Famous British double-acts and sporting brothers! It's like we planned this podcast in advance!

70 days to go to Paris 2024 and nearly 70 athletes confirmed for Team GB - Izzy Thorpe and Kate Shortman are going for a medal in the artistic swimming the pool - can the Bello brothers Javier and Joaquin join them on the beach? We ask them all!

There's also our News from the Games rowing, pentathlon and it's 100 days to go the Paris Paralympics!

Download, listen and follow - and give us a review get the Olympic word out there!

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UK Anti Doping is the national body responsible for ensuring athletes and sports in this country are clean. Jane Rumble is UKAD’s Chief Executive and our latest guest during Clean Sport Week.

The aim is to celebrate clean athletes on their journey to the podium, and ahead of this summer’s Olympics and Paralympics.

But how much trust should sports fans have in the anti-doping system, particularly after the revelation of 23 Chinese swimmers being cleared before the Tokyo Games. And what might the much lauded Enchanced Games mean for sport?

Find out in this episode of Great British Bosses - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK.

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We're diving into Paris 2024 with the 8 athletes confirmed by Team GB to compete as 4 pairs of synchro divers at this summer's Olympics. Hear from an Olympic champion, about an Olympic champion, World Championship medalists and much more!

There's Judo, BMX, Gymnastics, Athletics and Cycling in our news from the games.

And a world champion and two legends join us to discuss the future of the Crucible as a venue - shouldn't world championships be going round the globe anyway?

PLUS as Paris 2024 revealed it's official theme for the Games*, we put together our best Olympics Music playlist on Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6nNHYGjQLbkGKRKUcsmHgt?si=T1diRLYjS3OWfoDmc5ZTEQ&pi=e-3Z5SzSvFRQme

*The music used in this podcast came courtesy of @Paris2024. The official theme of the Games, "Parade" is composed by Victor le Masne, recorded with the Orchestre National de France and the Chœur et Maitrise de Radio France.

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We're onto episode 72 of Great British Bosses and 4 years on, from our first conversation, Vicky Gosling is back, she's our first full returnee and we're delighted!

We originally caught up with the GB Snowsport CEO in early 2020. 4 years on, a pandemic and covid hit Winter Olympics later, we're now talking GB Surfing - a brand new governing body aiming for wins on the waves!

Vicky is the chair and reveals there's still a slim chance for a Team GB surfer at the Paris Games but the real focus is on LA in 4 years time.

She also updates on how GB Snowsport bounced back after a disappointing Beijing 2022 and funding cut, ahead of Milano Cortina in 2026.

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"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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