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Elisa Balsamo: Back in Flanders as the world champion and ready to fight for victory

Elisa Balsamo: Back in Flanders as the world champion and ready to fight for victory

The young Italian has won the last three rounds of the women’s WorldTour but still is admirably modest ahead of De Ronde

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Wout is Out - No Tour of Flanders for Wout van Aert

Wout is Out - No Tour of Flanders for Wout van Aert

Wout van Aert is out of the 2022 Tour of Flanders with a Covid-19 positive and mild symptoms; his Paris-Roubaix participation is also now in doubt

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Frank Vandenbroucke and the 2003 Tour of Flanders: God is Back

Frank Vandenbroucke and the 2003 Tour of Flanders: God is Back

In an extract from God Is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, author Andy McGrath recounts the fateful 2003 Tour of Flanders

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Can Tadej Pogačar win the Tour of Flanders?

Can Tadej Pogačar win the Tour of Flanders?

Tadej Pogačar starts the 2022 Tour of Flanders as both a debutant and a pre-race favourite. Can the Slovenian become the first Tour de France champion since...

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Tom Pidcock: "No place for caution" at the Tour of Flanders

Tom Pidcock: "No place for caution" at the Tour of Flanders

Ineos Grenadiers' young squad have proved themselves as contenders for the Classics. Could their leader, Tom Pidcock, bring home a win in De Ronde Van Vlaanderen?

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Lone wolf without a pack: can Quick-Step-Alpha Vinyl save their Classics season?

Lone wolf without a pack: can Quick-Step-Alpha Vinyl save their Classics season?

Belgium’s top men's team start the 2022 Tour of Flanders in the rare position of underdogs. Can they turn their Classics season around at De...

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Lotte Kopecky – Bearing the weight of expectation at the Tour of Flanders

Lotte Kopecky – Bearing the weight of expectation at the Tour of Flanders

The 26-year-old Lotte Kopecky goes in to the Tour of Flanders as the home favourite and has had to learn how to cope with the...

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Amstel Gold Race 2022 Elite Women Preview - Route, predictions and contenders

Amstel Gold Race 2022 Elite Women Preview - Route, predictions and contenders

Route, contenders and predictions ahead of the 2022 Women's Amstel Gold Race

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Amstel Gold Race 2022 Elite Men Preview - Route, predictions and contenders

Amstel Gold Race 2022 Elite Men Preview - Route, predictions and contenders

Cobbles are replaced by brutal bergs as the peloton heads to Limburg for the Amstel Gold Race. The route, contenders and predictions ahead of the...

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Wout van Aert: Comeback Kid

Wout van Aert: Comeback Kid

Fully recovered from his horrific 2019 Tour crash, Wout van Aert is the most exciting bike racer in the world. Domestique, sprinter, climber, time-trials, cyclo-cross,...

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Tour of Flanders 2022 Elite Men Preview - Route, predictions and contenders

Tour of Flanders 2022 Elite Men Preview - Route, predictions and contenders

De Ronde is arguably the most prestigious one-day race on the cycling calendar. With no Wout van Aert, who will delight the Belgian fans and take victory...

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Tour of Flanders 2022 Elite Women Preview – Route, predictions and contenders

Tour of Flanders 2022 Elite Women Preview – Route, predictions and contenders

With the Koppenberg included in the route for the first time, it’s going to be an exciting race for the women’s peloton

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The last all-Belgian podium at the Tour of Flanders

The last all-Belgian podium at the Tour of Flanders

Belgian 1,2,3’s used to be the norm at De Ronde, but it’s been a while… We recall the last time locals achieved a clean sweep

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From the cobbles to the classroom – Flora Perkins on balancing racing and school as a neo-pro

From the cobbles to the classroom – Flora Perkins on balancing racing and school as a neo-pro

Riding for Le Col-Wahoo in 2022, the British rider impressed in her first race and looks forward to a big year ahead. Once her A-levels...

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Sergio Higuita: Straight outta Medellín

Sergio Higuita: Straight outta Medellín

From a neighbourhood riddled with gunfire and ruled by drug gang lords to a WorldTour star – Sergio Higuita's irresistible rise to the top

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Gent-Wevelgem 2022: Route, predictions and contenders

Gent-Wevelgem 2022: Route, predictions and contenders

With a series of Flandrian Bergs to contend with, who will take victory in this year's edition of Gent-Wevelgem?

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E3 Saxo Bank Classic: Route, predictions and contenders

E3 Saxo Bank Classic: Route, predictions and contenders

Will it be Quick-Step or Jumbo Visma that prove themselves as the Classics team to beat in the first race of Flemish Cycling week?

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Brugge-De Panne 2022: Route, predictions and contenders

Brugge-De Panne 2022: Route, predictions and contenders

A race where crosswinds can cause havoc, will it be a bunch kick to the line in this year's event?

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Ride for Charlie and Kadeena Cox Academy among new Rapha Foundation grantees

Ride for Charlie and Kadeena Cox Academy among new Rapha Foundation grantees

The Foundation has been funding organisations since 2019 that are committed to supporting the next generation of riders from under-represented communities

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Michael Woods on athletics, impostor syndrome and mission carbon zero

Michael Woods on athletics, impostor syndrome and mission carbon zero

“Coffee?”  Michael Woods turns on the machine and I utter an involuntary “Wow!” at the view from his living room: a towering mountain carpeted with...

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Rouleur Issue 110 The Classics

Cover Stories: Rouleur issue 110 by Conspiracy Studio

Rouleur designer Enric Adell commissioned Conspiracy Studio, specialists in 3D designs and illustrations, to take the idea of the humble cobble stone and produce something...

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The first real superstar of Italian cycling: Costante Girardengo, six-time Milan-San Remo winner

The first real superstar of Italian cycling: Costante Girardengo, six-time Milan-San Remo winner

The first of cycling's five monuments, Milan-San Remo, is fast approaching. Rouleur tells the the story of Costante Girardengo, a legend of Italian cycling and a prolific...

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Milan-San Remo 2022: Route, predictions and contenders

Milan-San Remo 2022: Route, predictions and contenders

Five major one-day bike races are known as Monuments, and they begin with Milan-San Remo

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Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2022: Route, Predictions and Contenders

Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2022: Route, Predictions and Contenders

The third round of the women’s WorldTour is fast approaching – will anyone be able to take the leader’s jersey from Team SD Worx?

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Anna van der Breggen: the next chapter

Anna van der Breggen: the next chapter

Undoubtedly one of the finest racers of the past decade, in a field packed with talent from The Netherlands, Anna van der Breggen hangs up...

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"Fresh scenery and fresh motivation" – Salsa dancing and joining Bora-Hansgrohe with Ryan Mullen

"Fresh scenery and fresh motivation" – Salsa dancing and joining Bora-Hansgrohe with Ryan Mullen

Rival racers growing up, Daniel Stewart gets revenge on Ryan Mullen for the years of suffering, all through the medium of Salsa

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“It’s about enjoying what you’re doing” – Velocio, SRAM and BMC’s new ‘No Borders’ Gravel Team

“It’s about enjoying what you’re doing” – Velocio, SRAM and BMC’s new ‘No Borders’ Gravel Team

Uniting riders of five different nationalities, the team hope to show the endless possibilities of gravel riding to bring people together

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"I’m tough on myself, but I am also tough on others." Inside the world of Mads Pedersen

"I’m tough on myself, but I am also tough on others." Inside the world of Mads Pedersen

At the end of last year, Morten Okbo went on the road with fellow dane and 2019 world champion Mads Pedersen. After a season of...

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"A happy rider is a fast rider" How Cornish team Saint Piran is rewriting the script

"A happy rider is a fast rider" How Cornish team Saint Piran is rewriting the script

The Cornish professional team has a focus on "person-centred success" rather than "win at all costs".

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Ronde van Drenthe 2022 - Route, Predictions and Contenders

Ronde van Drenthe 2022 - Route, Predictions and Contenders

The second round of the Women’s WorldTour takes place in Drenthe and it’s a race that could be suited to the sprinters

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