S12 Ep52: Better Late Than Never
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Questions may have hung over Demi Vollering’s form after a consistent if lacklustre run in the Spring Classics, but the SD Worx rider answered in no uncertain manner with three dominant performances across the Vuelta Femenina, Itzulia Women and Vuelta a Burgos. Some unexpected rivals emerged though, most notably Evita Muzic who is priming herself to be France’s great hope at this year’s Tour de France Femmes. The team also discuss a huge comeback win for Lotta Henttala at the Vuelta a Burgos, her first victory in over five years after struggles with both her physical and mental health.
This month’s feature visits the topic of latecomers to the sport. These are riders who make the jump from regular jobs to elite racing careers in their late 20s and 30s. We hear from Jayco-Alula’s Mavi Garcia, Movistar’s Mareille Meijering and Coop-Repsol’s Monica Greenwood about their journeys into cycling and the peculiar life lessons they’ve learned along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the cycling podcast feminine. My name is Rose Manley and |
| 0:25.4 | well we're here we've just had a Spanish block of racing and we are aren't |
| 0:29.1 | we Denny Gray of the British Continental in our own little cabana here aren't we in beautiful |
| 0:34.6 | Wandsworth we are in a cabana in Wandsworth the weather isn't that Spanish |
| 0:39.6 | it's quite cloudy and rainy outside I think we're in the dodgy end of Wandsworth as Martin McLaughlin might have set. |
| 0:45.8 | But we are here nonetheless. Another stage in our tour of Wandsworth. |
| 0:52.3 | Yes of course. |
| 0:53.3 | This is the King's, is it the King's Arms or the King's Head? |
| 0:56.7 | Who can remember? |
| 0:57.7 | It's the King's Arms in Wandsworth. |
| 0:59.8 | And you may have heard chortling to a love actually quote there that was Rebecca |
| 1:04.4 | Charlton. Thank you for joining us Rebecca in this you've been to this cabana |
| 1:08.6 | before I've seen you in this cabana before actually. Well hello guys brilliant to be back and we have been it's the first time we've called |
| 1:13.7 | brilliant to be back and we have been in this cabana |
| 1:16.1 | it's the first time we've called it a cabana I think I named it a hut a hut last |
| 1:20.0 | time but yeah we frequented here haven't we and the weather has |
| 1:23.1 | often been a little bit better than it is today but I don't think the weather in |
| 1:26.8 | Spain has been very Spain like either has it? No that's so true we are going |
| 1:31.0 | to be talking of course today about the Spanish block of racing. |
| 1:34.2 | I'm putting them all, lumping them all together because it's even quite hard in my memory |
| 1:38.7 | to separate all these races because we did see some very familiar patterns didn't we get established across those races but we will be talking about the |
| 1:45.9 | Vuela femininea the Zulia tour and the Vuelta A Burgos that was all coming up. I've also got a feature this month about late |
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