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Sports Gazette Lockdown Podcast 3.0 – Olympic special feat. Team GB Rugby Sevens star Abi Burton

April 10, 2020

This week Alex Bartlett is joined by athletics expert Julia Cook who was Tokyo bound as a reporter and Laoishe MacCana to talk all things Tokyo 2021 and the implications this has on athletics, gymnastics and many more sports.

He is also joined by special guest, GB and England Rugby sevens player Abi Burton to discuss Tokyo 2021, training in lockdown and her future aspirations to play for a Yorkshire based premiership team.

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  • Alex Bartlett

    Alex did his undergraduate degree in History at the University of Leicester. A lifelong sports enthusiast, his first experience of journalism came working for his university magazine, where he went on to edit the sports section. He has also hosted a weekly football talk show for three years, discussing a wide range of topics including the misfortunes of his beloved West Ham. He has a particular interest in the relationship between sport and politics, which formed the basis of a dissertation project on sports role in ending apartheid in South Africa.

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