Off The Podium - An Olympics Podcast

It's time to bring you a triple threat on the show today as we speak to our first ever athlete from the great sport of triathlon in Aussie Olympian Jaz Hedgeland to learn about her incredible career, incredible sport and Olympic experiences! We hear from Jaz about watching the Olympics as a 9-year-old and why that gave her the desire to not only take up the sport of triathlon, but work towards a d...

A special treat for you on the show today as we sit down with one of the most familiar faces and voices in Australian Olympic broadcasting Basil Zempilas to learn about his extraordinary media career and his memories and experiences the Olympics have brought him! We find out from Basil some of his favourite moments he has called at the Olympics and just what it was like to have followed in the foo...

A massive interview coming your way today as we return to one of our favourite sports in ice hockey by chatting with four-time Olympian and triple Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Johnston about her incredible career and iconic Olympic experiences! We learn about Rebecca's journey in the sport that took her to four Olympics and where the passion for the dream came from. We also learn about overcomin...

An exciting interview to bring you today as for the very first time we chat with an athlete from the sport of skateboarding as we sit down with Aussie Olympian Poppy Olsen to learn more about her incredible journey in her sport and her Olympic experiences in Tokyo! We find out from Poppy how she had a dream from a young age to be an Olympian and what that moment was like when she was able to reali...

It's basketball time once again here on Off The Podium as we chat with an absolute legend of the sport in two-time Aussie Olympian Chris Anstey about his incredible career and Olympic experiences in Sydney and Beijing! We find out from Chris just how he 'accidentally' got into basketball and what other Olympic sport he very much could've represented Australia in. We also find out how his experienc...

We're back for the latest episode in our Olympic Opening Ceremony review series and it's a bit of deju vu as we track back to the first ever Opening Ceremony we actually ever covered on this show in our second ever episode back in 2016 by looking once again at the Rio Opening Ceremony. Has it held up 7 years later and improved or are we still slightly disappointed in it? Do we feel the speeches ar...

An absolute treat of an interview coming your way today as we return to the sport of canoeing and speak with a legend of the sport in Hungarian two-time Olympic gold medallist Krisztina Fazekas-Zur about her incredible career and incredible Olympic experiences! We find out from Krisztina about the sport in Hungary and just why it is such a big deal in the country. We also find out about how she ne...

It's a sport that we love and a sport that we know little about here on Off The Podium but today that changes as we chat to our first ever handball athlete on the show in Canadian national team member Haven Wong to learn more about her career as well as why handball is such an incredible sport! We find out from Haven how she progressed her way through the sport and just what the handball scene is...

A massive interview coming your way today as we return to the sport of skeleton to chat with Australia's record breaking silver medallist from the Beijing Olympics Jackie Narracott about her incredible journey into the sport and chatting about that iconic moment at the 2022 games which saw her create history for Australia! We learn from Jackie what brought about the transition from track and field...

A massive interview coming your way today as we chat with the absolute GOAT of volleyball Karch Kiraly about his incredible career and Olympic experiences that saw him create history as the only athlete to win gold in both indoor and beach volleyball! We find out from Karch about his Olympic aspirations growing up and just how important it was to him to use those aspirations to help Team USA go fr...

It's time to get the gang back together and start a brand new series on OFF THE PODIUM as we bring you our first ever CLASSIC OPENING CEREMONY REVIEW by going back to the year that was 1994 and look at the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony! Just how will we feel about the Norwegian style of ceremony from nearly 30 years ago? Do we like the daytime ceremony? How do we feel this date...

As we get closer and closer to Paris 2024 we get even more excited about the debut of breaking at the Olympics, and today we're back to talk about the sport of breaking with one of Australia's best female breakers and Olympic hopeful Rachael Gunn, aka Raygun, about her incredible sport and prospects for the Olympics next year! We find out from Rachael just how she got into the sport and how it was...

We're going back to moguls today as we speak with American Olympian Olivia Giaccio about her incredible career and journey in one of our favourite sports we can never get enough of! We learn from Olivia which other sport she grew up playing that she could've potentially made it to the Olympics in and what it was about skiing that made her focus on it as a career. We also learn some great insight i...

You know how excited we get when we can bring you an athlete from a sport we have never covered before on the show, and today is one of those days, as we chat with our first ever soccer athlete in the incredible Olympic gold medallist from Canada Gabrielle Carle about her incredible career and amazing Olympic experiences! We find out from Gabrielle how playing soccer at a young age set her on the...

It's always an exciting time when we get to chat about swimming and we're doing exactly that today by chatting with Australian Olympic gold medallist Meg Harris about her incredible career and incredible Olympic experiences! We find out from Meg how growing up in Far North Queensland started her love of swimming and what other sports she could've potentially gone to the Olympics in. We also learn...

It's one of our favourite sports on Off The Podium and it's a pleasure to bring you another athlete from it today as we bring you a great interview with Olympic gold medal winning ice hockey player Jamie Lee Rattray to learn more about her incredible career in the even more incredible sport! We find out from Jamie just how she got involved in the sport and how watching a certain Olympic moment lit...

Can you believe we've somehow made it to 300 episodes?! We can't either! But as is the case every 50 episodes, we're back to bring you an epic clip show, celebrating all the best moments from episodes 251-299! You'll hear all the classic moments from our great interviews since our last clip show, as well as our fun coverage of both the 2022 Commonwealth Games and 2022 World Cup! There are even a c...

An epic chat heading coming your way today as we chat to a legend in the sport of both short-track & long-track speed skating in four-time Canadian Olympian and Olympic gold medallist Valerie Maltais about her incredible career! We find out from Valerie just what brought her into both her sports and the incredible journey that saw her become only the fourth athlete in Olympic history, and firs...

It's time for your first taste of canoe slalom on the show today as we chat with Aussie Olympic canoeist Daniel Watkins to learn more about his sport as well as his incredible career so far! We find out from Dan how growing up in Tassie helped him get into the sport and just why the wilderness of Tasmania is a great place to train. We also find out about the training techniques involved and the un...

Another epic moguls interview coming your way today as we chat with two-time Australian Olympian Taylah O'Neill about her time in the sport and memories of her Olympic experiences! We find out from Taylah how she got into the sport and how seeing Dale Begg-Smith win Olympic gold in 2006 in person helped light the fire towards her Olympic dream. We also find out about her qualification for Sochi an...

It's a rowing kind of day on Off The Podium as we bring you a great interview with two-time Olympic Canadian rower and Olympic gold medallist Susanne Grainger to learn more about her incredible journey in the sport! We find out her unique way of starting in the sport and why finding the "last tall person sport out there she hadn't tried" was the start of something big for her. We also find out abo...

An absolutely massive episode coming your way today with a massive special event as we bring you a crossover special episode with fellow Olympics podcast  Keep The Flame Alive to bring you a massive Olympics episode for the ages! Ben & Colin are joined by Jill Jaracz & Alison Brown to discuss their love of the Olympics, their love of Olympic podcasting and just why they are all so addicted...

It's alpine skiing time once again on the show as we chat with two-time Canadian Olympian Laurence St-Germain about her incredible career and Olympic experiences! We find out from Laurence how she got into the sport as well as the unique sport that not many people are aware that she competed in that could've taken her to the Olympics in a different way. We also find out just how she prepares herse...

It's time to get yourself on target for our first ever athlete from the great sport of archery as we chat with Olympic bronze medallist and three-time Olympian Taylor Worth to learn more about his unique sport and incredible career! We find out from Taylor how he got into the sport and the unique training that is involved in archery. We also find out about some of his achievements, including winni...

We're returning to the sport of basketball today as we chat with three-time Canadian Olympic basketballer Kimberley Gaucher about her incredible Olympic & pro hoops career! We find out from Kim her journey through the sport and just how far basketball in Canada has come since her early playing days right through to today. We also learn about her legendary status at the University of Utah and h...