my new favorite olympian

Stores in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., are decorated with signs in support of Olympian Abby Roque. Roque was recently featured on NBCLX’s podcast series, My New Favorite Olympian, available now on all podcast platforms.

Colby Stevenson, an American freestyle skier, will compete in the 2022 Beijing Olympics after a life-threatening car crash in 2016.

U.S. freeskier Colby Stevenson was a millimeter away from brain damage after a car crash in 2016. Now he’s grateful for what comes next.

U.S. freeskier Colby Stevenson was a millimeter away from brain damage after a car crash in 2016. On the final episode of the second season of the My New Favorite Olympian podcast, Stevenson says he’s grateful for what comes next.

Apolo Ohno, co-host of NBCLX’s podcast, My New Favorite Olympian, shares his advice for young Asian-American fans, recalls struggling with his half-Japanese identity as a child and reveals the Olympians who he’s looked up to all these years.

If climate trends continue the way they’re going, nine cities could be unsuitable for another Winter Olympics by 2050. With the climate changing, winter Olympians are speaking up and urging action. They talked about their efforts on the My New Favorite Olympian podcast.

In this full video of the My New Favorite Olympian podcast, hosts Apolo Ohno and Ngozi Ekeledo hear from Winter Olympians who are calling for action on climate change. Warming temperatures could present an existential threat to the Winter Olympics, and conditions have broken down on some courses already, the athletes say.

In this clip from the My New Favorite Olympian podcast, U.S. cross-country skiing star Jessie Diggins talks about the difference between weather and climate. Diggins and other Winter Olympians are speaking out about climate change, which a study could threaten the viability of future Winter Olympic Games.

Abby Roque is an American ice hockey forward who made history at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Get to know more about her journey to Beijing.

Women’s ice hockey forward Abby Roque will be the first Indigenous woman to represent Team USA at a Winter Olympics – and she’s hopeful her sport will become more accessible to Indigenous kids, she says on the My New Favorite Olympian podcast.

Olympians headed to Beijing shared their stories with NBCLX for Season 2 of our podcast, My New Favorite Olympian. It’s available wherever you get your podcasts.

In this full episode of the My New Favorite Olympian podcast, hosts Apolo Ohno and Ngozi Ekeledo hear from Abby Roque, Jim Roque, Chief Larry Roque, Ted Nolan and former Anishinabek Grand Council Chief Patrick Wedaseh Medahbee.

Former San Francisco 49er Vernon Davis says curling and football are both strategic and can feature big plays. Davis is one of curling’s biggest boosters, and has served as honorary captain of the men’s U.S. curling team at 3 Winter Olympics so far.

Former Pro Bowl NFL tight end Vernon Davis is stepping onto the ice and working to diversify the sport of curling one stone at a time.

Olympic champion John Shuster, Super Bowl champion Vernon Davis, USA Curling’s Monica Walker and other curling enthusiasts are teaming up to create pathways to diversify the sport.

Olympic champion John Shuster, Super Bowl champion Vernon Davis, USA Curling’s Monica Walker and other curling enthusiasts are teaming up to create paths to diversify the sport. Hear from them all on this full video episode of the “My New Favorite Olympian” podcast.

The 2022 Winter Olympics are almost here and one of the notable American athletes to watch out for on the ice is figure skater Timothy LeDuc.

U.S. pairs figure skater and Olympic hopeful Timothy LeDuc had to come out twice — first as gay, then as nonbinary. They compete in a sport with rigid gender roles, which creates challenges, they say on the “My New Favorite Olympian” podcast.

Gender roles are entrenched in the sport of figure skating – creating a challenge for athletes outside the binary, like U.S. pairs figure skater and Olympic hopeful Timothy LeDuc. In this episode 3 of the My New Favorite Olympian podcast, LeDuc talks about coming up in the skating world, coming out to their family twice, and how they navigate a...

Figure skater Timothy LeDuc shares what coming out as gay to conservative parents at 18 was like. “Their initial reaction was ‘We love you, but we need to change you,'” LeDuc said. Ten years later, the figure skater came out again — only this time it was as nonbinary. The figure skater recounts the journey their family took to accepting...