Sporting Misadventures with Chris Hoy

Running, rowing with Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent and being flattened by a fast bowler, this week's guest, Richard Herring, has seen it all in the sporting sphere. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Steel is a sports fanatic be that playing table tennis as a teenager or using sporting analogies in his recent battle with cancer. He joins the pod as this week's guest ahead of his latest tour, the Leopard in my house. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we're joined by an actual sportsman in nine-time F1 race winner Mark Webber, also a champion at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He chats brushes with death in high-speed crashes, cycling against his idol on one of the Tour de France's toughest climbs and being obliterated by a MotoGP racer. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Season 3 kicks off with the wonderful Jason Manford who joins Chris and Matt to cover a rich tapestry of sport. There's padel tennis, a love of Manchester City, coaching his daughter's football team and getting injured a 10-pin bowling and much, much more. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining us on the podcast on the eve of his show at the Edinburgh Fringe is none other than Milton Jones. He talks running after a rabbi, keeping up with Mo Farah on the football field and tweeting Chris after his London 2012 golds. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An hour didn't quite seem enough time to cram in all this week's guest's sporting misadventures. From barefoot running to BMX jumping rivers gone wrong, and from basketball knock-outs to a shortlived taekwondo career, Jason Byrne appears to have experienced every sporting calamity available. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Grayson Perry is a world-renowned artist and winner of myriad awards from the Turner Prize to a Bafta but has long had a passion for sport alongside his art. He joined us to talk drag racing, Isle of Man TT, his love of skateboarding and cycling. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

He may have once won a cricket trophy but this week's guest is better known for his sporting calamities than successes from cricketing failings to his sporting high quickly turning into a sporting low and resulting in a broken finger. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fin Taylor went viral with his diatribe on the NFL. He joins us this week to chat American football, his love of cricket - from bin to Test - and outsprinting the other fat kid at school in a cross-country race. And you can also catch him on tour - go to https://fintaylor.com/ for tickets. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The comedian, actor and presenter joins us for this week's hour ahead to chat about his quest to clinch a world record at the London Marathon in the Masked Singer-winning fish costume, running with a dodgy stomach with Mexicans and much, more more. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Squash player, snooker podcast host, and football programme collector, this week's guest might just be our most sports-obsessed yet. He joined us for this recording just before flying out to San Marino to see them lose 3-1 to St Kitts and he chats everything from rugby tries to woeful displays in the school pool. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's guest is Andy Hamilton, the creator of such hit shows as Drop the Dead Donkey and Outnumbered, a regular comedy show panellist and even the voice of elephant dentist on Peppa Pig. He's also got a book out, Blue was the Colour, charting a lifetime of ups and downs following Chelsea FC. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining us this week is the star of stage and screen Katherine Parkinson, with roles in the IT Crowd, Doc Martin, Here We Go and much much more. She talks water polo confusion, football frustration and egg-and-spoon races. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We've once again dipped outside the comedy world for this week's guest, Geraint Thomas. Tour de France winner, Olympic champion and podcast host in his own route, he chats winning the Tour de France, naked saunas and much more. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's guest started off as a stand-up comedian and somehow ended up finding a football club for Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. Wrexham FC executive director Humphrey Ker joins us to talk about the backstory to Welcome to Wrexham, his other footballing love of Liverpool and his sporting exploits as a 6ft 7in schoolboy. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jack Whitehall likes to play down his sporting successes but he's a hurdler, barefooted kicker of a rugby ball and goal assist king to former England striker Jermain Defoe. Plus, he's this week's guest with a seemingly endless list of sporting misadventures. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stand-up comedian Ross Noble joins us this week to talk about his love of motorbikes and two-wheel sporting misadventures involving being attacked by dogs in Transylvania and being chased by a man in a bear suit. Ross has just embarked on a fresh UK Tour, Jibber Jabber Jamboree and tickets are available from https://www.rossnoble.com/#/shows. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Vittorio Angelone joins us in the hot seat to talk Italian football, rugby injuries and stand-up gone wrong. Vittorio's excellent new tour Who Do You Think You Are? I Am got under way this week. To get tickets, go to https://vittorioangelone.com/tour. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the first time, we're joined by a non-comedian as the England fast bowler (and funny man) took time to talk ahead of England's tour of India. Ahead of the first Test on Thursday, the World Cup winner talked about that super over, sledging and his bizarre reason for not supporting his local Newcastle but a lowly London side. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back from a break for season 2 and joining us first of all is the superb Rob Auton ahead of his UK tour. He talks everything from sports you shouldn't play in a conservatory to poetry imagining a stationery store worker is treated like a Premier League footballer. Plus, Chris receives a letter from one of his comedy icons. Rob's brilliant tour gets under way at the Soho Theatre in London on Monday January 22 and is going all over the UK. For tickets go to his website https://www.robauton.co.uk/. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.