Michele Tomasi reports on a 2001 Roubaix winner’s recent interview with Bicisport. This year, there is a Dutch rider who awaits the classics with impatience as never in the past. After a career spent ...

The French Classic was started in 1896 by Theo Vienne and Maurice Perez, two textile manufacturers from Roubaix. Vienne and Perez saw the success of Bordeaux-Paris and wanted to organise something ...