Anything but Footy

The International Olympic Committee says sports around their world should lift their ban on Belarus competing individually or as a national team, that's been in place since the Ukraine War started in 2022. The IOC Executive Board says athletes "should not be limited by the actions of their governments". But Russia remain banned not because of war but of concerns about the anti-doping regime - its ten years since they were found guilty of state sponsored doping at Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. Are these the right decisions? We hear from President Kirsty Coventry. In a bumper News from the Games edition there's French Alps, Youth Olympics and Brisbane updates, Glasgow 2026 Commonwealths and Birmingham European Athletics headlines. PLUS is the UK bidding for the Olympics again the 2040s? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth medalist - Eilidh Doyle is Scotland's most decorated track and field athlete - but she doesn't like to mention it! The face of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games is now an ambassador as the Games return to the Scottish City for the second time in 12 years, if not in quite the same capacity. But with the centenary around the corner, at least Glasgow saved the movement - now it's time to put on a show! And as Eilidh is a proud Hearts fan - we break the habit of a lifetime and ask what's more nerve-wracking an Olympic final or the Edinburgh club potentially winning the Scottish Premier League for the first time? This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy, the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The World Team Championships is the World Cup of Table Tennis! 100 years after starting in London it's back this week with 64 nations from around the world competing! England as hosts will get a place in the final 32 which gets underway this coming Bank Holiday weekend at Wembley! With half a million people playing Table Tennis every week in the UK, and a new mixed team event being added to the next Olympic Games in LA, we catch with organiser and CEO of TT England Sally Lockyer. This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy the behind the scene conversation of Sport in the UK. And check out www.London-2026.com for more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're gearing up for Glasgow and so are the thousands of volunteers who'll be helping put on the Games this summer in Scotland. The 'Legends' have been revealed and we hear from one in this latest episode of the podcast with Glasgow 2026 - four time Commonwealth Games gold medalist gymnast Jake Jarman - the man with his face plastered across the City! For tickets & more on the Games check out Glasgow 2026 ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"The biggest and most exciting marathon yet - the atmosphere across Greater Manchester was truly electric from start to finish". We're joined by ASO UK CEO Andrew Smith to talk all things Manchester Marathon after a record breaking weekend. We discuss plans for a two day London Marathon "you dont want Christmas everyday!" and could the World Marathon Champs help the North West's Olympic bid!? Quite possibly! And if you can be there next year on Sunday April 18 2027 found out more www.manchestermarathon.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

100 days to go - we're into the HOME STRAIGHT - and so could you be! More tickets are going on sale next TUESDAY (Apr 21) for the first ever European Athletics Championships in the UK, on the home straight, the final 100m at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham. We hear from European champions Darren Campbell and Ashleigh Nelson. We also talk relays with Darren as he's in charge for UK Athletics, and Winter Olympics with Ashleigh - she's heading back to the bob! PLUS News from the Games with canoe slalom, marathon, swimming LA 28 legacy and a retirement round up from Jamie, Beth, Luke and Axel Brown! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Did you get your 2028 Olympic ticket slot? Or get snubbed like John? Are we still looking ahead to LA? We're still gearing up for Glasgow 2026 and 9 time Commonwealth Games medalist Nile Wilson joins us on the pod to talks all things Commies & and return of Max Whitlock to gymnastics! There's our News from the Games too after a big weekend for Michael in the Boat Race - no he wasn't rowing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Never under estimate a double Olympic and world champion! Impressive in his swimming now setting the standard to help his fellow Olympics and Paralympic athletes! Still only 23, Matt Richards is using personal experience and entrepreneurialism to solve a gap in the market for athletes and brands with a brand new platform. Sponza is now live with over 5,000 athletes and brands signed up! Hear all about his, his frustration at the coverage of his sport post Olympics, the ridiculous Enhanced Games, unfinished business at the Commonwealths and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sport in the Spring doesn't get any bigger than the Boat Races on the River Thames in London. For nearly 200 years, Cambridge and Oxford Universities have been taking to the Tideway for a varsity challenge now dubbed the greatest rivalry in Rowing! The men and women's races take place this Easter Saturday and Michael will be commentating for Times Radio who are broadcasting the race officially live for the first time ever! So a busy week for Boat Race Company Chair Siobhan Cassidy who joined us to talk all about it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With four months to go, Glasgow is preparing to stage the biggest Para event in the history of Commonwealth Games this summer! Hundreds of athletes across multiple sports in the middle of the spectacular sporting summer on the banks of the Clyde. In this special episode of the podcast we hear from Paralympic gold medalist and Glasgow 2026 ambassador Sammi Kinghorn on why she's gutted at missing out. And keep listening to hear which of the new British World Indoor Athletics Champions will be there too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We always said this was a stacked team for British Athletics! And if it hadn't been for the two relay wins for USA in the last two events, Great Britain would've topped the medal table with 4 golds! Middle distance king Josh Kerr and then the golden girls of Georgia Hunter Bell, Molly Caudery and Keely Hodgkinson on a Super Sunday! We hear from them, record breaking Scott Lincoln PLUS Wimbledon and the British Gymnastics Champs in News from the Games! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two time Olympic medalist and 1500m world champion Josh Kerr joins us on the second of these episodes looking at the World Indoors in Poland this weekend! He wants to win the 3000m title again like he did in Glasgow in 2024 - and also confirms to us he'll be back in Scotland for the Commonwealth Games this summer! Yemi Mary John is also one to watch - the British 400m champion beating the British world indoor champion from last year Amber Anning in the trials! We've also our News from the Games - we're gearing up for Glasgow and looking ahead to LA! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

British world champion Jeremiah Azu defends his 60m title at the Indoor Athletics Championships this weekend. Fellow sprint star and world outdoor silver medalist Amy Hunt is looking for a big start to a season again ahead of the Europeans, Commonwealths and Ultimate Championships. We hear from them both in the Olympic and Paralympic podcast - springing into summer and looking ahead to LA - and we've the winter sport round up too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He's probably the most famous British swimmer of all time - and all thanks to one of Britain's best ever boxers Henry Cooper apparently! Duncan Goodhew Olympic champion and president of Swimathon that's celebrating it's 40th anniversary this week. You can still get involved check out swimathon.org to take part And as the winter Games comes to an end and we switch to summer Olympic sports - find out all about Duncan's competitive bobsleigh career!! This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Day Eight - not Great for Britain and NI. We review the Winter Paralympics from a GB perspective with Dr Kate Baker the Performance Director of UK Sport. They warned us it wouldn't be Beijing or 2018 or even 2014 but did they expect this? We also round up the News from the Games as the Italians have their best ever Games and so do the Aigners from Austria! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the original Kylie once said "Step Back In Time". It's 2010 and the Conservatives and Lib Dems had a coalition Government just months after the Winter Paralympics in Vancouver. With just one medal so far in Milano Cortina, we have to look back 16 years for a worse medal return for Great Britain and NI. We look-back but also ask is there still time to change it? And GB decathlete turned snowboarder Matt Hamilton takes us on his Paralympic journey in TNT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A day when the first ever Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling champions were crowned - China btw - and a day when the British Curling campaign came to end in the Mixed Team too. Russia moved upto 4th in the medal table - above Ukraine. We've the very latest Milano Daily on the Winter Paralympics - and in TNT Tomorrow's News Today - Nina Sparks the first ever British female snowboarder joins us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We knew it was coming - and so did Neil Simpson and Rob Poth! The Visually Impaired Alpine Skiing Combined silver medalists winning Paralympics GB's first medal of Milano Cortina. Hear from them both on the focus on the Slalom, the support, what's next and the freebies! We've the rest of the News from the Games and in TNT Tomorrow's News Today, we hear from the youngest member of the British team 16 year old standing skier Dom Allen! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

4th, 5th and 6th for Great Britain in another day of what might have been at Milano Cortina Winter Paralympics. Carry on Curling came to an unhappy ending for Team JJ - and Mixed Team seem out of sorts too. GB's Menna & Katie and Neil & Rob still have three events to go in the Alpine Skiing! Russia win their first gold since 2014 while in TNT Tomorrow's News Today we hear from another one of three British teenagers making their debut on the slopes these Games Sam Cozens! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Day Three could be the day it all changes for Paralympics GB! Day Two was a write off let be honest, but with Menna & Katie Neil & Andrew - the Beijing medalists from 4 years ago - in Super G action could make it a magic Monday! We could also see Team JJ qualify for the mixed doubles Curling semis! And in TNT Tomorrow's News Today one of three teenagers in the team - the brilliant Hester Poole is on the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the Paralympics - but it's started like the Olympics! A fourth place for Paralympics GB in the men's downhill VI - but never fear more events to coe for Neil Simpson! The Curling rolls on with wins for GB, Russia make a podium for the first time since Sochi 2014 but its Ukraine who top the early medal table! & In TNT Tomorrow's News Today GB's Fred Warburton ahead of the Super G tells us why its a home games for him! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“Four years ago I said I was horrified at what was happening in the world. Unfortunately, the situation has not improved.” The apt words from International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons at the underwhelming Opening Ceremony to Milano Cortina Winter Paralympics. Boycotts, no shows, withdrawals, injuries its been quite the build up! But now the sport starts! And we've the latest in TNT Tomorrow's News Today, hearing from groundbreaking British snowboarder Davy Zyw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With all the athletes in Cortina or Milan, the Cauldrons there too, boycotts because of Russia's return and other nations like GB not going because of competition - as the curtain raiser for the biggest ever Winter Paralympics is about to happen the key question - What they doing in Verona? We've the latest News from the Games - too much sunshine - the missing Curling stones - and Paralympics GB finally get into the winning ways too! TNT Tomorrow's News Today is the Scottish & English Mixed Curling Team - we hear from them! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The sport has started at Milano Cortina Winter Paralympics before the Opening Ceremony - and it's a brand new one! Mixed Doubles in Wheelchair Curling making it's Games debut - but not the result Great Britain were hoping for losing 10-7 to Estonia in match one! Paralympics GB's alpine skiers are also out training on the downhill slopes in Cortina - we hear from Beijing gold medalist Neil Simpson in TNT Tomorrow's News Today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paralympics GB won't be at the Opening Ceremony in Verona on Friday, but its not a boycott as a result of the return of the Russians - it's just all the athletes in Cortina are competing the next day! It's one of the many talking points as we cross to Cortina this episode Milano Daily and countdown to the 50th anniversary of the Winter Paralympics with chef de mission Phil Smith. We try and answer one your questions - could Scotland stage a Winter Games? And tomorrow's news today is BACK - with wheelchair curling mixed doubles stars Jo Butterfield & Jason Kean starting on Wednesday (Mar 4!) Milano Daily is back with updates everyday on the 2026 Winter Paralympics! (Thanks to Phil for the Agitos in Cortina 📸!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The most successful British Winter Olympics Team Ever! The loudest cheer ever heard at Gatwick Airport! Team GB's record breakers are back in the UK and celebrating their magical Milano Cortina Games. We were there for radio and the podcast in the South Terminal - and in this episode we hear how time heals for ice dancers Lilah Fear & Lewis Gibson and catch with skeleton star Freya Tarbit on her first ever Olympic experience. And TNT Tomorrow's News Today returns as Paralympics GB name a 25 strong team for the Winter Games story to continue on Friday March 6th! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The greatest Winter Olympics ever for Team GB! 3 golds, a silver in the Curling and a bronze on the final day for Zoe Atkin on halfpipe ensured, Great Britain ended Milano Cortina 2026 with 5 medals and 15th in the medal table. We hear from Bruce Mouat, Hammy MacMillan and Zoe Atkin on their wining weekend - gold medalists Matt Weston and Charlotte Bankes from last weekend will carry the Union flag at the Closing Ceremony! And after reaching their medal target of 4-8, how does UK Sport rate these Games for Team GB? Performance Director Dr Kate Baker joins us Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics are coming to a close, but have they show the way forward for the Games of the future? IOC president Kirsty Coventry suggests so. We're joined by Team GB's Niall Treacy to review his Olympics And in our News from the Games, the latest Bobsleigh updates, talk flying Dutchmen (and women) and the Canadians leave it late in the hockey again! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another winning weekend in store for Team GB? Saturday night's alright as the British men's Curling team go for gold in the Olympic final knowing they have guaranteed a medal. While Zoe Atkin qualified first in the Freeski Halfpipe final - that happens at the same time this weekend! During the last few days of the Olympics, we are going to lookback and reflect some of the highs and lows for Team GB during these Games - and in this episode we're joined by 5 time British pairs champion Anastasia Vaipan Law and Luke Digby. We round up the USA victories in women's Ice Hockey and Figure Skating in Milan - and in Tomorrow's News Today #TNT we hear from the very last British athlete in action in the Ski Cross - Ollie Davies! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The greatest skier of all time was crowned on the slopes in Cortina as Czechia nearly delivered the Miracle on Ice Part 2. Another crazy day at the Winter Olympics which is why we love it! Team GB  curlers are loving it too - crucial matches today before the semi finals hopefully! In tomorrow’s news today we have the latest on the British bobsleigh and hear from Summer now Winter Olympian Ashleigh Nelson! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Curtains for Curlers? The best men's team in the world for the past 4 years - Great Britain - are now relying on other results going their way for a medal. We've all the details! An injury concern for Team GB's 4 man bobsleigh ahead of official training - as the Ryussians are back for the Paralympics in two weeks. PLUS as the snow continues in Livigno, in tomorrow's news today we talk to one of the youngest members of the Great British squad - Liam Richards who's about to compete in the freeski halfpipe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kirsty Muir has had quite the Winter Olympics - another 4th place a record fifth for Team GB at the Games. What a show the snow and skiers put on in Livigno in the Big Air though! We round up all the day's News from the Games incl a MUST win for Mouat's British Curlers! And in Tomorrow's News Today, one of the blue riband events at the Winter Games is the men's 4 man bobsleigh - we have brake man Greg Cackett on looking ahead! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Greatest Ever Day in Team GB Winter Olympic History! Mixed Snowboard Cross Gold followed by Mixed Skeleton GOLD - 3 new Olympic champions in Huw Nightingale Charlotte Bankes and Tabby Stoecker, and Matt Weston becoming the first British winter Olympian to win two golds in one games! Hear from them all in this episode and a jubilant Team GB chef de mission Eve Muirhead PLUS latest news from the Games and with a big week to come for British men’s Curling we focus on them in Tomorrow’s News Today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Milano bells are ringing for the second week of the Winter Olympics! Can Team GB add to their one medal? John and Michael team up in person in Milano to look ahead! We also round up the News from the Games and in TNT Tomorrow’s News Today we’ve joined by five time Team GB  Olympian Dave Ryding and slalom team-mate Billy Major. And there’s a new contender against Matt Weston for SPOTY from the British Indoor Athletics Champs! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Team GB win a gold medal - so to celebrate in this episode we really do bring you MILAN & CORTINA John’s in Milan Michael’s 200 miles away in the snow of Cortina and has spoken to our first individual male Winter Olympic champion since 1980 Matt Weston - the sliding skeleton superstar! We also hear from the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association on how YOU could be an Olympic champion There’s the News from the Games and in Tomorrow’s News Today - we are back at the Figure Skating in Milan on Sunday with the Pairs short program - hear from Team GB’s Anastasia Vaipan-Law and Luke Digby about it all! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We don’t want to get carried away like earlier this week - but GREAT news for Team GB that Matt Weston leads the men’s skeleton with two heats of the final to come!  Also great news Michael is heading from Milan to Cortina to see it! Follow our socials for his own journey - safe travels to them both! We sit down with British ice dancers who were smiling this week Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez - and we suggest a new nickname? It's Italy's best ever start to an Olympics in the the latest in News From the Games and a special TNT Tomorrow's News Today with mono bob pilot and audio diarist for Anything but Footy Adele Nicoll! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It wasn't to be for Lilah and Lewis but "that strength that they have as a team and individuals will mean many more big nights to come!" Performance Director of British Ice Skating and Leader for Team GB in Milan Jon Ely speaking to us the morning after the night before. Full reaction and the rest of the News from the Games and TNT with women's skeleton! But also a bumper edition of the pod, we're joined by World Champion 60m sprinter Jeremiah Azu ahead of the Novuna UK Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham - see we REALLY do Olympic sport all the time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"We were outplayed - it feels like sh*t!" Just two reactions from Team GB after another day of medal moments and another day of fourth places. We catch up with the Chef De Mission and Olympic champion Eve Muirhead about what's still to come and there's still reason to be optimistic! In News from the Games, Michael watched the USA thrash Canada in Ice Hockey while in Tomorrow's News Today we catch up with world silver medalists in Snowboard Cross Huw Nightingale and Charlotte Bankes and Curling attention switches to the Women's Team Rebecca Morrison! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We go again! Not the day Team GB or we had planned - was that part of the problem? After Muir & Mia finished fourth, we're hoping to avoid a similar position in the Curling and Ice Dance! We've a full round up as Michael saw Lilah's Gran last night! And in tomorrow's news today #TNT, Skeleton's Marcus Wyatt looks ahead to race day and Olympic silver medalist Grant Hardie can't wait to get on the Curling ice! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A historic day for Team GB to come? Could it be Magic Monday!? It was a shocking Sunday on the slopes - we’ve the latest on legend Lindsey Vonn And find out how Michael’s smoke alarm saved him! We've Short Track, Moguls and Biathlon chat with Team GB athletes Niall Treacy Mateo Jeannesson and Jacques Jefferies in Tomorrows News Today! And we’re ready to lead the Northern Olympic bid - Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham just give us a call! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Skeleton defeat, Slopestyle supreme, Seven heaven Curling, Swiss time first gold and speed skating success for home nation! Day 1 delivered for Team GB and the organisers - and Michael got to his first Olympic venue! Baroness Katherine Grainger, chair of the British Olympic Association, even tells us we could exceed our ambition of 4-8 medals in Milano Cortina! In Tomorrow's News Today, we also hear from Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez on what to watch out for in the Ice Dance competition with them and Lilah & Lewis and Ellia Smeding goes in the women's 1000m speed skating! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Multi coloured coffee pots, Mariah Carey and Nessun Dorma left us all in tears! A thoroughly Italian and traditional opening ceremony kicks off the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics in style in Milan - Team GB's Makayla Gerken Schofield in Livigno told us being part of it was cool - and it's clear the people there loved it too! Hear our verdict in FULL, the rest of the day’s news and tomorrow’s news today with GB cross country skier Andrew Musgrave Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How many medals have Team GB won at Winter Olympics? What's the most at one Games? What new sports are making their debut in Milano Cortina? Impress your friends as you watch the Opening Ceremony tonight - as we round up all the stats and facts you need for these Winter Olympcs. There's the latest Curling, Skating and Boarding News from the Games - plus in our Tomorrow's News Today we're joined by Kirsty Muir and Chris McCormick from Livigno to talk FreeSki on Saturday and obviously Pizza! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Winning, waiting, water and white stuff! Oh and Michael Weadock's on his way! We've the latest Curling and Skeleton 'helmet' news from Team GB There's too much snow in Cortina for the women's downhill And in wet Milan, we continue our Figure Skating Team Event focus with Ed Appleby! Download, listen & follow for all things Milano Cortina 2026 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lilah Fear and Brad Hall - two flagbearers for Team GB - in two host cities. The figure slater and bobsleigh pilot have been selected to carry the Union flag into the Opening Ceremonies - Lilah at the San Siro in Milan and Brad in Cortina. Hear from them - and the legend that's Lindsey Vonn in our latest Milano Daily And tomorrow's news today is the start of the Team Skating competition - we hear from Kristen Spours Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Unofficial day 2 and we're already getting an understanding there's more food available than Paris - particularly the Italian special of Pizza! Team GB athletes are enjoying their surroundings in Athletes Villages across N Italy - we hear from freestyle boarders Maisie Hill and Txema Mazet Brown - and Chris McCormick tells us what to watch out for in FreeSki! There's our News from the Games plus more British cycling success away from the Winters! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the first Milano Daily of the Winter Olympics! Every day we'll have the latest headines, News from the Games and Tomorrow's News Today (TNT) In this episode, Olympic Curling champion Jen Dodds and silver medalist Bruce Mouat join us - four years on from fourth place in the Mixed Doubles in Beijing, the curlers kick off the Team GB campaign against Norway this Wednesday Feb 4 in Cortina! This is Anything but Footy covering the Olympics all the time - pass it on! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's nearly fun and GAMES time! A confirmed team of 53 athletes will be representing Team GB when the sport starts in the Winter Olympics this time next week! We've the final two names on the team sheet and hear from two of the 20 GB Snowsport stars confirmed on skis and boards! And make sure you follow, download & listen for our Milano Diary from next week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

14 days to go - 14 Team GB athletes named in the Bobsleigh and Skeleton. We've won medals in these events throughout the history of the Winter Games and there's big hopes the Brits can do the business again this year. We hear from multi World Cup winner in Skeleton Marcus Wyatt on why Beijing is well and truly behind him, and our latest exclusive audio diary from bobsleigh pilot Adele Nicol as she's named by Team GB! We've also the latest from organisers and the IOC President Kirsty Coventry! Listen, download and follow for more ahead and throughout of Milano Cortina Winter Olympics 2026! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kitting out is one of THE moments for an athlete before the Games begin. Uniform, competition kit, casual wear, incase of the Winter Olympics hats, gloves and scarves - and the steel city of Sheffield the host of the first such event ahead of Milano Cortina. Michael was there too with his pal Eve - we've a special report! Sheffield was also one of the stars of the first European Figure Skating Championships in the UK in a decade - we also hear from GB medalists Lilah Fear & Lewis Gibson, team-mates Phebe and James and Niall Treacy on his European Champs in short track speed skating! Two weeks to go before Milano Cortina 2026! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices