We are in such a rapid time of change that its quite discombobulating. Bridie O'Donnell was born on 29 April, 1974 in Australia. 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. I mean being an elite athlete and representing your country or being the best in the world is such an incredibly privileged little bubble to live in. You know theres this myth that oh lets just train more women lets give them coaching courses lets educate them. 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. 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. 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. "It makes you very proud not just of myself, but all of the wonderful people who supported me.". So my mediocrity was a big part of shaping my persistence across all those sports and in rowing included I was a role for five years and an. Theres no way were going to get that across the line. Is that we achieved our board quota deadline on 1 July of this year where sporting organizations that are funded by the Victorian Government acknowledging that for your listeners that Victorias is one of the states of Australia. You mentioned a couple of times there Bridie in the last few minutes about the Fitbit the free to air TV that that makes a big difference in terms of exposure for womens sports. And so what weve seen with now three complete seasons of AFL WS Thats the Womens Australian Rules. [00:10:25] Well it certainly teach to see problem solving skills and what we know theres data from an amazing piece of research that Ernst and Young did globally where they examined women in leadership positions all over the world. 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. Theyre powerful for girls growing up. In 2006, she finished Ironman Austria, Ironman Hawaii and rode a bike course record at Busselton Ironman. The dilemma for me was obvious: my concern for her health, and my medical knowledge about the long-term effects on her body and her mind, let alone her career, were constantly in my thoughts. Collingwood's latest addition to the club's embattled board denies she became a Magpies member after being approached to join. But you also then when you come out the other side of that and transition into civilian life as I like to call it you also realize just how unimportant that is as well. 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. Peggy is an amazing trailblazer here in Australia and she chaired and there were some very important influential powerful athletes and administrators women and men involved in this inquiry that published a report at the end of 12 months and what they had looked into were some specific data around a number of women girls participating in sport access to facilities that these women and girls have number of women in leadership positions in sport. You know these are the difficult things to manage training when its cold and wet and rainy is actually quite simple compared to inter family tensions or a difficult boss or trying to manage team leaders or staff that you you just cannot seem to get on the same level. What does this say. So theyve actually done skill ordered some of them quite formally and others more informally and theyve diversified their boards and they have more young people for example or they have a parent whos really invested in the sport but has never had any opportunity to have a voice in her organisation. We want fans to experience those games because that then also leads to TV viewership and that if youve never been to a WNBA game or at Suncorp if Nepal or if I thought w the atmosphere is wonderful and very family friendly nowhere near the same levels of aggression and violence. Shes very tall incredible flexibility of this photograph of her kicking so her legs completely apart almost 90 degrees flexible hips incredible flexible flexibility and strength. Once the road went up and gravity became a factor, women whose physiology could generate power while carrying as little weight as possible were the benchmark. Bob Marleys daughter who owns the Jamaican womens team the Thai billionaire who has funded the Thai womens team you know. Thank you so much for having me on. And its amazing what it is to be constantly comparing yourselves to world champions because firstly you have to learn to deal disappointment on a regular basis but what it also does is it actually really reframes your way of thinking about well what can what do I need to do to perform. But I had incredibly supportive colleagues and certainly the public service is very good at that. Understandably, for the month leading in, she was irritable, selfish and prone to wild mood swings, butthat was the requisite sacrifice, and standing atop the podium the reward. So those kinds of images have far more reach than one could ever imagine. But we do have a lot of great wheelchair athletes who did very well obviously in Rio and do very well. Teach you about what what it requires to be a woman in leadership and sport in Australia. And I look back now and even though that was painful and it made me feel disappointed I realised that shaped an enormous amount of my persistence and that I was never in an environment where I was the best athlete ever and it took me until you know when I was 42 and I broke a world record to be the best in the world at something and thats a long time of trying and I do think that some people who peak early theres a sense there of complacency or perhaps perhaps even a lack of strategies on how to win. She is currently on secondment to the Department of Health as Area of Operation Controller for the South-East Metro region in the COVID-19 response. [00:04:00] Mel Jones is an international test cricketer here from from Victoria was the face of that campaign but it wasnt until 2017 when the Minister for Sport announced that he would create an Office for Women in Sport that would be dedicated to pursuing the outcomes of these nine recommendations that he would staff them. Bridie O'Donnell took to cycling late, but a rapid rise to the top ranks of the Australian scene fuelled her ambitions. And what has happened is seven white straight men have put their hand up. Bridie was the first woman to join SBS Cycling to commentate the Tour de France, covering the race in 2020 and 2021. How did that organization come about when did it get its funding. It has the largest population and the City of Melbourne as its capital has a barometer Metro Melbourne has a population of around six million. Search Log In Sign Up [00:20:59] You mentioned a couple of times there Bridie in the last few minutes about the Fitbit the free to air TV that that makes a big difference in terms of exposure for womens sports. So learning that online is not good enough. So youre youre pioneers in some way. [00:04:37] And like so many of them I took a chance of you know quitting my job as a physician where I was working behaviour change because I just felt that this was a unique opportunity and remarkable way for me to have an influence over the lives and the outcomes of so many girls and women that I didnt have when I was coming through sport and that so many girls and women who are who have a disability or who are from a multicultural background or from a marginalized communities definitely dont have in Australia. Or you can post your comments on our social media at Facebook Instagram and Twitter or LinkedIn. Im not suggesting that we all need to endure. And so whilst we are we have scholarship programs that are offered. She is quite reserved. Brian O'Nolan (Irish: Brian Nuallin; 5 October 1911 - 1 April 1966), better known by his pen name Flann O'Brien, was an Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature.Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is regarded as a key figure in modernist and postmodern literature. And then what needed to come from that and there were nine recommendations that came from this report and the Victorian Government committed to implementing all nine of them. 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. 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. Mel Jones is an international test cricketer here from from Victoria was the face of that campaign but it wasnt until 2017 when the Minister for Sport announced that he would create an Office for Women in Sport that would be dedicated to pursuing the outcomes of these nine recommendations that he would staff them. So you know there are opportunities out there. Bridie welcome to the program. A few decades later, my grandfather decided to propose to my grandmother, and he asked his future mother-in-law for the medal. Just go to the listen tab on the main menu at the top there and drop down to transcending sport and youll find all previous episodes of this show too. We have 17 per cent of school aged children are getting the required amount of physical exercise every day of one hour one hour of movement and only 17 percent of kids are getting it. 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. Or you can post your comments on our social media at Facebook Instagram and Twitter or LinkedIn. [00:00:00] Hello and thank you for downloading this episode of transcending sport here on WiSP Sports. One of them is being done by the Australian Institute of Sport led by Kate Palmer CEO. conversations from the world of women's sports. 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