica Fox.
She won two gold medals andshe's a great canoeist.
Hey, ryder, do you know there'san Olympian teacher at the
school?
Really yes, mr Cameron, hecompeted in rowing Great.
Let's ask him some questionsabout the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
What was your first rowing competition like?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
My first competition, I think, was on the Clarence
River in McLean, which is whereI went to school.
We raced across the river at anarea that was probably about
1,000 metres across and myrecollection of that race was in
a Gladstone.
Skiff Now, these boats were big, heavy wooden things that
needed about two people to carrythem.
Skiff Now, these boats were big, heavy wooden things that
(02:47):
needed about two people to carrythem.
And racing across the riveragainst some of my mates at
school back to the boat shed wasprobably the first real
competition I had.
It was a far cry from racing atthe Olympics and certainly the
boats were nothing like what Iraced at the top level, but it
certainly gave me a taste ofcompetition.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
How old were you when you started rowing?
Speaker 6 (03:07):
I started rowing at the age of about 11.
I was in year six at McLean andI remember my sister was rowing
and I went out in a speedboatwith her coach one day and not
really sort of thinking that Iwould actually have a row, he
offered me a chance to hop in asingle skull and I rode the boat
(03:29):
about probably about threekilometers back to the boat shed
.
It was a glassy day, beautifulday on the Clarets River, which
is a really lovely place totrade, and it started me getting
involved in rowing.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
What was your first rowing club?
Speaker 6 (03:44):
getting involved in rowing.
What was your first rowing club?
My first rowing club was McLeanHigh School, but they used the
boat shed of Lower ClarenceRowing Club.
Now, eventually, when I leftschool, I went to the Institute
of Sport in Canberra and Ineeded to become a member, or I
needed to be a member of arowing club.
So I decided to stay a memberof Lower Clarence Rowing Club,
and it eventually turned outthat that was the club that I
(04:05):
competed for at the Olympics.
So it's very rare that acountry athlete gets to compete
at the Olympics for their homeclub.
I hadn't actually been to theclub for a few years by the time
I competed, but I was a memberof Lower Clarence Ryan Club, so
that was my first club.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
What was it like the night before the Olympic Games?
Speaker 6 (04:25):
As a matter of fact, I don't really remember the
night before my Olympic Games ormy competition.
I do remember quite a fewthings from the Olympics.
One of the best memories I havewas our opening ceremony.
Now we were staying about anhour and a half away from the
normal Olympic Village so wedidn't actually go into the
normal opening ceremony.
Normal Olympic village so wedidn't actually go into the
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normal opening ceremony.
The Australian rowing team in1996, we held our own little
mini opening ceremony where webasically dressed up in our gear
and then performed a whole heapof skits as if we were being
part of a ceremony.
It was hilarious, but it wasvery memorable and a lot of fun.
So that was my sort offavourite memory from before the
Olympics.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
How was it representing Australia?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Representing Australia was an honour and I'd
managed to do it a few timesover the years in between 92 and
2000.
And one of the greatest, Isuppose, moments that I had
representing Australia was inthe sea final at the Olympics.
Now, the best I could come was13th, even if I broke a world
(05:29):
record.
The best position for me tocome was 13th, or the only
position for me to come was 13th.
I rode down to the start, pastthe grandstands, and it was the
only event on that afternoon, soI wasn't really expecting
anyone to be there to watch.
So I rode past the finish downto the start and as I rode past
the finish I looked over my leftshoulder and the grandstand was
(05:50):
full and I stopped to wonder.
I was like, well, who are theyhere to watch?
Because the only event was mineand I thought, well, I better
make it me.
They're going to be here towatch me win and watch me come
13th.
And that was probably one ofthe best moments, knowing that
there were probably about 10,000people there come to watch me
come 13th.
So that was pretty special.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
What were you feeling while you were competing?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Rowing is a pretty tough sport, so what I was
feeling was a pretty enormouslevel of pain.
Now I suppose, to give you sortof some idea of what that means
it's, you know rowing racestend to last about six or seven
minutes and they take about sortof 240 strokes.
(06:37):
Imagine if you were to lift a40-kilo bag of something up to
your shoulders from the ground240 times in a row.
That's kind of like the feelingthat you'll have when you're in
a rowing race.
You very easily can not sort ofstop being aware of your
(06:59):
surroundings.
You sort of need to sort oftake yourself out of that pain
and actually sort of see whereyou are in relation to your
competition and steering andthings like that.
So there's all sorts of thingsthat you feel, but I suppose
it's dominated by that lacticacid pain.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Where did your passion for rowing begin?
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Where did my passion for rowing begin?
I think it was pretty clearthat growing up on the Clarence
River was a pretty lovely way ofdeveloping a passion for a
sport.
It's a pretty idyllic place tolive.
Now.
One of the other things thatsort of led my passion was the
historical story that comes fromup there, a gentleman by the
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name of Henry Searle who rode inabout 1880 and became known as
the Clarence Comet.
Now, back in those days singlesculling was a big sport in
Australia and in fact more moneywas wagered on single skulls in
every year than horse racing inAustralia.
So it was a huge sport.
And he died over in the UK andon his way home or on the ship
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on the way home.
And when he or his body arrivedin Circular Quay there were
more people came to greet him atCircular Quay than all the
ships after World War I.
So it was a pretty enormouscrowd, especially given the time
period that we're talking about.
Now McLean, where he's buried,even these days, has a
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population of about 2,000 people.
For his funeral there were10,000 people in McLean.
Now it turned out that I usedto walk down to my school and
pass his gravestone every day,and so I would, you know, pay
homage to him and sort of say,you know, henry, I'll be a
champion like you one day, andthat sort of, I suppose, drove
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some of my passion as well.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Did you ever imagine you would go to the Olympics?
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Did I ever imagine that I would go to the Olympics?
Absolutely.
I distinctly remember talkingto my coach one day when I was
in about I must have been inabout year nine, and he said
would you like to go to theOlympics one day?
I said yeah, didn't reallyunderstand what the Olympics
were, but I knew that it wassomething big and I knew that I
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wanted to row and so I said yes,absolutely.
And when he told me that Idefinitely, definitely could, it
sort of planted the seed in mymind and I always pictured
myself at least once competingat Olympics.
So I was pretty happy tofulfill that dream.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Up.
Next, we asked the IGScommunity about their Olympic
Games highlights.
What is your favorite Olympicevent of all time?
Speaker 7 (09:41):
I think my favourite Olympic moment of all time would
have to be Cathy Freemanwinning the final back in 2000.
The final back in 2000.
That was an iconic moment inOlympic history for Australia,
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but also Indigenous people.
It was an incredible moment.
I was a teenager, so earlyteenage years, and I remember it
so clearly and the feeling thatI had during that moment so
really, really cool.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
I would have to say back in 2000, when I was in year
10 watching the men's relay Ithink it was the 4x100 metres
and we were behind and IanThorpe won it right at the last
minute, beating the Americans.
And, yeah, I'll never forgetthat moment and the celebration
(10:44):
that those guys, includingMichael Klim I know he was in
the team that to me I will neverforget.
What a great moment.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
My favourite Olympic moment of all time was when the
Aussie Boomers won bronze in theTokyo 2020 Olympics.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
What has been your favorite sport to watch at the
Paris Olympics?
Speaker 7 (11:03):
My favorite sport to watch in these current Olympic
Games and all Olympic Gamesactually is the gymnastics.
I used to be a gymnast and Ijust love watching what they're
able to do these days comparedto what I was doing and my
teammates were doing 20.
(11:23):
22, 25 years ago.
The sport has come a very, verylong way and the types of
skills and the performance isjust insane.
It's really so much moredifficulty in the routines.
It's just incredible to watchboth the men's and the women's,
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and especially Simone Biles.
She has just been incredibleduring these games and just such
a joy to watch.
So, yeah, my favourite sport towatch is the gymnastics.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
I always love watching the swimming, but I
must say this year I've beengetting into the athletics and
I've loved watching the 100metre sprints.
So, so fast and it looks likesome of the athletes are so far
behind.
And then you look at the timesand it's like half a second, so
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definitely the 100 metre sprints.
I also love the fact that theprimary athletics carnival fell
in the middle of the Olympicsand so I got to watch all of the
primary students run theirraces and run so fast.
And then you go home and watchthe athletes on the TV, which it
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just is, I think, looking like.
It's a bit of a glimpse intothe future seeing our primary
kids running so quickly aroundthe track.
Maybe one day we'll have ourown Olympian.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
I have really enjoyed watching the athletics and the
swimming at the Paris Olympicsthis year.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
In the history of the modern Olympics, Australia has
won 605 medals.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
In this year's Olympic Games, Australia has won
53 medals 18 gold, 19 silverand 16 bronze.
Go Australia.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Before the modern Olympics, we had the ancient
Olympics.
The ancient Olympics started in776 BC and ended in 393 AD.
Occurring every four years.
It started from an ancientreligion festival honoring Zeus,
the king of the Greek gods Inancient Greece.
Greece delayed making the armybecause people wanted to compete
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in the Olympics more.
Eventually, the Persians weredefeated in the Battle of
Plateau.
All three men were allowed totake part in the Olympics, from
farmers to royalty.
Back in the day, you wouldreceive an olive wreath as a
reward, because it representedpeace and success.
The Olympics started in Olympia, hence the name.
(14:02):
Today we are interviewing MrRosenditch, who is the head of
Bermal and French teacher at IGSand also a sailing competitor.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Hello, how are you?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Good, thank you you.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yeah, not bad.
Thank you, I'm happy to havethis chat with you.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Should we start the interview?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yes, please.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Okay, so how old were you when you started sailing?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Oh, I was quite young , I think I was around six.
Oh, I was quite young, I thinkI was around six, so this is a
(14:46):
funny story.
My dad took me on a very smallboat which is called Opti, and
he took me out of the club andwe were sailing towards this
huge, that swing mooring and hedid a few turns around it and
you can imagine how scary thatwas in the middle of the water.
I was just like, wow, what isthat?
And then he said now you try.
And I went into the boat and hedisembarked himself.
He sat on that swing mooringand he was bobbing around left
(15:07):
and right and I was just so youknow, daddy, daddy, no, I don't
want to go without you.
And he said you can do this.
And it was one of those moments.
You know it's either it breaksyou or it makes you, and somehow
it made me everything I amtoday what do you like about
sailing the most?
(15:28):
oh, wow, that's a good question.
So what I like about sailing isthat when you're on a boat, you
see how you are depending oneverything that's happening
around you.
You are depending on the seastate, you are depending on the
wind strength, you are dependingon the on the visibility, you
are depending on your skills howto sail the fastest.
(15:50):
You know speed you can, youadjust yourselves and you just
go so the most.
The best thing of all is justgetting into that sync with the
nature so have you won a goldmedal in sailing I.
I've never won a gold medal, butI've won many prizes.
(16:13):
Like you know, I came to firstplace, but it wasn't a gold
medal.
We would get a little kind of atoken or a bottle of our
favorite drink or, you know, apainting or a picture, but I
never won a gold medal itself.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Who is your biggest sailing idol?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Ooh, there are so many of them.
I think Australian sailing teamOlympic sailing team is just
extraordinary and since I movedfrom overseas I learned so much
more about sailing here.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
but still, my biggest sailing idol is my dad how did
you feel when Australia won goldin in sailing Olympics?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
oh, it was fantastic.
So I know for a fact that theyare going to win a gold medal in
a men's dinghy this year andlast year in sorry, last year
last Olympics in Tokyo, theyalso won a gold medal.
And the second competitor wasCroat, also from country where I
come from, and I actuallypersonally know Tonchi, and so I
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was very happy that we had gold, and silver, uh, lined up one
after the other.
That was like the best day ofmy life.
I was cheering for both.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Thank you for your time with the interview today.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
You are very welcome, thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Bye.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Next up we have an IGS student who has just won a
fencing competition.
Speaker 9 (17:51):
Hi Gabrielle.
Thanks for joining us onKaleidoscope Kids.
Now you've just won a fencingcompetition.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yes, I did.
I won my little local fencingcompetition just up in Dromoyne
at Sydney.
Sabre, funny enough.
Speaker 9 (18:07):
Excellent, so tell us how you got into fencing.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oh, fencing.
And I go way back, way back toyear five even it was.
I went to a camp in year fiveat my local primary school and
one of the activities theyhosted there was fencing.
I did really well in thatactivity and when the camp
instructors came to meafterwards and said you did
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really well, have you considereddoing fencing as a sport?
I said no, I've never thoughtabout it before.
I didn't really know it was asport.
They recommended me some thingsand a couple of years later I
decided well, in year seven Idecided, hey, maybe this might
be very interesting, I shouldgive it a go.
So I grabbed my best friend,carol, and we went to do fencing
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in its previous location up atParramatta.
Great, so you've been doing itfor quite a few years yeah,
quite a few years, though therewas a obviously a break for
COVID, um, but I meancontinuously and what did you
think of the fencing at theOlympics?
Fencing at the Olympics.
It was very, very intense.
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I don't think I could emulateany of those, even if I tried,
but they were incredibly fast,incredibly strong, just like
truly amazing fences.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
And would you consider trying out for the
Australian team at the nextOlympics?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
yeah, maybe if I got, if I like, got personal
training and maybe participatedin a few more high level um
fencing tournaments.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
But at this moment, right now, if they were to host
another olympics, um, no, not,not at this moment okay, and do
you want to tell the audienceanything about fencing or try
and encourage some people tojoin or why they should join?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Well, the thing about fencing is it's a very, very
fast paced, like person toperson sport.
So if you're not very alert andreaction-based, you're not
going to excel extremely in it.
You can always get better, justpractice, practice, practice.
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But it's very, very fast.
So if you're not cut out for,say, short distance sprints, um
or like um, for example, likeswimming, swimming's probably
very similar but those um havevery similar athletic
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requirements.
But for all it's for, despitemy um physical incapabilities
with those, I actually am very,very capable of fencing and I
think it's very, very fun.
I think that if you just giveit a chance, maybe try out a
couple times, go to an introlesson.
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That if you just give it achance, maybe try out a couple
of times, go to an intro lessonyou'll find you really enjoy it
Because at the end of the dayyou get to.
Well, for me, I get to live outmy fantasy of night fights and
stuff, just so long as I have astrong enough imagination.
Speaker 9 (21:37):
Excellent.
Well, thank you so much forsharing with us your win and
some information about Fancy.
Well, thank you so much forsharing with us your win and
some information about fencingwell, thank you, it's been very
nice bye-bye bye, thank you.
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(00:20):
We're talking about the OlympicGames.
Every four years, the OlympicGames are held in different
cities around the world.
This year, they are in Paris,france.
Hi, my name is Ryder.
I'm a proud Kamaluri girl.
Hi, my name is Akira.
I'm a proud Kamaluri girl.
Before we get started, we wantto acknowledge the Gaggle people
(00:41):
of the country.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh, Gajo Woo.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Banamari.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, gajo Banamari.
Gajo Gajo Gajo Banamari.
Gajo Gajo Gajo Banamari.
Gajo Gajo Gajo Banamari.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
At IGS we acknowledge the First Nations peoples of
Australia.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We acknowledge the strong, resilient and ingenious
Gadigals.
They transmit culture, historyand songs for generations.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
They have always been connected with the country.
They have raised the land,water and sky.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
We are proud of Gadigal and the people, the land
, the water and the sky.
We are all of the same.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
At the Fess and Lantig.
We are all trying to find theperspectives to be re-enacted
From the most ancient culturesstill existing today in the
world Baranian, yagu, baraboo,aboriginal Vanuatu this always
was and always will beAboriginal land.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Aboriginal land.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Alkira, who's your favourite Olympian?
Jessica Fox.
She won two gold medals andshe's a great canoeist.
Hey, ryder, do you know there'san Olympian teacher at the
school?
Really yes, mr Cameron, hecompeted in rowing Great.
Let's ask him some questionsabout the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
What was your first rowing competition like?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
My first competition, I think, was on the Clarence
River in McLean, which is whereI went to school.
We raced across the river at anarea that was probably about
1,000 metres across and myrecollection of that race was in
a Gladstone.
Skiff Now, these boats were big, heavy wooden things that
needed about two people to carrythem.
Skiff Now, these boats were big, heavy wooden things that
(02:47):
needed about two people to carrythem.
And racing across the riveragainst some of my mates at
school back to the boat shed wasprobably the first real
competition I had.
It was a far cry from racing atthe Olympics and certainly the
boats were nothing like what Iraced at the top level, but it
certainly gave me a taste ofcompetition.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
How old were you when you started rowing?
Speaker 6 (03:07):
I started rowing at the age of about 11.
I was in year six at McLean andI remember my sister was rowing
and I went out in a speedboatwith her coach one day and not
really sort of thinking that Iwould actually have a row, he
offered me a chance to hop in asingle skull and I rode the boat
(03:29):
about probably about threekilometers back to the boat shed
.
It was a glassy day, beautifulday on the Clarets River, which
is a really lovely place totrade, and it started me getting
involved in rowing.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
What was your first rowing club?
Speaker 6 (03:44):
getting involved in rowing.
What was your first rowing club?
My first rowing club was McLeanHigh School, but they used the
boat shed of Lower ClarenceRowing Club.
Now, eventually, when I leftschool, I went to the Institute
of Sport in Canberra and Ineeded to become a member, or I
needed to be a member of arowing club.
So I decided to stay a memberof Lower Clarence Rowing Club,
and it eventually turned outthat that was the club that I
(04:05):
competed for at the Olympics.
So it's very rare that acountry athlete gets to compete
at the Olympics for their homeclub.
I hadn't actually been to theclub for a few years by the time
I competed, but I was a memberof Lower Clarence Ryan Club, so
that was my first club.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
What was it like the night before the Olympic Games?
Speaker 6 (04:25):
As a matter of fact, I don't really remember the
night before my Olympic Games ormy competition.
I do remember quite a fewthings from the Olympics.
One of the best memories I havewas our opening ceremony.
Now we were staying about anhour and a half away from the
normal Olympic Village so wedidn't actually go into the
normal opening ceremony.
Normal Olympic village so wedidn't actually go into the
(04:47):
normal opening ceremony.
The Australian rowing team in1996, we held our own little
mini opening ceremony where webasically dressed up in our gear
and then performed a whole heapof skits as if we were being
part of a ceremony.
It was hilarious, but it wasvery memorable and a lot of fun.
So that was my sort offavourite memory from before the
Olympics.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
How was it representing Australia?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Representing Australia was an honour and I'd
managed to do it a few timesover the years in between 92 and
2000.
And one of the greatest, Isuppose, moments that I had
representing Australia was inthe sea final at the Olympics.
Now, the best I could come was13th, even if I broke a world
(05:29):
record.
The best position for me tocome was 13th, or the only
position for me to come was 13th.
I rode down to the start, pastthe grandstands, and it was the
only event on that afternoon, soI wasn't really expecting
anyone to be there to watch.
So I rode past the finish downto the start and as I rode past
the finish I looked over my leftshoulder and the grandstand was
(05:50):
full and I stopped to wonder.
I was like, well, who are theyhere to watch?
Because the only event was mineand I thought, well, I better
make it me.
They're going to be here towatch me win and watch me come
13th.
And that was probably one ofthe best moments, knowing that
there were probably about 10,000people there come to watch me
come 13th.
So that was pretty special.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
What were you feeling while you were competing?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Rowing is a pretty tough sport, so what I was
feeling was a pretty enormouslevel of pain.
Now I suppose, to give you sortof some idea of what that means
it's, you know rowing racestend to last about six or seven
minutes and they take about sortof 240 strokes.
(06:37):
Imagine if you were to lift a40-kilo bag of something up to
your shoulders from the ground240 times in a row.
That's kind of like the feelingthat you'll have when you're in
a rowing race.
You very easily can not sort ofstop being aware of your
(06:59):
surroundings.
You sort of need to sort oftake yourself out of that pain
and actually sort of see whereyou are in relation to your
competition and steering andthings like that.
So there's all sorts of thingsthat you feel, but I suppose
it's dominated by that lacticacid pain.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Where did your passion for rowing begin?
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Where did my passion for rowing begin?
I think it was pretty clearthat growing up on the Clarence
River was a pretty lovely way ofdeveloping a passion for a
sport.
It's a pretty idyllic place tolive.
Now.
One of the other things thatsort of led my passion was the
historical story that comes fromup there, a gentleman by the
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name of Henry Searle who rode inabout 1880 and became known as
the Clarence Comet.
Now, back in those days singlesculling was a big sport in
Australia and in fact more moneywas wagered on single skulls in
every year than horse racing inAustralia.
So it was a huge sport.
And he died over in the UK andon his way home or on the ship
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on the way home.
And when he or his body arrivedin Circular Quay there were
more people came to greet him atCircular Quay than all the
ships after World War I.
So it was a pretty enormouscrowd, especially given the time
period that we're talking about.
Now McLean, where he's buried,even these days, has a
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population of about 2,000 people.
For his funeral there were10,000 people in McLean.
Now it turned out that I usedto walk down to my school and
pass his gravestone every day,and so I would, you know, pay
homage to him and sort of say,you know, henry, I'll be a
champion like you one day, andthat sort of, I suppose, drove
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some of my passion as well.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Did you ever imagine you would go to the Olympics?
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Did I ever imagine that I would go to the Olympics?
Absolutely.
I distinctly remember talkingto my coach one day when I was
in about I must have been inabout year nine, and he said
would you like to go to theOlympics one day?
I said yeah, didn't reallyunderstand what the Olympics
were, but I knew that it wassomething big and I knew that I
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wanted to row and so I said yes,absolutely.
And when he told me that Idefinitely, definitely could, it
sort of planted the seed in mymind and I always pictured
myself at least once competingat Olympics.
So I was pretty happy tofulfill that dream.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Up.
Next, we asked the IGScommunity about their Olympic
Games highlights.
What is your favorite Olympicevent of all time?
Speaker 7 (09:41):
I think my favourite Olympic moment of all time would
have to be Cathy Freemanwinning the final back in 2000.
The final back in 2000.
That was an iconic moment inOlympic history for Australia,
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but also Indigenous people.
It was an incredible moment.
I was a teenager, so earlyteenage years, and I remember it
so clearly and the feeling thatI had during that moment so
really, really cool.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
I would have to say back in 2000, when I was in year
10 watching the men's relay Ithink it was the 4x100 metres
and we were behind and IanThorpe won it right at the last
minute, beating the Americans.
And, yeah, I'll never forgetthat moment and the celebration
(10:44):
that those guys, includingMichael Klim I know he was in
the team that to me I will neverforget.
What a great moment.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
My favourite Olympic moment of all time was when the
Aussie Boomers won bronze in theTokyo 2020 Olympics.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
What has been your favorite sport to watch at the
Paris Olympics?
Speaker 7 (11:03):
My favorite sport to watch in these current Olympic
Games and all Olympic Gamesactually is the gymnastics.
I used to be a gymnast and Ijust love watching what they're
able to do these days comparedto what I was doing and my
teammates were doing 20.
(11:23):
22, 25 years ago.
The sport has come a very, verylong way and the types of
skills and the performance isjust insane.
It's really so much moredifficulty in the routines.
It's just incredible to watchboth the men's and the women's,
(11:50):
and especially Simone Biles.
She has just been incredibleduring these games and just such
a joy to watch.
So, yeah, my favourite sport towatch is the gymnastics.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
I always love watching the swimming, but I
must say this year I've beengetting into the athletics and
I've loved watching the 100metre sprints.
So, so fast and it looks likesome of the athletes are so far
behind.
And then you look at the timesand it's like half a second, so
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definitely the 100 metre sprints.
I also love the fact that theprimary athletics carnival fell
in the middle of the Olympicsand so I got to watch all of the
primary students run theirraces and run so fast.
And then you go home and watchthe athletes on the TV, which it
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just is, I think, looking like.
It's a bit of a glimpse intothe future seeing our primary
kids running so quickly aroundthe track.
Maybe one day we'll have ourown Olympian.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
I have really enjoyed watching the athletics and the
swimming at the Paris Olympicsthis year.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
In the history of the modern Olympics, Australia has
won 605 medals.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
In this year's Olympic Games, Australia has won
53 medals 18 gold, 19 silverand 16 bronze.
Go Australia.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Before the modern Olympics, we had the ancient
Olympics.
The ancient Olympics started in776 BC and ended in 393 AD.
Occurring every four years.
It started from an ancientreligion festival honoring Zeus,
the king of the Greek gods Inancient Greece.
Greece delayed making the armybecause people wanted to compete
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in the Olympics more.
Eventually, the Persians weredefeated in the Battle of
Plateau.
All three men were allowed totake part in the Olympics, from
farmers to royalty.
Back in the day, you wouldreceive an olive wreath as a
reward, because it representedpeace and success.
The Olympics started in Olympia, hence the name.
(14:02):
Today we are interviewing MrRosenditch, who is the head of
Bermal and French teacher at IGSand also a sailing competitor.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Hello, how are you?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Good, thank you you.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yeah, not bad.
Thank you, I'm happy to havethis chat with you.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Should we start the interview?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yes, please.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Okay, so how old were you when you started sailing?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Oh, I was quite young , I think I was around six.
Oh, I was quite young, I thinkI was around six, so this is a
(14:46):
funny story.
My dad took me on a very smallboat which is called Opti, and
he took me out of the club andwe were sailing towards this
huge, that swing mooring and hedid a few turns around it and
you can imagine how scary thatwas in the middle of the water.
I was just like, wow, what isthat?
And then he said now you try.
And I went into the boat and hedisembarked himself.
He sat on that swing mooringand he was bobbing around left
(15:07):
and right and I was just so youknow, daddy, daddy, no, I don't
want to go without you.
And he said you can do this.
And it was one of those moments.
You know it's either it breaksyou or it makes you, and somehow
it made me everything I amtoday what do you like about
sailing the most?
(15:28):
oh, wow, that's a good question.
So what I like about sailing isthat when you're on a boat, you
see how you are depending oneverything that's happening
around you.
You are depending on the seastate, you are depending on the
wind strength, you are dependingon the on the visibility, you
are depending on your skills howto sail the fastest.
(15:50):
You know speed you can, youadjust yourselves and you just
go so the most.
The best thing of all is justgetting into that sync with the
nature so have you won a goldmedal in sailing I.
I've never won a gold medal, butI've won many prizes.
(16:13):
Like you know, I came to firstplace, but it wasn't a gold
medal.
We would get a little kind of atoken or a bottle of our
favorite drink or, you know, apainting or a picture, but I
never won a gold medal itself.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Who is your biggest sailing idol?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Ooh, there are so many of them.
I think Australian sailing teamOlympic sailing team is just
extraordinary and since I movedfrom overseas I learned so much
more about sailing here.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
but still, my biggest sailing idol is my dad how did
you feel when Australia won goldin in sailing Olympics?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
oh, it was fantastic.
So I know for a fact that theyare going to win a gold medal in
a men's dinghy this year andlast year in sorry, last year
last Olympics in Tokyo, theyalso won a gold medal.
And the second competitor wasCroat, also from country where I
come from, and I actuallypersonally know Tonchi, and so I
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was very happy that we had gold, and silver, uh, lined up one
after the other.
That was like the best day ofmy life.
I was cheering for both.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Thank you for your time with the interview today.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
You are very welcome, thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Bye.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Next up we have an IGS student who has just won a
fencing competition.
Speaker 9 (17:51):
Hi Gabrielle.
Thanks for joining us onKaleidoscope Kids.
Now you've just won a fencingcompetition.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yes, I did.
I won my little local fencingcompetition just up in Dromoyne
at Sydney.
Sabre, funny enough.
Speaker 9 (18:07):
Excellent, so tell us how you got into fencing.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oh, fencing.
And I go way back, way back toyear five even it was.
I went to a camp in year fiveat my local primary school and
one of the activities theyhosted there was fencing.
I did really well in thatactivity and when the camp
instructors came to meafterwards and said you did
(18:31):
really well, have you considereddoing fencing as a sport?
I said no, I've never thoughtabout it before.
I didn't really know it was asport.
They recommended me some thingsand a couple of years later I
decided well, in year seven Idecided, hey, maybe this might
be very interesting, I shouldgive it a go.
So I grabbed my best friend,carol, and we went to do fencing
(18:54):
in its previous location up atParramatta.
Great, so you've been doing itfor quite a few years yeah,
quite a few years, though therewas a obviously a break for
COVID, um, but I meancontinuously and what did you
think of the fencing at theOlympics?
Fencing at the Olympics.
It was very, very intense.
(19:16):
I don't think I could emulateany of those, even if I tried,
but they were incredibly fast,incredibly strong, just like
truly amazing fences.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
And would you consider trying out for the
Australian team at the nextOlympics?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
yeah, maybe if I got, if I like, got personal
training and maybe participatedin a few more high level um
fencing tournaments.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
But at this moment, right now, if they were to host
another olympics, um, no, not,not at this moment okay, and do
you want to tell the audienceanything about fencing or try
and encourage some people tojoin or why they should join?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Well, the thing about fencing is it's a very, very
fast paced, like person toperson sport.
So if you're not very alert andreaction-based, you're not
going to excel extremely in it.
You can always get better, justpractice, practice, practice.
(20:32):
But it's very, very fast.
So if you're not cut out for,say, short distance sprints, um
or like um, for example, likeswimming, swimming's probably
very similar but those um havevery similar athletic
(20:59):
requirements.
But for all it's for, despitemy um physical incapabilities
with those, I actually am very,very capable of fencing and I
think it's very, very fun.
I think that if you just giveit a chance, maybe try out a
couple times, go to an introlesson.
(21:19):
That if you just give it achance, maybe try out a couple
of times, go to an intro lessonyou'll find you really enjoy it
Because at the end of the dayyou get to.
Well, for me, I get to live outmy fantasy of night fights and
stuff, just so long as I have astrong enough imagination.
Speaker 9 (21:37):
Excellent.
Well, thank you so much forsharing with us your win and
some information about Fancy.
Well, thank you so much forsharing with us your win and
some information about fencingwell, thank you, it's been very
nice bye-bye bye, thank you.
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