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| ruben |
Posted on 22-09-2008 19:02
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Anquetil drank lost of alcohol before the race, then they let him go because they were afraid his drunk riding would cause a fall. But meanwhile, Anquetil would sober up during the race, and win with minutes advantage because the rest couldn't develop such a pace. Then everyone was suprised and pissed after the race  |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 22-09-2008 19:07
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That legend comes from a stage where supposedly Anquetil (being supersticious) didn't care about racing and truly believe the psychic that had told him he would crash during that stage and stopped midway until being forced to continue.
Then someone spread the rumour he had stopped to dring champagne. Then more stories got made up after that.
Many of them made it to our days, like that one, and the one where he said to poulidor shortly before dying "Looks like you'll be second to finish after me once again old friend".
None of them are true though.
What's almost never told and IS true is this:
He had an affair with a doctor's wife that had enough sordid details for another book. The wife, Jeanine, divorced the doctor and married Anquetil. After retiring Anquetil started to dream of having a child, a gift Jeanine could not give him. Anquetil, always the thinker and master strategist came up with a solution. Jeanine had an adult daughter fathered by the doctor. Anquetil suggested that he bed Jeanine's daughter, Annie, so that he could have a child. The two women agreed, Annie having beforehand thought Anquetil a fine bit of manhood. A daughter, Sophie, was born.
Annie and Jeanine began to fight over Jacques and eventually Annie moved out. Then Jeanine invited her son and his wife, Dominique, to move in to the Anquetil mansion. Anquetil then seduced Dominique and a son Christopher was produced. Jeanine divorced Anquetil while Dominique remained.
Poulidor and Anquetil, bitter enemies during Anquetil's professional life, became friends after Anquetil retired.
Anquetil's daughter Sophie was the lever that caused the reconciliation. Of all the riders in the world, Sophie chose Poulidor to be her hero.
Poulidor was in a hotel room and was surprised to have Anquetil visit him. To Anquetil's substantial irritation Sophie wanted some sort of souvenir of Poulidor's.
Being a devoted father, Anquetil asked Poulidor for a couple of his cycling caps. "You're still pissing me off," Anquetil told him.
Edited by issoisso on 22-09-2008 19:08
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Posted on 22-09-2008 19:13
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Merckx
Armstrong
Kelly
Also loved Vinokourov..
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Posted on 22-09-2008 19:15
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issoisso wrote:
That legend comes from a stage where supposedly Anquetil (being supersticious) didn't care about racing and truly believe the psychic that had told him he would crash during that stage and stopped midway until being forced to continue.
Then someone spread the rumour he had stopped to dring champagne. Then more stories got made up after that.
Many of them made it to our days, like that one, and the one where he said to poulidor shortly before dying "Looks like you'll be second to finish after me once again old friend".
None of them are true though.
What's almost never told and IS true is this:
He had an affair with a doctor's wife that had enough sordid details for another book. The wife, Jeanine, divorced the doctor and married Anquetil. After retiring Anquetil started to dream of having a child, a gift Jeanine could not give him. Anquetil, always the thinker and master strategist came up with a solution. Jeanine had an adult daughter fathered by the doctor. Anquetil suggested that he bed Jeanine's daughter, Annie, so that he could have a child. The two women agreed, Annie having beforehand thought Anquetil a fine bit of manhood. A daughter, Sophie, was born.
Annie and Jeanine began to fight over Jacques and eventually Annie moved out. Then Jeanine invited her son and his wife, Dominique, to move in to the Anquetil mansion. Anquetil then seduced Dominique and a son Christopher was produced. Jeanine divorced Anquetil while Dominique remained.
Poulidor and Anquetil, bitter enemies during Anquetil's professional life, became friends after Anquetil retired.
Anquetil's daughter Sophie was the lever that caused the reconciliation. Of all the riders in the world, Sophie chose Poulidor to be her hero.
Poulidor was in a hotel room and was surprised to have Anquetil visit him. To Anquetil's substantial irritation Sophie wanted some sort of souvenir of Poulidor's.
Being a devoted father, Anquetil asked Poulidor for a couple of his cycling caps. "You're still pissing me off," Anquetil told him.
Those last couple of paragraphs are really cute. |
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Posted on 22-09-2008 19:18
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Also the so called "Anquetil coctail" should have been very used in the 60s. The resipe is something like this: Morfin or similar in the morning to take the worst pain. Then amphetamin, to make you stay awake, and take pain during the stage, and again at night we take some sleeping pills to actually be able to sleep.
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Posted on 22-09-2008 19:31
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In a historic perspective, Gino Bartali is definitely my all-time favourite. A number of reasons have their say in that but mainly it's because of his career and his great impact on Italy in the time before, during and after the War. The last reason being me as an anti-Coppista. Also, my second favourite would be Bahamontes. I've always liked Spanish climbers and the 'mystery' surrounding Bahamontes just makes the myth better and me a bigger fan. Also, Jesus Loroño is one of my other favourites although he was the biggest rival to Bahamontes.
Btw. there's a lot (more than 300) of great old time videos of Tour-mountain-stages here: https://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/in...20montagne
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Posted on 22-09-2008 19:35
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I like Bahamontes the best
but it's between merckx or coppi for the best
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Posted on 22-09-2008 19:36
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I think wackojackohighcliffe is the best ever |
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Posted on 22-09-2008 19:57
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I stake my claim
Victory in the youth handicap races at the Barnsfield Circuits are good enough for me
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Posted on 22-09-2008 19:58
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Posted on 22-09-2008 21:04
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Really, in order to have this discussion we must define what exactly it is we're looking for.
Because if this is simply "most talented cyclist ever",then a few more names should go in there, like Jean-François Bernard, Freddy Maertens and Hugo Koblet
Edited by issoisso on 22-09-2008 21:05
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Posted on 22-09-2008 21:40
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Most talented cyclist ever..then Franck Vandenbroucke should be nominated  and Jempy Monsere, who died tragically at young age after becomping world champion? |
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Posted on 22-09-2008 21:54
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Or Mads Kaggestad whose playboy-life meant that he never won the Tour his huge talent would justify.
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Posted on 22-09-2008 21:55
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...... CAVENDISH .......
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Posted on 22-09-2008 21:59
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SportingNonsense wrote:
...... CAVENDISH .......
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Posted on 23-09-2008 01:19
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Definitely Eddy Merckx for best ever. Now, Cavendish is shaping up to be a formidable sprinter. Armstrong was pretty good(and i guess is, now that he's signed up for 2009 - maybe -), but he barley competed in any races than the tour de france. Ullrich crushed everyone else, but armstong crushed ullrich.
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Posted on 23-09-2008 01:22
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hinault wrote:
Definitely Eddy Merckx for best ever. Now, Cavendish is shaping up to be a formidable sprinter. Armstrong was pretty good(and i guess is, now that he's signed up for 2009 - maybe -), but he barley competed in any races than the tour de france. Ullrich crushed everyone else, but armstong crushed ullrich.
Coming from the guy that has Hinault as his name
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Posted on 23-09-2008 07:46
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Lots of incests and weird stories about Anquetil...
His son Christopher is a total retard, my uncle's girlfriend is a French language teacher in Normandy and had him as his pupil. A true idiot he is. |
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Posted on 23-09-2008 18:20
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wackojackohighcliffe wrote:
I stake my claim
Victory in the youth handicap races at the Barnsfield Circuits are good enough for me
Barnsfield eh? That means you must live near me 
I can't stand Barnsfield- the only time ive raced there was this summer- in the pouring rain  |
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 23-09-2008 18:22
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you live where?
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