S13 Ep95: Preview | Tour de France Femmes 2025

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

We’re welcoming Féminin listeners old and new to get into the Tour de France Femmes spirit with Rose Manley and Denny Gray as they meet up to preview the race over a platter of French cheeses.

In what proved to be a far longer “punchy” episode than anticipated, Rose and Denny share their top fives of the race to come. They discuss the top five things to look out for on the course, plus their top five GC contenders, interesting prospects and stage hunters. Plus they finish it off with some crucial guidance for new listeners to the Féminin pod: a top five of Féminin references so that everyone knows their Nienke Vinke Fan Club from their ‘Casio’ Niewiadoma.

Also on the agenda, the English for “fromagerie” and Denny gets trapped down a SD Worx vortex.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to this special preview episode from the cycling podcast Feminand.
0:35.6	We are of course talking about the Tour de France
0:38.7	fam. Today we are bringing you this podcast in association with Wahoo, who is supporting this podcast
0:45.9	and supporting all of our daily coverage from the race. When I say we, I mean of course me,
0:51.9	Rose Manly and Denny Gray. Hello, Denny. Hello, Rose. How you doing?
0:56.7	I'm good. I find you, of course, with a lovely huge cheeseboard in front of you. There's no other way to find you, is there really?
1:04.6	No, this is my perfect afternoon, really. In central London here. Company included, of course. Oh, thank you. Good.. I'll take that. Company included, of course.
1:11.8	Oh, thank you. Good. We're here in Lamb's Conduit Street in central London, outside La Frommageerie.
1:18.9	Which, of course, in English means the cheesery, doesn't it? Yes. Broadly speaking, and we have a lovely French cheese board.
1:28.3	We have asked the owners here to give us a cheese board that broadly follows the route of the Tour de France fan here.
1:32.3	So we're indulging in some midday cheese, delicious wine and grapes and an errant wasp who seems to be a biggest fan of these cheeses as we are.
1:42.3	Very keen, aren't they? I mean, we will be talking.
1:46.0	It's important that we kind of tea up the cheese at the top
1:48.0	because we will be talking about cheese, of course.
1:51.0	The men on their podcast have kind of got the monopoly on the wine, haven't they?
1:55.0	But we definitely have the cheese corner of France.
1:59.0	Well, welcome all along to this preview episode.
2:02.6	You know, we are hoping that there will be plenty of insight, of course, for dedicated
2:07.6	listeners of the cycling podcast.
2:08.6	Feminand will be, of course, filling you in on exactly who we think and where you think we should,
2:14.6	everyone should be watching them, the key moments of the race.
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