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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“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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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 is barely 10 editions old, yet it feels like it’s been with us forever. Colin O’Brien explores how...
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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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Tucked away in a park in Trentino is a collection of paracarri – stone road markers, from Italy and beyond –...
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“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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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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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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Following drama on the Stelvio stage, the Giro is still Dumoulin’s race to lose
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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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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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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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At home with his parents, Colin O’Brien explores modern cycling’s great tragedy – Marco Pantani
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“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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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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Return of the Little Prince: the 2004 Giro winner on adapting to survive in modern cycling and his bid for...
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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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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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Once upon a time, the people of the Dolomites worshipped the Marmot. Weird, but true. The first queen of the...
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This was supposed to be a very different story. After following Neri Sottoli, formerly Vini Fantini, for a year, this...
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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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This is a story about a professional rider who showed up at the Tour of the Mediterranean in 2013...
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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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Paolo was never a superstar on the bike, but he was valued by those he worked with. He enjoyed a...
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