"You are bang up to date on everything you need to know ahead of Paris 2024"

Michael sums it up perfectly in our latest Paris 2024 episode - European Champions!

A full rowing round up from Hungary includes Helen Glover, Rebecca Shorten, Esme Booth and Sam Redgrave the women's four gold medalists, and men's pair Tom George & Ollie Wynne-Griffith.

British Boxing's been praised by the IOC for its role in helping Cindy Ngamba book her place in the biggest refugee team ever for Paris 2024.

And Michael speaks to Georgia Bell a rising star on and off the track for British Athletics as the new outdoor season is now upon us!

We're less than 3 months til the Olympic Games - tell your friends where you get the news you need to know!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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!

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