Dashing Dan’s Sporting Adventures

Jimmy Whelan

My guest today on Dashing Dan Sporting Adventures Podcast is an elite sports person in a number of sports.
 
He was an outstanding junior middle-distance runner at school, winning the 800 and 1500 metres at the Prestigious APS Sports at Xavier College in Melbourne.
 
Injuries then curtailed his running career and to help heal he hopped on a bike and then concentrated on road cycling and became a professional road cyclist and was selected in international teams in Europe and actually raced in the Giro D'italia.
 
However, after numerous falls, he has elected to retire from Road cycling and concentrate on a career as a triathlete.
 
Here is the story of Jimmy Whelan on Dashing Dan's Sporting Adventures.

Legendary Race Caller Greg Miles

Our guest on Dashing Dan's Sporting Adventures is one of the greatest race callers this country has produced.
 
Greg Miles called 36 Melbourne Cups and numerous other major races after starting as a 22-year-old with the ABC in 1981, replacing long-time legend Joe Brown.

Matt Hill Part 2

Here is Part 2 of Dan's chat with Sports Commentator Matt Hill 
 
Matt Hill is fast becoming one of this country's best-ever sports broadcasters.
 
He started as a race caller, eventually replacing the incomparable Greg Miles in Melbourne. He has now called nine Melbourne Cups with superb accuracy and brilliance.
 
He is also a senior AFL Commentator with Fox Footy and SEN and has covered and commented on only seven Summer and Winter Olympic events, including the rowing for Channel Nine TV this year and the Aths for Channel Nine radio.
 
He is also one of the nicest guys in the sports media industry and it was a pleasure to have a long chat (and I mean a long chat) over two parts for Dashing Dan's Sporting  Adventures.

Sports Comentator Matt Hill - Part 1

Matt Hill is fast becoming one of this country's best-ever sports broadcasters.
 
He started as a race caller, eventually replacing the incomparable Greg Miles in Melbourne. He has now called nine Melbourne Cups with superb accuracy and brilliance.
 
He is also a senior AFL Commentator with Fox Footy and SEN and has covered and commented on only seven Summer and Winter Olympic events, including the rowing for Channel Nine TV this year and the Aths for Channel Nine radio.
 
He is also one of the nicest guys in the sports media industry and it was a pleasure to have a long chat (and I mean a long chat) over two parts for Dashing Dan's Sporting  Adventures.

'ABC Sport Amanda Shalala

Today’s guest is simulcast on both Aussie Home Loans Inclusion Talks and Dashing Dan’s Olympic Adventures podcasts.
Amanda Shalala is an esteemed sports broadcaster, journalist, and producer for ABC TV Sport.
She has covered four Paralympics including the Winter Games in Sochi and the Olympic Games in London and Paris this year.
She will also cover the Paris Paras about to start and here is her Journey.

Paris Olympics 2024 Athletics debrief with Gerard Whateley

Before the Olympics, I caught up with broadcasting great, Gerard Whateley, who had the wonderful job of calling the athletics for Channel Nine,
Gerard did a fabulous job and on our latest episode on Dashing Dan’s Olympic adventures I spoke to him just days after returning from the Games about his experiences and the highlights of which there were many from a world and Australian perspective and it’s all thanks to Aussie Home Loans.

Australian Diver Annabelle Smith

Today’s guest on Dashing Dan’s Olympic Adventures is a current Olympian who has represented Australia at these Olympics in Paris.
She is at her 4th Olympics and is a diver who in Paris finished fifth in the 3-metre synchro swimming with Maddison Keeney, who at the time of recording was in the final of the individual synchro.
Annabelle won bronze in 2016 and was fifth in Tokyo and has also won a gold and 2 silvers at the Commonwealth Games.
It’s great to have Annabelle Smith speaking to us from the Olympic Village for Aussie Home Loans.

Gold Medalist Brett Aiken

One of our first podcasts was with Olympic Gold medalist in Cycling in the Madison in Sydney, Scott McGrory. His partner in that event, Brett Aitken was at his third Games, having won medals in the previous two in the 4000-metre team pursuit.
 
Brett Like Scott endured some family tragedy in the lead-up to these games. Here is his inspirational story brought to you by Aussie Home Loans...
 
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Gerry Collins

My guest today is a former colleague and a great swimming commentator, Gerry Collins, who broadcast the swimming at six Olympic Games from 1988 until 2008 for the ABC.
He saw some of the greatest swimmers ever and races in Olympic History.
Here is his story on Dashing Dan’s Olympic Adventures Podcast for Aussie Home Loans.                                                                     

Paris 2024 Olympics Halfway Review With Glenn Mitchell

We are halfway in the Olympic Games and there have been so many highlights, especially from an Australian perspective with 12 gold medals.
As you would expect from an Olympics, there has also been plenty of controversy.
On Dashing Dan's Olympic Adventures Podcast for Aussie Home Loans I catch up with Broadcasting legend Glenn Mitchell to get his take on the first week and what lies ahead for the second week…