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On this week's episode of the Hot Topics series, we're asking, is loyalty no longer required in sport? Our expert panel offer up their insight, plus we want to hear from you!

On this week's episode of the Hot Topics series, we're asking, should we ever feel bad for celebrating in sport? Our expert panel offer up their insight, plus we want to hear from you!

On this week's episode of the Hot Topics series, we're asking, should male and female athletes be paid the same? This has come into focus most recently at the FIFA Women's World Cup. Our expert panel offer up their insight, plus we want to hear from you!

On this week's episode of the Hot Topics series, we're asking, why is there a lack of respect in football? It now seems to be common place to see player brawls in the tunnel and referees being verbally abused. Our expert panel offer up their insight, plus we want to hear from you!

On this week's episode of the Hot Topics series, we're asking, would a European Super League be good for world football? Or would it ruin competition in European domestic leagues? Journalist Russ Bravo offers up his insight, plus we want to hear from you!

On this week's episode of the Hot Topics series, we're asking, is winning in sport ever enough? Does it ultimately satisfy us? Our panel of Andy Searles, a chaplain in Major League Soccer and Journalist Russ Bravo offer up their insight, plus we want to hear from you!

On this week's episode of the Hot Topics series, we're asking, why do we love a sporting comeback? Our panel of Andy Searles, a chaplain in Major League Soccer and Journalist Russ Bravo offer up their insight, plus we want to hear from you!

On this week's episode of the Hot Topics series, we're asking, should the number of foreign players in the English Premier League be reduced further? Our panel of Andy Searles, a chaplain in Major League Soccer and Journalist Russ Bravo offer up their insight, plus we want to hear from you!

On this week's episode of the Hot Topics series, we look at the rise of interest in Cricket and ask, could the sport he set for world domination? Our panel of Andy Searles, a chaplain in Major League Soccer and Journalist Russ Bravo offer up their insight, plus we want to hear from you!

On this week's episode of the Hot Topics series, we look at the ways in which we could start to eradicate racism from world sport. Our panel of Andy Searles, a chaplain in Major League Soccer and Journalist Russ Bravo offer up their insight, plus we want to hear from you!

On this week's episode of the Hot Topics series, we look at how athletes could best use their social media, after recent examples where posting has landed players in a fierce media storm! Our panel of Andy Searles, a chaplain in Major League Soccer and Journalist Russ Bravo offer up their insight, plus we want to hear from you!

On this week's episode of the Hot Topics series, we're asking if it's fair for pro athletes, who have a faith, to pray to win? We discuss whether this matters depending on what your beliefs are and whether this does happen in locker rooms! Our panel of Andy Searles, a chaplain in Major League Soccer and Journalist Russ Bravo offer up their insight, plus we want to hear from you!

On this week's episode of the Hot Topics series, we're asking if we are taking mental health in pro sport seriously enough? Our panel of Andy Searles, a chaplain in Major League Soccer and Journalist Russ Bravo have their say, plus we want to hear from you!

On this week's episode of the Hot Topics series, we focus on Boxing and we're asking if the sport itself is dangerous and morally wrong? Our panel of Andy Searles, a chaplain in Major League Soccer and Journalist Russ Bravo have their say, plus we hear from former IBO Welterweight World Champion, Chris ‘The Heat’ Van Heerden!

In this first episode of our brand new Hot Topics series, we start by looking at wages in football, and we're asking if the big bucks earned by top players are justified, or if the world has just gone crazy? Our panel of Andy Searles, a chaplain in Major League Soccer and Journalist Russ Bravo have their say, plus we want your thoughts!

This week on Planet Sport we hear from one of the greatest female long-distance runners in history, Kenya’s Tegla Loroupe. During her successful sports career from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s, Tegla Loroupe won two World Championship bronze medals in the 10,000m, she holds world records for 25 and 30k, set two marathon world records, and was the first African woman to win the New York Marathon.She went from a champion of the sport to a champion for peace through a series of humanitarian endeavours.

This week on Planet Sport we speak to three-time world champion and two-time Olympic champion in the triple jump Christian Taylor.The American track and field star has a personal best of 18.21m, which makes him the second best triple jumper of all time, after Jonathan Edwards who jumped 18.29 metres back in 1995. It’s a record Taylor has been chasing and desperate to beat since his first world title in 2011.The 28 year old reveals to us why he chose to switch jumping legs and why the triple jumper is the ultimate Olympian.

This time around we speak to South Africa rugby sevens star Siviwe, also known as Shakes Soyizwapi. The Blitzboks have just claimed their first Canada Sevens title in Vancouver beating France 21-12 in the final of the sixth tournament in the World Rugby Sevens Series.The first tournament win for the Springbok Sevens since June last year, when they clinched the Paris Sevens and with it the World Series.Soyizwapi has been a vital part of the side, and is South Africa’s leading try scorer - currently 4th overall - with 21.

The left arm spinner who retired in 2013 was only the second Zimbabwean cricketer to have played in the IPL and came to be known as the second best spinner in the history of Zimbabwe cricket after the legendary Paul Strang.An intimidating character on the field, Price overcame the odds as a child - having been born two months prematurely he contracted meningitis when he was a few months old and was given only a one in four chance of survival.

On this week's show we hear from 800m Olympic champion Caster Semenya. The South African is seeking to overturn a regulation proposed by the governing body of athletics - the IAAF - to restrict the levels of testosterone in female athletes.We talk about her success so far as an athlete, her hopes for the future and about the importance of respect.