Anything but Footy

Season 4 of Great British Bosses - the behind the scenes conversation of British sport - continues from Anything but Footy!

With more than 20 years of experience in elite sport, Helen Nicholls is the relatively new Performance Director at British Equestrian. The former British windsurfer, joined the organisation in charge of taking Team GB and Paralympic GB riders and horses to Paris in 2024 a year ago, following several years as PD at the Boccia UK. She may have been a former rider herself when younger,but Helen tells John & Michael all sport needs people seeing things from a different point of view!

Great British Bosses was launched in early 2020 with the aim of speaking with the men and women who have roles as leaders in British sport. Download & follow for more!

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A very special episode of Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the Olympic and Paralympic podcast.

For our 50th edition we're delighted to be joined by Dame Katherine Grainger - Chair of UK Sport – the organisation that is responsible for the high

performance sports system in Great Britain and Northern Ireland (you'll have heard a lot about them over the previous 49 episodes!) In this episode, we talk about Katherine's role, the new UK sport strategy, London 2012, Paris 2024, athlete protests and Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

Great British Bosses was launched in early 2020 with the aim of speaking with the men and women who have roles as leaders in British sport. Guests have included Chief Executives, Managing Directors, Performance Directors and Head Coaches. Organisations which have participated include Team GB, The British Paralympic Association, British Athletics, Sport England and The Commonwealth Games Federation. And a third of the guests have been female leaders in sport. Download & follow for the full back catalogue.

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

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David Pond is one of those unique Great British Bosses in sport in this country.

He started off his working life teaching PE after studying at Loughborough at the same time as Lord Coe and with Sir Clive Woodward (who he's still on an 'old boys' WhatsApp group with). There was then more than two decades in the Royal Navy, followed by Consulting before running Great British Wheelchair Rugby from before 2012 right through to the Gold medal success at the delayed Tokyo Paralympics.

And now's he's overseeing the delivery of the European Wheelchair Rugby Championships in Cardiff in May, while also helping delivery supplies to Ukraine...

This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - and its quite a journey! Enjoy!

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If you thought last summer was good in England's second city with the Commonwealth Games - the countdown's underway for another multi sporting event!

It's now 200 days til the IBSA World Games in Birmingham this summer. More than a thousand partially sighted or blind athletes competing in a dozen sports, with qualification for the Paralympic Games in Paris 2024 next summer up for grabs in three of the events - football, goalball and judo.

In this episode of Great British Bosses, the podcast from Anything but Footy meeting the men and women behind sport in the UK, we hear from Event Director of the World Games John Timms - and his fellow MLS director Yuri Matischen about how they brought the event to Britain for the first time, their passion for Para sport, the building of a new basketball arena for their BBL team Sheffield Sharks and the development of the new 'Olympic Legacy Park' in Sheffield. Oh and Michael's now bidding for another Commonwealth Games in the UK as well as an Olympics! How did we fit it all in to half an hour? As Uri would say 'drive and passion'!

And for more 'Great British Bosses' - follow Anything for Footy for the behind the scenes conversation of British sport!

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For a sport that only started at the Olympics 23 years ago, Taekwondo has quickly become a firm favourite for the British fans and for Team GB and now Paralympics GB, after its Para debut in Tokyo. 5 medals at the delayed 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, three in Rio 4 years before that, Jade Jones' famous gold in London 2012 and Beijing 2008 was the setting for the first ever British medal thanks to the kicking talents of Sarah Stevenson.

But how do you maintain that success? As generations change and different athletes come and go.

In this episode of Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy, we aim to find out as we hear from the still relatively new CEO at GB Taekwondo - Paul Buxton.

And download and follow for many more men and women running sport in the UK!

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Boccia* is the only Paralympic sport without a real Olympic counterpart and Paralympics GB has a strong record in it dating back to Sydney 2000.

Now there's a new Performance Director in charge - Greg Baker the former Head Coach of Para Table Tennis - and with the Paris Games now next year - once again it's time to start focusing on who could book their place on the plane or train to France next summer.

This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the podcast where we focus on the men and women behind the scenes of British Olympic and Paralympic sport. Welcome to episode 46, season 4, there's a great bak catalogue to head back and listen too and there's some great sporting names to come in the coming weeks! Download and follow for more!

*FYI it's pronounced like Gotcha!

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What do you call a group of Olympic & Paralympic podcasters?

A gaggle?

A school?

Mascots?

What about 'Keep the Anything but Footy Flame Alive'?

We're delighted to team up with fellow fans of the Olympics and Paralympics Jill Jaracz and Alison Brown, who do what we do and discuss all things Olympic movement type things, but from across the Atlantic.

In this episode, as well as finding out about our love of the Games, get the low-down on LA '28, talk legacy, athlete retirement, future Games and Alison's love of the Commonwealths (well Canadians!).

Download, listen and follow for many more and check out Anything but Footy and Keep The Flame Alive

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So much other sport going on at the moment, but you won't have seen or heard much about it due to the total domination of the Football World Cup.

It's not even the biggest sporting event in the world for goodness sake - that's the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics according to latest polling. But could Qatar be a future destination of the Olympic rings?

In our 'News from the Games' we also round up some of the other headlines you may have missed - from the Summer Games triathlon, swimming, athletics, judo and table tennis. And the winter sport season's underway so we discuss curling, snowboard, bobsleigh and skeleton!

This is Anything but the Footy World Cup - the Olympic and Paralympic podcast!

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The World Gymnastics Championships, the European Breaking champs, the Rugby League World Cup...

Liverpool, Manchester, Middlesborough, Leeds, London...

Some of the world class sporting events being put on in UK cities in recent weeks...

Forget that Qatar thing for a second, and get into Anything but Footy as we talk gymnastics, rugby league, judo, swimming, Para-cycling, wheelchair tennis. Boxing and Breaking and with purse strings being tightened across the planet wonder what next for the Winter Olympics?

This is Anything but Footy the Olympic and Paralympic Podcast - get in touch anytime - @anythingbutf on twitter or @anthingbutfooty on insta & FB

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A special edition of Great British bosses to end the latest season of episodes - with the man delivering something in the UK that's never been done before in the world - the first ever men's, women's and wheelchair Rugby League World Cup!

The trio of tournaments starting this Saturday October 15th in Newcastle, is being hosted across England - from Bolton to York, Leeds to London.

It's been 7 years in the planning and you may have noticed the Rugby League World Cup 2021 is also a year late...

Jon Dutton is CEO with 27 years of experience in the sports industry - and he talks to John and Michael about the trials and tribulations to put on this ground breaking competition....

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