The Ticket Podcast

A deeper dive into abuse allegations that have rocked the Australian women's football team, the Matildas, reveals the complexity of personality, high performance and the sports bubble.

As voices inside Afghanistan fade, who will help? This week Cricket Australia and the players took a stand against the Taliban's claim women cannot play. Plus personal reflections and insights from Tokyo Paralympic medalists.

Afghanistan's Paralympians describe for the first time fleeing the Taliban, getting to Tokyo and now starting a new life; Ian Chappell on Afghanistan, cricket and the UNHCR; Brenton Rickard on protecting innocent athletes; Remembering former IOC president, Jacques Rogge, with Dick Pound.

Afghanistan's female athletes put out a call for help when the Taliban took over putting their lives at risk. Australia heard the call and reacted first. Emergency visas issued, almost 100 rescued. The key players talk through the complex operation.

With the backing of sports bodies and Western governments, the women of Afghanistan asserted their rights as trailblazers in sport. Now, with the Taliban back in charge and the West gone, they feel abandoned. What can and should sport do?

The Olympics are done, the Paralympics to come. What's the midway verdict? How will history remember these games? Plus the ethical dilemma for a 7x Paralympian.

Has Tokyo 2020 been a success? Guests include Cate Campbell, Laurel Hubbard, the AOC, the IOC and a voice from Morocco.

From the smallest team, to the refugee team, and the first transgender athlete Tokyo is setting all sorts of records. But are the games Covid safe? And lessons from Jessica Fox and Patrick Tiernan.

A special edition: The Ticket from Tokyo, where despite all the odds, the games have actually begun, plus WADA back to pre COVID testing levels, Brisbane to host in 2032 and MMA multi time champion Tyron Woodley on life and the movies.

Americans embrace Liz Cambage's confidence, while Australians struggle with it as her withdrawal from the Olympics has shown; The Lewis Hamilton Commission report is out; the latest doping documentary from Hajo Seppelt; plus remembering Tokyo 1964 with Phil Coles.

From Tokyo 1964 to Tokyo 2020 - the incredible life of one of the world's greatest athletes. Dawn Fraser, her story, in her words.

Two weeks out from the Tokyo Olympic Games organisers continue to face challenges, while athletes have been dealing with their own. Basketball star Patty Mills on the importance of culture; Discus thrower Dani Stevens on spinal surgery that threatened her career; and the pain on non-selection with Taekwondo's Carmen Marton.

Swimming enquiry's chair says all sport should review culture regularly but 'it's not'; High performance funding in Australia to be linked to cultural wellbeing; Remembering Tokyo 1964 with basketball legend Lindsay Gaze; Tokyo 2020 athletes from football, badminton and Paralympic taekwondo

As the high profile Australian Swimming Team held its Olympic trials headlines focussed on allegations the sport was drowning in a culture of abusive behaviour. The Ticket investigates the voracity of those claims.

The Olympic refugee team grows; Brisbane 2032 is happening; Tokyo latest; the new breed of coaches - no more dictatorships

What has the French Open-Naomi Osaka affair revealed and what have we learned? Player rights & responsibilities, wellbeing, governance, sports law, 'take it or leave it' sports rules and changing times.

This week is significant for two of the world's most powerful sports organisations: FIFA appoints Dave Beeche CEO of the 2023 Women's World Cup & Sarah Lewis aims to become first female president of FIS - leadership & challenges in a changing world.

okyo catch-up; Australia's first team in; the psychology of preparing for the unknown; Brisbane 2032 locked away; Naomi Osaka 'I'm not talking'.

Tokyo's latest troubles; transgender times; Sun Yang back at CAS; Sandpapergate rises from the dead; Lauren Jackson into Basketball Hall of Fame.

Tim Paine takes us inside the sanctum after Australia was caught cheating revealing conversations & leadership challenges; Mack Horton on Sun Yang, protests & Tokyo; Basketball Australia's new era; The latest Covid challenges facing Tokyo Olympics

As gymnastics in Australia picks up the pieces from a review finding widespread abuse officials prepare for similar allegations in other sports. Plus Tokyo Olympic latest.

Questions athletes should be asking Olympic organisers ahead of Tokyo; plus Australia's highest ranking and most inspirational football team, the Poweroos.

It burst to life on Sunday night, by Wednesday it was dead. Or was it? What really happened with the proposed European Super League? And will it be back?

The real COVID concerns are not where you think. Swimming Australia boss on protests & doping. Matildas coach - 'it's going to be tough'. Paralympic Table Tennis team's secret weapon.

China Ambassador to Australia, and other officials, with their view on calls to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics; North Korea's reasons for pulling out of Tokyo 2022; diversity issues at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

For the United Nations International Day of Sport for Development and Peace - a special conversation on the power of sport and human rights with NBA player Enes Kanter, rugby international turned boxer Sonny Bill WIlliams, and former Socceroos captain now refugee advocate Craig Foster.

More changes to labour rights in Qatar for FIFA 2022; preparing Olympians and Paralympians for Tokyo 2020 heat; junior sport and heat; sport & embedding human rights.

The Tokyo Olympic Games Torch Relay gets underway in Fukushima one year late, what can we expect? Plus significant developments in Australian sport re vilification, high-performance, racial equality and more.

The IOC session prepares for a post Covid19 world; human rights advocates renew their call for a boycott of Beijing 2022; tweaks to anti-doping; former world surfing champ, Pam Burridge.

The Ticket special: climate change and sport. Athlete advocates, motor racing, extreme e, the Olympic Games, and more. Plus, looking ahead to the FIFA Women's World Cup and those who'll be in the middle and in control.

The TIcket is calling it early - Brisbane will host the 2032 Olympic Games, hear from IOC VP & AOC President John Coates; Where crime and sport intersect, the panel includes three of Australia's leading law enforcement officers; plus WADA briefs athletes on COVID vaccines & anti-doping.

The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup & leadership legacy - as one female leader gets booted from the board; Should a police commissioner by a rugby league commissioner? Plus the 'Do Better' author; and a tennis coach on life & other matters.

The Asian Football Confederation is found guilty of election interference & gender discrimination by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, so what are football officials doing about it? Plus, the Australian Race Discrimination Commissioner on how organisations like Collingwood rid themselves of systemic racism, and Athletics Australia makes a quick CEO switch.

One of Australia's proudest sporting clubs, Collingwood, is found to have a systemic culture of racism. What's next? Who will be held responsible? And is the issue bigger than one club in one sport?

A one hour special on the Tokyo Olympic Games and why the IOC is convinced it can go ahead safely and securely. The most detailed hour on the subject anywhere in the world.

Rumours of the Tokyo Games being cancelled have been put to rest for now; Australian Open Tennis quarantine issues; Cricket Australia makes a bold move for Australia Day copping criticism from the PM; and reax from India on the nation's Test Cricket Series win.

There is a possibility the United Nations could be asked to advise on whether the Tokyo Olympic Games goes ahead this July; plus CAS's Russia-ban & Australian cricket coach Justin Langer one on one.

How the Year of Covid in 2020 has changed sport and our attitudes to it with our expert panel plus Olympic swimmer Bronte Campbell, former Hockeyroo Lily Brazel, Alliance for Gambling Reform Tim Costello and USADA boss Travis Tygart on Russia ban.

Sport & toxic culture allegations - this time hockey; Plus, how is Canada dealing with abuse? Brisbane reinvigorates 2032 Olympic bid, but how serious is China about the same games? How will netball deal with inclusion challenges? And, the IOC moves on Belarus.

What will the International Olympic Committee's commitment this week to establishing a Human Rights strategy really mean? Guests include former UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, a political theorist and the author of FIFA 2023 Women's World Cup HR policy.

Can't get a job coaching footy and you're a woman? Try Hawthorn, they've just made history. The challenges of being a female sports coach. Plus a tribute to Diego Maradona.

Is the current system of monitoring and policing doping in sport sufficient and cost effective? How will the USA's Rodchenkov Act - going after officials - change the game? An anti-doping special.

The science is in. So why aren't collission sports doing more? Hear from those who study the science and the law around sports concussion plus two athletes who've been there and a manager whose seen the damage caused.

An historic dope test for an Aussie swimmer; RUSADA fronts CAS; Mens footy in the UK exempted, women's not; the ISL goes gangbusters; and the Aussie Surf Movie Festival.

Australian Rugby League's national anthem controversy; winter sports CEOs panel - 2020 reflections; Sports Commission chair John Wylie calls it a day.

Grand Final review of Covid hit season with Rugby League boss Peter V'Landys, Richmond President Peggy O'Neal, Broncos captain Ali Brigginshaw; Gambling Research Centre Rebecca Jenkinson; WADA Head of Intelligence & Investigations Gunter Younger.

Coaches Covid-bubble pressure; government funding of sport; and super coach Arsene Wenger

Tracey Holmes presents The Ticket, a weekly sports panel program that looks beyond the score card and injury sheet.

Are sports leading societal changes, playing catch up, or being left behind? This edition: allegations of domestic violence and a club cover-up in rugby league; the Matildas new coach and his idea that winning is a smaller part of a broader culture that he hopes will be his legacy; and our panel of leaders look at coaching cultural change.

Netball has recognised it has a diversity problem. The issue took centre stage this past week. The Ticket hears from the only two indigenous players ever to have represented the country and they get a commitment from Netball Queensland to make changes - now. Plus the NRL's only indigenous referee officiates his last match after 18 years...reflections with Gavin Badger.

Sydney 2000. The Best Games Ever. A look back 20 years on from the Sydney Olympic and Paralympic games with athletes, Australia’s most senior Olympic officials, the then city mayor who signed the contract for the Games, and one of the most important, rarely recognised legacies – the invention of anti-doping’s blood test for EPO.