The Podium is back for the 2024 Paris Paralympics.

In this episode of The Podium: An NBC Olympic and Paralympic podcast, 13-time Paralympic medalist Chris Waddell sits down with Calahan Young, a co-captain of Team USA's goalball team. 

In this episode, learn more about the unique intensity of goalball — a sport that has no Olympic counterpart and was created specifically for athletes who are blind or visually impaired. 

"Everyone is wearing blacked out ski goggles for the entire game," Young said. "And that's because blindness is a really wide spectrum. And so to make an equal playing field, everyone has these blacked out goggles on."

Calahan shares his journey, the sport’s challenges, and why goalball might just be the greatest sport you’ve never seen on the latest episode of The Podium.
 

All episodes of The Podium are available now on the iHeart App, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or your favorite podcast platform.