Episode 6: Sammi Kinghorn

Alasdair Hooper and Will Moulton bring you episode 6 of SportSpiel, a podcast full of sporting discussion and feature interviews.

Sammi Kinghorn

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – JULY 29: Harper Macleod during the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games on July 29, 2014 in Glasgow, United Kingdom…harper_macleod (Photo by Jordan Mansfield/Getty Images)

In our first segment we discuss:

• Sebastian Vettal and Lewis Hamilton coming together in Azerbaijan
• Dan Evans’ failed drugs test, John McEnroe comparing Serena Williams and Petra Kvitova’s comeback
• The England U21s losing to Germany on penalties
• The British & Irish Lions Test defeat to the All Blacks
• Would you refuse an invite to Donald Trump’s White House like the Golden State Warriors?

Our feature interview segment in this episode is with Paralympic wheelchair racing star Sammi Kinghorn. After a severe injury that left her paralysed from the waist down the Scot is taking her sport by storm with three European gold medals and a World Championship bronze. In this interview she talks about the impact the accident had on her, the success she has enjoyed so far and her aims for the future.