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As ASO already announced a few weeks earlier, Tour de France will end in Nice in 2024. This will be the first time ever in… Read More »Take a look at the final two stages of Tour de France 2024
Paris-Nice was always a battlefield of seconds. Take a look at the top 10 of the smallest winning margins: there are only one digit numbers.… Read More »Smallest winning margins at Paris-Nice
Finish Tadej Pogacar wins the stage and Paris-Nice 2023 14 km to go Almost a minute advantage for Pogacar. 17,7 km to go Gaudu tried… Read More »Paris-Nice 2023 stage 8
Stage 7 Nice – Col de la Couillole 11 March 2023 142,8 km Live updates (click here to refresh the page) Finish Or will Vingegaard… Read More »Paris-Nice 2023 Stage 7
Fausto Coppi rode Paris-Roubaix 5 times (1949, 1950, 1952, 1955 and 1959), only one time (1950) managed to win the famous Hell of the North.… Read More »Maurice Diot and Fausto Coppi (Paris-Roubaix 1950)
Tirreno-Adriarico was created by the Lazio-based cycling club Forze Sportive Romane to balance the uneven situation, that most of the important Italian cycling races were… Read More »11 March 1966 The first Tirreno-Adriatico started
Honestly, if it wouldn’t be the superhyped rivalry between Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, I would probably skip Paris-Nice, as did in the recent couple… Read More »Do you like week-long cycling races?
The winner of the longest ever individual time trial (139 km ) in the history of Tour de France, Raymond Impanis had a successful career.… Read More »Faces from the peloton: Raymond Impanis (1925-2010)
Stage 5 Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise – Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux 9 March 2023 212,5 km More: Let the real fight for the yellow begin Unconventional team time trial Tim… Read More »Paris -Nice 2023 Stage 5
Paris -Nice 2023 Stage 4 Saint-Amand-Montrond – La Loge des Gardes 8 March 2023 165 km SUMMARY The first stageof the race including a 1st… Read More »Let the real fight for the yellow begin (Paris-Nice 2023 Stage 4)