PRA LOUP, France — Fifty years ago Sunday, on a steep and winding two-lane road below this then-obscure ski village in the Southern Alps — I can see it from terrace of our house in the Ubaye Valley ...
A wind of change swept across the 1975 Tour de France. When the organizers introduced several innovations, they had no idea how lasting they would be. But time has proven them right. Three of those ...
Mark Cavendish breaks Tour de France record for most stage wins, passes Eddy Merckx for 35th victory
Manx cyclist Mark Cavendish made history at the Tour De France with his 35th stage victory, breaking a 34-win record held by Eddy Merckx, who set it from 1969-1975. Cavendish pulled away in the fifth ...
Mark Cavendish won stage 13 of this year’s Tour de France to equal Eddy Merckx’s record of 34 stage wins. Here, the PA news agency assesses how Cavendish compares to to the great Belgian. Merckx’s ...
In 1975, the great Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx lost the Tour de France after being punched by a spectator during a mountain stage. The incident marked the start of the decline of a rider so dominant ...
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