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Pedal power: the history of the Tour de Pologne

On the road. Competitors jostle for position in the Tour de Pologne. Grzegorz Momot/PAP

TFN takes a pictorial look back at Poland’s most famous cycling race.

Cycling legend who was three times world champ struggling to pay costs after horror crash leaves him paralysed

Having undergone a series of operations, Ryszard Szurkowski is bed bound and undergoing intensive physiotherapy. Szurkowski became a legendary name in Polish sport in the early 1970s, winning three world championship gold medals, two Olympic silvers and coming first in The Peace Race, Central Europe’s equivalent of the Tour de France, in 1970, 71, 73 and 75.

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Cold cases of priests ‘murdered’ by communist secret police to be reopened

According to IPN president Dr Karol Nawrocki, chief among the renewed investigations are three opposition priests who died in suspicious circumstances in 1989.

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Four tonnes of Nazi gold found in buried 18th century palace canister, say WWII treasure hunters

Measuring between 1.3 to 1.5 metres long and 50cm in depth, the cylindrical metal canister was found in the conservatory of an 18th century palace used by Hitler’s SS as a brothel.

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