Milestones/Steven Sheffield

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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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