Happy Birthday Big Mig. - 16.07.1964 TdF Winner – 1991, ’92, ’93, ’94, ’95 Giro d’Italia Winner – 1992, ’93 World Time Trial Champion – 1995 Hour Record Holder – 1994 Olympic Gold Medallist – Time Trial – 1996 A monster of a man compared to most Grand Tour winners, Miguel ‘Big Mig’ Indurain won five Tours on the bounce, hardly pausing for a breather whilst also collecting 2 Giro d’Italia’s, an Hour Record and an Olympic gold medal ... Read More
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Happy Birthday – Greg Lemond
Happy Birthday Greg – 26.06.1962 TdF Winner – 1986, ’89, ’90 World Champion 1983, ’89 One of the most popular Tour winners of all time, Greg Lemond’s epic battles with his team mate Bernard Hinault and then with the life-threatening injuries he suffered in a freak shooting incident to come back for his second and third Tour wins are truly the stuff of legend. Boyishly enthusiastic, good-looking and yet determined to bring ... Read More
Happy Birthday – Eddy Merckx
Happy Birthday ‘Cannibal’ TdF Winner – 1969, ’70, ‘ 71, ’72, ’74 Giro d’Italia Winner – 1968, ’70, ‘ 72, ’73, ’74 Vuelta a Espana Winner – 1973 World Champion – 1967, ’71, ’74 Paris-Roubaix Winner – 1968, ’70, ’73 Milan-San Remo Winner – 1966, ’67, ’69, ’71, ’72, ’75, ’76 Winner at Tour of Flanders, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Flèche Wallone, Giro di Lombardia World Hour Record 1972 A uncompromising winning machine, Eddy Merckx bestrides professional cycling as an unassailable colossus. His palmares is without compare, his dedication to victory without parallel. Quite simply The Greatest of All ... Read More
Happy Birthday – Chris Froome
Happy Birthday Chris Froome TdF Winner – 2013 The shortest palmares so far in the birthday series but I don’t think we will be saying that in a few years time. Froome’s rise from the obscurity of racing in Kenya is a worthy backstory to what could be the biggest marquee in the pro ranks over the next decade. A relentlessly driven, relentlessly polite man, ... Read More
Happy Birthday – Bradley Wiggins
Happy Birthday Wiggo TdF Winner – 2012 Quadruple Olympic Gold Medallist Six time track World Champion Wiggins’ transition from Olympic track star to TdF winner, and his perceived gentlemanly attitude to racing, won him many French fans in 2012. Back in the UK he was loved for his unconventional podium speeches, his Mod style and for finally winning the Tour for Britain at the 99th edition. A supreme ... Read More
Bonne Anniversaire – Louison Bobet
Happy Birthday Zonzon World Champion – 1954 Tour de France Winner - 1953, ’54, ’55 Paris-Roubaix – 1956 Milan-San Remo – 1951 Ronde van Vlaanderen- 1955 Giro de Lombardia – 1951 France’s first post-war cycling hero, the elder and more successful of the two Bobet brothers was also the first rider to win the Tour de France three times in succession. His memory will be eternally wedded to the ‘Casse Desert’ section of the Col d’ ... Read More
Bonne Anniversaire – Henri Desgrange
Henri Desgrange – 31.01.1865 – 16.08.1940 Hour Record – 1893 Editor L’Auto newspaper - 1900 – 1940 Creator of Le Tour de France – 1903 Desgrange is rightly seen as the father of the Tour. Latching onto an idea of one of his correspondents – Geo. Lefevre – to help boost circulation, he set his newspaper firmly behind the creation of what quickly became Le Grand Boucle. Famously harsh on the riders of the ... Read More
Bonne Anniversaire – Jacques Anquetil
Jacques Anquetil – 08.01.1934 – 18.11.1987 TdF Winner - 1957, ’61, ’62, ’63, ’64 Giro D’Italia Winner – 1960, ’62 Vuelta A Espana – 1963 L-B-L – 1966; Ghent-Wevelgem – 1964 The Hour Record – 1956 The first 5-time winner of the Tour de France, and first winner of all three Grand Tours, Monsieur Chrono was famous (and often maligned) for his reliance on his time-trialling ability to win. He was widely decried as being boring in his professional career. The opposite could be ... Read More
Bonne Anniversaire – Stephen Roche
Happy Birthday Triple Crown Winner Stephen Roche World Champion – 1987 TdF Winner - 1987 Giro D’Italia Winner – 1987 Roche climbed to the very summit of the cycling world when he capped off his Annus Mirabilis with the World Championship win. ... Read More
Bonne Anniversaire – Bernard Hinault
Happy Birthday Blaireau World Champion – 1980 TdF Winner - 1978, ’79, ’81, ’82, ’85 Giro D’Italia Winner – 1980, ’82, ’85 L-B-L – 1977, ’80; Lombardia – 1979, ’84 Sporting crash-blackened eyes and baring his teeth in that familiar set-jawed snarl, The Badger takes on all-comers and ends up on top again in ’85 ... Read More
Buen Compleanno – Fausto Coppi
Happy Birthday Fausto Coppi “Il Campionissimo” 1919 – 1960 Giro Winner – 1940, 47, 49, 52, 53; Tour de France Winner – 1949, 52; World Champion 1953 ... Read More
Bonne Anniversaire – Robert Millar
Happy Birthday Robert Millar TdF King of the Mountains 1984 ... Read More