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Perfect Bluff: How Yates won the Giro / Boxing’s New Sex Screening / How Science Revealed a Ultra Cheat
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10 months, 1 week ago
Spotlight: Breaking the Physiological Bank in Training, and Rethinking Rugby’s Red Card
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10 months, 2 weeks ago
Ultra Endurance: The Science behind Conquering the 400km Cocodona Trail Run
Season 7 Episode 9
The Cocodona 250-mile (402 km) trail run is one of the toughest endurance challenges in the world, as athletes battle the extreme distance, sleep dep…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Spotlight: Peril, Pills, Promises & Potential: Sport's Performance and Ethical Battlegrounds
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Nutrition tips, training insight, performance debates, sports opinions — if you’re into it, we’re talking about it. Become part of the …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Spotlight: High Carbs, High Speeds, High Times…and a Drip Too Far
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11 months, 1 week ago
Spotlight: Talent, Trust and Testing Transparency
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11 months, 2 weeks ago
MARATHON SPECIAL: London & Boston Round-Up / Pacesetters or Not? / We Test What is Claimed to be the World's Fastest Shoe
Season 7 Episode 8
In this round-up of the two big spring marathons—Boston and London—Mike and Ross rate the performances of the top athletes while debating whether pac…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Spotlight: The Birds & the Bees of Sports Science Research Papers. How Research is Conceived & Delivered
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11 months, 3 weeks ago
Spotlight: The UK Supreme Court and Implications for Women's Sport / A Tour of World Records, Paris Roubaix and Discourse Achievers
We’ve got a blockbuster episode of Spotlight for you today.
We kick things off with an important discussion around women’s sport and transgender athle…
1 year ago
Spotlight: Fatigue as a Risk, a Requirement and a Red Herring / Grand Slam Track Reactions / New Olympic Sports
In this Spotlight episode, Ross and Gareth tackle a provocative question: should sports embrace fatigue to make the show better? We kick off with rug…
1 year ago