S10 Ep166: Merry Quizmas Everyone!
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In a year when the inaugural Tour de France Femmes put women’s racing in the spotlight, they reminisce over some of the moments that captured their imagination at the race. Among them is the tightly-contested GC battle, Annemiek Van Vleuten’s eventual high mountain domination and getting to witness Marianne Vos – the greatest of all time – in yellow.Â
Honourable mention also goes to the finale of the Women’s Tour where Elisa Longo Borghini snatched overall victory by one second from Grace Brown, with practically the last pedal stroke of the whole race. The emergence of a potential new rivalry between Annemiek Van Vleuten and Lotte Kopecky also caught the attention, with the pair sharing the spoils across two of the most thrilling races of the year: Strade Bianche and the World Championship road race.
The Christmas Quiz returns with Rose setting some devilish questions for Orla and Lizzy, such as how many people did it take to open the winner’s Champagne at Le Samyn? And did someone really win 8kg of dry dog food at the Lotto Belgium Tour? Plus, there's a finishing round of the pun-tastic “Cryptic Criterium” that descends into exasperation as all good Christmas board games should.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Cycling Podcast Femina, |
| 0:06.0 | Howard by SuperSapiens, Energy Management for Committed Athletes and Coaches. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello, Merry Christmas! |
| 0:38.0 | Well, I'm Rose Mardley and I'm joined by my two little Christmas elves here, |
| 0:48.0 | Aula and Lizzie Banks. Are you guys in the festive spirit at all yet? |
| 0:52.0 | Oh, I am now, thanks to you Rose. |
| 0:54.0 | Do you know what, I've been massing into Christmas this year, |
| 0:58.0 | which times are ridiculous, like it's something that I've only just discovered. |
| 1:02.0 | I've been in the past years, the build-up kind of passes you by or you're kind of annoyed by it, you know. |
| 1:08.0 | I purposely decided this year I was properly getting Christmasy and I was going to be domesticated, |
| 1:14.0 | and bake things, and cook things, I'd just be really Christmasy. |
| 1:18.0 | So I haven't baked anything, I haven't cooked anything, but I've got loads of lights everywhere, |
| 1:23.0 | and I'm lighting candles every single day, which is lovely. |
| 1:26.0 | And Mr. Dam in the Christmas time must be beautiful. It really is. It's heart-breakingly gorgeous. |
| 1:34.0 | So yeah, feeling quite Christmasy and I'm... |
| 1:36.0 | You're pretty good at baking and things Lizzie though, I'm sure there's a Christmas cake, is there? |
| 1:40.0 | Angling for one room? |
| 1:42.0 | We're actually going to the UK for the first time for Christmas for years. |
| 1:46.0 | Usually go on a Christmas training camp for two and a half weeks and escape the Christmas madness. |
| 1:50.0 | But I'm not fit enough to go this year, so we're actually going back to the UK. |
| 1:54.0 | So I'm actually looking forward to it because it'll be the first time that we've seen our families at Christmas for five years, I think. |
| 2:00.0 | So we're going back on Monday and I'm ready to get festive. |
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