40 Years of Cycling

40 Years of Cycling

Michael Kwiatkowski wins the road race at the 2014 World Championships

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40 Years of Cycling

World Champion Michal Kwiatkowski wins the 2015 Amstel Gold Race

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Alberto Contador celebrates after stage fifteen of the 2015 Tour of Italy

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Caleb Ewan loads up with water bottles on stage six of the 2015 Tour of Spain, one day after winning his first-ever Vuelta stage

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Nairo Quintana defends his race-lead on stage four of the 2016 Tour de Romandie

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40 Years of Cycling

Nairo Quintana leads Esteban Chaves and Alberto Contador on stage seventeen of the 2016 Vuelta a EspaÒa

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Marc Wauters wins the 1999 Paris-Tours

40 Years of Cycling

Nairo Quintana celebrates winning the 2016 Vuelta a España in Madrid

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Emma Pooley became the time trial champion of the world in Geelong, Australia, in 2010

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Lizzie Armitstead won the 2015 World Road Championships in Richmond VA, USA

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Michael Boogerd (left) beat Lance Armstrong in a photo-finish at the 1999 Amstel Gold Race

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Juan Antonio Flecha won a wet stage of the 2005 Tour of Valencia

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David Millar won the stage fourteen time trial at Cuenca in the 2006 Vuelta a España

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David Millar with Michael Rogers and Uwe Peschel after winning the 2003 World Time Trial Championship in Hamilton, Canada - but Rogers became World Champion after Millar was later disqualifed

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Filippo Simeoni celebrates in style after winning stage eighteen of the 2001 Vuelta a España

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David Millar outsprinted Santiago Botero to win stage six of the 2001 Vuelta a España

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Alejandro Valverde easily dominated his rivals in a victorious 2009 Dauphiné-Libéré

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David Millar won the stage twenty time trial at Toledo during the 2009 Vuelta a España

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Alejandro Valverde secured his 2009 Vuelta a España victory in the stage twenty TT at Toledo - Sammy Sanchez took second place on the stage

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Alejandro Valverde wins stage eight of the 2012 Vuelta España

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David Millar helped guide Garmin to victory on stage two of the 2011 Tour de France

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David Zabriskie won the stage one time trial of the 2005 Tour de France and took that race's first yellow jersey

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Greg Henderson wins into the Dutch city of Venlo on stage three of the 2009 Vuelta a España

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Alberto Contador won the 2007 Paris-Nice after a last-stage attack over the Col d'Eze

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Alberto Contdor led the 2006 Tour de Romandie into the Swiss Alps but lost out to Cadel Evans overall

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40 Years of Cycling

Chris Horner won stage two of the 2006 Tour de Romandie

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The Tour de Suisse peloton climbs the Furka Pass in 2006

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Alejandro Valverde won stage seven of the 2006 Vuelta a España and took second-place overall

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Alejandro Valverde won the UCI World Cup in the 2006 season

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Robert Gesink won stage three of the 2008 Tour of California

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Davide Rebellin won the 2008 Paris-Nice

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Yaroslav Popovych led the 2004 Giro d'Italia for three days having taken third overall in 2003

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Davide Rebellin sprints to victory in the 2009 Fleche Wallonne

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Xavier Tondo won stage six of the 2010 Paris-Nice - but the young Spaniard died in a domestic accident one year later

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The 2010 World U-23 champion Michael Matthews had four people on his podium after Taylor Phinney tied with Guillaume Boivin for bronze with John Degenkolb in silver position

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Svein Tuft helped Green Edge to win the stage four TTT of the 2013 Tour de France

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Alexander Kristoff wins the 2014 Milan-San Remo

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Yaroslav Popovych plays to the crowds on stage nine of the 2013 Tour of Spain

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Ian Stannard wins the 2015 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad from Niki Terpstra

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Michael Matthews wore the Maglia Rosa at Bari on stage four of the 2014 Giro d'Italia

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Alexander Kristoff escapes with Niki Terpstra before winning the 2015 Tour of Flanders

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Michael Matthews wins stage four of the 2015 Tour de Suisse

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Arnaud Demare wins the 2016 Milan-San Remo

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Michael Matthews wins into Revel on stage ten of the 2016 Tour de France

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Robert Gesink wins stage fourteen to the Col d' Aubisque in the 2016 Vuelta a España

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Crowds pack the streets of Cork in Ireland to watch a Kellogg's criterium in 1986

40 Years of Cycling

George Bennett of New Zealand braved the cold and snow on stage twenty of the 2013 Giro d'Italia

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40 Years of Cycling

New Zealander Jack Bauer raced with a fractured femur during stage five of the 2015 Tour de France

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