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1987 was the year that Irish legend Stephen Roche joined Eddy Merckx to become only the second person to win the Tour de France, Giro d?Italia and the World Road Race Championship in the same season.

Twenty-one years on from this great feat, Roche looks back on an illustrious career and discusses what he might have done differently and how members of his cycling family may fare in the pro peloton.

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