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

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Speaker 2: What have we got this week?

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Speaker 3: Taking a look around the grounds, Netbull has announced a

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Speaker 3: landmark new pay deal, the w League is expanding, and

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Speaker 3: Jess Fox continues her dominance on the world stage.

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Speaker 1: For our key story, we'll discuss the third postponement of

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Speaker 1: the NRLW season as left eight players from New Zealand

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Speaker 1: stranded in Australia. But first let's take a look around

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Speaker 3: In canouslalam Our, Golden Girl Jess Fox has taken out

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Speaker 3: the double in the third Connus Lalam World Cup event

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Speaker 3: to that, there's also the World Champs. So Jess has

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Speaker 2: So he's just on fire. Golden Girl can't do anything

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Speaker 1: In soccer, with the twenty twenty three Women's World Cup

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Speaker 1: League will be expanded by three additional teams, Wellington Phoenix

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Speaker 1: These will be the first expanded W League club since

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Speaker 3: In netball, the Supernebol has announced a landmark new pay

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Speaker 3: clubs have agreed to this two year pay deal. The

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Speaker 3: I think it's such a good way for people who

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Speaker 1: The final team for the Feeback Women's Asian Cup, to

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Speaker 1: The Tokyo twenty twenty Olympic rematch between China and Australia

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Speaker 1: Time to Chat Paralympics. Mills, what an incredible second week.

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Speaker 1: It was honestly incredible.

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Speaker 3: We actually just were watching on the television Ellie coll

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Speaker 2: One so proud of Ellie.

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Speaker 1: I reckon, we should do high as loans and heroes again, Millicent, me.

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Speaker 1: a medal in Tokyo. A huge moment, absolutely huge moment,

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Speaker 2: It was a beautiful moment, It really was.

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