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

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Speaker 1: Meles what have we got this week?

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Speaker 2: Taking a look around the grounds, are Ozzie Seven's win

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Speaker 2: their first tournament since twenty eighteen, the Scorches win their

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Speaker 2: maiden WBBL title, and both the A League and WNBL

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Speaker 2: are kicking off this week. For our key story, we'll

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Speaker 2: discuss the start of the newly named A League Women's season,

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Speaker 2: which will see Wellington Phoenix make their debut without a

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Speaker 2: team sponsor. In the Budgy Smuggler, Ice Bathable chat to

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Speaker 2: Ozzie basketballer Lauren Nicholson, who is currently preparing for the

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Speaker 2: upcoming WNBL season with the Townsville Fire.

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Speaker 1: Meals last summer merch drop two has landed.

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Speaker 3: Indeed it has.

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Speaker 2: We dropped the Varsity tea and our logo Muscle Tea,

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Speaker 2: so if you haven't already purchased one, you should definitely.

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Speaker 2: Chloe is currently wrapping the teeth at Varsity t Love

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Speaker 2: it looks great.

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Speaker 1: Love that and meals You've got a pe clothing? I

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Speaker 1: do we call it?

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Speaker 3: I should hope I've got a piece of clothing.

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Speaker 1: We've got a few. When I put a poll up

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Speaker 1: on the Instagram of what do people want to see

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Speaker 1: for some emerge, A big, big response was at yeah,

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Speaker 1: did you notice that?

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Speaker 3: I did notice that?

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Speaker 2: So this is where you need to watch the YouTube

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Speaker 2: because you might see a little sneak peak of something

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Speaker 2: that I'm wearing right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Nice, let's take a look around the grounds.

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Speaker 2: In winter sports, Ozzie Bree Walker aka Bob sled Brie

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Speaker 2: I love that nickname, has claimed her first podium of

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Speaker 2: the season, taking out the bronze medal at the IBSF Monobob.

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Speaker 3: World Series in Innsbrook.

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Speaker 2: Brie now climbs to fourth in the overall standings after

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Speaker 2: two races, to a great start to the season.

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Speaker 1: In rugby sevens, the Ossie sevens girls have had their

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Speaker 1: first win of a World Series tournament since twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: so the schem massive. So they traveled over to Dubai.

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Speaker 1: Dubai's a great location to head to as well. You

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Speaker 1: stay in this really fancy hotel in the Actually remember

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Speaker 1: seeing all your pictures for when you see on that

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Speaker 1: World series. Isn't it like fancy hotels everything? Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: the chefs make really delicious eggs. Were just I love that.

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Speaker 1: That's what sticks with me. Anyway, So the girls had

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Speaker 1: an incredible tournament. They were undefeated throughout the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: They came up to face Fiji in the final and

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Speaker 1: I think it was a four try win over fig

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Speaker 1: twenty two points to seven. Charlotte has It was named

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Speaker 1: hundred try milestone. I shared this on my on my

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Speaker 1: own Instagram story and I was laughing because she scored

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Speaker 1: a try and every single player on the field came

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Speaker 1: up and hugged her. And usually in sevens after someone

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Speaker 1: scores a try, no one hugs you or does anything

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Speaker 1: because people are trying, trying so hard just to breathe. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I was like, nice guys, good way to recognize that.

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Speaker 1: So congrat Charlotte on that one. And the girls will

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Speaker 1: be playing another tournament in Dubai next week. Back to

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Speaker 3: In it Neple.

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Speaker 2: It's been a frustrating time for the Diamonds, with tournaments

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Speaker 2: being able to compete over the last twelve months. But

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Speaker 2: that's all about to change with the announcement that the

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Speaker 2: Quad Series is back. England will host the Aussie Diamonds,

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Speaker 2: New Zealand and South Africa in January next year, and

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Speaker 2: the Diamonds will be looking to secure their sixth Quad

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Speaker 2: their new coach, Stacy Marinkovic. The tournament will be played

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Speaker 2: over four days in London where the Diamonds will go

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Speaker 2: head to head with each team once. That will be

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Speaker 2: followed by a third and fourth place game and then

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Speaker 2: a final to decide the winner of the Quad Series

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Speaker 2: trophy between the first and second ranked teams. The Diamonds

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Speaker 2: will kick it off on January sixteenth when they take

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Speaker 1: How exciting in basketball, so we saw I guess the

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Speaker 1: huge news when Charlote Heel, as a nineteen year old

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Speaker 1: they've cut you. You need to figure out how to

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Speaker 1: get your bags off this plane. You have three days

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Speaker 1: and if no team picks you up, then you're on

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Speaker 3: Hectic, that is full on.

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Speaker 1: I can't even imagine. And she said she was so

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Speaker 1: as you would be shocked, but devastated. And it was

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Speaker 1: She was just an absolute mess. So she then has

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Speaker 1: and I think she's probably learned a lot and developed

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: In cricket, the Perth Scorches have finally won the trophy

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Speaker 2: they've been hunting for seven years. It was the third

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Speaker 2: time lucky for the Scorches after heartbreak in both the

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Speaker 2: WBBLO two and WBBLO three, and a just reward for

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Speaker 2: the super consistent Scorches, who have missed the finals just

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Speaker 2: once in the seven seasons of the WBBL. The Adelaide

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Speaker 2: Strikers unfortunately went down to the team in Orange, who

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Speaker 2: celebrated a twelve run win in front of fifteen than

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Speaker 2: five hundred and eleven fans at up the stadium. That

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Speaker 1: How good.

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Speaker 2: So obviously we saw well, I'm sure we'll talk about

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Speaker 2: this in a second, the record that Matilda's made on

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Speaker 2: Saturday as well, So both cricket and soccer saw some

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Speaker 2: new record proud numbers, which is awesome for West squads

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Speaker 2: all round. The Marizanne cap overcame a week of illness

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Speaker 2: a sensational player of the match performance she posted her

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Speaker 2: one hundred and forty seven runs. She then helped strangle

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Speaker 3: With the game already all but one, the.

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Speaker 2: Fourth place Strikers did well to actually make the decider,

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Speaker 2: But congrats to the Scorches, what an epic win to

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Speaker 2: finish off the season, and congrats to all teams. I

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Speaker 1: Great in soccer. As you said, Mills, we saw another

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Speaker 1: record crowd, so the Matildas set the record for the

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Speaker 1: So thirty six, one hundred and nine fans braving pretty

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Speaker 1: fact that there's been some concerns around the Matilda's back

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Speaker 1: A couple of young Aussies on debut back there, and

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Speaker 1: and we're seeing Tony Gustavz and try and give young

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, the score didn't really accurately reflect the game. Even

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Speaker 1: particularly in the first half. The Matildas were exceptional. They

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Speaker 1: Definitely room for improvement, but I don't think they're as

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Speaker 3: Continuing on soccer.

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Speaker 2: The A League Women's kicks off this weekend and Wellington

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Speaker 2: Phoenix women's team will make history on Friday when they

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Speaker 2: run out against Western Sydney Wanderers in their first ever

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Speaker 2: A League women's game. At this stage, though they don't

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Speaker 2: have a major sponsor which will sit on the front

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Speaker 2: of their jerseys, it has taken until twenty twenty one

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Speaker 2: for New Zealand to enter a team into the women's camp,

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Speaker 2: and the addition of Wellington Phoenix to the comp is

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Speaker 2: seen as a huge milestone for women's football within New

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Speaker 2: co hosting rights for the twenty twenty three Women's at

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this one's really disappointing about the sponsor, particularly with

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Speaker 1: what you say in there around the Women's World Cup,

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Speaker 1: because I think it's such a huge opportunity where a

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Speaker 1: like it's going to be huge, particularly in Australia but

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Speaker 1: it all aligns really perfectly. So I fairly disappointed for

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Speaker 1: them and their head. Their inaugural head coach, Jamma Lewis

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Speaker 1: had said that it has been really disappointing the fact

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Speaker 1: that they haven't been able to sign a sponsor, being

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Speaker 1: the first that's ever happened, building this brand, achieving something

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Speaker 1: we've waited for for so long. I did think there

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Speaker 1: and wanting to be a part of it. And I

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Speaker 1: questions out there about have they just not tried hard enough?

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Speaker 1: But they've approached multiple big banks, big brands, major corporations

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Speaker 1: potentially for those sponsors, they're not actually to get domestic

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Speaker 2: Basketballer Lauren Nicholson is currently preparing for the start of

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Speaker 1: Los, thanks so much for coming on for a chat.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty with Townsville, you guys made it all

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. In the I think it was twenty eighteen nineteen season,

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Speaker 1: It's really exciting. Good luck in the season. I can't

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Speaker 1: wait to watch. I'm always your number one fan girl,

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Speaker 1: can't wait to see you out there again.

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Speaker 5: Thanks Cloud, I appreciate.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a look at to watch. In basketball, the

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Speaker 1: WNBL is back, the South Side Flyers and Bendigo Spirit

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Speaker 2: In soccer, the Matildas will have another crack at the

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Speaker 2: eight pm. In rugby, Round two of the Seven's World

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Speaker 2: Series is on again in Dubai this weekend. You can

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Speaker 2: to this week, We've got season two, episode eight of

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Speaker 2: That was a great little demonstration there, Cloak, which I'm.

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Speaker 3: Really excited about.

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Speaker 2: We obviously saw Nikola absolutely crush it out of Tokyo Olympics.

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Speaker 2: She's been having an incredible run this past season in

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Speaker 3: So I'm really pumped for this episode.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I loved it. She was like, she was really

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Speaker 1: It's really cool. You can find us on Instagram at

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Speaker 1: the Female Athlete Project.

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Speaker 2: And don't forget we're on YouTube with an appy project.

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Speaker 3: A Drop number three coming in a few weeks.

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Speaker 1: It's coming real soon and that's the route.

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Speaker 3: See you next week though, See then, boy,