Hints and tips:
...The short, fierce race follows the route of the time trial that kicked off last year’s Giro d’Italia....
...Opting to recreate the murderous 1914 Giro d’Italia on a 1914 bike seems a very regrettable gimmick when you’re descending the Alps on wooden wheels with wine corks for brakes....
...My favourite is the story of the pet dog of the German ambassador which died in 1934 when it bit through an electric cable: Giro was buried behind Carlton House Terrace in London with full Nazi honours....
...Now he has turned to the Giro d’Italia, setting out to ride the route of the 1914 event, reputedly the toughest of all time, on a period bike complete with wooden rims....
...in June at the Disney Soccer Academy, at Disney World, Florida. www.virginholidays.com/disneysocceracademy Stephen Roche Keen cyclists can ride alongside Stephen Roche (winner of the Tour de France, Giro...
...And Michael Phelps’s unprecedented haul of eight gold medals in the swimming pool was a mind-boggling achievement of all-round technique, stamina and fortitude from the greatest swimmer yet seen....
...Armstrong plans to take part in Australia’s Tour Down Under in January and the Giro d’Italia in May. Whether he will return to the Tour de France is unclear....
...Just days later, race leader Michael Rasmussen of Denmark was removed by his team after lying about his whereabouts in missing pre-race doping tests. And those were only the latest dramas....
...Like Spade, Michael Ball, chief executive of denim brand Rock and Republic, also began his professional life on a bike....
...“Departments pick and choose which projects go into the efficiency programme and report those numbers,” says Michael Whitehouse, the assistant auditor general at the NAO....
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