The Tour de France traditionally accompanies the start of summer with its exploits, its champions, its dramas, its scandals and its tears. The Covid-19 pandemic forced the organizers to postpone the Grande Boucle, which should leave Nice on August 29. While waiting for the Tour, "Le Figaro" revisits some of the epic days of July and some of its key players.
Objective moon. Eddy Merckx set foot on the Tour for the first time with fury in his stomach. Downgraded for a positive doping control of a Tour of Italy that he was about to conquer (following on from a splendid start to the season marked by successes at Paris-Nice, Milan-San Remo, the Tour of Flanders and Liège-Bastogne-Liège), the Belgian only owed his discovery of the Tour to a resumption of suspension torn from the benefit of the doubt.
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Tried by the episode (" the world was falling apart "), the young Belgian dashes after hesitating to commit. Worn by Belgium, which is impatient. He hangs
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