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

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

Wallaroos are the WXV2 champions and have qualified for the Rugby World Cup.

Australia are through to the T20 World Cup semifinals

and the first ever women's Red Bull Rampage has been held in the US.

How good, for the key story we'll discuss a new report to the United Nations

that found women and girls in sport face widespread violence at all levels

and what the UN recommends be done to eliminate this moving forward.

Some pretty scary data coming out of that report.

My name is Chloe Dalton.

I'm joined every week on the show by my co-host Bez.

We are recording on Gadigal land.

TFAP Awards voting is now open, Bez.

So exciting.

How good.

There was a flood of nominations that came through at the back end.

How good.

Over 200 nominations.

All very, very worthy noms.

We had to kind of narrow that down.

And, yeah, the voting is open.

So get around it.

Go to our website and vote.

Can you give us a very quick list of names in the One to Watch category?

That one I'm quite excited about.

Yes, the One to Watch is a very exciting category.

So it's for the next big thing.

It celebrates kind of not necessarily the next star that you don't know anything about,

but it's the next big star, I guess.

And we had some amazing noms.

I think I'm probably most excited, and I might be a bit skewed here,

but Molly Picklem, Pickles, she's still only young.

It's second year on tour.

She's won two events, finishing fifth in the world.

I think she's going to be – and I think the thing with Molly Picklem

is she is doing it in waves of consequence.

She has the potential to change female surfing.

Yeah, for sure.

And another favourite, I know your favourite, Claudia Hollingsworth.

I really rate her.

Really love the 800 metre.

And she's at that new under-20 national record

and won silver at the World Junior Champs in Peru a couple of months ago.

So there are some very exciting ones to watch there.

We also had Talaya Blacksmith.

In the Paralympics.

She T20 athlete that holds the under-17, under-20,

and open T20 records in the 400 metres.

Legend.

So, yeah, get around it.

I just wanted to quickly touch on,

because we have had the big honour of taking over these awards,

from the Women's Health Women in Sport Awards.

So previous winners of the one to watch, we're talking 2013, was Ash Barty.

She went okay.

She's pretty good, I reckon.

Should we rate them?

2014 was Emma McKeon.

We've had 2019 was Laini Pallister,

who we know has been killing it in the swimming.

2022, which Matilda was it?

Mary Fowler?

Yeah.

Like this category is a good predictor.

Look at us go.

We're about to make some heroes here.

Love it.

How good?

Let's take a look around the grounds.

In AFLW, Carlton have risen to the occasion

to secure a thrilling four-point win against Fremantle on the road,

with the Blues snapping a match-winning goal in the final minute.

Trailing by 10 points at the last change,

the Blues kicked the only two goals of the final term,

with Keely Shera winning a critical contest inside 50

and converting to keep the team's finals hopes alive with a 34-30 win.

Despite Freo's scoring first,

the Blues headed into the first change,

with a five-point lead.

Both teams went goalless for the second,

with the Blues playing some of the most impressive football of their season,

but were unable to convert it onto the scoreboard.

The Dockers were in a strong position at the last change,

leading by 10 points,

but they were swept aside by some attacking moves from the Blues' coach's box

and left Arua a third home loss this season.

The result was a blow to the Dockers' top four hopes,

with the team losing its third match at home to slip to five and three

after looking in control at three equal to time,

but failing to score in the final.

So we've just seen the end of the condensed calendar section of the draw.

There's definitely been some chat out there around what effect that's had on performance.

So obviously the Western Bulldogs have been pretty vocal around this

after scoring only three points in their match against the Bombers.

It's an interesting one.

Obviously the AFL have tried to add an additional fixture to lengthen the season,

but in doing so,

they've actually just really,

really condensed this little block here.

And I just don't think that you can expect a group of elite athletes to perform

when you're making them play.

I think the Giants played three games in 11 days.

Yeah,

just finished.

So we record on a Monday.

So just finished our last,

our third game in 11 days yesterday against the Adelaide Crows.

And it wasn't,

it wasn't a good performance from the Giants,

but just throughout this condensed period,

like the girls looked absolutely exhausted,

like ruined.

And that part of that condensed fixture was two separate trips to Melbourne to play games.

Yeah.

You throw travel into that.

It really,

it does all sorts of things to your weekly schedule,

which is so important in season,

you know,

and it just,

the fact that there was footy on every night was great.

There was definitely some positives,

but I think the positives don't outweigh the fact of the pressure it put on the actual athletes.

And then we saw that there was probably some results that,

that really displayed that there was,

athletes not quite and understandably not ready to play three games in 11 days because no one does it silly in some not silly news.

Love that the Wallaroos have clinched their first piece of major tournament silverware by defeating Scotland 31 to 22 in what became the WXV2 decider of the Wallaroos.

Go the girls.

It was very good.

I was,

we got a bit close and I was getting angry at them.

I was angry at them that I was awake at 3 a.m.

But I should never have doubted they,

they started again.

They started so well.

We scored three tries.

One to Desi Miller,

Maya Stewart and Cecilia Smith all scored in the first 20 minutes.

So we're up 21 nil after 20 minutes.

Yeah.

The fact that they came back is stressful.

Yeah.

We went 50 minutes without scoring after that point.

So that's work ons,

work ons.

Maya Stewart's fend in the face was iconic.

Sorry,

I'm just stealing your story,

but it was so good.

Can we just,

I,

for three weeks they've been calling her Maya Stewart.

It's not her name.

It's not her name.

One job like that.

Surely that's baseline.

Yeah.

Anyway,

the Scottish,

as we said,

as we said,

did come back and they regained the lead with 11 minutes remaining.

Yeah.

It took a pair of cards to keep Scotland at bay with Emma Orr's red and a yellow against Francesca McGee,

allowing Fytala Mileka to peg back with a decisive penalty goal.

In the 74th minute.

So we were one up there,

but it was,

we held on.

Finlay,

it was 34 cap record breaker,

Ash Masters.

So she broke the record and became the most ever world capped Wallaroo.

And that 34 caps,

most ever capped Wallaroo.

Yeah.

It says a lot,

doesn't it?

It says a lot.

We just don't play that much test match rugby.

It's changing,

which is a wonderful,

but I was watching the England Canada game.

England Canada game.

No,

it was actually last week's England Black Ferns game.

And Emily Scarrett,

came off the bench for her 115th cap.

No way.

And she's not even the most capped.

115.

Yeah.

That's absurd.

And we,

and our most capped Wallaroo is 34.

No,

that's silly.

It just shows you,

doesn't it?

We just don't play.

We haven't historically played enough high level rugby.

So this is this WXV tournament is amazing for that.

So Ash Masters,

excellent,

excellent news,

34 caps.

And she scored 80 minute try to seal the deal.

It's two,

it was awarded best on ground for her try scoring feats,

even though she got removed for an HIA with 20 minutes to go.

I tell you what player of the match.

People love giving it to a winger who scores tries.

Oh,

she's not happy about it.

No disrespect to my studio.

She knows I love her unconditionally and that I would pick her first.

Every time I've got,

I would have in a selection sheet out.

However,

most of you doesn't get the opportunity.

If the big girls don't do the work,

I completely agree.

I don't know if you can call it unconditional then because it's conditional based

on her position.

Hey,

they've also qualified for the 2025 Rugby World Cup goodness.

Cause I bought flights.

I'm glad they're going to be there for you to actually watch them.

Kirstie and I bought flights for the World Cup in 2025,

August 22nd.

They've already sold 55,000 tickets through a pre-sale amazing or the final.

And they had to let that was a three hour window.

So it's so good.

The rest of the tickets for the final at Twickenham will go on sale with the rest of the T with the general tickets.

I did get.

Four.

Just in case see you there in cricket.

It's been a big week for the Australian women's cricket team with three games at the T20 World Cup in six days.

Talk about condensed features in the week less contacting cricket bit less contacts board,

isn't it?

Earlier in the week,

Australia not shut up convincing wins against New Zealand winning by 60 runs and winning by nine wickets against Pakistan in their clash against New Zealand.

Megan shoot became the record holder for most,

wickets in T20 World Cups with 44,

but the most recent clash against India went down to the wire.

Australia held their nerve in a thrilling nine run win over India to seal top spot in their group at a T20 World Cup semifinal berth with captain Elisa Healey out injured.

Australia.

They did that without Elisa Healey and Taylor.

Yeah,

thanks.

And tell of a lemonic who I say it's non-contact sport,

but she dislocated her shoulder.

Ooh,

yeah,

diving for a ball on the boundary and Elisa hurt her foot doing the runnings between the wickets.

So massive effort for the girls with two of those big wigs out injured and Haley will be reassessed to see if she might be back later.

And the Graham's been brought into the squad for for Taylor,

unfortunately,

but I think Elisa will tape it up.

She's pretty tough like that.

Jab,

jab deputy captain Elise Perry led the team to eight for 151 in front of a sold out crowd of 14,946.

Bigger stadiums.

Put them in a bigger stadium.

They're in a pretty precarious position though,

needing 53 runs from the final five overs and India's Harmon Preet smacked 25 from the next 14 balls.

She faced to reduce that margin significantly aided by deep dish.

Sharma's 29 from 25.

So they then needed 14 from the last over the last six balls.

23 year old Annabelle Sutherland produced a poised final over beyond her years.

She.

Could have been in the one to watch category.

She's exceptional.

She is very good for six balls.

Sutherland's final over with the ball consisted of one run bold run out one run wicket and a run out LBW and one run to steer Australia to six wicket victory.

Showing that in my mind as you said them all like I was picturing them each little one run old run out.

Excellent.

Excellent.

Just the varying levels of pressure as it kind of serious pressure.

So good.

The girls are killing it in a rugby league.

Australia's PM's 13 running nine tries on the way to a 50 to nil victory over the PNG PM's 13 in Port Moresby.

Kelly Brown, Rory Owen and Jamie Chapman all bagged first half doubles as Jess Skinner's team racked up a 44 to nil lead at the break after a tighter opening it to the second half.

Brown completed her hat trick in the 45th minute when the PNG defense couldn't recover quickly enough from a long range Australia breakout.

The PNG defense.

The PNG did hang tough in that second half and that was the only try to be scored in the second half as we said ending 55 50 to nil in a bit of Asian's Champions League news Melbourne City have had a perfect start to the first editions of the women's Asian Champions League competition.

The Continental Tournament is the first of its kind for women's football in the AFC established for the 2024-25 campaign as part of a revamped approach to the Confederation's elite club competitions.

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They sound smart, 3-0, before rounding out the group stage

with a 4-0 win against Philippine side, Kaya FC.

This means they topped Group B and will have the chance

to host a home quarterfinal, but not until March.

Calendars, I'm assuming.

That's an awfully long time away.

Will they even have the same players signed?

That's a very good question.

Weird.

During the match, Melbourne City captain Rebecca Stott

became the first women's player to reach 100 appearances for City,

which is a huge milestone.

She plays for the – what's the New Zealand football team called?

White Ferns?

They're the White Ferns, aren't they?

They're not silver or black.

They're the White Ferns.

Speaking to media after the win, Stott said,

I love being part of this club.

It's been eight years now, so I'm super stoked to get my 100th game for City.

There's a lot to build on.

Yes, we're happy with the three wins and two clean sheets,

but I think there's still a lot to work on.

Love that for Stottie.

In sailing news, the women's squad for Team Australia

bowed out of the Women's America's Cup qualifying series

in a tightly fought battle, finishing fourth.

With the top two spots in Group B already secured,

it was left to Australia and the local Spanish sail team, Barcelona,

to vie for the third spot, which was the cutoff line

for invited teams to go through to the semifinal.

After coming out with a strong second place in the first race of the day,

Australia scrambled to score three subsequent fourth placings,

falling just short of the cutoff by five points.

So close.

I feel like Barcelona had some local knowledge.

As if that wouldn't be a thing.

Yeah, they practice on that park.

Water.

Water park.

In basketball, the WNBA finals between the Minnesota Lynx

and New York Liberty are heating up.

Oh, I still don't know who I'm going for.

Yeah, you're torn, aren't you?

I was supporting both teams watching this game.

I'm Liberty.

Liberty?

Yep.

After the Lynx won game one in a tie contest,

95 to 93, man, it was tight.

The Liberty were out for revenge in game two.

Brianna Stewart scored 21 points and Lainey Hamilton added 20

to help the Liberty beat the Lynx 80 to 66 in game two.

The win even the series won all as it shifts to Minnesota during the week.

Just like game one, New York built a double digit lead in the first half,

only to see it evaporate.

But this time they didn't completely collapse.

Minnesota were down nine early in the fourth,

fourth quarter before getting within 68 to 66 on Courtney Williams' layup

with three minutes 40 left in the game.

But those were the last points Minnesota would score

with the Liberty powering home for an extra 12 points.

So during the week, the WNBA have announced they approved

a new best of seven format for the WNBA finals for the 2025 season,

replacing the best of five.

Huge, because that's what they do in the men's.

Love it.

In addition,

the regular season schedule will increase to 44 games per team starting next

season when the expansion at Golden State Valkyries begin playing as the league's

13th franchise.

Teams have played 40 regular game seasons in each of the last two years.

44 games is a lot.

It's great.

It's awesome.

It's really great.

Biking, cycling news.

In a bit of holy dooly, that's insane news.

Have you watched the footage of this?

It's scary.

It's a hard no.

No.

One of the world's top women's riders dropped into the Red Bull Rampage course

in Virgin, Utah.

Is it actually called Virgin?

I've got so many jokes about this that I'm having to park.

Is it called Virgin, Utah?

Well.

Great.

For the first time.

The women's debut featured no shortage of mind bending tricks and challenging terrain.

I mean, it's kind of fitting that it's called Virgin because it was the first time the women

were competing there.

Love that.

Great.

Kept it PG.

The Red Bull Rampage is an invitation only.

A free ride mountain bike competition held near Zion National Park in Utah in the United

States.

The coveted prize was ultimately claimed by Kiwi Robin Gooms with 85 points.

Wowing the judges with two backflips.

I cannot imagine doing a backflip down this thing.

It was so steep.

Consider yourself wowed.

I could not even ride down that thing.

I mean, these people, like I shouldn't even be trying to compare myself, but I can't even

imagine going down, let alone doing a backflip down there.

Okay.

So, you know, when something.

When something's really steep and you're looking down it and you're like, I'm going to have

to bum slide down this.

Is that where you'd go?

I would bum slide only if there was a soft landing at the bottom.

Also, the thought of bum sliding with my back at the moment makes me feel stressed.

I bum slid off Cradle Mountain a few years ago.

Amazing.

She earned the Utah Sports Commission Best Trick Award too.

How good.

Cool.

In addition.

Oh my gosh.

So many things.

She stomped her 12.5 meters, aka 41 foot drop, and cleanly weaved down her top technical

shoot.

Amazing.

Don't know what it means, but it's way more technical than a bum slide.

I'd win the bum slide comp.

You would.

Hockey One has kicked off its fourth season in Australia over the weekend and the women's

competition got off with a bang.

The Perth Thundersticks, definitely my favorite name of any sporting team in the Hockey One,

defeated the Canberra Chill.

Oh.

Whoa.

Hang on.

We've got a new contender.

That's nice.

They've got some good names in Hockey One.

Is that because it's cold in Canberra or it's because they're just chill?

They're ice cold.

Ice in their veins.

The Thundersticks beat the Chill 10-3.

They were a bit too chill.

Oh, ice cold.

In the opening round, Perth's Lexi Pickering scored four goals while Lyon Milan came away

with a hat trick.

Holy moly.

This was fast.

Eye watering.

Goodness me.

Ruth Cepagich of Kenya has broken the world record for the women's marathon by almost

two minutes.

She ran a 2.09.56 of the 2024 Chicago Marathon overnight.

She's the first woman to go sub 2.10 in a marathon.

Amazing.

Absolutely amazing.

How good is that?

The win marked her third win in Chicago, so she obviously likes that track.

She loves that course.

Alongside her 2021 and 2022 triumphs after finishing as the race's runner-up in 2023.

She said, I feel so great.

I'm proud of myself and I thank God for the victory and the world record.

This is my dream that has come true.

I love it.

I fight a lot thinking about the world record and I have fulfilled it and I'm much grateful.

I'm sorry for laughing, but you would not be thanking God after you win the bum slide.

That's why I started laughing.

Let's take a look at the key story.

This week, the United Nations, the UN presented a report detailing the violence experienced

by women and girls in sports globally.

Drawing on more than a hundred submissions and consultations with 50 people, the report

found women and girls in sport face widespread.

Overlapping and brave forms of violence at all levels.

These abusive behaviors include coercive control, physical violence, corporal punishment, verbal

abuse, social exclusion, bullying, and identity abuse.

The report, which was compiled on violence against women and girls and its causes and

consequences by UN special rapporteur, Ms. Reem Asalam.

She says, some of the structural causes of violence against women and girls in sports,

include male-dominated cultures, under-representation of women in leadership roles, and unequal

investments in female sport.

The impacts of this violence are wide-ranging, including physical injuries, insomnia, fear

and anxiety, reduced self-confidence, substance misuse, eating disorders, self-harm, and decline

in athletic performance and participation.

Asalam said in her report, women and girls in sport face multiple forms of violence,

including economic, physical, psychological, and online violence.

It's scary.

It is really scary.

These impacts can extend well beyond the athlete's involvement in their sport.

Women and girls also experience economic violence in sport.

For example, when women athletes do not have control over their earnings or when they are

coerced into signing exploitative contracts.

The report notes women athletes also experience heightened rates of abuse and harassing behaviors

in online settings.

This includes sexual harassment and threats, racism, ridicule, body shaming, sexualized

comments, stalking, doxing, and revenge.

Asalam also details systemic barriers that prevent women and girls from participating

in sports on equal footing with men and boys.

And these include harmful social stereotypes, pervasive sexism in sport, the absence of

role models, unequal share of caregiving responsibilities, and limited access to training facilities,

infrastructure, and resources.

There's a total of 39 recommendations that would go towards eliminating violence against

women and girls in sport.

And I might just pick out a couple.

I'm conscious of time.

But some of the main ones, supporting the establishment of an independent global entity

aimed at ensuring safety in sport that is mandated to, inter alia, combat sexual violence

against women and girls and offer assistance and support for victim survivors, and the

development and implementation of laws, policies, regulations, and other measures that prevent

and respond to violence against girls and women in sports and physical activities.

Such policies must be established in consultation.

Women and girls and emphasize long-term coordinated and sustainable action while acknowledging

that there is no one-size-fits-all model.

Just on that note, quickly, we know the research that came out from Deakin University that

talked about the horrible rates of online harassment.

And one of the main issues was the reporting processes off the back of it, where so many

women and girls don't report it because they're like, well, in the past, nothing has happened.

So why on earth would I put myself in that situation?

So.

Creating a structure around that reporting process and the outcomes from those reports,

I think, is very important.

In line with, sorry, I was going to say in line with what we do at TFAT, there was a

couple of specific media-focused recommendations, Bez.

Yeah, so one of them was review education and media narratives to promote values beyond

mere victory and to promote respect for the bodily autonomy of others, respect for consent

in sports environments, and the development of a new sports culture that is more focused

on cooperation, solidarity.

And another one was engage the wider society and media to promote equality of rights and

dignity, the elimination of gender stereotypes, and a culture of rejecting all forms of violence.

And I think a huge part of that is so often we see headlines, probably more broadly talking

about violence against women in society rather than specifically in sport.

But so often we see the headline talking about how he was a good bloke or what his career

was, or someone said, I can't imagine him.

I can't imagine him doing this.

Like the headlines and the way that media report on violence against women is so harmful

in this narrative.

I totally agree.

They need to be more responsible.

Let's take a look at what to watch.

WNBA Finals.

The Game 3 of the WNBA Finals series will take place this week between the Lynx and the Liberty.

All games tip off at 11am and you can catch finals on all three of the remaining games

if required.

Wednesday, Game 3.

Saturday, Game 4.

We'll definitely get a Game 4.

And Monday.

For a Game 5 if needed.

How good.

In cricket, after going undefeated from four games in the group stage at the T20 World Cup,

Australia will play off in the tournament semi-final, taking on either England, West

Indies or South Africa in contention to qualify.

Excuse me.

The match begins this Friday morning at 1am and you can catch all the action live on Amazon

Prime.

The Dealeries take on the PNG Orchards this Friday in the opening game of the Pacific

Championships.

The game kicks off at 6.05pm and you can watch it live and free.

On the Nine Network.

In Hockey, the New South Wales Pride take on the Brisbane Blaze this Saturday at 3pm

AEDT in Round 2 of the Hockey One League.

You can catch all the action live and free on 7 Plus.

The 7th place Bombers will be looking to bring an end to North Melbourne's unbeaten run this

AFLW season when the two sides meet on Sunday at 3.05pm AEDT.

We'll be live on Carosports.

And in Netball, the Constellation Cup kicks off this weekend with Australia taking on

rivals New Zealand in the four-game series.

The first game in New Zealand begins this Sunday at 5.30pm AEDT.

I don't like even numbers.

Why is there not three or five game series?

Yeah, four games is silly.

Weird.

And that's a wrap.

Bye bye.

Bye.

See you next week.