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

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Speaker 2: What have we got this week? Taking a look around

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Speaker 2: the grounds.

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Speaker 3: The Sydney Six's have kicked off the WBBL with a win,

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Speaker 3: Golf received a massive funding boost, The root for women's

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Speaker 3: Tour de France has been revealed, and the Matilda's prepared

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Speaker 3: to take on Brazil on home soil.

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Speaker 1: For our key story, we'll discuss the incredible community in

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Speaker 1: women's football that came together to help bring fifty soccer

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Speaker 1: players from Afghanistan to Australia.

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Speaker 3: In the ice Bath with Budgie Smuggler, we'll chat to

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Speaker 3: Jess Stuffan who has made a WBBL comeback after giving

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Speaker 3: birth last year.

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Speaker 1: Also, guys, we are on YouTube. We're back on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: second week in a row. Yeah, we've now got the

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Speaker 1: RAP episodes on YouTube. We'll be filling in with some highlights.

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Speaker 1: We'll also have the Budgy ice Bath with Jess. So

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Speaker 1: we'll check the link in our bio on Instagram out

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Speaker 1: the Female Athlete Project and we'll also chuck it in

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Speaker 1: the show notes as well. Give us a watch, like comments,

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Speaker 2: But first let's take a look around the grounds in cricket.

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Speaker 1: The WBBL season has kicked off in Tazzi and the

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Speaker 1: Sydney Sixers out.

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Speaker 2: I can't deal with you taking a secifically just having

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Speaker 2: a kuffle while I haven't doing the wrap.

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Speaker 1: The Sixers started off with a win over the Melbourne

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Speaker 1: Stars in a rain affected match. The games reduced to

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Speaker 1: eleven overs each and the Stars started off with a

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Speaker 1: one hundred run target for the Sixers to chase. So

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Speaker 1: Elise Vallani scored an exceptional fifty four runs off thirty

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Speaker 1: Alisa Healy who hit a match winning fifty seven runs

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Speaker 1: from twenty seven balls. Bit of doubt over the weekend

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Speaker 1: are going to go ahead, but with some pretty strict

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Speaker 1: biosecurity measures in place, the WBBL was still able to

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Speaker 1: go ahead, which was great news. In more cricket news

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Speaker 1: we shared on our Instagram this week, there's a one

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Speaker 1: point two million dollar increase in retainers that will provide

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Speaker 1: a high base salary for female cricketers, so the WNCL players,

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Speaker 1: the domestic players will receive a twenty two percent increase

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Speaker 1: and the Big Bash players will receive a fourteen percent

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Speaker 1: increase in twenty twenty one twenty two.

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Speaker 2: That's what we like to hear.

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Speaker 1: It's nearly a four million dollar investment overall to support

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Speaker 1: the players and it also includes additional wellbeing support and

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Speaker 2: How good rate that.

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Speaker 3: In golf, the opening women's Major of twenty twenty two

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Speaker 3: will have its prize fund boosted by sixty percent to

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Speaker 3: five million, the Elite LGP LGPA LPGA Tour said after

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Speaker 3: announcing a new title sponsor for the tournament. The event,

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Speaker 3: previously known as the Ana Inspiration will be renamed the

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Speaker 3: Chevron Championship as part of a six year deal with

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Speaker 3: the tournament. It will be held at the traditional location

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Speaker 3: international golf. Both events were meant to be played in

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Speaker 3: the decision was made to focus on getting ready for

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Speaker 1: In cycling, the route has been announced for the women's

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Speaker 1: women's eighth stage race will start. It's a massive announcement,

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Speaker 1: The men's tour in twenty twenty two, it'll feature twenty

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Speaker 1: And the argument is that you've got to create more

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Speaker 2: So they say, if an equal.

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Speaker 1: then we can have an equal prize purse for equal

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Speaker 1: work and equal days. These two things can and must

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Speaker 3: The Comwealth Bank Matilda's return to Australian soil for the

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Speaker 3: first time in almost six hundred days when they take

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Speaker 3: named a twenty three player squad biled with both experience

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Speaker 2: Though not available for selection.

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Speaker 3: Western Sydney product in Young Matilda's forward Briley Henry has

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Speaker 3: Simon Kaylin Forden, Captain Stam Kerr. It's obviously been a

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Speaker 3: pretty turbulent few weeks for the Matildas, obviously everything going

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Speaker 3: response to the claim from Lisa Devanna that we discussed

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Speaker 3: last week, so the statement acknowledged the allegations and essentially

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Speaker 3: Matilda's have been a safe haven for me and allowed

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Speaker 3: I count myself lucky to be a part of this

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Speaker 2: She feels like she you know, she hasn't.

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Speaker 1: So it's still on soccer for this one, and there

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Speaker 1: was a pretty rough patch when this story first came out,

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Speaker 1: and she actually reached out to an Afghan woman who

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Speaker 1: eventually connected with former Matilda Moyer Dodd, who was doing

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Speaker 2: In football, so it mills.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so both Joanna and Moyer basically became the contact

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Speaker 3: To get themselves to the airport to make sure the security,

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Speaker 2: Really special.

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Speaker 1: And to see the fifty, the group of fifty women

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Speaker 1: the board director at Women on Side ASMA Morsey, who's

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Speaker 1: a former Afghan refugee herself. She was really desperate to

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Speaker 3: That is that's just so special, hearing Matt. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: Jess, You guys started with a win over the Hobout

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Speaker 1: Best of luck with the rest of the Big Batch

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Speaker 1: season and I'll probably see you out there when it

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Speaker 4: Us, No, no problem, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a look at what to watch. In cricket.

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Speaker 3: The WBBL continues with the Sydney Derby scheduled for Saturday,

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Speaker 3: the twenty third of October at three forty pm. You

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Speaker 3: can watch live on Fox Cricket ko N seven.

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Speaker 1: In soccer, the Matilda's Battle Brazil on Saturday at seven

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Speaker 1: fee fifty. If you can't get to Combat Stadium, tune

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Speaker 1: in on Channel ten.

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Speaker 2: And that's the wrap. See you next week, Loo,