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Duclos-Lassalle

Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle: the late-blooming Paris-Roubaix winner who refused to fade away

Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle was 37 when he finally won Paris-Roubaix and 38 when he returned to the Roubaix velodrome a year later and did it...

A brief history of Bretagne Classic

The Bretagne Classic is one of the oldest surviving one-day races in professional cycling, although its modern name hides much of that history. For...

A brief history of the men’s Paris-Roubaix, from the early years to the modern day

Paris-Roubaix has always stood apart. Even in a sport built on hardship, it developed into something more severe, more elemental and more mythic than...