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Podcast #99: How Will Our Returning Tokyo Olympians Cope In The Long Term, Has WADA Lost Its Power and What Team Will England Send If They Compete For The Ashes?

Not the Footy Show Podcast

Welcome to our 99th Podcast and our 523rd show. Hopefully we keep you interested and entertained as usual. In this show our guest is Performance Psychologist Jodii Maguire. We caught up with Jodii to discuss how heading home once their

What Is A National Sport?

The term ‘our national sport’ has been bandied around a fair bit in the Australian media and also the international media in the past fortnight, but what is a national sport? Does giving a sport a name that includes the

The Times… Could They Be A-Changing?

If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen, was an oft used phrase when players appear to bow to intense pressure. Now we do not hear it quite as much as we have become more attuned to

Was This Really In The Spirit of Competition?

Why do we watch sport? Why do we watch the Olympic Games? The reason we watch sport may be completely different to the reason we play, and the reasons one person watches may well be very different to the reasons

Oi – Were you Watching?

“Oi” appropriately is an exclamation, rather than a word to attract someone’s attention, and the Oi Hockey Stadium certainly managed to attract people’s attention at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. After a few minor hiccups in the lead up to