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Category 12 – Best Coverage of Women in
Sport

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Raelee Tuckerman
Central Victoria's female stars

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Thank you to the Australian Sports Commission.
And I feel really honoured to be accepting

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this award and knowing that women’s sport
is finally on the media’s agenda. I’m

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forever indebted to my sports editor Adam
Bourke who gives me the freedom week in, week

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out to go and find the female athletes in
Central Victoria who really have fabulous

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stories to tell. If you recall the story that
was up there, 'Hawaii here I come', that was

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a story about a woman who at the age of 40,
having never ever exercised in her life, decided

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that the weight loss program she was on wasn’t
working. She felt unfit, unhappy and overweight,

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so she went and joined a gym. Five years later
she competed in and completed the Hawaii Iron

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Woman World Championship. She lives in my
town. We didn’t even know she was on her

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way to Hawaii until somebody dropped us a
line and said, "Oh you might want to do a

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story on this one for your women in sport
page". Boy did I ever. She’s an inspiration,

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as are so many of the people living in my
community and I’m just thankful that they

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give me the chance to tell their stories.
So thank you.