Weekend Edition: Poison, Chelsea's frozen £2.5bn & training Ascot winners - The Sports Agents
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🗓️ 20 June 2025
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This week on The Sports Agents...
Does the government actually have a good reason for the £2.5bn from the Chelsea FC sale not helping millions of children worldwide? And was former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich poisoned? (03:30)
How do you train a horse for Royal Ascot? A full behind the scenes episode from one of Britain's best yards, which trained the late Queen's horses. (13:30)
And what is it like to race for 24 hours in Le Mans? How do you stay awake for the night driving? (20:30)
In response to the comments made in this podcast Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: “The Government is determined to see the proceeds from the sale of Chelsea Football Club reach humanitarian causes in Ukraine, following Russia’s illegal full-scale invasion. We are deeply frustrated that it has not been possible to reach agreement on this with Mr Abramovich so far. While the door for negotiations will remain open, we are fully prepared to pursue this through the courts if required, to ensure people suffering in Ukraine can benefit from these proceeds as soon as possible.”
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| 0:24.2 | Experience amazing before you arrive. |
| 0:32.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:36.6 | And then he blacked out, but doesn't remember that. |
| 0:40.2 | When he came to hours later, well, he couldn't see. |
| 0:43.2 | He was blind, and his hair was falling out. |
| 0:46.2 | This could save the lives of millions and millions and millions of children. |
| 0:51.7 | Some of these are royal Ascot horses as well working this morning. |
| 0:54.3 | How many do you want to take to Ascot? |
| 0:55.8 | I do. |
| 0:56.4 | Probably going to have about 25. |
| 0:59.2 | In the night, it was actually challenging because you've got the smell of the barbecues |
| 1:03.1 | and you're trying to drive and you're a bit distracted by it all. |
| 1:05.8 | I could stop, have a quick sausage. |
| 1:13.4 | Hi, Mark. Hi Mark. |
| 1:14.5 | Hi Gabby. |
| 1:15.4 | It is time for the weekend edition of the sports agents where you can catch up on our |
| 1:19.1 | favourite bits from this week's podcasts. |
| 1:20.9 | We tend to say this every week, don't we? |
| 1:22.9 | But it is so varied this week's, so varied from, you know, being behind the scenes at a great sporting |
| 1:30.3 | operation to really serious chat about global aid in this tumultuous time in the world, |
| 1:39.5 | to then just enjoying a chat about LeMont 24 and the dangers of driving past the barbecue. |
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