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Well, hello and welcome to the cycling podcast Feminan. It's April. It's the time of year that we love, don't we? Because the classics are just coming thick and fast. That would be actually a perfect little segue into introducing my two co-hosts. I'll let you guys argue over who is thick and who is fast. I thought you were going to say we were classics.

You can be the old classic, Denny, and I'll be the thick but still, I'm not sure I'm

still fast, thick but still relatively quick.

Well, okay, I guess you both kind of managed to compliment yourselves there somewhere.

But yes, I should introduce more formally the old classic that is Denny Gray. Thank you. Thank you. And Lizzie Banks, who I think is definitely fast, no doubt, is definitely not thick. Thank you. Unless you've been having a lot of waffles. I mean, I did have a lot of waffles. I'm not being doing quite so much cycling. I'm definitely thicker than I used to be. I'm definitely less fast than I used to be. So the thick and slightly less fast,

Lizzie Banks. Hello, Rose. Thanks for the lovely introduction. Lovely to be here too. You're very, very welcome. Well, I've actually caught up with both of you, haven't I, in recent weeks, because we've had two Arevays, one from Flanders, one from Peru Bay, which you both

joined me on. So we've kind of heard a little bit of your knee-jerk reactions to those

particular races. But now we've had a bit of distance from them. I say that with like having

had a few days off from Paribouet.. I just wonder what, what, how can we classify this classics season, cobbled classics season, I should say.

Lizzie, what was your kind of major takeaway from the couple classics that we've had?

I think I'm just going to be repeating myself by saying, you know, the sort of emergence of Franzy Koch as a superstar.

But I just don't think that you can look back at the classics and not say how important that has been.

You know, Franzy's been there in every single one of the major classics and then coming away and winning Priory Bay at the end, may I add

after, after me predicting that she would, which I'm very disappointed that I didn't put actual

money on. I know. Well, that's what we said in the Arriva, didn't we, Denny. I actually couldn't

believe it took this long, Lizzie, before you gloated with that one. But we did say in the

Revee, we hoped that you put some money on on it because it was a fantastic shout. The first thing on Sunday morning, just to say that Franzy Koch was going to win it, because I think you would have got some good, I don't know how much you would have got, but you would have got a good, good amount. Well, the frustrating thing is I've been thinking it since Wednesday, since I sort of started thinking about, you stopped thinking about the previous race of Flanders and started moving on to the next

race and I was thinking I have Franzy's going to win this you know unless I can't I can't claim to

have Denny's crystal balls or any sort of voyeuristic traits but you know looking at looking at

everything that had happened looking at the flow of the races, the type of rider she is, the type of race it is, the hunger that she had.

It just seemed like everything was up to, up for grabs with that.

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