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42 elite athletes, 7 track and field disciplines, 6 competitors per comp with winners pocketing £48,500 and a custom silver crown designed by Tiffany & Co! Welcome to Athlos London at the StoneX Stadium in Mill Hill north London with some of the best female athletes in the world in action including Olympic champions Keely Hodgkinson and Gabby Thomas, Commonwealth and European gold medalist Georgia Hunter Bell and Olympic medalist Imani Lansiquot and Darly Neita! We hear from them all and round up all the action on and off the track as the season comes to a close! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The first ever World Athletics Championships in Africa and returning to Germany with their 'tremendous' crowds. That's the decision of the World Athletics Council revealed by President Seb Coe in Budapest earlier. The empty seats at Birmingham European Champs and negotiations with West Ham for the London Stadium in the football season in 2029 can't have helped - but we say get the Ultimates in London! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Ultimate British champion as Josh Kerr bagged 150,000 dollars and the Ultimate trophy to add to his Commonwealth Gold and Mile World Record from earlier in the summer. Has King Kerr take Queen Keely British Athletics crown for now? A bumper champs for British Athletics in terms of places - we hear from the mixed 4x400m runners up Ben Jefferies Yemi Mary John Toby Harries & Charlotte Henrich - as well as Jake Wightman and Hannah Nuttall who's also off to another new World Athletics event - the World Road Running Champs! In the meantime all the best Budapest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Second Night, second places for Great Britain’s middle distance stars Keely Hodgkinson and Georgia Hunter Bell but both team-mates happy with their nights work after a long season and looking forward to a break! As the Americans dominated the sprints again, we hear from GB's European 400m champion Matt Hudson Smith & 400m hurdler Lina Nielsen This is Anything but Footy, and talkSPORT, on the penultimate night of the Ultimate Championships! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Big wins, big shocks, the best of the best in Budapest and bundles of cash being won! Mondo and Jakob won the Ultimates as Great Britain’s Jaz Sawyers completed a super summer with second place in the women’s long jump 💰 We round up the night one action in Budapest - and hear what it was like to compete from Great Britain’s Yemi Mary John - and why its already an important event from a British legend - the one and only Brendan Foster! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Day Before - a  unique feature of these brand new Champs in Budapest including a red carpet which saw the 380+ athletes from 60+ federations including 20 British competitors walking and talking! We hear from World Athletics' Jon Ridgeon, European champions Matt Hudson Smith and Amy Hunt, who explains the new 200m lane draft process! Michael in Budapest and John also preview the first night's competition which includes events like the 4x100m mixed relay, high jump finals, and pole vault with Mondo Duplantis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The best in Budapest - World Athletics President Seb Coe tells us “it’s what the fans want” as the first ever Ultimates take place this weekend - and we’ll be there too!  After Glasgow, London, Birmingham and even Bedford this summer - Michael is packing his bags again one more time to bring us on the podcast  and talkSPORT on the radio, the biggest stars, the biggest names and the biggest results! The official anthem for the World Athletics Ultimate Championship by pole vault legend and Ultimate Star Mondo Duplantis Stream the song here 👉 https://open.spotify.com/track/1uFpnw... ℗ 2026 Hoss Music under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment Sweden  This is Anything but Footy at the Ultimate Athletics Championships! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What a start to September with a special one with two of Team GB's biggest Winter Olympic stars! Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson tell us they're 'going for 2030' French Alps - after returning to action with victory in the first international event of the Ice Dance season the Bolero Cup in Sheffield! In a bumper episode of the podcast, we also hear from British cyclists Lewis Askey, Ben Swift & Matt Bostock on the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For all the talk before the summer of who's focusing on the Commonwealth Games or the European Athletics Championships, 82% of British athletes who won medals in Birmingham had also competed at Glasgow! We hear from GB long jumper Jaz Sawyers who won a gold and silver at both and round up the summer of success for England, Scotland, Wales & N Ireland - and ultimately we look ahead to what's next ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amy Hunt wants to be iconic and win 4 golds - after doing the sprint double she says the rest of the week will now be fun - we agree! Dina Asher Smith makes British European Champs history. It’s Werro, Broeders-Bol and Hodgkinson in the 800m final And is Josh Kerr ruining the sport by not being here? Jakob Ingebrigtsen suggests so! This is Anything but Footy at the European Athletics Championships! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Laughing his way to European Championship history - Brummie boy Matthew Hudson Smith delivered an outstanding 400m gold medal on his home track - winning his 3rd individual Euro gold and 8th medal overall! 2 flags, 2 championships, 2 medals, same colour, same smile for Emily Newnham as the Commonwealth silver medalist won silver in the 400m hurdles - but frustration at the seeding system for fellow British finalist Lina Nielsen. We agree it's unfair! Oh and Keely goes again this lunchtime! This is Anything but Footy at the European Athletics Championships! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A brilliant British 1-2 in the blue riband men's 100m final in Birmingham through Romell Glave and Jeremiah Azu! So far despite all the withdrawals from Glasgow a fortnight ago, every British athlete that's won a medal at these Europeans also ran at the Commonwealth Games too. Interesting! And Keely Hodgkinson's comfortably through, but should we really be talking botox? This is Anything but Footy at the European Athletics Championships! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another week another world class athletics championships - but can we have too much of a good thing? The empty seats might suggest so! But nothing can take away from the golden night at last for Amy Hunt - the new European 100m champion! We round up all the action on day 1 of the European Athletics Champs and hear from Imani Lansiquot and Scott Lincoln. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Glasgow is gone, so we're looking ahead to LA and all over the 2030 Alps! But sometimes you need to look back to move forward, so we catch up with 2016 Olympic gold medalist Lily Owsley as in this brilliant summer of Sport the Hockey World Cup is taking place across the North Sea in Belgium & the Netherlands. We also hear from England men's Henry Croft on swapping tarmac for titles, and Steven Bradley, coach of England's first ever team competing in the Para World Cup too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're back at home and back to reality - but still time for a quick look back at Glasgow 2026 - the Games that rescued the Commonwealth Games! Thank you to everyone who made Glasgow Great! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Does sport get any better on a Saturday night than watching a British athlete dominate an event and win the Commonwealth Games gold medal? Josh Kerr is the true track King of Scotland - he said he would win at the start of the year and he did. Jaz Sawyers won silver in Glasgow in 2014 in the Long Jump, now 12 years later she's also said what she would do, and better it, leaping 6.93m to win Commonwealth Gold. It comes as the third day of Track Cycling saw Wales' women dominate again with Emma Finucane winning her third gold of these Games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Golden night for Georgia Hunter Bell and new silver stars for Team England on the athletics track too! Tears from the new 800m Commonwaealth champion on the podium - we want to see a race with team-mate and training partner Kelly Hogkinson next!! Day 9 sees the Mile return to the Games with Josh Kerr going for gold tonight while Emma Finucane just keeps on winning in the Velodrome for Team Wales - we look ahead to day with talkSPORT's Georgia Holt! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scottish Power and England Lion! Megan Keith bagged a brilliant bronze in the womens 5000m as Emily Campbell looked incredible with her red mane and lifted even better too! Quite the day in Glasgow at Scotstoun and the Armadillo as our very own John Cushing reached his half century! Hopefully much more to come in terms of sporting action and years! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

History making night at the athletics track for Kate O’Connor - while England’s Elise Thorner in the 3000m steeplechase delivered one of the standout performances of the summer.  Home Nation boxers bag bucket loads of medals And we’re joined by Commonwealth Games medalist, our talkSPORT reporter colleague in Glasgow and friend of the pod Georgia Holt to cover off all the cycling - with Matt Richardson out what else can we look forward to? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The heavens opened - the medals rained down! A soaking Scotstoun saw the new kings and queens of the sprints crowned - including Cameroon's first gold through Emmanuel Eseme in a Games record time in the mens 100 - and England's Amy Hunt 'rescued' a silver medal in the 200. Elsewhere, Filip Nowacki and Ruby Evans made history for Jersey and Wales and watch out on Day 6 for the men's mile with Josh Kerr & the men's 200m freestyle in the pool - stacked fields both of them! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Aussies are dominating the pool, and they started with a gold on the Scotstoun athletics track too! What a performance from Rose Davies in the women's 10k infront of a Scottish crowd that had been expecting Eilish McColgan! Having done athletics race commentary (Michael) and mixed zone reporting (John) for talkSPORT, forgive us for focusing on the first day of athletics whoch also saw double golds for England and Jamaica and Scotland are top of the podium for the first time to! But we've our News from the Games in Gymnastics, Swimming and Medal table update to! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A historic night for Team Scotland at their home games - with a gold in the gymnastics, the first ever in the men's all round - for 21 yo Rebeun Ward. Angharad Evans delivered a brilliant last 50 in the 100m breaststroke final to ensure another Flower of Scotland at Tollcross - Adam Ramsay-Peaty progressed to the men's 50m final and told John he had been through the three stages of grief after his bronze the day before. Day 4 sees the athletics start - with Georgia Hunter Bell in action in the 800m first round and medals available tonight in Scotstoun in the men's high jump, women's 10k and 100m Para events. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Talk about a next generation - from Filip Nowacki becoming the first Brit to beat Adam Ramsay-Peaty in major comp in 4 years - in fact since the last Commonwealth Games - to England and Wales young women's gymnastics going toe to toe in the Team event! Day 2 was quite the day! Glasgow 2026 continues on day 3 with Australian advancing further ahead in the medal table! If you like what listening too, we talk about the Olympics Paralympics Commonwealths sports all the time - download listen and follow! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Golden moments for Team Scotland, England, Australia and Canada on day 1 of the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Michael was at England's first in Powerlifting, Scotland's first in Swimming and the first of many for Australia! John saw Canada's men win their first gymnastic Team gold since 2006 beating England to silver but concern for gymnast Gabriel Langton too. Day 2, sees Adam Ramsay Peaty go for gold number 5 in the pool, as the netball begins in the Hydro! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tardis, Tartan, Tunstall and Tunnocks - spectacular Scottish Opening Ceremony to Glasgow 2026! Day 1 sees 5 sports with swimming boxing gymnastics powerlifting and bowls in action - 13 medals up for grabs. We’ve the News from the Games and the athletics selection headache for Team England ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's like Christmas for Michael - Opening Ceremony Day! But with this new look Games - prepared in just 18 months - there's a new look to the familiar Opening Ceremony - we'll explain all! Hosts Scotland, as well as England and Wales name their Flag and Baton bearers - and Michael's achieve's yesterday's goal of getting a pic with Finnie - well kind of! But what is the Canadian mascot all about? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to our brand new season for the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games! The Daily Braw - which is Scottish slang for good - will be rounding up the main headlines and highlights from the largest sporting event in the UK this year! In episode one, Michael's already on the west coast of Scotland and John's on his way - what are the other highlights to watch out for in the coming week? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Josh Kerr broke a world record in a magnificent mile that had stood from 1999 - the earth lierally shook at the London Stadium! Keely Hodgkinson returned to winning ways despite her sliced knees in the 800m. But Dina Asher Smith & Julien Alfred have pulled out of Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games - we're hoping Daryll Neita isn't next! We round up a busy day at the London Diamond League including interview Glasgow bound Lina Nielsen! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We've been looking ahead LA for a while but its time to get serious! The first points for 2028 qualification are starting this year in Canoe Slalom and Kayak Cross - at the World Championships in Oklahoma! It's also the venue for the LA 2028 Games despite being 1400 miles away! In this episode we catch up with 7 British paddlers and friends of the podcast - Joe Clarke, Kim Woods, Adam Burgess, Bethan Forrow, Mallory Franklin and Sam & Lois Leaver who've ALL got different stories to tell - from winning Olympic medals, or returning from having babies, or heading to their first World Champs with their sister and how their parents cope! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Great Britain’s greatest-ever Paralympian, Dame Sarah Storey, has revealed she is stepping away from international competition. From starting her career as a swimmer aged 14, in Barcelona 1992, the 19th gold medal she won in Paris 2024 will be her last and she's told us there's no way she'll be coming back! This is a very special episode of Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - someone we've wanted on the podcast for many years! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We knew it would happen - Russia is returning to the Olympics. We hear from IOC president Kirsty Coventry on importance of neutrality. Nordic Combined - a Winter Olympic event since the start - has been removed from the Alpes 2030. Can you imagine if swimming was scrapped from the summer games?  We maybe gearing up for Glasgow but we talk about the Olympics and Paralympics all the time so the latest episode is here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"Everyone is chasing the Aussies" - that from the head of Team England as the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games approaches. Jonathon Riall - or Jonny Riall - knows a thing or two about multi sport events having led the Paralympics GB team during the recent Winter Games amongst many other things. He reveals a Team England of 250+ athletes, across 10 sports, 16 disciplines and how every athlete has been learning the anthem 'Jerusalem' for when England top the podium! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With Glasgow 2026 this month (!) we look at the future of the Games with Commonwealth Sport CEO Katie Sadlier after Scotland saved the movement and India host next! There's our News from the Games with pleny of Team England announcements - hear from Birmingham bronze medalist Jade O Dowda who's back in the heptathlon with Katerina Johnson-Thompson! And Team GB have their first booked team at the LA Games as the IOC confirm 10,000 dollar grants for Olympians - the first step forward? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wimbledon 2026 Day One - a day of withdrawals and not many wins for Great British Tennis. Michael and John are at the All England Club the day after Emma Raducanu pulled out and on the day Jack Draper also withdrew through ongoing injury concerns. We catch up with BBC commentators Nick Lester and Katie Smith on the fall out - and look ahead to the return of Serena Williams! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If strawberries and cream are synonymous with Wimbledon - it's probably pimms and sparkling wine for Henley Royal Regatta - the biggest rowing event in the world that's been staged nearly every year since 1839! It stemmed from the Boat Race and as you'll hear its idea of stewardship, good manners and competitive sporting competition helped form the initial movement of the modern Olympic Games! And as Richard Phelps, chair of the organising committee, tells us this year the final steps towards gender parity are being put in place! 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

John & Michael catch up with the Olympic champions from gymnastics and cycling at either end of the country as part of Olympic Day! The Team GB Foundation that put on the special events in Essex and Manchester aims to inspire healthy, active and happy kids and get everyone moving! Max was confirmed to compete for Team England and Emma for Team Wales at this summer's Commonwealths we talk about giving back to the next generation - and the kids, teachers and staff loved it too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One month to go! Crazy to think where the Commonwealth Games may have ended up if Glasgow hadn’t stepped up - but it means so much to people! We hear from Olympic and defending Commonwealth Games champion Rhys McClenaghan, 2014 cycling champion Joanna Rowsell and Glasgow 2026 CEO Phil Batty. We’re gearing up for Glasgow 2026 & you can still be there too  http://glasgow2026.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What a weekend! Back in Birmingham the British Athletics Championships over two days didn't disappoint! Shocks, surprises, withdrawals and dramatic wins and unhappy shot puters! Serial winner Scott Lincoln tells us why! We have the latest as Keely Hodgkinson doesn't compete in the 400m final, hear from British champion Amber Anning and as its fathers day we catch up with Alistair Chalmers who's bagged a British gold 5 days after his first son was born! All this ahead of the Commonwealth Games and European Championships in the UK this summer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this season, we continue to speak to the people who have changed British sport during their careers like Victoria Pendleton. In this episode, we're delighted to catch up with Team GB and British Athletics sprinter Daryll Neita, the Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth medalist, ten years on from her first medal - and ahead of a big birthday celebration! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Protection Of Women In Olympic Sport Policy was published at the end of the Olympics and Paralympics in Milano Cortina at the end of March 2026. We said it was too important to not talk about, but John & Michael weren't necessarily the only voices needed on this topic! In this episode we're joined by Commonwealth medalist, cyclist and broadcaster Georgia Holt to discuss! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The International Olympic Committee sit on a huge amount of money and there should be a way to funnel it down to the athletes! The views of Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth gold medalist Greg Rutherford who joins us on the pod after IOC President Kirsty Coventry said "I don't believe in paying athletes". Hear why he thinks she's wrong in FULL - and how he's battling to keep his children away from mobile phones! Check out the free safer screens tool from Uswitch for more. We've the latest on Northern Olympics and News from the Games ahead of Glasgow 2026 too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Slight twist on the usual spin off of Anything but Footy. We’re joined by President of On Location Paul Caine to talk all things LA 28 Olympic hospitality - and we ask if he could sell the North of England Games??? On Location offer a premium way to experience the Olympics by combining guaranteed access to events with elevated in-venue hospitality and service. The LA 2028 Games will the third time the company has worked with the IOC and Games organisers having started in Paris, and continued in Milano Cortina! And check out On location for their recently launched ticket-inclusive hospitality packages Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two Olympic gold medals and 34 World Championship medals, there was nothing Victoria Pendleton couldn't do on the track - she even turned her hand to horse-racing after retiring from cycling at the peak of her powers in the summer of 2012. Now in The Fear Opportunity, Victoria draws on her own experiences, both deeply personal and professional, to demonstrate how we can all turn fears into the opportunity and reframe our lives more positively. In this episode of Great British Bosses, we also talk all things Olympics with a real legend of Cycling and someone that changed the face of the sport for the better in the UK. THE FEAR OPPORTUNITY - How feeling your fear builds strength and confidence - BLUEBIRD is out NOW! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Handy for Nandy? Michael has put together the most comprehenisve list of venues for the 2040s North of England Olympics and Paralympics. The Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has instructed UK Sport to assess any potential bid for the benefits of local people, towns and cities. www.anythingbutfooty.com/blog/handy-for-nandy We also round up our News from the Games as gearing up for Glasgow and looking ahead to LA! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Celebrating the best Winter Olympics for Team GB ever! Michael's been catching up with double Olympic champion Matt Weston and 'the boss' chef de mission Eve Muirhead at a star studded event in the West End of London. Hear from them both on how life has changed and what's to come! We're also gearing up for Glasgow and looking ahead to LA - so we catch up with bobsleigh Adele Nicoll on her shot put target for Commonwealths and British gymnastic legend Max Whitlock is back competing too aiming for a 5th Olympics! We've our News from the Games including spotting the rings in Milan still - and we pay tribute to double Olympic champion Katie Archibald who's retiring from elite sport - with her unique cycling story in her own words! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The International Olympic Committee says sports around their world should lift their ban on Belarus competing individually or as a national team, that's been in place since the Ukraine War started in 2022. The IOC Executive Board says athletes "should not be limited by the actions of their governments". But Russia remain banned not because of war but of concerns about the anti-doping regime - its ten years since they were found guilty of state sponsored doping at Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. Are these the right decisions? We hear from President Kirsty Coventry. In a bumper News from the Games edition there's French Alps, Youth Olympics and Brisbane updates, Glasgow 2026 Commonwealths and Birmingham European Athletics headlines. PLUS is the UK bidding for the Olympics again the 2040s? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth medalist - Eilidh Doyle is Scotland's most decorated track and field athlete - but she doesn't like to mention it! The face of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games is now an ambassador as the Games return to the Scottish City for the second time in 12 years, if not in quite the same capacity. But with the centenary around the corner, at least Glasgow saved the movement - now it's time to put on a show! And as Eilidh is a proud Hearts fan - we break the habit of a lifetime and ask what's more nerve-wracking an Olympic final or the Edinburgh club potentially winning the Scottish Premier League for the first time? 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

The World Team Championships is the World Cup of Table Tennis! 100 years after starting in London it's back this week with 64 nations from around the world competing! England as hosts will get a place in the final 32 which gets underway this coming Bank Holiday weekend at Wembley! With half a million people playing Table Tennis every week in the UK, and a new mixed team event being added to the next Olympic Games in LA, we catch with organiser and CEO of TT England Sally Lockyer. This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy the behind the scene conversation of Sport in the UK. And check out www.London-2026.com for more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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