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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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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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