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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 bitch stories. In every episode, we'll cover

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Speaker 1: what's happened over the weekend, 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. I'm joined by my co host, Millie Dawson.

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Speaker 1: Milli is an athlete manager who works with some of

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Speaker 1: Australia's top female athletes.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Milicent, how has your weekend? Ben good? I'm freezing

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Speaker 2: me too.

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't it be nice to have a really trendy hood

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Speaker 3: did you'd.

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Speaker 2: Be wearing like a t fat hoodie?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, I think that'd be pretty.

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Speaker 1: Nae mm yeah, So if there were to be hoodies

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Speaker 1: coming soon, I would head to the link in our

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Speaker 1: bio put your email in so you can be the

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Speaker 1: first to find out.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely big segue into the episode coming up. On today's

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Speaker 4: episode will be joined by Olympic gold medalist Emily Cherry,

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Speaker 4: who has just announced her retirement from rugby seven's.

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Speaker 1: But first, let's take a look around the grounds. In soccer,

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Speaker 1: former Matilda Catherine Connolly has been named the head coach

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Speaker 1: of the Western Sydney Wanderers football club. She finished her

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Speaker 1: playing career at the Wanderers in twenty fourteen before rejoining

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Speaker 1: the club in twenty seventeen as an assistant coach and

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Speaker 1: she's also been a very big development officer for the

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Speaker 1: younger players in Western Sydney for the past six years.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, she was named Female Coach of the

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Speaker 1: Year at the Female Football Awards for her work at

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Speaker 1: the Wanderers and in grassroots football across the West. She

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Speaker 1: started building the list for twenty twenty one twenty two

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Speaker 1: and it's really cool to see the way that a

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Speaker 1: player has been able to work their way up the

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Speaker 1: ranks from assistant coach now being head coach of the

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Speaker 1: team and I hope to see this happening across multiple

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Speaker 1: codes of women's sport as time progresses.

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Speaker 4: Still on soccer, a new partnership between Network ten and

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Speaker 4: Paramount Plus was announced, with the W League as one

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Speaker 4: of the sports included in the partnership. It will be

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Speaker 4: the first time all Australians will have access to the

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Speaker 4: W League on commercial free to AIRTV. The new two

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Speaker 4: hundred million dollar deal over five years will see one

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Speaker 4: w League match aired on Sunday afternoons on ten Bold,

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Speaker 4: with the remainder of the games hosted on Paramount Plus

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Speaker 4: streaming platform. This partnership ends the fifteen year partnership between

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Speaker 4: Foxtel and the A League and W League. I think

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Speaker 4: it's super important to have these games on free to

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Speaker 4: air for exposure for the girl, So this is a

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Speaker 4: really great announcement visibility where it's at in CrossFit. The

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Speaker 4: Torrian Pro took place over the weekend at pat Rafter

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Speaker 4: Arena on the Gold Coast. Athletes competed in seven events

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Speaker 4: across the three days, with Carra Saunders taking the win

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Speaker 4: overall and has claimed her ticket to the CrossFit Games,

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Speaker 4: which will take place in the US in August. Car

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Speaker 4: is a really incredible athlete. She's been competing in CrossFit

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Speaker 4: for almost ten years. She made her debut in twenty

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Speaker 4: twelve at the Games. She had her first little girl,

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Speaker 4: so just a super such an incredible athlete. This will

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Speaker 4: be her eighth Crosstic Games appearance. She'll be competing alongside

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Speaker 4: Tia Cletumia other Aussie in the Games, which will be

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Speaker 2: Tiya wasn't at the Torrian Pro was she?

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Speaker 3: No, she wasn't.

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Speaker 4: She's actually based in the US. She's been based there

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Speaker 4: for the last couple of years and it was too tricky.

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Speaker 4: She was really hoping to get back for this tournament,

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Speaker 1: In basketball, the twelve strong women's basketball team for the

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Speaker 1: Tokyo Olympics has been announced by the Australian Olympic Committee.

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Speaker 1: Thirty three year old Jenna O'Hay was named captain of

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Speaker 1: the Opals after a nine year gap between her debut

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Speaker 1: Also notable, thirty year old test Maagine, was static to

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Speaker 1: there from tests. The Opals aiming to add to their

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Speaker 1: rich Olympic legacy with three Olympic silver and two bronze medals.

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Speaker 1: From Atlanta nineteen ninety six to London twenty twelve, as

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Speaker 1: Sandy Brondello, also Australian basketball royalty. She was a four

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Speaker 1: time Olympian and triple Olympic medalist, takes the reins for

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Speaker 1: in Pool Sea, with pool matches against Belgium, Puerto Rico

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Speaker 1: and China tipping off on the twenty seventh of July

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Speaker 1: in Saitama Super Arena. In three on three basketball, Australia's

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Speaker 1: Olympic dream unfortunately has ended after a fourteen to twelve

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Speaker 1: loss to Spain in the quarterfinals. In surfing, Tokyo, Olympics

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Speaker 1: bound Sally Fitzgibbons is finding form when it matters most,

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Speaker 1: winning her first World Surf League event of the season

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Speaker 1: at Rotnest Island. After defeating fellow Ossie Tyler Wright in

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Speaker 1: the semis. Fitzgibbons beat French so Johannes to Fate fifteen

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Speaker 1: to twenty four to eleven to two in last week's final,

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Speaker 1: with the win lifting her to second spot in the

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Speaker 1: world rankings in netball.

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Speaker 4: It was the first week of the Indigenous Round. This year,

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Speaker 4: it has been split over two weeks to ensure that

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Speaker 4: all teams can have a home game during this period.

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Speaker 4: You may remember last year Jemma Maimai, the only Indigenous

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Speaker 4: player in the Super Netball competition, failed to hit the

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Speaker 4: court during the Indigenous Round, but however, this year she

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Speaker 4: played forty eight minutes in the thriller against the Vixens. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 4: the Firebirds didn't take the win this week, with the

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Speaker 4: debutante Rannie Summerson handing the Melbourne Vixens a victory after

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Speaker 4: the final buzzer. The scores were tired at sixty four

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Speaker 4: all when the buzzer sounded, the match seemed destined for

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Speaker 4: extra time. However, the umpire had called a penalty just

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Speaker 1: That is so impressive on debut to be that and

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Speaker 1: to the shot after the buzzer, Like, that's amazing.

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Speaker 3: That's things that you see in the movies.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, make a movie. Now it's time for the

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Speaker 1: key story. Liz Cambridge has been back in the media

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Speaker 1: this week after she called out the Connecticut Son head

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Speaker 1: coach Curtin Miller after making a comment about her weight. So,

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Speaker 1: Liz Cambridge plays for the Aces in Las Vegas and

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Speaker 1: they were up against the Connecticut Sons. Miller, who's the

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Speaker 1: coach of the opposition team, told a referee, come on,

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Speaker 1: she's three hundred pounds, so that equates to about one

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Speaker 1: in their WNBA clash. Liz went on to her Instagram

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Speaker 1: she said how proud she was of her body. She

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Speaker 2: That's cute, Yes, it is maps.

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Speaker 1: Remeber that's yeah, very tall. Yeah, but pretty much. She

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Speaker 1: which I think is totally a great call to make.

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Speaker 1: And he since apologized he's been fined ten thousand dollars

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Speaker 4: It's really great to see women confident to call out

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Speaker 4: that it gets recognized is them speaking this to their audience.

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Speaker 4: Naomi Osaka actually made an announcement last week that she

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Speaker 4: won't be participating in press conferences or media interviews during

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Speaker 4: the French Open to protect her mental health. She released

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Speaker 4: a statement across her social media accounts stating that it

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Speaker 4: bring awareness to athletes being asked questions that completely ignore

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Speaker 4: their mental health. Naomi said in her statement, We're often

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Speaker 4: and I'm just not going to subject myself to peace

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Speaker 4: will that doubt me. She continued on to say, if

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Speaker 4: the organizations think that they can just keep saying do

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Speaker 4: press or you're going to be fined and continue to

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Speaker 4: ignore the mental health of the athletes that are the

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Speaker 4: Asaka has been fined almost twenty thousand dollars after taking

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Speaker 4: her first event win, and the organization has threatened to

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Speaker 4: throw her out of the French Open if she continues.

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Speaker 3: To skip media.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of money.

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Speaker 3: That is a lot of money.

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Speaker 2: What do we think about this?

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Speaker 1: Because I picture myself after a game, particularly if I've lost,

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Speaker 1: I can guarantee you I would be an absolutely no

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Speaker 4: I just think it's I think there's a time and

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Speaker 4: place for media interviews straight after a loss. I think

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Speaker 4: it's really insensitive to the mental health of these athletes,

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Speaker 4: which is exactly what Nami is calling out. And I

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Speaker 4: will see these athletes, and no one wants to see

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Speaker 4: an athlete break down in the media in I think

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Speaker 4: it's horrible to watch. If it's on their own accord

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Speaker 4: and they're wanting to be vocal about what's happened, but

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Speaker 4: I don't think anyone really wants to see that. I

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Speaker 4: remember watching an interview with Serena Williams after the Australian

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Speaker 4: Open and she had just been knocked out of the

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Speaker 4: it's it's just nothing. I personally, I don't want to

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Speaker 4: see that from athletes. I love hearing from athletes, but

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Speaker 4: that's not how I want to see them.

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Speaker 3: I think, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I'd love to get your perspective on, you know, how

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Speaker 4: would you go about doing media interviews after a tournament

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Speaker 4: as you obviously an athlete, and what you would what

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Speaker 4: you would prefer in that instance.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they've got to be given a window

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Speaker 1: of time that they can go away, do their recovery,

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Speaker 1: talk to their coach, debrief with whoever's in their close circle,

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Speaker 1: and then from their almost have the choice about whether

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Speaker 1: they want to do press or not. I just I

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Speaker 1: understand that as an athlete, when you sign contracts and

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Speaker 1: I just it blows my mind that you can be

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Speaker 1: to a press conference because of your mental health, Like

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Speaker 1: it just doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 3: No, not at all.

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Speaker 1: And it's interesting with the posts that we got up

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Speaker 1: of media. Social media a lot of pressures that are

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Speaker 1: put on not just femal athletes, but athletes as a whole.

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Speaker 1: And some of the data that we shared that's come

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Speaker 1: around the impact that social media is having on elite

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Speaker 1: female athletes and the way that it's making FEMA athletes

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Speaker 2: Now it's time but the presser.

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Speaker 4: Australian rugby sevens player Emily Cherry has announced her retirement

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Speaker 4: in the lead up to the Tokyo Olympics. Cherry was

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Speaker 4: twenty sixteen Rio Olympics, a match winner in Australia's first

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Speaker 1: We've got my teammate Emily on the line with us

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Speaker 1: now and thanks so much for joining us to kick

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Speaker 5: Thanks?

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Speaker 2: Thanks having me.

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Speaker 6: I think now you have to say that I'm your

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so I guess my journey started.

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Speaker 6: And you know, I grew up in a family that

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Speaker 4: We heard from Quirky during season one of The Female

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Speaker 3: Was your introduction to the sport? Similar?

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Speaker 6: It was actually so Yeah, Quirky, we started together and

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Speaker 5: She played for New South Wales. I played for Queensland and.

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Speaker 6: Kind of had that rivalry growing up, but she was

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Speaker 5: The games.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's a really cool journey that we started there.

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Speaker 5: It was just really cool because there's a free trip to.

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Speaker 1: Long term, it worked out pretty well. You scored one

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Speaker 1: You'll probably try and say something annoyingly humble, but what

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Speaker 6: To create for someone else. And I guess that's it. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: But defense, you know, that's something I had to work

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Speaker 1: He's been humble as I expected. But the listeners should

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Speaker 1: YouTube Emily Cherry highlights. We might actually share someone our

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Speaker 3: It's great.

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Speaker 4: Now you gave birth to your beautiful daughter, Alice in

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Speaker 4: twenty nineteen. What has that been like, becoming a mom

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a really hard thing to describe, you know,

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Speaker 6: You know, physically, your body is just never the same

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Speaker 6: And there were so many I think, you know, facets

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Speaker 6: Just being absolutely done after ten years was a big

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Speaker 5: That that played a big part of it.

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Speaker 6: That I didn't want to, you know, miss full week,

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Speaker 6: It just became really, really hard, and you know, I

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Speaker 6: The hardest part was obviously telling all you girls, because

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Speaker 6: That was the hardest telling the girls because I know

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Speaker 6: Mum would be the hardest, but it ended up being

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Speaker 6: for me too once I told her and she was like, oh, yeah, cool,

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Speaker 6: and it was so supportive that you know, I'm so

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Speaker 5: Oh not quite, but.

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Speaker 6: Them supporting me through that and now supporting me in

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Speaker 6: this kind of transition period.

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Speaker 5: I was lucky. They said, yeap, we'll see you through

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Speaker 5: to the end of the.

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Speaker 6: Contract if you're willing to kind of hang around and

447
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Speaker 6: help us where you can. And you know, at the

448
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Speaker 6: moment that just fits into analysis side and you know,

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Speaker 6: doing some of the skills with rehab because they're usually

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Speaker 6: left by myself with one or two people who just

451
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Speaker 6: you know, making them feel still a part of the team.

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Speaker 6: And then I've started helping with the youth side of it.

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Speaker 6: I'm a teacher. I've got a university degree. I'm not

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Speaker 6: a teacher.

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Speaker 5: I've got a university degree teaching that I've never used.

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Speaker 5: People think I've taught, but I've got a teaching degree,

457
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Speaker 5: so I obviously love that development side of that. So yeah,

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Speaker 5: I've started doing the youth stuff and I absolutely love that.

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Speaker 5: Would love to be involved in that in the future.

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Speaker 6: You know what that looks like, we don't know yet,

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Speaker 6: but yeah, I guess I'm just as I said, I'm

462
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Speaker 6: stoked to still be around the girls for this last

463
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Speaker 6: little bit and my goal is still for the train

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Speaker 6: Women seven seem to win gold, even though you know

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Speaker 6: my plans have changed and I'm not going to be

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Speaker 6: on that field helping them do that that, I'm going

467
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Speaker 6: to do everything in my power so our team can

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Speaker 6: still win gold.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.

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Speaker 1: To finish off, well, we see the Daughters of the

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Speaker 1: Aussie sevens grades.

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Speaker 2: We've got your daughter, Alie.

473
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Speaker 1: Is now Tillie Lucas Wayway's got a couple of girls.

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Speaker 2: Colbeck has four, Like we can make a seventeen.

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Speaker 3: That's the seventh scene there.

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Speaker 5: She's got. I think we've nearly got twelve twelve already

477
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Speaker 5: pretty much, so sign them up.

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Speaker 3: And I already thought it.

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Speaker 5: It's going to be a formidable bunch coming through it.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 6: I made a joke with Maddie Elliott Maddie Anderson the

482
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Speaker 6: other day.

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Speaker 2: A girl as well.

484
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Speaker 6: Yeah, she's got a girl too, Like, how cool that

485
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Speaker 6: we're raising the next generation of determined and fierce little

486
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Speaker 6: girls running out there.

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Speaker 5: And I think it's really cool.

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Speaker 6: Now when Alice is footy on TV or footy at

489
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Speaker 6: the park, anything, she associates that with the girls, associates

490
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Speaker 6: that with mom so.

491
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Speaker 5: NRL on the TV, and she will say, oh, I

492
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Speaker 5: think that's the cool thing.

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Speaker 6: Cool.

494
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Speaker 5: She's not even two.

495
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Speaker 6: Yet and she thinks that that's girls playing on the TV.

496
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Speaker 6: She mainly thinks so people wearing hair Geary's mum. So

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Speaker 6: it's pretty amazing. I think to see even in the

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Speaker 6: next few years those girls coming through that Saurus winning

499
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Speaker 6: rio now playing as well. It's Yeah, it's going to

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Speaker 6: be really cool to see how competitive the sport gets.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, congratulations on such an incredible career.

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Speaker 2: It's been.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm going to get emotional, it's been such an

505
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Speaker 1: honor to play alongside you as a teammate. You're want

506
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Speaker 1: to Oh my gosh, why am I crying?

507
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Speaker 2: Usually the credit?

508
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Speaker 1: Yeah, just to play alongside you as a teammate. The

509
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Speaker 1: way that you approach the game and read the game

510
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,320
Speaker 1: from a professionalism perspective, but your humility and everything that

511
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Speaker 1: you've achieved over so many years is just inspiring. And

512
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Speaker 1: it's just been such a huge on it for me

513
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Speaker 1: and I know so many of the girls to have

514
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Speaker 1: the chance to be your teammate but learn from you

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Speaker 1: and all of your experience. So thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for everything that you've given to the game.

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Speaker 5: No, thank you very much. Favorite part of it you

518
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Speaker 5: girls and being around your girls. And I guess I'm

519
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 5: so lucky to have had the.

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Speaker 6: Chances and experiences I have, and you know, you girls

521
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Speaker 6: will always be be friends forever now, so I think

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Speaker 6: we're pretty lucky walking away from the sport like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, thanks so much.

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Speaker 5: Thanks Will, Thanks goth.

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Speaker 3: Just wanted to add a little note as well.

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Speaker 4: I saw a number of the girls do posts on

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Speaker 4: social media to congratulate Emily on such an illustrious career,

528
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Speaker 4: and there were so many comments from them saying how

529
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Speaker 4: she was the reason that they got involved with sevens,

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Speaker 4: she had inspired them. So I just think it's beautiful

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Speaker 4: how much she's inspired so many girls into that sport.

532
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Speaker 4: Not only she had an incredible professional career, but she's

533
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Speaker 4: made an impact on so many girls lives. So awesome

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Speaker 4: to see and good luck to am on whatever comes next.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a look at what to watch in hockey.

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Speaker 1: The Hockey Roos and the Black Sticks have played out

537
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Speaker 1: three consecutive draws in the trans Hasmin Series. The Tuesday's

538
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,880
Speaker 1: fourth and final match is a genuine winner takes all encounter.

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Speaker 1: Tune in on Sky Sports at three point thirty pm

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Speaker 1: Australian Eastern Standard time.

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Speaker 4: In tennis, the French Open kicked off on Sunday night

542
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Speaker 4: and continues throughout the week. World number one Ash Barty

543
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 4: will begin her campaign on Tuesday night against American Bernada Pira.

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Speaker 4: Barty will be defending her crown, having won the French

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00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 4: Open in twenty nineteen or the best barty in netball.

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Speaker 1: The new South Wales Derby between the Giants and the

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Speaker 1: Swifts is on Sunday, the sixth of June, starting at

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Speaker 1: one pm.

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Speaker 2: Catch it live on Channel nine.

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