Van der Poel’s emotional tears in memory of his grandfather Raymond Poulidor in the 9th stage of the Tour

the dutch Mathieu Van der Poel He was always very close to his grandfather. Raymond Poulidor, former professional cyclist born in Masbaraud-Mérignatbut after marriage she spent most of her life Saint-Leonard-de-Noblata town where the decisive ninth stage of the Tour de Francewith an ending in Puy de Dome Volcano.

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Moments before the day began to roll, the Tour paid an emotional tribute to Poulidor, including Mathieu Van der Poel present, and the Dutch runner could not avoid tears towards his grandfather.

Originally from the neighboring department of Creuse, poulidor sand installed on Saint-Leonard-de-Noblat when getting married Gisele and will remain in this town until his death in November 2019. Performs eight times on the podium of the Tour de France, a record, ‘Poupou’ he attended the only start held at his home in 2004, at a stage he would win at Guéret Robbie McEwen, also being the star of this difficult end of the day. The images of conflict Anquetil-Poulidor in 1964 on the hardest ramp in Puy de Dome still remains in the memory of fans with the longest memory and greatest interest in the glorious moments of ‘Big Boucle’.

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Poulidor is the cyclist who has been on the final podium most often in Tour de France with three second places and five third places, the last of whom was at least 40 years old, and had never worn the yellow jersey, which gave him the fame of ‘eternal second child’. Seven stage victories complete his service record in the ‘Grande Boucle’.

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His daughter Corinne he married his daughter he married the cyclist Adrie van der Poel in whose relationship they were born Mathieu and David van der Poelboth bike professionals and members of Alpecin-Deceuninck. When they were young, they celebrated Christmas in Kapellen (Belgium)where the family was installed, and ‘Poupou’ I would have welcomed him. Summers, on the other hand, played on limousine French. Saint-Leonard-de-Noblat and his environment is very special to Mathieu Van der Poel: his roots.

Mathieu, who is competing in his third consecutive Tour de France and has been the leading figure in three victories of Jasper Phillipsenwas touched by the emotional memory that the Tour de France is with his grandfather and he, he does not want to be less than the organization of the Tour, and decorates his bike in a special way, recreating the great rivalry that we defined before that was with Poulidor. anquetil within Puy de Dome.

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