Player's Own Voice
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Player's Own Voice
Host Anastasia Bucsis, Two-time Canadian Olympic speedskater, brings her unique backstory to funny, friendly conversations with high performance athletes. No formulaic jock talk here ... these are buddies who understand each other, and help us do the same.
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Player’s Own Voice Introduces: Tested
Tested is a new podcast series from CBC and NPR that asks the question, who gets to compete? Since the beginning of women’s sports, there has been a s...
Tessa Take Two
A funny thing about great athletes. They tend to keep on surprising us, even after their competitive careers wind down. And so, catching up with Tessa...
Jessie Fleming, the mindful midfielder
At just 25, Jessie Fleming has already enjoyed a full decade of being named player of the year, top college player, Top Canadian, CONCACAF All Star, a...
Josh Liendo, swimming into the record books.
Swimming is notoriously practise-heavy. The daily accumulation of laps and dryland workouts can nudge elite swimmers toward becoming mono-focus athlet...
John Herdman tackles trauma, on and off the pitch.
John Herdman, the most successful head coach in the history of Canada soccer, came to Toronto FC at the tail end of a miserable season for the club. B...
Thoroughly Social Cyclists, Nick Wammes and Sarah Orban
Nick Wammes and Sarah Orban, track Cyclists on the Canadian National Team, are doing their best to win their sport more love. The pair are partners on...
Out and About with Luke Prokop
Luke Prokop was only 19 years old when he made pro sports history. A year after the Nashville Predators drafted him, Prokop told his team, his sport,...
Laurence St-Germain's win for the ages
Laurence St-Germain just delivered a fantastic wake up call to the world’s best skiers. She won the slalom gold medal at the 2023 FIS Alpine World Ski...
Hilary Knight launches a league
Anastasia’s long-running passion project returns with Hilary Knight, captain of the US national hockey team, world and olympic champion, the face of t...
Tammy Cunnington shares life lessons
Tammy Cunnington has made the most of a roller coaster experience in para sport.
As the child of a very active Red Deer AB family, she ju...
Justina Di Stasio In a class of her own
Justina Di Stasio has to be one of the greatest wrestlers that Canada has not yet seen at an Olympic Games.
She’s excelled at major int...
Zak Madell: Bruising Sport-Healing Attitude
When a team athlete is named MVP over and over again, that's saying something about their ability to lift everyone's game around them. Zak Madell, one...
Tara Llanes Learns to Lead
If Tara Llanes was in the branding business, her personal motto might be "Once a baller, always a baller".
As a kid in California she lov...
Chuck Swirsky: Raptors revisited
Here's an odd factoid about one of the best voices in basketball. Chuck Swirsky does not care for his own name. He was 'Charlie' til his very first da...
From CFL to esports- Konrad Wasiela tackles a new game
Like the game titles themselves, esports athletes can generate shocking income and audiences. At the highest level, it's gaming in name only. Everythi...
Waneek Horn-Miller rocks a new role
Excellence was always expected of Waneek Horn-Miller, and her three sisters.
Their single mom led by example in committing to activism, femini...
Camryn Rogers throws out a new challenge
From day one of her athletic career, Camryn Rogers has bucked expectations.
As a pre-teen, the first event she tried was Hammer throwing, and it...
Bev Priestman likes a brave game
The Coach of the Canadian National Women’s Soccer Team is not one to rest on her laurels. While the rest of the country was still celebrating the team...
Making Sport Safer: Allison Forsyth
These are trying times for athletes, coaches and national sporting organizations in Canada. The incidents of abuse and maltreatment in amateur sport s...
Jason Priestley on Harold Ballard
He has been a well-respected, hard working film and television director for thirty years now, so it’s probably time to stop asking ‘Beverley Hills 902...
Mimi Rahneva's veteran velocity
Mimi Rahneva is having a wild ride this world cup season. The Canadian Skeleton racer has won, been on the podium, or just barely missed a top three i...
Cito Gaston's winning ways
It pays to keep your wits about you in conversation with Cito Gaston. The two time Blue Jays world series winning manager is a relaxing presence, even...
Robert Parish: NBA legend among legends
Robert Parish is a big man like no other in the history of the NBA. And not just because the hall of famer has four championship rings, and an incred...
Chloé Dufour-Lapointe's freestyle farewell
There’s a lot of talk about ‘Quiet Quitting’ these days… which is one luxury that athletes can seldom enjoy. For moguls skier Chloé Dufour-Lapointe,...
Aaron Brown thinks fast
Canadian Sprinter Aaron Brown is a quick thinker. Not just in the literal sense- he has perfected physical speed, as befits a World champion 4x 100 r...
Sorry, not sorry with Kaylyn Kyle.
Kaylyn Kyle has parlayed years of soccer with the Canadian national team and in pro leagues, into a bustling career as a broadcast soccer analyst.
Kurt Browning: figure skating then and now
Here’s the thing that Patrick Chan wants to understand about his fellow figure skater, Kurt Browning… after 45 years on ice, how has Browning managed...
Bianca Farella tackles the future.
People always say Sport teaches valuable life lessons. If true, Rugby Sevens stalwart Bianca Farella has earned a doctorate in the last 18 months.
Summer McIntosh: World champion... keepin' it real in grade 11.
Summer and Brooke McIntosh’s parents have a good problem brewing. October 28 to 30th, Skate Canada International will likely see Brooke figure skating...
Becky Sauerbrunn exporting equity
In the ever-expanding universe of Women's Soccer- very few stars shine brighter than the Captain of USA's national team, Becky Sauerbrunn. With more t...
Rhian Wilkinson: changing the culture, one win at a time
‘Culture’, toxic or otherwise, is invoked almost daily in sports. Like a collective mood, it is easily named but much more difficult to manage- let...
Amber Balcaen at 300kph
NASCAR drivers generally have a lot in common. For starters, they are overwhelmingly American, male, and coming from seriously wealthy backgrounds. ...
Cynthia Appiah Takes the Reins
The more public the troubles at Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton become, the less easy they are to nail down. More than seventy athletes are calling for a le...
Back on track with Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu
Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu has one heck of a backstory.
He was a teen prodigy. A top-ranked world junior speed skater in both long and short trac...
Living with Loss: Dina Bell-Laroche, athletic grief counsellor
After years of working on communications for high performance sports, Dina Bell-Laroche has witnessed many extremes of emotion. But the moment that a...
Brad Gushue Saves Bronze
Brad Gushue held 40 pounds of granite in one hand, and in the other, the distinct possibility that Canada would leave Beijing without a single curling...
Charles Hamelin’s golden goodbye
Charles Hamelin knows how to conduct an Olympic Career. Medal at your first games. Keep medaling and staying strong for sixteen more years. Somewhere...
Greg Westlake: Para Hockey's Iron man and Spokesman
Greg Westlake is both ironman and spokesman for para Hockey. Ironman because these are his fifth Paralympic games, and he remains remarkably fit and i...
Elladj Baldé sees the future of skating
When figure skater Elladj Baldé started sharing videos of himself having a ball, skating on frozen lakes, the response almost overwhelmed him. Tens of...
Keegan Messing skates for his brother
Even by Beijing 2022 standards, Keegan Messing faced a tense obstacle course to get to the games. A positive covid test result just before 'go time'...