Anything but Footy

This is Back on Track from Anything but Footy - a series that features Team and Para GB athletes aiming for Tokyo 2020 in 2021. In this special 10th edition of the pod, we hear from 3 of the 10 members of the teams picked for the Olympics and Paralympics this summer. Naomi Folkard and Patrick Huston looking to win Britain's first Archery medal in 20 years - and first time Paralympian Hazel Chaisty...

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics in 2021 is now just 100 days to go... The latest news headlines surrounding the event don't make the most comfortable reading, but being honest when has a preparation to any Games had nothing but positivity! There are huge challenges ahead, alluded to by double Olympic champion Jade Jones who joins us just back from Bulgaria and competing at the European Taekwondo Champions...

Great British Bosses is the podcast series that looks behind the scenes at British Sport. Dr Neil Fell is a leading sports scientist having worked in the industry for 25 years, working in rugby and at St George's Park, the new home of English football. We hear his views on elite sport! And as the director and co-founder of gym OnePT in Rochdale, Neil gives us the insight on what it's been like in...

The new series featuring Team and Para GB athletes aiming for Tokyo 2020 in 2021 In this podcast series, from Anything but Footy, we speak to Team GB and Para GB athletes preparing for Tokyo 2020 in 2021, following the historic delay to the Games because of the coronavirus pandemic. Niamh Emerson is the World Junior Champion and has also won European Indoor Championship silver medal and Commonweal...

The latest spin off podcast from Anything but Footy with Team GB and Para GB athletes aiming for Tokyo 2020 in 2021... Liam Heath is preparing for his third Games after becoming Olympic champion in Rio in 2016 and World Champion in Sprint Canoe in 2019. But preparation following the postponement of the Olympics a year ago to this summer is anything but ordinary. Liam talks all things Rio, how life...

Team Bath Netball is back in action later for their Round 7 fixture against Surrey Storm in the Vitality Netball Superleague. The netball season is being held behind closed doors with the first half of the season in Wakefield and the second half of the season in London at The Copper Box Arena on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. In this special edition of the podcast, Anything but Footy joined Team Ba...

Stephen Park oversees the form and career of every single elite British cyclist from the track stars to the up and coming BMX and mountain bike riders, in the Olympic and the Paralympic programme. As Performance Director his job is ensuring the athletes are at their peak to perform at the right time. Tokyo 2020 in 2021 is the focus for this year but Stephen reveals the next 18 months are potential...

This is Anything but Footy the Olympic and Paralympic Podcast - the 50th episode! Michael and John reunite, via the power of the pod, to review the weekend sporting action as the build up to the Tokyo Games starts to gather some pace. Sport is happening around the world and British elite sport stars are getting to compete. We're joined by Verity Ockenden, Bronze Medalist from the European Athletic...

The new series featuring Team and Para GB athletes aiming for Tokyo 2020 in 2021 In this podcast series, from Anything but Footy, we speak to Team GB and Para GB athletes preparing for Tokyo 2020 in 2021, following the historic delay to the Games because of the coronavirus pandemic. Adam Gemili won gold and silver medals at World Championship level as part of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland...

When was your first swim, bike and run? How did you get on in the very first race? How to balance school, studying and Triathlon? And an elite journey from youth to senior. In a special edition of the podcast, produced on behalf of British Triathlon, Growing up Tri-ing speaks to three Olympic and Paralympic Podium Potential athletes to find out all the answers and their experiences. Hear Sophie Co...

We know women's sport has been badly affected during the Covid-19 pandemic, but netball is back and for the first time ever every match is being show live on Sky Sports, as Wakefield and London's Copperbox Arena are the two neutral venues for the entire season. CEO, Director of Netball and Head Coach of London Pulse, the youngest franchise of the Vitality Netball SuperLeague, Sam Bird describes th...

This is Back On Track from Anything but Footy. The podcast series where we speak to Team GB and Para GB athletes preparing for Tokyo 2020 in 2021. Matt Skelhon is a three time Olympic medalist - having won gold in Beijing, silver and bronze in London. After Rio he nearly quit. Now he's back at Olympic trap World Champion and is one of the first athletes to be picked by Paralympics GB for the Games...

Happy New Year! Welcome to the latest edition of Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy. It's another Olympic and Paralympic year, hopefully with some sport in it this time! In this podcast series we go behind the scenes of British sport. In this episode, we catch up with three Olympic champion Andrew Triggs Hodge to discuss his perfect retirement from rowing in Rio, what happens next for at...

In this episode, Olympic hopeful Natasha Cockram describes how at the start of 2020 she left her home and job in Wales to re-locate to Norfolk in an attempt to represent Team GB in the women's marathon in Tokyo. Despite the set backs of the year - lockdown forcing the cancellation of many events which natasha aimed to compete in to earn a living and picking up an injury, Natasha became the British...

As Noddy Holder would say 'It's Christmas......' and even covid-19 can't stop the Darts at Alexandra Palace and what's even better for CEO of the Professional Darts Corporation Matt Porter, there's spectators in attendance too - admittedly slightly differently and socially distanced! Matt tells us all the rules and regulations and the only reason you can leave your seat this year! As well as leadi...

Lauren Price is super talented! Not only is she the world's number one middleweight boxer, but reigning World, European and Commonwealth champion, having been European kickboxing champion and winning more than 50 caps for Wales in football too! After not fighting at all in 2020, it's confirmed she'll return to the ring to compete in London again at the Olympic Boxing qualifying event in the Copper...

Like most of us, and the sporting world, 2020 didn't turn out the way the Sport & Recreation Alliance was planning. Representing hundreds of sports and activity organisations, including the FA, ECB & RFU, many are now fighting for their own survival following a series of lockdowns and tiered restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Millions of pounds worth of funding has been allocated to help t...

In this episode, who and what is the British Athletes Commission? We speak to its chair two time world champion and Paralympic bronze medal rower Victoria Aggar. She reveals the BAC has had to employ more staff to cope with the rising number of athletes reaching out and asking for support, following several high profile abuse and bullying scandals in British sport. And wishes she could've supporte...

In this episode, multi Paralympic medalist Claire Cashmore calls on film makers and actors to think, and do more, to help fight the prejudice against those with a disability. It follows the latest 'Witches' movie depicting a witch with three fingers, a change from the original Roald Dahl text. Claire says it's a massive step backwards and recalls her experiences as a child of being called 'Captain...

This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy, the podcast where we profile the men and women responsible for running sport in this country, from grassroots participation to those medal moments at Olympic, Paralympic and elite level. In this episode we speak to Huw Edwards who is the CEO of UK Active. They are the body that is responsible for improving the healty of the nation by getting mo...

In this podcast series, from Anything but Footy, we speak to Team GB and Para GB athletes preparing for Tokyo 2020 in 2021, following the historic delay to the Games because of the coronavirus pandemic. Jessica Learmonth is set to make her Olympic debut in Tokyo in 2021 after being officially named by Team GB in November 2020 as part of the triathlon team. She will travel to Japan alongside Jonath...

In this new podcast series, from Anything but Footy, we speak to Team GB and Para GB athletes preparing for Tokyo 2020 in 2021, following the historic delay to the Games because of the coronavirus pandemic. Charlotte Henshaw is a double Paralympic medalist, after winning silver and bronze in the swimming pool in London and Rio respectively. But the 33 year old has now swapped sports for Tokyo and...

This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy, the podcast where we profile the men and women responsible for running sport in this country, from grassroots participation to those medal moments at Olympic, Paralympic and elite level. In this episode we speak to the man responsible for delivering one of the biggest sporting events on the planet. And, in 2022 it returns to England for the fir...

This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy, the podcast where we profile the men and women responsible for running sport in this country, from grassroots participation to those medal moments at Olympic, Paralympic and elite level. Coronavirus and lockdown has dominated our lives in 2020 and for our guest, in this the 21st episode, he faced the unenviable task of closing 1800 golf clubs j...

This is Anything but Footy - the Olympic and Paralympic Podcast. New faces on and off the track for British Athletics as the sport returned with the British Championships after lockdown. Christian Malcolm is the new Head Coach for the Olympic Programme, a welcome appointment for many, but and alongside new CEO Joanna Coates, there's a lot of issues to sort out! But all we ask is please give them t...