A Ride Through the Greatest Cycling Stories

Name: A Ride Through the Greatest Cycling Stories
Brand: Aurum
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Giles Belbin(Autor*in)

Aurum (Verlag)

Erschienen am 2. März 2017

176 Seiten

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Intro
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Contents
1 The death of Fausto Coppi 2 January
2 Thomas Stevens cycles round the world 4 January
3 Jacques Anquetil is born 8 January
4 The Vélodrome d'Hiver hosts its first six-day race 13 January
5 The inaugural Tour Down Under 19 January
6 Tom Boonen's Qatar dominance begins 30 January
7 Nairo Quintana is born 4 February
8 The Boston Cycling Club is formed 11 February
9 Marco Pantani dies 14 February
10 Romain Maes dies 22 February
11 Djamolidine Abdoujaparov is born 28 February
12 Maurice Garin is born 3 March
13 First Tirenno-Adriatico starts 11 March
14 Louison Bobet dies 13 March
15 First Paris-Nice gets underway 14 March
16 Wim van Est is born 25 March
17 Van Steenbergen wins Flanders 2 April
18 71 start, four finish Milan-Sanremo 3 April
19 Grégory Baugé wins seventh world title 7 April
20 Hinault wins Paris-Roubaix 12 April
21 Fiftieth edition of Paris-Roubaix 13 April
22 Fischer wins first Hell of the North 19 April
23 Hippolyte Aucouturier dies 22 April
24 The Florist wins Paris-Roubaix 23 April
25 The birth of Vélocio 29 April
26 Poulidor starts Vuelta for the first time 30 April
27 Henri Pélissier, convict of the road, is shot dead 1 May
28 The narrowest ever Grand Tour win is recorded 6 May
29 Beryl Burton is born 12 May
30 The first Giro d'Italia starts 13 May
31 Willie Hume wins in Belfast and changes cycle racing 18 May
32 Last Peace Race finishes 20 May
33 Mark Cavendish is born 21 May
34 Brits conquer the first Bordeaux-Paris 23 May
35 Jacques Anquetil takes a unique double 30 May
36 Gino Bartali awarded Medaglia d'Oro al Merito Civile 31 May
37 The first Cima Coppi 4 June
38 Gianni Bugno wins the Giro 6 June
39 LeMond's comeback 11 June
40 The Bernina Strike 12 June
41 Ottavio Bottecchia fatal training ride 'accident' 14 June
42 Franceso Moser is born 19 June
43 The longest Tour starts 20 June
44 Kübler and Koblet go toeto-toe in the Tour du Suisse 23 June
45 Federico Bahamontes abandons the Tour 27 June
46 The Badger rides the Tour for the first time 29 June
47 First Tour de France starts 1 July
48 Eugène Christophe snaps forks on the Tourmalet 9 July
49 Merckx is punched by a fan 11 July
50 Tom Simpson falls on Ventoux 13 July
51 Bartali rampages through the Alps and saves a nation 15 July
52 First high mountain stage of the Tour de France 21 July
53 Armstrong stands on the top step in Paris 25 July
54 Wiggins crowns an unforgettable season 1 August
55 Alfredo Binda, first pro world champion, is born 11 August
56 Laurent Fignon, le Prof, is born 12 August
57 Victoria Pendleton wins first Olympic gold 19 August
58 Merckx completes first triple crown of cycling 25 August
59 Maria Canins wins world TTT title 27 August
60 Ian Steel wins first Tour of Britain 1 September
61 Lucien Buysse is born 11 September
62 Alto di Angliru makes its Vuelta entrance 12 September
63 Eddy Merckx wins his last road race 17 September
64 L'Equipe's 'worst Tour climber ever' is born 30 September
65 Marianne Vos wins her first rainbow jersey 1 October
66 Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli wins a fifth road race rainbow jersey 7 October
67 André Mahé dies 19 October
68 Alex Zanardi is born 23 October
69 Sarah Storey is born 26 October
70 Le Baron Rouge is born 4 November
71 Cofidis trial begins in Paris 6 November
72 Leon Houa is born 8 November
73 The red devil wins Lombardia 12 November
74 British League of Racing Cyclists is formed 14 November
75 Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist, is born 22 November
76 Six days of New York finishes 25 November
77 Marshall 'Major' Taylor, the Black Cyclone, is born 26 November
78 Patrick Sercu wins his first six-day race 28 November
79 Christa Rothenburger-Luding is born 4 December
80 Tommy Godwin sets Year Record 31 December
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