Podcast 2014 Episode 20 – Comedy Beards and Power Rants

Hi everyone, it’s America week on the podcast, which means we basically open like we’re going to talk about US Nationals then get sidetracked for 45 minutes and so on. In the meantime we do talk about some very exciting firsts, like the first woman to win a road and mountainbike world cup in the same season and the first woman to concurrently hold criterium, time trial and road national championships. We also argue about beards and Sarah goes on a power rant about races that don’t have websites or results or information or anything and what she thinks the UCI needs to do in order to help improve the situation (Dan scores the rant 3.75 bullhorns out of 5). Also there’s some innuendo and swearing just to make sure all your podcasting boxes are ticked. Don’t forget to check all the links below and for the brave among you, we’ve included a poll on beards so vote early and often for the most comedic beard of the podcast. (1:05:34 MIN / 62.95 MB)

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This week’s (invisible) UCI racing

Gran Prix de Maykop – results on CQ Ranking
Tour of Adegaya – results on CQ
Tour of Zhoushan Island – results on Cycling Fever – Wiggle Honda reports from Stage 1, Stage 2 and Stage 3

This week’s non-UCI racing

The 2014 USA National Championships

Results from the Individual Time Trial – report and photos on Cyclingnews
Results from the Road Race – report and photos on Cyclingnews
Photos of all the races on the race website
Videos, interviews and photos from all the races on local news channel WRCB tv
Reports on the ITT and Road Race on the UnitedHealthcare team website
Alison Powers interviewed after winning the road race – includes on holding the USA Crit, ITT and Road Race titles – and coffee!

Powers donated her prize of a year’s loan of a VW GTI to her team-mate Jackie Crowell, who isn’t racing this year due to treatment for brain tumours. Here’s Crowell talking about her cancer, earlier in the year

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The Milk Race

Crit racing in Nottingham!

and Wiggle Honda video:

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MTB

2014 Nové Město MTB World Cup

Pre-race track video previews – Jenny Rissveds takes us through the Eliminator course and Katerina Nash & Georgia Gould preview, banter & give racing tips through the cross country course
Women’s and men’s Eliminator – full race replay and video highlights

Photos from the Eliminator on the race website (with full results)
Women’s cross country – full race replay and video highlights

Photos from the XCo on the race website (with full results) and on Pinkbike - practice day (with u23 women’s race) and race day
Great (& inspiring!) blog on riding the World cup from British rider Maxine Filby
Photos and results from the women’s Junior and U23 XCo races on the race website

UPDATES!

Canadian XCo rider Emily Batty‘s article about the race on Pinkbike
Helmetcam video from the women’s Eliminator final
Tanja Žakelj‘s video about the XCo

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Miscellany

We loved Chloe Hosking’s blog on training in Italy with Elisa Longo Borghini – yeah, yeah, we always say we love Chloe’s blogs, but they’re always great!

Video from the first round of the iXS European Downhill Cup, in Maribor

Ina-Yoko Teutenberg is on the road as part of Clara’s Big Ride

It’s true. @ClaraHughes_ Peter & @yokoteute like biking so much they smile when riding the Anarchist #ClarasBigRide pic.twitter.com/yHPmgjP0z4

— Jenny Duncan (@jennymduncan) May 23, 2014