By Off The Floor: A Gymnastics Australia Podcast
The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.
Before her Olympic debut, Kate McDonald joined 'Off The Floor' during Australia's Women's Artistic Team's pre-departure training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.
Kate is a Commonwealth Games gold medallist on Beam and with host Dane Heverin she discusses her focus on her two best performing apparatus - Beam and Uneven Bears.
She also talks about being somewhat of a late bloomer in the sport and when she began to feel comfortable at the international level, plus much more.
Ahead of her second Olympic Games, Emily Whitehead joined 'Off The Floor' during Australia's Women's Artistic Team's pre-departure training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.
With host Dane Heverin, Emily discusses how she expects Paris to be different from Tokyo, the team's aspirations to improve on their efforts at last year's World Championships, being recognised as an Olympian while working at Rebel Sport and much more.
Lidiia Iakovleva, Saskia Broedelet, Emmanouela Frroku, Phoebe Learmont and Jessica Weintraub took time out from their training camp before departing for Paris to join 'Off The Floor'.
With host Dane Heverin, Australia's second ever Rhythmic Gymnastics Group at an Olympic Games talk through balancing training with education and work, how they formed as a group, their recent success in Europe and much more.
At just 17 years of age, Brock Batty is set to become the youngest ever male to compete in Trampoline at an Olympic Games.
Brock was unveiled as part of Australia's biggest ever Olympic Gymnastics team at the MCG and beforehand he spoke with host Dane Heverin about his journey to the sport's biggest stage.
Brock discusses his lengthy commute to get to training, watching YouTube videos and trying to copy them on his family's backyard trampoline, touching the roof at his club, becoming a world champion and more.
The biggest ever Australian Gymnastics Olympic team has been announced!
A record 13 gymnasts will represent Australia in Paris and they were unveiled by the Australian Olympic Committee at the MCG's National Sports Museum Olympic Gallery.
Host Dane Heverin caught up with Emily Whitehead, Kate McDonald, Jesse Moore, Ruby Pass, Emma Nedov, Emmanouela Frroku, Phoebe Learmont and Jessica Weintraub as they graced the MCG for media opportunities.
Plus we hear from Liidia Iakovleva and Gymnastics Australia Interim CEO Chris O'Brien on a landmark day for Gymnastics in Australia.
Jesse Moore enjoyed quite to month of May.
He locked in his place at the Paris Olympic Games with an All-Around win at the Oceania Continental Championships after winning the Australian All-Around title on the Gold Coast a fortnight earlier.
Jesse joins host Dane Heverin to recap those experiences, discuss moving to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra after growing up in Adelaide, his ambitions for Paris and more.
Fresh off booking her ticket to the Paris Olympic Games with victory at the Oceania Continental Championships, Rhythmic Gymnast Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva joins host Dane Heverin on the show.
Alexandra recaps her performance at Continentals, gives an insight into her life in Baku, Azerbaijan where she lives and trains, and looks ahead to her Olympic debut in Paris amongst many other things.
The countdown to the Paris Olympic Games is on and the Australian Gymnastics team is taking shape with the official team announcement to be staged later this month.
Emily Abbot, Alexia Aristoteli, Alannah Matthews, Himeka
The quintet made history three years ago when they became the first Australian Rhythmic Gymnastics Group to step onto the floor at an
With host Dane Heverin they discuss how the Covid-19
They also provide career updates - Alexia and Himeka are
A different style of episode this time around as the Gymnastics Australia media team caught up with several of our Olympic hopefuls in Men's and Women's Artistic Gymnastics prior to the Australian Gymnastics Championships on the Gold Coast.
Hear from Heath Thorpe, Jesse Moore, Clay Mason Stephens, Kate McDonald, Emma Nedov, Romi Brown and Ruby Pass as well as Gymnastics Australia Interim CEO and High Performance Director Chris O'Brien.
Tyson Bull boasts the best performance by an Australian in Men's Artistic Gymnastics in an Olympic Games which he achieved by finishing fifth in the Horizontal Bar final at the Tokyo.
In an open and honest conversation with host Dane Heverin, Tyson discusses wrestling with the disappointment of missing out on a medal while also viewing making an Olympic final as a remarkable achievement.
He also takes us through his journey in the sport, including his time in the US college system, and the incredible friendship amongst Australia's Men's Artistic Gymnasts which led to him winning a Commonwealth Games silver medal in Birmingham.
The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.