The 2026 Grand Prix roster with Sarah Sturm

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Payson McElveen

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4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 123 minutes

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This week on the show, Payson sits down with Sarah Sturm to talk about the roster for 2026’s Life Time Grand Prix, which was released last week and contained more surprises than all the previous years combined. Payson and Sarah chat about the lengthy list of brand-new riders, the heartbreak and shock of seeing one of the most promising young racers of the past few years shut out of the series completely, and what they think about the controversial changes to the prize money. But first, they t...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin and this is the WithPace podcast.
0:11.9	So there is one person we need to talk about, I think, who was missing from this election.
0:18.3	I don't really...
0:19.5	Listeners, pause.
0:23.7	If you follow the drama of Lifetime Grand Prix and you saw the results,
0:26.1	just right now think, on the women's side,
0:28.8	who were you really shocked to not be accepted?
0:33.6	That you were like, oh, duh.
0:35.9	Yeah.
0:36.6	Take a moment.
0:37.3	Okay, now we'll say.
0:41.6	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the show.
0:43.9	We took a break.
0:45.6	Very unusual.
0:47.3	I think we've, before this, ever only taken two breaks.
0:50.5	One was for Lily's wedding.
0:52.2	One was for my wedding.
0:53.1	But after a long season and our seven-part gravel burn coverage seven days in a row,
1:04.0	we're kind of do a break.
1:05.1	But when it really became not so much of a choice is when we got the flu.
1:13.8	We're in Austria for a Red bull camp both nicole and i uh started getting sick a couple of days before we left and uh it just kind of gradually got
1:20.6	gnarlier and narlier and eventually got to the point where i started to think huh i don't think
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