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Speaker 1: Welcome to the RAP, a weekly podcast covering women's sports

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Speaker 1: news mills. What have we got this week?

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Speaker 2: This week, Tairclaire Toomy won her fifth consecutive Crossbick Games title.

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Speaker 2: The AFLW draft took place, and a standalone season for

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Speaker 1: For our key story, we'll look at one of the

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Speaker 1: biggest stories of the Olympics, the Simone Barles withdrawal. But

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Speaker 1: first let's take a look around the grounds. Last Tuesday night,

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one AFLW Draft took place, where number

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Speaker 1: one pick Charlie Robottom was snapped up by the Gold

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Speaker 1: Coast Suns. Robotom joins the likes of Isabel Huntington from

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Speaker 1: the Bulldogs, Ellie Mackenzie at Richmond, Nina Morrison of Geelong

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Speaker 1: and Gabby Newton Bulldogs, as well as Nicola Barr from

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Speaker 1: GWS as players to earn the prestigious honor of the

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Speaker 1: top pick. Robottom, the sister of Sydney afl player James,

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Speaker 1: made the surprise move of nominating Queensland as her state

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Speaker 1: of choice rather than her home state Victoria. The eighteen

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Speaker 1: year old is a tall, strong midfielder who can also

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Speaker 1: drive forward and impact the scoreboard, averaging seventeen touches and

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Speaker 1: kicking ten goals with the Oakley Charges this year. Another

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Speaker 1: notable first for the Melbourne Demons was their first father

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Speaker 1: daughter pick. Georgia Campbell, the daughter of former Demon and

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Speaker 1: Bulldog Adrian, will join the club for the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one twenty two nab AFO Women's campaign after Melbourne matched

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Speaker 1: opposition bids on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: In CrossFit News, Tea Claire Toomey is now the most

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Speaker 2: dominant crossfitter ever with the most individual event wins and

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Speaker 2: record equaling fifth title. Now Chlough, you know, I am

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Speaker 2: very obsessed with CrossFit. I'm a huge fan of Tia

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Speaker 2: Claire Toomey. So this is her fifth consecutive title. She's

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Speaker 2: the first ever female to reach this milestone. She joins

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Speaker 2: her former training partner and really close friend Matt Fraser

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Speaker 2: as the only two athletes to ever reach this milestone,

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Speaker 2: and she actually is now They call her the most

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Speaker 2: dominant because she also has now won the most individual

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Speaker 2: event wins across her career with I believe it's now

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Speaker 2: thirty or thirty one. She hit that milestone in the

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Speaker 2: final events over the weekend which is huge. She's just

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Speaker 2: above the pack and it's honestly just incredible to watch

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Speaker 2: seeing I've been watching her since she got silver now

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Speaker 2: six years ago, and seeing that hunger grow in her

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Speaker 2: to get that gold, and then she's just maintained.

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Speaker 3: That for the last five years.

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Speaker 2: The question, I guess on everyone's mind was will she

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Speaker 2: retire now like Matt Frazer did last year after he

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Speaker 2: had won five titles. I had this kind of gut

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Speaker 2: feeling that she'd want to one up Matt because he

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Speaker 2: is her close friend, so I feel like she'd want

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Speaker 2: she goes, I'm going to go and do the bob

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Speaker 2: sled at the Winter Olympics. She's trying to qualify for

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Speaker 2: Australia and that.

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Speaker 1: Oh so she's still doing that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's her plan is to go now, go

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Speaker 2: train for that and qualify for the Winter Olympics, then

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Speaker 2: compete in the Rogue Invitational and qualify for the Games

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Speaker 2: and do it all over again. And that's what she said.

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Speaker 2: And it's just phenomenal and she's the most person ever.

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Speaker 1: You're bestie.

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Speaker 3: I wish her if you ever listen to this come

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Speaker 3: on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: In Rugby league, the NRL has made a call on

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one NLW season and growing COVID nineteen

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Speaker 1: concerns in New South Wales and now Queensland. The comp

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Speaker 1: which was due to run alongside the final rounds of

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Speaker 1: the men's comp and finals, will now be a standalone

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Speaker 1: tournament after having the start day pushed back to the

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Speaker 1: start of October. The competition will run for six weeks,

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Speaker 1: with teams playing each other once before the top two

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Speaker 1: sides advanced to play for the premiership in a standalone

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Speaker 1: NRLW Grand Final on the first weekend in November. All

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Speaker 1: six squad should be able to begin training on August thirty,

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Speaker 1: with a four week pre season before another week's preparation

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Speaker 1: leading into their opening round clashes. I love this. I

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Speaker 1: actually got to go and watch a couple of NRLW

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Speaker 1: games last year and a few of my Aussie sevens

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Speaker 1: teammates made the transition during COVID to go and play

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Speaker 1: a bit of league and they absolutely shredded. They killed it.

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Speaker 3: They did, they did great.

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Speaker 1: But we watched this game and it was before one

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Speaker 1: of the men's games, and the men's game was pretty

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Speaker 1: I absolutely love that they've created this as a standalone

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Speaker 1: I think Women's Rugby League draws in its own fans.

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Speaker 2: And in netball, this sun Corps Supernetball was thrown into

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Speaker 2: disarray last week when state lockdowns and reclassifications of close

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Speaker 2: contacts forced the competition to move games to during the

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Speaker 2: week in an effort to complete what has been a

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Speaker 2: fantastic season. The top four teams currently have the Giants leading,

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Speaker 2: followed by Fever than the Swifts and Lightning. However, the

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Speaker 2: who were currently looming in fifth position and one game

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Speaker 2: game with our head coach briany Akle, where a combination

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Speaker 2: of turnovers and nine out of eighteen miss supershots proved costly.

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Speaker 2: The Magpies were accurate in front of goal with a

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Speaker 2: to victory. Following this match, the Magpies added to their

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Speaker 2: In some more positive news, the netball has been given

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Speaker 2: exemption to play in Queensland despite the lockdown in progress.

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Speaker 3: We will continue.

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Speaker 1: I also love this because people have talked about how

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Speaker 1: the rugby league the whole time has been being allowed

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Speaker 1: Women's sports needs more green lights.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: It's Olympics time again, Mills, my favorite time of the week.

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Speaker 3: What a week it's been, What a week.

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Speaker 1: I thought we could do a bit of a high

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Speaker 2: It's it probably describes the emotions that I've felt this

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Speaker 2: Australia will feel that you've ride the highs and the

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Speaker 2: lows that the athletes are feeling and how they go.

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Speaker 2: But okay, if I have to pick one, Jess Fox

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Speaker 2: bawled my eyes out when she won gold.

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Speaker 2: I got to speak with Jess after the race, after

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Speaker 2: It was so great to see she has worked so

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Speaker 2: like it was probably a high for a straight earlier

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Speaker 2: Everyone, everyone like ran that journey with her that week

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Speaker 3: My high mm hmm, and probably my low would have.

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Speaker 2: To be the hockey Rus losing against India in the quarterfinals.

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Speaker 3: That was really heartbreaking to watch.

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Speaker 2: I think they had had such a stellar run those

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just felt I felt that loss of them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think we've obviously chatted a few times on

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Speaker 1: I just I really, I feel absolutely devastated for them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then jumping into my hero Oh, this is

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Speaker 3: Hard happened to pick one? I like can just like

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Speaker 2: I could probably list a lot of the swimmers and

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Speaker 2: And although she you know, it could have been like

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Speaker 2: It was just beautiful to watch. It's like the relationship

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really cool watching the team dynamic for

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Speaker 1: was very cool to see the way that the Australian

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely over to you.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to start with my low because that

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Speaker 1: quite obvious. My Aussie sevens team going down to Fiji

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Speaker 1: It was a super close game and I was actually

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Speaker 3: Check it out and that's a wrap. Oh bloody good,

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Speaker 1: See you next week, Males, see then, Baye Baye,