Samuel Abt
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Associate Editor, International Herald Tribune, Neuilly, France. Author of In Pursuit of the Yellow Jersey: Bicycle Racing in the Year of the Tortured Tour and others.
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Eddy Merckx is a Belgian champion bicycle racer, arguably the greatest professional rider ever. In a professional career stretching from 1965 to 1978, he recorded 445 victories in 1,585 races. During his peak years (1969–75), he won some 35 percent of the races he entered. Because the focus of the…
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