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Speaker 1: This episode is brought to you by the Athletes Foot.

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

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Speaker 1: What have we got around the grounds this week?

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Speaker 2: Former world number one s Murda Hallup has been banned

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Speaker 2: from tennis for four years, are on a tiitmas shares

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Speaker 2: her scary journey of finding it tumors in her ovaries,

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Speaker 2: and Linden hall smashes her own Australian fifteen hundred meter

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Speaker 2: record in the Diamond League.

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Speaker 1: For the key story, we'll discuss new research by the

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Speaker 1: Women's Sports Trust showing that people in the UK are

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Speaker 1: watching more women's sport than ever before on TV. How

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Speaker 1: bloody good. My name is Chloe Dalton. I'm joined every

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Speaker 1: week on the show by my co host, Aaron bez Morton.

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Speaker 1: Because sometimes I forget to introduce you to Bez.

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Speaker 2: I'd like to be a silent partner. I've told you this. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm very.

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Speaker 1: Youan not silent in any form of your life.

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Speaker 2: Anyway. Yeah, great weekend is your weekend? Friend?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Look, Saturday we played a very We're going to

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Speaker 1: get to that. We played a very hot game of

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Speaker 1: football out at Blacktown. I don't know what do you

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Speaker 1: know what the ten bended up at.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it was definitely over thirty.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was up there, easily over thirty.

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Speaker 2: And actually I had that question for you. Obviously, will

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Speaker 2: get to that, but no drink breaks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought that, like there'd be certain parameters in

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Speaker 1: place when the temperature exceeds a certain limit because and

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Speaker 1: again we will get to that. I need to stop

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Speaker 1: saying that, because we've both said it seventeen times in

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Speaker 1: this intro. But because the quarters are now longer and

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Speaker 1: we've got caps on the rotation numbers to try and

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Speaker 1: increase fatigue and score more goals. Great result, but.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to that too. I want to talk about that.

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Speaker 1: That's what I mean. We just keep saying it. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: Let's take a look around the grounds.

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Speaker 2: Let's get to it in tennis. This is going to

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Speaker 2: be great. We also went to we're remote, so we

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Speaker 2: were delayed and it's fun times. But here we are

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Speaker 2: in tennis. The former world number one Simona Hallup has

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Speaker 2: been banned from professional tennis for four years after a

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Speaker 2: tribunal rule she broke anti doping rules. Hallett's violation stemmed

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Speaker 2: from the use of rocks adustat a banned blood booster

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Speaker 2: at the twenty twenty two US Open. The player claimed

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Speaker 2: that the substance came from a supplement, and while the

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Speaker 2: tribunal accepted Hallop's argument that she had taken a contaminated supplement,

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Speaker 2: it ruled that the volume ingested could not have resulted

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Speaker 2: in the concentration of rock seducetat found in her positive samples.

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Speaker 2: I think they were saying, yeah, it might have been contaminated,

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Speaker 2: but you've definitely had a little bit more somewhere else,

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Speaker 2: second charge which related to irregularities in Hallop's Athlete Biological

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Speaker 2: the last couple of years in that regards. She's vehemently

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Speaker 2: decision and would appeal to sports highest court. She said,

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Speaker 2: the last year has been the hardest match of my

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Speaker 2: life and unfortunately my fight continues. Tennis goat Serena Williams,

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Speaker 2: who lost to Simoa Hallup in the twenty nineteen we

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Speaker 2: everyone really as she does just doing Serena Things. After

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Speaker 2: Twitter and left the simple message eight is a better number,

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Speaker 2: which appears to refer to the fact that Williams finished

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Speaker 1: I've been thinking about this one because again when we

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Speaker 1: people probably disappointed, and that a lot of people actually

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Speaker 1: coming to Simona's defense. And I think the Peter Bowl

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Speaker 1: the time we see people when they test positive, it's

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Speaker 1: Simona example, the reason that I do think it's different

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Speaker 2: And in a little wrap of the US Open, just

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Speaker 2: it's been confirmed that Kokokov's US Open final victory over

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Speaker 2: Arena Sabalanka was watched by three point four billion viewers

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Speaker 1: Done in swimming. Ouzzie swimming legend Arion Tiitmas shed some

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Speaker 1: personal news on her social media channels last week. The

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Speaker 1: Olympian and world record holder discovered tumors on her ovaries

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Speaker 1: In the Instagram post, Titmas said the fear of not

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Speaker 1: being able to have children was her first reaction, she wrote,

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Speaker 1: it was something else that the doctors picked up on

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Speaker 1: that made everything else seem irrelevant. A large growth was

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Speaker 1: a scary time for me. It was discovered that her

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Speaker 1: right ovary contained two benign tumors, each four centimeters in size,

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Speaker 1: one of the lucky ones, and after having the tumors removed, wrote,

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Speaker 1: I'm feeling well and relieved they are out. Being an

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Speaker 1: past month, I've learned more about my body and what

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Speaker 1: healthy doesn't mean you're immune to these things. The procedure

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Speaker 2: In NRLW on Sunday afternoon, the final match between the

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Speaker 2: Gold Coast Titans and Camber Raiders decided the top four

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Speaker 2: for twenty twenty three. Gold Coasts were too good for

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Speaker 2: the newcomers, running out thirty to six winners at Goo

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Speaker 2: Stadium and ending Canberras finals hopes. The Raiders needed to

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Speaker 2: the Canal Sharks ended their debut season, collecting records left,

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Speaker 2: right and center. They registered the biggest victory ever recorded

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Speaker 2: in the NRLW after whacking the Eels fifty six to six.

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Speaker 2: They also became the first ROLW side ever to reach

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Speaker 2: fifty points in game, and halfback Taylor Preston's twenty point haul,

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Speaker 2: a day out, didn't they. The Eels were grand finalists

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Speaker 2: and finished their final game completing it just forty four percent,

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Speaker 2: making errors on fourteen of their twenty five sets. I

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Speaker 2: finals time. Minor Premiums Newcastle and second place Sydney Roosters

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Speaker 2: have earned home semifinals, with the first place Nights hosting

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Speaker 2: fourth placed Broncos and the second placed Roosters playing the

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Speaker 2: Gold Coast Titans in Sydney. Newcastle I think looked to

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Speaker 2: the Roosters are definitely having some injury concerns. But I

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Speaker 2: don't I think the dark horse for me, you can't

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Speaker 2: there'll be two excellent games of rugby league this weekend,

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Speaker 2: so make sure if you're in Newcastle or Sydney you

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Speaker 2: buy a ticket and get out there and support the teams.

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Speaker 1: We spoke about potential NRLW expansion last week Bears, and

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Speaker 1: there's been some further chat during the week from players

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Speaker 1: both current and format, which I it's hard to disagree

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Speaker 1: with their chat, isn't it. Jillarue A line of Ferguson

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Speaker 1: said the competition's current size was perfect for the time being,

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Speaker 1: saying on Channel nine where we're at with ten at

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Speaker 1: the moment is quite fitting because towards the back end

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Speaker 1: there were different teams where the depth of the squads

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Speaker 1: were really tested and we saw the cream rise to

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Speaker 1: that have more experience in their systems. She called on

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Speaker 1: Rugby League to put more time and energy into a

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Speaker 1: second tier competition. With rumors circulating that local competitions will

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Speaker 1: shift their spot in the calendar to run alongside the NLW,

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Speaker 1: Ferguson said, we need to get the competitions underneath the

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Speaker 1: NRLW to a ligne so that if you're not playing NLW,

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Speaker 1: you've got somewhere else to be and somewhere else you

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Speaker 1: can pop up to. Millie Boyle unsurprisingly agreed to that

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Speaker 1: she's playing at the Sydney Roosters this season. Millie Boyle,

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Speaker 1: she suggested lengthening the season would be a better option

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Speaker 1: than adding more teams, also telling Channel nine, we definitely

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Speaker 1: need a competition under the NROLW so those development players

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Speaker 1: and players who aren't getting selected each week can play,

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Speaker 1: year two Whether that's two seasons in one year, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, but we just need some more footy before

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Speaker 1: we start playing. It's really tricky, right because I would

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Speaker 1: totally agree with this idea of aligning it so that

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Speaker 1: players who aren't selected get a chance to keep playing,

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Speaker 1: because I think it's really hard if you're spending a

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Speaker 1: quality of the competition as a whole. But as Millie's

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Speaker 1: touched on there, the current season length in nine games

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Speaker 1: they're playing plus finals two weeks of finals isn't long

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Speaker 1: enough for the players to play for the whole year,

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Speaker 1: like the AFLW scenario. So it's really tricky, bears. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what is there a solution.

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Speaker 2: I think if I was an URL, i'd be looking

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Speaker 2: at potentially length in the season. But I think you

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Speaker 2: could also start that. I know in yourself it's called

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Speaker 2: the Harvey Norman Cup. You could start that as a

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Speaker 2: kind of maybe let's say ten weeks before the NLW

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Speaker 2: the same time as in ERLW. I think it's really important,

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Speaker 2: like you said, to be able to have somewhere to

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Speaker 2: drop back to, to not only try and re earn

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Speaker 2: your position if you are dropped, but also to keep

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Speaker 2: playing sport. I know that you were speaking the other

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Speaker 2: day about how your giants kind of reserves trying to

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Speaker 2: organize scrimmage's left, right and center just to keep playing

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Speaker 2: of a better word.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that your suggestion is actually perfect. Let's

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Speaker 2: I love it when we agree all the time. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: In a football. Cross signed a big deal with English

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Speaker 2: from Swedish club Hammerby to the Gunners, telling reporters, I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm really stoked. I'm stoked for that reported paypacket and

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Speaker 1: In further Spanish women's football news, the vast majority of

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Speaker 1: Spain was due to announce a squad for its next

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Speaker 1: The Kathy Freeman stand was unveiled at Stadium Australia last week,

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Speaker 1: and our hero told those gathers gathered there to witness

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Speaker 1: the moment I was born to be an Olympic champion.

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Speaker 1: It was twenty three years to the day that the

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Speaker 1: legend emerged in her iconic fireproof bodysuit to light the

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Speaker 1: flame and start the Sydney two thousand Olympics. The proud Cuckoo,

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Speaker 1: Yelanji and Beeragabba woman said, I did not see this

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Speaker 1: day coming. I was a barefoot kid running around dreaming

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Speaker 1: of big things. This isn't just about me. This is

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Speaker 1: about my family, the community I belong to, the ancestral

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Speaker 1: lines that go back so long and are so deep

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Speaker 1: and rich. It is the first major grandscent to be

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Speaker 1: named after a female athlete in New South Wales, and

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Speaker 1: I know that Premier Chrismins and Venues New South Wales

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Speaker 1: are pretty keen to change that and continue highlighting and

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Speaker 1: elevating the stories and names and voices of female athletes

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Speaker 1: that have been such incredible pioneers in this state in AFLW.

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Speaker 2: Let's get the off the field but on field story

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Speaker 2: out of the way first. Oh, this was a bizarre time.

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Speaker 2: We were sitting at beautiful Blacktown on Saturday, quite warm

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Speaker 2: and the match didn't start when it was meant to.

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Speaker 2: They weren't warming up and like this was a bit weird.

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Speaker 2: Sojed West Giants were playing the Richmond Tigers and the

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Speaker 2: game was delayed by thirty minutes after a snake was

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Speaker 2: found on the field. It was quite bizarre anyway, old mates,

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Speaker 2: snake catcher wanders in, locates the little baby, red belly

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Speaker 2: black snake, puts it in his bad wanders off and

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Speaker 2: we get underway. But anyway, things that happened in women's

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Speaker 2: sport's that wasn't on the Bingo car astraya. Unfortunately for

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Speaker 2: the Giants, the Tigers did prove too strong late in

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Speaker 2: the game, finishing it pretty well and securing they win

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Speaker 2: seven goals eleven fifty three to five goals for thirty four.

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Speaker 2: Also on Saturday, the Melbourne Demons kept their unbeaten season

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Speaker 2: intact with a forty two point victure of the Western

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Speaker 2: Bulldogs at Casey Fields. The Bulldogs challenged the Demons all day,

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Speaker 2: trailing by seven points at quarter time, fifteen points at

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Speaker 2: halftime and fourteen at the final change, but the defending

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Speaker 2: champs showed their class and kicked away in the final

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Speaker 2: quarter to win twelve goals eleven eighty three to six

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Speaker 2: goals five forty one. On Sunday, the goalc Suns upset

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Speaker 2: the Colinwood Magpie. As I watched a bit of this week,

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Speaker 2: Suns were good.

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Speaker 1: They were really good. I thought their ball moving and

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Speaker 1: their chain out of stoppage was yeah. I flicked it

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Speaker 1: on maybe in the second half and I was like,

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Speaker 1: goodness me, they're on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, They're impressive. It was a tight game. They won

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Speaker 2: five goals three thirty three to who goals nine to

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Speaker 2: twenty one and obviously Collinwood were a bit inaccurate in

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Speaker 2: front of goal. Jamie Stantton cannot miss at the moment.

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Speaker 2: She after kicking six last week, she added three on

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Speaker 2: Sunday to help steer her team home. The Sons were

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Speaker 2: well aware of the danger that Collingwood's pre davy poses

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Speaker 2: and sent midfielder Lucy Single to her Single stuck to

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Speaker 2: Davy like a craft Single, restricting the skipper.

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Speaker 1: Is that drastic cheese because they're gross?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, plastic cheese. Now it sticks to stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very true. Sticks to a meat patty like

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Speaker 1: a treat.

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Speaker 2: Thanks. That was my own joke restricting the skipp at

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Speaker 2: just five disposals at halftime. The Pies moved Davy forward

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Speaker 2: in the third quarter in an attempt to break the tag,

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Speaker 2: and Single just shifted her attention to brit Benicchi, who

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Speaker 2: she also threw some cheese out and did a solid

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Speaker 2: job of shutting down the defense. The defensive effort from

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Speaker 2: the Gold Coast was huge, any particular Single, who finished

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Speaker 2: the game with nineteen disposal, seven tackles and three clearances

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Speaker 2: in and outstanding performance. Quick question for you, Klough, We're

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Speaker 2: seeing a few teams fall away in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 2: You did mention in our intro that the quarters are longer.

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Speaker 2: Now I think that's having an effect on some teams

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Speaker 2: finishing off their matches.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. We saw Laura Kine, the new head of footy

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Speaker 1: at the AFL, discuss in a funny announcement of easy

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Speaker 1: Huntington's return to footy that they actually have seen an

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Speaker 1: increase in the number of goals across the competition already

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Speaker 1: from these extended quarters. So I think the D's are

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Speaker 1: probably a pretty clear example. Unfortunately, they did it to

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Speaker 1: us in Canberra, and they've done it again this weekend

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Speaker 1: of relatively close scores at three quarter time and then

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Speaker 1: they've kind of just burst away. I think it's probably

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Speaker 1: an example of the teams that have systems in place

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Speaker 1: can run teams out a little bit more in that

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Speaker 1: last quarter, and I think like it's obviously going to

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Speaker 1: take time to adapt to but in my opinion, I

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Speaker 1: think it's a better thing. We all want to be

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Speaker 1: playing more footy and we just have to kind of

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Speaker 1: keep adapting with the game. But yeah, I think it's

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Speaker 1: a positive change. I don't know how my teammates feel,

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Speaker 1: but I'd say it's a positive change.

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Speaker 2: Totally agree.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the key story in some

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Speaker 1: no one watches women's sports news. The Women's Sports Trust

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Speaker 1: is a UK based charity that aims to raise the

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Speaker 1: visibility and increase the impact of women's sport through the

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Speaker 1: promotion of diverse athlete role models, increase media coverage, and

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Speaker 1: improved funding landscape. Last week, they released the results from

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Speaker 1: their latest research using data and analysis from Futures Sport

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Speaker 1: and Entertainment, and the results show that people in the

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Speaker 1: UK are watching more women's sport than ever before on TV,

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Speaker 1: with average time spent watching increased by twenty eight percent,

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Speaker 1: increasing sorry by twenty eight percent, and total viewing hours

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Speaker 1: increasing by nineteen percent year on year. This huge increase

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Speaker 1: was primarily driven by the recent fee for Women's World Cup.

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Speaker 1: The average viewer in the UK watched six hours and

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Speaker 1: forty five minutes coverage during the tournament, in which a

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Speaker 1: record sixty four matches were played, and most importantly, in

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Speaker 1: the UK, every single one broadcast on free day a television.

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Speaker 1: Unique audiences are tuning into women's sport in unprecedented numbers.

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Speaker 1: Eleven point five million of the twenty nine point nine

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Speaker 1: million people who watch the Women's World Cup on TV

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Speaker 1: did not watch the Men's World Cup in Qatar in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. So bes you mentioned this to me

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Speaker 1: the other day. This stat approximately forty percent of the

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Speaker 1: audience that are invested in are invested in women's sport only,

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Speaker 1: so it's we know that there's some transfer We know

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of men's fans who are also transferred

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Speaker 1: to watch women's sport, but I think it's such a

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Speaker 1: unique commercial marketing opportunity that there's there is this new

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Speaker 1: audience that might only just want to watch women's sport.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's so huge also given the fact that

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Speaker 2: there are massive discrepancies in the marketing spend between the

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Speaker 2: two events, so there's again potential for growth. You're looking

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Speaker 2: at a forty percent unique audience with huge potential for

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Speaker 2: growth if you do market the event the way it

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Speaker 2: should be marketed. So shifting to cricket, the Women's Ashes

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Speaker 2: series in the UK also saw huge gains. The average

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Speaker 2: viewer watched three hours of coverage, which was one hundred

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Speaker 2: and thirty one percent higher than in twenty nineteen. The

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Speaker 2: series also brought in four point five million new VI

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Speaker 2: new viewers for England women and figures show that in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, thirty seven percent of viewers but the

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Speaker 2: Women's Ashes had not watched any other women's sport, resulting

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Speaker 2: in two point four million new viewers to women's sport,

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Speaker 2: more unique eyes on women's sport and in netfoll. The

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Speaker 2: World Cup in South Africa also saw an increase in numbers.

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Speaker 2: When the Red Roses beat Australia in the pul matches

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Speaker 2: and made the final. The audience increased from four point

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Speaker 2: five million in twenty nineteen to five point six million

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three, and the proportion of female viewers

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Speaker 2: also grew from forty seven percent in twenty nineteen to

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Speaker 2: fifty six percent in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Beyond viewership stats, the study found that because cosmetics and

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Speaker 1: personal care brands advertised most around the Women's World Cup

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Speaker 1: match coverage on commercial broadcast to ITV, with the WST

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Speaker 1: noting a new opportunity for brands to target a fresh

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Speaker 1: sporting audience and Tammy Parlor. The CEO of Women's Sports

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Speaker 1: Trust kind of touched on the fact that the biggest

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Speaker 1: part of this research is identifying that there is a

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Speaker 1: unique audience that's been drawn to women's sport in some

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Speaker 1: real chance to capitalize their bez.

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Speaker 2: And because of the USA can't let the UK get

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Speaker 2: all of the applause. The WNBA announced that it has

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Speaker 2: just recorded its most watched regular season in twenty one years,

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Speaker 2: with combined viewership across ABC, CBS, ESPN and ESPN two,

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Speaker 2: up twenty one percent over the previous campaign. The season

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Speaker 2: also experienced a successful season outside of TV audiences, with

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Speaker 2: average regular season attendance is up sixteen percent compared to

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Speaker 2: last year. And finally, this is a big one too.

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Speaker 2: We speak about this a lot in the social media space.

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Speaker 2: The league saw a record three hundred and seventy three

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Speaker 2: million video views this season, which was up ninety six

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Speaker 2: percent on the twenty twenty two campaign. Its digital apps

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Speaker 2: or downloads increase by nearly four hundred percent. Well, total

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Speaker 2: views for its Lee Pass package was up two hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty seven percent.

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Speaker 1: That is just huge, isn't it. Let's take a look

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Speaker 1: at what to watch. The twenty twenty three ICF Canoe

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Speaker 1: Slaler M Kayak Cross World Championships begin on September nineteen

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Speaker 1: and runs through to September twenty four. Held at Lee

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Speaker 1: Valley in London, Paddlers for more than fifty nations will

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Speaker 1: be fitting to book tickets to Paris twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: There will be fifteen quota spots up for grabs in

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Speaker 1: both the men's and women's kayak and twelve quota spots

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Speaker 1: for each men's and women's canoe. Australian sisters Jess and

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Speaker 1: Miomi Fox will be keen to secure spots in the

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Speaker 1: games and you can catch all the action live on

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Speaker 1: the ICF website.

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Speaker 2: It's finals time for the NLW and here are the

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Speaker 2: times you need to lock in. Both matches will be

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Speaker 2: on Sunday. The Knights for the Broncos will kick off

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Speaker 2: at two five pm at McDonald Jones Stadium in Newcastle

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Speaker 2: and the Roosters via the time and this will start

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Speaker 2: at four fifteen pm at Alliant Stadium in Sydney. That

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Speaker 2: is some pretty quality back to back Sunday afternoon viewing

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Speaker 2: and it will be live en free on the Nine Network.

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Speaker 1: The AFOW match of the round is between first place

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Speaker 1: the North Melbourne Kangars and fourth place Brisbane Lions. It's

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Speaker 1: one for Tazzy listeners to get along to. The game

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Speaker 1: will be played at University of Tasmania Stadium in Lunceston

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Speaker 1: on Sunday at one five pm. If you're not in Tazzy,

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Speaker 1: make sure you watch live on the AFLW at Fox

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Speaker 1: Footy or KO Sports.

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Speaker 2: And in cricket, the WNCL starts this week with the

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Speaker 2: Tasmanian Tigers looking to defend their fifty over domestic title.

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Speaker 2: The first match will be between New Soufals and Queensland

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Speaker 2: on Friday the twenty second at Cricket Central in Sydney

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Speaker 2: Olympic Park. If you aren't in Sydney and keen to

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Speaker 2: what you can watch the match live on koan cricket

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Speaker 2: dot com.

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Speaker 1: That are you and that's the rap is the rap

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Speaker 1: I got to run and go to go do a keynote.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, See you next week.

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Speaker 2: Bye bye