Welcome to a special episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by Trainer Road.

We have with us an exciting time, actually returning guests to the podcast, but just an exciting time to have

Civilia on. Civilia Blunk from Decathlon Ford, also sponsored by The Feed and Orange Seal Academy.

Decathlon Ford is the World Cup team that she has been riding for to absolutely put in some

incredible performances at the World Cups, the first two that just started in Brazil.

Sevillea, stoked to have you on. Good to have you back.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

I wanted to get you on really quick because you're in a unique spot and for people

that don't know well first of all you can watch the World Cups on the Max app

and here in the US and if you haven't been watching the Americans are doing very well, like very well,

very well, relatively speaking to what we typically have seen in previous years,

because it's not just one American athlete athlete but instead it's like we have a

selection of American athletes doing really well.

And all of you are working to get points and to get enough to get to Paris for the Olympics. I want to talk about an

Olympic year and how it's been different for you. So first of all the and the first

thing I have to ask is there tension between like the American

athletes because you're not only fighting to get enough points so that our country

can send more so our overall rank goes up and we can send more athletes but in the

end of the day you're also like you're fighting alongside each other to get those

points then you're also against each other because you're trying to be the one that has the most points so you can go to

Paris is is it complex and complicated?

Yeah, it's a little bit different on the women's side

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