S14 Ep27: Arrivée: La Flèche Wallonne (Women)
The Cycling Podcast
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4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Rose Manley is joined by Flèche Wallonne Femmes’ biggest fan Lizzy Banks as they react to the 2026 edition.
With five former champions lining up for the race this year, the spoils really could go anywhere. Plus with surprise Amstel Gold Race winner Paula Blasi returning for a second Ardennes Classic, might fans be in for another big surprise?
Also on the agenda: fickle fan club presidents, cat skinning and getting your knickers and tongues twisted.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Arrivae by the cycling podcast. |
| 0:16.1 | Well, hello and welcome to this Arriva episode from the cycling podcast Feminan. |
| 0:21.7 | We are of course covering today what we call on the podcast the uphill cheese rolling contest, |
| 0:27.5 | although that is probably a competition that Denny Gray certainly would rather be covering |
| 0:31.5 | than Flesh Rolon, which is lucky that he's not here, isn't it? |
| 0:35.8 | Because we've got the number one fan. This is very rare |
| 0:39.0 | for Flesh One to have a number one fan. But I think it's an official posting, isn't it, |
| 0:43.0 | Lizzie Banks? You are Flesh Wallon's number one fan? I think I was Flesh Wallon's number one fan. |
| 0:50.8 | Oh no. That was going to be my follow-up question was if the addition, if the addition today, which, of course, I should say, this is full of spoilers about exactly what happened in Fleshfulon fam. So if you don't want to know, then don't listen right now and go and find out and come back. But yes, I was wondering if it hit the checklist of things you love about Flesch-Wallon today or not. |
| 1:12.8 | Did it miss the moment? |
| 1:13.5 | Well, Rose, I'm feeling a little bit like a soggy waffle. |
| 1:18.3 | No, that's a terrible feeling. |
| 1:23.6 | Well, you look much more, you know, bright and ready to talk about the race than a soggy waffle does. |
| 1:30.4 | It must be said. |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah, I look better than a soggy waffle, but I feel a little disappointed and please don't switch off straight away because we have lots of interesting things to talk about. |
| 1:40.1 | But I feel a bit like a plonker after saying how interesting flesh |
| 1:44.3 | willon always is and how we usually have terrible weather that gives us this |
| 1:49.3 | exciting racing and it was a it was a little bit of a flop until the last sort of |
| 1:55.7 | eight kilometers I would say today which was a good actually because we only saw |
| 2:00.6 | 34 kilometers of the race which was good actually because we only saw 34 kilometres of the race, |
| 2:03.1 | which was a little bit frustrating. |
| 2:06.3 | But having said that, it was a very exciting finale, |
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