The Monuments. The Grit and the Glory of Cycling`s Greatest One-day Races

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The Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is cycling`s one-day tests that the professional riders really prize. Toughest, longest and dirtiest of all are the so-called `Monuments`, the five legendary races that are the sport`s equivalent of golf`s majors or the grand slams in tennis. Milan-Sanremo, the Tour of Flanders, Paris­-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Tour of Lombardy date back more than a century, and each of them is an anomaly in modern-day sport, t

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