Anything but Footy

Aquatics GB swimming championships were dubbed the first fully integrated Olympic and Paralympic trials for Paris this summer - and what a show from the British swimmers!  Adam Peaty Matt Richards Duncan Scott Freya Colbert Abbie Wood Kathleen Dawson Anna Hopkin Alice Tai and Stephen Clegg are just some of the star names who’ve not only become British champs but booked their place on Paris too! He...

It's dubbed the biggest global networking event in sport and it's in right here in the UK in Birmingham - the home of the last, and what could be the very last, Commonwealth Games in 2022. The week-long Sport Accord World Sport and Business Summit is supported by the International Olympic Committee and has been brought here by Joel Lavery, the West Midlands Growth Company’s major sporting events'...

One of the most successful Olympic and Paralympic sports in this country is changing its name to better reflect what the organisation does. British Swimming is now Aquatics GB, with the five disciplines of swimming, diving, para-swimming, artistic swimming and water polo. The organisation is also staging its first ever fully-integrated Olympic and Paralympic trials next week, at the London Aquatic...

It could've been a new and old type podcast, but we're 'en-route to Paris 2024' so it feels only right to cerebrate the great gymnastics in Liverpool and say a great goodbye to a legend! 20 yo Ondine Achampong is the new women's all round champion and three time gold medalist after a brilliant British Championships at the weekend - we hear from her, round up the rest of the action and there's hope...

En-route to Paris 2024 and no doubt there's a few bumps in the road to come, but a big thumbs up from the International Olympic Committee this week for the Paris 2024 organisers. Parisians maybe yet to be persuaded but the Games will be a huge success. We hear about 2 more British boxers who'll be there and the GB Men's team will start the whole hockey tournament on July 28th! Plus we've skateboar...

Plans have been revealed to start the process of trying to bring the Tour de France back, as well as the World Athletics Championships, to this country. The announcement of 70 global events in 32 sports inc 18 World Championships was made at the London Stadium in Stratford by UK Sport - the Government agency responsible for funding elite sport, as well as leading the planning for Major Events. For...

Glasgow know how to put on a show - we experienced it first in 2014, where the first idea for this podcast came about when Michael and John met properly! Now a decade on, the Scottish City and the Brits put on a show on another super Saturday for British Athletics with a double gold for Josh Kerr in the 3000m and Molly Caudery in the Pole Vault, plus other personal bests amongst a host of world re...

Hannah Snellgrove is the latest athlete from British Sailing to be picked for Team GB for the Paris 2024 Olympics. Is this special edition of the podcast, we join the 33 year old from Lymington who'll be making her Olympic debut in Marseille, as she visited Twyford St Marys Primary School, answering questions, giving high 5s and even taking part in a fun run with local children! Hannah's the 11th...

Time just keeps ticking and never stands still. Neither does sport. It's 5 months to go to Paris 2024 Olympics and we catch up with Team GB's chef de mission Mark England - on their last minute plans for Paris and getting Games ready! We hear why a single room in the Athletics Village could give British athletes the advantage! Mark tells us he understands World Athletics ideas to re-energise their...

It's been quite a few days since the release of our latest podcast - Great British Bosses with Jon Ridgeon! Michael rounds up some of the reaction as John points out this isn't just about the future of the long jump, but all 'less popular events'. So here we go again then another bonus episode this week - and a switch from Aquatics to Athletics! We've reaction from three of the British Athletics s...

Great British Bosses is all about having conversations with the leading people in the UK who run sport, so it's an even bigger honour to introduce this episode's guest as someone who actually runs a sport across the world - Jon Ridgeon, the Chief Executive Officer of World Athletics. Ahead of the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow (March 1-3 2024) and the Paris Olympics this summer, we hear whe...

A mixture of success and sadness on the podcast this special episode. The World Aquatics Championships keep delivering in Doha for British Swimming with more Paris 2024 Olympic places booked, and more medals won. As the swimming starts we hear from Adam Peaty on his return to the Worlds for the first time in 5 years, diver Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix who keeps breaking records and artistic swimmer K...

This is the podcast where we speak to the men and women behind the scenes of British sport. Our guest this week, is the ideal guest and we're sorry its taken us so long to get her on! 2012 Olympic rowing champion with Katherine Grainger and now in charge of supporting and assisting athletes during and after their elite career as the CEO of the British Elite Athletes Association, that's now been go...

What a start to one of the biggest sporting events to take place before this summer's Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics.... British Swimming has won gold, silver and bronze in the diving pool, qualified more places for Paris for Team GB in Open Water and featured in the first Water Polo Worlds for a decade! We hear from medal winners Tom Daley, Hector Pardoe, Grace Reid and Ross Haslam. We also...

You could say he's the man behind the stories of the stories of the British Olympic athletes. Scott Field is the Director of Communications and Marketing for Team GB and we're delighted he's given up some of his valuable time in Olympic year to talk all things Paris 2024 and more, especially as we're now less than six months away! From West Brom to speedway, the gold post boxes of 2012 to the wint...

Welcome to another bonus episode of the podcast - we couldn't let the 6 months to go mark go without a special edition! Giselle Ansley and Nick Bandurak fresh from their Great Britain Hockey success at qualifying for the Games join us to tell us how excited they are - and relieved! With six months to go Team GB has revealed their 6 special mini mascots - 9 year old Santino joins us from Wales - an...

Earlier this month, Paralympics GB wrote to the Prime Minister about its 'deep concern' following the removal of a dedicated minister for disabled people. Have they had a response? In this episode of Great British Bosses, the behind the scenes conversation of British sport, comes to the forefront as we ask the relatively new CEO David Clarke. The three time Paralympian is now in charge of the orga...

It's two years since Eve Muirhead finally got her hands on Olympic gold. The Curling skip and her team was victorious on the final weekend of the Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022. After 4 Olympics and years of training and practicing, Eve decided to retire from elite sport after those Games - but it seems she can't stay away from an Olympic Village! The 33 year old is in charge - or the Chef De...

It maybe be only the first few weeks of January but the first major event building up to Paris 2024 Olympics is very much underway! And British Cycling has got off to a medal winning start at the European Track Championships in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands...we've the latest news from there and hear from some of the team. We then head south to Valencia and Muscat as the women and men's hockey team...

This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK. And who better to speak to then someone who's been there and done it all! In this episode, Michael catches up with Hannah Mills OBE, the double Olympic sailing champion, London 2012 silver medalist, strategist at GBR Sail GP, as well as running Athena Pathway aimed at getting young women i...

As someone always says this time every year - "It's Christmas!" And what better way to spend the festive period, than to grab a cup of something, and have listen to one of Britain's greatest ever snow athletes. Alpine ski racer Chemmy Alcott went to four Winter Olympics for Team GB, and in both Turin and Vancouver, she finished an impressive 11th place in downhill and super combined respectively....

It was the decision we all expected, but maybe the timing wasn't. The International Olympic Committee have approved that so called neutral individuals from Russia and Belarus will be able to compete at the Olympics next summer, as long as they haven't supported the war with Ukraine. We've all the details. It's been a brilliant week for British Swimming in Romania at the European Short-course Champ...

We like to think all our podcasts are good and everyone listens all the way through. Make sure you do with this one. Justine's answer to the last question will leave you speechless. It made us want to rewrite the whole podcast intro where we'd said 'a short trip across the channel.' Justine Baynes is the brilliant CEO of British Wheelchair Basketball which has seen a successful 2023 ensure qualifi...

We loved our times in Glasgow, Birmingham and has Michael mentioned he went to the Gold Coast for the Commonwealth Games? But the multi sporting event's future remains highly uncertain, with no host in 2026 or beyond. So we want to know what's next - and there's no better person to talk than the man who led Team England to a record breaking performance at Birmingham 2022. Paul Blanchard is our lat...

In this special episode of the podcast, we hear from the two latest athletes picked for Team GB for the Paris 2024 Olympics, from British Triathlon. World champion Beth Potter competing in her second Olympics, in her second sport, and Olympic gold and silver medalist from Tokyo Alex Yee. We also hear from British Triathlon's Performance Director Mike Cavendish on who could join Beth and Alex! Cong...