Synopsis
Sporty is your guide to the powerful place of sport and fitness in Australias cultural life. Recognising its much more than a game, Sporty charts and analyses big-time spectator sports, celebrates the amateur athlete and encourages anyone struggling to get active. You dont have to get sport, to get Sporty!
Episodes
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Olympic coronavirus; Ocean pools
21/02/2020 Duration: 29minWhat happens if coronavirus hits the Tokyo Olympic Games?
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Bushfire recovery is a long game
31/01/2020 Duration: 28minIn the years following the grief and loss that bushfire causes, how are local communities using sport for relief, distraction and as a way of recovering?
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Sport and climate change
24/01/2020 Duration: 28minWhy are a bunch of cricketers doing their training in the local swimming pool? How did the career of a national league netballer come to a sudden and dramatic end? In both cases: extreme heat.
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Fastest woman on two wheels
17/01/2020 Duration: 28minWhat's it like to be on a motorbike doing close to 400kph? Plus, does stem cell therapy work for sport and exercise injuries?
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Physical activity to ease a troubled mind
10/01/2020 Duration: 28minHow does doing something physically active help soothe whatever's raging in your head?
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Muscle memory and tai chi
03/01/2020 Duration: 28minEveryone's heard of 'muscle memory'. But nobody agrees on what, precisely, it is.
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Pain thresholds, how to make a cricket ball
27/12/2019 Duration: 28minDo some people avoid being physically active because they register pain more acutely than others?
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Learn to swim, learn to run
20/12/2019 Duration: 28minLearning to swim as an adult isn't easy. How do you overcome a fear of water? And, why is parkrun so popular?
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Russia doping ban; first Sydney Hobart yacht race
13/12/2019 Duration: 28minWhat would really make a difference to achieving drug-free sport?
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Clashing values in sport & what is gateball?
06/12/2019 Duration: 28minShould sports stars be able to express religious views at odds with the stated values of their sport?
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Pool surfing; sport and skin cancer
29/11/2019 Duration: 28minHow will wave pools change surfing, surfers and surf culture?
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Racial abuse in kids' sport; sports gambling
15/11/2019 Duration: 28minHow do you stop racist abuse at junior sport?
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The sports whisperer and icons of footy
08/11/2019 Duration: 28minMeet the man who's getting inside the heads of Australia's best sportspeople.
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Horse racing and wheelchair racing
01/11/2019 Duration: 28minWheelchair racer Louise Sauvage is the first Paralympian to be given legend status in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, although early in her career she wasn't even recognised as an athlete.
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How to throw a ball
25/10/2019 Duration: 28minHow are your ball throwing skills? Essential to many sports (as well as handy if you have a dog), we get a lesson from a pro.
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Game changers Simone Biles and Eliud Kipchoge
18/10/2019 Duration: 28minWomen's gymnastics and the marathon will never be the same again.
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Late starters, sore joints, running gait
11/10/2019 Duration: 28minHow late can you leave it to get active and develop the kind of muscle strength and function that will benefit you into old age?