Episodes

  • Jimmy Whelan

    Jimmy Whelan
    Nov 11 2024

    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.
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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • Legendary Race Caller Greg Miles

    Legendary Race Caller Greg Miles
    Nov 4 2024

    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.
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Matt Hill Part 2

    Matt Hill Part 2
    Oct 31 2024

    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.
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    35 mins
  • Sports Comentator Matt Hill - Part 1

    Sports Comentator Matt Hill - Part 1
    Oct 24 2024

    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.
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    57 mins
  • 'ABC Sport Amanda Shalala

    'ABC Sport Amanda Shalala
    Aug 28 2024

    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.
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    1 hr
  • Paris Olympics 2024 Athletics debrief with Gerard Whateley

    Paris Olympics 2024 Athletics debrief with Gerard Whateley
    Aug 15 2024

    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.
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    57 mins
  • Australian Diver Annabelle Smith

    Australian Diver Annabelle Smith
    Aug 9 2024

    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.
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    28 mins
  • Gold Medalist Brett Aiken

    Gold Medalist Brett Aiken
    Aug 8 2024
    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... Learn more about Dan Lonergan www.danlonergan.weebly.com
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    1 hr and 12 mins