Vive le Tour

[palinurus]

Never seen Louis Malle's film, thought I'd see if it was on YouTube. It is too.

Two parts of about 10 minutes each.

Vive Le Tour- Part 1

 

[Dave5N]

Never seen Louis Malle's film, thought I'd see if it was on YouTube. It is too.

Two parts of about 10 minutes each.

Vive Le Tour- Part 1

Good find. Cheers

 

[rich p]

Brilliant. Great film making and a chilling precursor to Simpson's death in Part 2. Who was the Ignis rider and what became of him?

 

[Noodley]

Brilliant. Great film making and a chilling precursor to Simpson's death in Part 2. Who was the Ignis rider and what became of him?

Gastone Nencini

edit - I only know this as I saw the clip a few months ago and did a bit of reading about the 1962 tour. I found a few good web pages and one of them had a bit about the doping in 1962 Tour. I'll go and see if I can find it....

edit part deux - that was simples! Bottom of the page...and he also gets a mention for transfusion (legal at the time!) in 1960, the year he won the Tour.
http://wapedia.mobi/en/List_of_doping_cases_in_cycling

 

[rich p]

Cheers, he looked in a bad way when he toppled off. That fish must have been really off.

 

[raindog]

Superb - thanks for that.