40 Years of Cycling
Angel Casero is on the attack during the 2000 Vuelta a España
CASEROVUELTA
Tony Rominger won four stages of the 1995 Giro d'Italia including all three time trials
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Tony Rominger led the 1994 Vuelta a España from start to finish, winning six stages in total including here at Sierra de la Demanda
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Paolo Savoldelli led the 2002 Giro d'Italia on stage nineteen into Cantu before winning overall the next day
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Paolo Savoldelli won a mountain stage of the 1999 Giro d'Italia into Borgo San Dalmazzo
Alex Zulle, Laurent Dufaux, and Tony Rominger formed an all-Swiss podium at the 1996 Vuelta a España
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Mario Cipollini led the Giro d'Italia on a TT stage to San Marino in 1997
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Mario Cipollini won into Vire stage two of the 1997 Tour de France
Laurent Jalabert is about to win stage twelve of the 1995 Tour de France after escaping for over 200 kilometres through the Massif Central
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Mario Cipollini wore a startling one-piece lycra suit in the Prologue of the 2001 Giro d'Italia into Pescara
Marco Pantani and Lance Armstrong at Courchevel in the 2000 Tour de France
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Marco Pantani is about to drop Pavel Tonkov and go on to win at Alpe di Pampeago in the 1999 Giro d'Italia
Bjarne Riis is about to drop Miguel Indurain on the Col de Soudet in the 1996 Tour de France, putting over nine minutes into the Spaniard by the day's end
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Tony Rominger set two new Hour record figures in three days in Bordeaux in 1994, raising the bar to 55.291with an aero-bike
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Adrie Van der Poel attacks over the Poggio in the 1988 Milan-San Remo, but Laurent Fignon would counter-attack and win
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Adrie Van der Poel won the World Cyclo-Cross championship in Paris in 1996
Richard Virenque won into Morzine on stage sixteen of the 2000 Tour de France
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Richard Virenque was forced to chase Marco Pantani at Alpe d'Huez on stage thirteen of the 1997 Tour de France
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Alex Zulle won into La Plagne on stage nine of the 1995 Tour de France
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Alex Zulle powered his ONCE team to victory in a stage of the 1993 Paris-Nice
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George Hincapie wins into Pasadena on stage six of the 2008 Tour of California
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Bobby Julich is exhausted after a stage to Deux-Alpes in the 1998 Tour de France - the stage when Marco Pantani attacked all his rivals
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Gianni Bugno led a provocative attack with Miguel Indurain on stage two of the 1992 Tour de France
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Gilberto Simoni won a troubled Giro d'Italia in 2001 - the race was scandalised by drug-raids and arrests, with its 'Queen' stage being cancelled
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Mauro Gianetti wins the 1995 Amstel Gold Race from Davide Cassani
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Michele Bartoli beat Frank Vandenbroucke in the 1998 Championship of Zurich with the chasers emerging on to the cement track a full lap behind
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Miguel Indurain led the 1992 Giro d'Italia for nineteen days and won the race overall by more than five minutes
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Miguel Indurain set a new One Hour record of 53.040 in Bordeaux in 1994
Miguel Indurain was a two-time winner of the Giro d'Italia in 1992-1993
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Paolo Bettini won the 2002 Liege-Bastogne-Liege ahead of obedient teamate Stefano Garzelli
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Fabian Cancellara won the 2008 Milan-San Remo after a last-kilometre attack
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Nicole Cooke celebrates winning the Gold medal in the road race at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing
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Nicole Cooke won the 2008 Olympic Games Road Race in Beijing
COOKESPRINTOLYMPICS
Kristin Armstrong won the 2008 Olympic Games time trial in Beijing - then came back four years later to repeat the feat at the London Olympics
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Kristin Armstrong won the World Time Trial Championship in Varese in 2008
ARMSTRONGUCIWORLD CHAMPIONSHIPSVARESE
Belgium's Roland Liboton was a four-time World Cyclo-Cross champion in 1980, 1982, 1983 and 1984
CYCLOCROSSLIBOTON
Sven Nijs shares the winner's podium with friend and teamate Bart Wellens in the 1998 World U-23 World Cyclo-cross championship
CYCLOCROSSNIJSWELLENS
The 7-Eleven team (with guest Alexi Grewal) lines up for its first-ever European race in Bességes in 1985
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The Koppenberg underwent a complete re-build in 2001-2002 in order to be included once again in the Tour of Flanders
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Raul Alcala wrings the sweat from his jersey at Alpe d'Huez in the 1988 Tour de France
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Davis Phinney escorts Andy Hampsten into Vittorio-Veneto a few hours before Hampsten won the 1988 Giro d'Italia
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Tour de France director Jean-Marie Leblanc announces the expulsion of the Festina team in Brive in 1998
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Fabio Casartelli won the 1992 Olympic Games road race in Barcelona, but the Italian later died in a crash during the 1995 Tour de France
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Davis Phinney won a stage into Bordeaux in the 1987 Tour de France
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Marianne Martin won the 1984 womens Tour de France after attacking in the Alps
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Rudy Dhaenens won the 1990 World Road Championships in Utsonomiya, Japan
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Tony Rominger found himself up against the might of Evgeni Berzin and Piotr Ugrumov in the 1985 Giro d'Italia - but he still won
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Roger Hammond won the junior World Cyclo-Cross championship in Leeds, England, in 1992
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