Apr 26, 2021
Nigel Mitchell has a clinical and sport career spanning almost 20 years. At the 2008 Beijing Olympiad the Olympic British Cycling team became the most successful British Olympic team of all time. His role involves leading and providing specialist nutritional service to British Cycling. Additionally he has had previous responsibility for the development and quality assurance of performance nutrition services to sports in the north of England, this has included helping to establish performance nutrition services to the Royal Yacht Association and British Swimming. His title, Fuelling the Cycling Revolution: The Nutritional Strategies and Recipes Behind Grand Tour Wins and Olympic Gold Medals, was published in June 2017 (Bloomsbury).
Apr 26, 2021
James Montague is an award-winning author and journalist from Chelmsford, Essex. He has reported from over 100 countries and unrecognised territories for the BBC World Service, the New York Times, The Athletic and Delayed Gratification, amongst others. His latest book, Engulfed: How Saudi Arabia Bought Sport, and the World, was published in March 2025 and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize.
Known for his fearless reporting style, Montague cut his teeth on his first book – When Friday Comes about the place of football in the Middle East (Mainstream Books 2008, reprinted by deCoubertin books in 2011 and Ebury in 2022). It won him the “Best New Writer” award at the British Sports Book of the Year Awards. His next book, 31-Nil: On the Road with Football’s Outsiders (Bloomsbury) was a remarkable odyssey-like journey to discover the lengths to which players and teams would go to qualify for the World Cup. It included that now-legendary American Samoa team, now the subject of a film starring Michael Fassbender and Elisabeth Moss, and won the 2015 Football Book of the Year Award at the British Sports Book Awards.
His third book, The Billionaires’ Club (Bloomsbury) again won Football Book of the Year in 2018 whilst his fourth 1312: Among the Ultras – a journey with football’s most extreme fans (Ebury) was an international bestseller translated into eight languages.
Apr 26, 2021
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Michelle Moore is writer, award-winning leadership coach, consultant, strategic advisor, speaker and former athlete. Voted as one of the UK’s ’50 Most Influential Women in Sport’ she is a globally recognised executive on inclusive and conscious leadership, strategic partnerships, sport for development and innovation working across government, business and charitable sectors. Michelle works with CEO’s, individuals and senior leadership teams to create solutions steeped in strategic insight and cultural context to find new ways to challenge inequalities. Heading up a consultancy practice with a list of clients from The London Mayor’s Office to The Commonwealth Games Federation.
Michelle is the winner of the 2016 UK Precious Award for ‘Outstanding Woman in Sport’, a Football Black List award and an esteemed national Change Maker award. She is a trustee for SportsAid and a senior honorary lecturer for the University of Worcester. Michelle is a sought after executive hired by corporate, government, international sport federations and business to deliver inspiring and dynamic keynotes and programmes on leadership, equity resilience and success.
Instagram: michellemoore.me
Twitter: @HelloMoore
Apr 26, 2021
Richard Moore who sadly passed away earlier this year was one of the three founders, along with Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe, of the internationally loved, respected and hugely successful The Cycling Podcast.
He was also a freelance journalist and best-selling critically acclaimed author. His most recently published book, The Bolt Supremacy, was published by Yellow Jersey in July 2015 and was longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2015. Richard also wrote a number of cycling titles, including Étape, which tells the story of the defining stages in the Tour de France seen through the eyes of some of the most legendary cyclists of our time. It was very well received and shortlisted for the Cycling Book of the Year at the Cross British Sports Book Awards 2015.
Richard’s first book was In Search of Robert Millar which won the Best Biography category at the 2008 British Sports Book Awards. His second book, Heroes, Villains & Velodromes (HarperSport), was long-listed for the 2008 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. He was also the author of the acclaimed Slaying the Badger: LeMond, Hinault and the Greatest Ever Tour de France (Yellow Jersey, May 2011) which was made into a film by John Dower, whilst The Dirtiest Race in History: Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final, published by Wisden Sports Writing, is currently in pre-production.
Richard was also a former racing cyclist who represented Scotland at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and Great Britain at the 1998 Tour de Langkawi. The Cycling Podcast also published their own titles: A Journey Through the Cycling Year, was published by Yellow Jersey in Spring 2018 and a second book, The Grand Tour Diaries, was published in 2019.
Apr 26, 2021
Jonathan Northcroft is the soccer correspondent for the Sunday Times. He is a frequent contributor to BBC Radio 5 Live’s football programs, and a regular guest on Sky Sports’ Sunday Supplement show. Inaugural winner of the Jim Rodger Memorial Award for young sports writers in Scotland, he was shortlisted for Feature Writer of the Year at the Sports Journalists Association awards in 2006 and Football Writer of the Year in 2016. His first book, Fearless: The Amazing Underdog Story of Leicester City, The Greatest Miracle in Sports History was published by Headline in September 2016. It went on to achieve great success both in the UK and in translation.
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