Orla Chennaoui on overcoming L'Etape du Femmes, the explosion of woman's cycling, and harnessing her superpower | Watts Occurring Femmes |

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🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Manon and Emma welcomed cycling royalty to the pod this week: Orla Chennaoui. Orla was fresh off a remarkable day on the bike, taking on L'Etape du Tour de France Femmes. Their chat started with that and then headed into incredibly inspirational territory. Orla is a star, and it was our pleasure to welcome her to the pod. Watts Occurring Femmes is brought to you by Rouvy, and hosted by Pinarello. Want a free month on ROUVY, on us? Use code FEMMES when you sign up and explore everything ROUVY has to offer. SIGN UP HERE: https://rouvy.com/?utm_source=gtcc&utm_medium=direct-buy&utm_campaign=rouvy-brand&utm_term=femmes-podcast ROUVY connects indoor and outdoor by bringing the real routes from around the world to your home and ROUVY's new Route Creator tool allows users to film, upload and ride their favourite loops on ROUVY. Fancy a trip to your local Pinarello retailer? Visit https://pinarello.com/global/en/store-locator to find your local store today. Oh, and a huge thank you to Arlo & Jacob for Emma and Manon's snazzy armchairs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bread of heaven, bread of heaven. Feed me till I want no more. Feed me till I want no more. Feed me till I want no more.
0:17.3	And welcome back to what's the Korean fam, brought to you by Ruby, hosted by Pinerolo. And today we have an incredible guest on. I actually can't quite believe we have them on. I can't quite believe it either. A absolute trailblazer for women's sport and sports media. We are going to be joined by the one and only, Ola Shenouie. Let's have her on.
0:37.9	Let's do it.
0:38.4	I'm so excited.
0:39.9	Shammai, Ola.
0:40.6	How are you?
0:41.5	Shemai.
0:42.2	I'm very well.
0:43.6	Thank you.
0:44.1	How are you both?
0:44.9	It's lovely to see you.
0:46.1	Good.
0:46.6	It's lovely to see you too.
0:48.0	Thank you so much for coming on the pod.
0:49.5	We're like stoked to have you on. Oh, I'm delighted, honestly. It's like an absolute privilege. It's lovely.
0:55.9	Thank you. So you're finally back home after a very, very busy five weeks, is it?
1:02.3	Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was away for five weeks. Monday night. Yeah, it was my first night in my own bed and five weeks.
1:10.3	Even saying that makes me feel
1:11.6	really anxious, but it was all fine. But when I realized, I don't really realize, I think a lot of the time when I'm away, how long the stint is. And I was being really lucky. I was in London for the Tour de France, the Men's Tour de France. And my family were able to come over for the second two weeks of the rest. So I've been with them for a lot of the, for the last three weeks
1:29.1	anyway. So that makes for a lot of the,
1:28.0	for the last three weeks anyway. So that makes it a lot easier. But yeah, it's a long time
1:32.6	away from home. And especially when you're on like autopilot as well. Yeah, you kind of get
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