Anything but Footy

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 the London Stadium in the football season in 2029 can't have helped - but we say get the Ultimates in London! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 hear from the mixed 4x400m runners up Ben Jefferies Yemi Mary John Toby Harries & Charlotte Henrich - as well as Jake Wightman and Hannah Nuttall who's also off to another new World Athletics event - the World Road Running Champs! In the meantime all the best Budapest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 champion Matt Hudson Smith & 400m hurdler Lina Nielsen This is Anything but Footy, and talkSPORT, on the penultimate night of the Ultimate Championships! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 compete from Great Britain’s Yemi Mary John - and why its already an important event from a British legend - the one and only Brendan Foster! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 explains the new 200m lane draft process! Michael in Budapest and John also preview the first night's competition which includes events like the 4x100m mixed relay, high jump finals, and pole vault with Mondo Duplantis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 the podcast  and talkSPORT on the radio, the biggest stars, the biggest names and the biggest results! The official anthem for the World Athletics Ultimate Championship by pole vault legend and Ultimate Star Mondo Duplantis Stream the song here 👉 https://open.spotify.com/track/1uFpnw... ℗ 2026 Hoss Music under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment Sweden  This is Anything but Footy at the Ultimate Athletics Championships! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! In a bumper episode of the podcast, we also hear from British cyclists Lewis Askey, Ben Swift & Matt Bostock on the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 summer of success for England, Scotland, Wales & N Ireland - and ultimately we look ahead to what's next ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 here? Jakob Ingebrigtsen suggests so! This is Anything but Footy at the European Athletics Championships! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Commonwealth silver medalist won silver in the 400m hurdles - but frustration at the seeding system for fellow British finalist Lina Nielsen. We agree it's unfair! Oh and Keely goes again this lunchtime! This is Anything but Footy at the European Athletics Championships! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Keely Hodgkinson's comfortably through, but should we really be talking botox? This is Anything but Footy at the European Athletics Championships! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Athletics Champs and hear from Imani Lansiquot and Scott Lincoln. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Netherlands. We also hear from England men's Henry Croft on swapping tarmac for titles, and Steven Bradley, coach of England's first ever team competing in the Para World Cup too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Jump, now 12 years later she's also said what she would do, and better it, leaping 6.93m to win Commonwealth Gold. It comes as the third day of Track Cycling saw Wales' women dominate again with Emma Finucane winning her third gold of these Games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Kerr going for gold tonight while Emma Finucane just keeps on winning in the Velodrome for Team Wales - we look ahead to day with talkSPORT's Georgia Holt! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 much more to come in terms of sporting action and years! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 colleague in Glasgow and friend of the pod Georgia Holt to cover off all the cycling - with Matt Richardson out what else can we look forward to? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Nowacki and Ruby Evans made history for Jersey and Wales and watch out on Day 6 for the men's mile with Josh Kerr & the men's 200m freestyle in the pool - stacked fields both of them! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 reporting (John) for talkSPORT, forgive us for focusing on the first day of athletics whoch also saw double golds for England and Jamaica and Scotland are top of the podium for the first time to! But we've our News from the Games in Gymnastics, Swimming and Medal table update to! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices