S13 Ep152: This Time for Africa
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
For our mini feature this month we look at the rise of African cycling in light of Team Amani’s announcement that they will become the first ever Africa-based Women’s Continental team. We hear about the challenges facing African riders from visa complications to community stigma and find out about Team Amani’s ambitions to make it to the Tour de France Femmes by 2028. Listen in to hear from team mentor Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio, partnerships director Xylon Van Eyck and Team Amani star rider Xaverine Nirere who lit up the World Championships time trial in Rwanda this year.
We also take a look at next year’s Tour de France Femmes course which covers nine stages from Switzerland to Nice.
Also on the agenda: Anna Van der Breggen plays the piano, Denny embraces his inner beatnik poet and a wet ffff… firework.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the cycling podcast Feminna. |
| 0:19.0 | Well, hello and welcome to the cycling podcast Feminand. |
| 0:23.1 | The dust has well and truly settled, hasn't it, on the road racing season? |
| 0:28.0 | I can hardly remember what happened, but thankfully I'm being joined for this episode |
| 0:32.1 | where we are going to be going through some winners and losers of the season by a winner |
| 0:36.5 | and a loser. |
| 0:37.3 | I'll let you guys decide which one is which. |
| 0:40.1 | And that is Rebecca Charlton. |
| 0:42.7 | Hello, your intros just get better and better, Rose. |
| 0:46.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:46.5 | That one I hadn't even thought of came to you as you looked at my face and losers. |
| 0:51.4 | No, I said you've got to decide between yourselves and Denny Gray. Well, thank you, |
| 0:56.4 | Rose. I think I guess I am the loser, aren't I? Because I didn't win the Christmas quiz last year. |
| 1:01.9 | So I am the current loser. In fact, I've never won it, unfortunately. So, yeah, Becker's definitely |
| 1:07.2 | the reigning champion, the winner. I'm so glad that 11 months on, we still haven't got over it. |
| 1:12.7 | I like that kind of spirit because we will have a Christmas quiz, of course, next month. |
| 1:17.8 | That's a bit cancelled because of the fallout last time. |
| 1:21.5 | That's good to know. |
| 1:22.5 | I think I'm just, I'm really nervous about that because if I lose for a third time in a row, I might just |
| 1:29.2 | have to hide myself away. Yeah. Oh no, you get sacked. You do get sacked. Okay. Well, that makes |
| 1:35.6 | my decision easier, doesn't it? Yeah. So you've got it, you've just got to go, oh, I see. You're |
| 1:40.7 | going to throw it now, are you? Free up a bit of time each month. |
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