Feb 8 - 12: Tour of Oman | |
Feb 11, Stage 4: Manah - Muscat |
1. Olav Kooij 2. Giacomo Nizzolo 3. Orluis Aular |
GC leader: David Gaudu |
Feb 5 - 9: Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana | |
Feb 9, Stage 5: Alfafar - Valencia |
1. Jonathan Milan 2. Jake Stewart 3. Giovanni Lonardi |
GC winner Santiago Buitrago |
Feb 5 - 9: Etoile de Bessèges | |
1. Kévin Vaquelin 2. Remi Cavagna 3. Dylan Teuns |
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GC winner: Kévin Vaquelin |
Feb 7: Muscat Classic | |
Feb 7: Al Mouj Mouscat - Al Bustan, |
1. Rick Pluimers 2. Jenthe Biermans 3. Henok Mulubrhan |
Feb 2: GP d' Ouverture - La Marseillaise | |
Feb 2: Marseille - Marseille |
1. Valentin Ferron 2. Vincent Van Hemelen 3. Francisco Galván |
Feb 1 - 2: Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race | |
Feb 2: Men's Race |
1. Mauro Schmid |
Feb 1 Women's race |
1. Ally Wollaston 2. Karlijn Swinkels 3. Noemi Rüegg |
Jan 29 - Feb 2: Challenge Vuelta Ciclista a Mallorca | |
Feb 2, Race 5: Trofeo Palma |
1. Iuri Lettao 2. Stanislaw Aniolkowski 3. Erlend Blikra |
Jan 28 - Feb 1: AlUla Tour | |
Feb 1, Stage 5: AlUla Camel Cup Track |
1. Matteo Moschetti 2. Dylan Groenewegen 3. Juan Molano |
GC winner: Tom Pidcock |
Jan 30: Surf Coast Classic | |
Jan 30: Lorne - Torquay |
1. Tobias Andresen 2. Sam Welsford 3. Tim Teutenberg |
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News:
Each week I'm posting a photo of a winner of Paris-Roubaix, in year order.
For this week, here is a photo of the winner of the 1952 Paris-Roubaix, Rik van Steenbergen.
The 1952 Paris-Roubaix was 245 km long and raced at an average speed of 41.94 km/hr.
There was an unknown number of starters and 95 classified finishers.
Rik van Steenbergen performed a legendary bridge up to Fausto Coppi, Jacques Dupont and Ferdy Kübler. Soon it was just van Steenbergen and Coppi.
Coppi attacked over and over again, knowing van Steenbergen would prevail in a sprint. They arrived at the Roubaix velodrome together, where the Belgian prevailed.
Van Steenbergen said he was at the end of his tether and if Coppi had attacked once more, Van Steenbergen would have been dropped.
Coppi regretted not going solo earlier to stay out of the reach of the powerful van Steenbergen, who had now won his second Paris-Roubaix in four years.
Writer Les Woodland talked to van Steenbergen about this very race in the book just to the right on this page, "Cycling Heroes". I know you'll enjoy it.
We have complete results for every edition of Paris-Roubaix. You can find them here.
Les Woodland climbed aboard his old Carlton bike to take a nostalgia trip across Belgium and Holland to visit some of cycling’s greatest riders. Cycling Heroes: The Golden Years tells the story of that journey he took in the early 1990s and the time he spent with some of the finest riders from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s.
Rik van Steenbergen (his photo is to the left), Rik van Looy, Jan Janssen, Wim van Est, Hennie Kuiper and Peter Post were some of the most colorful and dominating riders of an era that produced many of the sport’s greatest-ever champions. In this book Woodland has collected their and other riders’ precious and fascinating recollections, some going back to a time of leather saddles, cloth caps and spare tires wrapped over riders’ shoulders; when screaming fans packed smoke-filled velodromes to see their heroes up close; when a stage of the Tour de France could take more than eleven hours.
Join Les Woodland on a captivating journey back to the golden age of racing.
You can get Cycling Heroes in print, Kindle eBook or audiobook versions here on Amazon.
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