Founded by Karl-Heinz Huba in 1968, sport intern is the longest serving news bulletin providing dependable news on and around the Olympic Movement. In the sport intern special, editor Ashish Sharma speaks to the news makers and influencers from the Olympic Movement and international sport to get their views and opinions on the major happenings in the world of sport.
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Welcome to my podcast! Located in Schenectady, New York. The broadcast capital of the world! This is the birthplace of Radio and Television! This is a general entertainment podcast. A wide variety of unique topics and ideas in every episode. My storytelling abilities, creativity and broadcasting experience allows me to record podcasts without a script. Sit back, relax and listen.
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Grizzly Kiki began in April 2014 as a pop culture and drag-centric podcast hosted by Robert & Daniel. The podcast is equal parts oral history and good old-fashioned kiki. We’ve found that there were few platforms where queer artists could talk about their work and themselves in an open and honest way. Our mission is to create a comfortable and safe environment, where these artists can share their histories and experiences. Ours is an intersectional podcast that is meant to serve the queer co ...
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In this episode presenter Ashish Sharma has a sit down chat with the former squash number one Nicole David. The Malaysian star won every title in her sport and since retiring has set up her own foundation, to help young people get into the sport
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In this episode presenter Ashish Sharma looks ahead to the Paris Olympics. We hear from Tony Estanguet, the President of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee; the International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach as well as former Kenyan long distance runner Tegla Loroupe.
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In this episode, presenter Ashish Sharma continues his conversation with Jason Siegel. Jason is the CEO and the President of the Greater Orlando Sports Commission ( GO Sports!)
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In this episode, presenter Ashish Sharma speaks to Jason Siegel, who is the President and the CEO of the Gretaer Orlando Sports Commission. In the last few years Orlando has put itself on the sporting map in terms of hosting high profile events, as well as boasting some of the best facilities in the USA…
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In this edition of the sport intern special podcast, presenter Ashish Sharma speaks to Edwin Moses. The legendary US 400m hurdler won two Olympic gold medals and broke the world record four times in his own event in an illustrious career. Moses was also part of the International Olympic Committee´s Athlete´s Commission, as well as being on the Medi…
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In this episode of the sport intern special podcast, presenter Ashish Sharma chats to Francesco Ricci Bitti. The President of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) is in the final few months of his tenure as president of the organisation. Ricci Bitti tells sport intern about his excitement for the Paris 2024 Olympic an…
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At the recent SportAccord event in Birmingham, UK, one of the most important decisions was voting in a new president for ASOIF, the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations. Ingmar de Vos, who is also president of the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) was the sole candidate and was voted in unanimously. In this edition of the…
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In this edition of the sport intern special podcast presented by Ashish Sharma, we speak to Amanda Hudson. The Director of Education at the World Anti Doping Agency, (WADA) was at the heart of their recent Global Education Conference in France. Amanda explained the growing importance education is playing in anti doping strategies…
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In this episode of the sport intern special podcast, Emma Terho continues her chat with presenter Ashish Sharma. The Chair of the International Olympic Committee´s Athletes Commission, gives more details about Russian and Belarus athletes, who will compete in the Paris Olympics as neutral athletes.
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Emma Terho is the Chair of the Athlete´s Commission (AC) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The AC had a high profile at the recent Winter Youth Olympic Games in Gangwon. In this episode, Emma talks about the impact on young athletes who got to meet some of their Olympic idols who were there representing the AC.…
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The sport intern special presenter Ashish Sharma continues his conversation with Jill Geer, head of Communications and Marketing at USA Gymnastics. With all eyes on Paris 2024, Jill told Ashish that now is when all the hard work begins for the Olympic Games
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In this episode, of the sport intern special podcast, presenter Ashish Sharma catches up with Jill Geer. Jill is the Chief Communications and Marketing Officer of USA Gymnastics. When you talk gymnastics, the only place you can start is with the phenomenal talent that is Simone Biles
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In this second part of the sport intern special podcast, presenter Ashish Sharma continues with his conversation with Günther Younger. He is the Director of Intelligence and Investigation at the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) With the Paris Olympics just round the corner, the aim of a clean Games is high on Younger´s agenda.…
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In this edition of the sport intern special podcast Ashish Sharma chats with Günter Younger. He is the director of Intelligence and Investigation at the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) Younger came from Interpol to lead WADA´s fight against doping and was part of the team that investigated doping abuses by Russian athletes after the Sochi Winter Ga…
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In this episode of the sport intern special we hear the second part of Ashish Sharma´s conversation with Leonz Eder. The president of the International University Sports Federation (FISU) spoke about the recovery university sports were making from the Covid pandemic
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In this episode of the sport intern special, presenter Ashish Sharma speaks to Leonz Eder. He was recently elected as the president of the International University Sports Federation (FISU) Eder had been in charge on an the interim basis, but having won the election, told sport intern that he could now put into action his long term ambitions for FIS…
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In this episode, Ashish Sharma continues his conversation with Florian Sperl, the president of the German weightlifting federation. Florian gives us an update on the current status of the sport within Germany.
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In this edition of the sport intern special podcast, presenter Ashish Sharma speaks to Florian Sperl, president of the German Weightlifting Federation. Sperl, who is also on the executive board of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), set up the IWF Refugee team. The team made history participating for the first time in an IWF event, th…
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In this episode of the sport intern special podcast, presenter Ashish Sharma speaks to Finn Taylor, CEO of Volleyball World. The company runs the commercial side of volleyball worldwide. It was set up from the partnership between the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) and CVC Capital Partners, back in 2021.…
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In this episode, Ashish Sharma speaks to Juan Martorell, the Deputy Director of the High Council for Sport in Spain. Martorell has been busy organinsing Spain´s build up to the European Week of Sport. (EWoS). This European Commission initiative is aimed at trying to make people more active and incorporate sport as part of their lifestyle. The EWoS …
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In this episode of the Sport Intern Special, Ashish Sharma speaks to Christophe Dubi. In recent weeks the states of Victoria in Australia and Alberta in Canada withdrew from hosting forthcoming editions of the Commonwealth Games. Dubi, the International Olympic Committee´s Executive Director, shares his thoughts on the importance of this for the fu…
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In this edition we hear from Chris Canetti, the President of the Houston 2026 World Cup Bid Committee. His city hosted Manchester United and Real Madrid in pre season friendlies, allowing them a chance to showcase their facilities.
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In this, the second part of our interview, Sport Intern continues its chat with the CEO of US Track and Field Max Siegel. Max talks about building up to the LA Games via the Paris Olympics. He also talks about the legacy he wants to establish, being one of just a few African American administrators working at the highest levels within sport in the …
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In this the latest episode of the sport intern special podcast, Ashish Sharma speaks to the CEO of US Track and Field, Max Siegel. Siegel has been at the head of the federation for 12 years and in that time US Track and Field has been one of the most successful, with US athletes topping the medals table at the Olympics and World Championships.…
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The sport intern special is a podcast produced and presented by Ashish Sharma, the editor of the Sport Intern newsletter. In this edition, Ashish talks to David Crocker, the Executive Director of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) World Cup. The event is taking place later on this year and e will be hosted by three countries, Japan, Ind…
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In this edition of the Sport Intern Special podcast, Ashish Sharma, continues his conversation with Richard Pound. The Canadian official was one of the longest serving members of the International Olympic Committee, (IOC) before stepping down. He is now an honorary IOC member and was also the first ever president of the World Anti Doping Agency, WA…
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In this episode of the Sport Intern Special, editor Ashish Sharma is in conversation with Dick Pound. The 81 year old Canadian, one of the longest serving members of the International Olympic Committee, (IOC) was recently made an Honorary Member of the IOC. He was also its Vice President between 1996 - 2000 and was the first ever President of the W…
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In this episode of the Sport Intern Special podcast we speak to the British athlete Holly Bradshaw. The pole vaulter made history by becoming the first Briton to win an Olympic medal in pole valuting, after she took Bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. However, the climb to the top has not been easy for Holly, who sufferred horrendous online abuse wh…
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In this edition of the Sport Intern Special podcast, host presenter Ashish Sharma speaks to Janis Burke. Janis is the CEO of Harris County - Houston Sport Authority. She played a leading role in helping Houston win the bid to become one of the 11 cities that will host FIFA 2026 Men´s World Cup matches. The tournament will be hosted by three countri…
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In this episode of the Sport Intern Speical Podcast, we speak to two Olympian athletes regarding the switch from equestrian show jumping to obstacle racing, made by modern pentathlon. While the new discipline won´t be introduced into the Olympics until LA 2028, it will debut as a competitive event later this year. As athletes´ representatives of th…
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In this edition of the Sport Intern Special podcast we speak to Witold Bańka the president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). The organisation held their annual Symposium on March 14-15 in Lausanne. Mr Bańka is in the second term of the presidency and in this episode speaks about some of the key areas that WADA focused on at the Symposium…
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In this episode, we continue our conversation with Ingmar De Vos, the president of the International Equestrian federation (FEV). Ingmar took over as president back in 2014. We began the second part of our chat by discussing how much, if any, had the Coronavirus pandemic impacted on the manifesto Ingmar had set out to achieve for the FEV when he fi…
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In this the latest episode of the Sport Intern Special podcast, we catch up with the President of the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) Ingmar de Vos. Ingmar stepped into the role back in 2014 and in November 2022 won a third and final term as President. He will oversee the Fedetation through the Paris Olympics in 2024 and told the podcast …
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In this, the second part of our chat with the CEO of World Aquatics, Brent Nowicki, we look at the reasons why the swimming federation changed its name from FINA to World Aquatics. Brent also shares his concerns about the closures of swimming pools due to the energy crisis, and the hangover from the Covid pandemic.…
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In this edition of the Sport Intern Special podcast we speak to Brent Nowicki. The CEO of World Aquatics tells Ashish Sharma that the recent decision by a US District court to support World Aquatics against a lawsuit filed by the International Swimming League (ISL) and two swimmers, will allow the federation to move forward with its busy agenda of …
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In this episode of the Sport Intern Special podcast, we continue our chat with Christophe Dubi, the Executive Director of the Olympic Games for the International Olympic Committee (IOC). With the summer Olympics in Paris in 2024 and the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics in 2026 to look forward to, Dubi said both events were going to be important for th…
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In this the final episode of 2022 of the Sport Intern Special podcast, we catch up with Christophe Dubi. The Olympic Games Executive Director for the International Olympic Committee, reflects on the sporting calendar. And its with no surprise that Dubi told us that the highlight event of 2022 was the Beijing Winter Games.…
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In this edition we hear part 2 of the Sport Intern chat with the president of the International Federation for Sports Climbing, (IFSC) Marco Scolaris. In this episode, Marco talks about the impact on the federation, since making its debut in the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. Scolaris also reflectes on the steps that need to be taken to further develo…
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In this edition of the Sport Intern Special we speak to the President of the International Federation for Sports Climbing, (IFSC) Marco Scolaris. Sports climbing made its debut as an Olympic sport at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Games. It will also feature in the next two Olympic editions, Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028. This gave Sport Intern an opportu…
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In this the second part of the conversation with Riccardo Fraccari, the president of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) talks about plans for the future. Fraccari was reelected as the head of the sporting organisation in July to commence a second seven year term. Amongst his plans for the future include further developing interest in …
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In this edition of the Sport Intern Special Ashish Sharma speaks to Riccardo Fraccari, one of the most charismatic of sports administrators and the President of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). Fraccari has been in Mexico where he oversaw the inaugutral Baseball5 World Cup. Its a dream realised for Fraccari who has been planning th…
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In this episode of the Sport Intern Special podcast, Ashish Sharma continues his conversation with Laurent Petrynka, the president of the International School Sport Federation. (ISF) 2023 is going to be an important one for the ISF kicking off with the first ever Winter Gymnasiade which will be hosted by Turkey in February. In Part 2 Laurent Petryn…
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In this episode of the Sport Intern Special podcast, Ashish Sharma speaks to Laurent Petrynka. Laurent has been the President of the International School Sport Federation since 2014. The Federation has been making great strides in the development of school sports worldwide. Ashish began by asking Laurent how they were growing school sports…
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Squash is one of the few sports that is played worldwide but has always been on the fringes of the Olympics. And it is still waiting for an opportunity. Could its chance come in Los Angeles 2028? Or maybe Brisbane in 2032? In this episode, we speak to the Zeena Wooldridge the president of the World Squash Federation. She tells Ashish Sharma that wh…
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In this episode we speak to one of the legends of US wrestling. Jim Scherr competed for his country in the Seoul Summer Olympics in 1988 and was a world cup champion in 1986 and again in 1989. These days Jim is the CEO of World Lacrosse the oldest sports in the USA. The roots of the game go way back to Indigenous Nations being played by native Amer…
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In this episiode we continue with our theme of looking at the build up to the Paris Olympics and Paralympics taking place in 2022. In part 1 we heard from the Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet. In this edition, we get a take on the Games of the Parisian government, with the thoughts of the Deputy Mayor Pierre Rabadan. We also get the point of vie…
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In this special edition of the sport intern series of podcasts, we look at the build up to the Paris Summer Olympics in 2024. The two year mark for the Games has just passed and sport intern went to Paris to speak to Tony Estanguet. The former Olympic champion in canoeing is now the president of Paris 2024, the Olympic organising body for the Paris…
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In this episode of the Sport Intern Special podcast we revisit the recently held WADA Symposium in Lausanne in Switzerland. Jez Inson went along on behalf of Sport Intern and spoke to Olivier Niggli the General Director of the World Anti Doping Agency.
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This is the second part of the Sport Intern Special interview with Jose Perurena. The President of the International World Games Association, (IWGA) spoke to us in Part 1 about the forthcoming World Games in Alabama Birmingham. In this second part of our chat, Jose touched on topics ranging from the Olympics, to engaging with the youth and about hi…
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For this episode Jeremy Inson travelled to Lausanne to cover the recent WADA Symposium on behalf of the Sport Intern special podcast. In this edition Jeremy sits down to chat with the president of WADA Witold Banka and WADA anti doping researcher Andrea Petroczi..
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