Top 5 Dream Finishes for Milan-San Remo 2023: Wild Scenarios We’re Rooting For!
...#MilanSanRemo #CyclingClassic #Pogacar #VanDerPoel #Pidcock #Ganna #Milan #Cipressa #Poggio #ViaRoma #Magnier #CyclingLegends #MonumentRace #CyclingDrama #RaceDay Source link Milan-San Remo, often dubbed "the easiest race to finish, the hardest race to win," is a race of unpredictability and drama. Known for its marathon distance and tactical complexity, it’s a race where anything can…
i watched this on the trainer today, and that was dumb, because i have two brothers, so i was a snotty mess as kopecky crossed the line.
https://procyclinguk.com/lotte-kopecky-takes-an-emotional-solo-win-at-nokere-koerse/
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DID YOU KNOW that #OHN was started in 1945 by a left-leaning flemish newspaper (het volk) that thought the #tourOfFlanders newspaper sponsor (het nieuwsblad) was too nazi-friendly? the tour of flanders was the only #cyclingClassic to be held in nazi-occupied belgium. het volk and het nieuwsblad merged in 2009, and that's when the name of the race changed to omloop het nieuwsblad.
i did not know any of this. the history of these races is wild.
anyway spring is officially here, happy #cobbledClassics day, have a nice race preview
Omloop het Nieuwsblad Women will be part of the Women's WorldTour for the first time in 2022! A long history back to 2006 has seen the race slowly elevate itself through the levels from 1.2 to 1.WWT. The honours board contains some of the very best riders in the women's peloton
In Kalmthout, Flanders, where one of the most famous botanical gardens in northern Europe has been located for over 160 years, a cyclocross race was held every year and in December 2010 it was held under the snow.
That day Tom Meeusen won thanks to his speed in the sprint and his explosiveness, he defeated a certain Sven Nys. From that day Meeusen was nicknamed "Ice man"...
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He is one of the greatest cyclocross riders in history, Renato Longo, born in 1937 from Vittorio Veneto, has won the world championship 5 times and the national one 12.
He starts cycling because the building where he works, is a baker in Milan and will continue to do so throughout his life, is owned by a certain Tano Belloni, former winner of Sanremo, Giro and Lombardia.
Belloni will give Longo a ticket for the velodrome from there his story will begin .
Two of the most important pistards in the history of track cycling, Antonio Maspes and Enzo Sacchi, engaged here in a "surplace" at the Vigorelli Velodrome in Milan in 1956.
Maspes won seven world gold medals in Sprint: after his death, the Milan velodrome was named after him.
3 world titles and one Olympic title instead, always in Sprint, for the Tuscan Sacchi to whom the name of the Velodromo delle Cascine in Florence was bestowed
From Cannes to Briançon, July 18, 1949, stage 18 of the 36th Tour de France.
Coppi and Bartali attack (pic here on the Izoard) on Gino Bartali's 35th birthday.
Stage and jersey for Ginettaccio who takes it away from Fiorenzo Magni.
At the end of the stage the GC marks: Bartali first, Coppi second and Magni third.
That Tour de France will be won by Fausto Coppi...
André Reuzé writer and journalist, popular French author of numerous mystery and adventure novels, followed the Tour de France for several years by recounting the 1925 Tour in "The Tour of Suffering".
A few years later he published a novel defined as "sporting-polar" set during the Tour du Maroc of 1928.
Here he told the story of Ottavio Bottecchia on the pages of the Miroirs des Sports
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