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| Friday, January 3, 2014 |
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| Preston, Victoria, Australia |
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| On Saturday, Wikinews interviewed Tina McKenzie, a former member of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders. |
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| McKenzie, a silver and bronze Paralympic medalist in wheelchair basketball, retired from the game after the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. |
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| Wikinews caught up with her in a cafe in the leafy Melbourne suburb of Preston. |
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| [The Spitfire Tournament in Canada] was a really good tournament actually. |
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| It was a tournament that I wish we'd actually gone back to more often. |
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| Who plays in that one? |
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| It's quite a large Canadian tournament, and so we went as the Gliders team. |
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| So we were trying to get as many international games as possible. |
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| Cause that's one of our problems really, to compete. |
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| It costs us so much money to for us to travel overseas and to compete internationally. |
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| And so we can compete against each other all the time within Australia but we really need to be able to ... |
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| It's not the same. |
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| No, it's really not, so it's really important to be able to get as a many international trips throughout the year to continue our improvement. |
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| Also see where all the other teams are at as well. |
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| But yes, Spitfire was good. |
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| We took quite a few new girls over there back then in 2005, leading into the World Cup in the Netherlands. |
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| Was that the one where you were the captain of the team, in 2005? |
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| Or was that a later one? |
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| No, I captained in 2010. |
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| So 2009, 2010 World Cup. |
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| And then I had a bit of some time off in 2011. |
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| The Gliders have never won the World Championship. |
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| We always seem to have just a little bit of a chill out at the World Cup. |
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| I don't know why. |
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| It's really strange occurrence, over the years. |
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| 2002 World Cup, we won bronze. |
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| Then in 2006 we ended up fourth. |
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| It was one of the worst World Cups we've played actually. |
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| And then in 2010 we just ... I don't know what happened. |
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| We just didn't play as well as we thought we would. |
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| Came fourth. |
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| But you know what? |
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| Fired us up for the actual Paralympics. |
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| So the World Cup is ... it's good to be able to do well at the World Cup, to be placed, but it also means that you get a really good opportunity to know where you're at in that two year gap between the Paralympics. |
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| So you can come back home and revisit what you need to do and, you know, where the team's at. |
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| And all that sort of stuff. |
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| Unfortunately, they are talking about moving it so it will be on the year before the Paralympics. |
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| Oh really. |
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| The competition from the [FIFA] World Cup and all. |
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| Right. |
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| Well, that would be sad. |
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| Tina McKenzie. |
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| Image: Australian Paralympic Committee. |