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The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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Cycling, Game Theory and Group 2 Syndrome / Kerr's 222 Attempt / Teenage Phenoms Set up to Fail
58 mins; April 01, 2026
How To Win One of the World's Toughest Mountain Bike Races
81 hours 58 mins; March 30, 2026
REPEAT POD: Female-only Women's Sport: The IOC Announces New Policy On the Protection of Women's Sport
50 mins; March 29, 2026
Female-only Women's Sport: The IOC Announces New Policy On the Protection of Women's Sport
50 mins; March 26, 2026
Banned But Allowed: Inside the World of Therapeutic Use Exemptions in Sport / Pogacar's Dominance / World Indoor Championships
90 hours 52 mins; March 25, 2026
How to Beat van der Poel in San Remo / A 2:10 Women's Marathon (again) / Sprinting to Cardiac Arrest
94 hours 28 mins; March 18, 2026
Is Rugby's Head Injury Process Working? / Hitting the Wall and Carb Depletion / Can Sexias Match Pogacar? / Should Doped World Records Be Reset?
89 hours 30 mins; March 04, 2026
Winter Olympics Review: Winners, Losers and Our Ice-Cold Takes
80 hours 42 mins; February 25, 2026
Winter Olympics: Nutella "Doping" / Malinin's Traumatic Moments / Klaebo and Stolz Dominate / Ski Mo's Flop
75 hours 45 mins; February 20, 2026
Inside the Mind of a Winter Olympian: The Science of Stoke
99 hours 16 mins; February 17, 2026
No Sports Advantage for Trans Women? / Khelif Defiant but in Denial / Bol's 800m debut
62 hours 11 mins; February 13, 2026
Winter Olympic Spotlight: Vonn('s gate) and risk / Cross Country Klaebo / Speed Skating Unfairness / Penis-gate
53 mins; February 11, 2026
WINTER OLYMPIC SPECIAL: Speed Skating 101
80 hours 7 mins; February 06, 2026
A VO2max of 101: Fantastical Physiology? / Australian Open Wrap / Contact Sport Dilemmas
80 hours 59 mins; February 06, 2026
WINTER OLYMPIC SPECIAL: An Insiders Guide to Cross Country Skiing and Biathlon
92 hours 33 mins; February 04, 2026
WINTER OLYMPIC SPECIAL: The Beauty and Drama of Figure Skating
92 hours 14 mins; February 02, 2026
The Heat is On In Aus, But Whoop Is Gone / Noakes and a Low Carb Theory Full of Holes
95 hours 10 mins; January 29, 2026
Alex Hutchinson: The Battle For Credibility
76 hours 50 mins; January 27, 2026
The Rise of the Machines: Can AI Take Over Coaching? / Talent ID's Imprecise Guess
75 hours 17 mins; January 22, 2026
New Year Predictions: The Biggest Stories to Expect in 2026
79 hours 37 mins; January 19, 2026
Festive Season Catch-up: What We Missed, Watched and Debated During The Holidays
102 hours 41 mins; January 14, 2026
The 2025 Sport & Science Awards Show
133 hours 15 mins; December 22, 2025
AIU's Brett Clothier: Catching Athletics' Doping Cheats
87 hours 36 mins; December 17, 2025
Elite Athletes and Weight Worries - GLP-1 Debates and RED-s Warnings
71 hours 56 mins; December 10, 2025
Are You Being Injured By Your Running Shoes? / Mondo Soars Again / Preventing Head Impacts / A $1400 Mattress That Does What?
71 hours 37 mins; December 04, 2025
Mediocre Male Beats Strong Women, But Justice Prevails / Should XC Running Be In The Winter Games? / Concussion Prevention Illusions
56 mins; November 27, 2025
US Anti-Doping Chief Travis T. Tygart: Inside The Politics and Fight Against Doping
105 hours 9 mins; November 25, 2025
A Deeper Insider Look at Fatigue and Pacing / Why High Carbohydrate Intake Works - It's Not Fuel Depletion / A Heat Condundrum
76 hours 13 mins; November 20, 2025
Olympic Track and Field Schedule Surprises / Risk of Cardiac Events When Watching Sport / Rugby's Calendar Challenge
45 mins; November 19, 2025
Will the Olympics Finally Protect Women's Sport? / Anti-Doping Antagonism and The Enhanced Games / Bracy-Williams Banned
52 mins; November 14, 2025
The Story (and Science) of Endurance
102 hours 36 mins; November 11, 2025
Klecker Hits 175g/h Carbs in NYC / New York Racing Analysis / Ozempic Doping?
61 hours 44 mins; November 05, 2025
Is Exercise for Weight Loss a Waste of Time? / Doping Convictions, Conundrums and Coital Contaminations / Heat Stress Hacks
90 hours 44 mins; October 31, 2025
Does Cardio Training Kill The "Gainz"? / Are Tennis Players Playing Too Much? / The True Prevalence of Doping? / Unlocking a New Performance Metric
89 hours 53 mins; October 23, 2025
The World's Most Famous Amateur Cyclist on Training and Racing
44 mins; October 20, 2025
Do You Need Only 10g per Hour of Carbs? Tim Noakes Thinks So / Pacing Implosions: When Regulation Fails
90 hours 8 mins; October 16, 2025
How to Avoid the Traps of Bro Science / Protecting the Brain in Contact Sport / "Athlete Trafficking" and Talent Pathways
82 hours 39 mins; October 09, 2025
Women's World Cup Culmination / Ryder Cup Drama / CAS Dismisses Contaminated Meat Defence
72 hours 54 mins; October 02, 2025
World Cycling Champs Review: The Greatest Champs This Century? / Is Remco Close To Beating Pog? / Post Race Interviews
46 mins; October 01, 2025
Pro Preview: Ashleigh Moolman Pasio on Rwanda's World Cycling Champs
27 mins; September 25, 2025
The Tokyo 2025 Wrap: Winners, Losers and Lasting Memories / Womens' Rugby World Cup Final
77 hours 15 mins; September 24, 2025
Tokyo Day 9: Women's 800m Upset / Cole Hocker's Redemption Arc / Botswana Crash the USA Relay Parade
47 mins; September 21, 2025
Tokyo Day 8: An Historic Men's 800m / Women's 5000m Plays Into Chebet's Hands / Relay Qualification Carnage
46 mins; September 20, 2025
Tokyo Day 6 and Day 7: SML's Near WR as Two Break 48 / 400m Hurdles / 200m Defence and Doubles
56 mins; September 19, 2025
Tokyo Day 5: A Men’s 1500 Surprise Dissected / A Brutal Women’s’ Steeple How Fast Will Sydney ML Go?
66 hours 17 mins; September 17, 2025
Tokyo Day 4: Kipyegon Perfection / Tinch seals the 110m Hurdles / Men's 1500m Preview
35 mins; September 16, 2025
Tokyo Day 3: The Greatest Marathon Finish Ever? / Men's Steeplechase Drama / Hocker DQ
49 mins; September 15, 2025
Tokyo Day 2: The Fastest Man and Woman in the World / Men's 10000m Stunners / A marathon sprint
54 mins; September 14, 2025
Tokyo Day 1: Women's 10000m and Mixed 4 x 400m
51 mins; September 13, 2025
Reflections on Gladwell and Tokyo 2025 gets underway
53 mins; September 12, 2025
Tokyo 2025: Preview Show with Sean Ingle
66 hours 4 mins; September 10, 2025
Inside the Astonishing World of Elite Rowing
102 hours 20 mins; September 08, 2025
Follow Up: Did Malcolm Gladwell Need To Apologise for Trans Stance?
34 mins; September 04, 2025
Malcolm Gladwell Talks Sport
114 hours 16 mins; September 01, 2025
Tokyo Teasers, Women's Rugby Risks, and Doping Double Standards
89 hours 56 mins; August 29, 2025
Should Doping Coaches Be Banned For Life? / Heat and Heart Rate / Tokyo Rivalries In Focus
82 hours 31 mins; August 21, 2025
Zone 2: The Debate Continues / World Records Old and New
95 hours 38 mins; August 15, 2025
Why Everything You Know About Zone 2 Training is Probably Wrong
74 hours 51 mins; August 11, 2025
Cutting Weight to Win: PFP's Performance Strategy. Or Slippery Slope?
75 hours 38 mins; August 08, 2025
Inside The World of Women's Professional Cycling
79 hours 51 mins; August 07, 2025
Fitness, Fatigue and a Tour Without Fire (But Hope From the Women's TDF)
76 hours 11 mins; July 31, 2025
What Your Strava Fitness Score Really Means
84 hours 21 mins; July 28, 2025
Trust Issues: Doping, the Media, and the Athlete’s Dilemma
75 hours 42 mins; July 24, 2025
Hormones, Hype & High Performance: The Menstrual Cycle in Sport
96 hours 15 mins; July 21, 2025
🚨 SOS: It WAS Too Good To Be True: Marathon World Record Holder Chepng'etich Provisionally Suspended
27 mins; July 18, 2025
Staying Cool at the Tour - Gimmick or Gain? | Busting the Hype About Salty Sweat
72 hours 35 mins; July 17, 2025
The Science of Cramp
82 hours 24 mins; July 14, 2025
Vingegaard's Muscle: No Match for Pogacar? | Who is to Blame for Tour Crash Chaos?
69 hours 12 mins; July 10, 2025
What It's Really Like to be a Tennis Professional on Tour
88 hours 31 mins; July 07, 2025
Spotlight: Failing to Science the Sh*t Out of Running / A Legal Lens on Liability and Sports Injury
95 hours 5 mins; July 02, 2025
The Science of Fuelling: Inside the Carbohydrate Performance Paradigm
86 hours 56 mins; June 30, 2025
Spotlight: Cramping Truths and Myths / Unscientific Trans Non-Advantage Claims / Sports Science's Trust Erosion
81 hours 44 mins; June 25, 2025
Most Sports Science Research is False: The Replication Crisis Hits Sport
80 hours 29 mins; June 23, 2025
Spotlight: When Talent 'Stalls' / The Carbs vs Fat Shifting Paradigm / The Fragile Future of Track
70 hours 15 mins; June 18, 2025
Sport and Skin Cancer: How Big is the Risk?
75 hours 28 mins; June 17, 2025
Spotlight: Carbs vs Fat in Comrades Champions? / Sinner’s Loss is Tennis' gain?
60 hours 37 mins; June 11, 2025
The Science of Recovery
80 hours 46 mins; June 09, 2025
Perfect Bluff: How Yates won the Giro / Boxing’s New Sex Screening / How Science Revealed a Ultra Cheat
73 hours 41 mins; June 04, 2025
Spotlight: Breaking the Physiological Bank in Training, and Rethinking Rugby’s Red Card
80 hours 25 mins; May 28, 2025
Ultra Endurance: The Science behind Conquering the 400km Cocodona Trail Run
71 hours 37 mins; May 28, 2025
Spotlight: Peril, Pills, Promises & Potential: Sport's Performance and Ethical Battlegrounds
87 hours 24 mins; May 21, 2025
Spotlight: High Carbs, High Speeds, High Times…and a Drip Too Far
79 hours 26 mins; May 07, 2025
Spotlight: Talent, Trust and Testing Transparency
71 hours 8 mins; April 30, 2025
MARATHON SPECIAL: London & Boston Round-Up / Pacesetters or Not? / We Test What is Claimed to be the World's Fastest Shoe
94 hours 59 mins; April 29, 2025
Spotlight: The Birds & the Bees of Sports Science Research Papers. How Research is Conceived & Delivered
103 hours 50 mins; April 24, 2025
Spotlight: The UK Supreme Court and Implications for Women's Sport / A Tour of World Records, Paris Roubaix and Discourse Achievers
109 hours 35 mins; April 17, 2025
Spotlight: Fatigue as a Risk, a Requirement and a Red Herring / Grand Slam Track Reactions / New Olympic Sports
71 hours 43 mins; April 10, 2025
Heat, Hydration and 'Bum Clinics': The Science of Event Medicine
99 hours 27 mins; April 08, 2025
Spotlight: Matters of the Heart / Heart Health in Marathon Runners / Max HR / Concussion and Coaches
59 mins; April 02, 2025
Spotlight: A New IOC President / A New Tool To Protect Women's Sport / A New Power Metric
114 hours 49 mins; March 27, 2025
Spotlight: Teen Sprint Phenoms Accelerate / Talent Difference Makers / Community Rugby Concussion Insights
67 hours 25 mins; March 19, 2025
Spotlight: Physiological "Frugality", Power and Speed / Discourse Fuelling Success / Trans Sport Update
81 hours 39 mins; March 12, 2025
Spotlight: The Science of Improving Human Performances / Technological Advances in Sport / Talent Scouting Through Zwift
72 hours 18 mins; March 05, 2025
Spotlight: A Women's Sub 4-minute Mile? / A Tale of Textbook Heat Adaptation
65 hours 44 mins; February 28, 2025
Rethinking Polarised Training with Dr Stephen Seiler
112 hours 14 mins; February 27, 2025
Spotlight: World Records Galore as Running's Recalibration Resumes / A Final Jannik Sinner Discourse
50 mins; February 20, 2025
Can You Trust Your Sports Watch?
88 hours 10 mins; February 19, 2025
Spotlight: Janik Sinner Banned For Three Months
24 mins; February 15, 2025
Spotlight: Protecting Women's Sport - Update on New Developments and Policies From Around the World
86 hours 51 mins; February 12, 2025
The Science of Mind Coaching in Sport
85 hours 15 mins; February 11, 2025
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