S14 Ep65: Stage 7 | Sorbolo Mezzani - Salice Terme | Giro d’Italia Women 2026
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🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Close up that deeply unreliable road book and listen in as Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks take you through Stage 7 of the Giro d’Italia Women, which offered up all kinds of drama and chaos.
We also hear from breakaway superstar Alison Jackson on her day at the front of the race.
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: Gerytales, phantom triathlons and cheese larvae
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to daily coverage of the 2026 Giro d'Italia Women by the cycling podcast Feminna. |
| 0:12.6 | Today, Rose Manly and Lizzie Banks will take you through stage seven, Sorbolobolomezani to Salichette Termere. Well, mezzan, you salicheterme. |
| 0:42.8 | Well, hello and welcome listeners once again to the Giro Detalia Women Daily coverage from the cycling podcast of Eminan. |
| 0:49.0 | My name is Rose Manly and while we are fast approaching the real crescendo to this race, aren't we? |
| 0:56.7 | Today was stage seven, the third from last, no, yes, the third from last stage of this race. |
| 0:59.5 | So we're gearing up to a mountainous weekend. |
| 1:03.8 | And I tell you what listeners, I mean, I always find you the perfect co-host, |
| 1:09.3 | but this is a really good match for this particular stage to have Lizzie Banks on the show, |
| 1:12.2 | not only a two-time duro stage winner, as I'm contractually obliged to mention unless you won't turn up on the program, but also the winner |
| 1:17.6 | of the longest ever stage of the women's Jero in all its different formats. |
| 1:24.7 | And today's stage was the second longest, but not taking your crown, Lizzie. You'll be |
| 1:28.8 | pleased to hear. Well, Rose, lovely to be here. Hello, listeners. Hello, Rose. Just as you were |
| 1:35.7 | doing that introduction, I thought, you know what? I think this is what you're going to say. And I'm |
| 1:39.5 | just going to quickly Google how long the stage that I won in in 2020 was which was the longest ever stage of |
| 1:46.4 | the Gero and it's actually you got that tattooed on your arm I have not not yet and the funny |
| 1:54.1 | the funny thing is in the most classically Giro style is that it says that the stage that I won was 165 kilometres on pro |
| 2:02.7 | cycling stats, which it wasn't. But the Giro Roadbook said that today's stage was 166 kilometers, |
| 2:10.9 | which it wasn't. It was 159. And I actually was very confused because I'd been looking at the pro cycling stats |
| 2:19.8 | elevation profiles and I realized last night that the Giro Roadbook says something completely |
| 2:25.0 | different for today that after after the third category climb of Pietre Gavina there was a second |
| 2:32.6 | climb only 15 kilometres from the finish. And I was |
| 2:37.1 | sort of going a bit loopy watching the stage, thinking, have I just imagined a climb that wasn't |
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