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18 it was suggested that you retire
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because you had knee issues.
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>> I had done my cut my ligaments and my
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cartilage but I also had bone chips and
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damage. So the doctors recommended that
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I retire from New Zealand level and just
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swim for pleasure and be a be a
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university student which didn't sit well
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with me. So, so there was there was no
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money in net ball or did you get some
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like pdiums when you were
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>> pdeiums but like there was really no we
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we were amateur a lot of us were
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teachers uh because it fitted in with
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tours. There were definitely some some
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crazy times of um like when I was
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teaching at Target girls and we were
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about to head off on the tour to South
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Africa um and it was exams and I had
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hundreds of exams to mark and Belinda
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Colling was saying to me um you know how
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how can we help Bernie? Can we help you
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like get through this?
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>> And um becoming captain of the silver
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fins at 20 is 22 very young to become
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captain. How do you do that? How do you
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find their respect? Well,
