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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Rap, 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 seven's and I play AFLW for the GWS Giants.

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Speaker 1: Every week on the show, I'm joined by my co

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Speaker 1: host Bez, who is all across women's sport, women's rugby,

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Speaker 1: chief researcher at TEFAP and Queen of Merchandise.

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Speaker 2: We had bacon and eggs this morning, provided by you. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I often don't provide the goods. But a man also

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Speaker 1: came in to check my smoke alarm and he was

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Speaker 1: making a lot of subtle hints like you also wanted bacon.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he was about to pull up a few.

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Speaker 3: He wasn't invited.

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Speaker 2: He was not invited.

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Speaker 3: Let's take a look around the ground, shall we.

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Speaker 4: Arnie is back, Shane and Jacket made an emotional return

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Speaker 4: to the pull and Wimbledon penalized by the WTA natp.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's it for our key story. We'll discuss all

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Speaker 1: of the money that's happening. I can't believe this past week.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think I would ever be part of a

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Speaker 1: time like this where female athletes are finally stirting, starting

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Speaker 1: to earn some big coin. This podcast drops every Tuesday

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Speaker 1: morning at six am, and it's also in a newsletter

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Speaker 1: format that you can subscribe to via the link in

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Speaker 1: the show notes.

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Speaker 2: Let's do it. Let's take a look around the grounds.

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Speaker 4: In soccer, more big trophies for Matilda's overseas. Leon's Ellie

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Speaker 4: Carpenter won the Women's Champions League on Sunday after her

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Speaker 4: team beat Bussel on a three to one to be

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Speaker 4: crowned Queens of Europe for a record extending eighth time.

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Speaker 4: The match was a bittersweet for Carpenter, who was carried

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Speaker 4: off on a stretcher having suffered a knee injury after

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Speaker 4: just thirteen minutes. She hopped onto the field to celebrate

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Speaker 4: at full time, having become the first to strain football

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Speaker 4: to win the Champions League at twice.

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Speaker 3: It was a pretty pacey hop.

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Speaker 2: Ye see the footage.

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Speaker 1: I feel like her calf endurance on the left leg

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Speaker 1: or whatever lego was must have been quite like she

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Speaker 1: was like almost sprinting in booking, hopping form.

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Speaker 3: On one onto that field. You're getting involved.

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Speaker 4: Barcelona started pretty short priced favorites, to be honest, but

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Speaker 4: they struggled to contain Leon and found themselves chasing the

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Speaker 4: game early. All the goals came in the first half,

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Speaker 4: with midfielder and Mandin Henry netting a brilliant solo girl

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Speaker 4: goal and striker Ada Hedberg scored one and made another

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Speaker 4: for teammate Katarina Macario. It was Leon's, as we said,

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Speaker 4: eighth triumph in the competition and their last success was

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Speaker 4: in twenty twenty, and coach Sonya bomb Pastor also made

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Speaker 4: history as the first to win the competition as both

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Speaker 4: a player and the coach.

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Speaker 2: It's cool, really cool.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, Carpenter was pretty distraught, but yeah, look, Matilda's officials

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Speaker 4: will be anxiously waiting to hear the results of carpenter scans.

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Speaker 4: But the injury is feared to be her acl in

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Speaker 4: her left knee, which would be a horrible blow to

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Speaker 4: Carpenter and the Ossies leading into next years World Cup,

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Speaker 4: which is only fourteen months away.

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Speaker 1: More soccer, The Para Matildas were immense in Spain at

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Speaker 1: the first ever if CPF Women's World Cup, and they

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Speaker 1: nearly turned the tables on a strong USA team in

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Speaker 1: the final.

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Speaker 2: Last week.

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Speaker 1: They'd gone down four nil to the US in their

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Speaker 1: last pool match and both sides qualified for the gold

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Speaker 1: medal match. It was the Paramatilda's fifth match in seven

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Speaker 1: days and they were pretty firm underdogs. But this team

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Speaker 1: knows how to overcome challenges and they were up one

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Speaker 1: nil at halftime after a pretty audacious lob from Eloise

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Speaker 1: Northam found the back of the net. As we know

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Speaker 1: in many sports, the USA never really go away quietly,

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Speaker 1: do they. They scored two goals early in the second

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Speaker 1: found an equalized only four minutes before full time when

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Speaker 1: Ossie goalkeeper, who was exceptional throughout the match, Caitlin Smith,

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Speaker 1: drilled the ball upfield that sent opposition goalkeeper falling across

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Speaker 1: her own line. So that meant the scores we'll level

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Speaker 1: it to all and that's how it stayed until the

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Speaker 1: end of regular time. We went into extra time, which

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Speaker 1: was quite stressful watching at home on the couch. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: USA just managed to find another gear and they scored

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Speaker 1: two goals to take home the gold medal War two.

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Speaker 2: The Aussies may have.

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Speaker 1: Lost, but they still created history, becoming the country's first

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Speaker 1: senior football team to qualify for a final and win

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Speaker 1: a silver medal at a World Cup. There were also

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Speaker 1: two individual awards for the Para Matildas, with Kaitlin Smith

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Speaker 1: taking home the Golden Glove the most Outstanding Goalkeeper, which

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Speaker 1: was very well deserved, while co captain Georgia Bakoff claimed

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Speaker 1: the Golden Boot with thirteen goals across five games.

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Speaker 2: We had a chat to Georgia on the rap a

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Speaker 2: couple of months ago.

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Speaker 1: She's an incredible athlete, so go and check that one out.

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Speaker 1: And if you want to help support the Para mantielders,

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Speaker 1: make sure you get around the Equal Play merch range.

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Speaker 1: We've sold out in a number of sizes in the

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Speaker 1: hoodies already. There's also long sleeved tees on the side

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Speaker 1: as well, and we'll donate five dollars from every purchase

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Speaker 1: to the paramatielders.

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Speaker 4: In swimming, the Australian Swimming Championships wound up in Adelaide

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Speaker 4: on Sunday night, and with the meat doubling as trials

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Speaker 4: for the World Championships in Budapest in June and the

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Speaker 4: Koonmwaluth Games in July in Birmingham, there was plenty on

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Speaker 4: the line Julympic gold medalists around a tipmus that recorded

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Speaker 4: the fastest time this year to win the women's two

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Speaker 4: hundred meter freestyle final in a time of one minute

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Speaker 4: fifty three point three one seconds. That time was faster

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Speaker 4: and her second fastest time ever.

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Speaker 3: Timmos was in front of the world record line for

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Speaker 2: It just ate her up.

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Speaker 4: At the end. We were watching it, were we in

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Speaker 4: and it was like stressful, but just couldn't quite top

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Speaker 4: the two thousand and nine swim by Frederica Palegrini. So

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Speaker 4: that record of one fifty two ninety eight was set

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Speaker 2: Like aerodynamic, hydro dynamic, what do you call it.

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Speaker 4: They looked like industrial rubber like it made them float

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Speaker 1: Something weird that they got rid of them like that,

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Speaker 1: you're not allowed to wear them anymore, but the world

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Speaker 4: The old Asterix world record, I think, yeah, yeah, So

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Speaker 4: that that time was set in that supersit era and

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Speaker 4: timmasually set after the race, I think it's definitely one

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Speaker 1: The funniest part about that is when she says three suits,

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Speaker 1: I don't picture like three really tight fitting suits. I

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Speaker 1: picture when you're in school and they made you jump

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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, you had to pull the whatever it was

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Speaker 4: off the bottom of the pool. You get your bronze medallion.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And in case that wasn't enough from Arnie, she

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Speaker 4: So last night, on the final night, she came out

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Speaker 4: and set at the Real Olympics. She crushed that in

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Speaker 4: a time of three minutes fifty six point forty to

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Speaker 4: beat that world record by point six of a second.

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Speaker 4: It was an incredible race and the performance was even

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Speaker 4: more impressive given it. Timus submitted she didn't really get

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Speaker 4: solid chunk of time off to refresh.

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Speaker 3: She has decided to.

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Speaker 4: Not swim the World Champs and instead will concentrate on

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Speaker 4: the Calm Games in Birmingham this year and then obviously

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Speaker 4: Paris in at twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Can I just jump in there and say, if you

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Speaker 1: haven't listened to the Aria on Titmus podcast on TFAB,

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Speaker 1: you should go and check that one out.

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Speaker 2: I think that was one of my favorite interviews of

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Speaker 4: It is cool, definitely a very entertaining conversation. Triple Olympic

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Speaker 4: gold midlist Kayleie McEwan one that the women's one hundred

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Speaker 4: meters backstroke but couldn't threaten her own world records set

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Speaker 4: last year. The time of fifty eight to forty nine

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Speaker 4: Australian Olympic Trials in the same pool.

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Speaker 3: McEwan wasn't over the moon with a swim.

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Speaker 4: But said she was happy to get a bit of

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Speaker 4: race practice under the belt. McEwen confirmed she will swim

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Speaker 4: the one hundred meter and two ure meter backstroke at the

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Speaker 4: World Champs and will add the four hundred meter individual

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Speaker 4: medley at the comm Games in Birmingham.

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Speaker 1: Still on swimming Shana Jack pretty incredible comeback story really.

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Speaker 1: She made a successful and very emotional return to the

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Speaker 1: the band substance legandrole. Jack swam a personal best time

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Speaker 1: second in the women's hundred meter freestyle final, which booked

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Speaker 1: her spot for the Colm Games in Birmingham. She followed

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Speaker 1: winning in twenty four one four I'm never good at

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Speaker 1: up from here. Jack's comeback should be commended. Many athletes

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Speaker 1: has been through. So in twenty nineteen, she was found

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Speaker 1: guilty of intentionally ingesting the band substance Legandrole and banned

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Speaker 1: for two years. She appealed and in twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: of probabilities, Jack did not intentionally ingest Legandrole. However, in

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Speaker 1: the eyes of most she will remain a drug cheat

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Speaker 1: regardless of whether she intentionally ingested the band substance or not.

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Speaker 1: The fact remains that she has served her suspension and

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Speaker 1: her return to the pool is a very impressive display

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Speaker 1: of her mental resilience and her courage.

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Speaker 4: I think the intentional ingestion is probably a pretty key thing. Yes,

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Speaker 4: you're responsible for whatever you put in your body, but

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Speaker 4: it was a pretty public process. I think the core

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Speaker 4: you know the fact that she was she wasn't aware

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Speaker 1: I read a good Twitter threat about it and it

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Speaker 3: Just seal the deal.

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Speaker 4: Last week, COO could Astralian named the fifteen player squad

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Speaker 2: This year, it means that Wimbledon.

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Speaker 1: Will essentially be an exhibition event, which just doesn't really

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Speaker 1: discrimination is fundamental to our tour. The decision by Wimbledon

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Speaker 1: Wimbledon for twenty twenty two. Wimbledon responded to the announcement.

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Speaker 1: I love I love like the responses. They're so like well.

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Speaker 4: It's also this response is just very English. When I

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Speaker 1: Of course it was, and they did respond with deep disappointment, disappointment.

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Speaker 2: We have made. I can't decide what the right decision here.

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Speaker 4: Is, No, because the fact that they are banning Russian

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it is it.

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Speaker 4: Do you allow Wimbledon to not let those athletes defend

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Speaker 1: And atpn WTA are talking about the integrity of the

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Speaker 3: However, obviously, due to the ban, those.

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Speaker 4: Points cannot be defended this year, and that was like

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Speaker 3: It is still possible the WA could decide to freeze the.

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Speaker 4: They'll get wiped and then you don't have a chance

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Speaker 1: Interesting, m Let's take a look at the key story.

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Speaker 1: I am so excited about this. I'm just calling this

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Speaker 2: Let's look at AFLW first.

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Speaker 1: Last Thursday, the AFL and the AFL Players Association agreed

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Speaker 1: commence today May the twenty fourth, with sign and trade

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Speaker 1: the thirteenth, which we can't really work out, but I

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Speaker 3: Don't I have to do that at the Combine Combine?

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Speaker 4: True, they do it at the combine. Anyway, You're going

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Speaker 1: Season seven is going to start on the last weekend

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Speaker 4: In the US Soccer Story, so, the US Soccer Federation

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Speaker 3: But they didn't qualify.

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Speaker 4: Running France, the champions took home thirty eight million dollars,

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Speaker 4: more than the entire on offer to the twenty four

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Speaker 4: women's participants. The following year, US Soccer could not agree

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Speaker 4: to make up the difference in the FIFA prize money

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Speaker 4: on their own and sought cooperation from the Men's Union

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Speaker 4: to pull FIFA's payments for the Men's World Cup later

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Speaker 4: this year and next year's Women's World Cup, as well

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Speaker 4: as for the twenty twenty six and twenty seven tournaments,

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Speaker 4: which will then be split equally between the teams. On

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Speaker 4: top of the World Cup prize money agreements, the new

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Speaker 4: CBAS provide for identical camp, match, appearance and performance fees

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Speaker 4: for both official competitions and friendlies, and also ends the

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Speaker 4: guaranteed salaries page to the women under their previous agreement.

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Speaker 4: Prize money for non World Cup tournaments such as the

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Speaker 4: men's CAFA Gold Cup and the Region's Women's Championship will

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Speaker 4: be pulled and split when both sides participate. US Soccer

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Speaker 4: will also share a portion of its broadcast and sponsorship

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Speaker 4: income with the two teams split fifty to fifty, as

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Speaker 4: well as a share of ticket revenue. The federation also

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Speaker 4: agreed to provide match venues, fields, hotel, accommodations, support and

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Speaker 4: staffing of equal quality and comparable cost to both the

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Speaker 4: USMNT and the USWNT, and the same number of charter

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Speaker 4: flights as well. Select USWNT players will also be afforded

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Speaker 4: health and short term disability insurance as well as parental leave,

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Speaker 4: so polenta going on there. Basically, the big thing is

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Speaker 4: the money situation. I love the fact that the men's

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Speaker 4: team came to the party and said, absolutely, let's put

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Speaker 4: it all on the tin and cut it in half.

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Speaker 3: Excellent, which is what the guys were after.

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Speaker 4: So US WNT and Portland Thorn's defender Becky Sauerbrunn, who's

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Speaker 4: also the president of the Women's Union, said the gains

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Speaker 4: we have been able to achieve it both because of

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Speaker 4: the strong foundation laid by generations of WNT players that

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Speaker 4: came before the current team, and through our union's recent

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Speaker 4: collaboration with our counterparts at the USNSTPA and leadership at

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Speaker 4: US Soccer. We hope this agreement and its historic achievements

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Speaker 4: in not only providing for equal pay, but also in

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Speaker 4: providing the training and playing environment for national team players

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Speaker 4: will similarly serve as the foundation for continued growth of

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Speaker 4: women's soccer, both in the United States and abroad.

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing we're hoping for from this

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Speaker 1: is that the US have obviously set the example. Now

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Speaker 1: they're almost saying we're going to do this ourselves. We're

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Speaker 1: going to split the money. But you kind of hope

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Speaker 1: that maybe other nations get on board and continue to

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Speaker 1: push FIFA to create a more equal playing field, because

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Speaker 1: according to ESPN, the entire bonus pool for the twenty

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Speaker 1: two World Cup in Qatar will be four hundred million dollars,

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Speaker 1: and the bonuses for the women's tournament in Australia in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three will only be sixty million dollars. In

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Speaker 1: the previous World Cup cycle, the last place men's team

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Speaker 1: won more prize money than the first place women's team.

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Speaker 4: So bravo US Soccer and be better FIFA.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for summarizing that, because I was getting angry

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Speaker 1: and running out of worse our third one to finish

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Speaker 1: off this key story segment, and it's a long one.

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Speaker 2: But guy, we love.

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Speaker 1: Talking about women getting paid good money to play sport

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Speaker 1: because that's what they deserve. So this one is the

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Speaker 1: NRLW season. The fifth season of the NROLW will be

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Speaker 1: played under a three hundred and fifty thousand dollars salary

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Speaker 1: cap figure for the first time, allowing clubs to target

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Speaker 1: players financially rather than under a points system as per

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Speaker 1: previous years. That cap does have a provision where each

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Speaker 1: club can sign two marquee players on any fee they wish,

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Speaker 1: and their salaries are only included in the salary cap

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Speaker 1: at sixteen thousand dollars apiece. The Newcastle Knights were the

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Speaker 1: first to strike last week when they snagged Brisbane Broncos

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Speaker 1: pair Tamika Upton and Millie Boyle. It is reported that

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Speaker 1: the duo became the first six figure players in NRLW

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Speaker 1: history after both accepting one hundred thousand dollars offers to

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Speaker 1: join the Newcastle team. Currently, there is no CBA outlining

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Speaker 1: minimum standards for female players, but the NFL has stated

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Speaker 1: their goal is to have one finalized by November first.

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Speaker 2: Lena Cakimo, the.

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Speaker 1: Rugby League Associations General Manager of Elite Women and International

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Speaker 1: relations confirmed. The union has requested the NRAL financials back

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Speaker 1: in November last year and they're still waiting for that

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Speaker 1: information to proceed with CBA plans. The financial information is

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Speaker 1: going to help dictate the claims that the ROLPA will

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Speaker 1: make when they start negotiations in the coming months. Currently,

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Speaker 1: players sign a roughly eighty page contract with NLW clubs

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Speaker 1: outlining a standard set of terms and conditions, but a

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Speaker 1: CBA would centralize those terms. Kakimo stated that we're just

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Speaker 1: hoping for improvements rather than changes. We want improvements to

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Speaker 1: the minimum high performance standards at clubs, among other things.

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Speaker 1: So if we can aim for improvements in all of

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Speaker 1: those areas, that's a win for us. The Players Association

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Speaker 1: will be looking to confirm those details asap. Giving the

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Speaker 1: NRL have said they will consider fast tracking expansion and

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Speaker 1: jumping to ten teams for next season, with a decision

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Speaker 1: expected to be made at the Australian Rugby League Commission

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Speaker 1: meeting next Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: Great use all around, all round.

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Speaker 4: Oh your friend, you're obviously very much involved in that

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Speaker 4: afl W discussions.

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Speaker 3: What was your your feeling on Thursday afternoon?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was pretty cool to chat to some of

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Speaker 1: my teammates and other players across the league. I think

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Speaker 1: there was a level of shock that came with it.

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Speaker 1: It just feels like one of those battles that you

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Speaker 1: just keep fighting a lot of the time without getting

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Speaker 1: a lot of success. So to see the way that

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Speaker 1: the AFL and the Players Association have come together in

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Speaker 1: these negotiations to put these standards in place moving forward

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Speaker 1: means we're taking massive steps toward it being a full

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Speaker 1: time career. I think there's now over forty AFLW players

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Speaker 1: earning one hundred k plus and I think the.

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Speaker 2: Biggest goal will to be to bring up that minimum.

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Speaker 1: Wage so that the players on the bottom tier can

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Speaker 1: do it as a job and not have to worry. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: we want to continue to study and work outside of

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Speaker 1: football and have a career plan outside of it. But

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Speaker 1: the fact that players can be given the option, hopefully

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Speaker 1: within the next couple of years, to pursue their football

555
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Speaker 1: career full time is massive and what we want across

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Speaker 1: all domestic sports in this country.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't interesting.

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Speaker 4: I think from speaking to you, you weren't expecting this outcome. Obviously,

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Speaker 4: ten rounds next season very soon, with eighteen teams is

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Speaker 4: going to be tricky. I don't see how that math

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Speaker 4: is getting done, but it is getting done. Good that

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Speaker 4: they're doing a top eight. I think this season is

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Speaker 4: going to be tricky for all of you because there's

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Speaker 4: so new teams, new players, and yes there's been a

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Speaker 4: solid investment from the AFL. But I really hope that

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Speaker 4: it grows even again next year because I think that

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Speaker 4: it's just like you said, the more time you can

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Speaker 4: spend on your craft, the money gives you that opportunity,

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Speaker 4: the better that everyone's going to get.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think on that point around season length.

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Speaker 1: With four brand new teams coming into the competition this year,

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Speaker 1: seeing it have eighteen teams in the league, expanding the

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Speaker 1: final series almost increases the gap between those top teams

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Speaker 1: and the bottom teams. You actually need to increase the

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Speaker 1: season length so that the new teams have a chance

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Speaker 1: to play more games.

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Speaker 2: It's unlikely.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there will be a couple of them that

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Speaker 1: will challenge the top teams, but being a brand new team,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty tough to make finals in your first year.

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Speaker 1: Sot to mean, the top teams in the comp that

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Speaker 1: have existed for six years get the chance to play

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Speaker 1: more games in finals, and the brand new teams don't

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Speaker 1: get to play as many games. So I do really

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Speaker 1: hope to see an expansion in the length of the

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Speaker 1: home and away season come the next CBA.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And one of the criticisms you read a bit about

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Speaker 4: the AFLW is the movement of players, and we've seen

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Speaker 4: that a lot already, even though that official signing period

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Speaker 4: hasn't really opened. But I think once the AFLW can

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Speaker 4: really bed down, this is what we pay our players,

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Speaker 4: this is how long the season is, and this is

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Speaker 4: when it runs, you'll see that consistency of player retention change.

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Speaker 4: I think at the moment it has been a bit

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Speaker 4: haphazard for the first few years. Onwards and upwards, I

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Speaker 4: think it's very exciting for everyone.

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

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Speaker 3: In tennis, the French Open continues.

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Speaker 4: You can catch all the clay court action on stand

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Speaker 4: Sport and also on the Nine Network.

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Speaker 1: In surfing, the WCT moves to Indonesia with the Quicksilver

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Speaker 1: Roxy Pro starting in Gland on Saturday. You can tune

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Speaker 1: in live on Foxtel, the Seven Network and on the

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Speaker 1: WSL website.

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Speaker 4: And in sun Court, super Netball The fourth place Giants

607
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Speaker 4: host the third place Adelaide Thunderbirds at ken Rose Arena

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Speaker 4: on Sunday in a.

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Speaker 3: Match we'll have a big impact on the finals.

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Speaker 4: The game starts at four pm and you can watch

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Speaker 4: live on Foxtel and KO Freebies Up.

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Speaker 2: The Giants And that's the rap.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I enjoyed that it was a fair bit

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Speaker 1: of meat in there, but I like it when the

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Speaker 1: meat's talking about cash money.

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Speaker 2: So hope you guys enjoyed that.

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Speaker 4: Early little pay rise means that you can now buy

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Speaker 4: more lamb roasts.

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Speaker 2: Oh yum, I had great lamb culors.

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Speaker 3: See you next week friends.

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Speaker 2: Bye,