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Author: Colin O Brien

The Giro d’Italia then and now: Interview with race director, Mauro Vegni

The Giro d’Italia then and now: Interview with race director, Mauro Vegni

“Whoever doesn’t come to the Giro is missing out. It’s the Giro that makes champions, not the other way around.”...

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Giro d’Italia 1968: Merckx’s greatest moment

Giro d’Italia 1968: Merckx’s greatest moment

Colin O’Brien on the day in 1968 when Eddy Merckx saw off all comers and conquered the mighty Tre Cime...

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Strade Bianche: The making of a modern classic

Strade Bianche: The making of a modern classic

Strade Bianche is barely 10 editions old, yet it feels like it’s been with us forever. Colin O’Brien explores how...

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Vincenzo Nibali: Shark life

Vincenzo Nibali: Shark life

Arguably the finest, most complete racer of the current generation and one that we’re looking forward to seeing back racing...

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A load of old bollards: an unusual park that celebrates cycling’s heroes

A load of old bollards: an unusual park that celebrates cycling’s heroes

Tucked away in a park in Trentino is a collection of paracarri – stone road markers, from Italy and beyond –...

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Felice Gimondi: Rise of The Phoenix

Felice Gimondi: Rise of The Phoenix

“My first race was in Treviglio, and we had a little three-wheeled van belonging to a greengrocer as a team...

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Cummings, Phinney, Dowsett, Hutchinson: the art of the time-triallist

Cummings, Phinney, Dowsett, Hutchinson: the art of the time-triallist

The ‘race of truth’ is both the most idiosyncratic and unforgiving of cycling’s disciplines. Rouleur sat down with a few of time-trialling’s...

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Comment: is the Giro-Tour double still possible?

Comment: is the Giro-Tour double still possible?

Pro cycling’s most illustrious brace has never been more demanding but it does not belong in the dustbin of history, argues Colin...

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Giro d’Italia: Dumoulin’s Denouement

Giro d’Italia: Dumoulin’s Denouement

Following drama on the Stelvio stage, the Giro is still Dumoulin’s race to lose

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2017 Giro d’Italia comment: Southern Comfort

2017 Giro d’Italia comment: Southern Comfort

Italian cycling is about far more than Dolomite switchbacks. Colin O’Brien on the Giro’s week in the south of Italy,...

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Jean Metzinger: Cubism and Moser in Venice

Jean Metzinger: Cubism and Moser in Venice

Kandinsky, Braque, Bacon… Moser? We’re in Venice, for an exhibition of paintings. In a city without streets or bikes, writing...

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Sean Kelly: Providence on the Poggio

Sean Kelly: Providence on the Poggio

The ageing king Kelly proves he’s still got it with one last throw of the dice on the Poggio descent in the...

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Marco Pantani: Rise and Fall

Marco Pantani: Rise and Fall

At home with his parents, Colin O’Brien explores modern cycling’s great tragedy – Marco Pantani

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Il Lombardia: Dressed to chill with Sportful

Il Lombardia: Dressed to chill with Sportful

“Fancy going to Lake Como to ride with some of the guys from Tinkoff-Saxo? asked the editor. Not a hard...

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Eyewitness: Silence of the Lambs

Eyewitness: Silence of the Lambs

Silence. The Colle dell’Agnello is swarming with people, but you wouldn’t know it. This climb, cresting right on the frontier...

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Damiano Cunego

Damiano Cunego

Return of the Little Prince: the 2004 Giro winner on adapting to survive in modern cycling and his bid for...

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Ramūnas Navardauskas: Big in the Baltics

Ramūnas Navardauskas: Big in the Baltics

Italy has been a happy hunting ground for Ramūnas Navardauskas. Cannondale’s 28-year-old Lithuanian wore the maglia rosa for two days...

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Love Will Tear Us Apart

Love Will Tear Us Apart

There’s a depressing inevitability to it. The stadium’s full, the game in full flow, the atmosphere incredible… and then with...

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False Kings

False Kings

Once upon a time, the people of the Dolomites worshipped the Marmot. Weird, but true. The first queen of the...

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Yellow Fluo

Yellow Fluo

This was supposed to be a very different story. After following Neri Sottoli, formerly Vini Fantini, for a year, this...

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Design stories: Mr Ghibli – Campagnolo’s master of the disc wheel

Design stories: Mr Ghibli – Campagnolo’s master of the disc wheel

Campagnolo has always been different. From the moment Tullio Campagnolo was driven to invent the quick-release after a frozen-stiff wing-nut...

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Portrait: Laurens ten Dam

Portrait: Laurens ten Dam

  This is a story about a professional rider who showed up at the Tour of the Mediterranean in 2013...

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In Gamba

In Gamba

João Correia was not the man I’d expected to see centre-stage at the winner’s press conference in Florence for the...

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Gelato Excellent

Gelato Excellent

Paolo was never a superstar on the bike, but he was valued by those he worked with. He enjoyed a...

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