Declan Farmer

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115 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 26 Feb

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Marketplace All-in-One · What it costs to become an Olympian or Paralympian · 26 Feb 2026 podcast

Realistically, you can't just take time off from a standard job multiple times a month and then, you know, best case scenario, you literally have no other time off.

You're only spending all your time off to go train and compete.

You know, we've had some great sled hockey players retire in their mid-20s over the years because they just simply, you know, can't make it work financially.

Marketplace All-in-One · Sled hockey's Declan Farmer makes us smart about the Winter Paralympics · 24 Feb 2026 podcast

Hey, Kimberly.

Thank you so much for having me on.

Sled hockey is an adaptive version of typical stand-up ice hockey.

So the biggest difference is in equipment.

We are sitting in what's called a sled.

So basically you just have a kind of a contraption that's on the ice.

You still have two skate blades.

You're just kind of sitting on top of it and they're kind of mounted to a metal frame.

And then you have what's called like a bucket that just goes around like your hips and thighs and butt.

It's basically kind of like a cast form that just holds you tight to the

rest of the sled and then instead of one stick you have two sticks um they're a bit shorter and they have ice picks on the bottom so think kind of cross-country skiing style for skating and then if you want to handle the puck or shoot you slide your hands down to the butt end of the stick to do that so you're doing everything with your upper body it's still full contact it's five on five with a goalie it's it's all the same um rules as stand-up hockey just with the equipment adaptations

I started when I was eight years old.

I used two prosthetics to two leg prosthetics to walk.

So I've, you know, since I was a kid, so I started pretty young and yeah, it was the first like a disabled sport I tried and I just love the camaraderie of it.

I like that there was some speed, some physicality, just kind of the multi-dimensions dimensionality of, of hockey.

And it just kind of stuck with me.

And I think I,

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