The Commonwealth Games are "dying out a little bit unfortunately"- the view of proud Scottish world champion Beth Potter - who competed in Glasgow in 2014 in athletics and won Team Scotland’s first medal in the triathlon in the sunshine in Sutton Park in Birmingham in 2022. But since that superb summer in England’s second city, the storm clouds have surrounded the Commonwealth Games Federation, when the state of Victoria and Australia pulled out of hosting in 2026. Now 10 years on from their own glorious Games in Glasgow, Commonwealth Games Scotland has stepped up and said if the CGF can’t find another host by it’s own deadline of May this year (2024), it’s come up with a new concept for the Commonwealth Games, which could also secure it’s long term future. Scotland is on standby and this is the story so far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The countdown continues to Paris 2024 - and we're en-route! We'll probably use satnav and gps to get us to our destination this summer, so it's right that the Olympic movement has said it wants to be front and centre and leading the way in ensuring AI benefits sport and isn't detrimental. We've been at the IOC's AI Launch Event in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and we talk safeguarding with 2010 gold medalist Lindsey Vonn and the perfect 10 and judging in Olympic sport with Nadia Comaneci. And listen up for the next big thing - WAHA! We hear from Tony Estanguet, President of the 2024 organising committee, about his joy at the next stage of the Olympic torch relay and the flame sailing across the Med aboard the three mast 'Belem' - thanks to our friend Phil Barker who's right across that. And we catch up with Adam Burgess - 4th in the canoe slalom on Tokyo - who had a broken finger when confirmed by Team GB for Paris 2024 and why he's now raring to go this season! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Team GB history maker is stepping away from competitive swimming. 27 year old Alice Dearing became the first black woman to swim for TeamGB at an Olympic Games. She also set up the Black Swimming Association to diversify her sport and keep encouraging everyone to learn to swim - a basic life skill. But what next? Alice is keen to convey a message to other British Olympic and Paralympic athletes and staff about best preparing for the process, and this comes as UK Sport, the UK Sports Institute (UKSI) and the British Elite Athletes Association (BEAA) are increasing engagement with athletes to help them for their life beyond a funded programme. This is an Anything but Footy special with Alice Dearing in her own words. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's back in the Olympics in 4 years time and we're pretty good at it! But the return is still so fresh, we don't really know how it'll all work! Also getting their head around it is British Lacrosse, the national co-ordinating body for men and women's elite lacrosse in the UK. And as a brand new governing body, we're delighted to be joined by chair Leslie Rance to discuss all things LA28 and much more! This is Great British Bosses - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The flame is burning, the biggest British team so far has been named by Team GB, and it’s 100 days to go! Just your average week during Olympic year, as John and Michael round up all the latest Paris 2024 news! We’re joined by some of the 33 British swimmers confirmed by Team GB - hear from our reporter Phil Barker at the ancient Olympia flame ceremony where the sun didn’t shine - and discuss cash for gold after Lord Coe’s World Athletics pledge for athletes in Paris! There’s also the News from the Games - Para Athletics, Relays, Gymnastics and Rowing… Download, listen and follow en-route to Paris 2024! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

UK Athletics has officially teamed up with the London Marathon and Great Run Company to create a new major events company, and deliver world class athletics events. UKA CEO Jack Buckner has told us it'll help fix some of the financial issues of the organisation. 'Athletic Ventures' will deliver the London Diamond League meeting every year, the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham and lead the bid for the World Athletics Championships returning to the UK in 2029. This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the behind the scenes conversation of British sport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Aquatics GB swimming championships were dubbed the first fully integrated Olympic and Paralympic trials for Paris this summer - and what a show from the British swimmers!  Adam Peaty Matt Richards Duncan Scott Freya Colbert Abbie Wood Kathleen Dawson Anna Hopkin Alice Tai and Stephen Clegg are just some of the star names who’ve not only become British champs but booked their place on Paris too! Hear from 15 swimmers and get ready for a spectacular swimming summer by the Seine 😉 This is Anything but Footy the Olympic and Paralympic Podcast en-route to Paris! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's dubbed the biggest global networking event in sport and it's in right here in the UK in Birmingham - the home of the last, and what could be the very last, Commonwealth Games in 2022. The week-long Sport Accord World Sport and Business Summit is supported by the International Olympic Committee and has been brought here by Joel Lavery, the West Midlands Growth Company’s major sporting events' strategic lead. Birmingham is open for business and world sport according to Joel, despite the well publicised financial issues surrounding the City Council and cuts to budgets. Welcome to the latest run of Great British Bosses - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in this country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One of the most successful Olympic and Paralympic sports in this country is changing its name to better reflect what the organisation does. British Swimming is now Aquatics GB, with the five disciplines of swimming, diving, para-swimming, artistic swimming and water polo. The organisation is also staging its first ever fully-integrated Olympic and Paralympic trials next week, at the London Aquatics Centre, for this summer’s Paris Games - more details & tickets here This is a special episode of the podcast with Aquatics GB and an exciting moment in the history of British sport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It could've been a new and old type podcast, but we're 'en-route to Paris 2024' so it feels only right to cerebrate the great gymnastics in Liverpool and say a great goodbye to a legend! 20 yo Ondine Achampong is the new women's all round champion and three time gold medalist after a brilliant British Championships at the weekend - we hear from her, round up the rest of the action and there's hopefully some good news on the injury front for Alice Kinsella! Dame Laura Kenny is only 11 years her senior, but is hanging up the cycle helmet competitively after 5 Olympics golds, making her the greatest GB Olympian ever, plus multiple world, European and commonwealth titles too. We pay tribute to someone who's always been there during our Olympic journey! Should Golf and Tennis join Athletics and innovate? Plus there's our News from the Games - Hockey, Para shooting, athletics, tennis, cycling and so much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

En-route to Paris 2024 and no doubt there's a few bumps in the road to come, but a big thumbs up from the International Olympic Committee this week for the Paris 2024 organisers. Parisians maybe yet to be persuaded but the Games will be a huge success. We hear about 2 more British boxers who'll be there and the GB Men's team will start the whole hockey tournament on July 28th! Plus we've skateboarding, modern pentathlon and Para Table Tennis in our News from the Games! Canoe Slalom Tokyo silver medalist Mallory Franklin joins us again to talk prep for Paris after being named on Team GB last year, while world indoor silver medalist Jemma Reekie now switches her focus to being on board that train across the channel! This is Anything but Footy - en-route to Paris 2024! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plans have been revealed to start the process of trying to bring the Tour de France back, as well as the World Athletics Championships, to this country. The announcement of 70 global events in 32 sports inc 18 World Championships was made at the London Stadium in Stratford by UK Sport - the Government agency responsible for funding elite sport, as well as leading the planning for Major Events. For the first time ever the Women’s Football World Cup could also be staged in the UK. This is a special episode of the podcast with UK Sport. As you'll hear Making Live Sport Matter reflects the UK’s ambition to maintain its reputation as a world-leading host nation of world class sport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Glasgow know how to put on a show - we experienced it first in 2014, where the first idea for this podcast came about when Michael and John met properly! Now a decade on, the Scottish City and the Brits put on a show on another super Saturday for British Athletics with a double gold for Josh Kerr in the 3000m and Molly Caudery in the Pole Vault, plus other personal bests amongst a host of world records and international stars! In this episode, Michael talks to them all - Josh, Molly, Laviai, Laura, Lake, Coleman and Tentoglou - the world and olympic long jump who's not happy with the 'take off zone' #understatement! Also after our News from the Games from Judo, Sailing, Para Table Tennis and Cycling - stick around for another world champion, you've never heard of until now! A real athletics story from Thea Lanford! This is ABF en-route to Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics - follow to not miss out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hannah Snellgrove is the latest athlete from British Sailing to be picked for Team GB for the Paris 2024 Olympics. Is this special edition of the podcast, we join the 33 year old from Lymington who'll be making her Olympic debut in Marseille, as she visited Twyford St Marys Primary School, answering questions, giving high 5s and even taking part in a fun run with local children! Hannah's the 11th sailor confirmed for the Games - British Sailing is the most successful ever nation in the Olympics. Good luck to all and make sure you listen to our previous podcast with British Sailing 'The Team GB sailors selected for Paris 2024' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Time just keeps ticking and never stands still. Neither does sport. It's 5 months to go to Paris 2024 Olympics and we catch up with Team GB's chef de mission Mark England - on their last minute plans for Paris and getting Games ready! We hear why a single room in the Athletics Village could give British athletes the advantage! Mark tells us he understands World Athletics ideas to re-energise their events including the aforementioned Long Jump in this podcast season! All ahead of the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow this weekend. And he tell us it's possible and probably Sky Brown could be competing in surfing as well as skateboarding, despite the venues being 10,000 miles away! There's also our News from the Games with cycling, para table tennis, marathon and Commonwealth Games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's been quite a few days since the release of our latest podcast - Great British Bosses with Jon Ridgeon! Michael rounds up some of the reaction as John points out this isn't just about the future of the long jump, but all 'less popular events'. So here we go again then another bonus episode this week - and a switch from Aquatics to Athletics! We've reaction from three of the British Athletics stars who'll be competing at the World Indoors in Glasgow - Jemma Reekie, Laviai and Lina Nielsen! We do discuss swimming, cycling boxing and tennis in our News from the Games but if you're a brand new listener since the last episode - thanks and welcome! Stick around for Paris 2024! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Great British Bosses is all about having conversations with the leading people in the UK who run sport, so it's an even bigger honour to introduce this episode's guest as someone who actually runs a sport across the world - Jon Ridgeon, the Chief Executive Officer of World Athletics. Ahead of the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow (March 1-3 2024) and the Paris Olympics this summer, we hear where the organisation is at currently, what's coming up, about the impending Netflix doc, potentially changes to the sport spectacle including a revamped long jump discipline and the brand new worldwide athletics event for 2026! Personally, Jon also talks about his career both on and off the track leading to this his 'dream job'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A mixture of success and sadness on the podcast this special episode. The World Aquatics Championships keep delivering in Doha for British Swimming with more Paris 2024 Olympic places booked, and more medals won. As the swimming starts we hear from Adam Peaty on his return to the Worlds for the first time in 5 years, diver Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix who keeps breaking records and artistic swimmer Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe who booked a Team GB place in Paris! But as we continue our countdown to Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, we lost one of the big names in the Marathon this week. World Athletics pay tribute to World record holder and London Marathon winner Kelvin Kiptum who died, along with his coach, in a crash in Kenya. There's also a Winter Olympics round up in our News from the Games. This is Anything but Footy - the Olympic and Paralympics Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the podcast where we speak to the men and women behind the scenes of British sport. Our guest this week, is the ideal guest and we're sorry its taken us so long to get her on! 2012 Olympic rowing champion with Katherine Grainger and now in charge of supporting and assisting athletes during and after their elite career as the CEO of the British Elite Athletes Association, that's now been going for 20 years! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What a start to one of the biggest sporting events to take place before this summer's Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics.... British Swimming has won gold, silver and bronze in the diving pool, qualified more places for Paris for Team GB in Open Water and featured in the first Water Polo Worlds for a decade! We hear from medal winners Tom Daley, Hector Pardoe, Grace Reid and Ross Haslam. We also find out about British Cycling's BIG cycling plans for Britain! Have the rest of the News from Games inc Paris 2024 tickets, Table Tennis, Judo and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices