S12 Ep86: Tour de France Femmes Preview
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Special attention is paid to the upcoming Queen stage in our mini feature on Alpe d’Huez. While the men’s peloton have visited the iconic climb 31 times at the Tour, the women last raced there over 30 years ago during the Tour Feminin. We investigate the origins of the Alpe’s legend and speak to some female racers who have competed there in the past.
Plus Rose and Denny weigh up who might be the biggest contenders for the fabled yellow jersey. While Demi Vollering has looked unbeatable across this year’s stage races, she lines up at the Tour with a somewhat depleted SD Worx team who are missing some of their strongest domestiques. Meanwhile Kasia Niewiadoma has enjoyed something of a resurgence this year, supported by a Canyon-SRAM squad which continues to discover new depths. Plus no-one can discount Giro d’Italia winner Elisa Longo Borghini, looking to make it a Giro-Tour double.
And while the racing is highly anticipated, so too are the cheese possibilities as Rose and Denny prepare to embark on their own Tour de France, where they will be doing daily podcasts on-the-ground, beginning on 12th August.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the cycling podcast Femina. Yes, dear. Yes dear listeners do not adjust your sets that is the sound of the cowbells |
| 0:29.4 | calling you to the Alps that's what we've got coming out. The Tour de France |
| 0:34.4 | fam is on its way. It's nearly days away. My name is Rose Manley and I'm going to be |
| 0:40.3 | heading up this preview of the Tour de France fam but I'm not on my own I've been joined |
| 0:44.6 | by Denny Gray of the British Continental. Hello Den and you're not wearing any |
| 0:48.5 | last month you were wearing mustard which I thought was a good sign for the Tour de France fan, and this month |
| 0:56.4 | you're wearing orange. What does that mean? It means we're so close to the Tour de France fan that of course |
| 1:02.1 | I can't wear my yellow clothing. |
| 1:05.0 | All your yellow is packed ready to go. |
| 1:07.0 | Exactly. |
| 1:08.0 | It's in the suitcase. |
| 1:09.0 | Really glad to see that the Cycling Podcast, Sound Effects budget has been increased recently as well. |
| 1:14.0 | Yes, I was just wondering how angry the producer would be. |
| 1:18.0 | I was doing quite a tentative cow bell there, I think you noticed, because I was worried how |
| 1:22.2 | annoyed the producer would be by how loud |
| 1:24.7 | that cowbell would be and it sounds very loud. We are sitting in a pub garden. It does make me think that |
| 1:30.4 | we are propping up the whole pub industry for the whole of wanted because it's really quiet here at the castle |
| 1:37.3 | in tooting. Normally you think there would be enough hubbub that a cowbell wouldn't, you know, |
| 1:41.7 | no one would even notice. notice no but we are in the |
| 1:44.2 | pub garden in the pouring rain it should be said so yeah there's a probably a good |
| 1:48.3 | reason why it's quite out here I think I think when I picture us recording these |
| 1:52.4 | tour de France previews and during all the summer months I'm never picturing |
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