It wasnt until I made the move across to road cycling that I encountered so much discussion of power-to-weight ratio, a topic preoccupying riders, coaches, and the DS of any team. My most useful object is definitely my pillow. The Silver Ferns where were sitting and we also saw and Im sure this photograph reached across the world is the photograph of Taylor Harris That was the most glorious examination and image of a woman kicking sheet. [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. Yeah theyve just won the Ashes they won the World Cup. Just a little over 18 months I want to dig a little bit deeper into what youre working on now because Australia of course seems in many ways to tell us and the rest of the world is one of the leaders when it comes to womens sports in terms of equality and opportunity facilities and so on. She rode 46.882 kilometres, exceeding the distance set by Molly Shaffer Van Houweling the previous September by 609 metres. I would make some coffee and then I would eat some sort of cereal with yogurt and berries. Weve seen as we said three seasons of AFL W and yet in this third season 0 teams of the 10 were coached by women which is mind boggling. Where are you. Well why doesnt the UCI the governing body say if you want to hold a rice race licence you have to broadcast X amount and you have to provide the footage and everyone would pass the buck and say its not their job. And unfortunately under that category of niche was womens sports. Its not life and death. 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. And so what weve seen with now three complete seasons of AFL WS Thats the Womens Australian Rules. After rotating through various Medical and Surgical departments as part of junior residency she moved to Melbourne in 2001. When I offered an unsolicited opinionone that in any way questioned maladaptive or unhealthy behaviorit was greeted with silence, a dismissive and wagging finger, or eye-rolling. Women and what they when they dug down into these. She is not dating anyone. [00:02:45] In 2015 there was an inquiry into women and girls in sport and active recreation here in Victoria which was actually initiated by the then opposition government and then implemented by the current government. [00:29:45] Organisations that deliver Sport and Recreation to Victorians that are funded by government. Were you very very active from a child like most Australian girls. What would she save in a fire, whats her most useful object? You have to work with people of varying abilities different types and motivations and you have to rally them all you have to have a plan and b c and d when things dont go your way. Theyre very good at cultivating people who are highly motivated really passionate and want to make change. Six years of med school was helpful but actually following around the senior doctor and thinking Okay heres what being a surgeon involves. 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. 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. 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. So it actually wasnt until I was in my second year of medical school I went straight into medical school out of high school and I started doing a triathlon. But its early days but theres no doubt that what were seeing now is instead of the why we used to there would have been a lot of the why why should we fund womens sport or why women arent as good as men. [00:34:24] So theres a couple of prongs to this attack if you like. The two women who coached in the first season got and McCown one of whom won the premiership cannot get a job here. 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. So Im sorry Im getting to the roundabout part of your question but yeah I was a completely ordinary and active kid grew up in a regional part of Queensland with parents whod sort of taken a bit of a tree change and left a city to work in a very hippy sort of school I suppose it was like a Montessori or an unorganized but very creative supported school. So the other another problem them for example is the AFL. Another of my pro teammates restricted her carbohydrate intake for the eight weeks leading into a major race, losing 20% of her body weight, and she placed third overall, securing herself a strong result and a bonus from her bike sponsor (bonus is probably too strong a word for it; when women cyclists get a bonus from a bike sponsor, it tends to be $500 or $1000, for men it might be a million Euro for a Tour de France win). Bridie also managed and reached for Rush womens team a national road series cycling team in Australia in 2016. Bridie was the first woman to join SBS Cycling to commentate the Tour de France, covering the race in 2020 and 2021. Hello and thank you for downloading this episode of transcending sport here on WiSP Sports. Thank you for joining me. During my first week riding in Italy, after the team presentation and before we embarked on the season of racing up north, one of my teammates insisted she had to lose 5kg, otherwise everything would be very, very bad. 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. 3-min read. 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. [00:10:12] So what did being a professional. As long as many more episodes of different shows we have now over a thousand episodes and a global audience reach now of more than three million. It also soon became clear enough to them that I wasnt committed enough (their term) to join in their cult of self-destruction; I learned quickly to just keep quiet, and not yield to my doctorly instincts to intervene. If we were to simplify wed say our three strategic priorities are increasing the number of girls and women participating in sport and aggression. She represented her nation at the 2008, 2009 and 2010 UCI Road World Championships. So sports shapes you in all of these ways and you you I guess you have this benchmark and you think you know what I have done harder shit than this. 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. 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. The citation noted Dr O'Donnell's extensive work as a physician, professional athlete and gender equality expert, becoming the inaugural Director of the Victorian Government's Office for Women in Sport and Recreation . During her residency she was a rower and then an Ironman triathlete, and finished the Ironman Hawaii World Championships in 2006. So we all bore the moody behaviour for the good of the team. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. 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. [00:11:35] So all of those things are challenging. 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. You know theres this myth that oh lets just train more women lets give them coaching courses lets educate them. What does this say. So those kinds of images have far more reach than one could ever imagine. The progress that the organization has made to advance women and girls participation in sport and the challenges that lie ahead. Bridie returned to full-time work in 2013 at Epworth HealthCheck and teaching doctor-patient communication at Deakin University Medical School. 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. 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. Usually former players umpires referees presidents etc. While working in Intensive Care and studying for physician exams, Bridie competed first in rowing and Ironman Triathlon. So its one of the biggest cities. Weve seen as we said three seasons of AFL W and yet in this third season 0 teams of the 10 were coached by women which is mind boggling. And as the saying goes you know you cant be what you cant see that that access is critically important. The progress that the organization has made to advance women and girls participation in sport and the challenges that lie ahead. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. Bridie what what did your main focus in the big to dos because you know youve got a huge huge agenda. [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. 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. But if youre just mediocre as a girl you tend to drop out whereas boys who are mediocre keep going. So being active playing sport engaged in it in their life. Bridie O'Donnell Net Worth Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. So sometimes one could argue which should come first and I am definitely no media broadcasting expert but I think that the time is for action. Bridie We could talk for much longer but Im mindful of your time there is there really so much to cover and Yep things keep coming up that Id like to bring up but I going to let you go and get on with your day because I know your day is starting but maybe we could circle back some time and continue this conversation because I think its I would love Aston and yes I could talk about this stuff. CEOs and board directors and the stats are mind boggling 96 percent of women in leadership positions across all industries have been competitive athletes. And she said if thats how theyre talking about me on social media what are they. That access is all a part of being accessible right the accessibility of sport. Were making sure we support every organisation and their attacks on. What were seeing now is those people are being left behind. 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. [00:16:37] But its early days but theres no doubt that what were seeing now is instead of the why we used to there would have been a lot of the why why should we fund womens sport or why women arent as good as men. To make matters worse, at least in the eyes of management, I showed nowhere near enough shame about my body and its apparently terrible excesses. But my goodness it does allow you a context and help you deal with strong personalities and we say that a lot in where Im working now as a sports administrator or working in government. A friend of mine was doing a triathlon Id never ridden a bike before and Id never done a running race and Id only just swum for you know learning that school. She will win for sure!. And since Title 9 in the United States were seeing now a third generation of girls and women benefiting from legislation that allows them to receive the same financial support at universities. So I was appointed in November 2017. 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. But we do have a lot of great wheelchair athletes who did very well obviously in Rio and do very well. Were seeing this more in the year in the UK and in parts of Europe with the different networks too. 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. How should where should the money be directed from. There are still definitely haters and trolls and people who are abusive. So we have a lot more men and in fact five times as many boys and men play competitive and organised sport in Victoria as do girls women girls women are active at the same rates. You dont get what you want a lot. Once, an Aussie teammate had to be given a break from racing to allow her to gain some weight. But the Lottery funding in the UK has boosted all kinds of sports that otherwise would never have had the exposure and certainly reached and mentor and Ill know the position in the Olympics particularly Paralympics. Teach you about what what it requires to be a woman in leadership and sport in Australia. Now we didnt see an increase in broadcasting of womens professional sport on Foxtel over that time and there was definitely some rattling of cans and people saying hang on a second. Thats sort of resistent attitude. Theres no way were going to get that across the line. Its not actually how well am I getting along with my family my children my wife my husband my parents. The third thing that was really vital for us is access to facilities. There and can use those facilities and feel part of a club. And we do look forward to continuing the conversation with you so thanks again and well stay in touch. I still miss that swimsuit. 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. Now we didnt see an increase in broadcasting of womens professional sport on Foxtel over that time and there was definitely some rattling of cans and people saying hang on a second. And yet the WNBA all is a really as a league that is struggling and has struggled to get investment. 2018 saw ODonnell publish Life and Death, a memoir detailing her experiences as a cyclist in Europe. And when Peggy talks people listen. And yet we have over 30000 girls and women registered to play was he rules in this state and hundreds more that are paid teach physical education teachers or former coaches in other jobs that could be highly qualified to do that. 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