{"podcast":{"title":"The Ski Podcast","slug":"the-ski-podcast-1125806","podcast_index_feed_id":1125806,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/4995750.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/4995750","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/42727437/s=1400x1400/el=1/rt=fill.png","author":"The Ski Podcast","episode_count":317,"summary":"Want to know more about the world of skiing and snowsports? The Ski Podcast is an award-winning podcast with over 300 episodes covering all aspects of the world of skiing and snowboarding, from resorts to racing, Ski Sunday to slush. Host Iain Martin is joined by guests from the world of snow in episode to chat about wintery stuff and probe around the avalanche of ski news. Listen to our back catalog at www.theskipodcast.com The Ski Podcast was voted 'Best Wintersports Podcast' in the 2021 Sports Podcast Awards and nominated for 'Best Broadcast Programme' in the 2023 Travel Media Awards. Iain is a freelance journalist specialising in snowsports. He is also the founder of Ski Flight Free - a campaign to encourage skiers to take the train or drive to their ski holiday. If you want to get in touch or take part you can email us: theskipodcast@gmail.com Music: www.purple-planet.com Logo: www.vexels.com","last_synced_at":"2026-06-26T14:29:21.730121+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ski-podcast-1125806"},"episode":{"title":"295: Winter Olympics Special #2 | Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards","slug":"295-winter-olympics-special-2-eddie-the-eagle-edwards","published_at":"2026-02-07T06:04:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ski-podcast-1125806/295-winter-olympics-special-2-eddie-the-eagle-edwards","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ski-podcast-1125806","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8858209","audio_url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8858209.mp3?modified=1770397994&sid=4995750&source=rss","summary":"Host Iain Martin is joined by Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards – who at the 1988 Calgary Games became famous across the world for having the courage and determination to take on the challenge of Olympic ski jumping. His story was made into a movie in 2015, starring Hugh Jackman and Taron Edgerton. Eddie tells us about flying to movie premieres in private jets, how he’s disappointed that Team GB seem to disown him and the parallels he sees in the determination to compete shown by Lindsey Vonn. SHOW NOTES Listen to Iain’s previous interview with Eddie from 2019 (1:00) Eddie has watched the ‘ Eddie The Eagle’ movie over 150 times (1:30) Taron Edgerton nailed Eddie’s mannerisms and voice (2:15) Hugh Jackman asking for a selfie with Eddie (3:30) Memories of the Opening Ceremony at Calgary in 1988 (5:30) Readly - the digital magazine and newspaper app – has launched a retro Winter Olympics Games series (8:00) Readly’s survey placed Eddie 3rd behind the Jamaican bobsleigh team Torville and Dean in 1984 in a list of most memorable winter Olympic moments (8:30) GB Snowsports CEO Vicky Gosling said ‘ The Eddie the Eagle days are over’ (10:00) Can British athletes draw lessons from Eddie’s experience? (10:30) Eddie on Lindsey Vonn (13:00) If you enjoyed this episode and you want to help the podcast, don’t forget that if you use the code ‘SKIPODCAST’ when you book your ski hire at intersportrent.com you’ll save yourself some money. Simply take this link for your discount to be automatically applied.","meta_description":"Host Iain Martin is joined by Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards – who at the 1988 Calgary Games became famous across the world for having the courage and determin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":920,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-ski-podcast-1125806/episodes/295-winter-olympics-special-2-eddie-the-eagle-edwards/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ski-podcast-1125806/295-winter-olympics-special-2-eddie-the-eagle-edwards.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}