Tour de France 2024: two legends of the Grande Boucle soon to be signed near Orléans

One is a five-time winner of the Tour de France, the other has won it twice.

Monday July 8, 2024on the eve of the 10^e stage of the Grande Boucle starting from Orléans (Loiret), where they can also be seen represented on flags hoisted in the city, these two cycling monsters will be brought together at the cultural space of the Leclerc store in Olivet.

Seven coronations between them

We are talking about Bernard Hinaultyellow jersey in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1985 and Bernard Thévenetcrowned in 1975 and 1977.

The first, last French winner of the Tourwill come to sign Bernard Hinault, 1975-1986. Based on in-depth documentary research (the book presents numerous unpublished documents and photographs), Jean Cléder reconstructs, between fiction and reality, the action, style and personality that make Bernard Hinault a legendary character.

The second will come to present Bernard Thévenet, life journeyan interview book in which he answers questions from Albine Novarino-Pothier and André Corban about his childhood and his career.

“The reader is invited to follow him from his youth in Saint-Julien-de-Civry in Charolais, with his family, on the family farm, to his most brilliant cycling exploits,” summarizes the publisher Mareuil.

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