Podcasts: sport

For our travel feature this month, correspondent Julian Earwaker spent a week cycling through the west of Ireland. Listen now to a portion of an interview with John Heagney, who organizes cycle holidays.

With the Wimbledon Championships starting soon, there’s never been a better time to brush up on your tennis vocabulary.

In this week’s podcast, we focus on the controversy surrounding the South African athlete Caster Semenya. Radio journalist Romie Singh in Johannesburg is here to tell you more.

In the light of China’s human-rights abuses in Tibet and elsewhere, “Should sport and politics ever mix?” is the question we pose in the Debate section this month. Vassil Malandris, our correspondent in Australia, asked people in Adelaide what they think.

The August issue of Spotlight magazine features a special Olympic language test. We give you the chance to exercise your language skills. Here on the podcast, we have our own special test, in which you can race against the clock.