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Keeping you up to date with sport across the Forces world
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
32 minutes
English
United Kingdom
47 episodes
since Sept. 27, 2021
episodic
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‘I’ve never experienced anything like it in my life’ is how Luke Pollard described the crowds at this year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. They spurred him and Dave Ellis to win para triathlete gold in the summer as England celebrated an incredible home games. On the RAF’s elite athlete scheme,…
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How do professional rugby contracts work for serving military personnel? That's the question Forces Sport put to Chris Fowke, the Chief Operations Officer and Secretary of Army Rugby Union. The likes of Semesa Rokoduguni, who played at Bath Rugby for ten years and went on to represen…
The Simpson Cup celebrated its tenth anniversary this year with a win for Team GB on US soil. A Ryder cup style tournament for injured, wounded and sick military veterans from the US and Great Britain, its creator John Simpson was a guest on Forces Sport in October last year. The competition conti…
Amelia Faulker is 18 years old and is already established as a pistol shooter for Great Britain. She started competing at only 13 years old and after leaving school she needed to make a decision about her future and how she could pursue her chosen sport whilst also making a life for herself…so she …
Ali Booker started out in the police force, but her whole life interest in dietetics and nutrition soon bought about a change in career. After studying at university and qualifying as a dietitian she was looking for a way to combine all her passions when the opportunity came up to work, as an Army …
The 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham have come to a close, and without doubt, every home nations athlete has credited the crowd support as being a large part of their success. That also rings true for the forces competitors representing their countries this summer, including medal winners Luke…
It is ten years since London hosted the summer Olympic Games. Team GB won 29 gold medals during the two-week tournament including a podium topping performance from Royal Navy star Pete Reed. He was part of the men's coxless four who enjoyed success during the competition. Reed, who had a glitt…
It’s only a matter of days until the Commonwealth Games kick off in Birmingham so, for second week running, Forces Sport has been speaking to a couple of our forces athletes. British Army judokas Sarah Hawkes and Victor Ahiavor will both be taking to the mat but representing different countries. Sa…
The Commonwealth Games get underway at the end of July and, as ever, a select handful of forces athletes will be taking part. This week, Forces Sport speaks to Royal Marine judoka Chris Sherrington, Army boxer Meg Reid and the RAF’s para triathlete guide Luke Pollard. Chris’s journey started by jus…
This month, Billy Thomson stands down as secretary of Army Football - a post he’s held for 21 years. He jokes that he wasn’t much of a player but his love for the game, and his desire to facilitate the game at every level of the Army, has kept him a busy man over the last two decades. He’s overseen…
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