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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Rap, a weekly podcast about women's sports

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Speaker 1: news and the big stories. Every episode will cover what's

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Speaker 1: happened over the weekend, a favorite story, and what to

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Speaker 1: watch in the coming week. My name is Chloe Dalton.

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Speaker 1: I'm an Olympic gold medalist in rugby sevens and an

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Speaker 1: AFLW player, and I'm joined for the very first time

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Speaker 1: by my co host, Millie Dawson. Millly is an athlete

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Speaker 1: manager who works with some of Australia's top female athletes.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 2: Mills, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited. I usually am well obviously interviewed athletes,

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Speaker 1: but I'm usually by myself in hosting, so I'm glad

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Speaker 1: I've got a bit of company.

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Speaker 2: No, this will be fun.

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Speaker 1: So, Mills, what are we trying to achieve with this

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Speaker 1: weekly podcast?

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Speaker 3: Our goal with this is to share the stories of

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Speaker 3: female athletes and to make the news and highlights about

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Speaker 3: women's sport accessible and digestible.

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Speaker 1: The coming up on today's episode will be joined by

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Speaker 1: Professor Claire Hanlin to chat about a recent study that

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Speaker 1: looked into the importance of comfortable uniforms for girls playing sport.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, instead of those ridiculous crinkle cut skirts we used

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Speaker 3: to wear in primary school to play sport.

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Speaker 1: They were more ridiculous. We used to have to wear

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Speaker 1: like scungies underneath the bike pants.

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Speaker 2: Like and what a throwback?

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Speaker 1: What a throwback? All right, let's take a look at

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Speaker 1: around the grounds.

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Speaker 3: This weekend, Lana Rodgers claimed back to back Nutro Grain

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Speaker 1: So they had round six of the Nutri Grain Iron

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Speaker 1: Women Series at Kingscliff Beach and Lana Rodgers was pretty

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Speaker 1: impressive over the weekend, and so she'd taken out the

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Speaker 1: series in twenty twenty and has done the same in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, So pretty impressive effort. Well done, Lana.

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Speaker 2: In basketball news, Liz Mills is leading the way in Kenya.

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Speaker 1: Yeah so. Liz Mills is an Australian basketball coach who

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Speaker 1: grew up playing netball and is a proclaimed self taught basketballer.

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Speaker 1: So she started coaching in Sydney before moving over to

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Speaker 1: she is currently the head coach of the Kenyan men's

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Speaker 1: national team and she's breaking new ground over there in Africa.

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Speaker 1: She's the first woman to lead men's national team to

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Speaker 1: a continental championship with their win over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: That's incredible.

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Speaker 3: In golf News, Steph Kerriaku and Sarah Wilson were the

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Speaker 3: first women to play in the Queensland Open.

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Speaker 1: Actually I've stuffed that up because they haven't played yet,

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Speaker 1: but they will be the first women to do that, LOLLI.

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Speaker 1: So that's from the eleventh the fourteenth of March that

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Speaker 1: that's coming up, so it's really cool. So they're actually

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Speaker 1: going to be playing against the men, which is obviously

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Speaker 1: not a common thing that happens across a lot of sports.

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Speaker 1: And we see the teenage boy trolls that like to

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Speaker 1: come onto our Instagram page to say that when we

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Speaker 1: can bear men's and women's sports, that the women don't

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Speaker 1: actually play against the men, which is it's a valid point,

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Speaker 1: and I think when we look at golf, I know

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Speaker 1: of the men's drives obviously being a lot further so,

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Speaker 1: the girls when they're going into this competition have to

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Speaker 1: green once they get closer. But I think Golf Australia

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Speaker 1: has done a massive amount of work in their diversity

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Speaker 1: hats off to go for Australia to allowing the opportunity

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Speaker 1: And it's really interesting to see where that goes next.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really excited to watch that one.

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Speaker 1: Now onto the key story of the week.

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Speaker 3: Jess Stuffin returns to AFLW after seven hundred and fourteen

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Speaker 1: It's a long time. That is a big, big hats

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Speaker 1: off to Jess Stuffin. So she's a pretty incredible duell athlete.

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Speaker 1: She's played cricket for years and years with the Australian

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Speaker 1: women's cricketer for the previous year. She's been Player of

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Speaker 1: Congratulations to Jess on that milestone. The reason she was

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Speaker 1: incredible to go through pregnancy, giving birth, and then to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's huge. I'm excited to watch her in this season.

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Speaker 1: Up next the presser.

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Speaker 2: So, there's some.

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Speaker 3: Really interesting research coming out of Victoria, Clode, you want

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Speaker 1: National research conducted by Victoria University has highlighted the importance

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Speaker 1: We've got lead researcher, Professor Claire Hanlin on the line

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Speaker 1: to tell us more about this study. Claire, thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for joining.

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Speaker 4: Us absolute pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Can you tell us a little bit more about the

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Speaker 1: key findings from this study that you've conducted.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So, the research team, in collaboration with the Change

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Speaker 4: a study for twelve to eighteen year old girls where

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Speaker 4: we survey to identify and what do they actually want

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Speaker 4: in sport uniforms to make them feel comfortable as well

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Speaker 4: You can have the great facilities and programs for girls,

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Speaker 4: but if you're going to have sport uniforms that aren't

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Speaker 4: what we actually found from the survey was that girls

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Speaker 4: actually prefer function rather than fashion, and that is that

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Speaker 4: they'd prefer material that's breathable, the hide sweat, it's stretchy,

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Speaker 4: and also start colored bottoms. And with that they also

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Speaker 4: ninety percent prefer to wear shorts and the majority of

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Speaker 4: girls prefer to wear t shirts and not to wear skirts. Also,

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Speaker 4: the main area was options. Girls want options so that

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Speaker 4: infographic that's being designed and you can download it on

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Speaker 4: and there's a Victorian study and a national study. These

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Speaker 4: studies basically have been formed into infographics to help guide

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Speaker 1: Okay, great, And when you're conducting this research and from

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Speaker 1: the results that have come from it, why do you

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Speaker 1: think it is important for girls to feel comfortable and

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Speaker 4: Even after releasing these findings on Thursday Friday, the feedback,

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Speaker 4: whether that beyond radio or via emails was overwhelming based

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Speaker 4: uniforms that they've worn. Wow, I've even in relation to

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Speaker 4: the survey itself, we had open ended questions the number

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Speaker 4: of girls that said, please stop making us wear white shorts.

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Speaker 4: We feel we don't know when our monthly comes and

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Speaker 4: we're embarrassed at times. A girl looking at someone who's

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Speaker 4: that feedback was received from women as well as girls

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Speaker 4: who participated in the survey, so it's massive sport uniforms

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Speaker 1: Which is such a big part of it. I haven't

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Speaker 4: We're interested in impacts, so we're in discussions at the

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Speaker 4: we create impact based on these outcomes. So it's not

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Speaker 4: just here's an infographic. Seat later, it's like, here's an

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Speaker 4: infographic to start reflection, to start looking at what policies

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Speaker 4: That's what we want, That's what the Victorian government wants.

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Speaker 4: That's what we want at school support Victoria as well

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Speaker 4: in order to further encourage more girls to play sports.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for giving up your time and

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Speaker 1: sharing some incredible insights about the amazing work that you're doing.

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Speaker 4: Leisure and keep up the great work for your podcast.

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Speaker 1: Here's what we can't wait to watch this week in

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Speaker 1: women's sport in Nepal.

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Speaker 3: Our Australian Diamonds have finally come out of their two

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Speaker 3: week mandatory quarantine in New Zealand and they'll be taking

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Speaker 3: on the Silver Ferns tonight Tuesday, second of March at

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Speaker 3: five pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings time. You can watch

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Speaker 3: this live on nine GM.

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Speaker 1: Maddie Proud, who was on the podcast this season, could

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Speaker 1: potentially be making her international debut, So good luck Maddie.

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Speaker 2: Oh how exciting.

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Speaker 3: In UFC, Australian Meghan Anderson is up against Amanda Nunes

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Speaker 3: in the co main event of the UFC two five nine.

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Speaker 3: Amanda Nunez has won eleven fights in a row, with

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Speaker 2: You can watch that this Sunday on March seventh.

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Speaker 1: Good Luck Meaghan, can't wait to watch up the Aussies

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Speaker 1: And that's the Rap.

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