When I started this little weekly audio adventure - one of the things that I was excited about was sharing some old stuff that lives on my hard drive - I’ve been covering the U.S. Cyclocross World Cup races since 2017 and I’ve got some old interviews and such just collecting dust - and I was excited to bring them out and give them new life - I’ve already shared a few, like my 2017 interview with Katie Compton and my 2021 discussions with Gage Hecht, Lance Haidet and Becca Farringer. That interview was actually Courtenay McFadden - which brings me to another point - I always wanted to be open to have guest hosts, like Courtenay - and Lisa Carponelli who interviewed Heather Paskovich after her win in the Race Across the West!
As you may have figured out by now - for this episode, I’m sharing an old interview from 2017, when Zach Schuster and I interviewed Sven Nys at the Trek CX Cup from deep inside the Trek factory in the bike pit, staging, prep area of the Trek Cyclocross team - guys like Lars Vanderhar, Quintin Hermans and Toon Aerts were hanging out, fussing with bikes and stuff - and while I filmed it, Schuster asked Sven questions he’d gathered from social media.
Zach currently works with CXHairs and publishes the CXHairs Bulletin - I highly recommend subscribing to the bulletin. He is also on Cyclocross Radio with Bill Sheiken - a great podcast about all things cross!
As a special treat: Name That Wisconsin Town, another idea to come from the mind of Zach. He and I wrote down the names of several Wisconsin towns - and took them around to some of the visiting European racers - We struck gold with our first participant - Loes Sels - a Belgian cyclist who was game for fun - she enjoyed it so much, that after we went through the list of towns, she dragged me over to then World Champion Sonna Cant, who had so much fun with it she hauled me over to Mathiew van der Poel - who willingly played along! We also found Eva Lechner from Italy, Caroline Mani and Steve and Lucie Chainel from France, and Ellen Van Loy from Belgium - and of course, we had to get the correct pronunciations from Wisconsin native and world cup podium winner Katie Keough! At the end we threw in the twist of making Katie say the name of one of the world cup stops in France!
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