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La vidi in diretta, sembra ieri, grande Eros ❤

Marco Pantani was my Hero. That Small skinny guy when he decided that was enough,nobody could get him. In 1995 Marco Pantani on the Alpe D'Huez was just Sublime and in 37 minutes and 21 bends after won the race in one of the Greatest Cycling Performances of all time.

Lucho Herrera,Marco Pantani and Alberto Contador are the 3 Greatest mountain climbers in professional cycling.

Great Epo Era!

They are NOT monuments, they are CLASSICS. There were 7 not 5. Milan SanRemo, Ghent Wevelghem, Tour Of Flanders, Paris Roubaix, Liege Bastogne Liege, Tour Of Lombardy, Paris Tours. Roger never won all, Eddy won 6 of the 7, only The Emperor, Rik Van Looy won them all. Actually there were 8 classics, but sadly Bordeaux paris went defunct. Lets get our facts correct shall we!!!!

You have a new no. 1: Tadej Pogačar. There is no contest.

I would argue that Adam Yates is the best climber. If we do a 50k climbing TT, Adam wins it EVERYTIME!

This story about Merckx being hated because he switched languages from Flemish to French are a lot of hogwash. Merckx probably had more Flemish fans than he had "enemies" (not really enemies, just fans of other racers like Van Looy, Van Steenbergen, etc.). There is another, much darker story that plays in this. It has all to do with his place of birth, Meensel-Kiezegem, and what happened there shortly after the liberation of the German occupation, when "accounts were settled" between collaborationists (real ones and alleged ones) and resistance people (real ones and mostly false ones). The Merckx family simply fled this toxic (civil war-like) environment and went to Wemmel which is still Flemish Brabant, but where French prevailed as thge common language.

The name of the person who punched Eddy is Nello Breton, he was a baker in Desertines near Montluçon. Nello was born in 1920 in Pétange, Luxemburg and died in 2007 in Desertines at the age of 86 year. He is said to be distantly related to Bernard Thevenet who won the Tour that year.

I think Vinge is slidely better than pogy on long climbs But pogacar is better all rounded player, he's better in everything else

where is armstrong??? huge fuck up (i dont care arg. on his doping, everyone wAS)

Where is Jan Ullrich?

Oh Dark Side my ass ! They were all doing it.

This is the start of the epocha,mediocre riders Indurain, Bugno and Chiapucci go on the juice and kill Lemond, Fignon and Mottet. Indurain was obviously on the juice in 1990 but riding for Delgado.

This guy always fascinated me after watching “Stars and Watercarriers”. Thanks for posting

legend

Not comparable yet.

Fignon has written something like that " When Hinault had decided to rise his arms, he did it"

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Ya pas à discuter le plus grand champion de tout les temps est Eddy Merckx le roi des rois sans égale pour l éternité 525 victoires sans les victoires sur pistes le roi Eddy ne s'en souvient plus. Vous pouvez baraguiner Ocana hinault et des gars personne ne sera jamai je dit bien jamai sont égale. Eddy Merckx éternel et intemporels pour des siecles.

Ya pas à discuter le plus grand champion de tout les temps est Eddy Merckx le roi des rois sans égale pour l éternité 525 victoires sans les victoires sur pistes le roi Eddy ne s'en souvient plus. Vous pouvez baraguiner Ocana hinault et des gars personne ne sera jamai je dit bien jamai sont égale. Eddy Merckx éternel et intemporels pour des siecles.

Enfoirés de spectateurs jaloux français ! Comment cela peut -il arriver ? Ils ne supporteraient pas qu'un belge (pays 17 fois plus petit que la France) soit un "super champion" ! Depuis ce jour -la je "déteste" et espère une défaite des français imbus d'eux-mêmes dans "tous" les sports ! Ils sont moqueurs concernant les autres pays européens mais ils ont une langue tellement difficile, que 99 % n'arrivent pas à l'écrire sans faire des nombreuses fautes d'orthographe. Après ça, ils peuvent se vanter ! Pays d'hommes de Néandertal !

The thing about Merckx was ability and willingness to do his own work. And oh yeah, he could do it all. I’ve really liked some riders since that era, most notably Indurain and Contador, but haven’t seen another capable of so much. Pogi has many of the same abilities but times have changed and it now requires so much focus and preparation for TDF. Sadly doping means that nothing may be as it seems.

Beating Hinault by 10 minutes and losing to Lemond by a mere 8 aerodynamically-doped (unfair, really) seconds...Fignon is arguably the greatest cyclist that almost was.

Moser and LeMond would be rivals of some of the ones in this ten. Good list though.

Never clean. Before Ferrari, that's the difference.

The Badger...an absolute beast on the bike... Legend

A cyclist on juice to the bones..

I'm sorry, but the music you put in the first couple minutes completely ruined your video for me. Not only is it pretty stereotypical and racist-ish, but it's also completely out of context: that was your typical southern Italian popular music you'd hear when the patron saint is celebrated, there's zero sense in putting it on a video about sports, or would you use some Western Movie music whenever you make about Lance Armstrong, just because he's Texan? And that's not even taking into account the fact Bartali was from Tuscany, not Southern Italy, so the music you put in your video sounded more like a Western music played in a movie scene set in New York City. Would you find that appropriate?

The Badger...an absolute beast on a bike...they won't make any more like him...not even come close... awesome!!!

You argue that Merckx's mistake was to trust Freddy Maertens too much. Freddy Maertens argues that Merckx's mistake was to not trust him enough. ^^

Of the riders mentioned in this video, Heras was clearly the best climber. Although Bassos level in 2006 was almost the highest peak of any of the riders mentioned in the video.

Eddy merckx was great raider

I think merckx winning would change cycling

This is my favourite stage ever. I must say I'm biased, because I've been a fan of the team since the early Rabobank years in the '90's, but this stage was epic. Even this long summary (nice video!) misses so many great moments, like the Van Aert taxi service. This is the only stage I'm rewatching in it's full like once a year.

It was a clenched fist but it did not affect the outcome...Merckx was tired anyway....The pronunciation is also poor....Yellow Garment 😂

My Favourite all time ⏲️ climber 😅

If DV ride all big 3 this year. She might win all 3 tour plus Olympic and World later before she move to UAE.

hahaha what are you talking about merckx the enemy, first off all he speaks Flemisch like a native there are many dialects in Belgium, secondo they loved them for Maertens and De Vlaeminck he is the greatest. And that he grow up in Brussels but was born in Kiezel meenegem was never a issue, you don't now anything about koers.

Mind you: what this man says at the start of this video is absolutely not how it's been translated in the subs. What he actually shouts out towards Roger De Vlaeminck are these words freely translated in English (and don't bother to argue: I'm from Belgium (West-Flanders) myself so I do kinda know the lingo 😛): "Roger De Vlaeminck gets the Tour de Flandres on a plate,! You coward! You insolent!" Other than that: you're talking complete "bull" about everybody in Flanders automatically being 'against Merckx'. I live in Flanders and lots of folks that I know (amongst my own late dad) were huge fans of Merckx. Eddy was just at the end of his career but wanted to show himself one more time. Deep inside he knew he wouldn't stand a chance against De Vlaeminck or Maertens. Certainly Maertens was at his peak in 76 and 77. Roger De Vlaeminck afterwards refused to pay the dues for the deal he had set op with Freddy to get him to win the race. There's a museum in Oudenaarde fully dedicated to the Tour De Flandres where there's a line of bricks at the window, each of them has the winner of each year carved in it. On the brick of 1977 it says: "Freddy Maertens, moral winner".

The commentary is smooth, but all wrong. You got most of the facts wrong. You describe Freddy Maertens as a tall flemish rider. He is not tall, he is actually quite short, and many other things you quote are wrong.

Do better than putting a race report in a language you don’t speak into Google translate and reading out the “English” as if you were doing a proper voice over.

Hey, how do you find stage profiles for old races I see you have it for some of your videos

How is there no lance armstring

dope video

You forgot to mention that he identified the guy that punched him and he was arrested.

LeMond the greatest.

That course is insane lol

15 juillet 1975, 17ème étape du Tour de France ( Valloire/ Morzine Avoriaz), je me souviens avoir été avec mes parents au bord de la route dans la montagne, victoire de Lopez-Carril, et passage de mon idole Eddy Merckx! Nous sommes ensuite allés à son hôtel lui offrir des fleurs! Quels souvenirs!!