Anything but Footy

The latest spin off podcast from Anything but Footy with Team GB and Para GB athletes aiming for Tokyo 2020 in 2021...

Liam Heath is preparing for his third Games after becoming Olympic champion in Rio in 2016 and World Champion in Sprint Canoe in 2019. But preparation following the postponement of the Olympics a year ago to this summer is anything but ordinary.

Liam talks all things Rio, how life has changed since, why GB is so good at Canoe sprint and maintaining form during a pandemic and focus on Tokyo.

This is Liam Heath - back on track for Tokyo 2020 in 2021

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Team Bath Netball is back in action later for their Round 7 fixture against Surrey Storm in the Vitality Netball Superleague.

The netball season is being held behind closed doors with the first half of the season in Wakefield and the second half of the season in London at The Copper Box Arena on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. In this special edition of the podcast, Anything but Footy joined Team Bath for a crucial weekend of action when they played their crunch clash with Manchester Thunder. Both sides had made unbeaten starts to the season so something had to give.

The Blue & Gold were also without their Head Coach Anna Stembridge for the match after she was forced to self-isolate as a family member had shown symptoms of COVID-19 in the build-up to the fixture. Following the Friday night contest with Manchester Thunder, Team Bath Netball were due back on court the following afternoon to face Severn Stars.

Listen to find out how Team Bath Netball got in during these two games and to find out more about how Netball England and the Superleague are staging the matches during the ongoing global pandemic and a third Lockdown in England.

Includes interviews with England International trio Serena Guthrie, Layla Guscoth and Imogen Allison as well as Australian shooter Kim Borger.

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Stephen Park oversees the form and career of every single elite British cyclist from the track stars to the up and coming BMX and mountain bike riders, in the Olympic and the Paralympic programme. As Performance Director his job is ensuring the athletes are at their peak to perform at the right time. Tokyo 2020 in 2021 is the focus for this year but Stephen reveals the next 18 months are potentially the most 'exciting' for the sport with a home Commonwealth Games, World Championships, Road Races etc

He tells us his team probably know 80% of there Tokyo team already, admitting 'some will miss out but only because some are better.' And after topping the Cycling medal tables in Beijing, London and Rio he says 'we're not going in expecting a replica of past games, but equally I recognise that was the view before Rio. We're trying to diversify our medal winning - the opportunity and gains we made on Track - the rest of the world has caught up on that.'

This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the podcast focusing on the men and women behind the scenes of British sport.

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This is Anything but Footy the Olympic and Paralympic Podcast - the 50th episode!

Michael and John reunite, via the power of the pod, to review the weekend sporting action as the build up to the Tokyo Games starts to gather some pace. Sport is happening around the world and British elite sport stars are getting to compete.

We're joined by Verity Ockenden, Bronze Medalist from the European Athletics Indoor Championships, held in the the aptly named Torun as she now has Tokyo times in her sights. Great Britain delivered in Poland winning 12 medals led by the GB women, in the week of International Women's Day.

Tashkent and Sofia are also on the schedule as Taekwondo and Judo fighters gear up for the Games - we also talk Sailing, Netball, working from home, home schooling and much more!

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The new series featuring Team and Para GB athletes aiming for Tokyo 2020 in 2021

In this podcast series, from Anything but Footy, we speak to Team GB and Para GB athletes preparing for Tokyo 2020 in 2021, following the historic delay to the Games because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Adam Gemili won gold and silver medals at World Championship level as part of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland 4x100m relay squads, but after finishing 4th at the 2016 Olympic Games and then again at the 2019 World Championships in Doha over 200m, he is targeting an individual medal and believes he is very capable of winning the gold.

Lockdown was difficult for sportsmen and women who were unable to compete and earn money and, in association with Nationwide Building Society and their Start to Save campaign, Adam tells us how having some savings helped him to build a gym at home to continue training.

This is Adam Gemili - back on track for Tokyo 2020

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When was your first swim, bike and run? How did you get on in the very first race? How to balance school, studying and Triathlon? And an elite journey from youth to senior.

In a special edition of the podcast, produced on behalf of British Triathlon, Growing up Tri-ing speaks to three Olympic and Paralympic Podium Potential athletes to find out all the answers and their experiences.

Hear Sophie Coldwell on her jump from the talent squad and the realisation that 'wow someone thinks I'm quite good here!'. Ben Dijkstra reveals how he's learnt from the experience of nearly missing out on a Youth Olympic gold medal and George Peasgood explains how sometimes the toughest conversations he has are with his university lecturers!

For more information and to find out more about the sport of Triathlon, Great Britain's elite athletes and the location of your local clubs, go to www.britishtriathlon.org

📸 © Ben Lumley/British Triathlon 

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We know women's sport has been badly affected during the Covid-19 pandemic, but netball is back and for the first time ever every match is being show live on Sky Sports, as Wakefield and London's Copperbox Arena are the two neutral venues for the entire season.

CEO, Director of Netball and Head Coach of London Pulse, the youngest franchise of the Vitality Netball SuperLeague, Sam Bird describes the return of the sport as 'imperative', why her and her brilliant team didn't shut up shop during the coronavirus crisis and reached out into the community with their 'Inspire Educate Train' initiative and why after receiving a free pair of socks (!) while playing for England, she wants to challenge the sport she loves to continue to change and develop for the better and good of women everywhere!

This is episode 28 of Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy, the podcast speaking to the women and men who run sport in this country. Listen, download and subscribe for much more!

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This is Back On Track from Anything but Footy. The podcast series where we speak to Team GB and Para GB athletes preparing for Tokyo 2020 in 2021.

Matt Skelhon is a three time Olympic medalist - having won gold in Beijing, silver and bronze in London. After Rio he nearly quit. Now he's back at Olympic trap World Champion and is one of the first athletes to be picked by Paralympics GB for the Games this August.

Matt reveals like millions of us he's been 'working from home' - seriously - shooting in his front room! And after nailing a Land Rover Discovery and an Apollo 11 Lunar Landing in lego during lockdown, he's now aiming for another gold in Tokyo!

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Happy New Year! Welcome to the latest edition of Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy. It's another Olympic and Paralympic year, hopefully with some sport in it this time! In this podcast series we go behind the scenes of British sport.

In this episode, we catch up with three Olympic champion Andrew Triggs Hodge to discuss his perfect retirement from rowing in Rio, what happens next for athletes when they finish, his latest project on the River Thames, after winning the Boat Race with Oxford to now helping deliver the so-called super-sewer with Tideway London, and his work as a volunteer at London Youth Rowing to encourage the next generation!

And to take part in 'Race the Thames' event mentioned in this podcast - check out https://www.londonyouthrowing.com/event/racethethames2021

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In this episode, Olympic hopeful Natasha Cockram describes how at the start of 2020 she left her home and job in Wales to re-locate to Norfolk in an attempt to represent Team GB in the women's marathon in Tokyo.

Despite the set backs of the year - lockdown forcing the cancellation of many events which natasha aimed to compete in to earn a living and picking up an injury, Natasha became the British Champion in London in October. She narrowly missed out on the Olympic qualification time in 2019, but is hopeful that the right race and the right conditions mean she will achieve the mark that will allow her to compete in Tokyo in 2021.

This is Back On Track from Anything but Footy. The podcast series where we speak to Team GB and Para GB athletes preparing for Tokyo 2020 in 2021.

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