Think back to March 8, 2020. It was a time laced with puppy dogs and rainbows and singing Kumbaya around the campfire. We could come and go as we pleased, we could hug people, go for a beer without being confined to a table and play all our favourite sports.
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Everyone was glued to the screens as Australia thrashed India by 85 runs in the Women's T20 World Cup final.
A massive 86,174 fans packed the MCG for the game, a record for a women's cricket match and second-biggest for a women's sport fixture.
Australian players danced and sang with Katy Perry on stage in what felt to most a party that women's sport had officially arrived on a big stage.
However,the knock on the door from the coppers to wrap festivities up arrived at the wrong time.
Organisers were fortunate to squeeze in that momentous night in Melbourne just before coronavirus restrictions sent sport into anarchy.
But it's also unfortunate that, just as the encouraging boom in women's sport was gaining even more momentum, it's come to a grinding halt.
I've said in this column before that community sport seems to be largely ignored at the moment while the NRL and AFL forge successful returns.
Similar can be said for female sport, which appears to also have taken a back seat.
The good news is most female leagues - the Women's Big Bash League, soccer's W-League, Women's National Basketball League to name a few - are currently on hiatus.
It is imperative that these leagues are given their just recognition by governments, and respective sport's governing bodies, to ensure they not only thrive, but build on the promising pre-COVID foundation.
W-League and Future Matildas goalkeeper Jada Whyman said it's disappointing female sport is on the backburner, but is confident it will return in strong health.
"It does seem a little bit like the women's game has been put on hold a little more than the men's," she said.
"It's a shame people look at it like that a little bit, but hopefully they can come to an agreement to get it up and running.
"Everyone's in the same boat and everyone's going to have their own time frame in getting back to normality. I think it will get there when we can."
The good news is there will be a Super W women's rugby competition this year, while NRLW will also take place.
The AFLW was forced to call it quits just before the finals began, but it seems like the players could have been given a few weeks to train, then play finals now everything's beginning to return to normal.
It's encouraging that most of the big sports organisations in this country are saying all the right things, adamant women's sport won't be left behind once coronavirus is gone for good.
The sports which capitalise on the biggest and most exciting growth area there is - the female sector - will be the ones that thrive long term.
A report released by market research company True North last week found the top four most popular national sports teams in Australia are female.
Our women's cricketers topped the list, with soccer's Matildas, the women's rugby sevens team and netball's Diamonds not far behind.
The men's cricket team was the first male side on the list at number five.
The criteria on which this was judged is unclear, but they're numbers that the powers-that-be would ignore at their own peril.
Here's hoping women's sport will pick up where it left off before the coronavirus pandemic, but those in charge can't be complacent.
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