Jack Senior

I love Formula 1.

Albon P1. Stop the count.

Flawless intuition from 20-year-old me.

I didn't really believe it til tonight, but I think Spurs are actually going down. Has there ever been a decline like this without a major financial collapse? Ugly stuff.

Is Trump talking about his drapes during a Medal of Honor ceremony? Oh boy...

Three new episodes this week (all being well):

Our Six Nations Series continues with Scotland out now and Ireland tomorrow.

Then we've got a new episode previewing the new Formula 1 season, giving our take on the new rules and predictions, and asking the question - how safe really is F1 nowadays?

Beginning to think there’s a curse on the FIFA Peace prize.

TWO NEW EPISODES

With the Men's Six Nations ongoing, our new series looks at those nations history in the competition - starting with Wales and Italy's episodes.

Why do Wales not play Rugby League? How do they rebuild from this slump? And what does Italian Rugby have in common with Micah Richards?

Monobob is my number one event name and probably one of my top five sports in this Olympics. This was epic and such a wonderful story too ❤️🥇

I love the Winter Olympics 🇬🇧🥇

Matt Weston. That is all.

Chloe Kim rather good. Myles Garrett living his best life too.

Bad time to go after Hockey Donnie, Team Hollanov gon' getcha.

Just as one example, Channel 4 Dispatches reported on Mandelson and Epstein's friendship in detail back in 2019. Starmer and Streeting used his ill gotten influence and connections anyway, and defended him in the meantime. This should end both their political careers, and it should end them now.

Bad Bunny deserves a lot of credit for his half time show being so wholesome, positive and powerful, that it left the only reason to dislike it being, basically, racism. Well played.

I'm going to pretend I'm happy the Seahawks won, when I'm really happy that the Patriots lost.

Yes. Yes*. Hell yes.

*but not that one.

NEW EPISODE

It's here - the Super Bowl.

We talk helmet catches, trick plays, Joe Namath's hubris, Kurt Warner's Greatest Show on Turf and much more.

Was Super Bowl III the most important ever? Was a pass play actually the right call by Pete Carroll? And is Eli Manning, in fact, Tom Brady's daddy?

The drone chase cam in the downhill is glorious.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Episode list for the Sporting Almanac Podcast's Winter Olympic Series. 1. Chamonix 1924 2. Rudi Ball, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 3. The Miracle on Ice 4. Shaun White and Halfpipe Snowboarding 5. Steven Bradbury 6. Eddie the Eagle 7. Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan 8. Bobsleigh: Jamaica and Billy Fiske 9. Lindsey Jacobellis and Snowboard Cross 10. Alpine Skiing and its Superwomen

🏔 WINTER IS COMING 🏂

The Winter Olympics are upon us, with some prelim rounds already underway before the Opening Ceremony tomorrow evening.

Because we love the Olympics more than anything else, one episode was never going to be enough. We have a ten part series, available now for all to listen.

Ester Ledecká (top) and Mikaela Shiffrin celebrate Gold medals at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Credits: Ezra Shaw, Getty Images (top) and Michael Madrid, USA TODAY Sports (bottom).

NEW EPISODE

The finalé of our 10 part Winter Olympic series.

We celebrate alpine skiing and two of its greats, Mikaela Shiffrin and Ester Ledecká.

These superwomen have 5 Olympic golds between them. 2 of Ledecká's 3 are in snowboarding - the story of her 2018 Super-G skiing gold is extraordinary.

What an incredibly fucked up world we live in when we all see the Trump machine maneuvering its pieces to intimidate midterm voters, but so long as there's a crumb of doubt for MAGA folk to cling to, or the media to both-sides their arguments with, there's not a damn thing we can do that'll stop it.

Lindsey Jacobellis was on her way to Olympic gold in snowboard cross in 2006 before this late fall. Credit: Lionel Cironneau/Associated Press

NEW EPISODE

The penultimate episode of our Winter Olympic Series is about one of the games great redemption arcs- the story of Lindsey Jacobellis and her 16 year quest to right her own wrong, in pursuit of snowboard cross gold.

It's one of the great stories from the winter games.

Then, we follow up with the incredible story of Billy Fiske, two-time bobsled Olympic gold medallist, man of morals, Cresta champion, chandelier leaper, Aspen ski resort founding father and war hero.

A man who lived more in his 29 short years than most of us could imagine doing in a lifetime.

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Members of the Jamaican four-man bobsled team walk up the course after crashing out during their final run at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Morris Lamont

NEW EPISODE

It's bobsleigh time...

In the latest episode of our Winter Olympic Series, we're bringing you two stories from the world of bobsleighing.

The first, of course, is the true story that inspired Cool Runnings, of the 1988 Jamaican bobsleigh team, the nation's first Winter Olympians.

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I was there, sat about level with where he rounded the keeper. Took an age to cross the line but one of the best collective holding of breath moments I've been in.

(Also, it ended 2-0, but any win was appreciated that season...)

U.S. figure skaters Tonya Harding, left, and Nancy Kerrigan, right. Credit: Merlin Summers/Associated Press

NEW EPISODE

Winter Olympics Series episode 7 of 10.

The story of arguably the Winter games most infamous scandal, the assault on Nancy Kerrigan planned by the husband of Tonya Harding.

With or without her prior knowledge? Well, that's still up for debate.

Out now on all good podcast providers.

Really enjoyed this one. If the Winter Olympics aren't about enthusiastic amateurs strapping on a pair of skis and launching themselves off a 90m ski slope just because they can, then what are they about?

Steven Bradbury celebrates his shock gold medal victory in the men's 1,000m short track final at the Salt Lake Winter Olympics on February 16, 2002. (Reuters: David Gray)

NEW EPISODE

Episode 5 of our Winter Olympic Series is a story that gets better and better the more you learn about its protagonist - the legend that is Steven Bradbury.

No athlete in Salt Lake City, 2002, was more due some good luck as Bradbury was. And boy, did fortune give him what he was due.