Anything but Footy

Flag Football is only in the Olympics as it's staged in the USA - not so says British American Football Association's Danika Taylor. Great Britain has the fourth best women's team in the world and the men recently finished in the top four in Europe - so will we see Team GB at LA 2028? And what is Flag Football! We find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Silvers and bronze for 4 time Commonwealth Games gold medalist Emma Finucane as her boyfriend Matt Richardson is withdrawn from the team!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