Were the Milan-Cortina Olympics successful for you as a viewer — and what does the U.S. men's team hockey team winning gold mean for 2030?
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Episode 595 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features CBC Sports host Donnovan Bennett. In this podcast, we discuss our broad takeaways from the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics; how the Games looked on television; what this means for the L.A. Games in 2028; the politics of the moment and how that impacts Olympics heading forward; what the U.S. winning the men's gold medal hockey game means for the sport; what it means for the 2030 Olympic hockey tournament and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:17.4 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:19.4 | I don't know if I call this an emergency podcast, |
| 0:21.2 | but it's not a full... |
| 0:22.6 | It won't be like a sort of a full, |
| 0:24.5 | you know, over the top 45-minute podcast. |
| 0:26.6 | So it's somewhere between emergency podcast and recap podcast. |
| 0:30.5 | And who better to have on for a recap podcast on the |
| 0:33.8 | just completed Milano Cortina Games |
| 0:37.4 | than Donovan Bennett, who spent... on the just completed Milano Cortina Games, |
| 0:38.9 | then Donovan Bennett, |
| 0:44.8 | who spent three weeks immersed in Olympic coverage working for CBC sports. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome, Donovan. |
| 0:48.8 | Definitely not an emergency podcast. |
| 0:50.9 | I can't think of something that is less of an emergency. |
| 0:54.0 | If we were doing a podcast |
| 0:55.0 | on travel advisories for North Americans in Mexico because of a cartel, that would be an emergency. |
| 1:03.4 | Right. There will be no best on best hockey for two years. There will be no Olympic hockey with |
| 1:09.7 | NHO players for four years. So we have a long time to sit with this one. There will be no Olympic hockey with NHO players for four years. |
| 1:11.2 | So we have a long time to sit with this one. |
| 1:14.6 | So no, not an emergency at all. |
| 1:16.4 | By the way, I'm not Chris Johnson or Pierre LeBron. |
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