And Oh, Hello and welcome back to the cycling tips podcast or freewheeling if that's

where you're listening to it. My name is Abby Mickey,

and we are here to chat about stage 3

of the Tour de France Femm of X Swift.

I'm joined by Lauren Rowney,

and we're going to start recording

straight from the final closing kilometers of the

race so we don't really do an intro but I hope you enjoy our play-by-play analysis

of what's going on plus Allison Jackson joins us on the episode. We've got

audio diaries from our riders in the peloton, Matt and Amy on the ground, all that

good stuff. As always if you're listening to this on the cycling tips channel head on over to free-wheeling to subscribe to women cycling content all season long

We've got tons of interviews with top riders. We've got me, Lauren, Amy, Gracie Elvin and Tilda Price chatting about all the women's

racing. So it's a pretty okay podcast. I rate it. Here we go. Let's talk about the Tour de France Femm of

Zwift stage three. And thank you so much to Zwift for sponsoring this podcast.

Wow, what an exciting finish. The Champagne region is stunning and it was so cool to see the riders race down the Avenue

de Champagne, but it was really all about them and I think it was an unexpected winner, but wow, I think that was probably Cille's best performance in her career and I got to interview her at the finish.

She was crying and I almost started tearing up to.

It's just so nice to see how much this race means to so many of the writers

in interviewing Marinovos has also been a highlight even though I know her a little bit and have raced against her so much I'm still a huge fan girl and it's just I don't know the atmosphere here is just electric and I think the racing is only getting better.

Again stage three hectic

Demi volering slips out on a corner, no fault of her own, in my opinion, it just looked like her front wheel.

She just lost it.

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