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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 sevens 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: Millly is an athlete manager who works with some of

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Speaker 1: Australia's top female athletes.

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Speaker 2: Our goal is to share the stories.

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Speaker 1: Of female athletes and to make news and highlights about

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Speaker 1: women's sport accessible and digestible. In the spirit of reconciliation,

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Speaker 1: The Female Athlete Project acknowledges the traditional custodians of country

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Speaker 1: throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community.

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Speaker 1: We pay our respect to their elders past and present

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Speaker 1: and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait

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Speaker 1: Islander peoples. Today, Millie, it's Olympic Weekly.

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Speaker 3: I am so excited. I can't believe it's here. Oh,

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Speaker 3: we've had to wait. I know we've had to wait

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Speaker 3: an extra year. Four years is long enough to be honest, Like,

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Speaker 3: just as a spectator, I am so excited.

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Speaker 4: What can I ask?

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Speaker 3: What is your other than obviously the sevens team, your

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Speaker 3: own team? What is your favorite event that you're looking

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Speaker 3: forward to watching.

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Speaker 1: I love I love the opals. I think I reckon

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Speaker 1: they've got to be up there for me. Since I was, like,

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Speaker 1: since I was a little kid, I idolized like Lauren Jackson,

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Speaker 1: Penny Taylor. I used to love watching them play. So

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch those girls, and I'm hoping

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Speaker 1: that they can get up there for a medal, hopefully

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Speaker 1: a gold one.

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Speaker 2: Yours? What's your favorite?

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Speaker 4: Oh, it's so hard, there's so many.

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Speaker 3: Growing up a swimmer, I have to say that swimming

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Speaker 3: is probably one of my favorite events. I'm very much

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Speaker 3: looking forward to the relays as well. That's I love

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Speaker 3: the huge amount of energy around the relays, but also

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Speaker 4: And kayak slalom events.

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Speaker 3: I am so excited for Jess and I really really hope,

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Speaker 3: no pressure, that we can she can get a gold.

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Speaker 3: She's got a silver and a bronze so far. But

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that, and I'm preparing in a different

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Speaker 1: way as we know that I'm not, unfortunately not competing

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Speaker 1: in the Olympics because I broke my face, But that

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Speaker 1: means over here at TEFAP, we're gonna be going ham

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Speaker 1: on socials. We're gonna be getting heaps of content out

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Speaker 1: to your meals. Can you tell us a bit about

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So we're gonna have you guys covered for everything

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Speaker 3: to want to watch, what athletes to watch. All of

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Speaker 3: our Aussie FEMA artists. You can rally behind them on

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Speaker 3: social media as well and send the messages of encouragement.

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Speaker 3: We'll be wrapping up the daily achievements and all that.

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Speaker 3: So just keep an eye out on socials this week.

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Speaker 3: They're actually kicking off the games, although the opening ceremonies

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Speaker 3: not until Friday. There's some pool matches in both softball

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Speaker 4: So I'm oh, my gosh, that's wild. When you guys

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Speaker 4: listen to this will be tomorrow. Oh I'm so excited.

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Speaker 2: I love that. I can't believe that in the first game.

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Speaker 1: Well, actually, I'm not going to get to that because

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Speaker 1: we'll cover it in about ten To cover that, Ladder.

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Speaker 2: Mills let's say look around the grounds. Oh, it's up,

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Speaker 2: It's up now.

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Speaker 1: In soccer, Matilda's completed their Olympic preparations with a friendly

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Speaker 1: against Japan during the week. The Japanese got the win

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Speaker 1: one nail with a penalty early in the second half,

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Speaker 1: proving the difference. The Aussies did struggle to break down

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Speaker 1: the Japanese defense, but midfielder Chloe Legazo wasn't too concerned

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Speaker 2: Can you believe it? The Transdad?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Good, So that'll be on Channel seven from nine to

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Speaker 3: Net The sun Corps Superneple competition has set up camp

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Speaker 3: the country. Round eleven was played over the weekend, with

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Speaker 3: the Giants defeating fierce rivals New South Wales Swifts fifty

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Speaker 1: Up the Giants, Up the Giants, my new team.

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Speaker 3: Monday Night net Ball sees the Firebirds take on the

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Speaker 3: see them climb to the number one spot, which is

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Speaker 3: very very congested ladder at the moment, with three teams

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Speaker 1: I love this story, Millie. This is about tennis. You

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Speaker 1: know we talk This would have been quite a while ago.

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Speaker 1: On the route we talked about Girls Count Surf, the

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Speaker 1: a similar light this one. So the Tennis Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame have inducted the members of the original nine over

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Speaker 4: The Dogs Adults, who are all.

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Speaker 1: Alongside tennis legend Billy Jean King, began the fight for

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Speaker 1: equality and set in motion the eventual creation of the

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Speaker 1: WTA Tour in tennis. So what they said was that

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Speaker 1: And today's women's professional tennis players on the w TA

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Speaker 1: Tennis Magazine publisher Gladys Heldman to help negotiate for greater

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Speaker 1: All the players were putting their tennis careers at risk

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Speaker 1: To stand together and be inducted into the Hall of

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Speaker 4: How awesome is that? I love these stories so much?

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Speaker 3: Oh, they're so good, so oh, and it just makes

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Speaker 4: It'll be awesome to see that come to life.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And I hope that like when I'm old and

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Speaker 4: The goal love that in athletics.

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Speaker 3: Athletics Australia has announced the co captains for the Tokyo Games,

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Speaker 3: I know from my basketball background the camaraderie that comes

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Speaker 3: Having those captains really brings the team together and they

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Speaker 1: This isn't a sports specific one, but I've loved what

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Speaker 3: I actually was in Woolies yesterday and I did see these.

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Speaker 3: I saw the Steph Gilmore cut out and say Asiki

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Speaker 4: It literally makes you know, to cry. It's so beautiful.

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Speaker 3: It's just beautiful, and I think it It's this whole

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Speaker 3: if you're a fellow para athlete, it's just so important

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, let's take a look at the key story. This

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Speaker 2: is a big one. Meles.

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Speaker 1: The Opals have upset Team USA in the lead up

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Speaker 1: to beat Team USA seventy to sixty seven.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it was a huge performance.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a huge performance, not only a week

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Speaker 2: Can you tell us a little bit about it meals?

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So, Liz Cambisch made a statement on social media to

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Speaker 3: due to mental health reasons. She stated, It's no secret

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Speaker 1: So Liz's response on social media came within days of

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Speaker 1: a lot of rumors that were published in multiple different

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Speaker 1: she had broken the bubble whilst in Las Vegas with

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Speaker 1: the Opals team. There was also a lot of discussion

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Speaker 1: looking at this situation, an incredible response from the Opals

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Speaker 1: means you've got to pretty much restructure your entire offensive

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Speaker 1: of the veteran players, So the young Ezzie Magnagor stepped

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Speaker 1: we've we've had on clefteth out. I can't wait to

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Speaker 2: Earlier in the episode. But they're going to be my

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: If you're like me here in Sydney and you're in

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Speaker 1: I cannot wait. And as Meals said earlier, we'll be

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Speaker 1: covering everything. We'll have you sorted with what to watch,

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Speaker 1: what will be coming up in the days, people winning medals,

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Speaker 1: top stories, we'll see if we can chat to some

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Speaker 1: parents of Olympians and medalists and all that stuff. We've

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Speaker 1: got you covered. So make sure you're following at the

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Speaker 1: Female Athlete Project on Instagram and we'll see you there.

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Speaker 2: And that's the Rap.

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Speaker 3: I'm excited for next week's episode of The Rap. Guys,

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Speaker 3: because we'll be talking about even more Olympic stuff and

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Speaker 2: How good I can't wait. I'll see you then, Mells.

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Speaker 3: For my interviews with top female athletes, We're currently on

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