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THE TIME HAS COME! The Olympics are here and so are our daily round ups. With Jonny away coaching at the Games we welcome Sam Webster on to co host with Lewis. Today we talk men's TS, men's TP and that amazing women's team sprint competition. We hope you enjoy! 

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The time for me and Jonny sniping from the sidelines is over, today we put our predictions down. But not only our predictions we are also incredibly lucky to be joined by Olympic gold medalist and Eurosport commentator Joanna Rowsell. We go event by event in detail explaining our choices and why we are obviously going to be 100% correct... We hope you enjoy and we look forward to being completely wrong. 

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We found a bit of down time to answer your burning questions ahead of the Olympics next week! We hope you enjoy!

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On this episode we bring to you one of the medal favourites at this years Olympics Aaron Gate! He is the current World points race champion and last won an Olympic medal back in London in 2012. At Tokyo, after a heartbreaking crash he was inches away from another with 4th in the team pursuit. This Games he is looking to make amens and go one step higher onto the podium. He is the father of the New Zealand Team and is one of the nicest guys in the sport. We had an absolute blast recording with him and we hope you enjoy too! 

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On this episode we speak to legend of the sport and Lewis's all time favourite cyclist Sam Webster. Before the Dutch, the original team sprint dynasty was NZ, they had unlimited success for years winning multiple World Champs, Commonwealth Games and a silver at the 2016 Olympics. Sam is an absolute student of the sport, he gives an amazing perspective on what made him and his team special. We hope you enjoy!

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On this weeks episode of The Piste Take we speak to World Silver medallist Mark Stewart. Recently he has had a resurgence back into the GB Team since he was deselected back in 2020 and is now going to the Paris Olympics as a reserve. The story of how he turned around his fortunes with British Cycling is a unique one and as always with Mark we had a great laugh. We hope you enjoy!  

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This week we the speak to our first retired athlete and Olympic silver medallist Ryan Owens. We talk about life since stopping and how he tried to manage as a distance athlete while doing a masters degree in London. Ryan is one of the fastest starters and most successful team sprinters and it was great to have him on and hear about his journey through GB. 

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On episode 28 of The Piste Take we speak to our first Irish rider, Lara Gillespie! The Irish women's TP squad has been improving year on year culminating in a podium at this seasons HK Nations Cup. We talk to Lara about the long journey they've been on to get to this point, her personal success and  what it's like to make it to the top without a real velodrome! We hope you ennjoy!

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On this episode we get the other half our co hosting duo Jonny Mitchell on! Joined by Tom Davidson of Cycling Weekly we delve into Jonny's long and interesting career as an athlete but also a coach. We haver scraped the surface with Jonny's history previously on the podcast but today we hear more about his time as a rider, the details of his heart condition that caused a halt to everything and the journey after that has led him to be lead sprint coach at the Belgian Cycling Team. Hope you enjoy!

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On episode 26 of the Piste Take we speak to Olympic silver medallist, World and European champion Josie Knight. Despite Josie's impressive accolades she did not have a simply journey there! We had a blast recording this and getting a very different perspective of breaking into the GB team. Enjoy!