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Pro Women's Cycling
Home of Sarah Connolly and Dan Wright's (sweary) "Unofficial, Unsanctioned Women's UCI Cycling Show" and the "Sarah Interviews" podcasts, full of news and events in the world of professional women's cycling, & racing from around the world. Posts with links to the things we talk about in the podcast...
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284 EpisodenEpisode 37 - Xmas Ever
It's Christmas Eve! Traditionally we've recorded a look back at the year and talked a bit about what's coming up. This year we're reviewing things a l...
Episode 36 - It Could Be Like Giorgia Bronzini
This is a significant episode for us, as this week we are announcing the end of our regular podcast series. We talk through the reasons behind our dec...
Sarah interviews... Helen Wyman on her 2017
British cyclocross rider Helen Wyman has always been a fan favourite, and it seems like her racing is getting better than ever. Winning her fourth K...
Velofocus' Sean Robinson on 2017 in women's cycling
Sean Robinson is one half of Vélofocus, whose photography makes women's road cycling look so good. Sean talked to me about how 2017 was for him - th...
Episode 35 - The Best of the Year
This week we recap our highlights and best parts of the 2017 women's road season. It's been an amazing year of racing and there's so much to celebrate...
Episode 34 - If I Had An Intern
In this episode we take a look at the changes in races, race days and race types from the 2017 season into the 2018 season. There's been some interest...
Episode 33 - It Being Back is Heart-Healing
This episode we go through what we know about the 2018 UCI Calendar so far, and what's changed from this year. There's been a lot of changes, with few...
Episode 33 - It Being Back is Heart-Healing
This episode we go through what we know about the 2018 UCI Calendar so far, and what's changed from this year. There's been a lot of changes, with few...
Episode 32 - Transfers (and the BS of the Points System)
This week we dive right into all the latest news and updates on transfers. If you need to know which rider is going where, then this is the episode fo...
Episode 31 - Being Italian IS a Tactic!
This week we talk through the Junior and Elite Women's Road Races from Bergen in Norway. There was all sorts of excitement in both races, and we talk...
Episode 30 - You Just Danned The Ending
This week it's been a week of trials, time trials! World Championship Time Trials! We talk through what happened in Bergen with the Team Time Trial an...
Episode 29 - Inverse Cobbles
This week we catch up on the racing in Spain and France with the Madrid Challenge and the Tour de l'Ardeche. We discuss what happened at the mountain...
More Direct and More Devious
This week we catch up after Sarah's been away at the Boels Rental Ladies Tour in the Netherlands. There's Plouay results to discuss, all the Dutch rac...
Episode 27 - Polemica On Toast
This week Sarah and Dan talk through the polemica and outrage of Dan's whisky choices. Also discussed is each of the stages from this year's Ladies To...
A Finn for the Finish
This week we cover the results from Sweden with the Vargarda Team Time Trial, and the Road Race. We also have an interesting diversion into how the ca...
Episode 25 - There's No Rest for the Wonderful
This week we catch up on the Prudential Ride London GP, which was surprisingly held in London this year. We also cover the full results for Juniors, U...
Episode 24 - Do Better and Be Better
This week we follow up on the second race from La Course by Le Tour de France; the chase held on the weekend with the top 19 riders from the Col d'Izo...
Episode 23 - The Humblebrag Episode
Look, we do understand that not all weeks can be huge weeks of racing, but honestly this week was definitely a HUGE week of racing. We had stage racin...
Sarah interviews... Marianne Vos, on healing, 2017 goals and her most memorable Giro moments
Marianne Vos' life in cycling just keeps on as a roller coaster. After getting back on top, she broke her collarbone in June, and now is back racing t...
Episode 22 - 2017 Giro Rosa WrapUp - With Top Quality Evil
The Giro Rosa has finished for 2017 but we're far from done with it. With great racing every day, it's perhaps best summed up by Neal Rogers talking a...
Episode 21 - It Was a Genuine Giro Miracle
We're at the halfway point through the 2017 Giro Rosa with five stages completed. We cover each of the stages so far, from the opening TTT through to...
Rose Manley tells the secrets of cycling TV highlights
All year we watch the TV highlights of the UCI women's WorldTour made by Rose Manley, of InCycle TV. I've always enjoyed Rose's work, so I was deligh...
Episode 20 - The 2017 Giro Rosa Preview
This week we preview all the stages of the 2017 Giro Rosa, from the Team Time Trial all the way through to the climb of Mount Vesuvius. There's stages...
Vélofocus' life in women's cycling - and their new book!
Balint Hamvas and Sean Robinson are Vélofocus, who take gorgeous photos of women's cycling. They told me about how the 2017 season is going, their hi...
Episode 19 - Always Ad Lib Improv
This week Sarah and Dan recap the Ovo Energy Women's Tour held in the United Kingdom, reviewing each of the stages and exploring some of the more surp...
Episode 18 - But You Love Queueing
This week marks the beginning of the Ovo Energy Women's Tour, the United Kingdom's best known women's stage race. We run through a full preview of eac...
Isabelle Clement, Wheels for Wellbeing, and their work helping disabled people cycle more
Isabelle Clement is the director of Wheels for Well-Being, a charity dedicate to helping disabled people cycle more, through both their sessions givin...
Episode 17 - Schroedinger's GC
This week's podcast is a little bit of a catchup as we cover off the impact that May has had on the peloton with races going on in the USA, the Basque...
Sarah interviews... Jenni Gwiazdowski on the London Bike Kitchen
Hopefully you listened to the recent BBC Radio 4 Women's Hour programme dedicated entirely to women's cycling, and set at the London Bike Kitchen. If...
Episode 16 - It's Worse When You Try To Defend Me
This week we talk through the events in China at the Tour of Chongming Island. We catch up on Marianne Vos' first win of the season. We take a look at...
Podcast 2017, Episode 15 - the octoplets
If last week was the treble, with three big races, this week it was octuplets!
Dan has been in Tokyo for the last week, and missed out on...
Podcast 2017 Episode 14 - The Treble
This week's episode covers a lot of historic moments in the midst of a very dynamic 2017 season. There's Tour of the Gila in the US and Omloop van Bor...
Episode 13 - It Was SO Attacky
We're in the middle of the Ardennes week which means there's heaps of racing and heaps of climbs around. This week Sarah and Dan talk through how Amst...
Episode 12 - The Buffalo Bill Joke
This week Sarah and Dan talk through all of the racing for the junior women and the elite women at the Healthy Ageing Tour in the Netherlands. A fanta...
Episode 11 - Because Sprinters Don't Win Flanders
So this week Sarah was not only AT the Ronde van Vlaanderen but was doing the live English commentary for the race along with Rochelle Gilmore. We tal...
Episode 10 - Cobbles and Stones
We're fully into the cobbled classics section of the season and we're a little bit excited. We recap the races of the last week, in particular Dwars d...
Isla Rowntree on transforming cycling
Isla Rowntree is best know for her company Islabikes, which transformed children's cycling - but before that she was integral to the fight for women's...
Episode 9 - Spare a Moment To Do Some Good
This week we catch up on all the attacks (so many attacks!) from Trofeo Moreno and Trofeo Binda last weekend. You know racing is intense when top ride...
Sarah interviews... Catherine Marsal, on her amazing career in cycling
Catherine Marsal is a legend of women's cycling and French cycling in general. Racing her first Olympic Games at 17, becoming the first ever Junior Ro...
Episode 8 - Won By Sprinters Doing Sprinty Things in a Sprint
This week we revisit all of the excitement from the Women's World Tour at the Ronde van Drenthe. There's more great racing from Drentse 8 and Setmarna...