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Experts in Sport — 126 episodes

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E111: From Pitch to Planet - Sustainability in Sport

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E110: Half a Century of Sport Science - Reflections from Loughborough Pioneers

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E109: The Power of Events - Bidding, Impact & Long‑Term Legacy

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E108: Measuring the True Value of Sport - Social Return on Investment Explained

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E107: Effort Over Everything - MyZone Founder Dave Wright on Entrepreneurship in Fitness

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E106: From Bushy Park to a Global Phenomenon - How parkrun Became the World’s Biggest Health Movement

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E105: Wearables and Healthcare - Inside the NHS 10-Year-Plan

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E104: Unlock Your Marathon Potential - Inside Loughborough Sport’s Physiology Lab

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E103: Best Of 2025

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E102: Behind the Wheel - Unseen Health Challenges of the UK Workforce

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E101: Beyond the Track - Lord Coe on Loughborough, Leadership, and the Future of Sport

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E100: Where History Begins - Loughborough's Journey Through Sport

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E99: Smarter Sport - Using Athlete Data to Drive Innovation in Women's Sport

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E98: Home Advantage - How the Women’s Rugby World Cup Impacts Local Communities

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E97: Are we setting women up to fail in fitness?

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E96: Strength in Numbers - Researching Gender Equity in Wheelchair Rugby

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E95: Networks of Change - Women's Sport Governance in Action

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E94: Supporting Performance - The Critical Role of Sports Bras in Women’s Sport

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E93: Beyond the Baseline - Why Women’s Sport Needs More Research & Innovation

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E92: Leadership in Sport - the impact of AI on decision-making and leadership

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E91: Time Hacks - The psychology of time and how to spend it

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E90: Pain killer use in sport - Short term gain for long term pain!

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E89: How sport works - From Government funding to participation, a comparison of Sweden and the UK

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E88: The Myth of Systems Change - Why Your Efforts Are Futile (And What to Do Instead)

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E87: Human trafficking in the global sports ecosystem

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E86: How Elite Athletes Are Made

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E85: Equal Play - Improving physical education for everyone

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E84: Ethnic Diversity and Inclusion in Sports Leadership

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E83: How Physical Education in schools can be improved through Models-based practice

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E82: Safeguarding and interpersonal abuse in sport – the development and potential impact of the IOC consensus statement

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E81: The long-term problems of sports participation and how to solve them

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E80: Cycling hour record: science behind a successful attempt

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E79: Testing the World's Strongest Man - Eddie Hall

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Paris Bonus Show: Professor Vicky Tolfrey - the future of para sport

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E78: Loughborough's role in inspiring change within Para sport

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E77: Paula Radcliffe MBE: Student athlete to world champion

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Paris Bonus Show: Dr Verity Postlethwaite

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Paris Bonus Show: Jonathan Folland

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Paris Bonus Show: Sophia Jowett

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Paris Bonus Show: Liam Heaney

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E76: Elite cycling and performance research

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E75: Performance analysis, AI, and penalties

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E74: Performance Analysis and Coaching in Tennis

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E73: Misconceptions in Sports Injury Research

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E72: Challenges within sports officiating

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E71: Spirit of 2012: Legacy of events within sports

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E70: Racism in Sport: History, culture, and the role of the media

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E69: Instrumented mouth-guards and concussion in Rugby Union

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E68: The sports apparel waste problem

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E67: Coaching, skill acquisition and virtual reality in sport

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E66: NFL, the Super Bowl and the future of American football in the UK

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E65: Sport for climate action and nature

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E64: AFCON and football development in Africa

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E63: Deception in Rugby: The psychology and biomechanics

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E62: Climate change and sport: The situation and changes needed for the future.

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E61: Anastrozole: What role can diet and exercise play in NHS drug treatment?

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E60: Optimising athletic performance - lessons from the animal kingdom

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E59: Weight loss drugs, behaviour change and weight management strategies

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E58: Golf equipment and how manufacturers and researchers can benefit players

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E57: 'Choking' and performance under pressure in golf

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E56: Training load monitoring in elite sport: Limitations and lessons from medicine

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E55: Sport in the Metaverse

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E54: The future of women's sport

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E53: Injury prevention and management in women's football

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E52: The rise of diversity in women's football

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E51: Building a positive coach-athlete relationship

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E50: 19 years of biomechanics research into elite cricket bowling

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E49: National Rehabilitation Centre: Enhancing prosthesis using 3D printing

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E48: National Rehabilitation Centre: Exoskeletons and rehabilitation technology

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E47: National Rehabilitation Centre: The development of the NRC

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E46: Improving global child health and nutrition

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E45: Making decisions in sport: Ashes special

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E44: Performance analysis in the Netball Super League

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E43: Testing Cristiano Ronaldo's free kick

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E42: Encouraging children's healthy eating through the 3Rs

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E41: Representing minors as a football agent

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E40: Building psychological strength through the 5Cs

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E39: Overcoming fussy eating

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In Conversation with Matt Rogan: How to disrupt the market with innovation

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E38: FIFA’s new licensing model for football agents

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E37: The role of sport in human evolution

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E36: The psychology of becoming an elite athlete

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E35: How to stay motivated on your new year fitness journey

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E34: Wellbeing in professional sport

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E33: Commonwealth Games special

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E32: Leadership secrets that drive high performing teams

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E31: Sustainability and climate change impacts on sport

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E30: From intern to chairman: Former chairman of IMG Media, Michel Masquelier

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E29: Former Financial Controller at City Football Group tells his story

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Tokyo Talk: Evidence-based classification in Paralympic sport

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Tokyo Talk: Para-sports against Stigma

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Tokyo Talk: Dysfunctional breathing, asthma and athletes

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Tokyo Talk: Doping in sport

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Tokyo Talk: Biomechanics of endurance running and the effects of new generation running shoes

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Tokyo Talk: Reducing injury risk in endurance runners

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Tokyo Talk: Athlete psychology at a Covid-threatened Olympics

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Tokyo Talk: Maximising sleep patterns for performing in different time zones

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Tokyo Talk: How athletes prepare to compete in extreme heat

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E27: The power of performance analysis

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E26: The importance of recovery in elite-level sport

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E25: Does stronger = faster?

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E24: Exercise, immune system and cancer

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E23: Beating the Heat

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E22: Strength Training for Endurance Athletes

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E21: Disordered eating - just how common is it in elite level sport?

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E20: The truth about exercise and weight management

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E19: Para sport special: What does it take to become successful on the world stage?

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E18: Race, ethnicity, and racism in sports coaching

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E17: ‘Support, develop, empower’ - the dual-career journey of an athlete

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E16: Why the best players sometimes don't make it...

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E15: As athletes begin to return to training – what should practitioners be doing?

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E14: How can dietary nitrates improve elite level athlete performance?

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E13: What role does community sport play in tackling serious youth violence?

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E12: Can supplements boost your immune system?

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E11: Exercise, immune defence and illness in elite athletes

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E10: Has concussion in sport hit crisis point?

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E9: What is Strength?

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E8: Does sponsorship in sport have an unhealthy relationship with junk food?

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E7: Athlete development and injuries

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E6: Corruption in Sport (Part 2)

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E5: Corruption in Sport (Part 1)

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E4: How to become one of the world’s best coaches

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E3: Female athletes and the menstrual cycle

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E2: How will Brexit impact the Premier League?

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E1: Sports Psychology at an Elite Level

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An introduction to Experts in Sport