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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation. How are you look. I am
ripping just being here with you. It's like dream come true.
We get about like being a World Cup winner and
gold medal lesl all that sort of show. Sitting in
Amanda Keller's chair looking across the studio at you. Well,

(00:23):
that's nice, great blush thanks. You know what I did laugh?
I was listening to that was one of my old
coaches there talking, Joyce Brown, the legendary Joyce Brown. She
talked about me being courageous and determined. She didn't really
ever say she was one of the most skillful players,
Like I was a past who showed up time and

(00:43):
time again and wouldn't give up, and that's probably why
I'm here this morning. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Good No. I used to play drums in a band
with my brother and I was the worst drummer in
the history of the world. But my brother used to
say to me, he said, you just you're just so enthusiastic,
you can't keep time, and you're dreadful talking about you
were a fantastic netballer.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Look, I was okay in my day, but I always
and I say this to my kids, like skill won't
get you everywhere. There's a lot of skillful players who
fall by the wayside. Turning up to training on time,
being grateful for the opportunities that you get, and putting
in more hard work than any else. It's a bit boring,
isn't it. It's not like there's this magic formula to success. Nah,
just turn up to training and do the work.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
It's true. Consistency is boring, so boring, But there's so
many people consistent people that and it could be anything parenting.
Everyone talks about what makes a great dad or a mum.
It's just been there, just showing up.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
I thought it was feeding them, but it turns out
it's just showing.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
If you shot up with food.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh my goodness, you either win your Dad of the Year.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Netball this year is not in the Olympic Games, is it?

Speaker 1 (01:47):
No? And I love the Olympics and I've been glued
to my television till all hours. But every four years
I had the same conversations with people, Why is it
netball in the Olympics. It was in there, never been
in the Olympics. No, And I think everyone just assumes
it because it's you know, it's the most popular sport
in Australia. It's the most played team sport for women

(02:08):
and girls in Australia. We've got this great Sun Corps
Super Netball League that you know, is on television. You
can watch it. Ten thousand people turn up at ken
Rosewell Arena in Olympic Park to watch the Swifts and
the Giants play. Yet we're not in the biggest game
in the world in the Olympics. And it's a bit
of a historical thing. So netball is a very British,

(02:29):
or was a very British game, and the Olympics were
a very European, a euro sort of centric thing when
they were started by Pierre de Cubertan, and netball just
wasn't on his agenda. And also it was a women's game, right,
and women didn't even get into the first few editions
of the Olympics, and it took a long time for
women to get anywhere near being represented in a meaningful

(02:50):
way at the Olympics, you know. And this is the
first Olympics in Paris where the gender split with participants
is equal, and so they're really touting it as a
quality gains, which is fantastic. There is a little bit
of a gender gap that I am worried about though
with the Olympics, and it's really about the fact that Australians,
the female athletes make up fifty five percent of the medals,

(03:12):
fifty five percent of the team for Australia, but they're
winning one hundred percent of the gold medals at the moment,
So really worried about our men.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, Kyle Charmers, I know, with that Chinese guy,
that was unprecedented. They've seen that he beat by a
whole body length all those high caliber swimmers.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
It's amazing, isn't it. And don't you when you hear
all the interviews with the athletes and the swimmers that
like and Kyle afterwards and the swimmer who won the
bronze medal, you try and read between the lines, You like,
what are they not saying that they really want to say?
It becomes a bit of a game, particularly with the
Chinese swimmers. I mean, the Chinese swimmers are the most
tested of all the swimmers in terms of drug testing

(03:50):
at the moment, so you know, you can the swimmers
are saying, well, yeah, you have to believe, you have
to believe the drug testing. So yeah, it's fascinating, isn't it?
Watching that?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's why I've insisted on drug testing you this morning.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
I've eaten my cup before I got in here. I
bought my own I bought my own beaker. But the
thing with drug testing, when you do it is that
someone has to watch. So who's volunteering, who's going to
do that?

Speaker 2 (04:17):
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