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“I think in the moment, when you step on the ice in the senior competitions with top quality skaters, you leave respect to the side.” For British short track speed … Continue Reading Ethan Treacy: Family influences and making huge leaps
Alasdair Hooper and Will Moulton are joined by British Short Track speed skater Ethan Treacy on episode 35 of SportSpiel. FEATURE INTERVIEW On our feature interview section (4:57) interviewer Yashas Mudumbai … Continue Reading Ethan Treacy: Living life at full speed
By Alasdair Hooper “What’s the one thing that hasn’t gone wrong at the Games for Elise? There you go.” British speed skater Elise Christie and the Winter Olympics haven’t exactly … Continue Reading Elise Christie: Olympic luck, injury and her long track adventure
Alasdair Hooper hosts a special SportSpiel episode – the 50th ever produced – and is joined by British speed skating star Elise Christie. The 2017 World Champion is one of … Continue Reading Speed Skating Special: Elise Christie
Once again the peculiar phenomenon that is the Winter Olympics has come and gone, leaving us gaping in awe at the feats of unfathomably cool athletes who have done things … Continue Reading Opinion: Have we forgotten Elise Christie is human?
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 episode 7 of SportSpiel, a podcast full of sporting discussion and feature interviews. In our first segment we discuss: If 2019 will be … Continue Reading Episode 7: Charlotte Gilmartin