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Unashamedly Olympic & Paralympic Sport focused podcast - no transfer deadline day, managerial merry go-round & weekly wage packet chat!

Anything but Footy


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    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Team GB Homecoming

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2026 30:47


    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 first ever Olympic experience. And TNT Tomorrow's News Today returns as Paralympics GB name a 25 strong team for the Winter Games story to continue on Friday March 6th! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 22 Day Sixteen

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2026 44:12


    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 flag at the Closing Ceremony! And after reaching their medal target of 4-8, how does UK Sport rate these Games for Team GB? Performance Director Dr Kate Baker joins us Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 21 Day Fifteen

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2026 45:38


    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 your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 20 Day Fourteen

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2026 38:56


    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 GB during these Games - and in this episode we're joined by 5 time British pairs champion Anastasia Vaipan Law and Luke Digby. We round up the USA victories in women's Ice Hockey and Figure Skating in Milan - and in Tomorrow's News Today #TNT we hear from the very last British athlete in action in the Ski Cross - Ollie Davies! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 19 Day Thirteen

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2026 31:27


    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 Nelson! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 18 Day Twelve

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2026 32:35


    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 the youngest members of the Great British squad - Liam Richards who's about to compete in the freeski halfpipe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 17 Day Eleven

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2026 39:51


    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 Greg Cackett on looking ahead! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 16 Day Ten

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2026 33:12


    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 Games and with a big week to come for British men's Curling we focus on them in Tomorrow's News Today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 15 Day Nine

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2026 31:52


    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 British Indoor Athletics Champs! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 14 Day Eight

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2026 33:49


    Team GB win a gold medal - so to celebrate in this episode we really do bring you MILAN & CORTINA John's in Milan Michael's 200 miles away in the snow of Cortina and has spoken to our first individual male Winter Olympic champion since 1980 Matt Weston - the sliding skeleton superstar! We also hear from the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association on how YOU could be an Olympic champion There's the News from the Games and in Tomorrow's News Today - we are back at the Figure Skating in Milan on Sunday with the Pairs short program - hear from Team GB's Anastasia Vaipan-Law and Luke Digby about it all! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 13 Day Seven

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2026 44:25


    We don't want to get carried away like earlier this week - but GREAT news for Team GB that Matt Weston leads the men's skeleton with two heats of the final to come!  Also great news Michael is heading from Milan to Cortina to see it! Follow our socials for his own journey - safe travels to them both! We sit down with British ice dancers who were smiling this week Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez - and we suggest a new nickname? It's Italy's best ever start to an Olympics in the the latest in News From the Games and a special TNT Tomorrow's News Today with mono bob pilot and audio diarist for Anything but Footy Adele Nicoll! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 12 Day Six

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2026 48:16


    It wasn't to be for Lilah and Lewis but "that strength that they have as a team and individuals will mean many more big nights to come!" Performance Director of British Ice Skating and Leader for Team GB in Milan Jon Ely speaking to us the morning after the night before. Full reaction and the rest of the News from the Games and TNT with women's skeleton! But also a bumper edition of the pod, we're joined by World Champion 60m sprinter Jeremiah Azu ahead of the Novuna UK Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham - see we REALLY do Olympic sport all the time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 11 Day Five

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2026 43:06


    "We were outplayed - it feels like sh*t!" Just two reactions from Team GB after another day of medal moments and another day of fourth places. We catch up with the Chef De Mission and Olympic champion Eve Muirhead about what's still to come and there's still reason to be optimistic! In News from the Games, Michael watched the USA thrash Canada in Ice Hockey while in Tomorrow's News Today we catch up with world silver medalists in Snowboard Cross Huw Nightingale and Charlotte Bankes and Curling attention switches to the Women's Team Rebecca Morrison! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 10 Day Four

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2026 40:47


    We go again! Not the day Team GB or we had planned - was that part of the problem? After Muir & Mia finished fourth, we're hoping to avoid a similar position in the Curling and Ice Dance! We've a full round up as Michael saw Lilah's Gran last night! And in tomorrow's news today #TNT, Skeleton's Marcus Wyatt looks ahead to race day and Olympic silver medalist Grant Hardie can't wait to get on the Curling ice! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 9 Day Three

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2026 44:26


    A historic day for Team GB to come? Could it be Magic Monday!? It was a shocking Sunday on the slopes - we've the latest on legend Lindsey Vonn And find out how Michael's smoke alarm saved him! We've Short Track, Moguls and Biathlon chat with Team GB athletes Niall Treacy Mateo Jeannesson and Jacques Jefferies in Tomorrows News Today! And we're ready to lead the Northern Olympic bid - Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham just give us a call! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 8 Day Two

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2026 41:23


    Skeleton defeat, Slopestyle supreme, Seven heaven Curling, Swiss time first gold and speed skating success for home nation! Day 1 delivered for Team GB and the organisers - and Michael got to his first Olympic venue! Baroness Katherine Grainger, chair of the British Olympic Association, even tells us we could exceed our ambition of 4-8 medals in Milano Cortina! In Tomorrow's News Today, we also hear from Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez on what to watch out for in the Ice Dance competition with them and Lilah & Lewis and Ellia Smeding goes in the women's 1000m speed skating! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 7 Day One

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2026 37:07


    Multi coloured coffee pots, Mariah Carey and Nessun Dorma left us all in tears! A thoroughly Italian and traditional opening ceremony kicks off the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics in style in Milan - Team GB's Makayla Gerken Schofield in Livigno told us being part of it was cool - and it's clear the people there loved it too! Hear our verdict in FULL, the rest of the day's news and tomorrow's news today with GB cross country skier Andrew Musgrave Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 6 Opening Ceremony

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2026 31:46


    How many medals have Team GB won at Winter Olympics? What's the most at one Games? What new sports are making their debut in Milano Cortina? Impress your friends as you watch the Opening Ceremony tonight - as we round up all the stats and facts you need for these Winter Olympcs. There's the latest Curling, Skating and Boarding News from the Games - plus in our Tomorrow's News Today we're joined by Kirsty Muir and Chris McCormick from Livigno to talk FreeSki on Saturday and obviously Pizza! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 5

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2026 19:52


    Winning, waiting, water and white stuff! Oh and Michael Weadock's on his way! We've the latest Curling and Skeleton 'helmet' news from Team GB There's too much snow in Cortina for the women's downhill And in wet Milan, we continue our Figure Skating Team Event focus with Ed Appleby! Download, listen & follow for all things Milano Cortina 2026 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 4 Team GB Flagbearers

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2026 30:01


    Lilah Fear and Brad Hall - two flagbearers for Team GB - in two host cities. The figure slater and bobsleigh pilot have been selected to carry the Union flag into the Opening Ceremonies - Lilah at the San Siro in Milan and Brad in Cortina. Hear from them - and the legend that's Lindsey Vonn in our latest Milano Daily And tomorrow's news today is the start of the Team Skating competition - we hear from Kristen Spours Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2026 23:37


    Unofficial day 2 and we're already getting an understanding there's more food available than Paris - particularly the Italian special of Pizza! Team GB athletes are enjoying their surroundings in Athletes Villages across N Italy - we hear from freestyle boarders Maisie Hill and Txema Mazet Brown - and Chris McCormick tells us what to watch out for in FreeSki! There's our News from the Games plus more British cycling success away from the Winters! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Winter Olympics Milano Daily Feb 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2026 31:25


    It's the first Milano Daily of the Winter Olympics! Every day we'll have the latest headines, News from the Games and Tomorrow's News Today (TNT) In this episode, Olympic Curling champion Jen Dodds and silver medalist Bruce Mouat join us - four years on from fourth place in the Mixed Doubles in Beijing, the curlers kick off the Team GB campaign against Norway this Wednesday Feb 4 in Cortina! This is Anything but Footy covering the Olympics all the time - pass it on! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    #166 Team Of 53 For Team GB

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2026 40:43


    It's nearly fun and GAMES time! A confirmed team of 53 athletes will be representing Team GB when the sport starts in the Winter Olympics this time next week! We've the final two names on the team sheet and hear from two of the 20 GB Snowsport stars confirmed on skis and boards! And make sure you follow, download & listen for our Milano Diary from next week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    #165 Sliding Time! The British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Team

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2026 24:22


    14 days to go - 14 Team GB athletes named in the Bobsleigh and Skeleton. We've won medals in these events throughout the history of the Winter Games and there's big hopes the Brits can do the business again this year. We hear from multi World Cup winner in Skeleton Marcus Wyatt on why Beijing is well and truly behind him, and our latest exclusive audio diary from bobsleigh pilot Adele Nicol as she's named by Team GB! We've also the latest from organisers and the IOC President Kirsty Coventry! Listen, download and follow for more ahead and throughout of Milano Cortina Winter Olympics 2026! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    #164 Team GB Kitting Out For Milano Cortina

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2026 29:05


    Kitting out is one of THE moments for an athlete before the Games begin. Uniform, competition kit, casual wear, incase of the Winter Olympics hats, gloves and scarves - and the steel city of Sheffield the host of the first such event ahead of Milano Cortina. Michael was there too with his pal Eve - we've a special report! Sheffield was also one of the stars of the first European Figure Skating Championships in the UK in a decade - we also hear from GB medalists Lilah Fear & Lewis Gibson, team-mates Phebe and James and Niall Treacy on his European Champs in short track speed skating! Two weeks to go before Milano Cortina 2026! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    #163 UK Sport "Ambitions" Locked In for Milano Cortina Winter Games

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2026 32:13


    23 days to go to the Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina. 51 days to the Paralympics. 4-8 medal range set by UK Sport for Team GB. 2-5 for Paralympics GB. We have reaction from Eve Muirhead, Phil and Dr Kate Baker PLUS the latest News from the Games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    #162 Tenth Team GB Skater Named For Milano Cortina

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2026 33:20


    British Ice Skating has been Torvill & Dean for so long, but as they officially bid farewell what's next? Well, not just Figure Skating it seems as Ellia Smeding becomes the latest named British skater competing for Team GB at Milano Cortina Winter Olympics next month. It's the Long Track Speed Skaters second Olympics and she can't wait! We review the state of British Skating with PD Jon Eley And talk sliding with our latest audio diary from Adele Nicoll ahead of the European Champs this weekend! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    #161 Let It Snow One Month To Go

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2026 24:48


    Our brand new special series with British bobsleigh hopeful Adele Nicoll kicks off our 2026 countdown to the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics. We'll hear from her with a exclusive audio diary during her World Cup campaign in the monobob and 2 woman bob in the build up to the Games. Fortunately, she just needs ice - as the skiers, snowboarders and organisers look to the skies and hope for a bucket load of the white stuff! Let it snow with a month to go! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    #160 Keep The Flame Alive Milano Cortina Special

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2025 44:47


    There's no one we'd rather hear from when building up to the next Olympic year than our pod friends from across the pond! Jill and Alison join us from Keep the Flame Alive to discuss all things Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. Happy Holidays, Happy Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy New Olympic Year! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Great British Bosses - Paula Dunn

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2025 42:44


    She's had it all - a medal laden elite track career - coaching - overseeing the most successful Para Athletics team ever, building on the success of London 2012 Paralympics - to now Performance Director at UK Athletics. It's "definitely" a dream job says our latest guest on Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy. We finish 2025, by looking back with Paula Dunn and what's in stores in 2026 through to LA 2028 Olympics and Paralympics! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    #159 Team GB skaters named for Milano Cortina

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2025 56:19


    The biggest Olympic figure skating team for Great Britain and N Ireland since 1988 Calgary Games! 8 names have been confirmed for Team GB including World bronze medalists Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson (who you can hear from in previous episodes!) but in this episode we catch up with Anastasia Vaipan-Law & Luke Digby - the new British Pairs contestants! The flame is on its way to the San Siro for the Opening Ceremony in February - we have a special report from Greece - and the rest of the News from the Games inc Ice Hockey, Curling, Snowboard and Skiiing as well as cross country, marathon, Taekwondo and shooting! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    GB Snowsport: Biathlon man Scott Meenagh

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2025 22:59


    A lasting legacy is the dream of Scott Meenagh as he prepares for a third and final Winter Paralympics in Nordic skiing. The former paratrooper became Britain's first ever World Championship medalist for GB Snowsport  in 2023, bagged a World Cup bronze earlier this year and hopes for a place on the podium when selected for Milano Cortina 2026. But his hope now is he won't be the last successful British Para Nordic skier. This has been a special second season of episodes looking ahead to the Winter Games in early 2026 - make sure you download & follow for more - and you can also listen back to our first GB Snowsport season too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    GB Snowsport: The Alpine Boys Dave Ryding, Laurie Taylor & Billy Major

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2025 23:36


    Three British skiers in the men's world top thirty after two World Cups this year and ahead of the forthcoming Winter Olympics. There's a real chance the ⁠GB Snowsport Alpine Boys could create a little bit of history at the 2026 Milano Cortina Games. In this fourth episode of the season, we hear from all three - make sure you download & follow for more - and you can also listen back to our first GB Snowsport season too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    GB Snowsport: Great British Bosses Jamie Matthew & Ben Kinnear

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2025 23:53


    Since Beijing 2022 Olympics, and despite funding cuts, ⁠GB Snowsport has delivered on the global stage, with athletes securing World Cup and World Championship medals, to the point the 2022/23 season was declared the most successful ever! Freestyle snowboarder Mia Brookes and free-ski's Kirsty Muir played their part in that success. In fact the entire British Park and Pipe Skiing and Snowboarding team are on a roll ahead of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and Paralympics. We want to out the secret of their success with a special Great British Bosses episode with Head Coaches Jamie Matthew & Ben Kinnear. This is Episode 3 of Season 2 with GB Snowsport - make sure you download & follows and you can also listen back to our first GB Snowsport season too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    GB Snowsport: Partnerships with Menna Fitzpatrick & Katie Guest

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2025 20:50


    Season Two, Episode 2 and to be fair we could've called it another comebacks! With Menna Fitzpatrick returning from injury for the Winter Paralympics and Katie Guest looking to finally make her Paralympic debut after missing Beijing through covid! But we wanted to focus on the unique partnership of this World Cup winning World Championship duo, ahead of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and Paralympics with ⁠⁠GB Snowsport⁠ We've more specials to come - so make sure you download & follow and you can also listen back to our first ⁠GB Snowsport⁠ season too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    GB Snowsport: Comebacks with Gus Kenworthy & Kirsty Muir

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2025 24:53


    Welcome to another special season of podcasts with ⁠GB Snowsport ahead of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and Paralympics. In this latest episode, we hear from two of Britain's most experienced freestyle skiers - Gus Kenworthy and Kirsty Muir who are at either ends of their careers - and the different comebacks they've made in the last year. We've 4 more specials to come - so make sure you download & follows and you can also listen back to our first GB Snowsport season too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Great British Bosses - Harry Aikines-Aryeetey

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2025 19:39


    Olympian from Rio 2016, Relay bronze medalist at the World Athletics Championships, three time European sprint relay champion and individual bronze in 2014 and two time Commonwealth Games gold medallist in the 4x100m relay. But for some youngsters Harry Aikines-Aryeety maybe better known as Nitro from the revamped Gladiators and the 'king of the pecks' on the dance floor of Strictly Come Dancing. He's now teamed up with HSBC to encourage you to look at your finances and investments - so what better way to ask him about his future and his return to athletics? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    #158 Milano Cortina Countdown

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2025 33:54


    It's nearly here - the flame's about to be lit, they're testing the new Sliding Centre on Cortina and Britain's got high hopes of Ice Dance success not seen since well you know how! In fact two couples will represent Team GB in Milan in the Figure Skating Ice Dance category - we expect current world number ones Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson but also Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez - they join us on the pod to tell us more about themselves! We also have the latest News from the Games and just want does it mean to be the alternate in Curling? We ask Team GB's Fay Henderson This is Anything but Footy - we're moving onto Milan and looking ahead to LA! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Great British Bosses - Dave Hart

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2025 24:14


    Next year, the first Olympics qualification spots are available for LA 2028 in gymnastics! It follows more gold, silver and bronzes being won by British Gymnastics at recent World Championships. We ask Performance Director Dave Hart about the success and the challenges he's dealt with since arriving in the organisation in 2022. This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Great British Bosses - Laura Deas

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2025 35:58


    History maker, Olympic and World championship medalist - now wife, mum and wannabe sports broadcaster. Laura Deas won Skeleton bronze in the 2018 Winter Olympics with Team GB colleague Lizzie Yarnold retaining her gold! But 4 years later was a different story. Now retired, after becoming world champion post Beijing 2022, we talk about support, sacrifice and sports opportunities of the future! PLUS with THREE MONTHS TO GO how will GB get on in Cortina in the Skeleton & Bob - Laura gives us her medal prediction! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Glasgow 2026 Tickets On Sale

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2025 13:04


    The Commonwealth Games tickets for Glasgow 2026 are now on sale. 10 sports, 6 para sports, 215 gold medals to be won across one summer in one city! We hear why you need to be there from Commonwealth weightlifting champion Emily Campbell and Scotland's very own world champion Jake Wightman - named by Team Scotland for the 'Mile' this week! & if you want more details about tickets for the Games check out Glasgow 2026 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Great British Bosses - Eve Muirhead

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2025 30:56


    The Ice Queen - not our words - but our guests very own in her new autobiography. With 100 days to go before Milano Cortina 2026, we want to find out more about the person behind the Olympic champion curler and February's Chef De Mission for Team GB. This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK (and we may have only done Eve last year but this episode is totally different - promise!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Great British Bosses - Jason Glover

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2025 40:58


    Boxing is back at the Olympics - if it ever went away! As you'll hear in this episode of Great British Bosses - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK - with chair Jason Glover, thanks to GB Boxing, and subsequently World Boxing, the sport will maintain its place in the Games for LA 2028. We also hear about the recent World Boxing Championships in Liverpool and the frustrating of the lack of coverage! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    British Gymnastics at the World Championships

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2025 31:16


    A team of ten British men and women are in action in the first ever World Gymnastics Championships in South East Asia. We hear from four of the men's team from Jakarta in Indonesia, three who were also at the Paris Olympics last year - Jake Jarman, Harry Hepworth and Luke Whitehouse as well as debutant Alex Yolshin-Cash. The gymnasts are just going for individual medals at these World Champs rather than any team medals - Abi Martin and Ruby Evans the only sole representatives from the GB women's team who finished 4th at the Olympics - we catch up with them and former British junior champion Shantae-Eve Amankwaah Event schedule   Sunday 19th – Men's Qualifying Monday 20th Men's Qualifying (cont.) and Women's Qualifying Tuesday 21st – Women's Qualifying Wednesday 22nd – Men's all-around final   Thursday 23rd – Women's all-around final Friday 24th – Apparatus finals (Men's floor, pommel and rings. Women's vault and bars) Saturday 25th - Apparatus finals (Men's vault, parallel bars and high bar. Women's beam and floor) Follow British Gymnastics anytime to find out more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Great British Bosses - Jodie Williams

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2025 31:05


    A world junior champion, a Commonwealth Games double medalist and winning an Olympic bronze medal in her third Games at Paris 2024. Just some of the many highlights on the track for our guest in this episode of Anything but Footy, Jodie Williams, who announced her retirement from athletics after those Olympics. But that was just the start for the self confessed “ideas-oholic” as she's now founder of her own company ‘Listen Journal' as well as director for Ugandan charity Femlead. A must listen for any athlete about what comes next after busting your gut on the track! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Great British Bosses - Hannah Snellgrove

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2025 26:21


    What do you do as an Olympian who's spent 20 years getting to the Games? Go again or enjoy your incredible achievement? And what if your sport is about to potentially change the way medals are won at an Olympics? These are all questions our latest guest is grappling with - as well as winning medals this summer! Team GB and British Sailing's Hannah Snellgrove is our latest special guest on Great British Bosses - where we go behind the scenes of sport in the UK! Also, with LA approaching, whose Hollywood Hall of Fame star would you go too? It's just one of the many things Hannah tells us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Great British Bosses - Julia Paternain

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2025 26:22


    Bear with us on this one - we mentioned we're covering some of the British stars in this season who we've had the delight of covering in the podcast and on radio for the past few weeks and months etc. Well, in Great British Bosses, we always say we get the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK - so who better to catch up with than a former GB athlete who's now a World Athletics Championship medalist! Julia Paternain from Cambridge representing Uruguay won a historic bronze in the women's Marathon in Tokyo in only her second her 26.2 miler! She's brilliant - enjoy!

    Great British Bosses - Adam Gemili

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2025 41:18


    Our spin off season is back with a season of specials featuring Great British Bosses and stars. Some we have covered for years, others are brand new and making a name for themselves. Great British Bosses has always been the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK - that continues with this episode with world champion, three time Olympic sprinter, broadcaster and now CEO of his own company 'Adam Gemili Fitness' Enjoy and please share as these athletes stories deserve to be told. Thanks for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    #157 'Brutal Sport' World Champs Ryder Cup & Paralympics

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 30:44


    We thought the phrase brutal sport - made by Olympic medalist Ollie Wynne Griffith in his insta 'retirement' post - summed up a lot of what we're covering in this episode of the Anything but Footy podcast. Ukraine think it's a brutal decision to allow Russia and Belarus back into the Paralympic movement. The treatment of players at the Ryder cup was beyond brutal? And the brutal heat and humidity made winning gold silver and bronze at the World Rowing Championships in Shanghai even more special for GB Rowing! We round up ALL the action and also have News from the Games including the latest record win for Eilish McColgan! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    #156 Canoe Slalom World Championships & Tokyo 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2025 43:13


    Sydney is set to stage the Canoe Slalom World Championships, the biggest event down under for the sport since Sydney 2000! Great Britain has had a record breaking World Cup series - we hear from C1 and K1 champion Kimberley Woods on what's gone right this season! What went wrong for British Athletics at Tokyo 2025? The first time in 25 years nearly that GB & NI haven't won a gold medal at a World Athletics Championships - we review the setback! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    #155 World Rowing Championships 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2025 39:52


    It's not quite another summer Olympics, but our Autumn World Championships season continues! After the World Athletics Championships we now focus on the World Rowing Championships in Shanghai. How can British Rowing do in China after winning the shortened World Cup series? We ask 4 of the crew - Matt Haywood, Heidi Long, Josh O'Brien and cox Tom Bryce! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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