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Polish woman cyclist wins bronze at Flanders World Championships

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Katarzyna Niewiadoma of Poland won a bronze medal in the Women's Elite Road Race of the UCI Road World Championships 2021 in Leuven, Belgium, on Saturday.

Jazzman livens up statues with his ‘sousaphone’ in 100-km per day charity ride for dogs

Award-winning composer and musician Piotr Wróbel has spent the last month cycling from Warsaw to Gdańsk and searching out ‘taken-for-granted’ statues to pose with his tuba-like instrument and raise money for dogs with cancer or other diseases, or which have been injured in traffic accidents or mistreated by their owners.

Long-forgotten National Geographic article recounts extraordinary tale of US woman who biked across Poland just three months before outbreak of WWII

EXCLUSIVE: TFN reader sends surprise package from the US containing an original June 1939 edition of NatGeo magazine. One article entitled ‘Pedalling through Poland’, details the adventures of photographer Dorothy Hosmer who travels from Kraków, to the Polish Tatra mountains and through territories of present-day Ukraine.

Guinness Record Book farmer to do staggering 100 Ironman Triathlons in 100 days

Ryszard Kałaczyński, who became a local hero in 2015 when he got into the Guinness Book of Records for running 366 marathons in as many days, says he now wants to make his village ‘famous again’ by completing the staggering 100 Ironman Triathlon challenge.

Coronavirus brings about cycling boom in Kraków

New data from Poland’s National Centre for Climate Change shows a significant increase in bike traffic with the first three weeks of September 2020 seeing the share of bike traffic 26 percent higher than during the same period in 2019.

Pedal power: the history of the Tour de Pologne

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

On the road: travel blogger pedals west to east along Poland’s southern border

One of Poland’s most famous travel bloggers has cycled the length of Poland’s mountainous southern border from west to east as part of a gruelling challenge that saw her cycle up to 100 kilometres a day.

Incredible story of journalist who cycled across Africa to document life under colonialism

After five years travelling over 40,000 km across the continent, taking thousands of photographs and recording descriptions of his adventures and the people he met, Kazimierz Nowak left behind an exceptional record of African life in the thirties.

Cycling king proves he really is a CHAMP by offering frontline COVID-19 fighters apartments for free

The first Pole to ever win the UCI Road Race World Championship, Michał Kwiatkowski said he had “no words to thank healthcare workers” and that he was ‘opening the doors’ to his Toruń apartments for them to use.

Cycling through Siberia

A Warsaw-based cyclist has just completed a 400-kilometre journey in four days through the wilds of Siberia despite temperatures as low as -60°C.

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Auschwitz museum launches fascinating photo album to coincide with 75th anniversary

Opened on the initiative of former prisoners on 2 July, 1947, the history of the museum has now been documented in the new album divided into six sections and entitled  '75 years of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial'.

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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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