G’day Podcasts - conversations with ordinary and extraordinary Australians and New Zealanders will be an ongoing series of podcasts, sharing experiences and stories from people of all walks of life who are Australian or New Zealanders. 

Whilst we are neighbors, these two great countries are very different from each other.  Our landscape, size, cultures, lifestyles vary considerably, and this series will be based around our uniqueness, our ordinariness, interesting people, sharing ours and their lives with you. 

Rick Mitchell is an Australian Olympic medalist in Track and Field, winning the Silver medal in the 400m at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. In 2020 it is the 40 year anniversary of Rick winning his silver medal, and in this episode, he takes us back to his era of elite sportsmanship and talks about how he became a runner, his heroes, his foes, his philosophy on sports and what made him a champion.  His record in Australia is a remarkable feat to this day.

https://www.athletics.com.au/hall-of-fame-directory/richard-rick-mitchell/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Mitchell