Ever since Tour de France began to roll in 1903, with the victory of the French Maurice Garin, its history is full of great champions, unique achievements, unlikely moments and epic situations, each more impressive or emotional. Summarizing the most glorious mother moments of all cycling races is something that is really impossible, so from here on out World of sports We decided to remind you of ten unique moments that have occurred throughout the history of ‘Big Loop’ and every great cycling, athletic and curious should know.
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As in these cases, we know that we have many stories left to explain, many, many. We all have in our heads our favorite edition, our favorite champion and our epic episodes. The ones we’ll remind you of below aren’t better or worse than the others, but we consider that their knowledge has contributed to revealing more about the career itself, to enlarging it, and to warming it up. the machines for starting races. 102nd edition of the Tour de Franceon July 1 at Copenhagen, Denmark).
The selected moments are as follows:
-1918. The birth of the yellow jersey
-1950. The ‘drunkenness’ of Algerian Abdel Kader Zaaf
-1951. Van Est’s downfall, from nearly losing his life to becoming a publicity claim
-1954. The day Bahamontes ate ice cream throughout the stage
-1967. Tom Simpson, the cyclist who died climbing Mont Ventoux
-1970. Eddy Merckx’s climb to Mont Ventoux where he had to be hospitalized
-1989. Perico Delgado, the most famous mistake
-2003. The Beloki crash and Lance Armstrong’s cross country
-2016. Chris Froome’s foot race
-2012. The day Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tours
Source: La Verdad
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