Could This Finally Be The Year A French Rider Wins The Tour de France?
Published on: Monday 22 July 2019
Since Bernard Hinault won the 1985 Tour de France, the French have been shut out of their home Grand Tour. Riders from Germany, Italy, Spain, the United States, Ireland, Australia, Great Britain, Denmark, and even Luxembourg have all taken home the yellow jersey, while French riders have come up short over and over again. Heartbreak has become the norm for French fans, as they’ve had to watch Laurent Fignon lose by eight seconds on the last day of the 1989 Tour, Thomas Voeckler twice cough up the jersey deep into a run at glory, and this current generation of French stars fall to the unstoppable machinery of Team Sky.
