S12 Ep85: Arrivée | Women's Olympic Road Race
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
With spectacular views, an iconic Eiffel Tower finish and a punchy parcours, the race promised to be one to remember. A number of hot favourites led the field. Lotte Kopecky, the Belgian superstar who has made no secret of her Olympic ambitions faced the likes of Team SD Worx teammates Demi Vollering and Lorena Wiebes - part of a Dutch team stacked with talent.
But this is the Olympics and riders would do well to remember Anna Kiesenhofer’s surprise win in Tokyo. The win really could come from anywhere.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Achieay episode of the cycling podcast feminine we're here and |
| 0:24.7 | we're talking about the Olympic women's road race when I say we I mean me rose |
| 0:30.4 | manly and down the line d Denny Gray of the British Continental. |
| 0:34.2 | Hello, Denny. |
| 0:35.8 | Hello, Rose. |
| 0:36.8 | I should explain. |
| 0:38.9 | We're still laughing because of a little bit of a slip |
| 0:40.9 | that I made pre-recording in saying British Continental entirely perfectly. |
| 0:46.4 | So, but we've recovered now aren't we? |
| 0:48.4 | We have. |
| 0:49.4 | We have. We have the shame must go on Rose. |
| 0:51.4 | Yes and we've got obviously a lot to talk about because this is going to be one of those |
| 0:57.2 | spoiler-tastic episodes where we kind of go into the nitty gritty of what happened in the women's Olympic road race and the women's |
| 1:06.0 | time trial. We're going to mention that briefly as well. So if you haven't watched them, if you still |
| 1:11.3 | want to catch up on them, then don't listen to this episode because |
| 1:14.3 | your well the thrill of it would be slightly ruined for sure but if you have |
| 1:20.0 | watched it or if you you know want us to tell you what happened then continue |
| 1:23.7 | listening but I did mention the time trial briefly there Denny that was a |
| 1:28.2 | week ago it almost seems like absolutely ages ago that the Olympic women's Road Time Trial was decided. That of course went to |
| 1:37.6 | Grace Brown of Australia who took the gold with Anna Henderson of Team G.B taking the silver and Chloe D'Igot of the USA taking the bronze. |
| 1:50.0 | Well it was kind of a gripping time trial, |
| 1:55.0 | gripping, not probably being the word I should use |
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