Nelson Vails was the youngest of ten children and grew up in Harlem. Over time he evolved into The Cheetah, the very best bike messenger around. He risked life and limb to deliver packages in New York City and eventually became a Silver Medalist on the record breaking 1984 U.S. Olympic cycling team. What a story!

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Vanessa Raw is a British triathlete and an Olympic hopeful. She is one of the two athletes represented by Elton John’s Rocketman Productions Group.

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Simon Whitfield won the Gold Medal back in 2000 in the first ever Olympic Triathlon and a Silver eight years later in Beijing. He is gearing up for one last Olympics and, at the age of 37, is looking forward to jumping into the longer distances after London. He went through his career and spent some time on the twitter battle that erupted recently between himself and Lance Armstrong.

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Chris McCormack came on after winning Lava Man to chat about his prospects for making the Aussie Olympic team. Even more exciting, Macca chats about the prospects of two Americans, Lance and Lieto, getting off the bike with the lead in Kona this October, with the two Aussies who have won the last five Ironman World Championship titles – Crowie and Macca- trying to chase them down, along with the Raelert brothers from Germany … could be amazing!

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Keith Dickson runs the Elite Triathlon Academy based out of Colorado Springs and he believes-check that, he KNOWS- that the U.S. can develop triathletes who can win Olympic medals. In this wide ranging chat he outlines his plan to make that happen.

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When it comes to drugs in sport, our go-to-guy from the very beginning of Competitor Radio has been Mark Zeigler of the San Diego Union Tribune. With Ryan Braun in the headlines, Mark came on to chat about that case, along with the issues he sees brewing in cycling, triathlon, and the upcoming Olympics.

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Desiree Davila ran her first marathon in 2007 in Boston and went 2:44:56. How much has she improved? At the 2011 Boston Marathon she ran the third fastest marathon for an American woman in history with a 2:22:38 and finished a mere two seconds off of the win. How does someone go from 2:44 to 2:22 in the span of four years and also qualify for the 2012 US Olympic Marathon Team? Desi’s formula is pretty damn simple: Talent, dedication, perseverance, and patience.

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John Nunn just qualified for the U.S. Olympic Race Walking team in the 50K. It was really interesting to learn a little bit more about a really unique sport.

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