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!

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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

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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!

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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!

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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 !

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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!

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