View popular celebrities life details, birth signs and real ages. They could do it five years ago they would probably struggle and so well I think we need to determine the barriers. Eating little to lose a lot wasnt restricted to my teammate in Italy, and it wasnt the first or last time I would ride with a woman whose peak performances coincided with a body fat percentage edging dangerously close to a medical admission. Brady thank you so much for taking time to come on the show today. What were seeing now is those people are being left behind. That access is all a part of being accessible right the accessibility of sport. Bridie what what did your main focus in the big to dos because you know youve got a huge huge agenda. Dont rub it in. 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. [00:39:37] And if youd like to find out more about Bridies work and the organization you could find a link in the show notes accompanying this episode at WiSP Sports dot com. Well thats like where its very nicely into my next point. What were seeing now is those people are being left behind. My most useful object is definitely my pillow. [00:29:59] They would need to have 40 per cent women on the boards of these organisations acknowledging these were all volunteer positions. 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. If we were to simplify wed say our three strategic priorities are increasing the number of girls and women participating in sport and aggression. 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. 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. We venture into the book with an excerpt from Chapter 7, where ODonnell recounts what she saw when she headed to Europe to race for an Italian team in 2010. Bridie was appointed the inaugural head of the Office for Women and Sport and Recreation by the Victorian Government and in May 2018 she published a life and death a cycling memoir about her experiences as a professional cyclist in the international peloton. In 2014, she took on an inaugural role as a breast physician at the Epworth Breast Service. There was also no escaping it as a teammate working so closely with her. [00:25:24] 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. Shes very thoughtful and contemplative but shes extremely powerful. [00:34:24] So theres a couple of prongs to this attack if you like. You know we had yes we had the Olympics in 1956 we had the Sydney Olympics in 2000 we were one of the first countries in the world to have an institute of sport. But there are very many ways and Peggy ONeills who I mentioned before she is an extraordinary example of a person who delivers leadership in her own style. From 2013-2016, Bridie also managed and raced for Rush Womens Team, a National Road Series cycling team in Australia. From 2007 to 2016, Bridie competed in road and track cycling. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. Bridie returned to full-time work in 2013 at Epworth HealthCheck and teaching doctor-patient communication at Deakin University Medical School. The rigors and sometimes the bullying and abuse that comes with professional sport. But, like so many young women I would encounter in my time racing, she would only allow me to be a doctor on her terms. 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. 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. And then about nine months later they announced that there would be a campaign sort of suite of initiatives called change again. Theres no way were going to get that across the line. In the early season Spring Classics, races in northern Europe that were renowned for their cobbled roads and inclement weather, race winners were invariably strong, ferocious Dutch or Belgian women who didnt mind sideways rain or being put in the gutter (pushed to the dangerous and unpredictable soft edges of the roads) by other riders. Her years on the road as a cyclist taught ODonnell a lot, including the importance of a good nights sleep. So youre youre pioneers in some way. They drop out at all different parts of their lives milestones of their lives for example university or pregnancy or menopause or an aged parts of their lives. Womens educations and capabilities are not a problem. Bridie what what did your main focus in the big to dos because you know youve got a huge huge agenda. Discover Bridie O'Donnell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. A typical training day would unfold in a series of slow, generally silent manoeuvres. She is not dating anyone. Has this been a lifelong passion and did you. 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. And weve seen more than one women a week killed by her former husband or intimate partner which is a devastating statistic in this country that we need and we are working very hard to remedy. And it has been outstanding and we are now supporting New Zealand South Australia W.A. 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. 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. [00:22:31] And she said well you know what I did some digging and I found out that everyone checks their responsibility or their part to play in the way. 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. So its one of the biggest cities. Has this been a lifelong passion and did you. Six years of med school was helpful but actually following around the senior doctor and thinking Okay heres what being a surgeon involves. I dont know if you saw just recently there were some moderate criticism about the scheduling of the nipple World Cup that they played a lot of games in a short space of time which for Lisa Alexander the coach of the diamonds said you know she felt that the time is now to expand that tournament to greater numbers of days which of course takes greater investment to allow the athletes to give their best so that theyre at their best and theyre not actually fatigued by the final game and obviously New Zealand had such an extraordinary performance there to win again. It was free to air on Channel 10 Channel 10 did an amazing job not only of broadcasting it but as you know the power of social media of retweeting great little clips of some of the really strong athletic performances of women batting and bowling etc. You can imagine there were dozens or they said to me you know 100 women and men applied for this job. Because Im most curious about this you know being in the media for as long as I have. 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. She was tall and had the arms of a prima ballerinastrong, but skinny as hell. [00:17:26] I dont know if you saw just recently there were some moderate criticism about the scheduling of the nipple World Cup that they played a lot of games in a short space of time which for Lisa Alexander the coach of the diamonds said you know she felt that the time is now to expand that tournament to greater numbers of days which of course takes greater investment to allow the athletes to give their best so that theyre at their best and theyre not actually fatigued by the final game and obviously New Zealand had such an extraordinary performance there to win again. 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. So what we know about women as coaches is that their lack of qualifications is not the thing. And the idea around comparison is actually incredibly unhelpful and quite ignorant by a lot of commentators. Im sick of people saying thats not our job to do this or were just waiting for a bigger sponsor. I was good but just never great enough to represent my country. Collingwood's latest addition to the club's embattled board denies she became a Magpies member after being approached to join. [00:00:00] Hello and thank you for downloading this episode of transcending sport here on WiSP Sports. Bridie O'Donnell was born on 29 April, 1974 in Australia. They came away from the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games last year with some pretty sobering data. These werent really. But more of them are mind lovingly great and a privilege an absolute privilege to work in an industry to be paid a salary every fortnight to do something that is affecting change for millions of people is a distinct privilege and I just I know its the job of my lifetime. And so what weve seen with now three complete seasons of AFL WS Thats the Womens Australian Rules. Theyre powerful for women and theyre equally powerful for boys and men. 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. As a young girl growing up in a house with no electricity and television, Dr Bridie O'Donnell had no idea she would one day be a world champion cyclist. Womens educations and capabilities are not a problem. I would grab Gypsy, my rescue greyhound, and some family heirlooms that might be of very little value to others but are of great sentimental value to me. These are the kinds of conversations he has. In November, 2017, Bridie was appointed the inaugural Head of the Office for Women in Sport and Recreation by the Victorian Government and in May, 2018 she published Life and Death a cycling memoir about her experiences as a professional cyclist in the international peloton. 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. And what has happened is seven white straight men have put their hand up. You know how to deliver you keep going when youre tired you keep going when youre annoyed when it rains when its windy. 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). [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. She would also not need to, given the low intensity of the session. She is not dating anyone. So, how much is Bridie O'Donnell worth at the age of 48 years old? So being active playing sport engaged in it in their life. It was a problem all over the worldwhat youd almost term performance-enhancing eating disorders. Posted on July 26, 2021 by July 26, 2021 by During her residency she was a rower and then an Ironman triathlete, and finished the Ironman Hawaii World Championships in 2006. Its a great question. Lets say my former sport cycling incredible para cycling bombs as by Australians in the last world championships. [00:29:45] Organisations that deliver Sport and Recreation to Victorians that are funded by government. 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