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SportSpiel

Sports podcast telling athletes" stories properly | Hosted by Alasdair Hooper and Will Moulton | Get in touch at sportspielpod@gmail.com Visit our website: https://sportspielonline.com Follow us on social media @sportspielpod

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33:19

Ellie Harber: Muay Thai, overcoming bullying and...

SportSpiel ·

2024/03/26

On the final episode of this series of SportSpiel we cross into the world of Muay Thai and speak to recently-crowned WBC world champion Ellie Harber.That victory was the 12th title claimed by the 18-year-old from Watford in a variety of martial art disciplines and was her first success in an adult tournament, which saw her win four fights in four days as she went on to secure gold in her maiden senior world championships. Despite her young age Ellie has come a long way since her first venture

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73:45

Laura Gallagher and Jo Pinner: Becoming a mum during...

SportSpiel ·

2024/03/19

This episode of SportSpiel is a very special one, as we delve into an important subject that is still in its infancy in terms of understanding – becoming a mum during your athletic career.Taking part in the discussion is long-time friend of the podcast, British Trampolinist Laura Gallagher, as well as England and GB Hockey star Jo Pinner who have both done just that, given birth to their first child in the last 14 months. With both now on their way back to the top of their sport, they explain

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50:43

Helen Nelson: Scotland’s progress, the Six Nations...

SportSpiel ·

2024/03/12

Scotland Rugby’s vice-captain Helen Nelson is one of the most crucial individuals in the squad.With 55 appearances for the national team to her name she’s been a vital cog as the team looks to progress and improve – striving for bigger goals each time. With the latest edition of the Women’s Six Nations soon to get underway – with Scotland playing Wales on March 23rd – it’s another opportunity to put that progress to the test. In this episode of SportSpiel we look ahead to the upcoming Six

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43:38

Lilli Ives Campion: ‘The next 10 years are really...

SportSpiel ·

2024/03/07

Aged just 20, Lilli Ives Campion is widely regarded as one of the brightest prospects in English women’s rugby.And if it hadn’t been for one seemingly innocuous moment, she might never have even tried the sport to start with. Ever since then Lilli has gone from strength to strength within the game, making her Premiership Women’s Rugby debut for Loughborough Lightning at just 17 years old. Now her prospects are continuing to look up as she has joined the senior England squad for training camps

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47:28

Liv Thomas: Lacrosse, battling back from an ACL and...

SportSpiel ·

2024/02/27

Despite being in her early 20s, Liv Thomas has already experienced a lot in her sporting career.The GB and England lacrosse midfielder had to wait two years for her England debut, thanks to the Covid pandemic, but after finally earning that first cap she would go on to win a World Cup bronze in triple overtime. But the difficulties would rear their head again, with Liv rupturing her ACL and tearing her meniscus. From the second she felt it, she knew something bad had happened – and it’s an injury

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80:15

Laura Siddall: ‘Don’t die wondering’

SportSpiel ·

2024/02/13

Don’t die wondering – that’s Laura Siddall’s motto – and it’s a phrase you can see applied to so much of her life as a pro athlete. Laura now is a hugely successful British triathlete but her path into professional sport came relatively late in life. While sport was always important growing up she would go on to do a degree in Mechanical Engineering before taking a gap year as an officer in the British Army. She would go on to work in the corporate world and moved to Sydney in Australia back in

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63:41

Isla Mackenzie: Chasing the dream of being a racing...

SportSpiel ·

2024/02/06

Isla Mackenzie is on a mission – to inspire the next generation as she chases her dream of being a racing driver. Her early life is world’s away from what it looks like now. She grew up on a dairy farm on the Isle of Lewis, in the Scottish Outer Hebrides and she was driving anything she could as soon as she was old enough to reach the pedals – be it quad bikes or tractors, and she drove a car for the first time at the age of 12. Isla comes alive with speed – a description given by her mum – and a

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84:47

Ben Gallagher: From being shot on active duty, to a...

SportSpiel ·

2024/01/30

Ben Gallagher is a remarkable individual. After serving in the British Army for over 16 years, his life was turned upside down in 2019 when he was shot numerous times on active duty. Ben would sustain blast and fragmentation injuries to his upper torso and arms as a result of that incident – and without a doubt his body armour saved his life. What followed was a number of operations and extensive surgery to reconstruct his left arm, while he now also has surgical injuries to both legs. But this

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52:01

Beth Gill: 'We wouldn’t put sewage on our streets –...

SportSpiel ·

2024/01/23

Beth Gill is one of Britain’s – and the world’s – leading canoeists. In 2022 she became C1 short course Marathon World Champion and she’s hoping to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in the C2 500m Sprint. Remember, while there’s been women’s kayak events, women’s canoeing events only first arrived at the Olympics for Tokyo 2020. But there’s much more to Beth than just her sport as she has become a passionate advocate for raising awareness over the pollution in our rivers and waterways, as

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56:55

Mercy Brown: ‘If you don’t understand an individual’s...

SportSpiel ·

2023/03/21

British weightlifter Mercy Brown has been on an extensive journey in her sporting career. But the comeback is very much on. The 26-year-old Londoner is an exciting talent and secured gold in the 2022 British Weightlifting Championships. But, unfortunately, her year didn’t pan out as expected despite that promising start and indication that the potential is very much there. Throughout her rollercoaster ride in the sport there have had to be breaks for Mercy to prioritise her own self-care and

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73:14

Brendan Creed: ‘I’m a massive perfectionist’

SportSpiel ·

2023/03/14

Brendan Creed has discovered a lot about himself since he first represented his country back in 2017. By his own admission he is a massive perfectionist, but he used to let it ruin his game. Dealing with mistakes has been a key change in the England and GB Hockey star and he has worked closely with his team psychologist on his journey. But that has also come at the same time as having to deal with tournament disappointment along the way. From being named as a reserve for two World Cups, to

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53:02

Lauren Torley: A wish to play for England –...

SportSpiel ·

2023/03/07

After leaving school at the age of 18, Lauren Torley had barely touched a rugby ball. But fast-forward to now and things are very different. Few will have predicted that just five years later she would have represented England at a home Commonwealth Games and been named as one of the most exciting prospects around – but that’s exactly what has happened. It has been a whirlwind career so far for the speedster as she has rapidly risen to the top of the women’s game plying her trade for the England

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53:02

Nat Panagarry: Her wife’s cancer diagnosis and a...

SportSpiel ·

2023/02/28

Netball used to be one of the most important things in Nat Panagarry’s life – but that has all changed. Last year Nat’s wife Katie was diagnosed with stage four clear cell cancer and life as they knew it was turned upside down. Suddenly playing netball for England and Loughborough Lightening paled into insignificance for Nat compared to what she and her wife were facing. Unsurprisingly it has been a rollercoaster journey for the pair. There have been hospital appointments, chemotherapy and they

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76:24

Milly Tanner: ‘I don’t want to leave the sport with...

SportSpiel ·

2023/02/21

British track cyclist Milly Tanner has had a whirlwind last few years, and she’s determined to leave her mark. The 24-year-old switched from swimming to cycling back in 2017 through UK Sport’s talent transfer programme ‘Discover your Power’ – a gruelling process in itself as you’ll hear in this SportSpiel interview– but she hasn’t looked back since. A bronze medal at the 2021 World Championships in the team sprint, a silver in the same event at the 2020 European Championships, as well as

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60:40

Fi Morris: Pressure, mental health and ‘going off the...

SportSpiel ·

2023/02/14

Cricketer Fi Morris has learned a lot at the age of 29. From making her county championship debut at the age of 14, to top scoring for her team in the first ever women’s Hundred final, there’s plenty to celebrate. But it has been far from an easy ride for the all-rounder. An incident in her early 20s led to a severe decline in her mental health and well-being, which she struggled to admit and accept. That decline led to her taking a two-year break from cricket as – in her own words in this

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59:58

London Dynasty Cheer: From nothing to Grand Champs in...

SportSpiel ·

2023/02/07

London Dynasty Cheer has grown exponentially in a ridiculously short time, and Joanna Haeger and Grace Lowe are key parts of that. This week’s podcast guests are the directors of LDC, as well as being athletes and coaches at the cheerleading club, and what began as a project in 2020 is now unrecognisable. With the initial aim of recruiting 23 athletes the growth of LDC has rocketed and the club now boasts in excess of 200 members as well as five competitive, one elite and two recreational

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50:18

Linn Sandstrom: Proving the doubters wrong

SportSpiel ·

2023/01/31

Linn Sandstrom is one of the most determined individuals you will ever meet in sport. Currently ranked ninth by the WBA, the boxer has won three straight title fights – the WBC Australasia Title, WBA Asia Title and most recently the WBA inter-continental title won in October last year. In her words she is on a mission to never be “mediocre or average”. But it has been far from an easy – or conventional – journey for her. Born in Brazil, raised in Sweden and now living in Australia, Sandstrom’s

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62:29

Amy-Eloise Markovc: Unlocking her ‘untapped potential’

SportSpiel ·

2023/01/24

British Olympic runner Amy-Eloise Markovc has plenty to be proud of over the last two years of her career. The 27-year-old became European indoor champion for the 3000m back in 2021, made her Olympic debut in Tokyo, came fourth in the 5000m at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and she also broke the British two mile record in 2021 too. That’s just a brief list of some of her achievements – there’s many more – and while Amy is understandably proud of her accomplishments, in what she calls a crazy last

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10:01

SportSpiel is back with a new series

SportSpiel ·

2023/01/17

The SportSpiel podcast is back with a brand new series of podcasts, starting from Tuesday, January 24, 2023. It’s been a busy last year for the pair of us, thanks to work, life and everything in between. But we’ve always wanted to get the podcast back up and running and now we have with a new schedule. Starting from January 24th we will be releasing a new podcast every week as part of a winter/spring series in 2023. We will then be returning with a summer/autumn series of episodes later in the

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35:16

Anna Shackley: Scotland's rising cycling star

SportSpiel ·

2022/02/27

Alasdair Hooper hosts the latest episode of SportSpiel with rising Scottish cycling star Anna Shackley. The 20-year-old seemingly came out of nowhere back in 2021 when – then aged 18 – she signed for esteemed cycling team SD Worx. Prior to that she had mostly been focusing on the track with the British national programme, winning multiple Scottish junior national titles before winning the elite British points race and team pursuit titles in 2020. But during lockdown her coach reached out to

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