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The Tour de France Explained (youtu.be)

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Welcome new fans! Check this out if your confused by all the TDF terms and so on.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

To add, this is my favorite story on that list:

Sean Kelly of Ireland was described in Willy Voet's book 'Massacre à la Chaine': He won the Tour of Lombardy three times (1983, 1985, 1991 (also won amateur version in 1976)) and on at least one occasion he did it with the help of a corticoide injection. Kelly was controlled positive after Paris–Brussels in 1984 and that came as a surprise because he used the urine of a mechanic. But the mechanic was using a banned substance himself because he had to work long hours at night and needed the lift to stay awake."