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August 07, 2023 Day 5 - 2023 Glasgow Worlds Round Up
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Emma Finucane with the greatest female 200 we have ever seen, yet another world title for Harrie Lavreysen, a strong performance for the GB pairing in the madison and an amazing C4 scratch among other highlights. Tune in to hear another daily round up from Jonny & Lewis for their insight and some stories from around the track centre.
31 min
August 07, 2023 Dan Bigham Post IP Interview
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We caught up with Dan Bigham today after his epic Individual Pursuit final against Filippo Ganna. We'd initially planned to use this as a snippet in our nightly roundup, but felt that given Dan's raw emotion it was worthy of it's own short form episode. Enjoy this short interview, Dan will be back on tech podcast in an epiode to be released soon!
16 min
August 06, 2023 Day 4 - 2023 Glasgow Worlds Round Up
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Day 4 of the worlds brought potentially the most emotional individual pursuit competition in history, world records in the para categories, senko as always from Ellesse Andrews, tears from Jenny Holl, Archie Atkinson and everything in between. Tune in to hear another daily round up from Jonny & Lewis for their insight and some stories from around the track centre.
34 min
August 05, 2023 Day 3 - 2023 Glasgow Worlds Round up
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The first GB Women's Team pursuit win since 2014. The redemption of Denmark and New Zealand two years on from that fateful day in Tokyo. We watched some of the closest and most intense sprinting in the men's elite and we kicked off the women's keirin. Two incredible scratch races in the C2 and C3 categories and a blistering kilo from Blaine Hunt. Tune in to hear another daily round up from Jonny & Lewis for their insight and some stories from around the track centre.
41 min
August 05, 2023 Day 2 - 2023 Glasgow Worlds Round up
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A Return to Rainbows for the Dutch Men’s Team Sprint team after an epic final with the Aussies, continued dominance from Emma Hinze to clinch the Women’s 500m and GB victories in the B Tandem events; Day 2 had it all! Tune in to hear another daily round up from Jonny & Lewis for their insight and some stories from around the track centre.
33 min
August 03, 2023 Day 1 - 2023 Glasgow Worlds Round Up
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With the all conquering German Women's Team Sprint team winning their 4th title in the row, Will Tidball bringing home the bacon for GB in the final race of the night alongside standout paracycling performances from Jenny Holl & Sophie Unwin, Jody Cundy and an outstanding win for Daniel Abraham Gebru of the Netherlands in the C5 Men's Scratch, Day one of the UCI Track World Championships delivered!Tune in to our Worlds Daily round ups of the racing to hear our take on it from the track centre. We'll be back tomorrow night with Day 2.
28 min
August 02, 2023 Bonus Episode: Q&A and Final Worlds Predictions
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On this bonus episode of The Piste Take, for the first time ever we answer questions from our listeners! Is super worlds a good concept? What is the perfect gearing for a 200? Do ex riders make good coaches and many more! We finish off by ruining most relationships with have with friends and riders with giving our final shouts for podiums at worlds. Keep your ears peeled for our daily worlds podcasts starting Friday.
44 min
July 31, 2023 Episode 10: Tech Talk with Velobike
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On this episode we speak to the founder of Velobike Glenn Catchpole. Velobike is a manufacturer of unique and advanced track cycling equipment. Likelihood is, you use some of their kit already. Glenn has led the charge in making top end tech accessible for the whole track cycling community. We discuss the journey of Velobike from it's first chainring, the tech he has produced for the Paris Olympics and the future of technology in our sport. This is one for the nerds of our sport and we hope you enjoy!
58 min
July 27, 2023 Episode 9: The Millennial Baby with Ellesse Andrews
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Our guest this week is Olympic silver medallist, triple Commonwealth champion and double junior world champion Ellesse Andrews. We catch up with her from the NZ holding camp in Grenchen and listen we us as we learn about her unique journey through the sport and the challenges of transferring from endurance to sprint. Impressively, she is one of the only riders to ever medal at elite world level in both disciplines. We talk about what it's like to be a sprinter in New Zealand, the importance of leaving a lasting legacy that's greater than just your performances and look forward to the very close UCI 2023 Cycling World Champs. It was a joy to speak to Ellesse, we had a lot of fun and hope you do too.
1 hr 8 min
June 29, 2023 Episode 8: The Fast and the Furious with Nicky Degrendele
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After a short hiatus, we're back this week starting off with a short race round-up of the recent Asian & Pan Am Champs and other UCI C1s on the calendar. Our guest is the recent winner of the Cottbus GP Keirin, Nicky Degrendele of Belgium. We hear about her 'comeback' season this winter with 4th at European Champs and podium places at Nations Cups. We learn of Nicky's Keirin experience in Japan on the professional circuit, dealing with the pressure of winning rainbow jerseys and her path towards glory in Glasgow in August & Paris next year
58 min

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Hosted by track cycling professionals, Lewis Stewart and Jonny Mitchell, the Piste Take offers top level insight into the world of track cycling. With expert analysis from some of the sports top…