SASS Talk

In a special episode of SASS Talk, Sez returns from the Paris Olympics, and reveals how she kept her cool (or did she?) behind the mike at the track and field; while back at home, Suze describes the experience of covering the outstanding Kiwi wāhine medal haul, in her pyjamas.

In Episode 6 of SASS Talk - the final in our Road to Paris series - we meet four Olympic rookies about their journeys to the world's largest sporting stage: artistic swimming duet Eva Morris and Nina Brown; NZ's first Olympic female wrestler Tayla Ford; and track cyclist Nicole Shields, who's had the most hellish two years with illness and injury, but made it to the front of the team pursuit quartet gunning for gold. We also talk pikelets, croissants and Sez's 100m sprint challenge to Olympic speedster Zoe Hobbs.

In Episode 5 of SASS Talk's Road to Paris series, Kiwi kitefoiler Justina Kitchen relives the crash that almost sunk her chances of a long-awaited Olympic debut; and she talks about getting her dad, Olympic gold medallist sailor Rex Sellers, to babysit her two daughters while she trains. We also spill our mortifying menstruation moments in sport and ask: Can period undies absorb all the anxiety and hassles for females in the field of play?

In Episode 4 of SASS Talk, Olympic swimmer and Instagram sensation Hazel Ouwehand opens up about being picked on as a kid for being too tall and too quick in the pool and how that's shaped her into the athlete now bound for the Paris Olympics in the 100m butterfly. And we respond to an NFL star's bizarre call for women to abandon their goals and go back to the kitchen.

On this episode of SASS Talk's Road to Paris series, we talk to highland dancing sevens star Jorja Miller on the Black Ferns’ ballsy goal for Paris, and toss around what netball in New Zealand must do to stay relevant in the next 100 years.

In the inaugural episode, Suze and Sez uncloak the controversy around female sports attire, and ask evergreen Kiwi squash legend Joelle King why she's returning for an astounding 17th season on the PSA World Tour after the most challenging time of her career. Plus, in an afterthought, we tip our hat to the Warriors boys. To read more, visit LockerRoom

Olympian Sarah Cowley Ross and journalist Suzanne McFadden are SASS Talk - sparking new conversations with women in sport.