40 Years of Cycling

40 Years of Cycling

Phil Thomas wins a Kellogg's criterium from Phil Anderson in Bristol in 1984

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Race-leader Alessandro Petacchi (left) beats World Champion Mario Cipollini into Catania, Sicily, during the 2003 Giro d"Italia

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Joachin Rodriguez wins a stage to Mende in the 2010 Tour de France with Alberto Contador happy to let his compatriot take the victory - Contador moved into the Yellow Jersey

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Stage one of the 2010 Vuelta a España featured a spectacular night-time team time trial in the city of Seville

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The Leopard-Trek team - with Tyler Farrar - crosses the finish-line of a stage dedicated to the deceased Wouter Weylant who died in a crash the previous day

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Andy Schleck wins stage eighteen to the Col du Galibier in the 2011 Tour de France

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Race-leader Isidro Nozal won the stage-six time trial at Zaragoza in the 2003 Vuelta a España

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Alejandro Valverde wins stage fifteen to Sierra de la Pandera in the 2003 Vuelta a España

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Daniele Bennati wins stage twenty of the 2011 Vuelta a España

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Aitor Gonzalez wins a time trial on stage fifteen of the 2003 Giro d'Italia

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Joachin Rodriguez wins the 2012 Fleche Wallonne

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Alberto Contador and Joachim Rodriguez race to Los Lagos de Covadonga on stage fifteen of the 2012 Vuelta España

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Joachim Rodriguez attacks in the 2012 Il Lombardia

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Mariano Rojas leads Miguel Indurain and Laurent Jalabert in the 1992 Tour de France - Rojas died a few years later in a car-crash

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Giovanni Lombardi wins the points race Gold medal at the 1992 Olympics

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Dario Frigo wins the 2002 Zurich Championship

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Miguel Morras is trapped by sheep in the 2000 Criterium International

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Geraint Thomas wins the 2015 E3 Harelbeke

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Alejandro Valverde wins a stage of the 2004 Vuelta la Communidad of Valencia

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Tom Dumoulin tries to salvage his race-lead on stage twenty of the 2015 Tour of Spain

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Tom Dumoulin on stage six of the 2016 Giro d'Italia

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Sebastian Langeveld (left) beats Juan Antonio Flecha in the 2011 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

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Tyler Farrar wins stage two of the 2010 Giro d'Italia into Utrecht, The Netherlands

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The Paris-Tours peloton passes a wind-farm in 2008

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Echelons form during a stage of the 2010 Tour of Qatar

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Strong winds break up the peloton during a stage of the 2004 Tour of Murcia in Spain

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Ezequiel Mosquera races to victory on the Bola del Mundo during stage twenty of the 2010 Vuelta a España

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Marcel Kittel wins stage seven of the 2011 Vuelta a España in his first season as a professional

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American fans run alongside the Tour de France as it climbs the Col du Galibier in 2002

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The peloton races through the desert on a stage to Sur in the 2011 Tour of Oman

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Marcel Kittel sprints against Andre Greipel and Nacer Bouhanni on stage three of the 2012 Tour of Oman

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Cyclists climb the Bola del Mundo on stage 20 of the 2012 Vuelta EspaÒa

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Richie Porte won the stage seven time trial of the 2013 Paris-Nice to secure overall victory

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The peloton races past Dubai on stage two of the 2014 Dubai Tour

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Wind has split the pleoton on stage five of the 2014 Tour of Qatar

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The peloton spooks some young camels on stage one of the 2014 Tour of Oman

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The peloton enters a moon-like landscape on stage five of the 2014 Tour of Oman

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Richie Porte makes his stage-winning attack on stage five of the 2014 Tour Down Under

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Richie Porte took his second Paris-Nice victory after winning stage seven in 2015

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Winds split the peloton in the 2016 Ghent-Wevelgem

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Esteban Chaves wins into Corvara on stage fourteen of the 2016 Giro d'Italia

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The peloton races past a Dutch windmill on stage two of the 2016 Giro d'Italia

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Steven Kruijswijk descends the Colle della Agnello after crashing on stage nineteen of the 2016 Giro d'Italia

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The peloton climbs the Col de Vars on stage twenty of the 2016 Giro d'Italia

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Mario Cipollini wins the 2002 Ghent-Wevelgem after beating Fred Rodriguez and George Hincapie

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Allan Davis won three stages of the 2005 Tour of Murcia

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Alberto Contador wins stage thirteen on the summit of the Alto del Angliru, in the 2008 Vuelta a España

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The bicycle of Gert Steegmans lies in a dyke after he was blown off his bike in the 2015 Ghent-Wevelgem

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