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The Podium
The Podium: An NBC Olympic and Paralympic podcast. Join us for insider coverage during the intense competition at the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. In the run-up to the Opening Ceremony, we’ll bring you deep into the stories and events that have you know and those you'll be hard-pressed...
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Paralympics: Closing Time with Amanda McGrory and Michelle Konkoly
Amanda McGrory and Michelle Konkoly, 7x and 4x Paralympic medalists respectively and Paris 2024 analysts join Chris to give their highlight moments of...
Paralympics: Superpowers with Ryan Medrano
In this episode, Paralympian Ryan Medrano opens up about living with cerebral palsy and the challenges of competing with an invisible disability. Ryan...
Paralympics: Running The Table with Ian Seidenfeld
In this episode, we chat with Tokyo Paralympic champion Ian Seidenfeld, who shares his journey in the world of table tennis and the unique family lega...
Paralympics: Prosthetic Pit Stops with Ottobock’s Jeff Waldmuller
In this episode, we take you behind the scenes to the Paralympics' prosthetic pit with Jeff Waldmuller, a research and development prosthetist from Ot...
Paralympics: Goalball - The Greatest Sport You’ve Never Seen with Calahan Young
In this kick-off episode of the Paris Paralympics, we sit down with Calahan Young, a standout player on Team USA's Goalball team. Discover the unique...
The Podium Returns for the 2024 Paris Paralympics
The Podium is back for the 2024 Paris Paralympics. Join host, Chris Waddell for fresh perspectives and deeper dives on the people and performances tha...
Day 16: Set to Finish - Kevin Barnett
While the closing ceremony is only hours away, Volleyball analyst Kevin Barnett previews one of the last American gold medal opportunities and why it...
Day 15: Making the Break - Kristen Faulkner
Kristen Faulkner’s gold medal in the cycling road race, Team USA’s first in 40 years, isn’t a result of her singular lifelong path in cycling. She was...
Day 14: 1500m of Story - Cole Hocker
How long does it take to tell a story? The kind of story that has ups and downs, heroes and villains, hope lost and hope found?
Cole Hocker’s go...
Day 13: Flight Protocols - Valarie Allman & Sam Kendricks
Discus thrower Valarie Allman and pole vaulter Sam Kendricks earned gold and silver, respectively, for Team USA only moments and yards apart. That par...
Day 12: Red Means Slow, Purple Means Go - Tennis and Track & Field
Epic Olympic performances are said to be built “from the ground up” but in Paris, historic and novel ground surfaces are literally affecting the speed...
Day 11: Going with the Flow - Evy Leibfarth
Canoe Slalom bronze medalist Evy Leibfarth tells the podium why becoming one with the flow of water and paint helped her navigate these Games.
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Day 10: Historic Duels - Lee Kiefer, Lauren Scruggs, Jackie Dubrovich & Maia Weintraub
Fencing at the Grand Palais is already grandiose, but the athlete presentation for finals takes it up a step, or more accurately down over 80 steps to...
Day 9: Olympic Spectacles - Andre De Grasse, Brendon Rodney & Duan Asemota
Track sprinters Andre De Grasse, Brendon Rodney and Duan Asemota help us see all the facets of sunglasses at the Olympics. From trying an iconic pair...
Day 8: Tour de Force - Matteo Jorgenson
Matteo Jorgenson is a road cyclist, a sport that every four years demands its best to juggle the demands of two huge races, the Tour de France and the...
Day 7: Surface Tension - Nevin Harrison, Aaron Small, Jonas Ecker & Shelley Oats-Wilding
Nevin Harrison, Aaron Small and Jonas Ecker are masters at building and releasing tension in the water, in their muscles and in their incredibly close...
Day 6: Up and Down Racing - Savilia Blunk
The Olympic mountain bike course in Elancourt Hill, about 25 miles outside of Paris, is designed to let its competitors around…just. Cranking up steep...
Day 5: Launch Interrupted - Chloe Dygert
In Cycling’s time trial event, everything is planned. So when rain and a crash unexpectedly wiped out Chloe Dygert’s lead, she used her experiences of...
Day 4: Hear Badminton Roar - Vincent Chiu & Howard Shu
On today's episode of the podium, we take you inside an Olympic badminton match and how perhaps the quietest field of play generates some of the faste...
Day 3: Better Together - Kassidy Cook & Sarah Bacon
Kassidy Cook and Sarah Bacon have woken up Team USA’s medal count by having a perfectly in-sync day from breakfast to diving to podium.
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Day 2: History, Horses, Versailles - David O'Connor
Is there a more regal Olympic sport than equestrian? Well for 2024 the venue is literally fit for a king and queen. The International Equestrian Feder...
Day 1: Paris from the Streets - Nyjah Huston & Jagger Eaton
When Olympic skateboarders Nyjah Huston and Jagger Eaton touched down as part of only the second-ever US Olympic Skateboard team, they went for a prac...
Unwheeldy
With full speed hits, trash talking and uncompromising competitiveness, Team USA’s Sarah Adam explains wheelchair rugby’s electrifying appearance into...
Trials and Tribulations
Arguably the world’s most competitive swim meet, the US Olympic Swimming Trials are integral to why Team USA is so dominant in the pool. National Team...
Standing Since ‘88
What do Jackie Joyner Kersee and Gustave Eiffel have in common? Both made something in’88 that, against all odds, has stood the test of time.
The Grit & Glamour of Artistic Swimming
Anita Alvarez and Bill May take us beneath the surface and into the Grit and the Glamour required to master perhaps the summer games’ hardest sport, a...
Pre-Games Bonus: Never Before Seine
Excited for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games? You’re not alone.
We’re starting off the season with four bonus pieces from our Olympic and Par...
Pre-Games Bonus: Inspired Viewing
Excited for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games? You’re not alone.
We’re starting off the season with four bonus pieces from our Olympic and Paralympic...
Pre-Games Bonus: Squad Goals
Excited for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games? You’re not alone.
We’re starting off the season with four bonus pieces from our Olympic and Par...
Pre-Games Bonus: C’est La Vie à Paris
Excited for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games?
You’re not alone.
We’re starting off the season with four bonus pieces from our Olympic...
The Podium is back for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games
The Podium is back.
Join host Zora Stephenson for fresh angles and deeper dives on the people, places and performances that will shape th...
Paralympics: Fun and Games
Paralympians are well-versed in the challenges of life and sport, and yet fun sems to permeate the ranks of competitors at all levels. Through the exp...
Paralympics: Down but Never Out
Top sit ski racer Andrew Kurka is collecting Paralympic heartbreaks that would shake even the toughest competitors. While the Alaskan had ambitious go...
Paralympics: Twists and Turns
Visually-impaired skier Danelle Umstead and her guide Rob Umstead share every twist and turn of their lives and their Paralympic aspirations on and of...
Paralympics: Peak Season
The 6 month gap between paralympic games has left athletes with an unprecedented challenge: finding their podium form after going all-in for Tokyo. Ok...
Paralympics: Tools of the Trade
Mike Schultz designed a prosthetic leg to help him return to motorsports racing, but it’s the process of adapting his design for other athletes that h...
Paralympics: One Team One Opening
As the 2022 Winter Paralympic Games begin, we look into the increasingly united front of para and able-bodied athletes through the experience of skier...
Day 16: Ocala Ice
There's a city in central Florida that has proven to be the epicentre for American long track speed skating excellence. We speak to medalists Erin Jac...
Day 15: Winter in Our Blood
Indigenous athletes are rare in the Winter Olympics, but for the select few in Beijing like Greenlandic biathlete Ukaleq Slettemark and Team USA hocke...
Day 14: Shifting Gears
In a sports landscape of ultra-specialized athletes, there is meaning in finding the compromise of doing different sports in different seasons.
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