Cedric Dubler
Australian Olympic Decathlete - Road to Rio Ep. #5
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Background:Cedric Dubler is an Australian Decathlete from Queensland. He achieved a Gold and Olympic qualifier at the 2016 Australian Athletics Championships in April. In doing so, Cedric became the first decathlete to qualify for the Olympics since Sydney 2000.Cedric had a great chat about his events, training, social media exploits and some performance tips.
Background:Cedric Dubler is an Australian Decathlete from Queensland. He achieved a Gold and Olympic qualifier at the 2016 Australian Athletics Championships in April. In doing so, Cedric became the first decathlete to qualify for the Olympics since Sydney 2000.Cedric had a great chat about his events, training, social media exploits and some performance tips.
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Abid Imam: Cedric, welcome to the Road to Rio. How did it feel to cross the line to finish your decathlon and you realised you were going to Rio?
Cedric Dubler: Thank you, very good to be here. Honestly, utter relief, I guess. You know, such a long lead-in to the National Championships and it was such a mental and physical battle over the two days. Once I crossed the finish line in the 1500m, it was just, you know, pure relief that hit me.
Abid Imam: How and where did it all start for you in your athletic career?
Cedric Dubler: It started back in Year 5 of school. I started doing the long jump. I did some 800’s. I did some sprints. I just mingled around with a few events. And the PE teacher at school saw potential in me, sent me off to represent the school at the district carnival. Did well there. Went to the regionals. Went to the States. It just all sort of progressed from there. The following year, I joined Little Athletics and got some training in more events. Then around 2008, I think, I found a coach that started coaching pole vault. Just because I saw it on the TV, I thought it was really cool. So, I started doing the pole vault. And then two years later, I joined a new coach and he brought me into the decathlon. So, it was sort of a progression of going through a bunch of different events. And sort of finding where I belonged.
Abid Imam: When you were doing Little Athletics, were you excelling in any particular events or were you more of an all-rounder, where you said ok, maybe I should be a multi-eventer?
Cedric Dubler: I excelled a little bit in the jumps and the hurdles. That is also where I am strong in my decathlon. You know, I wasn’t at the level that I am today. It’s been a long progression of getting better and getting stronger in the events. Ever since I joined Eric, that’s where we really started to progress and push forward in a lot of the jumps and hurdles. But yeah, I’ve always been more of a jumper and a hurdler I guess. Abid Imam: Over here in Western Australia, we love our pole vault. You mentioned the pole vault there. Were there any athletes you particularly look up to?
Cedric Dubler: In 2008, I think it was Steve Hooker that I saw on the TV. Yeah I think he was competing at Beijing 2008 and that’s where I saw pole vault for the first time and turned straight to mum and said ‘mum, I want to do that’. Steve has always been an Australian icon in track & field and an inspiration for me.
Abid Imam: Many people will be watching the Decathlon in Rio for the first time. Can you just give our listeners a bit of an insight into what events you do. I understand there are some complex mathematical equations, if you can give us an idea about that as well.
Cedric Dubler: The decathlon is a ten event competition split up over two days so, there’s five events per day. There’s a combination of running, jumping & throwing. In order on the first day, there’s hurdles, long jump, shot put, high jump and 400m. And then on the second day, there’s hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and 1500m. It’s all worked on points and I guess, your results so, the better you do in the events, the more points you get. Pretty much at the end of the two day competition, the person with the most points wins. So, it’s complicated. I don’t actually understand the points system. I just have an app on my phone that I just throw the numbers into and it tells me how i’m doing.
Abid Imam: What’s the app called because I’d really want to download that one?
Cedric Dubler: I think it’s called Track. That’s the one I have. I think it’s Track.
Abid Imam: Cool, ok we’ll have a look. I was talking to Kylie Wheeler a few weeks ago for the Road to Rio and she was the heptathlete, as you would know. Seven events. With your ten, how do you distribute your time and polish your skills in so many different areas like that?
Cedric Dubler: Do you mean over like a week period?
Abid Imam: Yeah
Cedric Dubler: Yeah, so over the seven days of the week I pretty much work on all the events. So, I guess my afternoons are split up with a few different events. You know, I do running and a throw. On Tuesday I’ll go out and do some shot put, high jump, some plyometrics and a long run. So, I guess it’s finding the perfect combination of what I can do in an afternoon. What can work together so that I can do the most amount of training without clashes. And then in the mornings, I am out at the Queensland Academy of Sport. I am doing gym and pilates out there. Gym four days a week and pilates two days a week. And then obviously the biggest thing for me is recovery. Just making sure I am recovering between sessions so that I am able to keep training at a 100% without, I guess destroying my body.
Abid Imam: Pilates is an interesting one. When have you added that to your regimen? Has that been recent or something you’ve always done for a long time?
Cedric Dubler: I’ve dabbled in pilates a little bit in the past, but it’s only in the past year and a half when I started to have a bit of a back problem, that’s when we really attacked the pilates. And honestly, that’s made the biggest difference in my recovery from the back issue. It’s holding me in a much better position. It’s just been awesome. It’s made a big difference. Abid Imam: Which event have you had to work the hardest in to improve?
Cedric Dubler: I think the 400m is the hardest to improve. Just because you’re putting the most amount of effort into it and it’s a long term progression. If you are sick for two weeks or something it’s like a giant step backwards. So, 400m is always the hardest to train for. It’s the most strenuous on the body. The one I am putting most of my energy into at the moment is pole vault. Just trying to progress because pole vault is big points. Every ten centimetres is an extra 32 points I think. We are really trying to progress onto bigger poles and get bigger heights so that we can maximise the amount of points we can get.
Abid Imam: Lets hope you can channel that inner Steve Hooker there. (laughs) With your training and everything that you do, who’s on team Cedric Dubler? Who are the people behind you that give you the platform?
Cedric Dubler: Well, the team Cedric Dubler is giant. We’ve now got a really good support network around us that has really just helped get me where I am. My main coach Eric Brown, he looks after everything at the track. All the field events, all the jump events, all the running and all the hurdles. At the Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS), I’ve got Chris Kerviglio who is strength & conditioning coach. He looks after that side of things. I’ve got James Thompson at the QAS as well who is a physio. Michael Dalgleish who is like a second consult physio who overlooks everything. I work with Adam who is a nutritionist. Jonah who is a sports psych. We’ve just got so many people who are part of the team that help get me to where I am. The team is massive. We meet every four weeks to really plan and get on the same page. But it’s so good having such a good, supportive, knowledgeable team behind me to get me to where I am.
Abid Imam: You mentioned your sports psych Jonah. In athletics and in many sports, it’s physical, but we hardly ever talk about the mental side. How much has that benefited you and are there any sort of exercises for the athletes listening, up and coming athletes might be able to implement?
Cedric Dubler: Yeah, so Jonah has been a massive help for everything. Not only competition, but training as well. We’ve gone through a bunch of, I guess, re-focus techniques that have just helped me over the years to re-focus and focus on the right things. There’s nothing really specific that we’ve worked on. It’s just been a combination of working on little things here and there. And just getting on top of everything so that I know how to handle most situations. The decathlon is a two-day competition and at the Nationals towards the end, we were both mentally and physically drained. And so, during the javelin which is the 2nd last event, I felt like I was starting to fall apart a bit. It was a lot of the work that I had done with Jonah that got me back on track and push a good javelin out there. I was physically exhausted so it was lifting mentally that got me there. Abid Imam: I’ve heard you say that preparation is everything in decathlon. How does your preparation look in the next couple of months leading to Rio?
Cedric Dubler: Yep so, the next two months I am only doing one competition which will be at the start of next month I believe in Townsville. I am entering the decathlon, but I am not actually doing the entire decathlon. I am entering so the other boys that are trying to qualify have enough competitors in the competition and hopefully I can take them in the 400m or the 1500m or wherever they need my help. I’ll be going up there and really focussing on hitting three or four events quite hard and doing well in those ones. Over the next few months, I am pretty much just basing myself out of Brisbane where I am comfortable. It is my first year as an open athlete and competing on the world stage as an open athlete. So, staying in Brisbane where I am comfortable and obviously the little competition in Townsville. And then I will be over to Florida which is just before the Olympics, where the entire Australian team assembles and meets each other. And we go from there. Abid Imam: Sunny Florida, USA. Speaking of the USA, I did want to mention Ashton Eaton because he is 28 and an absolute gun of an athlete. World record holder, Olympic champion. Can you just give us an explanation of his dominance in the decathlon over the last few years. Cedric Dubler: Yeah Ashton is just…I guess there’s just no one like him. You look at his events and he runs 45. For the 400m which is insane and 10.2 for the 100m. He jumps over 8m in long jump. You look at those results and he would be an Olympian in several different events. There just isn’t anyone like him around at the moment. There are some athletes coming through but he’s just been dominating field for the past few years and no one has really been getting close. He’s a bit like me. He has that jumpers, sprinters background. I am hoping to go down his sort of path in dominating those events which are bigger points than the throws. Even when you do look at the throws for him, they’re still incredible. They’re still so far above par. When you look at all of his individual events, you see why he is the world record holder.
Abid Imam: He’s pretty good. He’s nowhere near as good as you in social media. You are the best athlete I’ve ever seen. Some of the insights you provided us during the Sydney nationals. Behind the scenes, some of the preparation. It was incredible how you documented that and it was awesome. How did that become a thing for you, how did you get involved in that?
Cedric Dubler: Thank you. That was two years ago. I wasn’t great at interviews. I didn’t really like talking to cameras and stuff. My best friend who is incredible on social media sort of just said that people want to see inside the life of an athlete and what they do and all that sort of stuff. It gave me an idea to get a camera out and start filming this stuff and start showing this side of athletics. And not only just sharing the story with the world but I was at the same time getting media training. Learning how to talk to a camera, answer questions and all that sort of stuff. It was getting media training. It was showing the story that’s never really been shown before. Ever since that, we’ve been growing and expanding into different things, different platforms. I am not on snapchat quite heavily. Showing live life as it happens. It’s just different to what everyone else is doing. Athletes are usually quite reserved in what they say and show. And I am just trying to go down the complete opposite path of being very open with my audience and you know not only just sharing the highs, but sharing the lows. And the journey as it happens because people really appreciate the honesty. As well, during the competition I find it as a good little distraction and a way of re-focusing. I sit in front of the camera, I talk about the event, how it went and how I am feeling. And then I put down the camera , I’ve put my thoughts aside and I can just re-focus on the next event. In a lot of ways, I am really liking what we are doing and I think we are only getting started. We are slowly expanding and bringing new series in. At the moment it’s a lot of fun. Abid Imam: We certainly love it and a lot of your videos are in all terrain. I mean bathrooms on aeroplanes and on tracks (laughs). What sort of equipment do you swear by?
Cedric Dubler: Yeah so, I’ve got a bunch of different cameras. At the moment, part of my stuff was shot on a Canon photo camera, like a big chunky camera. We’re moving towards Panasonic now just because it is a better camera. We’ve got Go Pro on board who are helping me film some stuff and supplying cameras. There’s a variety of different cameras which are used in different situations I guess. On YouTube, if you look at the aeroplane video where I am giving some advice on silly things you can do on the plane while you’re travelling, that was all shot on a GoPro. You look at Nationals, that was shot on a slightly bigger camera. So, it’s just a variety of different cameras.
Abid Imam: We’ll be sure to link to your YouTube videos. The guide to a successful bathroom flight, I have to inform you that have broken the world record for the number of keepy ups with a toilet paper roll in a bathroom on an airplane. So congratulations. Certificate in the mail soon.
Cedric Dubler: (laughs) Love it, love it. Thank you.
Abid Imam: What is the best purchase you’ve made under $100 in your kitbag which has improved your performance?
Cedric Dubler: Oh, that’s a tough question. There’s a lot in my kitbag. I think, honestly it’s my training diary. It’s that $5 notebook from the newsagents where I’ve been able to just put ideas, thoughts and written my times and that sort of stuff. Just really keeping track of what I am doing in training. So, I think it’s the training diary. If not, the second I reckon is a spare pair of socks. Always very handy to have in the training bag just in case it does rain or anything like that. I’d say the training diary is number one.
Abid Imam: Before I let you go Cedric, have you done any cheeky google searches of Rio de Janeiro? What are you expecting going to Brazil?
Cedric Dubler: Honestly, I haven’t really been googling much. Over the past few weeks since Nationals I’ve just been focussing on getting back into training. I was a little sick after the Nationals and even during. So we were just trying to recover from that and get back into training. We have a bit of a plan. I am looking to go top 8 over there. Getting hopefully close to those medals, but honestly, anything can happen on the day and all it takes is one slip up from a few athletes and I am up there. We’re looking for top 8. We’re looking for a few hundred point improvement from the Nationals which will be quite incredible as a 21 year old I guess. We’re just looking to push the boundaries a bit and see what we can do. It’s gonna be an incredible experience. I am 21 so still young in the sport. I still hopefully have a few more Olympics. Hopefully I can go in and gain a bunch of experience which can get put towards future Olympics.
Abid Imam: We’ll all be supporting you. One thing I’ll teach you about Brazil, I’ll teach you how to say thank you very much. It’s Muito Obrigado.
Cedric Dubler: Muito obrigado. (laughs)
Abid Imam: Perfect mate.
Cedric Dubler: Love it, thank you.
Abid Imam: Cedric thanks a lot for joining me on the Road to Rio mate.
Cedric Dubler: Awesome. Thank you so much for that.
Cedric Dubler: Thank you, very good to be here. Honestly, utter relief, I guess. You know, such a long lead-in to the National Championships and it was such a mental and physical battle over the two days. Once I crossed the finish line in the 1500m, it was just, you know, pure relief that hit me.
Abid Imam: How and where did it all start for you in your athletic career?
Cedric Dubler: It started back in Year 5 of school. I started doing the long jump. I did some 800’s. I did some sprints. I just mingled around with a few events. And the PE teacher at school saw potential in me, sent me off to represent the school at the district carnival. Did well there. Went to the regionals. Went to the States. It just all sort of progressed from there. The following year, I joined Little Athletics and got some training in more events. Then around 2008, I think, I found a coach that started coaching pole vault. Just because I saw it on the TV, I thought it was really cool. So, I started doing the pole vault. And then two years later, I joined a new coach and he brought me into the decathlon. So, it was sort of a progression of going through a bunch of different events. And sort of finding where I belonged.
Abid Imam: When you were doing Little Athletics, were you excelling in any particular events or were you more of an all-rounder, where you said ok, maybe I should be a multi-eventer?
Cedric Dubler: I excelled a little bit in the jumps and the hurdles. That is also where I am strong in my decathlon. You know, I wasn’t at the level that I am today. It’s been a long progression of getting better and getting stronger in the events. Ever since I joined Eric, that’s where we really started to progress and push forward in a lot of the jumps and hurdles. But yeah, I’ve always been more of a jumper and a hurdler I guess. Abid Imam: Over here in Western Australia, we love our pole vault. You mentioned the pole vault there. Were there any athletes you particularly look up to?
Cedric Dubler: In 2008, I think it was Steve Hooker that I saw on the TV. Yeah I think he was competing at Beijing 2008 and that’s where I saw pole vault for the first time and turned straight to mum and said ‘mum, I want to do that’. Steve has always been an Australian icon in track & field and an inspiration for me.
Abid Imam: Many people will be watching the Decathlon in Rio for the first time. Can you just give our listeners a bit of an insight into what events you do. I understand there are some complex mathematical equations, if you can give us an idea about that as well.
Cedric Dubler: The decathlon is a ten event competition split up over two days so, there’s five events per day. There’s a combination of running, jumping & throwing. In order on the first day, there’s hurdles, long jump, shot put, high jump and 400m. And then on the second day, there’s hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and 1500m. It’s all worked on points and I guess, your results so, the better you do in the events, the more points you get. Pretty much at the end of the two day competition, the person with the most points wins. So, it’s complicated. I don’t actually understand the points system. I just have an app on my phone that I just throw the numbers into and it tells me how i’m doing.
Abid Imam: What’s the app called because I’d really want to download that one?
Cedric Dubler: I think it’s called Track. That’s the one I have. I think it’s Track.
Abid Imam: Cool, ok we’ll have a look. I was talking to Kylie Wheeler a few weeks ago for the Road to Rio and she was the heptathlete, as you would know. Seven events. With your ten, how do you distribute your time and polish your skills in so many different areas like that?
Cedric Dubler: Do you mean over like a week period?
Abid Imam: Yeah
Cedric Dubler: Yeah, so over the seven days of the week I pretty much work on all the events. So, I guess my afternoons are split up with a few different events. You know, I do running and a throw. On Tuesday I’ll go out and do some shot put, high jump, some plyometrics and a long run. So, I guess it’s finding the perfect combination of what I can do in an afternoon. What can work together so that I can do the most amount of training without clashes. And then in the mornings, I am out at the Queensland Academy of Sport. I am doing gym and pilates out there. Gym four days a week and pilates two days a week. And then obviously the biggest thing for me is recovery. Just making sure I am recovering between sessions so that I am able to keep training at a 100% without, I guess destroying my body.
Abid Imam: Pilates is an interesting one. When have you added that to your regimen? Has that been recent or something you’ve always done for a long time?
Cedric Dubler: I’ve dabbled in pilates a little bit in the past, but it’s only in the past year and a half when I started to have a bit of a back problem, that’s when we really attacked the pilates. And honestly, that’s made the biggest difference in my recovery from the back issue. It’s holding me in a much better position. It’s just been awesome. It’s made a big difference. Abid Imam: Which event have you had to work the hardest in to improve?
Cedric Dubler: I think the 400m is the hardest to improve. Just because you’re putting the most amount of effort into it and it’s a long term progression. If you are sick for two weeks or something it’s like a giant step backwards. So, 400m is always the hardest to train for. It’s the most strenuous on the body. The one I am putting most of my energy into at the moment is pole vault. Just trying to progress because pole vault is big points. Every ten centimetres is an extra 32 points I think. We are really trying to progress onto bigger poles and get bigger heights so that we can maximise the amount of points we can get.
Abid Imam: Lets hope you can channel that inner Steve Hooker there. (laughs) With your training and everything that you do, who’s on team Cedric Dubler? Who are the people behind you that give you the platform?
Cedric Dubler: Well, the team Cedric Dubler is giant. We’ve now got a really good support network around us that has really just helped get me where I am. My main coach Eric Brown, he looks after everything at the track. All the field events, all the jump events, all the running and all the hurdles. At the Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS), I’ve got Chris Kerviglio who is strength & conditioning coach. He looks after that side of things. I’ve got James Thompson at the QAS as well who is a physio. Michael Dalgleish who is like a second consult physio who overlooks everything. I work with Adam who is a nutritionist. Jonah who is a sports psych. We’ve just got so many people who are part of the team that help get me to where I am. The team is massive. We meet every four weeks to really plan and get on the same page. But it’s so good having such a good, supportive, knowledgeable team behind me to get me to where I am.
Abid Imam: You mentioned your sports psych Jonah. In athletics and in many sports, it’s physical, but we hardly ever talk about the mental side. How much has that benefited you and are there any sort of exercises for the athletes listening, up and coming athletes might be able to implement?
Cedric Dubler: Yeah, so Jonah has been a massive help for everything. Not only competition, but training as well. We’ve gone through a bunch of, I guess, re-focus techniques that have just helped me over the years to re-focus and focus on the right things. There’s nothing really specific that we’ve worked on. It’s just been a combination of working on little things here and there. And just getting on top of everything so that I know how to handle most situations. The decathlon is a two-day competition and at the Nationals towards the end, we were both mentally and physically drained. And so, during the javelin which is the 2nd last event, I felt like I was starting to fall apart a bit. It was a lot of the work that I had done with Jonah that got me back on track and push a good javelin out there. I was physically exhausted so it was lifting mentally that got me there. Abid Imam: I’ve heard you say that preparation is everything in decathlon. How does your preparation look in the next couple of months leading to Rio?
Cedric Dubler: Yep so, the next two months I am only doing one competition which will be at the start of next month I believe in Townsville. I am entering the decathlon, but I am not actually doing the entire decathlon. I am entering so the other boys that are trying to qualify have enough competitors in the competition and hopefully I can take them in the 400m or the 1500m or wherever they need my help. I’ll be going up there and really focussing on hitting three or four events quite hard and doing well in those ones. Over the next few months, I am pretty much just basing myself out of Brisbane where I am comfortable. It is my first year as an open athlete and competing on the world stage as an open athlete. So, staying in Brisbane where I am comfortable and obviously the little competition in Townsville. And then I will be over to Florida which is just before the Olympics, where the entire Australian team assembles and meets each other. And we go from there. Abid Imam: Sunny Florida, USA. Speaking of the USA, I did want to mention Ashton Eaton because he is 28 and an absolute gun of an athlete. World record holder, Olympic champion. Can you just give us an explanation of his dominance in the decathlon over the last few years. Cedric Dubler: Yeah Ashton is just…I guess there’s just no one like him. You look at his events and he runs 45. For the 400m which is insane and 10.2 for the 100m. He jumps over 8m in long jump. You look at those results and he would be an Olympian in several different events. There just isn’t anyone like him around at the moment. There are some athletes coming through but he’s just been dominating field for the past few years and no one has really been getting close. He’s a bit like me. He has that jumpers, sprinters background. I am hoping to go down his sort of path in dominating those events which are bigger points than the throws. Even when you do look at the throws for him, they’re still incredible. They’re still so far above par. When you look at all of his individual events, you see why he is the world record holder.
Abid Imam: He’s pretty good. He’s nowhere near as good as you in social media. You are the best athlete I’ve ever seen. Some of the insights you provided us during the Sydney nationals. Behind the scenes, some of the preparation. It was incredible how you documented that and it was awesome. How did that become a thing for you, how did you get involved in that?
Cedric Dubler: Thank you. That was two years ago. I wasn’t great at interviews. I didn’t really like talking to cameras and stuff. My best friend who is incredible on social media sort of just said that people want to see inside the life of an athlete and what they do and all that sort of stuff. It gave me an idea to get a camera out and start filming this stuff and start showing this side of athletics. And not only just sharing the story with the world but I was at the same time getting media training. Learning how to talk to a camera, answer questions and all that sort of stuff. It was getting media training. It was showing the story that’s never really been shown before. Ever since that, we’ve been growing and expanding into different things, different platforms. I am not on snapchat quite heavily. Showing live life as it happens. It’s just different to what everyone else is doing. Athletes are usually quite reserved in what they say and show. And I am just trying to go down the complete opposite path of being very open with my audience and you know not only just sharing the highs, but sharing the lows. And the journey as it happens because people really appreciate the honesty. As well, during the competition I find it as a good little distraction and a way of re-focusing. I sit in front of the camera, I talk about the event, how it went and how I am feeling. And then I put down the camera , I’ve put my thoughts aside and I can just re-focus on the next event. In a lot of ways, I am really liking what we are doing and I think we are only getting started. We are slowly expanding and bringing new series in. At the moment it’s a lot of fun. Abid Imam: We certainly love it and a lot of your videos are in all terrain. I mean bathrooms on aeroplanes and on tracks (laughs). What sort of equipment do you swear by?
Cedric Dubler: Yeah so, I’ve got a bunch of different cameras. At the moment, part of my stuff was shot on a Canon photo camera, like a big chunky camera. We’re moving towards Panasonic now just because it is a better camera. We’ve got Go Pro on board who are helping me film some stuff and supplying cameras. There’s a variety of different cameras which are used in different situations I guess. On YouTube, if you look at the aeroplane video where I am giving some advice on silly things you can do on the plane while you’re travelling, that was all shot on a GoPro. You look at Nationals, that was shot on a slightly bigger camera. So, it’s just a variety of different cameras.
Abid Imam: We’ll be sure to link to your YouTube videos. The guide to a successful bathroom flight, I have to inform you that have broken the world record for the number of keepy ups with a toilet paper roll in a bathroom on an airplane. So congratulations. Certificate in the mail soon.
Cedric Dubler: (laughs) Love it, love it. Thank you.
Abid Imam: What is the best purchase you’ve made under $100 in your kitbag which has improved your performance?
Cedric Dubler: Oh, that’s a tough question. There’s a lot in my kitbag. I think, honestly it’s my training diary. It’s that $5 notebook from the newsagents where I’ve been able to just put ideas, thoughts and written my times and that sort of stuff. Just really keeping track of what I am doing in training. So, I think it’s the training diary. If not, the second I reckon is a spare pair of socks. Always very handy to have in the training bag just in case it does rain or anything like that. I’d say the training diary is number one.
Abid Imam: Before I let you go Cedric, have you done any cheeky google searches of Rio de Janeiro? What are you expecting going to Brazil?
Cedric Dubler: Honestly, I haven’t really been googling much. Over the past few weeks since Nationals I’ve just been focussing on getting back into training. I was a little sick after the Nationals and even during. So we were just trying to recover from that and get back into training. We have a bit of a plan. I am looking to go top 8 over there. Getting hopefully close to those medals, but honestly, anything can happen on the day and all it takes is one slip up from a few athletes and I am up there. We’re looking for top 8. We’re looking for a few hundred point improvement from the Nationals which will be quite incredible as a 21 year old I guess. We’re just looking to push the boundaries a bit and see what we can do. It’s gonna be an incredible experience. I am 21 so still young in the sport. I still hopefully have a few more Olympics. Hopefully I can go in and gain a bunch of experience which can get put towards future Olympics.
Abid Imam: We’ll all be supporting you. One thing I’ll teach you about Brazil, I’ll teach you how to say thank you very much. It’s Muito Obrigado.
Cedric Dubler: Muito obrigado. (laughs)
Abid Imam: Perfect mate.
Cedric Dubler: Love it, thank you.
Abid Imam: Cedric thanks a lot for joining me on the Road to Rio mate.
Cedric Dubler: Awesome. Thank you so much for that.