S14 Ep61: Stage 4 | Belluno - Nevegal | Giro d’Italia Women 2026
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Yes, it is time for one-rider-to-go-up-a-hill-after-another as it is time trial day at the Giro d’Italia Women! With the GC riders yet to fully show their intentions, Stage 4 provided a huge opportunity to shake up the battle for the maglia rosa.
We also hear from young French talent Solène Muller about her time in the race hot seat.
And don’t forget to listen in all week as The Cycling Podcast Féminin brings you daily coverage from the race.
Also on the agenda: late-night cheese reading and zombies on bikes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to daily coverage of the 2026 Girod Italia Women by the cycling podcast Feminna. |
| 0:12.9 | Today, Rose Manly and Denny Gray will take you through Stage 4, Belluno to Neveigal. |
| 0:20.1 | Coce she'll see them, Cozze, Cozze Wichin'en, Nutti-Ulechis for, Belluno, to never egal. |
| 0:42.2 | Well, hello and welcome once again to our Giro d'etalia women coverage from the cycling podcast, Feminan. |
| 0:50.0 | My name is Rosemannley and I'm joined, it's safe to say, not by a time trial super fan for this time trial episode. |
| 0:52.7 | I think you made that very clear yesterday, Denny Gray. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah, although I have to. I found today's stage intriguing. So I think you made that very clear yesterday, Denny Gray. Yeah, although I have said. |
| 0:56.7 | I found today's stage intriguing. |
| 1:01.4 | So I think it's, yeah, I quite semi-enjoyed it. |
| 1:02.1 | Let's put it that way. |
| 1:05.9 | Yeah, that's about as much compliment as I'm going to get you. |
| 1:09.6 | You had a big wheel of cheese that you were getting through at the time, though, weren't you? |
| 1:21.7 | Well, listeners, Rose sent me a 70-page guide to Italian cheeses in the Balluno region last night. |
| 1:26.7 | So, yeah, I have plenty of reading to do in the quiet moments in the time trial today. |
| 1:28.9 | It was a very enjoyable afternoon. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah, I'm just a bit of a feeder though, aren't I with the old cheese? I've got you, |
| 1:37.2 | I bought you a book about cheese. I sent you that huge PDF yesterday. |
| 1:47.2 | Bought your cheese knife, of course. I think your partner won't be appreciating my sort of enabling of your cheese, cheese fetish, as one listener called it last year. Yeah, you're definitely a real pusher, aren't you, Rose? I mean, |
| 1:52.0 | but I'm, I'm all for it, you know, actually, you know, well, it would be. I'm an addict, so |
| 1:58.0 | keep, keep pushing it my way. Oh, now, now I can't enable you, can I? That's made it all so much best. |
| 2:05.3 | Well, yeah, you can't have it all your way, Denny, just eating cheese every day, because you did need to watch a time trial today, a very important time trial that should be said, because it was kind of our first time today at the race that we got to see really how the GC riders were faring against each other. |
| 2:23.8 | We did obviously see them do a little bit of something yesterday, but we didn't really see fully how their form was. |
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