Welcome back to the Lenton Rouge Cycling podcast here with Benji for the women's awards show complete awards show going through best classic strata all-round rider GC rider TT rider Domestic sprinter and lead out as well as the unfortunate news which dropped earlier this afternoon about the closure of GCN plus obviously a product that many we have used and many of you have used as a means to watch lives

cycling so we're going to talk about that as well with the info that's come out there and what that means for us in the future or not us in the future but as it consumers where do we watch cycling in the future is what we're going to discuss in 24 that's a pretty important thing for everyone to watch as this but first the women's awards show Benji the best sprinter I thought in February this year after the first UAE sprint that this was going

to be a bit tied a bit in the end I still think learn a Vib is runs away with this I think it's really intriguing looking at all the sprints they had throughout the year because he was in call or for me to to write as I think for everybody day order to write is that you're looking at for the best sprinter category and it's actually unsurprising that every single one of these categories has at least one as the works writer involved sometimes it's like between many as the works writers but for sprinter we was nine world to winst

12 total wins shall I call same total wins around 12 and seven world or wins but it's kind of an evolution throughout the year in my eyes as in we started with the UAE tour and you said it in that race they were close but I felt after that race that we was was still the fastest sprinter and that the difference was made in slight disadvantages for we was in the stages that she ended up losing so for example in one of the stages she went early in the wind early and as a consequence well cold

cold was able to overtake her and win that stage and then we go further through the year and the obvious one is that the versatility between the two writers is different but I'll let you judge that in a second but when it comes to the pure sprinting the Symmac ladies tour stage tree for me was also a moment where cold truly straight up beat weavers which doesn't happen often in in women cycling that a sprinter does that and that's one where I'm like that might mean that she might be able to make another

tiny step forward and maybe be on on par with we was in the future but the versatility is what makes a difference right yeah I think so when you look at the he was in the classics she could have won some of the flatter clav

the shoulder cool wasn't even there as she was in the race but she wasn't competitive like in on low for example for us see where she finished eight minutes back with Lisa Klein and sanguinettey for tracks so

yeah Vib is just a little bit more fit a little bit more versatile I think in even in stage one of the tour she was in yeah well I think she was in yeah she won the bunch sprint behind in the second group and that had a punchy climb about nine case cresting from the finish so definitely much more versatile although cool was there as well but yeah Vib is just kept winning although

yeah not as not as dominant we we have to say not as dominant but but it's yeah is it partially because of the team situation as in in many of the races she ends up winning the the sprint behind for example in an awkward occurs and so forth if it was

copy and it's separate team and we was in a separate team both with full support we might see the entire team surrounding we was trying to chase down whatever copy does there if that's the impossible because

copy was pretty good in some of these classics races and then maybe we was wins the race because now it's like the one two's first the works where we

was ends up second and I think that happened in envelope as well if I recall correctly so the one thing I do need to mark is she was just so

versatile that she was also very valuable to the team next to the sprinting which might not necessarily mean

much for this specific award but the sprinting cowbatic the fact that she was there still helping so

late and you mentioned that first to the front stage the fact that they can use her tactically by having

her in that group on that final in the first stage and then Kopeck is looking behind oh she's slipping

a bit now it's time for Kopecky to go so that makes the team have more options and I think it's

pretty clear for me that wibis is still the best sprinter in the world but when it comes to easy sprints easy

flat you a eastward stages stuff like that cool can compete with wibis yeah another best example of what

you're describing is the European championships not sure if we mentioned that where the netlands is

there it's not as he works but you know netlands bread of oldies on her trade team but she had bread of

old up the road and then vibis beat Kopecky in the sprint up in Luke's backyard so we had we

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