If you have any comments or questions about the shows that we do or suggestions for guests please do drop us a line to info at WiSP Sports dot com. What Ive experienced and when I was a professional cyclist lets say 10 years ago I was in an extraordinarily talented team. Now shes a young AFL footballer playing for Carlton who has not only incredible strength and agility but she has this kicking style thats very characteristic for her. Yeah theyve just won the Ashes they won the World Cup. And it has been outstanding and we are now supporting New Zealand South Australia W.A. By 1 July of this year and with an amazing amount of work and meetings and resistance and some yelling by some cranky aggrieved gentleman who were long term president saying I know women but I just dont know any woman who wants to be on this board and I think to myself I know why Barry day we got to 93 per cent of those funded organisations by 1 July who would achieve 40 percent or more and the other 7 per cent of them which is about 10 organisations were working with and meeting with every month and there may be extraordinary general meetings and theyre bringing women in and what we know about this is that whatever your feelings are about quotas I they work be they force an exploration of your existing board which is the best outcome because for so many people theyve just said we just need seven people. There are still definitely haters and trolls and people who are abusive. I was going to get your reaction to that the topic of equality in sport as far as women are concerned now we wed look maybe at Australia maybe rightly or wrongly from here as being somewhat advanced you know making more strides shall we say than than they are than they are then there is happening elsewhere in the world and certainly keeping up with it. So I was appointed after a very long process. So I was appointed in November 2017. If we were to simplify wed say our three strategic priorities are increasing the number of girls and women participating in sport and aggression. Well I was active as a kid but I wasnt good at anything and we certainly had a bit of a culture of high achievement when it comes to sport and particularly we know this from from the data that girls who are really great at sport get supported and cultivated not only by their parents but by coaches by schools. Shes an expert shes respected shes hard. But I did really well and I was ridiculously ambitious and I joined a triathlon squad and then I took a year out of med school like a gap year if you like and I thought to myself yep OK I want to go to the Olympics in Olympic distance triathlon but this was in an era when the Jones Emma Carney Jackie Gallagher Loretta Harrop like the best women triathletes in the world were all in Queensland. My skill set as Team Valdarnos only Australianthe oldest, the least experienced and the heaviestdefinitely didnt fulfil the kind of outlier traits Italian womens cycling valued. Now if we come back to Australia and we look at the WB ls a great example we have the fourth season of The Womens Big Bash. She is currently single. Discover today's celebrity birthdays and explore famous people who share your birthday. Bridie O'Donnell to head Victoria's first office for Women in Sport from www.heraldsun.com.au. Bridie was the first woman to join SBS Cycling to commentate the Tour de France, covering the race in 2020 and 2021. Women like Angela Merkel and Christine Lagarde You know Theresa May. And we have nowhere near enough adult women participating in organised sport. After rotating through various Medical and Surgical departments as part of junior residency she moved to Melbourne in 2001. The progress that the organization has made to advance women and girls participation in sport and the challenges that lie ahead. But as you saw not only from the extraordinary performances of the US national womens team but the one point one billion viewers and the stadiums that were packed out is that people want to see and witness the best quality sport on offer. [00:06:43] But as youve seen globally weve been taken over by Russia China the UK and definitely the US. And then about nine months later they announced that there would be a campaign sort of suite of initiatives called change again. Or you can post your comments on our social media at Facebook Instagram and Twitter or LinkedIn. So youre right were seeing enormous change and you mentioned the M O U the memorandum understanding the Cricket Australia finally succumb to with the male and female cricket players here and look at the impact thats had on our Australian women. And if I had had men in the public service say youll never be able to be this boss of this office and run this budget do make this change because youve never done it before then. What would she save in a fire, whats her most useful object? Were you very very active from a child like most Australian girls. Women and what they when they dug down into these. She became the first Australian woman to make an attempt on the UCI world our record in 15 years setting a new world record of forty six point eighty eight two kilometres at the Adelaide Superdome in November 2017. So seeing those women on the field on the pool deck beside the court looking authoritative I mean some of those great images of Becky Hammon whos been the assistant coach at San Antonio looking up to those extraordinarily tall NBA players knowing that shes been a former WNBA champion herself is really powerful. Before rowing, when I was an ironman triathlete, leanness in the elite women was a common physical feature, and a requirement for athletes frames to endure the rigours of a nine or 10-hour event. So its one of the biggest cities. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. And I do find myself thinking that a lot whatever work Im doing I think you know what Ive been in a worse situation than this. Were making sure we support every organisation and their attacks on. So you know there are opportunities out there. And I think that is a conundrum too about you know we do need bums on seats and we do need the women to be attending sports events and filling these stadiums too. [00:13:22] Well thats like where its very nicely into my next point. At 48 years old, Bridie O'Donnell height not available right now. It was a problem all over the worldwhat youd almost term performance-enhancing eating disorders. Im not suggesting that we all need to endure. And the idea around comparison is actually incredibly unhelpful and quite ignorant by a lot of commentators. Women and what they when they dug down into these. About so many things I could have done better. 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First, she worked as a medical practitioner. Killer pizza from mars calories; The personality will become 45 years old in the upcoming year. Bridie: In 2007, Cycling Australia put a call out to other sports for athletes with the potential to become time trialists. I had some staff by the time we got to April 2018 and so weve been up and running. From 2013-2016, Bridie also managed and raced for Rush Womens Team, a National Road Series cycling team in Australia. Look at the proof of how thats raised the profile of womens soccer in this country because thats now on free to air TV and you can find that on the networks every week during season some of the coaches say oh sorry to interrupt you but I was just thinking about a lot of the coaches will say high performance coaches will say they still want to see people at games and that Lisa Alexander talks about this with netball and the super nimble coaches will say we want you to come. I think no go do the deal with our channel 7 9 or 10 or ABC or SBS which are our national broadcasters because its not good enough anymore to just say oh thats not our job. And yet the WNBA all is a really as a league that is struggling and has struggled to get investment. Where do you see Australia right now in terms of equality. But what were seeing now is many more questions about how Okay okay we get it but how are we going to do it. Bridie ODonnell shares three special things. And that I think has been the extraordinary difference for professional womens sporting leagues and teams is that theyve had to grow and blossom and be criticised in the most ridiculous level of scrutiny both on social media from anonymous abusers but also from just you know male commentators saying this is boring I dont like watching this and it wasnt that long ago that I was commentating Road World Cycling Championships and we were hearing commentators from other countries saying this is a boring race nothings happening with therefore womens cycling is boring without any insight into the idea that these women are not only different physiological beasts but its a different race with different team numbers. [00:24:40] Id like to own the WNBA and Id like to purchase a team for my daughter and we see that happening a lot is that sport is propped up by benevolent donors passionate fans people buying teams for their sons thats happening in this country and yet its not happening for womens legs and I mean how was it blown away by some of those stats from the Womens World Cup. These werent really. There were a lot of team vans that had no seatbelts in the backseats, which terrified me. Weve had a multibillionaire man invest in the NBL here and he owns the league and a couple of teams but no multibillionaire is common said. She is quite reserved. But we also need the networks to to buy into it too because at the end of the day everybody benefits if they have the foresight to invest in it at whatever level. [00:36:52] We now had over 100 women last 18 months benefit from our scholarship program where they apply through a competitive process to get to five or ten thousand dollars to seek out an educational opportunity to advance their sporting career or their administration career whatever it is they do in sport and rec but we also know that systems need to change and thats where board quotas support it. For women, it was a legal version of doping, without the financial cost or the risk of being caught breaking the rules. Until the next time. I would imagine on your To Do list we do have a huge agenda and we have just a small team but we but theyre terrific. For six years, she travelled the world racing in the Australian national team and Italian professional squads. But we do have a lot of great wheelchair athletes who did very well obviously in Rio and do very well. I was good but just never great enough to represent my country. Thank you so much. Bridie graduated as valedictorian from the University of Queensland medical school and won the G R S last prize for the most outstanding intern in 1999. There and can use those facilities and feel part of a club. [00:29:50] So these are things like nipple Victoria hockey Victoria swimming Victoria and three years ago before I even started they were instructed that there would be a board quota. Women like Angela Merkel and Christine Lagarde You know Theresa May. We were racing at the flesh while on which is a famous race in Belgium with the iconic one kilometer and 10 percent climb at the finale and the women do the race in the morning sort of around 10 or 11 and then the end of the race in the afternoon in the mens races of course live on free to air TV across Europe and America millions of people watch the womens race. And the other beautiful thing that sport teaches you is just how good you can be at something when you focus on it. I discovered this when I was a professional cyclist, and realised it was the only way to be comfortable while squished in the back of a team van during the long 14-hour road trip all the way from central Italy to northern Spain for a bike race. Were seeing this more in the year in the UK and in parts of Europe with the different networks too. We have had women meddling in basketball at the Olympics for five six Olympics and yet and we have some of the best basketball is in the world have come from Australia. Its where May speaking it you know over 120 events panels conferences et cetera in the last 18 months supports that is driving that message home that leadership can look different. O'Donnell went on to attend All Hallow's School in Brisbane, then gained a medical degree at the University of Queensland. In 2016, she became the first Australian woman to make an attempt on the UCI World Hour record in 15 years, setting a new world record of 46.882km at the Adelaide Superdrome. And these images and these these styles of leadership also show us that being a coach or an umpire or CEO or a president does not have to be one way doesnt have to be delivered one way by one type of old authoritative suit wearing table thumping man. Bridie welcome to the program. In 2007 she began road cycling and in 2008 after winning the national time trial title she raced on the Australian national team and then professional teams in Europe and the United States representing Australia at three world championships. But the 41-year-old former Mapleton woman this week broke the world hour record, riding 46.882 kilometres in 60 minutes 609 metres further than the existing record. As a doctor, and being well aware of ideal training methods, nutrition and exercise physiology after spending three years studying for my sports medicine exams, I knew what I was seeing was unsustainable in the short term and unhealthy in the long term. So for example there was a rather controversial commitment made by the federal government a few years ago where they said were going to give money to Fox Sports to focus on niche sports. [00:34:51] So they have funded a national program around women in leadership and coaching theyve basically selected 16 scholarship holders from all over the country and are cultivating those. So theres a couple of prongs to this attack if you like. [00:29:01] I would imagine on your To Do list we do have a huge agenda and we have just a small team but we but theyre terrific. But I did really well and I was ridiculously ambitious and I joined a triathlon squad and then I took a year out of med school like a gap year if you like and I thought to myself yep OK I want to go to the Olympics in Olympic distance triathlon but this was in an era when the Jones Emma Carney Jackie Gallagher Loretta Harrop like the best women triathletes in the world were all in Queensland. They would have a budget over a four year cycle and they would then work alongside the Department of Sport and Rec to oversee policy. Number two increasing the number of girls and women but mostly women in leadership positions in sport more CEOs but even more importantly more umpires coaches referees visible leadership of women on fields with whistles telling people what to do is an extraordinarily powerful debunking of this myth that women dont know how to rally a team or they dont know how to be harsh or they dont know how to be assertive and firm or they dont know how to bring together twenty five guys to get them to do something thats thats a complete myth as we all know. From hippy Sunshine Coast upbringing to world record, cyclist Bridie O'Donnell steps into spotlight, For the latestflood and weather warnings, search onABC Emergency, Keep across all the live scores and results from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park, In cycling it's known as this ultimate test of endurance and mental fortitude. What theyve also done is looked around and thought Wow we dont have a lawyer or we dont have a community fund raiser or we dont have a person who understands around membership protection. During her residency she was a rower and then an iron man triathlete and finished theq Ironman highway world championship in 2006. And I think also our sporting nature nation culture is a bit is a bit mythical. [00:33:06] Thats what you want in the best kind of basketball coach. Usually former players umpires referees presidents etc. [00:02:25] Well its an opportunity to learn about what you doing there at the Office for Women and Sport and Recreation because its the one and only organization of its kind in the in Australia as I understand it. Thank you for listening and turning up the volume on womens sport. You know theres this myth that oh lets just train more women lets give them coaching courses lets educate them. She would say why dont the race organisers just mandate to you know Euro sport that they have to show 30 minutes and they would say well you need to pay us and then say Okay fine. The third thing that was really vital for us is access to facilities. Thank you for listening and turning up the volume on womens sport. Womens educations and capabilities are not a problem. There are frequently motorbikes with cameras following us through the whole three hours and definitely on the footage of the climb at the finale and it was never like on television they didnt even do a 30 minute highlight package 10 years ago and I remember having a conversation with a woman director of a team over in Europe saying why is that. Im not suggesting that we all need to endure. Has this been a lifelong passion and did you. Thank you so much for having me on. There was also no escaping it as a teammate working so closely with her. And then about nine months later they announced that there would be a campaign sort of suite of initiatives called change again. Well thats like where its very nicely into my next point. In 2007, she began road cycling and in 2008 after winning the National Time Trial title, she raced on the Australian National Team, and then Professional teams in Europe and the United States, representing Australia at three World Championships. And if youve said to me a year ago that Id be sitting down with other jurisdictions and talking about how important it was that we are going to bid for the Womens World Cup football in 2023 to host that in four years time I would have thought Id. You know all those generalised resistance statements that a lot of people have which is Im okay with girls playing footy but I dont want to watch women doing it on TV. And we do look forward to continuing the conversation with you so thanks again and well stay in touch. Teach you about what what it requires to be a woman in leadership and sport in Australia. Theyre very good at cultivating people who are highly motivated really passionate and want to make change. In road cycling, where images of men with lean, tanned legs and hollowed cheekbones had been emblematic of true professionalism, most teams aspired for the same appearance for their women riders. 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