Anything but Footy

The first ever Paris Paralympics are coming to a close, and although it may not have had quite the glitz of the French Olympics earlier this summer, the Games will no doubt go down as the best yet, with organisers creating more magical memories in key locations across the French capital, and selling more than 2 million tickets. Paralympics GB has seen success in the water, on the water, on the track and out on the road. New names have come to the fore and Aquatics GB's para swimming team - particularly the women - has been the standout sport so far. But what next? What's the next 4 years look like ahead of LA? And beyond for the moment. Michael reveals his thoughts on staging the Paralympics every two years, in smaller cities right across the world who are unable to deliver bigger Games, and in fact remove all ties with the Olympics. Could this be what's needed for Para sport? We discuss and want to hear from you too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Competing over 4 days on the track and 3 days on the road, this is the British Cycling Team for the Paris Paralympics. 23 athletes - 17 riders and 6 pilots - will be representing Paralympics GB this summer in the first ever Paralympic Games in the French capital. Aged between 20 and 47, this team has 59 Paralympics appearances between them, including Paris. Find out much more and keep unto date with their stories at www.britishcycling.org.uk This is special episode of the podcast with British Cycling 📸 SWPix Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We don't often do more than half an hour, never more than an hour, so here's a BUMPER edition of the podcast talking all things Team GB at the Paris 2024 Olympics! We look at our medal predictions, and review every sport and see who's happy or sad? With the Paralympics just a week away, this is the right time to put Paris 2024 Olympics to bed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Michael and John round up an incredible 2 and a half weeks of Olympic action, working for talkSPORT. Reunited in a French bar on the evening of the closing ceremony, they discuss Team GB's medal haul, place in the medal table and reveal their own three highlights of the Games. Paris 2024 is 'fini' - Ciao Milano Cortina '26 and hello Hollywood for LA '28! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bon voyage to British Athletes competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics... A super Saturday send off from a sell out crowd at the London Stadium with British records and European records falling, personal bests and seasons bests being achieved... Michael and John round up the action from world class competitors Noah Lyles, Gabby Thomas, Keely Hodgkinson, Dina Asher Smith, Matthew Hudson Smith and many more and we hear from a delighted Laviai Nielsen on her 400m personal best! This is Anything but Footy - en-route to Paris 2024! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Great Britain is the most successful nation in the history of cycling in the Olympics. At this summer’s Games in Paris, 30 cyclists from track, road, BMX and mountain bike have been chosen to represent Team GB. In this special episode with British Cycling we hear all about the make up of one of the biggest ever Great Britain Cycling Teams, with its mixture of new talent and experience. This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy with Great Britain Cycling Team Performance Director, Stephen Park CBE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We hit the markets at the London Stock Exchange with the Team GB medal targets for the Paris 2024 Olympics. A range of 50-70 with uptown 20 golds according to Team GB chef de mission Mark England. We round up the athletics, cycling and climbing team announcements with 3 weeks to go before the Games And hear from a returning Paralympic champion from British Rowing Giedre Rakauskaite otherwise known as super G! This is Anything but Footy - we're en-route to Paris 2024 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Andy Murray is an Olympic legend with two golds. Andy Murray is a Wimbledon institution with two men's singles titles - ending a run of 77 years by a British man. Sir Andy confirmed early on Day 2 of the All England Championships he wan't join got make his final bow on Centre Court - well not til the doubles with brother Jamie later this week. We've the very latest and British round up of Wimbledon so far! There's more Olympic tennis in our News from the Games plus Archery, Golf, Skateboarding, Para Canoe and 18 year old Anna Hursey in her first Olympics in the Table Tennis and Liam Pitchford in his 4th - and he's still a young 30 year old! We're en-route to Paris 2024 via Wimbledon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What a weekend in Manchester! The weather's been bad for a second year running but the sporting success of the new and rising stars in British Athletics is a brilliant story to tell! 17 yo Phoebe Bell wins the 800m to book her place in Paris - she's on work experience at a primary school in Hertfordshire tomorrow Georgia Bell has come back to the sport she loves while working on cyber security, and beats Laura Muir in the 1500m. While Lina and her sister Laviai bag a spot in Paris just minutes apart. We round up the full weekend from Manchester and have the latest Team GB athletes picked for judo and Taekwondo! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1 month until the Olympics 2 months to the Paralympics Team GB and Paralympics GB name 10 shooters targeting success in Paris - well as you’ll hear in this latest podcast just outside the French capital city. Andy Murray’s in the draw for Wimbledon - but will he make it - we think we have the perfect finish for him at SW19. And Michael looks ahead to a BIG weekend at the British Championship & Olympic trials in Manchester - and he’s got a brolly! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A month to go! It soon comes round only feels like it was January and Olympic year had just started! Team GB announced their first 20 cyclists today, but the freak injury to Katie Archibald means 6 more cycling squads will be confirmed next week too! Olympic medalist Jack Carlin talks us through it! We say thank you to Jonny Brownlee - the men's rugby 7s team will also be missed. Hannah Cockroft on why its important Paris puts on a great Paralympics! And athletics will be week one of LA 2028 - we repeat week one! We try and not get grumpy about it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this special episode with Paddle UK, we spend a day at the Lee Valley White Water Centre with the Team GB canoe slalom athletes, with a month to go before the Games. Adam Burgess confirms he’s now competing in two events in Paris - adding Kayak Cross to his schedule. And Performance director Mark Ratcliffe talks us through each of the athletes strengths ahead of the summer.  We also hear from Joe Clarke, Mallory Franklin and Kimberley Woods on their goals for the Games! We hear about the million reasons why legacy has worked from London 2012. And you can find out much more info on all things canoeing at paddleuk.org.uk   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another big announcement and another big squad for Team GB! 32 men and women GB Hockey players have been confirmed for the Paris 2024 Olympics - they both push back against Spain on the opening weekend of the Games in July! Hear from Tess Howard and Phil Roper on their hopes and medal dreams. Two time gold medalist Sir Andy Murray's going to his 5th Olympics but Emma Raducanu is sitting this one out! Plus there's archery, rowing, and para taekwondo in our News from the Games! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Max Whitlock, Bryony Page and Becky Downie...Abi Martin, Harry Hepworth and Ruby Evans... Some older and newer names for Team GB from British Gymnastics... Spare a thought for World and European medalists James Hall and Courtney Tulloch who missed out too. We hear from two of the 42 GB rowers recently named, one returning to the Olympics and one newbie making her debut. And with the cold and freezing summer so far, we talk Winter Olympics plus breaking news about Esports! This is Anything but Footy - the Olympic and Paralympic podcast1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're enroute to Paris 2024 but a detour via London & Rome! Molly Caudery joins us as well as Lizzie Bird and Romell Glave after some brilliant British performances at the European Athletics Championships at Roma 2024. John's been at the Lee Valley Hockey Centre for a preview of the Paris 2024 Great British Hockey teams - as they've been in FIH Pro League action. There's our usual News from the Games and then both Team GB and Paralympics GB name their badminton teams! We've the full details as we prepare for Paris 2024! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Olympic rings are on the Eiffel Tower - although Michael is not impressed! He's in Sheffield for the GB Boxing team announcement as Team GB also name their biggest - and smallest - sporting squads so far. Chef De Mission Mark England talks rowing and weightlifter Emily Campbell joins us! We hear from Tokyo medalist Holly Bradshaw hoping to make an impression at the European Athletics Championships in Rome And talk Ultimate Championship in Budapest including a future Olympic bid! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

British Cycling is one of the biggest national sporting governing bodies, responsible from grassroots to the very elite. It's one of the most successful Olympic and Paralympic teams in this country and is also about to stage its first ever 'Tour of Britain Women'. (from Thu 6 to Sun 9 June 2024, with stages starting in Welshpool, Wrexham, Warrington and Manchester). British Cycling has also just signed a new landmark partnership deal with Lloyds Bank for the next 5 years This is a special episode of Great British Bosses with British Cycling’s Chief Executive Jon Dutton OBE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul Foster, and his Great Run team, stage the biggest and best half marathon in the world every year. The Great North Run is famous for its iconic course, passionate fundraisers and the world's best athletes - watch out for the stars from Paris 2024 Olympics this September! But the Great Run Company is now more than that and the very future of athletics could also depend on it! This is the podcast with the behind the scenes conversation of British sport - Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The last chance regatta isn't the nicest of titles for an event but the GB women's double sculls don't mind! Becky Wilde and Mathilda Hodgkins Bruyne bagged their place in Paris with a brilliant row in the final in Lucerne this weekend, to ensure British Rowing as 10 boats competing this summer - and Becky tells the world to watch out for the rejuvenated British team after the disappointment of Tokyo! We round up the rest of the News from the Games from diving to judo, athletics to swimming And it's 100 days to go til the first ever Paralympics in France - we hear from 2012 legend and Paralympic champion Richard Whitehead and Commonwealth gold medalist Emmanuel Oyinbo-Coker on the summer ahead and keeping healthy! This is Anything but Footy - enroute to the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 surely! We also ask her who's going to win in Paris 2024? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices