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Speaker 1: This episode is brought to you by The Athlete's Foot.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the RAP, 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: Von At Rucevel becomes the first unseated player to win

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Speaker 2: the Wimbledon's women's singles title in the professional era, Sabrina

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Speaker 2: and Nescue breaks the WNBA and NBA records for most

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Speaker 2: points in a three point shooting contest, and Australia retain

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Speaker 2: the ashes.

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Speaker 1: to former Arsenal Academy player Fran Herndl, who is preparing

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Speaker 1: for an epic one thousand kilometer journey running from the

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Speaker 1: Gold Coast to Sydney while dribbling a soccer ball.

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Speaker 1: It's a whold decision, isn't it. She's a legend. You'll

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Speaker 1: very much enjoy this chat that I had with Fran

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Speaker 1: earlier today in our key story. She's very courageous and

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Speaker 1: has taken some inspiration from Ned Brockman. Awesome, Hey, Bears,

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Speaker 1: It's got the big investing women's sport on the back,

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Speaker 1: but underneath it's actually got some of the stuff that

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Speaker 1: we've shared on our socials a few times that has

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Speaker 1: listening to this podcast, following female athletes on social media.

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

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Speaker 2: In cricket, the Aussies have retained the Ashes. Australia got

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Speaker 2: the win they needed to secure the series early on

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Speaker 2: Monday morning when they held on to defeat England by

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Speaker 2: three runs, close ones, tight again. Natalie Skuive Brunt ensured

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Speaker 2: another nail biting finish, hitting an unbeaten one hundred and

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Speaker 2: eleven from ninety nine balls that very nearly reigned in

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Speaker 2: Australia's total of seven for twot eighty two. But Jess Johnathon,

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Speaker 1: She's been solid, hasn't she.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. She once again showed nerves of steel at the

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Speaker 2: death to defend fifteen runs off her last over andentery

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Speaker 2: strict England for seven for two seventy nine. Dozzies brought

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Speaker 2: in Alana King as a fourth spinner. The four spinners

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Speaker 1: That's quite an fu not PhD author different.

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Speaker 2: I love them when the rap becomes an English lesson,

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Speaker 2: a probably pretty poor one.

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Speaker 1: But do not kids, do not take your English lessons

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Speaker 3: Please, because English is tough anyway.

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Speaker 2: The selection did prove a master stroke with Alana King

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Speaker 2: England skip ahead the night for twelve runs, and she

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Speaker 2: put an end to a very dangerous Tammy Beaumont innings

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Speaker 1: I think you need to explain for the non cricket viewers.

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Speaker 2: That one three stumps, yes, leg middle off all right.

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Speaker 2: She actually the ball as it left her hand, it

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Speaker 3: It's really good with the bat.

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Speaker 2: Elise Perry was brilliant but fell just short of her century,

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Speaker 2: went out for ninety one. Annabel Suthern posted her first

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Speaker 2: I watched that before going to bed Ozsie. Captain Alisa

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Speaker 2: Healy said, it's not a relief. We still haven't played

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Speaker 2: our best cricket yet, which is a bit scary at times.

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Speaker 1: I know we chart it last week about this idea

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Speaker 1: think it's really cool the way they've done it as

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Speaker 1: they not set it up that you couldn't draw?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, playing odd number of matches. Yes, that's fair.

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Speaker 1: Okay, thanks, you didn't give me much. There In some

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Speaker 1: excellent news out of the ICCs and your conference in Durban,

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Speaker 1: South Africa, it was announced that women's teams will be

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Speaker 1: all International Cricketcounts events moving forward. This is a this

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Grant, and you know, a valid one and it

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Speaker 1: A common sense one as we like to call it.

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Speaker 1: You see, there will be an even split for winning

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Speaker 1: a match at all ICC events, with the ICC stating

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Speaker 1: and has fulfilled its commitment to reaching prize money equity

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Speaker 1: by twenty thirty, well ahead of schedule. ICC chair Greg

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Speaker 1: Barclay said, since twenty seventeen, we have increased prize money

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Speaker 1: at women's events every year with a clear focus on

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Speaker 1: reaching equal prize money, and from here on in, winning

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Speaker 1: the Women's Cricket World Cup will carry the same prize

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Speaker 1: same for T twenty World Cups and Under nineteens too.

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Speaker 1: Cricket is genuinely a sport for all, and this decision

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Speaker 1: from the ICC board reinforces that it enables us to

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Speaker 1: celebrate and value every single player's contribution to the game equally.

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Speaker 3: Well done, ICC, and I really like.

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Speaker 1: The inclusion of the under nineteens, even though sometimes it

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Speaker 1: might seem like it's not a huge component of it.

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Speaker 1: But I think we often talk about the top level

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Speaker 2: Invest early in tennis, my ket upon DRUSIVHT was the

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Speaker 2: And she didn't just make the final, she went and

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Speaker 1: Spare on your face is like what in my mouth

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Speaker 2: It was a big weekend and I blame Chloe really

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Speaker 2: so someone had a birthday party, Sorry about it. Drusiv

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Speaker 2: became the first unseted player to win the Wimbledon Women's

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Speaker 2: singles title in the professional era. It's been a real career,

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Speaker 2: interrupted by injuries and with the most recent risk injury

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Speaker 2: leaving the Czech Republic player wondering if she would ever

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Speaker 1: Pretty cool, A, It's really cool.

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Speaker 3: And her wrist is so important in tennis. Very risky game.

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Speaker 1: It's a very risky game, the twenty four.

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Speaker 3: Year old said after the match.

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Speaker 2: When I was coming back, I didn't know what's going

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Speaker 2: on grass. I didn't play well before the injury. I

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Speaker 2: I'm going to have some beer. It's been an exhausting

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Speaker 1: She sounds like she loves beer. I love it. Did

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Speaker 1: you see early in the tournament she said the same thing.

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Speaker 3: She lives in Prague.

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Speaker 2: It's like Beeland. Ostibagh said the loss was the most painful.

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Speaker 1: Of her career. I really felt for her.

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Speaker 3: She's carrying a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of pressure and so it was her third Grand

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Speaker 2: which will make her the first Arab player and the first.

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Speaker 1: I do really want to get over the line.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and she does. I definitely she's aware of that

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Speaker 2: and she carries that for sure. She was, as we said,

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Speaker 2: clearly upset after the match, saying, it's painful because you

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Speaker 2: And I think the worst part of it was Jabbert

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Speaker 2: a row to hand over the first set pretty meekly.

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Speaker 2: In the end, she made fifteen unforced errors in that

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Speaker 1: You have to win.

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Speaker 2: The second set was unfortunately a similar story for Jabburt.

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Speaker 2: She was up three to one, but mistakes again crawled

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Speaker 2: the chances and wudress of A stormed to the title

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Speaker 1: In basketball, it was w NBA All Star Weekend and

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Speaker 1: the players put on a real show in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 1: The Seattle Storms Juel Lloyd set a WNBA All start

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Speaker 1: game scoring record with thirty one points and took home

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Speaker 1: the MVP award. While she was at it, Lloyd helped

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Speaker 1: Team Brianna Stewart to a one forty three to one

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Speaker 1: a sold out crowd at michelob Ultra Arena. Solid out

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Speaker 1: It looked so cool. In the shooting and Skills section

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Speaker 1: of the Weekend the New York Liberties, Sabrida Yinescu broke

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Speaker 1: WNBA and NBA records for most points in a three

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Speaker 1: three point attempts in the final round of the competition.

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Speaker 1: But we shared this stinger put together a post that

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Speaker 1: she put on our socials, and I don't think people

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Speaker 1: realize how insane this is. The way that she shot

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Speaker 1: scored thirty seven out of a possible forty points, which

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Speaker 1: surpasses the single round record of thirty one in the

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Speaker 1: NBA registered by Steph Curry. If you haven't heard of

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Speaker 1: the most ridiculous shooters we've seen in the history of

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Speaker 1: Curry is mind blowing huge. So he said that in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one and Tyrese Haliburton in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Thirty was the previous record in the WNBA, set by

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Speaker 1: Ali Quickly in twenty twenty two. Steph Curry took to

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Speaker 1: writing ridiculous in capitals and I love this. We talk

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Speaker 3: In some netball news.

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Speaker 2: The Yussie Diamonds are off to South Africa this week

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Speaker 2: The Diamonds are striving to reclaim the only major piece

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Speaker 2: Their campaign kicks off on July twenty eight against Zimbabwe,

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Speaker 3: I'm here for it.

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Speaker 1: fit in Matilda's News. I can't believe it's finally World Cup.

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Speaker 3: Finally.

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Speaker 1: I feel like we've been waiting for this moment for

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Speaker 3: I think we have we absolutely have it. It's ever

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Speaker 1: You're so excited, oh so looking at that. Liz Watson

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Speaker 3: If we were already definitely are already, we didn't need

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Speaker 3: One foot in the pool and one foot out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Get in the pool. Get it's warm and great in here.

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Speaker 1: The World Cup starts on Thursday. The crowd was the

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Speaker 1: The loss was France's first defeat under new coach her Renard,

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Speaker 1: The only goal of the match came in the sixty

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Speaker 1: Sam Kerr told Channel ten after the match, I already

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Speaker 2: I also just love Sam Kerr post game interviews. They

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Speaker 2: They were having a chat among themselves to continue or not,

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Speaker 1: Interestingly, that's good research from you. In a bit more

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Speaker 1: So the safire As there are under sixteens team team.

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Speaker 2: I watch a little bit, but it was on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: they had some skillful young ladies, I tell you impressive.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting to see though at that stage of everyone's development,

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Speaker 2: they're all pretty similar in height. It's like there's a

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Speaker 2: late growth spurt from the real tour ones.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 3: In some softball news.

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Speaker 2: Australia have completed a stirring fight back to clincher spot

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Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty four Women's Softball World Cup Finals

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Speaker 2: in Italy. They did it the hard way, losing two

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Speaker 2: nil to surprise packets Great Britain in their first match

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Speaker 2: and then going down one nil to America, who were

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Speaker 2: pretty much the best in the world. But they beat

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Speaker 2: world number three Taiwan in the final round robin game

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Speaker 2: on Friday, and then the world number nine Australian Spirit

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Speaker 2: beat Taiwan for a second time on Saturday to confirm

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Speaker 2: a spot in a playoff against Great Britain for the

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Speaker 2: second finals. Birth this time they were ready for Great

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Speaker 2: Britain and advanced to the World Cup Finals with a

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Speaker 2: four to one win. Ellen Roberts pitched an incredible game

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Speaker 2: for the Aussies, allowing just a single run and striking

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Speaker 2: out six and restrict in Great Britain to.

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Speaker 3: Just four hits. So they now go into that World

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Speaker 3: Cup finals in Italy next year.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to say batting above their average.

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Speaker 3: Yeah literally, yeah, with a bat.

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Speaker 1: With a bat. Let's take a look at the key

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Speaker 1: story this week. On the Route, we got to chat

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Speaker 1: to Bran Herndle, former footballer soccer player, who is about

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Speaker 1: to on Thursday. She will start her run while dribbling

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Speaker 1: a soccer ball from the Gold Coast to Sydney, a

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Speaker 1: thousand kilometers. It's an awesome chat. Check it out.

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Speaker 3: Do we have an estimated arrival time?

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Speaker 1: I believe she's trying to get it done to arrive

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Speaker 1: in time for the final of the FEFA Women's World Cup.

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Speaker 1: She's got a ticket to the final of the World Cup. Amazing,

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Speaker 1: so she's got to make it in time. Fran Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Female Athlete Project. Before we get into your

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Speaker 1: crazy journey that you're about to undertake, can you tell

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Speaker 1: us a little bit about your career as a footballer.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you for having me on, Chloe yep.

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Speaker 5: So from the age of seven I started playing football

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Speaker 5: because obviously I'm from the UK. Started playing football at seven,

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Speaker 5: played for a couple of years in the UK with

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Speaker 5: a mixed mixed team. When I was thirteen, I got

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Speaker 5: picked up by an academy, played at Leighton Orient for

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Speaker 5: a bit and then I got scouted for Arsenal Youth Academy,

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Speaker 5: where I played for a couple of years, had an

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Speaker 5: opportunity to represent my country at the under nineteens.

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Speaker 4: Then I moved to Australia.

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Speaker 5: I was when I was twenty one, and I had

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Speaker 5: a small career stint at Sydney Sydney UNI too. When

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Speaker 5: I was living in Sydney, so played for various team

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Speaker 5: so reached the richer level of semi professional soccer back

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Speaker 5: in the UK.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, here I am now.

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Speaker 1: And tell us a bit more about how on earth

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Speaker 1: you came up with this idea to dribble a soccer

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Speaker 1: ball from the Gold Coast to Sydney.

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Speaker 5: So I'm not a runner, just put that out there,

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Speaker 5: which makes it sound even more crazy. My inspiration come

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Speaker 5: from seeing Ned Brockman, who you probably probably no run

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Speaker 5: from Perth to Bondai. I saw him that a personal

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Speaker 5: development event April this year and it was just such

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Speaker 5: a phenomenal like talk and it just left such an

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Speaker 5: inspiration on me and I just thought, Wow, I could

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Speaker 5: be doing so much more of my life. So the

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Speaker 5: inspiration running part from came from Ned Brockman, and obviously

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Speaker 5: then just the love and the passion you know, playing

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Speaker 5: football and soccer.

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Speaker 4: And I just sat there one day.

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Speaker 5: You know, when you reach the ripe age of thirties,

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Speaker 5: you know, and you've been an athlete, it's like what's next?

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Speaker 5: And I thought, you know what, I just want to

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Speaker 5: give back now and contribute to female sport and especially

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Speaker 5: within soccer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. From what I understand, you couldn't run

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Speaker 1: more than ten k's prior to this, and how many

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Speaker 1: CA's are you going to cover? Is it a thousand kilometers?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: So I started training the day after my birthday, so

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Speaker 5: seventeenth of April, I couldn't run more than ten So

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Speaker 5: I went running with my partner Natalie for five k's

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Speaker 5: and you know, thought, oh, you know, this is really good,

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Speaker 5: and then I ran a ten k, then I ran

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Speaker 5: a fifteen The furthest I ran in a week is

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Speaker 5: one hundred k's, but I'll be covering about two hundred

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Speaker 5: and twenty four k's in a week when I am

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Speaker 5: on the road, So massive, massive jump.

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Speaker 1: That's absolutely huge. And what will it look like in

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Speaker 1: terms of your day to day running while you're dribbling

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Speaker 1: the football?

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Speaker 5: So I plan to run for thirty two days and

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Speaker 5: then thirty two kilometers per day, So I literally will

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Speaker 5: run for thirty two days and then stop and then

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Speaker 5: again the next day for thirty two days. So it's

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Speaker 5: going to be, oh, it's going to be one of

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Speaker 5: the biggest challenges of my life.

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Speaker 3: Really.

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Speaker 5: I mean, dribbling a soccer ball is hard enough as

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Speaker 5: it is, but let ane sort of running down the

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Speaker 5: roads or Australia down the coast. You know, you've got potholes,

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Speaker 5: sort of uneven surfaces, So it's going to be a funny,

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Speaker 5: funny challenge color.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely will be. How did you make the decision

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Speaker 1: that you wanted to support women's sport Australia with your challenge?

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Speaker 5: So look, when I was playing soccer, you know, under nineteen,

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Speaker 5: it's you know, I was at like such a peak

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Speaker 5: level in my career, but you know, I couldn't see

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Speaker 5: anything past my career at the time. And you know,

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Speaker 5: I was watching the Matilda's documentary on Disney Plus the

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Speaker 5: other week, and you know there was this quote that

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Speaker 5: I just love and live by at the moment. You know,

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Speaker 5: you can't be what you can't see. And unfortunately, when

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Speaker 5: I was younger, like, I couldn't see any any future

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Speaker 5: within my career with you know, female sports, so I

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Speaker 5: sort of, you know, sort of gave up in a

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Speaker 5: way and sort of fell into the norm of you know,

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Speaker 5: like going into a nine to five job, and I

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Speaker 5: sort of lost my love for football a little bit

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Speaker 5: because there was nothing to sort of inspire to be.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, that's where the inspiration came from. And I

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Speaker 5: just don't want anything, you know, like that to happen

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Speaker 5: to the younger generation. And I just want to be

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Speaker 5: that role model in inspiration for women girls.

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Speaker 4: A big Sport.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really really cool. We cannot wait to cheer

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Speaker 1: you on as you run down the coast while we

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Speaker 1: cheer on the Matildas, and I imagine you will also

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Speaker 1: cheer on the Lionesses as you're running too, So best

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Speaker 1: of luck. Can't wait to watch, and I'm going to

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Speaker 1: put the link in the show notes so that people

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Speaker 1: can get on board and donate and also follow you

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Speaker 1: on Instagram throughout your journey.

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Speaker 4: Awesome, thanks for having me, Chlode.

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

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Speaker 3: World Cup starts this week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it does you.

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Speaker 2: The Matillas will be looking to open their campaign with

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Speaker 2: a win over Ireland in Sydney. If you haven't got

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Speaker 2: tickets to the sold out match, be sure to tune

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Speaker 2: in live on Thursday at eight pm. So it's fifteen

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Speaker 2: key matches, including every Matilda's game, the opening matches, key

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Speaker 2: round of sixteen games, quarterfinals, semi finals and the final

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Speaker 2: will be live and free on the seven network of

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Speaker 2: Just Sport will stream every other match live on their

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Speaker 2: subscription service.

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Speaker 1: And I just wanted to add so on t FAP

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Speaker 1: Socials we'll be covering it similar to what we do

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Speaker 1: for the Olympics. And the Paralympics. We'll be giving you

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Speaker 1: daily schedule, daily results scores, all that to make sure.

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Speaker 1: If you're not following us, check us out at the

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Speaker 1: Female Athlete Project to stay up today with all the

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Speaker 1: World Cup happenings. Thennar ol W kicks off this weekend.

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Speaker 1: A Queensland Derby opens the season with the Gold Coast

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Speaker 1: Titans and the North Queensland Cowboys, kicking off at twelve

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Speaker 1: fifty pm on Saturday at SeaBus Stadium on the Gold Coast.

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Speaker 1: Matches will be live on Foxtel and KO Sports and

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Speaker 1: on the nine network.

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Speaker 2: And the Ouzzie Stingers opened their World champ with the

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Speaker 2: ten to eight win over France on Sunday morning. And

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Speaker 2: I think Tillie Kern's got Player of the match.

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Speaker 1: Yes she did.

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Speaker 3: Wh chatted to her last week, so make sure you

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Speaker 3: get that any ears.

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Speaker 2: The next up they face their ultimate rivals of the

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Speaker 2: USA on Tuesday. The match starts at six thirty pm

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Speaker 2: AST and you can watch live on nine Now.

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Speaker 3: It will be a cracker.

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Speaker 1: And that's the wrap.

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Speaker 3: Is the rap the CEA next week prem but see

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Speaker 3: firstly on Thursday night.

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Speaker 1: Can't if you're there, take picture in your te Fat

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Speaker 1: merch and tag us, and we'll reshare it on our stories.

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Speaker 1: Do it by

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