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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 sepens 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 Mills, Hi, Chloe, how are you? You just got

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Speaker 2: back from New Zealand today?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 4: How was it?

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Speaker 3: I was playing over it was great. My suitcase away

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Speaker 3: twenty seven kilos. What I don't go on for how long?

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Speaker 3: About a week? But I forgot how to pack.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Look, I would be the same when I travel overseas.

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Speaker 2: For the first time.

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Speaker 1: I we were at the airport in Auckland this morning

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Speaker 1: and I had to put a foam roller in a

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Speaker 1: puffer into one player's bags and protein into someone else's for.

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Speaker 4: Your feel that person when you're traveling.

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Speaker 3: I'm usually good, but I was just very flustered this time.

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Speaker 3: But the rugby it was great.

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Speaker 1: We lost more games than we won, but we played

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Speaker 1: a six game series against New Zealand and it was

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Speaker 1: so cool to play international rugby again. It was the

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Speaker 1: first time I got to wear the Australian jersey in

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Speaker 1: about four years.

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Speaker 4: That's wild. I must admit.

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Speaker 2: I was watching the streams over the weekend and it

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Speaker 2: was very a very proud moment for me watching you

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Speaker 2: back in the Green and Gold and awesome just to

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Speaker 2: see you.

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Speaker 4: Guys playing again together.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: It was so much fun. I'm excited about this episode.

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Speaker 1: We have got so much, so much happened this week.

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Speaker 1: It's so exciting.

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Speaker 2: Coming up on today's episode will be joined by Brontie Hallighan,

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Speaker 2: who has just been selected in the Australian water polo squad.

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Speaker 2: Water who has just been selected in the Australian water

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Speaker 2: polo team competing at the Tokyo Olympics.

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Speaker 1: But first let's take a look around the grounds. In hockey,

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Speaker 1: the Hockey Room will cross the ditch this week to

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Speaker 1: play a four match series against New Zealand in the

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Speaker 1: lead up to Tokyo. Twenty seven Olympic hopefuls will be

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Speaker 1: hoping to secure their spot in the final squad of

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Speaker 1: sixteen when they take the field this Thursday, the twenty

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Speaker 1: seventh of May. It's been four hundred and forty six

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Speaker 1: days since the Hockey rus have hit a ball in

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Speaker 1: international competition. Head coach Katrina Powell spoke about the last

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Speaker 1: eighteen months, stating how tough last year was for everyone understandable.

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Speaker 1: The players are pretty keen to get onto the field,

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Speaker 1: and given these will be the only international matches before

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Speaker 1: the Olympics, there's plenty riding on each athlete's performance against

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Speaker 1: the Black Sticks of New Zealand.

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Speaker 3: You may remember in.

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Speaker 1: A few of the past episodes of The rat we've

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Speaker 1: talked about some of the cultural issues that existed within

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Speaker 1: the Hockey Ruiz program, which saw a number of staff

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Speaker 1: members resign, including former head coach Paul Goadoin. The playing

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Speaker 1: group threatened to strike earlier this year when star players

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Speaker 1: Rachel Lynch and Georgina Morgan were left off the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one contract list. Both Lynch and Morgan are successfully

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Speaker 1: healed this decision, have been training with the national squad,

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Speaker 1: but will be sweating on being selected for the matches

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Speaker 1: in New Zealand to keep their Olympic hopes alive.

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Speaker 3: Good luck to all the girls.

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Speaker 4: In cycling.

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Speaker 2: The Aussie road cycling team has been selected for Tokyo,

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Speaker 2: with Jewel World Championship medalist Amanda Spratt returning for her

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Speaker 2: third Olympic Games to lead the women's team of four.

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Speaker 2: Joining Amanda will be Grace Brown, Sarah Gigante and Tiffany Cromwell,

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Speaker 2: who will all make their Olympic debuts. Two disciplines in

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Speaker 2: road cycling, so there's both the road race and time trial.

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Speaker 2: The women will complete a road race course of one

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Speaker 2: hundred and forty seven kilometers, while the time trial is

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Speaker 2: Manley has been selected in the endurance event, joining squad

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Speaker 2: members announced in March twenty twenty George Baker, Annette Edmondson,

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Speaker 2: Karl Mcca, and May Ploof. In basketball, Shyla Hill made

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Speaker 2: her Chicago Sky debut on Monday morning against the New

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Speaker 2: York Liberty. Shila was pick number eight in the WNBA draft.

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Speaker 2: Played five minutes in Chicago's first home game with fans

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Speaker 2: in more than twelve months Charlotte experienced delays in arriving

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Speaker 2: in Chicago, missing the team's first two matches due to

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Speaker 2: issues with gaining the required documentation to travel. The Sky

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Speaker 2: went down eighty five to ninety three against the Liberty

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Speaker 2: and they play their next match against the Atlanta Dream

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Speaker 2: on Wednesday, the twenty sixth of May. Still on basketball

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Speaker 2: but looking at the three on three format. The Australian

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Speaker 2: women's three on three basketball team, which consists of bet Cole,

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Speaker 2: Maddy Garrett, Keeley Frowling, Lauren Schurf and Alice Kunicker, on

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Speaker 2: their way to Austria to try and qualify for the

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Speaker 2: Tokyo Olympics, albeit twenty four hours later than planned. It

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Speaker 2: seems that there's a few issues with getting documentation for

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Speaker 2: basketballers to leave the country, but I think they're on

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Speaker 2: their way. It'll be a pretty tight turnaround once they

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Speaker 2: at seven pm Australian Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday Night.

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Speaker 2: Three on three basketball is a new sport at the Olympics,

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Speaker 2: with fever using the format to get more countries playing

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Speaker 2: elite level basketball. The Olympic qualifying tournament will take place

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Speaker 2: from May the twenty sixth to the thirty first in Gratz, Austria,

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Speaker 2: with the Australian side to immediately return and undertake two

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Speaker 2: weeks of quarantine. Alzi girls have been drawn in a

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Speaker 2: pool with Japan, Ukraine, Thailand and Iran. They'll need to

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Speaker 2: basketball at bloomen A Lot was chunky. In cricket, the

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Speaker 2: Australian women's cricket team is set to play India in

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Speaker 2: a historic day night Test in September this year. It

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Speaker 2: will be the first ever pink ball Test between these

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Speaker 2: two countries in fifteen years. It'll be hosted in Perth

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Speaker 2: at the Whaka. The test match will be part of

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Speaker 2: a pack September October period for the Australian women's cricket team,

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Speaker 2: who are scheduled to face off against India in three

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Speaker 2: One Day internationals and three T twenty matches. Then in

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Speaker 2: early twenty twenty two, the Aussie's will face the English

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Speaker 2: for the ashes over one test match, three od i's

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Speaker 2: the Ashes in January at Canberra's Manuka Oval.

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Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to this because looking at the World

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Speaker 4: No, that was the last.

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Speaker 2: I think that was the last sporting event full stop

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Speaker 1: That'd be cool to see them back on home soil.

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Speaker 1: In surfing, the rip curl rottnest search is currently on standby,

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Speaker 1: with just the semifinals and final to be serfed surfed

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Speaker 1: Sally Fitzgibbons go head to head in an all Aussie battle.

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Speaker 1: The second semi final features current world number one Charissa

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Speaker 1: Moore and Johann de Fay. A lay day was called

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Speaker 1: on Monday, with the next call being made on Tuesday morning.

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Speaker 2: In archery, the Australian Open took place over the weekend

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Speaker 2: with some incredible results. Para Athlete Amra Lee won the

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Speaker 2: able body Female individual compound division. Sarah Hayward took home

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Speaker 2: female team recurve Kim Lavendar, Sarah Hayward and twelve year

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Speaker 3: Really, what is recurve? What does that mean?

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Speaker 2: So essentially there's the compound which is the regular I

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Speaker 2: which I actually didn't know before this, but I did

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Speaker 1: Great research. Millly in rowing. The Australian women's quadruple skull

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Speaker 1: inclusive of Kaylan Cronan, Harriet Hudson, Rowena Meredith and Ria

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Speaker 1: Thompson have won their event in the final Olympic qualification

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Speaker 1: regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland. The crew led from start to

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Speaker 1: Games in Tokyo and in Canoe.

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Speaker 2: An array of Olympic representatives for Tokyo were in action

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Speaker 2: over the weekend. Elise Wood, Ali Bull, Kat MacArthur and

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Speaker 2: Shannon Reynolds took out first, second and ninth in the

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Speaker 2: women's K one five hundred. In the women's K two

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Speaker 2: Bull finished first in front of Jamie Roberts and Joe

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Speaker 3: Let's take a look at the key story.

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Speaker 2: Queensland Rugby League is working towards delivering an equal pay

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Speaker 2: after increasing the potential payments for the Queensland women as

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Speaker 2: they prepare to play the new South Wales Blues in

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Speaker 1: There was a little bit of confusion over social media

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Speaker 1: women's State of Origin teams this year, which the Queensland

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Speaker 1: Rugby League cleared up by releasing a statement confirming that

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Speaker 1: the State of Origin match payments remain unchanged at two

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Speaker 1: and RLW clubs and Jillarus International payments. So what they've

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Speaker 1: said is that rather than increasing the match payments, there's

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Speaker 1: a potential increase of compensation during the lead up to

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Speaker 1: significantly less than fifteen thousand per match which the men's

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Speaker 1: about this, Mills?

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Speaker 2: Look, I think and increases great news for the girls.

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Speaker 2: I know that that will still be an improvement for them. However,

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Speaker 2: I still think that it should be equal. You know,

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Speaker 2: like the men are playing three games, so they're actually

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Speaker 4: They only give them the opportunity to play one.

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Speaker 2: And that this is another area where we haven't got

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Speaker 2: amount of games we can play. So although I think

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Speaker 2: it's an improvement, I don't think I don't think we

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Speaker 2: should settle for it, and I think we should keep

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Speaker 2: pushing for more. Yeah, absolutely agree, And I get frustrated

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Speaker 2: with this idea of working towards equal pay. I think,

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Speaker 2: why can't we just make an equal pay? And I

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Speaker 2: understand that that statement in itself, there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: there's just got to be the investment. Paying these girls

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Speaker 2: The Australian Olympic Committee has announced the thirteen strong women's

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited about this interview. Mill and I both

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Speaker 2: You obviously come from a very successful sporting family, your

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Speaker 1: You just missed out on selection for Rio in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 4: What are the next couple of months looked like for

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so we are pretty much are just together now

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Speaker 3: Be worth it.

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Speaker 5: We get to stay safe here in Australia.

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Speaker 1: What will it mean to you to pull on the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it just means everything to me. It's been such

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Speaker 1: Oh, so good, can't wait to watch You's so stoked

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Speaker 1: for you. It's been really cool to watch you over

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Speaker 1: the years and how hard you've worked. So congratulations on selection.

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Speaker 1: Very well deserved, right, Thank you guys.

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Speaker 5: It was awesome to chat to you and yeah, such

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Speaker 4: That's so good.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, no worries. Let's take a look at what to watch.

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Speaker 2: The Hockey rus and New Zealand Black Sticks play a

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Speaker 2: four match theories with Game one on Thursday, the twenty

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Speaker 2: seventh of May at five point thirty pm Australian Eastern

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Speaker 4: It will be.

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Speaker 2: Broadcast live on Sky Sport and the sky Sport Next

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Speaker 1: On Monday, the thirty first of May, the Suncorp Super

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Speaker 1: Netball Match of the Round will see the undefeated Giants

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Speaker 2: The Fever three on three Action starts on May twenty sixth.

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