Aussie Sarah Gigante's first Grand Tour is in the books and she joined the SBS Cycling Podcast with christophe mallet -🎖️onm -🚴🎾🏎️ to talk all about it! 🇦🇺😍

Full episode coming soon! 🗣️

#LaVueltaFemenina | #couchpeloton

36 km to go, we're in the first climb of the day

3 riders are left from the early break:
🇦🇺 Sarah Gigante
🇳🇱 Karlijn Swinkels
🇦🇺 Brodie Chapman

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Stage 8! Ribs were still battered but I got into the break w/ Mireia. We put ourselves in the best pos possible & I crossed the line in 13th. This week we didn’t get the results we wanted but we nailed the process, learnt lots & had fun. Now for some R&R. Thanks all! Next time 👊

Stage 7- a 2nd echelon stage didn’t go well for me with how sore my ribs are. 🦴 Anya was most combative though! 💪 Hopefully today’s climbs mean not too much time out of the seat or above threshold, so we will try our best to finish strongly despite the pain!⛰️
📺12pm ES/8pm SBS

Stage 6😢 - I was excited for another summit finish after my 5th! Sadly I was taken out again, landing in a rocky ditch. Despite my team’s best efforts, rib pain every time I breathed in made for a hard day & only a 14th. Hoping I can survive today & feel better for tomorrow (⛰️)

Stage 5 - 1st time testing my climbing legs against the best (not just in this tour - probably also in my life!) I came 5th after a crash, bike change & the best teamwork imaginable! I’m hungry for more. Today’s a 6.5km at 6.8% finish -Eurosport 15:30/SBS 23:30 📷 @naikefotosport

Stage 4 done, phew!🌪️ It was cross-tail wind all day…perfect for echelons & not perfect for me! I kept pushing in Group 2 and lost two minutes on GC. Today the real fun starts, with two Cat 2 climbs - Happy Summit Finish Day to all who celebrate! 📺 3.30pm Eurosport/11.30pm SBS

Sarah Gigante blog: Keeping that never-give-up attitude in the Vuelta Femenina 🇪🇸

Australian rider reflects on the first four stages of the Spanish Grand Tour and time losses in stage 4's echelons ⬇️
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Stage 3: parts full gas & parts easy, while always grateful to my selfless teammies and in awe of Mireia Benito’s 124km TT (just caught at the end! 👏 ) We have 142km of speedy echelons today 💨 before we finally arrive at the nice (🏔️🤩) stages. 📺 Eurosport 3.30pm/ SBS 11.30pm

Stage 2 done! ✅ It was trickier than expected, with the nervous peloton on wet twisting roads, but my team helped me make it through unscathed & with no time loss. I’m more excited about today! We tackle 2300m of climbing over 130km…watch from 3.30pm🇪🇸 Eurosport/11.30pm🇦🇺 SBS!

🎙 Sarah Gigante, en la 2ª etapa de La Vuelta

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Stage 1 TTT done, finishing in 10th place & 32 sec down. We hoped to be closer to the top teams, but you can’t be too disappointed when you give it your best. Thanks to my teammies for the company in the pain cave! 🚀

Stage 2: 118km/1000m 🆙
Eurosport 3.30pm 🇪🇸/SBS 11.30pm 🇦🇺

Only a few hours until we kick off La Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es with a team time trial! We may be inexperienced in this discipline, but hopefully we will make up for it with our passion and excitement. You can watch us on Eurosport from 3.45pm 🇪🇸 or on SBS from 11.45pm 🇦🇺

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Sarah Gigante blog: I feel ready for the Vuelta Femenina

Sarah Gigante writes exclusively for GCN ahead of her Grand Tour debut in Spain

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My first grand tour!! We start this Sunday with a TTT in Valencia. Bring it on 👊👊👊 #soexcited

'Exhausted but satisfied' – An attacking Liège-Bastogne-Liège debut for Sarah Gigante trib.al/VZ7NAIC

My first Liège - what better way to do it than race 60km solo & then another 65km in a group breakaway? I was caught by the pelo with 15km to go but I’m proud of how I raced (another step in the right direction 😃) & stoked for Aussie Grace Brown who took the win! 📷Tornanti.cc

Au pied de la côte de Stockeu, Gigante compte encore 2' d'avance.
Elise Chabbey accélère et rattrape Kim Cadzow, derrière 6 coureures dont Mischa Bredewold, Lucinda Brand, Eva van Agt, Elise Chabbey, Mikayla Harvey, Grace Brown et Flora Perkins.

Sarah Gigante gave it her all in the breakaway at a hard edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège. 👊

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Only 20 hours until we find out how right or wrong my podium prediction is for tomorrow’s #LBL #LBL women! Bring it on (balaclava, 5 jackets, legwarmers and all…) - I am so excited for my first Liège-Bastogne-Liège! Thanks for the chat Enrique! open.spotify.com/episode/4PmG01…