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Average audio length:
36 minutes
English
Canada
41 episodes
since Oct. 16, 2020
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He’s a World and Olympic champion in skeleton. He’s a fire fighter. He’s a multi-sport coach and founder of Dark Horse Athletic. Now, he’s an author! Duff Gibson joins Grace and Alysia to share about his multi-sport journey, discovering the sport of skeleton at age 33, his experiences in physical a…

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Grace and Alysia are joined by Jean Claude (JC) Munyezamu, founder and executive director of Soccer Without Boundaries and Umoja Community Mosaic. JC talks about his work with the two organizations and how they grew to serve an unmet need in the community by providing hundreds of youth the structur…
Former WHL hockey player Chris Cederstrand had a life altering work place accident causing his right leg to be amputated above the knee. After being told the best activity he would be able to do was bowl, he has embarked on a journey that has seen him become North America’s First above knee amputee…
Grace and Alysia are joined by certified exercise physiologist and multi-sport advocate Lea Wiens. Lea is a master learning facilitator with over 30 years of experience developing leader and organizational capacity in community sport and recreation, schools and provincial and national sport organiz…
In this Host-to-Host episode, co-hosts Alysia Rissling & Grace Dafoe recap the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and reflect on their favourite moments from the Games, including the medal-winning performances by Canadian athletes Andre De Grasse, Damian Warner, Penny Oleksiak, the Canadian women's soccer tea…
Fresh off the plane home from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Canadian Olympian, multi-time Canadian Champion in canoe slalom, and KidSport ambassador Haley Daniels joins co-hosts Grace and Alysia to share about her pioneering efforts over the years to include women’s canoeing in the Olympic Games, …
KidSport ambassador and Beijing 2022 Olympic hopeful Jess Neufeld joins Grace and Alysia to share about his current Olympic journey to Beijing 2022. Jess shares about his beginnings as a multi-sport athlete and how he got into speed skating. He also talks about training during the pandemic, includi…
Heidi Kostick and Karen Kelm join Grace and Alysia to talk about Ringette Calgary’s new Ringette For All program, an adaptive ringette program designed to empower athletes by teaching them the core life skills inherent to ringette, including teamwork, communication, resilience, and inclusion, all w…
Grace and Alysia are gearing up for Tokyo 2020 with a hot topic discussion on moms on sport, specifically the mothers that are heading to the games. They look at the stories of Canadian athletes Mandy Bujold (boxing) and Kim Gaucher (basketball), the struggles they have faced as moms in sport, and …
Did you know that there are rules about drug use that all athletes across the world are required to follow during a competition? Grace and Alysia discuss the story of American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson’s competition ban after testing positive for cannabis during the U.S. Olympic Trials back in …
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