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Bernard Hinault (pronounced [bɛʁ.naʁ i.no]; born 14 November 1954) is a French former professional road cyclist. With 147 professional victories, including five times the Tour de France, he is often named among the greatest cyclists of all time. In his career, Hinault entered a total of thirteen Grand Tours.
Nov 14, 2011 · Instead they’ll tell you that it’s a man who celebrates his 57th birthday today; a man who dominated cycling in the late 1970s and early 1980s; a man who remains the last Frenchman to win the Tour...
Bernard Hinault [bɛʁnaʁ ino], né le 14 novembre 1954 à Yffiniac, au lieu-dit Le Fraîche ( Côtes-d’Armor) 1, est un coureur cycliste français, professionnel de 1975 à 1986. Surnommé le Blaireau, il a dominé le sport cycliste international entre 1978 et 1986, remportant 216 victoires dont 144 hors critériums.
Bernard Hinault (born 1954-11-14 in Yffiniac) is a former professional road racing cyclist from France, active between 1972 and 1986. His best results are 5 wins in GC Tour de France and 28 stage wins in Tour de France.
May 14, 2024 · Bernard Hinault has weighed in on one of the most exciting riders in pro cycling right now, Tadej Pogačar. Bernard Hinault is a big fan of the Slovenian’s dominance in the Giro d’Italia,...
Aug 25, 2020 · A long-time ambassador to the Tour de France, Hinault is now retired and living quietly on his farm in Brittany. And while he hasn’t raced a bike in decades, he has lost little of...
Bernard Hinault is arguably the second greatest cyclist of all time behind non-pareil Eddy Merckx. His palmares is a roll call of cycling’s great races. 5 times winner of Le Tour de France, 3 times winner of Giro d’Italia, 2 times winner of La Vuelta, 3 times winner of the Dauphiné Libéré, World Champion, winner of Paris-Roubaix, ...
Jun 29, 2021 · For Bernard Hinault, it was ‘The Punch’. It happened on March 12 1984 during stage five of Paris-Nice between Miramas and La Seyne-sur-Mer through France’s south-central region of Provence. On the tricky descent of the Col de l’Espigoulier, Hinault rode like a demon to get rid of race leader Robert Millar, helping to draw away 20-plus ...
Jul 13, 2013 · French five-time Tour winner Bernard Hinault was at the height of his career in the early 1980s when the first American professionals—riders like Jonathan Boyer and Greg LeMond —made their...
Apr 24, 2020 · “Already it was zero [degrees celsius] at the start in Liège and then almost as soon as we left town it started snowing and it snowed almost all the way to Bastogne,” Bernard Hinault recently recalled in an interview with VeloNews.
