40 Years of Cycling

40 Years of Cycling

Teamates Oscar Sevilla and Santiago Botero celebrate a Kelme 1-2 in the 2002 Classique des Alpes

40 Years of Cycling

Fabio Fontanelli carries some food back to his 'mates after a roadside halt in the 1998 Giro d'Italia

40 Years of Cycling

Laurent Jalabert won the 2002 Clasica San Sebastian

40 Years of Cycling

A late snowfall covered parts of the course during the 2005 Tour of Murcia in southern Spain

40 Years of Cycling

The 1992 Nissan International Classic descends past the lakes of Killarney

40 Years of Cycling

Jens Heppner led the 2002 Giro d'Italia for over one week before surrendering his Maglia Rosa in the Dolomites

40 Years of Cycling

Edvald Boasson-Hagen wins stage three of the 2010 Tour of Oman at Quriyat

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Christophe Moreau crashed heavily during the 2001 Etoile de Bességes in the days when helmets were not obligatory

40 Years of Cycling

The 2011 Vuelta a España climbs into the Asturian mountains on stage eleven to La Farrapona in the Somiedo national park

40 Years of Cycling

Alberto Contador wins at Fuentes de Invierno on stage fourteen of the 2008 Vuelta a España

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Carlos Sastre leads Valverde and Sanchez in an attack against Cadel Evans on stage thirteen of the 2009 Vuelta a España to Sierra Nevada

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Popular Frenchman Frederic Moncassin won two stages and led the 1996 Tour de France for a day

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David Moncoutié beat Kevin Livingston to win stage six of the 1999 Dauphiné-Libéré

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Luis Leon Sanchez won into Aurillac on stage seven of the 2008 Tour de France

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Leonardo Piepoli won stage ten of the 2008 Tour de France before the entire Saunier Duval team was expelled two days later for drug use

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Mariano Piccoli was a prolific Italian climber who won the mountains competition in the 1999 Giro d'Italia

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40 Years of Cycling

Julio Perez-Cuapio won three stages of the Giro d'Italia in 2002-2003 - he was the only Mexican to have ever won a stage of the race

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40 Years of Cycling

Iban Mayo won the Mont Ventoux time trial in the 2004 Dauphiné-Libéré, establishing a record of 55' 51.49" that remains unbeaten to this day

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Luis Leon Sanchez escaped on stage seven of the 2009 Paris-Nice, taking the stage and overall honours from his friend Alberto Contador

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Heinrich Haussler won stage thirteen of 2009 Tour de France after a massive escape in the Vosges

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France's Gilles Delion won the 1991 Giro di Lombardia

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Nick Nuyens beat Sylvain Chavanel and Fabian Cancellara to win the 2011 Tour of Flanders

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40 Years of Cycling

Andrew Talansky crashed in the Prologue in his first-ever Tour de Romandie in 2011 - but he went on to place ninth overall

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Andrew Talansky wins stage three of the 2013 Paris-Nice to move into the race-lead

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40 Years of Cycling

Alberto Rui Costa won the 2013 World Road Race Championship in Florence, Italy

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40 Years of Cycling

Roman Kreuziger won the 2013 Amstel Gold Race after attacking twenty kilometres from the finish

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40 Years of Cycling

Andrew Talansky shares the podium with Alberto Contador and Jurgen Van den Broeck after winning the 2014 Dauphiné Libéré

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40 Years of Cycling

Rui Costa celebrates winning the 2014 Tour de Suisse after also winning the final stage to Saas-Fee - he has now won the race three times

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40 Years of Cycling

Rohan Dennis won the 2015 Tour Down Under

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40 Years of Cycling

Ted King can still manage to lauch after the wind blew him off his bike in the 2015 Ghent-Wevelgem

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40 Years of Cycling

Illun Zakarin secured his overall won on stage six of the 2015 Tour de Romandie

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BMC took the Gold medals by winning the TTT at the 2015 World Cycling Championships in Richmond, VA

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40 Years of Cycling

Ilnur Zakarin won stage six of the 2016 Paris-Nice, but Geraint Thomas won the race overall

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40 Years of Cycling

Simon Gerrans won stage four of the 2016 Tour Down Under and took the overall prize as well

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40 Years of Cycling

Sergei Honchar celebrates taking the Maglia Rosa after a time trial in the 2004 Giro d'Italia

40 Years of Cycling

Jan Ullrich celebrates winning the 2008 Tour de Suisse

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40 Years of Cycling

Alexandre Vinokourov increased his overall lead by attacking on stage eighteen of the 2006 Vuelta a España

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40 Years of Cycling

BJARNE RIIS WINS THE 1996 AMSTEL GOLD RACE

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40 Years of Cycling

Alexandre Vinokourov dropped Jonathan Vaughters on stage six to win the 1999 Dauphiné-Libéré

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Austria's Peter Luttenberger first rose to prominence by winning the 1996 Tour de Suisse

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Laurent Dufaux led the Saeco team during a stage of the 1998 Tour Mediterranean

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Bernhard Eisel wins the 2010 Ghent-Wevelgem

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40 Years of Cycling

Alexanders Vinokourov and Kolobnev race side-by-side in Liege-Bastogne-Liege in 2010 - winner Vinokourov faced accusations of paying Kolobnev off

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40 Years of Cycling

Michael Boogerd makes the winning attack that earned him overall victory in the 2001 Semana Catalana in Spain

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Vincenzo Nibali defended his race-lead at Lagos de Covadonga on stage fifteen of the 2010 Vuelta a España

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Marco Pantani makes his last-ever attack during stage nineteen of the 2003 Giro d'Italia - he took 14th overall and then retired

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Alexander Vinkourov won Paris-Nice in 2002 and 2003

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40 Years of Cycling

Marco Pantani has crashed on stage eighteen of the 2003 Giro d'Italia

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