Emily Rogers has been on a fast track in Artistic Swimming from the moment she first hopped in the pool. Within two years she had already represented Australia at an Olympics and a World Championships.

The sport has taken her all around the world and is set to bring her to a second Olympic Games in Tokyo.

In this chat, Emily talks about the ins and outs of artistic swimming. From the training involved to the skills that go into staying underwater and holding your breath for minutes. It’s a fantastic insight into a sport not many people appreciate how much effort goes into.

She also talks through the small lifespan in artistic swimming and that even though she’s only 23, Tokyo could be her retirement swan song.

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Mariafe moved to Australia as a child from Peru and immediately fell in love with the sport of beach volleyball. 

It started out as an amateur beach tournament with one of her siblings on Manly beach, but it ended up taking her all around the world. 

She went from Youth World Championships to Commonwealth Games and has already competed at the Olympics in Rio. 

Now, she is preparing for her second stint at the Olympic Games, this time with partner Taliqua Clancy. 

The pair are fresh off a gold medal on the Beach Volleyball circuit in Mexico and want to add Olympic gold to their medal cabinet. 

In this chat, Mariafe talks about how a signed postcard from Nat Cook and Kerri Pottharst inspired her as a kid, how COVID-19 impacted her preparation for the Olympics and the legacy she wants to create in the sport of beach volleyball. 

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Ryan Tyack initially got involved with archery thanks to his love of video games. Being obsessed with Age of Empires meant archery or fencing was his calling, and archery was much easier to get involved in.

It turned out that Tyack had quite a skill in the sport and from a young age he was competing on the international stage in World Championships. Eventually, his mum even took him on as his coach and his progression was rapid from there.

He was a reserve for the Australian Olympic Team as a teenager in 2008 before eventually qualifying for Rio 2016 where he won a bronze medal in the team event – the first Australian team to do so.

Throw in multiple other recognitions from tournaments around the world and Tyack is certainly one of our most established archers.

He is currently preparing to compete in Tokyo and is looking to turn that bronze from Rio into gold. In this chat, Tyack talks about some of the obstacles he faced to try and become an archer, what it’s like trying to make a living as an athlete dedicated to archery and what it’s been like having 14 extra months to train for an Olympic Games.

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