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Award-winning sports journalist Bonnie Bernstein interviews celebrities, industry leaders, and world class athletes who share a common bond—each has leveraged life skills they mastered through sports to thrive in their respective careers!

On July 1, 2021, sports in America changed forever.

2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning memoirist of Barbarian Days William Finnegan had devoted his days to chasing waves as a lifelong surfer. When his adolescent daughter, Mollie, proves to be a natural-born climber, Finnegan follows his newfound passion toward rock climbing. It’s an arduous apprenticeship, and it turns the parent-child dynamic on its head, as Mollie slips into the role of coach and mentor, while her father has to push his limits to keep pace.

Per essere giocatrici della Nazionale di pallavolo femminile ci vogliono talento, passione e un briciolo di follia. "Road to Tokyo" è uno spaccato che racconta le tensioni, le difficoltà e i sogni delle ragazze azzurre. Sono le voci stesse delle atlete a portarci nel dietro le quinte della Nazionale: sentiremo dunque le storie di Paola Egonu, Miriam Sylla, Ofelia Malinov, Anna Danesi, Cristina Chirichella, Lucia Bosetti, Monica De Gennaro e Sarah Fahr.

Collin is the founder and CEO of Master Your Mindset, LLC, a leader in the field of mental conditioning. Collin was a two-sport Division I athlete, Academic All-American, Pac-12 Champion, record setting medical sales professional, and national sales trainer. He has authored five books dealing with peak performance and his podcast, Master Your Mindset, has had 75,000 plus downloads world-wide. Collin’s innovative trainings on mindset, culture, and sales psychology have been utilized by some of the world’s best organizations.

Matteo Soragna, argento olimpico della pallacanestro italiana ed ora telecronista, accompagnato da Giacomo Astrua, dietista consulente per atleti di livello mondiale e grande appassionato di sport, hanno intervistao dieci campioni di livello assoluto su dieci grandi temi del mondo dello sport. Tutti gli atleti, Sofia Goggia, Gregorio Paltrinieri, Giorgio Chiellini, Barbara Bonansea, Sara Errani, Filippo Tortu, Gigi Datome, Dorothea Wierer, Tania Cagnotto e Andrea Zorzi in ogni puntata ci porteranno la loro esperienza e il loro pensiero su argomenti che appartengono, in qualche modo, anche alla vita di tutti i giorni.

Speedway was a prime-time sport in the 1970s and 1980s. Its most successful riders were household names, and events would be held in venues as large as Wembley Stadium, attracting tens of thousands of spectators. In a time of only three terrestrial TV channels in the UK, you were guaranteed to find Speedway racing on one of them on a Saturday afternoon. At one point, London alone was home to 11 separate clubs. Today it has none. So what put this once-dominant sport on the slide?

When Dr. Sanjay Gupta travels the world for CNN to report on natural disasters, conflicts, and catastrophes, he illuminates the stories of the affected and the afflicted. But a few times in his career, while reporting abroad, he’s been asked to don his surgeon’s cap and gloves to intervene in high-stakes medical emergencies. Far from his controlled and highly regulated operating rooms, Gupta found himself trying to save lives in the most makeshift and trying conditions.  

La Rafa Nadal Academy se creó en 2016 con el objetivo de formar a futuros campeones en el mundo del tenis. Para ello cuentan con un sistema educativo similar al que se aplicó con Rafa Nadal cuando era un joven estudiante. Todos los años, pasan por esta academia medio centenar de alumnos que parten de cero y tienen un objetivo: triunfar en el mundo del tenis.

20 audio-guided workouts.

[Contains explicit content] The latest Audible Original series "GameBreaker with Keith Olbermann" brings listeners inside the experience of athletes who can teach us lessons far beyond sports. From the runner who rewired her brain's reaction to pain, to the Olympic swimmer whose refusal of rules revolutionized the sport, to the cyclist with a soap tattoo and a burning sense of what's right, the series looks at the personal sacrifice and societal pressures that impact athletes and challenge the way we think about sports.

2020 sin duda será recordado como el año en el que la humanidad se vio obligada a recluirse por la pandemia del Coronavirus. Audible ha querido dejar constancia de este momento excepcional a través de la correspondencia entre Isabel Coixet y Elisabet Benavent, dos mujeres que nos cuentan cómo están viviendo estos tiempos. 

In 1971, 12-year-old Lesley Cairns was a South African swimming phenom with big Olympic dreams.

La corsa non è soltanto uno sport ma un mondo da esplorare, fatto di eroi, storie, tecnica e punti di vista diversi. E con moltissime cose da imparare. In questo podcast ti porteremo nel mondo del running e dello sport con lo stile Runlovers, ossia con leggerezza, divertimento e competenza perché - come diceva il Marchese del Grillo - "Quanno se scherza, bisogna èsse' seri!".

Cosa c'è dopo le proverbiali scarpe appese appese al chiodo? In che modo l'esperienza dello sport professionistico ha segnato e formato la persona che sono oggi? A queste e altre domande rispondono gli intervistati di "Terzo Tempo" in un percorso che spazia dal racconto di aneddoti e storie che hanno segnato la loro carriera alla riflessione sul presente e sul futuro.

From the producers of the Signal Award-winning series The League and hosted by Emmy Award-winning journalist Jemele Hill comes the audio documentary series, Shadowball: Rise of the Black Athlete. This Audible Originals series offers a window into the history of the black athlete's role and how it has led us to where we are today, recounting a dark past, but showing inspirational triumphs that provide hope for future generations.

Cristiano Ronaldo, James Rodríguez, Diego Costa, David de Gea, José Mourinho… todos tienen un nombre en común: Jorge Mendes. El representante portugués, antes propietario de una cadena de videoclubes en el norte de Portugal, maneja los hilos (y los millones) del mercado futbolístico. 

Fine primo tempo, e si torna tutte in spogliatoio. Le calciatrici raccontano i segreti dello spogliatoio e di quei 15 minuti che possono cambiare il corso di una partita o di un'intera stagione, dalle lavate di capo del mister al ruolo del capitano come guida della squadra, fino alle dinamiche di gruppo nella vita di una squadra di calcio.

Cristiano Ronaldo, James Rodríguez, Diego Costa, David de Gea, José Mourinho... they all have one name in common: Jorge Mendes. The Portuguese soccer super agent, pulls the strings and manages the flow of millions of Euros in the global Fútbol (soccer) market.

Teresa Edwards has won more Olympic medals than any other basketball player in history with four golds and one bronze. She is the youngest woman to win a gold medal in basketball - and the oldest. She’s a WNBA pioneer and has been inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Now, for the first time, she shares the story of her greatest loss - and her most incredible victory.