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The Summit finish

The Summit finish

Text by Keir Plaice with photos by Chris Auld

May 22nd, 2018
“It is a climb in the style of Hollywood,” journalist and Tour historian Jacques Augendre wrote after the race’s first finish on Alpe d’Huez. The spectacle was novel for the time—all the drama of a grand tour stage packed into a single primetime slot, the race won and lost in ...
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La Doyenne

La Doyenne

Words and images by Chris Auld

April 23rd, 2018
The Belgian Classics are not known for its dramatically beautiful back drops or rolling hills, but Liège Bastogne Liège is the exception.That's ruling out the race’s start and finish in the city of Liège, burdened with the image of a dirty place with ugly high rise and siniste...
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L'enfer du nord 2018

L'enfer du nord 2018

Photography by Léon van Bon // Text by Phil Gale

April 10th, 2018
Back when I raced as an Elite Amateur in France there was an annual occurrence each spring where we’d ride under a different Directeur Sportif. A new voice in our radios, a new driver in our team, a new tactician guiding our pedal strokes. The reason wasn’t anything extraordin...
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Paris Nice 2018

Paris Nice 2018

The race to the sun, by Chris Auld

March 13th, 2018
After travelling through UK blizzards to Tuscany to cover an epic, rain soaked Strade Bianche, the Race to the Sun sounded very appealing.What’s not to like about soaking up some vitamin D on the Cote d’Azur while shooting a cycling classic. Touching down in Paris we found the...
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Strade Bianche 2018

Strade Bianche 2018

Photography by Tornanti.cc // Text by Phil Gale

March 4th, 2018
Purists could argue that only being in its twelfth edition would suggest that Strade Bianche can not be a Classic. Only its second year in the WorldTour, this race in the Italian heartland of Tuscany is the young upstart. Once the snotty toddler screaming for attention, its ic...
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Track life

Track life

Photography by Brian Megens text by Keir Plaice

February 27th, 2018
In 1937, Paul Nizan wrote The Death of the Six Day Race. He hated the rot he saw at the velodrome in Paris. “Everything that wasn’t the movement of the racing men was of a terrific baseness; the music, the speaker’s voice, the announcements of the bonuses and bal musettes.” He...
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INTO THE ICEBOX

INTO THE ICEBOX

Belgium's opening weekend, photography by Chris Auld with text by Paul Maunder

February 26th, 2018
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - ALBERT CAMUSTHE UCIS EXTREME WEATHER PROTOCOL COULD HAVE BEEN DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS IN FEBRUARY, WHEN THE WORLDTOUR ROAD CALENDAR GETS UNDERWAY IN SCHIZOPHRENIC ...
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Soigneur brings together some of the finest stories, reportages, and photo-essays from around the world, online and in print reaching over 1 million people monthly. You’ll find tales of the past and of the present, of pros and of amateurs, of local heroes and of faraway places. Tales of suffering and of bliss.
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