Wheel Talk: After La Vuelta, it’s clear women’s cycling is in a golden age

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4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Loren, Gracie and Abby have a lot to say about this year’s La Vuelta España Femenina. They discuss the final two stages, but also general takeaway from a week of racing in Spain and what it could mean for the rest of the season.

The episode includes audio diaries from Maike van der Duin of Canyon-SRAM, Brodie Chapman of Lidl-Trek, Kim Cadzow of EF Education-Cannondale, Alessia Vigilia of FDJ-Suez, and Georgia Baker of Liv AlUla Jayco.

Obsessions this week: Abby - The Idea of You on Amazon Prime, Loren - Low Tox Life, Gracie - The Giro! (catch her on the first 8 stages of SBS commentary).

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0:00.0	I'm going to
0:05.0	in your favorite cycling podcast sick of shallow bike reviews escape collective is
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0:23.0	Join us at escape collective.com forward slash join. I'm going to be. Hello, my name is Abby Mickey and you're listening to the Wheel Talk
0:48.0	podcast. I am joined by my amazing friends, Gracey Elvin.
0:54.0	Hello, hello?
0:55.0	Fresh off of commentating the first two stages of Vigiro at ungodly hours.
1:00.0	Yeah, I feel like nights I'mating until the first rest day, so I'm feeling okay so far, but we've got a big week to go.
1:09.0	And Lauren Rowney.
1:12.0	G'd-day, good-day.
1:13.0	I think the commentary is a good thing, Gracie.
1:16.0	It's just kind of prepping you for those night owl hours that are coming up potentially.
1:21.0	I know I did think that. I'm I think I'm nearly at 35 weeks
1:26.2	pregnant now and I still feel okay but I'm so hot in that commentary box my My core temperature is so much high. I'm just like sweating bullets.
1:36.0	I'm taking shorts into the studio and it's like cold here now in Australia.
1:42.0	And but yeah, not struggling too much yet but definitely getting a bit of a
1:47.2	sense of being up late at night. We have a great race to talk about today.
1:53.6	Love Welta Femina.
1:55.1	We did a couple midweek episodes
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