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Speaker 1: Welcome to The Wrap, 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: Milli 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: Hey, Miles, how are you hello, Chloe?

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Speaker 3: How are you going?

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Speaker 2: I'm good, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I want to get this recording over and done with

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Speaker 1: so we can go and watch more of the swimming.

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Speaker 3: I know, I'm excited to watch tonight.

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Speaker 2: What's been your favor so far?

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Speaker 4: Definitely Emma mckeirn opening up the first night without Australian record.

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Speaker 4: Awesome to see getting the qualification done early. Yeah, and

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Speaker 4: I'm sure that's a big feeling of joy and relief

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Speaker 4: before many times.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Awesome to see some credible racing on Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: I loved seeing Ellie cole back in the pool, who

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Speaker 1: was on season one of tefapp I'm big.

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Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of Ellie cole.

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Speaker 1: Fan I said, I commented her on an Instagram photo

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Speaker 1: her arms were looking swoll.

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Speaker 3: She's so fit.

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Speaker 1: She's fit as she killed it in the S nine category.

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Speaker 1: Her and Lucky Patterson out there killing her in the

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Speaker 1: pool mills.

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Speaker 2: What have we got coming up?

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Speaker 4: Coming up on today's episode will be joined by Sarah Naguama,

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Speaker 4: a member of the Australian Wallaroos and the new South

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Speaker 4: Wales Waratars, who are prepping for their first game of

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Speaker 4: the Super w season this weekend against rivals the Queensland Reds.

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Speaker 2: But first let's take a look around the grounds.

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Speaker 4: In rowing, thirty eight rowers have been named in the

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Speaker 4: Olympic team, including qualifications across the women's double skull, quadruple

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Speaker 4: skull pair four and eight. The team who includes two

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Speaker 4: time World Cup medalists Amandabatement and debutante Georgie Rowe, who

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Speaker 4: set a number of indoor rowing World Cup records into

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Speaker 4: twenty nineteen and twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: I actually got to interview Georgie on a panel recently.

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Speaker 1: She's a local Northern Beaches girl and I'm stoked for

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Speaker 1: her that she made the team. In rugby league, exciting

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Speaker 1: news for the NRLW this week with the confirmation that

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one season will consist of six teams,

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Speaker 1: an increase from four last season.

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Speaker 2: There will be three.

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Speaker 1: New teams taking the field when the competition kicks off

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Speaker 1: in August. Newcastle, Parramatta and the Gold Coast will join

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Speaker 1: inaugural teams three time champions Brisbane Sir George, Illawarra and

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Speaker 1: the Sydney Roosters. The New Zealand Warriors, who pulled together

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Speaker 1: a team last season despite COVID restrictions, have unfortunately withdrawn

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Speaker 1: from season twenty twenty one, but with the NRLW considering

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Speaker 1: a further expansion in twenty twenty two to eight teams,

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Speaker 1: it's hope that the Warriors can rejoin the comps soon,

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Speaker 1: sooner rather than later.

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Speaker 2: I love this.

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Speaker 1: We talked about this a little while ago, Mills, and

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Speaker 1: I'm stoked that the NRLW or the NRL are actually

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Speaker 1: putting these things in place to keep growing the game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: In netball, Netball Australia has appointed Kelly Ryan as their

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Speaker 4: new chief executive. Ryan has a strong marketing background and

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Speaker 4: has worked with the golcost Sons and Western Bulldogs AFL

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Speaker 4: Marvel Stadium in Docklands, which won the International Stadium of

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Speaker 4: the Year. The new CEO of Netball Australia is well

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Speaker 4: aware of the role netball plays for females in Australia

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Speaker 4: and noted importantly, I'm the mother of two young daughters

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Speaker 4: and the proud to now lead a sport with a

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Speaker 4: mission to help young women and girls to shine by

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Speaker 4: building their confidence and connecting their communities.

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Speaker 3: This is awesome.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.

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Speaker 4: I love seeing more women be put in positions of

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Speaker 3: I think it's yeah great, I agree.

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Speaker 1: In soccer, on Friday morning, the Matildas went down three

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Speaker 1: to two to Denmark, who are currently ranked sixteenth in

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Speaker 1: the world. The Denmark match saw the return of defenders

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Speaker 1: Ellie Carpenter and Steph Catley, who joined experienced midfielders Tamika

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Speaker 1: The Matilda showed impressive fight in the second half with

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Speaker 1: from the Matildas, albeit a disappointing way to celebrate Emily

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Speaker 1: van Egman's one hundredth cap. She's only the eighth Matilda

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Speaker 1: to actually receive one hundred cap, so congratulations Emily. With

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Speaker 1: the Tokyo Olympics around the corner, the Matildas have one

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Speaker 1: more chance to win as they take on world number

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Speaker 1: five Sweden on Wednesday, the sixteenth of June. Super important

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Speaker 1: match for our ladies who will meet Sweden in their

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Speaker 1: pool matches in Tokyo.

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Speaker 4: In diving, the twenty twenty one National Championships and Tokyo

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Speaker 4: Olympic Games selection trials took place last week. Melissa Wu

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Speaker 4: Mel was also the recipient of the Diving Australia Endeavor Award,

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Speaker 4: then over to cliff diving after twenty one months without

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Speaker 4: Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series returned in Saint Raphael, France.

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Speaker 4: Ozzie Rhiannon Ifflin showed us once again why she is

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Speaker 4: the coen of the sport, completing an incredible dive off

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Speaker 4: three points clear of second place in this world series.

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Speaker 4: This was her ninth victory in a row across three seasons.

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Speaker 2: Nine in a row. That's that's very good.

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Speaker 4: I watch her dive and look, I am not the

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Speaker 2: That's very impressive.

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Speaker 1: And finally, in AFLW, wrapping up a kind of surprising

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Speaker 1: trade period, Vivianside from North Melbourne went to the Gold

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Speaker 1: Coast Suns, Taylor Harris ended up at the Melbourne Demons,

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Speaker 1: just Ouposs went from the Giants to Carlton, and at

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Speaker 1: the very last minute, Jess Hosking went to join her

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Speaker 1: twin Sarah Hosking at the Richmond Tigers. During free agency,

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Speaker 1: Alison Downey from Carlton has been picked up by Collingwood

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Speaker 1: with a couple of surprise d listings. Rochelle Rocky Cranston

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Speaker 4: There was also an additional trade that happened last week.

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Speaker 4: Producer Bailey q some clapping for our very own Chloe Dalton,

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Speaker 4: who has traded from Carleton to the.

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Speaker 3: GWS Giants here in Sydney.

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Speaker 4: I for one, am absolutely stoked that I'm not losing

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Speaker 4: I'm very happy you'll be staying in Sydney and I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited about this. I got to go into

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Speaker 2: Milisha Eva. I can't wait.

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Speaker 1: It's just so nice to be staying home at Sydney

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Speaker 1: and the fact that you guys can now come and

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Speaker 1: watch us play footy.

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Speaker 4: I'm so I'm going to be one of those like

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Speaker 4: full blown afl like all decked out in the merch.

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Speaker 1: I'm expecting that every week. Millie, Yeah, I'll be there.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait. Now it's time for the key story.

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Speaker 1: Australian Olympic swimmer Maddie Groves took to Instagram to say

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Speaker 1: that she's made the decision to not compete at the

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Speaker 1: Olympic trials in Adelaide. Not long after, she re shared

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Speaker 1: her post on Twitter with the caption, let this be

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Speaker 1: a lesson to all misogynistic perverts in sport and their bootlickers.

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Speaker 1: You can no longer exploit young women and girls body

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Speaker 1: shame or medically gaslight them and then expect them to

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Speaker 1: represent you so you can earn your annual bonus times up.

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Speaker 5: WHOA.

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Speaker 1: So there's been a lot of talks since that's come out.

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Speaker 1: Obviously there's been a lot of comments about a lot

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Speaker 1: of speculation. There've been a couple of tweets from last year,

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Speaker 1: so she actually raised some concerns on Twitter. Last year,

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Speaker 1: out what had gone down, so she thought. She then tweeted,

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Speaker 1: woe guys, this may have worked. Next time your complaints

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Speaker 1: body shaming. My decision to withdraw is partly because there's

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Speaker 1: people ignoring bad behavior to thrive. I need a break.

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Speaker 4: Swimming Australia Chief Executive Alex Bauman said that Swimming Australia

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Speaker 4: The panel will be led by Swimming Australia Director Tracy Stockwell,

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Speaker 4: problem with women. Tracy stated, we've made a lot of improvements,

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Speaker 4: our athletes. When we have any accusations of misbehavior inappropriate behavior,

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Speaker 4: we take that very seriously.

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Speaker 1: My question here is they've said they're going to set

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Speaker 3: Yes, like this.

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Speaker 4: I don't understand that either from what I understaid as

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Speaker 4: the organization. Obviously amazing that they are looking into this.

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Speaker 4: It's going to be from what they know, it's going

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Speaker 4: to be an all female panel. Yeah, but I'm a

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Speaker 4: bit confused by the fact that, yeah, the director Tracy

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Interesting, And she's also because of the fact that Maddie

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Speaker 1: hasn't come forward, they also need to look at their

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Speaker 1: complaints process because this whole the way it's all blown up.

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Speaker 1: I think a big part of it has been the

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Speaker 1: fact that Mattie has made these tweets and comments on

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Speaker 1: social media, and then Swimming Australia have said we're trying

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Speaker 1: So I think there's something that's happened here where. And

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Speaker 1: obviously I can't speak on behalf of Maddie, but it

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Speaker 1: seems to be that Maddie may have attempted to make

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Speaker 1: from it, and she's come to realize maybe the only

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Speaker 1: through social media. So hoping that through this investigation that

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Speaker 1: they work out what's going on, and hoping that Mattie's

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Speaker 1: okay during this whole process too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 4: And I think it's so important no matter how these

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Speaker 1: How good I got to come and visit the team

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Speaker 1: It's really special. Thank you so much for coming on

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Speaker 2: I think you're doing such an incredible job.

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Speaker 1: INSI The Matilda's take on Number five Sweden on Wednesday,

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