Keep the Flame Alive
Jill Jaracz & Alison Brown
Obsessed with the Olympics and Paralympics? Just curious about how Olympic and Paralympic sports work? You've found your people! Join your hosts, Olympic aunties Alison Brown and Jill Jaracz, for smart, fun, and down-to-earth interviews with athletes, coaches, and the unsung heroes behind the Games. Get the stories you don't find anywhere else. Tune in weekly all year-round, and daily during the Olympics and Paralympics. We're your cure for your Olympics Fever! Call us: (208) FLAME-IT.
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Episodes (1704)
Episode 75: Are You In, Or Are You Out?
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Episode 74: Josh Levin on Olympic Sport Climbing
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Episode 73: Diver Laura Wilkinson's Olympics
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Episode 72: Book Club Claire on "Rome 1960"
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Episode 71: Olympian Laura Wilkinson on Diving
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Episode 70: Archiving the Olympics with Teri Hedgpeth
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Episode 69: Race Walking and Its Judges
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Episode 68: 2026 Winter Olympics Bids Are In!
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Episode 67: Olympic Marketing with Stuart Sheldon
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Episode 66: Touching Base with Bobsledder Josh Williamson
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Episode 65: Olympic Lightning Round 2
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Episode 64: Adam Stirn, Olympic Zamboni Driver
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Episode 63: "Scouting Camp: The Next Olympic Hopeful" Winner Lindsey Mayo
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Episode 62: A Freeze on Boxing
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Episode 61: Kim Rhode's Olympics
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Episode 60: Lightning Round 1: Jimmy Pedro, Tessa Gobbo & John Naber
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Episode 59: Kim Rhode on Olympic Shotgun Shooting
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Episode 58: Tony Azevedo's World of Water Polo
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Episode 57: "Running for my Life" with Book Club Claire
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Episode 56: Dawn Harper Nelson's Olympics
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Episode 55: Hurdles with 2x Olympic Medalist Dawn Harper Nelson
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Episode 54: Jason Bryant on Olympic Announcing
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Episode 53: Youth Olympic Games? What Youth Olympic Games?
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Episode 52: The John Naber Swimming Experience
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Episode 51: How Olympic Wrestling Works with Jason Bryant
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Episode 50: Being Sam the Olympic Eagle
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Episode 49: How to Build an Olympic Village with Yvan Dubois
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Episode 48: Sarah Gascon on Why We Should Play Handball
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Episode 47: Rowing with Olympic Gold Medalist Tessa Gobbo
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Episode 46: Judo with Jimmy Pedro
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Episode 45: Samantha Achterberg on Why Modern Pentathlon Is 5x More Fun
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Episode 44: "Boys in the Boat" with Book Club Claire
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Episode 43: Exploring Mexico City 1968's Cultural Legacy
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Episode 42: Montreal's Olympic Legacy
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Episode 41: Wait, What Goes into an Olympic Bid?
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Episode 40: Synchronized Swimming Is No Joke
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Episode 39: Twizzling with Olympic Ice Dancer Charlie White
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Episode 38: Erin Jackson's PyeongChang & the Canadian Olympic Experience
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Episode 37: Beijing 2008 Olympian Olya Ovtchinnikova on Sabre Fencing
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Episode 36: Paris 1924 vs. Paris 2024
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Episode 35: Emily Cook on Overcoming Adversity
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Episode 34: "Scouting Camp - The Next Olympic Hopeful" Returns!
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Episode 33: Cross-Country Skiing Olympic Gold Medalist Kikkan Randall
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Episode 32: Video Journalist Sean Colahan's PyeongChang
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Episode 31: Rome 1960's Legacy
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Episode 30: Moving Rio's Swimming Pools
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Episode 29: Meagan Duhamel's Olympic Experience
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Episode 28: The 122nd Anniversary of Athens 1896
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Episode 27: Performance Wear with Susan Sokolowski
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Episode 26: Figure Skating Dresses with Pat Pearsall
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