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

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Speaker 2: Mills, what have we got this week?

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Speaker 3: This week, our Ossie basketball under nineteen's have won World

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Speaker 3: Cup silver, the AFLW is expanding, and Steph Gilmore has

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Speaker 3: taken out a record thirty second tour win in Mexico.

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Speaker 1: For our key story, we'll discuss netball Australia's pursuit to

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Speaker 1: be included at the Brisbane twenty thirty two Olympics before.

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Speaker 2: We take a look at rod the grounds.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to do a quick shout out actually

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Speaker 1: to everyone in lockdown. It's been a rough few weeks,

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Speaker 1: Sydney's numbers obviously not looking great and Melbourne's lockdown being extended.

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Speaker 1: It's impacting lots of people across the country. So just

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Speaker 1: wanted to send love to everyone out there. And we've

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Speaker 1: got some very very cool, exciting sports news that hopefully

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Speaker 1: we'll put a bit of a smile on your face.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I agree.

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Speaker 1: In basketball, Australia have won back to back silver medals

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Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty one Under nineteen's Fever Basketball World Cup.

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Speaker 1: They went down to USA seventy to fifty two in

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Speaker 1: Hungary on Monday, morning. Well, it wasn't the ultimate result

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Speaker 1: as Gems were hoping for. It was an incredible comeback

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Speaker 1: given the pool match up with USA saw the girls

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Speaker 1: go down by forty points. The tournament took a massive

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Speaker 1: team effort, but notable mention has to go to Jade Melbourne,

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Speaker 1: who's an incredible young gun coming up through the ranks

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Speaker 1: playing in the WNBL At the moment, she was named

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Speaker 1: in the tournament's All Star five team. Another player who

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Speaker 1: had announced standing tournament was Nardio Potch, who's coming through

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Speaker 1: the Basketball Center of Excellence at Canberra. I didn't get

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Speaker 1: to watch the game, but according to my basketball group chat,

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Speaker 1: she killed it. So another one to watch in the

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Speaker 1: future as well.

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Speaker 3: In motorsports, SBS has welcomed back the first and only

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Speaker 3: Women's motor racing championship in the World Too Sport catalog

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Speaker 3: for twenty twenty one. The W Series was canceled during

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Speaker 3: the twenty twenty season due to COVID. The championship will

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Speaker 3: run alongside Formula One at eight Grand Prix events across

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Speaker 3: Europe and the Americas, and will include free practice qualifying

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Speaker 3: in a thirty minute, one lap race. So the W

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Speaker 3: Series was launched back in October twenty eighteen and it's

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Speaker 3: quite cool. The whole I guess idea around it is

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Speaker 3: that it provides equal opportunities for women and eliminates the

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Speaker 3: financial barriers that have historically prevented them from progressing in

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Speaker 3: the sport. Obviously, you know with grand prixs a lot

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Speaker 3: drivers are selected purely on their ability and they all

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Speaker 3: race in the exact same like mechanically identical cars to

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Speaker 3: ensure that the eventual winner is declared purely on talent alone.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be a really good one to watch.

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Speaker 3: The tournament will run from the twenty eighth of August

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Speaker 3: to November seventh, and you can watch Ozzie Caitlin Wood

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Speaker 3: who is eager to get back on the grid and

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Speaker 2: Action for almost two years.

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Speaker 1: In cycling, Australia's Commonwealth Road Race Champion Chloe Host is

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Speaker 1: celebrating an emotional cycling comeback. So she actually was impacted

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Speaker 1: by COVID nineteen. She had to overcome health issues that

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Speaker 1: order to get back on the bike. She took five

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Speaker 1: what she had to overcome. So a massive congratulations to Chloe.

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Speaker 3: In surfing, Steph Gilmore has won the final event of

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Speaker 3: the WSL Tour Surfing Perfect right Handers at Barr Delacruz

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Speaker 3: in Mexico. It is Gilmore's first victory of the twenty

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Speaker 3: Huge The win also solidifies her spot in the WSL

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Speaker 3: Final five and gives her a clear path to winning

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Speaker 3: a record setting eighth world title at Lower Tressel's in

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Speaker 3: California next month. Steph was absolutely ecstatic on the beach,

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Speaker 3: Steph came up against reigning world champion Carrissa Moore in

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Speaker 3: Winner from Hawaiian Malia Manuel in the final. At the

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Speaker 3: conclusion of the final, Steph was chaired of the beach

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Speaker 1: So they've actually changed the format for the WSL. They

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Speaker 1: this finals event, so only the top five surfers from

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Speaker 1: So it's literally like whoever wins it there is the winner,

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Speaker 1: which I think is a really cool way to do it.

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Speaker 2: It is. I think it's going to be awesome.

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Speaker 3: Oh the surfers that are going to be in that event,

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Speaker 3: and the fact that we have two Aussies in that yep.

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Speaker 1: And the fact that Steph is currently tied on seven

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Speaker 1: world titles with the og Lane Beachley, so she has

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's gonna be a good one. Oh it's my

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Speaker 1: A historic announcement has been made that the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two to twenty three NAB AFLW season would feature all

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Speaker 1: eighteen clubs for the first time. Essendon, Hawthorne, Port Adelaide

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Speaker 1: and Sydney will all make their afl debuts late next year.

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Speaker 1: The Hawks have wasted no time getting started on their

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Speaker 1: plans for their inclusions straight away when announcing premiership winning

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Speaker 1: coach Bet Goddard as Hawthorne's inaugural AFLW coach. Godard coached

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Speaker 1: She then took on the role of Hawthorne's VFLW coach

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Speaker 1: she's the sole female coach at the top level, with

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Speaker 1: where she said, don't get me wrong, not every AFLW

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Speaker 1: By the inequalities at the moment are stark, and we

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Speaker 3: And in netball, the semifinals took place over the weekend.

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Speaker 3: First up was the Swifts versus the Giants. By the

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Speaker 3: slimmest of margins, the Swifts have booked their spot in

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Speaker 3: the twenty twenty one Suncorp Super Netbowl Grand Final, defeating

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Speaker 3: With just seconds to go, Giants Midcot of Maddie Hay

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Speaker 3: in the end, the Swiss goalkeeper Sarah Klow responded with

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Speaker 3: onto the second match, the Sunshine Coast Lightning Super Netbowl

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Speaker 3: the West Coast Fever to outmuscle the Sunshine Coast Lightning

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Speaker 3: seventy five to sixty seven and progress to the Supernebal

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Speaker 1: On the key story, we're sticking with netball. Netball Australia

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Speaker 1: has begun its pursuit to compete on the world's biggest stage,

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Speaker 1: the Olympic Games, but the sports female dominated culture that

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Speaker 1: World Netball is an IOC recognized sport and meets the

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Speaker 1: rules set forth by the Charter like the Antido Open Codes,

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Speaker 1: However, the Olympic Charter also indicates that in order to

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Speaker 3: This is a really interesting one. I really really want,

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Speaker 3: obviously netball to be in the twenty thirty two Games.

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Speaker 3: Obviously it's also a home game, so that'll be awesome

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Speaker 3: to go watch. Obviously I'm all for equality in this sport.

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Speaker 3: I would love to see more men play netball. I

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Speaker 3: Of the women that pioneered pushing that to be included

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Speaker 1: And I think for me, the underlying thing with this

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Speaker 1: So that's why it's so important to give them the

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Speaker 1: It's a little bit counterintuitive, but really keen to get

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Speaker 1: those stats up, meals that you were talking about on

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Speaker 1: netbul in the Olympics for a home Olympics in twenty thirty.

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

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Speaker 3: The British Women's Golf Open starts on Thursday. You can

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Speaker 3: catch all the action live on KO Sports.

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Speaker 2: The lead up to the.

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Speaker 1: US Open has begun and Ash Barty will be playing

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Speaker 1: in the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati, Ohio this.

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Speaker 3: Week and in netbal, the preliminary finals is this weekend.

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Speaker 3: The Mighty Giants take on Fever on Saturday at three pm.

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Speaker 3: You can watch live on Channel nine to find out

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Speaker 3: who will join the Swifts in the Grand Final.

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Speaker 2: Woo and that's the wrap.

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Speaker 1: See next week, clob how good See you next week

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Speaker 1: boy the Boys