S14 Ep62: Stage 5 | Longarone - Sante Stefano di Cadore | Giro d’Italia Women 2026
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We’re getting the good-o-meter out for Stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia Women as Rose Manley and Denny Gray attempt to dissect a stage which offered up plenty of winners, losers and inbetweeners.
We also hear from two of the most impressive riders of the day, Nadia Gontova of Liv Alula Jayco and Lauren Dickson of FDJ United Suez.
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: parmesan fans and saying “schiiiiiiiiiizzzzz!”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to daily coverage of the 2026 Giro d'Italia Women by the cycling podcast Feminna. |
| 0:12.9 | Today, Rose Manly and Denny Gray will take you through stage five, Longarone, to Santa Estefano di Cador. |
| 0:42.2 | Well, hello and welcome along once again listeners to our Juryditalia women coverage from the cycling podcast Feminand. |
| 0:47.0 | My name is Rose Manly and, well, we've hit the mountains today. |
| 0:52.0 | Denny Gray, my co-host today will be happy because it's not a time trial. |
| 0:55.5 | Denny, I'm sure you were very excited for all the drama that the mountains were going to throw up today. I was. I was waxing lyrical doing lots of |
| 1:02.0 | wild speculation, wasn't I, about all the tactical computations for today. And I think it didn't |
| 1:07.3 | disappoint actually. It was a very, very intriguing stage. I think intriguing is |
| 1:11.2 | probably the right word for it, actually, because it kind of started with a lot of intrigue. |
| 1:16.9 | Also, we didn't have the TV pictures, did we? When we hit the first, you know, the first cat one of |
| 1:23.5 | the day, and we didn't have any pictures from it, and then we heard all these kind of strange things. Well, I'm probably moving into your tail of the tapper, Denny. So apologies if I started sweeping my way into it. But well, maybe give us the tail of the tapper now and then I can't still any more of your lines, can I? Well, it was a bit of a wild stage, as I said off air roads. |
| 1:45.8 | I wasn't sure whether to go for a very, very short version or very long version. |
| 1:48.5 | I've tried to go in the middle of what actually happened today. |
| 1:51.1 | But stage five was from Longaroni to Santo Stefano de Cadori. |
| 1:56.0 | It was the biggest climbing day of the first week, 146 kilometres, four categorised climbs and a downhill finish |
| 2:02.9 | after a long descent, or finish after a downhill rather. Early on, a large group of around 30 |
| 2:09.7 | riders went clear with roughly 13 teams represented. The most dangerous rider in it on the road |
| 2:16.7 | was Lauren Dixon, |
| 2:17.7 | Dami Vollerings, FDJ United Suez teammate, who had started the day a minute and a half down overall. |
| 2:24.8 | Esty Works Pro Time, down to five riders, of course, had Valentina Cavalar in the move as a forward outpost. |
| 2:30.9 | On the second first category climb of the day, Dixon drove hard at the front, |
| 2:35.7 | reducing the break to herself, Benito, Gontovar, Cavalar and Marion Bunnell, behind, meanwhile, |
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