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

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Speaker 2: My name is Chloe Dalton.

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Speaker 1: I'm an Olympic gold medalist in rugby seven's and I

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Speaker 1: play AFLW for the GWS Giants. Every week on the show,

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Speaker 1: I'm joined by my co host Bez, who is this

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Speaker 1: week preparing for their fifth Super W Grand Final with

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Speaker 1: the New South.

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Speaker 2: I was war Tars team as the manager.

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Speaker 3: Correct.

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Speaker 2: How are you, Bez?

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Speaker 3: I'm great? How are your friend?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm pretty good.

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Speaker 3: How's it Easter? Been well?

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Speaker 2: Good? I enjoyed the fresh loaf of saldo bread that

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Speaker 2: you've this.

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Speaker 4: I love rugby, women's sports and bread. Taking a look

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Speaker 4: around the grounds, writes huge win at Home, Alison Felix

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Speaker 4: announces her retirement and Matilda's player Ivy Lewis brass over

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Speaker 4: thirty seven thousand dollars for brain cancer research.

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Speaker 1: For our key story, we'll discuss the Afghanistan women's national

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Speaker 1: soccer teams rebuild here in Australia after being forced to

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Speaker 1: flee their home following the Taliban takeover in August last year. Hey,

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Speaker 1: you person who's listening Not you Bez, person who's listening

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Speaker 1: to this podcast? If you are maybe listening on your

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Speaker 2: We'd love if you could do us a favor and

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Speaker 2: give us a review. You can go.

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Speaker 1: let us know what you love about the podcast or

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Speaker 1: maybe what you don't love.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully there's not a lot of those.

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Speaker 1: And I also forgot to say that we wrapped up

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Speaker 1: season two of the Athlete podcast. I keep meaning to

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Speaker 1: say it every week and that I forget because we've

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Speaker 1: got a few messages on the Instagram about it. We

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Speaker 1: finished season two of the podcast. Episode thirteen with Daisy

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Speaker 1: Pierce afow Player was the last.

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Speaker 3: One that was a bonus episode two.

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Speaker 1: It was a bonus episode. I just need some time

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Speaker 2: A bit of a break.

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Speaker 3: You're a very busy human.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Before we get going and with season three, But bez,

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Speaker 1: what was your favorite episode of season two of the podcast?

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Speaker 3: I would have to say Nicola mcdat.

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Speaker 4: Really very much enjoyed your conversation with the High Jumping Queen.

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Speaker 3: She was candid and entertaining, and.

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Speaker 4: I guess, you know, when you see someone in the

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Speaker 4: sporting space on television and you develop her assumption about them.

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Speaker 4: She was as kind of effervescent as I thought she

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Speaker 4: would be, both in real life and that persona that

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Speaker 4: she kind of brings to her jumping career.

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Speaker 2: Also, big shout out.

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Speaker 3: I believe she got married last week?

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Speaker 2: Did she?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that.

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Speaker 4: We gratulations to Nick Forever was a long time play

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Speaker 4: on What About You?

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Speaker 3: It was your favorite episode?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think the Tiana Penetani episode had to be up there.

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Speaker 1: So she was a former teammate of mine in rugby

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Speaker 1: sevens and she's now playing rugby league. I loved it

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Speaker 1: because sometimes I feel like it's a tricky balance when

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Speaker 1: you interview someone that you know, because you can't really

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Speaker 1: have too many inside jokes and things. But it was

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Speaker 1: really cool to sit down with Tiana and have that

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Speaker 1: and I think we've been through some really similar experiences together.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was a great one. Got some really

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Speaker 1: good feedback on that one as well, So I think

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Speaker 1: that'd be up there if you want to check out

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Speaker 1: any of those episodes from season two all on the

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Speaker 1: apps wherever you get your podcasts, Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: that one, so check them out. Let's take a look

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Speaker 1: around the grounds in surfing. It's been a pretty long

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Speaker 1: four years for Tyler Wright. After two world titles on

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Speaker 1: the virus morphed into a pretty tumultuous two year battle

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Speaker 1: and Bell's beach bore witness to peete Tyler Wright over

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Speaker 1: the weekend. She was immense in the final against five

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Speaker 1: time world champion Carrissa Moore, posting an eight point nine

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Speaker 1: pretty cool seeing Tyler after her win. Her brothers Ohen

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Speaker 1: as she celebrated her first ever Bell's Beach title. Bell's

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Speaker 1: holds a special place in surfing history. Tyler said after

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Speaker 1: It's more than a win. It's the only event I've

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Speaker 1: Would it be a surfing quote if they didn't say

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Speaker 1: It's a pretty ominous warning for the rest of the tour.

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Speaker 1: She's well and truly recovered from her illness. She's now

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Speaker 2: That's another podcast. I think. She kicked off season two

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Speaker 1: So if you haven't listened to that one yet incredible story,

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Speaker 1: the way that she's come back from that illness, beefe.

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Speaker 3: You won that one.

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Speaker 4: Beefy had plenty of stoke to share, plenty of stock

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Speaker 4: in netball. Defending champs The News So File Swift's made

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Speaker 4: some history on Sunday, but it wasn't enough to get

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Speaker 4: Howsby equalled the Super Netball record for most super shots

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Speaker 4: And were outstanding in the mid court as the host

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Speaker 4: huge defensive effort from the Lightning. He restricted Melbourne's lethal

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Speaker 1: In athletics, Alison Felix is a legend. If you don't

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Speaker 1: quite incredible. At Tokyo twenty twenty, she won a bronze

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Speaker 1: Those were her tenth and eleventh Olympic medals, which helped

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Speaker 2: That's a long time ago, one hundred years ago correct.

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Speaker 2: She's cool. I like her.

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Speaker 1: She's become an outspoken advocate for women in sport in

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Speaker 1: She also started her own shoe and lifestyle brand called Sash.

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Speaker 1: In her retirement post, she declared, this season, I'm running

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Speaker 1: I'm running for you. More to come on that, so

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Speaker 1: stay tuned, but I'll be sharing a series of announcements

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Speaker 4: And can't wait for the more to come. Definitely staying tuned.

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Speaker 4: In rugby union, the superw semifinal between the New Suphals

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Speaker 4: The war Tars crossed five more times to finish the

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Speaker 4: The Fijiana team handed the Tars their first defeat in

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Speaker 4: The Grand Finals continue when the superw Desider is played

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Speaker 1: In Netball, Suncorp Supernetbawl continues and the Giants will be

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Speaker 1: pm and will be live on Foxtel and KO Freebies.

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Speaker 4: And in surfing, WSL moves West with the Margaret River

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Speaker 4: Back to Back live on Foxtel, Kofreebi's the WSL Lap

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Speaker 1: Look at all those options, so many, how good? And

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Speaker 4: I hope you had an excellent all day weekend.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, don't forget. Give us a review, leave

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Speaker 1: so much for listening, and we'll see you next week.

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Speaker 3: See you next week, friend,