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Speaker 1: Already and this is this is the daily This is

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Speaker 2: Ohs oh, now it makes sense.

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Speaker 3: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. I'm Emma Gillespie.

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Speaker 1: And I'm George Finlason.

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Speaker 3: George's our sport journo and he is of course joining

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Speaker 3: us today to talk through the big news from the

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Speaker 3: world of sport, because we're continuing with our theme of

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five wrap ups this week, rounding it all

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Speaker 3: out with this very important episode. George, we have officially.

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Speaker 2: Made it to the end of the year.

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Speaker 3: You're a sport guru, so I'm interested in hearing from

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Speaker 3: you when you step back from the headlines.

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Speaker 2: How do you actually make sense of this sporting year.

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Speaker 4: Well, twenty twenty five was a year of sport that

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Speaker 4: was kind of split in two. I think usually you

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Speaker 4: can say it's the year of the dynasties or it's

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Speaker 4: the year of the underdogs. But if we're going to

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Speaker 4: speak strictly about results, then in some places dinnasies became untouchable.

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Speaker 4: In others a new generation arrived and forced the door open.

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Speaker 4: But it was also a year that saw the development

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Speaker 2: George would you say it was a game of two halves?

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Speaker 1: You could say that, you could say.

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Speaker 3: That, Well, let's start with footy then, because this is

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Speaker 3: where that contrast that you have so articulately described really

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Speaker 2: What defined the AFL year for you?

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Speaker 4: Well, on field, the Dinnasies didn't fall, they actually got stronger.

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Speaker 4: So North Melbourne in the AFL W they delivered one

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Speaker 4: of the most remarkable seasons Australian sport has ever seen.

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Speaker 4: They set up a perfect fifteen and o campaign all

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Speaker 4: the way through to the Grand Final, beating the Brisbane

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Speaker 4: back and they're on a twenty seven match winning streak.

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Speaker 4: It's the best in either AFL or AFLW history. Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah the girls, yeah, the girl.

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Speaker 3: About the men's side, what did twenty five look like

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Speaker 4: So on the men's side, the Brisbane Lions they were

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Speaker 4: The Lions they became just the fourth team since two

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Speaker 4: thousand to go back to back. So they're really setting

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Speaker 3: And I think we can't talk about AFL in twenty

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Speaker 3: field controversies. Footy was forced to really hold up a

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Speaker 3: mirror to itself this year. Can you talk us through

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Speaker 3: some of those really big moments around inclusion and how

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it's hard to look past this past season

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Speaker 4: Adelaide Crow's star Isaac Rankin, receiving a four match ban

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Speaker 4: just before finals for directing a homophobic slur at a

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Speaker 4: Coast Eagle Mitch Brown came out publicly as bisexual. He

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Speaker 3: So, and of course that was a TDA exclusive. We

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Speaker 2: He speaks out, if he does the scary part.

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Speaker 3: And is the first one, that others will follow suit

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, and I think everyone would acknowledge that there's a

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Speaker 3: Some really really meaningful conversations this year, the AFL and

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Speaker 2: It was a huge moment this year.

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Speaker 3: Now, George, if the AFL was about Dynasty's holding firm,

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Speaker 2: What happened there?

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Speaker 3: Big year for Brisbane it has to be said NRL

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Speaker 1: Massive year.

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Speaker 4: You could say it's the year of the Queenslander. It

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Speaker 4: a historic club double. And yeah, as you said, massive,

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Speaker 3: Okay, let's move away from the footy field, George, if

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Speaker 3: because swimming felt more complicated than most sports this year.

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Speaker 3: There were big results but also big conversations. What stood

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Speaker 4: Well, I think the headline in Australian swimming was Arianne

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Speaker 4: It's one of those decisions that I think would be

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Speaker 4: I think it sounds like she has the support network

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do think we've come a long way in

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Speaker 4: Absolutely the future is certainly bright for Australian swimming. At

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Speaker 2: World Championships was such a moment this year.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, and I think that's the drawcard for a lot

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Speaker 3: Yeah, two incredible athletes and they're a lot of domination

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Speaker 4: This year absolutely And when you say that the swimming

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Speaker 3: A huge year in athletics, and there is one athlete

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Speaker 3: It felt like every five minutes this year, George, you

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Speaker 3: A sport very close to my heart. Formula one. We've

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Speaker 2: George?

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Speaker 3: The sporting year hasn't actually wrapped up fully yet, has it.

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Speaker 2: George, Thank you for walking us through it. What do

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Speaker 3: So so much to come. George, thank you for wrapping

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