England’s Alistair Brownlee is amazing. Along with his brother Jonny, in the 53 ITU races where a Brownlee was on the starting line, either Alistair or Jonny won an astounding 35 times. Alistair takes us through his career from getting into the sport at the age of 8 to his Junior World Championship, to his…
Enjoy the audio from this Breakfast with Bob interview filmed at the ITU Grand Final in Chicago, September 2015: I chatted with Mario Mola, who was ranked number two in the world at the time, before the ITU Grand Final, which he would go on to win a few days later. After being happy just to make…
Enjoy this collection of interviews with some of the Team USA Olympians! Des Linden: Women’s Marathon Filmed on location at the Boston Marathon Expo, Olympian Des Linden and her agent Josh Cox joined us for a chat a few days before the marathon. We chatted with Des about her races here at Boston and…
What is going on with track and field? If you watched the 800 and 1500 meters at the Olympic Trials, the races looked like a combination of UFC and Roller Derby. We chatted with the amazing Brenda Martinez about her third place in the 1500 – she dove for the line to get her trip…
It’s not often that you get to chat with two brand new Olympians at the same time. Greg Billington and Joe Maloy came in studio just a few weeks after being confirmed as two of the three members of the 2016 USA Triathlon Olympic team. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on iTunes Sponsors Subscribe…
Amy Cragg went to the 2012 U.S. Olympic marathon trials planning to make the team. When she ran sub 2:30 but took fourth, she was faced with a cruel reality: get on the track and qualify for the Olympic team at 10,000 meters or kiss her Olympic dream goodbye. She made the team by winning…
In her hall of fame career, Michellie Jones won two ITU World Championships, an Olympic silver medal, the first ever XTERRA World Championship and the 2006 Ironman World Championship. Now she is racing with hearing and vision impaired triathlete Katie Kelly to, hopefully, bring home a Paralympic medal from Rio in 2016. Subscribe to…
To me, what The Challenged Athletes Foundation does so well is to provide independence to people facing unbelievable challenges in their lives. I invited three amazing athletes to come in studio to talk about what they have had to overcome along the way. Roderick Sewell, Rudy Garcia-Tolson and Blake Leeper are three athletes with no legs…
After winning 37 XTERRA races in her hall of fame career, Jamie Whitmore was diagnosed with cancer in March of 2008. After surgery she was unable to run, so she reinvented herself as a para-cyclist and is now pushing hard to make it to the Paralympics in Rio in 2016. This is a story of a…