Anything but Footy

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

The latest stars of the British 400m scene, who could all wins medals at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo this week. In this episode, we hear from Matthew Hudson Smith on everything since that silver in Paris, how Amber Anning won't be running everything this time in Tokyo and new kid on the block but at his second World Champs Charlie Dobson! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The World Athletic Championships 2025 bring the season down on another year of track and field. Great Britain and NI will be out to at least match their 10 medals they won in Paris last summer at the Olympics - but will the conditions in Tokyo favour them? In this episode we hear from captain Morgan Lake, former 1500m champion Jake Wightman and 2017 relay gold medalist and now media pundit Adam Gemili! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

7 World Championships now for Dina Asher Smith and we're delighted she's back on the podcast as we continue our preview of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo! Brought back some memories for us too as you'll hear! Relay team-mate Daryll Neita is also on the show talking amongst other things her Daryll Diaries and Michael's latest appearance! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In an Autumn of World Championships of Olympic sport, from Rowing to Gymnastics, we're looking ahead to the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo from September 13th. World Champion Josh Kerr is out to defend his 1500m title and is not planning on giving it up without a fight! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In an Autumn of World Championships of Olympic sport, from Rowing to Gymnastics, we're focusing on these next few episodes on the World Athletics Championships. Our guest in this episode is Georgia Hunter Bell - the 1500m Olympic medalist now focusing on the 800m in Tokyo.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Geraint Thomas the greatest ever Welsh cyclist jumped off his bike for the final time infront of his home fans in Cardiff. Is here the greatest Welsh sportsperson ever? We hear from him and discuss! Have you say by following this pod, and all our Anything but Footy socials! Michael's passed his fitness test for the Greta North Run - we have the latest action and hear from one of the winners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Just the start of many - the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool for the first time since the IOC recognised World Boxing starts of a series of World Champs across Olympic and Paralympics sport. British stars from Paris 2024 will once again be looking to be on top of the world - we'll be focusing on them in the coming weeks too! As Michael writes in his latest blog - we also need to move onto Milan and look ahead to LA and let Paris 2024 go! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices