The Wrap Ariarne Titmus Terminates 200M Freestyle World Record

Welcome to The Wrap, a weekly podcast covering women's sports news.

Bez, what have we got around the grounds this week?

Swimming, swimming and more swimming at the Australian Swimming Trials in Brisbane,

where Arnie broke the world record in 200 freestyle.

There's been reports of player mutiny in the Queensland Firebirds.

I believe people were dressed as pirates and Sam Kerr signs on at Chelsea.

How many of those have you got ready for tonight?

Okay, tell me you don't hear the word mutiny and think of someone with a cutlass in their hand straight away.

It is, mutiny is a weird word because it's been thrown around a lot in this story.

I'm sorry in advance everyone for today's Bez.

For the key story, we'll chat about how World Athletics and the International Boxing Association

will pay athletes who get medals at the upcoming Olympics.

But not everyone is happy about it, Bez.

My name is Chloe Dalton and I'm joined every week on the show.

I feel like I've said your name seven times already.

Yeah, I'm in trouble.

We are recording on Gadigal land.

Let's take a look around the grounds.

Before we get too far around the grounds actually.

Let's take a stop, a little first, a little sidestep.

A little sidestep.

We've got a jersey up for auction.

It's a Manchester City football jersey signed by Matilda superstar Alana Kennedy.

And the proceeds of this jersey are going to go to the creators of a documentary called Like My Brother.

And what they've done with this docker is they've followed the story of four young Tiwi girls.

Who want to try and have a crack at playing footy.

It looks amazing.

Yeah, I'm very excited to watch it.

Yeah, we'll obviously reshare the links to all of that.

Have a look at the Like My Brother trailer that they've got put together.

Yeah, the trailer's on the website.

So good.

And obviously get around it.

Yeah, and I think for us at the Female Athlete Project, we are all about storytelling.

And I think this is an awesome opportunity.

We were gifted this awesome jersey and we thought it would be a great opportunity to try and help this docker team get to the final stage to get that story ready to go.

Yeah.

I'm still going.

It's my turn swimming trials.

Let's do it.

It's been a mammoth week of swimming at the Australian Olympic and Paralympic trials this past week in Brisbane.

And it's hard to pick just a few highlights.

You going to give it a crack?

Let's go.

On the third night of finals, Ariane Titmuss and Molly O'Callaghan both went under the world record line at the Australian swimming trials in the 200 metre freestyle.

They both went.

It was Molly's record.

They were flying.

Flying in the water.

Absolutely flying.

It was just so impressive.

So it was Arnie who found the wall first, not just breaking into the one minute 52s for the first time, but smashing the barrier with a 152.23.

The old record, as I said, set by Molly, was 152.85 set at the 2023 World Champs on Friday night.

Oh, yes.

Did you like that?

Head to a question.

I had a question.

That's very polite.

Yes.

Welcome.

Arnie Titmuss is a competitive beast.

Sorry, I just thought you said auntie.

And auntie.

I'm sure her auntie is as well.

But she is a competitive beast and she was inside Molly's head.

Obviously, they're training partners.

Do you reckon?

Oh, hugely.

Based on?

Molly was in all sorts after losing that race.

Yeah, right.

Really broke down apparently in the sheds.

Definitely don't have sheds.

Where did you get the inside of that?

It wasn't in an article I read.

Oh.

But yeah, like I think an auntie is just all business up there, isn't she?

She is all business.

She is.

Yeah.

Process driven.

Friday night was the much anticipated women's 100 metre final.

Molly produced her renowned final 25 metre surge to move from fifth at the turn and take

home the title in a race where no less than seven women finished under the Australian

team qualifying time.

Side note, 200 metre and 100 metre 4x8.

Which of those distances?

Yes, respectively.

I got where you were going.

Ours.

We'd have to like break to lose them.

Yeah.

Gold is happening.

Yeah, absolutely.

Someone would have to do something ridiculous for that not to happen.

Molly said, I'm only 20 and I've only had about three years in the senior team.

She's a baby, isn't she?

Yeah.

See, so she referenced the fact that after 203 she had to think of positive things because

she was so broken by Arnie Schwarzenegger, not Titmuss, the Terminator.

A hot office.

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Marlon Calhoun's heels was another woman with her own point to prove.

St. Peter's Western teammate, Shanna-Jack, who is not going to let an individual spot

slip through her fingers.

So this is her first Olympics after having to miss out on Tokyo due to the drug ban.

She said, I've dreamt of representing my country at the Olympics in the individual events.

And as much as it's been a privilege to race in the real a's, I really wanted to represent

Australia in the hundred meters.

And now I get to say that I will and I'm really proud of myself.

Bit of a heartbreak.

There were some real ups and downs across the week.

Kate Campbell missing out on her fairytale ending.

She was trying to be the first Australian swimmer to ever go to five Olympics.

Sorry, that was a really hard sentence for me to get out for some reason.

It happens.

Pretty special moment, though, with every single one of those 50-meter finalists getting around during the pool.

It was quite emotional.

It was.

And obviously huge innings for Kate.

Huge innings.

And you know what?

I just have so much respect for her putting herself out there to try and go to a fifth.

Absolutely.

Massive, massive congratulations on her amazing career.

And probably the best post-swim interview ever, Alexa Leary.

She was awesome, wasn't she?

22-year-old swimmer from the Sunshine Coast from Noosa who won the 50-meter freestyle

and met the qualifying time for the Paralympic Games in the S9 classification.

She said with just the most amazing joy.

It was just amazing.

It was joy personified from Alexa.

I'm so proud of myself.

I really tell you that.

I'm so proud of myself, Leary said, exuding so much positive energy, as we said in a post-race interview.

Her story is mind-blowing.

She was training for – she was a very promising triathlete and she was out on a training ride

and she nearly died after a bike accident in 2021 that left her unconscious in the ICU.

I think her parents were told to say goodbye to her on eight different occasions.

She got infections.

All sorts of things that happen when you have severe brain injuries.

So, absolutely amazing.

Her parents said that she wasn't meant to live, let alone walk or talk.

That was her mother in the post-match.

And now she's going to the Paralympics.

Post-match interview.

Yeah, and now she's going to the Paralympics.

She said, we've got a different daughter back.

I love her personality.

She's funny.

She's crazy.

But most importantly, she's fulfilling her dreams and what she wanted to do prior.

She always wanted to go to the Olympics.

That's pretty cool, isn't it?

That's really, really special.

The Australian Olympic Committee named a star-studded team.

A team of 44 dolphins for the 2024 Paris Olympics and 30 for the Paralympics.

Bronte Campbell will become only the fifth Olympian to swim at four Olympic Games,

while seven-time medalists Lakeisha Patterson and Rachel Watson,

who's the most senior female at 32,

seems a bit young to be the most senior female.

Yeah, it's a young game this for me.

Will each pursue a third consecutive Paralympic gold medal in their respective pet events.

And just while we're on the subject of age,

the youngest on the team is 15-year-old Gold Coast swimmer Holly Warne.

Amazing.

That's a child.

That is so impressive.

A child.

Child.

In netball, over the weekend, Giants coach Julie Fitzgerald

became the first person to coach 400 National League netball games.

From 1997 to 2011, Fitzgerald coached the Swifts,

first as the Sydney Swifts and then became the New South Wales Swifts.

During her 15 seasons and 235 games with that club,

she won five premierships and helped develop some of,

the game's most recognisable names.

The four-time coach of the year was headhunted for the role of the head coach

at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.

She then moved across the ditch to coach 47 games at the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic.

She's been with the Giants since 2017.

She's coached 117 games and counting.

Before the game on Saturday, she said,

I can remember being so excited when someone offered to pay me $1,000 for a season.

Man.

Thinking that we'd win.

Man.

Really made it.

Madness.

$1,000 was exciting.

Absolute madness.

She said,

I didn't think I'd be around long enough to see it grow to the professional level that it is today.

Massive shout out to Julie.

She's an iconic member of the netball community, but also of the Giants.

Yeah.

You were there on Saturday night.

Did you give her a big cheer?

I did give Julie.

I'm not a big cheerer, but for Julie, I gave a big cheer.

You tend to just give a nod.

I'll give you a nod.

Oh, gosh.

I need to.

Stop talking.

Meanwhile, the New South Wales Swifts and Samantha Wallace-Joseph parted ways by mutual agreement.

The club said for the past number of weeks,

they have been working with Samantha Wallace-Joseph and her management in relation to a matter

which concerned her behavior within the team environment.

This one's a bit of a weird one because there's been such a lack of information.

But to then say it's about her behavior in the team environment,

they're like cracking open the can a little bit to give you a little peek and then closing it shut again.

Yeah, I agree.

A little crack of the can.

A little crack of the can.

Let the worms out.

I was thinking tuna, but yeah, okay.

Oh.

A little whiff of tuna got out, but not enough.

Yuck.

No, I do think, I hear what you're saying.

I think it's a strange statement to make.

You either tell everyone or you just do like, we're parting ways.

Yes.

And you give no reference.

No information.

They've given a weird amount of information to make it.

Yeah.

Anyway.

Good.

Good.

The Queensland Five Earths have announced that they've,

axed their head coach, Beck Bulley, less than two years into her four-year contract.

ABC Sport revealed that Bulley's axing was a result of mutiny within the Firebirds playing group

after the athletes approached the Australian Netball Players Association

with concerns about the team's direction.

However, Netball Queensland Chief Executive Kate Davies has hosed down talk of a mutiny.

She said, I can confirm reports about a player mutiny are categorically false.

There were no pirates involved.

She did not say that.

Certainly.

I'm confirming that was not.

On the court.

Certainly.

The Australian Netball Players Association became involved and it's fair to say Bulley

had lost the dressing room after significant team bonding attempts in the preseason following

robust player feedback.

So there was obviously a missing piece of connection there in regards to coach team

management.

Sorry.

I'm trying not to laugh waiting for your next pirate reference.

I wouldn't do that to you.

The three-time premiers are projected to miss finals.

For a sixth season running and they're in wooden spoon contention for a second year in a row.

I just think regardless of how well you're gelling as a group, that is tough to come back from.

And it's so often the coach, like sometimes there'll be player movement if you're not

achieving success and they'll try and bring different talent in.

Then they look to the coach.

And if you haven't been performing.

There is nothing like losing to really highlight any little irritation in a group.

Yeah.

There's a lot of things that get swept onto the carpet when you're winning.

It just like,

it's a lot of fuel to the fire.

Even if there was tiny little embers before.

So many beautiful pictures are being painted tonight.

I'm sorry, everyone.

So like as in pirates storming.

No.

Is it my turn to go to the next story?

In, have you finished yours?

In football,

Sam Kerr has signed a contract extension at Chelsea with the new deal,

keeping her at the club until 2026.

The contract extension,

which was announced with a video which teased an exit interview.

I did not like this.

No, I didn't.

I'm not here for it either.

So if you haven't seen it,

Chelsea across their channels put out this video,

Sam Kerr was acting and saying it,

it was almost like what a video would look like if she was going to exit to a

different club.

Thanking the supporters for their support,

how much she's loved her time at Chelsea.

And then 20 minutes later,

they put out a video,

her watching her own video saying,

what's all this about?

I'm staying.

It just missed the mark a little bit for me.

I get wanting to get the hype.

And the engagement,

I don't know.

I agree.

I do like the fact that they're trying something different though.

Yeah.

And separate content channels.

And obviously Sam Kerr is a massive name.

So they tried to do something pretty special.

Execution.

Not the best.

Ooh,

savage.

I'm here for it.

Sorry,

Sam.

If you listen to our podcast,

I'm sure you do every week.

She said the people who knew me thought I was terrible at acting during the

video,

but the average person fell for it.

Kerr said,

I don't know about the fake video.

I had a bit of a say in it.

And with everyone expecting me to leave,

it really had,

it had to be done really.

So where was the talk about her leaving?

I don't know.

Just because she hadn't extended her contract yet.

I think they'd taken a while to sign it,

but she's just done her ACL.

So.

She's busy.

Yeah.

Busy rehabbing during the 2022,

23 season.

Kurt netted 29 goals in 38 appearances in all competitions on the way to

another WSL and FA cup double.

She made her hundredth blues appearance.

In the FA cup fifth round victory over Arsenal in February and netted the

winner in the FA cup final at Wembley in May,

2023.

She goes,

all right,

she's not bad.

She's on 99 goals.

So as if she couldn't extend her contract when she's on 99 goals,

the Matildas are moving far and wide because Courtney vine has signed with

the North Carolina courage in the NWSL.

I had a little read below the line on the North Carolina courage Insta page.

Yep.

I loving the Aussie injection and the vine time jokes everywhere from the

Americans.

It's all about the vine time.

Love it.

I reckon she's going to thrive over there.

She joins the courage on a guaranteed deal through the 2026 NWSL season.

She'll be eligible to roster when the secondary transfer window opens up on

August 1st.

She's got to get a visa,

a sort of one visa visa.

Not an easy visa to get the American one.

Yeah.

It's really quite challenging,

isn't it?

And shout a quick shout out to Courtney vine for sticking around and playing out

that season with Sydney FC in the a league off the back of.

Her world cup hero.

Herodom.

I made it stardom into herodom.

I like it next again.

Really?

Yes.

I did it on purpose.

Paddling Olympian.

Jess Fox has continued her dominant display at the ICF world cup.

Number three event in Poland,

winning a second gold medal in as many nights this time,

the women's canoe competition.

Can we just reference the fact that the two silvers or the not golds from the

last two events,

it's cause she crashed into gates.

It's her own errors.

If,

if the paddle goat misses the gates,

she wins by three seconds.

Yeah,

she's well ahead of the competition.

Stay away from the gates.

Following a golden success in the guy kite competition on Friday,

Fox delivered yet again in the C1 final,

finishing ahead of the rest of the field by more than three seconds.

I didn't even hadn't even read ahead.

I just knew it despite a two second penalty.

Oh,

she,

she did hit a gate.

Wow.

Bring her over a world cup gold medal tally to 50.

Where does she put them all?

50 gold medals.

50 world cup golds.

She's ridiculous.

Meanwhile,

Aussie duo,

Jess Morrison and Annabel McIntyre have also come away with gold in the rowing

and Amanda Hudson and Harriet Hudson took gold in the double skulls.

Twins or sisters?

No comment in basketball.

The WNBL have announced a new collective.

Oh my gosh.

We are onto the next story in basketball.

The WNBL have announced a new collective.

We are starting to talk about the,

the WNBL is the new bargaining agreement for the upcoming 2024 25 season.

The agreement provides some notable financial uplifts,

including minimum wage uplift by 15% from 20 K to 23 K.

Is that legal minimum wage?

Ouch.

Not sure development play honorarium doubled from two K to four K.

Those development players put in a lot of effort.

I think it's great,

obviously that they're being recognized financially,

but it's not a huge amount,

petrol,

petrol money.

That's pretty much.

of petrol money increase in daily per dms and increase in monthly private health insurance

that's a really big one uh we don't get private health insurance covered in uh aflw cba so i think

it is actually a really big positive that the wmbl have that because as for people who don't

know as a professional athlete there's an expectation that you have top end private

health insurance if you do get injured to have access to the whole range of services that you

might need yeah but then if you say you did do get injured and you've got the base level or the

level of private health cover that cba the afl cba says you should have do they then cover the gap

for any out-of-pocket expenses well i think i think the expectation for them to be able to

cover the gap is you having the top end yeah yeah i think it's very similar in rugby you've got to

have a certain level of private health cover but rugby will then cover the gap between so it's just

you're not out of pocket but you do have to yeah you do have to pay the monthly yes yeah yeah you

know i would help out for the injury but you're out of pocket for having to pay the monthly which

is not cheap no i don't know i don't pay it oh must be nice uh the salary cap will be 532 000

it's an uplift of 9.5 percent and the salary floor will be 479 000 which is an uplift of 6.2

both salary cap and floor will include superannuation for 24 25 previous seasons it did

not that's concerning

so it's so the cap is just pretty much increased to include superannuation it hasn't actually

yeah that yeah that's an interesting piece there like i think the superannuation piece again a big

positive because a lot of sports sports would not have that and i think a lot of female athletes

when they finish their careers are really lacking in that space thank you that's been from experience

that's just super going yeah look it's not super not super i should do an

increase and improved physiotherapy services are provided for athletes around training

aiming to ensure all athletes are able to receive care and rehab as needed ticking some pretty basic

things off but moving in a positive direction so we'll take it positive direction all right

does it cover inflation tbc in hockey the pro league sorry in the pro league hockey the hockey

roos have pulled off a double victory over great britain on their home turf in london this time

with a 3-2 result to sign off on their FIH Pro League season.

Head coach Katrina Powell said it's a confidence-boosting victory

given it's their last international match before Paris.

It's so soon.

I can't wait.

It's really soon.

We literally just had a conversation downstairs this afternoon

in regards to, like, viewing times, waking up.

I live in a duplex, so it's –

I was like, I thought you meant I had that conversation.

I was like, I have no recollection of that conversation.

I'll phone you in next time we're talking about schedules.

Did you see me looking at you like, whoa?

No, the downstairs because, you know, it's the jumping up and down.

I was like, we're going to be making some noise at 3 a.m.

I'm so excited.

I'm ready to be having no sleep.

That's not a right sentence.

Neither is right sentence.

But they'll also face Great Britain in their pool match,

so good little pracky there for the Hockey Roos leading up to that.

They went down 3-0.

Sorry, having gone down 3-0 to the Hockey Roos in the opening match,

Great Britain came out with a point to prove

and got on the scoreboard early in that second game.

With a brutal penalty corner stroke inside the first five minutes.

However, the scores were locked at 2-2 on the fourth

with Hockey Roos defending five penalty quarters in five minutes.

Stressful.

Chance wins trophies to keep Great Britain from taking the lead.

Australia's persistence paid off as they scored off their one

and only penalty corner in the final quarter

with Tatum Stewart once again delivering a rocketing ball down the middle

for Queensland's Rosie Malone to finish the game off.

Let's take a look at the key story.

We're chatting a bit of IOC controversy around paying athletes here.

So the European Olympic Committee has voiced its opposition

against decisions by World Athletics and the International Boxing Association

to pay their successful athletes at the Paris Games.

World Athletics is offering $50,000 in prize money

to its 48 Olympic champions in Paris.

World Athletics, headed by former Olympic champion

and current International Olympic Committee IOC member Sebastian Coe,

will not offer cash to the IOC.

They will not offer cash to silver or bronze at these games,

but they've said they will do so at the LA 2028 Games.

Meanwhile, the IBA, the International Boxing Association,

has said it would offer money to all medalists at the Games.

$100,000 is going to gold medal winners,

$50,000 for silver and $25,000 for bronze.

That is very, very nice.

That's not bad.

Not bad at all.

Knowing it.

Okay, so obviously those two sports,

you have to be an amateur boxer.

You have to be an amateur boxer to box at the Olympics.

So they're definitely not making the big bucks

that boxers can do down the track.

And, you know, there's not a lot of money in athletics.

Let's be real.

There is not a lot.

A lot of the individual sports, there's not a lot of cash.

No, at all.

So when the change was announced,

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said in a statement,

while it is impossible to put a marketable value

on winning an Olympic medal or on the commitment and focus

it takes to even represent your country in Olympic Games,

I think it is important that we start somewhere

and make sure that we're doing a good job.

I think it is important that we start somewhere

and make sure that we're doing a good job.

I think it is important that we start somewhere

and make sure some of the revenues generated by athletes

at the Olympics Games are directly returned

to those who make the Games a global spectacle that it is.

I really like that, and I think that's the important piece of this

is that we're watching these people, we're paying the money,

the broadcasting rights, the advertising rights,

which the OIC have a very strong holdover.

The athletes aren't actually getting a lot out of it,

and you know better than anyone, you know,

people think you're going to win a gold medal

and come home and be rich and famous.

Turns out you're just famous and not rich.

I wish.

We had, so after we won Golden Ray, we had, I can't remember who it was,

but I so clearly remember this conversation of someone saying to us,

you're never going to have to work a day again in your life.

Wow.

Which is the most naive statement to make and naive for us to even think

that a smidgen of that was going to be true,

but it could not be further from the truth.

That was pretty probably dramatic, but the reality is that there's a lot of,

we were actually, you spoke at a Sydney Writers Festival event

and one of the,

your co-panelist was Anna Mears.

She spoke about finishing her career.

I mean, who doesn't know Anna Mears?

She's the goat of cycling.

She spoke on that day about finishing her career broke,

completely broke, not a cent to her name.

And then.

Yana Pittman, the same thing.

And they get, they go to these events and people bow down to them

because they're heroes of Australian sport.

So I think Sebco's got a point there.

These got, the athletes are providing the spectacle.

They should be receiving some of the financial reward.

I completely agree with that.

I completely agree with that sentiment.

And back pay from 2016.

Thank you.

However, the European Olympic Committee have called the decision discriminatory

and say it will divide athletes.

This is weird.

This is ridiculous.

European Olympic Committee President Spiros Kapralos said,

we believe in the Olympic Games.

The athletes go there to compete for the values of the Olympic Games

and their last preoccupation is to get money and bonuses.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

That is absurd.

It's not a preoccupation.

It's a need to pay rent and eat food.

Yeah.

I'm not sure that values pay your bills.

No, that's it.

To me, that's just a really, what's that word?

Tone deaf statement.

Yeah.

And well, it's the reality is it's a, it's a beautiful thing to think.

And the Olympic Games has, you know,

it is all about values and it's about competing and it's all of those

wonderful things, but it's also now a really big moneymaker.

Yeah.

And you need to share that with the,

with the athletes.

Correct.

He said, he also said,

I think just giving some money to the gold winner is discriminatory and

does not follow the principles of solidarity.

Again, I'll strongly disagree.

Strongly disagree.

Continue.

The IOC seemed to be a little bit undecided about this.

Technically as overseeing Olympic organizers,

they allocate a share of their broadcast revenue from the games to the

governing body of each sport,

which that organization is entitled to spend in any way they so choose.

However,

IOC president Thomas Bach hasn't held back saying it's not the role of

international federations to pay athletes,

but rather sponsors or governments.

This proposal by world athletics would benefit 48 athletes from about 2000

participants in athletics across the Olympic games and tens of thousands

across the globe who are striving to participate in the Olympic games.

The role of international federations,

as we see it and all the other international federations are seeing it is to

develop their sport worldwide.

They have,

they have to make every effort to try to close the gap between the athletes

coming from the privileged countries and those coming from less privileged

countries.

He makes a valid point there.

He does make a valid point,

but again,

it just comes down to that prize money situation.

It's just reward for success.

Three time Olympian Eilish McColgan weighed in on the discussion and she said,

when you look at the Olympics,

whether it's football,

basketball,

rugby,

golf,

tennis,

none of them are amateur.

They may be not so much in rugby.

Well,

I guess.

Definitely not golf and tennis.

Can we talk about that?

Why are they in the Olympics?

We don't,

we've been talking.

We can't add that to this discussion.

You can add that to another day.

I believe it.

I agree with Eilish when she says they're earning a hell of a lot more money than

any athlete in track and field.

I don't know why people are getting there.

Nick is in a twist about a one-off payment to the gold medal winners.

There is also a discussion about fears that would create inequality with

para athletes who will receive no prize money for their medals at the

Paralympics later this year.

That is an interesting point.

It's something that they governed by separate governing body.

So yeah,

it's,

it's a,

it's a difficult one.

I think it does need to be parody across the Olympics and the Paralympics

event in regards to that.

So it's something I think that the governing body of para athletics need to

look at for sure.

And potentially world athletics need to look at in discussion with the

governing body of world para athletics when they're making decisions like

this.

Very true.

Let's take a look at what to watch.

In Suncorp Super Netball,

the Informed Melbourne Mavericks,

we're looking to take down the,

second place Adelaide Thunderbirds at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.

And we would see the Mavericks move into the top four with just four rounds of

Snooper,

Snooper,

Snooper Netball to go.

The match starts at 7pm AEST and is live on KO and Fox Netball.

In golf,

the KPMG Women's PGA Championship will tee off this week with practice

starting on Thursday in Washington.

Practice starts 6am AEST on Friday on KO Sports.

Can we talk about golf for a second?

It's not,

it's not female sports.

I'm kind of ruining it here,

but I was watching the US Open this morning.

Watching the US Open this morning,

Men's US Open.

It is a ridiculously difficult sport.

These are the people,

the best in the world.

That was terrible at it.

Terrible.

Missing the greens.

All of them.

Well,

not all of them,

but I just,

hats off to all golfers because it is hard.

Even like,

we know when something's hard,

when the best people in the world suck at it.

Bang on.

In surfing,

the Vivo Rio Pro starts,

the wedding period starts on Saturday in Rio.

So,

Dijon,

Rio in Brazil as the final event prior to the Portsville Olympic Games.

And the second to last of regular season events.

It will have a huge impact on which athletes confirm their spots for the

Lexus WSL finals in September.

Aussie Molly Picklin will be back in the water and you can watch all the

action live on the World Surf League app and online.

And Tyler Wright has withdrawn.

Pulled out.

Injury.

Hope she's all right.

Injury.

She's totally fine.

She just doesn't want to go to Rio.

What do you mean?

The water's nasty.

Like apparently the athletes,

the surfers,

do not love competing there.

So the surf is pretty rubbish and it's dirty and not great.

Wow.

Inside scoop.

There's over here.

Scoop.

And that's the wrap.

My favorite part of the episode was when you named Alexa Leary being from every single

coast in Australia before you got the right one.

Well,

thank you.

See you next week.

Or not.

Bye.