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Wearing the maillot jaune, Eddy Merckx leads Joop Zoetemelk as the duo chase Lucien Van Impe and Bernard Thévenet during Stage 14 of the 1975 Tour de France. Van Impe took the stage victory that day by a margin of 15 seconds over Thévenet.
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Number One
The number on his bike tells it all: Eddy Merckx is #1. In this photo, Eddy looks excellent in the maillot jaune of the race leader and awaits a stage start at the 1974 Tour de France.
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Eddy Merckx and Gianni Motta before the departure of Stage 8, which finished at the top of the famed dormant volcano of Puy de Dôme.
Tour de France, 1971
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Cigar Break!
Cyrille Guimard enjoys a cigar as he leisurely pedals along during Stage 13 of the 1970 Tour de France. He did not seem too concerned at the time that he was about to face five climbs that day on his 195km ride to Gap!
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Three Big Guns at the 1969 Tour de France:
Eddy Merckx, Felice Gimondi, and Raymond Poulidor
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Jan Janssen, riding with the #1 bib as the previous winner of the Tour in 1968, is encouraged by his director and former racer Raphaël Géminiani on a climb at the 1969 Tour.
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Poulidor Ascends the Tourmalet…..
Raymond Poulidor is out of the saddle as he climbs the Tourmalet during Stage 12 of the 1968 Tour de France.
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Roger Pingeon, who would win the Tour two years later in 1967, and reigning World Champion Jan Janssen suffer on one of the many climbs of the 1965 Tour de France.
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Rim Cement? Who Needs That?
Spain's Ángel Ibáñez gets flicked from his bike after his front tubular rolls off the rim during Stage 11 of the 1967 Tour.
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Felice Gimondi
1967 Tour de France
Stage 20, Limoges - Puy de Dome
It was a scorching day on the mountain, but Gimondi won this 222 km mountain stage to the Puy de Dôme. When the race finished in Paris, Gimondi was in 7th place overall.
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Nice image of Robic, Winner of the 1947 Tour, climbing at the 1953 Tour de France. Nicknamed "Leatherhead," Robic was one of the early users of wearing a helmet while racing on the road.
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Holland's Jan Nolten toils through the barren expanse of the Casse Déserte during Stage 18 of the 1953 Tour de France. The 165km stage from Gap to Briançon included Vars, and the Izoard and Louison Bobet blew the field apart.
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Bahamontes at the side of a dirt road as the mechanics attend to his bike at the 1954 Tour de France. He was a talented climber who, in addition to winning the Tour in '59, also won the King of the Mountains at the Tour six times.
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Fausto Coppi rides to victory on Stage 20 (Gap-Briancon) at the 1951 Tour de France.
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As is tradition, defending Tour de France champion Gino Bartali had the honor of wearing bib #1 at the 1950 Tour. This captivating image captures Bartali pulling his bike from the crowd after a crash with the help of an anxious teammate.
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Louison Bobet is pictured here in 1947, the year he rode his first Tour de France. Bobet went on to be the first rider to win the Tour de France three years in a row. He won the race in 1953, 1954 & 1955.
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Gino Bartali celebrates victory at the 1938 Tour de France.
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Rain does NOT cancel ride.
Paul Egli and Maurice Archambaud hammer off the front on the way to the finish line in Lille, where Egli edged out Archambaud for the stage win.
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1934 Tour de France, Stage 14
A friendly local winemaker fills Raymond Louviot’s bottles with a sample of his wares on Stage 14 of the 1934 Tour de France.
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Ascending the Tourmalet
Stage 9 of the 1931 Tour was the first day in the mountains, and it was a brute: 231km from Pau to Luchon with two very significant climbs: Aubisque and Tourmalet.
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Bonduel battered and his elbow bloodied from a crash as he begins a roadside repair on Stage 14 of the 1932 Tour de France. This setback did not end his Tour. By the end of the race, he had finished a very respectable 6th place overall.
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Andre Leducq (#38) and France's Georges Berton (#114) cruise along during a relatively quiet moment. Ultimately, Leducq stamped his mark on the race to become the winner of the 1930 Tour de France.
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The peloton begins the second major climb of the day as it ascends the Col de Port on Stage 10 of the 1930 Tour de France.
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Unthinkable by today's standards, racing on dirt roads was more the norm than the exception before WWII. In this photo, the peloton grinds through an arduous 330km day in the saddle on Stage 12 from Marseille to Nice at the 1928 Tour de France.
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Belgium's Maurice De Waele hammers along during Stage 23 (Charleville-Dunkerque, 270 km) of the 1927 Tour de France on his Labor Truss Bridge frame.
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Race Director Henri Desgrange looks from the back of his car toward Albert Jordens and Leon Despontin as the riders come off the Galibier at Stage 17 of the 1927 Tour de France.
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Lucian Buysse (Bel) and Gustaaf van Slembrouck lead the peloton over a summit during Stage 6 of the 1926 Tour de France. Buysse won the Tour, with second place going to Nicolas Frantz of Luxembourg.
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Lucien Buysse grins ear to ear as he rides before 50,000 cheering spectators to celebrate his victory at the 1926 Tour de France. The longest Tour in history, 5,745 km with 17 stages averaging 338 km, was finally over.
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