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 ...
May 23, 2024•40 min•Season 3Ep. 46
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
May 19, 2024•24 min•Season 3Ep. 45
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 also our News from the Games rowing, pentathlon and it's 100 days to go the Paris Paralympics! Download, listen and follow - and give us a review get ...
May 16, 2024•40 min•Season 3Ep. 44
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 fans have in the anti-doping system, particularly after the revelation of 23 Chinese swimmers being cleared before the Tokyo Games. And what might the ...
May 12, 2024•27 min•Season 3Ep. 43
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 legends join us to discuss the future of the Crucible as a venue - shouldn't world championships be going round the globe anyway? PLUS as Paris 2024 re...
May 09, 2024•39 min•Season 3Ep. 42
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 aiming for wins on the waves! Vicky is the chair and reveals there's still a slim chance for a Team GB surfer at the Paris Games but the real focus is o...
May 05, 2024•30 min•Season 3Ep. 41
"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. British Boxing's been praised by the IOC for its role in helping Cindy Ngamba book her place in the biggest refugee team ever for Paris 2024. And Mi...
May 02, 2024•32 min•Season 3Ep. 40
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 have surrounded the Commonwealth Games Federation, when the state of Victoria and Australia pulled out of hosting in 2026. Now 10 years on from their own...
Apr 28, 2024•24 min•Season 3Ep. 39
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 Olympic Park and we talk safeguarding with 2010 gold medalist Lindsey Vonn and the perfect 10 and judging in Olympic sport with Nadia Comaneci. And lis...
Apr 25, 2024•39 min•Season 3Ep. 38
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 message to other British Olympic and Paralympic athletes and staff about best preparing for the process, and this comes as UK Sport, the UK Sports Institut...
Apr 24, 2024•24 min•Season 3Ep. 37
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 chair Leslie Rance to discuss all things LA28 and much more! This is Great British Bosses - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK! Learn m...
Apr 21, 2024•24 min•Season 3Ep. 36
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 ceremony where the sun didn’t shine - and discuss cash for gold after Lord Coe’s World Athletics pledge for athletes in Paris! There’s also the News from ...
Apr 16, 2024•37 min•Season 3Ep. 35
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 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham and lead the bid for the World Athletics Championships returning to the UK in 2029. This is Great Brit...
Apr 15, 2024•18 min•Season 3Ep. 34
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 British champs but booked their place on Paris too! Hear from 15 swimmers and get ready for a spectacular swimming summer by the Seine 😉 This is Anything ...
Apr 07, 2024•39 min•Season 3Ep. 33
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 Midlands Growth Company’s major sporting events' strategic lead. Birmingham is open for business and world sport according to Joel, despite the well ...
Apr 05, 2024•21 min•Season 3Ep. 32
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 Paralympic trials next week, at the London Aquatics Centre, for this summer’s Paris Games - more details & tickets here This is a special episode ...
Mar 28, 2024•20 min•Season 3Ep. 31
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, round up the rest of the action and there's hopefully some good news on the injury front for Alice Kinsella! Dame Laura Kenny is only 11 years her s...
Mar 19, 2024•42 min•Season 3Ep. 30
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 hockey tournament on July 28th! Plus we've skateboarding, modern pentathlon and Para Table Tennis in our News from the Games! Canoe Slalom Tokyo silver ...
Mar 12, 2024•35 min•Season 3Ep. 29
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 well as leading the planning for Major Events. For the first time ever the Women’s Football World Cup could also be staged in the UK. This is a specia...
Mar 06, 2024•22 min•Season 3Ep. 28
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, plus other personal bests amongst a host of world records and international stars! In this episode, Michael talks to them all - Josh, Molly, Laviai, Lau...
Mar 03, 2024•38 min•Season 3Ep. 27
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 a fun run with local children! Hannah's the 11th sailor confirmed for the Games - British Sailing is the most successful ever nation in the Olympics....
Feb 29, 2024•19 min•Season 3Ep. 26
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 understands World Athletics ideas to re-energise their events including the aforementioned Long Jump in this podcast season! All ahead of the World Indoor...
Feb 26, 2024•32 min•Season 3Ep. 25
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've reaction from three of the British Athletics stars who'll be competing at the World Indoors in Glasgow - Jemma Reekie, Laviai and Lina Nielsen! We...
Feb 22, 2024•33 min•Season 3Ep. 24
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 2024) and the Paris Olympics this summer, we hear where the organisation is at currently, what's coming up, about the impending Netflix doc, potentially ...
Feb 19, 2024•35 min•Season 3Ep. 23
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 who keeps breaking records and artistic swimmer Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe who booked a Team GB place in Paris! But as we continue our countdown t...
Feb 15, 2024•36 min•Season 3Ep. 22
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 British Elite Athletes Association, that's now been going for 20 years! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 12, 2024•37 min•Season 3Ep. 21
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, Hector Pardoe, Grace Reid and Ross Haslam. We also find out about British Cycling's BIG cycling plans for Britain! Have the rest of the News from Games...
Feb 05, 2024•24 min•Season 3Ep. 20
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 speedway, the gold post boxes of 2012 to the winter Games in Milan there's plenty to discuss. This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - ...
Jan 29, 2024•36 min•Season 3Ep. 19
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 mascots - 9 year old Santino joins us from Wales - and reveals his favourite Olympian! Plus there's more curling success at the Winter Youth Olympics, hi...
Jan 26, 2024•41 min•Season 3Ep. 18
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 three time Paralympian is now in charge of the organisation, charity and team for Paris 2024 and beyond. And he reveals his dream that this summer's Ga...
Jan 22, 2024•29 min•Season 3Ep. 17
