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Women's Cycling Weekly
by Amy Jones
A podcast about the world of women's cycling! Newsletter mamilrepeller.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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WCW pre-worlds w/ Tilda
It's been a minute! Amy and Tilda are back to discuss what's been happening since the Tour and looking ahead to the world championships road race in Zurich. Follow Women's Cycling Weekly Follow Tilda. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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signing off from the sock.
Quite possibly the most lit bike race to ever occur. Follow Women's Cycling Weekly Read Rachel and Amy's work on Rouleur Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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low battery
It was the GC day that wasn't today with something of a stalemate on Le Grand Bornand. Meanwhile Justine Ghekiere took a stunning stage win in polka-dots and Amy and Rachel went from beers on the terrace to drowned rats in the questionable pizza joint. Follow Women's Cycling Weekly Read Rachel…
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31 minutes of bellowing
The Tour de France Femmes has it's first French winner ever! Amy and Rachel report from a day that involved four hours or driving, cheese fondue, and a lot of bellowing. Follow Women's Cycling Weekly Read Rachel and Amy's work on Rouleur Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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sober karaoke
We're in France and after a slow morning collecting badges and discussing a sock upgrade it turned out to be one of the spiciest stages so far. Follow Women's Cycling Weekly Read Rachel and Amy's work on Rouleur Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Who picked Puck?
Rotterdam is a distant memory after an Ardennes-style stage that delivered a veryyyy popular winner. Meanwhile, Amy and Rachel have a shambolic morning (what's new?) and a familiar voice returns. Follow Women's Cycling Weekly Read Rachel and Amy's work on Rouleur Hosted on Acast. See...
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Live from the sock
It's stage two of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, Demi Vollering is already in yellow and Amy and Rachel are back with the most chaotic cycling podcast of the moment :) Follow Women's Cycling Weekly Read Rachel and Amy's work on Rouleur Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
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Cringing in the car
It's stage one of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift and Amy and Rachel are back with the most chaotic cycling podcast of the moment :) Follow Women's Cycling Weekly Read Rachel and Amy's work on Rouleur Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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nothing if not inconsistent
Surprise, it's a podcast! I'm back on the mic with Rachel discussing the current Spanish racing block and whether or not the latest winning streak means that SD Worx will be back to dominating the whole season once again. Subscribe to the Women's Cycling Weekly newsletter here. Read Rachel's work...
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Catching up over the cobbles
The band is back together! Amy is joined by Tilda and Rachel to talk all things cobbled Classics. Subscribe to the Women's Cycling Weekly newsletter here. Read Tilda's work here. Read Rachel's work here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sarah Gigante
Amy sat down in a bona-fide podcasting studio with Aussie rider Sarah Gigante to talk TDU, AG Insurance - Soudal Quickstep, who she looked up to as a young aspiring pro, her disappointing 2023 season and more! Subscribe to the Women's Cycling Weekly newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See...
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Two weeks in a row?!
We're back! Chaos levels are nearing Tour de France Femmes heights and it's only March but we managed to pull it together to dissect Strade Bianche and look ahead to Ronde van Drenthe and plenty more in between. Subscribe to the Women's Cycling Weekly newsletter here. Read Rachel's work here....
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The season has started!
Rachel joined the pod to talk about all things Opening Weekend and look ahead to Strade! Was Omloop a fluke or are we in for a more balanced 2024 season? Subscribe to the Women's Cycling Weekly newsletter here. Read Rachel's work here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A Down Under Debrief with Rachel and Tilda
Rachel and Tildz take us through their experience from on the ground at TDU including their numerous Adelaide food recos (giant donut, anyone?) Plus, we chat about whether the peloton will bring more of a challenge to SD Worx in 2024. Subscribe to the Women's Cycling Weekly newsletter here. Read...
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A Christmas quiz!
Amy's asking the questions as Rachel and Tilda go head-to-head in the WCW end-of-year quiz. Who can remember the most about the 2023 season and take home the honour of the WCW Christmas Quiz Queen? Remember to play along at home and let us know your score! Subscribe to the Women's Cycling Weekly...
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Freaky Frite Friday: A WCW cyclocross weekend
In potentially the most chaotic episode of WCW to date (itself a solid achievement) Rachel, Tilda, and I (Amy) headed over to Belgium to watch the CAPS Urban Cross X2O Trofee in Kortrijk. I forgot the muff for the microphone (sorry about the wind!!) Rachel doesn't own any appropriate shoes, and...
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Brodie Chapman on taking time off, teamwork, and TTs
It's another IRL interview this week! I tracked down Brodie Chapman in her home base of Andorra to chat about what has been a difficult season for the Australian national champ, how she's spent her off season, what she's looking forward to next year and learning from her Lidl Trek teammates.…
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Lizzie Stannard on escaping Zaaf and racing all three grand tours
This week I managed to snag an IN PERSON interview with the lovely Lizzie Stannard. Lizzie started the year on the Zaaf team -- we all know how that one went by now -- but managed to get a ride for Israel Premier Tech where she ended up racing all three grand tours and totting up a whopping 61…
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Kim Cadzow
It's another interview pod! This week Amy chatted to 21-year-old Kiwi, Kim Cadzow who has spent the 2023 season racing for the Jumbo Visma women's team but will join the new EF team for 2024. Kim is a promising climber and showed her strengths at the Tour of Scandinavia and the Vuelta Ciclista...
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Tour de France Femmes thoughts with Rachel Jary
A brief pause in the interview pods as Rachel returns to the pod to discuss the 2024 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift route which was revealed this week! From Rotterdam to Alpe d'Huez with a weird split day and an Ardennes stage this route has a LOT going on, but is it all good? Subscribe to the...
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Cassondra Spring: the early wave of feminine leadership in cycling
Welcome to the WCW podcast's interview era. Throughout the winter I'll be bringing you chats with various guests from pro cyclists to industry professionals and the people BTS in the sport. This week, I spoke to Cassondra Spring. Cassondra is the Global Marketing Manager of the women's-specific...
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The eggs are the reward
It's been a few weeks since we got behind the mic so Rachel and I caught up with the recent Women's WorldTour races including Annemiek van Vleuten's LAST EVER pro race. Elsewhere, we chatted about transfers and, since it's basically the end of the season, we went over our fav moments from this...
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The calendar is broken and so are we
I'm joined by Rachel again to talk about Scandinavia, Tour de l'Avenir, and transfer news as well as dissecting everything that is wrong with the WWT calendar and why it means we're ready for a holiday. Subscribe to the Women's Cycling Weekly newsletter on Substack. Hosted on Acast. See...
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What in the worlds
The Tour de France Femmes band is back together with a wrap-up of the 'super worlds' and some other chaotic ramblings about whether the season is too long, and where Rachel is going on her holidays in a few week's time. Subscribe to the Women's Cycling Weekly newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See...
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Complete disintegration: Tour de France Femmes stage 8
It's the Tourmalet and time trial wrapped into one. Rachel and I have completely lost the plot and so, apparently, have SD Worx if their post-race press conference is anything to go by. Subscribe to Women's Cycling Weekly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Exclusive from the ice bath: Tour de France Femmes stage six
It's stage six and oh my goodness the Tour is long, eh. I spent a wonderful day with the lovely Arnaud while Rachel sweated in the press room. We both get pied by riders at the finish and WCW pod gets an exclusive from the ice bath with Ashleigh Moolman Pasio! Subscribe to Women's Cycling Weekly....
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It's giving arrogant: Tour de France Femmes stage five
SD Worx reckon they're above the law and Rachel is jealous that I'm heading out for a whiz through the French countryside with her man. Plus, another popular solo victory from a relative underdog at the Tour de France Femmes! Subscribe to the Women's Cycling Weekly newsletter. Hosted on Acast.…
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Combusting buses and crying over cute videos: Tour de France Femmes stage 4
Stage four was not a good day for our nerves, but in racing terms it was the best one yet. A big break went away, and Fenix - Deceuninck got the win they so very much deserved, while the GC race got started in earnest. Meanwhile, Rachel was crying over literally anything and I was getting a bit...
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Julie vs. the world: Tour de France Femmes Stage 3
It's only stage three but nerves are frayed in the press room. Meanwhile, the vibe was the same in the Fenix-Deceuninck team car as Julie Van de Velde got oh-so-close to a solo stage victory. And why on earth won't SD Worx...work? Subscribe to Women's Cycling Weekly. Hosted on Acast. See...
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From Kylie covers to a chaotic finish: Tour de France Femmes stage two
Less from riders and more of our rambling on a chaotic second stage at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. Subscribe to the Women's Cycling Weekly newsletter. Get in touch at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Surprise sprint points and sweltering heat: Tour de France Femmes stage one
The Tour de France Femmes is officially underway and while there's no Orangina in sight there's been plenty of excitement to make up for it. I roped in Rachel once again to chat about the stage and we hear from Kasia Niewiadoma, Elisa Longo Borghini, Lizzie Deignan and Ashleigh Moolman Pasio…
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Orangina through a straw: Pre-Tour de France Femmes with Rachel Jary
The Women's Cycling Weekly Podcast is back! With a slightly chaotic, hopefully informative or at the very least entertaining preview of the Tour de France Femmes. In the absence of TIlda (who I refuse to acknowledge may not come back) I have previous pod guest Rachel Jary alongside me to discuss...
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Savilia Blunk
It's our final episode for a while 😢 (but hopefully not forever) we talk about the Vuelta, the week's news, and what's going on at WCW Towers PLUS an interview with USA cross country mountain bike champion Savilia Blunk ahead of the first XC world cup of the season in Nové Město na Moravě.…
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All roads lead to Flanders
It's nearly Flanders time! All the Belgian Classics have been leading to this, haven't they? After a couple of weeks off, we talk through all the latest action from Belgium, including SD Worx's insane dominance and some questionable group 2 tactics, plus look forward to the big one on Sunday.…
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Where's the women's Milan-Sanremo?
Hello lovely listeners! This week we discussed where on earth the promised women's Milan-Sanremo went and if it's even something we want to see. RCS promised it for 2023 but it's looking more like 2024, plenty of riders want it, Annemiek van Vleuten wants it to be 250 km long (ofc), but what does...
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Jojo Harper on shooting Strade Bianche
Just the two of us for the news and racing this week! BUT we do have a guest interview for you for the first time in a while with photographer Jojo Harper! Jojo has worked in cycling for eight years and has been embedded in the Trek-Segafredo team for the past few seasons mainly with the women's...
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Opening Weekend and Le Samyn with Sadhbh O'Shea
PSA: with Elisa Longo Borghini confirmed to be out of Strade Bianche with sickness, you can listen to Tilda's weirdly specific prediction as more of a dream than a real possibility. RIP. But ANYWAY, the Classics are here, finally! With lots to chat about from Opening Weekend and Le Samyn, we…
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UAE Tour, Valenciana and Opening Weekend
Well, it's surely time to throw out the idea that racing only starts at Opening Weekend, because we've had A LOT of it this month! With so much to dissect, we looped in Rouleur's Rachel Jary to talk through everything that happpened at the UAE Tour, the Setmana Ciclista Valenciana, as well as our...
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Puck Pieterse
This week we were lucky enough to sit down for a chat with Puck Pieterse, one of the riders who has taken the cyclocross world by storm this season. Never finishing off the podium in any race she started, the Dutch super talent spoke to us from the middle of her Worlds prep, where she'll be…
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Talking TDU with Abby Mickey!
If you've been missing the Freewheeling podcast then we have the perfect antidote for you in this week's episode! The one-and-only Abby Mickey joins us to dissect the first WWT edition of the Tour Down Under as we look at who's in form and who has some work to do before the classics plus we ask:...
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Sophie Capewell
It's a new year and we're baaaack! Recorded just before Christmas, this week's episode features British track sprinter Sophie Capewell. One of the biggest new names in women's sprinting, Sophie came up through the GB programme and had a huge season in 2022, taking home medals at both the...
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Merry WCW-mas
It's Chriiiiistmaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssss! No guest this week just ✨vibes✨ as we take a look at the past, present, and future of the 2022 season a la Scrooge x As ever if you enjoyed the pod then check out the newsletter at mamilrepeller.substack.com and we would LOVE you forever if you rated…
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Imogen Cotter
This week we're joined by former Irish national champion Imogen Cotter, who spent much of her 2022 sidelined after a life-threatening crash in training just before the start of the season. We talked about her journey into cycling, recovering from her extensive injuries to be back racing in...
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Michelle Duffy - Life Time Grand Prix
This week we had the pleasure of speaking to Michelle Duffy, director of events, brand and content strategy at Life Time, organisers of the eponymous gravel Grand Prix series. As well as talking about the series and how it's trying to foster inclusion and equality in gravel, we spoke about...
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Gina Ball
This week we spoke to the lovely Gina Ball who is the team manager of multi-disciplinary, mixed gender team, Spectra Racing. As Gina Tweeted in September, she is currently youngest and only female team manager of a UCI Cyclocross Team! Read and subscribe to the Women's Cycling Weekly newsletter…
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Two years of Women's Cycling Weekly!
It's been TWO YEARS since the first issue of Women's Cycling Weekly hit (very few) people's inboxes in November 2020! A LOT has happened since then, so for this week's special episode Tilda is the one asking Amy the questions all about the origins of WCW. PLUS we also answer some subscriber...
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Kara Lilly - Undaunted Project
This week we spoke to Kara Lilly, founder of the Undaunted Project which provides mentoring support for aspiring female racers! Follow and support the Undaunted Project on Instagram at @undaunted_project Read and subscribe to the Women's Cycling Weekly newsletter at...
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El Jaskowska - School of Rocks
This week we spoke to El Jaskowska, the founder of School of Rocks, a grassroots women-led initiative to introduce the world of off-road riding to women who are new to the rough stuff but are "off road curious". El explains all about how she founded the first school, how things have expanded…
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Emilie Moberg
She's been a professional cyclist for 12 seasons and raced alongside some of the biggest names in the sport, but when Emilie Moberg took to the start of the inaugural Paris Roubaix Femmes she had no idea it would be her last ever race as a pro. The residual effects of a concussion she sustained…
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The 2023 Tour de France Femmes route
Hi everyone! This week we are sans guest and instead took a deep dive into the newly unveiled 2023 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift route! Is it a done deal on the Tourmalet for Annemiek van Vleuten? Is the addition of a time trial a good one? Let us know what you think of the course! Read and...
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