The Real Science of Sport Podcast

How to Avoid the Traps of Bro Science / Protecting the Brain in Contact Sport / "Athlete Trafficking" and Talent Pathways

Women's World Cup Culmination / Ryder Cup Drama / CAS Dismisses Contaminated Meat Defence

World Cycling Champs Review: The Greatest Champs This Century? / Is Remco Close To Beating Pog? / Post Race Interviews

Pro Preview: Ashleigh Moolman Pasio on Rwanda's World Cycling Champs

The Tokyo 2025 Wrap: Winners, Losers and Lasting Memories / Womens' Rugby World Cup Final

Tokyo Day 9: Women's 800m Upset / Cole Hocker's Redemption Arc / Botswana Crash the USA Relay Parade

Tokyo Day 8: An Historic Men's 800m / Women's 5000m Plays Into Chebet's Hands / Relay Qualification Carnage

Tokyo Day 6 and Day 7: SML's Near WR as Two Break 48 / 400m Hurdles / 200m Defence and Doubles

Tokyo Day 5: A Men’s 1500 Surprise Dissected / A Brutal Women’s’ Steeple How Fast Will Sydney ML Go?

Tokyo Day 4: Kipyegon Perfection / Tinch seals the 110m Hurdles / Men's 1500m Preview

Tokyo Day 3: The Greatest Marathon Finish Ever? / Men's Steeplechase Drama / Hocker DQ

Tokyo Day 2: The Fastest Man and Woman in the World / Men's 10000m Stunners / A marathon sprint

Tokyo Day 1: Women's 10000m and Mixed 4 x 400m

Reflections on Gladwell and Tokyo 2025 gets underway

Tokyo 2025: Preview Show with Sean Ingle

Inside the Astonishing World of Elite Rowing

Follow Up: Did Malcolm Gladwell Need To Apologise for Trans Stance?

Malcolm Gladwell Talks Sport

Tokyo Teasers, Women's Rugby Risks, and Doping Double Standards

Should Doping Coaches Be Banned For Life? / Heat and Heart Rate / Tokyo Rivalries In Focus

Zone 2: The Debate Continues / World Records Old and New

Why Everything You Know About Zone 2 Training is Probably Wrong

Cutting Weight to Win: PFP's Performance Strategy. Or Slippery Slope?

Inside The World of Women's Professional Cycling

Fitness, Fatigue and a Tour Without Fire (But Hope From the Women's TDF)

What Your Strava Fitness Score Really Means

Trust Issues: Doping, the Media, and the Athlete’s Dilemma

Hormones, Hype & High Performance: The Menstrual Cycle in Sport

🚨 SOS: It WAS Too Good To Be True: Marathon World Record Holder Chepng'etich Provisionally Suspended

Staying Cool at the Tour - Gimmick or Gain? | Busting the Hype About Salty Sweat

The Science of Cramp

Vingegaard's Muscle: No Match for Pogacar? | Who is to Blame for Tour Crash Chaos?

What It's Really Like to be a Tennis Professional on Tour

Spotlight: Failing to Science the Sh*t Out of Running / A Legal Lens on Liability and Sports Injury

The Science of Fuelling: Inside the Carbohydrate Performance Paradigm

Spotlight: Cramping Truths and Myths / Unscientific Trans Non-Advantage Claims / Sports Science's Trust Erosion

Most Sports Science Research is False: The Replication Crisis Hits Sport

Spotlight: When Talent 'Stalls' / The Carbs vs Fat Shifting Paradigm / The Fragile Future of Track

Sport and Skin Cancer: How Big is the Risk?

Spotlight: Carbs vs Fat in Comrades Champions? / Sinner’s Loss is Tennis' gain?

The Science of Recovery

Perfect Bluff: How Yates won the Giro / Boxing’s New Sex Screening / How Science Revealed a Ultra Cheat

Spotlight: Breaking the Physiological Bank in Training, and Rethinking Rugby’s Red Card

Ultra Endurance: The Science behind Conquering the 400km Cocodona Trail Run

Spotlight: Peril, Pills, Promises & Potential: Sport's Performance and Ethical Battlegrounds

Spotlight: High Carbs, High Speeds, High Times…and a Drip Too Far

Spotlight: Talent, Trust and Testing Transparency

MARATHON SPECIAL: London & Boston Round-Up / Pacesetters or Not? / We Test What is Claimed to be the World's Fastest Shoe

Spotlight: The Birds & the Bees of Sports Science Research Papers. How Research is Conceived & Delivered

Spotlight: The UK Supreme Court and Implications for Women's Sport / A Tour of World Records, Paris Roubaix and Discourse Achievers