It's the Christmas Special Podcast for 2024! Host Helen Gorman is joined by Olly Espinasse, Joan Edwards and Joe Malone.

Thank you to everyone for listening to the podcast this year. We will be back on 7 January after a two-week Christmas break.

This week former Loughborough Head Coach Ian Hulme talks about his new venture, Signiture Swim Coaching, providing online personalised swim programmes to any swimmer. Ian spent 12 years coaching elite swimmers at Loughborough University, and guided a number of athletes to this year's Paris Olympics.

Nick Parkes has made a full recovery from a cardiac arrest at the National Masters Open Water Championships in 2023.

He tells his remarkable story, including getting back to record breaking form at the National Masters Championships in Sheffield just over a year later.

This week, Dr Conor Osborough applies his Olympic and Paralympic biomechanics experience to masters swimmers hoping to achieve speed and longevity in the pool.

Doctor and masters record holder Dom Wolldridge joins the podcast this week to talk about his training routine amid a testing career and lifestyle.

Sports Psychologist Helen Davis joins the podcast once more to talk about motivation, hosted by Helen Gorman.

Pullbuoy first came to light in 2000 thanks to founder Steve Buckley, providing a fan's eye view of British Swimming. 24 years later, it's still going strong. Steve joins Helen Gorman this week on the podcast to chat about that, and review the Masters National Championships that took place at the end of October.

Check out Pullbuoy's feature film launched in early 2024; Imogen Clark, Leaving It All In The Pool, on the website: https://www.pullbuoy.co.uk/imogen/

Glenn Smith joins the podcast this week to talk about his role in the rise of Olympic and Paralympic swimmers at Mansfield Swimming Club.