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S14 Ep19: Arrivée: Ronde van Vlaanderen (Women)

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4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Get those waffles out of your cupboard and dig in as Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks discuss the 2026 edition of the women’s Tour of Flanders.

An all star cast of riders lined up to face the 15 cobbled sections and climbs of the Ronde Van Vlaanderen. Amongst them, record holding three time winner Lotte Kopecky who has been on sporadic form this season and two time champion Elisa Longo Borghini who heads up a firing UAE Team ADQ. The race also offers up a number of other conundrums. Can Dwars door Vlaanderen winner Marlen Reusser double up and take a second Flandrian win this week? Will Demi Vollering finally add a Flanders title to her palmares? Might Lorena Wiebes survive the climbs and go for the win?

Also on the agenda: Lizzy builds a Noah’s Ark for cats and the waffle-o-meter gets a grilling.

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The The

0:23.6

The Well, hello and welcome to this Arrivae episode.

0:45.6

My co-host Lizzie Banks has been picking me up on the pronunciation of these Arevei episodes.

0:51.1

Arrivae episode from the Cycling Podcast Femina.

0:56.4

We are, of course, warning as usual,

1:01.2

we are going to be full of spoilers today going through exactly what happened at the Women's Tour of Flanders. So if you don't want to know what happened, or if you want to catch up

1:05.7

beforehand, then here is your out. Get off, go and watch it and come back to us and yeah we're

1:12.6

going to go through exactly the who what's wears wise as much as we can aren't we

1:18.4

Lizzie Lizzie you've told me that you had waffles in your cupboard and didn't bring

1:23.7

them out on this special tour of Flanders Day. What are you thinking?

1:28.3

No, I didn't.

1:31.7

I'm saving my waffles for L'Age Bast on L'Eye Day.

1:34.3

Okay, I think that is fair, but it's also Easter Sunday,

1:37.2

so you would think, like, that's chocolate and waffles.

1:40.9

You would have nailed two things in one go, had you gone for it.

1:42.0

We're having fish for dinner.

2:02.8

Does that count as celebratory enough for Easter Sunday for you? Oh, I don't know. Isn't Easter Sunday lamb? Isn't that's, isn't it? Yeah, but don't you feed the 5,000 with fish? If anything is in the Bible, it counts. I've got the wrong of it. Yeah, and you know, I built an arc this morning and put all my cats inside it.

2:06.4

That I can totally believe about you, Lizzie, actually.

2:10.8

Luckily, we're not talking about Bible stories because we wouldn't be very good at that.

2:15.1

But we are talking about women cycling, which we are pretty good at, I would hope, to say.

2:18.3

The Ronda van Vlanderun, the Women's Touroir Flunders. Well, let me give you a little summary, keeping it as short as possible, about what happened in this race today.

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