Archive for July, 2007

His defence was attack… It was all so simple

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Part 2 of the interview in Cycling with Eddy Merckx, following his 1969 Tour de France win.

With Vinokourov’s “A” sample testing positive for blood doping today, I should point out that Merckx was plagued with doping allegations in 1969, having withdrawn from the Giro d’Italia earlier in the year after strong accusations of drug use.

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“I wanted that yellow jersey for Woluwe”

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

I’m one of the few bike bloggers that hasn’t posted anything about the TdF yet. Well, I’m been busy, and I’m not actually that interested in it. However, I do like historical TdFs, and so this is the first of a 3 part series of interviews with Eddy Merckx after he one the 1969 Tour.


Please don’t eat me, Mr. Cannibal

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