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      <image:caption>Albany-born surfing trailblazer Jodie Cooper — who won 13 international events in the ’80s and ‘90s — recalls a time when female surfers were treated as an afterthought and their dreams of surfing equality was dismissed.</image:caption>
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      <news:title>‘We had the dream’: Jodie Cooper on fighting for women’s surfing after decades of inequality</news:title>
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