Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
The News Agents
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🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Sports Agents...
Former British number one tennis players, Tim Henman and Laura Robson, chatted to Gabby and Mark from a Sky Sports padel event about doping, the Djokovic-Murray partnership and Emma Raducanu's future (01:45).
As the Six Nations kicks off ex-England rugby player, David Flatman, joined us. Could the Six Nations stop being free-to-air and could this threaten the sport? (08:00)
We tried to figure out how Manchester City got so close to an early Champions League exit with former City player, Nedum Onuoha, and Pep Guardiola's biographer, Guillem Balague (14:15).
And before she heads off to compete at the Invictus Games we chatted to Gemma Barnes, the Team UK vice-captain who served in the army for 15 years before two life-changing leg injuries (18:45).
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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 |
| 0:21.5 | Oh my ex. |
| 0:23.7 | A safe trip begins with T RRRRR. |
| 0:25.7 | Do the four trip checks before every journey, |
| 0:28.4 | National Highways. |
| 0:32.5 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:36.2 | First time you compete the Invictus games in the skeleton will be the first time you've done the skeleton. Correct, yeah. This is going to be college. You say what you want about people, but the only time you've got to worry is if they could beat you in a fight. So I don't say too much about Jono or Morrow. For Eddie, I'll say what I want because I reckon I can still do it. I just wasn't aware. City had won the treble. Sorry, I must have missed. I can't remember. Have you united winning chapters? I don't know. Hello, Mark. Hi, Gabby. How are you? I'm good, thank you. I'm good. Good. We've had another busy week on the sports agents. This is your weekend edition where you can |
| 1:13.3 | catch up on our favourite bits from this week's podcasts. |
| 1:16.2 | So again, loads and loads and loads. Rugby union, tennis, quite a lot of football this week. |
| 1:23.2 | But also, the one that really stands out in amongst all of this. Gemma Barnes, |
| 1:28.3 | vice captain of Team UK in the Invictus Games, who is going to do the skeleton out there. |
| 1:36.9 | And when she does the skeleton out there, that will be the first time she has ever got down |
| 1:43.2 | a skeleton track. |
| 1:44.9 | Incredible. |
| 1:45.5 | She revealed that to us when we were having a chat about how she got to be in the Invictus team, |
| 1:50.6 | which came through two serious leg injuries and what it's done for her, |
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