Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
The News Agents
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🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Sports Agents...
It's Grand National weekend! ITV Racing presenter Ed Chamberlin was among our guests, as Gabby & Mark explored how viable a more 'ethically-conscious' version of the sport is, when it relies so heavily on gambling? (02:04)
Former World Champion sprinter Darren Campbell is involved in the development a new 'Super Track' that promises to help athletes break Usain Bolt's 9:58-second 100m record. Darren joined us in the studio to explain. (06:00)
After Chelsea sold their own women's team - to themselves - to avoid punishment for breaching the Premier League's financial fair play rules, Miguel Delaney (The Independent) helped explain why the loophole was just the tip of the iceberg. (11:00)
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| 0:00.0 | A safe trip begins with TRIP. |
| 0:03.0 | Take a road trip with your family, get there safely. |
| 0:06.0 | Do your trip checks. |
| 0:08.0 | T, drop up on island fuel, R, rest every two hours to |
| 0:13.0 | I inspect your pressure and tread. |
| 0:16.0 | P, preparing for the weather ahead. |
| 0:18.0 | A safe trip begins with TRIP. Oh, yes, that's, oh, yes, a safe trip begins with TRIP. |
| 0:21.9 | Oh, yes. |
| 0:23.7 | A safe trip begins with T RRIZE. |
| 0:25.8 | Do the four trip checks before every journey, National Highways. |
| 0:32.3 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:35.8 | Hi, Mark. |
| 0:36.5 | Hi, Gabby. |
| 0:37.4 | Welcome to another weekend edition of the sports agents where you can catch up on our |
| 0:41.1 | favourite bits from this week's podcasts. |
| 0:43.2 | This week, we had a chat in with Ed Chamberlain and Harry Cobden to talk about the Grand |
| 0:48.9 | National and look ahead to that. |
| 0:50.1 | Yeah, and if you're listening to this kind of ahead of the Grand National, you'll be |
| 0:53.9 | able to hear their tips. Yes. And if you're listening to this kind of ahead of the Grand National, you'll be able to hear their tips. Yes. And if you're listening to it after the Grand National, bad luck. You may be glad that you didn't follow their tips. Who knows? We had Darren Campbell with us as well, didn't we? Yeah, he's such a great man, Darren. He's a former world champion, but such a passionate advocate for the sport. And he's |
| 1:11.6 | here talking about technology and something that could revolutionise the sport. But also, I think, |
| 1:16.8 | kind of schooling us both a little bit on fast footballers don't necessarily make fast sprinters. |
| 1:20.8 | But he's kind of explained and broken down why you, Mark, clearly had no chance in his eyes |
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