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00:00The 2004 Paris Olympic Games are coming to an end.
00:10And I'm not the only one.
00:13The judge who represents the country for the Tia Kwan Do event,
00:17Janet Lee, who is with me right now,
00:20will make the second appearance
00:22for the Paris Olympic Games.
00:26So, first of all, of course,
00:28are you excited, Janet?
00:30Excited.
00:31I'm excited.
00:33At the same time, I feel like it's a revelation for me
00:36for the second time.
00:37I have to thank the World Tia Kwan Do
00:40for choosing me as one of the 26 best athletes in the world.
00:52But maybe many people don't know that Janet is a former national athlete.
00:58She won the Gangser medal at the 2009 Vientiane-Laos Olympics
01:02and started her career in the judo field in 2017.
01:082017.
01:09So, how do you see your career journey from an athlete
01:13to a judge for the Tia Kwan Do event?
01:16As an athlete, it must be different from being a judge.
01:22So, as an athlete, we have a lot of training.
01:25We have a lot of training, from morning to night.
01:28After that, we only train the same things.
01:31As a corner judge, you have to be good at scoring.
01:34If you don't score, it's difficult.
01:38So, if you're the centre referee,
01:41if the person does some prohibited act,
01:43you don't give it, it's also a problem.
01:45So, that's why we as judges must be 100% focused.
01:50So, as an athlete, we fight differently.
01:55As a judge, we have to manage differently.
01:58Okay.
01:58So, it's not difficult to be an athlete or a judge.
02:02Both have their own specialties.
02:05But both are for our own country.
02:09Wherever, as a player, we fight for our own and also our country.
02:12As a judge, we bring Malaysia's name to the world.
02:17Go, go, go!
02:24As a national player in Paris,
02:27I hope I can do well there.
02:30And as a Malaysian, I still pray and hope
02:35that we will get the first gold medal in Paris 2024.
02:39So, all the best to the athletes in Malaysia.