meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Cycling Podcast

S9 Ep186: Women’s Tour 2021: Stage 6 – Haverhill to Felixstowe

The Cycling Podcast

The Cycling Podcast

Sports, News, Sports News

4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

That’s a wrap from the 2021 Women’s Tour. Join Rose Manley, Lionel Birnie and Lizzy Banks as they witness the conclusion of the final stage – the longest of the race – to Felixstowe.

The sun was shining, the crowds were cheering and although there wasn’t a drop of rain in the air in the finishing straight the rainbow shone too.

Elisa Balsamo, the recently-crowned world champion, finally grabbed a stage win for her Valcar team after going so close yesterday. We hear the reaction from Balsamo and her teammates.

Lizzy’s recon included a trip on a ferry, we wrap up the stories from the day’s breakaway and the crash which marred the run-in before focussing on overall winner Demi Vollering. We hear from her SD Worx sports director Danny Stam.

We also reveal who has won the Pédaleuse de Charme and Stacy Snyder’s beautiful hand-made cup and hear from Trixi Worrack, who brought down the curtain on a long career today.

We hope you have enjoyed this week’s coverage. Thanks to our producers Will Jones, Adam Bowie and Huw Owen. Also to Simon Gill, to Lionel’s mystery researcher and to Alasdair Lloyd-Jones and the social media team.

The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.

Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com

For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.

This episode is sponsored by NordVPN. Get up to 73% off a two-year plan: go to NordVPN.com/TCP

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

You're listening to the Cycling Podcast Femina, powered by Super Sapiens. Energy management

0:19.0

for committed athletes and coaches. This is the Cycling Podcast Femina at the Women's

0:24.5

Store. Today we're in Felix store.

0:54.5

Well, that was actually the sound of celebration. You might have thought that that was the sound

1:04.2

of some horrible crash, but the screaming and weeping and cheering was actually Valca

1:11.0

celebrating Elisa Balsamos' first victory as well champion here at the Women's

1:16.7

Store on stage 6. Well, we've just seen it. We've just finished in Felix store. We're

1:22.0

sitting now right actually on the beach. Yesterday we kind of were on the prom, but this

1:26.9

time we're actually on the sand. Lizzie's bike is very well protected on the sand. Is it

1:32.5

Lizzie would you say? Yeah. Might be washed away. I'm trying not to get too much sand in

1:36.9

my bottom bracket for a given back to my team. Oh, we'll see how well that goes. I'm keeping

1:42.0

an eye on the tide. Make sure that we get finished recording before the sea is lapping

1:46.7

at our ankles here. And I'll just tell you now that behind you, Lizzie, is the longest

1:52.2

pier in Felix store. Would you believe it? I actually don't think that that can be possibly

1:56.4

true. Surely there's a big industrial one. I'm the docks down the road. There's got to

2:00.7

be. Just to say, I was really surprised by Felix store. I've been to South End before. I've

2:05.0

been to Clackton. Never been here before. And it's been an absolutely beautiful day, hasn't

2:09.2

it? The sun has shone. It's been very warm. It feels like almost the last day of the summer

2:13.7

holidays. And here we are in early October. People have been on the beach. They've been enjoying

2:18.1

fishing chips. And they've been watching the women's tour. Felix Fest is going to go on

2:24.1

into the night. There's live music down in the little area where the race podium was.

2:30.7

And what a way to finish the women's tour here in Felix store. I was expecting stacks

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Cycling Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Cycling Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.