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Also posted on CompetitorRadio.com, interview with Bill Leach and Tara Kirk.... Ally Davidson from Dallas, Texas snuck out of the house on the morning of her wedding to audition for American Gladiators. She actually wore her veil and garter to the tryout. How did it turn out? Let's just say that she's $100,000 to the better and will be a Gladiator during the 2009 season.

Scotland's Fraser Cartmell, 26, has won the UK's 70.3 event for the past two years. 20-year-old AJ Acosta broke Steve Prefontaine's University of Oregon indoor mile record this year and had the opportunity to run in his first Olympic Trials at 1500 meters. Two young guns, both with bright futures. The conversation with two athletes from totally different worlds was really fun.

Also posted on CompetitorRadio.com, interview with AJ Acosta, Dean Karnasas and John Howard.... Kevin Gillotti is a long time endurance athlete who had just returned home from competing in the 2001 Duathlon World's in Italy. The next day, while out on a bike ride, he was hit by a truck and his life changed forever. How he recovered from his injuries and became faster -and happier- than ever before, makes his a great story and him a living miracle.

Also posted on CompetitorRadio.com, interview with Al Joyner, Mike Haugens and David Sylvester.... Johan Bruyneel was the mastermind behind Lance Armstrong's seven consecutive Tour de France titles. We had the rare opportunity over at The Trek Superstore in San Diego on Saturday July 12th to film and record a one-on-one interview with Johan in front of a crowd estimated at over 300. Johan's new book is entitled WE MIGHT AS WELL WIN. Johan is a great interview.

Also posted on CompetitorRadio.com, interview with Lisa Lax.... Andy Potts didn't get into the sport of triathlon as a professional until 2003. A year later, he was on the Olympic Triathlon Team representing the US in Athens. This summer he'll be focusing on the Race For the Toyota Cup...and just maybe on the Ironman World Championship in Kona!

Also posted on CompetitorRadio.com, interviews with Matt Reed and Pat Porter.... Nino Baglione goes immediately to the top of our Knucklehead list. Why? Because his concept of fun is the Artemis Arc to Arch Challenge where he's planning to run 89 miles, swim the English Channel and then ride his bike 180 miles to Paris. Amazing story. Check out www.artemisarchtoarc.com.

24-year-old Erica Davis is one of the best up-and-coming wheelchair triathletes around and Ironman is definitely on her mind. Her story and determination put her on the top of the list when it comes to female wheelers who could one day complete the toughest day in sport in Kona.

Dean Karnazes is at it again. He is running from Sonoma to San Diego-700 miles total- by going from Mission to Mission. During our 30 minute chat, the guy ran over three miles!

Tyler Farrar is on Team Slipstream-Chipotle and just finished racing in the classics in Europe after two injury plagued seasons. He is very candid about the trials and tribulations that go with spending your life as a professional bike racer. We look forward to seeing him at the Tour de France come July.

Ryan Hall has had an amazing 12 months. Last April he broke the American record in his marathon debut, in November he won the US Olympic Marathon Trials and then a few weeks ago he ran an awesome 2:06:17 in his second attempt in London.

In his career Mark Whitehead won 137 criteriums, 200 track events and made the 1984 Olympic Team. In this wide ranging discussion he fills us in on racing with the legends of cycling, Greg LeMond and Davis Phinney, being married to another cycling legend, Rebecca Twigg, and what led to his decision to blood dope for the 1984 Olympics.

Davis Phinney, one of America's cycling legends and one of our all-time favorite guests, came on with us while recuperating from brain surgery. The wide ranging conversation covered everything from his surgery, dealing with Parkinson's Disease and the excitement around his son, Taylor Phinney, making the US Olympic team at the age of 17. this podcast brought to you by: www.audiblepodcast.com/competitors.

Chris Lieto has won three Ironman titles and has worked hard to move up the ranks of the Ironman elite. Last year in Kona he finished sixth, his best attempt yet, and ran a 3:00 hour marathon. Besides giving back to the environment by becoming the Green Athlete, Lieto is a family man who balances his time racing triathlon with time spent racing his bike.

Torbjorn Sindballe from Denmark is one of the most likeable guys in the sport. A great cyclist, he had been frustrated about his inability to figure out how to deal with the heat of the Big Island. He spent the year leading up to the 2007 Ford Ironman World championship studying how his body reacts to heat and put it all into action in October. His third place finish shows that he has finally figured it out.

Micha Burden (pronounced Meeka) is one of the favorites to make it to Beijing as part of America's first ever 10K open water swim team. How tough is that event? Imagine a solid two hours of swimming averaging about 12 minutes per thousand meters.

Tyler Hamilton won a Gold Medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in the time trial. He rode with Lance on three Tour de France championship teams. He won a stage of the 2002 Giro and took second overall despite a fractured shoulder and took fourth overall at the 2003 Tour de France and won stage 16 despite a broken collarbone. But in 2004, his life changed forever when he was suspended from cycling for two years after two blood tests at the Vuelta showed evidence of a homologous blood transfusion. We spent a full hour with Tyler going through his career, the accusations against him and his new opportunity with Rock Racing.

Dan Browne, a 2004 Olympian with PRs of 27:42 for 10K and 2:11:35 for the marathon, came in studio to go through his career as we head towards the Olympic trials this summer

Jim Lampley is one the true legends of broadcasting. Whether it's the Olympics or the most important prize fight on the planet, Lampley is the guy on the microphone. Did you know that he was the announcer back in 1980 when ABC Wide World of Sports covered the Ironman Triathlon for the very first time? Or that he was the guy calling Julie Moss' infamous crawl, Joan Benoit's Olympic Marathon win in 1984 or the first ever Race Across America? His stories from those events are classic!

Jonathan Vaughters was a professional cyclist who basically quit his sport young, at the age of 30, partly because he was frustrated by the rampant drug use. Now Vaughters is running the Slipstream Cycling Team and accountability is the name of the game. His team will administer 1200 drug tests to their athletes this year alone and the media will be invited to training camps so that they can see that Team Slipstream is clean. He is out to change the culture of the sport of cycling by hopefully proving that you can be competitive and drug free at the same time. Vaughters was incredibly open and honest in this conversation.

Bill Bell is an 85 year old legend. The guy didn't get into the sport of triathlon until he was 59 and he has still finished 32 Ironman events. Remember, this is the guy who went on Conan O'Brian and said his motivating factor for being in the sport was chicks and beer. We LOVE Bill Bell!

So when we showed up in Kona for the 2007 Ford Ironman World Championship in October, the talk centered around Michellie Jones defending her title or Natascha Badmann coming back and winning number seven. Chrissie Wellington shocked the world in one of the biggest upsets in history when she won the title after completing-and winning- her first ever Ironman just seven weeks earlier in Korea. So who is Chrissie Wellington, the first British athlete to win the Ford Ironman World Championship? Listen in and find out. She is an amazing athlete with a GREAT personality.

Aussie Greg Bennett, at the age of 35, is having the very best year of his life. How good? This summer he won The Lifetime Fitness Triathlon in Minneapolis, the Nautica New York City Triathlon, the Accenture Chicago Triathlon, The Kaiser Permanente LA Triathlon and the Toyota Triathlon in Dallas to take home, with bonuses, a cool $430,000. Bennett's insights into controversial coach Brett Sutton are pretty eye opening.

Chris McCormack has dreamed of winning the Ironman for twenty years. He dropped out in Kona twice, walked the marathon once and then finished sixth and second before FINALLY winning the Super Bowl of Triathlon on Saturday October 13, 2007. Listen in as Macca goes through the biggest day of his life!Congratulations Chris!

Faris Al-Sultan is as old school as it gets. He races in a Speedo, goes off the front on the bike so that he can chase the lead helicopter, admits that he is not very bright when he's on the race course and that there is absolutely no love lost between himself and Aussie Chris McCormack. Faris certainly has been fast, though. For the past three years he has been third, first and third in Kona and he's the third German and first Muslim to win the Ford Ironman World Championship. Huddle and I LOVE spending time with Faris. Awesome guy and GREAT interview. The tougher the conditions in Kona, the better he likes it.

Mark Allen is not only the six time Ironman champion with the best nickname in the sport-The Grip of Death- he is also the guy who understands the mental side of winning the Ironman better than anyone. He has consulted with Ironman champions Tim DeBoom and Peter Reid and helped Chris McCormack understand what he needs to do to win in Kona. The Grip is always an awesome interview and the discussion with Mark on his ten Nice championships is epic!

Steve Brenneck is going to be 67 years old in November. So what the heck is the guy doing running on the San Diego City College Cross Country team? Steve, two of his teammates and their coach came in studio to share the amazing story of an old guy who is still kicking butt and leaving the young guns in the dust.

Tom Sullivan was born blind, but that didn't stop him from becoming an actor, singer, composer... and athlete. He is an 18 handicap golfer, a skier, he was inducted into the Wrestling Hall of Fame and is Bob Babbitt's long time running and triathlon partner. His newest book, Adventures in Darkness, has been purchased by Paramount. Tom makes his living as a motivational speaker and his philosophy of life is that any negative can be turned into a positive. "I've never seen a water hazard," he says. "In my mind I always have an open shot to the green."

Normann Stadler is the two time Ironman World Champion in both 2004 & 2006, the Ironman bike course record holder and the guy who will be defending his title on October 13th in Kona, Hawaii. Normann was kind enough to came in studio to spend a full hour with Bob and Paul to go through his career from the early days to the war of words with second place finisher Chris McCormack after last year's Ironman.