Anything but Footy

Three British skiers in the men’s world top thirty after two World Cups this year and ahead of the forthcoming Winter Olympics. There’s a real chance the ⁠GB Snowsport Alpine Boys could create a little bit of history at the 2026 Milano Cortina Games. In this fourth episode of the season, we hear from all three - make sure you download & follow for more - and you can also listen back to our first GB Snowsport season too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Since Beijing 2022 Olympics, and despite funding cuts, ⁠GB Snowsport has delivered on the global stage, with athletes securing World Cup and World Championship medals, to the point the 2022/23 season was declared the most successful ever! Freestyle snowboarder Mia Brookes and free-ski’s Kirsty Muir played their part in that success. In fact the entire British Park and Pipe Skiing and Snowboarding team are on a roll ahead of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and Paralympics. We want to out the secret of their success with a special Great British Bosses episode with Head Coaches Jamie Matthew & Ben Kinnear. This is Episode 3 of Season 2 with GB Snowsport - make sure you download & follows and you can also listen back to our first GB Snowsport season too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season Two, Episode 2 and to be fair we could've called it another comebacks! With Menna Fitzpatrick returning from injury for the Winter Paralympics and Katie Guest looking to finally make her Paralympic debut after missing Beijing through covid! But we wanted to focus on the unique partnership of this World Cup winning World Championship duo, ahead of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and Paralympics with ⁠⁠GB Snowsport⁠ We’ve more specials to come - so make sure you download & follow and you can also listen back to our first ⁠GB Snowsport⁠ season too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to another special season of podcasts with ⁠GB Snowsport ahead of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and Paralympics. In this latest episode, we hear from two of Britain’s most experienced freestyle skiers - Gus Kenworthy and Kirsty Muir who are at either ends of their careers - and the different comebacks they’ve made in the last year. We’ve 4 more specials to come - so make sure you download & follows and you can also listen back to our first GB Snowsport season too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Olympian from Rio 2016, Relay bronze medalist at the World Athletics Championships, three time European sprint relay champion and individual bronze in 2014 and two time Commonwealth Games gold medallist in the 4x100m relay. But for some youngsters Harry Aikines-Aryeety maybe better known as Nitro from the revamped Gladiators and the 'king of the pecks' on the dance floor of Strictly Come Dancing. He's now teamed up with HSBC to encourage you to look at your finances and investments - so what better way to ask him about his future and his return to athletics? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's nearly here - the flame's about to be lit, they're testing the new Sliding Centre on Cortina and Britain's got high hopes of Ice Dance success not seen since well you know how! In fact two couples will represent Team GB in Milan in the Figure Skating Ice Dance category - we expect current world number ones Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson but also Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez - they join us on the pod to tell us more about themselves! We also have the latest News from the Games and just want does it mean to be the alternate in Curling? We ask Team GB's Fay Henderson This is Anything but Footy - we're moving onto Milan and looking ahead to LA! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Next year, the first Olympics qualification spots are available for LA 2028 in gymnastics! It follows more gold, silver and bronzes being won by British Gymnastics at recent World Championships. We ask Performance Director Dave Hart about the success and the challenges he's dealt with since arriving in the organisation in 2022. 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

History maker, Olympic and World championship medalist - now wife, mum and wannabe sports broadcaster. Laura Deas won Skeleton bronze in the 2018 Winter Olympics with Team GB colleague Lizzie Yarnold retaining her gold! But 4 years later was a different story. Now retired, after becoming world champion post Beijing 2022, we talk about support, sacrifice and sports opportunities of the future! PLUS with THREE MONTHS TO GO how will GB get on in Cortina in the Skeleton & Bob - Laura gives us her medal prediction! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Commonwealth Games tickets for Glasgow 2026 are now on sale. 10 sports, 6 para sports, 215 gold medals to be won across one summer in one city! We hear why you need to be there from Commonwealth weightlifting champion Emily Campbell and Scotland's very own world champion Jake Wightman - named by Team Scotland for the 'Mile' this week! & if you want more details about tickets for the Games check out Glasgow 2026 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Ice Queen - not our words - but our guests very own in her new autobiography. With 100 days to go before Milano Cortina 2026, we want to find out more about the person behind the Olympic champion curler and February's Chef De Mission for Team GB. This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK (and we may have only done Eve last year but this episode is totally different - promise!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Boxing is back at the Olympics - if it ever went away! As you'll hear in this episode of Great British Bosses - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK - with chair Jason Glover, thanks to GB Boxing, and subsequently World Boxing, the sport will maintain its place in the Games for LA 2028. We also hear about the recent World Boxing Championships in Liverpool and the frustrating of the lack of coverage! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A team of ten British men and women are in action in the first ever World Gymnastics Championships in South East Asia. We hear from four of the men's team from Jakarta in Indonesia, three who were also at the Paris Olympics last year - Jake Jarman, Harry Hepworth and Luke Whitehouse as well as debutant Alex Yolshin-Cash. The gymnasts are just going for individual medals at these World Champs rather than any team medals - Abi Martin and Ruby Evans the only sole representatives from the GB women's team who finished 4th at the Olympics - we catch up with them and former British junior champion Shantae-Eve Amankwaah Event schedule   Sunday 19th – Men’s Qualifying Monday 20th Men’s Qualifying (cont.) and Women’s Qualifying Tuesday 21st – Women’s Qualifying Wednesday 22nd – Men’s all-around final   Thursday 23rd – Women’s all-around final Friday 24th – Apparatus finals (Men’s floor, pommel and rings. Women’s vault and bars) Saturday 25th - Apparatus finals (Men’s vault, parallel bars and high bar. Women’s beam and floor) Follow British Gymnastics anytime to find out more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A world junior champion, a Commonwealth Games double medalist and winning an Olympic bronze medal in her third Games at Paris 2024. Just some of the many highlights on the track for our guest in this episode of Anything but Footy, Jodie Williams, who announced her retirement from athletics after those Olympics. But that was just the start for the self confessed “ideas-oholic” as she’s now founder of her own company ‘Listen Journal’ as well as director for Ugandan charity Femlead. A must listen for any athlete about what comes next after busting your gut on the track! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What do you do as an Olympian who's spent 20 years getting to the Games? Go again or enjoy your incredible achievement? And what if your sport is about to potentially change the way medals are won at an Olympics? These are all questions our latest guest is grappling with - as well as winning medals this summer! Team GB and British Sailing's Hannah Snellgrove is our latest special guest on Great British Bosses - where we go behind the scenes of sport in the UK! Also, with LA approaching, whose Hollywood Hall of Fame star would you go too? It's just one of the many things Hannah tells us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bear with us on this one - we mentioned we're covering some of the British stars in this season who we've had the delight of covering in the podcast and on radio for the past few weeks and months etc. Well, in Great British Bosses, we always say we get the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK - so who better to catch up with than a former GB athlete who's now a World Athletics Championship medalist! Julia Paternain from Cambridge representing Uruguay won a historic bronze in the women's Marathon in Tokyo in only her second her 26.2 miler! She's brilliant - enjoy! 🏟 📸 ©️WorldAthletics/Getty Images Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our spin off season is back with a season of specials featuring Great British Bosses and stars. Some we have covered for years, others are brand new and making a name for themselves. Great British Bosses has always been the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK - that continues with this episode with world champion, three time Olympic sprinter, broadcaster and now CEO of his own company 'Adam Gemili Fitness' Enjoy and please share as these athletes stories deserve to be told. Thanks for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We thought the phrase brutal sport - made by Olympic medalist Ollie Wynne Griffith in his insta 'retirement' post - summed up a lot of what we're covering in this episode of the Anything but Footy podcast. Ukraine think it's a brutal decision to allow Russia and Belarus back into the Paralympic movement. The treatment of players at the Ryder cup was beyond brutal? And the brutal heat and humidity made winning gold silver and bronze at the World Rowing Championships in Shanghai even more special for GB Rowing! We round up ALL the action and also have News from the Games including the latest record win for Eilish McColgan! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sydney is set to stage the Canoe Slalom World Championships, the biggest event down under for the sport since Sydney 2000! Great Britain has had a record breaking World Cup series - we hear from C1 and K1 champion Kimberley Woods on what's gone right this season! What went wrong for British Athletics at Tokyo 2025? The first time in 25 years nearly that GB & NI haven't won a gold medal at a World Athletics Championships - we review the setback! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's not quite another summer Olympics, but our Autumn World Championships season continues! After the World Athletics Championships we now focus on the World Rowing Championships in Shanghai. How can British Rowing do in China after winning the shortened World Cup series? We ask 4 of the crew - Matt Haywood, Heidi Long, Josh O'Brien and cox Tom Bryce! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The third fastest British man ever over 800m. That's Max Burgin the 23 year old from Halifax, who made the Olympic final last year and now has set his own personal best while racing the Paris champion at the London Diamond League. Hear from him on hopes for these World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices