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In 1921, exactly 100 years ago, Shozabura Shimano started his business of making chain rings for bicycles in Japan. After the Second World War,...

Reputed to be a bulwark of Roman Catholicism, Spain's links between its semi-official religion and a sport in which it has traditionally excelled...

There is a lady who is sure that all that glitters is gold and she buys a stairway to heaven... Joanne Simpson is that lady's name and since 2007...

Rotheux-Rimière, 2 August 1959. Under a sea of umbrellas, the crowd tries to follow the arrival of the women's road race at the World Championships...

In the end, her relentless drive was possibly what killed Beryl Burton, but during her lifetime it is also what defined her. Even as a schoolgirl...

With the first official, UCI-recognised world championship for women in 1958, (international) women's cycling faced a turning point. One year...

Ypres is increasingly profiling itself as a cycling city. In the spring of 2014 a first step was already taken by the presentation of the...

"Whether I won the Tour de France for women? To be honest, I still don't know." Heidi Van De Vijver, Belgium's top cyclist in the 1990s, is still...

Marianne Vos. Fanatical voracious. Sympathetic and endearing. And a cycling icon against all odds. A conversation about Eddy's pedestal, Jeannie's...