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The city of Visaginas was created from nothing in the 1970s in order to service a powerful Soviet nuclear power station. It was intended to be a window of Soviet progress to the West, but later also represented energy self-sufficiency for Lithuania, when the country declared independence. EU membership, however, means Lithuania has to close the plant, the city’s only industry. Now the town is dyin ...

At the finishing line cycling is reminiscent of the cinema or fashion world, with the full array of shining bicycles, multi-colored sportswear, champagne showers and thousands of people watching the show. However, when one looks deeper, what really matters here, is an endless will, devotion to common goals and team work, the wish to endure an everlasting urge to continue the race even feeling an i ...