Rugby's New High-Tech Mouthguards: How They Work And Why?
This week World Rugby announced that they will be including head accelerations measured by smart mouthguards into the sport's head injury assessment protocols used at the top level of the game to help...
20 Okt 20231h 18min
The Most Fascinating Explanation of Rugby Laws You'll Hear This Year / Berlin Marathon Record: Human Excellence or Shoe Tech Mastery
Keith Lewis is the Laws Co-ordinator at World Rugby and Founder of RugbyReferee.net and is at the fulcrum of many of the law changes in the world of rugby union. The team scrum down to discuss how the...
27 Sep 20231h 52min
From Cauliflower Ears To Subterfurge: Inside the World of a Pro Rugby Coach
John Dobson is one of South Africa's most celebrated rugby coaches. As head coach of the Stormers franchise, who won the 2021-22 United Rugby Championship, Dobson is renowned as one of the most passio...
20 Sep 20231h 34min
Rugby World Cup '23: The Amazing Tech Used To Look After Players
Having just returned from a week at the Rugby World Cup, Prof. Ross Tucker explains the amazing tech used to spot concussions during RWC matches. Plus the team discuss how the tackle rule is not a per...
15 Sep 20231h 27min
The Man Who Cycled the Globe: Adventurer Ron Rutland from Paris
Ron Rutland arrived in Paris on 7 September 2023, concluding the fourth leg of a remarkable (and not always planned) journey that has spanned a decade and four Rugby World Cups. Beginning in 2013, Ro...
8 Sep 20231h 30min
Sean Ingle on anti-doping, the state of T&F and a look ahead to the Rugby World Cup
Ross is joined in Paris by Guardian Chief Sports Reporter, Sean Ingle, to look back on the recent World Athletics Championships, but with a focus more on the off-track news stories, including the stat...
6 Sep 20231h
La Vuelta and Remco / The Farrell Tackling Incident Unpacked / World Athletics Champs Wrap
Why the Owen Farrell incident may well have saved rugby / Remco Evenepoel takes on the best stage racers at this year's Vuelta a Espana: Can he dominate? / All the best performances and stories from t...
31 Aug 20231h 26min
Woodpeckers do get concussed, and what this means for the Q-Collar and brain injury prevention
The Q-Collar is a device that is promoted to prevent concussion and "protect the brain during repetitive head impacts", and has been spotted around the necks of athletes in a number of sports, ranging...
29 Aug 20231h 32min
