welcome back to the lantern roost cycling podcast here with benji as always for the inaugural women's NUMBER_TOKEN awards show gonna be going through best sprinter best performance overall best gc rider best one day rider all that sort of stuff as you know this show is brought to you by show partner look hole who are also the name sponsor of drops le cole team who you'll have seen the british national championships actually recently on my main channel but more on the cold later it's late at night so we're gonna do the easy questions first the easiest question in cycling who is the best sprinter who was the best sprinter who was the most successful sprinter it can only be one named benji lorena wiebe's she's won a a lot this year but slightly less than last year because i feel like dsm has missed out on a few lead outs for her and catching the breakaway in time so that she could end up winning the sprint she's also lost a few against the likes of a norse guard at certain points last year she lost against balsamo so she loses against at least one person here so it's not too bad for a sprinter you know losing against one person a year but whenever she's at the front on a flat sprint relatively flat at least um she's the strongest on paper and we've seen that most recently in the rendezvous in october itself the NUMBER_TOKENrd of october where she did it with an entire lead out of uh dsm in the front room i keep thinking about sunweb still even though it has been like ages ago but yeah that's uh that's clear she's the best sprinter in the world but the most difficult question for me is who's next i got sent some numbers the other day of a writer who i think is if riley get a wild card next year to some bigger races could be contesting bunch sprints olivia ray she rods for rally kiwi crazy numbers uh like NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN watt peak and like a thousand watts for NUMBER_TOKEN seconds uh she's been competing in america but it's hard to know yeah you're right benji because rivera is she you know bad opportunities i think balsamo is is properly fast i think balsamo is up there and hospitals no i don't know norsk i just seem to struggle to make it to any finish this year maybe i'm misremembering that um like oxi clean jesus the worst name inside oxyclean classic brigadier panna what a name like she won the bunch stream for second but grace brown was already up the road do i give her credit for that showing i think what's clear benji is jolene bohr and kirsten field step back a bit and they were previously sort of two of the three top sprinters but i think balsamo is legit uh pure sprinter as well not just a classic sprinter and even voss like invader him that's a pure bunch sprint performance and voss ruined everybody so she still got it too any other names were missing out yeah you started mentioning hosking in there as well and i agree that she's one of those names
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