Watching Chris Boardman pulling ridiculously long turns during his unsuccessful breakaway attempt at Flèche Wallonne 21 years ago…
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It’s 40 years since a French rider won the Amstel Gold Race and 41 since that country last tasted success in Liège-Bastogne-Liège…
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Waiting for Roubaix: Hayman’s heavenly day in Hell
by Sophie Smithby Sophie SmithOut of all the Monuments, there is a case to be made that Paris-Roubaix is the grandest…
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Let’s get the bus joke out of the way now: you wait three years for a Mark Cavendish win, and then two come along at once…
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The 2021 cobbled Classics season ended not with bangs, clatters and a few curses, but with a whimper of frustration and the gentle pitter-patter of rain falling on northern France…
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Annemiek van Vleuten is now the second rider in history to have won the Tour of Flanders twice at a ten year interval…
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There will be no Paris-Roubaix this spring, but there are other ways to steep yourself in the dust, mud and blood of the Hell of the North
Up to April Fool’s Day, Paris-Roubaix could reasonably be called Schrödinger’s Classic, after the famous quantum mechanics thought experiment. ..
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TWELVE YEARS, TWELVE WINNERS: WHAT MAKES THE TOUR OF FLANDERS SO HARD TO WIN?
by Nick Bullby Nick BullAs the conversation at Trek-Segafredo’s dinner table last Sunday night turned away from that afternoon’s Gent-Wevelgem and looked ahead to…
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Michael Matthews riding to different beat ahead of Flanders
by Sophie Smithby Sophie SmithWhen you think of the Tour of Flanders, Australian contenders don’t really spring to mind…
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Standing in the pre-stage mixed zone at Paris-Nice one morning earlier this month, I listened in to FloBikes reporter Gregor Brown as he…
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