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Speaker 1: Good morning, Happy Thursday, and welcome to today, the sixteenth

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Speaker 1: of September. I'm Zara Sidela, joined as always by Sam

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Speaker 1: Kozlowski to take you through the day's news before we

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Speaker 1: kick off a quick COVID numbers wrap. Yesterday, in Victoria,

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Speaker 1: there were four hundred and twenty three new cases. In

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Speaker 1: New South Wales, there were one thy two hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty nine new cases, and there were thirteen new cases.

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Speaker 2: In the Act. There were some really positive news in

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Speaker 2: New South Wales yesterday, with eighty percent of the state

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Speaker 2: receiving one dose at least of vaccine. The Premier announced

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Speaker 2: the lifting of the curfew in hotspot LGAs. Here's what

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Speaker 2: Gladys Spiagic Galin had to say on that.

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Speaker 3: I want to send this strong message. We can't move

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Speaker 3: on anything else just now. We need everybody to hold

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Speaker 3: the line. Please make sure that if you do live

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Speaker 3: in those local govern areas of concern, that you'll stick

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Speaker 3: to every other rule that's in place.

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Speaker 2: Down in Victoria, Premier Daniel Andrews announced Ballarat would be

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Speaker 2: entering lockdown for at least seven days after a surge

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Speaker 2: in COVID nineteen cases the area. At the same time,

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Speaker 2: the lockdown in Shepperton was lifted, with the settings to

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Speaker 2: now match the rest of Regional Victoria.

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Speaker 4: Sheperdon shows you that a community can be locked down,

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Speaker 4: can stick together, can be supported and deliver a fundamental

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Speaker 4: control of an outbreak. We know and we're very confident

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Speaker 4: that that's exactly what can happen in the Ballarat community.

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Speaker 4: But the alternative is to let it run and then

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Speaker 4: we finish up in no. We have no choice but two.

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Speaker 4: Not today, but perhaps in a week's time. We have

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Speaker 4: to close all of Regional Victoria because cases have got

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Speaker 4: away from us.

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Speaker 1: According to South Korean media reports, North Korea has fired

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Speaker 1: two ballistic missiles into the sea from off its east coast.

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Speaker 1: Launch came two days after North Korean leader Kim Jong

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Speaker 1: un claimed to have fired new long range cruise missiles

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Speaker 1: that he described as a strategic weapon of great significance,

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Speaker 1: and we covered this over on Instagram. Last month, the

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Speaker 1: uns International Atomic Energy Agency noted that a key nuclear

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Speaker 1: reactor that's believed to produce fuel for nuclear weapons was

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Speaker 1: back in operation. It wouldn't be a typical news cycle

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Speaker 1: if North Korea wasn't involved, And it's been a while

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Speaker 1: since we have reported on something there, so I imagine that

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Speaker 1: this is just going to pick up steam as the

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Speaker 1: weeks go on.

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Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but I have been slammed

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Speaker 2: with text messages saying that there's miscellaneous parcels for me

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Speaker 2: to pick up. I just need to enter my details somewhere.

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Speaker 2: And that is unsurprising because the Australian Cybersecurity Center has

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Speaker 2: reported a thirteen percent increase in cybercrime's last financial year,

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Speaker 2: sixty seven five hundred cybercrimes to businesses were reported and

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Speaker 2: businesses lost an average of fifty thousand dollars per cybercrime.

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Speaker 2: To mitigate the risk of further attacks, the Center recommended

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Speaker 2: Australians using strong passwords, enabling two factor authentication, updating their

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Speaker 2: software and devices, and maintaining regular data backups. If you

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Speaker 2: needed a reminder to back up your phone, this is it.

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Speaker 1: The good news is that Chanelle Kontos, a consent activist,

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Speaker 1: will lead a round table made up of some of

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Speaker 1: the most influential education and human rights stakeholders to discuss

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Speaker 1: how sex and consent education should look in schools. This

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Speaker 1: comes after Chanelle published thousands of young people's testimonies about

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Speaker 1: sexual assault earlier this year. The roundtable will be closed

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Speaker 1: to the media.

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Speaker 2: I want to take you back a few weeks to

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Speaker 2: the Tokyo Olympic Games. While we all marveled at the

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Speaker 2: incredible athleticism on display in the women's one hundred meters sprint,

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Speaker 2: one of the metal hopefuls was actually missing from the race.

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Speaker 2: US s printer Shikari Richardson was handed a one month

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Speaker 2: suspension for recreational marijuana use that knocked her out of

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Speaker 2: the Olympics. Yesterday, the World Anti Doping Authority or WADA

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Speaker 2: announced a really important review into exactly why Richardson lost

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Speaker 2: her chance to represent her country at the Olympics. Let's

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Speaker 2: explore this in a little more depth.

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 1: The test was taken at the US Olympic Trials last month,

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Speaker 1: where Richardson established herself as a serious gold medal contender

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Speaker 1: by winning the one hundred meters in ten point eight

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Speaker 1: six seconds. Richardson said that she had been dealing with

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Speaker 1: her mother's death, which happened a week before the meet,

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Speaker 1: as well as the pressure of participating in the trials,

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Speaker 1: which led her to a state of quote emotional panic.

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Speaker 1: She said, don't judge me, because I am human I

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Speaker 1: just happened to run a little faster. I want to say, father,

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Speaker 1: from my actions, I know what I did, I know

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Speaker 1: what I'm supposed to do, and I still made that decision,

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Speaker 1: not making an excuse.

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Speaker 3: So I looking for any empathy in my keys.

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Speaker 2: This triggered a really widespread emotional reaction from the US

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Speaker 2: athletic community, but also from spectators and athletics fans all

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Speaker 2: over the world. Basically, it's against the backdrop of a

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Speaker 2: wide ranging debate about whether marijuana sh would be considered

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Speaker 2: a performance enhancing drug. That is, ultimately the job of

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Speaker 2: WADA is to make sure the playing field is level,

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Speaker 2: to make sure that nobody has an unfair advantage. To

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Speaker 2: give you an understanding of marijuana. In the US, adult

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Speaker 2: recreational use of marijuana is legal in eighteen states and

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Speaker 2: in the District of Columbia. The states include Oregon, which

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Speaker 2: is where Richardson tested positive, so she wasn't actually breaking

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Speaker 2: any rules of where she was at the time. The NFL,

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Speaker 2: the NBA, the Major League Baseball, and the National Hockey

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Speaker 2: League in the US doesn't register marijuana usage as banworthy,

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Speaker 2: and medical marijuana is actually permitted in one hundred and

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Speaker 2: one of the one hundred and twenty three teams across

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Speaker 2: those four codes. However, outside of those four major codes,

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Speaker 2: WADA still maintains that marijuana can be performance enhancing and

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Speaker 2: it violates the spirit of the sport. That was the

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Speaker 2: case until yesterday. Yesterday, WIDER came out and said they're

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Speaker 2: going to review where the cannabis should remain a banned substance.

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Speaker 2: Shakari reached is going to be a really important part

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Speaker 2: of that review. The review is not going to be

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Speaker 2: until next year, and the ban on cannabis will continue

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, the ban has been in place for quite a while.

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Speaker 1: What is the science the becks this ban and what's changed.

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Speaker 2: So according to the US Antidoping Agency, which is one

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Speaker 2: of the bodies that has been quite explicit in actually

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Speaker 2: answering this question, because believe it or not, it's a

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Speaker 2: question that most antidoping authorities struggle to properly articulate. They

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Speaker 2: say that marijuana can enhance an athlete's performance because it

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Speaker 2: reduces anxiety, so it allows athletes to better perform under

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Speaker 2: pressure and to alleviate the stress experience before and during competition.

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Speaker 2: It's in this difference that athletes are perceived to be

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Speaker 2: given an unfair advantage. I think where the antidoping agencies

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Speaker 2: and society has perhaps splintered in recent years is the

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Speaker 2: normalization of marijuana, especially in the US, as an over

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Speaker 2: the counter drug that is readily accessible and in fact

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Speaker 2: endorsed for a number of medical uses. It's getting increasingly

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Speaker 2: harder for these antidoping bodies to hold up their theory

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Speaker 2: that its performance enhancing when medical authorities from around the

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Speaker 2: country have decided it's fit for public use. Another really

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Speaker 2: interesting part of this debate is a body of science

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Speaker 2: that actually says that marijuana can harm a sprinter's performance.

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Speaker 2: Sprinting requires fast twitched muscle fibers and rewards quick reaction time,

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Speaker 2: which is typically not what happens when there's cannabis in

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Speaker 2: your system. The way it works in these situations is

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Speaker 2: typically that if WADER, the world antidoping authority, makes a ruling,

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Speaker 2: it's pretty usual for all national doping bodies to conform

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Speaker 2: to that. So it's actually a really big step for

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Speaker 2: the normalization and legalization of marijuana in society around the world.

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Speaker 2: Sport is often a bit of a trendsetter for these

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Speaker 2: types of issues in society. If you want to catch

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Speaker 2: up on the day's news, not just about sprinters and marijuana,

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Speaker 2: follow us on Instagram. At the Daily OS we're going

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Speaker 2: to be looking at COVID stories today. The increasing tensions

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Speaker 2: in North Korea as well is on our radar. Have

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Speaker 2: a great Thursday, and we'll speak to you tomorrow