Can't believe we're 74 episodes into Great British Bosses and this is our first captain! We met Kathy Rogers, skipper of the Great Britain women's water polo team at the launch of Aquatics GB - and we knew she and her team had a great story to tell! World and European Championship performances in the past year - and eyes on the Olympics in 2028 now…

Famous British double-acts and sporting brothers! It's like we planned this podcast in advance! 70 days to go to Paris 2024 and nearly 70 athletes confirmed for Team GB - Izzy Thorpe and Kate Shortman are going for a medal in the artistic swimming the pool - can the Bello brothers Javier and Joaquin join them on the beach? We ask them all! There's …

UK Anti Doping is the national body responsible for ensuring athletes and sports in this country are clean. Jane Rumble is UKAD’s Chief Executive and our latest guest during Clean Sport Week. The aim is to celebrate clean athletes on their journey to the podium, and ahead of this summer’s Olympics and Paralympics. But how much trust should sports f…

We're diving into Paris 2024 with the 8 athletes confirmed by Team GB to compete as 4 pairs of synchro divers at this summer's Olympics. Hear from an Olympic champion, about an Olympic champion, World Championship medalists and much more! There's Judo, BMX, Gymnastics, Athletics and Cycling in our news from the games. And a world champion and two l…

We're onto episode 72 of Great British Bosses and 4 years on, from our first conversation, Vicky Gosling is back, she's our first full returnee and we're delighted! We originally caught up with the GB Snowsport CEO in early 2020. 4 years on, a pandemic and covid hit Winter Olympics later, we're now talking GB Surfing - a brand new governing body ai…

"You are bang up to date on everything you need to know ahead of Paris 2024" Michael sums it up perfectly in our latest Paris 2024 episode - European Champions! A full rowing round up from Hungary includes Helen Glover, Rebecca Shorten, Esme Booth and Sam Redgrave the women's four gold medalists, and men's pair Tom George & Ollie Wynne-Griffith. Br…

The Commonwealth Games are "dying out a little bit unfortunately"- the view of proud Scottish world champion Beth Potter - who competed in Glasgow in 2014 in athletics and won Team Scotland’s first medal in the triathlon in the sunshine in Sutton Park in Birmingham in 2022. But since that superb summer in England’s second city, the storm clouds hav…

The 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 been at the IOC's AI Launch Event in Queen Elizabeth O…

The 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 messa…

It'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 chai…

The 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 cere…

UK 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…

Aquatics 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 Briti…

It'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…

One 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 …

It 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…

En-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 ho…

Plans 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 …

Glasgow 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, pl…

Hannah 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…

Time 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 unde…

It'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…

Great 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 1-3 202…

A 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…

This 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 Brit…

What 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, H…

You 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…

Welcome 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 mas…

Earlier 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 t…

It'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 Villa…

It 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 Vale…

This 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 run…

As 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 p…

It 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 Swim…

We 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 Basketba…

We 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 perform…

In 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 Mi…

In 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 Olympi…

Sport 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 con…

The 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…

This 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 …

This 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 u…

In 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) Frey…

How 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 A…

He'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…

LeBron 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, gy…

How 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 Ke…

The 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 f…

Qualifying 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 And…

Josh 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 …