By John MacLeary Published: 4:00PM GMT 10 Mar 2010
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Bright outlook: Paris-Nice will give European cycling fans their initial glance of the UCI ProTour Photo: REUTERS
Petal power: Andr� Greipel, the HTC-Columbia sprinter, led the Tour Down Under from the opening theatre to the finish in Adelaide as the German won his second pretension in Australia Photo: GETTY IMAGES
Do you feel lucky? Tom Boonen will be anticipating he can have it 3 in a row at Paris-Roubaix Photo: GETTY IMAGES
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Tour Down Under: January 19-242010 winner: Andr Greipel (Ger)Most wins: 2 Stuart O"Grady (Aus); 1999, 2001, Andr Greipel (Ger) 2008, 2010
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Andr Greipel won the 2010 Tour Down Under after the HTC-Columbia competitor led the six-stage foe from the opening day.
Greipel regained the pretension he won in 2008 - but was incompetent to successfully urge last year following a pile-up with a military car - as the German leveled Stuart O"Grady at the tip of the altogether winners" list with dual titles apiece.
The season"s curtain-raiser, once again, welcomed Lance Armstrong who, unsurprisingly, valid renouned with spectators as did Cadel Evans, Australia"s initial highway universe hold up who was equates to to wear the desired rainbow jersey for the initial time.
Team Sky, the initial ever British ProTour team, notwithstanding being but Bradley Wiggins, managed a one-two on the last stage, whilst claiming a lectern finish after Greg Henderson accomplished third fifteen seconds at the behind of Greipel and 6 ahaed of Evans.
Robbie McEwen done an considerable lapse from repairs with a rarely critical fourth-placed finish in the altogether ubiquitous classification.
Watch highlights from this year"s race
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Tour Down Under route
Jan 19, theatre one: Clare-Tanunda 141kmJan 20, theatre two: Gawler-Hahndorf 133kmJan 21, theatre three: Unley-Stirling 133kmJan 22, theatre four: Norwood-Goolwa 150kmJan 23, theatre five: Snapper Point-Willunga 148kmJan 24, theatre six: Adelaide, criterium 90km
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Paris-Nice: Mar 7-14Last year"s winner: Luis León Sánchez (Spa)Most wins: 7 Sean Kelly (Ire); 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987
Paris-Nice, or the Race to the Sun as it is affectionately known, is an eight-day theatre foe from the French collateral to Nice on the Cote d"Azur.
Dominated by Sean Kelly around the 1980s when the renouned Irishman won a jot down 7 unbroken titles, the initial big foe of the deteriorate provides European cycling fans their initial glance of the world"s majority appropriate riders on the open roads, whilst giving the directeur sportifs an denote of the deteriorate ahead.
Watch highlights from this year"s foe
Prologue | theatre one | theatre dual | theatre 3 theatre 4 | theatre five | theatre 6 | theatre 7
Paris-Nice route
March 7, prologue: Montfort l"Amaury, particular time-trial 8km Mar 8, theatre one: Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines-Contres 201.5km Mar 9, theatre two: Contres-Limoges 201kmMarch 10, theatre three: St Yrieix-la-Perche-Aurillac 155kmMarch 11, theatre four: Maurs-Mende 173.5kmMarch 12, theatre five: Pernes-les-Fontaines-Aix-en-Provence 157kmMarch 13, theatre six: Peynie-Tourrettes-sur-Loup 220kmMarch 14, theatre seven: Nice-Nice 119km
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Tirreno-Adriatico: Mar 10-162010 winner: Stefano Garzelli (Ita)Most wins: 6 Roger De Vlaeminck (Bel); 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977
The Race of the Two Seas follows a track from the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the west seashore of Italy, to the Adriatic, off the east, and is raced over 7 days. The Tirreno-Adriatico is deliberate by majority as preferred credentials for Milan-San Remo.
Indeed, Mark Cavendish, the personality of last year"s Milan-San Remo, claimed the foe was instrumental to his initial Classic feat in 2009.
Tirreno-Adriatico route
March 10, theatre one: Livorno-Rosignano Solvay 148kmMarch 11, theatre two: Montecatini Terme-Montecatini Terme 165kmMarch 12, theatre three: San Miniato-Monsummano Terme 159kmMarch 13, theatre four: San Gemini-Chieti 243kmMarch 14, theatre five: Chieti-Colmurano 234kmMarch 15, theatre six: Montecosaro-Macerata 134kmMarch 16, theatre seven: Civitanova Marche-San Benedetto del Tronto 164km
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Milan-San Remo: Mar 20Last year"s winner: Mark Cavendish (GB)Most wins: 7 Eddy Merckx (Bel); 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976
Following his feat at last season"s book Cavendish will be seeking to turn the initial cyclist to urge his pretension given Erik Zabel in 2001 - who is right away in make use of by the Briton"s HTC-Columbia group as an confidant to the sprinters.
Unsurprisingly, the Italians have dominated the foe given the pregnancy in 1907 where they have won 50 of the 100 races.
The late Tom Simpson became the initial British supplement to win the Milan-San Remo when, in 1964, he outwitted France"s Raymond Poulidor on the last Poggio stand prior to claiming his initial Monument of cycling.
Milan-San Remo is one of the longest one-day races in universe cycling, at customarily underneath 300 kilometres.
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Tour of Catalunya: Mar 22-28Last year"s winner: Alejandro Valverde (Spa)Most wins: 7 Mariano Cañardo (Spa); 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1939
The Tour of Catalunya, the third oldest theatre foe in the universe and that celebrates the 90th book in 2010, is a midweek theatre foe that has, unsurprisingly, been dominated by the host riders.
Indeed, Spaniards have claimed 56 titles - together with Mariano Cañardo, who won 7 titles in in between 1928 and 1939 notwithstanding the foe being cancelled for dual years at the tallness of the Spanish Civil War.
Tour of Catalunya route
March 22, theatre one: Lloret de Mar 3.6km particular time-trialMarch 23, theatre two: Salt-Banyoles 183kmMarch 24, theatre three: La Vall d"en Bas-La Seu d"Urgell 186kmMarch 24, theatre four: Oliana-Ascó 209kmMarch 25, theatre five: Ascó-Cabacs 181kmMarch 26, theatre six: El Vendrell-Barcelona 162kmMarch 27, theatre seven: EsportParc-Circuit de Catalunya 117km
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Ghent-Wevelgem: Mar 28Last year"s winner: Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor)Most wins: 3 Robert Van Eenaeme (Bel); 1936, 1937, 1945. Rik Van Looy (Bel); 1956, 1957, 1962. Eddy Merckx (Bel); 1967, 1970, 1973. Mario Cipollini (Ita); 1992, 1993, 2002
As the ProTour heads north for the Ghent-Wevelgem, riders" continuation will be tested by the famously oppressive Belgian breeze and rain. That said, the race, due to the prosaic course, is deliberate a sprinters" classic. Indeed, Mario Cipollini, the charming Italian, won a record-equalling 3 titles to one side Robert Van Eenaeme (Bel), Rik Van Looy (Bel) and the greatest of all, Eddy Merckx (Bel).
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Tour of Flanders: Apr 4Last year"s winner: Stijn Devolder (Bel)Most wins: 3 Achiel Buysse (Bel); 1940, 1941, 1943. Fiorenzo Magni (Ita); 1949, 1950, 1951. Eric Leman (Bel); 1970, 1972, 1973. Johan Museeuw (Bel) 1993, 1995, 1998
Cycling has a convention of the races being combined by journal owners, or editors, as a equates to of augmenting circulation. And the Tour of Flanders was set up by Karel Van Wijnendaele, of Sportwereld behind in 1913.
The foe itself, the second Classic of the five Monuments of cycling, creatively over from Ghent, the "home" of Belgian cycling, though, over the years the track has changed.
However, the foe has not diverted from the countless cobbled climbs, together with the critical Koppenberg.
A difficult float that even Merckx struggled to win. So difficult that customarily dual riders have won unbroken titles.
Simpson, in 1961, claimed his initial vital foe here, maybe interjection to Ghent"s own talismanic Albert Beurick receiving him underneath his wing.
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Tour of the Basque Country: Apr 5-10Last year"s winner: Alberto Contador (Spa)Most wins: 4 Jos Antonio Gonzalez (Spa) 1972, 1975, 1977, 1978
Celebrating the 50th book in 2010, the Tour of the Basque Country is a six-day theatre foe in the alpine segment of northern Spain.
Over the years, due to the terrain, the foe has been dominated by climbers. Alberto Contador, the UCI"s universe No 1 ranked rider, could have it a hat-trick of titles should he elect to float this year"s race.
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Paris-Roubaix: Apr 11Last year"s winner: Tom Boonen (Bel)Most wins: 4 Roger De Vlaeminck (Bel); 1972, 1974, 1975, 1977
Paris-Roubaix is the third one-day Classic of the deteriorate and presumably one of the majority singular races in universe cycling due to the endless sections of pav, or cobblestones, that creates The Hell of the North such a lottery of fitness and bravery.
Despite the title, the foe no longer departs from the French collateral - in 1968 organisers altered the begin line from Paris to the locale of Compiègne, around 60km north.
Unsurprisingly, Paris-Roubaix had been dominated by the Belgians who have won 53 of the 107 editions. France has had twenty-seven victories here.
Tom Boonen, last year"s winner, is out for a hat-trick of wins in the Roubaix Velodrome to next to fellow citizen Roger De Vlaeminick with the majority wins. A personality additionally in 2005, Boonen would move past Merckx, Francesco Moser (Ita) and Johan Museeuw (Bel), who additionally won 3 Paris-Roubaixs during their careers.
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Amstel Gold: Apr 18Last year"s winner: Sergei Ivanov (Rus)Most wins: 5 January Raas (Hol); 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982
Known for the countless short-sharp climbs, together with the twelve per cent Cauberg, that peppers the circuitous, mostly confusing, route, the Amstel Gold is the majority prestigious Dutch highway race.
Though comparatively immature - founded in 1966 - no particular has won a unbroken races given January Raas, the afterwards universe hold up and mixed Classics winner, defended his pretension thirty years ago in 1980.
Lance Armstrong, twice a second-place finisher, is approaching to foe this year.
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La Flèche Wallonne: Apr 21Last year"s winner: Davide Rebellin (Ita)Most wins: 3 Marcel Kint (Bel); 1943, 1944, 1945. Eddy Merckx (Bel); 1967, 1970, 1972. Moreno Argentin (Ita); 1990, 1991, 1994. Davide Rebellin (Ita); 2004, 2007, 2009
Just 3 days after the Amstel Gold, riders will foe La Flèche Wallonne - a midweek one-day foe in the Walloon segment of Belgium.
Raced around a circuit, the Walloon Arrow includes multiform short, but high climbs - a little at roughly fifteen per cent - together with the Mur de Huy where the ardent Belgian cycling fanatics line the narrow, high banked roads, to emanate a wall of beer-fuelled sound where, after 3 laps, the personality will explain the initial piece of a probable Ardennes stand in - La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
Italian Davide Rebellion won his third pretension here last year but is right away dangling from foe after he tested certain for CERA. Marcel Kint (Bel), Merckx and Moreno Argentin (Ita) as next to tip personality with 3 victories each.
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Liège-Bastogne-Liège: Apr 25Last year"s winner: Andy Schleck (Lux)Most wins: 5 Eddy Merckx (Bel); 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975
Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the second one-day foe in the Ardennes segment inside of days, is the fourth Classic of the deteriorate and the oldest of all - La Doyenne - carrying proposed in 1892.
As the name suggests, the foe starts in the locale of Liège in eastern Belgium and heads roughly 100km south prior to returning around a longer track that includes climbs such as Stockeu, Haute-Leve, La Redoute, Saint-Nicolas and the Col de Forges.
Only 6 riders have managed the Ardennes stand in - Ferdinand Kübler (Swi), twice, Stan Ockers (Bel), Merckx, Argentin, Rebellion and Alejandro Valverde (Spa).
Although traditionally dominated by Belgians, locals have not distinguished a home win given 1999 when the late Frank Vandenbroucke triumphed.
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Tour of Romandy: Apr 27-May 2Last year"s winner: Roman Kreuziger (Cze)Most wins: 3 Stepehn Roche (Ire); 1983, 1984, 1987
A six-day theatre foe that proposed customarily dual years after the finish of Second World War, in 1947, as Swiss Cycling, the ruling physique for cycling in Switzerland, distinguished the 50th anniversary.
Staged customarily one week prior to the initial Grand Tour of the season, the Tour of Romandy is preferred credentials for the Giro d"Italia.
Ireland"s Stephen Roche won the pretension 3 times, together with the 1987 book - Roche"s crowning deteriorate when he claimed the Triple Crown of the Tour de France, Giro d"Italia and Road Race World Championship.
Tour of Romandy route
April 27, prologue: PorrentruyApril 28, theatre one: Porrentruy-FleurierApril 29, theatre two: FribourgApril 30, theatre three: MoudonMay 1, theatre four: Vevey-Châtel/Valle d"AbondanceMay 2, theatre five: Sion
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Giro d"Italia: May 8-30Last year"s winner: Denis Menchov (Rus)Most wins: 5 Alfredo Binda (Ita); 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1933. Fausto Coppi (Ita); 1940, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953. Eddy Merckx (Bel); 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974
The initial of the Grand Tours will this year begin with an particular time-trial in Amsterdam as the Giro d"Italia opens outward of Italy for the ninth time given 1909.
Riders will foe in Holland for 3 days prior to travelling south as the Giro resumes on home dirt prior to it follows a counter-clockwise track around the country.
Climbers are approaching browbeat after organisers enclosed a little heartless towering stages in the 93rd edition. The Plan de Corones reaches gradients of up to twenty-four per cent. The penultimate theatre has five climbs, together with the Passo di Gavia that is this year"s Cima Coppi, the tip point of the Giro, declared in honour of the late, good Italian, Fausto Coppi.
The Giro concludes with a time-trial in Verona.
The personality of the foe wears the maglia rosa, or pinkish jersey, the colour of the pages of La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Italian every day sports journal that founded the foe and stays the main unite to the day.
Italian cycling fanatics will be unfortunate to see the jersey lapse to one of the sons - who have won 65 of the past 92 editions - after a two-year mangle that saw Contador and Menchov explain altogether victories. Only Merckx has left close to violation Italian riders" omnipotence on the foe after he equalled, in 1974, the good Alfredo Binda and Coppi who both won five titles each in in between 1925-33 and 1940-53 respectively.
Tour de France route
May 8, theatre one: Amsterdam (Holland), particular time-trial 8.4kmMay 9, theatre two: Amsterdam-Utrecht (Holland) 209kmMay 10, theatre three: Amsterdam-Middelburg (Holland) 209kmMay 12, theatre four: Savigliano-Cuneo, group time-trial 32.5kmMay 13, theatre five: Novara-Novi Ligure 168kmMay 14, theatre six: Fidenza-Carrara 166kmMay 15, theatre seven: Carrara-Montalcino 215kmMay 16, theatre eight: Chianciano Terme-Monte Terminillo 189kmMay 17, theatre nine: Frosinone-Cava de" Tirreni 188kmMay 18, theatre 10: Avellino-Bitonto 220kmMay 19, theatre 11: Lucera-L"Aquila 256kmMay 20, theatre 12: Città Sant"Angelo-Porto Recanati 191kmMay 21, theatre 13: Porto Recanati-Cesenatico 222kmMay 22, theatre 14: Ferrara-Asolo 201kmMay 23, theatre 15: Mestre-Monte Zoncolan 218kmMay 25, theatre 16: S. Vigilio di Marebbe-Plan de Corones, particular time-trial 12.8kmMay 26, theatre 17: Brunico-Pejo Terme 173kmMay 27, theatre 18: Levico Terme-Brescia 151kmMay 28, theatre 19: Brescia-Aprica 195kmMay 29, theatre 20: Bormio-Ponte di Legno 178kmMay 19, theatre 21: Verona, particular time-trial 15.3km
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Critrium du Dauphin Libr: Jun 6-13Last year"s winner: Alejandro Valverde (Spa)Most wins: 3 Nello Lauredi (Fra); 1950, 1951, 1954. Luis Ocaña (Spa); 1970, 1972, 1973. Bernard Hinault (Fra); 1976, 1977, 1981. Charly Mottet (Fra); 1987, 1989, 1992
France"s penultimate ProTour theatre foe of the deteriorate is raced over eight days in the southeastern segment of Dauphin as credentials for the big one 3 weeks after - the Tour de France.
Indeed, all of the tip Tour riders over the years have won the Dauphin Libr during their careers, together with the five riders who have claimed five Tours or more; Jacques Anquetil (Fra), Merckx, Bernard Hinault (Fra), Miguel Indurain (Spa) and Armstrong.
The foe was founded by the proprietors of Dauphin Libr, the internal newspaper. However, in January 2010 it was voiced that they will pass the rights over to Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), the Tour organisers, as they combine on publishing.
Caisse d"Epargne supplement Valverde will turn the initial supplement in the race"s 63-year story to win 3 unbroken titles if he triumphs on Jun 13.
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Tour of Switzerland: Jun 12-20Last year"s winner: Fabian Cancellara (Swi)Most wins: 4 Pasquale Fornara (Ita); 1952, 1954, 1957, 1958
A nine-day theatre foe that, similar to the Critrium du Dauphin Libr, is used by majority riders as credentials for Le Tour.
The foe includes multiform towering stages and, similar to last year"s race, dual particular time-trials. Unsurprisingly the stream pretension hilt is Fabian Cancellara, the Swiss Olympic, universe and inhabitant time-trial champion.
Cancellara, should he elect to foe the 74th book of his inhabitant Tour, will be anticipating to turn the initial supplement to keep the pretension given Andy Hampsten (US) in 1987 and the initial Swiss to win back-to-back editions given the pregnancy in 1933.
Tour of Switzerland track
June 12, theatre one: Lugano, particular time-trial 7.6kmJune 13, theatre two: Ascona-Sierre 179kmJune 14, theatre three: Sierre-Schwarzenburg 196kmJune 15, theatre four: Schwarzenburg-Wettingen 166kmJune 16, theatre five: Wettingen-Frutigen 164kmJune 17, theatre six: Meiringen-La Punt 208kmJune 18, theatre seven: Savognin-Wetzikon 202kmJune 19, theatre eight: Wetzikon-Liestal 179kmJune 20, theatre nine: Liestal, particular time-trial 27km
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Tour de France: Jul 3-25Last year"s winner: Alberto Contador (Spa)Most wins: 7 Lance Armstrong (US); 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
The Tour de France is the world"s greatest highway foe and the second Grand Tour of the season.
Founded in 1903 by Henri Desgrange, editor of L"Auto newspaper, the Tour is the greatest annual sporting eventuality in the world. Indeed, La Grande Boucle has some-more live spectators than even the Olympic Games or Fifa World Cup.
The 97th book of the Tour starts on Jul 3 in Rotterdam with the right away normal voluntary time-trial, as Holland hosts the fifth Grand Dpart.
The 2010 foe will applaud a centenary of racing in the Pyrnes with dual climbs of the critical Col du Tourmalet on stages seventeen and 18. Riders contingency additionally plunge into the Col d"Aspin and the Col d"Aubisque.
"With the jubilee of the initial channel of the Pyrenees, it"s judicious that the Pyrenees will be harder than the Alps on this Tour," Christian Prudhomme, the Tour director, pronounced at the launch in October 2009.
As would be approaching with the Tour travelling so close to the home of the Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Paris-Roubaix open classics on theatre three, riders can design to have to plunge into the pav so usual to the region.
"We don"t put cobblestones for riders to fall, but to have a selection," Prudhomme said. "There will be eleven kilometres of cobblestones in the last thirty kilometres. There will be a little damage."
The group time-trial, a prime fortify of Armstrong"s, the seven-time winner, was forsaken after the thespian lapse to last year"s foe following a 3 year absence.
Organisers have additionally enclosed customarily one particular time-trial, the 51km theatre from Bordeaux to Pauillac, on the penultimate day of racing prior to riders head towards the French collateral to finish the three-week, 3,596km, race.
Tour de France 2010 route
July 3, prologue: Rotterdam, 8km Jul 4, theatre one: Rotterdam-Brussels 224kmJuly 5, theatre two: Brussels-Spa 192kmJuly 6, theatre three: Wanze-Arenberg Porte du Hainaut 207kmJuly 7, theatre four: Cambrai-Reims 150kmJuly 8, theatre five: Epernay-Montargis, 185kmJuly 9, theatre six: Montargis-Gueugnon, 225kmJuly 10, theatre seven: Tournus-Station des Rousses 161kmJuly 11, theatre eight: Station des Rousses-Morzine Avoriaz 189kmJuly 12, rest day: Morzine AvoriazJuly 13, theatre nine: Morzine Avoriaz-St Jean de Maurienne 204kmJuly 14, theatre 10: Chambery-Gap 179kmJuly 15, theatre 11: Sisteron-Bourg les Valence, 180kmJuly 16, theatre 12: Bourg de Peage-Mende, 210kmJuly 17, theatre 13: Rodez-Revel 195kmJuly 18, theatre 14: Revel-Ax 3 Domaines 184kmJuly 19, theatre 15: Pamiers-Bagnes de Luchon 187kmJuly 20, theatre 16: Bagneres de Luchon-Pau 196kmJuly 22, theatre 17: Pau-Col du Tourmalet 174kmJuly 23, theatre 18: Salies de Bearn - Bordeaux 190kmJuly 24, theatre 19: Bordeaux-Pauillac, particular time-trial 51kmJuly 25, theatre 20: Longjumeau-Paris Champs Elysees 105km
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San Sebastián Classic: Jul 31Last year"s winner: Carlos Barredo (Spa)Most wins: 3 Marino Lejarreta (Spa); 1981, 1982, 1987
The San Sebastián Classic, a one-day foe in the alpine Basque segment of Spain, is contested less than a week after the finish of the Tour.
Favoured by climbers due to the terrain, the San Sebastián has been won 10 times by Spaniards given the foe was founded in 1981.
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Tour of Poland: August 1-7Last year"s winner: Alessandro Ballan (Ita)Most wins: 3 Marian Wieckowski (Pol); 1954, 1955, 1956. Dariusz Baranowski (Pol); 1991, 1992, 1993
The Tour of Poland, founded in 1928 by the Przeglad Sportowy newspaper, has been dominated by Polish riders who have won 50 of the 66 editions.
Until 1993 pledge riders were equates to to foe the theatre race, but given going veteran the altogether personality has come from outward the host republic on thirteen occasions.
Last year"s personality was Alessandro Ballan, the former Italian universe highway foe champion.
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Vattenfall Cyclassics: August 15Last year"s winner: Tyler Farrar (US)
The Vattenfall Cyclassics is a one-day foe in and around the city of Hamburg in northern Germany and the second youngest of the European ProTour races.
Founded in 1996, the Vattenfall Cyclassics has nonetheless to capture a widespread force and has had opposite winners in each book of the foe - nonetheless 6 Italians have triumphed.
After fasten the ProTour in 2005 the foe altered the name from HEW Cyclassics after the internal physical phenomenon association that sponsored it was, itself, rebranded.
Tyler Farrar, the twenty-five year-old Garmin-Transitions rider, and US team-mate of David Millar, won last years race.
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Eneco Tour of Benelux: August 17-24Last year"s winner: Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor)Most wins: 2 Iván Gutirrez (Spa)
The Eneco Tour of Benelux is an eight-day theatre foe that travels by the Benelux countries - Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg.
The origins of the foe distortion in Holland though where it was creatively raced as the Tour of Holland prior to it was scrapped and a new foe born.
Last year"s personality was Edvald Boasson Hagen, Team Sky"s twenty-two year-old Norwegian, who won the altogether genarall sequence and the points classification, customarily as he did at the Tour of Britain.
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GP Ouest France: August 22Last year"s winner: Simon Gerrans (Aus)Most wins: 2 Philippe Bono (Fra) 1932, 1933, Eloi Tassin (Fra) 1945, 1948, Jean Gainche (Fra) 1958, 1962, Fernand Picot (Fra) 1961, 1963, Jean Jourden (Fra) 1968, 1969, Jacques Bossis (Fra) 1976, 1977, Gilbert Duclos-Lasalle (Fra) 1981, 1987
The GP Ouest-France, formerly well known as Grand-Prix de Plouay Ouest-France, is a one-day foe nearby the encampment of Plouay in Brittany, north-west France.
While no particular supplement has done the foe his own, the French have obviously dominated the GP Ouest-France.
The foe was proposed in 1931, however, it took until 1979 for the French monoploy to be damaged - Frits Pirard of Holland.
Britain"s Jeremy Hunt, right away roving for Cervelo, claimed the pretension in 2002.
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Vuelta a España: August 28-Sept 19Last year"s winner: Alejandro Valverde (Spa)Most wins: 3 Tony Rominger (Swi); 1992,. 1993, 1994. Roberto Heras (Spa); 2000, 2003, 2004
Spain"s three-week theatre race, the third and last Grand Tour of the season, will begin in Seville with a 16.5-kilometre group time-trial around the streets of the Andalusian capital.
Organisers, however, have motionless to flog off the 75th anniversary of the foe at night - a initial for Spain"s greatest theatre race.
The track itself includes 6 towering tip finishes - together with a lass coming for the Bola del Mundo - which, likewise to Mont Ventoux at last year"s Tour, is approaching to fool around a key piece in the last ubiquitous sequence as it will crop up on the penultimate day.
The Vuelta a España will mangle with convention in 2010 after organisers voiced that the golden jersey ragged by the altogether foe personality will be ditched in foster of a new red version.
Following the race"s change from late open the Vuelta has suffered as majority riders simply make use of it as credentials for the imminent universe championships that are customarily hold a week or so later.
Vuelta a España 2010 route
Aug 28, theatre one: Seville, group time-trial 16.5kmAug 29, theatre two: Alcalá de Guadaíra-Marbella 173kmAug 30, theatre three: Marbella-Málaga 156kmAug 31, theatre four: Málaga-Valdepeñas de January 177kmSep 1, theatre five: Guadix-Lorca 194kmSep 2, theatre six: Caravaca de Cruz-Murcia 144kmSep 3, theatre seven: Murcia-Orihuela 170kmSep 4, theatre eight: Villena-Xorret del Catí 188.8kmSep 5, Stage nine: Calpe-Alcoy 187kmSep 7, theatre 10: Tarragona-Vilanova i la Geltrú 173.7kmSep 8, theatre 11: Vilanova i la Geltrú-Andorra 208kmSep 9, theatre 12: Andorra la Vella-Lleida 175kmSep 10, theatre 13: Rincón de Soto-Burgos 193.7kmSep 11, theatre 14: Burgos-Peña Cabarga 178.8kmSep 12, theatre 15: Solares-Lagos de Covadonga 170kmSep 13, theatre 16: Gijón-Cotobello 179.3kmSep 15, theatre 17: Peñafiel-Peñafiel, particular time-trial 46kmSep 16, theatre 18: Valladolid-Salamanca 153kmSep 17, theatre 19: Piedrahita-Toledo 200kmSep 18, theatre 20: San Martín de Valdeiglesias-Bola del Mundo 168.8kmSep 19, theatre 21: San Sebastián de los Reyes-Madrid 100km
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Quebec Grand Prix: Sept 10Montreal Grand Prix: Sept twelve
Quebec and Montreal will host north America"s initial UCI dependent highway races after universe cycling"s ruling physique deemed the Canadian cities "strategically critical to the development" of the sport.
One-day races will path the dual particular cities over distances of 189km and 206km.
Both Quebec and Montreal have perceived UCI licences for the races until 2013.
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Tour of Lombardy: October 16Last year"s winner: Philippe Gilbert (Bel)Most wins: 5 Fausto Coppi (Ita); 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1954
The Tour of Lombardy, or Race of the Falling Leaves, is the last foe of the ProTour deteriorate and last Monument of a prolonged season.
This year"s Classic around northern Italy will be contested for the 104th time and, unsurprisingly, has been dominated by Italians who have won 68 times given the initial book in 1905.
Henri Pelissier (Fra) and Kelly are the customarily non-Italians to have 3 Tour of Lombardys on their palmarès.
Last year Philippe Gilbert claimed the foe after a unusual end-of-season run with a fourth uninterrupted one-day delight in customarily 10 days.