The Pullbuoy Podcast

#144 - 2026 Commonwealth Games Review

It was an exciting six days of racing in Glasgow at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, and even if Australia dominated to an even larger degree than normal, there was still ple

#143 - 2026 Commonwealth Games Preview

Glasgow will play host to the 2026 Commonwealth Games with plenty of exciting racing in prospect at the Tollcross pool over six nights of action. Steve and Bob are joine

#142 - Do the Commonwealth Games Still Matter?

As Glasgow prepares to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games, this special episode of the Pullbuoy Podcast asks a simple question: do the Commonwealth Games still matter? To

#141 - GB Head Coach Steven Tigg

He's been in the role for just over 18 months having taken on the mantle of GB head coach from Bill Furniss, and Steven Tigg is looking forward to a summer of internation

#140 - Aquatics GB Champs Extra

In our main Aquatics GB Championships review podcast, there was plenty we heard from the swimmers that didn't make it in, so in this extra edition you can hear some of wh

#139 - 2026 Aquatics GB Champs Review

It was a terrific week of competition in London, headlined by three sizzling British records from Angharad Evans and Freya Colbert. With selection on the line for this su

#138 - Ben Proud Stuns Swimming

There was a bombshell announcement his week as Ben Proud retired from swimming with immediate effect and instead joined the Enhanced Games. On this extra podcast, Steve,

#137 - 2025 World Champs Review

It wasn’t the World Championships the British team was hoping for, or indeed the one we all expected with a haul of only 2 medals in Singapore. There is a lot of context

#136 - 2025 World Champs Preview

In this episode, Steve, Bob and Katie look forward to the 2025 World Swimming Championships in Singapore, and run the rule over the British team's prospects, including gr

#135 - 2025 British Championships Review

It was quite the week in London at the 2025 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships as we saw two British Records, plenty of close racing and a closing event with drama that j

#134 - 2025 British Championships Preview

The British Championships are back in London and acting as trials for this summer’s World Championships to be held in Singapore. In this post Olympic year, there are chan

#133 - Duncan Scott Reviews an Epic 2024

The second podcast of 2025 brings us our second guest as Steve and Katie are joined by pullbuoy's male swimmer of the year for 2024 Duncan Scott to review a year that saw

#132 - Angharad Evans on a breakthrough year in 2024

We are back, and in this first episode of the podcast for 2025, Steve and Katie chat with pullbuoy's 2024 Female Swimmer of the Year Angharad Evans about her journey to t

#131 - 2024 Olympic Swimming Review

Nine epic days of competition in the La Défense Arena and two more in the Seine are done and dusted as the 2024 Olympic swimming programme comes to a close. For this epi

#130 - Paris 2024 Olympic Swimming Preview

The Paris 2024 Olympics are almost upon us and with them comes nine days of what promises to be an incredible swimming competition. On this episode of the Pullbuoy Podca

#129 - Ollie Morgan on his Olympic Preparations

With only weeks until swimming kicks off at the Paris Olympics, Steve and Katie are joined by British Swimming Olympian number 529 Ollie Morgan to chat though his meteori

#128 - Katie Shanahan on Olympic Selection and Games Preparation

On this episode of the pullbuoy podcast we are joined by Katie Shanahan, a swimmer now headed to her first Olympics in Paris. Katie shares her experiences training at alt

#127 - 2024 Olympic Trials Extra

It was a busy week in London for Bob who was in the mixed zone every day. That meant he caught a lot of swimmers fresh from their finals at the Olympic Trials - we heard

#126 - 2024 Olympic Trials Review

It was quite the week in London as Britain's swimmers chased Olympic qualification at the Aquatics GB Swimming Championships. There were two British Records and nineteen

#125 - London Calling - Olympic Trials Preview

It's the second most important meet of the year for Britain's Olympic hopefuls as they seek to secure their places at the year's big event at the British Championships in