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Black and white photo of Karina LeBlanc over a template of The Conversation Piece podcast featuring a mic and outlines of other mics.
Podcasts

Becoming Your Best Self Off the Field

February 9, 2022February 9, 2022 - by Karina LeBlanc

S3E16 of The Conversation Piece podcast

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Sports

Athletes Are Getting Burned by Weed Rules. Is the Sports World Out of Touch?

February 3, 2022April 30, 2022 - by Alex Cyr

Cannabis attitudes have changed since Ross Rebagliati’s Olympic mishap in 1998, but pro sports remain stuck in the past

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Podcasts

Can Weed and Pro Sports Coexist? Episode 3 of The Deep Dive

February 3, 2022February 3, 2022 - by The Walrus Staff

Attitudes toward cannabis have changed dramatically over the past couple of decades, but less so for professional athletes

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Why Olympians Are Struggling to Get Sponsorships

July 21, 2021July 21, 2021 - by Alex Cyr

You can be the fastest in the world, but when you’re competing against influencers for corporate cash, athletic performance isn’t all that matters

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Sports

Inside Skateboarding’s New Counterculture

July 28, 2020July 29, 2020 - by Cole Nowicki

Social media has democratized skateboarding by inviting in a new audience unaware of the “rules”

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December 2019 / Sports

How the World Anti-Doping Agency Betrays Honest Athletes

November 13, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Curtis Gillespie

When the highest authority on cheating is compromised, what happens to athletes who play by the rules?

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Sports

When the Games Are Over

August 22, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Thomas Hall

An Olympic medalist’s struggle to find purpose after twenty years as an elite athlete

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Sports

Hell on Wheels

August 19, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Anwar Ali

In-line skating’s struggle to become an Olympic sport

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September 2016

Why Is the Goal More Medals?

August 5, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Thomas Hall

A Canadian medallist on why our Olympic strategy betrays the spirit of the Games

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Photograph by Martin Deutsch
Sports

Drug Running

July 25, 2016July 23, 2021 - by Dick Pound

Allowing Russian athletes to compete in this summer’s Olympics erodes the IOC’s position as the moral leader against doping

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