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Milestones: Eddy Merckx & the Tour de France that Almost Wasn’t

01 August 201906 January 2020 By Steven Sheffield

On June 28, 1969, a young Belgian cyclist, dressed in the white and red colors of the Faema squad and wearing dossard #51, took his place on the start-line of the 56th Tour de France; his first appearance. He almost didn’t start, however, and who knows what his career would have looked like had he not.

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