Off The Podium - An Olympics Podcast

A real treat coming down your speakers today as we return to the great sport of fencing for the first time in over two years by speaking with Canadian Olympian Joseph Polossifakis about his extraordinary career and the extraordinary circumstances he has overcome to achieve everything he has along the way. We learn from Joe the reasons behind his fencing journey and why going to school helped him p...

The sport of softball has had a varied history at the Olympics which makes it quite difficult for aspiring Olympians to pursue a career in the sport. For one athlete though, a taste of an Olympics as a kid was enough to set her down a path towards that goal in the sport, no matter what obstacles stood in her way! That amazing athlete is Ellen Roberts from Australia, and she joins us on the show to...

We don't need to tell you how much we love the sport of handball and today we're excited to welcome our first ever Olympic handball player to the show to talk about his incredible career and the amazing sport itself! Taip Ramadani represented Australia at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and has since gone on to forge a successful career in the sport and is the current coach of the men's national handb...

We like to get our kicks with some great interviews here on Off The Podium and we're returning to our great interviews by bringing you an amazing chat with Australian 2020 Tokyo Olympian Stacey Hymer to learn about her journey in the great sport of Taekwondo and more about this incredible sport that saw her achieve her dream of becoming an Olympian! We find out just what drew her into the sport an...

Well it's been a fun ride but it's time to draw to a close our coverage of our first ever Pan Am Games as we give our final look at Santiago 2023! Just how did we feel it all finished up? How excited are we to see a mascot be given a medal in a Closing Ceremony? What did we think of artistic roller sports? How is Colin feeling after seeing breaking? How hard is it to measure a race walk course? Ho...

Another week of the 2023 Pan American Games is behind us and we're back once again to go over all the action that has happened with your favourite Olympics Podcast! Just how are we feeling with Canada's performance and how are we feeling with just a few days remaining with our predictions? How about our feelings on Paraguay? Suriname? Or even the hosts Chile? Why does America just have to keep win...

The Pan Am Games are here for 2023 and we're back to give our take on the opening week of action, the opening ceremony and everything else in between in another epic episode! What have we made of the opening week of the action, when we've actually been able to watch it? Who is Lucy Lopez and we do we love her so much? How epic is water skiing? What have we made of Canada's performance so far? How...

With only nine months to go until the Paris Olympics, what better way to get you into the mood for a massive multisport event than by covering the biggest multisport event in the Americas in 2023! That's right, for the first ever time we're covering a PanAm Games, as the best athletes from both North & South America head to Santiago for the 19th edition of the event. And for the very first tim...

We always love chatting to athletes on the show who specialise in one sport, but what about an athlete who has reached the pinnacle in two? That's exactly what we're bringing you today as we speak with American Olympian Erin Aldrich-Shean about her unique career in both high jump and volleyball and her drive to reach the top in both sports! We find out from Erin just how that usual childhood abili...

It's time for an absolutely MASSIVE interview today as we are delighted to bring you a chat with American figure skating legend and two-time Olympian Johnny Weir to learn more about his iconic career both on and off the ice! We find out from Johnny just which other Olympic sport he could've become a household name in and just how he was able to turn something unique into ice in order to teach hims...

It's been a few months since our last CLASSIC OPENING CEREMONY REVIEW but we're back to bring you our take on the Calgary 1988 Opening Ceremony in true Off The Podium style! How is Colin feeling being able to talk about our first Canadian Olympics in this segment? Do we appreciate the 3 hour advertisement for the Alberta tourism board? Why is there so much dancing? Seriously. So. Much. Dancing. Wh...

A very special bonus episode coming your way today on Off The Podium to celebrate an iconic day in Australian Olympic history. On September 23rd, 1993, Sydney was announced as the host city for the 2000 Olympic Games. Thousands of people flocked to the streets of Sydney to celebrate the announcement at just after 4am after Juan Antonio Samaranch's immortal "the winner is Syd-en-ey" announcement. A...

30 years ago, Sydney was awarded the right to host the 2000 Olympic Games. In this special two-day celebration on Off The Podium, we are delighted to bring you an interview with a legend of all things Olympic Games, Ric Birch. Rich was the executive producer and main director of ceremonies for both the opening and closing ceremonies for the Sydney Olympics, as well as having played a part in other...

We're back for another exciting interview as we sit down with American former bobsledder and author Alexandra Allred about her brand new book When Women Stood and find out a little more about the storied history of women's sport and the fight for equality. We find out from Alex her unique story on why she wanted to write this book and how it tied into her incredible bobsleigh career. We also find...

You know it's one of our favourtie sports to talk about and one of our favourite sports to interview athletes from so it's moguls time once more as we chat with Aussie PyeongChang Olympian Madii Himbury about her career and amazing sport! We find out from Madii her pathway into the sport and how some motivation from her mother helped push her towards her Olympic dream. We also find out the many hu...

We're back to bringing you an EPIC interview as we sit down with American Olympic air rifle shooter and World Champion Alison Weisz to learn about her amazing career in her amazing sport! We find out from Ali just how bringing home a simple flyer one day to her parents set her on a path to shooting glory and how she was able to progress through the ranks to achieve that. We also learn around the u...

The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup is over and Spain are the champions of the world for the very first time. And after an incredible month of football, we're back to recap it all, go over the final and draw our first ever Women's World Cup coverage to a close! How did our predictions end up and how is Jarrod just so good at predicting things? Are we happy Spain won or more happy that England lost? Ar...

It's been a rollercoaster few weeks since we last spoke about the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup and that means there is plenty to talk about as we are back to go over the knockout stages of the tournament and give our full preview of the World Cup Final between Spain and England! Have Jarrod and Ben recovered from the Matildas run and going to a game together? How is Colin feeling in the weeks since...

A massive episode for you today as we speak with legendary two-time Olympic medal winning Canadian triathlete Simon Whitfield about his amazing career, amazing sport and amazing Olympic experiences! We learn from Simon how he got into the sport and just how Triathlon was tracking in the late 1980s & early 1990s ahead of it being included in the Olympics in 2000. We also learn from Simon about...

The group stage of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup is over and we now move into the serious stuff of the knockout stages. But before we get to that, the gang is back together to go over all the bits we loved, hated and everything else in between in our group stage review! Is Colin still sad over Canada getting eliminated? Are Ben & Jarrod still celebrating Australia's dismantling of No Officia...

Can you believe this?! PARIS 2024 IS LESS THEN A YEAR AWAY! And you know what that means? It's time to get into our special LOOKING AHEAD TO PARIS 2024 EPISODE to bring you a little bit closer to the games and get you a little bit more excited for the greatest sporting event on the planet, as well as some BONUS INTERVIEWS with some absolutely massive guests! We go over all the new and fun parts to...

As we take a brief break in between some non-interview episodes to get back into an interview, we're super excited to return to the great sport of Handball today as we chat with a current member of the Australian Handball Team Caleb Gahen about this incredible sport and it's history in Australia. We learn from Caleb just how he got involved in the sport and what his aspirations for it were as a ki...

It's time to get excited for another massive global tournament with the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia & New Zealand kicking off next week! And with the excitement building in both countries and around the world, we're back to bring you the first taste of our coverage of the tournament with our massive preview episode for the 2023 Women's World Cup! We find out from Ben and Jarrod ho...

We're always excited to once again bring you a Freestyle Skier on the show but particularly excited when we can bring you a Freestyle Skier from disciplines we have never covered before as we tick slopestyle, big air and halfpipe off our list by chatting with 2022 Aussie Olympian Abi Harrigan about her Olympic experiences and epic career! We find out from Abi just why she was practically born with...

An exciting and massive interview coming your way today as we speak to THREE guests all at once as we are joined by the incredible Canadian mogul skiers Chloe, Justine & Maxime Dufour-Lapointe to chat about their amazing Olympic careers and their amazing family legacy in the sport of freestyle skiing! We find out from each of them just how their incredible Olympic journeys started and how impo...