Winter Sports Podcasts

Alpine Pulse is an official podcast of the FIS, hosted by commentator Nick Fellows, who makes no effort to hide his excitement about his guests. Access is the main draw. Mikaela Shiffrin & Marco Odermatt: Where Greatness Meets was recorded with the season's big globes on the table. Its first answer goes straight to the start gate and what an athlete looks like before pushing out: whether they are "twitching," "sniffing," or "making noises." Later the conversation reaches an idea worth keeping. Ski racing, it is argued, rewards very different bodies, personalities and ways of skiing.

Wos dahinter steckt shows the same circuit from inside the team. Nici Schmidhofer and Conny Hütter, both professional ski racers, talk in German, at length and without polish. In Auf zum Finale in Norwegen one of them describes following the race on a phone in the car while the giant slalom globe came back to Austria for the first time in ten years, and shouting the whole way. The same episode dwells on the seven hundredths that kept a racer they call Julie from an Olympic medal. One host discusses the globe. Conny hat es wirklich gemacht turns on Hütter's career decisions. It also contains a host's account of a time when life felt "like a puzzle." Here a racer tells her own story at her own pace, which no post-race interview allows.

Racers explain what they feel at speed. Instructors have to put that feeling into words for someone on their third day. First Chair: PSIA-AASI Podcast comes from the American ski and snowboard instructors' association, and George Thomas runs it as shop talk with a purpose. In Applying the 5E Instructional Model to Ski Instruction with Joe Taylor, Taylor, an associate professor of education and former high school physics teacher, applies a classroom framework to a lesson on the hill. His key point is practical: "If a student is cold, if they're tired, if they're a little bit afraid, all these things can sap motivation." The Snowsports MFA: Mark Aiken on the Art of the Lesson comes from a writer who has taught skiing for 30 years. He describes training his eye through the fundamentals.

Some good winter listening comes from shows that spend most of the year on other sports. Anything but Footy treats Olympic and Paralympic sport as a year-round beat. Birmingham 2026 Tickets & Winter Olympics catch up fits Cortina into a busy athletics news cycle: Ashley Nelson talks about her Winter Olympics experience and the viewers who said they kept the Games on every day hoping to catch her. The company is cheerful and centred on Team GB. The show's recent episodes lean toward athletics, so the Running page is a natural next stop.

Radio Oblò, a talk show, gives 78 minutes to a snowboard-cross rider in Radio Oblò - Puntata 229 | Un salto sulle piste olimpiche con Tommaso Leoni. Early on, Ceci sketches the sport's history from "snurf" to its Olympic debut at Nagano in 1998. Leoni then explains the race: four riders out of one gate, over banked turns and jumps, with the first goal being to reach the bottom in one piece. The most revealing stretch is about money. He describes joining the Alpini military sports group at 21, after summers spent working four or five months. There is also a silly guessing game about Olympic oddities and a warm detour into an inclusive form of basketball. It is in Italian, and gladly unhurried.

Colorado Soul Stories takes a longer view. In John King: Traversing the Colorado Rockies on Nordic Skis, 1978, Mama Jill visits King and his wife, Sally, at their river house in Lyons, Colorado. The expedition details are a delight: no GPS, food caches, a Colorado Trail group that paid for food in return for the route, and a phone call when boots broke and replacements had to reach Aspen. The talk drifts into kinetic sculpture and philosophy, which suits listeners who enjoy an unhurried interview. The Outdoor Sports page goes further into life outdoors.

FEEL Slovenia Podcast, the Slovenian Tourist Board's show hosted by Noah Charney, includes an episode called Slovenia's Winter Sports Culture, alongside interviews with Tadej Pogačar and Janja Garnbret. Those interviews lead naturally to the Cycling and Climbing pages. Ice hockey has its own Hockey page.