Anything But Footy

We're gearing up for Glasgow and so are the thousands of volunteers who'll be helping put on the Games this summer in Scotland. The 'Legends' have been revealed and we hear from one in this latest episode of the podcast with Glasgow 2026 - four time Commonwealth Games gold medalist gymnast Jake Jarman - the man with his face plastered across the City! For tickets & more on the Games check out Glasgow 2026 ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"The biggest and most exciting marathon yet - the atmosphere across Greater Manchester was truly electric from start to finish". We're joined by ASO UK CEO Andrew Smith to talk all things Manchester Marathon after a record breaking weekend. We discuss plans for a two day London Marathon "you dont want Christmas everyday!" and could the World Marathon Champs help the North West's Olympic bid!? Quite possibly! And if you can be there next year on Sunday April 18 2027 found out more www.manchestermarathon.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

100 days to go - we're into the HOME STRAIGHT - and so could you be! More tickets are going on sale next TUESDAY (Apr 21) for the first ever European Athletics Championships in the UK, on the home straight, the final 100m at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham. We hear from European champions Darren Campbell and Ashleigh Nelson. We also talk relays with Darren as he's in charge for UK Athletics, and Winter Olympics with Ashleigh - she's heading back to the bob! PLUS News from the Games with canoe slalom, marathon, swimming LA 28 legacy and a retirement round up from Jamie, Beth, Luke and Axel Brown! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Did you get your 2028 Olympic ticket slot? Or get snubbed like John? Are we still looking ahead to LA? We're still gearing up for Glasgow 2026 and 9 time Commonwealth Games medalist Nile Wilson joins us on the pod to talks all things Commies & and return of Max Whitlock to gymnastics! There's our News from the Games too after a big weekend for Michael in the Boat Race - no he wasn't rowing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Never under estimate a double Olympic and world champion! Impressive in his swimming now setting the standard to help his fellow Olympics and Paralympic athletes! Still only 23, Matt Richards is using personal experience and entrepreneurialism to solve a gap in the market for athletes and brands with a brand new platform. Sponza is now live with over 5,000 athletes and brands signed up! Hear all about his, his frustration at the coverage of his sport post Olympics, the ridiculous Enhanced Games, unfinished business at the Commonwealths and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sport in the Spring doesn't get any bigger than the Boat Races on the River Thames in London. For nearly 200 years, Cambridge and Oxford Universities have been taking to the Tideway for a varsity challenge now dubbed the greatest rivalry in Rowing! The men and women's races take place this Easter Saturday and Michael will be commentating for Times Radio who are broadcasting the race officially live for the first time ever! So a busy week for Boat Race Company Chair Siobhan Cassidy who joined us to talk all about it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With four months to go, Glasgow is preparing to stage the biggest Para event in the history of Commonwealth Games this summer! Hundreds of athletes across multiple sports in the middle of the spectacular sporting summer on the banks of the Clyde. In this special episode of the podcast we hear from Paralympic gold medalist and Glasgow 2026 ambassador Sammi Kinghorn on why she's gutted at missing out. And keep listening to hear which of the new British World Indoor Athletics Champions will be there too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We always said this was a stacked team for British Athletics! And if it hadn't been for the two relay wins for USA in the last two events, Great Britain would've topped the medal table with 4 golds! Middle distance king Josh Kerr and then the golden girls of Georgia Hunter Bell, Molly Caudery and Keely Hodgkinson on a Super Sunday! We hear from them, record breaking Scott Lincoln PLUS Wimbledon and the British Gymnastics Champs in News from the Games! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two time Olympic medalist and 1500m world champion Josh Kerr joins us on the second of these episodes looking at the World Indoors in Poland this weekend! He wants to win the 3000m title again like he did in Glasgow in 2024 - and also confirms to us he'll be back in Scotland for the Commonwealth Games this summer! Yemi Mary John is also one to watch - the British 400m champion beating the British world indoor champion from last year Amber Anning in the trials! We've also our News from the Games - we're gearing up for Glasgow and looking ahead to LA! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

British world champion Jeremiah Azu defends his 60m title at the Indoor Athletics Championships this weekend. Fellow sprint star and world outdoor silver medalist Amy Hunt is looking for a big start to a season again ahead of the Europeans, Commonwealths and Ultimate Championships. We hear from them both in the Olympic and Paralympic podcast - springing into summer and looking ahead to LA - and we've the winter sport round up too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He's probably the most famous British swimmer of all time - and all thanks to one of Britain's best ever boxers Henry Cooper apparently! Duncan Goodhew Olympic champion and president of Swimathon that's celebrating it's 40th anniversary this week. You can still get involved check out swimathon.org to take part And as the winter Games comes to an end and we switch to summer Olympic sports - find out all about Duncan's competitive bobsleigh career!! 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

Day Eight - not Great for Britain and NI. We review the Winter Paralympics from a GB perspective with Dr Kate Baker the Performance Director of UK Sport. They warned us it wouldn't be Beijing or 2018 or even 2014 but did they expect this? We also round up the News from the Games as the Italians have their best ever Games and so do the Aigners from Austria! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the original Kylie once said "Step Back In Time". It's 2010 and the Conservatives and Lib Dems had a coalition Government just months after the Winter Paralympics in Vancouver. With just one medal so far in Milano Cortina, we have to look back 16 years for a worse medal return for Great Britain and NI. We look-back but also ask is there still time to change it? And GB decathlete turned snowboarder Matt Hamilton takes us on his Paralympic journey in TNT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A day when the first ever Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling champions were crowned - China btw - and a day when the British Curling campaign came to end in the Mixed Team too. Russia moved upto 4th in the medal table - above Ukraine. We've the very latest Milano Daily on the Winter Paralympics - and in TNT Tomorrow's News Today - Nina Sparks the first ever British female snowboarder joins us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We knew it was coming - and so did Neil Simpson and Rob Poth! The Visually Impaired Alpine Skiing Combined silver medalists winning Paralympics GB's first medal of Milano Cortina. Hear from them both on the focus on the Slalom, the support, what's next and the freebies! We've the rest of the News from the Games and in TNT Tomorrow's News Today, we hear from the youngest member of the British team 16 year old standing skier Dom Allen! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

4th, 5th and 6th for Great Britain in another day of what might have been at Milano Cortina Winter Paralympics. Carry on Curling came to an unhappy ending for Team JJ - and Mixed Team seem out of sorts too. GB's Menna & Katie and Neil & Rob still have three events to go in the Alpine Skiing! Russia win their first gold since 2014 while in TNT Tomorrow's News Today we hear from another one of three British teenagers making their debut on the slopes these Games Sam Cozens! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Day Three could be the day it all changes for Paralympics GB! Day Two was a write off let be honest, but with Menna & Katie Neil & Andrew - the Beijing medalists from 4 years ago - in Super G action could make it a magic Monday! We could also see Team JJ qualify for the mixed doubles Curling semis! And in TNT Tomorrow's News Today one of three teenagers in the team - the brilliant Hester Poole is on the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the Paralympics - but it's started like the Olympics! A fourth place for Paralympics GB in the men's downhill VI - but never fear more events to coe for Neil Simpson! The Curling rolls on with wins for GB, Russia make a podium for the first time since Sochi 2014 but its Ukraine who top the early medal table! & In TNT Tomorrow's News Today GB's Fred Warburton ahead of the Super G tells us why its a home games for him! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“Four years ago I said I was horrified at what was happening in the world. Unfortunately, the situation has not improved.” The apt words from International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons at the underwhelming Opening Ceremony to Milano Cortina Winter Paralympics. Boycotts, no shows, withdrawals, injuries its been quite the build up! But now the sport starts! And we've the latest in TNT Tomorrow's News Today, hearing from groundbreaking British snowboarder Davy Zyw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With all the athletes in Cortina or Milan, the Cauldrons there too, boycotts because of Russia's return and other nations like GB not going because of competition - as the curtain raiser for the biggest ever Winter Paralympics is about to happen the key question - What they doing in Verona? We've the latest News from the Games - too much sunshine - the missing Curling stones - and Paralympics GB finally get into the winning ways too! TNT Tomorrow's News Today is the Scottish & English Mixed Curling Team - we hear from them! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices