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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. Hello Millicent, Hello Chloe.

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm good, miss you, I'm with you too.

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Speaker 2: For those who don't know, Chloe is currently in Darwin

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Speaker 2: on a training camp with the Aussie sevens, So instead

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Speaker 2: of having her sitting across from me, she's staring at

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Speaker 2: her little face on her computer screen.

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Speaker 1: We had some small technical I thought I was flying

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Speaker 1: home earlier from Darwin, but we had to get producer

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Speaker 1: Bailey to Express post my microphone to me. That got

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Speaker 1: delivered to his friend who then delivered it hand delivered

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Speaker 1: it to my accommodation. So shout out to aj Thinks

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Speaker 1: for the hand delivery of the microphone. And we've made it.

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Speaker 2: Oh, so how is Darwin? It's so warm?

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Speaker 1: It's been probably low thirties every day. We've been doing

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Speaker 1: pretty intense training getting ready for the heat over in Tokyo.

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Speaker 1: It's been a very big week of training, but just

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Speaker 1: nice to get away with the girls. Spent a bit

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Speaker 1: of time doing some pull recovery out on the night's

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Speaker 1: not the track, out on the field. It's been a.

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Speaker 2: Good week, lovely. I know it's odd watching you on

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Speaker 2: the screen wearing like a T shirt and I'm covered

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Speaker 2: in layers here because it's absolutely freezing. I'm quite envious

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Speaker 2: that you're in the heat. We hit fifty days to

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Speaker 2: than fifty days till the kickoff. I can't believe it's

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Speaker 1: It feels I'm nervous. I'm so nervous. It's like looking

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Speaker 1: ahead at the calendar over the next couple of months.

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Speaker 1: There's not a lot that's happening before Tokyo, Like it's

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Speaker 2: I'm going to have to get used to looking at

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

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Speaker 2: In rally car racing. Molly Taylor and her racing partner

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Speaker 2: Johann Christofferson have secured their second Extreme E win in

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Speaker 2: a row at the Ocean X pre So a bit

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Speaker 2: of a background for you guys on Extreme E Racing.

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Speaker 2: It is a new international racing series intended to right

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Speaker 2: the wrongs of traditional motorsport. The cars are electric battery

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Speaker 2: powered four wheel drive buggies that produce no tailpipe emissions

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Speaker 2: and minimal noise. Whilst in the f one they have

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Speaker 2: to kind of ship or not ship. They fly their

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Speaker 2: cars and everything that goes along with them all around

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Speaker 2: the world. Extreme E uses a refurbished Royal mail ship

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Speaker 2: to haul races to their destinations around the world. Furthermore,

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Speaker 2: they recognize that traditional motors is a very male dominated sport.

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Speaker 2: The series requires every team to have a male and

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Speaker 2: female driver. I didn't know that that's really cool. It

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Speaker 2: is very very cool. I feel like it's sport doing

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Speaker 2: good and I think it's something that's quite unique and

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Speaker 2: it's not really been done before. You see, there's a

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Speaker 2: bunch of investors that have jumped on board, including the

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Speaker 2: likes of like Lewis Hamilton and such. So it's great

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Speaker 2: to see people investing in this and hopefully this kind

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Speaker 2: be taken into other sports throughount the world to you know,

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Speaker 2: contribute to a better future.

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Speaker 1: Love that in soccer. Mel Andreada is the Matilda's assistant

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Speaker 1: head coach Tony Gustafson when his contract expires, and after

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Speaker 1: over a decade of doing a number of various jobs

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Speaker 1: to make ends meet, the Matilda's gig is her first

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Speaker 1: full time coaching role in women's football. So the Matildas

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Speaker 1: are preparing to take on Denmark on Friday and Sweden Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: And Andreetta says she's really excited about the future of

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Speaker 1: the women's game in Australia. She's a really strong advocate

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Speaker 1: need to be made to ensure that the Matildas stay

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Speaker 1: investment also needs to be funneled into emerging coaches, and

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Speaker 1: Andreetta speaks from experience when discussing the need to develop

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Speaker 1: pathways for female coaches. So pretty impressive. But when she

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Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen eighteen, she balanced full time teaching, studying

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Speaker 2: Well that's big.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I also love what she said about the

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Speaker 1: into these coaching roles. She said, I wouldn't be here enough.

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Speaker 1: All these people in these organizations didn't believe in me

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Speaker 1: there's more female coaches coaching women's teams, not the exception.

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Speaker 1: We've actually just got Elia walking into the room. Did

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Speaker 2: Earlier, if Elia Green to make a cameo appearance on

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Speaker 2: The Wrap this week.

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Speaker 1: Hey thanks for being on this week's episode of The Rap.

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Speaker 1: She just came to get pancakes out of the microwave.

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Speaker 2: Love your work. Earlier in athletics, Lisa Weightman will be

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Speaker 2: heading to Tokyo to compete in her fourth Olympic Games

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Speaker 2: marathon event. She'll be just one of eight Australians to

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Speaker 2: attend four Olympics in athletics and will join the marathon

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Speaker 2: legends Steve Monaghetti, Lisa on Diecki, rob Di Castella and

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Speaker 2: Benita Willis as four time Olympians. Becoming a four time

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Speaker 2: Olympian is a dream come true for Weightman, saying I'm

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Speaker 2: extremely proud to have created this opportunity and with everything

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Speaker 2: on my plate with full time work, a mum in

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Speaker 2: lockdown and an athlete, I've certainly built up the resilience

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Speaker 2: I need to run my best in Sapporo. That is

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Speaker 2: so impressive. Honestly, if that tells me how people do this.

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Speaker 1: And a mom like lockdown is hard enough when you

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Speaker 1: don't have anything to do, let alone having to balance

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Speaker 1: all of those things, that's amazing.

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Speaker 2: Alongside Weightman will be Ellie Pashley and shaneid Diver, who

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Speaker 2: off on August seventh. In supporter.

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Speaker 1: In netball, the Sydney Derby was played on Sunday in

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Speaker 1: front of over eight thousand spectators at ken Rosewell Arena.

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Speaker 1: The New South Wales swifts were perfect with ball in

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Speaker 1: hand shooting one hundred percent. That is very impressive. In

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Speaker 1: the sixty three to fifty one victory over the Giants,

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Speaker 1: the contest was fierce all over the court, but nowhere

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Speaker 1: more so than between centers Jamie Lee Price and Maddie Prowd,

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Speaker 1: who clashed multiple times throughout the match. Prowd spent her

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Speaker 1: with Price, but Proud showed she was up to the challenge,

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Speaker 1: saying after the match, Jamie is obviously a very physical player.

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Speaker 1: we had Maddy Prowd on Season one of The Female

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Speaker 1: Athlete Project and we shared with her a compilation video

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Speaker 1: don't know where whether it was physical or Maddie was

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Speaker 1: girls actually had to spend five days in hotel quarantine

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Speaker 2: Yeah. In hockey, the Hockey Rus have claimed their first

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Speaker 2: series win under their new head coach Katrina Powell whilst

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Speaker 2: in New Zealand. The girls kicked off the Trans Tasman

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Speaker 2: Battle around two weeks ago, where they battled it out

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Speaker 2: with the New Zealand Blacksticks in four matches. They drew

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Speaker 2: the first three games, but in the final match last week,

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Speaker 2: the Ozzie fought to bring home the three to one

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Speaker 2: This was the Hockey rules first international tournament in four

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Speaker 2: the Olympic squad announcement is looming.

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Speaker 1: In AFL, fifteen year old Lauren Young has taken out

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Speaker 1: the South Australia National Football League Best and Fairest awards.

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Speaker 1: So she's fifteen, playing against fully grown adults and she's

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Speaker 1: been named the best in the competition. That's so impressive.

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Speaker 1: It's been a stellar debut for this young gun, who

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Speaker 1: Under nineteen Championships. She'll be eligible for the nab AFLW

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Speaker 1: Draft in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to watch her me too.

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Speaker 1: It's also trade season. What happens during sign and trade

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Speaker 1: period is players can obviously sign on to continue playing

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Speaker 1: they can look to get traded to another club. Players

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Speaker 1: So far, Sabrina Frederick is off to Collingwood, with Maddy

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Speaker 1: Saint Kilda is also going to Richmond moving.

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Speaker 2: On to tennis. World number one Ash Barty has retired

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Speaker 2: Italian Open about two weeks ago. This has left the

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Speaker 2: Roland Garros without its top two women seeds, with Naomi

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Speaker 1: Last week on the route, we chatted about Naomi Osaka's

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Speaker 1: fined fifteen thousand dollars. There was a pretty big uproar

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Speaker 1: on social media, with the large majority of people supporting

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Speaker 1: Naomi's decision to prioritize her mental health, while others claimed

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Speaker 1: it's just part of your job, you get paid millions

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Speaker 1: Asaka's currently number two in the world, and she then

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Speaker 1: in meditation at Calm. To the rescue, well kind of

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Speaker 1: to the rescue. They've done something pretty cool. Karm I've

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Speaker 1: said they will pay the fine for players opting out

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Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty one Grand Slam media appearances for

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Speaker 1: mental health reasons, and will also match the fine with

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Speaker 1: a fifteen thousand dollars donation to Loria's Sports, which is

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Speaker 1: an organization that use the power of sport to make

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Speaker 1: a difference in young people's lives.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really awesome to see brands like Calm coming

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Speaker 2: on board and supporting these decisions of athletes, and hopefully

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Speaker 2: and to really encourage people to protect their mental health.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's just as important as a player's physical health.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, hopefully to see some change in the future.

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Speaker 1: And also I can't believe Naomi actually had to withdraw.

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Speaker 1: Obviously she's made that decision, but it's so disappointing the

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Speaker 2: I know, right, that sucks. In other sporting news, the

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Speaker 2: Australian Olympic Committee has taken another really important step on

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Speaker 2: its Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan. The AOC is working to

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Speaker 2: In soccer. The Matildas continue their Olympic preparation this week.

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Speaker 1: This Saturday gets serious in the pool with the Australian

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