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Pedro Delgado: Spanish Steps and the 1988 Tour de France

Pedro Delgado: Spanish Steps and the 1988 Tour de France

Fifteen years on from Luis Ocaña in 1973, no Spanish rider had won the Tour de France. Delgado starts the race downbeat, but soon has...

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Rallying with Oscar Freire

Rallying with Oscar Freire

Three times world champion, three times a winner of Milan-Sanremo, green jersey winner at the 2008 Tour de France, one of the finest sprinters of...

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Remembering how Tom Dumoulin almost won La Vuelta

Remembering how Tom Dumoulin almost won La Vuelta

Tom Dumoulin was a 1,000-1 outsider before the Vuelta a España that kickstarted his career. How “The Butterfly of Maastricht” nearly pulled off the greatest...

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The Road to Damascus: Syrian refugees racing in Berlin

The Road to Damascus: Syrian refugees racing in Berlin

Andrew Curry and Timm Kölln's award-winning feature from Rouleur magazine: Syrian refugees reach the velodrome in Berlin with one mission - to once again make a living from...

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Young Tao Geoghegan-Hart: the making of a Giro d'Italia champion

Young Tao Geoghegan-Hart: the making of a Giro d'Italia champion

On tour with a teenage Tao and the young British hopefuls dreaming of the top

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Bernardo Ruiz: The Vuelta's Accidental Pioneer

Bernardo Ruiz: The Vuelta's Accidental Pioneer

He escaped Franco’s purges and endured abject poverty in Spain to win a ramshackle Vuelta. 95-year-old Bernardo Ruiz is the oldest living Grand Tour winner,...

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