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 before beginning our sweaty pilgrimage back the press room.

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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 what we can expect from both the racing and the press room freebies at the 2023 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.

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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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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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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 it mean for Trofeo Alfredo Binda. Plus, what makes a monument anyway, and does the women's calendar need its own?

Read Kirsten Frattini's interview with Annemiek van Vleuten about the possible women's MSR here: https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/annemiek-van-vleuten-envisions-a-crazy-long-milan-san-remo-for-women/

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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 team. Her work is know for capturing the human side of the sport with some incredible behind the scenes shots and post-race raw emotion. She chatted to Amy in a cafe in Girona (please excuse the background noise!) about shooting one of her favourite races, Strade Bianche, the BTS of being a cycling photographer, and being a working mum.

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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 roped in Sadhbh O'Shea of VeloNews to talk all things Belgium with us, as well as look ahead to Strade this weekend.

You can follow Sadhbh here and read her article about La Vuelta Femenina (and the rest of her work) here.

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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 predictions for Opening Weekend.

You can read Rachel's (excellent) work over at Rouleur, or follow her on Twitter.

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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 hoping to add to her collection of accolades this weekend.

Head to GCN+ to watch Puck teach Mitch Docker how to bunnyhop in There Will Be Mud: https://plus.globalcyclingnetwork.com/watch/5095307

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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: how much can you really tell from a race where only 6 of the 15 WWT teams showed up?

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