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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Youth mental health & Masters wellbeing
05/10/2019 Duration: 28minWhat role can a sports club play in improving the mental health of young people?
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AFL v NRL which is better?
28/09/2019 Duration: 28minWho has the better time of it, fans of Aussie Rules (aka aerial ping pong) or Rugby League (aka cross-country wrestling)?
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Titus O'Reily. And, what you need from a sports bra
21/09/2019 Duration: 28minWant to improve your life? Titus O'Reily can help you, with lessons he's learnt from healthy, wealthy professional sportspeople.
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Heat stress, Rugby World Cup, history of the sports shoe pt 3
14/09/2019 Duration: 28minYou're on a charity run and it means a lot to you to finish the race. But it's getting hotter and hotter. Should you stop?
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Pilates, and history of the sports shoe pt2
07/09/2019 Duration: 28minIt looks like a medieval torture device; the promise is it'll reform you.
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Olympic surfing, Ashes cricket, history of sports shoes
31/08/2019 Duration: 28minAre you stoked that surfing is now an Olympic sport? It's a long way from Endless Summer...
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A wee sports problem, and soccer goalkeeping
24/08/2019 Duration: 28minWhen you run or jump, does a bit of wee come out? Treatment is available.
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Cathy Freeman and the two flags; boxing for nerds
17/08/2019 Duration: 28minBack in 1994, how did one athlete change the perception and status of the Aboriginal flag in Australia?
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River swimming, plus sitting and diabetes
10/08/2019 Duration: 28minIf a river is clean enough to swim in, it's healthy in all sorts of ways.
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Black Power salute and sports supplements
03/08/2019 Duration: 28minRemembering sport's most famous podium protest plus everything you need to know about sports supplements.
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Let's go plogging
27/07/2019 Duration: 28minIf you like running and you care about the environment, you'll want to know about plogging
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Conspiracy theories, historic cycling, competitive gliding
20/07/2019 Duration: 28minHow do conspiracy theories help explain unexpected or odd things in sport?
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Barracking, booing, boxing
06/07/2019 Duration: 28min"See the barrackers a-shouting, as all barrackers should". A history of verbal abuse in Australian football.
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Ups and downs of sport for teenage girls
29/06/2019 Duration: 28minWhy do so many girls drop out of sport by 16? What does it take to be a champion teenage rock climber?
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Junior sport: age categories and soccer headers
22/06/2019 Duration: 28minWhen kids have to compete against others in their age category who are bigger and stronger, is it unfair?
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Fastest woman on two wheels
15/06/2019 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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Women's sports clubs, plus getting to know your tendons
08/06/2019 Duration: 28minWhat do women and girls get out of playing team sports that are traditionally male, like the football codes?
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Reducing your cancer risk with exercise
01/06/2019 Duration: 28minCan exercise help prevent and treat cancer? Really?
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The supernatural quest for the superhuman athlete
25/05/2019 Duration: 28minHow did the combination of the 1960s counterculture and the Cold War create the desire for superhuman athletes?