PodCrank | Talk Of Champions | With Philip Hindes & Callum Skinner

In this week's episode, we talk to Ash Dykes, a slightly unusual guest compared to the norm as Ash does not compete in any organised sport but his achievements are as amazing as any Olympian. 29-year-old Ash has already established himself as one of the world's great adventurers; crossing Mongolia and Madagascar facing all kinds of hurdles including Malaria. Most recently he became the first person to walk the length of the River Yangtze in China, completing the 4000 miles in just under a year. We hear about many of his expeditions and how his passion for adventure grew. 

In this week's episode, we speak to Luke Patience. Olympic Silver Medalist, two-time olympian and he has already gained selection for Tokyo 2021.
We hear about Luke's upbringing from humble beginnings moving around Scotland to his meteoric rise through the ranks as part of the illustrious British Sailing Team program. He shares his passion for Sailing and how it aligned well with his competitive and adventurous nature growing up. 
Luke's first significant success came in London 2012 where he won an unexpected silver medal at his first Olympic Games. He successfully dealt with the huge pressure of a home Olympic Games.
In 2016 Luke was aiming one higher, Olympic Gold. However, this goal was quickly put into perspective when his teammate was diagnosed with cancer forcing a last-minute substitution in a sport that's so tactical and where you need to be able to read your teammate's next move. Luke shares his reflections upon a very exhausting and emotionally charged Olympics.
Luke is now focusing on Tokyo 2021, having gained selection. Could this be Luke's final Olympics and an opportunity to achieve his life long dream of winning gold?

In this week's episode, we sit down with a titan of the sport, Theo Bos. 

Bos was initially inspired to take up Speed Skating after seeing his brother's success as a professional competing at the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics. In the Netherlands Speed Skating and Cycling are closely connected. Theo found his passion for Cycling through training for Skating. 

Bos found incredible success in his new sport. Winning his first Sprint world title at 20 years old. Despite being a sprinter Team Rabobank showed continued interest in singing Theo as a pro road rider. Choosing instead to concentrate on the 2004 Olympic Games where he won a Silver medal. Beijing 2008 was Theo's next big target but after a disappointing games he then decided to switch disciplines to road cycling taking up Team Rabobank on their offer. 

Theo found success on the road, picking up various professional wins beating the likes of Mark Cavendish and riding for other pro tour teams such as Cervelo and MTN.

In 2015 Theo decided to switch back to the track finding yet more success and targeting the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games. 

Theo also regularly competes in Professional Japanese Keirin racing.

In this week's episode, we speak to Ed Clancy once again. We first spoke to Ed in 2019, it was our most popular and our favorite episode of the year. 

The "Grandfather" of the team asks if he can really make Tokyo 2020 after it was announced it has been postponed by a year due to Coronavirus. Ed initially considered retiring when he first heard of the postponement. 

Ed also talks about his new kids academy, Clancy Briggs after growth came to a halt following the closing of schools across the UK. 

Finally, we also take questions submitted by you from Instagram and Twitter.

A Covid-19 special. In this episode, we bring together PodCrash Alumni David Smith and Owain Doull alongside the usual hosts to discuss the challenges posed to athletes. As it stands many athletes can't train as normal and in David's case he has to self-isolate. Will Tokyo 2020 really continue as normal? What the future may hold for sport when we are post-pandemic?

We also hear about David's first clear scan for 10 years and his recent decision to change from team GB to Jamacia.

In this Episode we sit down with Cameron jeffers who is a cyclist and is a full time YouTuber!

We talk to him about his cycling history and why he decided to start up a youtube channel which has 70k Followers.
Cam won the Zwift E-Racing national championships but got later banned.
We discuss in this podcast the reasons why and what happened after he was banned.

In this Episode we sit down with Alistair Brownlee who is the Olympic Champion in the Triathlon from the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games.

We Talk about Alistairs life living and training in Yorkshire. We talk how he started Triathlon, Olympic Games, Psychology and what's next for him?

In this Episode we sit down with @_katiearchibald Olympic Champion, World Champion and European Champion. 🚴‍♀We talk about her sporting journey from Swimming to Cycling and onto Olympic glory. Plus a short break working in a French Vineyard. 🍷We hope you enjoy this Podcast and if you do please leave us a review 📝, like 👍 and subscribe 🛎

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In this Episode we sit Down with Simon Gerrans who recently retired from Professional Cycling.

Simon has won many Pro races in his career but his biggest wins are Milan-San remo, Liege-Bastogne- Liege and Stages at the Tour de France, Giro and Vuelta and actually wearing the Yellow Jersey in the tour de france!

We talk to Simon about his career and how he prepared for life after Cycling!
Simon now works for The Service Course. They have recently opened new shops in Oslo and Wilmslow, UK go visit if you get a chance and enjoy a great cup of coffee cakes and food and get to know The service Course.

In this episode we sit down with Christ Pritchard who runs a youtube channel called cycling hub.

Chris was part of the Team Scotland Commonwealth games Sprint Squad in Delhi 2010 and Glasgow 2014. He competed and trained together back in the days with callum