Milestones/Steven Sheffield
Articles
Milestones: A Tour de France That Almost Wasn’t
On the evening of Saturday June 28, 1969, a young Belgian cyclist just 24 years of age, dressed in the white and red colors of the Faema squad and wearing dossard51, took his place on the start-line of the 56thTour de France in the...
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Word Art: Le Tour de France
Le Tour de France
Prologue.
The clock ticks.
Visions of heroes.
Le favori porte le numéro cinquante-et-un, comme Merckx en 1969.
Speedsters hiding behind a train,
waiting, waiting, waiting.
Sprint!
Post up,...
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Milestones: 100 Years of the Maillot Jaune
2019 marked a number of milestones for the Tour de France.
It is the 30th anniversary of Greg LeMond’s 58-second defeat of Laurent Fignon in...
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