Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
The News Agents
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🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Sports Agents...
After two dramatic Champions League semi-finals we caught up with European Football Journalist Guillem Balagué (03:45).
World number one tennis player, Jannik Sinner, returned from a three-month doping ban this week. His lawyer Jamie Singer came into the studio (12:15).
With young superstars lighting up sport recently like Lamine Yamal and Luke Littler, we spoke to skateboarder Sky Brown, who became Britain's youngest Olympic medallist aged 13 (16:15).
The new snooker world champion Zhao Xintong just came back from a 20-month ban for being party to match fixing. To find out more Jeremy Wilson, Chief Sports Reporter for The Telegraph, joined us (20:45).
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| 0:36.9 | That's the goal. Two gold medals for Team GB. |
| 0:41.3 | Two gold medals for Team GB. Imagine that in two different sports. |
| 0:44.2 | Yeah, people all the haters wrong. |
| 0:46.1 | It's actually been disproportionately difficult for Yannick as number one and with the profile |
| 0:50.6 | and scrutiny that's come to him. It has meant that he's actually faced a much |
| 0:54.8 | tougher year. So to the Mikhailout Brigade, sorry, but you've got a manager there for a while |
| 1:00.8 | because he's managed to stable the team. Hello, Mark. Hello, Gabby. How are you doing? |
| 1:07.5 | Very well indeed. This is, of course, another weekend edition of the sports agents where you can catch up on our favourite bits from this week's podcast. And there's been a, I don't know what you call the collective now of presenters this week. We've had a right mashup, haven't we? I was away at the San Ciro on Tuesday. So Kelly hopped in with Mark. Mark isn't here today. So I've got the lovely Mark |
| 1:29.5 | Pugatch with me instead, who was in Paris for the Arsenal game on Wednesday. And I've just |
| 1:33.7 | jumped off Eurostar after seeing PSG get through. PSG is younger than me, Gabby. It said PSG |
| 1:41.9 | 1970. I went, oh my God, I'm older than PSG. |
| 1:46.0 | But well done. Felicitasio, they deserve to be in the final. Yeah, I was telling some of the guys I was working with last night because they'd not actually been to the stadium. And I presented a few matches from there in the Women's World Cup. And, of course, it used to be the home of the French rugby team before the Stard de France as well. and it's very close to Roland Garros |
| 1:42.1 | and it's in a really nice area of Paris |
| 1:44.0 | isn't it? Unlike |
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