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#111 Paris 2024 3 Months To Go!
Anything but Footy - April 25, 2024 23:00 - 39 minutesThe 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 b...
Alice Dearing in her own words
Anything but Footy - April 24, 2024 23:00 - 23 minutesThe 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 ...
#71 Great British Bosses - Leslie Rance
Anything but Footy - April 21, 2024 23:00 - 24 minutesIt'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...
#110 Paris 2024 100 days to go!
Anything but Footy - April 16, 2024 23:00 - 36 minutesThe 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 r...
#70 Great British Bosses - Jack Buckner, Hugh Brasher & Paul Foster
Anything but Footy - April 15, 2024 15:30 - 18 minutesUK 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...
#109 Paris 2024 Aquatics GB Olympic & Paralympic trials
Anything but Footy - April 07, 2024 22:50 - 38 minutesAquatics 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 ju...
#69 Great British Bosses - Joel Lavery
Anything but Footy - April 05, 2024 08:57 - 21 minutesIt'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 Committ...
Aquatics GB more than just a new name
Anything but Footy - March 28, 2024 12:06 - 19 minutesOne 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...
#108 Paris 2024 Great Gymnastics & Goodbyes
Anything but Footy - March 19, 2024 11:33 - 42 minutesIt 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 Br...
#107 Paris 2024 Thumbs Up For Games
Anything but Footy - March 12, 2024 15:46 - 34 minutesEn-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 b...
Making Live Sport Matter
Anything but Footy - March 06, 2024 14:43 - 21 minutesPlans 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 Gover...
#106 Paris 2024 Award Winning Brits!
Anything but Footy - March 03, 2024 14:49 - 37 minutesGlasgow 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...
New Team GB sailor selected for Paris 2024
Anything but Footy - February 29, 2024 19:48 - 18 minutesHannah 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, answer...
#105 Paris 2024 5 Months To Go!
Anything but Footy - February 26, 2024 17:40 - 32 minutesTime 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 ...
#104 Paris 2024 The Long Jump & World Athletics Indoors
Anything but Footy - February 22, 2024 00:00 - 32 minutesIt'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 th...
#68 Great British Bosses - Jon Ridgeon
Anything but Footy - February 19, 2024 00:00 - 35 minutesGreat 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...
#103 Paris 2024 More British Swimming Success
Anything but Footy - February 15, 2024 12:28 - 35 minutesA 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 f...
#67 Great British Bosses - Anna Watkins
Anything but Footy - February 12, 2024 00:00 - 37 minutesThis 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 durin...
#102 Paris 2024 Diving into the World Aquatics Championship
Anything but Footy - February 05, 2024 12:43 - 24 minutesWhat 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 ...
#66 Great British Bosses - Scott Field
Anything but Footy - January 29, 2024 00:00 - 35 minutesYou 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 w...
#101 Paris 2024 Here We Come - 6 months to go!
Anything but Footy - January 26, 2024 00:00 - 40 minutesWelcome 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 month...
#65 Great British Bosses - David Clarke
Anything but Footy - January 22, 2024 00:00 - 28 minutesEarlier 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...
#64 Great British Bosses - Eve Muirhead
Anything but Footy - January 15, 2024 00:00 - 27 minutesIt'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 - b...
#100 Paris 2024 A winning start to Olympic year!
Anything but Footy - January 12, 2024 00:00 - 28 minutesIt 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 h...
#63 Great British Bosses - Hannah Mills
Anything but Footy - January 08, 2024 00:00 - 27 minutesThis is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK. And who better to speak to then someone who's been there and done it all! In this episode, Michael catches up with Hannah Mills OBE, the double Olympic sailing champion, London 2012 silve...
#62 Great British Bosses - Chemmy Alcott
Anything but Footy - December 18, 2023 00:00 - 23 minutesAs someone always says this time every year - "It's Christmas!" And what better way to spend the festive period, than to grab a cup of something, and have listen to one of Britain's greatest ever snow athletes. Alpine ski racer Chemmy Alcott went to four Winter Olympics for Team GB, and in both T...
#99 Neutrals in Paris & British Swimming success
Anything but Footy - December 11, 2023 11:44 - 50 minutesIt was the decision we all expected, but maybe the timing wasn't. The International Olympic Committee have approved that so called neutral individuals from Russia and Belarus will be able to compete at the Olympics next summer, as long as they haven't supported the war with Ukraine. We've all the...
#61 Great British Bosses - Justine Baynes
Anything but Footy - December 04, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutesWe like to think all our podcasts are good and everyone listens all the way through. Make sure you do with this one. Justine's answer to the last question will leave you speechless. It made us want to rewrite the whole podcast intro where we'd said 'a short trip across the channel.' Justine Bayne...
#60 Great British Bosses - Paul Blanchard
Anything but Footy - November 28, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutesWe loved our times in Glasgow, Birmingham and has Michael mentioned he went to the Gold Coast for the Commonwealth Games? But the multi sporting event's future remains highly uncertain, with no host in 2026 or beyond. So we want to know what's next - and there's no better person to talk than the ...
Best of British – Alex Yee and Beth Potter the first Team GB triathletes selected for Paris 2024
Anything but Footy - November 24, 2023 10:05 - 22 minutesIn this special episode of the podcast, we hear from the two latest athletes picked for Team GB for the Paris 2024 Olympics, from British Triathlon. World champion Beth Potter competing in her second Olympics, in her second sport, and Olympic gold and silver medalist from Tokyo Alex Yee. We also ...
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