S14 Ep66: Stage 8 | Rivoli to Sestriere | Giro d’Italia Women 2026
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 6 June 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Bow down before your queen! Yes indeed, it’s time for the queen stage at the Giro d’Italia Women on a route that was due to take in the Colle delle Finestre and end in Sestriere, however best laid plans went a bit frosty and chaos ensued. Join Rebecca Charlton and Lizzy Banks as they take a closer look at all the happenings of Stage 8, where it was all drama, a sheet of ice and a makeshift finish line.
We also hear from Dani Rowe MBE from the top of a mountain, and Marlen Reusser drops in for a chat.
Don’t forget to listen in all week as The Cycling Podcast Féminin brings you daily coverage from the race.
We hear all the ‘what if?’ theories ahead of the final stage and also on the agenda is our angel of cheese, Denny Gray. Will he have deviated from the mainstream? Tune in to find out.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to daily coverage of the 2026 Giro d'Italia Women by the Cycling Podcast Feminna. |
| 0:13.1 | Today, Rebecca Charlton and Lizzie Banks will take you through stage eight. Rev, Tessestria. Hello and welcome back to the Cycling Podcast Feminand and Stage 8 on our daily |
| 0:33.6 | Giorit Italia women's coverage. I'm Rebecca Charlton standing in today for Rose Manley, |
| 0:38.0 | although I probably could have got away with not mentioning it as after frequenting the same |
| 0:42.8 | South London pubs for years now, apparently we sound exactly the same. Alongside me is Avalanche |
| 0:48.9 | expert Lizzie Banks and we're on a little bit sooner than expected today, aren't we? |
| 0:55.5 | Yes, we are. I mean, |
| 1:00.3 | who'd have thought we'd be talking about avalanches in the Jura d'italia? But what a crazy day. |
| 1:07.7 | We have had a bit of everything today, Becca. And, well, I don't know if I should spoil, |
| 1:12.0 | spoil it before my tale of the tapper and tell you all the crazy carnage that we had. Should I tell you what happened, dear listeners, dear Becca? I think before we get to |
| 1:17.2 | the crazy carnage, let's have the Tale of the Tapper, aka what happened in the bite race, Lizzie? |
| 1:23.1 | Okay, well, let's do that then, Becca. Oh, I believe said, let's do that that then Rose. Stage eight of the Jiro d'Italia women and the Queen stage, |
| 1:30.6 | 106 kilometres from Rivoli to Cestriere, or so we thought. With 60 kilometres from the start in Rivoli to the foot of the fearsome finestri, |
| 1:41.3 | there should have been plenty of time for a break to form, but a cagey |
| 1:45.1 | peloton kept things tight, and a group of 15 were only let go within 10 kilometres from the foot |
| 1:50.7 | of the finestro. As soon as the road began to rise, the escapees snapped into a small group with |
| 1:57.7 | a small margin managed to stay ahead, notably containing Sylvia Persico |
| 2:01.9 | and Celia Jury. With 16 kilometres of finestri left to climb, we, the viewers, learnt that a small |
| 2:10.0 | avalanche had fallen and blocked the road before the top of the Colladelli Fenestri, but no |
| 2:15.0 | official word from the organisers on how this would affect the race |
| 2:18.6 | and no indication from the TV images that the riders knew yet of the carnage to come. |
| 2:25.3 | Moments later and the first GC riders started to drop, Marlon Royser could no longer hold the pace, |
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