Off The Podium - An Olympics Podcast

It's snowboarding time once again on  Off The Podium  as we chat with 2010 Australian Olympian Steph Prem about her incredible career and her inspirational journey that has followed her time at the Olympics! We find out from Steph just what brought her into the sport of snowboarding and how different and new it was during the 1990s and early 2000s in Australia. We also find out just how the disapp...

It's always a fun time when we get to talk cross-country skiing on the show and that time is now as we bring you a great chat with Australian Olympian Seve de Campo to learn more about his amazing career and his amazing sport! We find out from Seve how he came into the sport a little later than most and how a moment of inspiration from his father helped him on that journey. We also learn how the d...

Excited to bring you another epic interview today as we chat with two-time Aussie Olympic snowboarder Adam Lambert about his incredible career and even more incredible Olympic experiences! We find out from Adam just how being strapped to a snowboard at 18 months old helped him on his journey towards the Olympics and how his supportive parents fueled that passion even more. We also find out which o...

It's time to get excited for another amazing interview as we return to the sport of alpine skiing by chatting with Australian Olympian Louis Muhlen-Schulte about his incredible career! We find out from Louis how we went from a tiny town in rural Victoria to competing on the biggest stage in world sport. We also find out just what other potential sports he might've ended up at the Olympics in and h...

We are pumped and excited to be visiting the sport of volleyball for the first time today on the show as we chat with Sean Murray, the author of a brand new book If Gold Is Our Destiny,  which details the amazing story behind the US men's volleyball team and their groundbreaking gold medal win at the 1984 Olympics, as well as the coach of that team from 1984, the legendary Doug Beal. In this chat...

Another Commonwealth Games has drawn to a close and after 11 action packed days and another unique closing ceremony we're back to go over the last few days of competition as well as going over what we just witnessed to close the games! Were we satisfied with how Canada and Australia closed things off since our last episode? Was the closing ceremony better than that travesty we got back on the Gold...

There has been plenty of action in the first week of the 2022 Commonwealth Games and the boys are back to go over it all in our massive review of the first 7 days of Birmingham 2022! Just how have the Aussies and Canadians faired compared to how we thought they would do? Should other countries even bother to show up in the swimming when Australia is so dominant? Do we care about the Aussie swimmin...

The time has finally arrived to get excited for the 2022 Commonwealth Games and after a very unique opening ceremony we're back with a brand new episode to give our full review of it! Did we enjoy it or did it not live up to what we were hoping for? How excited were we for the flag bearers of Australia & Canada? Why do the Commonwealth Games love giant animals taking over stadiums? How awesome...

It's time to get pumped and excited as we not only bring back all the crew together but we return for an EPIC preview episode of the 2022 Commonwealth Games to get you super excited for another super exciting major sporting event! Join Ben, Colin & Jarrod as they go over all the things to look forward to across the next couple of weeks and work out whether or not Canada has a chance of even ge...

It's time to return to the great sport of cross-country skiing today as we speak with Australian two-time Olympian Jessica Yeaton about her amazing career in here amazing sport! We find out from Jess her unique journey into skiing and find out with all the moving she did as a child if her father was actually secretly a secret agent. We also find out just what brought about the decision to ski for...

It's been a long time since we've talked about sailing on the show and we're excited to return to it today as we speak with two-time Australian Olympian and two-time Olympic medallist William Ryan about his amazing career and his amazing Olympic experiences! We find out from Will just how young he was when he got his first taste of sailing and why that was a turning point for him going towards a s...

It's time to return to bobsleigh today as we speak with Canadian Olympic bobsledder Sara Villani about her unique journey into the sport and her Olympic experiences! We find out from Sara just how she was able to go from never having been in a bobsleigh at the last Olympics to competing for her country in Beijing four years later. We also find out just what other three sports she very much could'v...

A massive interview coming your way today on Off The Podium as we bring back one of our favourite guests in Canadian ski jumper Ale Loutitt and also welcome her Beijing teammate Matthew Soukup to the show for the first time to chat about their history making bronze medal win at the 2022 Olympics and everything else in between! We find out from both Ale and Matt just how they have recovered since t...

Strap yourself in for one hell of an interview as we chat with two-time Australian Olympic alpine skier Jono Brauer about his amazing career in his amazing sport! We find out just how he got involved in skiing growing up and the challenges that came with doing ski racing in Australia throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. We also find out how he very nearly was a three-time Olympian and how he took...

A special interview coming your way today as we chat with American author and Olympic historian Michael Loynd about his latest book The Watermen  and the incredible story of America's first ever Olympic swimming champion Charles Daniels. We find out from Michael just what brought about him taking on board this unique project and why Daniels isn't as well known as he should be. We also find out jus...

An epic interview coming your way today as we welcome back the amazing Australian bobsledder Breeana Walker to talk about her Beijing 2022 Olympic experiences and everything else in between! We find out from Bree just what she has been up to since the Olympics and why she has been soaking up some downtime before getting back into the sled. We also find out from Bree how she felt during the qualify...

It's once again time to take another break from our interviews to bring you a clip show to help us celebrate our epic 250th episode! Yes we're back once more to bring you highlights from our episodes 201-249, featuring some amazing interviews and guests as well as the best bits of our Beijing 2022 coverage that helped us towards becoming an AWARD WINNING podcast! So strap yourself in for another f...

A special treat for you on the show today as we speak with one of Australia's favourite broadcasters Emma Freedman about her amazing career and her time involved in broadcasting the Olympics! We find out the unique story behind how Emma got called up to be involved in Channel Seven's Olympic coverage for Tokyo and just how she loved every single second of working on them. We also find out just why...

It's time to return to the sport of short track speed skating today as we speak with Australian skater Brendan Corey about his recent experiences at the Olympics and everything else about his amazing career! We find out from Brendan just how he got into the sport and how it was growing up in Canada when it came to going through the ranks in short track. We also learn about just what brought him to...

A special interview for you today as we welcome back Australian journalist and Olympics researcher Marnie Vinall to the show for a full interview about her amazing media career and experiences working on the Olympics! We find out from Marnie her unique path into the media and why a conversation from a friend helped spur her on to what she is doing today. We also learn about the challenges she has...

We have a big double interview today as we talk to Canadian track cyclists Lauriane Genest and Kelsey Mitchell. Lauriane and Kelsey met each other at an RBC Training Ground event several years, and both went on to medal in Tokyo last year. We talk about their meeting on a training bike when neither of them had ever thought of cycling before, their experience of competing against each other and sep...

We're returning to the great sport of Moguls to talk to Australian Olympian Sophie Ash. Sophie tells us about her family's history in skiing and what brought her into Moguls in the first place. We go over her experience in Beijing and what it was like competing during the Olympics during the pandemic. Sophie also tells us about her art and award winning Moguls film she made. We also question her o...

We're pumped to bring you today's interview as we welcome back two of our favourite guests in Aussie curlers Tahli Gill & Dean Hewitt to talk about their experiences in Beijing and everything else in between! We find out their journey of emotion from qualifying for the Olympics right through to all the issues around positive and negative COVID tests during the Olympics. We also find out the mo...

It's time for another massive massive interview today as we sit down with the legendary and iconic Australian short track speed skater Steven Bradbury to talk about his incredible career and Olympic experiences! We find out from Steve about his incredible journey in the sport and the challenges he faced to remain motivated throughout some of the hard times before committing to one last Olympic app...

Another massive interview coming your way today as we sit down with the legendary two-time Olympic medallist Sally Pearson to learn more about her amazing athletics career. We find out from Sally just what made her switch to hurdles at a young age and why it wasn't an event that she took seriously for a few years into her hurdling career. We also find out more about THAT interview from the Beijing...