S14 Ep22: Arrivée: Paris-Roubaix Femmes
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
As the roar of the velodrome subsides, Rose Manley and Denny Gray take you through this year’s edition of Paris-Roubaix Femmes.
But who will become this year’s Queen of the Cobbles? Will reigning champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot reign again after her late call up? Could Lotte Kopecky and SD Worx make up for a lacklustre Classics season so far? Or might we all be in for a surprise in this most predictably unpredictable of races?
Also on the agenda: camembert wheels rankings and beautiful memories of kebab pizzas
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Arriva episode from the Cycling Podcast Feminan. We are, of course, talking about Pari Roubae fam in this episode and my little warning as usual is that |
| 0:40.3 | this episode will be full of spoilers so if you don't want to know what happened then go away |
| 0:45.1 | find out what happened and come back to us because we're going to be talking about exactly |
| 0:49.4 | what went down and what could have happened what might have happened happened. When I say we, I am joined by |
| 0:55.5 | Denny Gray. Denny, lovely to see you here. Hello, Rose. This time last year, we were in the |
| 1:01.9 | velodrome, weren't we? We're not quite this time last year because it was on the Saturday. |
| 1:06.0 | Yes. Of course, that weekend, not the Sunday. But yeah. But we had to watch it from our, from our television |
| 1:12.0 | sets today, didn't we? Yes, I know. I was thinking about that and I was wondering if you had |
| 1:16.8 | done what I did last year and gone out the night before, had a cabab pizza and a few |
| 1:23.5 | Belgian beers and then just suffered through the race today. I was hoping you would do that |
| 1:29.6 | in my honour, Denny. Yeah, well, I remember that last year I was worried we wouldn't be able to |
| 1:35.4 | navigate our way around the race because, of course, I'm terrible with the road books. I rely on |
| 1:39.9 | you, Rose, and with you kind of not wondering whether you'd even be able to get in a car |
| 1:45.8 | at one point that that was worrying so yeah maybe I should have I don't know stumbled to the |
| 1:50.5 | television you know on my own hey hey hold on now this is getting I wasn't just to be clear |
| 1:57.0 | listeners I wasn't stumbling around no no no you. No, you weren't. You made a remarkable |
| 2:02.8 | recovery like the true professional. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you so much, Denny. Well, we |
| 2:08.2 | will talk, well, we might touch on it today, but we'll certainly be talking in our regular |
| 2:12.4 | episode that's coming out this week, a bit more about the fact that the Paribay fam, |
| 2:17.3 | the women's Paraguay |
| 2:18.6 | Bay was moved from Saturday, which I mean, we haven't had that many additions, but it's always |
| 2:23.4 | been on the Saturday before the men's race on the Sunday. And for this year, they've moved |
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