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Chanteloup-les-Vignes: "Here, Zoetemelk beat Hinault by four minutes" ... the world of cycling celebrates the Multiplied, 108 years after the creation of the race

2021-12-04T13:03:42.150Z


A stele was unveiled this Saturday in front of the town hall to remind that the cycling race was created in the town of Yvelines in 1913. L


A terrible bump towards the Hautil plateau for a circuit of 10 kms. These are the characteristics of the Multiplied, a mythical cycling event contested in Ile-de-France and disappeared from the calendar since 2009. Luis Ocana, Lucien Aimar, Joop Zoetemelk, Marc Madiot or Thomas Voeckler, last winner in 2009 (under the name Trophy of the Climbers), many champions have included it in their rich palmares. “Here, Zoetemelk beat Hinault who had yet four minutes in advance, remembers Maurice Ridet, the former co-organizer. Hinault, with the French champion's jersey on his back, got stuck in the bump and finished at ... four minutes. »One of the finest duels on the Hautil coast in 1979.

Chanteloup-les-Vignes (Yvelines), May 15, 1967. Raymond Poulidor (center, back) will finish third in the La Polymultipliée cycle race.

This Saturday morning, Chanteloup-les-Vignes (Yvelines) celebrated "posthumously" this mythical event by unveiling a stele in front of the church where the start was given.

"The" Poly "was a benchmark as are today Paris-Roubaix or Paris-Nice, specifies the mayor (DVD) Catherine Arenou.

The event was an important part of our local history.

Named Polymultiplied until 1970, the race was created in 1913 in Chanteloup-les-Vignes by Louis Roudaire, founder of the bimonthly review

Le Cyclotouriste

.

The person concerned also worked within the Audax Club Parisien and collaborated with the newspaper

L'Auto

.

During the first edition, on April 6, the French Fusier won on a Peugeot bike whose derailleur bore a name that would become famous in his sport: Armstrong.

Only 16 runners cross the finish line ...

The first derailleur tested here

“The first derailleurs were tested on the Poly and, in this area, we bypassed the English,” smiles Maurice Ridet, who has lived in Chanteloup-les Vignes for half a century.

In the 1930s, Gaston Rivière dropped all the pros because they were the only ones to be equipped with them.

He was nevertheless an amateur and was 68 years old .... "

Maurice Ridet presided over the fate of the Polymultiplied for a long time.

Relocated in the Val d'Oise for 9,150 euros ...

President of local basketball for 35 years, the leader has always fought to keep the "Poly" alive.

Relocated to Yonne before returning to Yvelines, it will finally be moved to the heights of the towns of Argenteuil and Sannois (Val d'Oise) until 2009. The last winner at the top of the Hautil side is the French Henri Abadie in 1989. “In 1990, we were missing 60,000 francs

(Editor's note: 9,150 euros)

with Josette Leulliot and it is for this reason that she left for the Val d'Oise, remembers Maurice. Ridet.

Do we have any chance of relaunching it one day at Chanteloup?

I don't think so, it's too expensive and too complicated ... ", concludes the person concerned pessimistically.

Source: leparis

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