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Cooke’s Red-Hot Roubaix Ride Ends With One Foot
April 11th, 2011| Features, Road | No Comments
Written by: Justin Davis ROUBAIX, France, April 11, 2011 – Australia’s Baden Cooke was left disappointed but buoyed over his future hopes after an incident-packed ride on the grueling Paris-Roubaix [...]
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