Anything but Footy

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...

In this special episode of the podcast, we hear from the latest athletes picked for Team GB for Paris 2024 Olympics, from British Canoeing. Olympic medallists Joe Clarke MBE and Mallory Franklin, alongside 2023 World Champion Kimberley Woods and Tokyo 2020 Olympian Adam Burgess. Mallory will compete in the Women’s Canoe Single (C1) & the new Olympic discipline Kayak Cross, Joe in the Men’s Kayak S...

Sport England, London 2012, GB Boxing, GB Taekwondo and now CEO of the UK Sports Institute. Our guest on this episode of Great British Bosses Matt Archibald has literally come a long way from being an accountant in Aberdeen. The UKSI delivers outstanding support that enables sports and athletes to excel. In this episode of the behind the scenes conversation of British sport we find out how - and w...

The clocks have gone back, the nights are drawing in and the winter Olympic sport is back! In this episode of the podcast we catch up with former Police officer and now successful CEO of British Ice Skating Michelle Draper - and that was one of the first thing she changed - it's name from NISA! We talk about the rising British stars on ice ahead of the 2026 Milano Cortino Games - and how long into...

This is Great British Bosses - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK - and in our latest episode we catch up with chief executive of England Hockey Nick Pink. In his role he also oversees GB Hockey, which has been hugely successful in the women's game in the past 3 Olympics - but what about Paris 2024 and could the men grab a medal moment again like 1988? We also discuss a brand ne...

This is Anything but Footy - the Olympics and Paralympics podcast - and in this latest episode we round up the IOC session meeting in Mumbai... We hear from IOC President Thomas Bach on the new sports like cricket and squash for LA 28 - and the concern for future of the Winter Games. Chef De Mission for Team GB at Paris 2024 Mark England talks to us too. And why the 2012 mascot Mandeville nears a...

In this special episode of the podcast, we hear from the very first athletes picked for Team GB for Paris 2024 Olympics, from British Sailing. 10 athletes in 7 categories - 6 making their Olympic debuts and 3 having won medals in Tokyo. John Gimson and Anna Burnet – mixed multihull (Nacra 17) James Peters and Fynn Sterritt – men’s skiff (49er) Freya Black and Saskia Tidey – women’s skiff (49erFX)...

How do you start a new sporting organisation bringing together the history of the world of rugby? Gather in a room and come up with some goals apparently. That's exactly what GB Rugby 7s did in an attempt to qualify easier and then prepare better for the relatively new Olympic competition. Our latest guest on season 5 of Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the behind the scenes conversa...