The Physical Performance Show: Nick Gates – Professional Road Cyclist
Episode 17: Professional Road Cyclist – Nick Gates
Brad Beer recently sat down with Professional Road Cyclist – Nick Gates for Episode 17 of The Physical Performance Show podcast.
Brad has a fire-side chat with Nick, discussing the highs and lows of his journey as a professional road cyclist.
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In this episode Nick shares:
- How Nick started in cycling
- Nick’s success in Europe
- The limited media coverage of Tour de France in the early days
- Nick’s serious injury in 1997
- Working with the German team.
- Olympic Games option
- Starting in the Grand Tours
- The current tour
- Competing in 11 total Grand Tours
- Why 2006 World Championships was Nick’s favourite race
- Moto Pacing is great training
- Getting back into Triathlons and Ironman’s
- Who Nick admires
To follow Nick Gates
To follow Nick on social @NicholasGates1 (Twitter), @gatwick1 (Insta)
Timeline
1:00 Introduction to Nick Gates
2:55 Nick’s management of teams
4:40 How Nick started in cycling
8:40 How Nick ended up in Europe
10:25 Nick’s success in Europe
13:00 Media coverage of Tour de France in the early days
18:00 Nick’s serious injury in 1997
19:45 Working with the German team.
22:30 Olympic Games option
24:00 Starting in the Grand Tours
27:00 Nick’s Forte
30:00 The current tour
33:15 Nick has completed 11 total Grand Tours
34:00 Why 2006 World Championships was Nick’s favourite race
37:50 Moto Pacing is great training
38:30 Getting back into Triathlons and Ironmans
41:00 Who Nick admires
42:00 Finish
For questions and comments about this Episode
Send to the show host @Brad_Beer (Twitter)
