Champéry World Champs 2025 – Post-Race Show

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🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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I’m Chris, this is the Downtime Podcast and you’re tuned into our 2025 Champéry World Champs post-race show with Neko Mulally and Olly Morris.

If you’re listening, that means that like me, you probably LOVE the sport and want to know as much as possible about what’s going on. That’s exactly what we are here to do.

Throughout the season, we’ll be bringing you analysis and insights that you won’t hear elsewhere.

However, as you probably know, the mountain bike industry isn’t in a great place right now and as a result, this series doesn’t have any brand support. The World Cup coverage is the most expensive thing I produce, as it often includes travel and I like to pay the guys for the expertise that they bring to the table.

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World Champs went off on the steeps of Champéry and the riders delivered some wild rides in pursuit of the hallowed stripes. We’ll be digging into what went on to bring you the best insight available. As always there’s heaps to dive into, so sit back, hit play and listen to this Champéry World Champs post-race show with Neko and Olly.

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0:00.0	I'm Chris, this is the downtime podcast and you're tuned into our world champs post-race show with Nico Malali and Olly Morris.
0:10.3	First up, a quick reality check. We're over halfway through the season now and we don't have any funding for this series.
0:16.3	This episode exists purely due to our wonderful patrons and our desire to keep making it happen for you all to listen to. So a massive thank you to those of you who support this. It really does make a huge difference. If you're on the fence about supporting them, we'd love it if you come on board and help out via Patreon. You can sign up for as little as £3 a month at patreon.com for slash downtime podcast. That's less than the price of a coffee, but it makes a real difference and can help us keep this thing going until the end of the season. I know times are tight, but if you value what we're creating here, if it helps you stay connected to the sport you love, then now is the time to chip in and help out. All right, world champs went off on the steeps of Champs and the riders delivered some wild rides in pursuit of the hallowed stripes.
0:57.4	We'll be digging into what went on to bring you the best insight available.
1:00.7	So sit back, hit play and listen to this World Champs posterist show with Nico and Olly.
1:09.2	All right, World Champs is over and we're joined once again by Nico and Olly.
1:13.7	Nico, nice, easy travel from one race to another this time around there.
1:17.8	That's about as close as two races get.
1:20.6	Yeah, that was perfect.
1:22.3	For back-to-back races, the logistics were really good for this one.
1:26.9	Yeah, good to hear.
1:27.7	And Ollie, we've been doing World Cups with Warner Bros for a while now, but this is run
1:31.3	by the UCI, and it definitely differs from a kind of broadcast and accessibility perspective
1:37.5	from back home.
1:38.2	Like, how does it differ on the ground?
1:41.0	It feels totally different.
1:43.6	Everything feels totally different. Everything feels totally different.
1:45.2	From a team perspective, like obviously the schedule is kind of like stretched out over four days.
1:52.8	So your first practice session is only a couple hours and then you sort of do nothing for a day and a half.
1:57.9	And your second practice sessions sort of back up.
2:00.3	So for the riders and I would say the staff practice sessions sort of back up so for the riders
2:02.1	and I would say the staff it's quite hard to get into some momentum and a bit of rhythm that you're
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