#10 Great British Bosses: James Hope-Gill, Skateboard GB & Skateboard England

This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy. In this series, we profile the men and women responsible for running sport in this country. These people are often responsible for managing teams, staff, budgets, grassroots participation and overseeing those medal moments at Olympic, Paralympic and elite level. James Hope-Gill is the Chief Executive of Skateboard GB and Skateboard England. Both are relatively new organisations with Skateboard GB set up to represent skateboarding athletes on the lead up to Tokyo 2020. It will be the first time skateboarding has been part of the Olympic Games. Skateboard GB was in receipt of UK Sport funding to help qualify and prepare a potential British team in Japan. In this episode we find out about the challenges of establishing a new national governing body for a new Olympic sport. This is great British Bosses from Anything but Footy. If you like what you hear, please subscribe and also leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices