Anything but Footy

Sometimes new is better - sometimes the old is best. We catch up with two Paralympic champions ahead of the World Para Table Tennis Championships Will Bayley & Chris Ryan to discuss - and Will throws his hat into the Celebrity Traitors ring too! Is 7 million on a feasibility study for the Northern England Olympics money well spent? PLUS ‘Stars Align' is the new motto for LA 2028 and we hear about Michael's starry introduction to the Olympic Museum in Lausanne! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

6 golds 12 medals and table topping success for British Cycling at the World Track Championships in China! But not all is happiness…! Silvers and bronze for 4 time Commonwealth Games gold medalist Emma Finucane as her boyfriend Matt Richardson is withdrawn from the team! Commonwealth medalist, cyclist and broadcaster Georgia Holt joins us to round it all up! And we discuss where the 2036 Olympics should be held? If you like what you’re listening too, we talk about the Olympics Paralympics Commonwealths sports all the time - download listen and follow! (📸 UCI ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Great British Bosses double this episode as we catch up with the brand new, and first ever, Performance Director for Ice Hockey UK Jonathan Phillips. In fact, IHUK is brand new too so interim CEO Tim Bratton joins us to explain what's changing and why. And we ask the all important question - when with GB Ice Hockey next be at a Winter Olympics and Paralympics? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Tour de France men and women's race is now the third biggest sporting event globally after the Olympic Games and men’s Football World Cup and it's back in Britain in 2027! It’s the fifth time the men's race has visited these shores but will be the first for Femmes Avec Swift race. Paul Bush is the Managing Director of Grand Départ GB 2027 - his is a name that's synonymous with big time events in the UK inc the Commonwealth Games! Before the official route is confirmed on October 22 this year, we talk all things Tour De France Grand Bretagne - as well as Glasgow 2026 and what's next! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

World Championship medals available and places at the LA Olympics too! A strong British Judo team is heading to Baku this week - including Commonwealth Games gold medalists Emma Reid and Acelya Toprak - we hear why Emma doesn't enjoy competition days, and Acelya is uncertain about the of reception she'll get, having competed for Azerbaijan! European Athletics offers Euros for finalists from 2028 and there's a full News from the Games round up too including Boxing, Canoe Slalom, Youth & Winter Olympics and Katy Marchant says good bye from British Cycling! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As we heard from brother Jonny, we only thought it right to catch up with Alistair Brownlee too - the double Olympic triathlon champion from London & Rio. The pair have always helped the next generation - the Brownlee Foundation in Leeds just one example - but now Ali will be helping the next Olympic athletes directly, as he takes charge of Team GB as chef de mission for the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games - the first Olympic sporting event ever to be held in Africa - which starts in a month's time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He's the three-time Olympic medallist - bronze at London 2012, silver at Rio 2016 and gold in the inaugural mixed relay at Tokyo 2020 (⁠we made a special podcast with British Triathlon on this in 2022!)⁠ Now Jonny Brownlee tells us why he's moving away from elite competition after nearly 20 years - admitting he missed his brother and double Olympic champion Ali, when he stopped competing. Jonny is not leaving the sport though - he is extending his relationship with Supertri and fronting Enduro, a new race format in which he will also compete at Supertri events around the world! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

42 elite athletes, 7 track and field disciplines, 6 competitors per comp with winners pocketing £48,500 and a custom silver crown designed by Tiffany & Co! Welcome to Athlos London at the StoneX Stadium in Mill Hill north London with some of the best female athletes in the world in action including Olympic champions Keely Hodgkinson and Gabby Thomas, Commonwealth and European gold medalist Georgia Hunter Bell and Olympic medalist Imani Lansiquot and Darly Neita! We hear from them all and round up all the action on and off the track as the season comes to a close! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The first ever World Athletics Championships in Africa and returning to Germany with their 'tremendous' crowds. That's the decision of the World Athletics Council revealed by President Seb Coe in Budapest earlier. The empty seats at Birmingham European Champs and negotiations with West Ham for the London Stadium in the football season in 2029 can't have helped - but we say get the Ultimates in London! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Ultimate British champion as Josh Kerr bagged 150,000 dollars and the Ultimate trophy to add to his Commonwealth Gold and Mile World Record from earlier in the summer. Has King Kerr take Queen Keely British Athletics crown for now? A bumper champs for British Athletics in terms of places - we hear from the mixed 4x400m runners up Ben Jefferies Yemi Mary John Toby Harries & Charlotte Henrich - as well as Jake Wightman and Hannah Nuttall who's also off to another new World Athletics event - the World Road Running Champs! In the meantime all the best Budapest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Second Night, second places for Great Britain’s middle distance stars Keely Hodgkinson and Georgia Hunter Bell but both team-mates happy with their nights work after a long season and looking forward to a break! As the Americans dominated the sprints again, we hear from GB's European 400m champion Matt Hudson Smith & 400m hurdler Lina Nielsen This is Anything but Footy, and talkSPORT, on the penultimate night of the Ultimate Championships! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Big wins, big shocks, the best of the best in Budapest and bundles of cash being won! Mondo and Jakob won the Ultimates as Great Britain’s Jaz Sawyers completed a super summer with second place in the women’s long jump 💰 We round up the night one action in Budapest - and hear what it was like to compete from Great Britain’s Yemi Mary John - and why its already an important event from a British legend - the one and only Brendan Foster! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Day Before - a  unique feature of these brand new Champs in Budapest including a red carpet which saw the 380+ athletes from 60+ federations including 20 British competitors walking and talking! We hear from World Athletics' Jon Ridgeon, European champions Matt Hudson Smith and Amy Hunt, who explains the new 200m lane draft process! Michael in Budapest and John also preview the first night's competition which includes events like the 4x100m mixed relay, high jump finals, and pole vault with Mondo Duplantis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The best in Budapest - World Athletics President Seb Coe tells us “it’s what the fans want” as the first ever Ultimates take place this weekend - and we’ll be there too!  After Glasgow, London, Birmingham and even Bedford this summer - Michael is packing his bags again one more time to bring us on the podcast  and talkSPORT on the radio, the biggest stars, the biggest names and the biggest results! The official anthem for the World Athletics Ultimate Championship by pole vault legend and Ultimate Star Mondo Duplantis Stream the song here 👉 https://open.spotify.com/track/1uFpnw... ℗ 2026 Hoss Music under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment Sweden  This is Anything but Footy at the Ultimate Athletics Championships! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What a start to September with a special one with two of Team GB's biggest Winter Olympic stars! Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson tell us they're 'going for 2030' French Alps - after returning to action with victory in the first international event of the Ice Dance season the Bolero Cup in Sheffield! In a bumper episode of the podcast, we also hear from British cyclists Lewis Askey, Ben Swift & Matt Bostock on the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For all the talk before the summer of who's focusing on the Commonwealth Games or the European Athletics Championships, 82% of British athletes who won medals in Birmingham had also competed at Glasgow! We hear from GB long jumper Jaz Sawyers who won a gold and silver at both and round up the summer of success for England, Scotland, Wales & N Ireland - and ultimately we look ahead to what's next ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amy Hunt wants to be iconic and win 4 golds - after doing the sprint double she says the rest of the week will now be fun - we agree! Dina Asher Smith makes British European Champs history. It’s Werro, Broeders-Bol and Hodgkinson in the 800m final And is Josh Kerr ruining the sport by not being here? Jakob Ingebrigtsen suggests so! This is Anything but Footy at the European Athletics Championships! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Laughing his way to European Championship history - Brummie boy Matthew Hudson Smith delivered an outstanding 400m gold medal on his home track - winning his 3rd individual Euro gold and 8th medal overall! 2 flags, 2 championships, 2 medals, same colour, same smile for Emily Newnham as the Commonwealth silver medalist won silver in the 400m hurdles - but frustration at the seeding system for fellow British finalist Lina Nielsen. We agree it's unfair! Oh and Keely goes again this lunchtime! This is Anything but Footy at the European Athletics Championships! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A brilliant British 1-2 in the blue riband men's 100m final in Birmingham through Romell Glave and Jeremiah Azu! So far despite all the withdrawals from Glasgow a fortnight ago, every British athlete that's won a medal at these Europeans also ran at the Commonwealth Games too. Interesting! And Keely Hodgkinson's comfortably through, but should we really be talking botox? This is Anything but Footy at the European Athletics Championships! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another week another world class athletics championships - but can we have too much of a good thing? The empty seats might suggest so! But nothing can take away from the golden night at last for Amy Hunt - the new European 100m champion! We round up all the action on day 1 of the European Athletics Champs and hear from Imani Lansiquot and Scott Lincoln. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices