ARN iHeart‘s The Pool Room with Tony Armstrong is back for a third season and with the 2024 Paris Olympics having commenced, Armstrong will share some of the most notorious and unbelievable stories from the games in years gone by.
Who is the Australian Olympic champion and fallen soldier who is honoured with a statue in a small town in the north of France?
What is the story with the over 200 medals the USA won at the 1904 St. Louis Olympic? Are they all theirs’s to claim?
How did a great failure on the world stage gave rise to a generation of green and gold athletes to put Australia on a new path to Olympic glory?
The in demand Tony Armstrong is everywhere at present. He recently launched two new shows on the ABC; Tony Armstrong’s Extra-Ordinary Things and Monday Experts with Catherine Murphy. He is currently up for the TV Week Gold Logie Award, last year he took home the Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter, and in 2022, the Graham Kennedy Award for most popular new talent. Armstrong is the sports presenter on ABC News Breakfast and a regular on The Weekly with Charlie Pickering. A proud Gamilaroi man, he was drafted after finishing school to the Adelaide Crows in the AFL before moving to the Sydney Swans and playing alongside his childhood hero Adam Goodes. Armstrong finished his career in Melbourne with Collingwood.
Alongside this sporting podcast in 2019 Tony became the first Indigenous person to call live action Aussie Rules on SCA’s Triple M Footy. He’s also appeared on the Marngrook Footy Show and hosted football chat show Yokayi Footy, co-produced by the AFL and NITV.
The Pool Room with Tony Armstrong is available now on the free iHeart app or at www.thepoolroompodcast.com.