S13 Ep87: Great Brittany
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Rebecca Charlton cover all the talking points from a Giro which saw the maglia rosa change hands several times. It took a daring strategy on the Queen stage from Elisa Longo Borghini to finally wrestle the overall victory from this year’s breakthrough GC rider Marlen Reusser. And we ask a question rarely asked, where the heck were SD Worx?
In our mini feature, we explore Breton cycling in light of next week’s Tour de France Femmes Grand Départ in Brittany. The Cycling Podcast favourite François Thomazeau explains the history and heritage of the region, plus we hear from two Breton riders that have had outstanding Tours de France in recent years: Cédrine Kerbaol of EF Education Oatly and Maeva Squiban of UAE Team ADQ.
Also on the agenda: a café that floods once a day, Liane Lippert’s many hats and a shocking revelation about Breton cheese that blows the Belgian cheese debate out the water.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the cycling podcast Femina. |
| 0:20.7 | Well, hello and welcome to this month's Cycling Podcast Feminand. |
| 0:25.1 | We're in the middle of a Grand Tour sandwich, aren't we? |
| 0:28.3 | It's safe to say. |
| 0:29.4 | We've just had the Diorit Italia women, and we next week is going to be the Tour de France fan. |
| 0:35.2 | But more on that later. |
| 0:37.2 | I should say we are continuing our |
| 0:38.7 | tour of Wandsworth aren't we Denny Gray of the British Continental we are this is a |
| 0:43.6 | beautiful set the scene for us Denny but where we are sitting they're at the |
| 0:48.2 | clubhouse which is the home of Raptor Bikes which is a new bike brand down in |
| 0:53.5 | Putney right on the River Thames. |
| 0:56.9 | Becca, who may be introduced to in a minute, tells us, apparently this floods every now and |
| 1:01.6 | again, but we're very far from flooding today, a small threat of rain, but it's a beautiful |
| 1:05.6 | little spot, coffee being served, cakes on the counter, and yeah, just enjoying the London afternoon. |
| 1:13.5 | The ambience, the ambience. Well, we should go to Flood Watch and Ninka Vinka Fan Club President. |
| 1:19.0 | You've got a lot of titles, Rebecca Charlton, don't you? |
| 1:22.2 | I'm racking them up. Yeah, I'm racking them up. I'm envious. I'm, of course, not with you. |
| 1:27.1 | IRL today. I'm sat on the floor |
| 1:29.8 | on a cushion with my microphone propped up because I'm in the middle of moving house. So, |
| 1:34.5 | yeah, a little bit of a different scene for me here. Yes, but I am so glad that you did warn us that |
| 1:41.0 | this cafe floods twice twice once a day. |
| 1:44.7 | I think I might have exaggerated that. |
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