Anything but Footy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

The third fastest British man ever over 800m. That's Max Burgin the 23 year old from Halifax, who made the Olympic final last year and now has set his own personal best while racing the Paris champion at the London Diamond League. Hear from him on hopes for these World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The latest stars of the British 400m scene, who could all wins medals at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo this week. In this episode, we hear from Matthew Hudson Smith on everything since that silver in Paris, how Amber Anning won't be running everything this time in Tokyo and new kid on the block but at his second World Champs Charlie Dobson! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The World Athletic Championships 2025 bring the season down on another year of track and field. Great Britain and NI will be out to at least match their 10 medals they won in Paris last summer at the Olympics - but will the conditions in Tokyo favour them? In this episode we hear from captain Morgan Lake, former 1500m champion Jake Wightman and 2017 relay gold medalist and now media pundit Adam Gemili! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

7 World Championships now for Dina Asher Smith and we're delighted she's back on the podcast as we continue our preview of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo! Brought back some memories for us too as you'll hear! Relay team-mate Daryll Neita is also on the show talking amongst other things her Daryll Diaries and Michael's latest appearance! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In an Autumn of World Championships of Olympic sport, from Rowing to Gymnastics, we're looking ahead to the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo from September 13th. World Champion Josh Kerr is out to defend his 1500m title and is not planning on giving it up without a fight! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In an Autumn of World Championships of Olympic sport, from Rowing to Gymnastics, we're focusing on these next few episodes on the World Athletics Championships. Our guest in this episode is Georgia Hunter Bell - the 1500m Olympic medalist now focusing on the 800m in Tokyo.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Geraint Thomas the greatest ever Welsh cyclist jumped off his bike for the final time infront of his home fans in Cardiff. Is here the greatest Welsh sportsperson ever? We hear from him and discuss! Have you say by following this pod, and all our Anything but Footy socials! Michael's passed his fitness test for the Greta North Run - we have the latest action and hear from one of the winners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Just the start of many - the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool for the first time since the IOC recognised World Boxing starts of a series of World Champs across Olympic and Paralympics sport. British stars from Paris 2024 will once again be looking to be on top of the world - we'll be focusing on them in the coming weeks too! As Michael writes in his latest blog - we also need to move onto Milan and look ahead to LA and let Paris 2024 go! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Olympics this summer - no problem! Thank you for joining us for Encore Une Fois - Paris 2024 one year on, one more time from Anything but Footy. If you liked what you heard please rate us, rank us, tell your friends, share on socials, so we can carry on doing what we do too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you've made it this far in the special series, you deserve at least a silver - as this is the penultimate - one more to go! It's Saturday August 10 2024 and this is Encore Une Fois, the inside story of Paris 2024 one year on, one more time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Some true insight into the minds of an athlete mid competition in Athletics in this episode as we reach Day 14, the third Friday of the Olympics, August 9. This is Encore Une Fois, the inside story of Paris 2024 one year on, one more time from Anything but Footy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is Encore Une Fois, the inside story of Paris one year on, one more time from Anything but Footy. We're into the home straight of the Olympics on Day 13, Thursday August 8 2024 and reflect on what can be the 'bubble' of the Games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Olympics this summer - no problem! This is Paris 2024 one year on, one more time from Anything but Footy. On Day 12, Wednesday August 7, we find out who the only person in the world is allowed to call Michael a nickname! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After Queen Keely, surely King Kerr? This is Paris 2024 one year on, one more time from Anything but Footy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All hail Keely Hodgkinson - the queen of British Athletics! This is the inside story of Paris 2024 Olympics from Anything but Footy on Day 10 Monday August 5th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The men's 100m final - it's for many the moment of the Games every 4 years (we like it but we also know its so much more!) This is Encore Une Fois, the inside story of Paris Olympics one year on, one more time and its day 9, Sunday August 4th 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Olympics this summer - no problem! This is Paris 2024 one year on, one more time from Anything but Footy. Did anyone mention Super Saturday? Day 8 August 3rd 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is Encore Une Fois from Anything but Footy, the inside story of Paris 2024 one year on, one more time! Week 2 of the Games begins with Athletics in the Stade De France on Friday August 2nd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Olympics this summer - no problem! This is Paris 2024 one year on, one More time from Anything but Footy. And we enter a new month - it's day 6 Thursday August 1st! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We've reached Day 5 and it was very much of a case of the Triathl-ON with both the mens and womens individual events taking place in and around the River Seine! This is the inside story of Paris 2024 Olympics from Anything but Footy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is Encore Une Fois, the inside story of Paris 2024 one year on, one more time. And day 4, Tuesday July 30th was actually John's birthday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Olympics this summer - no problem! This is the story of Paris 2024 one year on, one more time from Anything but Footy. It's the first Monday of the Games!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is Encore Une Fois, the inside story of Paris 2024 one year on, one more time. It's Sunday July 28th 2024.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paris 2024 one year on - one more time! It's Day 1 and there's Diving, Dame Kelly & First Medals. This is Encore Une Fois - reliving the Olympics of Paris.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There's no Olympics this summer but no problem! This is Encore Une Fois, the inside story of Paris 2024 one year on, one more time  Michael & John take you back to Friday July 26 - Day 0 - Trains, Boats & Cement Works! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's exactly one year to go before Glasgow 2026. A new games for a new era, and a brand new mascot revealed as well - 'Finnie' the unicorn - the national animal of Scotland - yes really! In this special episode, we also hear from CEO Phil Batty on the Games that are now just 12 months away! We also have Glasgow 2026 ambassador and reigning Commonwealth champion Eilish McColgan, gold medalists Sarah Adlington and Pauline Wilson. For much more info on next year's Commonwealth Games head to ⁠glasgow2026.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A wet summers day in London but no-one seemed to mind at a sold out London Stadium for the Novuna London Athletics Meet in the Diamond League. Especially as it was confirmed on the morning of the event that London would be bidding for the World Athletics Champs in 2029! We've the latest from UK Athletics CEO Jack Buckner. On the track, a year ago the athletes were off to the Paris Olympics the next day, but this year it's still two months til the World Champs in Tokyo and World Para Champs in Delhi. We hear from Sophie Hahn, Lina Nielsen, Amy Hunt and Zac Skinner on another special day at the special London Stadium! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We all love it - the greatest, biggest, best Championships in the World! But will its stay that way? As the players are in action on court, the All England Club is at the High Court trying to secure plans to treble the size of the grounds, add 38 grass courts and a new 8000 show court arena. We find out all about it with the Sun's tennis correspondent Rob Maul - and we also have the latest Athletics, Cycling, BMX and Judo round up in our Olympic and Paralympics 'News from the Games'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

'Shocking' because of the number of seeds to fall - particularly French Open champion Coco Gauff in straight sets - no repeat of the brilliant Sabalenka Gauff final from the French Open just a few weeks ago! After eight winners in eight years, would there be another lesser known Wimbledon women's champion in 2025? And is that good for the sport and the Championships? We ask the question! And as the Olympic and Paralympic podcast, we've also the latest headlines ahead of LA 2028 in Sailing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Day one done! The hottest ever first day of the Championships saw seeds fall, early victories, big wins for British qualifier Oliver Tarvet and a scare for defending champion Carlos Alcaraz. John rounds up the action from the All England Championships as Michael meets Oliver's Dad! And as the Olympic and Paralympic Podcast we have sailing, athletics, sport climbing and to cool us all down GB SnowSport news! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to Wimbledon 2025! On the eve of the Championships we're at the All England Club ahead of the fortnight of tennis and are joined by Oliver Tarvet's first coach on the eve of the championships. Ben Wood coached the 21 year old from the age of 7 and could already see his outstanding talent. We also hear from Oliver's dad Gary. We run through the order of play on Day One - and don't forget our Olympic and Paralympic News from the Games too with Rowing, Canoeing and Athletics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A bonus edition of the podcast as with little more than 200 days to go before the next Olympics - the Winters in Milano-Cortina in early 2026 - the first athletes have been confirmed by Team GB. Ten curlers have donned the famous tracksuit and stood draped in the red white and blue union flag after being selected to represent GB in the mens womens and mixed team events for the Winter Olympics. Michael's been in Edinburgh to speak to a few of them! While John's at Wimbledon as the 2025 Championships is about to get underway. We are audio rights holders for the first time and will bring you more than ever before from the All England Club throughout the tennis fortnight! And welcome Kirsty Coventry - the tenth, youngest and first female IOC President! But what's on her to do list? This is Anything but Footy - the Olympic and Paralympic podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

British Triathlon is the first national governing body in Triathlon to introduce a pregnancy deferral policy. Women who qualify for an Age Group Championship race may now defer their slot in the Great Britain Team for up to two years. European champion Vicky Holland has done just that - and Michael caught up with her in our latest Great British Bosses episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Putting athletes first - everyone says it - how many people do it? In this episode of Great British Bosses, we ask Nick Pearson the CEO of Forte Talent Management, which in its own words, is a sports talent agency redefining representation for track and field athletes, digital talent, and sports models. And that 'redefining' includes launching their first ever event - the Keely Klassic - named after and supported by their Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson. Is this the future? We also talk the Endurance Games and Grand Slam Athletics* (*recorded before Michael Johnson's cancellation of the 4th GS event in LA) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ok we admit - we're stretching it just a bit this time, but British Rowing are 'bossing' it ahead of the first two World Cups in Varese in Italy. They topped the 2025 European Rowing Championships medal table with six golds and we've got 5 of the gold medalists on this episode! We are also determined to keep telling the stories of athletes doing great things inbetween the Olympics and Paralympics! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The second biggest sport in the UK for the number of spectators attending every year, live TV coverage most weekends on the main ITV channel, well known events like the Grand National, Cheltenham and Royal Ascot. But Great British Racing is looking to the future and ensuring there is one for the so called sport of kings. We talk all things horse-racing with Simon Michaelides, Interim Chief Customer Officer at Great British Racing in our latest Great British Bosses episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Penny Briscoe's "track record in Paralympic sport is unmatched". Not our words but that of a former guest of Great British Bosses and her CEO David Clarke at Paralympics GB. After years of trying we finally get to speak to the Director of Sport, 5 time Chef De Mission, sports fan and mum about plans for the first ever Paras in LA and whether Atlanta Olympics in '96 really was that bad? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Back in the UK for the first time since the first games in 2014. Birmingham will host the latest edition of the Invictus Games in July 2027. With brand new events and the usual fans favourites, it's not just about a week of sport at the NEC as CEO of Invictus Games Birmingham 2027 Helen Helliwell explains. And in this latest episode of Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy, she also reveals her own personal reason for delivering this world renowned rehabilitation and sporting event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices