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In the end, it's not always the strongest who wins . Certainly not in cycling, and most definitely not in Paris-Roubaix. On the roads of the Hell of the North, the "strongest" can just as easily win in the legendary velodrome as get bogged down in the Trouée d'Arenberg. Year after year, the cobblestone crushers crash in the Mons-en-Pévèle sector or collapse in the Carrefour de l’Arbre - and one cannot underestimate the traps of the asphalt either. On these unique roads, an aspirant for glory needs to be strong, but also brave and lucky. Paris-Roubaix smiles on the bold, even those who have been out there the longest. In a race where chaos is always the order of the day, early attackers create unsuspected openings. Conquerors of the Hell of the North, they tell us about their heavenly day on the cobbles. Mathew Hayman : “I won in the year when I had the least chance” Is the early breakaway to Roubaix an Australian specialty? Riders from Down Under waited until the turn...

2011: Johan Vansummeren (III/V) In the end, it's not always the strongest who wins. Certainly not in cycling, and most definitely not in Paris-Roubaix. On the roads of the Hell of the North, the "strongest" can just as easily win in the legendary velodrome as get bogged down in the Trouée d'Arenberg. Year after year, the cobblestone crushers crash in the Mons-en-Pévèle sector or collapse in the Carrefour de l’Arbre - and one cannot underestimate the traps of the asphalt either. On these unique roads, an aspirant for glory needs to be strong, but also brave and lucky. Paris-Roubaix smiles on the bold, even those who have been out there the longest. In a race where chaos is always the order of the day, early attackers create unsuspected openings. Conquerors of the Hell of the North, they tell us about their heavenly day on the cobbles. Johan Vansummeren : "At Roubaix, I knew I had a chance" 4 + 3 + 2 = 9. From 2005 to 2013, nine editions of Paris-Roubaix were ...

o'grady (stuart) © PRESSE SPORTS March 27 th 2024 - 17:13 In the end, it's not always the strongest who wins. Certainly not in cycling, and most definitely not in Paris-Roubaix. On the roads of the Hell of the North, the "strongest" can just as easily win in the legendary velodrome as get bogged down in the Trouée d'Arenberg. Year after year, the cobblestone crushers crash in the Mons-en-Pévèle sector or collapse in the Carrefour de l’Arbre - and one cannot underestimate the traps of the asphalt either. On these unique roads, an aspirant for glory needs to be strong, but also brave and lucky. Paris-Roubaix smiles on the bold, even those who have been out there the longest. In a race where chaos is always the order of the day, early attackers create unsuspected openings. Conquerors of the Hell of the North, they tell us about their heavenly day on the cobbles. O’Grady: “It was like having an out-of-body experience" Stuart O’Grady knew everything about how to p...

1988 : Dirk Demol (I/V) In the end, it's not always the strongest who wins. Certainly not in cycling, and most definitely not in Paris-Roubaix. On the roads of the Hell of the North, the "strongest" can just as easily win in the legendary velodrome as get bogged down in the Trouée d'Arenberg. Year after year, the cobblestone crushers crash in the Mons-en-Pévèle sector or collapse in the Carrefour de l’Arbre - and one cannot underestimate the traps of the asphalt either. On these unique roads, an aspirant for glory needs to be strong, but also brave and lucky. Paris-Roubaix smiles on the bold, even those who have been out there the longest. In a race where chaos is always the order of the day, early attackers create unsuspected openings. Conquerors of the Hell of the North, they tell us about their heavenly day on the cobbles. Dirk Demol : “When De Vlaeminck told me we were gonna stay away…” Numbers hardly break down the brutality and magnificence of Paris-Roubaix. 12...

Her life raising 9 children was told in 1989 film January 15, 2010 | By Trevor Jensen, TRIBUNE REPORTER Mary Thomas' schooling ended with the third grade, but she always reminded her nine children that she had something she called the "mother wit." Whatever that was, it proved equal to the task of raising seven boys and two girls on Chicago's West Side. Mrs. Thomas was determined her children would get the education that escaped her in the segregated South. She worked at a Catholic Church so they could attend the parish school, and she rode herd over their daily assignments. "I realize now, she looked at our homework, and she probably didn't even understand it," said her daughter Ruby Carlsen. The mother of NBA Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas, Mrs. Thomas' story was told in a 1989 made-for-TV movie starring Alfre Woodard. By then, she had left the poorer section of the city behind. But she never forgot where she'd been, and every Thanksgiving and Chri...

Isaiah Thomas speaks during the funeral for the late Aretha Franklin  at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit on Friday, August 31, 2018. RYAN GARZA, DETROIT FREE PRESS https://eu.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/aretha-franklin/2018/08/31/isiah-thomas-aretha-franklin-funeral/1162149002/ MARYANN STRUMAN | Detroit Free Press For NBA great and former Detroit Piston Isiah Thomas, Aretha Franklin was like a surrogate mom. He was introduced to her by his own mom, Mary Thomas, in 1981 when he first joined the Pistons at age 20, Thomas said Friday, recalling his relationship with the Queen of Soul at her homegoing service at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit. His mother and Franklin "somehow connected through music." "In the 60s and 70s, my mom would sit in the windowsill humming the words, I say a little prayer for you," Thomas recalled. "My father had just lost his job, so the music, I say a little prayer for you, meant a lot to us in the household. "Aretha foun...

Top - DJ Burns, 23 anni, 29 punti per North Carolina State   I sorprendenti Wolfpack alle Final Four dopo 41 anni. Sabato sfidano Purdue 2 Apr 2024 - La Gazzetta dello Sport  di Andrea Buongiovanni © RIPRODUZIONE RISERVATA Albuquerque 1983: al termine della finale Ncaa mancano 5 secondi. North Carolina State e Houston sono sul 52-52. Derek Whittenburg, miglior realizzatore dei sorprendenti Wolfpack, scocca un tiro da oltre 9 metri. Corto, cortissimo. Ma sotto canestro c’è Lorenzo Charles : arpiona il pallone, schiaccia, rimanda al mittente i favoritissimi "Phi Slama Jama" di Hakeem Olajuwon e Clyde Drexler e regala il titolo ai suoi. L’azione è nella storia del basket college, come la successiva folle corsa celebrativa di coach Jim Valvano da un lato all’altro del campo. Roba da fare di Carletto Mazzone un dilettante. Il leggendario allenatore sarebbe morto dieci stagioni più tardi, a 47 anni, per un tumore. Charles, poi anche a Desio e a Cantù, alla stessa maledetta età, nel...