And the Hello, hello, hello. My name is Abby Mickey and this is the Wheel Talk

podcast. We talk about women's cycling, women's professional cycling,

and I'm joined by my amazing co-hosts Gracie Elvin.

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And Lauren Rowney keeping us on our toes as always Abby. I got you.

Hello everyone good to be back. We're here to talk about Strada Bianchi.

We're going to talk a bit about well the draft update and a bit of Rhonda Van Drenter to come. Let's dive right into it.

Strybionki. One of my favorite races of the spring if I'm honest. I think we were treated to a pretty good race.

There was a lot going on tactically, strength-wise, team dynamics. I think the

entire bit that we got to see was super interesting. Kind of a bummer that we got to see was super interesting.

Kind of a bummer that we got such a short chunk of live coverage for this one.

I remember last year we got a good bit more.

And this year we had under 50K, which is a little bit disappointing, but you know, we got to see the major action in the final 30k.

I'll just give a quick rundown of the main talking points of the race.

Peloton pretty much stayed together until the major 10 kilometers,

almost 10 kilometers sector of the race about halfway through where it was actually a little

trek that put most of the pressure on the

peloton. There was a break that formed including Neave Bradbury, Amber Crack, Lizzie Dagnan,

Rianna Marcus, pretty strong break. The only three that remained out front of those was

Ambercrack, Rianna Marcus, and Elena Amulusic of UAE Team ADQ. And then it came back together for Latulfay with 13 kilometers to go at that

point Niewodoma threw down probably the biggest move she did during the race

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