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. She was a champion rower and ironman triathlete before swapping to cycling in 2007, when the Australian Sports Commission was looking for sportswomen to compete as cycling time trialists. They were selected because of their admirable strength, their long limbs, and the extraordinary power required for a six or seven-minute effort. The core values of WiSP Sports are based on the following principles to: WiSP Sports, Inc. We wont be able to convince our state politicians and federal politicians to invest in a womens football tournament. We have estimated During her residency she was a rower and then an iron man triathlete and finished theq Ironman highway world championship in 2006. So whilst we do have a reputation of being healthy and bronzed and tanned were in fact you know I think we have the third highest rate of childhood obesity in the world behind the US and Mexico. Im not suggesting that we all need to endure. Thank you for listening and turning up the volume on womens sport. She is quite reserved. 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. Systems around unconscious bias around myths of maintaining confidentiality so we dont want to have a mentee follow the head coach male coach around or retaining information and privacy that you cant have women in mens spaces because you know sexuality issues or nudity or whatever. Im sick of people saying thats not our job to do this or were just waiting for a bigger sponsor. 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. Bridie also managed and reached for Rush womens team a national road series cycling team in Australia in 2016. Now how do you do you have any thought so. And we have nowhere near enough adult women participating in organised sport. 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. How we overcome this hurdle of you know challenging the networks to make this free to air and satisfying the sponsors and getting the coverage that women need in the media. That access is all a part of being accessible right the accessibility of sport. 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. [00:37:23] It doesnt all have to look the same way but no one is fully prepared for her job. So learning that online is not good enough. Bridie O'Donnell's tumultuous tenure at . Required fields are marked *. Here, she tells us about the pillow that made her many cheap motel stays bearable, as well as the story of two other significant belongings. Where did that money go and why are we not seeing as much content as we would like and the WNBA is a great example. These are the procedures he performs and you get a sense of the job. 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. [00:31:54] So gender diversity and having gender equality in leadership positions is an enormous priority for us. 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. Less than 10 per cent of the coaches of all teams at the Commonwealth Games were women and worse than that. Its not life and death. How we overcome this hurdle of you know challenging the networks to make this free to air and satisfying the sponsors and getting the coverage that women need in the media. in Queensland to help to help them fast track their board quotas in whatever form it they are helping them learn for our from our mistakes and our lessons. So it had both sides of politics supporting the inquiry and it was chaired by an American. 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. conversations from the world of women's sports. Its not life and death. 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. Dont rub it in an area had it right. 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 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. During her residency she was a rower and then an Ironman triathlete, and finished the Ironman Hawaii World Championships in 2006. Bridie welcome to the program. Theyre powerful for women and theyre equally powerful for boys and men. Then, in her mid-30s, O'Donnell made the sharp pivot to professional cycling, a field where she. They were married in the 1940s and went on to have six children and eight grandchildren. 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. But I was a very academic kid and so I studied really hard through high school and I was completely mediocre at team sports and I wanted to be a leader like I was so desperately trying to be the best athlete and I just wasnt I didnt have enough speed I didnt have enough agility and all those things that you do when youre playing netball and touch football and some of the sports that have really big in teams here in Queensland. These werent really. 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. Thats a powerful image of a man who knows her sport. 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. So all I need to do my job is curiosity persistence support from my employer and my colleagues and a willingness to learn and anyone can do any job when they had those four characteristics. So theres something for everyone here at WiSP Sports. 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 those kinds of images have far more reach than one could ever imagine. I arrived in that sport aged 26, weighing just below 70kg, which put me right in the middle of two body types. Right there. 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. Where are you. The progress that the organization has made to advance women and girls participation in sport and the challenges that lie ahead. After rotating through various Medical and Surgical departments as part of junior residency she moved to Melbourne in 2001. 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. O'donnell is a world champion road cyclist, a . 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. 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. Bridie returned to full-time work in 2013 at Epworth HealthCheck and teaching doctor-patient communication at Deakin University Medical School. She is not dating anyone. 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. Bob Marleys daughter who owns the Jamaican womens team the Thai billionaire who has funded the Thai womens team you know. [00:36:46] And so whilst we are we have scholarship programs that are offered. 2018 saw ODonnell publish Life and Death, a memoir detailing her experiences as a cyclist in Europe. 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. [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. 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 I would say that the London Paralympics was probably the best broadcast and profiled Paralympics weve seen and as you know so much investment went into the campaign that amazing ADVERTISEMENT Whether you loved it or not it was memorable in reminding us of the extraordinary abilities of all of those athletes that were going to Paralympics. And if you say those things about women or you you devalue women and show them no respect. Managing their social media accounts and to make it very clear that this is a powerful image that needs to be shown and and it became an accelerated image the world started talking about this. Where do you see Australia right now in terms of equality. 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 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. 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. Bridie O'Donnell (@bridie_od) Instagram photos and videos bridie_od Follow 6,376 posts 7,146 followers 670 following Bridie O'Donnell Eagerly anticipating my next nap This Account is Private Already follow bridie_od? How should where should the money be directed from. 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. Ensuring that girls and women can show up to sporting clubs and feel safe included theres not just this sort of dark mahogany with pictures of men who won in 1963 that these places are family friendly and people want to. 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. In 2014, she took on an inaugural role as a breast physician at the Epworth Breast Service. And the idea around comparison is actually incredibly unhelpful and quite ignorant by a lot of commentators. So we all bore the moody behaviour for the good of the team. [00:27:46] And so I would say that the London Paralympics was probably the best broadcast and profiled Paralympics weve seen and as you know so much investment went into the campaign that amazing ADVERTISEMENT Whether you loved it or not it was memorable in reminding us of the extraordinary abilities of all of those athletes that were going to Paralympics. 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. Ultimately the hard work, planning, persistence and determination lead her to. I would make some coffee and then I would eat some sort of cereal with yogurt and berries. 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. 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. 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. 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. [00:20:59] 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. 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. Six years of med school was helpful but actually following around the senior doctor and thinking Okay heres what being a surgeon involves. Has this been a lifelong passion and did you. 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. But as youve seen globally weve been taken over by Russia China the UK and definitely the US. What does this say. Your email address will not be published. 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. According to our Database, She has no children. Okay. [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. [00:35:41] So what we know about women as coaches is that their lack of qualifications is not the thing. But if youre just mediocre as a girl you tend to drop out whereas boys who are mediocre keep going. "It was the ideal way to grow up I suppose; my sister and I would explore all day long and then go to school during the week," she said. and theres been so such a lack of diverse thinking that you know these people generally all the same age that probably went to school together and so by by asking them to have a quota and bring women in. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. Her legs already had veins showing, which is a sign of limited body fat; I was struggling to determine where she was going to lose nearly 10% of her body mass. When people talk about the sacrifices required of women in sport, they rarely consider body image and physical health, but if my years in the professional peloton taught me anything, its that this problem requires a far greater level of understanding and care. In 2006, she finished Ironman Austria, Ironman Hawaii and rode a bike course record at Busselton Ironman. And were seeing this more in the States. These werent really. 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. I was one of 70 who applied and one of 12 who got selected to be part of a testing programme. 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. 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. The first day she gets it and I am living breathing example of that that I had never worked in government before and all I was was just a washed up athlete doctor. Its just it can be overwhelming but I hope it can be rewarding too and youll youll see absolutely the changes. And unfortunately under that category of niche was womens sports. If we were to simplify wed say our three strategic priorities are increasing the number of girls and women participating in sport and aggression. When I was a rower, there were two weight categories for elite competition. "It makes you very proud not just of myself, but all of the wonderful people who supported me.". 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. 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. Bridie returned to full time work in 2013 as a behavior change physician at Epworth health check in Epworth breast centre with a part time role teaching doctor patient communication at Deakin University Medical School from 2013 to 2016. O'Donnell said her primary education was also unique, going to the Blackall Range Independent School, which shunned traditional classroom education and held many lessons run by parents. About so many things I could have done better. 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. I soon realised the reason for her meandering: the beauty of riding for long, slow hours with no money on her was that she wouldnt be tempted or able to eat. 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. Bridie O'Donnell to head Victoria's first office for Women in Sport from www.heraldsun.com.au. [00:18:56] And interestingly the response by the AFL media was to remove the photo and then the Internet responded even more vociferously people in support of her and of womens sport by saying this is not the solution removing womens images from public spaces is not the way to silence critics. Thank you so much for having me on. Inwardly, I shook my head contemplating the likely osteoporosis resulting from her weight loss, the amenorrhoea and the malnutrition. [00:33:06] Thats what you want in the best kind of basketball coach. The third thing that was really vital for us is access to facilities. 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. Ive been an athlete than a successful athlete. While working in Intensive Care and studying for physician exams, Bridie competed first in rowing . CEOs and board directors and the stats are mind boggling 96 percent of women in leadership positions across all industries have been competitive athletes. 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. We had a team of champions and let me tell you we did not translate into a champion day. Eighty five per cent of those women were new women. And we have seen a huge shift in the way Paralympic sports and pro athletes are being invested in here and of course we saw Dylan all cult winning at Wimbledon and the US Open in the mens wheelchair tennis but still no womens wheelchair tennis categories and that what I would argue is probably through a couple of the Normal barriers around a lack of depth of athletes those athletes havent had anywhere near as much support both financial emotional and logistical support to become wheelchair tennis players. She also graduated with a Master in Public Administration from the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) in 2021. 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. 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. And so what weve seen with now three complete seasons of AFL WS Thats the Womens Australian Rules. We know in many cases that can lead to violence. My pleasure. So weve invested twenty nine million dollars in female friendly facilities over the last four years which means upgrades to pavilions so that these girls toilets and change rooms better lighting better surfaces on the field so that more teams can play. As a medical practitioner and a professional athlete with experience across many sports, my opinions are always shaped by a mixture of theoretical and practical knowledge. And then when theyre not the fastest anymore they dont know what to do next. Women and what they when they dug down into these. Discover Bridie O'Donnell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Thank you so much for having me on. You know we see the increase in pay for professional cricketers for example. 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. Were you very very active from a child like most Australian girls. [00:34:19] And how about the increase in female coaches. Eighty five per cent of those women were new women. Former international cyclist Dr Bridie O'Donnell has replaced wealthy businessman Alex Waislitz, who quit suddenly yesterday. And what has happened is seven white straight men have put their hand up. 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. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. She is quite reserved. [00:06:43] But as youve seen globally weve been taken over by Russia China the UK and definitely the US. Thats what you want in the best kind of basketball coach. 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. What were seeing now is those people are being left behind. But what were seeing now is many more questions about how Okay okay we get it but how are we going to do it. I was good but just never great enough to represent my country. First, she worked as a medical practitioner. Equally with Sydney in this country and the population of Victorias about eight and a half million and we have 115 now. This put many of the Australian womenlike myself, often converts from other sports like running, rowing or triathlonat a distinct disadvantage. I really do appreciate it. 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. The rigors and sometimes the bullying and abuse that comes with professional sport. O'Donnell went on to attend All Hallow's School in Brisbane, then gained a medical degree at the University of Queensland. [00:32:42] 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. And interestingly the response by the AFL media was to remove the photo and then the Internet responded even more vociferously people in support of her and of womens sport by saying this is not the solution removing womens images from public spaces is not the way to silence critics. She is not dating anyone. The Victorian Government acknowledges Aboriginal Traditional Owners of Country throughout Victoria and pays respect to their cultures and Elders past, present and emerging. That access is all a part of being accessible right the accessibility of sport. How do they respect and talk about women in their privacy of their own home. 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. 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