Object of the Game

The brand new Australian Sports Museum is full of fantastic stories, including in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame gallery.

We're sharing extended excerpts of some of the interviews Andy Bellairs conducted for the new museum.

This episode: Sydney 2000 Taekwondo gold medallist, Lauren Burns

The theme music in this episode is courtesy of the Blue Dot Sessions and the Free Music Archive.

Object of the Game is a podcast presented by the Australian Sports Museum at the MCG, telling the stories behind the objects on display in the museum.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The brand new Australian Sports Museum is full of fantastic stories, including in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame gallery.

We're sharing extended excerpts of some of the interviews Andy Bellairs conducted for the new museum.

Enjoy our chat with Oarsome Foursome legend, Mike McKay.

The theme music in this episode is courtesy of the Blue Dot Sessions and the Free Music Archive.

Object of the Game is a podcast presented by the Australian Sports Museum at the MCG, telling the stories behind the objects on display in the museum.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The brand new Australian Sports Museum is full of fantastic stories, including in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame gallery.

We're sharing extended excerpts of some of the interviews Andy Bellairs conducted for the new museum.

Enjoy the chat with Paralympic legend, Louise Sauvage

The theme music in this episode is courtesy of the Blue Dot Sessions and the Free Music Archive.

Object of the Game is a podcast presented by the Australian Sports Museum at the MCG, telling the stories behind the objects on display in the museum.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The brand new Australian Sports Museum is full of fantastic stories, including in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame gallery.

We're sharing extended excerpts of some of the interviews Andy Bellairs conducted for the new museum.

This episode: Sydney 2000 Taekwondo gold medallist, Lauren Burns

The theme music in this episode is courtesy of the Blue Dot Sessions and the Free Music Archive.

Object of the Game is a podcast presented by the Australian Sports Museum at the MCG, telling the stories behind the objects on display in the museum.

The brand new Australian Sports Museum is full of fantastic stories, including in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame gallery.

We're sharing extended excerpts of some of the interviews Andy Bellairs conducted for the new museum.

First up: Wallabies legend, John Eales

The theme music in this episode is courtesy of the Blue Dot Sessions and the Free Music Archive.

Object of the Game is a podcast presented by the Australian Sports Museum at the MCG, telling the stories behind the objects on display in the museum.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The National Sports Museum at the MCG is now temporarily closed and will reopen refreshed, renewed and redeveloped early in 2020.

There is so much going on behind closed doors to bring you a wonderful new museum full of stories that reflect the sporting culture of Australia.

After a month off, we're back with some fresh episodes of Object of the Game - this time, based around the stories that we plan to tell you in the NSM .

So welcome to Series 2 of Object of the Game.

And episode one of series two? It involves one of the trailblazers of the AFLW and a champion of women's football, Penny Cula-Reid.

The theme music in this episode is courtesy of the Blue Dot Sessions and the Free Music Archive.

Object of the Game is a podcast presented by the National Sports Museum at the MCG, telling the stories behind the objects on display in the museum.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guy McKenna and the rise of the Gold Coast Suns.      

The 17th AFL team based on the Gold Coast played their first game against Carlton in April 2011. But before that, there were two seasons of footy played by the club - the first was in the TAC Cup Under 18s and the second, in Victoria's VFL.

The man who led the club as coach through those seasons, and on into the AFL was Eagles great, Guy 'Bluey' McKenna.

In this episode, he remembers the formative years of the Gold Coast football club.

The theme music in this episode is courtesy of the Blue Dot Sessions and the Free Music Archive.

Object of the Game is a podcast presented by the National Sports Museum at the MCG, telling the stories behind the objects on display in the museum.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Glenda Sutton is as close to being Ms Camel as anyone you'd ever meet. She lives and breathes camels - in fact her home is literally surrounded by paddocks of camels she's rescued and raised.

When Object of the Game visited Glenda in April, she was just a day away from heading north for the camel racing season.

The theme music in this episode is courtesy of the Blue Dot Sessions and the Free Music Archive.

Object of the Game is a podcast presented by the National Sports Museum at the MCG, telling the stories behind the objects on display in the museum.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

39 years without a plan.

 

The Coodabeen Champions started as a bunch of university mates who loved to laugh about footy.

39 years later, they're a bunch of middle aged mates who are still laughing at the same  jokes.

We hear from Jeff Richardson who started the team all those years ago.

The theme music in this episode is courtesy of the Blue Dot Sessions and the Free Music Archive.

Object of the Game is a podcast presented by the National Sports Museum at the MCG, telling the stories behind the objects on display in the museum.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Emma's World record collection

Emma George broke the women's Pole Vault world record on February 20th, 1999 - for the 10th time.

That day, it was her own record that Emma broke - as it was the previous eight times she vaulted higher than any other woman in the world.

Add a Commonwealth Games gold medal to that, and you certainly have yourself a career worth celebrating.

The theme music in this episode is courtesy of the Blue Dot Sessions and the Free Music Archive.

Object of the Game is a podcast presented by the National Sports Museum at the MCG, telling the stories behind the objects on display in the museum.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.