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S11 Ep31: Arrivée | Liège-Bastogne-Liège | women's race

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🗓️ 23 April 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks serve up their takes on an edition of Liege-Bastogne-Liege that ranks highly on the Belgian waffle-o-meter.

SD Worx’s Demi Vollering comes into the race with an Ardennes Classics triple on her mind. But with more teams taking more risks as the Spring season comes to a close, her ascension is anything but a forgone conclusion. Could her closest opponent in fact come from her very own team?

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0:00.0

You are listening to Areve by The Cycling Podcast, supported by Super Sapiens, energy management,

0:10.8

the committed athletes and coaches.

0:12.8

Well, Lizzie, here we are again for another Areve for Liege Baston Liege this time and

0:20.3

how different that was from the last time we did an Areve, Tora Flanders, where there

0:24.8

was like one moment in the whole race that decided the whole thing to come and watch Liege

0:30.1

Baston Liege, there'd be so much going on and see Demi-Volving crowned the Triple Arden

0:35.7

Champion having won Ampstor, the beginning of the race, then flesh in the middle of the

0:39.8

week and then to finish it off with Liege Baston Liege.

0:42.6

I have to ask you, Lizzie, on the waffleometer, how many waffles does that race get?

0:49.4

Tell me.

0:50.4

10 out of 10 Liege waffles, that was.

0:53.1

I mean, I was trying to write the moments of the monument and it was a very short one for

0:56.7

Ronde van Vlanderen and this was more like the trilogy of the monument that was so much

1:00.5

that happened today.

1:01.5

So, absolutely fantastic race today.

1:04.6

If you haven't seen it, please do go and watch it, but we're going to summarise everything

1:08.3

for you and pick out the best bits, but that is pretty difficult because the whole thing

1:12.7

was really thrilling.

1:14.2

Plots changing, everything twisting and the race getting turned on its head again and again.

1:19.5

Very, very good race today.

1:21.6

It was crazy, was it?

1:22.6

Very, very good race, very, very good breakfast for you, was it?

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