Category: Paris-Roubaix

Serse Coppi wins Paris-Roubaix 1949

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Post date October 20, 2014
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Serse Coppi kisses Fausto Coppi after Paris Roubaix 1949

Today’s historic photo of the day: Serse Coppi kisses his elder brother Fausto Coppi after winning the Paris-Roubaix 1949 edition.

For the first and only time in history, there were two winners in Paris-Roubaix, and Serse was one of them. The other was team Stella-Dunlop’s French rider André Mahé.

1949 Paris-Roubaix, the 47th edition of the race was held on April 18. There was great chaos at the end of the race. The two winners finished separately, they were separated by four other riders and they both even reached the line by two different routes!

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Fausto Coppi after Paris-Roubaix 1959

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Post date October 6, 2014
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Today’s historic photo of the day: after the Paris-Roubaix 1959 edition, Fausto Coppi, covered with mud. It was the latest Paris-Roubaix of “il campionissimo”, before his premature death in less than nine months.

The final three seasons of Coppi’s life, between 1957 and 1959, saw his inevitable decline. He remained a living legend, but as the champion’s power fade away, he wasn’t winning big races like the Paris-Roubaix anymore.

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Fausto Coppi wins Paris-Roubaix 1950 (Video)

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Post date October 2, 2014
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Fausto Coppi riding with Maurice Diot, Paris-Roubaix 1950 (featured)

Today’s historic photo of the day, with a video: Fausto Coppi winning the Paris-Roubaix 1950 edition, with a great solo attack. Coppi’s 1950 Paris-Roubaix winning move is widely regarded as one of the greatest rides in cycling history.

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Pino Cerami passes away

Pino Cerami in 2004 — Since 1964 the GP Pino Cerami professional cycling race has taken place every year in Belgium. Here, Pino Cerami pictured at the finish of the 2004 edition of the race.

Pino Cerami, 1960 Paris-Roubaix and La Flèche Wallonne winner, and the oldest Tour de France stage winner (1963) after second world war, has died aged 92, after a long illness.

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Terpstra wins Paris-Roubaix 2014

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Post date April 13, 2014
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Niki Terpstra (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) won the Paris-Roubaix 2014, the “queen of the classics” with a late attack on an elite group containing all the favorites in the last ten kilometer. John Degenkolb (Giant-Shimano) finished in second, big pre-race favorite Fabian Cancellara (Trek Factory Racing) finished in third.

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Jean Metzinger’s “At the Cycle-Race Track (Au Vélodrome)”, 1912

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Post date October 10, 2013
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Au Vélodrome by Jean Metzinger (cropped)

“Au Vélodrome”, also known as “At the Cycle-Race Track” and “Le cycliste”, is a painting by the French painter Jean Metzinger. According to the art historian Erasmus Weddigen, it illustrates the final meters of the Paris-Roubaix monumental classic and portrays its 1912 winner Charles Crupelandt (1886-1955).

The painting was acquired by Peggy Guggenheim in 1945 and is now permanently on view in her museum in Venice; Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Jean Metzinger (June 24, 1883- November 3, 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, writer, critic, poet, and sensitive and intelligent theoretician. Along with Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Albert Gleizes, developed the art style known as Cubism.

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Trouée d’Arenberg [Arenberg Forest]

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Post date April 5, 2013
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The Trouée d’Arenberg, also know as Tranchée d’Arenberg, (Trench of Arenberg), Trouee de Wallers Arenberg, is a straight cobbled road passing through the Arenberg Forest in northern France, and highly considered as the most dangerous and toughest part of the Paris-Roubaix.

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Paris-Roubaix 2013 Route and Cobbled Sectors with Ratings

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Post date April 4, 2013
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Fabian Cancellara during the Paris-Roubaix 2010 — Fabian Cancellara leading the pack at Arenberg Forest, Paris-Roubaix 2010. At the end of the day, Cancellara won the 2010 Paris-Roubaix, the 108th edition of the race.

Paris-Roubaix organizer ASO (Amaury Sport Organisation) has officially announced the ratings of 27 cobbled sectors in the 2013 edition of the race. This year the route is 254.5 km in total, and the peloton will have to ride on the cobbles a total of 52.6 km. Here are the Paris-Roubaix 2013 Route and Cobbled Sectors with ratings.