In Kalmthout, Flanders, where one of the most famous botanical gardens in northern Europe has been located for over 160 years, a cyclocross race was held every year and in December 2010 it was held under the snow.

That day Tom Meeusen won thanks to his speed in the sprint and his explosiveness, he defeated a certain Sven Nys. From that day Meeusen was nicknamed "Ice man"...

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He is one of the greatest cyclocross riders in history, Renato Longo, born in 1937 from Vittorio Veneto, has won the world championship 5 times and the national one 12.

He starts cycling because the building where he works, is a baker in Milan and will continue to do so throughout his life, is owned by a certain Tano Belloni, former winner of Sanremo, Giro and Lombardia.

Belloni will give Longo a ticket for the velodrome from there his story will begin .

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In 1984 Marianne Martin won the first edition of the women's Tour de France: here is on the podium on the Champs Elysee alongside Laurent Fignon and becoming, even before Greg LeMond, the first American cyclist to win the final yellow jersey

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Two of the most important pistards in the history of track cycling, Antonio Maspes and Enzo Sacchi, engaged here in a "surplace" at the Vigorelli Velodrome in Milan in 1956.

Maspes won seven world gold medals in Sprint: after his death, the Milan velodrome was named after him.

3 world titles and one Olympic title instead, always in Sprint, for the Tuscan Sacchi to whom the name of the Velodromo delle Cascine in Florence was bestowed

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From Cannes to Briançon, July 18, 1949, stage 18 of the 36th Tour de France.

Coppi and Bartali attack (pic here on the Izoard) on Gino Bartali's 35th birthday.

Stage and jersey for Ginettaccio who takes it away from Fiorenzo Magni.

At the end of the stage the GC marks: Bartali first, Coppi second and Magni third.

That Tour de France will be won by Fausto Coppi...

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Giovanni Canova takes a break during the 1927 Tour

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In 1946 Hans Knecht, from Swiss, was the first world champion not from Belgium, France or Italy.

It was the 13th edition of the road cycling world championship, the first after the Second World War.

In its history, Swiss will win two more titles in the road race: in 1951 with Ferdi Kubler and in 1998 with Oskar Camenzind

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André Reuzé writer and journalist, popular French author of numerous mystery and adventure novels, followed the Tour de France for several years by recounting the 1925 Tour in "The Tour of Suffering".

A few years later he published a novel defined as "sporting-polar" set during the Tour du Maroc of 1928.

Here he told the story of Ottavio Bottecchia on the pages of the Miroirs des Sports

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