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Alice Dearing in her own words
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 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 Insti...
#71 Great British Bosses - Leslie Rance
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 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! Lear...
#110 Paris 2024 100 days to go!
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 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 fr...
#70 Great British Bosses - Jack Buckner, Hugh Brasher & Paul Foster
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 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...
#109 Paris 2024 Aquatics GB Olympic & Paralympic trials
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 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 😉 This is Anythi...
#69 Great British Bosses - Joel Lavery
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 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 we...
Aquatics GB more than just a new name
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 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 o...
#108 Paris 2024 Great Gymnastics & Goodbyes
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 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 he...
#107 Paris 2024 Thumbs Up For Games
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 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 silv...
Making Live Sport Matter
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 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 spe...
#106 Paris 2024 Award Winning Brits!
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 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, ...
New Team GB sailor selected for Paris 2024
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, 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 Olympi...
#105 Paris 2024 5 Months To Go!
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 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 Ind...
#104 Paris 2024 The Long Jump & World Athletics Indoors
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 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!...
#68 Great British Bosses - Jon Ridgeon
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 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, potential...
#103 Paris 2024 More British Swimming Success
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 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 countdow...
#67 Great British Bosses - Anna Watkins
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 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
#102 Paris 2024 Diving into the World Aquatics Championship
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 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 Ga...
#66 Great British Bosses - Scott Field
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 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...
#101 Paris 2024 Here We Come - 6 months to go!
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 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,...
#65 Great British Bosses - David Clarke
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 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...
#64 Great British Bosses - Eve Muirhead
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 - 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 Olympi...
#100 Paris 2024 A winning start to Olympic year!
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 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 s...
#63 Great British Bosses - Hannah Mills
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 silver medalist, strategist at GBR Sail GP, as well as running Athena Pathway aimed at getting young women into the sport and as you'll hear so much more! No better way to start the brand new Olympic year!...
#62 Great British Bosses - Chemmy Alcott
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 Turin and Vancouver, she finished an impressive 11th place in downhill and super combined respectively. Now the Ski Sunday presenter wants to ensure her children, and others, have a future on the slope...
#99 Neutrals in Paris & British Swimming success
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 details. It's been a brilliant week for British Swimming in Romania at the European Short-course Championships - Michael takes a deep dive into their performances - and our guests this episode our Pa...
#61 Great British Bosses - Justine Baynes
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 Baynes is the brilliant CEO of British Wheelchair Basketball which has seen a successful 2023 ensure qualification for both the men and women's teams at next summer's Paris 2024 Paralympics. She tells us t...
#60 Great British Bosses - Paul Blanchard
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 man who led Team England to a record breaking performance at Birmingham 2022. Paul Blanchard is our latest guest on Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy, the behind the scenes conversation of ...
Best of British – Alex Yee and Beth Potter the first Team GB triathletes selected for Paris 2024
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 hear from British Triathlon's Performance Director Mike Cavendish on who could join Beth and Alex! Congratulations to all at British Triathlon & good luck! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podc...
The Team GB slalom canoeists selected for Paris 2024
November 16, 2023 09:58 - 22 minutesIn this special episode of the podcast, we hear from the latest athletes picked for Team GB for Paris 2024 Olympics, from British Canoeing. Olympic medallists Joe Clarke MBE and Mallory Franklin, alongside 2023 World Champion Kimberley Woods and Tokyo 2020 Olympian Adam Burgess. Mallory will compete in the Women’s Canoe Single (C1) & the new Olympic discipline Kayak Cross, Joe in the Men’s Kayak Single (K1) & Kayak Cross, Kimberley in the Women’s Kayak Single (K1) & Kayak Cross and Adam Burge...
#59 Great British Bosses - Matt Archibald
November 13, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutesSport England, London 2012, GB Boxing, GB Taekwondo and now CEO of the UK Sports Institute. Our guest on this episode of Great British Bosses Matt Archibald has literally come a long way from being an accountant in Aberdeen. The UKSI delivers outstanding support that enables sports and athletes to excel. In this episode of the behind the scenes conversation of British sport we find out how - and with Matt's background also talk all things Olympics! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podc...
#58 Great British Bosses - Michelle Draper
November 06, 2023 00:01 - 28 minutesThe clocks have gone back, the nights are drawing in and the winter Olympic sport is back! In this episode of the podcast we catch up with former Police officer and now successful CEO of British Ice Skating Michelle Draper - and that was one of the first thing she changed - it's name from NISA! We talk about the rising British stars on ice ahead of the 2026 Milano Cortino Games - and how long into the episode do we go before we mention you know who - Torvill & Dean? Learn more about your ad c...
#57 Great British Bosses - Nick Pink
October 30, 2023 00:01 - 33 minutesThis is Great British Bosses - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK - and in our latest episode we catch up with chief executive of England Hockey Nick Pink. In his role he also oversees GB Hockey, which has been hugely successful in the women's game in the past 3 Olympics - but what about Paris 2024 and could the men grab a medal moment again like 1988? We also discuss a brand new kit, why it was important kit restrictions were removed for the sport of hockey, how he's a hug...
#98 The Olympics meeting in Mumbai
October 16, 2023 12:58 - 28 minutesThis is Anything but Footy - the Olympics and Paralympics podcast - and in this latest episode we round up the IOC session meeting in Mumbai... We hear from IOC President Thomas Bach on the new sports like cricket and squash for LA 28 - and the concern for future of the Winter Games. Chef De Mission for Team GB at Paris 2024 Mark England talks to us too. And why the 2012 mascot Mandeville nears a role in the new Paralympic tradition revealed by the IPC Download, listen and follow for all thin...
The Team GB sailors selected for Paris 2024
October 11, 2023 17:27 - 22 minutesIn this special episode of the podcast, we hear from the very first athletes picked for Team GB for Paris 2024 Olympics, from British Sailing. 10 athletes in 7 categories - 6 making their Olympic debuts and 3 having won medals in Tokyo. John Gimson and Anna Burnet – mixed multihull (Nacra 17) James Peters and Fynn Sterritt – men’s skiff (49er) Freya Black and Saskia Tidey – women’s skiff (49erFX) Emma Wilson – women’s windsurfing (iQFOiL) Sam Sills – men’s windsurfing (iQFOiL) Ellie Al...
#56 Great British Bosses - Ciaran Beattie
October 01, 2023 23:00 - 33 minutesHow do you start a new sporting organisation bringing together the history of the world of rugby? Gather in a room and come up with some goals apparently. That's exactly what GB Rugby 7s did in an attempt to qualify easier and then prepare better for the relatively new Olympic competition. Our latest guest on season 5 of Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK - is Scottish Rugby's Ciaran Beattie - who was GB Programme Lead and is n...
#55 Great British Bosses - Ed Warner
September 24, 2023 23:00 - 42 minutesHe's the former chair of UK Athletics - current chair at British Wheelchair Rugby and has plenty to save on the state of sport in this country! This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK. We're delighted Ed Warner is our first guest of season five - and follow & download as many more to come! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#97 King James to join Paris Olympic party?
September 18, 2023 09:47 - 22 minutesLeBron James, Novak Djokovic, Iga Swiatek, Kylian Mbappe - sporting superstars with an eye on a place at the Olympic Games in Paris next summer. Is it good for the Games? Team GB turn their attention to promoting women's sport with a brilliant new series Sporty AF - you can watch via Team GB’s YouTube channel PLUS Para athletics, diamond league, gymnastics, boxing, tennis, shooting and rowing right at end obviously! 😉 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#96 Great Mo Run!
September 11, 2023 10:29 - 39 minutesHow do we judge our greatest ever Olympian? We'd love to hear from you on your thoughts... As Sir Mo Farah retires at the age of 40 in his last Great North Run - somewhere he's won 6 times - it's time to reflect on his outstanding track career and double double at London 2012 and Rio 2016. But is he better than Sir Steve Redgrave, Jason or Laura Kenny? We round up the GNR results and hear from Charlotte Purdue, Sammi Kinghorn and David Weir. The Brits are back on the water - we have a full Br...
#95 Paris 2024 is NOT a home games!
September 06, 2023 16:10 - 43 minutesThe countdown to the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics is really getting going... UK Sport is confident Great Britain and NI will finish in the top 5 of the Olympics and Paralympics medal table next year, and it's also targeting that for LA and Brisbane. But as we visited Bisham Abbey, one of the UK Sport Institute bases in tis country, we also found out winning isn't enough, it has to be winning the right way, and why we should never call Paris 2024 a home games! In this episode, you'll he...
#94 British Rowing at 2023 World Championships
August 30, 2023 23:00 - 28 minutesQualifying as many boats as possible for the Paris 2024 Games... The aim of British Rowing as 62 strong Olympic and Paralympic team named for the 2023 World Rowing Champions in Belgrade this coming week... We hear from 6 members of British Rowing in this special episode - reigning world champs Oli Wilkes and David Ambler of the men's four, Lola Anderson and Georgie Brayshaw from the Women’s quadruple sculls and Frankie Allen and Morgan Fice-Noyes from the PR3 Mixed Coxed Four Learn more about...
#93 Britain's best in Budapest inc. Josh Kerr interview
August 28, 2023 13:00 - 43 minutesJosh Kerr was the story from the World Athletics Championships for many of us - storming to victory in the men's 1500m and retaining the title for Great Britain from when Jake Wightman won it a year ago. Hear from the man himself on this episode! But there's so many more stories to tell from Budapest 2023, a glorious championships and not only for Great Britain who equalled their record haul from 30 years ago! A full review - good and bad - follows, if you follow (!), including shared gold me...
#92 World Athletics Championships Special
August 14, 2023 11:28 - 35 minutesThis is Anything but Footy, and episode 92 we're joined by Olympic medalist Holly Bradshaw ahead of the 40th anniversary of the World Athletics Championships - this time being held in Budapest... The pole vault star is returning from injury and joins a 50+ strong Great Britain and NI squad. We also look back at some of the past World Champs - let us know your memories - and even discuss Mascots!* Plus Scotland smashed the first ever World Cycling Championships with British Cycling winning 100...
#91 A stink in the Seine & Commonwealth chaos
August 07, 2023 16:13 - 30 minutesCancelled - the Marathon swimming test events in the river Seine for next summer Olympics because of poor water quality. World Aquatics say it's clear something has to happen. Commonwealth chaos as Alberta pulls out of preferred bidder status to stage the 2030 Games. World Para Swimming in Manchester & World Cycling in Glasgow round ups And our News from the Games ahead of Paris 2024 next summer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#90 Tom time again!
July 31, 2023 12:42 - 36 minutesIt was suggested in our 'Year to go' episode that Tom Daley might return for Team GB for Paris 2024. And he's back in the diving pool with the Olympics next summer 'a goal'. We've the latest from the Tokyo gold medalist - as well as the other British headlines from the World Aquatics Championships in Japan too. Plus there's World Triathlon, Cycling & Athletics. John reveals his thoughts behind how athletes from Russia and Belarus could compete in Paris next year, while Michael discusses how B...
#89 One Year to Go Paris 2024 Special
July 26, 2023 14:49 - 39 minutesIt's One Year to Go! Paris 2024 organisers, and the French capital city, are in full preparation mode as John finds out on his trip on the Eurostar, across the channel! The International Olympic Committee are still refusing to talk about Russia and Belarus... And we're at the training ground of PSG (but we don't talk footy!), we it's actually the Georges Lefevre Stadium and complex which is one of three Team GB bases for the summer games next year. We hear from IOC President Thomas Bach, Team...
#88 Victoria 2026 Commonwealth Games Cancelled
July 18, 2023 09:05 - 13 minutesWe were promised a Games like no other. A new way of doing the Commonwealth Games. Multi city. Across regions. But just like that, and apparently without consultation, the state of Victoria Government has withdrawn the funding for the Games, and pulled the plug on staging the 2026 edition. In a special 'breaking' edition, we bring you the latest statements and ask who could step up and deliver the event in just 3 years time? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#87 World Championships & Wimbledon
July 16, 2023 23:01 - 20 minutesPeople keep talking about the new footy season - we won't here! We don't deal with weekly transfer tittle tattle or 105 million pound signings! We actually talk about heroes who've won something! We've had a great few weeks at Wimbledon, there's also been the World Para Athletics Championships in Paris and Glasgow is about to stage it's biggest ever sporting event - even larger than the 2014 Commonwealth Games! We hear from one of the riders taking part! This is Anything but Footy the Olympic...
#86 'Raining' British Champions
July 09, 2023 21:52 - 44 minutesA bumper weekend of sport - none more so than in Manchester as the British Athletics Championships took place - and the chance to book your spot in Budapest for the Worlds later this summer! Michael spent the weekend avoiding the 'Manchester Monsoon' but also speaking to some of our new British champions - Zharnel Hughes, Daryll Neita, Jazmin Sawyers, Morgan Lake & Jessie Knight. We also hear from Paralympic champion Aled Davies as the World Para Athletics returns after 4 years in Paris. Plus...
Team GB at the European Games
June 29, 2023 14:00 - 34 minutesThis is Team GB at the European Games. With just a year to go before the 2024 Paris Olympics, there's been qualification spots on offer for British athletes, European titles and medals to be won and history to be made! In this special episode of the podcast, we hear from Team GB medalists, Olympic champions, and some new names from archery, diving, taekwondo, BMX freestyle, rugby 7s, fencing and artistic swimming! And for much more news, previews and interviews ahead of Paris 2024 check out @...