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Ed Clancy

Ed Clancy

British bicycler and racer

Jul 18, 2026

10:04
Just relief or much more than that?
10:07
I'll try and talk you through the whole thing, but Beijing was great, you know, four years prior.
10:13
And at the age of 23, you sort of think you have everything you ever wanted.
10:19
You know, you've achieved this dream.
10:24
You're an Olympic gold medalist.
10:25
You were 23 years old and There's no such thing as an easy win in the Olympics, but we turned up with this big marginal gains package.
10:34
We have the best bikes, we have the best skin suits, we have the best helmets.

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17:03
Can you describe how you felt then in the same emotional kind of way? I
28:38
But I wonder how much that set you up for the success, you know, the resilience you had to build as a young child helped you later on in life.
28:49
Yeah, so just for the listeners, I mean, I was born in Barnsley.
28:53
It's like 1985.
28:54
I started life there.
28:55
I don't want to pretend that I had the worst upbringing.
29:01
It was difficult.
29:03
Parents divorced when I was four or five years old.

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42:43
know,
1:32
But
1:33
for years now, the church in Nigeria has said it's not Boko Haram, that there are other actors causing harm against Christians, communities, abductions, and obviously killings.
1:47
And about five years ago, we kept hearing Fulani.
1:52
We kept hearing that the Fulani herdsmen And this is under Buhari, the previous president of Nigeria.
2:01
Now, President Buhari was himself a member of the Fulani tribe.
2:06
And we had some people warning us that there were a lot of things going on to put Fulani in power.
2:13
And they were using their power to try to gain territory.
6:38
Could you also help us see that it's not just about slaughter and attack? We're looking at mass abductions as well.

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