Series 4: Adi Dassler, founder of Adidas

Russell Kane returns to reassess history's heroes and villains - and this series, those heroes and villains include Jilly Cooper, Stephen Hawking, Pavarotti, the Marquis de Sade, L Ron Hubbard, Sean Connery, Catherine de Medici, Chuck Berry and Princess Diana... Comedians across ... Show More

Joining comedian Russell Kane to decide whether Meerkats are evil or genius are Merit Researcher at the Natural History Museum, Dr. Natalie Cooper and and comedian Susie McCabe.Written by: Eve Delaney & Ruth Huskisson Additional material by: Catherine Beazley & Angela Channell Re ... Show More

Russell Kane asks whether Ants – aka Ant-ony Hopkins - are Conga Line Creeps or Mini-muscle heads. With entomologist Dr. Karim Vahed of Bug Life and comedian Glenn Moore.Written by: Eve Delaney & Ruth Huskisson Additional material by: Catherine Beazley & Angela Channell Researche ... Show More

<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>David Alleman is the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman @ <a href= "https://www.on-running.com/">On Running</a> one of the fastest-growing global sports brands with over 17 million products sold in 60+ countries. In 2021, On went public on the NASDAQ and t ... Show More

Rudi and Adi Dassler started the “Dassler Business” in the 1920s in their parent’s garage, recycling materials from WWI military gear and uniforms. They got a pair of their track spikes on an athlete named Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics and the company took off… until WWII.The ... Show More

Twenty-five years ago Puma became the first big sports brand to collaborate with a fashion house. Since then all of the big players have been collaborating with celebrities, sports stars and high fashion brands. Hannah Mullane speaks to Heiko Desens, the creative director at Puma ... Show More

Nike, the late starter struck gold with its “Just Do It” campaign. Launched in 1988, the shoe giant finally had a tagline as good as its shoes. Meanwhile, Adidas, the brand that started and found success long before Nike was even a dream, finds itself as the underdog. The America ... Show More

Swiss triathlete and Ironman champion Olivier Bernhard was warned not to challenge the goliaths in the sneaker industry. But, inspired by the cloud-like sensation of a prototype running shoe made with strips of garden hose, Olivier set out to make a new sneaker for elite runners. ... Show More

How the Dassler brothers created two global sportswear firms.In 1948, Adi and Rudi Dassler who lived in a small German town fell out. They went on to set up Adidas and Puma. Adi Dassler played a crucial role in West Germany's victory in the 1954 World Cup with his game-changing f ... Show More

The Adidas Samba — once a humble, affordable sneaker — is now a high-fashion status symbol, and its ascension as the shoe of the summer came at a perfect time for Adidas. Recorded in front of a live audience at Inbound in Boston. Join our hosts Ben Berkley, Mark Dent, and Drea Hu ... Show More

Baraa chats with Aimee Arana, adidas General Manager, Sportswear & Training and CEO of Les Mills Clive Ormerod about all things related to the new adidas and Les Mills partnership. Baraa also interviews Bryce Hastings - Head of Research for Les Mills, Catrin Joergens - Global app ... Show More

 Martin Hoffmann, Chief Financial Officer and Co-CEO at On, discusses the footwear and sports apparel company's strategy. Hosts: Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. Producer: Paul Brennan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Phil Knight, former chair and CEO of Nike, tells the story of starting the sports apparel and equipment giant after taking an entrepreneurship class at Stanford and teaming up with his former track coach, Bill Bowerman. Together (and with the help of a waffle iron) they changed h ... Show More