{"id":3436,"date":"2026-10-22T17:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2026-10-22T17:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:33:06","slug":"the-team-behind-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=3436","title":{"rendered":"The Team Behind the Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/Team-Behind.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/Team-Behind.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1256\" height=\"514\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All about&#8230; The Team Behind the Team is a BBC podcast series produced in partnership with The Open University. The series, which was first broadcast in September 2025, is supported by members of the OU Sport and Exercise academic team and explores the hidden science, data, artificial intelligence, medical staff, coaches, and support networks that power elite athletes and teams behind the scenes. You can listen to the episodes via the links below.<\/p>\n<h2>Is sport becoming less human?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0lz9jlp\" >BBC Radio 5 Live &#8211; 5 Live Sport: All About&#8230;, The Team behind the Team: Is sport becoming less human?<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Sport&#8217;s drive for data<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0lz9hck\" >5 Live Sport<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0lz9hck\" >: All About&#8230; &#8211; The Team behind the Team: Sport&#8217;s drive for data &#8211; BBC Sounds<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Inside Ineos Grenadiers<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0lz9fx8\" >BBC Radio 5 Live &#8211; 5 Live Sport: All About&#8230;, The Team behind the Team: Inside Ineos Grenadiers<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>AI &#8211; Sports new tactic?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0lz9hp7\" >5 Live Sport: All About&#8230; &#8211; The Team behind the Team: AI &#8211; sport&#8217;s new tactic? &#8211; BBC Sounds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All about&#8230; The Team Behind the Team is a BBC podcast series produced in partnership with The Open University. The series, which was first broadcast in September 2025, is supported by members of the OU Sport and Exercise academic team and explores the hidden science, data, artificial intelligence, medical staff, coaches, and support networks that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-performance-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3438,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}