Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Sports Agents...
The first refugee to win an Olympic medal, Cindy Ngamba, joined Gabby and Mark before her professional boxing debut to talk about her incredible story from a shock arrest to the hilarious moment she discovered boxing (03:00).
The story of fleeing Afghanistan and getting no support from cricket's governing body (the ICC) with Afghanistan women's cricketer, Firooza Amiri, and international cricket journalist Alison Mitchell (09:00).
Former England women's football captain Steph Houghton talked about how she helped pioneer the rise of women's football from £4,000 per year salaries to winning the Euros and beating World Champions Spain this week (13:30).
And we reveal our karaoke songs... Mark's wasn't what we expected! (22:15)
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| 0:00.0 | Matt is enjoying a rare day off, feet up, footy on. |
| 0:03.8 | But the platelets from his last blood donation are definitely not having a day off. |
| 0:09.0 | Having cancer is really hard. |
| 0:11.1 | The chemo makes me feel super tired. |
| 0:13.3 | I need platelet transversions a lot. |
| 0:15.2 | They help me feel a bit better so I can hang out with my friends. |
| 0:18.4 | Matt doesn't know me, but thanks to giving types like him, I can keep going. |
| 0:22.8 | By giving blood, you can be there for someone without being there. |
| 0:26.3 | Save up to three lives in one hour. |
| 0:28.2 | Book now at blood.com. |
| 0:29.4 | UK. |
| 0:32.5 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:37.6 | I froze. |
| 0:39.3 | I mean, I froze, and I can hear them hank on for me. |
| 0:42.8 | To me, it didn't seem real. |
| 0:44.6 | ICCC, they are not just breaking their own rules. |
| 0:48.0 | It's Agnes Anti-Discrimination and Global Human's Life. |
| 0:52.9 | Quite like doing River Deep Mountain High. |
| 0:54.6 | Oh, that was one of my Desert Island disc tracks. |
| 0:57.7 | Was it? |
| 0:58.5 | Yeah. What, my version. |
| 1:04.1 | Hi, Mark. |
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