S13 Ep157: A Wonderful Quizmastime
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Before all the ugly competitiveness sets in, the team look back at some of their top racing moments of 2025. Tantalising rivalries, career-changing breakthroughs and some French flair all make the list. And we hear from a few familiar friends to find out their top picks from the season too.
And of course no Christmas is complete without a little homespun festive music and some Cycling Podcast themed gifting.
Keep listening right to the end for a very special exclusive treat from Paul Carella, the musician extraordinaire who also happens to be Rebecca Charlton’s partner.
Also on the agenda, Greek rising star Flyinthesoupis, more allegations of quiz fixing and could that be the sound of Rebecca really enjoying Nienke Vinke’s white jersey win?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the cycling podcast Femina. |
| 0:22.6 | Ho! Ho! ho. Merry Christmas. |
| 0:24.6 | That was very, very self-conscious jingle bells from me there. |
| 0:27.6 | But I was using the jingle bells to signify the cycling podcast Feminand's festive episode in true Morkman-Wise style. |
| 0:36.6 | We're going to have a bit of everything on this episode. We're going to be chatting. We're going to have a bit of music, a few cameos from some of our cycling podcast friends. And of course, like all good Christmases, it's going to end in loathing and animosity when the Christmas quiz hits and we are in I did promise |
| 0:57.3 | wind swept last month it's not windswept actually it's a really beautiful |
| 1:02.1 | sunny day but we are here Rebecca Charlton aren't we in what looks like our long |
| 1:07.6 | promised Swiss cabin but it's actually a beautiful little pub log cabin on the South Coast. |
| 1:13.6 | It does. We're on the South Coast in Shoreham by sea. |
| 1:16.6 | Not the other Shoreham. Not the other Shoreham. |
| 1:19.6 | And often people say Shoreham on sea. So just to clear that straight up, it's Shoreham by Sea. |
| 1:25.6 | It's a beautiful little coastal town and yes |
| 1:28.9 | we're not wind-swept because we've managed to put ourselves in a heated cabin |
| 1:32.8 | which is really civilised it is it's lovely and we're actually looking out onto |
| 1:36.5 | not the sea the river the river and it's we're in a beautiful spot and on the line |
| 1:43.6 | joining us is Denny great sick note denny |
| 1:47.3 | unfortunately today you're going to be with us denny weren't you but not feeling your best |
| 1:53.0 | or he's doing all of this to get his excuses in when he loses the Christmas quiz for the |
| 1:58.2 | sixth time in the row, whatever it is. |
| 2:05.7 | Yeah, ding-dong, merrily from Roehampton in Wandsworth today for me. |
| 2:06.8 | That famous song. |
| 2:07.3 | Yes. |
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