D'Arcy Waldegrave: We're behind you Aotearoa

Soon the sport will start. The purpose, the reason, the point of the Olympic games will leap into action, and eyeballs from all facets of sporting fandom will be locked onto the 32 sports featured throughout the next 17 days of competition.  

This is where the rubber hits the road. The years of toil, the long months of personal sacrifice, the early mornings, late nights. The sweat, the anguish, the anxiety, the laser focus on a solitary goal all comes to a head as the world watches on.  

The individual effort and achievement of every athlete will be poured over by the crowd, the global TV market and the media, all keys to the success of the games.   

The strength of the festival is not the individual, nor the teams involved. The success of the games is within itself. The fact that this event captures the attention of the whole planet, with every nation having skin in the game, every news outlet —radio, tv, print and digital— will burst at the seams with coverage. The good, the bad, and in Canadian football, the ugly.  

This fortnight transcends sport, although it is the driver of the drama, it is a period when the world pauses. We attempt to push to one side the pain of existence, the perpetual misery of economics, politics, pestilence, disease and war and focus on the joy of competition.  

The content has been twisted and morphed over the current Olympic epoch, but the essence remains the same, nations challenging each other under the umbrella of the most significant insignificance there is, sport. It means everything in the present, but when the dust settles, the result doesn’t mean as much as the exchange itself.   

Represent Aotearoa, we’re behind you 100 percent. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the All Sport Breakfast podcast with Darcy
Waldgrave from News Talk ZEDB.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Seven thirty one.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
This is News Talk ZB and soon the sport will start.
The purpose, the reason, the point of the Olympic Games
will leap into action and eyeballs from all facets of
sporting fandom will be locked onto the thirty two sports
featured throughout the next seventeen days of competition.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
This is where the rubber hits the road. The years
of toil and the long months of personal sacrifice, the
early mornings, the late nights that swear, the anguish, the anxiety,
the laser focus on a solitary goal all comes to
a head as the world watches on. The individual effort
and achievement of every athlete will be poured over by

(00:52):
the crowd, The global TV market and the media all
of course, are keys to the success of the Games.
The strength of this festival that was not through the
individual and all the teams involved. The success of the
games itself, the fact that this event captures the attention
of the whole planet, with every nation having skin in
the game, Every news outlet, radio, TV, print, digital outlet

(01:16):
will burst at the scenes with coverage the good, the bad,
and Canadian Football's case the ugly. This Fortnite transcends sport,
although that is the driver behind the drama. It is
a period in time where the world pauses. It attempts
to push to one side the pain of existence, the
perpetual misery of economics, politics, pestilence, disease and war, and

(01:38):
focuses on the joy of competition. It was twisted and
morphed in content over the Olympic Epoch, no doubt, in
the last one hundred and so years, but the essence
remains the same. Nations challenging each other under the umbrella
of the most significant insignificance there is, sport. It means

(01:59):
everything in the present, but when the dust settles, the
result doesn't mean as much as the exchange itself represent
al Tirawa, We're behind you one hundred percent. That'll do.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
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