Episodes
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Great British Bosses - Danika Taylor
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...
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#233 World Para Table Tennis Championships & 'Stars Align' for LA 2028
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…
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#232 Cycling Success & Controversy At World Track Championships
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 Silvers and bronze for 4 time Commonwealth Games gold medalist Emma Finucane as her boyfriend Matt Richardson is withdrawn from the team!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,...
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Great British Bosses - Jonathan Phillips & Tim Bratton
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…
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Great British Bosses - Paul Bush
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…
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#231 British Judo at the World Championships
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…
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Great British Bosses - Ali Brownlee
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...
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Great British Bosses - Jonny Brownlee
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…
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#230 Athlos London with Keely Georgia Imani Daryl & Gabby
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…
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#229 Not London 2029 World Athletics Championships
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…
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#228 The Ultimate Athletics Championships Night Three
The Ultimate British champion as Josh Kerr bagged 150,000 dollars and the Ultimate trophy to add to his Commonwealth Gold and Mile World Record from earlier in the summer. Has King Kerr take Queen Keely British Athletics crown for now? A bumper champs for British Athletics in terms of places - we...
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#227 The Ultimate Athletics Championships Night Two
Second Night, second places for Great Britain’s middle distance stars Keely Hodgkinson and Georgia Hunter Bell but both team-mates happy with their nights work after a long season and looking forward to a break! As the Americans dominated the sprints again, we hear from GB's European 400m…
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#226 The Ultimate Athletics Championships Night One
Big wins, big shocks, the best of the best in Budapest and bundles of cash being won! Mondo and Jakob won the Ultimates as Great Britain’s Jaz Sawyers completed a super summer with second place in the women’s long jump 💰 We round up the night one action in Budapest - and hear what it was like to...
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#225 The Ultimate Athletics Championships Day Before!
The Day Before - a unique feature of these brand new Champs in Budapest including a red carpet which saw the 380+ athletes from 60+ federations including 20 British competitors walking and talking! We hear from World Athletics' Jon Ridgeon, European champions Matt Hudson Smith and Amy Hunt, who...
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#224 The Ultimate Athletics Championships with Seb Coe
The best in Budapest - World Athletics President Seb Coe tells us “it’s what the fans want” as the first ever Ultimates take place this weekend - and we’ll be there too! After Glasgow, London, Birmingham and even Bedford this summer - Michael is packing his bags again one more time to bring us on...
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#223 Lilah Fear & Lewis Gibson Back To Winning Ways
What a start to September with a special one with two of Team GB's biggest Winter Olympic stars! Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson tell us they're 'going for 2030' French Alps - after returning to action with victory in the first international event of the Ice Dance season the Bolero Cup in Sheffield!…
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#222 European Athletics Champs & the Commonwealth Games
For all the talk before the summer of who's focusing on the Commonwealth Games or the European Athletics Championships, 82% of British athletes who won medals in Birmingham had also competed at Glasgow! We hear from GB long jumper Jaz Sawyers who won a gold and silver at both and round up the...
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#221 European Athletics Championships Day 4
Amy Hunt wants to be iconic and win 4 golds - after doing the sprint double she says the rest of the week will now be fun - we agree! Dina Asher Smith makes British European Champs history. It’s Werro, Broeders-Bol and Hodgkinson in the 800m final And is Josh Kerr ruining the sport by not being...
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#220 European Athletics Championships Day 3
Laughing his way to European Championship history - Brummie boy Matthew Hudson Smith delivered an outstanding 400m gold medal on his home track - winning his 3rd individual Euro gold and 8th medal overall! 2 flags, 2 championships, 2 medals, same colour, same smile for Emily Newnham as the...
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#219 European Athletics Championships Day 2
A brilliant British 1-2 in the blue riband men's 100m final in Birmingham through Romell Glave and Jeremiah Azu! So far despite all the withdrawals from Glasgow a fortnight ago, every British athlete that's won a medal at these Europeans also ran at the Commonwealth Games too. Interesting! And...
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#218 European Athletics Championships Day 1
Another week another world class athletics championships - but can we have too much of a good thing? The empty seats might suggest so! But nothing can take away from the golden night at last for Amy Hunt - the new European 100m champion! We round up all the action on day 1 of the European…
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#217 England Hockey at the 2026 World Cup
Glasgow is gone, so we're looking ahead to LA and all over the 2030 Alps! But sometimes you need to look back to move forward, so we catch up with 2016 Olympic gold medalist Lily Owsley as in this brilliant summer of Sport the Hockey World Cup is taking place across the North Sea in Belgium & the...
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Commonwealth Games The Final Braw
We're back at home and back to reality - but still time for a quick look back at Glasgow 2026 - the Games that rescued the Commonwealth Games! Thank you to everyone who made Glasgow Great!
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Commonwealth Games Daily Braw Sunday August 2 Day 10
Does sport get any better on a Saturday night than watching a British athlete dominate an event and win the Commonwealth Games gold medal? Josh Kerr is the true track King of Scotland - he said he would win at the start of the year and he did. Jaz Sawyers won silver in Glasgow in 2014 in the Long...
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Commonwealth Games Daily Braw Saturday August 1 Day 9
Golden night for Georgia Hunter Bell and new silver stars for Team England on the athletics track too! Tears from the new 800m Commonwaealth champion on the podium - we want to see a race with team-mate and training partner Kelly Hogkinson next!! Day 9 sees the Mile return to the Games with Josh...
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Commonwealth Games Daily Braw Friday July 31 Day 8
Scottish Power and England Lion! Megan Keith bagged a brilliant bronze in the womens 5000m as Emily Campbell looked incredible with her red mane and lifted even better too! Quite the day in Glasgow at Scotstoun and the Armadillo as our very own John Cushing reached his half century! Hopefully…
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Commonwealth Games Daily Braw Thursday July 30 Day 7
History making night at the athletics track for Kate O’Connor - while England’s Elise Thorner in the 3000m steeplechase delivered one of the standout performances of the summer. Home Nation boxers bag bucket loads of medals And we’re joined by Commonwealth Games medalist, our talkSPORT reporter...
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Commonwealth Games Daily Braw Wednesday July 29 Day 6
The heavens opened - the medals rained down! A soaking Scotstoun saw the new kings and queens of the sprints crowned - including Cameroon's first gold through Emmanuel Eseme in a Games record time in the mens 100 - and England's Amy Hunt 'rescued' a silver medal in the 200. Elsewhere, Filip…
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Commonwealth Games Daily Braw Tuesday July 28 Day 5
The Aussies are dominating the pool, and they started with a gold on the Scotstoun athletics track too! What a performance from Rose Davies in the women's 10k infront of a Scottish crowd that had been expecting Eilish McColgan! Having done athletics race commentary (Michael) and mixed zone...
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Commonwealth Games Daily Braw Monday July 27 Day 4
A historic night for Team Scotland at their home games - with a gold in the gymnastics, the first ever in the men's all round - for 21 yo Rebeun Ward. Angharad Evans delivered a brilliant last 50 in the 100m breaststroke final to ensure another Flower of Scotland at Tollcross - Adam Ramsay-Peaty...
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Commonwealth Games Daily Braw Sunday July 26 Day 3
Talk about a next generation - from Filip Nowacki becoming the first Brit to beat Adam Ramsay-Peaty in major comp in 4 years - in fact since the last Commonwealth Games - to England and Wales young women's gymnastics going toe to toe in the Team event! Day 2 was quite the day! Glasgow 2026...
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Commonwealth Games Daily Braw Saturday July 25 Day 2
Golden moments for Team Scotland, England, Australia and Canada on day 1 of the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Michael was at England's first in Powerlifting, Scotland's first in Swimming and the first of many for Australia! John saw Canada's men win their first gymnastic Team gold since 2006...
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Commonwealth Games Daily Braw Fri July 24 Day 1
Tardis, Tartan, Tunstall and Tunnocks - spectacular Scottish Opening Ceremony to Glasgow 2026! Day 1 sees 5 sports with swimming boxing gymnastics powerlifting and bowls in action - 13 medals up for grabs. We’ve the News from the Games and the athletics selection headache for Team England !
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Commonwealth Games Daily Braw Thu July 23 Day 0
It's like Christmas for Michael - Opening Ceremony Day! But with this new look Games - prepared in just 18 months - there's a new look to the familiar Opening Ceremony - we'll explain all! Hosts Scotland, as well as England and Wales name their Flag and Baton bearers - and Michael's achieve's...
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Commonwealth Games Daily Braw Jul 22 Day -1
Welcome to our brand new season for the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games! The Daily Braw - which is Scottish slang for good - will be rounding up the main headlines and highlights from the largest sporting event in the UK this year! In episode one, Michael's already on the west coast of Scotland…
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#216 London Diamond League Sparkles But More Glasgow Withdrawals
Josh Kerr broke a world record in a magnificent mile that had stood from 1999 - the earth lierally shook at the London Stadium! Keely Hodgkinson returned to winning ways despite her sliced knees in the 800m. But Dina Asher Smith & Julien Alfred have pulled out of Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games -...
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#215 Paddle UK at the Canoe Slalom World Championships
We've been looking ahead LA for a while but its time to get serious! The first points for 2028 qualification are starting this year in Canoe Slalom and Kayak Cross - at the World Championships in Oklahoma! It's also the venue for the LA 2028 Games despite being 1400 miles away! In this episode we...
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Great British Bosses - Dame Sarah Storey
Great Britain’s greatest-ever Paralympian, Dame Sarah Storey, has revealed she is stepping away from international competition. From starting her career as a swimmer aged 14, in Barcelona 1992, the 19th gold medal she won in Paris 2024 will be her last and she's told us there's no way she'll be...
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#214 Russia Returns As Nordic Combined Is Removed
We knew it would happen - Russia is returning to the Olympics. We hear from IOC president Kirsty Coventry on importance of neutrality. Nordic Combined - a Winter Olympic event since the start - has been removed from the Alpes 2030. Can you imagine if swimming was scrapped from the summer games?…
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Great British Bosses - Jonathon Riall
"Everyone is chasing the Aussies" - that from the head of Team England as the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games approaches. Jonathon Riall - or Jonny Riall - knows a thing or two about multi sport events having led the Paralympics GB team during the recent Winter Games amongst many other things. He...
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#213 Olympic 10k Grants & Commonwealth Sport
With Glasgow 2026 this month (!) we look at the future of the Games with Commonwealth Sport CEO Katie Sadlier after Scotland saved the movement and India host next! There's our News from the Games with pleny of Team England announcements - hear from Birmingham bronze medalist Jade O Dowda who's...
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#212 Wimbledon 2026
Wimbledon 2026 Day One - a day of withdrawals and not many wins for Great British Tennis. Michael and John are at the All England Club the day after Emma Raducanu pulled out and on the day Jack Draper also withdrew through ongoing injury concerns. We catch up with BBC commentators Nick Lester and...
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Great British Bosses - Richard Phelps
If strawberries and cream are synonymous with Wimbledon - it's probably pimms and sparkling wine for Henley Royal Regatta - the biggest rowing event in the world that's been staged nearly every year since 1839! It stemmed from the Boat Race and as you'll hear its idea of stewardship, good manners...
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#211 Olympic Day with Max Whitlock & Emma Finucane
John & Michael catch up with the Olympic champions from gymnastics and cycling at either end of the country as part of Olympic Day! The Team GB Foundation that put on the special events in Essex and Manchester aims to inspire healthy, active and happy kids and get everyone moving! Max was…
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Glasgow 2026 One Month To Go!
One month to go! Crazy to think where the Commonwealth Games may have ended up if Glasgow hadn’t stepped up - but it means so much to people! We hear from Olympic and defending Commonwealth Games champion Rhys McClenaghan, 2014 cycling champion Joanna Rowsell and Glasgow 2026 CEO Phil Batty.…
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#210 British Athletics Championships 2026
What a weekend! Back in Birmingham the British Athletics Championships over two days didn't disappoint! Shocks, surprises, withdrawals and dramatic wins and unhappy shot puters! Serial winner Scott Lincoln tells us why! We have the latest as Keely Hodgkinson doesn't compete in the 400m final…
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Great British Bosses - Daryll Neita
In this season, we continue to speak to the people who have changed British sport during their careers like Victoria Pendleton. In this episode, we're delighted to catch up with Team GB and British Athletics sprinter Daryll Neita, the Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth medalist, ten years…
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#209 The New Protection Of Women In Olympic Sport Policy
The Protection Of Women In Olympic Sport Policy was published at the end of the Olympics and Paralympics in Milano Cortina at the end of March 2026. We said it was too important to not talk about, but John & Michael weren't necessarily the only voices needed on this topic! In this episode we're...
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#208 Paying Olympic Athletes with Greg Rutherford
The International Olympic Committee sit on a huge amount of money and there should be a way to funnel it down to the athletes! The views of Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth gold medalist Greg Rutherford who joins us on the pod after IOC President Kirsty Coventry said "I don't believe in...
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Great Bosses - Paul Caine
Slight twist on the usual spin off of Anything but Footy. We’re joined by President of On Location Paul Caine to talk all things LA 28 Olympic hospitality - and we ask if he could sell the North of England Games??? On Location offer a premium way to experience the Olympics by combining guaranteed...
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