And the Hello, you're listening to the Wheel Talk podcast. We're here to talk about the

Tour de France Femm of X Swift. It's coming up really soon. My name is Abby Mickey. I'm joined by

Matt Deney for the final time in the studio before we record on the ground

live in France. Oh yeah, so excited excited so sad to get over there and get stuck into the race and

actually podcast in person we haven't we've done what how many podcasts together? So many

podcasts together but haven't met in person so I'm looking forward to that and the race is going to be so good.

Yeah, I wonder if we can sneak a little bit of album files in in the middle, talk a little bit about, just just without Ian we'll just like do a little bit on the ground album files.

Sounds good to me.

Mandatory album files.

A plug there. Nobody knows what we're talking about. Anyway, joining us for

this preview today I'm super excited that we have Amanda Spratt back. You talked to

us about the Welter and that was super cool so I was like oh I wonder if we can get you back for the tour and here you are.

Hello. Yeah, thanks hi. Um, thanks for having to be back I guess I did an okay job last time. So happy to be back and talking about this little race coming out.

Just a tiny race, really like inconsequential, insignificant. Not really that big.

Yeah, no, we haven't been focusing on it all year, so no, no, no, not at all.

It's crazy to me, it's crazy, but it also is not,

that the race, this is only the second edition of the Tour de France

Bem of X-Wift or kind of the Tour de France in this new age of women cycling where

we have live coverage and like a lot more resources going to the women's peloton that the race has really

taken on this life of its own in women's cycling like last year I think that

there wasn't there was a lot of hype around it, but it wasn't yet like this massive thing that kind of

like shadowed over the entire women's calendar and this year it really feels like it is very similar to the

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