Bernard Hinault and Greg LeMond's classic 1986 Tour de France duel relived in ...
Bernard Hinault and Greg LeMond's classic 1986 Tour de France duel relived in Slaying the Badger The Tour de France is almost upon us and the perfect excuse to stock up on a few cycling books to keep you company on the sofa during those long afternoons when occasionally the action dulls a little and there is time for reflection and research ahead of the ritual burn-up in the final half hour.The Franco-American duo definitely take centre stage but the first surprise is that a third figure damn nearly steals the show, and the book, from them. That man is Paul Kochli the enigmatic Swiss directeur sportif at their La Vie Claire team, the godfather of sports scientists everywhere and a man, even then, dedicated to proving that riders could win the ultimate prize clean.
The second big surprise, though, is Hinault. Instinctively he has always been a big favourite of mine, warts and all. The cussed and commanding Breton capable of extraordinary deeds on a bike with his occasional bouts of ruthless megalomania softened by equally random - but less heralded - bouts of generosity and romanticism towards the sport. As a journalist it must have been a joy to write about Hinault in the 1980s. I've bumped into him a couple of times and physically he reminds of Gareth Edwards, another phenomenally gifted and powerful Celt, capable of almost anything, in athletic terms, when the situation demanded. As with Edwards there remains a tangible forcefield of energy and charisma around Hinault to this day.
That was my impression before reading the book and my opinion remains unchanged as I reluctantly closed the last of the 283 pages. Not that Moore doesn't dig around looking for the "real" Hinault - he does manfully in the same way that he famously went In Search of Robert Millar a few years ago - but on this occasion it would appear there is no alter ego to discover. What you see with Hinault is what you get, now and in previous years. The Breton is his own invention, a unique one off. He emerges exactly as I thought he would. I feel like I have known him for years.
And yet running contrary to that was the third surprise the book coughed up, namely that I found myself not quite as sympathetic to LeMond as I imagined I would be. What is there not to like about the fresh faced "new world" Californian who daringly parachuted into the old massively disingenuous and frequently drug-tainted world of European and especially Tour de France racing?
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Hinault is the esteemed team leader, a four time Tour winner at that stage and he had been in the leader's yellow jersey for the preceding six days in 1985. From that moment onwards everybody in La Vie Claire is obligated - morally and possibly even
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