S12 Ep120: Arrivée | Women’s World Championships Road Race
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
With an inter-team rivalry at SD Worx that has been building all year, the race was expected to be a showdown between defending World Champion Lotte Kopecky and all-conquering Demi Vollering. But also lining up were Tour de France Femmes champion Kasia Niewiadoma and Giro d’Italia champion Elisa Longo Borghini who come to the race with renewed confidence this year. Young stars like Puck Pieterse and Neve Bradbury also had the chance to prove themselves with a World Champion U23 title on the line in the same race. With the rainbow bands at stake, who will reign supreme?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Aribe by the cycling podcast. Before we get into this episode I want to spend a moment commemorating the life of Muriel Fiura. |
| 0:27.6 | As I'm sure many of you will have heard Muriel was a talented young bike racer who died last week from injuries sustained in a crash in the junior |
| 0:35.3 | road race at the World Championships. A police investigation is currently underway into the |
| 0:39.9 | circumstances of the crash so we won't comment on that any further, but we'll |
| 0:44.2 | take the chance to shine a light on Muriel's short life. 18-year-old Muriel was a |
| 0:49.0 | promising mountain biker and cyclicrosser. She took silver in both the road race and time trial in the Switzerland junior |
| 0:55.5 | national championships this year as well as the European Championship bronze in the mountain bike team relay. |
| 1:01.8 | Swiss cycling made the following statement, |
| 1:04.3 | our hearts are broken, we have no words. |
| 1:07.0 | We are losing a warm-hearted and wonderful young woman |
| 1:10.1 | who always had a smile on her face. |
| 1:12.1 | Our thoughts and love go out to Muriel's |
| 1:14.3 | friends, family and teammates and anyone else affected by this tragedy and it gives |
| 1:19.4 | us pause to remember the great risk that all bike racers take to bring us this sport that we love. |
| 1:24.7 | Now Muriel's family gave permission to the world championships to continue this week which is why we have a |
| 1:29.6 | bike race to talk about today. So on this a revay episode from the Cycling Puckus feminine, we will be discussing the |
| 1:35.8 | women's elite road race and joining me for this is Joe Roussel. Now Joe, I can't even imagine, you know, with the tragedy of Muriel's passing, |
| 1:48.0 | what was going through the minds of the riders lining up at the peloton today. It was a very emotional watch to see them having |
| 1:55.2 | that minute silence before they began. |
| 1:57.6 | It certainly was. So we saw the Swiss team line up at the start of the race at the very front and a minute silence was held and you could see the emotion |
| 2:06.1 | from all the riders on the start line there and it was a really hard watch you know obviously it was |
| 2:11.6 | absolutely heartbreaking use for everybody and we, I think the only |
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