{"id":90291,"date":"2025-04-07T10:35:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T09:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=90291"},"modified":"2025-04-07T12:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:01:58","slug":"the-oddball-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/sport-health\/the-oddball-podcast","title":{"rendered":"The Oddball Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Welcome to The Oddball Podcast, your exploration of Wales&#8217; weirdest, wackiest sports and activities.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Oddball Podcast is your guide to the strangest sports and activities you probably haven&#8217;t experienced before . In each episode, our hosts: Anindya, Will and Dan will explore a new &#8216;odd&#8217; sport or activity. Our aim is to understand and experience them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode 1: Hurling-The world&#8217;s oldest field sport.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this week&#8217;s episode, our hosts tried Hurling, one of the world&#8217;s oldest field sport, originating in Ireland some 3,000 years ago. To guide our audience, this week we have Aidan O&#8217;Donnell as our guest, who apart from being a lecturer at Cardiff University in Data Journalism is an avid hurler himself. 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