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TEEN ATHLETE SERIES: Wellbeing and the whole athlete approach with Sharyn Donaghy
Sharyn Donaghy works with elite athletes on a daily basis and will tell you that a lot of them are missing the foundational skill sets to thrive outside their sport. It's nothing to do with their physical skills or their times. Instead, it's everything to do with the structures, practices and belie…
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TEEN SPORT SERIES: Boys, sport and the manosphere with Neil Davis
83 percent of Australians are concerned about the influence of the manosphere on boys and young men. In 2008, Neil Davis lost his 17 year old son, Sam, to an unprovoked one-punch attack at a party in May 2008. Since then Neil and his wife, Nat Cook, have channelled their profound grief into a missi…
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TEEN ATHLETE SERIES: The concussion questions that keep us up at night
If you're anything like us, when you're watching your child playing a contact sport from the sidelines, concussion is something that you'll have in the back of your mind. To make sure you have all the information you need, this week we're talking to Dr David Hughes - AIS Chief Medical Officer and t…
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TEEN ATHLETE SERIES: Food and Sport with Sports Dietitian Ali Miles
Do you have a child or teen playing sport in your household? Then this series is for you! We know that families are busy, that the school year is racing by, and it's hard to find time to source the experts. So we've brought together some of Australia's brightest minds to talk about the issues that…
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An emergency Enhanced Games debrief
The Enhanced Games happened this week and do we/Libby have thoughts. Bottom line? It actually did sport a great service. Maybe we're saying thank you this whole circus? We'll get back to you on that. Libby is being honest about her sideline feelings (she's only human) and Georgie has gone off one s…
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parkrun's Tim Oberg is ready to help get kids running
Do you know the story of how parkrun ended up in Australia? Or that dogs used to be registered to run? Or that Australia has made it our own? Neither did we until we caught up with parkrun Australian's founder, Tim Oberg. Tim was the person who brought largest free running activity to Australia and…
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A wake-up call for Australian women's sport
The ABC and Deakin University recently released the findings of a survey of elite female athletes and the results say a lot about the work still to be done in women's sport. In some parts, there seems to be progress. In others, the results are grim. Regardless, we wanted to bring in the ABC's Deput…
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Brisbane Lord Mayor on kid's parks and the legacy of Brisbane 2032
Brisbane City Council is the 2nd biggest council in the southern hemisphere and part of the team pulling together one of the largest sporting events in the world, Brisbane 2032. And you know how much we're into the Olympics. Soooo, this week we asked Brisbane's Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner to drop i…
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Libby broke her heart and do gambling reforms go far enough?
It's been a while since it's just been us on the mics so we wanted to take a minute to give the Sporties (who have sent so much love) a full update on what's been going with Libby's health. PLUS we wrap up of our Play Well season with the Australian Sports Commission (do you have a favourite? Don't…
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PLAY WELL: AFL legend Adam Goodes has one rule that keeps his life in balance
It’s round one of the AFL season in 1999. 28,000 fans pack the Sydney Cricket Ground as a fresh-faced Adam Goodes runs out for his first game with the Sydney Swans. You probably know what came next. What you haven’t heard before is this side of Adam Goodes - a busy dad of four, giving an insigh…
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