Anything but Footy

It's not an Olympic sport but it's not Footy either! Michael loves a 17 day sporting event and has spent most of the past fortnight or so in Sheffield covering the World Snooker Championships.

A boyhood dream recognised, and a history making tournament with Belgium's Luca Brecel winning the title and re-writing the history books. But is he the most famous Belgian since the story books of Hercule Poirot?

In our News from the Olympic and Paralympic Games, we also talk Para Tennis, Taekwondo, Athletics, Mod Pentathlon and the new UK Sports Institute!

This is Anything but Footy - the Olympic and Paralympic Podcast!

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From Marcel Hug's dominance to Sifan Hassan's comeback, the second fastest ever Marathon and the last 26.2 miles ever from Mo Farah.

Despite the drizzle, this 2023 TCS London Marathon shone through with highlight, record, highlight and record!

John and Michael are at the finish line in the Mall rounding up all the results - and hear from the all the elite winners - including David Weir, Sam Harrison and Emile Cairess the first Brits home!

And as Mo confirm's his last race will be in September we ask who is Britain's greatest ever long distance runner?

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A treat this week - not one but two episodes of Anything but Footy!

A bit like our special guests Jessica Gadirova - the 18 year old European Gymnastic champion with not one, not two but three gold medals in Turkey last week! She joins us in her 'free period' at school while John & Michael reveal what they used to do in theirs!

We round up a table topping performance from the Brits in Turkey - plus latest Swimming, Judo, Athletics, Canoeing, Modern Pentathlon, Boxing, Cycling and we even talk snooker - it is an affiliated Olympic sport don't you know!

(📸 @British Gymnastics)

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This is Anything but Footy and a London Marathon 2023 special! We hear from the Event Director Hugh Brasher as the historic fundraising and world class race returns to its rightful home in April. We've anything you need to know if you're running it, supporting someone, or watching it on TV!

It's an early start on Sunday - good luck to the thousands of runners!

As it's Anything but Footy, we also have an Olympic and Paralympic champion who are running - for the 1st and 9th time respectively! Team GB Curling skip gold medalist Eve Muirhead's charity is Doddie Aid while Richard Whitehead's is the Whitehead Foundation. Please click and give if you can!

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It was an Easter treat of a weekend for sporting fans and 12 months on from their silver success in Beijing Winter Olympics, a gold medal to treasure for the men's Scottish Curling team!

Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie and Hammy McMillan are now World Curling Champions after an outstanding win in Ottawa - rounding off quite the Winter Sport season for Team GB! Michael brings you a full round up...

In slightly warmer climbs (!!), well Ponds Forge in Sheffield, some great stories of success for British Swimming in their trials ahead of their World Championships in Japan in July. John has all the headlines...

And then there's Wimbledon & the latest tennis news, a European triumph again at Augusta Masters, Judo (when doesn't Michael mention it!), Gymnastics, Diving, Snooker and the London Marathon to come...

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Everyone wants the war to end says Thomas Bach the International Olympic Committee President, as the IOC decides to wait to see what happens with international sport before deciding whether Russia and Belarus athletes can compete at Paris 2024 and Milano Cortino 2026.

They would have to be neutral athletes, no teams, and no affiliation or support for Putin or the army. So what are the Olympic waiting for? To see whether like tennis, this stance can work in sport across the world during this summer.

Anything but Footy rounds up a hectic and difficult week for the Olympic movement and we hear from Bach too.

In our news from the games there's athletics, judo, para swimming and tennis and will Olympic champion Adam Peaty be back in the pool for Paris? As he admits he's not loving swimming at the moment.

Download and follow for the latest Olympic and Paralympic news now - not every 4 years!

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The great debate on whether athletes from Russia and Belarus could compete at next year's Paris Olympics continues, with the International Olympic Committee committing to a 'pathway' to include them as neutral competitors. It's happening in tennis, and likely to at Wimbledon this year too. But does that really work? Katherine Grainger told us recently she's unsure. And where does that leave Ukrainian athletes?

Michael and John are back together for the latest episode of Anything but Footy - the Olympic and Paralympic podcast - in a pub near the Thames in London to discuss all.

In their 'News of the Games' they round up some of the sporting headlines you may have missed, and look ahead to another busy summer of 'Anything but Footy'!

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Anything but Footy runs a series called Great British Bosses where we interview men and women involved in the running of sport in this country. It's the behind the scenes conversation of British Sport.

We have had Chairs, CEOs, MDs, PDs, Head Coaches and this season guests have included Katherine Grainger (UK Sport), Greg Baker (Boccia UK), Helen Nicholls (British Equestrian) and Paul Buxton (GB Taekwondo).

In this last episode of the current season, we discuss one of the biggest Olympic sports that we know nothing about, hear how a small and passionate team is creating exciting opportunities and whether we'll ever see Team GB in the Olympic Handball tournament in the future!

Welcome to Great British Bosses, Scottish Handball CEO Ewan Hunter and Operations Manager Julia Stenhouse!

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Bigger than the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014! For the first time ever the World Cycling Championships are all coming together in one place, at one time, and showing off the beauty of the bike!

Trudy Lindblade is the chief executive of the 2023 World Cycling Championships, in Glasgow and across Scotland from 3-13 August this summer. She tells us the multi cycling event is in affect 13 World Championships all at once, and it'll be held every 4 years in different countries and cities, why she loves living in Scotland having never been there before, the challenge Brexit is posing bringing in staff and the story of being interviewed and accepting the role in the middle of the pandemic, all on zoom, before then moving her family across the world from Australia.

It's a great edition of Great British Bosses - the behind the scenes conversation of British sport - ahead of another great sporting event in the UK!

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This is Great British Bosses - the behind the scenes conversation of British sport - and a real frank discussion in this episode about how this country's second most played sport among the young, gets hardly any professional attention and support.

It's something Steve Bucknall, the Head of Talent & Performance at Basketball England, has always wanted to change, and after guiding Team England to gold and silver success at last year's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 3x3, and further changes behind the scenes in Britain, he's already noticing the progress being made.

But as Steve says "we're focusing on football way too much". Hell yeah! Fortunately, not on this podcast or series, as we discuss Paris 2024, the wasted 2012 legacy and the not so small matter of this 6ft6 South London star, being the first English NBA player!!! A definite three pointer!

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