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Speaker 1: This episode is brought to you by the athletes Foot.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to The Wrap, a weekly podcast covering women's sports news. Bears,

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Speaker 1: what have we got around the grounds this week?

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Speaker 2: The Aussies claim at the first T twenty victory with

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Speaker 2: one ball to spare, the Matildas.

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Speaker 3: Sell eighty one and a half thousand seats at Acor Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that so good?

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Speaker 3: We bought four?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we did so excited and the Women's Tennis Association

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Speaker 2: share plans for a pathway to equal prize money.

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Speaker 1: My name is Chloe Dalton and I'm joined every week

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Speaker 1: on the show by my co host Bears. Good for

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Speaker 1: a second, I know, I don't know what I did.

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Speaker 1: You know when your brain tries to think of seven

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Speaker 1: things at once and then you're like, what are the

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Speaker 1: words coming out? That's what it felt like today.

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Speaker 3: How was your weekend?

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Speaker 1: Friend?

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Speaker 3: Good?

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Speaker 1: Just a quick trip over to New Zealand. Actually it

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Speaker 1: was great fun.

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Speaker 2: I love the quick trip to New Zealand. It's actually

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Speaker 2: not that far. Yes, you go in to a different country,

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Speaker 2: but we're used to traveling a long way. It's closer

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Speaker 2: than Perth.

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Speaker 1: It is closer than per three hours in and out,

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Speaker 1: it's great. Let's take a look around the grounds.

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Speaker 3: In cricket, the ashes continues.

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Speaker 2: And last week when we were recorded, thoses were about

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Speaker 2: to wrap up four points of the Test match, which

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Speaker 2: they did. Yeah, they did, and they followed that up

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Speaker 2: on the weekend with a last ball victory in the

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Speaker 2: first T twenty International.

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Speaker 3: So the Test match, as.

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Speaker 2: We spoke about, was the first five day Test match

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Speaker 2: for women, and with the result coming on the fifth day,

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Speaker 2: the move to the same length match as the men

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Speaker 2: play was absolutely vindicated. Australia's eighty nine run fifth day

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Speaker 2: victory in Nottingham snapped a six game run of draws

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Speaker 2: in women's Tests and was the first match in the

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Speaker 2: formatch to produce a win US since twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 1: For people bes who don't know a lot about cricket,

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Speaker 1: can you just do an explainer about why the four

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Speaker 1: day Tests often resulted in a draw.

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Speaker 2: Sure, so both teams have to bat right and the

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Speaker 2: bowling team has to take ten wickets, so sometimes that

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Speaker 2: doesn't happen. So one team bats for a long time

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Speaker 2: if you don't take twenty wickets. Effectively, if one team

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Speaker 2: doesn't take twenty wickets, there's no result. Funny sport play

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Speaker 2: for five days and no one wins.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, it's bizarre, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: I still love it very very much.

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Speaker 2: The opener of the women's Ashes series scored UK PayTV

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Speaker 2: broadcast to Sky Sports the highest viewing figures for a

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Speaker 2: women's Test cricket match on record, with an average of

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Speaker 2: one hundred and ninety eight thousand tuning in over the

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Speaker 2: five days. The match at trent Bridge in Nottingham also

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Speaker 2: drew a record crowd for women's Test in England, with

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Speaker 2: twenty three one and seventeen attending.

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Speaker 1: We love that, you know why?

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Speaker 3: Why is that?

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Speaker 1: Fan friendly timeslots marketed early and often.

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Speaker 3: And look at the result.

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Speaker 2: After the Test, it was revealed that skipper Alissa Healy

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Speaker 2: played the Test with two broken fingers. She's crazy, Like

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Speaker 2: I in my mind's eye, it was two fingers, like

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Speaker 2: tape them together and I was like, oh, do you

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Speaker 2: not sure which ones it was, but it was it

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Speaker 2: was two fingers. Was a finger on each hand?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Was it a finger on each hand?

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Speaker 3: Crazy?

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Speaker 1: And she was struggling to hold the bat, wasn't she?

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Speaker 1: Because we talked about the fact that she moved herself

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Speaker 3: Exactly, so she's struggling to grip the bat.

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Speaker 2: And she told commentator Mel Jones about the injury on

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Speaker 3: I love that, and.

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Speaker 2: She was pretty obviously keen for people to understand what

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Speaker 2: is what it is. It happens as a wicket keeper.

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Speaker 2: You get knocks on the fingers and unfortunately for me

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Speaker 1: That is one of the worst things. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you've ever broken I've had a few dodgy fingers,

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Speaker 1: when you go to the gym, you know, have you

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Speaker 1: ever done that and you've got even if you've got

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Speaker 3: You really thought about that, haven't you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Not nice.

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Speaker 2: Chloe's taking a little stroll down empathy Lane, putting herself

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Speaker 2: in Alissa Hilly's shoes and gloves. And I think I

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Speaker 3: Our fourth sport, fourth sport.

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Speaker 1: Never, not cricket, never ever.

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Speaker 2: Heally was obviously in some doubt after breaking two digits

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Speaker 2: told Heally that as she led her team to a

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Speaker 2: five hundred and twenty seven fans loudly cheered on their team,

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Speaker 2: who batted first and registered a score of seven for

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Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty three for the Aussies to chase.

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Speaker 3: Beth Mooney.

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Speaker 1: God She's good, amazing.

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Speaker 2: Once again provided the class to secure the win, scoring

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Speaker 2: an unbeaten sixty one or forty seven balls. Yossi did

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Speaker 2: Mooney to scramble through for a single to seal victory

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Speaker 1: How good. In athletics, Aussi's were dominant in the field events.

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Speaker 1: At last week's Diamond League in in Laussan, Nikola Olislaga's

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Speaker 3: I've got a question.

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Speaker 1: I was like, you look like you want to say something.

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Speaker 2: So in researching this, she jumped two oh two and

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Speaker 2: and let us know, do you have to increase by

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Speaker 1: I don't believe that you do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. That is a bit strange, isn't it. And I

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a good question to put out the people.

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Speaker 1: She did keep a clean sheet for her first five jumps.

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Speaker 1: She said two point two meters was so special. I

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Speaker 1: didn't realize how tempting it is to compare myself to

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Speaker 1: in the sand that I'm in better shape than ever before.

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Speaker 1: Now onto uncharted territory for the season ahead. The plan

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Speaker 1: World Championships. I won't put a limit on how high

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Speaker 3: For the highest God. I love her chat so good.

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Speaker 1: Mackenzie Little also one gold, throwing a new personal best

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Speaker 1: of sixty five point seven meters to win the women's

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Speaker 1: javelin by over tight two meters. The huge throw was

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Speaker 1: World Champs which start in Budapest next month.

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Speaker 2: In netball, Saturday night was fest. We got home from

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Speaker 2: it was the surfing in Brazil, the netball, the Opals,

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Speaker 2: Tour de France, the ashes, and we're keeping one eye

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Speaker 3: Sucked in bombers. Sorry Kerry six sports Man.

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Speaker 1: That's cool, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: That's really cool. We didn't mention the surfing. But Tyler

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Speaker 1: Sad she's but she's getting She's consistently in like semi

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Speaker 2: That result qualified her for the final five great Man

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Speaker 2: and the first time she's since that new format's been

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Speaker 3: She's qualified for that. Grat s Tyler, So I can't

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Speaker 2: Back to netball, it was another nail by for the

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Speaker 2: new so Far Swifts on Saturday night, but the Swifts

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Speaker 2: came out on top, this time beating West Coast Fever

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Speaker 3: And securing their spot in the Grand Final.

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Speaker 2: The Swiss child by seven goals in the third quarter,

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Speaker 2: but outscored West Coast nineteen to three in the final term.

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Speaker 2: The win sent the record preliminary final crowd of nine

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Speaker 2: four hundred and thirty seven fans, including my downstairs friends,

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Speaker 2: wild when nineteen year old Sophie Fawns broke the deadlock

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Speaker 1: Nineteen years old and she drained that shot.

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Speaker 2: So she comes on for Amelda Aiken with the super

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Speaker 2: I think she missed one last year in a final

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Speaker 2: series that was weighing heavily on her.

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Speaker 1: Okay, she's had one moment, a little bit of adept.

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Speaker 3: A little bit of redemption.

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Speaker 2: She played a super crucial off of the Swiss when

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Speaker 2: she was on the court, draining seven super shots across

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Speaker 2: the game. That's fourteen out of sixty five points. Not bad,

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Speaker 2: eh Thorn styled Fox Sports after the game. I feel

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Speaker 2: absolutely over the moon, ecstatic my first Grand Final. I

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Speaker 2: think I couldn't ask for a better team to do

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Speaker 2: it with. I'm just eladen all of all of the superlatives.

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Speaker 2: The Swiss will be looking for revenge in the Grand

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Speaker 2: Final against the Adelaide Thunderbirds, who defeated them by one

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Speaker 2: goal in an extra time thriller last week. Is their

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Speaker 2: third Grand Final appearance in five seasons and they last

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Speaker 2: won the title in twenty twenty one. Conversely, it's a

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Speaker 2: Thunderbird's first Grand Final appearance and the Swiss will be

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Speaker 2: looking to their big game players to perform. Also in netball,

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Speaker 2: Australia netballer and Noungar woman Danelle Wallom has been awarded

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Speaker 2: Nadock sports Person of the Year.

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Speaker 1: Love that for Dennel so well deserved.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely following a very successful twenty twenty two netball season

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Speaker 1: The new calendar will aim to strengthen top tier WTA

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Speaker 3: It is getting close now.

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Speaker 2: Last week, while the country stopped to battle on the

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Speaker 3: It's going to be an incredible atmosphere.

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Speaker 2: But one thing the fans won't be seeing is the

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Speaker 2: captains of the teams wearing the Rainbow armband in support

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Speaker 2: The messages on the arm bands are Unite for Inclusion,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just when you said it's a step forward, I

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Speaker 2: Was an impressive effort from what was really a new

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Speaker 2: Love tyests She's great and she was instrumental in the

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Dussy Gubin was exhausted understandably after the game and said,

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Speaker 2: I'm absolutely cooked. It's been a big couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: But obviously just so happy and so proud of the

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Speaker 2: girls that we could get over the line. It's really

448
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Speaker 2: hard to get up for these games. We played really

449
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Speaker 2: late last night and we had to turn around quickly.

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Speaker 2: I think that just shows what the Opals are about

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Speaker 2: and we're able to fight until the end to get

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Speaker 2: that medal. The top four finish sees the Opals advance

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Speaker 2: to next year Paris twenty twenty twenty four Olympic qualifying tournaments.

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Speaker 1: So good. I was thinking for some reason that top

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Speaker 1: four in this meant they qualified, but top four mean

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Speaker 1: they get a chance to qualify.

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Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, but that qualifyer absolutely and bring back our

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Speaker 2: seven WNBA superstars.

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Speaker 1: Can't wait for that.

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Speaker 3: Also, just a little segue because it's just so much

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Speaker 3: going in female sport. It's amazing.

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Speaker 1: Is he magnaball great WNBA All Star? So cool legend

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Speaker 1: some amazing photos of her court side for that was

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Speaker 1: very Let's take a look at the key story in

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Speaker 1: rugby union. On Thursday, the Wallaroos hosted the world champion

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Speaker 1: Black Ferns at Ko Stadium in Redcliffe, Queensland, in the

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Speaker 1: first match of the Pack four series. In some great news,

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Speaker 1: the game was played in front of a record crowd

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Speaker 1: of seven and fifty five fans for a standalone Wallarus

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Speaker 1: test match. Bears, you made up two of those numbers,

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Speaker 1: you and Cookie.

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Speaker 3: Yep, I mean I thought you'd say me and my

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Speaker 3: second hand, but yes, Kurse and I were there. Continue

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Speaker 3: that's crowd number.

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Speaker 1: Is sadly where the good news ended a little bit

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Speaker 1: for the Wallaroos fans. The Aussies were outclassed in almost

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Speaker 1: all areas of the game and failed to register a

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Speaker 1: point in the fifty nil belting. It was tough to

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Speaker 1: watch in parts, and in parts of Wallaroos did show

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Speaker 1: that they do have what it takes to compete with

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Speaker 1: the world's best, but the brave women in Green and

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Speaker 1: Gold just couldn't produce any sustained periods of pressure in

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Speaker 1: the face of a Black Ferns defense. Onslaught New Zealand

484
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Speaker 1: were brutal at the breakdown, the tackle and all over

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Speaker 1: the park. Really when they their physicality was just immense.

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Speaker 3: It was next level.

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Speaker 1: They showed they were step above physically. Nineteen year old

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Speaker 1: inside center Sylvia Brunt was outstanding, showing balance and power

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Speaker 1: and was named player of the match after scoring a double.

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Speaker 1: The game was effectively over at halftime with the Kiwis

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Speaker 1: going to the Shed's twenty six nil up, and although

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Speaker 1: second half replacements Arabella Mackenzie, Emily Chancellor and Emily Robinson

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Speaker 1: added some real spark I thought some real go forward.

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Speaker 1: They created a lot, it was a little bit too late, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: to stop the Black Ferns juggernaut. Leading into the match,

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Speaker 1: the Walleries were confident that they were looking at their

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Speaker 1: best chance to snap the twenty three game losing streak

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Speaker 1: to New Zealand, especially given BEZ that the Black Ferns

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Speaker 1: without their seven stars and had six debutants lined up.

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Speaker 2: But unfortunately, whilst out the Walleries were full of belief,

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Speaker 2: the stark difference between the two groups preparation was plainly

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Speaker 2: obvious once a whistle blow. The Walleries that we've spoken

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Speaker 2: about before in multiple different sports. They're all part time athletes,

504
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Speaker 2: they're all either working or studying, and the group only

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Speaker 2: gathered together in Queensland the week.

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Speaker 3: Before the Test match for a camp.

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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty three is also the first time that the

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Speaker 2: players have been paid a contract amount. Previously players were

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Speaker 2: paid a match fee only, but that contract is still

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Speaker 2: pretty much a part time contract. We talk about comparing,

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Speaker 2: I think one of the biggest things about this is

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Speaker 2: it's a real world, recent example of we often compare

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Speaker 2: female and male sport and talk about investment at those levels.

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Speaker 2: This is a two female national programs that are being

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Speaker 2: invested in different very differently. Referring back to the private

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Speaker 2: equity piece that we talked about in the tennis story,

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Speaker 2: New Zealand Ryby have had a private equity partner come

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Speaker 2: on board, so a lot of that those funds were

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Speaker 2: allocated to the Black Fern's program. So as a result

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Speaker 2: of Black Fern's female Black Fern's team are all full

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Speaker 2: time athletes. They spent the last two months together since

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Speaker 2: the Super Rugby Uppicky competition ended, and it was evident

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Speaker 2: that they were physically superior. And there's no doubt that

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Speaker 2: if you're working on your body full time versus going

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Speaker 2: to work and then trying to work on your body

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Speaker 2: after work, it's just you're going to get a different result.

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Speaker 2: The investment in the women's fifteen game by News and

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Speaker 2: the Rugby has increased after the investment from private equity

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Speaker 2: and also the successful World Cup last year, and it

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Speaker 2: was again unfortunately on display after the match. Both teams

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Speaker 2: have headed over to Ottawa in Canada for the remaining

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Speaker 2: two matches of the Pack four series against Canada and

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Speaker 2: the US and the Willeries left the morning after that

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Speaker 2: up pretty early, straight to the airport to fly to Canada.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen hour journey in economy. The Black Ferns traveled back

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Speaker 2: to New Zealand where our split into a couple of

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Speaker 2: groups so they could all fly to.

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Speaker 3: Canada in business class.

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Speaker 2: Being an athlete yourself, Klole, I think imagining you've played

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Speaker 2: some pretty intense games of rugby, any contact sport. Really

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Speaker 2: getting on a plane for nineteen hours, probably fourteen hours

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Speaker 2: after playing a test match and sitting in an economy

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Speaker 2: versus business class, it's just chalk and cheese, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: It's not ideal recovery, that's for sure.

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Speaker 3: It isn't. And just to rub some salt in the

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Speaker 3: no legspace wound, the wallerbee players shared photos of themselves

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Speaker 3: in business class on their way to South Africa to

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Speaker 3: play the spring Box, just as the Walleries.

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Speaker 2: We're taking off again once again. It's about these investment levels.

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Speaker 2: And I think we listen to these arguments or read

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Speaker 2: them a lot about people come to us and say, oh, well,

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Speaker 2: once female sports starts getting the same viewer numbers, once

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Speaker 2: female sports starts attracting the same crowd numbers, once female

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Speaker 2: sports starts attracting the same sort of costment partners, then

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Speaker 2: you know, then come to us. But the reality is

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Speaker 2: the input is so different that of course the output

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Speaker 2: is going to be different. It just it's it's an

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Speaker 2: incongruent argument to say that the output is different when

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Speaker 2: you're actually not investing at the same level. And until

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Speaker 2: the investment is the same across female sport to male sport,

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Speaker 2: you cannot make the argument that the output is different,

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Speaker 2: because of course it's going to be.

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Speaker 1: And I think this is a really interesting example you

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Speaker 1: touched on Bez, that female to female team comparison. I

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Speaker 1: was thinking about it on my way over here. We

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Speaker 1: often talk about the domestic leagues. It's not like when

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Speaker 1: I play for the Giants, my club can make a

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Speaker 1: decision about the amount of investment. We've got these limitations

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Speaker 1: around soft cap and salaries and tiers of payments, so

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Speaker 1: every team that competes within the same competition has the

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Speaker 1: same level of funding for the players and staff. Or

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Speaker 1: is this international pool is such an interesting one because

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Speaker 1: you do see such distinct differences that then lead on.

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Speaker 1: I just was watching the game and I just wanted

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Speaker 1: these little Aussie kids in Brisbane watching. Oh I'm not

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Speaker 1: in Brisbane, slightly further north up in Redcliff, but I

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Speaker 1: wanted them to watch the Wallaroos, some of them for

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Speaker 1: the first time, and feel really inspired, like they were

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Speaker 1: in with a real crack. And I just it's really frustrating,

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Speaker 1: isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It isn't that, And that's why it is such a

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Speaker 2: permanent example, because, like you said, it is two female teams,

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Speaker 2: and we were kind of removing that male lens that

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Speaker 2: we often place on investment. It's literally two female teams

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Speaker 2: that are being invested in differently and shockingly providing different results.

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

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Speaker 2: Well, then has begun and we are eagerly awaiting to

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Speaker 2: see if the eager era has indeed kicked off. Every

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Speaker 2: match would be available on stan Sport and nine Now,

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Speaker 2: so if you're up late at night, there's a feast

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Speaker 2: of ninetime sports on right now.

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Speaker 1: The Sun Supernetvil Grand Final is this Saturday night between

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Speaker 1: the Adelaide Thunderbirds and the New South Wales Swifts. The

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Speaker 1: The Swifts go the Swifts, so the Giants go to Swifts.

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Speaker 2: The second T Twenties National between Australia and England is

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Speaker 2: on this Thursday morning, with the first ball at three

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Speaker 2: am ae st. The match will be live on nine

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Speaker 2: Now and the Ossies can secure the Ashes with a

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Speaker 2: win three A M's rough.

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Speaker 1: It's probably an I'll watch the replay from there, I think.

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Speaker 1: The twenty twenty three World Para Athletics Championships will be

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Speaker 1: held in Paris, France between July eighth to the seventeenth.

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Speaker 1: The thirty nine athletes strong Ossie team includes legends Madison

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Speaker 1: di Rosario and Vanessa Lowe, Who's actually come back. She's

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Speaker 1: the long jumper who's come back after having a baby,

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Speaker 1: and she's looking in fine form. If you haven't listened

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Speaker 1: to our interviews with Madison and Vanessa, now is a

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Speaker 1: Athlete Project episodes. The nine Network will be covering the

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Speaker 1: action from Paris.

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Speaker 2: And the Mighty Walleries will be looking for some serious

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Speaker 2: improvement in their second Pack four series game. On the weekend,

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Speaker 2: they face the USA in Canada and the match we're

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Speaker 2: pivotal in their chances of qualifying for the World fifteen

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Speaker 2: one competition. The game will kick off at six am

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Speaker 2: AEST on Sunday, six o'clock on a Sunday morning. We'll

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Speaker 2: do it and you can watch live on stand Sport

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Speaker 2: and nine Now.

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Speaker 1: And that's the rap.

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Speaker 3: That is the rap.

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Speaker 1: See you next week, See

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Speaker 3: Your next week, friend, babe,