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Join us at escape collective.com forward slash join. Hello. Hello and welcome back to the Wheel Talk podcast. My name is Abby Mickey.

I'm joined by Gracie Elvin.

Hey, hey, Lauren Rowney.

Good morning everyone.

We are here to talk about women's professional road cycling, and today we've got

La Boelta Espana Feminina, which started on Sunday with a team time trial.

We're going to dive into it, talk a little bit

about the opening stages, but today's episode

is going to be a two-parter because today,

as we're recording, a little bit of behind the scenes.

This is a Monday morning. So the first stage is the scenes. This is a Monday morning so the first stage is the only

stage that happens and the second half of this episode will be post stage 2

after I think we will see a little bit of a shakeup in the situation at least the general classification. little Kane, SRAM, Little Trek, FDJ Suez, Liv Alula, Jaco.

So it's gonna be a great two-parter of an episode

for everybody today.

But to start, it's the three of us in the studio, kind of, to talk about the team time trial that

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