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Il a d'ailleurs reconnu avoir eu recours à des « stimulants » pendant sa carrière. So I told him to get in some early breaks and pick up some time in the flatter stages, which he did perfectly.

En 1977, il déclare que les contrôles antidopage sont le cancer du cyclisme. Aimar was a bit like Julian Alaphilippe is today.

So many big champions are like that. They were very aggressive and violent and really came after those that didn’t join them. He is the rider that impresses me the most today. But for the moment, he isn’t ready for the high mountains. He was unbeatable.It’s funny though, because I got my revenge the next year when Fausto Coppi asked me to ride for him on the Bianchi team.

Fausto Coppi meurt le Après sa carrière de coureur cycliste, Raphaël Géminiani devient directeur sportif puis consultant. Cycling wasn’t everything to me. But they had one exceptional rider, Luis Herrera—what I climber he was! For me, cycling was a passage in life.Yes, at first Anquetil was against me coming on board, mostly because there had been a lot of leadership tensions back in the 1958 Tour.

They lead an impossible life. Things happened very quickly, but it became clear that they had to leave Italy, and so the family fled to France and settled here in Clermont-Ferrand.This is the home of the Michelin tire factory, which was just huge at the time, and there was plenty of work, so both my mom and my dad went to work for Michelin. But we soon became great friends and worked well together. But I was missing a little something when it came to winning. He says, “Raphaël, I have won every race!” But I always tell him, “No, Eddy, there are some races you never won because you never wanted to do them.” Coppi, you see, did something that Merckx never dared to do. Yes, I preferred to lead my life and from time to time show them that I was better.

Bitossi won the stage but Aimar got the yellow jersey.

He can handle climbs up to 1,500 meters high.

If I had been the leader of the French team there would be all kinds of pressure.

It’s interesting but that’s the way it is for so many of the greats. I learned to detect the different sounds a bike makes and I learned what noise might be dangerous and what others were not. He had already won Paris–Roubaix and was just so talented. My brother was already racing and he got me into it.Yeah, I won’t ever forget that one. He just stayed at the back all day, until the last climb, before dropping everyone, including Poulidor.

Sans connaissance tactique, il déploie beaucoup d'énergie en course et parvient parfois à gagner. There was a lightness to the way he raced.

He was just a gazelle and it was just amazing to see him climb.Well, I am a big fan of Julian Alaphilippe. They finished used up. So we hit the Alps in really good position. They are always worried before a big event, until they are in the action that is, and then they are the masters.Because he was always on the wheels. But my management refused to come up with the money so he signed with Faema. We won the Giro d’Italia and then, in the Tour, Coppi won the stages to L’Alpe d’Huez, Sestriere, the Puy-de-Dôme.

I learned everything about a bike there. And Jacques started coming around. We studied position. They were stunned; but I told them not to worry, the only thing they needed to do was to cover every breakaway and not let anything develop. Can you imagine that today? Behind, there was Kübler, Bartali, Bobet, Coppi, myself, the French national team, the Italians, we were all just riding flat out and at the finish he had a two-minute lead. But I was happy to work with Eddy at the end of his career, even though he was clearly not at his best. We put helium in his tires instead of air. Raphaël Géminiani (Clermont-Ferrand, 12 juni 1925) is een voormalig Frans wielrenner. He won the world championships in Lugano with a five-minute lead. But when he became a Fascist, he put pressure on a lot of Socialists to switch to Fascism. Which is exactly what happened. And that is what happened. Then I went over to Jacques’ house that night.

Why? We studied the wind and weather conditions, everything. At the start of the Tour, our team director said, “Okay, which one of you wants to be the leader? He spent five years riding the wheel of Jacques and the Saint-Raphaël team and five years riding on the wheels of Merckx and his team.Oh yeah! He was a very good climber up until about 1,500 meters [altitude]. But a 2,000-meter is a different climb and it takes time to adapt to that kind of climbing.