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The Ride Companion

Olympic snowboarder Jamie Nicholls tells ALL - The Ride Companion 72

The Ride Companion

TRC Media House

Sports, Wilderness

4.9533 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Jamie Nicholls is a two time team GB winter Olympian in slopestyle snowboarding. Jamie joins Olly and Davi to talk about his career as a professional snowboarder and how it started out on a dry ski slope in Halifax and, how he progressed to becoming one of the best in the world. During the episode Jamie talks openly about why he left a Red Bull sponsorship, trick progression, why being an Olympian is so difficult, media pressure, becoming a Nike athlete how he discovered mountain biking and much more...

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0:00.0

Well, okay, one thing we did gloss over, man, and I think it would be interesting to hear more about it, was the switch from Red Bull.

0:06.2

I think that is a massive thing for an athlete to do, isn't it? And I think even, well, in our circles, especially mountain biking, someone comes off Red Bull. It's huge news. People are speculating. Why have they done it? All this sort of stuff. So what, how did that, you know, obviously when you signed, that must have been like massive and oh my God, like this is it.

0:24.1

And then you're... all this sort of stuff. So what, how did that, you know, obviously when you signed

0:20.8

that must have been like massive

0:22.1

and oh my God, like this is it. And then you actually, to be honest, man, I actually hated it. I hated wearing that helmet. It was like the worst ugliest looking helmet ever, wasn't it? Like, come on, let's be honest. Like, I'm on Red Bull or anything, but, like, wearing that helmet,

0:39.1

I just felt like such a twat.

0:52.9

Hello and welcome to TRC 72.

0:55.0

Or the ride companion, or should I say, wait for it, the slide companion.

1:01.0

Oh, dude, you've been waiting for that one.

1:05.0

You've been waiting.

1:06.0

I thought of it a second ago. I thought of it a second ago and I was like, right, we're going to do that.

1:10.0

I like it. I've been waiting two years to have someone who ride snow stuff to slide that in there. Yeah, exactly, slide it in there. I like that. That's a good episode title too, actually, before we even start. Like that is, because the episode title is always really hard to think of. So the slide companion. Yeah.

1:27.5

It's good.

1:28.3

We need to introduce Jamie.

1:29.6

Jamie Nichols, everyone.

1:30.6

Round of applause.

1:31.2

Jamie Nichols.

1:32.0

Thanks for joining us.

1:33.5

Our first snowboard guest.

1:35.5

Hi.

1:35.9

First Olympian.

1:37.2

Hi.

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