This episode is an exclusive and deeper conversation with Greg Louganis. We delve into details about his early years in training, his HIV diagnosis and how he learned to be his true authentic self.

Now famous for winning the first ever gold in women's monobob at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Kallie Humphries once didn't even know if she would be allowed to compete for the US. Listen to the full extended interview and hear more about her relentless ability to overcome obstacles, from childhood bullying to outdated gender norms.

Betty Okino started gymnastics “late” — at age 9 — and begged her mother to let her train with Bela Karolyi so that she could realize her Olympic dream. She won bronze medals at the 1992 Olympics. And despite having stories of training until her knees and back broke, being denied food, and being pitted against her teammates, it was only recently that she began to admit to herself that Karolyi’s training methods constituted abuse. Now, as a coach and choreographer, Betty approaches her...

From the LA riots to the Tlatelolco Massacre to Beijing 2022, governments have used the Olympics to paper over social problems, suppress dissent and force their agency on citizens. The price that their hosts pay for the honor can be staggering, if not horrifying. In part II of this series on host cities, we look at how we can do better, as well as how the Olympics might adapt for the future.

Hosting the Olympics was, and still is, considered a major honor. But the Olympics are dealing with a reckoning – one where politics, the climate, and human rights concerns are making hosting the games more and more undesirable. In the face of all this, how can we keep the Olympic torch burning for decades to come?

While elite athletes train themselves to push their bodies toward extremes, they’re also pushing their minds to sometimes unhealthy – and even dangerous – extremes, as well. That's something wrestler Helen Maroulis found out the hard way when she was diagnosed with PTSD. Now she and Olympians like Simone Biles and Michael Phelps are changing the conversation surrounding mental health. Hosted by Molly Bloom. Produced by FilmNation Entertainment in association with Gilded Audio.

This is a story about a community that organized its own Games, against the odds and in spite of a serious legal threat from the U.S. Olympic Committee.

The curious case of fencer Boris Onischenko. For some athletes, are the stakes of winning so high they will they go to greater, more nefarious lengths to win?

Most people like a good shot of adrenaline now and then, and bobsledders take that hair raising tendency to the extreme. But is it possible to be safe and satiate this ingrained drive for adrenaline, competition, and speed?

The best diver ever - Greg Louganis - hit his head on the diving board in 1988 in Seoul. He still won the competition, but that imperfect dive led to years of fear and shame. Because Greg had a huge secret that the world didn't know.

It's an iconic image from the '68 Mexico City games: Tommie Smith and John Carlos bow their heads and raise their firsts on the podium. In 2022, will Rule 50 finally face its moment of reckoning?"

In 2002, it was the biggest judging scandal to ever rock the sport of figure skating. What followed was a media frenzy — a week of rumors, lies, confessions, and retractions, all of it leading to an overhaul of the sport and the uncovering of a conspiracy that would involve the most powerful officials in figure skating, the FBI, and even. . . the Russian mafia.

At the 2012 London Games, badminton had its moment. But for all the wrong reasons. What happens when a group of Olympians decided it was worth it to lose... in an attempt to win gold?

When bobsledder Kaillie Humphries decided to leave a toxic team environment, it put her future as an Olympian in jeopardy. Is switching teams against the ideals of sportsmanship that the Olympics stand for? Or could it actually make those ideals even stronger?"

Ambition - and athletic greatness - run in the Bloom family's blood. But figuring out what comes next is also terrifying. Molly and her brother Jeremy Bloom, two time Olympic skier and former NFL player, discuss this process of reinvention, which can make the most grueling training regiment, the gnarliest of slopes, look like a complete cakewalk.

How did gold medalist Ross Rebagliati find himself inside a Japanese prison? At the 1998 Nagano Games, one snowboarder's failed drug tests leads to important questions about how much - or how little - has changed when it comes to the Olympics and weed.

What happened in 1972 on the Olympic basketball court between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was undoubtedly controversy. But could it also have been conspiracy?

At the Olympics, everything is on the line: medals, careers, money, reputations. With so much at stake, it’s no wonder things can sometimes go awry.