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Introducing the Tour de France edition

Introducing the Tour de France edition

The Giro d'Italia may have ended, but that only means the Tour de France is on its way. It also means the launch of our...

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La Course 2021: Route, predictions and contenders

La Course 2021: Route, predictions and contenders

Rouleur previews the eighth edition of La Course 2021 which takes place on 26th June 2021. The riders will depart from Brest before finishing just outside Landerneau.

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Giro d’Italia Donne 2021: Route, predictions and contenders

Giro d’Italia Donne 2021: Route, predictions and contenders

New management, a return to 10 stages, and a promise of live coverage, is this a new leaf for the Giro Rosa — now the Giro...

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Shanaze Reade’s new role as an ambassador for the 2023 World Championships

Shanaze Reade’s new role as an ambassador for the 2023 World Championships

Reade hopes to champion young people and increase accessibility to bikes for children across Scotland and the UK

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The new Liv Langma: The WorldTour racer designed for women

The new Liv Langma: The WorldTour racer designed for women

All-new race-ready model is lighter and features disc brakes for the first time.

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Egan Bernal is back

Egan Bernal is back

The rise, and fall, and meteoric rise of a once in a generation Grand Tour champion

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Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 21 Preview - Against the clock

Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 21 Preview - Against the clock

Rouleur previews stage 21 of the 2021 Giro d’Italia. This is it. The final time trial in Milan will decide who claims the maglia rosa.

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The Most Dramatic Giro d'Italia Finishes

The Most Dramatic Giro d'Italia Finishes

With the climax of the 2021 Giro d'Italia just around the corner, we take a look back to some of the most thrilling finishes in...

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Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 20 Preview - The Final Mountain Showdown

Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 20 Preview - The Final Mountain Showdown

Rouleur previews stage 20 of the 2021 Giro d’Italia. With almost 4,000 metres of climbing and the maglia rosa up for grabs, this has all the...

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Aggression: The Changing Ways of the Ineos Grenadiers

Aggression: The Changing Ways of the Ineos Grenadiers

The Ineos Grenadiers have dominated Grand Tour racing over the past decade, where defensive tactics has been one of the keys to their success. How has their...

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Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 19 Preview - The Penultimate Test

Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 19 Preview - The Penultimate Test

Rouleur previews stage 19 of the 2021 Giro d’Italia. Egan Bernal remains in the maglia rosa, but the momentum is now with Simon Yates ahead of...

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Women's WorldTeams salaries: a delicate balance

Women's WorldTeams salaries: a delicate balance

An audit commissioned by the UCI shows a promising increase in Women's WorldTeam salaries and budgets — but is this the full story across the women's peloton?

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Vuelta a Burgos Feminas 2021 debrief: Clash of the titans

Vuelta a Burgos Feminas 2021 debrief: Clash of the titans

Last week saw the first stage race of the Women’s World Tour and some exciting racing ensued

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The racing debut of the Monte Zoncolan

The racing debut of the Monte Zoncolan

The Monte Zoncolan is not the most famous climb in cycling, but it is widely known as one of the very hardest. Its legend is...

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Total integration, total revolution: How Shimano’s STI shifting changed cycling

Total integration, total revolution: How Shimano’s STI shifting changed cycling

Keizo Shimano revolutionised racing with the development of STI shifting. And no one who knew him was surprised

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Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 18 Preview - The Longest Stage

Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 18 Preview - The Longest Stage

Rouleur previews stage 18 of the 2021 Giro d’Italia. Following a stunning Giro debut on Sega di Ala, the riders have no rest with the...

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The Battle for the 2021 Giro d'Italia: Taking Stock of the GC

The Battle for the 2021 Giro d'Italia: Taking Stock of the GC

With Egan Bernal in the maglia rosa entering the final rest day of the 2021 Giro d'Italia, we take stock of how the teams of...

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Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 17 Preview - the Giro's hardest finish

Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 17 Preview - the Giro's hardest finish

Rouleur previews stage 17 of the 2021 Giro d’Italia. Despite a shortened queen stage, Egan Bernal blew away his opposition on the Passo Giau and...

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Eolo-Kometa: The Giro is a dream come true

Eolo-Kometa: The Giro is a dream come true

Team Eolo-Kometa is fulfilling its dream of riding a first Grand Tour. Rouleur spoke to Sports Director Stefano Zanatta ahead of the Giro about achieving his...

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Extreme weather and rose-tinted nostalgia

Extreme weather and rose-tinted nostalgia

The decision to shorten stage 16 of the Giro d'Italia due to extreme weather signifies a big shift in professional cycling's attitudes to rider well-being

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Fausto Coppi's War: From Prisoner to Legend

Fausto Coppi's War: From Prisoner to Legend

Already a great champion in pre-War years, Coppi joined the Italian army in 1940 before flying to North Africa three years later, where he was...

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Qhubeka Assos: the unlikely Giro success story

Qhubeka Assos: the unlikely Giro success story

Less than a year ago Qhubeka Assos nearly folded, today they're knocking out Grand Tour stage victories. We have a look at one of this...

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Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 16 Preview - The Shortened Route

Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 16 Preview - The Shortened Route

Rouleur previews stage 16 of the 2021 Giro d’Italia. After a breakaway victory on stage 15, the GC favourites must be at their very best...

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The Breakout Riders of the 2021 Giro d'Italia

The Breakout Riders of the 2021 Giro d'Italia

Rouleur takes a look at the riders that are blossoming to realise their potential at the Giro d’Italia 2021

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Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 15 Preview - Punchers versus Sprinters

Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 15 Preview - Punchers versus Sprinters

Rouleur previews stage 15 of the 2021 Giro d’Italia. Many will be on the offensive over the short hills, but will the attackers be tamed by...

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Giro d'Italia Stage 11 to Montalcino: Gallery

Giro d'Italia Stage 11 to Montalcino: Gallery

The best images of a Giro d'Italia gravel epic. Here is the 2021 Strade Bianche stage in pictures

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Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 14 Preview - The Zoncolan

Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 14 Preview - The Zoncolan

Rouleur previews stage 14 of the 2021 Giro d’Italia. Following Giacomo Nizzolo's first victory at the Giro d'Italia, the road goes uphill with the infamous Monte...

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The Zoncolan: the Giro's most feared climb

The Zoncolan: the Giro's most feared climb

From Froome to Van Vleuten, Monte Zoncolan has given us some impressive victories but many riders will dread its infernal slopes

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Giro d'Italia

Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 13 Preview - The Sprinter's Final Shot

Rouleur previews stage 13 of the 2021 Giro d’Italia. After two leg-sapping days with gravel and climbs aplenty, the peloton will enjoy a pancake-flat ride...

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Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 12 Preview - A Climber's Dream

Giro d'Italia 2021: Stage 12 Preview - A Climber's Dream

Rouleur previews stage 12 of the 2021 Giro d’Italia. Following the brutal battle to Montalcino, the Giro isn’t slowing down with 4,500 metres of climbing.

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