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Everything Everywhere Daily

How Australia Won Its First Winter Olympics Gold Medal

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt | Glassbox Media

History, Education

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Australia is what I would call a sporting country. Cricket, rugby, and Australian Football are all incredibly popular sports. Australia has also really punched above its weight in the Summer Olympics, earning an oversized number of medals given its population. Their performance at the Winter Olympics, however, has not been so great. Learn more about the extremely unlikely way that Australia won its first Winter Olympics Gold Medal on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Australia is what I would call a sporting country.

0:03.0

Cricket, rugby, and Australian football are all incredibly popular sports.

0:07.0

Australia has also really punched above its weight in the Summer Olympics,

0:11.0

earning an oversized number of metals given its population.

0:15.0

Their performance in the Winter Olympics, however, is not been so great.

0:19.4

Learn more about the extremely unlikely way that Australia won its first Winter Olympics gold medal on this episode

0:25.1

of Everything Everywhere Daily. Today I want to tell you about my other podcast. Yes, believe it or not this is not my only

0:43.8

podcast nor is it even my first podcast. I also co-host a show called This

0:48.7

Week in Travel. I've been doing it for almost 12 years and over that time I've recorded the show from dozens of countries around the world.

0:56.0

We've recently relaunched the show after a hiatus in 2020 due to the pandemic, but we're back now and we are better than ever.

1:03.0

The show has interesting guests from all over the world,

1:06.0

as well as travel news from the week,

1:08.0

and great tips to help you on your next trip.

1:10.0

If you love to travel and want another dose of Gary in your life every week,

1:13.9

just search for this week in travel wherever you listen to podcasts.

1:18.6

Once again, this week in travel.

1:23.0

As I mentioned in the introduction, Australia is a pretty good country when it comes to

1:29.1

sports.

1:30.3

At almost every summer Olympics they rank amongst the top countries when it comes to

1:33.7

metals per capita. And the only reason they don't rank higher is because when one

1:37.3

really tiny country wins a single medal, the math makes it impossible for almost

1:41.2

any other country to do better.

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