Sentence examples for monument race from inspiring English sources

The team came to the first monument race of the season, Milan San Remomo, with high ambitions.

Cancellara's pedigree, 2011 successes, and status as defending champion made him a major favorite for the second monument race, the Tour of Flanders.

At the first monument race of the season, Milan San Remomo, BMC was one of only two teams to have more than three riders present in the leading group on the road after a crash on the Le Manie climb 90 km from the finish effectively split the field in two.

Just a few days later in the Milan San Remomo classic monument race, Cancellara broke away from a leading group in the final kilometres to win the race, thus becoming just the second Swiss rider triumphant in this race, after Erich Maechler in 1987.

Defending champion Tom Boonen also crashed out in what is the second of the season's monument races.

The second of the season's monument races is celebrating its 100th anniversary and Thomas believes that he is well suited to the famous race.

The squad was not competitive at the first three monument races in the spring season, coming just 66th in Milan San Remomo, 35th at the Tour of Flanders, and 18th at Paris Roubaix.

Hill's 1961 season stands as a monument to racing victories of the kind, for many reasons, we will not see again.

When the creation of the Aswan High Dam threatened to drown these monuments, archaeologists raced against the clock to saw the temples, stone by stone, and relocate them to safety.

If these have required intervals of time that are antecedent to all historical traditions, and to the duration even of the human race, the monuments concealed in the bosom of the earth can alone reveal them.

Now the camp tries to make sure that each police team includes a piper; they go along to good-neighbor events like wreath-layings at Dutch monuments or bicycle races to raise money for Dutch charities.