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Speaker 1: Welcome to the RAP, a weekly podcast covering women's sports

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Speaker 1: news bes. What have we got around the grounds this week?

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Speaker 2: The biggest crowd ever in the forty three year history

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Speaker 2: of the WNBL, Danielle scott Lands the high scoring jump

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Speaker 2: of her Ariel's career, and netballer Gretel Bowetter announced she

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Speaker 2: will miss the upcoming World Cup due to pregnancy.

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Speaker 1: Well. Our key story will discuss the controversial partnership between

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Speaker 1: Visit Saudi and the upcoming FIFA Women's World Cup twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. My name is Chloe Dalton. I play aflow

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Speaker 1: for the GWS Giants and I won an Olympic gold

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Speaker 1: medal in rugby sevens one time. I've joined every week

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Speaker 1: on the show by my co host Bez, who is

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Speaker 1: one of our incredible team members here at Te Fat

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Speaker 1: looking after all of the merch research, all the things,

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Speaker 1: as well as our amazing team that pull everything together

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Speaker 1: It drops every Tuesday morning at six am along with

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Speaker 1: this podcast, so you can listen or read with your

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Speaker 1: Tuesday morning coffee. Let's take a look around the grounds.

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Speaker 2: In basketball. Rocks and diamonds for the south Side Flies

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Speaker 2: on the weekend. Rocks and diamonds.

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Speaker 1: I don't get it.

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Speaker 2: In rocks and diamonds. What is this like? Okay, here's

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Speaker 2: a new segment, teach Chloe Australian vernacular.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I think it's a generational thing. No, I'm being serious.

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Speaker 1: What's rocks and diamonds?

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Speaker 2: Like a rock under high pressure turns into a diamond. Yeah, yes,

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Speaker 2: rocks and diamonds. So good and bad? Okay, Okay, good

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Speaker 2: and bad? Great?

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Speaker 1: Wow?

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Speaker 2: Anyway, good and bad for the south Side Flies over

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Speaker 2: the weekends. So as we all know, sport can be

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Speaker 2: absolutely so wonderful and absolutely so cruel all at once.

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Speaker 2: On Saturday night, the wonderful was a WNBL record crowd

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Speaker 2: of seven thousand, six hundred and eighty one spectators that

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Speaker 2: jammed into John Caine Arena in Melbourne to see the

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Speaker 2: Goat and her Flys teammates take on the Sydney Flames.

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Speaker 2: I can see you want a buzz in here.

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Speaker 1: Go Well, I was just actually thinking it is forty

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Speaker 1: three years of the competition, right, because when I wrote

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Speaker 1: that in the intros, like I think it's forty three.

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Speaker 1: I probably should double check. Like that's pretty to make

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Speaker 1: a joke about.

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Speaker 2: A generation thing here thing as though I am forty four,

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Speaker 2: So it's even so you weren't even born yet. What know,

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Speaker 2: I was do the math.

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Speaker 1: Wait, how are you forty four? Oh? I was thinking

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Speaker 1: you were younger. Thanks, that's pretty cool that they broke

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Speaker 1: that record over four decades old.

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Speaker 2: So good. And I think the previous record was seven

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Speaker 2: and a half thousand in Adelaide. But like in the

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Speaker 2: nineties ninety five, buzz war was having its full heyday

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Speaker 2: in Australia.

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Speaker 1: I know, heyday.

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Speaker 2: Good. Obviously the atmosphere was electric, but sad lj only

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Speaker 2: lasted a few seconds. She limped off the court in

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Speaker 2: tears after suffering a partial tear in her right achilles.

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Speaker 2: She did return to the bench to cheer on the Flyers,

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Speaker 2: but they fell just short, going down sixty seven sixty

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Speaker 2: eight to the flames.

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Speaker 1: Can you believe the flames got up? How good? No?

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Speaker 2: So just a little side note in there. I believe

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Speaker 2: Charlie Hiels off to towns will fire.

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Speaker 1: Yes. There's been a lot of discussion on social media

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Speaker 1: about the fact that she can just kind of transfer

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Speaker 1: from the Flames mid season to Townsville and still.

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Speaker 2: Be an Elle mid season. There's like three rounds left

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Speaker 2: before finals?

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Speaker 1: Is that all? There is?

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Speaker 2: Many?

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Speaker 1: Like three or four?

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Speaker 2: I want to say.

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Speaker 1: I think the eligibility criteria four finals is at least

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Speaker 1: a third of the season. And so she actually flew

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Speaker 1: over and had to play was it the Wednesday night

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Speaker 1: game in Perth in order to be eligible for finals?

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Speaker 2: Wow? Interesting? Still a lot to be said about the

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Speaker 2: Hill and Flame relationship, it seems.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot to come out there.

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Speaker 2: After the match, Jackson said the injury wasn't related to

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Speaker 2: the broken foot she has been playing with since December,

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Speaker 2: and spoke about the record crowd, saying that this was

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Speaker 2: absolutely incredible. To part of it was just magic, but

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Speaker 2: it was a shame I couldn't play more than ten seconds.

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Speaker 2: The good news is that it's not my broken foot,

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Speaker 2: it's the other leg. The Flyers have revealed she won't

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Speaker 2: require surgery on her achilles, but there is no chance

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Speaker 2: will require surgery on her broken foot in the off season,

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Speaker 2: and has not ruled out returning for another season, which

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Speaker 1: On that, Sorry to jump in again, I'm kind of

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Speaker 1: torn with this because I feel sad for her that

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Speaker 1: she's returned to that space like she did for a

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Speaker 1: lot of her career where she had to persevere through injuries.

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Speaker 1: But then there's this other part of me where you

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Speaker 1: can tell she's so aware of the impact that she's

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Speaker 1: having on the game that she's just putting her body

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Speaker 1: on the line once again.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I totally agree, and you can see that that she's,

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Speaker 2: like you said, she's aware of the impact she's having

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Speaker 2: on the spot, and she obviously works for basketballustrator. Yes,

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Speaker 2: so she's got an invested interest there. Yeah, very true,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So, yeah, she will get

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Speaker 2: surgery on her broken foot, but she said that in

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Speaker 2: regards to kind of playing one more. I was always

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Speaker 2: waiting to see how the surgery on my fractured foot

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Speaker 2: in the off season goes before making a decision on

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Speaker 2: my future. That is still my plan to wait and

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Speaker 2: see how I recover from this injury and the surgery

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Speaker 2: on my foot before I look at my future while

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Speaker 2: my season is over, or continue to be part of

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Speaker 2: the team and help where I can to ensure we

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Speaker 2: continue to work to earn the success we are capable of.

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Speaker 2: So it might have been the last time we see

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Speaker 2: the goat on the court, which would be absolutely heartbreaking

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Speaker 2: given how well she's been playing. But there is hope.

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Speaker 2: So just last week before the injury, she said, I

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Speaker 2: don't want to finish. I want to play as long

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Speaker 2: as I can, So let it be, so go let

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Speaker 1: So.

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Speaker 2: The Flyers lost saw them slip to third on the ladder,

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Speaker 2: with the Melbourne Boomers on top due to a better

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Speaker 2: four and against than second place Towns will Fill. The

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Speaker 2: Melbourn Boom has had a big win against fourth place

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Speaker 2: Bendigo Spirit on Sunday afternoon, with Kayla George dropping twenty

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Speaker 2: seven points in one hundred and fifteen to seventy two victory.

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Speaker 2: George signed a deal last week with the Las Vegas

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Speaker 2: Aces and we're joining the reigning champions for the upcoming

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Speaker 2: WNBA season.

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Speaker 1: It was a huge week of signings in the WNBA.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't they signing for Kayla to be going to play

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Speaker 2: with the likes of Kelsey Plumb and Asia Wilson.

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Speaker 1: I'm a little bit jealous about that. It's pretty cool, just.

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Speaker 2: Like, Hey, hi, Kayler, I need a bad carrier. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: hey can hold your baby.

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Speaker 1: Maybe she does need a babysitter. In winter sports, Dannielle

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Speaker 1: Scott landed the highest scoring jump of her outstanding career,

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Speaker 1: landing a lay full full double twisting triple back summer

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Speaker 1: scult summer scult summersaults to score one hundred and fifteen

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Speaker 1: point two points on Sunday and secure the gold medal

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Speaker 1: at the World Cup Aerials. Stop in dear makes me

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Speaker 1: dizzy just reading that, well, I obviously got a bit dizzy.

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Speaker 2: Trying to say it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the wind means that Danny is back in the

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Speaker 1: top spot on the overall World Cup rankings with two

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Speaker 1: events remaining. Scott was stoked, saying after the event, I

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Speaker 1: really set myself out on a mission to get triples going,

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Speaker 1: and I ended up doing one of the biggest jumps

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Speaker 1: I've ever done. It's been exciting. I had a bit

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Speaker 1: of a slow start to the season with my ski

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Speaker 1: bag being lost, so I've had different skis every week,

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Speaker 1: and we were hoping to do triples a bit sooner

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Speaker 1: and it was just a bit of a shambles. Isn't

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Speaker 1: that that stressful? Like, I feel like if your footy

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Speaker 1: boots got lost on the plane, it's kind of annoying,

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Speaker 1: but you can like get used to it.

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Speaker 2: You're a professional athlete. Surely that's one thing you take

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Speaker 2: in your hand luggach, isn't.

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Speaker 1: It footy boots? Absolutely? Yeah, you can't take your skis

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Speaker 1: in your head like a plain. But not having your

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Speaker 1: own skis, I imagine, is a lot more scary.

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Speaker 2: And a lot more stressful, especially when you're doing full,

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Speaker 2: full double twisting back triple somersault.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right. Always say summer sculpts. So the fact

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Speaker 1: that she's kind of returned to do the triples and

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Speaker 1: performed so well to get a career best high scorers

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Speaker 1: wind and conditions, but everything went to plan. She said,

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Speaker 1: high risk, high reward, as they always say Mogul skiers.

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Speaker 1: Jakara Anthony also won gold in Deer Valley. She is

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Speaker 1: unstoppable Jakara. It was her fourth World Cup gold out

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Speaker 1: of a possible five so far this season. She scored

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Speaker 1: eighty point one five points with another suublime display of

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Speaker 1: skiing with jalenkulf In second on seventy seven point three

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Speaker 1: Anthony has been so dominant that the win mean she

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Speaker 1: has taken an unassailable lead in the season rankings and

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Speaker 1: I can't believe she's locked that in already.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's absolutely killing it. How good in netball Over

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Speaker 2: the weekend, Ossie Diamonds shoot up Gretel But where to

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Speaker 2: confirm she will miss the upcoming World Cup as she

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Speaker 2: is pregnant. Where to share that she had suffered a

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Speaker 2: heartbreaking miscarriage last year and spoke about that when announcing

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Speaker 2: her pregnancy this time. Going through a miscarriage is not

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Speaker 2: nice at all, but we're just so grateful. We've fallen

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Speaker 2: pretty quickly. It never gets easy. When you go to

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Speaker 2: my heart goes out to women who experience fertility issues

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Speaker 2: because it's awful. But the support that I felt during

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Speaker 2: have to announce a pregnancy early. To explain her absence

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really tricky, isn't it for an athlete in

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Speaker 1: that situation, because a lot of time people won't often

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Speaker 1: even tell close family and friends sometimes to that twelve

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Speaker 1: week mark because of that miscarriage risk. But it's this

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Speaker 1: really like, we obviously are seeing more and more influential

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Speaker 1: figures speak out about their experience, whether it's infertility, miscarriage,

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Speaker 1: a whole range of different factors. But it's so tricky

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Speaker 1: for an athlete in that position not to be forced

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Speaker 1: to share it. But when your body is your job,

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Speaker 1: there's an element of having to share that news early.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So she obviously announced that early because she was

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Speaker 2: going to miss out on the upcoming Constellation Cup series

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Speaker 2: as well as a twenty three Super Netball season, And sadly,

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Speaker 2: she experienced the miscarriage like a week later after going

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Speaker 2: social on that, so she subsequently had to share the

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Speaker 2: news on that publicly too. You spoke to Gretel on

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Speaker 2: the podcast, and during that chat we discussed her pirating

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Speaker 2: work for mothers in their Ball. She's done some really

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Speaker 2: good work in that space, hasn't she.

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I loved she talked about the fact that she'd

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Speaker 1: Thank you. My support system has been second to none.

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Speaker 1: Would not be here without you guys. I'm just getting started.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thoughts on obviously your expert feel one of the

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Speaker 2: very many fields that you're an expert in is physiotherapy.

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Speaker 2: Is that so two hundred and fifty nine days back

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Speaker 2: on the pitch, that's a pretty quick turnaround.

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Speaker 1: So what do we may eight minuen beb. That's quick.

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Speaker 2: That's quick, isn't it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Very quick. She's obviously worked pretty hard and it's

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Speaker 1: definitely a case by case basis for ACLS. I don't

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Speaker 1: know whether they've taken into account that being technically a

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Speaker 1: non contact sport, whether that's different. We do know with

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Speaker 1: ACLS a lot of time they're a non contact injury. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: pretty speedy recovery. She's obviously worked bloody hard to get back.

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Speaker 1: Tony Gustafson believes that we know, the head coach of

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Speaker 1: the Matilda's believe she's one of the best defenders in

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Speaker 1: the world. She is just electric, isn't she. She's quick, rapid, rapid,

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Speaker 1: Gustafson said last week. First of all, I'm so happy

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Speaker 1: for her because I know how much she's put in

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Speaker 1: during rehab. She's been amazing when it comes to how

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Speaker 1: professional she's been. I had the privilege to have a

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Speaker 1: coffee with her actually here in Australia recently when she

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Speaker 1: was back home for a little bit. She's very, very

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Speaker 1: committed to coming back, not just fit, but in form

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Speaker 1: as well. We hope that it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: an injury story with a happy ending with her running

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Speaker 1: out onto a sold out of course sadium. That was

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Speaker 1: pretty cool news during the week, wasn't.

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Speaker 2: It awesome news? Eighty three and a half thousand people

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Speaker 2: love that.

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Speaker 1: So there's an additional forty thousand people that now get

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Speaker 1: to go and watch the Matilda's for their opening World

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Speaker 1: Cup match.

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Speaker 2: Tickets going sound the twenty fourth or fair don't miss out.

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Speaker 2: Sydney Siders oh, actually, people from all over Australia come

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Speaker 2: to Sydney.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely for a World cout. Now it's time for

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Speaker 1: the key story, so some more soccer.

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Speaker 2: Last week, reports emerged that FIFA were going to accept

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Speaker 2: a sponsorship from Visit Saudi for the upcoming Women's World Cup.

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Speaker 2: This comes only a few months after FIFA's sport washing

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Speaker 2: heavy Men's World Cup held in kaitar taught me through

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Speaker 2: sport washing, please Chloe.

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Speaker 1: So pretty much, when there's an organization or a company

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Speaker 1: who's doing something that may be frowned upon by the

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Speaker 1: wider public, a lot of the time those organizations will

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Speaker 1: then invest money into sports sponsorship in order to try

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Speaker 1: and redeem the image of their brain and very good.

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Speaker 1: Have I done well there?

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Speaker 2: Ten out of ten?

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Speaker 1: Great.

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Speaker 2: The parties have yet to officially announce the agreement, but

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Speaker 2: the Golf Nation's Tourism Albe will join Visa and Australia's

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Speaker 2: Comnwealth Bank as sponsors of only the women's tournament, so

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Speaker 2: this is the first time that they've actually separated the

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Speaker 2: two tournaments for sponsorship. Saudi Arabia has recently made some

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Speaker 2: smaller moves in women's sport. They financed golf events on

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Speaker 2: the Ladies European Tour last year, but they now p

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Speaker 2: to be stepping up that involvement. State backed gas company

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Speaker 2: Aramco will sponsor women's and men's cricket World Cups this year,

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Speaker 2: and there's been some discussion from the England women's team

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Speaker 2: around boycotting the Player of the Match award, which Aramco

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Speaker 2: have acquired the naming rights for so Saudi Arabia obviously

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Speaker 2: has a long history of discrimination against females, and the

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Speaker 2: Saudi State Tourism Authority operates under a legal system that

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Speaker 2: renders women legal miners throughout their life in a number

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Speaker 2: of ways. Saudi women over the age of twenty one

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Speaker 2: can now apply for a passport and travel overseas without

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Speaker 2: permission from them mail Guardian. However, they are still subject

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Speaker 2: to considerable male centered legal control relating to marriage, divorce,

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Speaker 2: children's issues, and custody. Men can file cases against women

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Speaker 2: for disobedience, forcing women to return to their mail guardian

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Speaker 2: or face imprisonment. Same sex relationships are also illegal in

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Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty confronting.

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Speaker 2: It is very very confronting, I think. Though only granted

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Speaker 2: the permission to hold a license and drive a car.

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Speaker 2: I think in about twenty eighteen, so like for four

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Speaker 2: years ago or so.

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Speaker 1: We've seen Amnesty International come out and condemned the deal,

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Speaker 1: which I think I wouldn't have seen them come out

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Speaker 1: and condemn a lot of sports deals in the past

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Speaker 1: like it. It's obviously a significant one, right so they said.

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Speaker 1: The latest, This latest reported effort to sportswash the country's

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Speaker 1: appalling human rights record is both breathtaking and yet entirely predictable.

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Speaker 1: Many have expressed real concerns about the country's history of

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Speaker 1: oppression both on and off the field. They've largely disregarded

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Speaker 1: women's soccer, only allowing women into stadiums in twenty eighteen

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Speaker 1: and launching a domestic women's league just two years ago.

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Speaker 1: It's women's national team only earned a world ranking last month.

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Speaker 1: It's like the more you look at it, the more

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Speaker 1: likely it's quite yeah, full on. The Australian Players Union

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Speaker 1: has not ruled out protests action from the Matilda's, similar

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Speaker 1: to the Sokkaro statement on Qatar's checkered human rights history

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Speaker 1: before the Men's World Cup, a letter to FIFA co

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Speaker 1: written by Football Australia chairman Chris Niku and his New

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Speaker 1: Zealand football counterpart Joanna Wood expressed the serious disappointment and

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Speaker 1: concern of both federations. According to the Associated Press, the

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Speaker 1: letter reportedly stated we cannot express strongly enough the potential

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Speaker 1: repercussions and fallout that could result from this decision. Australia

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Speaker 1: and New Zealand, both as sovereign nations and as football associations,

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Speaker 1: have for decades placed the utmost importance on gender equality

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Speaker 1: and have sought to promote these ideals around the world.

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Speaker 1: While we acknowledge some important and positive gender equality reforms

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Speaker 1: have commenced in Saudi Arabia, it remains undeniable under any

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Speaker 1: reasonable standard that the rights of women remain severely restricted.

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Speaker 1: What I also, I really loved reading an article by

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Speaker 1: Moya Dodd, who was a former Matilda's co captain I

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Speaker 1: think she was Yep, and she talked about the fact

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Speaker 1: that the fan base for Matilda's, for women's football is

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Speaker 1: predominantly women and predominantly people who are going to be

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Speaker 1: flying the Pride flag. So some of these, some of

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Speaker 1: these restrictions that that country have in place for this

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Speaker 1: partnership to go ahead could be very, very damaging. For

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Speaker 1: a lot of the fans.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Tony Gastasen and Matilda's midfielder to make A Yalap,

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Speaker 2: who is married to former New zealand is national Cursty Yallop,

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Speaker 2: were asked about the potential sponsorship at a press conference

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Speaker 2: during the week, and Gustafson pointed out the strong position

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Speaker 2: his group has on issues such as gender equality and

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Speaker 2: LGBTQI plus rights. He said, it's too early to comment

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Speaker 2: right now. What I can say though, is that I

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Speaker 2: know what these women stand for, and what the team

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Speaker 2: stands for, and what the federation stands for, as I said. Yalop,

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Speaker 2: who is married to New Zealand's national Kirsty Yallop, noted

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Speaker 2: players that were already thinking about what the sponsorship could

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Speaker 2: mean for them. She said, it's hard to comment at

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Speaker 2: the minute without anything being confirmed. There's a lot more

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Speaker 2: discussion to be had about it. As you said, Chlobe,

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Speaker 2: it's quite you know, the facts are there. Saudi Arabia's

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Speaker 2: treatment of women is appalling and how fef you can

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Speaker 2: even consider having them be one of the major sponsors

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Speaker 2: of a women's World Cup is mind boggling.

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Speaker 1: It'd be very interesting to see how this one is handled.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a look at what to watch. This Saturday

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Speaker 1: sees at top of the table clash between Western United

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Speaker 1: and Melbourne City FC in the A League Women. The

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Speaker 1: match will kickoff at two twenty pm at Amy Park

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Speaker 1: in Melbourne and will be live on Paramount Plus and

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Speaker 1: ten Play. Also, in some quick A league heat policy

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Speaker 1: news which we discussed last week week before, potentially the

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Speaker 1: Australian Professional Leagues the APL will revise their heat policy

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Speaker 1: and potentially reconsider three pm kickoffs ahead of next season

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Speaker 1: after the recent match in Canberra was played in thirty

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Speaker 1: five degree heat and left players unwell. It's not as

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Speaker 1: exciting news as I thought I would potentially reconsider.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a potential reconsider, but I think it's

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Speaker 2: definitely on the table and it common sense will prevail.

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Speaker 1: As long as it's on the table. It's a good start.

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Speaker 2: In rugby league. This Saturday, we'll see the All Stars

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Speaker 2: match between the New Zealand Mary All Stars and the

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Speaker 2: Australian Indigenous All Stars. The game will be played in

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Speaker 2: New Zealand at the Rotorua International Stadium. The match kicks

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Speaker 2: off at one thirty pm ADT and you can catch

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Speaker 2: it on the nine network in Foxtel.

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Speaker 1: It's alarm setting time again for you, bez, not for me.

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Speaker 1: The Aussie women's cricket team kick off the World Cup

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Speaker 1: campaign this weekend in South Africa. They'll play New Zealand

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Speaker 1: on Sunday morning our time, with the match starting at

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Speaker 1: four am AE d T. You can tune in on

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Speaker 1: Foxtel and.

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Speaker 2: KO four am.

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Speaker 1: Perfect. Yeah. I hope you enjoy it. And that's the wrap.

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Speaker 2: Chloe crying.

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Speaker 1: I didn't cry.

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Speaker 2: Today, Yeah, sorry, must have been your recent I need

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Speaker 2: to find more emotional quotes.

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Speaker 1: See you next time.

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Speaker 2: Bye,