Anything but Footy

Great Britain’s greatest-ever Paralympian, Dame Sarah Storey, has revealed she is stepping away from international competition. From starting her career as a swimmer aged 14, in Barcelona 1992, the 19th gold medal she won in Paris 2024 will be her last and she's told us there's no way she'll be coming back! This is a very special episode of Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - someone we...

We knew it would happen - Russia is returning to the Olympics. We hear from IOC president Kirsty Coventry on importance of neutrality. Nordic Combined - a Winter Olympic event since the start - has been removed from the Alpes 2030. Can you imagine if swimming was scrapped from the summer games?  We maybe gearing up for Glasgow but we talk about the Olympics and Paralympics all the time so the...

"Everyone is chasing the Aussies" - that from the head of Team England as the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games approaches. Jonathon Riall - or Jonny Riall - knows a thing or two about multi sport events having led the Paralympics GB team during the recent Winter Games amongst many other things. He reveals a Team England of 250+ athletes, across 10 sports, 16 disciplines and how every athlete has be...

With Glasgow 2026 this month (!) we look at the future of the Games with Commonwealth Sport CEO Katie Sadlier after Scotland saved the movement and India host next! There's our News from the Games with pleny of Team England announcements - hear from Birmingham bronze medalist Jade O Dowda who's back in the heptathlon with Katerina Johnson-Thompson! And Team GB have their first booked team at the L...

Wimbledon 2026 Day One - a day of withdrawals and not many wins for Great British Tennis. Michael and John are at the All England Club the day after Emma Raducanu pulled out and on the day Jack Draper also withdrew through ongoing injury concerns. We catch up with BBC commentators Nick Lester and Katie Smith on the fall out - and look ahead to the return of Serena Williams! Learn more about your a...

If strawberries and cream are synonymous with Wimbledon - it's probably pimms and sparkling wine for Henley Royal Regatta - the biggest rowing event in the world that's been staged nearly every year since 1839! It stemmed from the Boat Race and as you'll hear its idea of stewardship, good manners and competitive sporting competition helped form the initial movement of the modern Olympic Games! And...

John & Michael catch up with the Olympic champions from gymnastics and cycling at either end of the country as part of Olympic Day! The Team GB Foundation that put on the special events in Essex and Manchester aims to inspire healthy, active and happy kids and get everyone moving! Max was confirmed to compete for Team England and Emma for Team Wales at this summer's Commonwealths we talk about giv...

One month to go! Crazy to think where the Commonwealth Games may have ended up if Glasgow hadn’t stepped up - but it means so much to people! We hear from Olympic and defending Commonwealth Games champion Rhys McClenaghan, 2014 cycling champion Joanna Rowsell and Glasgow 2026 CEO Phil Batty. We’re gearing up for Glasgow 2026 & you can still be there too  http://glasgow2026.com/ Learn more about yo...

What a weekend! Back in Birmingham the British Athletics Championships over two days didn't disappoint! Shocks, surprises, withdrawals and dramatic wins and unhappy shot puters! Serial winner Scott Lincoln tells us why! We have the latest as Keely Hodgkinson doesn't compete in the 400m final, hear from British champion Amber Anning and as its fathers day we catch up with Alistair Chalmers who's ba...

In this season, we continue to speak to the people who have changed British sport during their careers like Victoria Pendleton. In this episode, we're delighted to catch up with Team GB and British Athletics sprinter Daryll Neita, the Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth medalist, ten years on from her first medal - and ahead of a big birthday celebration! Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

The Protection Of Women In Olympic Sport Policy was published at the end of the Olympics and Paralympics in Milano Cortina at the end of March 2026. We said it was too important to not talk about, but John & Michael weren't necessarily the only voices needed on this topic! In this episode we're joined by Commonwealth medalist, cyclist and broadcaster Georgia Holt to discuss! Learn more about your...

The International Olympic Committee sit on a huge amount of money and there should be a way to funnel it down to the athletes! The views of Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth gold medalist Greg Rutherford who joins us on the pod after IOC President Kirsty Coventry said "I don't believe in paying athletes". Hear why he thinks she's wrong in FULL - and how he's battling to keep his children a...

Slight twist on the usual spin off of Anything but Footy. We’re joined by President of On Location Paul Caine to talk all things LA 28 Olympic hospitality - and we ask if he could sell the North of England Games??? On Location offer a premium way to experience the Olympics by combining guaranteed access to events with elevated in-venue hospitality and service. The LA 2028 Games will the third time...

Two Olympic gold medals and 34 World Championship medals, there was nothing Victoria Pendleton couldn't do on the track - she even turned her hand to horse-racing after retiring from cycling at the peak of her powers in the summer of 2012. Now in The Fear Opportunity, Victoria draws on her own experiences, both deeply personal and professional, to demonstrate how we can all turn fears into the opp...

Handy for Nandy? Michael has put together the most comprehenisve list of venues for the 2040s North of England Olympics and Paralympics. The Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has instructed UK Sport to assess any potential bid for the benefits of local people, towns and cities. www.anythingbutfooty.com/blog/handy-for-nandy We also round up our News from the Games as gearing up for Glasgow and looking a...

Celebrating the best Winter Olympics for Team GB ever! Michael's been catching up with double Olympic champion Matt Weston and 'the boss' chef de mission Eve Muirhead at a star studded event in the West End of London. Hear from them both on how life has changed and what's to come! We're also gearing up for Glasgow and looking ahead to LA - so we catch up with bobsleigh Adele Nicoll on her shot put...

The International Olympic Committee says sports around their world should lift their ban on Belarus competing individually or as a national team, that's been in place since the Ukraine War started in 2022. The IOC Executive Board says athletes "should not be limited by the actions of their governments". But Russia remain banned not because of war but of concerns about the anti-doping regime - its...

Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth medalist - Eilidh Doyle is Scotland's most decorated track and field athlete - but she doesn't like to mention it! The face of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games is now an ambassador as the Games return to the Scottish City for the second time in 12 years, if not in quite the same capacity. But with the centenary around the corner, at least Glasgow saved...

The World Team Championships is the World Cup of Table Tennis! 100 years after starting in London it's back this week with 64 nations from around the world competing! England as hosts will get a place in the final 32 which gets underway this coming Bank Holiday weekend at Wembley! With half a million people playing Table Tennis every week in the UK, and a new mixed team event being added to the ne...

We're gearing up for Glasgow and so are the thousands of volunteers who'll be helping put on the Games this summer in Scotland. The 'Legends' have been revealed and we hear from one in this latest episode of the podcast with Glasgow 2026 - four time Commonwealth Games gold medalist gymnast Jake Jarman - the man with his face plastered across the City! For tickets & more on the Games check out Glas...

"The biggest and most exciting marathon yet - the atmosphere across Greater Manchester was truly electric from start to finish". We're joined by ASO UK CEO Andrew Smith to talk all things Manchester Marathon after a record breaking weekend. We discuss plans for a two day London Marathon "you dont want Christmas everyday!" and could the World Marathon Champs help the North West's Olympic bid!? Quit...

100 days to go - we're into the HOME STRAIGHT - and so could you be! More tickets are going on sale next TUESDAY (Apr 21) for the first ever European Athletics Championships in the UK, on the home straight, the final 100m at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham. We hear from European champions Darren Campbell and Ashleigh Nelson. We also talk relays with Darren as he's in charge for UK Athletics, a...

Did you get your 2028 Olympic ticket slot? Or get snubbed like John? Are we still looking ahead to LA? We're still gearing up for Glasgow 2026 and 9 time Commonwealth Games medalist Nile Wilson joins us on the pod to talks all things Commies & and return of Max Whitlock to gymnastics! There's our News from the Games too after a big weekend for Michael in the Boat Race - no he wasn't rowing! Learn...

Never under estimate a double Olympic and world champion! Impressive in his swimming now setting the standard to help his fellow Olympics and Paralympic athletes! Still only 23, Matt Richards is using personal experience and entrepreneurialism to solve a gap in the market for athletes and brands with a brand new platform. Sponza is now live with over 5,000 athletes and brands signed up! Hear all a...

Sport in the Spring doesn't get any bigger than the Boat Races on the River Thames in London. For nearly 200 years, Cambridge and Oxford Universities have been taking to the Tideway for a varsity challenge now dubbed the greatest rivalry in Rowing! The men and women's races take place this Easter Saturday and Michael will be commentating for Times Radio who are broadcasting the race officially liv...