Road Cycling
- May 5 – May 27: 2012 Giro d'Italia
-
- Ryder Hesjedal won the Giro, becoming the first Canadian to win a Grand Tour.
- June 30 – July 22: 2012 Tour de France
-
- Bradley Wiggins won the Tour, becoming the first British to win a Grand Tour.
- August 18 – September 9: 2012 Vuelta a España
-
- Alberto Contador won the title for the second time after his first success in 2008.
- September 15 – September 23: 2012 UCI Road World Championships in Limburg, Netherlands
Read more about this topic: 2012 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words road and/or cycling:
“Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin’.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.”
—Ouida [Marie Louise De La Ramée] (1839–1908)