Paris-Nice - 40 years since Stephen Roche raced to the sun
https://www.rte.ie/sport/cycling/2021/0306/1201328-paris-nice-40-years-since-roche-raced-to-the-sun/?fbclid=IwAR3VTRqJAxXLvmOzv90D7KZGzx67xPhlgFWKtuaIHFtMlxf_h0mmMMQ7ynY By Brian Canty RTÉ Sport journalist - Saturday, 6 Mar 2021 A Google search for " Stephen Roche cyclist" will spit out a quarter of a million results in half a second - but not one of them will take you directly to the year 1981. Some are good, some are not so good. Some are about cycling, some are debt and allegations of doping. Some are about his historic 1987 Triple Crown victory where he won the Tour de France, Giro d Ítalia and World Championhip in the same year. None are about 1981. So let's go there for a change. "Ah jaysus, could you not just say it was a long time ago," comes the riposte when we not-so-subtly inform the Dubliner it has been 40 years since he became the first Irishman to win the Race To The Sun, or Paris-Nice as it is more commonly known. He might have won it four mor...