The Olympic Museum Podcast

What is the À la Croisée des Jeux podcast?

The Olympic Museum has released its first podcast series: À la Croisée des Jeux (At the Crossroads of the Games).

À la Croisée des Jeux, the series that brings sport and culture together, exploring the influence of the Olympic Games on you, on us, on our imaginations and on society, produced by The Olympic Museum.

Season 4

As part of the exhibition Free To Run - on the road to the Paris 2024 Marathon, the first podcast of season 4 looks at the history of the conquest of personal and social freedom through the example of running and the marathon, from its first appearance at the Athens 1896 Olympics to the Paris 2024 Mass Participation Marathon.

 

Episode 2: À la Croisée des Jeux / Kathrine Switzer: Fearless Marathon legend

As part of the exhibition Free To Run - on the road to the Paris 2024 Marathon, the second podcast in season 4 explores how women's personal and social freedom was won through running, thanks in particular to some trailblazing women in the 1960s.

 

Episode 3: À la Croisée des Jeux / Grégoire Millet : East African Runners and Long Distances

As part of the exhibition Free To Run - On the Road to the Paris 2024 Marathon, this podcast looks at the emergence of runners in East Africa from the 1960s onwards. It examines the anatomical and physiological aspects of these runners, giving us a better understanding of the challenges facing our bodies when running.

 

Episode 4: À la Croisée des Jeux / Bobbi Gibb: The Free Spirit Who Changed Marathon Mentalities

As part of the exhibition Free To Run - On the Road to the Paris 2024 Marathon, the fourth podcast in season 4 explores how women's personal and social freedom was won through running, thanks to some trailblazing women in the 1960s.

 

Episode 5: À la Croisée des Jeux / Noël Tamini: The Spiridon Revolution

As part of the exhibition Free To Run - On the Road to the Paris 2024 Marathon, our fifth podcast looks at the history of the Spiridon movement and its famous magazine, which gave a real boost to running in Europe in the 1970s.

 

Episode 6: À la Croisée des Jeux / Paula Radcliffe: The English Queen of Marathons

As part of the exhibition Free To Run - On the Road to the Paris 2024 Marathon, this podcast features Paula Radcliffe, regarded as one of the greatest female marathon runners. She speaks about her incredible career as a marathon runner, motherhood and running, her advocacy for clean sports and her continued dedication to the world of running.

 

Episode 7: À la Croisée des Jeux / Cyrille Gindre : running skills and biomechanics

As part of the exhibition Free To Run - On the Road to the Paris 2024 Marathon, this episode looks at the biomechanics of running and presents techniques to run "right" and better.

 

Episode 8: À la Croisée des Jeux / Maude Mathys : Runner and mum

As part of the exhibition Free To Run - On the Road to the Paris 2024 Marathon, this podcast looks at mountain running, different types of training and managing a career between top-level sport and motherhood.

 

Episode 9: À la Croisée des Jeux / David Poletti : de l'UTMB au Marathon pour tous de Paris 2024

As part of the exhibition Free To Run - On the Road to the Paris 2024 Marathon, this podcast looks at mountain running, ultra trails, the UTMB (Ultra Trail International du Mont Blanc) and the Paris 2024 Marathon pour Tous.

 

Season 3

As part of the "Riding the Olympic Wave" exhibition, the first podcast of season 3 takes a look at one of the new sports on the Olympic programme, skateboarding, and its relationship with the urban environment. Julien Glauser, social anthropologist, urbanologist and long-time skateboarder, talks to the Olympic Museum.

 

Episode 2: À la Croisée des Jeux / Rylsee and Marion Pollaert: Creativity and New Olympic sports

Tying into the Riding the Olympic Wave exhibition, the second podcast of season three explores the links between urban sports and artistic creativity. Anouck Grau, the curator of the Riding the Olympic Wave artistic exhibition, examines these themes in the company of Swiss artist and skateboarder Cyril Vouilloz, aka Rylsee, and French sport climber and artist Marion Pollaert.

 

Episode 3: À la Croisée des Jeux / Skateboarding, more than a discipline, a lifestyle

As part of the "Riding the Olympic Wave" exhibition, this talk explores skateboarding’s unique lifestyle and the links between skateboarding, art and culture. Participants discuss how the new sports at the Olympic Games, particularly skateboarding, are more than just athletic disciplines – they are also unique sporting cultures.

 

Episode 4: À la Croisée des Jeux / Sport and Urbanism: The city as a playground

The practice of new sports in the urban environment is very common, and the practitioners of these disciplines have a particular view on the exploitation of outdoor spaces. The point of view of sportsmen, but also of some designers of so-called public spaces (urban planners, architects and engineers), demonstrates the immense impact that these practices have on the city.

Season 2

 

 

Episode 2 : À la Croisée des Jeux / Ann Duffy: Sustainability at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games

 

In the framework of the Rêver en blanc: the epic story of the Olympic Winter Games exhibition, the Olympic Museum hosts Mrs Ann Duffy, Chief Sustainability Officer for the 2010 Games in Vancouver, to talk about these Games.

  

  

 

Episode 3 : À la Croisée des Jeux / Jean-Loup Chappelet: History and challenges of the Winter Olympic host cities

 

In the framework of the Rêver en blanc: the epic story of the Olympic Winter Games exhibition, the third podcast of season 2 welcomes Mr Jean-Loup Chappelet, Honorary Professor at the University of Lausanne and IDHEAP, to talk about the history of the cities that have hosted the Winter Games, and the challenges facing them today and in the near future.

 

  

 

Season 1 

Episode 1: À la Croisée des Jeux/Stéphane Beaujean: Sports manga and Japanese society (1/2)

The Olympic Museum chats to Stéphane Beaujean, the Curator of the Sport X Manga exhibition. Stéphane provides an introduction to sports manga, the values associated with it and the impact it has had on sports practice in Japan.

Episode 2: A la Croisée des Jeux/Stéphane Beaujean: Sports manga and Japanese society (2/2)

The Olympic Museum continues its conversation with Stéphane Beaujean. Stéphane discusses how manga went from being a national phenomenon to a global one, and talks about the sports manga boom and the crossover between the Olympic Games and manga.

Episode 3: À la Croisée des Jeux/Georges Baumgartner: Tokyo and the Olympic Games: history and challenges (1/3)

The Olympic Museum speaks to Georges Baumgartner, an extremely well-known figure in French-speaking Switzerland, for his personal take on Tokyo 2020 and the challenges of staging the Games in a pandemic.

Episode 4: À la Croisée des Jeux/Georges Baumgartner: Tokyo and the Olympic Games: history and challenges (2/3)

The Japan of Tokyo 2020 looks nothing like the country that hosted the first Olympic Games to be held in Asia, 57 years ago. Tokyo, chosen to stage this international event, was to symbolise the country’s renewal. Let’s hear about what the Japanese capital was like in 1964, in the company of Georges Baumgartner.

Episode 5: À la Croisée des Jeux/Georges Baumgartner: Tokyo and the Olympic Games: history and challenges (3/3)

The relationship between Japan and the Olympic Games goes back a long way, and began with one sport in particular: judo. It was with this martial art that Japan made its name on the international sporting stage. In this third episode in the company of Georges Baumgartner, we take a look at sport in Japan and its history by examining the strong link between judo and the Games.

To read more about the content of these podcasts, check out the TOM blog: https://blog-tom.com/category/podcast-a-la-croisee-des-jeux-en/