Sporting Witness

BBC World Service

Sporting Witness is a short BBC World Service podcast that tells the biggest stories in sport through the people who were actually there. Each episode is about nine minutes – roughly the time it takes to enjoy a cup of tea – and is built around one person’s memories.You don’t even have to follow sport to get hooked on our podcast. A lot of the episodes are about so much more – like identity, obsession, and politics. Take the surprising story behind the West Germany shirt from the 1990 World Cup final – a zigzag of black, red and gold that’s now one of the...

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Sporting Witness

Episodes (687)

Saturday The International Island Games
Oct 31st Germany’s first football shirt sponsor
Oct 24th The first Refugee Olympic Team

Sporting Witness

Nov 7, 2026
10 minutes
4 MB

In 2007 Faroese swimmer Pal Joensen competed in the 12th International Island Games held on the Greek island of Rhodes. Athletes often describe the International Island Games as a mini-Olympics for small nations, designed for athletes from islands around the world who would not normally have the opportunity to participate in an actual Olympic Games. The International Island Games first began in 1985. Founded on the Isle of Man they’ve been staged every two years ever since. Initially 15 islands and 600 competitors took part in 7 sports. But by 2007 when Pal swum in Rhodes, the event had expanded to...

Sporting Witness

The International Island Games

BBC World Service

00:00 -09:47