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#16 Tokyo Time - Steph Twell
August 05, 2021 23:01 - 7 minutesThis is our daily podcast with an athlete who's just about to compete for Team GB at #Tokyo Olympics! Steph Twell goes into the women's Marathon - her third event in three Olympics dating back to Beijing 2008. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#15 Tokyo Time - Jack Laugher
August 04, 2021 23:01 - 8 minutesIn these editions of Tokyo Time - we catch up from a Team GB athlete who won a medal at Tokyo 2020 in 2021... Jack Laugher is the 2020 3m springboard bronze medalist - having won a gold and silver in Rio 5 years ago... But he tells Michael why this means so much more....and his plans for Paris! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#14 Tokyo Time - Max Whitlock
August 03, 2021 23:01 - 6 minutesIn these editions of Tokyo Time - we catch up from a Team GB athlete who won a medal at Tokyo 2020 in 2021... And it's gold again for Max Whitlock, the Great British gymnast who's now won 6 medals across 3 games and could be aiming for a 4th... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#13 Tokyo Time - Mark England (mark 2!)
August 02, 2021 23:01 - 8 minutesIn these editions of Tokyo Time - we catch up from a member from Team GB after the latest medal haul at Tokyo 2020 in 2021... As we're into the second week of these Olympics - we hear from Chef De Mission Mark England on success and the row at British Rowing! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#12 Tokyo Time - Adam Gemili
August 01, 2021 23:01 - 7 minutesThis is our daily podcast with an athlete who's just about to compete for Team GB at #Tokyo Olympics! And for some the athletics is the highlight of the Olympics - with Great Britain looking to beat its Rio medal tally of 2 golds, a silver and 4 bronze... Adam Gemili has become GB's most consistent sprinters of his generation but can he turn 4th into a podium place? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#11 Tokyo Time - Jodie Williams
July 31, 2021 23:01 - 6 minutesShe shone as a youngster, now can Jodie Williams achieve her glory at the Olympic Games? The Hertfordshire runner has had a brilliant season in the 200m and 400m but is focusing on the longer distance and relay in Tokyo.. This is our daily podcast with an athlete who's just about to compete for Team GB at #Tokyo Olympics! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#10 Tokyo Time - Matt Williams
July 30, 2021 23:01 - 5 minutesIn these editions of Tokyo Time - we catch up from a Team GB athlete who won a medal at Tokyo 2020 in 2021... How are they feeling? How did they do it? And when can they party? Matt Williams is one of the 5 British swimmers with a gold medal for the 4x200m freestyle relay (and yes the semi-final swimmer get a medal too!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#61 Team GB at Tokyo 2020 first week review
July 29, 2021 15:30 - 59 minutesA week ago it was all about to start, one week in and Team GB have got off to flier at Tokyo 2020 in 2021... This is our review of the first 6 days of action with the help of gold medalist Matty Lee, silver stars Georgia Taylor Brown and the Men's quad scullers, and bronze medalists Bianca Walkden and gymnast Alice Kinsella... What will the second week have in store? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#9 Tokyo Time - Hannah Williams
July 28, 2021 23:01 - 6 minutesThis is our daily podcast with an athlete who's just about to compete for Team GB at #Tokyo Olympics! Hannah Williams should make her Olympic debut as part of the 4x400m relay squad in the first ever running of the mixed event tomorrow (Friday) in the Olympic Stadium. But she's also been telling her us how she's getting on sharing a room with big sister and 400m British champion Jodie ... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit pod...
#8 Tokyo Time - Sophie McKinna
July 27, 2021 23:01 - 7 minutesSophie McKinna is breaking all boundaries at the moment, having qualified for her first World Champs in Doha and now her first Olympics in Tokyo 2 years later. She's in action in qualifying for the Shot Put final on Friday July 30 - and knows her family including Norwich City legend Dave Stringer will be supporting her from home in Great Yarmouth. This is our daily podcast with an athlete who's just about to compete for Team GB at #Tokyo Olympics! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for ...
#7 Tokyo Time - Eilish McColgan
July 26, 2021 23:01 - 8 minutesThis is our daily podcast with an athlete who's just about to compete for Team GB at #Tokyo Olympics! Eilish McColgan, like Marc in episode 6, is going in both the 10,000m and 5000m on the track after a summer of strong running and personal bests. And she's fully aware of the stories about following in her mum Liz's footsteps 30 years on... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#6 Tokyo Time - Marc Scott
July 25, 2021 23:01 - 8 minutesMarc Scott is competing in his first Olympics and goes in the first athletics final on the opening night of action in the Olympic Stadium. Britain has won the last two 10,000m races and 5000m a week later of course thanks to Sir Mo Farah. But we're talking to and about Marc in our daily podcast with an athlete who's just about to compete for Team GB at #Tokyo Olympics! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adc...
#5 Tokyo Time - Tom Mitchell
July 24, 2021 23:01 - 6 minutesThis is our daily podcast with an athlete who's just about to compete for Team GB at #Tokyo Olympics! Tom Mitchell is back at the Olympics looking to go one better than the silver he won in Rio... It was Rugby Sevens debut back then, now he's returning as captain of Team GB, before they face Canada, Japan and gold medalists Fiji in the group stages over the next couple of days (Mon & Tue)... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
#4 Tokyo Time - Lizzie Deignan
July 23, 2021 23:01 - 8 minutesLizzie Deignan won the first medal of London 2012 and now with Anna Shackley's she's in action in the Women's Road Race tomorrow (Sunday) We catch up with her after a year like no other... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#3 Tokyo Time - Geraint Thomas
July 22, 2021 23:01 - 9 minutesIt's Opening Ceremony Day - officially day zero of the Olympics - with the main sporting action beginning in earnest in just a matter of hours... Could Team GB start the Games with a medal in the men's Road Race at the Fuji Speedway - we hear from former Tour de France winner and 4 time Olympian Geraint Thomas... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#2 Tokyo Time - Hannah Mills & Mohammed Sbihi
July 22, 2021 13:19 - 10 minutesIt's such an honour to compete for Great Britain, even more so in the Olympics, and even more so if you're asked to lead the team into the Opening Ceremony. Stand up Hannah Mills and Mohammed Sbihi who have been chosen as not only reigning Olympic champions, but they represent the culture and team ethos of Team GB. They will both carry the flag at tomorrow (Friday 23) Tokyo opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more abou...
#1 Tokyo Time - Mark England
July 21, 2021 16:00 - 8 minutesChef De Mission for Team GB Mark England on how the team is coping with covid-19 restrictions in Tokyo ahead of the Games and calling for reduction in isolation timeframe as testing regime is so comprehensive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#60 Time for Tokyo 2020 with Jason Kenny
July 14, 2021 12:44 - 58 minutesThis is the last Anything but Footy podcast before Tokyo 2020 finally begins in 2021. An extra year in the making, with strict covid-19 regulations, a state of emergency in the host city, and no spectators - this Olympics will be like no other. But there'll be glory and golds, success and silvers, brilliance and bronzes. They'll be cheers and tears. Great stories. Great disappointments. In fact like every other Games. Team GB is sending its biggest ever squad in its 125 history with more wom...
#59 New names & new sports for Team GB with Sky Brown & Paul Casey
July 07, 2021 10:33 - 55 minutesTwo weeks to go to Tokyo 2020 in 2021 - it seems we've waited a long time for it - for the athletes it's been a lifetime! This is their moment to create their own history in the sport they love. This is Anything but Footy - and in this episode - we talk all things new - new sport of skateboarding with Sky and Bombette the teenagers representing Team GB as the sport makes its debut in Tokyo. Paul Casey and Tommy Fleetwood are well known British golfers of course but they're new to the Olympics...
#58 A significant moment in British Olympic history with Alice Dearing & Christian Malcolm
July 01, 2021 12:55 - 43 minutesThe title of the pod comes from a quote from GB chef de mission Mark England. Even as Britain's had a team at every Olympics - Summer and Winter - since the Games began in 1896, it cannot be understated that history is being made at Tokyo 2020. We speak to Alice Dearing - the first ever black female swimmer to represent Team GB and why it's important. We're also joined by Olympic Head Coach of British Athletics Christian Malcolm as 65 athletes are confirmed in the athletics teams for Tokyo -...
#57 The unspoken pressure medal success can bring with Katy Marchant & Maddie Hinch
June 23, 2021 13:52 - 47 minutesHappy Olympic Day! It's a month to go before Tokyo 2020 and in this episode we hear from the Olympic bronze medalist cyclist Katy Marchant and Olympic champion Maddie Hinch on the fallout from Rio ahead of this summer's Games in 2021. Eye-opening stuff! Both have been selected to represent Team GB again - we'll also round up the latest team announcements from Cycling, Boxing, Para Athletics and Artistic Swimming - although as GB pair Isabelle and Kate tell us we can still call it synchronised...
#56 The Tokyo challenge for Olympic champions Hollie Pearne-Webb & Jack Laugher
June 17, 2021 19:50 - 45 minutes"We're going to Tokyo to win OUR first gold medal" says Rio Olympic champion and now GB captain Hollie Pearne-Webb, who tells us why the British women's hockey team that's been named aren't the reigning champions 5 years on. We also hear from Jack Laugher - Olympic gold and silver medalist from Rio - on his learning from his mistakes in the build up the Japan Games, which are now 5 weeks away. We're also joined by Adam Nixon the Great Britain men's hockey team captain as 36 names in total wer...
#1 Centre Pass from London Pulse
June 16, 2021 00:00 - 28 minutesWelcome to a brand new podcast - Centre Pass from London Pulse - produced with Anything but Footy. We're the only London franchise in the Vitality Netball Superleague Championship and our aim is to be the beating heart of netball in London, a truly international city. We are passionate and committed to find and develop super talented athletes and to deliver world class netball at the Copperbox Arena in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. We also want to connect with the communities in London to pla...
#55 Bumper Team GB edition - with James Rudkin & Laura Gallagher
June 10, 2021 15:02 - 59 minutesSo much to get into the podcast this week - with Michael and John back in their home studios - this bumper edition covers all the British Olympic and Paralympic news you need to know this week! The delay to the Games by a year has been a blessing for some athletes, while for others it might have ended their sporting journey. We'll discuss. We've the Rowing 'register' of 45 athletes inc. the return of a double Olympic champion, and the delight and excitement of first time GB gymnasts confirmed...
#54 Team GB Team Time - Taekwondo & Diving specials!
June 02, 2021 17:26 - 42 minutesIt's the Tokyo 2020 Olympics next month! So time for Team GB and Para GB to keep making their teams! A special this week with John in London and Michael in Manchester to meet the latest members booked on the plane to Japan, for the Games that begin mid July. Tom Daley talks about diving partner Matty Lee's annoying habits, Jade Jones gets that deja-vu feeling - we hear from two newbies to the Olympics in Katherine Torrance and Noah Williams - and there's the wheelchair Rugby team announcement...
#53 Anything Footy with Caroline Weir, Georgina Stanway & Sandy MacIver
May 27, 2021 18:31 - 18 minutesWe're back - and we're unashamedly talking about footy - women's footy - which as we know has been badly impacted like many sports during the covid pandemic. And also Football is an Olympic sport! For only the second time in history, Team GB are sending a squad to the Games to compete for a gold medal - in London they were knocked out in the quarter finals. Some of that team return in the 18 strong squad - 10 of them are from one Superleague team - and the squad isn't all English! And as we'r...
#52 Fab 4 named for Team GB with Joe Fraser & Max Whitlock
May 24, 2021 14:54 - 21 minutesMax, Joe, Giarnni and James - the new Fab Four of British gymnastics. The men's team for Tokyo 2020 has been named by Team GB in Lilleshall the home of gym in the UK and Anything but Footy was there too! Michael catches up with World Champion Joe making his Olympic debut later this summer, and catches up with now 3 time Olympian and double gold medalist from Rio 2016 Max Whitlock. This weekend was also a huge one for Olympic sport, with British athletes performing superbly in and out of the w...
Festival of Triathlon
May 03, 2021 23:01 - 30 minutesAJ Bell 2021 World Triathlon Leeds is back this year! Roundhay Park in Leeds on June 5-6 is the location for the world's best triathletes and paratriathletes to compete for a place at this summer's Olympics and Paralympics, and for those British athletes already selected to represent Team GB this summer to prepare for Tokyo. Plus, for the first time ever, the World Triathlon Para Series will be taking place in the UK, bringing the highest level of international paratriathlon racing to Leeds. ...
#11 Back on Track: Swimming Special with Adam Peaty
April 27, 2021 16:12 - 13 minutesIn this podcast series, from Anything but Footy, we speak to Team GB and Para GB athletes preparing for Tokyo 2020 in 2021, following the historic delay to the Games because of the coronavirus pandemic. Adam Peaty became Olympic champion in Rio in 2016, and continues to dominate the world of Breaststroke heading into the delayed Olympics - we hear from him on creating more history, protests on the podium and how he'd describe himself! 24 names have been added to the Team GB plane bound for Ja...
#10 Back on Track: Archery GB
April 22, 2021 15:00 - 11 minutesThis is Back on Track from Anything but Footy - a series that features Team and Para GB athletes aiming for Tokyo 2020 in 2021. In this special 10th edition of the pod, we hear from 3 of the 10 members of the teams picked for the Olympics and Paralympics this summer. Naomi Folkard and Patrick Huston looking to win Britain's first Archery medal in 20 years - and first time Paralympian Hazel Chaisty on her flying 7 year career so far! This is Archery GB - back on track for Tokyo 2020! Hosted o...
#51 100 days to go with Jade Jones & Jess Learmonth
April 14, 2021 10:32 - 37 minutesThe Tokyo 2020 Olympics in 2021 is now just 100 days to go... The latest news headlines surrounding the event don't make the most comfortable reading, but being honest when has a preparation to any Games had nothing but positivity! There are huge challenges ahead, alluded to by double Olympic champion Jade Jones who joins us just back from Bulgaria and competing at the European Taekwondo Championships, but she won a third title and will be looking to make history again in Tokyo! We also cat...
#30 Great British Bosses: Dr Neil Fell, OnePT
April 08, 2021 11:01 - 26 minutesGreat British Bosses is the podcast series that looks behind the scenes at British Sport. Dr Neil Fell is a leading sports scientist having worked in the industry for 25 years, working in rugby and at St George's Park, the new home of English football. We hear his views on elite sport! And as the director and co-founder of gym OnePT in Rochdale, Neil gives us the insight on what it's been like in and out of opening and closing during the past year's covid lockdowns - and how he hopes when the...
#9 Back on Track: Niamh Emerson
April 02, 2021 00:00 - 11 minutesThe new series featuring Team and Para GB athletes aiming for Tokyo 2020 in 2021 In this podcast series, from Anything but Footy, we speak to Team GB and Para GB athletes preparing for Tokyo 2020 in 2021, following the historic delay to the Games because of the coronavirus pandemic. Niamh Emerson is the World Junior Champion and has also won European Indoor Championship silver medal and Commonwealth Games bronze medal. She is targeting selection in the heptathlon in Tokyo and admits in this i...
#8 Back on Track: Liam Heath
March 26, 2021 00:01 - 14 minutesThe latest spin off podcast from Anything but Footy with Team GB and Para GB athletes aiming for Tokyo 2020 in 2021... Liam Heath is preparing for his third Games after becoming Olympic champion in Rio in 2016 and World Champion in Sprint Canoe in 2019. But preparation following the postponement of the Olympics a year ago to this summer is anything but ordinary. Liam talks all things Rio, how life has changed since, why GB is so good at Canoe sprint and maintaining form during a pandemic and ...
Team Bath Takeover
March 21, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutesTeam Bath Netball is back in action later for their Round 7 fixture against Surrey Storm in the Vitality Netball Superleague. The netball season is being held behind closed doors with the first half of the season in Wakefield and the second half of the season in London at The Copper Box Arena on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. In this special edition of the podcast, Anything but Footy joined Team Bath for a crucial weekend of action when they played their crunch clash with Manchester Thunder....
#29 Great British Bosses: Stephen Park, British Cycling
March 19, 2021 00:01 - 33 minutesStephen Park oversees the form and career of every single elite British cyclist from the track stars to the up and coming BMX and mountain bike riders, in the Olympic and the Paralympic programme. As Performance Director his job is ensuring the athletes are at their peak to perform at the right time. Tokyo 2020 in 2021 is the focus for this year but Stephen reveals the next 18 months are potentially the most 'exciting' for the sport with a home Commonwealth Games, World Championships, Road Ra...
#50 Half century celebration after bumper weekend of British sport
March 09, 2021 19:32 - 31 minutesThis is Anything but Footy the Olympic and Paralympic Podcast - the 50th episode! Michael and John reunite, via the power of the pod, to review the weekend sporting action as the build up to the Tokyo Games starts to gather some pace. Sport is happening around the world and British elite sport stars are getting to compete. We're joined by Verity Ockenden, Bronze Medalist from the European Athletics Indoor Championships, held in the the aptly named Torun as she now has Tokyo times in her sight...
#7 Back on Track: Adam Gemili
February 19, 2021 16:59 - 13 minutesThe new series featuring Team and Para GB athletes aiming for Tokyo 2020 in 2021 In this podcast series, from Anything but Footy, we speak to Team GB and Para GB athletes preparing for Tokyo 2020 in 2021, following the historic delay to the Games because of the coronavirus pandemic. Adam Gemili won gold and silver medals at World Championship level as part of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland 4x100m relay squads, but after finishing 4th at the 2016 Olympic Games and then again at the 201...
#6 Back on Track: Adam Gemili
February 19, 2021 16:59 - 11 minutes - 8.54 MBThe new series featuring Team and Para GB athletes aiming for Tokyo 2020 in 2021 In this podcast series, from Anything but Footy, we speak to Team GB and Para GB athletes preparing for Tokyo 2020 in 2021, following the historic delay to the Games because of the coronavirus pandemic. Adam Gemili won gold and silver medals at World Championship level as part of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland 4x100m relay squads, but after finishing 4th at the 2016 Olympic Games and then again at the ...
Growing up Tri-ing
February 09, 2021 00:01 - 46 minutesWhen was your first swim, bike and run? How did you get on in the very first race? How to balance school, studying and Triathlon? And an elite journey from youth to senior. In a special edition of the podcast, produced on behalf of British Triathlon, Growing up Tri-ing speaks to three Olympic and Paralympic Podium Potential athletes to find out all the answers and their experiences. Hear Sophie Coldwell on her jump from the talent squad and the realisation that 'wow someone thinks I'm quite g...
#28 Great British Bosses: Sam Bird, London Pulse
February 03, 2021 00:01 - 34 minutesWe know women's sport has been badly affected during the Covid-19 pandemic, but netball is back and for the first time ever every match is being show live on Sky Sports, as Wakefield and London's Copperbox Arena are the two neutral venues for the entire season. CEO, Director of Netball and Head Coach of London Pulse, the youngest franchise of the Vitality Netball SuperLeague, Sam Bird describes the return of the sport as 'imperative', why her and her brilliant team didn't shut up shop during...
#6 Back on Track: Matt Skelhon
January 14, 2021 05:00 - 10 minutesThis is Back On Track from Anything but Footy. The podcast series where we speak to Team GB and Para GB athletes preparing for Tokyo 2020 in 2021. Matt Skelhon is a three time Olympic medalist - having won gold in Beijing, silver and bronze in London. After Rio he nearly quit. Now he's back at Olympic trap World Champion and is one of the first athletes to be picked by Paralympics GB for the Games this August. Matt reveals like millions of us he's been 'working from home' - seriously - shooti...
#27 Great British Bosses: Andrew Triggs Hodge
January 04, 2021 05:00 - 33 minutesHappy New Year! Welcome to the latest edition of Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy. It's another Olympic and Paralympic year, hopefully with some sport in it this time! In this podcast series we go behind the scenes of British sport. In this episode, we catch up with three Olympic champion Andrew Triggs Hodge to discuss his perfect retirement from rowing in Rio, what happens next for athletes when they finish, his latest project on the River Thames, after winning the Boat Race with...
#5 Back On Track: Natasha Cockram
December 21, 2020 05:00 - 7 minutesIn this episode, Olympic hopeful Natasha Cockram describes how at the start of 2020 she left her home and job in Wales to re-locate to Norfolk in an attempt to represent Team GB in the women's marathon in Tokyo. Despite the set backs of the year - lockdown forcing the cancellation of many events which natasha aimed to compete in to earn a living and picking up an injury, Natasha became the British Champion in London in October. She narrowly missed out on the Olympic qualification time in 2019...
#26 Great British Bosses: Matthew Porter, Professional Darts Corporation
December 11, 2020 05:00 - 33 minutesAs Noddy Holder would say 'It's Christmas......' and even covid-19 can't stop the Darts at Alexandra Palace and what's even better for CEO of the Professional Darts Corporation Matt Porter, there's spectators in attendance too - admittedly slightly differently and socially distanced! Matt tells us all the rules and regulations and the only reason you can leave your seat this year! As well as leading the world of darts through this particularly tough year, Matt's also the former CEO of Leyton ...
#4 Back On Track: Lauren Price
December 01, 2020 05:00 - 12 minutesLauren Price is super talented! Not only is she the world's number one middleweight boxer, but reigning World, European and Commonwealth champion, having been European kickboxing champion and winning more than 50 caps for Wales in football too! After not fighting at all in 2020, it's confirmed she'll return to the ring to compete in London again at the Olympic Boxing qualifying event in the Copperbox in the Olympic Park from 22–26 April 2021, but is likely to be behind closed doors. It does m...
#25 Great British Bosses: Lisa Wainwright, Sport & Recreation Alliance
November 26, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutesLike most of us, and the sporting world, 2020 didn't turn out the way the Sport & Recreation Alliance was planning. Representing hundreds of sports and activity organisations, including the FA, ECB & RFU, many are now fighting for their own survival following a series of lockdowns and tiered restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Millions of pounds worth of funding has been allocated to help the sports and recreation sector, but for many it's not enough while some grassroots and community...
#24 Great British Bosses: Victoria Aggar, British Athletes Commission
November 16, 2020 05:00 - 34 minutesIn this episode, who and what is the British Athletes Commission? We speak to its chair two time world champion and Paralympic bronze medal rower Victoria Aggar. She reveals the BAC has had to employ more staff to cope with the rising number of athletes reaching out and asking for support, following several high profile abuse and bullying scandals in British sport. And wishes she could've supported Rio 2016 medal winning gymnast Amy Tinkler in her relationship with British Gymnastics, but tol...
#3 Back On Track: Claire Cashmore
November 11, 2020 05:00 - 12 minutesIn this episode, multi Paralympic medalist Claire Cashmore calls on film makers and actors to think, and do more, to help fight the prejudice against those with a disability. It follows the latest 'Witches' movie depicting a witch with three fingers, a change from the original Roald Dahl text. Claire says it's a massive step backwards and recalls her experiences as a child of being called 'Captain Hook'. After the postponement of the Games to 2021, Claire is back on track for Tokyo for what w...
#23 Great British Bosses: Huw Edwards, UK Active
November 06, 2020 06:00 - 28 minutesThis is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy, the podcast where we profile the men and women responsible for running sport in this country, from grassroots participation to those medal moments at Olympic, Paralympic and elite level. In this episode we speak to Huw Edwards who is the CEO of UK Active. They are the body that is responsible for improving the healty of the nation by getting more people more active. In 2020, this aim has never been more important as participation levels in...