And the Hello, hello and welcome back to the Wheel Talk Podcast. My name is Abby Mickey and we are here to talk about women's professional road cycling.

I'm joined by Lauren Rowney.

Good day everyone I'm first today in many ways more than one way.

Well played. I told you last week you'd be first.

He gave you a week heads up.

That's true. Sorry, my mind is elsewhere. I'm thinking about other things,

like other winning moments.

She's going to rub it in for the whole hour.

Oh God, I just realize what she's talking about.

We'll get to it.

We'll get to it. Today we've got two world tour races to talk about

Classic British Japan and Gend Wevelham and then we've got some big races coming up this week with Tour of Flanders on Sunday

plus Doors or Vandellin coming up in the midweek lots of good stuff going on today

before we dive in I do have a corrections corner for myself which is embarrassing I'm not going to lie I am embarrassed

about this one however I did go back and look at the article that I sourced myself from and it said

I TT for the first stage of the Vuelta So it's my fault for not double checking the sourcing from the Vuelta's website.

However, I got corrections cornered in the discord by one serge Dante that is actually a team time trial to start the Vwalta.

So all of our excitement about the time trial lists having a 16K chance to prove themselves

before the Olympics. Unfounded.

Sad. It's a real shame, isn't it? I mean, when is there a next opportunity then, actually?

In one of the smaller tours, I guess, that's about it. Like, usually they have one at the smaller tours I guess that's about it like usually they have one at the

sex toys race is that still going to be sex toys this year but let's hope so is that

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