Anything but Footy

4 medals - 2 golds, a silver and bronze - from a team of 11 athletes. Great Britain have had a very strong World Indoor Championships in Nanjing in China. More than 500 athletes from around the world took part - we'll hear from the British gold medalists Amber Anning and Jeremiah Azu - and round up the rest of the action for you too!

There's Weadock's Winter Wonders from the world of snow and ice and new British Gymnastic champions crowned!

This is Anything but Footy - covering the Olympic and Paralympics Games all the time rather than once every 4 years!

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Welcome and congratulations Kirsty Coventry - the Olympic champion now Olympic President.

The youngest ever and the first ever female.

She thrashed Seb Coe and Juan Antonio Samaranch gaining an overall majority in the first voting by IOC members.

We hear from the surprise winner for many!

There's also LA28 and Tour de France '27 news - in this extra episode of the Olympic week!

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Team GB legends and gold medalist triathlete's Ali Brownlee and Jonny Brownlee joins us to talk all things Olympics on a busy week for the future of the Games.

We ask them about what's next, who should be the next President and saving for the future!

It's another extra episode this week, as the IOC Session continues in Greece - we round up the latest headlines before the New President is voted in!

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The 144th IOC Session gets underway this week, there's an Opening Ceremony and everything!

The new President will be named this week - only the 10th in Olympic history!

But there was also big news from the IOC Executive Board Meeting, that its proposing the reinstatement of Boxing in the programme for Los Angeles 2028.

This is an extra episode with all the latest Olympic news - all the time rather than once every 4 years!

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The European Indoor Athletics Championships were another huge hit in the Netherlands, with some big names, some surprises and new champions.

We review the action from Apeldoorn over 4 days across the North Sea and look ahead to the World Indoors in China.

There's BIG Boxing News ahead of LA 2028, and Michael's latest Weadock's Winter Wonders with success in the Skeleton!

PLUS its Commonwealth Day and 500 days to Glasgow 2026 - we've details of first ever Kings Baton!

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The summer games in Paris seem only like yesterday, but we're now a year away from the Winter Paralympics in Milan - the 50th anniversary of the very first.

79 gold medals will be available during the Games starting on March 6th 2026. We hear from former Paralympics GB star Callum Deboys on his experience in Beijing 3 years ago and his switch to Para cycling!

We are also joined by two Team GB stars Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson who finished 3rd in the recent European Ice Skating Champs and head off to the Worlds in Boston later this month.

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The UK Indoor Championships in Birmingham staged some of Britain's best athletes competing for a place at the European Indoors in the Netherlands in a fortnight. Hear from sprint kings and queen Jere Azu and Bianca Williams, Olympic medalists George Hunter-Bell, Alex Haydock-Wilson, new British champion George Mills and best of British Scott Lincoln.

While in Manchester, world records were broken and new sprint stars Matthew Richardson and Lauren Bell were crowned at the Lloyds National Track Championships.

Michael and John discuss whether the two separate events could have been combined and staged at the same time, and whether an annual British 'Olympics' could build the brand further of Olympic sports like Athletics, Cycling and Swimming? And others? Let us know what you think!

And we talk the long jump take off board - after trials in Germany!

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She's an Olympic champion over 800m. She's told us her sole focus is now on the World Championships outdoors this summer and a new personal best.

And she may have been injured just hours before her own Keely Klassic event, but Keely Hodgkinson MBE, and Sports Personality of the Year, along with her coaching team and management Forte Talent Group, is already doing more to help the legacy of athletics than most.

Performances from Olympic medalists, British records broken, thousands of selfies and hundreds of autographs signed - in this special episode we hear from Keely, Georgia Hunter-Bell, Lina Neilsen, Neil Gourley, Molly Caudery, Amy Hunt and Netheenal Mitchell-Blake.

This was a special afternoon in Birmingham at the Keely Klassic indoor athletics meet.

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Glasgow 2026 has confirmed 200 gold medals available next summer, despite a slimmed down Commonwealth Games with just 10 sports.

But there'll be more Para events that ever before and history will also be made in Swimming, Track Cycling, Bowls and 3x3 Basketball.

In this special episode, we hear from organisers on their sporting plans and head to the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome to speak to some of the Scottish athletes looking to represent their country at their home games.

And for much more info on next year’s Commonwealth Games head to glasgow2026.com

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Can't believe we're just a year away from the next Olympic Games! Surely it was only second ago we were sitting on the La Champs sipping a biere toasting Paris 2024!

But we're moving to Milano Cortina 2026 now and the Winter Games with some big hopes on the boards, skis, sliders and ice for Team GB. Olympic gold medalist from Beijing 2022 Eve Muirhead is now in charge of the next generation competing next winter and the Chef De Mission joins us on the podcast!

We also hear from the magnificent (!!?!!) seven IOC candidates to the NEW Olympics President! The vote is between

Juan Antonio SAMARANCH

Seb COE

Prince Feisal AL HUSSEIN

David LAPPARTIENT

Johan ELIASCH

Kirsty COVENTRY

Morinari WATANABE

and takes place by all IOC members on March 20th 2025 in Greece!

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