Richard Whitehead: Paralympic Champion and Marathon WR holder

Richard Whitehead: Paralympic Champion and Marathon WR holder

In this week's episode, we chatted with Richard Whitehead. Richard is the world record holder for the fastest marathon and 200m as a double amputee, 2x paralympic gold medalist and is the founder of the Richard Whitehead foundation that helps disabled people access sport. He's also just an all round positive, motivational and inspiring guy who we loved chatting to on the podcast. We talked to him about his journey into sports, his recent world record marathon in London, his 40 marathons in 40 days challenge where we ran the length of Britain for charity and how it felt to win gold at a home olympics. We hope you enjoy the episode, if you do please follow, give us a review and find us on social media @SonsOfOlympiaPod ! Thank you so much to Richard for taking the time to talk to us. Hugely appreciate you and best of luck with smashing that marathon world record again soon!

Dealing With Sports Injuries

If you play a sport of any sort chances are you've had an injury. In this episode we chat about the most famous sports injuries, our own long list of injuries and how we dealt with high and lows of rehab and recovery. Does Matt know the difference between tendons and ligaments and how well does George know the human skeleton?

Sons of Olympia: The Q&A Special

Welcome to this special , Questions and Answers edition, of Sons of Olympia. To celebrate our 20th episode, we asked you to send in some questions and thank you so much to all of you who did. Listen to discover our favourite songs to run to, the most underrated athletes of all time, our goals for the next 20 episodes and our biggest running icks. We love getting questions so please keep sending them in and if you want to support the podcast, please give us a follow, leave a lovely review and follow us on social media @SonsOfOlympiaPod Thank you! Here's to the next 20 episodes 🥳

Fantastic Events and Where To Find Them

From Hyrox to Bog Snorkelling, Back-yard Ultras to cheese rolling, in todays episode we chat sporting events. Expect to hear about the time we ran against horses in the welsh mountains and learn the rules of worm charming and maybe we will discover our next sporting challenge. What sporting event have you always wanted to take part in? And do you have any questions for us?! Next week we attempt our first ever Q&A episode so get in touch with some questions. Thanks so much for listening! Be sure to follow the show and find us on social media, @sonsofolympiapod :)

Where Have All The Great Sports Ads Gone?

In this week's episode of Sons Of Olympia we examine the world of sports advertising and discuss our favourite sports ads, including one featuring our very own mother! We also reflect on our most viral clip to date, learn about the Queen of ultra marathons and make a plea to Weetabix. Thanks so much for checking out our Podcast. If you enjoy it please follow along, drop us a glowing review and find us on social media @SonsOfOlympiaPod