welcome to the wrap a weekly podcast covering women's sports news bez good to be back it's
great to be back i feel a bit lost like i've forgotten how to record a podcast but
what have we got around the grounds this week well we have a lot of olympics chat
even though we've all been very deep in it where we're going to go through our favorite moments
which is very exciting there's some nrlw news some hockey news and some ac milan pregnancy
policy news i love a pregnancy policy you do love a pregnancy policy i'm so here for it because
it's just it's the next step in the things we'll discuss it later i won't get my excitement out now
my name is chloe dalton i'm joined every week on the show by my co-host bez we are recording on
gadigal land hey before we take a look around the grounds you and i've got some new t-shirts on
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around the grounds
in and out of the ground
in and out of the ground
nrw the brisbane broncos have set a new club record as they handed a thrashing to their fellow
queensland as a gold coast titan 44 to 4 ouch ouch kewi fern center mile hufunga did much the damage
with a four-try effort which equaled her club record mark set last year she is damaging with
the ball skipper ali bragan shaw was at her playmaking best she laid on two assists the
broncos had a new player on the wing stacy walker she's the smiling assassin
two weeks after winning gold gosh she didn't have long off did she no i don't think she'd be there
that soon although this the nrw season doesn't go for that long so she probably had to i'm sure it
was in the contract that she signed regardless of what you do you're going to have to be here by
this date no closing ceremony for her no and i think when you look at some of the other black
ferns girls on boats in in italy oh rough rough anyway stacy walker did show her skills out there
killed it the winnen this is the end of the show i hope you enjoyed it if you did please give this
The win was the Broncos' first of the season,
marking the three-time premiership winner's biggest ever NRLW victory.
In hockey, Australia's female hockey players have had their funding restored
leading into the 2028 Olympics after what was a 45% pay cut in the lead-up to Paris.
That's rough, isn't it?
The funding cuts saw Australia's female hockey players only able to assemble again
in a centralised Perth training environment this year
after two years apart in state squads.
They were paid just over $100 per week while in that decentralised environment,
with coach Trini Powell's support staff also slashed.
While the Kookaburras, the men's side, trained together in Perth,
Australian women's returned to their states,
then came together in Olympic camps ahead of major tournaments.
I hadn't actually realised.
I'd heard a lot about the lack of pay and funding,
but I hadn't realised how dire it was in terms of training camps
and getting paid $100 a week.
I think it's not uncommon.
In those kind of environments that you do have those satellite camps set up.
But I'm here to say, having witnessed it, it doesn't work.
It doesn't work, but it's also rough when you have had a centralised training environment
for a long time and then it gets taken away.
That's pretty rough.
Don't take the toys.
The pre-Olympic squad was also cut from 27 to 22 athletes
as a result of a subpar Tokyo campaign,
with a 2021 independent review into a toxic culture of bullying
and poor culture also factoring into that AIS assessment.
But an improved culture and better results,
including a bronze at the 2022 World Cup,
have seen that funding improve leading into the LA 2028 cycle.
I think what's pretty rough about this situation
is that they've done this report that's found a toxic culture of bullying
and then they've said to the players,
oh, I'm so sorry to hear you've been bullied.
Let's cut your funding further.
Doesn't make a lot of sense, does it?
I would think you'd need more funding, more mental health support,
more wellbeing support, a living way.
A larger support staff.
Probably key to that.
It doesn't make a lot of sense.
In some football news, mainly some pregnancy policy news,
which Chloe loves, Italian soccer giants AC Milan have introduced
a new maternity policy which will guarantee automatic contract renewals
for players who become pregnant in the final year of their deals.
Measures will see contracts automatically extended
on the same economic terms for players if their deal is due to expire
during the season in which the pregnancy is due.
If the pregnancy started.
Players will also receive assistance with childcare during sports activities
and get support for flights, accommodation and other travel expenses
for their children and a companion.
According to FIFPro's 2017 Women's Global Employment Report,
a global study on working conditions in women's soccer,
only 2% of female players interviewed across four continents had children
and 47% said they would leave the sport to start a family.
It's nearly half.
We can do math here.
It's interesting though.
that whole thing in their final year,
I love that it's kind of saying we don't think that you,
it's supporting the fact that we want you to return to the game.
But I think oftentimes,
47% would leave the sport to start a family.
Female athletes do not have to stop playing after having a child.
It's been proven time and time again.
look at Jess Cherngrove.
She's got a 16 month old.
And I know you're kind of laughing at me,
about how excited I get about pregnancy policies,
but we've seen a real shift in working conditions and pay.
And I think the pregnancy policy is another layer of protection and security
for female athletes in their sporting careers.
It's time to debrief Olympics.
before we get into this debrief,
shout out to our team at T-Fat.
Massive shout out to the team who put in a huge amount of work to pump out content.
And also big love to you guys who were following along on socials,
engaging with us,
part of the 3am club.
It was a really cool way to bring the community together for something that was pretty rough,
getting up a lot of the time in the middle of the night on your own in the lounge room a lot of the time.
I love that part of it.
The element of feeling like you're a team,
watching the team.
Probably my favorite.
Part here for that bears.
have you got top three?
Are we going to like tennis this back and forth?
I'm going to go first.
It might be a bit ordinary because a it's most recent and B it was my pick beforehand,
but I think it needs to be yours.
I'll give it to you.
The Opals were just a rollercoaster of Olympic emotions.
I felt bereft after that Nigeria game.
Even LJ said we were terrible.
we just slowly got better and better.
the semi-final against America,
unfortunately wasn't our best game.
And as Sandy Brondell said after that game,
like we had to be our best and get them on a day when they probably weren't at their best to win.
And that didn't happen.
obviously we're recording on Monday,
the bronze medal match against equality,
which pushed America all the way in the semi,
not they didn't play America.
So they pushed them in the pool game.
and went to overtime with France in the semi played America in the semi.
I thought I kept feeling comfortable.
We got up by kind of eight,
nine here and there,
and then the Belgium will come back anyway.
I was just super excited to see what is a really amazing.
I feel like group of athletes get some reward and obviously LJ,
she didn't play a lot of minutes,
but I can only imagine the support that she provided to that team behind closed doors.
I think we've got a podcast.
We've LJ dropping this Thursday.
I love her and I love that.
my favorite moment.
it's tough to say,
I almost called her.
It should be the kayak for kayaks.
Can someone help us out here?
Does the Penrith whitewater stadium have a name?
And if it doesn't,
it needs to be Fox stadium or Fox whitewaters or whatever it might be,
because I'm sorry,
those girls aren't the sport in this country.
Do we need to petition for that?
I think we need to make,
heard it here first.
Let's make it happen.
Change.org petition at Penrith.
It's probably already called that,
can you look it up while we discuss it was just that sport.
If you haven't watched it because we know some people were watching in the middle of the night,
some people watching replays,
but if you haven't seen it,
it's just like they go and crash and bash.
And when someone is like trying to spin around to go up the upstream gate and then someone comes in,
comes down and knocks them out of the way.
It's why I'm sorry.
It's just called the Penrith whitewater stadium.
New South Wales government.
We're coming for you.
How good is that?
she just was dominant the whole way through and it was her moment.
I think it's interesting too.
I love obviously living in,
I'm not living in a shadow.
It's pretty rough.
It has a negative connotation,
but I don't think when your sister's Jess Fox,
you're probably used to it,
but for more reports,
she's also exceptional at those single events,
but we can only qualify one person.
I'm going to have a crack.
I'm going to have a crack here at the bash them up.
it's made for her.
Number two for you.
I'm going to go Nina Kennedy.
I wanted that one.
I think the Nina Kennedy one was amazing.
Obviously for her performance,
I just found a new respect and I've seen it before.
I understand pole vault and field events in general at a track and field mate,
I was blown away.
It started at two 15.
I think it was the law.
She wanted five 30 in the morning.
I felt like it was closer to 6.
I thought we were waking up for about an hour here.
And it was about four hours.
I didn't go back to sleep.
I know you probably had a little nap,
but I tried for about half an hour.
the respect I have for those athletes and oftentimes they'd be lined up,
ready to poll and Paul,
it's definitely what they say.
Ready to pull ready to vault probably be like,
hang on a second.
We're about to start a race.
There's something else happening.
I just mad respect for those athletes that have to actually stay focused,
but not too focused and be able to switch on and off.
Obviously 4.9 meters.
And I think I loved what she said afterwards about how she was super vulnerable
by coming out in the media before the event saying,
I want to win gold.
I don't want to share anymore.
I'm actually quite happy for you to take Nina.
Cause I will do Jess Hull because I sat with tears rolling down my face.
I didn't get up to watch this one in the lounge room.
I was watching on my phone in bed,
the Jess Hull one.
And so I was like silent yelling,
silent yelling and silent crying.
It was so beautiful.
Jess Hull has had such an exceptional season and it was kind of that thing of,
can she pull it together for that moment?
And I just felt like the way I have,
I had no idea about the strategy behind a 1500 meter race,
but it just felt like I was watching her and I was like,
she is in control.
She got herself up to the front.
And then when faith would go,
I'm coming with you.
And it didn't look like she was ever lost.
I get a bit scared that they might get boxed in.
And she was like,
she didn't English girl came late.
American girl was in the way.
Jess Hull needs to win a medal.
And I think that we need to understand that a silver behind faith,
who is pretty much a gold is exactly faith is so incredible.
The third 1500 meter gold medal.
Only other athlete to do that on the track is someone called Usain bolt.
I think he was in the a hundred meters,
not the 1500 meters.
So how do you reckon he'd go in the 1500 meters?
About as well as you'd go in hockey.
Bit of a bit of shout out to the,
I was obsessed with Simone Biles during this Olympics and it's been 16 days.
And it feels like weeks ago that she was tumbling her way around that arena.
obviously watch the Netflix doco or the half of it that they've released so far.
the vulnerability that she's put out there in the world,
to then go and compete,
really laid bare.
what happened to her in Tokyo?
I get goosebumps just thinking about it now.
I just think she was an amazing story.
I can't wait for the next two episodes.
I'm going to say Stefan Hassan getting it done in the marathon,
taking out that gold medal.
it was quite iconic.
She ran the 5,000 meter,
10,000 meter and the marathon all within the space of 10 days or something absurd.
Was that including the heats for the five?
it's only the second week.
let's go with the week.
let's go with the week bronze in the five K,
bronze in the 10 K,
and then gold in the marathon in an Olympic record time.
And it meant that she won has now across two Olympic games has won gold in each three of
There's so many stories about her.
won gold at Tokyo for the 5,000 and 10,000 in Tokyo.
She actually run the,
1500 meters as well do what kind of athlete says not maybe i'll maybe i'll swap an event i'll go
from the 1500 to the marathon like really i feel sick and then to just come out and win gold in
that obviously she changed her training so she's probably a little bit less ridiculously fast in
the five and ten but amazing and and that was actually so exciting to see those five athletes
with only a few kilometers to go all running together and then obviously the last probably
800 meters oh the ethiopian athlete and and her to be shouldering each other around the corners
whoa what a finish what a finish how good let's take a look at the key story
so we're back obviously a little hiatus and what have we got a survey got a survey we love stats
we love data we love surveys because we love listening to the people yeah and we love cold
hard or gold hard evidence did you like that i made that one that was good from you thank you
i thought it was good
i think it was good i think it was good i think it was good i think it was good i think it was good
so it's pretty good um she's gone from good to pretty good so the latest edition of the price
waterhouse cooper's annual global sports survey has revealed that 85 of sports experts are
predicting double digit growth for women's sports revenues over the next three to five years
pretty good roi and we're talking double digit percentage growth right like we're not talking
about women's sport increasing by ten dollars just ten dollars but if you buy an equal t we'll
give ten dollars to your paralympics hey she's back folks she's not sleep deprived this morning
i am go on uh four hundred and eleven experts across 46 countries were surveyed about what
they believe will help aid and facilitate this growth here's an interesting one in 2024
despite women making up approximately 40 percent of all participants in sports we've got an
adjusted number so it's 15 percent of media coverage so this number in 2018 was four percent
And so people, again, the OG TFAP fans might remember that
that was kind of one of the reasons almost for starting TFAP.
And this increase from 4% to 15% has been driven by the growth
of streaming services and social media.
And we know that women's sports fans are fluid fans
and have to access it in different ways.
To attract new audiences to women's sport,
this is what the experts said.
We need increased promotion, advertising, and ticket prices.
We need to emphasize live broadcasting of events
and enhance the match day experience.
Those three things are pretty key things that happen, I think,
by default for men.
Yes, and they've got the improved athlete storytelling piece as well,
which is what we love.
The report states, by sharing authentic personal stories
on diverse platforms, athletes can engage audiences,
foster loyalty, and inspire the next generation.
In turn, this drives higher attendance at events,
increased viewership,
and a larger fan base,
which attracts more investment and sponsorship opportunities.
Can we talk about Ilona Ma?
How many followers is she up to now?
Last time I checked, it was 2.4 mil.
She went in with 600k-ish.
She went in with a fair following for a female athlete.
Yes, she had a number of 100,000 followers,
but she wasn't at a mil yet.
And I remember her posting early in the Olympics campaign
that she'd hit a mil, and she's now into multiple millions.
She dominated the socials.
She dominated the socials over the Olympics.
She dominated the socials over the Olympics.
And she actually got so many people.
Every single post of hers I saw,
posts of Together, across a whole range of platforms,
people were in the comment section saying,
thank you, Ilona Ma, for introducing me to rugby.
So obviously we lost the bronze medal match to the Americans.
The silver lining of that absolute heartbreak,
which I probably took a few days to recover from,
to be perfectly honest.
Was that outpouring of,
you know, enthusiasm for rugby in America?
And when it comes down to it,
America does control a lot of the dollars
when we talk about these partnerships.
So to see someone like Ilona Ma help promote this game
in one of the biggest,
in probably the biggest sporting market in the world,
Actually, this is probably perfect,
shout out producers though,
for nailing this Ilona Ma example,
because the social media piece
flows onto the people getting engaged with the sport.
But off the back of that,
Michelle Kang has now invested
$4 million over four years
into women's rugby in America.
Like it's the perfect example.
And it's, it's just copy it.
Everyone around the world, copy, paste, done.
And our work here is done.
Let's take a look at what to watch.
In NRLW, the undefeated Canala Sharks
take on reigning premiers,
the Newcastle Knights this weekend.
The Knights will be looking to bounce back
from their first loss at home in nine games,
whilst the Sharks will be hoping to cement
their spot at the top of the table
as the only team in the comp
to have not yet lost a game.
The action kicks off at 1.45pm AEST Sunday
and you can watch it live and free
on the Nine Network.
And the 2024 Tour de France fun starts tonight.
No rest for the French.
Sorry about it, talented cyclists
and the French people.
Nine Aussies will be competing,
including Olympic medalist Grace Brown.
Olympic gold medalist Grace Brown.
The tour runs from the 12th of August
to the 18th of August
and you can watch all the action live
on SBS On Demand.
That is the wrap.
It's been a massive couple of weeks.
We've missed you guys.
I've missed doing this.
See you next week.