S14 Ep68: Stage 9 | Saluzzo - Saluzzo | Giro d’Italia Women 2026
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Could this really be the end? Join Rebecca Charlton and Lizzy Banks for one final instalment from the Giro d’Italia Women as the winner of the maglia rosa is finally decided on an explosive day.
We also hear from key names in that GC battle, Lidl Trek’s Isabella Holmgren and Canyon Sram’s Antonia Niedermaier, who was virtual leader on the road earlier in the stage.
And don’t forget to catch up on our whole race's worth of podcasts as The Cycling Podcast Féminin brings you daily coverage from the race.
Also on the agenda: Heart over legs, wonky helmet straps and, of course, cheese.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to daily coverage of the 2026 Girod Italia Women by the cycling podcast Feminna. |
| 0:12.6 | Today, Rose Manly and Lizzie Banks will take you through stage seven, Sorbolobolomez, you salicheterme. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello and welcome back to the cycling podcast Feminan. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm Rebecca Charlton standing in for the lovely Rose Manly again. |
| 0:47.1 | And it's the final day of Arjia ad Italia women's coverage. |
| 0:53.0 | Can you believe it, Lizzie Banks, you summed up today as cray craye, what a day. |
| 0:58.0 | What a day, Becca. It was one of those days where I was watching, |
| 1:01.9 | well, first of all, we didn't have any coverage and I was just refreshing three different feeds, sort of, you know, taking myself back 10 years. And then I was watching the coverage. |
| 1:06.5 | And I just kept laughing to myself because when the race unfolds so crazily, everything turns |
| 1:13.5 | itself on its head, you just sit there and think, well, these were the days that bike racing |
| 1:19.9 | was made for. What a day. And as you say, a lot, a lot happened. And not just stuff happened, but very important things happened |
| 1:30.3 | before we got the live TV coverage. So do you want to go there straight away? Lizzie, |
| 1:36.1 | do want to give us your tail of the tapper? I think I will do that, but I just have a quick |
| 1:40.1 | corrections corner. I actually should have had a corrections corner a couple of days ago as well, because |
| 1:44.6 | I'm very, very, I have to make a huge apology to Elisa Balsamo for just erasing the stage |
| 1:51.6 | six sprint day from my memory. I kept on saying yesterday on stage seven, referring to stage five, |
| 1:57.7 | forgetting entirely that stage six had happened. I promise you I do also like |
| 2:01.1 | the sprint days. And then I have another corrections corner from yesterday. I said the Jersey |
| 2:05.5 | classifications remained unchanged. Because we had no information, we, we only had a top 10 for, |
| 2:12.5 | you know, about an hour or so after the stage. But actually, Vollering went into the mountains |
| 2:16.8 | classification after the stage yesterday, although sheollering went into the mountains classification after the |
| 2:18.7 | stage yesterday, although she was equal on points with Vanderbregan. So I wondered if that was |
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