Roubaix
5 results

Bradley Wiggins stirs pot with warning of leadership battle in Team Sky
- Other Sports
- July 16, 2018, 23:00
The Tour de France arrived at the foot of the Alps after the long transfer from Roubaix yet continued dishing the dirt, on and off the road. As Chris (...)

Dan Martin ready for the relentless, brutal Tour de France
- Gaelic Games
- July 7, 2018, 04:00
A map of the 2018 Tour de France is placed in front of Dan Martin, and he begins to run his finger over it, slowly at first, then more steadily. Fro(...)

Michael Goolaerts' death puts sports tragedies in perspective
- Other Sports
- April 13, 2018, 20:10
What a week for sporting tragedy. Five months after La Gazzetta dello Sport proclaimed the end of the world when Italy failed to qualify for the World(...)

Paris-Roubaix maintains its reputation for sustained brutality as cyclist dies
- Other Sports
- April 9, 2018, 21:26
The death of young Belgian Michael Goolaerts following a crash in Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix reminds us of the price that can be paid for our pleasure. Fi(...)

Ian O’Riordan: The Paris-Roubaix race is ‘hell’ on wheels
- Sport
- April 7, 2018, 10:00
Most of us have no idea of what it would mean to win on Sunday. That sense of history and hype in perfect rhyme, of keeping your head when all about y(...)