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Alasdair Hooper and Will Moulton bring you episode 23 of SportSpiel. In our first segment we discuss: If England Rugby Head Coach Eddie Jones’ training methods are far too … Continue Reading Anna Burnet: Fighting for Tokyo 2020
Alasdair Hooper hosts a judo special with 2014 Commonwealth Champion and World bronze medalist Nekoda Smythe-Davis. The 25-year-old tells the podcast about how she got into the sport and how … Continue Reading Judo Special: Nekoda Smythe-Davis
Alasdair Hooper hosts a judo special with 2014 Commonwealth Champion Natalie Powell. In her one-on-one interview on the podcast Natalie takes us through her journey in judo as well … Continue Reading Judo Special: Natalie Powell
Alasdair Hooper and Will Moulton bring you episode 22 of SportSpiel. In our first segment we discuss: Our highlights and talking points from the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games … Continue Reading Episode 22: Sally Conway
Alasdair Hooper and Will Moulton bring you episode 21 of SportSpiel. In our first segment we discuss: England’s dismal display against New Zealand in their first test (2:24) Manchester … Continue Reading Episode 21: Giselle Ansley
On episode 20 of SportSpiel top athletics coach Keith Antoine discussed his thoughts on para sport classification. In this guest blog Keith writes about his views on the complex issue, … Continue Reading Keith Antoine guest blog: Para sport classification is in the hands of the IPC
Alasdair Hooper and Will Moulton bring you episode 20 of SportSpiel. In our first segment we discuss: The new UK Athlete Classification Code (4:47) What have we learnt from … Continue Reading Episode 20: Para sport classification with Keith Antoine
Will Moulton hosts a Winter Paralympics Special with British skier and medal hope Millie Knight. PyeongChang will be Millie’s second Paralympic Games after she initially represented Britain in Sochi … Continue Reading Winter Paralympics Special: Millie Knight
Alasdair Hooper and Will Moulton are joined by freelance journalist Alys Bowen to bring you episode 19 of SportSpiel. In our first segment we discuss: The British highlights at … Continue Reading Episode 19: Chris Lloyd
For a small nation without specialised weather or facilities, it is incredible that Great Britain keeps breeding female athletes perfectly suited to hurtling head first down a track at 90mph. … Continue Reading How Sochi 2014 disappointment reignited Laura Deas’ passion for skeleton
On October 13 last year Hamilton Academical released a statement from Chairman Les Gray saying that the club had “been the target of an elaborate fraud resulting in the loss … Continue Reading Who is to blame in the Hamilton Academical fraud case?
Alasdair Hooper hosts the eighth SportSpiel Winter Olympics special as we tick down to PyeongChang 2018 in style. In this episode we are joined by British figure skating stars Penny … Continue Reading Winter Olympics Special: Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland
Will Moulton hosts the seventh SportSpiel Winter Olympics special as we tick down to PyeongChang 2018 in style. On this episode we are joined by skeleton racer Laura Deas as … Continue Reading Winter Olympics Special: Laura Deas
Alasdair Hooper hosts the fifth SportSpiel Winter Olympics special as we tick down to PyeongChang 2018 in style. On this episode alpine skier Charlie Guest chats about her journey to … Continue Reading Winter Olympics Special: Charlie Guest
Alasdair Hooper hosts the fourth SportSpiel Winter Olympics special as we tick down to PyeongChang 2018 in style. On this episode short track speed skater Charlotte Gilmartin returns to the … Continue Reading Winter Olympics Special: Charlotte Gilmartin
Alasdair Hooper and Will Moulton bring you the third SportSpiel Winter Olympics special as we tick down to PyeongChang 2018 in style. In this episode we take a look at … Continue Reading Winter Olympics Special: Russian doping, Korean unity and who to watch