What a blast the archery competition was in Paris 2024! Whether you followed it all closely or all you could do was just check the results, don't worry: I've got you covered. On today's episode, I talk to journalist and writer John Stanley. We go through the standout performances, the upsets and all the highlights. And now the countdown to LA2028 begins!

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Intro/Outro track credit: "Stomping Rocks (Four Shots)", by Alex Grohl;
Backgroud photo credit: Christophe Schindler (user csr_ch, on Pixabay).

The archery competition at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 is about to begin! And to cover all the main talking points ahead of the action in the French capital, I talk to World Archery's Head of Communications, Chris Wells. We talked about the Korean women trying to win gold in the teams event for the 10th consecutive time, Mete Gazoz (TUR) with a shot at becoming the first double Olympic champion, France's chances of winning gold in front of their home crowd, nations that might win their first ever Olympic medal at the Games in Paris, potential upsets and more.

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Intro/Outro track credit: "Stomping Rocks (Four Shots)", by Alex Grohl;
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The Archery competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics is about to begin! And to get into the Olympic vibe, on today's episode we talk to an archer who not only won our sport's biggest title, but did so on home soil: Australia's Simon Fairweather. World champion in 1991 and Olympic champion in Sydney 2000, Simon founded Fairweather Archery about a decade ago. We had a very rich and insightful chat about his victories, his tabs, jewlery making, sphynx cats and more...

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Music tracks:
Intro/Outro - "Stomping Rocks (Four Shots)", by Alex Grohl
Reading the messages - "Jazz Lounge | Street Food", by Alex-Productions
"Inspiration Movie Trailer", by Amaksi
"Positive Way", by RomanSenykMusic
"Sakura dance background music, traditional japanese", by unidentified author.

Photo credits: World Archery, Dean Alberga and Yoshi Komatsu

First episode about compound archery here on the show! And with a true legend: Sergio Pagni (ITA). Not only he's a very, very successful archer, he's now known as an oustanding coach as well. Sergio talks in this episode about his unique approach to archery, his work with the Indian team, Lego, Lord of the Rings and much more.

As the Paris Olympics are coming up, I'm preparing lots of special content. Stay tuned!

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Background track, intro/outro: Stomping Rocks (Four Shots), by Alex Grohl.
Background track during the reading of the messages: Jazz Lounge | Street Food, by Alex-Productions.

Photo credits: Dean Alberga/World Archery

Eric Peters made history for Canadian archery by winning ind. silver at the 2023 World Archery Championships in Berlin, Germany. That is the best result by a Canadian man in recurve archery at the worlds. In this episode he talks about that rainy and decisive day in Berlin, team qualification for the Paris Olympics, what has made his latest results possible, Dune and more...

In loving memory of Richard "Butch" Johnson (1955-2024)

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Background track, intro/outro: Stomping Rocks (Four Shots), by Alex Grohl.
Piano track in the beginning, during Butch Johnson tribute: "Sad piano" by Oleksii Kalyna

Photo credits: World Archery/Dean Alberga

First episode! With Tokyo 2020 mixed team silver medallist Gaby Schloesser (NED). A long-time friend, Gaby is from Mexico (in Rio 2016 she was representing Mexico) and here we discuss her move to the Netherlands; her relationship with Mike; how compound can help in recurve and vice-versa; and more!

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Background track, intro/outro: Stomping Rocks (Four Shots), by Alex Grohl.

Excited to be launching the project!

Background track: Stomping Rocks (Four Shots), by Alex Grohl.