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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 seppens 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: Hi, Milicent, Hello, Chloe.

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Speaker 1: I'm a little bit concerned. We've been trying to do

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Speaker 1: some good vocal warm up so we don't sound too

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Speaker 1: quaky on the podcast. My dietitian recently recommended I start

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Speaker 1: eating some chickpeas. You can get dried chickpeas. We've both

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Speaker 1: just had to pack at each and you can't stop coffee.

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Speaker 2: I can't stop coughing. Great work, Chloe.

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Speaker 1: Good. How's your weekend?

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Speaker 3: My weekend has been quite delightful actually, both Chloe and

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Speaker 3: I headed down to the World Surf League Narrabeene Classic

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Speaker 3: over the weekend, which is for the first time that

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Speaker 3: I've been down to it a very local event for us.

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Speaker 3: Driving through Narrowbean It was absolutely packed, so it was

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Speaker 3: awesome to see how many people turned up for this event. Again,

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Speaker 3: like the Northern Beaches for US, is very laid back

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Speaker 3: different to see, but awesome to head down there and

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Speaker 3: watch the surfing.

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Speaker 1: It was good fun. Got to see some of the

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Speaker 1: Ozzie Girls. Tyler was there, Stiff Sally, Laura, and another

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Speaker 1: local girl unfortunately got knocked out in the elimination heats.

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Speaker 1: One of my favorite moments there was these little girl

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Speaker 2: They were so cute.

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Speaker 1: They had their rashes on, one had Gilmore and one

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Speaker 1: had Fitzgibbons on the back. I wanted to take a

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Speaker 1: was cute as and I loved my other I've got

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Speaker 1: lots of favorite moments. But when the surfers would come

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Speaker 2: Beach, Oh my gosh, yes, it was so cute.

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Speaker 3: There was one moment when a dad was chasing down

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Speaker 2: Down the beach. He was about two years old and

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Speaker 3: But as Yeah, it was awesome to see other little

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Speaker 2: So awesome to have those role models.

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Speaker 1: And Mick Fanning came out of retirement. What a legend.

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Speaker 2: I know. He run right past me and I was like, hey, Mick,

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Speaker 2: did he say hey back? No, of course not. But

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Speaker 1: Let's take a look around the grounds. Mails some big

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Speaker 1: news in basketball with the WNBA Draft just taking place,

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Speaker 1: an incredibly exciting opportunity for a young Ozzie girl. Can

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Speaker 3: Shyla Heel, the nineteen year old point guard and daughter

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Speaker 3: at pick eight in the WNBA Draft by the Chicago Sky.

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Speaker 3: Shila joins a list of Australian basketball royalty including Lauren Jackson,

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Speaker 3: Penny Taylor, Michelle Tims and Liz Cambich in being drafted

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Speaker 1: In hockey, Australian stars Georgie Morgan and Rachel Lynch have

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Speaker 1: had their appeals successfully upheld over their non selection in

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Speaker 1: the Tokyo Olympics squad. So both of these players were

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Speaker 1: dropped from the squad in December last year under the

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Speaker 1: previous head coach, Paul Goadoin. So we talked a little

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Speaker 1: bit about the new coach, Katrina Powell, who recently has

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Speaker 1: a few different selection policy criteria that they could appeal

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Speaker 1: on and some of those things include selection policy not

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Speaker 1: being properly followed, athletes not having a proper chance to

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Speaker 1: satisfy this selection policy, a decision that might be affected

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Speaker 1: by bias, or no material on which selection could be

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Speaker 1: reasonably based. Both girls submitted different appeals, but both have

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Speaker 3: In athletics, the Australian National Championships has taken place over

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Speaker 3: the weekend at Sydney Olympic Park. Nicola McDermot has made

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Speaker 2: The high jump and qualified for Tokyo.

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Speaker 3: I watched this clip of her making that jump and

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Speaker 1: Can I jump in with some two meter comparisons?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yes, please do.

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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan stands at I think one point nine to

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Speaker 1: She can jump over king size matches standing up.

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Speaker 2: That's wiles. I love these fun facts of Chloe new segment.

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Speaker 3: As this competition marked the end of the qualification period

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Speaker 3: four track and field, a number of ossies were officially

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Speaker 3: Nina Kennedy in the pole vault, Danny Stevens in discus,

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Speaker 3: massive congratulations to all these girls, and we can't wait

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Speaker 1: How good that's epic. In cricket, Beth Mooney has received

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Speaker 3: In AFL, the Melbourne Demons have appointed their first female

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Speaker 3: Kate Roffey has been on Melbourne's board for seven years

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Speaker 3: and is the former CEO of Vick Sport. Kata said

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Speaker 3: the role women play in football and wider society as

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Speaker 3: now three female presidents in their AFILL including Richmond, Peggy

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Speaker 3: we should have equal representation.

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Speaker 2: But we don't.

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Speaker 1: Ain't that the truth? Still on footy, The Brisbane Lions

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Speaker 1: won their first ever afl W flag on Saturday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: defeating the Adelaide Crows in the Grand Final by eighteen points.

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Speaker 1: The Lions have to take my hat off to them.

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Speaker 1: This is their third attempt at the Grand Final. They

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Speaker 1: unfortunately lost in twenty seventeen and in twenty eighteen. We

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Speaker 1: got pumped by Adelaide Adelaide Oval, but this game on

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Speaker 1: It was an incredible match. The pressure at the saw

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Speaker 1: it was to have a lot of pressure on the footy. Defensively,

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Speaker 1: Brisbane were exceptional. Every time Adelaide went to transition the

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Speaker 1: the Brisbane defenders just stepped up with some huge intercept marks.

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Speaker 1: Kate Lutkins from Brisbane was named Best on Ground. Congrats

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Speaker 1: to Kate Bog for her amazing performance in the back line.

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Speaker 1: Special mentions go to Las Arnelle, a pioneer of women's football,

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Speaker 1: who played her final AFLW game on Saturday with Brisbane,

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Speaker 1: as well as Lions captain Emmazelki, who also retired after

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Speaker 1: Premiership Cup. Another retirement from AFLW is Shane Norder, also

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Speaker 1: known as Shanne Layton. She's called time on an incredibly

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Speaker 1: She had three seasons with Collingwood, playing twenty three matches

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Speaker 1: a part time capacity through the AFLW, and how exhausting

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Speaker 1: I guess for her teammates. Congrats to all of those

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Speaker 1: players on incredible careers in swimming. The twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: Australian Championships wrapped up on Sunday after five days of

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Speaker 2: Some great results out of that event.

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Speaker 3: Arianna Timus claimed gold in the women's two hundred, four

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Speaker 3: hundred and eight hundred meter freestyle. Holly Barrett had a

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Speaker 3: stunning event in the women's fifty meter butterfly to not

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Speaker 3: In a nail budding final for the women's two hundred

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Speaker 3: in the two hundred meter fly and Emma mckairn fought

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Speaker 3: The Olympic Trials are just under two months away, so

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Speaker 3: a very exciting time for swimming in the lead up

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Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the key story. Swimming Australia

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Speaker 1: announced their new inclusive swimwear policy this week. Males, can

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Speaker 1: you tell us a little bit more about it? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So, this policy which Swimming Australia introduced is to ensure

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Speaker 3: that all Australians film feel welcomed, safe and celebrated in swimming.

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Speaker 3: This policy will allow from is at all competition levels

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Speaker 3: The lack of appropriate competitive swimwhear options are a key

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Speaker 1: Good Chat Mills. I hope that Swimming Australia will be

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Speaker 1: Let's take a look at what to watch. Things are

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Speaker 3: But this week in surfing, the Ripcurl Narrow Being Classic

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