Anything but Footy

He's the former chair of UK Athletics - current chair at British Wheelchair Rugby and has plenty to save on the state of sport in this country! This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK. We're delighted Ed Warner is our first guest of season five - and follow & download as many more to come! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

LeBron James, Novak Djokovic, Iga Swiatek, Kylian Mbappe - sporting superstars with an eye on a place at the Olympic Games in Paris next summer. Is it good for the Games? Team GB turn their attention to promoting women's sport with a brilliant new series Sporty AF - you can watch via Team GB’s YouTube channel PLUS Para athletics, diamond league, gymnastics, boxing, tennis, shooting and rowing righ...

How do we judge our greatest ever Olympian? We'd love to hear from you on your thoughts... As Sir Mo Farah retires at the age of 40 in his last Great North Run - somewhere he's won 6 times - it's time to reflect on his outstanding track career and double double at London 2012 and Rio 2016. But is he better than Sir Steve Redgrave, Jason or Laura Kenny? We round up the GNR results and hear from Cha...

The countdown to the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics is really getting going... UK Sport is confident Great Britain and NI will finish in the top 5 of the Olympics and Paralympics medal table next year, and it's also targeting that for LA and Brisbane. But as we visited Bisham Abbey, one of the UK Sport Institute bases in tis country, we also found out winning isn't enough, it has to be winnin...

Qualifying as many boats as possible for the Paris 2024 Games... The aim of British Rowing as 62 strong Olympic and Paralympic team named for the 2023 World Rowing Champions in Belgrade this coming week... We hear from 6 members of British Rowing in this special episode - reigning world champs Oli Wilkes and David Ambler of the men's four, Lola Anderson and Georgie Brayshaw from the Women’s quadru...

Josh Kerr was the story from the World Athletics Championships for many of us - storming to victory in the men's 1500m and retaining the title for Great Britain from when Jake Wightman won it a year ago. Hear from the man himself on this episode! But there's so many more stories to tell from Budapest 2023, a glorious championships and not only for Great Britain who equalled their record haul from...

This is Anything but Footy, and episode 92 we're joined by Olympic medalist Holly Bradshaw ahead of the 40th anniversary of the World Athletics Championships - this time being held in Budapest... The pole vault star is returning from injury and joins a 50+ strong Great Britain and NI squad. We also look back at some of the past World Champs - let us know your memories - and even discuss Mascots!*...

Cancelled - the Marathon swimming test events in the river Seine for next summer Olympics because of poor water quality. World Aquatics say it's clear something has to happen. Commonwealth chaos as Alberta pulls out of preferred bidder status to stage the 2030 Games. World Para Swimming in Manchester & World Cycling in Glasgow round ups And our News from the Games ahead of Paris 2024 next summer!...

It was suggested in our 'Year to go' episode that Tom Daley might return for Team GB for Paris 2024. And he's back in the diving pool with the Olympics next summer 'a goal'. We've the latest from the Tokyo gold medalist - as well as the other British headlines from the World Aquatics Championships in Japan too. Plus there's World Triathlon, Cycling & Athletics. John reveals his thoughts behind how...

It's One Year to Go! Paris 2024 organisers, and the French capital city, are in full preparation mode as John finds out on his trip on the Eurostar, across the channel! The International Olympic Committee are still refusing to talk about Russia and Belarus... And we're at the training ground of PSG (but we don't talk footy!), we it's actually the Georges Lefevre Stadium and complex which is one of...

We were promised a Games like no other. A new way of doing the Commonwealth Games. Multi city. Across regions. But just like that, and apparently without consultation, the state of Victoria Government has withdrawn the funding for the Games, and pulled the plug on staging the 2026 edition. In a special 'breaking' edition, we bring you the latest statements and ask who could step up and deliver the...

People keep talking about the new footy season - we won't here! We don't deal with weekly transfer tittle tattle or 105 million pound signings! We actually talk about heroes who've won something! We've had a great few weeks at Wimbledon, there's also been the World Para Athletics Championships in Paris and Glasgow is about to stage it's biggest ever sporting event - even larger than the 2014 Commo...

A bumper weekend of sport - none more so than in Manchester as the British Athletics Championships took place - and the chance to book your spot in Budapest for the Worlds later this summer! Michael spent the weekend avoiding the 'Manchester Monsoon' but also speaking to some of our new British champions - Zharnel Hughes, Daryll Neita, Jazmin Sawyers, Morgan Lake & Jessie Knight. We also hear from...

This is Team GB at the European Games. With just a year to go before the 2024 Paris Olympics, there's been qualification spots on offer for British athletes, European titles and medals to be won and history to be made! In this special episode of the podcast, we hear from Team GB medalists, Olympic champions, and some new names from archery, diving, taekwondo, BMX freestyle, rugby 7s, fencing and a...

It's Games time - again! The European Games is getting underway in Poland - their biggest ever sporting event with 6000 athletes from 50 countries including 170 odd Team GB athletes hoping to use Poland as a platform for Paris 2024. We talk to Chef de Mission in Krakow Paul Ford. But we start with the startling raid on the HQ of Paris 2024 this week - and hear from the IOC's Christophe Dubi. And M...

The European Games, the mini Olympics on the continent, are now just days away. Team GB is sending 177 athletes, we've talked about and heard from many over the past few weeks. In this episode of the podcast we hear from two who have really different stories to tell - boxers Charley Davidson and Delicious Ore. They are forthcoming, honest, determined and concerned about the Olympic future of their...

It's been another one of those brilliant sporting weeks - history in Paris for Novak Djokovic and an earthquake in golf with the PGA tour doing a deal with the Saudis. Andy Murray's back winning again, British records being set on the athletics track in Paris... and why Paris is the focus in Poland at the European Games for Team GB Rugby 7s stars Lisa Thomson and Alex Davis... The pair join us to...

Charlotte Worthington is a superstar, a British Olympic champion, the first ever gold medalist in BMX freestyle, and nailed a full 360 degree jump during her triumph in Tokyo. But she's also told us she's struggled with her enjoyment of the sport since returning to action, and talks about Adam Peaty being an inspiration for speaking out about mental health challenges. But Worthington is now one of...

In this episode we discuss, through various Olympic and Paralympic sports, whether sportsmanship is real or just an ideal? And with the footy season over, it's our favourite time of the year! We round up Cycling, Rowing, Tennis, Taekwondo, Judo, Canoe Sprint, Triathlon, Hockey, Athletics, Diving, Skateboard - just you're average summer weekend of sport 😉 And Michael and John discuss some amazing...

The BEAA Podcast - 100 days is the voice of Great Britain's elite athletes and in this episode you'll hear from new chair of the British Elite Athletes Association Dominic Mahony. He talks about his and the organisation's aim of providing more of a community, an elite athletes’ village in effect, as well as expert, independent guidance to all on sport's world class programme. We also hear about th...

The UK’s first international Sitting Volleyball event since London 2012 is taking place - and not only is there a chance to see the world's best players in action, you could have a go yourself! The ParaVolley Silver Nations League in Nottingham from 19-21 May 2023 - with British Volleyball stars in action as they target qualification for the Paralympics in Paris in 2024. In this special episode of...

In the past year, all of us have been affected by rising food, energy and living costs, sports clubs and organisations too. These clubs provide vital physical and mental wellbeing to hundreds of thousands of young people across the UK every week. And in this special episode of Anything but Footy, with SPORTED, the grassroots sport charity we hear about the findings of it's latest 'Ring Sported Com...

It's not an Olympic sport but it's not Footy either! Michael loves a 17 day sporting event and has spent most of the past fortnight or so in Sheffield covering the World Snooker Championships. A boyhood dream recognised, and a history making tournament with Belgium's Luca Brecel winning the title and re-writing the history books. But is he the most famous Belgian since the story books of Hercule P...

From Marcel Hug's dominance to Sifan Hassan's comeback, the second fastest ever Marathon and the last 26.2 miles ever from Mo Farah. Despite the drizzle, this 2023 TCS London Marathon shone through with highlight, record, highlight and record! John and Michael are at the finish line in the Mall rounding up all the results - and hear from the all the elite winners - including David Weir, Sam Harris...

A treat this week - not one but two episodes of Anything but Footy! A bit like our special guests Jessica Gadirova - the 18 year old European Gymnastic champion with not one, not two but three gold medals in Turkey last week! She joins us in her 'free period' at school while John & Michael reveal what they used to do in theirs! We round up a table topping performance from the Brits in Turkey - plu...