The Ticket Podcast
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Tracey Holmes presents The Ticket, a weekly in-depth analysis of the major issues in sports business, politics and governance.
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Rugby League & Sydney's West: What's the Deal?
A spurious link between rugby league in Sydney's west and a gangland murder has people talking again. Beyond the headlines Penrith is doing phenomenal work with its junior players, positively impacting the communities more broadly. Plus, a legal look at Greg Norman's LIV Golf and comparisons to World Series Cricket.
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May 7, 2022
Ukraine's Flag Politics & AFL's Buried Umpire Report
The AFL's buried report on the toxic environment for girls and women umpires is exposed, author Dr Vic Rawlings on what needs to happen next. Ukraine's athletes with disabilities continue to fly the flag of peace, even when instructed not to. Plus, is AFL CEO Gil McLachlan suited to being Brisbane 2032 Olympics CEO.
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Apr 30, 2022
End of an Era for the Australian Olympic Committee
After 32 years as President of the Australian Olympic Committee, John Coates, has stepped down but remains on the Brisbane 2032 board. Exclusive interviews with Coates, his replacement Ian Chesterman, retiring VP Helen Brownlee and more, plus the federal sports minister on the long road to 2032.
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Apr 23, 2022
Who Will Be Australia's Next Olympic President?
For the first time in 32 years a new president will run the Australian Olympic Committee. Hear from both contenders. As Wimbledon bans Russians, the World Olympians Association supports athletes right to compete. Is sport entering a new era - Cold War Mach 2?
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Apr 16, 2022
Surveillance 24-7: Sports New Battlefront
Surveillance in professional sport is now a 24-7 occurrence leaving athletes and governing bodies exposed to risk. The Ticket hears from experts who've looked at the current state of play. Plus, how a small group of transgender women in sport has become a major talking point in the Australian federal election.
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Apr 9, 2022
Authenticity - The Key to Sport's Future
In a rapidly changing world sport's relevance depends on authenticity. From athletes to governing bodies to mega events, storytelling is key. How will each respond to the challenges in a fast moving, digitised, politicised world?
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Apr 2, 2022
Politicised and Weaponised - Sports Big Issues
Ukraine and Russia come face to face at the FIFA Congress in Qatar; Transgender women simultaneously held up and pulled down as sport struggles to navigate their inclusion; Football icon Megan Rapinoe on taking a stand.
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Mar 5, 2022
The Olympics - fighting politics with politics
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has seen the Olympic and Paralympic movement throw in the towel of being above politics. Athletes have turned on athletes, the sports movement is turning on itself, and politics is the new name of the game setting a dangerous precedent for sport.
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Feb 26, 2022
Russia, War, and the Beijing Winter Olympics
Sport has found its voice in opposition to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. No longer can the flag on the sleeve of uniforms define who athletes are and what they stand for. Through the prism of war The Ticket reviews the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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Jan 22, 2022
Government to Athletes: Get Vaccinated or Get Novakked
The Australian government has pointed to Novak Djokovic as an example to any athlete thinking of entering Australia. But what does it mean for future events and nations who don't have access to vaccines? Plus getting inside the mind of the schoolteacher from Sundsvall, Sweden guiding the Matildas to their highest summit?
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Jan 15, 2022
The Djokovic Affair
Five days after being let out of detention, and having his visa cancellation quashed, Novak Djokovic is detained again. He's back in court a day before the Australian Open begins.
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Jan 8, 2022
Djokovic - Cancelled, Detained & in a Court of Law
The rules are the rules and the world's number one tennis player Novak Djokovic is finding out how far Australian authorities will go to enforce them.
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Jan 4, 2022
Summer edition: interviews with authors
Australia's Toughest Athletes, by Mick Colliss
Greg Chappell Not Out, by Greg Chappell
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Dec 17, 2021
The Shadow Man - David McKenzie
A story of mystery - former Australian International Olympic Committee member, David McKenzie, was on the rise before a shocking, unexpected death in Hawaii in 1981 while on route to visit officials in the USA cut short his career. Until this day questions remain.
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Dec 10, 2021
The New Cold War & the Beijing Olympics
The Beijing winter Olympic Games are at the centre of a new cold war stoush between China and the USA with several allies to 'diplomatically boycott'; plus trying to sort fact from suspicion with Peng Shuai caught in the middle of a geopolitical battle.
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Nov 20, 2021
Scandals, crises and clickbait
Australian Cricket & the historic sexting scandal that cost the captain his job; how a former tennis star is at the centre of China US geopolitical rivalry; WIth a year to go can Qatar remake its image around the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
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Nov 13, 2021
Marketing, Morals & Sports Bottom Line
As COP26 fizzles what is sport doing about climate action? Beijing 2022 will be carbon neutral but what about human rights? Plus AFL legend, Kevin Sheedy, on Aussie spirit & icons of sport.
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Nov 6, 2021
What are the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games All About?
How politic, COVID-19 and the birth of an entirely new industry tell the story of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
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Oct 30, 2021
Quinton de Kock and Taking a Knee
An in depth look at a 48 hour crisis in international cricket where one man's protest, that became a global gesture, was then mandated, which in turn earned another man's protest: South African cricket, Quinton de Kock and the take a knee movement in sport.
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Oct 23, 2021
Cricket's Place in a Changing Landscape: Olympic Press Freedom
Cricket once dominated Australian summers, what's it's place now in a changing environment with major demographic shifts? Plus, press freedoms, protest and human rights under the spotlight ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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Oct 16, 2021
The Man in The Mirror - Sonny Bill Williams
Dual International Sonny Bill Williams on facing up to the man in the mirror. Plus major reforms for FINA, and will gold medals from women's swimming at the 1980 Moscow Games finally be redistributed?
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Oct 9, 2021
Matildas, Abuse Allegations & Complexity
A deeper dive into abuse allegations that have rocked the Australian women's football team, the Matildas, reveals the complexity of personality, high performance and the sports bubble.
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Sep 12, 2021
Cricket Australia Takes a Stand; Personal Paralympic Moments
As voices inside Afghanistan fade, who will help? This week Cricket Australia and the players took a stand against the Taliban's claim women cannot play. Plus personal reflections and insights from Tokyo Paralympic medalists.
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Sep 5, 2021
'Indescribable' - Afghanistan's Paralympic journey
Afghanistan's Paralympians describe for the first time fleeing the Taliban, getting to Tokyo and now starting a new life; Ian Chappell on Afghanistan, cricket and the UNHCR; Brenton Rickard on protecting innocent athletes; Remembering former IOC president, Jacques Rogge, with Dick Pound.
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Aug 28, 2021
Afghanistan Rescue Mission - Australia Steps Up
Afghanistan's female athletes put out a call for help when the Taliban took over putting their lives at risk. Australia heard the call and reacted first. Emergency visas issued, almost 100 rescued. The key players talk through the complex operation.
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Aug 20, 2021
Sport, the Taliban, and the Women of Afghanistan
With the backing of sports bodies and Western governments, the women of Afghanistan asserted their rights as trailblazers in sport. Now, with the Taliban back in charge and the West gone, they feel abandoned. What can and should sport do?
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Aug 14, 2021
Tokyo 2020: 10 out of 10 or too early to tell?
The Olympics are done, the Paralympics to come. What's the midway verdict? How will history remember these games? Plus the ethical dilemma for a 7x Paralympian.
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Aug 8, 2021
The Ticket from Tokyo
Has Tokyo 2020 been a success? Guests include Cate Campbell, Laurel Hubbard, the AOC, the IOC and a voice from Morocco.
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Jul 31, 2021
Tokyo Olympics - more than medal winners
From the smallest team, to the refugee team, and the first transgender athlete Tokyo is setting all sorts of records. But are the games Covid safe? And lessons from Jessica Fox and Patrick Tiernan.
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Jul 24, 2021
The Ticket from Tokyo 2020
A special edition: The Ticket from Tokyo, where despite all the odds, the games have actually begun, plus WADA back to pre COVID testing levels, Brisbane to host in 2032 and MMA multi time champion Tyron Woodley on life and the movies.
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Jul 17, 2021
The complex story of basketballer Liz Cambage
Americans embrace Liz Cambage's confidence, while Australians struggle with it as her withdrawal from the Olympics has shown; The Lewis Hamilton Commission report is out; the latest doping documentary from Hajo Seppelt; plus remembering Tokyo 1964 with Phil Coles.
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Jul 13, 2021
Olympic legend - Dawn Fraser
From Tokyo 1964 to Tokyo 2020 - the incredible life of one of the world's greatest athletes. Dawn Fraser, her story, in her words.
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Jul 10, 2021
Patty Mills - Standing Tall
Two weeks out from the Tokyo Olympic Games organisers continue to face challenges, while athletes have been dealing with their own. Basketball star Patty Mills on the importance of culture; Discus thrower Dani Stevens on spinal surgery that threatened her career; and the pain on non-selection with Taekwondo's Carmen Marton.
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Jul 3, 2021
The Road to Tokyo: from Tokyo 1964 to the 2020 Olympic Games
Swimming enquiry's chair says all sport should review culture regularly but 'it's not'; High performance funding in Australia to be linked to cultural wellbeing; Remembering Tokyo 1964 with basketball legend Lindsay Gaze; Tokyo 2020 athletes from football, badminton and Paralympic taekwondo
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Jun 19, 2021
Swimming Australia - What's Really Going On?
As the high profile Australian Swimming Team held its Olympic trials headlines focussed on allegations the sport was drowning in a culture of abusive behaviour. The Ticket investigates the voracity of those claims.
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Jun 12, 2021
'You can't rule by dictatorship anymore'
The Olympic refugee team grows; Brisbane 2032 is happening; Tokyo latest; the new breed of coaches - no more dictatorships
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Jun 5, 2021
Case Study: the Naomi Osaka v Grand Slam affair
What has the French Open-Naomi Osaka affair revealed and what have we learned? Player rights & responsibilities, wellbeing, governance, sports law, 'take it or leave it' sports rules and changing times.
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Jun 3, 2021
Special midweek edition: talking to the boss
This week is significant for two of the world's most powerful sports organisations: FIFA appoints Dave Beeche CEO of the 2023 Women's World Cup & Sarah Lewis aims to become first female president of FIS - leadership & challenges in a changing world.
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May 29, 2021
The psychology of competing at Tokyo's 'state of emergency' games
okyo catch-up; Australia's first team in; the psychology of preparing for the unknown; Brisbane 2032 locked away; Naomi Osaka 'I'm not talking'.
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May 22, 2021
Under the covers and inside the bubble: sports challenging times
Tokyo's latest troubles; transgender times; Sun Yang back at CAS; Sandpapergate rises from the dead; Lauren Jackson into Basketball Hall of Fame.
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May 15, 2021
Tim Paine the reluctant leader; Mack Horton on protest & Tokyo
Tim Paine takes us inside the sanctum after Australia was caught cheating revealing conversations & leadership challenges; Mack Horton on Sun Yang, protests & Tokyo; Basketball Australia's new era; The latest Covid challenges facing Tokyo Olympics
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May 8, 2021
Gymnastics Abuse Tip of the Iceberg; Tokyo latest
As gymnastics in Australia picks up the pieces from a review finding widespread abuse officials prepare for similar allegations in other sports. Plus Tokyo Olympic latest.
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May 1, 2021
The Ticket: Who are the Poweroos? Plus, Questions for Tokyo
Questions athletes should be asking Olympic organisers ahead of Tokyo; plus Australia's highest ranking and most inspirational football team, the Poweroos.
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Apr 24, 2021
The Ticket: Super League - What Really Happened?
It burst to life on Sunday night, by Wednesday it was dead. Or was it? What really happened with the proposed European Super League? And will it be back?
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Apr 16, 2021
The Ticket: Tokyo, COVID & the Reality of the Olympic Games
The real COVID concerns are not where you think. Swimming Australia boss on protests & doping. Matildas coach - 'it's going to be tough'. Paralympic Table Tennis team's secret weapon.
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Apr 10, 2021
The Ticket - Why North Korea has pulled out of Tokyo
China Ambassador to Australia, and other officials, with their view on calls to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics; North Korea's reasons for pulling out of Tokyo 2022; diversity issues at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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Mar 31, 2021
The Ticket: 01 April 2021
For the United Nations International Day of Sport for Development and Peace - a special conversation on the power of sport and human rights with NBA player Enes Kanter, rugby international turned boxer Sonny Bill WIlliams, and former Socceroos captain now refugee advocate Craig Foster.
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Mar 27, 2021
The Ticket: 28 March 2021
More changes to labour rights in Qatar for FIFA 2022; preparing Olympians and Paralympians for Tokyo 2020 heat; junior sport and heat; sport & embedding human rights.
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Mar 19, 2021
The Ticket: 20 March 2021
The Tokyo Olympic Games Torch Relay gets underway in Fukushima one year late, what can we expect? Plus significant developments in Australian sport re vilification, high-performance, racial equality and more.
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Mar 12, 2021
The Ticket: 13 March 2021
The IOC session prepares for a post Covid19 world; human rights advocates renew their call for a boycott of Beijing 2022; tweaks to anti-doping; former world surfing champ, Pam Burridge.
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