S14 Ep13: Winner Winner Trofeo Binda
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Dai dai dai! No that’s not a threat, that’s our call to come and listen to our latest episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin where we are taking a look at the Italian Classics block. Lizzy Banks makes her much hoped-for return to the podcast to join Rose Manley, Rebecca Charlton and Denny Gray as we discuss a drama packed Strade Bianche and an equally surprising Trofeo Binda.
In our mini feature we look at the history and significance of Trofeo Binda, a race that is often overlooked in favour of races with a men’s equivalent but has long been a firm favourite among the peloton. We hear from twice winner and this year’s super domestique Elisa Longo Borghini, former British champ and winner of the 2018 junior race Pfeiffer Georgi and bici.PRO chief editor Enzo Vicennati. We dig deeper into the unique elements of this race, one of the oldest on the women’s calendar, and explore its connection to 1920s cycling icon Alfredo Binda.
And lastly we look ahead – or perhaps don’t – to Milan-Sanremo and the raft of cobbled classics that follows.
Also on the agenda: an Elisa Longo Borghini panino, Denny speaks Mandarin (but does he really?) and Rebecca’s goes all quasi psychologist on us with a theory that encompasses Milan-Sanremo fandom and university dissertation punctuality.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the cycling podcast Feminna. |
| 0:25.8 | Well, hello and welcome to the cycling podcast Feminine, or should I say, |
| 0:31.6 | bonjourno, everybody, because we are in the midst of a mini Italian classic season, |
| 0:33.2 | aren't we for the women's peloton? And what I really should be saying, actually actually for this episode is Benvenuto. |
| 0:39.7 | Welcome and welcome back because not only joining me is Rebecca Charlton. |
| 0:45.2 | Hello, Rebecca. |
| 0:46.3 | Hello, Rose. |
| 0:47.5 | And Denny Gray. |
| 0:51.0 | I was struggling for, I've been learning different languages and I was struggling for the word, hello in Italian. |
| 0:59.6 | So sorry for that full start, but hello. |
| 1:01.9 | I'll just stick with English, which is what I know best. |
| 1:04.2 | Which languages are you learning, Denny? |
| 1:06.1 | Give us any of them. |
| 1:07.7 | Well, obviously, my current record speaks not very highly of myself. |
| 1:12.3 | But yeah, I'm trying to learn Mandarin and Spanish on duolingo. |
| 1:17.3 | But yeah, anyway, so my mind was awash when I was thinking of words for hello. |
| 1:23.4 | But anyway, I'll just stick with the English. |
| 1:25.0 | Well, you just totally kind of hijacked, |
| 1:28.5 | trying to show off with your polyglotism. |
| 1:31.9 | You've actually totally hijacked our lovely welcome back |
| 1:35.6 | and welcome back to Lizzie Banks to the podcast. |
| 1:38.2 | Lizzie is so nice to have you back. |
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