En Route to Paris Code Sports

After winning World Championships in 2022 with an incredible 2.02 metre jump, and taking home a silver at last year’s contest in Budapest, the 27-year-old high jumper Eleanor Patterson is gunning for Olympic gold. 

Rowie sits down with Patterson ahead of her third Olympic games.They break down what it takes to overcome a potentially career-ending injury, the intense focus it takes to become a professional athlete, and how knitting helps her keep her eyes on the prize.
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In this episode we talk to Australian Swimming Superstar Ariarne Titmus ... Ariarne is the reigning Olympic champion in the women's 200-metre and 400-metre freestyle, having won both events at the 2020 

In 2015, Titmus and her family, moved from Tasmania to Queensland for better training opportunities

Ariarne  sits down with former Australian water polo player and Olympian Rowie Webster to chat about how she got into swimming , how she deals with his fear of failure and what it takes to become an elite athlete. 
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“I always wanted to be an Opal, ever since I picked up a basketball. It’s the pinnacle of the sport.

But Australian professional basketball player Tess Madgen thought her dream was fading away, as she clocked up 10 years in the squad, and was nearing 30.

“I just wanted to be an Olympian, I’d do anything I had to.”

So imagine Madgen’s delight when she was named a member of the Australian Women's basketball team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

It was a nail biting journey, with the Opals eliminated after losing to the USA in the quarterfinals.

Now Tess sits down with former Australian water polo player and Olympian Rowie Webster to chat about the experience of playing overseas, how important it is to have a coach the team can trust, why growing up with 2 brothers helped her become really tough and competitive and why she is so determined to bring home the Gold in Paris.
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Jye Edwards knows better than anyone what a gruelling event 1500 metres is. The middle distance run is long enough that your body starts to hurt and stays that way, but short enough that you never really get the respite of easing off the pace.

It takes a particular kind of person with a very particular mental fortitude to not only stay in that discomfort, but to excel at the highest levels.

The Australian middle distance athlete competed at the Tokyo Olympic Games, finishing seventh in his heat and learning what it took to compete at that level during the “Covid Olympics”.

Edwards and the other 1500m runners are expected to be competing in Europe soon, hoping to qualify for Paris 2024.

Jye sits down with former Australian water polo player and Olympian Rowie Webster to chat about the philosophy of running with the pack, the physical toll middle distance running takes on the body, his secrets to performing under pressure and how much of it comes down to breaking in the right shoes.
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Amy Lawton is an Australian Hockeyroos superstar.

After representing Australia at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics at the ripe old age of 19, she’s determined to go for gold in Paris… especially after claiming silver at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games.

And she’s just as fired up about getting younger players on the field, often acting as an ambassador for the sport to increase participation and inspiring younger players to ignite their love for the game. 

Amy sits down with former Australian water polo player and Olympian Rowie Webster to chat about falling in love with hockey, her strong work ethic and how she switches off when she is not competing. 
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Cassiel Rousseau has always had Olympic blood running through his veins.

The grandson of French cyclist Michel Rousseau, who won gold in the men's sprint at Melbourne’s 1956 Olympics, Cassiel started out as an acrobatic gymnast before he began diving in 2017, and he’s carried that acrobatic style into his diving today.

By 2020 he was competing in the Tokyo Olympics (he finished 8th), and he claimed gold in the men's 10m platform World Championships event in 2023, creating history for the Australian diving team by becoming the first Australian men's 10m platform world champion.

He heads into his second Olympics, in Paris, adorned with tattoos - one for every country he’s been to.

The university student was also recently named World Aquatics Diving Athlete of the Year for 2023. 

Cassiel sits down with former Australian water polo player and Olympian Rowie Webster to chat about how he got into diving, how he deals with his fear of heights and what it takes to become an elite athlete. 
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