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Glasgow 2026 Gears Up

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#131 Team GB's Anthony Harding & the end of another Olympic year

40:15

talkSPORT - John catching up with Team GB boxing bronze medalist Lewis Richardson

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talkSPORT - Michael Weadock's Paris 2024 Athletics interviews

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#86 Great British Bosses - Katie Sadleir

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#87 Great British Bosses - John Steele

One of the biggest teams at next summer's Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games will be from across the border - Team England!
In this episode of Great British Bosses, we hear from the Chair of Commonwealth Games England on the beat job Scottish organisers have done in rescuing the Games, but also what comes next after the sticky plaster of Glasgow.
And our guest - John Steele - is someone who's done it all from playing rugby, to coaching a team to European success and heading up UK Sport for the home Olympics and Paralympics of London 2012.
This is Great British Bosses with John Steele!
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35:22

#132 New & Old Milano & Melbourne

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Another fantastic start to the sporting year, with the tennis in Melbourne, success on the snowboard and sliding track too. We're back for our sixth year of talking about the Olympics and Paralympics all the time. And in this episode, we discuss the toughest and hardest sport in the world? Tennis? Athletics? Even football? What do you think? Get in touch via our socials or comment on Spotify! L...

12:34

Glasgow 2026 Gears Up

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The Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games are now next year! As we know, assuming you've been following and listening to Anything but Footy, Scotland has stepped up again to rescue the event. Glasgow will be host city for a second time in 12 years on July 23rd 2026. In this special episode, we find out more about the people now chosen to deliver these historic Games and speak to the new CEO Phil Batt...

#131 Team GB's Anthony Harding & the end of another Olympic year

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#131 Team GB's Anthony Harding & the end of another Olympic year

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It was quite the summer in Paris 2024 - for co-hosts Michael and John in their roles with talkSPORT but also for first time Olympian Anthony Harding - their guest on this final episode of another Olympic year! The British diver made history with his 'idol' Jack Laugher, as the pair won Team GB's 4th historic synchronised diving medal of Paris 2024 in the 3m springboard. We look-back with Anthon...

talkSPORT - John catching up with Team GB boxing bronze medalist Lewis Richardson

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talkSPORT - John catching up with Team GB boxing bronze medalist Lewis Richardson

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After stepping off the Eurostar, with a bronze medal safely secured, what next for Team GB boxer Lewis Richardson? John asked him on talkSPORT.

talkSPORT - Michael Weadock's Paris 2024 Athletics interviews

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talkSPORT - Michael Weadock's Paris 2024 Athletics interviews

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In 2024, @talkSPORT broadcast full coverage of the Olympic Games in a first for UK commercial radio. Anything but Footy was central to the planning and delivery of outstanding coverage for the world’s biggest sports radio station! For more than a decade, Michael Weadock has been the station’s correspondent on all things Olympics and Paralympics, and this is just some of the highlights from his ...

#86 Great British Bosses - Katie Sadleir

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#86 Great British Bosses - Katie Sadleir

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The Commonwealth Games has been saved by Scotland and Glasgow 2026. But what does the future hold in store? Who else will host? We go straight to the top and ask CEO Katie Sadleir who tells us Glasgow will stage a world class Games. 2030 hosts will be decided next year. Co-hosts across smaller nations could be an option. They'll be more sports 16 or 17 in 2030. A series of Commonwealth champion...

44:14

#130 Team GB Ball 2024

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This was a night to celebrate, kick back, relax and revel in the achievements of Paris 2024 - and that was just Michael! In all seriousness, the Roundhouse in Camden was the setting for night of success with gold medalists from the summer games Alex Yee and Bryony Page winning more awards - hear from them both in this episode! Also, what's next for Lina and Laviai Nielsen on the athletics track...

#85 Great British Bosses - Ashley Metcalfe

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#85 Great British Bosses - Ashley Metcalfe

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You'll hear John and Michael's commentary, reports and interviews from talkSPORT, the official Olympic broadcaster of the Paris 2024 Olympics, at the start of this podcast. Simply it was the greatest ever games for Team GB canoeists - and subsequently the Para Canoe team matched it weeks later in the Paralympics. But Ashley Metcalfe as CEO of Paddle UK is in charge of so much more than just suc...

#84 Great British Bosses - Alison Oliver

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#84 Great British Bosses - Alison Oliver

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There's a lot of people inspiring a lot of others to change sport in this country, and in this episode we catch up with one of them. Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy, is the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK, and speaks to the men and women in charge. Alison Young is the CEO of the Youth Sport Trust which aims to build a brighter future for every child. She speaks pa...

#83 Great British Bosses - Christian Rose

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#83 Great British Bosses - Christian Rose

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Powerleague is famous for footy we know! 40 sites in UK, Ireland and the Netherlands with 6.5 million customers every year! So why is a podcast called 'Anything but Footy' talking to the CEO? Well Powerleague is now dipping its toe into the fastest growing sport in the world - Padel! Its first new Padel centres are in Shoreditch and Birmingham and we're told there's more to come! And as we hear...

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#82 Great British Bosses - Drew Barrand

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A spectacular summer in the pool in Paris for Aquatics GB - across swimming, diving, para swimming and artistic swimming - with medals galore and the first ever Olympic medal in the artistic discipline (formerly known as synchro swimming!) But what comes next as it’s a long time to the next Games in Los Angeles in 2028? What does the national governing body responsible for the elite and high pe...

32:38

#81 Great Bosses - Alban Dechelotte

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Please allow us a slight brand diversification in this episode of the podcast, because we so wanted to speak to someone behind the scenes of the next big Olympics Games - the first ever Esports Olympics in Saudi Arabia in 2025. Alban Dechelotte is one of these people - the CEO of G2 Esports - and IOC member on the Esports Commission. What's in store and what's the future? Find out in this speci...

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#80 Great British Bosses - Ruth Daniels

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A spectacular summer of success at the Olympics and Paralympics for British Triathlon, and without a Brownlee brother in the team for the first time since Beijing 2008. But what next for the organisation, it's athletes, members and the sport itself. In this episode of Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy, we're joined by new CEO Ruth Daniels, who joined the National Governing Body in ea...

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#79 Great British Bosses - Julia Lee

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In her own words on the 'Women in Rugby League' website, Julia Lee says "she's an ordinary person". When you hear this episode of Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy, the work she's done over the years, and continues to do, you'll agree she's extraordinary. Like a lot of team sports, the role of women and the history of the growth of the game has been hidden and undervalued, something ...