Anything but Footy

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 - the behind the scenes conversation of British sport!

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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, history for GB, and a full round up all things in our News from the Games!

Paris 2024 Here We Come - 180 days to go!

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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 Games will finally eclipse London 2012 in terms of Paralympic profile and change!

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It's two years since Eve Muirhead finally got her hands on Olympic gold. The Curling skip and her team was victorious on the final weekend of the Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022.

After 4 Olympics and years of training and practicing, Eve decided to retire from elite sport after those Games - but it seems she can't stay away from an Olympic Village!

The 33 year old is in charge - or the Chef De Mission - for the 36 athletes chosen to represent Team GB at the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games between January 19 and February 1 2024.

And we're delighted she's our latest guest during this Olympic year on Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy!

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It maybe be only the first few weeks of January but the first major event building up to Paris 2024 Olympics is very much underway!

And British Cycling has got off to a medal winning start at the European Track Championships in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands...we've the latest news from there and hear from some of the team.

We then head south to Valencia and Muscat as the women and men's hockey teams must finish in the top 3 of their Olympic Hockey Qualifying tournaments to play in Paris this summer! British Hockey stars James Albery and Sarah Robertson tell us more!

There's our News from the Games with Table Tennis, Swimming & Water Polo - and this is episode 100 of Anything but Footy, of us just chatting Olympics and Paralympics, but what a year, Olympic year, Paris 2024 coming this summer, as if we hadn't mentioned it 😉

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This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK. And who better to speak to then someone who's been there and done it all!

In this episode, Michael catches up with Hannah Mills OBE, the double Olympic sailing champion, London 2012 silver medalist, strategist at GBR Sail GP, as well as running Athena Pathway aimed at getting young women into the sport and as you'll hear so much more!

No better way to start the brand new Olympic year!

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As someone always says this time every year - "It's Christmas!"

And what better way to spend the festive period, than to grab a cup of something, and have listen to one of Britain's greatest ever snow athletes.

Alpine ski racer Chemmy Alcott went to four Winter Olympics for Team GB, and in both Turin and Vancouver, she finished an impressive 11th place in downhill and super combined respectively.

Now the Ski Sunday presenter wants to ensure her children, and others, have a future on the slopes.

Enjoy this special with Chemmy Alcott - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year - and see you in Olympic Year - 2024!

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It was the decision we all expected, but maybe the timing wasn't. The International Olympic Committee have approved that so called neutral individuals from Russia and Belarus will be able to compete at the Olympics next summer, as long as they haven't supported the war with Ukraine. We've all the details.

It's been a brilliant week for British Swimming in Romania at the European Short-course Championships - Michael takes a deep dive into their performances - and our guests this episode our Paralympic and Olympic medalists Alice Tai and James Guy after of an exciting announcement!

There's Sports Personality of the Year for 2023, a look ahead to 2024, Team GB out of the Olympic footy, and we are the Olympic podcast - so we round up the latest Winter Olympics headlines in our News from the Games!

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We like to think all our podcasts are good and everyone listens all the way through. Make sure you do with this one. Justine's answer to the last question will leave you speechless. It made us want to rewrite the whole podcast intro where we'd said 'a short trip across the channel.'

Justine Baynes is the brilliant CEO of British Wheelchair Basketball which has seen a successful 2023 ensure qualification for both the men and women's teams at next summer's Paris 2024 Paralympics.

She tells us they're crucial for her sport and the Paralympic movement.

This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK.

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We loved our times in Glasgow, Birmingham and has Michael mentioned he went to the Gold Coast for the Commonwealth Games? But the multi sporting event's future remains highly uncertain, with no host in 2026 or beyond.

So we want to know what's next - and there's no better person to talk than the man who led Team England to a record breaking performance at Birmingham 2022.

Paul Blanchard is our latest guest on Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy, the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK.

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