Planet Sport

With the Olympic Games just a month away we talk to three athletes aiming to win medals in Rio - Kenyan long-distance runners Vivian Cheruiyot and Mercy Cherono and South Africa's Commonwealth Games women's javelin champion, Sunette Viljoen. And we continue our series through the Games of the modern Olympic era as we come to the 1996 Games in Atlanta.

This week we meet two Olympic champions about their plans and hopes for the Games this summer in Rio. Kenya's 1500m world champion, Asbel Kiprop, won gold in Beijing in 2008 while Christian Taylor from the United States is the reigning world and Olympic triple jump champion. And we continue our series journeying through the Games of the modern Olympic era as we come to the 1992 Games in Barcelona...

British 400m runner Christine Ohuruogu won the 2008 Olympic title in Beijing. Four years later in London she won silver. Add to that two world titles, the 2006 Commonwealth title and numerous relay medals and it all adds up to a very impressive career. This year Christine is looking forward to adding to her Olympic tally when she competes in the Summer Games in Rio. We talk to her about her career...

Following the death of sporting icon and former world heavyweight boxing champion, Muhammad Ali, last week, athletes at last weekend's Diamond League Athletics meeting in Birmingham pay their tributes. We hear from Mo Farah, Greg Rutherford, Christian Taylor and Asbel Kiprop. And Olympic 400 metres champion Kirani James from Grenada tells us about his hopes for defending his title this summer in R...

We look back at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, boycotted by 65 nations following the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We hear from Great Britain 50 km race walker Ian Richards. He tells us why he decided to compete when many other athletes chose to stay away and he recalls his race experience on a hot day in Moscow. He also talks about the support he received from his faith as a follower of J...

We're joined by professional racing driver instructor and Formula Ford racing champion, Adriano Medeiros, to discuss the unfolding drama in this season's Formula 1 Championship. We review 18-year-old driver Max Verstappen's brilliant win at the Spanish Grand Prix and consider whether Ferrari or Red Bull can overcome the dominance of Mercedes. And with the Olympic Games in Rio now just ten weeks aw...

Our Chief Football Correspondent Stuart Weir joins us to look back on a remarkable English Premier League season as Leicester City win the title by a margin of ten points. Stuart also selects two strikers who have made an impression on him this season, Manchester City's 19-year-old Nigerian Kelechi Iheanacho and Sunderland's veteran 33-year-old former England international, Jermain Defoe. And as o...

Our journey through the Games of the modern Olympic era reaches 1968 when the host city was Mexico City. We hear from two Olympic champions at those Games. First, American high jumper, Dick Fosbury whose new style of jumping with the Fosbury Flop helped him to the gold medal and went on to revolutionise the sport. And we hear from the winner of the women's 800 metres, Madeline Manning Mimms, who h...

As Juventus win the Serie A title for the 32nd time in their history we hear from one of the former players, central defender, Nicola Legrottaglie, who played for the club between 2003 and 2011. He talks about his first international match for Italy against Turkey in 2002 and his journey to faith as a follower of Jesus Christ. And we continue our series exploring the history of the modern Olympic...

This week we meet three of the athletes who took part in last Sunday's London Marathon. Tatyana McFadden from the USA won the women's wheelchair race for the fourth successive year. She talks about the challenges she has faced and overcome to become the world's leading female wheelchair racer. South African Ernst Van Dyk came fourth in the men's wheelchair event. He tells us why, as a ten-times Bo...

With the FA Cup semi-finals coming up this weekend we talk to a past FA Cup winner, Cyril Regis, who helped Coventry City win the trophy in 1987. He talks about his experience of racism in football and why his faith as follower of Jesus Christ is more important than his FA Cup winners' medal. Our series on the history of the modern Olympic era reaches 1956 when the Games were held in Melbourne. We...

In 2008 Nick Willis won silver in the 1500m at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Two years earlier he won the Commonwealth title in Melbourne and last month he picked up bronze at the World Indoor Championships in Portland, USA. Earlier this year he announced through his Facebook pages that with the help of his wife, family and friends he'd beaten an addiction to pornography that had gripped him until...

Our journey through the Olympics of the modern era brings us to the 1948 Games in London. Organised just three years after the end of the Second World War it became known as the Austerity Games due to the economic climate and post-war rationing. A record number of 59 nations took part but not Germany or Russia. Many athletes were housed in military barracks rather than a comfortable Olympic Villag...

We continue our journey through the Games of the modern Olympic era as we come to the 1936 Games in Berlin. These were the Games where Hitler wanted to show the supremacy of white athletes but a humble black American called Jesse Owens stole the show with four gold medals. And we talk to Dorothy Tyler who won silver in the women's high jump at the 1936 Games. In an interview recorded in 2011 when...

We hear from four athletes who competed in last weekend's World Indoor Athletics Championships in Portland, USA as they talk about their sport and faith as committed followers of Jesus Christ. They are gold medallists Trayvon Bromell (USA) in the men's 60 metres and Michelle Carter (USA) in the women's shot put along with New Zealand's Nick Willis who won bronze in the men's 1500 metres and anothe...

Ahead of the Olympic Games in Rio we visit a project in the city that uses futsal to offer hope and a safe environment to young people living in what can sometimes be violent communities. We hear from South Africa's 400 metres World Champion Wayde van Niekerk who last week completed a remarkable treble of running the 100 metres in under 10 seconds, the 200m in under 20 seconds and the 400m in unde...

This week we talk to one of the new track and field athletics sprint sensations, Trayvon Bromell. Last year the 20-year-old ran 100 metres in 9.84 seconds in the heats of the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships making him the 10th fastest man in history. Two months later he won bronze behind Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin at the World Championships in Beijing. In an interview recorded last month...

We're back at the Indoor Athletics Grand Prix in Glasgow on 20 February to talk to athletes preparing for this summer's Olympic Games in Rio. We hear from World 200m champion Dafne Schippers from the Netherlands and London 2012 bronze medallist in the men's 800m Timothy Kitum from Kenya. We also talk to Germany's 2012 Paralympic champion in the men's F44 long jump, Markus Rehm, who's set his sight...

This week we're at the International Indoor Athletics Grand Prix in Glasgow. We hear from Kenya's 2004 Olympic 3000m steeplechase bronze medallist Paul Kipsiele Koech on the drugs-testing crisis in Kenyan athletics and allegations of corruption that could see Kenya banned from the Rio Olympics. We also hear from South African sprinter Carina Horn on her Olympic hopes and USA hurdler Kevin Craddock...

We conclude our interview with British athlete Stephanie Cook who won gold at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney in the women's modern pentathlon. She tells us about the final three of the five disciplines in which she competed in one day and her joy at crossing the line first in the final event, the 3 kilometre run, be crowned champion. And continuing our series exploring the Games of the modern Olympic...

Olympic champion Stephanie Cook continues her story about how she won the women's modern pentathlon at the 2000 Games in Sydney. We find out how cheating in sport is nothing new as we go back to the 1904 Olympics in St Louis and we conclude our tour around the Olympic Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro as Christiane Paquelet, Cultural Director of the Brazil Olympic Committee, tells us about the unique R...

Sydney 2000 gold medallist in the women's modern pentathlon, Stephanie Cook, tells us how she got into the sport and her journey to faith as a follower of Jesus Christ. We find out about Olympic memorabilia as we continue our tour around the Olympic Exhibition in Rio and we hear about the unknown young boy who held the Dutch rowing team to victory at the 1900 Games in Paris.

Double world champion and double Olympic silver medallist rower Debbie Flood talks about some of the key aspects of her life in elite sport from faith to diet and drugs testing. And we continue our tour around the Olympic Exhibition in Rio with Christiane Paquelet, Cultural Director of the Brazil Olympic Committee, this time coming to the medals and mascots.

Debbie Flood is a two times World Champion and double Olympic silver medallist. As part of Great Britain's women's quadruple sculls team she won the 2006 & 2010 World Championships and Olympic silver in Athens (2004) and Beijing (2008). She talks to us about her training and the sacrifices she had to make to reach the top. And we continue our tour around the Olympic Exhibition when it visited 2016...

We continue our tour of the Olympic Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro as the Brazilian city prepares to host the Summer Olympics in August. This week we discover the variety and creativity of the different Olympic torches and see items belonging to the founder of the modern Olympic movement, Baron Pierre de Coubertin. And we meet former Newcastle and Chelsea midfielder Gavin Peacock as he tells us how...