Emma

Tarnished Medals

Sports EN ↓ 3 episodes

Tarnished Medals: True Crime in Sport Behind every medal, a shadow lurks. Five hundred convicted child sex predators. Close to fifty sports. Every one of them convicted in a British court. And that's just those who were caught. Tarnished Medals is a true crime podcast that does what British sport has been so reluctant to do — names the predators, exposes the systems and institutions that protected them, follows the money that funded them, and reveals what justice for child sport survivors has so often really looked like in Britain since the 1970s to today for those who tried to speak out — and...

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Tarnished Medals Episode Two-Tony Castle 07.07.2026 36:03

Most of Britain’s beloved sports have been hiding an epidemic: a systemically tolerated culture of child abuse, with predators lurking behind trusted titles and shiny medals. Tony Castle, a prominent karate coach with a murky past and multiple convictions, exemplifies the horrifying gap between reputation and reality and how systemic failures let him and hundreds more remain in plain sight for dec...

Tarnished Medals Episode One -Bob Bellew 23.06.2026 58:22

Show notes episode one Tarnished Medals - Bob Bellew Episode Description Bob Bellew was one of the most highly regarded gymnastics coaches in Britain. He taught at schools across London for more than forty years. He served on committees planning the London 2012 Olympic Games. He was named Male Community Coach by Sport England in partnership with British Gymnastics. He was awarded the Order of the...

Tarnished Medals Trailer 17.06.2026 29:25

TARNISHED MEDALS — TRAILER SHOW NOTES Tarnished Medals is a true crime podcast rooted in social justice, exploring the darkest truths of child abuse embedded in sport. Who perpetrates it. Who funds it. Who hides and minimises it. And why it is allowed to continue when it so blatantly flies in the face of the rights of the child that are front and centre in just about every single other child-relat...