Anything but Footy - #49 Athletics is back but where were the Brits at the British Championships

#49 Athletics is back but where were the Brits at the British Championships

09/08/20 • 38 min

This is Anything but Footy - the Olympic and Paralympic Podcast.

New faces on and off the track for British Athletics as the sport returned with the British Championships after lockdown. Christian Malcolm is the new Head Coach for the Olympic Programme, a welcome appointment for many, but and alongside new CEO Joanna Coates, there's a lot of issues to sort out! But all we ask is please give them time - this isn't footy!

Holly Bradshaw, Jake Wightman, Sophie McKinna and Abigail Irozuru were just 4 of Britain's 16 podium funded athletes competing at the national championships in Manchester as others sat it out, or ran elsewhere around Europe. Should they not all be supporting the governing body and its broadcast deals? And could it be the end of the Diamond League sparkle in the UK? We also talk Adidas, Nike, Reebok ...

Georgia Taylor-Brown became another British world champion in Triathlon in Hamburg and Giles Scott remains on course for another Olympic sailing medal - but what colour?

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This is Anything but Footy - the Olympic and Paralympic Podcast.

Georgia Taylor-Brown became another British world champion in Triathlon in Hamburg and Giles Scott remains on course for another Olympic sailing medal - but what colour?

This is the Olympic and Paralympic podcast - Anything but Footy! Let us know what you think @anythingbutf on twitter or message us on insta & FB or check out the website www.anything butfooty.com

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#20 Great British Bosses: Craig Spence, International Paralympic Committee

This is Great British Bosses from ‘Anything but Footy.’ John Cushing and Michael Weadock present the podcast having covered the Paralympic, Olympic and Commonwealth Games, Euro 2016, Wimbledon, World Cycling Championships, Tour De Yorkshire and the Rugby World Cup for our leading commercial radio stations during the past 10 years and between them they have 50 years of broadcasting experience.

In our 20th episode of 'Great British Bosses’, we go to the heart of one of the biggest and influential sporting organisations of the world. Craig Spence joined the International Paralympic Committee as Communications Manager ten years ago and is now Chief Brand and Communications Officer - as well as outstanding athletes and performance in London and Rio in recent Games - Craig's effectively responsible for the continued good name of the IPC!

He tells us how encouraged he now is the Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead next summer as sport begins to return around the world - and they have 12 months to work as hard as they can to stage a safe Games for athletes and spectators alike! Craig reveals his parents are his secret weapon in ensuring the Paralympics gets the exposure and media coverage it deserves. He reveals London 2012 may have been a game changer but actually Rio 2016, despite being 24 hours from cancellation, kicked the movement on even more! And why kicking out Russia from the Paralympics 4 years ago was his proudest moment!

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#21 Great British Bosses: Jeremy Tomlinson, England Golf

This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy, the podcast where we profile the men and women responsible for running sport in this country, from grassroots participation to those medal moments at Olympic, Paralympic and elite level.

Coronavirus and lockdown has dominated our lives in 2020 and for our guest, in this the 21st episode, he faced the unenviable task of closing 1800 golf clubs just 9 weeks after starting his job.

Chief Executive of England Golf Jeremy Tomlinson, started in January, and admits his organisation was inundated in the first three weeks of the cover-19 crisis in the spring with all the uncertainty, but since an early easing of lockdown in mid May, the success of the return to golf has been ‘overwhelming’ and it's now his key focus to "make sure we come out of this with substance" and keep and engage the 20,000 new members and participants, which has seen the number of rounds increase this year by 40%.

Jeremy tells us golf is a top 5 sport in this country and it's for everybody, for all ages, gender and ethnicity. He also reveals he’s a huge fan of the Olympics and thinks its great golf is now part of it again but also wishes for more coverage of the sport on terrestrial TV.

This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy. If you like what you hear, and there’s 20 more episodes to catch up with, please subscribe and download and maybe even leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Thanks!

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