And now an update from the games that cannot be name.
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Sports first happening in Paris at the moment as we're winding down, the one hundred meters sprint happened today, which that's always an indicator that it's almost done.
Oh there's still some more. We haven't started the artistic swimming, which I know Corey Oats will be super extrated about.
That's true, got that was obviously the Marathon's always the last day, so that's not obviously not happened yet.
And if you don't know what I'm talking about with Corey, please go to our socials and check him out doing his own version of artistic swimming. Never has a broncho been so light in the water. But we need to talk to the one and only Emily Sebon, who's been seabomb, who has been extraordinary for us over the last ten days.
Hey, m hi guys, how are we going very good?
Did you get a bit of sleep over the weekend or have you been just watching just binging?
Look to be honest, I've had full eight hours of sleep, which has been fantastic. I'm Sgaring. I have an almost an eleven months old now, so I've absolutely loved it. The swimming last night was like two am, so it was quite an early start for anyone that watched. But the action was absolutely fire from the girls again with those two silver medals in the fifty three, which was awesome to see make Harris. I don't know if you know much about mack Harrots, but she's actually partially deaf right, oh wow, not enough to be obviously, you know, classed as anything other than you know, the swimming that she's in. So it's fantastic to see her get up there and be able to do that. I know she sort of struggles sometimes hearing the buzzer, so oh wow, Yeah, that was super impressive.
So that's incredible, isn't it.
Listen to him right, we have had a deaf swimmer in was it Timoity Douglas? Gosh, I'm going back in my back in the day and they used to have to have someone by the sidelines because she competed and did really well.
I think when to start, well, but do you know what I was?
She's looking up Kaylie McKeon. She's only just turned twenty three. She was born in two thousand and one.
Well, that's crazy after the Sydney Olympics, so she's.
Probably going to be at the next games?
Do you think I would think so? I mean I haven't really like spoken to her about like I know from Brisbane she was like, nah, I won't be swimming, but she definitely could, so I don't know. I would assume the next one she might sort of that might be enough for her, like she's sort of done it all, Like what else can she do? Yeah?
True, Yeah, she's gone back to back, which no athlete has ever done. But looking back on the last ten days and what's been your favorite swimming event?
Oh, that's so tough, Like obviously I love the backstrokes, so seeing Kaylee do that was insane. I was super happy to Cam. I mean, he's never won an individual medal at that you know, big sports fast before, so seeing him come back for a fourth game and to be able to do that was just insane.
And Cams one the story is that he changed the way he trains. Rather than doing all the kilometers the swimming every day, he went mountain climbing and just did totally different things.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure with all the boys that won the medals in that fifty three they swim less than like ten k's a week or something like that. So they like they do bare minimum, Yeah, but they make it work so well, like they do bare minimum like perfectly, Whereas most people can't get everything right in a short sort of time frame, Whereas that's what these guys are made for. Whereas like I like more more because I can't be perfect all the time. But if I do more, I'm better.
Huh So, And now what happens to the swimmers. Are they getting on it?
I would say a still, I think, But I think a few of them actually have COVID From what I've heard, there's a very few of them that are quite sick at the moment. So I think, yeah, it's depending on who's healthy and who's not. But I think a lot of them because they are, you know, over in Europe and it's European summer, Like I think most of them are like going traveling, going exploring, having fun. You know, most of them will have a massive break after this, maybe like a month maybe two. So for them, this is like Christmas, like this is the most amazing time for them. They'll have so much fun and I'm so jealous.
If they've meddled, do they get some cash, like, is there is there some type of Australian incentive if you get like a gold or silver or whatever to actually and fund your travels for the next month.
And that money sort of doesn't fund your travels any money that you like make and most of it, I have to say, is through personal sponsors, not so much through government type stuff, so a lot of it won't come in till the end half of this year, Like you probably won't expect money to come in December, so it takes a while for everything to be cleared, like all drug testing, all of that to come back and and be all fine. So once that's all good, then yeah, that money goes out, and yeah, the shimmers are just you know, paying all that bills.
Sponsors, all mom and dad paying for your holiday for the next month or so.
Correct? Correct? I think I think it's Singapore. If you win gold, it's like one million US dollars in Dane. It blows my mind. I just have to go to Singapore come back in.
Isn't that kind of bad that they represented our country? They've done us absolutely proud and they don't have enough money and some of them are sick.
Yes, it's it's hard to fathom because you know, it's not like those big paychecks you see maybe in AFL or the NRL, Like you know, for us to make that good money, we have to be swimming for a very long time. And like you know, a lot a lot of athletes are paying off their mortgages, paying off their bills. They don't have that extra money yet, Like they've got to be swimming for a really long time.
Well, thank you so much for keeping us up to date throughout the games, and we'll let you get back to Sampson. He's quiteting down now, of course.
Yeah, he was very angry about the two thousand birthday thing. He's very much into the twenty twenty three birth year. Fair enough, fu fair enough,