The Piste Take
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 riders and coaches, we offer a deep dive into the stories, shenanigans and titbits as the sport gears up for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.The Piste Take releases on Thursdays on a fortnightly basis, with some bonus extra episodes lined up.Artwork by Taylor Craig with thanks to Glasgow Caledonian Library for the use of their recording studio.
Episodes
It's been a while since Kelsey Mitchell was on the show, and honestly, she's basically lived three athletic careers since our last conversation. We're catching up with the Tokyo gold medalist about everything that's happened since, including a stint in speed skating, and a surprise pivot to bobsleigh that landed her a spot at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. And now, her return to the velodrome!
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Now we're all recovered from a super busy Commonwealth Games for both Lewis & Jonny we thought now is the best time to review it, chat through some of the trends and answer the biggest question of all: What is the point of the Commonwealth Games? To tackle these big questions we brought on track cycling legend, expert commentator and 2-time Olympic Champion, Joanna Rowsell. We hear all about Lewis & Jo's exp...
Jonny and Lewis fly solo to wrap up day 4 with our most tired, but also most inspired day yet. We chat through home crowd disappointments with Scotland narrowly missing out on some big wins, alongside continued Aussie and Welsh dominance - from Finucane’s clean sweep to Hoffman’s mind blowing kilo. We also got debrief Manxman Matt Bostock’s remarkable points race win & the last day of Commgame&...
We're back for day 3 after a dramatic day of tandem tension, scratch crashes, dominant aussie sprinting and Welsh Women's Wonders
We are back again, slightly more sober, slightly more tired for Day 2 of the Commonwealth Games. We get into it with the best keirin rider of all time - Azizulhasni Awang - and his mindblowing display in that Men's Keirin final. We also chat through Lewis' experiences with TNT and all the day's best racing bits and titbits. Tune in again tomorrow for Day 3
We are joined by returning podcast guest Lewis Oliva fresh from his CG 4th place heroics! This is a messy episode complete with beers, stories and lessons to us why not to invite Lewis Oliva to a short form episode. Hope you enjoy!
Join us on the Pistetake for our preview episode of the 2026 Commonwealth Games in the heart of track cycling - Glasgow! We look ahead to the events we're most excited for, the teams we're backing for success and the riders we expect to feature across the individual events too.
Note for listeners: We recorded this before Matt Richardson sadly got wiped out racing in Japan so he now won't be competing across the...
Ahead of the Commonwealth Games we speak to Ciara Oliva, after she completed one of the most amazing comebacks in track cycling. After her career on GBCT and the disappointment of being a reserve at the Rio Olympics, Ciara has came back after 10 years retirement, 3 kids and a whole other career to compete for Wales at her 3rd Commonwealth Games. We talk through the whole journey, and it's an inspiring one.
We are back! We might have missed a week in our release schedule but we certainly didn't miss any quality with our latest guest, former world champion in the once conquering Aussie Men's Team Sprint Team and now endurance hero - Thomas Cornish. We hear all about his 10 year plan from sprint to enduro, what it was like behind the scenes in Team Aus during the Paris Olympics and you guessed it... The AUS->GBR trans...
On this weeks episode we speak to our first ever coach from an asian nation, Boris Clark. Formerly, of the New Zealand Cycling Team, Boris is now the Head Endurance coach at China Cycling. He took up the role last year, and has quickly had some incredible results, including World Cup gold, and establishing China as a serious contender in endurance for the first time. Join us as we find out more about his past, and a...
This week on The Piste Take, we pay tribute to one of the greatest track cyclists Britain has ever produced. Katie Archibald, two-time Olympic gold medallist, four-time world champion, has announced her retirement, and we think she deserves her flowers. After 13 years at the very top of the sport, she walks away with 51 major medals, seven world titles and a record 21 European crowns. We reflect on a career that was...
We return to the podcasting world with a blockbuster episode where we're joined by Aussie Track Sprint sensation Alessia McCaig. As the keirin winner at the recent Perth World Cup, we catch up with Alessia. We chat through her journey with the Australian Sprint Programme, her keirin racing identity & the recent impact of Women's Sprint Coach, Kaarle McCulloch. Alessia has went from strength to strength in the la...
Hot off the press, we welcome back to the podcast 2x Olympic Champion and top TNT Sport Commentator, Joanna Rowsell to debrief the last 3 rounds of Nations Cups.
We tackle the series as a whole, look at the progress the UCI has made in delivering a 3-round series & some of the pitfalls along the way. Tune in to hear the expert analysis of some of the racing trends too - from the Rise of China, to the new sp...
We are back with breakout German Men's sprint star Luca Spiegel. We hear all about Team Deutschland's 4 week training camp in Perth before the recent World Cup, his experiences with riding with the best at Paris Olympics and the long road since.
This was one of our favourite episodes to record with one of TrackSprinting's good guys, we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
Thanks again to our sponsors at the Velo...
This week we welcome back to the podcast track cycling legend and newly anointed Belgian Cycling Sprint coach, Theo Bos. We hear all about his exploits as a World Tour road racer, the transition from track sprint. Theo tells us about his shock return to the track in 2016 and his unique road to the Rio Olympic Games. We also learn about his hobby project of BEAT cycling and his route into coaching.
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We are back with our normal episodes with a BANG! This week we take our longest ever intro to discuss the recent doping ban of Colombian track star, Martha Bayona Pineda before welcoming on Team USA superstar and human Adonis, Mr Anders Johnson.
As a bronze medallist in last year's Individual Pursuit in Chile, Santiago, Anders is in a great place to tell us about the USA Men's Endurance Programme; their develop...
We bring you our final British Track Nationals Special episode with a short interview too with triple British champ, Emma Finucane. We discuss her race performances, upcoming competitions and the excitement of being back repping the famous Welsh Green Dragon!
As the audio corrupted on our initial roundup, we bring Lewis back in in the studio to chat through the other events of the day - from a controversial Men's Poi...
In our next wrap up, we're again joined by the calming presence of Tom Davidson to chat through Day 3 of the 2026 British Track Nationals.
We are joined by podcast stalwart Will Tidball to talk through THAT elimination race where he believes he was robbed of national title. In other events the ususal suspects like Emma Finucane, Matty Richardson, Sophie Unwin, and Finn Graham all added national titles to their ...
In our next day 2 wrap up, we're again joined by the calming presence of Tom Davidson to chat through Day 2 of the 2026 British Track Nationals.
On the Women's Endurance side we chat through a world class final between Josie Knight and Anna Morris; before being joined by rising Scottish Superstar Erin Boothman. With Men's sprinters we talk through a dominant sprint performance from Matty Richo, alongside breakt...
As Jonny is down coaching at nationals we thought we'd try and put out some short sharp episodes. With a quick roundup with Cycling Weekly's Tom Davidson, we did a short feature interview with Matt Richardson as he just recorded 9.19s in his Flying 200m - the fastest time ever at sea level outside of Olympics!
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