Off The Podium - An Olympics Podcast Ben Waterworth, Colin Hilding & Jarrod Loobeek

THE PARIS 2024 OLYMPICS ARE FINALLY HERE! YAY! And what better way to celebrate than by bringing you the one episode you have been longing for! OUR PARIS 2024 OFFICIAL PREVIEW! Yes, that's right, it's time to once again give our final thoughts and opinions ahead of the Paris Olympics in true Off The Podium style! Join Ben, Colin & Jarrod as they go over all the things they are most excited about, and learn which athletes from Australia and Canada we really need to be paying close attention to. We also hear the latest from Paris itself, and learn just what Ben is discovering being in an Olympic city ahead of the Olympics. Added to this we welcome a couple of very special guests to the show, namely our good friend Devin Heroux from CBC in Canada, the legendary Rowdy Gaines from NBC in the US, as well as Murray Shaw from Channel Nine in Australia, to learn what Australians, Canadians and Americans can expect from their respective TV coverages across the next 16 days. It's one incredibly stacked and epic episode to fully get you prepped for the Paris 2024 Olympics!

As we get ready to see the flame lit for the Paris Olympics, we thought it would be fun to bring you another special episode celebrating all 68 members of TEAM OTP ahead of the next two weeks of competition! And just like we did for the 2022 Beijing Olympics, we're here to bring you snippets from every single guest that has appeared on this very show who is set to compete in Paris. With such a stacked roster of incredible athletes from right around the world, TEAM OTP is definitely filled to the brim with talent and this episode will highlight exactly that and showcase why you will be cheering for them across the next 16 days. So strap yourself in to bring yourself into the Paris zone even further as we celebrate TEAM OTP in style!

THREE DAYS! That's how close we are to the Paris Olympics! And with so much to get excited about and digest in the world of Olympic news, it's time to bring you our final Newscast ahead of the Opening Ceremony this Friday. To help us out with that we are once again joined by the host of the 'Fantasy Five Rings' podcast Alex Loveless to go over all the big stories and bring you up to speed with everything Paris 2024! We bring you the latest news from on the ground in Paris as Ben goes over just what the mood is like in the Olympic city. We also learn more about some interesting news coming from Japan, find out what is happening with the 2030 Winter Olympics and learn more about the E-Sports Olympics set to make their debut in 2025. We also give you our final sports previews ahead of Paris by going over canoe/kayak and handball! It's an action packed and massive episode that you simply can't miss!

It's Paris week but that doesn't mean we still can't celebrate the past as we bring you our latest BEST OF episode to go over our last 50 epic episodes! You'll hear all the classic moments from episode 351-399, including all our of our interviews and special episodes that you were hooked to since our last clip show! It's an incredible way to celebrate the occasion as we bring up our 400th episode in true Off The Podium style!

It's Paris Olympic week! In a matter of days we will be seeing the cauldron lit for the 2024 Olympics and we are beyond excited for it all to begin! And we are also beyond excited to welcome back an Olympic legend to this podcast, the iconic Donovan Bailey, to hear his thoughts on how the sprinting events will play out during the Paris Olympics as well as hear some more incredible stories from his incredible career! We learn who he thinks will be challenging for gold in the 100m and 200m, find out if he thinks Noah Lyles can break through for the first USA sprinting men's double since Carl Lewis and hear why he thinks the women's 100m will be the race of the Olympics. Added to this we hear about his part of the famous 4x100m gold medal winning relay team for Canada in Atlanta, learn more about his experiences at his second Olympics in Sydney and hear more about THAT 150m showdown with the iconic Michael Johnson. It's an epic chat to get you in the zone for an epic week ahead of an epic Olympics!

With only a week to go till the 2024 Olympics begin, we're bringing you another exciting interview as we return to the sport of judo and speak to two-time Aussie Olympic judoka Katharina Haecker about her amazing career and her expectations ahead of her third Olympics in Paris! We find out her journey through the sport and just how she was able to rise the global judo ranks from a country that isn't exactly renowned highly in the sport. We also find out about her two Olympic experiences in Rio and Tokyo and why both are spurring her on towards Paris. Added to this we learn some more intricacies of the sport, find out just what it would mean to her to break Australia's long judo drought at the Olympics when it comes to medals and see just why she thinks Chairy would be the ultimate judoka. It's an incredible chat to really get you in the mood ahead of Paris! So get excited and get tuned in!