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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 big stories. Every episode will cover what's

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Speaker 1: happened over the weekend, a 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 sepens 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. Hello Millicent, you're sounding a little

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Speaker 1: bit croky this evening.

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Speaker 2: Hello Chloe.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I did have my one of my best friend's

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Speaker 3: weddings yesterday, so I'm a little bit kroky today, so

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Speaker 3: don't mind my voice today.

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Speaker 2: How was your weekend?

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Speaker 3: You returned to play this weekend you played in Queensland.

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Speaker 2: Tell us a bit about it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so traveled up to Bond University to play in

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Speaker 1: the final round of the A on UNI seven series.

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Speaker 1: It was my comeback tournament about thirteen weeks after back surgery,

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Speaker 1: so it was really exciting.

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Speaker 2: I was nervous.

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Speaker 1: I was very nervous to play, but it was so cool.

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Speaker 1: I got to play with uts. It was a lovely

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Speaker 1: bunch of girls and just really nice to actually get

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's so exciting.

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Speaker 3: Coming up on today's episode will be joined by Australian

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Speaker 3: sailor and Olympic silver medalist Nina Curtis, who's recently been

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Speaker 3: selected to join the Australian sale GP team for the

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Speaker 3: duration of season two of the Global League.

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

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Speaker 1: the WNBL took a huge step towards professionalism last week,

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Speaker 1: announcing an increase in the salary cap for each organization

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Speaker 1: to four hundred and twenty thousand dollars. The announcement means

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Speaker 1: the minimum payment will be thirteen five hundred dollars per

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Speaker 1: player for the upcoming season, and it will rise to

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Speaker 1: fifteen k in the twenty twenty two to twenty three season.

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Speaker 1: The total player payment allows for players to earn additional

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Speaker 1: income through play appearances, scholarships and educational payments.

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Speaker 4: A luxury tax for clubs.

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Speaker 1: Who spend over the TPP will also be established, as

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Speaker 1: well as a marquee player allowance to keep domestic talent

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Speaker 1: I think this one is a great introduction because obviously

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Speaker 1: it's increasing the minimum player payment and it's equal across

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Speaker 1: the league. But I guess there are then potentially some

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Speaker 1: concerns about limiting the amount of money that clubs can

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Speaker 1: actually pay the players. Being women's sport, we obviously want

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Speaker 1: to allow the players to be paid as much as possible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Still on basketball, the Goat, Lauren Jackson has been

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Speaker 1: inducted into the Nice Myth Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 1: considered one of the greatest honors in basketball. Lauren could

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Speaker 1: not be more deserving of this induction. Seven time WNBA

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Speaker 1: All Star, three time WNBA Most Valuable Player, two time

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Speaker 1: WNBA Championship winner, and then back in the WNBL. She's

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Speaker 1: a five time All Star, four time MVP, four time

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Speaker 1: Grand Final MVP, and with the Australian national team the Opals,

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Speaker 1: she is a three time Olympic silver medalist.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I'm first of all, I'm proud you

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Speaker 3: just got all of those that out.

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Speaker 2: But what an incredible list of achievements.

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Speaker 1: Amazing.

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Speaker 2: Congrats someone, She's the goat. The goat.

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Speaker 3: In swimming, the pool was on fire, if that is

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Speaker 3: physically possible. At the Sydney Open this week, nineteen year

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Speaker 3: old Kaylee Mickyoon broke her own Commonwealth and Australian records

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Speaker 3: in the two hundred meter backstroke, stopping the clock at

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Speaker 3: sign leading into Tokyo. That is the fastest time in

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Speaker 3: the event in the past eighteen months. Kaylee followed up

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Speaker 3: her two hundred meter swim with the scorching one hundred

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Speaker 3: Smith's world record. And Emma McKean has defeated her rival

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Speaker 3: Kate Campbell in the one hundred meter freestyle and in

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Speaker 3: the process clocked the quickest time this year when she

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Speaker 3: Mckeann is working hard in the gym and n relishing

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Speaker 3: that her work in the gym has been a.

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Speaker 2: Huge contributor to her performance.

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Speaker 3: The swimmers all have their eyes firmly focused on the

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Speaker 3: Olympic swimming trials, which will be held in Adelaide from

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Speaker 3: the twelfth to the seventeenth of June in AFLW. The

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Speaker 3: AFL Commission met last week and confirmed that by the

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Speaker 3: end of twenty twenty three, all eighteen AFL clubs will

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Speaker 1: The season structure was also changed. Season six will now

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Speaker 1: start in December twenty twenty one, so that's at the

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Speaker 1: end of this year. I better get back quickly. The

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Speaker 1: final will be staged in March twenty twenty two and

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Speaker 1: provide the AFLW with clear air and avoid clashes with

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Speaker 1: the AFL Men's competition. The expansion will require the four

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Speaker 1: clubs without current AFLW teams Essendon, Hall Thorne, Port Adelaide

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Speaker 1: and Sydney Swan's to submit proposals by July ninth as

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Speaker 1: to why they should be included as early as season seven,

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Speaker 1: which is most likely to start at the end of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. A decision on when the four new

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Speaker 1: clubs will be admitted is going to be made by

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Speaker 1: the AFL Commission. In August, AFL CEO Gillan McLaughlin shared

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Speaker 1: some pretty incredible numbers. We love art numbers and stats

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Speaker 1: here at TIFAT.

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Speaker 2: We love it.

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Speaker 1: The nav AFLW competition has built a new audience base

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Speaker 1: for the code, with some four point five million AFLW fans,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty five thousand attendees, six point one

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Speaker 1: million viewers and an incredible twenty percent of supporters who

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Speaker 2: Yes, how good.

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Speaker 3: Ye're the girls In diving World champion cliff diver Rhiannon

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Speaker 3: and Iflin became the first person to dive from a

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Speaker 3: moving hot air balloon. Because that's completing the amazing jump

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Speaker 3: in to the locks low stock damn last week. I

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Speaker 3: h watched this video and it blows my mind. I

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Speaker 3: actually see all of her videos of her jumping off

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Speaker 2: Who was the hot air balloon?

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Speaker 5: Hi?

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Speaker 2: As they normally are.

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Speaker 1: In netball, The New South Wales Swifts and Vixen's match

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Speaker 1: on Sunday was as physical as it gets. The Swifts

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Speaker 1: were victorious fifty five to forty three over the Vixens,

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Speaker 1: retirements of star goalers Kaitlin Thwaites and Teagan Philip. New

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Speaker 1: Southals coach Briani Akle thanked the six thousand fans who

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Speaker 1: match in over six hundred days. In rugby league, the

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Speaker 1: new South Wales Rugby League reintroduced the City verse Country

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Speaker 1: the weekend at Banquet Stadium. City were too good for

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Speaker 1: the Country team, with Jess Surgis scoring a hat trick

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Speaker 1: Studden were the standouts for the City team, with students

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Speaker 1: And finally, in soccer, Sam Kirk and Chelsea were defeated

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Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the key story. The canber

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Speaker 1: Raiders coach Ricky Stewart received a deserved avalanche of criticism

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Speaker 1: after saying that if he can't have tough conversations with

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Speaker 1: my better players, I might as well coach netball.

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Speaker 2: When I read this ough it literally made my bloodil.

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Speaker 2: I was shocked. I was so shocked.

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Speaker 4: It's bad.

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Speaker 3: The Australian netball community were united in their outrage, with

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Speaker 3: netball legend Liz ellis speaking for us all when she said,

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Speaker 3: stop making netbull a euphemism for not tough. If you

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Speaker 1: I really liked what New South Wales swift star Sophie

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Speaker 1: Garbin said about this comment. She said that there's about

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Speaker 1: a million girl who played netball across the country and

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Speaker 1: these girls have to fight for a spot in eight

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Speaker 1: so it's a pretty tough spot sport to even get

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Speaker 1: selected to play professionally. She also said it's twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: Stewart has since apologized for his comments and excused them

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Speaker 3: as being off the cuff. He stated that I respect netball.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry if I've offended any girl or boy who

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Speaker 2: All sports are tough. I understand that to you.

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Speaker 1: The part that made me the most angry merely when

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Speaker 1: he was kind of doing his half apology, he said

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Speaker 1: that he'd been told one time, any publicity is good

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Speaker 1: publicity as long as they're spelling your name right. I

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Speaker 1: hope Netbull take it as good publicity for them.

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Speaker 2: Oh my blood is boiler.

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Speaker 1: You're making me mad, Ricky be better. Now it's time

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Speaker 1: for the presser.

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Speaker 3: Australian sailor Nina Curtis has been so elected as the

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Speaker 1: We've got Nina on the line with us now. Nina,

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Speaker 1: congratulations on being selected for the Australian team for the

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Speaker 1: sale GP. Firstly, can you tell us a little bit

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I've been I was lucky my both my parents

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Speaker 3: You've yeah, as you mentioned, you've already had an incredible

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it was awesome, and I feel so much for

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Speaker 6: the athletes working towards Tokyo, yourself included. I just can't

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Speaker 6: all of the drama around it. We were so lucky

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Speaker 6: the most incredible experience and lining up against everyone when

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Speaker 6: they're at their peak is just an extraordinary experience as

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Speaker 5: It was unreal for.

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Speaker 1: The listeners who don't know a lot about competitive sailing.

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Speaker 1: Can you explain a little bit about the different types?

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Speaker 5: would say there's nearly like three.

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Speaker 6: Kind of main disciplines of sailing, and ones the Olympic

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Speaker 5: Done in dinghies or small yachts and.

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Speaker 6: You're running through that Olympic cycle we've got World Cup

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Speaker 5: And then, you know, the other pathway is.

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Speaker 6: In my mind, the other pinnacle is the America's Cup,

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Speaker 1: Really exciting to see what you're doing in terms of

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Speaker 6: I love hearing about females doing awesome things in sports,

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Speaker 4: Oh thank you so much. That's really lovely. Let's take

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Speaker 3: The Australian Gymnastics Championships on the Gold Coast is currently

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Speaker 1: In rugby union, I'm heading over with my teammates to

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Speaker 1: We're going to take on the Black Ferns next weekend Friday,

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Speaker 3: It's a little side note about New Zealand because I'm

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Speaker 2: The top four. You can watch live on Channel nine.

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Speaker 1: In surfing, the Ripcurl search event continues at Rottnest Island

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Speaker 4: And that's the wrap.

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Speaker 3: You did it, Mills, Well, I did it. My voice

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Speaker 3: You can find us on Instagram at the Female Athlete Project.

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Speaker 3: See you next week, clok see then Mills yep