Best Gtga Media Podcasts (2024)

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Peter Hatzoglou | Warne's Wisdom 40:30

1y ago40:30

40:30

At just 24, Australian cricketer Peter Hatzoglou already has a cricketing CV to envy. The legspinner is one of the most exciting young players in the game, is a Big Bash winner, and has also had stints in the UK playing for Oval Invincibles and Glamorgan… However, his journey to the top is more unusual than most and not that long ago a career in cr…

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Paul McGinley | The Art of Captaincy 1:10:15

1y ago1:10:15

1:10:15

Paul McGinley was an elite golfer in his own right - reaching the lofty heights of top 20 in the world at one stage. However, Paul is perhaps best known for his success in team competitions, notably the Ryder Cup in which he played integral roles in 2002 when he sunk the winning putt and in 2014 when he captained Europe to victory. During this epis…

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Tom Bosworth | Taking The First Step 1:05:50

1+ y ago1:05:50

1:05:50

TOM BOSWORTH | Taking The First Step | Out Now In the latest episode of the podcast, we talk to two-time Olympic Race Walker, Tom Bosworth, who provides some of the most powerful insights we’ve had on the series to date. During the conversation, we cover: - Captaining Team England and Winning Silver at the Commonwealth Games - Walking a mile quicke…

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Amy Williams MBE | Talent to Triumph 59:23

2y ago59:23

59:23

Amy Williams was propelled to stardom in 2010 after winning Britain’s first individual gold medal at the Winter Olympic Games in 30 years. Having only started Skeleton Racing at 19 years old, eight years prior to the Games, Amy’s story is one of dreaming big and following an ambition with focus and disciplined day-to-day habits. The topics we cover…

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Anna Patten | Lioness Legacy 54:38

2y ago54:38

54:38

Ever since the Lionesses completed that historic Euros victory in the summer, we’ve wanted to get someone involved in the England set up on the podcast - and having played many times for the U23 national side, Anna Patten is in a perfect position to explain the current state of play in the women’s game and how the Euros success has given a real opp…

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Tony Stanger | Lessons in Leadership 1:05:20

2y ago1:05:20

1:05:20

Tony Stanger is a Scottish rugby legend - playing 52 times for Scotland and, up until very recently, holding the nation's record for total tries scored. Post-rugby, Tony became an author, a coach and a business owner with his high performance consultancy named ‘Stanger Pro’. In this episode we cover: - Scoring Scotland’s most famous try - Leadershi…

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Anna Hemmings MBE | Beyond the Barriers 59:43

2y ago59:43

59:43

Anna Hemmings is a six-time world champion, two-time Olympian and now a world-class keynote speaker and performance consultant. Anna’s sporting career can be summed up as not only one of elite high-performance but also one of consistent success against the odds. Initially, this was proving the British Head Coach wrong – who had told her when younge…

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Christian Wade | Redefining Success 1:09:39

2y ago1:09:39

1:09:39

Christian is a former rugby player for England, British Lions & London Wasps. At 27 though, despite being one of the highest Premiership try scorers of all time, Christian took up a new challenge by becoming part of the NFL International Player Programme, securing a place on the Buffalo Bills squad & ultimately scoring a touchdown with his first co…

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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson | 'Sport has the Power to Change the World' 1:33:55

3y ago1:33:55

1:33:55

Tanni Grey-Thompson was born with spina bifida and subsequently became paralysed at the age of 7. Six years later, inspired by Paralympic legend Chris Hallam, Tanni began wheelchair racing and instantly fell in love with the sport. Tanni had won her first race within three years of starting, and just two years after that, Tanni won the London Wheel…

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Thomas Hal Robson-Kanu | Taking Your Shot 1:11:47

3y ago1:11:47

1:11:47

Thomas Hal Robson-Kanu's most famous moment on the football pitch came in 2016 when, against all odds, Wales reached the Semi-Final of the Euros. In the quarter-final, Hal Robson-Kanu scored one of the most memorable goals in modern football history, beating three defenders with one Cruyff turn and putting it past Thibaut Courtois, one of the best …

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Adam Hollioake | Grief, Gratitude & Greatness 1:11:50

3y ago1:11:50

1:11:50

Having captained the England cricket team, as well as later becoming both a professional boxer and mixed martial arts fighter, there is no one else in the world who has experienced a sporting career like Adam Hollioake has. Despite having been born in Australia, as well as living in Hong Kong throughout his childhood, Adam Hollioake captained the E…

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Tony Underwood | Flying High: A Story of Resilience 1:03:16

3y ago1:03:16

1:03:16

A British & Irish Lion, international rugby player and producer of some of the most memorable moments in English Rugby. Coming off the back of a Grand Slam win in 1995, in which Tony Underwood and his brother, Rory, scored 7 of the 9 tries their team scored all tournament, England entered the World Cup of that same year full of confidence. The high…

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Ed Jackson | Millimetres to Mountains 1:14:35

3y ago1:14:35

1:14:35

Ed Jackson had a ten-year career in rugby. A proud Bath lad, and someone who had grown up watching Bath at the Rec, Ed’s dreams came true when he was signed by the club in 2007 at 18 years old. Surprisingly, it was a day off the rugby field though that would bring Ed’s rugby career to an end. On 6th April 2017, at a family party, Ed chose to jump i…

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Layla Guscoth | Defending the Nation: From the Court to Covid Wards 53:59

3y ago53:59

53:59

Today, we have the great privilege of releasing our conversation with Layla Guscoth who is both an international sportsperson and a qualified Doctor on the Covid-19 frontline. In February 2020, Layla won a dream move to play professional netball for the Adelaide Thunderbirds in the Australian Suncorp Super League, widely regarded as one of the most…

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Ben Hunt-Davis MBE | Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? 1:09:03

3y ago1:09:03

1:09:03

“Will it make the boat go faster?” is a question that helped change the life and the sporting success of Ben Hunt-Davis MBE. Although Ben is now an Olympic Gold medallist and renowned performance consultant, success in the rowing boat hadn’t always come as frequently for Ben as you may have thought. By his own admission, Ben had underachieved on th…

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Frances Houghton MBE | Learnings From 5 Olympic Games 45:51

3y ago45:51

45:51

As a teenager, Frances Houghton wrote a contract to herself saying “I vow to do everything I can to get to Sydney 2000.” Twenty years later, as well as having already achieved the initial dream of going to Sydney, Frances was a 5-time Olympian, 4-time World Champion and one of the most successful British rowers of all time. Frances - as the first f…

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Nick Compton | Unwavering Focus 57:33

3y ago57:33

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Grandson of former Arsenal footballer and England cricket legend, Denis, Nick Compton has huge sporting pedigree and in many ways it was written in the stars that he would become a professional athlete. However, it wasn’t just good genes that enabled Nick to reach the highest level - it was his unwavering focus and relentless dedication that allowe…

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Martyn Rooney | The Inside Track 58:13

3+ y ago58:13

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Martyn Rooney is a double 400m European Champion, a former captain of Team GB, and an athlete who has been at the top of their sport for over ten years. ⠀ ⠀Despite the incredibly successful career that Martyn has had, he is no stranger to disappointment and controversy. With Martyn, as is often the case with track and field athletes, these highs an…

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Lewis Hatchett | No Excuses 1:08:56

3+ y ago1:08:56

1:08:56

As described by ESPN Cricinfo, "Lewis Hatchett achieved one of the most gloriously defiant careers in the history of cricket…" Lewis was born with a condition called Poland Syndrome, a rare condition which appears in only one in 100’00 births, leaving Hatchett missing a right pectoral muscle, and the two ribs that would have been behind it. At birt…

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James Taylor | Embracing the Challenge 1:03:12

3+ y ago1:03:12

1:03:12

With 27 ODIs and 7 Test matches under his belt, former England cricketer, James Taylor, was an extremely talented batsman and fielder, who was renowned for his work ethic and physical fitness. And it was his exceptional fitness levels that ultimately saved his life, when in 2016, he was diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy…

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Lou Vincent | Road to Redemption: Confessions of a Match Fixer 1:01:43

3+ y ago1:01:43

1:01:43

Match-fixing is ‘the action or practice of dishonestly determining the outcome of a match before it is played.’ In this interview, we speak to someone who, themselves, has received eleven life bans for fixing cricket matches. Before being embroiled in scandal, Lou Vincent was a world-class cricketer, famed for his fearless approach to the game and …

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Jeremy Snape | The Winning Philosophy 56:09

3+ y ago56:09

56:09

Having spent the last fifteen years advising and getting inside the minds of champions, including the likes of Frank Lampard, Shane Warne, Stuart Broad and Boris Becker, there is perhaps no one who is better qualified to make sense of elite-sporting performance than Jeremy Snape. Jeremy had an incredibly successful 16 year cricket career, in which …

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Emily Diamond | An Olympian's Mindset 1:02:09

3+ y ago1:02:09

1:02:09

In 2016, at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, Emily Diamond and her teammates stood on the podium after winning the bronze medal in the 4 x 400m relay. While the race to get there only lasted a few minutes, the journey started many months and years prior. Ever since Emily took up athletics as a teenager, she has been focussed, dedicated and willing…

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Josh Ibuanokpe | Making an Impact 44:17

3+ y ago44:17

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Professional rugby player, business owner, physics graduate, philanthropist. These are all words that describe Josh Ibuanokpe. A front row forward for firstly Harlequins and latterly Saracens, Josh has been a part of some hugely successful squads in the Gallagher Premiership, and has been a part of some memorable wins along the way. Playing front-r…

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Miles Hammond | Beating the 'Yips' and Re-Invention 34:28

3+ y ago34:28

34:28

Miles Hammond started off his career as a promising young bowler, travelling the world with the England U-19 side, and taking wickets for his county. However, a potential battle with the ‘yips’ followed, and Miles had to adapt and change his game entirely. The ‘yips’ was coined by golfer Tommy Armour in the 1920s to describe his sudden inability to…

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Kenji Gorré | More Than a Footballer 58:14

3+ y ago58:14

58:14

Kenji Gorré is definitely more than just a footballer. Son of Dutch football legend, Dean Gorré, Kenji was tipped to stardom from a young-age, when he played for both Manchester City’s and Manchester United’s academies at just 6 years old. This was the perfect footballing education, as he learned from the likes of Giggs, Scholes and Ferdinand on a …

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Tymal Mills | Near Retirement to Million Dollar Man 47:30

3+ y ago47:30

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The incredibly technical nature of cricket means that many of the games current professionals had to have been born “with a bat in hand”. For Tymal Mills, the case could not have been more different. At 13, as someone who was largely unaware of the sport, Tymal was asked to fill in for a friend in a local after-school club game. A clear natural to …

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Jay DeMerit | Sunday League to the Premier League 54:43

3+ y ago54:43

54:43

Jay DeMerit's story is one of high risks and high rewards. At 18 years old, Jay flew to England with just $1800 to his name, in the bid to become a professional footballer. Jay spent a couple of years in the lower tiers of English football, before playing Watford in a friendly and impressing so much that he secured a contract with the then-Champion…

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Alex Davis | Finding a ‘Why?’ 1:10:00

3+ y ago1:10:00

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Most athlete’s careers are full of highs and lows, but for Alex the peaks and troughs have been bigger than most. Medals at the Commonwealth Games and the Rugby Sevens World Cup have come alongside the death of his father, a series of long-term injuries and Olympic heartbreak. Alex’s strength to bounce-back from these set-backs is phenomenal and hi…

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Daniel Geey | The Secrets of Football Business 32:22

3+ y ago32:22

32:22

The coronavirus pandemic provided an opportunity for football’s professionals to take a break from the game, and use the time to express their interests, via Instagram and Twitter, for areas outside of football. Perhaps the best example of this was Hector Bellerin, who, since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, has not only become the second-lar…

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Luke Amos | Changing the Narrative of the Modern Footballer 45:49

4y ago45:49

45:49

Narrated by Tom Hardy, the most recent All or Nothing series grants access to Tottenham Hotspur during the first campaign in their new billion-pound stadium. In contrast to the past edition with Man City, which was criticised for being a blatant PR exercise, the Spurs edition is far from sanitised, and lifts the lid insightfully into the lifestyle …

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Alicia Blagg | Olympian at 15: Dealing with the Pressure 45:52

4y ago45:52

45:52

Alicia Blagg: Olympian, National Champion, Commonwealth Gold medalist, future detective and mental health advocate. It’s an extensive CV already at just 23 years old. For most athletes, competing at the Olympic Games is the pinnacle of their career. For Alicia Blagg, involvement in the Games was achieved at just 15 years old when she competed at Lo…

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Marc Sagal | The Psychology of Sven's England 43:44

4y ago43:44

43:44

Not many people can say they’ve worked with Microsoft, the US Army, Manchester City and the England football team. Marc Sagal, a sports psychology consultant, has worked with all these organisations, plus many more. Sport psychology is a developing field and it has come a long way since Marc began his career. Initially, Marc was met by scepticism; …

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Jon Smith | The Original 'Super-Agent' 39:46

4y ago39:46

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Asif Kapadia’s 2019 documentary shows that, ironically for a man with such gifted ball control, in Naples, almost everything else in Maradona's life progressively slipped from his grasp. The fame and notoriety that his unique talent brought, was sadly accompanied by unwanted and harmful attention from outside influences and as a result, his departu…

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Angus Scott | The Changing Nature of Football Media 37:47

4y ago37:47

37:47

Angus Scott, has presented football all around the world, working for ITV, Setanta Sports and more recently BeIN Sports. With over 30 years experience covering the sport, Angus has seen the football broadcast landscape change dramatically; from one or two cameras at stadiums in the 1990s to the modern day package which sees 40+ cameras and a range …

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Introduction 1:06

4y ago1:06

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GIVING THE GAME AWAY with Cam Scott and Joel Barber features interviews with a range of elite athletes including Olympic gold medallists, international footballers and BBC Sports Personality of the Year winners.Our aim is to humanise sportspeople by discussing their off-the-pitch interests, and highlighting lesser-spoken aspects of their lives such…

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