Anything but Footy

With four months to go, Glasgow is preparing to stage the biggest Para event in the history of Commonwealth Games this summer! Hundreds of athletes across multiple sports in the middle of the spectacular sporting summer on the banks of the Clyde. In this special episode of the podcast we hear from Paralympic gold medalist and Glasgow 2026 ambassador Sammi Kinghorn on why she's gutted at missing ou...

We always said this was a stacked team for British Athletics! And if it hadn't been for the two relay wins for USA in the last two events, Great Britain would've topped the medal table with 4 golds! Middle distance king Josh Kerr and then the golden girls of Georgia Hunter Bell, Molly Caudery and Keely Hodgkinson on a Super Sunday! We hear from them, record breaking Scott Lincoln PLUS Wimbledon an...

Two time Olympic medalist and 1500m world champion Josh Kerr joins us on the second of these episodes looking at the World Indoors in Poland this weekend! He wants to win the 3000m title again like he did in Glasgow in 2024 - and also confirms to us he'll be back in Scotland for the Commonwealth Games this summer! Yemi Mary John is also one to watch - the British 400m champion beating the British...

British world champion Jeremiah Azu defends his 60m title at the Indoor Athletics Championships this weekend. Fellow sprint star and world outdoor silver medalist Amy Hunt is looking for a big start to a season again ahead of the Europeans, Commonwealths and Ultimate Championships. We hear from them both in the Olympic and Paralympic podcast - springing into summer and looking ahead to LA - and we...

He's probably the most famous British swimmer of all time - and all thanks to one of Britain's best ever boxers Henry Cooper apparently! Duncan Goodhew Olympic champion and president of Swimathon that's celebrating it's 40th anniversary this week. You can still get involved check out swimathon.org to take part And as the winter Games comes to an end and we switch to summer Olympic sports - find ou...

Day Eight - not Great for Britain and NI. We review the Winter Paralympics from a GB perspective with Dr Kate Baker the Performance Director of UK Sport. They warned us it wouldn't be Beijing or 2018 or even 2014 but did they expect this? We also round up the News from the Games as the Italians have their best ever Games and so do the Aigners from Austria! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit p...

As the original Kylie once said "Step Back In Time". It's 2010 and the Conservatives and Lib Dems had a coalition Government just months after the Winter Paralympics in Vancouver. With just one medal so far in Milano Cortina, we have to look back 16 years for a worse medal return for Great Britain and NI. We look-back but also ask is there still time to change it? And GB decathlete turned snowboar...

A day when the first ever Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling champions were crowned - China btw - and a day when the British Curling campaign came to end in the Mixed Team too. Russia moved upto 4th in the medal table - above Ukraine. We've the very latest Milano Daily on the Winter Paralympics - and in TNT Tomorrow's News Today - Nina Sparks the first ever British female snowboarder joins us! Learn...

We knew it was coming - and so did Neil Simpson and Rob Poth! The Visually Impaired Alpine Skiing Combined silver medalists winning Paralympics GB's first medal of Milano Cortina. Hear from them both on the focus on the Slalom, the support, what's next and the freebies! We've the rest of the News from the Games and in TNT Tomorrow's News Today, we hear from the youngest member of the British team...

4th, 5th and 6th for Great Britain in another day of what might have been at Milano Cortina Winter Paralympics. Carry on Curling came to an unhappy ending for Team JJ - and Mixed Team seem out of sorts too. GB's Menna & Katie and Neil & Rob still have three events to go in the Alpine Skiing! Russia win their first gold since 2014 while in TNT Tomorrow's News Today we hear from another one of three...

Day Three could be the day it all changes for Paralympics GB! Day Two was a write off let be honest, but with Menna & Katie Neil & Andrew - the Beijing medalists from 4 years ago - in Super G action could make it a magic Monday! We could also see Team JJ qualify for the mixed doubles Curling semis! And in TNT Tomorrow's News Today one of three teenagers in the team - the brilliant Hester Poole is...

This is the Paralympics - but it's started like the Olympics! A fourth place for Paralympics GB in the men's downhill VI - but never fear more events to coe for Neil Simpson! The Curling rolls on with wins for GB, Russia make a podium for the first time since Sochi 2014 but its Ukraine who top the early medal table! & In TNT Tomorrow's News Today GB's Fred Warburton ahead of the Super G tells us w...

“Four years ago I said I was horrified at what was happening in the world. Unfortunately, the situation has not improved.” The apt words from International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons at the underwhelming Opening Ceremony to Milano Cortina Winter Paralympics. Boycotts, no shows, withdrawals, injuries its been quite the build up! But now the sport starts! And we've the latest in T...

With all the athletes in Cortina or Milan, the Cauldrons there too, boycotts because of Russia's return and other nations like GB not going because of competition - as the curtain raiser for the biggest ever Winter Paralympics is about to happen the key question - What they doing in Verona? We've the latest News from the Games - too much sunshine - the missing Curling stones - and Paralympics GB f...

The sport has started at Milano Cortina Winter Paralympics before the Opening Ceremony - and it's a brand new one! Mixed Doubles in Wheelchair Curling making it's Games debut - but not the result Great Britain were hoping for losing 10-7 to Estonia in match one! Paralympics GB's alpine skiers are also out training on the downhill slopes in Cortina - we hear from Beijing gold medalist Neil Simpson...

Paralympics GB won't be at the Opening Ceremony in Verona on Friday, but its not a boycott as a result of the return of the Russians - it's just all the athletes in Cortina are competing the next day! It's one of the many talking points as we cross to Cortina this episode Milano Daily and countdown to the 50th anniversary of the Winter Paralympics with chef de mission Phil Smith. We try and answer...

The most successful British Winter Olympics Team Ever! The loudest cheer ever heard at Gatwick Airport! Team GB's record breakers are back in the UK and celebrating their magical Milano Cortina Games. We were there for radio and the podcast in the South Terminal - and in this episode we hear how time heals for ice dancers Lilah Fear & Lewis Gibson and catch with skeleton star Freya Tarbit on her f...

The greatest Winter Olympics ever for Team GB! 3 golds, a silver in the Curling and a bronze on the final day for Zoe Atkin on halfpipe ensured, Great Britain ended Milano Cortina 2026 with 5 medals and 15th in the medal table. We hear from Bruce Mouat, Hammy MacMillan and Zoe Atkin on their wining weekend - gold medalists Matt Weston and Charlotte Bankes from last weekend will carry the Union fla...

The 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics are coming to a close, but have they show the way forward for the Games of the future? IOC president Kirsty Coventry suggests so. We're joined by Team GB's Niall Treacy to review his Olympics And in our News from the Games, the latest Bobsleigh updates, talk flying Dutchmen (and women) and the Canadians leave it late in the hockey again! Learn more about you...

Another winning weekend in store for Team GB? Saturday night's alright as the British men's Curling team go for gold in the Olympic final knowing they have guaranteed a medal. While Zoe Atkin qualified first in the Freeski Halfpipe final - that happens at the same time this weekend! During the last few days of the Olympics, we are going to lookback and reflect some of the highs and lows for Team G...

The greatest skier of all time was crowned on the slopes in Cortina as Czechia nearly delivered the Miracle on Ice Part 2. Another crazy day at the Winter Olympics which is why we love it! Team GB  curlers are loving it too - crucial matches today before the semi finals hopefully! In tomorrow’s news today we have the latest on the British bobsleigh and hear from Summer now Winter Olympian Ashleigh...

Curtains for Curlers? The best men's team in the world for the past 4 years - Great Britain - are now relying on other results going their way for a medal. We've all the details! An injury concern for Team GB's 4 man bobsleigh ahead of official training - as the Ryussians are back for the Paralympics in two weeks. PLUS as the snow continues in Livigno, in tomorrow's news today we talk to one of th...

Kirsty Muir has had quite the Winter Olympics - another 4th place a record fifth for Team GB at the Games. What a show the snow and skiers put on in Livigno in the Big Air though! We round up all the day's News from the Games incl a MUST win for Mouat's British Curlers! And in Tomorrow's News Today, one of the blue riband events at the Winter Games is the men's 4 man bobsleigh - we have brake man...

The Greatest Ever Day in Team GB Winter Olympic History! Mixed Snowboard Cross Gold followed by Mixed Skeleton GOLD - 3 new Olympic champions in Huw Nightingale Charlotte Bankes and Tabby Stoecker, and Matt Weston becoming the first British winter Olympian to win two golds in one games! Hear from them all in this episode and a jubilant Team GB chef de mission Eve Muirhead PLUS latest news from the...

The Milano bells are ringing for the second week of the Winter Olympics! Can Team GB add to their one medal? John and Michael team up in person in Milano to look ahead! We also round up the News from the Games and in TNT Tomorrow’s News Today we’ve joined by five time Team GB  Olympian Dave Ryding and slalom team-mate Billy Major. And there’s a new contender against Matt Weston for SPOTY from the...