Lake Placid / Whiteface 2025 – Post-Race Show

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🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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I’m Chris, this is the Downtime Podcast and you’re tuned into our 2025 Whiteface / Lake Placid post-race show with Neko Mulally and Olly Morris for round 9 of the 2025 WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series.

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This week saw Lake Placid showcase a brand new track on Whiteface mountain that challenged the world’s best. There were new winners, ongoing rivalries and plenty more. So sit back, hit play and listen to this Whiteface 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 Whiteface Mountain Lake Placid post-race show with Nico Malali and Oli Morris.
0:11.3	This season has had no brand support. So we've created this because we love it. We know you love it.
0:16.3	And thanks to the support from our amazing, generous patrons. So a big thank you to every single one of you who supports this. It really does make a huge difference. It's still not too late to come on board and support the podcast, so if you really love it, here's what to do. 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 cup of coffee, but it makes a real difference and will help us get to the end of the season and through the winter into next year. It's been a rough year in many ways to be involved in the bike industry, but the support of our listeners has been a real highlight for me and has genuinely helped us keep this thing going, so thank you. All right, this week we headed to Lake Placid's Whiteface Mountain for the first time,
0:54.9	and they didn't disappoint us with a track that challenged the best in the world. We had a brand new winner, some nail-biting racing, championship battles won, and some extended, so there's plenty to talk about. Right at the start, we mentioned Luke's win being the first on a giant since Rob Warner in 1996. However, since recording this, it was brought to
1:11.7	our attention that John Tomac won four giant in Capron in 1997. However, the manufacturer of that
1:17.3	bike is a little bit of a grey area. Either way, it's been a long time. So, sit back, hit play
1:22.8	and listen to this Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid post-race show with Nico and Olly.
1:30.8	Nico Malawi and Olly Morris. Welcome back. We're here in Lake Placid after an awesome day of racing and we'll hit the headlines first.
1:38.1	And Giant takes its first World Cup win unbelievably since Rob Warner in 1996 in Capron.
1:46.1	With Luke Myersmith taking not only his first-year World Cup win but his first podium two. Niko, what are your thoughts on that
1:50.7	performance? His race run was amazing. I probably didn't have him as my guy to win yesterday.
1:59.8	There was a few other guys that I thought were more capable,
2:03.9	but he outrode them all.
2:05.8	He didn't make any mistakes.
2:07.6	The surface of the track was so inconsistent with how loose it was
2:12.9	that it caught the best guys out.
2:15.4	And he delivered a perfect run and didn't make any mistakes
2:19.7	so 100% deserved and yeah very stoked for him yeah do you think like fitness played a part in that
2:28.7	like he is i think arguably one of the fittest guys in the pits like he's been really consistent over many years with training and working hard.
2:36.9	And also, I guess, sort of used to maybe tracks with a little less gradient
2:40.6	where he comes from in Australia.
2:42.7	I think that helped him on the bottom section.
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