Category: International
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Paris-Roubaix takes place this weekend and it finally includes women
Caio Guatelli for Folha de S. Paulo www.folha.com/ciclocosmo Every year, since 1896, the international cycling community drops everything to watch 150 men compete in the most extraordinary of the one-day “classics”, the French Paris-Roubaix. Known as “Hell from the North” – with its 257.7 km of muddy and cobblestone roads – the race awards the fastest cyclist…
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Under Taliban threat, Afghan women cyclists burn their history
Caio Guatelli for Folha de S. Paulo www.folha.com/ciclocosmo With the fundamentalist group Taliban’s return to power 20 years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, women cyclists eliminate their historical records of the sport. Fearing severe punishment of the Islamic religious law Sharia, which includes death by stoning, the cyclists burned photographs, diplomas, trophies and all…
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