Episodes

  • #135 Lilah, Lewis & A Year To Go To Winter Paralympics

    #135 Lilah, Lewis & A Year To Go To Winter Paralympics
    Mar 3 2025
    The summer games in Paris seem only like yesterday, but we're now a year away from the Winter Paralympics in Milan - the 50th anniversary of the very first. 79 gold medals will be available during the Games starting on March 6th 2026. We hear from former Paralympics GB star Callum Deboys on his experience in Beijing 3 years ago and his switch to Para cycling! We are also joined by two Team GB stars Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson who finished 3rd in the recent European Ice Skating Champs and head off to the Worlds in Boston later this month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    33 mins
  • #134 The British 'Olympic' Championships

    #134 The British 'Olympic' Championships
    Feb 24 2025
    The UK Indoor Championships in Birmingham staged some of Britain's best athletes competing for a place at the European Indoors in the Netherlands in a fortnight. Hear from sprint kings and queen Jere Azu and Bianca Williams, Olympic medalists George Hunter-Bell, Alex Haydock-Wilson, new British champion George Mills and best of British Scott Lincoln. While in Manchester, world records were broken and new sprint stars Matthew Richardson and Lauren Bell were crowned at the Lloyds National Track Championships. Michael and John discuss whether the two separate events could have been combined and staged at the same time, and whether an annual British 'Olympics' could build the brand further of Olympic sports like Athletics, Cycling and Swimming? And others? Let us know what you think! And we talk the long jump take off board - after trials in Germany! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    41 mins
  • The Keely Klassic

    The Keely Klassic
    Feb 15 2025
    She's an Olympic champion over 800m. She's told us her sole focus is now on the World Championships outdoors this summer and a new personal best. And she may have been injured just hours before her own Keely Klassic event, but Keely Hodgkinson MBE, and Sports Personality of the Year, along with her coaching team and management Forte Talent Group, is already doing more to help the legacy of athletics than most. Performances from Olympic medalists, British records broken, thousands of selfies and hundreds of autographs signed - in this special episode we hear from Keely, Georgia Hunter-Bell, Lina Neilsen, Neil Gourley, Molly Caudery, Amy Hunt and Netheenal Mitchell-Blake. This was a special afternoon in Birmingham at the Keely Klassic indoor athletics meet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    25 mins
  • Glasgow 2026 gold medal moments

    Glasgow 2026 gold medal moments
    Feb 7 2025
    Glasgow 2026 has confirmed 200 gold medals available next summer, despite a slimmed down Commonwealth Games with just 10 sports. But there'll be more Para events that ever before and history will also be made in Swimming, Track Cycling, Bowls and 3x3 Basketball. In this special episode, we hear from organisers on their sporting plans and head to the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome to speak to some of the Scottish athletes looking to represent their country at their home games. And for much more info on next year’s Commonwealth Games head to glasgow2026.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    21 mins
  • #133 One year to go and Presidential Prospectus !

    #133 One year to go and Presidential Prospectus !
    Feb 5 2025
    Can't believe we're just a year away from the next Olympic Games! Surely it was only second ago we were sitting on the La Champs sipping a biere toasting Paris 2024! But we're moving to Milano Cortina 2026 now and the Winter Games with some big hopes on the boards, skis, sliders and ice for Team GB. Olympic gold medalist from Beijing 2022 Eve Muirhead is now in charge of the next generation competing next winter and the Chef De Mission joins us on the podcast! We also hear from the magnificent (!!?!!) seven IOC candidates to the NEW Olympics President! The vote is between Juan Antonio SAMARANCH Seb COE Prince Feisal AL HUSSEIN David LAPPARTIENT Johan ELIASCH Kirsty COVENTRY Morinari WATANABE and takes place by all IOC members on March 20th 2025 in Greece! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    47 mins
  • #87 Great British Bosses - John Steele

    #87 Great British Bosses - John Steele
    Jan 27 2025
    One of the biggest teams at next summer's Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games will be from across the border - Team England! In this episode of Great British Bosses, we hear from the Chair of Commonwealth Games England on the beat job Scottish organisers have done in rescuing the Games, but also what comes next after the sticky plaster of Glasgow. And our guest - John Steele - is someone who's done it all from playing rugby, to coaching a team to European success and heading up UK Sport for the home Olympics and Paralympics of London 2012. This is Great British Bosses with John Steele! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    36 mins
  • #132 New & Old Milano & Melbourne

    #132 New & Old Milano & Melbourne
    Jan 15 2025
    Another fantastic start to the sporting year, with the tennis in Melbourne, success on the snowboard and sliding track too. We're back for our sixth year of talking about the Olympics and Paralympics all the time. And in this episode, we discuss the toughest and hardest sport in the world? Tennis? Athletics? Even football? What do you think? Get in touch via our socials or comment on Spotify! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    38 mins
  • Glasgow 2026 Gears Up

    Glasgow 2026 Gears Up
    Jan 8 2025
    The Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games are now next year! As we know, assuming you've been following and listening to Anything but Footy, Scotland has stepped up again to rescue the event. Glasgow will be host city for a second time in 12 years on July 23rd 2026. In this special episode, we find out more about the people now chosen to deliver these historic Games and speak to the new CEO Phil Batty, a man with big ideas in a big job! Find out much more on next year’s Commonwealth Games glasgow2026.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    12 mins