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The Column: Of Primož Roglič, La Vuelta and "worthy winners"

The Column: Of Primož Roglič, La Vuelta and "worthy winners"

The final WorldTour race of the season finishes with “a worthy winner”. Though Roglic gave up 21 second to Richard Carapaz on the Alto de...

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Hugh Potential: The story of Hugh Carthy

Hugh Potential: The story of Hugh Carthy

In 2016 Rouleur met Hugh Carthy at a winter training camp, and tracked his progress from Preston to Pamplona

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Help us choose the Rouleur 100 moments

Help us choose the Rouleur 100 moments

As Rouleur publishes its 100th issue, we want you to tell us your most abiding memory in cycling

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The Column: There's something (different) about Tao

The Column: There's something (different) about Tao

Few expected Tao Geoghegan Hart to win the Giro d'Italia, but that it should come this year is the only part that should have been a surprise

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Dreamlike memories of the Vuelta’s first visit to the Angliru

Dreamlike memories of the Vuelta’s first visit to the Angliru

The riders attacked it with triple chainsets and nervous anticipation. But even the support vehicles struggled with the Angliru’s preposterous reality.

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Miguel Indurain: The endless enigma

Miguel Indurain: The endless enigma

As a racer, his record speaks for itself, yet as a man Miguel Indurain has tended to keep himself quiet. A look into the life of the...

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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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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 21

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 21

Nick and Andy not only correctly called that yesterday's stage would come down to the GC contenders, but that the young man from East London...

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Rouleur predicts.... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 20

Rouleur predicts.... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 20

"It just goes to show, you need bike racers to have a bike race." The UCI and Giro race director Mauro Vegni might not have liked...

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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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Rouleur predicts.... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 19

Rouleur predicts.... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 19

What a day that was, eh? Who'd have thought the Stelvio would liven things up? *looks to camera* It was a stage that not only provided...

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Last place Luigi, the Giro’s greatest loser

Last place Luigi, the Giro’s greatest loser

On the 10th of June 1949, high on the mountain roads between Cuneo and Pinerolo, Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali duelled for the 32nd edition...

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yes it hurts

Yes, it Hurts: National Hill Climb by Russ Ellis

Hedley on the Hill, Northumberland, 2017 "I was on the very first section, no more than 250 metres from the start line, when I saw...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 18

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 18

Who thought Ben O'Connor could go long twice in a row? Not us, that's for sure. The Cycling Mole came close with his pick of Ilnur Zakarin, but...

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Larry Warbasse: the art of the breakaway

Larry Warbasse: the art of the breakaway

Getting into a breakaway is an art. A paradox. Often a crapshoot. Yet you always find the same guys there. Try too hard to make...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 17

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 17

Roglic's win in Spain and Tratnik's triumph at the Giro was the first time two Slovenian riders had won Grand Tour stages on the same day...

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The column: Sunday's Tour of Flanders gave the 2020 season the showcase showdown cycling has for so long needed

The column: Sunday's Tour of Flanders gave the 2020 season the showcase showdown cycling has for so long needed

With the final third of the Giro and the entirety of the Vuelta still to come, it wouldn’t be entirely correct to characterise Sunday’s Ronde...

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Why the Vuelta a España is the best Grand Tour

Why the Vuelta a España is the best Grand Tour

The Vuelta a España is treated as a poor cousin to the the other Grand Tours, shoved around the calendar and offered as a consolation...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 16

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 16

Have we all had a good rest? Then we'll begin. Tay-o, Tayyyyyy-o. Although Hackney's Geoghegan Hart won the final stage before the final week, none...

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Rouleur predicts... The Men's Tour of Flanders 2020

Rouleur predicts... The Men's Tour of Flanders 2020

"Everything you can do to prepare, prepare it. Know the course well, it helps you out in the end." Tom Boonen

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Rouleur predicts... The Women's Tour of Flanders 2020

Rouleur predicts... The Women's Tour of Flanders 2020

We've got bergs for breakfast as the best women riders in the world take on the cobbled climbs of west Belgium. Not quite the last big race...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 14

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 14

The Giro's second race of truth takes us to within a week of completing our second Grand Tour of 2020. We may yet not make it,...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 13

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 13

Flat, flat, flat, little lump, littler lump, flat. All in for Sagan? Almost...

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Riding as Rebellion

Riding as Rebellion

“God painted me Black – thanks for that” Nas

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 12

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 12

No duplicate picks today as the herd separates on a much harder day to call. Another breakaway day fancied, so it's Masnada, Ulissi, Matt Holmes...

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Cover Story: Rouleur 20.7 by Russ Ellis

Cover Story: Rouleur 20.7 by Russ Ellis

Our evening at a heavenly Hell of the North collection in the middle of nowhere

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 11

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 11

As we head over (what is hopefully) the halfway hump, a new player has entered the arena...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 10

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 10

Portugal are having a good Giro, wouldn't you say? A week in the maglia rosa and a stage win on Sunday for Ruben Guerreiro. Team...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 9

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 9

The only way was Essex on Stage 8, as Alex Dowsett gave his all to take his first win on the road since 2011. Who will rise to the...

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