In 1965, when Poulidor was perceived to have received more credit for dropping Anquetil the previous year on the Puy-de-Dôme than Anquetil had for winning the whole Tour, Géminiani persuaded him to ride the Dauphiné Libéré and, next day, Bordeaux–Paris.
Je n'accepte pas les ordres qui vont à l'encontre de mes opinions ou de ma volonté« C'est le plus formidable rouleur que j'aie jamais vu. Je le fis comme une flèche, sans un regard, pour abréger la choseUn coureur amateur et indépendant prometteur (1952-1953)« Il s'était mis en tête que la victoire devait revenir à Rouer.
The rational side of his character contrasted with his superstition. There followed one of the most sensational things I have ever seen in any form of cycle racing during my 35 years' association with the sport — something which I consider as great a physical performance as a world hour record or a classic road race win.
He had the strength of conviction.Anquetil took the yellow jersey after the second half-stage (time trial) of the first day, Darrigade having won the first half-stage.In 1966 Anquetil prevented Poulidor from winning the Tour by putting his team-mate Lucien Aimar in a position to win.Anquetil was the dominant time-triallist of his periodL'Équipe said Anquetil's farewell race was in Charleroi. He could not face riding it the following year, and in 1966 he retired from the Tour with bad health – once he'd made sure that Poulidor could not win either.The Tour de France has the major fault of dividing the country, right down to the smallest hamlet, even families, into two rival camps. He left after 26 days following a disagreement with his boss over time off for training.
[...] Poulidor est la figure du "paysan résigné", qui ne se fait pas d'illusion [...]. Jacques Anquetil (pronounced [ʒak ɑ̃k.til]; 8 January 1934 – 18 November 1987) was a French road racing cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964..
His smooth power dictated his entire approach to the sport. He said that Jacques was one of the most gifted riders of all time but this was hardly reflected by his record. He was seventeen at the time.Anquetil stated before the 1961 Tour that he would gain the yellow jersey on day one and wear it all through the tour, a tall order with two previous winners in the field Charly Gaul and Federico Bahamontes but he did it. The nearer the summit came, the more Jacques was suffering.
Voor Janine werd het te veel en zij vertrok van Anquetil. Dr Marena refused and, after waiting a couple of hours at the track, left town to go home to Florence. His record was later beaten by Eddy Merckx who won it seven consecutive times starting from 1969.In 1967, 11 years later, Anquetil again broke the hour record, with 47.493 km, but the record was disallowed because he refused to take the newly introduced post-race doping test. I've got 13 in hand'.In my opinion Poulidor was demoralised by Anquetil's resistance, his mental strength.
The hard life that his father had experienced could never pardon the economy of effort with which Jacques was obsessed.
I think of the organisers of the Tour, who shortened the time trialAnquetil was named France's champion of champions by Anquetil was fascinated by astronomy and was delighted to meet Jean-Paul Brouchon, leading cycling commentator at the news radio station France-Info, said of the day the forecast was supposed to come true:
Anquetil, Merckx og Hinault vandt dog alle i deres første forsøg.
Par la suite, il ne remontera sur un vélo qu'en de rares occasions, comme le jour du huitième anniversaire de sa fille Sophie qui rêvait de voir son père juché sur ce qui fut son cheval de bataille. Cycling reported:Wonderful Jacques Anquetil has broken the world hour record as he said he would… and then ran into official trouble when he refused to take a trackside dope test demanded by the Italian authorities. Although his advisers claim that his error in maintaining steady pressure rather than attacking was the result of using slightly too big a gear, which stopped his jumping away, I still think that it was in his head that Pou-Pou should have changed gears.