The Sam Oldham Podcast

With just one month to go until the 2026 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, the Five-Way International in Stoke provided one final opportunity for athletes to impress ahead of team selections. The competition brought together teams from Great Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, with both men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics taking place at Fenton Manor Sports Complex. On the men’s side, British stars Jake Jarman, Luke Whitehouse and Courtney Tulloch helped Gre...

Today’s guest is British men’s artistic gymnastics coach, Joshua Champion. Josh is the head coach of the men’s artistic programme at Notts Gymnastics Academy, where he works with some of the country’s top gymnasts. This summer, Josh was part of the coaching team that helped England win silver in the men’s team final at the Commonwealth Games, with the team featuring two of his own gymnasts, Adam Tobin and Alex Yolshin-Cash. Another of Josh’s athletes, Hamish Carter, was also in Glasgow compet...

🥇 In 2026, we're launching a brand-new monthly gymnastics show on The Sam Oldham Podcast. Each month, we'll explore the biggest names, emerging storylines, and major championship build-ups in artistic gymnastics, alongside post-competition debriefs with some of the sport's most passionate experts, coaches, and analysts. In this episode, I look back at the Men’s European Artistic Gymnastics Championships, which took place in Zagreb, Croatia, in August. The men’s all-around final was won by Ill...

Today’s guest is Australian tumbling champion Ethan McGuinness. Ethan is a two-time men’s individual World tumbling champion, winning his first World title in 2022 and bringing the gold medal home to Australia again in 2025. But his journey to the top has been anything but easy. In 2017, Ethan suffered a devastating injury, fracturing both his tibia and fibula in a freak accident while competing in the double mini trampoline event. After years of hard work and dedication, he returned to becom...

🥇 In 2026, we're launching a brand-new monthly gymnastics show on The Sam Oldham Podcast. Each month, we'll explore the biggest names, emerging storylines, and major championship build-ups in artistic gymnastics, alongside post-competition debriefs with some of the sport's most passionate experts, coaches, and analysts. In this episode of the Sam Oldham Podcast, I’m joined by Kensley Behel, the talented voice behind Neutral Deductions — a podcast, website and social media platform dedicated t...