Anything but Footy

As the Olympic and Paralympic summer comes to an end, many of us will be thinking what next? The UK is already preparing to host the Women's Rugby World Cup next year, the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham in 2026 and hopefully the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow!  But like Paris 2024, none of these will take place without a huge number of volunteers, or ambassadors, of the event.  Liz Stainthorpe is an event volunteer and manager & booking agent of The Games Maker Choir and in this special episode of Great British Bosses, we hear about the important role volunteers play in sport presentation, how if managed correctly, they could add further value to events, how to get involved and sign up the Choir for Sport for future Games! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The first ever Paris Paralympics are coming to a close, and although it may not have had quite the glitz of the French Olympics earlier this summer, the Games will no doubt go down as the best yet, with organisers creating more magical memories in key locations across the French capital, and selling more than 2 million tickets. Paralympics GB has seen success in the water, on the water, on the track and out on the road. New names have come to the fore and Aquatics GB's para swimming team - particularly the women - has been the standout sport so far. But what next? What's the next 4 years look like ahead of LA? And beyond for the moment. Michael reveals his thoughts on staging the Paralympics every two years, in smaller cities right across the world who are unable to deliver bigger Games, and in fact remove all ties with the Olympics. Could this be what's needed for Para sport? We discuss and want to hear from you too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Competing over 4 days on the track and 3 days on the road, this is the British Cycling Team for the Paris Paralympics. 23 athletes - 17 riders and 6 pilots - will be representing Paralympics GB this summer in the first ever Paralympic Games in the French capital. Aged between 20 and 47, this team has 59 Paralympics appearances between them, including Paris. Find out much more and keep unto date with their stories at www.britishcycling.org.uk This is special episode of the podcast with British Cycling

We don't often do more than half an hour, never more than an hour, so here's a BUMPER edition of the podcast talking all things Team GB at the Paris 2024 Olympics! We look at our medal predictions, and review every sport and see who's happy or sad? With the Paralympics just a week away, this is the right time to put Paris 2024 Olympics to bed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Michael and John round up an incredible 2 and a half weeks of Olympic action, working for talkSPORT. Reunited in a French bar on the evening of the closing ceremony, they discuss Team GB's medal haul, place in the medal table and reveal their own three highlights of the Games. Paris 2024 is 'fini' - Ciao Milano Cortina '26 and hello Hollywood for LA '28! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bon voyage to British Athletes competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics... A super Saturday send off from a sell out crowd at the London Stadium with British records and European records falling, personal bests and seasons bests being achieved... Michael and John round up the action from world class competitors Noah Lyles, Gabby Thomas, Keely Hodgkinson, Dina Asher Smith, Matthew Hudson Smith and many more and we hear from a delighted Laviai Nielsen on her 400m personal best! This is Anything but Footy - en-route to Paris 2024! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Great Britain is the most successful nation in the history of cycling in the Olympics. At this summer's Games in Paris, 30 cyclists from track, road, BMX and mountain bike have been chosen to represent Team GB. In this special episode with British Cycling we hear all about the make up of one of the biggest ever Great Britain Cycling Teams, with its mixture of new talent and experience. This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy with Great Britain Cycling Team Performance Director, Stephen Park CBE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We hit the markets at the London Stock Exchange with the Team GB medal targets for the Paris 2024 Olympics. A range of 50-70 with uptown 20 golds according to Team GB chef de mission Mark England. We round up the athletics, cycling and climbing team announcements with 3 weeks to go before the Games And hear from a returning Paralympic champion from British Rowing Giedre Rakauskaite otherwise known as super G! This is Anything but Footy - we're en-route to Paris 2024 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Andy Murray is an Olympic legend with two golds. Andy Murray is a Wimbledon institution with two men's singles titles - ending a run of 77 years by a British man. Sir Andy confirmed early on Day 2 of the All England Championships he wan't join got make his final bow on Centre Court - well not til the doubles with brother Jamie later this week. We've the very latest and British round up of Wimbledon so far! There's more Olympic tennis in our News from the Games plus Archery, Golf, Skateboarding, Para Canoe and 18 year old Anna Hursey in her first Olympics in the Table Tennis and Liam Pitchford in his 4th - and he's still a young 30 year old! We're en-route to Paris 2024 via Wimbledon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What a weekend in Manchester! The weather's been bad for a second year running but the sporting success of the new and rising stars in British Athletics is a brilliant story to tell! 17 yo Phoebe Bell wins the 800m to book her place in Paris - she's on work experience at a primary school in Hertfordshire tomorrow Georgia Bell has come back to the sport she loves while working on cyber security, and beats Laura Muir in the 1500m. While Lina and her sister Laviai bag a spot in Paris just minutes apart. We round up the full weekend from Manchester and have the latest Team GB athletes picked for judo and Taekwondo! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1 month until the Olympics 2 months to the Paralympics Team GB and Paralympics GB name 10 shooters targeting success in Paris - well as you'll hear in this latest podcast just outside the French capital city. Andy Murray's in the draw for Wimbledon - but will he make it - we think we have the perfect finish for him at SW19. And Michael looks ahead to a BIG weekend at the British Championship & Olympic trials in Manchester - and he's got a brolly! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A month to go! It soon comes round only feels like it was January and Olympic year had just started! Team GB announced their first 20 cyclists today, but the freak injury to Katie Archibald means 6 more cycling squads will be confirmed next week too! Olympic medalist Jack Carlin talks us through it! We say thank you to Jonny Brownlee - the men's rugby 7s team will also be missed. Hannah Cockroft on why its important Paris puts on a great Paralympics! And athletics will be week one of LA 2028 - we repeat week one! We try and not get grumpy about it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this special episode with Paddle UK, we spend a day at the Lee Valley White Water Centre with the Team GB canoe slalom athletes, with a month to go before the Games. Adam Burgess confirms he's now competing in two events in Paris - adding Kayak Cross to his schedule. And Performance director Mark Ratcliffe talks us through each of the athletes strengths ahead of the summer.  We also hear from Joe Clarke, Mallory Franklin and Kimberley Woods on their goals for the Games! We hear about the million reasons why legacy has worked from London 2012. And you can find out much more info on all things canoeing at paddleuk.org.uk   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another big announcement and another big squad for Team GB! 32 men and women GB Hockey players have been confirmed for the Paris 2024 Olympics - they both push back against Spain on the opening weekend of the Games in July! Hear from Tess Howard and Phil Roper on their hopes and medal dreams. Two time gold medalist Sir Andy Murray's going to his 5th Olympics but Emma Raducanu is sitting this one out! Plus there's archery, rowing, and para taekwondo in our News from the Games! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Max Whitlock, Bryony Page and Becky Downie...Abi Martin, Harry Hepworth and Ruby Evans... Some older and newer names for Team GB from British Gymnastics... Spare a thought for World and European medalists James Hall and Courtney Tulloch who missed out too. We hear from two of the 42 GB rowers recently named, one returning to the Olympics and one newbie making her debut. And with the cold and freezing summer so far, we talk Winter Olympics plus breaking news about Esports! This is Anything but Footy - the Olympic and Paralympic podcast1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're enroute to Paris 2024 but a detour via London & Rome! Molly Caudery joins us as well as Lizzie Bird and Romell Glave after some brilliant British performances at the European Athletics Championships at Roma 2024. John's been at the Lee Valley Hockey Centre for a preview of the Paris 2024 Great British Hockey teams - as they've been in FIH Pro League action. There's our usual News from the Games and then both Team GB and Paralympics GB name their badminton teams! We've the full details as we prepare for Paris 2024! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Olympic rings are on the Eiffel Tower - although Michael is not impressed! He's in Sheffield for the GB Boxing team announcement as Team GB also name their biggest - and smallest - sporting squads so far. Chef De Mission Mark England talks rowing and weightlifter Emily Campbell joins us! We hear from Tokyo medalist Holly Bradshaw hoping to make an impression at the European Athletics Championships in Rome And talk Ultimate Championship in Budapest including a future Olympic bid! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

British Cycling is one of the biggest national sporting governing bodies, responsible from grassroots to the very elite. It's one of the most successful Olympic and Paralympic teams in this country and is also about to stage its first ever 'Tour of Britain Women'. (from Thu 6 to Sun 9 June 2024, with stages starting in Welshpool, Wrexham, Warrington and Manchester). British Cycling has also just signed a new landmark partnership deal with Lloyds Bank for the next 5 years This is a special episode of Great British Bosses with British Cycling's Chief Executive Jon Dutton OBE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul Foster, and his Great Run team, stage the biggest and best half marathon in the world every year. The Great North Run is famous for its iconic course, passionate fundraisers and the world's best athletes - watch out for the stars from Paris 2024 Olympics this September! But the Great Run Company is now more than that and the very future of athletics could also depend on it! This is the podcast with the behind the scenes conversation of British sport - Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The last chance regatta isn't the nicest of titles for an event but the GB women's double sculls don't mind! Becky Wilde and Mathilda Hodgkins Bruyne bagged their place in Paris with a brilliant row in the final in Lucerne this weekend, to ensure British Rowing as 10 boats competing this summer - and Becky tells the world to watch out for the rejuvenated British team after the disappointment of Tokyo! We round up the rest of the News from the Games from diving to judo, athletics to swimming And it's 100 days to go til the first ever Paralympics in France - we hear from 2012 legend and Paralympic champion Richard Whitehead and Commonwealth gold medalist Emmanuel Oyinbo-Coker on the summer ahead and keeping healthy! This is Anything but Footy - enroute to the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Can't believe we're 74 episodes into Great British Bosses and this is our first captain! We met Kathy Rogers, skipper of the Great Britain women's water polo team at the launch of Aquatics GB - and we knew she and her team had a great story to tell! World and European Championship performances in the past year - and eyes on the Olympics in 2028 now surely! We also ask her who's going to win in Paris 2024? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Famous British double-acts and sporting brothers! It's like we planned this podcast in advance! 70 days to go to Paris 2024 and nearly 70 athletes confirmed for Team GB - Izzy Thorpe and Kate Shortman are going for a medal in the artistic swimming the pool - can the Bello brothers Javier and Joaquin join them on the beach? We ask them all! There's also our News from the Games rowing, pentathlon and it's 100 days to go the Paris Paralympics! Download, listen and follow - and give us a review get the Olympic word out there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

UK Anti Doping is the national body responsible for ensuring athletes and sports in this country are clean. Jane Rumble is UKAD's Chief Executive and our latest guest during Clean Sport Week. The aim is to celebrate clean athletes on their journey to the podium, and ahead of this summer's Olympics and Paralympics. But how much trust should sports fans have in the anti-doping system, particularly after the revelation of 23 Chinese swimmers being cleared before the Tokyo Games. And what might the much lauded Enchanced Games mean for sport? Find out in this episode of Great British Bosses - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're diving into Paris 2024 with the 8 athletes confirmed by Team GB to compete as 4 pairs of synchro divers at this summer's Olympics. Hear from an Olympic champion, about an Olympic champion, World Championship medalists and much more! There's Judo, BMX, Gymnastics, Athletics and Cycling in our news from the games. And a world champion and two legends join us to discuss the future of the Crucible as a venue - shouldn't world championships be going round the globe anyway? PLUS as Paris 2024 revealed it's official theme for the Games*, we put together our best Olympics Music playlist on Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6nNHYGjQLbkGKRKUcsmHgt?si=T1diRLYjS3OWfoDmc5ZTEQ&pi=e-3Z5SzSvFRQme *The music used in this podcast came courtesy of @Paris2024. The official theme of the Games, "Parade" is composed by Victor le Masne, recorded with the Orchestre National de France and the Chœur et Maitrise de Radio France. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're onto episode 72 of Great British Bosses and 4 years on, from our first conversation, Vicky Gosling is back, she's our first full returnee and we're delighted! We originally caught up with the GB Snowsport CEO in early 2020. 4 years on, a pandemic and covid hit Winter Olympics later, we're now talking GB Surfing - a brand new governing body aiming for wins on the waves! Vicky is the chair and reveals there's still a slim chance for a Team GB surfer at the Paris Games but the real focus is on LA in 4 years time. She also updates on how GB Snowsport bounced back after a disappointing Beijing 2022 and funding cut, ahead of Milano Cortina in 2026. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"You are bang up to date on everything you need to know ahead of Paris 2024" Michael sums it up perfectly in our latest Paris 2024 episode - European Champions! A full rowing round up from Hungary includes Helen Glover, Rebecca Shorten, Esme Booth and Sam Redgrave the women's four gold medalists, and men's pair Tom George & Ollie Wynne-Griffith. British Boxing's been praised by the IOC for its role in helping Cindy Ngamba book her place in the biggest refugee team ever for Paris 2024. And Michael speaks to Georgia Bell a rising star on and off the track for British Athletics as the new outdoor season is now upon us! We're less than 3 months til the Olympic Games - tell your friends where you get the news you need to know! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Commonwealth Games are "dying out a little bit unfortunately"- the view of proud Scottish world champion Beth Potter - who competed in Glasgow in 2014 in athletics and won Team Scotland's first medal in the triathlon in the sunshine in Sutton Park in Birmingham in 2022. But since that superb summer in England's second city, the storm clouds have surrounded the Commonwealth Games Federation, when the state of Victoria and Australia pulled out of hosting in 2026. Now 10 years on from their own glorious Games in Glasgow, Commonwealth Games Scotland has stepped up and said if the CGF can't find another host by it's own deadline of May this year (2024), it's come up with a new concept for the Commonwealth Games, which could also secure it's long term future. Scotland is on standby and this is the story so far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The countdown continues to Paris 2024 - and we're en-route! We'll probably use satnav and gps to get us to our destination this summer, so it's right that the Olympic movement has said it wants to be front and centre and leading the way in ensuring AI benefits sport and isn't detrimental. We've been at the IOC's AI Launch Event in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and we talk safeguarding with 2010 gold medalist Lindsey Vonn and the perfect 10 and judging in Olympic sport with Nadia Comaneci. And listen up for the next big thing - WAHA! We hear from Tony Estanguet, President of the 2024 organising committee, about his joy at the next stage of the Olympic torch relay and the flame sailing across the Med aboard the three mast 'Belem' - thanks to our friend Phil Barker who's right across that. And we catch up with Adam Burgess - 4th in the canoe slalom on Tokyo - who had a broken finger when confirmed by Team GB for Paris 2024 and why he's now raring to go this season! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Team GB history maker is stepping away from competitive swimming. 27 year old Alice Dearing became the first black woman to swim for TeamGB at an Olympic Games. She also set up the Black Swimming Association to diversify her sport and keep encouraging everyone to learn to swim - a basic life skill. But what next? Alice is keen to convey a message to other British Olympic and Paralympic athletes and staff about best preparing for the process, and this comes as UK Sport, the UK Sports Institute (UKSI) and the British Elite Athletes Association (BEAA) are increasing engagement with athletes to help them for their life beyond a funded programme. This is an Anything but Footy special with Alice Dearing in her own words. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's back in the Olympics in 4 years time and we're pretty good at it! But the return is still so fresh, we don't really know how it'll all work! Also getting their head around it is British Lacrosse, the national co-ordinating body for men and women's elite lacrosse in the UK. And as a brand new governing body, we're delighted to be joined by chair Leslie Rance to discuss all things LA28 and much more! This is Great British Bosses - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The flame is burning, the biggest British team so far has been named by Team GB, and it's 100 days to go! Just your average week during Olympic year, as John and Michael round up all the latest Paris 2024 news! We're joined by some of the 33 British swimmers confirmed by Team GB - hear from our reporter Phil Barker at the ancient Olympia flame ceremony where the sun didn't shine - and discuss cash for gold after Lord Coe's World Athletics pledge for athletes in Paris! There's also the News from the Games - Para Athletics, Relays, Gymnastics and Rowing… Download, listen and follow en-route to Paris 2024! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

UK Athletics has officially teamed up with the London Marathon and Great Run Company to create a new major events company, and deliver world class athletics events. UKA CEO Jack Buckner has told us it'll help fix some of the financial issues of the organisation. 'Athletic Ventures' will deliver the London Diamond League meeting every year, the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham and lead the bid for the World Athletics Championships returning to the UK in 2029. This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the behind the scenes conversation of British sport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Aquatics GB swimming championships were dubbed the first fully integrated Olympic and Paralympic trials for Paris this summer - and what a show from the British swimmers!  Adam Peaty Matt Richards Duncan Scott Freya Colbert Abbie Wood Kathleen Dawson Anna Hopkin Alice Tai and Stephen Clegg are just some of the star names who've not only become British champs but booked their place on Paris too! Hear from 15 swimmers and get ready for a spectacular swimming summer by the Seine

It's dubbed the biggest global networking event in sport and it's in right here in the UK in Birmingham - the home of the last, and what could be the very last, Commonwealth Games in 2022. The week-long Sport Accord World Sport and Business Summit is supported by the International Olympic Committee and has been brought here by Joel Lavery, the West Midlands Growth Company's major sporting events' strategic lead. Birmingham is open for business and world sport according to Joel, despite the well publicised financial issues surrounding the City Council and cuts to budgets. Welcome to the latest run of Great British Bosses - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in this country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One of the most successful Olympic and Paralympic sports in this country is changing its name to better reflect what the organisation does. British Swimming is now Aquatics GB, with the five disciplines of swimming, diving, para-swimming, artistic swimming and water polo. The organisation is also staging its first ever fully-integrated Olympic and Paralympic trials next week, at the London Aquatics Centre, for this summer's Paris Games - more details & tickets here This is a special episode of the podcast with Aquatics GB and an exciting moment in the history of British sport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It could've been a new and old type podcast, but we're 'en-route to Paris 2024' so it feels only right to cerebrate the great gymnastics in Liverpool and say a great goodbye to a legend! 20 yo Ondine Achampong is the new women's all round champion and three time gold medalist after a brilliant British Championships at the weekend - we hear from her, round up the rest of the action and there's hopefully some good news on the injury front for Alice Kinsella! Dame Laura Kenny is only 11 years her senior, but is hanging up the cycle helmet competitively after 5 Olympics golds, making her the greatest GB Olympian ever, plus multiple world, European and commonwealth titles too. We pay tribute to someone who's always been there during our Olympic journey! Should Golf and Tennis join Athletics and innovate? Plus there's our News from the Games - Hockey, Para shooting, athletics, tennis, cycling and so much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

En-route to Paris 2024 and no doubt there's a few bumps in the road to come, but a big thumbs up from the International Olympic Committee this week for the Paris 2024 organisers. Parisians maybe yet to be persuaded but the Games will be a huge success. We hear about 2 more British boxers who'll be there and the GB Men's team will start the whole hockey tournament on July 28th! Plus we've skateboarding, modern pentathlon and Para Table Tennis in our News from the Games! Canoe Slalom Tokyo silver medalist Mallory Franklin joins us again to talk prep for Paris after being named on Team GB last year, while world indoor silver medalist Jemma Reekie now switches her focus to being on board that train across the channel! This is Anything but Footy - en-route to Paris 2024! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plans have been revealed to start the process of trying to bring the Tour de France back, as well as the World Athletics Championships, to this country. The announcement of 70 global events in 32 sports inc 18 World Championships was made at the London Stadium in Stratford by UK Sport - the Government agency responsible for funding elite sport, as well as leading the planning for Major Events. For the first time ever the Women's Football World Cup could also be staged in the UK. This is a special episode of the podcast with UK Sport. As you'll hear Making Live Sport Matter reflects the UK's ambition to maintain its reputation as a world-leading host nation of world class sport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Glasgow know how to put on a show - we experienced it first in 2014, where the first idea for this podcast came about when Michael and John met properly! Now a decade on, the Scottish City and the Brits put on a show on another super Saturday for British Athletics with a double gold for Josh Kerr in the 3000m and Molly Caudery in the Pole Vault, plus other personal bests amongst a host of world records and international stars! In this episode, Michael talks to them all - Josh, Molly, Laviai, Laura, Lake, Coleman and Tentoglou - the world and olympic long jump who's not happy with the 'take off zone' #understatement! Also after our News from the Games from Judo, Sailing, Para Table Tennis and Cycling - stick around for another world champion, you've never heard of until now! A real athletics story from Thea Lanford! This is ABF en-route to Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics - follow to not miss out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 sailor confirmed for the Games - British Sailing is the most successful ever nation in the Olympics. Good luck to all and make sure you listen to our previous podcast with British Sailing 'The Team GB sailors selected for Paris 2024' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 events including the aforementioned Long Jump in this podcast season! All ahead of the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow this weekend. And he tell us it's possible and probably Sky Brown could be competing in surfing as well as skateboarding, despite the venues being 10,000 miles away! There's also our News from the Games with cycling, para table tennis, marathon and Commonwealth Games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 stars who'll be competing at the World Indoors in Glasgow - Jemma Reekie, Laviai and Lina Nielsen! We do discuss swimming, cycling boxing and tennis in our News from the Games but if you're a brand new listener since the last episode - thanks and welcome! Stick around for Paris 2024! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 where the organisation is at currently, what's coming up, about the impending Netflix doc, potentially changes to the sport spectacle including a revamped long jump discipline and the brand new worldwide athletics event for 2026! Personally, Jon also talks about his career both on and off the track leading to this his 'dream job'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe who booked a Team GB place in Paris! But as we continue our countdown to Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, we lost one of the big names in the Marathon this week. World Athletics pay tribute to World record holder and London Marathon winner Kelvin Kiptum who died, along with his coach, in a crash in Kenya. There's also a Winter Olympics round up in our News from the Games. This is Anything but Footy - the Olympic and Paralympics Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 going for 20 years! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 find out about British Cycling's BIG cycling plans for Britain! Have the rest of the News from Games inc Paris 2024 tickets, Table Tennis, Judo and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 winter Games in Milan there's plenty to discuss. This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the behind the scenes conversation of British sport! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 - and reveals his favourite Olympian! Plus there's more curling success at the Winter Youth Olympics, history for GB, and a full round up all things in our News from the Games! Paris 2024 Here We Come - 180 days to go! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 organisation, charity and team for Paris 2024 and beyond. And he reveals his dream that this summer's Games will finally eclipse London 2012 in terms of Paralympic profile and change! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Mission - for the 36 athletes chosen to represent Team GB at the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games between January 19 and February 1 2024. And we're delighted she's our latest guest during this Olympic year on Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 teams must finish in the top 3 of their Olympic Hockey Qualifying tournaments to play in Paris this summer! British Hockey stars James Albery and Sarah Robertson tell us more! There's our News from the Games with Table Tennis, Swimming & Water Polo - and this is episode 100 of Anything but Footy, of us just chatting Olympics and Paralympics, but what a year, Olympic year, Paris 2024 coming this summer, as if we hadn't mentioned it