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Season Three of the Warm Up Track continues with Ryan Crouser, reigning World and Olympic champion and World Record holder for the men’s shot put.Why does Ryan believes the 24 metre barrier can be broken?Would he rather a third Olympic gold, or a world record that could stand for 30 or 40 years?How has watching MMA and UFC fighters made him a better thrower?Where in Eugene might you find Ryan serving you your pizza?Ryan also explains why, despite playing American Football growing up, the potential for head injuries dissuaded him from pursuing it as a career. He breaks down the changes in technique which have already allowed him to improve his own world record and explains how, just months before he won Olympic gold in Rio, he was ready to walk away from the sport.Photo: Ryan Crouser of United States competes in Men's Shot Put during Athletissima, part of the 2023 Diamond League series at Stade Olympique de la Pontaise in Lausanne, Switzerland. (Credit: Getty Images)

Summer marks the 50th anniversary of the WTA - the Women's Tennis Association. Billie Jean King, along with Rosie Casals and many others, led the way in forming an organisation to give women equal rights in tennis. They've helped pave the way for the many great players who have graced the women's game since - Martina Hingis, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graff, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Naomi Osaka, Iga Swiatek and many, many more have won Grand Slam titles since the formation of the WTA in 1973. In a special Sportsworld podcast, Delyth Lloyd celebrates a milestone moment for women’s tennis. Photo: Ann Kiyomura-Hayashi, Penelope Moor, Pam Whytcross, Helen Gourlay, Rosie Casals, Ingrid Löfdahl Bentzer, Betty Stöve, Billie Jean King, Françoise Dürr, Christina Sandberg, Ilana Kloss, Trish Bostrom and Sue Lightbody pose, as the WTA celebrates their 50th with iconic founder Billie Jean King and several founding members on June 30, 2023 in London, England. (Credit: Getty Images)

The Warm Up Track is back! Season Three continues with World Indoor 60m Champion Mujinga Kambundji and World 200m Finalist, Joseph Fahnbulleh.Who can’t remember the biggest race of their career – and what’s it really like when you’re in ‘The Zone’?Which athlete is like a big brother to one of our guests – and what’s it like when one of your siblings is also an elite athlete?What’s the most important non-Track and Field item which will be going in the suitcase for the World Championships?Joseph also discusses at length why he chose to represent the country of his parents’ birth, Liberia, and why his first visit to the country will be with his Mother. Plus we discuss how our guests, and others, are making the sprints truly global and no longer simply the United States versus Jamaica.Photo: Canada's Aaron Brown, Liberia's Joseph Fahnbulleh and USA's Noah Lyles competes in the men's 200m semi-finals during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on August 3, 2021. (Credit: AFP via Getty Ima

Test match cricket is played over five days - the red-ball version of the game is still seen as the true test of how you measure up to the games greats.But there are now more and more shorter format competitions - the Indian Premier League is the most lucrative, but T20 franchise cricket is being played around the world. The big three nations - Australia, India and England still play bilateral test series against each other with commercial appeal but elsewhere there are fewer Test matches.So, what does the future hold for cricket’s purest form of the game? Sportsworld’s Lee James has been to Lord’s to investigate.Photo: A general view inside the Lord’s cricket ground as Stuart Broad of England appeals unsuccessfully for the wicket of Marnus Labuschagne of Australia during Day Three of the LV= Insurance Ashes 2nd Test match between England and Australia in London, England. (Credit: Getty Images)

In a special Sportsworld podcast, Lee James looks back at five key moments in the evolution of women's cricket.Photo: Australia celebrate after winning the ICC Women's T20 Cricket World Cup Final match between India and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on March 08, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. (Credit: Getty Images)

England’s record-breaking pace bowler James Anderson is now starting his third decade as an international cricketer. Now aged 40, England’s leading Test wicket taker is playing in his 10th Ashes series, but shows no sign of stopping anytime soon.Hear from Anderson and players who have played alongside and against him including former England captain Sir Alastair Cook and Australia’s Peter Siddle as Sportsworld’s Lee James celebrates the England bowler’s two decades at the top.(Image: James Anderson of England celebrates taking the wicket of Alex Carey of Australia during Day Three of the LV= Insurance Ashes 1st Test match between England and Australia at Edgbaston on June 18, 2023 in Birmingham, England. Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)

The Warm Up Track is back! Season Three continues with Commonwealth 1500m Champion Oliver Hoare and World 200m Finalist, Luxolo Adams.Who could have made it as a professional footballer?Whose Dad woke the neighbours up honking the car horn when his son won?What’s the strangest thing an opponent has done to win the psychological battle pre-race?How do you process being compared to one of your country’s all-time greats, who was winning their medals more than 60 years ago?We also discuss track and field’s new fly-on-the-wall documentaries – being shot this season – and the need for the sport to find characters and tell their stories. Plus, we hear first-hand how the visa issues which affected a number of athletes before last year’s World Championships impacted directly on one of our guests. Photo: Oliver Hoare of Team Australia celebrates after winning the gold medal in the Men's 1500m Final on day nine of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games at Alexander Stadium on August 06, 2022 on the Birmingham, England.

The Warm Up Track is back! Season Three continues with World Shot Put Champion Chase Ealey and World Heptathlon Bronze medallist, Anna Hall.How does the first injury sustained during a Warm Up Track recording happen? Whose Dad had to tell them that the 1500 metres/High Jump double wasn't a thing at the Olympics? What's it like when your event's world record holder marks you out for greatness? Who might you see spinning in unlikely places?We also hear why the language and attitudes around body shape in sport have to change. Plus, why female athletes need to come up with specific coaching solutions and techniques to achieve their goals, rather than just copying the men.Photo: Chase Ealey of Team United States competes in Women's Shot Put during Meeting de Paris, part of the 2023 Diamond League series at Stade Charlety on June 09, 2023 in Paris, France. (Credit: Getty Images)

The Warm Up Track is back! Season three begins with world champion hurdler Grant Holloway and Gabriela DeBues-Stafford, world and Olympic 1500 metres finalist.What happens when a shot-putter needs to borrow your jacket? Who might have made it as a speed skater? Who might need a couch to do a 5K?Plus, why something as simple as dyeing your hair can resonate way beyond the track and how athletes can use their platform to speak out about causes close to their heart.(Image: Grant Holloway of USA celebrates after winning the Men's 60m Hurdles during the World Athletics Indoor Tour - Birmingham at Utilita Arena Birmingham on February 25, 2023 in Birmingham, England. Photo by Stephen Pond - British Athletics/British Athletics via Getty Images)

A new documentary revealing the untold stories behind Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta’s journey to the top.In Barcelona, former Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina relives his time sharing bunk-beds with Arteta at the world-famous La Masia academy, declaring that the boy from the Basque country was “born to be a manager”.Presenter John Bennett travels to Arteta’s home town of San Sebastian to meet his childhood coach at a small club, next to a hair salon, that has become an amazing football talent factory.Hear from former team-mates at Everton, Arsenal and Rangers, from where Dutch great Ronald de Boer remembers Arteta stepping up aged 21 to score a stoppage-time penalty to snatch the title from Glasgow rivals Celtic: “To take that responsibility, at such a young age, in such an important game and moment of that decisive title race against Celtic was impressive.”And find out why the Welsh city of Newport played such an important part in Arteta’s journey into coaching.Arsenal legend Arsene Wenger and former Man City

Sportsworld’s Lee James is in Mumbai, the venue for the inaugural Women’s Premier League final, to reflect on the ground-breaking new women’s cricket competition.Delhi Capitals captain Meg Lanning joins us to discuss how the competition is “on another level” to anything else she’s experienced. Former Indian cricketer Anjali Pendharkar tells us how women’s cricket has evolved over the last 30 years, plus we will speak to India journalist Zenia D’Cunha who tells us how the tournament has been perceived. And Mumbai Indians head coach Charlotte Edwards discusses her experience of coaching in India.Photo: Smriti Mandhana of Royal Challengers Bangalore and Meg Lanning of Delhi Capitals at the toss during the WPL 2023 match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals at Brabourne Stadium on March 5, 2023 in Mumbai, India. (Credit: Getty Images)

John Bennett travels to Rabat, capital city of Morocco to find out the secrets behind the country's football success. He visits the King Mohammad VI complex; the new headquarters of the football federation and home to the men's and women's national teams. John gets an exclusive look behind the scenes of the complex and speaks to the backroom staff who helped develop the country's football philosophy. Following their fourth place finish in Qatar, John speaks to members of the men’s team, including manager Walid Regragui, goalkeeper Yassine Bounou and midfielder Ilias Chair about becoming the first African and Arab team to reach the semi finals of the World Cup. He also speaks to the women’s head coach Reynold Pedros and forward Rosella Ayane ahead of the women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. (Image: Morocco men's national team, Credit: Getty Images)

Mondo Duplantis, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Noah Lyles are among Ed Harry’s guests as Sportworld reflects on the year in Track and Field and looks ahead to 2023. Also joining Ed are the former global 800 metres medallist, Jenny Meadows, along with Ade Adedoyin and Katie Smith. Plus, we’ll hear from two of the sport’s rising stars, Erriyon Knighton and Adriana Vilagos.Photo: Armand Duplantis of Team Sweden reacts after setting a world record and winning gold in the Men's Pole Vault Final on day ten of the World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

As the BBC World Service celebrates its 90th anniversary, we look back on nine decades of sports broadcasting. From the launch of Saturday Special in 1959 through to the present day, this is the history of BBC World Service sport featuring iconic sporting moments, familiar theme tunes and memories of presenters past and present.Mike Costello, Russell Fuller, Caroline Barker, Lee James and Nishat Ladha join Delyth Lloyd to take a trip down memory lane.(Photo: Sportsworld presenter Lee James at the 2018 Fifa World Cup. Credit: BBC)

Former US goalkeeper Brad Friedel, former Congo defender Chris Samba and football reporter Maz Farookhi join Delyth Lloyd as they discuss who will make the team of the tournament for the 2022 World Cup. There are some rules: the formation is 4-3-3 as it’s been the most used during the competition, the panellists could only select 3 players from one nation and Delyth will have the final say on who will be going into the BBC World Service World Cup XI.

World Cup winners Frank Leboeuf and Heather O'Reilly, former Leicester City and Celtic manager Martin O'Neill, former Brazil goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes and Iceland midfielder Johann Berg Gudmundsson reveal the secrets of navigating the knockout stages of a football tournament. We'll also hear about how players can prepare for these huge matches away from the pitch thanks to Professor Steve Peters, who specialises in mental health and the functioning of the human mind. Narration by Delyth Lloyd. (Image: France win the World Cup, Credit: Getty Images)

As the World Cup kicks off Delyth Lloyd is joined by the BBC’s Sports News Correspondent Alex Capstick to examine a range of issues that have overshadowed Qatar 2022, starting with the initial awarding of the tournament, which the former Fifa President Sepp Blatter has since told the BBC was a “mistake”. Yasmine Ahmed from Human Rights Watch joins us to talk about the conditions for migrant workers in the country and says while they have improved, more must be done to compensate workers, and the families of those that have been injured or died in the country. Dr Nasser Mohamed, a gay Qatari now living in the USA, opens up about his experience growing up as a gay man in Qatar, and explained what he hopes to achieve by founding the “Proud Maroons”, a LGBTQI+ fans group for the country’s national team. We also examine the claims around the environmental impact of the tournament, which Fifa insists will be the first carbon-neutral World Cup, and hear from leading environmentalists who’ve told the BBC that claim i

Ghana and Uruguay created one of the most dramatic and controversial moments in World Cup history in 2010, when the "Black Stars” were the width of a crossbar away from becoming the first African team to reach the semi-finals. Uruguay's Luis Suárez was sent off in the last minute of extra time for handling the ball on the line and then celebrated wildly when Ghana's Asamoah Gyan's penalty hit the bar. Ghana went on to lose a penalty shoot-out, a continent was heartbroken and Suárez became public enemy number 1 in Africa. Twelve years on, and the two teams will meet again at the World Cup in Qatar and Sportsworld's John Bennett delves into why revenge is so important for Ghana's football fans. He speaks to Gyan, gets the view from Uruguay and speaks to journalists and fans who lived and breathed that epic first match. (Photo: Luis Suárez of Uruguay handles the ball on the goal line, for which he is sent off, during a FIFA World Cup quarter-final match between Uruguay and Ghana at the Soccer City stadium in Joh

We discuss the financial situation at Barcelona, their moves in the transfer market, hopes for the new season and the success of their women’s team.Sportsworld's Delyth Lloyd is joined by the Athletic’s Pol Ballus, Ernest Macia of Radio Catalunya, finance expert Kieran Maguire, German football journalist Constantin Eckner and former Barcelona Femení forward Toni Duggan.Photo: General view of the Camp Nou Stadium prior the LaLiga Santander match between FC Barcelona and Rayo Vallecano. (Credit: Getty Images)

Sportsworld's Lee James is joined by the former Arsenal, West Ham and Wolves striker Jeremie Aliadiere, the Reading and England striker Natasha Dowie, and the Independent's chief football writer Miguel Delaney to look ahead to the new Premier League season. The panel discuss how the winter World Cup in Qatar will impact on the season, how Manchester City and Liverpool will evolve with their two new number nines, and whether big spenders Spurs can put up a genuine title challenge. We'll hear from Sadio Mane on his decision to leave Anfield, from Martin Odegaard on Arsenal's hopes for the new season, and from Raphael Varane on having no regrets on swapping Madrid for Manchester.Photo: Fernandinho of Manchester City lifts the trophy after the Premier League match between Manchester City and Aston Villa at Etihad Stadium on May 22, 2022. (Credit: Offside via Getty Images)