The Asian Cricket Sixes Tour (ACST) are proud to announce that the ICC Award Winning Phuket International Cricket Sixes Tournament will be played at the Alan Cooke Ground, the premier cricketing venue on the island following talks with the Phuket Cricket Group (PCG). The Sixes forms part of the Phuket International Cricket Week along with…
Motocross is a form of motorcycle racing on off-road circuits in all weather – a physically demanding sport. We hear from the two-time national motocross champion Adrienne Cooper whose career is now over at the age of just 27 after she lost her kidney. However, the loss of that kidney was a deliberate act. Motocross…
Rugby and Football this week on Sporthour live via Satellite 0n 91.5FM and 102.5FM from 4pm As the Rugby Union World Cup begins we hear from former England Rugby World Cup winner Neil Back, a former international rugby union footballer for England and the British and Irish Lions who also played for Nottingham RFC, Leicester…
The 2015 Rugby world cup kicks off on Friday. The first and opening game between the hosts England and Fiji kicks off at 20:00 UK Time. Saturday will see games between Tonga and Georgia, Ireland and Canada, South Africa and Japan, and France and Italy. Social media channels are alive with chat and opinion, Twitters…
This week Sporthour and Brad Pitt is the voice of a news documentary about Moto GP. The fly-on-the-wall feature looks at the high-stakes action on the asphalt and the big personalities that dominate the sport. We speak to the director Mark Neale. Valentino Rossi said after the British GP I’m very happy and proud of…
This week we speak to footballer Niamh McKevitt who forced the English Football Association to change their rules to compete with boys at an older age. I’ll never forget finding out the rules had changed. I was walking home from school when I got a text from my Dad telling me what had happened. He said,…
ONE Championship is rising in popularity and is becoming one of the most sought-after sports events in the southeast, if not in the entire Asian region. While the first-ever ONE Championship event was held way back on September 3, 2011, it is only now that it has gone mainstream in Asia. ONE Championship is a…
The battle is on! Bangladesh vs India solo Test match is starting from 10 June 2015, at Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah. The one-off Test match is also interesting because of the previous meeting of India and Bangladesh at the controversial quarterfinal of World Cup 2015, where India won the match by 109 runs….
Lewis Hamilton gets pole for Team Mercedes and wins his first-ever pole in Monaco. Hamilton beats the field of 20 drivers after finishing first and securing pole, his first in Monaco since racing in GP2 with a time of 1:15:098. Hamilton had to confirm if he indeed won the race. “Did I get it?” Lewis…
As expected, this year’s NBA Playoffs is filled with a lot of drama (as if the regular season wasn’t already). Former champions out of the competition, players plagued by injuries and have been incurring fines and suspensions. The race to the finish line is just a few games away. And by this time, it’s already…
2015 World Snooker Championship was the 78th tournament. Wrapping up at The Crucible Theater in Sheffield UK on Monday 4th May the ‘force’ certainly was in the final match between Shaun Murphy and Stuart Bingham. 2015 World Snooker Championship Starting on the 18th April, the tournament ended last night. 24 different countries players participated among which…
Lewis Hamilton appeared to be in full control of the 2015 Bahrain GP from the start. Some might say Hamilton was in control all weekend at the Bahrain GP. Leading from pole position in the desert night lights of the Sakhir circuit he was in charge with Rosberg driving in his 100th Mercedes GP. Was…
A round up of results from day 3 of the Phuket Cricket Sixes. Thirteen games were played in an action-packed day three of the 12th Annual Phuket International Cricket Sixes 2015. Highlights of the day included Narayananj scoring 119 against Bat 69; and the Sharifally Huzifers The Boss and Babs opening partnership of 76 in…
Sporthour this week and the program includes World Rugby, Premier League Depression, and the Paralympic Dream. Available on Phuket island Radio from 4 pm (Thai Time) Saturday and broadcast via mobile apps Google Play and iPhone. World Rugby: With just a few months until the Rugby Union World Cup, we look at how the sport…
Today at 4pm Thai Time Sportshour Saturday includes 6o minutes from the Sporthour team at the BBC in London . Sportshour Saturday this week:- Footballer Turned Pop Star: We meet Kevin Walker who made his debut for top flight Swedish football side Djurgardens at the weekend. He also happens to be the winner of Swedish Pop…
Saturday in Phuket has Sportsworld LIVE via satellite from the BBC in London. This week Sportsworld features Foxcatcher: We speak to Mark Shultz who is depicted by Channing Tatum in the new Hollywood film Fox Catcher about the Olympic wrestling brothers Mark and David Shultz. The latter was murdered by their coach John du Pont. Kosovo…
The Seattle Seahawks will defend their Super Bowl title on Feb. 1 in Glendale, Ariz., having defeated the Green Bay Packers, 28-22, in the N.F.C. championship game on Sunday. Seattle will play the winner of the Indianapolis-New England game played later Sunday. In a matchup of the N.F.L.s highest-scoring offence and its stingiest defence, defence…
Double Olympic champion Charlotte Dujardin set a new world record as she won Grand Prix gold at the Olympia Horse Show in London. Dujardin, who won two world titles in August and was fourth in the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year, scored 87.740 for her routine with Valegro. It beat the previous mark of 87.129,…
Lewis Hamilton Sports Personality of the Year award, with golfer Rory McIlroy in second and athlete Jo Pavey in third place. Lewis Hamilton F1 Champion. Hamilton secured his second Formula One world championship last month after edging a battle with Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg. The 29-year-old, who has twice finished second in the running for…
Jenson Button is to partner Fernando Alonso at McLaren next season writes Andrew Benson BBC Chief F1 writer. The team are to announce their driver line-up at a news conference at their factory in Surrey on Thursday. But BBC Sport has learned they have decided to retain Button after weeks of leaning towards Kevin Magnussen. Button, the…
Phuket Kings Cup starts with the 5th Phuket Dinghy Series offers a taste of action to come in 2014 PKCR. The Phuket Kings Cup Regatta Organizing Committee, led by its President, Kevin Whitcraft, joined with PTT Global Chemical (sponsor of the Phuket Dinghy Series) to offer congratulations to young sailors in all of the Regattas…
The road to golf development begins here with the BIS Phuket Golf Academy With our highly experienced academy coach, Mr Oliver Bates, the golf program will create the full golfing experience to prepare students for higher levels of play, aiming to develop an elite group that will pursue tournament play and represent the school in…
The 4th Asian Beach Games close with a spectacular ending at the Saphan Hin Sports Center in Phuket on November 23 night, with Tourism and Sports Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul presiding. The Closing Ceremony featured four fantastic shows with more than 800 performers. The ceremony started with the first performance on Magic of Dream Destination, which…
Italy’s Massimo Cigana and Alberto Casadei made an impressive history together at Laguna Phuket Triathlon (LPT) today as they crossed the finish line as one and claimed LPT’s first dual champions in the annual event’s 21-year history. Cigana – champion in 2008, 2010, and 2011 also gave LPT its first four-time champion, and once again…
Host ju-jitsu exponents snatch two gold. Thailand’s exponents came up with a superb form to capture two gold medals in the ju-jitsu competition at the 4th Asian Beach Games on November 13. The first gold came from Suphawadee Kaeosrasaen and Kunsatri Kumsroi in the women’s martial art duo following their impressive 36-33 win over Pakistan’s…
Finswimming at Thanyapura is happening this week as a part of the 14th Asian Championships & Asian Junior Finswimming Competition. The event will continue until the 9th of November and you can find all the information on their website: https://www.thanyapura.com/event/finswimming-asian-championship/ Finswimming is an exciting sport and there was even a new world record set recently…
British International School Phuket (BISP) is proud to host for the thirteenth consecutive year, their BISP Soccer 7s football tournament on 7th and 8th of November. Again this year they are expecting well over 1,000 young football players from all over Asia, and are looking forward to another year of exciting competition. The action starts…
With only four weeks until the Laguna Phuket Triathlon (LPT), Phuket is preparing to host hoards of athletes including Australian Belinda Granger. Despite winning 15 iron-distance championship titles across the world, Belinda rates LPT as her all-time favourite. She first raced LPT in 2001and has returned every year since then except 2004 and 2006. During…
Lewis Hamilton caught and passed Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg to win the United States Grand Prix and extend his World Championship lead. Hamilton took his 10th victory of the season thanks to a late and brave move down the inside of Rosberg at Turn 12, after erasing the German’s lead. The result extends Hamilton’s lead…