In Episode 3 of the Rider-Up podcast, Dan Lucas and John Carlin interview VBR Twenty24 creator and Executive Director Nicola Cranmer. Nicola recruits the top women cyclists in the United States to join the team -- and many have succeeded in their ambition to represent the United States (and other countries) as Olympians -- with 13 winning Olympic medals!
Nicola Cranmer (left) With Dan, John, and World Champion Amanda Coker, recording the Rider-Up podcast.
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The Following is a web-generated transcript of the interview with Nicola Cranmer.
Please excuse any spelling or punctuation errors.
Announcer: On this edition of the Riderup Podcast.
Nicola Cranmer: I would definitely call us the Olympic Development Pipeline.
Speaker D: Nicola Cranmer talks about how she's helping to train us Olympians.
Nicola Cranmer: The athletes have, uh, won all they've been in the program over the last three Olympic cycles have won. I think it's 13 Olympic medals.
Speaker D: It's all coming up on the Rider Up Podcast.
Announcer: welcome to the Rider Up Podcast, where we talk about how much we love bicycles. Dan's a crazy downhiller, and John will be walking with a cane in a few years. But nobody loves cycling more than these two. Coming to you from Virginia's Blue Ridge, let's meet the hosts, Dan Lucas and John Carlin.
Dan Lucas: Hey, I'm Dan Lucas. I'm a mechanic. I love writing downhill, and I love coaching kids. I'm a dad and just a cycling journey.
John Carlin: All right. And I'm the same. I'm John Carlin, the co host of the Rider of podcast A Baby Boomer. And I ride mountain, road, travel bikes. And my wife's Peleton. Uh, and you can follow me at Sark Fighter, uh, on Peloton, by the way. Also, I'm, uh, a blogger, a YouTuber, and in, uh, my real job. I'm, uh, a professional journalist and a board member for Virginia's Blue Ridge. But, Dan, we have such an exciting opportunity today with our guests.
Dan Lucas: Absolutely. Nicola, uh, Cranmer with Team 2024 is here, and we get to pick her brain about everything from past to present to future, what Team 2024 has going on and what we can expect to see.
John Carlin: But Nickela Cranbert, Team 2024, she is the person who essentially selects trains and places, American women on the Olympic team.
Dan Lucas: Yeah. It's a, uh, huge opportunity for us. She lives here in Virginia Blue Ridge, which is wild, and she's chosen it to be her location, her base of operations. It's a fantastic opportunity.
John Carlin: And so she's going to talk to us about why she came to Virginia's Blue Ridge. She's going to tell you listeners all about the riding opportunities here, and then we're going to learn about the team, and we're going to ask her a
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