{"id":199060,"date":"2025-07-08T07:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=199060"},"modified":"2025-07-08T07:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:05:14","slug":"podcast-with-former-olympian-and-world-champion-joanna-rowsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2025\/07\/08\/podcast-with-former-olympian-and-world-champion-joanna-rowsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Olympian and World Champion Joanna Rowsel: \u201cFans give you a boost you can\u2019t replicate in training.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>With the Tour de France and the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift swiftly approaching, our host Matt Stephens wanted to explore more of our current theme for both events \u2013 Tour fandom and its specific flavours. The commitment and creativity of fans on site and the enthusiasm of those watching at home are essential to the myth of the Tour and worth looking into further.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In this episode of the \u0160koda We Love Cycling podcast, Matt welcomed retired English cyclist Joanna Rowsel, who used to be on the Great Britain Cycling Team, competing on track and road. Rowsel is a double Olympic medallist (women&#8217;s team pursuit at the London and Rio Olympics) and a five-time World Champion (four medals in the team pursuit, one in the individual pursuit). Besides other career successes and victories, she also currently holds the World Record in the 3 km team pursuit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Former World Champion Joanna Rowsel: \u201cFans give you a boost you can\u2019t replicate in training.\u201d\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/5entKwRil8u8RCwkf6wsfx?si=900af1d3963140d7&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Rowsel now works as a Eurosport commentator, so she has had many first-hand encounters with the famed Tour atmosphere. When she first commentated on the Tour, she was fascinated by how close fans can get to the athletes, and often free of charge. From her racing days, she, of course, remembers the electrifying magic in the air and the moral boost only a crowd of cheering fans could give you.<\/p>\n<p>With Matt, they talked over how her life\u2019s journey turned towards cycling, her first encounter with <a href=\"https:\/\/letour.fr\/\">the Tour<\/a> and the \u201cwildness\u201d of the thousands of cheering fans lining the mountain stages, how a commentator should also acknowledge the sport\u2019s fandom at a race, how the TdF Femmes avec Zwift invigorated the women\u2019s side of the sport, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in and enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Tour de France and the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift swiftly approaching, our host Matt Stephens wanted 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