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Updates, stories and opinions from inside the world's greatest sport, written and captured by Rouleur journalists

Giro d’Italia 1968: Merckx’s greatest moment

Giro d’Italia 1968: Merckx’s greatest moment

One day in 1968 Eddy Merckx saw off all comers and conquered the mighty Tre Cime di Lavaredo. The victory marked the arrival of the...

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Boxsets, bangers and braking: Diary of a quarantined cyclist

Boxsets, bangers and braking: Diary of a quarantined cyclist

“We are wild animals, we have to breath outside, to put our noses in the wind.” With no end to the crisis in sight, frustration...

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Training in a deserted world: Diary of a quarantined cyclist

Training in a deserted world: Diary of a quarantined cyclist

“I am starting to get bored. Today, I opened my own small bakery inside my bakery. Then I cut my hair.” The bizarre becomes the...

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The Waiting Game: Diary of a quarantined cyclist

The Waiting Game: Diary of a quarantined cyclist

“Every day I act like I am infected.” Groupama-FDJ’s Jacopo Guarnieri reflects on life under quarantine in Italy

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Taming the Passo dello Stelvio

Taming the Passo dello Stelvio

Often the highpoint of the race – literally and metaphorically – the mighty Stelvio looms large over the Giro. Who keeps the roads clear of...

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Ned Boulting: Italy, a land of ghosts

Ned Boulting: Italy, a land of ghosts

Italy used to produce Grand Tour winners as prolifically as pasta. Recently they have become a rarity, with sprinters the new normal. Ned Boulting on the ghosts...

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Paolo Bianchini: from champion cyclist to winning winemaker

Paolo Bianchini: from champion cyclist to winning winemaker

How turning down a pro cycling contract put Paolo Bianchini on the path to becoming one of Italy’s top winemakers with Ciacci Picclomini

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Andy Hampsten guest column: my stomach is Italian

Andy Hampsten guest column: my stomach is Italian

Pasta was nearly his career downfall when he moved to Italy, but the way of life lured Hampsten in and is now where he calls...

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Lingua franca: how language and cycling have shaped Italian culture

Lingua franca: how language and cycling have shaped Italian culture

Italy is riven by divides – physical, linguistic and cultural. In this column for the 17.3 edition of Rouleur, Matt Rendell considers cycling’s role in unifying the...

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How X-Bionic are reinventing team kit

How X-Bionic are reinventing team kit

Seamless with sewn-in logos, Gazprom-Rusvelo’s is a team kit with properties like no other. Morten Okbo finds an Italian factory where technology trumps tradition

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