Short Stories

Cycling’s Holy Week is the time of Ghent-Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. Today we feature the two riders who won all three in the same year.

More than 50 years after his death in the 1967 Tour de France, Tom Simpson is without doubt still Britain’s best single-day race rider. No British cyclist has a better record in the classics and the men’s elite world road race championships than Simpson.