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Tales of the Giro d’Italia: Gangsters, great Danes, seven-hour slogs and gods of the road

Tales of the Giro d’Italia: Gangsters, great Danes, seven-hour slogs and gods of the road

Tall tales of epic mountain stages and the hard men of Italian cycling from the annals of the Giro d'Italia

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The Giro d’Italia Trophy Maker: inside the factory

The Giro d’Italia Trophy Maker: inside the factory

From Issue 19.3, Andy McGrath and Paolo Ciaberta tracked down the maker of the Giro d’Italia’s instantly recognisable trophy, the Trofeo Senza Fine

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Richard Carapaz: Strong Like the Wind

Richard Carapaz: Strong Like the Wind

From Rouleur issue 20.3, first published in 2020, Matt Rendell travelled to Ecuador to meet the 2019 Giro d'Italia winner, Richard Carapaz

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Ernesto Colnago: This Cycling Life

Ernesto Colnago: This Cycling Life

From Rouleur issue 19.7, first published in November 2019, Marco Pastonesi sits down with the inimitable Ernesto Colnago

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Giro d'Italia 2022 Preview: Route, favourites and predictions

Giro d'Italia 2022 Preview: Route, favourites and predictions

Route details and contenders for the 2022 Giro d'Italia, the first Grand Tour of the season, which begins in Hungary on May 6th

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Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig’s guide to getting through Covid-19

Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig’s guide to getting through Covid-19

The Danish rider tested positive for coronavirus a few days after the Tour of Flanders and was forced to miss the Ardennes Classics that followed....

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Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2022 Debrief: Monumental Remco Evenepoel

Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2022 Debrief: Monumental Remco Evenepoel

The 22-year-old Belgian became the youngest winner of Liège-Bastogne-Liège in over 50 years after attacking on the Côte de la Redoute and riding solo to...

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Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes 2022 Debrief: Hard enough for Annemiek van Vleuten

Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes 2022 Debrief: Hard enough for Annemiek van Vleuten

The hardest one-day race on the calendar delivers a race hard enough for the peloton's hardest individual: Annemiek van Vleuten

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Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes 2022 - Route, predictions and contenders

Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes 2022 - Route, predictions and contenders

Will Demi Vollering be able to take another win in Liège–Bastogne–Liège?

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Liège–Bastogne–Liège 2022 - Route, predictions and contenders

Liège–Bastogne–Liège 2022 - Route, predictions and contenders

Could Tadej Pogačar deny Julian Alaphilippe victory for the second year in a row? Or will we see a surprise winner?

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Comment: Tub-thumping for Thibaut Pinot at the Tour of the Alps

Comment: Tub-thumping for Thibaut Pinot at the Tour of the Alps

He couldn't come back and win, could he? Oh yes he could. Thibaut Pinot has won a bike race at the Tour of the Alps,...

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Tour de Romandie 2022 - Route, predictions and contenders

Tour de Romandie 2022 - Route, predictions and contenders

Who will take victory in the 2022 Tour de Romandie, the week-long stage race in Switzerland featuring Giro d'Italia and Tour de France contenders?

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About Liège, the Belgian city only a mother could love

About Liège, the Belgian city only a mother could love

“Liège is authentic. Which means beautiful. Are you with me? You are not with me. Nevermind.” Morten Okbo‘s paen to the Wallonian heartland

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La Redoute: the centrepiece climb of Liège-Bastogne-Liège

La Redoute: the centrepiece climb of Liège-Bastogne-Liège

As an armchair fan, by the time the leaders have grovelled up the final ascent to the finish line in the Liège suburb of Ans,...

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La Flèche Wallonne Debrief: Dylan Teuns faster than a speeding bullet

La Flèche Wallonne Debrief: Dylan Teuns faster than a speeding bullet

Forty-two-year-old Alejandro 'Bala' Valverde comes up short in his final Flèche Wallonne, with Alexandr Vlasov in third ahead of Julian Alaphilippe and Tadej Pogačar

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La Flèche Wallonne Femmes Debrief: Marta Cavalli’s clever mastery of the Mur de Huy

La Flèche Wallonne Femmes Debrief: Marta Cavalli’s clever mastery of the Mur de Huy

Calm and composed, the FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope rider dissected the race’s key climb in a clinical fashion

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La Flèche Wallonne 2022 Men's Preview – Route, predictions and contenders

La Flèche Wallonne 2022 Men's Preview – Route, predictions and contenders

Can Julian Alaphilippe defend his title as 'King of the Huy' in La Flèche Wallonne 2022?

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La Flèche Wallonne Femmes 2022 - Route, Predictions and Contenders

La Flèche Wallonne Femmes 2022 - Route, Predictions and Contenders

With seven-time champion Anna van der Breggen now retired, La Flèche Wallonne is finally open to a new winner. Who will it be?

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“I could see pretty far inside my leg”: the pain and pride of Lewis Askey at Paris-Roubaix

“I could see pretty far inside my leg”: the pain and pride of Lewis Askey at Paris-Roubaix

The image of the British rider's injured knee was a shocking reminder of the brutality of professional cycling. The Roubaix debutant tells Rouleur how he made it...

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Paris-Roubaix 2022 in Images

Paris-Roubaix 2022 in Images

Photos tell the story of the fastest ever edition of Paris-Roubaix, won by Dylan van Baarle ahead of Wout van Aert and Stefan Küng

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Faces of a Paris-Roubaix finish

Faces of a Paris-Roubaix finish

Dust-stained and exhausted; the extraordinary toil of making it through Hell to the Roubaix Velodrome is written on the faces of the finishers of Paris-Roubaix

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Paris-Roubaix 2022 Debrief: Speed, chaos, dust, beauty

Paris-Roubaix 2022 Debrief: Speed, chaos, dust, beauty

How Dylan van Baarle (Ineos Grenadiers) won an action-packed 2022 edition of Paris-Roubaix, the fastest in history, with Wout van Aert in second and Stefan...

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Opinion: Paris-Roubaix has changed, and Ineos Grenadiers were ready for it

Opinion: Paris-Roubaix has changed, and Ineos Grenadiers were ready for it

The British team split the race with over 200km remaining in a rejection of the event's usual formula

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Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2022 in Images

Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2022 in Images

A selection of the best photos from a dramatic day of racing

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“Crashing left, right and centre, it was madness” Tales of the Paris-Roubaix Femmes debutants

“Crashing left, right and centre, it was madness” Tales of the Paris-Roubaix Femmes debutants

The cobbles of Roubaix are rough for everyone, but are even harder when you’re still a neo-pro

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Paris-Roubaix Femmes Debrief: the tough head and brave heart of Elisa Longo Borghini

Paris-Roubaix Femmes Debrief: the tough head and brave heart of Elisa Longo Borghini

The Italian Champion took an impressive win in Paris-Roubaix Femmes through attacking and instinctive racing

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Ineos Grenadiers DS Roger Hammond: Paris-Roubaix is getting more tame

Ineos Grenadiers DS Roger Hammond: Paris-Roubaix is getting more tame

“I remember getting half way along Arenberg and there was literally a four-metre section of road just missing. It wasn’t bad cobbles; it was just...

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Filippo Ganna: a Paris-Roubaix winner?

Filippo Ganna: a Paris-Roubaix winner?

He's been training on the velodrome in the weeks leading up to the race, and is yet to do a cobbled Classic this year, but...

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Lewis Askey: The Paris-Roubaix debutant unafraid of the fight

Lewis Askey: The Paris-Roubaix debutant unafraid of the fight

Junior Paris-Roubaix winner on Groupama-FDJ speaks to Rouleur on the eve of his first senior appearance at the Hell of the North

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“I'm not a nice person in the bunch” – Lucinda Brand on the battle for Paris-Roubaix Femmes

“I'm not a nice person in the bunch” – Lucinda Brand on the battle for Paris-Roubaix Femmes

The Trek-Segafredo missed the inaugural edition of the race in 2021, but she doesn’t expect this to hinder her chances this Saturday

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