My New Favorite Olympian and My New Favorite Paralympian
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My New Favorite Olympian and My New Favorite Paralympian
Wondering who you should you root for at the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics? Get to know some of Team USA’s most inspiring athletes and the causes they champion. Season 7: My New Favorite Olympian and My New Favorite Paralympian hosted by 12-time Olympic medalist Natalie Coughlin Season 6: My N...
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Sarah Adam: “Murderball” is for women, too
Sarah Adam, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, is attempting to become the first woman to ever represent Team USA at a Paralympics in wheelcha...
Nick Mayhugh: Losing my best friends, my grandparents
Paralympic sprinter Nick Mayhugh shares the lessons he learned from his grandfather Bill Mayhugh, a popular radio host, and his grandmother Shirley Cu...
Jennifer Lozano: What life in a border town is really like
Jennifer Lozano, nicknamed “the Troublemaker,” started boxing after experiencing bullying, racism and cartel violence splitting her time between Mexic...
Jesse Grupper: Helping climbers with disabilities reach new heights
Jesse Grupper, a climber who studied engineering at Tufts and Harvard, designs devices to help children with disabilities participate in climbing. Wat...
Kelly Cheng: Beach volleyball’s mental health champion
Kelly Cheng, who has been open about her mental health challenges, started a mentorship program to help the next generation of beach volleyball player...
Jordan Chiles: Brown girls can excel at gymnastics
Olympic silver medalist Jordan Chiles explains how the landscape has changed for women of color since she first started doing gymnastics — and what sh...
Lydia Jacoby: My battle with post-Olympic depression
Lydia Jacoby, who unexpectedly became an Olympic champion as a 17-year-old swimmer from Alaska, opens up about her battle with post-Olympic depression...
Who should you root for at the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics?
My New Favorite Olympian will introduce you to some of Team USA's most inspiring athletes and the causes they champion. New episodes hosted by 12-time...
Meghan Klingenberg: Now is the time to invest in female athletes
As a bonus treat for our listeners, we're flipping the tables and having My New Favorite Futbolista host (and World Cup champion) Meghan Klingenberg a...
Lauren Holiday on Team USA’s World Cup mindset
How will Team USA handle the adversity they are facing at the Women’s World Cup? Olympic and World Cup champion Lauren Holiday discusses with soccer c...
How Team USA phenom Sophia Smith strengthens her mental health
Sophia Smith, the reigning NWSL MVP, has become an advocate for student-athlete mental health after losing her best friend and Stanford teammate Katie...
How teenage phenom Linda Caicedo overcame ovarian cancer
18-year-old Colombian forward Linda Caicedo, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer when she was just 15, is now one of the sport’s most electric goal...
Naomi Girma: Team USA’s first-gen trailblazer
Naomi Girma, the first player of Ethiopian descent on the U.S. Women’s National Team, hopes to make it easier for first-generation Americans to succee...
Panama’s Marta Cox picks up the pieces after losing her mother
Panamanian midfielder Marta Cox, who recently lost her mother unexpectedly, finds ways to keep her mother’s memory alive on the pitch.
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Team USA’s Sofia Huerta and Ashley Sanchez: Am I Mexican enough?
Sofia Huerta and Ashley Sanchez, who are poised to be the only two Mexican Americans to represent the U.S. at the World Cup, are grappling with their...
Call me Estefanía Banini, not the “female Messi”
Argentina’s Estefanía Banini, who is nicknamed the “female Messi,” is using her platform to advocate for equality for female soccer players in Latin A...
Becky Sauerbrunn: Team USA's "moral compass"
World Cup champion Becky Sauerbrunn, who due to injury will not feature in this year’s event, has an important story to tell. Sauerbrunn describes her...
Soccer’s silent superstar Christine Sinclair opens up
Canada’s Christine Sinclair, soccer’s all-time international goal scoring leader, has always let her stellar play do the talking for her...until now....
Crystal Dunn: Soccer's super mom
Team USA’s Crystal Dunn, who returned to competitive soccer less than four months after giving birth to her son Marcel Jean, shares how she juggles he...
Rocky Rodriguez’s complicated American Dream
Costa Rica’s Raquel “Rocky” Rodríguez, the 2016 NWSL Rookie of the Year, faced unexpected obstacles when she decided to immigrate to the U.S.
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Who should you root for at the FIFA Women’s World Cup?
My New Favorite Futbolista will introduce you to the World Cup’s most inspiring soccer players and the causes they champion. New episodes hosted in En...
Ferran Torres: Score by rescuing stray dogs
Ferran Torres (Spain and FC Barcelona), a proud advocate for rescuing stray dogs, is determined to get dogs off the streets through adoption and educa...
USMNT: Pass gun reform, now
The U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team used its platform to demand that Congress do something about gun violence in America
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DeAndre Yedlin: Kicking homophobia out of soccer
DeAndre Yedlin (USMNT and Inter Miami CF) is a proud LGBTQ ally who is determined to make soccer more inclusive after hearing homophobic slurs on the...
Mark-Anthony Kaye: Why I stand with single mothers
Mark-Anthony Kaye (Canada and Toronto FC), who was raised by a single mother, is partnering with Single Mothers Outreach to provide single mothers wit...
José Cifuentes: Educating soccer’s ‘forgotten’ kids
José Cifuentes (Ecuador and LAFC), who had to choose between pursuing soccer or a formal education, wants to make it easier for future generations of...
Paul Arriola: F--- Cancer
Paul Arriola (USMNT and FC Dallas) shares what he learned about maintaining mental health during a two-year stretch in which he lost two loved ones, h...
Chris Richards: Stop Being Racist!
Chris Richards (USMNT and Crystal Palace), who grew up in the city (Birmingham, Alabama) that Martin Luther King, Jr., once called “the most thoroughl...
Julián Araujo: Fighting for Farmworkers
Julián Araujo (Mexico and LA Galaxy), who comes from a family of farmworkers, is using his voice to advocate for more equitable policies in the agricu...
Who should you root for at the FIFA World Cup?
My New Favorite Futbolista will introduce you to the World Cup’s most inspiring soccer players and the causes they champion. New episodes hosted by fo...
Colby Stevenson was millimeters away from death
Freeskier Colby Stevenson is thankful to be back on the snow after suffering a traumatic brain injury in a life-threatening car crash
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Team USA battles climate change
Winter athletes including Brock Crouch, Jessie Diggins and David Wise are determined to do something after seeing the effects—and consequences—of clim...
Indigenous hockey player Abby Roque competes for more than Team USA
Hockey star Abby Roque will become the first Native American woman to represent the U.S. in ice hockey at a Winter Olympics
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Abb...
Curling stars: It is time to diversify the sport
Olympic champion John Shuster, Super Bowl champion Vernon Davis, USA Curling’s Monica Walker and other curling enthusiasts are teaming up to create pa...
Timothy LeDuc, figure skating’s non-binary trailblazer
Figure skater Timothy LeDuc (they/them), the first openly gay athlete to win a U.S. national pairs title, will become the first publicly out non-binar...
The Winter Olympics’ first Winter
Aerials skier Winter Vinecki, who is set to become the first Winter Olympian named “Winter,” raises money for prostate cancer research to honor her la...
The ShibSibs want to diversify book publishing
Maia and Alex Shibutani already boosted representation on the ice, becoming the first ice dancers of Asian descent to earn an Olympic medal, and now t...
Who should you root for at the Winter Olympics?
The Winter Olympics season of My New Favorite Olympian will introduce you to the most inspiring members of Team USA and the issues they champion. New...
Olympic dreams are no slam dunk
Why Kareem Maddox left his dream job at 30 to pursue another dream—representing Team USA in 3x3 basketball at the Tokyo Olympics—and what he’s going t...
Alix Klineman thinks it’s time to destigmatize women’s health, period
Beach volleyball phenom Alix Klineman is not embarrassed to talk about birth control and how she sustains peak athletic performance throughout her men...