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Hosted by Jill Jaracz & Alison Brown · sports · EN
Obsessed with the Olympics and Paralympics? Just curious about how Olympic and Paralympic sports work? You've found your people! Join your hosts, Olympic aunties Alison Brown and Jill Jaracz, for smart, fun, and down-to-earth interviews with athletes, coaches, and the unsung heroes behind the Games. Get the stories you don't find anywhere else. Tune in weekly all year-round, and daily during the Olympics and Paralympics. We're your cure for your Olympics Fever! Call us: (208) FLAME-IT.
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Signup to Generate a PitchObsessed with the Olympics and Paralympics? Just curious about how Olympic and Paralympic sports work? You've found your people! Join your hosts, Olympic aunties Alison Brown and Jill Jaracz, for smart, fun, and down-to-earth interviews with athletes, coaches, and the unsung heroes behind the Games. Get the stories you don't find anywhere else.
Keep the Flame Alive is hosted by Jill Jaracz & Alison Brown. The show has published 599 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Clara Hughes on "Learning to Breathe"" (30 October 2026, 72 minutes), "Maintaining Shooting Sports' Relevance on the Olympic Program with Elena Allen" (22 October 2026, 59 minutes), and "Where will the LA28 Olympic torch relay travel?" (15 October 2026, 50 minutes).
Keep the Flame Alive publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 52 minutes across 599 episodes.
Booking probability for Keep the Flame Alive is 39%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Keep the Flame Alive requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Keep the Flame Alive's contact route on record: verified email.
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Jill Jaracz & Alison Brown hosts Keep the Flame Alive, a sports podcast with 599 episodes published.
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Episode #451
On this episode we're talking with one of Canada's most famous Olympians, Clara Hughes. A 6x Olympian, Clara has earned medals in both cycling and speed skating, making her one of the rare Olympians to medal at both a...
With the International Olympic Committee's new Fit for the Future program, every sport has to prove their relevance to ensure it stays on the Olympic program, shooting sports included. Elena Allen, Olympian and Sport...
Episode #450
A lot has been happening in the Olympic world, so on this episode of the podcast, we're bringing you all the latest news. LA 2028 made a big splashy announcement about its torch relay, saying that it would start in...
We're nearing the start of the winter sports season, but as we've learned from past years, just because we're getting into winter, that doesn't mean we'll have enough snow for winter sports. To discuss climate change...
With every Olympics and Paralympics comes thousands of athlete stories. How do you preserve them all? Lindsay Huban, Chief Content and Integration Officer at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum gives us some insight...
When a host city signs the contract to put on the Olympic and Paralympic Games, they don't just have to deal with local government to make them happen. LA 2028 has to work with municipal, county and state governments...
At Atlanta 1996 swimmer Amy Van Dyken became one of the heroes of the U.S. team, bringing home a whopping four gold medals in five events. She followed that up at Sydney 2000 with another two gold medals. After retiring...
Seemingly every time we open our Inbox, we have an email from the folks at USA Fencing with another amazing announcement: They're doing a panel at Comic-Con, have a champagne sponsor, creating a theme song, getting...
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We're going back to the Cortina 1956 Winter Olympics and the last Olympic speed skating competition on natural ice. Lake Misurina proved to be a fantastic venue as records fell by the dozens over the four races of the...
Episode #443
Book Club Claire returns for our first book club episode of 2026, featuring Heroes, Villains & Velodrome's: Chris Hoy and Britain's Track Cycling Revolution by Richard Moore. This book covers Hoy's early cycling career...
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In our ongoing series about the Cortina 1956 Winter Olympics, we look at the sports of Nordic combined and ski jumping, both of which underwent their own evolutions at these Games. For Nordic combined, a format change...
Remember when Atlanta won the right to host the 1996 Olympics? The Centennial Olympics, the ones that Athens desperately wanted to host and everyone thought Athens would win because the Olympics were born in Greece? And...
Thanks to a US-led boycott, the first Olympics hosted by a communist country has long been a big black hole in our knowledge of the Olympics -- until now. On this episode, we're joined by author Tommy Phillips, who...
Episode #440
In two years, the LA 2028 Olympics will get underway, and we're looking ahead to those Games and what they'll have to offer. Superfan Sarah, officially recognized as Team USA's #1 fan, joins us to talk about how to...
Episode #439
We're back from a recording hiatus, and boy, do we have a lot of Olympics news to catch up on! First, Milano Cortina 2026 released its final report, and we go between the lines to suss out its venue delivery...
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In our year-long look back at the Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Winter Olympics, we head to the cross-country skiing stadium (built with filming in mind) where we're in the early years of the Hakulinen-Jernberg Era. Finland's...
Episode #438
It's another installment of our People Who Throw Things series! This time we're talking javelin with 4x Olympian Kara Winger. Kara spent 15 years as a professional athlete, and in that time she competed at Beijing 2008...
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We're traveling back in time to the Cortina 1956 Winter Olympics to hear all about the bobsled (or bobsleigh) competition. These Games saw some big changes: New rules about weight and new types of sleds. Cortina 1956...
Episode #437
Paralympic silver medalist Jenny Sichel joins us to talk all things coxswain: What the position does, how vital they are to the success of the boat, and what they carry in their coxswain bag. Jenny has competed as a...
For Mental Health Awareness Month, we welcome back Jenny Sichel to talk about her experiences with being an elite athlete while managing Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Jenny is a coxswain who competed with both...
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