Freewheeling

Abby talked to Emilia Fahlin of FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope about growing up in Sweden. What her favorite holidays are, traditional foods, hometown sports, and more. 

This episode is the first in a series of episodes entitled "Growing Up in" that will be part of the Freewheeling feed, where Abby sits down with professional cyclists and people in the cycling world to chat about their childhood homes and how their hometowns helped shape them.

Loren and Abby chat with Jenni Gwiazdowski about the London Bike Kitchen, the Women of Colour Cycling Group UK, equality in cycling, and bikes in general. Bikes and the patriarchy. 

Check out more of Jenni on the Wheel Suckers Podcast! 

Jenni also mentioned Cyclista Zine, which can be found here.

Katie Compton joins the podcast to discuss the ins and outs of cyclocross, as well as her love of the sport and her process each season.

After a quick run-through of what happened at the Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta, Loren and Abby chat with Iris Slappendel about the latest rider survey created by the Cyclists' Alliance and filled out by the women in the sport. How did the riders respond to the COVID-19 situation this year? What are their biggest concerns in women's cycling? 

If you want to sign up as a member of the Cyclists' Alliance and support the work they are doing for the women in professional cycling, you may do so here.

In this week's episode of the Freewheeling podcast Loren and Abby are joined by Jose to discuss the end of the one-days, the lack of information on the Madrid Challenge, and all the newest transfer news. 

For the final ten minutes of the episode Abby chats with Katie Hall about her decision to retire, her career, and what she has planned next. Check out the full story on the CyclingTips website! 

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This week Loren and Abby are joined by current professional for Mitchelton Scott, Gracie Elvin who just recently announced that she will be retiring from racing at the end of this season. Gracie opens up about her past couple of seasons, the challenges she's faced being a professional for so long, and more. Grab a box of tissues for this one, you will need it. 

At the end of their chat Gracie, Loren, and Abby preview the Ronde van Vlaanderen (Flanders).

Abby and Loren chat all the news since the Giro Rosa, including what went down at the World Championships over the weekend and the exciting racing we have on tap this week.

Loren and Abby chat the final stage of the Giro Rosa, the various different jerseys won, an impressive young talent, and the disappointing live coverage from the race. Plus we hear for the last time from Ruth, Hannah, and Brodie. 

Thank you all for following our Giro Rosa daily coverage and we will return next week to chat the World Championships and more!

Loren and Abby dissect a very exciting day nine at the Giro Rosa.  Plus! Ruth, Hannah, and Brodie are back!

Loren and Abby discuss all the stage seven news. Ruth, Brodie and Hannah are back!