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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wrap, a weekly podcast covering women's sports news.

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Speaker 1: My name is Chloe Dalton. I'm an Olympic gold medalist

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Speaker 1: in rugby sevens and I play AFLW for the GWS Giants.

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Speaker 2: Every week.

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Speaker 1: In the show, I'm joined by my co host Bez

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Speaker 1: Women's Rugby, women's sport chief researcher and coin of merchandise

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Speaker 1: at the Female Athlete Project.

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Speaker 2: Bez, how are you today?

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Speaker 3: Fantastically having a sleep of water?

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Speaker 4: Good timing, Yeah, thanks for that friend, good throw taking

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Speaker 4: a look around the grounds he got. Fiontek wins the

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Speaker 4: French Open, diver Melwou defies the odds, and min g

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Speaker 4: Lee wins the US Open.

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Speaker 1: For our key story, we'll discuss Netball Australia's controversial decision

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Speaker 1: to auction off the Super Netball Grand Final location.

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Speaker 3: Est bit of wins.

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Speaker 1: This podcast drops every Tuesday morning at six am and

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Speaker 1: you can get it in an email format as well,

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Speaker 1: so the links in the show notes you can subscribe

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Speaker 1: so you can read it with your morning coffee On

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Speaker 1: a Tuesday. Let's take a look around the grounds. In golf,

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Speaker 1: Minji Lee has won the US Open golf tournament to

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Speaker 1: become just the third Australian to win the tournament, the

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Speaker 1: biggest event in female golf, after Carrie Webb, who won

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and two thousand and one, and Jan Stevenson.

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Speaker 1: The triumph at Pine Needles Country Club in North Carolina

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Speaker 1: was a display of control from the opening round. She's

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Speaker 1: a seven time winner on the LPGA Tour and has

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Speaker 1: now won twice in twenty twenty two after taking out

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Speaker 1: last month's founders. Cup Lee has said she went hard

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Speaker 1: at the gym in the off season, me and her both.

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Speaker 1: Apparently my results haven't shown yet.

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Speaker 3: How do you go hitting a wood off the tea?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Not that well.

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Speaker 2: Have you discussed this recently?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I think we did.

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Speaker 1: She's much better than I am, so she wanted to

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Speaker 1: get more distance off the tee, not like I do,

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Speaker 1: which has made her a bit more of a golfing weapon.

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Speaker 1: She pocketed as sweet two point five million dollars for

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Speaker 1: first prize, not bad. It was a welcome increase after

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Speaker 1: the USGA doubled the overall prize money from last year's event.

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Speaker 1: The wind took her twenty twenty two earnings beyond three

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Speaker 1: point six million. She might be able to buy one

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Speaker 1: house in Sydney. She took a three shot lead into

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Speaker 1: the final round and was able to keep any final

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Speaker 1: round nerves under control on her way to a four

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Speaker 1: shot win over American Mina Harrygay. Lee was over the

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Speaker 1: moon after her win, saying I'm speechless. I can't believe

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Speaker 1: it right now. It's just super super special and such

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Speaker 1: a great honor. It's been my dream since I was

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Speaker 1: a little girl. It's the one that I've always wanted

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Speaker 1: to win. Now I've done it and it just feels amazing,

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Speaker 1: pretty cool. The win will see Lee's world ranking climb

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Speaker 1: to number two from number four heading into the next major,

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Speaker 1: the Women's PGA, later this month.

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Speaker 4: In at tennis, the French Open final was a master

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Speaker 4: class from world number one eguch Fiontech, with the Polish

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Speaker 4: defending champ going back to back with a six one

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Speaker 4: six three victory over a pretty visibly nervous Coco Gough.

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Speaker 4: The eighteen year old golf came up short in her

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Speaker 4: bid to be I'm the youngest Grand Slam singles champion

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Speaker 4: since Maria Sharapova won Wimbledon in two thousand and four.

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Speaker 4: Shontek Cruiz threw the match to claim her thirty fifth

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Speaker 4: successive victory, equaling Venus William's record for the longest winning

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Speaker 4: run by woman in the twenty first century. It was

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Speaker 4: a sixth straight title this year and she's gone from

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Speaker 4: ranking upon ash Bardi's retirement. During her postmatch speech, Shontek,

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Speaker 4: who wears a Ukraine ribbon in her visor, encourage Ukraine

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Speaker 4: to stay strong. Since my first speech in Doha in February,

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Speaker 4: I was hoping when I'm doing the next one, the

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Speaker 4: situation will be better. But I still have hopes and

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Speaker 4: I try to support.

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Speaker 3: So thank you guys for being there.

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Speaker 1: Another pretty cool moment to come out of the French Open,

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Speaker 1: because there's been a lot of controversy surrounding tennis at

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Speaker 1: the moment, but Coco Goff used her moment after she

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Speaker 1: in America. As we know a couple of pretty horrific

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Speaker 1: to gun I'm in a message on a television camera

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Speaker 1: after reaching the French Open final, and she said in

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Speaker 1: I think it's just crazy. I feel like a lot

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Speaker 1: of times were put in a box that people always

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Speaker 1: say sports and politics should stay separate. I say yes,

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Speaker 1: but also at the same time, I'm a human first

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Speaker 1: before i'm a tennis player. Of course I'm going to

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Speaker 1: care about these issues and speak out about these issues.

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Speaker 1: If anything, sport gives you the platform to maybe make

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Speaker 1: that message reach more people. That's like one of my

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Speaker 1: favorite quotes.

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Speaker 3: I love that from an eighteen year old.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, amazing, it's really powerful. I'm a human first before

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Speaker 4: I'm a tennis player.

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Speaker 4: And you know humans are allowed to have opinions, and

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Speaker 4: she has a stage and she can share hers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because I never understand the trolls in the comments

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Speaker 1: saying to keep sport and politics tick to tennis. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's like, just because you're good at sport, you must

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Speaker 4: Totally agree, Bravo Coco. As we said, the French Opien

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Speaker 4: has been copying some criticism, and one of those valid

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Speaker 4: criticisms leading to final weekend was when tournament director Amalie

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Speaker 4: Moresmo said the reason that only one of this year's

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Speaker 4: ten night sessions featured a women's match was due to

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Speaker 4: the men's matches having more attraction and appeal.

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Speaker 1: In quote, I'm getting I've had multiple episodes in a row.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm getting really angry about things.

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Speaker 3: I think we might need to book you and to

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Speaker 3: see someone.

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Speaker 4: Maresmo was quick to apologize, saying I want to say

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Speaker 4: sorry to the players that really felt bad about what

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Speaker 4: I said. The comments I made were taken out of context,

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Speaker 4: that old chestnut. The people who know me, who've known

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Speaker 4: everything that I've done. No, I'm a big fighter for

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Speaker 4: equal rights and women's tennis and women in general. She

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Speaker 4: didn't really go on to explain what she did mean

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Speaker 4: when she used the words less appealing, but longtime advocate

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Speaker 4: for gender equality and one of the founders of the WTA,

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Speaker 4: Billy Jean King, said she believed that Meresmo would rectify

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Speaker 4: the issue next year. Women's matches should be played in

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Speaker 4: primetime slots with equal opportunity given to both genders. They

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Speaker 4: two men's.

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Speaker 3: Real easy.

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Speaker 4: If they keep treating us like second class citizens, we

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Speaker 3: We should have more.

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Speaker 4: Matches, but I think Emily will take care of that

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Speaker 4: next year, knowing her she's a winner.

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Speaker 3: Power to you, billy.

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Speaker 1: This just doesn't make sense to me that a former

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Speaker 1: inherent misogyny that's been drilled into her over the years

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Speaker 4: Think Maresmo has had a pretty prominent role in men's

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Speaker 4: tennis since she retired. She was courch Yeah, and i'd

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Speaker 4: like to think she's lost touch with the female game.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't know how out of contact contexts

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Speaker 4: more attraction and appeal can be. Like where the context

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Speaker 4: was is probably a question I'd like answered.

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Speaker 2: We're still on tennis and I'm still angry.

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Speaker 3: Scot in here.

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Speaker 2: It's getting real warm and these thick cooties.

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Speaker 1: The world number one eager Schviontech was sitting in her

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Speaker 1: trophy with a huge smile on her face after an

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Speaker 1: exceptional run, a streak of winds and taking out that

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Speaker 1: overshadowed by what can only be described as a stupid

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Speaker 1: question from a journalist relating to her natural appearance. The

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Speaker 1: to a party, do you use makeup?

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Speaker 2: Do you like to go.

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Speaker 1: Elegant and smart and so on? Because many players we

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Speaker 1: the makeup. You seem very natural like this.

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Speaker 3: How would you have answered that? Klo oh?

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Speaker 2: She said hers was so polite.

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Speaker 1: She just said okay, thank you and then moved on,

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Speaker 1: which I actually respect that.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what I thought? My response was, have

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Speaker 2: you ever asked Rafael and Nadal about his makeup?

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Speaker 3: What about his hair?

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Speaker 2: Hair? Girl? Anyway?

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Speaker 1: Tennis broadcast Katherine Widiker took to Twitter to say, actually,

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Speaker 1: mostly they asked brilliant questions, but questions like this ruin

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Speaker 1: it for everyone. I should add it was one question

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Speaker 1: in an otherwise brilliant press conference, thoughtful personent questions from

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Speaker 1: journalists and considered insightful answers from sriontech, which is what

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Speaker 1: the player in the media deserves. So it's unfortunate that

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Speaker 1: this makeup question obviously gets the airtime. But I can

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Speaker 1: guarantee you that journalist.

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Speaker 2: Will never ask that question again.

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Speaker 3: Well, I hope we're always learning in cricket.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of always learning, Greg Barclay is the independent chair

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Speaker 4: of the International Cricket Council and The New Zealander shared

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Speaker 4: speaking to BBC Radio in the UK as England's men

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Speaker 4: host New Zealand at Lord's when he was asked about

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Speaker 4: comments made by England captain Heathern Knight, who has called

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Speaker 4: for women's Test matches to be extended to five days

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Speaker 4: in line with men's international.

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Speaker 3: Red ball cricket.

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Speaker 4: So at the moment that women only play a four

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Speaker 4: and his initial response was promising when he answered absolutely,

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Speaker 4: if they're going to play it, my personal view is

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Speaker 4: that they should have five days to play it in.

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Speaker 4: But that's where the positive news for women's test cricket ended.

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Speaker 4: He went on to stay, if you look at the

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Speaker 4: way cricket is going, there is no doubt that white

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Speaker 4: ball is the way of the future.

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Speaker 3: That is the game that is.

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Speaker 4: Sought after by the fans, where the broadcasts are putting

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Speaker 4: their resources and what is driving the money. Therefore, the

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Speaker 4: counties that are developing, the countries that are developing women's

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Speaker 4: cricket will focus on that. In order to play test cricket,

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Speaker 4: you have to have the structures in place domestically, and

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Speaker 4: they don't really exist. So I can't really see women's

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Speaker 4: test or long form cricket evolving at any speed at all.

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Speaker 4: That's not to say they can't choose to play test cricket,

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Speaker 4: but I don't really see that as part of the

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Speaker 1: Not surprisingly, these comments have also been met with criticism

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Speaker 1: from a number of high profile figures in the women's game.

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Speaker 1: Australian spinner Jess Jonason tweeted on Saturday, disappointing to see

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Speaker 1: these comments. The hunger and drive is there from multiple countries,

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Speaker 1: regardless of some significant hurdles that need to be overcome

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Speaker 1: by some. It should never be solely about money cricket goat.

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Speaker 1: Although we've had a conversation, is that Elise Perriori is

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Speaker 1: at Elisa herely. I think Elise is still ahead with

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Speaker 4: being misled that this is consultation. When after the meeting

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Speaker 4: ANPA president Joanna Weston confirmed the deal had already been done.

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Speaker 4: So they kind of got him in and said, all right,

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Speaker 4: this is the consultation, but jokes, we've already signed the deal.

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Speaker 3: Mmm, that's on dodgy.

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Speaker 4: The Melbourn Vixen's Joe Weston summed up the players feelings

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Speaker 4: when she tweeted a copy of the statement with the words.

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Speaker 4: As a playing group, all that we want is respect

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Speaker 4: and transparency.

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Speaker 2: Not a lot to ask.

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Speaker 3: I don't reckon it isn't transparency.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the key thoughts on if a sport

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Speaker 1: is in fiduciary trouble, do you do you think it's

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Speaker 1: a reasonable decision for them to similar that There's been

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Speaker 1: similar conversations around the NRAL, the men's competition around the

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Speaker 1: Grand Final. Do you think that it's reasonable for them

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Speaker 1: to go and sell that to different states?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, they're serious money in some of these state and

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Speaker 4: federal governments that to attract events to cities. But it

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Speaker 4: is about transparency and that conversation should should have been

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Speaker 4: happening from the beginning of the season if there was

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Speaker 4: financial pressures, and it should not have been made two

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Speaker 4: weeks out from the finals.

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Speaker 1: On that, I think if you use the Melbourne Vixen's

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Speaker 1: as an example, they because of COVID, they were up

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Speaker 1: in a Queensland hub and they won and played the

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Speaker 1: Grand Final away from a home crowd. So I think

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Speaker 1: for them, they're now minor premiers and there's going to

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Speaker 1: be another opportunity where they could have played at home

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Speaker 1: in front of their Melbourne fans, build their fan base,

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Speaker 1: build the support there and they're going to be playing

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Speaker 1: over in Perth if they're there.

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Speaker 3: I agree.

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Speaker 4: And the reality is that sport is a business. To

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Speaker 4: lump this on the players at this point in the

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Speaker 4: season is rough.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.

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Speaker 1: I think it makes sense commercially that they might need

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Speaker 1: to look at doing that, particularly if they're in financial trouble.

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Speaker 1: But don't do it this year, like plan to do

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Speaker 1: it next year so the players know the entire season

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Speaker 1: while they're playing that that's going to be the outcome.

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Speaker 3: Agree, So we'll just put that in place now. Great done.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a look at what to watch.

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Speaker 1: The sun Corps supernet Ball has reached round fourteen, the

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Speaker 1: last round before finals. The top three look secure, but

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Speaker 1: there are numerous teams in the hunt for fourth spot.

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Speaker 1: The last regular match of the season is the Melbourne Derby,

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Speaker 1: and a win for the Magpies over the Vixen's should

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Speaker 1: see them secure fourth place and a trip to the finals.

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Speaker 1: The matches on Monday afternoon at one pm, and if

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Speaker 1: you can't get to John Can Arena, be sure to

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Speaker 1: tune in on Foxtel and KO.

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Speaker 3: That's Holiday Monday, so to do in melbournth Is that right? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: The VFLW enters finals time. So Essendon finished the season

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Speaker 4: undefeated and will face Hawthorne in a first v second

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Speaker 4: qualifying qualifying final on Saturday at Windy Hill. Good to

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Speaker 4: see those two expansion teams playing each other.

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Speaker 1: What I think is an excellent example of is the

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Speaker 1: way that both Essendon and Hawthorne coming into the AFLW

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Speaker 1: have prepared their pathways.

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Speaker 2: So that they're ready to go into the main competition.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot to be said for playing together as

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Speaker 4: a group. The bounce is eleven oh five am and

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Speaker 4: entry to all VFLW Finals games is free. You can

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Speaker 4: watch all matches in weeks one to three of the

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Speaker 4: twenty two Rebel VFLW Finals series live and free on

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Speaker 4: AFL dot com, dot Au and the AFL Live official app.

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Speaker 4: And in exciting news, AFL confirm the VFLW Grand Final

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Speaker 4: will be broadcast live on the Seven Network, with the

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Speaker 4: match to be played at Port Melbourne's ETU Stadium on Sunday,

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Speaker 4: July third.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome, so good.

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Speaker 1: In paddling sports, the twenty twenty two ICF Canoe Slalom

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Speaker 1: World Cup Series is back. The five race series starts

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Speaker 1: in Prague and the Czech Republic and runs from June

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Speaker 1: tenth to the twelfth. Jess Fox is she Australia's favorite athlete.

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Speaker 1: Probably also on the t fat podcast Season one Check

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Speaker 1: it out. We'll be looking to defend her first place

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Speaker 1: in the K one and improve her second in the

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Speaker 1: C one from twenty twenty one. You can watch the

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Speaker 1: action live on Planet Canoe YouTube channel.

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Speaker 4: It's one of my favorite YouTube channels. Planet Canoe sounds fun,

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Speaker 4: doesn't it. And the Mighty Waller US they're actually playing

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Speaker 4: in about two hours. We're recording this on Monday morning,

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Speaker 4: so they're Game one of the Pacific four series kicks

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Speaker 4: off at twelve thirty Monday. Hopefully you will watch it.

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Speaker 4: And we got a win over the Kiwis. They were

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Speaker 4: playing their second match of that pac four series this Sunday.

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Speaker 4: The Aussies will be looking for a victory over the

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Speaker 4: US and you can cheer loud while watching Standsport Live

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Speaker 4: on Sunday. Kickoff is at twelve fifteen pm Australian Standard time.

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Speaker 2: And that's the rap.

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Speaker 3: That's the rap. Thanks for coming, Thank you for coming, friend,

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Speaker 3: See you next week.

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Speaker 2: Fore you next week,