Flanders Sports

Flanders Sports is not an ordinary sports programme. It aims not only to provide information about sports, it also wants to stimulate people to practice sport themselves. When the “Start running” podcast was launched in Flanders, no one could imagine that it would be such a huge success. The episodes were downloaded more than 200,000 times.Thousands of people were running with presenter Evy Gruyaert on their podcast. Because of this success, a second series was broadcast, on the theme of swimming.The Flanders Sports podcast was a pioneering project for the public broadcaster in the sense that so far, only podcasts of existing programmes had been made.This was the first time that completely new content was created for a podcast.The result was not only that thousands of people started to run, but that thousands also began to podcast for the first time in their lives.