S11 Ep23: Arrivée | Tour of Flanders | women’s race
The Cycling Podcast
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4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
After an imperious start to the season which includes wins for Demi Vollering, Marlen Reusser and Lotte Kopecky, all eyes will be on SD Worx. But with former Flanders champion Elisa Longo Borghini returning to the Trek-Segafredo fold and World Champion Annemiek Van Vleuten racing her final Ronde Van Vlaanderen, who will come out on top?
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to a Revee by the Cycling Podcast, supported by Super Sapiens, energy management, the committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:13.0 | The second time is the end. For the second time is the absolute best and the most beautiful. |
| 0:29.0 | Here is the best football team in the world, the round of the flasks, 23,000. |
| 0:37.0 | The first person on the field is the one and only, Love the Shoppeki! |
| 0:44.0 | See, did it again? |
| 0:46.0 | Well, we just heard the sound of the finish line, Lottica Pecki crossing the line to take her second win in a row at the Women's Tour of Lander's. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm joined by Lizzie Banks to discuss everything that happened. Lizzie, I'm sure you wanted to be out there at the race today. |
| 1:02.0 | Well, I'm not sure if I did if I wasn't in the first three riders going out the Cottonberg, but I guess we will have to do it that shortly. |
| 1:10.0 | But yeah, it did look like a good race today and thankfully for the riders it was dry because it's been raining all week and the cobbles have been horrendously slippy. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, it looked like a good race today and a lot of fans out on the road. |
| 1:23.0 | Oh yeah. I was thinking there's lots of times when I thought Lizzie would be jeering everyone up at this point and that point, |
| 1:30.0 | and shouting at her, the riders in her breakaway there. |
| 1:34.0 | But yes, Lionel has given us handed over the reins to us to discuss what happened in the race on this Arrive episode. |
| 1:43.0 | So I'm sure Lionel, because the men's race finished quite a while ago now, didn't it? |
| 1:46.0 | So I'm sure Lionel's already in the market square in Udenarda dancing to some techno Europop, which is what they pump out of the speakers there. |
| 1:56.0 | We actually both have a beer on show, don't we? You're not actually drinking yours. |
| 2:01.0 | No, you have a... And it's also French not Belgian. |
| 2:05.0 | Well, Rose, I've got a French beer because we've seen the Tour of Lander's. I've absorbed the Tour of Lander's |
| 2:11.0 | and I'm already getting myself in the spirit for Paris Rebaillier next weekend. |
| 2:15.0 | So I've got a French beer. |
| 2:17.0 | That's also because French beer was the only beer that I had in the house. |
| 2:22.0 | Well, I can't imagine what it's like in your house when the Tour of France is coming up. |
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