S14 Ep6: Shock, honour!
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
...SURPRISE! Gotcha. Yes the mini feature in this month's episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin is all about two surprising wins from last season. We'll be hearing from reigning world champion Magdaleine Vallieres about her huge shock win last September and from podcast favourite Lotte Claes about the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad victory which upset all the big hitters last February.
Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Rebecca Charlton will also be covering the less surprising UAE Tour where Elisa Longo Borghini took the overall title for the third time and Lorena Wiebes claimed all three sprint stages. The less than thrilling racing does however give the team the chance to look more closely at superstar Wiebes. An athlete who makes a credible bid for the title of best sprinter that has ever been but is still so often overlooked by both media and fans.
You can hear more from world champion Magdaleine Vallieres in our forthcoming Friends Special, an exclusive for Friends of The Podcast subscribers. Hear about the 1,000km bikepacking trip that sparked her imagination as a nine-year-old in Quebec, her difficult transition into the elite ranks and her rise to claim the rainbow stripes.
Also on the agenda: nominative determinism jumpers, the mystery of the fan club president's notebook and the briefest of peeks at Denny's crystal balls.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the cycling podcast Femina. |
| 0:14.3 | Surprise! |
| 0:16.0 | It's the cycling podcast Feverna. |
| 0:17.9 | My co-host looks so bewildered right now, but to explain, surprises, |
| 0:24.3 | or surprise wins, is the theme of the mini feature on this episode, this February episode of |
| 0:29.2 | The Cycling Podcast Feminand, and it's a February episode. So, you know, I was thinking, |
| 0:32.9 | what other way can you start? Nothing ever happens in February. Apart from, of course, in |
| 0:36.9 | women's cycling, because we do have plenty to talk about, don't we? |
| 0:39.5 | From the Women's World Tour, from the UAE Tour. |
| 0:42.6 | And it will be no surprise that I'm joined by two of the most insightful brains in women's |
| 0:48.1 | cycling. And that is Rebecca Charlton. Hello, Rebecca. |
| 0:51.8 | Hello. Becca looks so suspect at me because I've just given a compliment. |
| 0:56.7 | Just waiting to see where it's going to go. But hello, thanks for having me. And Denny Gray. |
| 1:02.1 | Well, hello. Lovely to see you, Rose. Yeah, you're such great spirits. It's such a joy in this dark grey February day. |
| 1:10.3 | Well, yes. |
| 1:11.1 | I mean, I'm trying, yeah, we are trying to kind of raise our spirits a bit, aren't we, |
| 1:15.6 | in this sort of dank weather and after not a, not an overwhelmingly entertaining |
| 1:20.3 | UAE tour that we will be coming to talk about. |
| 1:24.3 | More excitingly, though, I should just flag this now, is our mini feature that we have |
| 1:30.1 | where we'd be talking to the, shall we say, surprise world champion, Magdalene Vallierrez, |
| 1:36.1 | who kindly gave me loads of her time. So that will be making a Friends of the podcast special. |
| 1:41.6 | That'll be coming out in the coming weeks. But I've clipped up a few little bits from that where she's talking about her win at the World Championships and |
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