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In this episode of the Sport Intern Special podcast, Ashish Sharma speaks to Laurent Petrynka. Laurent has been the President of the International School Sport Federation since 2014. The Federation has been making great strides in the development of school sports worldwide.  Ashish began by asking Laurent how they were growing school sports

Squash is one of the few sports that is played worldwide but has always been on the fringes of the Olympics. And it is still waiting for an opportunity. Could its chance come in Los Angeles 2028? Or maybe Brisbane in 2032? In this episode, we speak to the Zeena Wooldridge the president of the World Squash Federation. She tells Ashish Sharma that while being in the Olympics is the ultimate ambition...

 In this episode we speak to one of the legends of US wrestling. Jim Scherr competed for his country in the Seoul Summer Olympics in 1988  and was a world cup champion in 1986 and again in 1989.  These days Jim is the CEO of World Lacrosse the oldest sports in the USA. The roots of the game go way back to Indigenous Nations being played by native Americans bordering the USA and Cana...

In this episiode we continue with our theme of looking at the build up to the Paris Olympics and Paralympics taking place in 2022. In part 1 we heard from the Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet. In this edition, we get a take on the Games of the Parisian government, with the thoughts of the Deputy Mayor Pierre Rabadan. We also get the point of view of a French athlete. The volleyball Olympic cham...

In this special edition of the sport intern series of podcasts, we look at the build up to the Paris Summer Olympics in 2024. The two year mark for the Games has just passed and sport intern went to Paris to speak to Tony Estanguet. The former Olympic champion in canoeing is now the president of Paris 2024, the Olympic organising body for the Paris Games. In our chat with Tony, we find out how the...

In this episode of the Sport Intern Special podcast we revisit the recently held WADA Symposium in Lausanne in Switzerland. Jez Inson went along on behalf of Sport Intern and spoke to Olivier Niggli the General Director of the World Anti Doping Agency.

This is the second part of the Sport Intern Special interview with Jose Perurena. The President of the International World Games Association, (IWGA) spoke to us in Part 1 about the forthcoming World Games in Alabama Birmingham. In this second part of our chat, Jose touched on topics ranging from the Olympics, to engaging with the youth and about his passion for his own sport of canoeing

For this episode Jeremy Inson travelled to Lausanne to cover the recent WADA Symposium on behalf of the Sport Intern special podcast. In this edition Jeremy sits down to chat with the president of WADA Witold Banka and WADA anti doping researcher Andrea Petroczi..

The World Games take place this July a year after they were supposed to be held. The International World Games Association (IWGA) president is Jose Perurena, a former canoe sprint athlete, who represented his native country of Spain in the 1968 Summer Olympics. Perurena was hosting the IWGA General Assembly in Madrid recently and he took some time out to speak to sport intern. In his conversation...

In this episode we continue with Part 2 of our conversation with Francesco Ricci Bitti the President of ASOIF, the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations. Mr Bitti tells Sport Intern that he is a man "of evolution and not revolution" when it comes to changes within the Olympic Movement. He also reflects on some of his achievements in his time working in sports administration.&nbsp...

In this edition of the Sport Intern Special podcast we hear from one of the most influential leaders within the Olympic Movement. Francesco Ricci Bitti began his career as a tennis player, but quickly became an influential figure in the administration side of sport. He has been the president of the Association of Summer International Federations (ASOIF) since 2013, leading the organisation through...

In this, the second part of our interview with Sebastian Coe, the President of World Athletics, he talks about plans to have gender parity at the World Athletics council by 2027. He also gives us his thoughts on transgender athletes

In this episode Ashish Sharma from Sport Intern catches up with the President of World Athletics Sebastian Coe. In the first part of a two part interview, Sebastian talks about the ongoing sporting bans imposed on Russia and Belarus. He also looks forward to an exciting season for World Athletics starting with the Diamond League. Later on the year athletics fans will have the World Championships a...

In the second part of our chat with Yiannis Exarchos, the CEO of Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS),  we delve deep into the technological innovations in sports broadcasting. Yiannis gives us a glimpse into more interactive ways OBS hopes athletes can communicate with their fans, as well as looking ahead to planning coverage for the Paris Olympics in 2024. We also find out how he relaxes dur...

In this edition of the Sport Intern Special podcast we catch up with the man behind everything we see on our TV screens during the Olympics, be it the Summer Games or the Winter ones. Yiannis Exarchos is the CEO of the Olympic Broadcasting Services, (OBS) the organisation responsible for filming all the action and distributing it to rights holders. In Part One of our chat Yiannis tells Sport Inter...

In this episode of the Sport Intern Special we speak to one of the trail blazers from the world of athletics. Pauline Davis-Thompson set the standard for sprinters from her island of the Bahamas. At her fifth Olympic Games in Sydney 2000, she inspired her team known as the Golden Girls to win the gold medal in the 4x100m relay final. She also belatedly won gold in the 200m after the winner on the...

In the second part of our interview with Andrew Parsons we hear about the challenges in the build up to the Beijing Paralympic Winter Games. The president of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) also spoke about his disappointment in not being able to attend the Winter Olympics due to COVID-19. Parsons also talks about the future of the Paralympic Games and the development of Paralympic sp...

In this episode of the Sport Intern Special podcast we catch up with the president of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Andrew Parsons. With the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Games just days away, the showcase competition  has been overshadowed by events taking place in Ukraine. The attack on Ukraine has united sporting bodies in their condemnation of Russian aggression with the IPC bein...

In this episode of the Sport Intern Special podcast, we continue with the second part of our interview with Juan Antonio Samaranch, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) member and chair of the IOC Coordination Commission for the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics. Samaranch, is also the first vice president of the International Union of Modern Pentathlon and in our chat he shared his vision for...

In this episode of the Sport Intern Special podcast we speak to Juan Antonio Samaranch, the chair of the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission for the Beijing Winter Games. With news breaking of the 15 year old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva having failed a drugs test but being allowed to carry on competing in Beijing by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, it was an oppor...

One of the most respected and experienced leaders within the Olympic Movement, Gunilla Lindberg is the Secretary-General of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC). In this episode of the Sport Intern Special podcast, Gunilla talks to us from the Beijing Winter Olympics. She tells us that even though there are limited numbers of fans at venues the atmosphere is still one to savour. S...

In this episode sport intern talks to one of the key leaders within the Olympic Movement. IOC Executive Board member Ivo Ferriani is also the President of the Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF), SportAccord, the Association of International Olympic Winter Sports Federations (AIOWF) and the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF). He talks to us about the...

In this episode we continue our conversation with Christophe Dubi, the Olympic Games Executive Director for the International Olympic Committee (IOC). In episode one, we heard about the build up and preparations for the Beijing Winter Games 2022. In this episode, Dubi takes us beyond Beijing to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. He also talks about innovation and how the IOC is successful at staying...

An interview with the Olympic Games Executive Director at the International Olympic Committee Christophe Dubi, looking ahead to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games