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🗓️ 25 October 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:04.8 | Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Desert Island Disks Podcast. |
0:08.4 | Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take |
0:13.2 | with them if they were cast away to a desert island. |
0:16.3 | And for right reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast. |
0:21.0 | I hope you enjoy listening. |
0:30.0 | Music |
0:44.0 | My cast away this week is Olympic cyclist and businessman Chris Bordman. |
0:48.2 | British cycling is currently booming and he's arguably the man who lit the fuse. |
0:53.4 | Born on the world to keen amateur cyclist parents, he was still in his teens when he joined |
0:58.4 | the British squad. He earned the nickname the Professor for his love of scientific innovation |
1:03.5 | and it became the hallmark of his career. In 1992, he achieved the seemingly impossible, |
1:09.5 | taking home the first British Olympic gold medal in cycling for 72 years on a revolutionary |
1:15.8 | carbon frame bike. He became the first Brit to win the prologue in the Tour de France two years |
1:20.6 | later, then set the UCI absolute hour record in the now famous Superman position with his arms |
1:27.2 | stretched out to minimise drag. Many more successes including two more spells and the yellow jersey |
1:33.0 | and two more hour records followed, but hanging up his racing shoes didn't mean slowing down. |
1:38.8 | He simply took his research based approach to cycling and applied it to the rest of us. |
1:43.2 | In 2007, he launched his own range of bikes and more recently became the cycling and walking |
1:48.7 | commissioner for Greater Manchester. He says, I just want people to use bicycles to get around |
1:54.2 | and I came more about that than gold medals by a million miles. My definition of success |
1:59.1 | isn't winning, it's the guy using his bike to go to the shops. Chris Bordman, welcome to |
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