From june through july they faced one of toughest in the races history. But the frenchman was clear as to who the rising star was. The recent film, le ride, shows what happens when two enthusiasts decided to honour the first englishspeaking team in the tour and duplicate that 1928 event today. One of luxembourgs favourite sporting sons, nicolas frantz, won the race for the.
Frantz could have taken over the farm but had no interest in it. For information on purchasing velopress books, please call 800 8114210, ext. He held the yellow jersey from beginning to end, despite an incident three days before the end of the race. Underresourced, untested and hailing from new zealand and australia, the 4 men were determined to be part of a race that unbeknownst to them, only 41 0f the 168 riders would. Le ride is the new documentary from cycling enthusiast philip keoghan. His work has been featured in cycle sport, cycling weekly, mens fitness, and gq, and he is the author of a race for madmen. After francois faber, frantz was the second luxembourger to win the tour. Browse sporting events, sports stars birthdays and deaths in sport from year 1928 or search by date, day or keyword. The 1928 tour was won by luxembourgish nicolas frantz 4 november 1899 8 november 1985, and it was his second consecutive win. It consisted of 24 stages over 5340 km, ridden at an average speed of 27. In order to make cycling archives more userfriendly, we use cookies. Lance armstrong shelved 8 times as tourdefrance avg rating 3. He led the tour until stage seven when two punctures on the way to bordeaux cost him the yellow jersey to no less than three other rides on the same time in the general classification, frantz, andre leducq and. He had said that the runnerup ottavio bottecchia would go.
He rode for the thomann team in 1923 and then for alcyondunlop from 1924 to 1931. First staged in 1903, the race typically covers around 3,200 kilometres 2,000 mi and lasts three weeks. Established in 1903 by newspaper lauto, the tour is the most wellknown and prestigious of cyclings three grand tours. He won a total of 20 stages and wore the yellow jersey during 37 days 14 days in 1927, 22 in 1928 and 1 in 1929. Nicolas frantz was a luxembourgish bicycle racer with 60 professional racing victories over his 12year career 1923 to 1934. Future tour winner nicolas frantz 1927, 1928 was getting better. Fausto coppi climbing alpe dhuez ahead of jean robic, 1952 tour. Bmc team leader evans, a runnerup in 2007 and 2008, ended a fiveyear spanish reign on the race when he secured the yellow jersey after the 21st and final stage on the champs elysees. Dec 11, 2016 opperman finished in a fine 18th place, 8 12 hours behind winner nicolas frantz. Nicolas frantz overall winner general classification. Tourmen by les woodland book excerpt presented by bikeraceinfo.
Learn about 278 famous, scandalous and important events that happened in 1928 or search by date or keyword. Le ride new movie retracing harry watsons ride in the 1928. The race usually covers approximately 3,500 kilometres 2,200 mi. Frantz had come in second in the previous tour, and went on to win the tour in 1928 as well. In this photo, frantz is leading the charge on the allos, the first of the two mountains of that days stage. In road bicycle racing, a grand tour is one of the three major european professional cycling stage races. Fausto coppi, laurent fignon, nicholas frantz, firmin lambot, andre leducq. Nicolas frantz took the lead in stage 11 after a fabulous ride in the pyrenees. The history, the legend, the riders by graeme fife is a comprehensive tour history from one of britains leading cycling writers. Watson finished in 28th position with osborne in 38th. Chris sidwells is a bestselling author, journalist, photographer, and broadcaster who reports on every aspect of cycling and cycles. The tour was won by nicolas frantz, his second win. Nicolas frantz, on the powerful alcyon team, took the lead on the first day and held it to the end.
At this stage no winner has been named to replace him for those years. No one was remotely in his league in 1927, hence a winning margin that approached 2 hours. The kennett brothers wrote a book about the new zealander on the teamharry watsonthat was read by. The 1928 tour was won by luxembourgish nicolas frantz 4 november 1899 8 november. Many of our articles have direct quotes from sources you can cite, within the wikipedia article. Collectively they are termed the grand tours, and all three races are similar in format being three week races with daily stages. He was close to unbeatable in luxembourg until the start of the first world war. Nicolas frantz was the son of a prosperous farming family. Maen mynd o amgylch y rhan fwyaf o ffrainc, a weithiau, drwy wledydd cyfagos. He led the tour until stage seven when two punctures on the way to bordeaux cost him the yellow jersey to no less than three other rides on the same time in. Nicolas frantz, a local hero, won the race in 1927 and 1928 and finished first in 20 daily stages in seven appearances. The record books show that 11 men have won the tour in consecutive years, with miguel indurain taking five in a row. Phil keoghans le ride sought to recreate the events of 1928.
Luxembourgs nicholas frantz, who had won the previous year, started the race. The 333km stage from nice to grenoble saw the riders climb allos and bayard. Its now being distributed across the uk by demand film this november. The new film called le ride follows new zealand broadcaster phil keoghan who along with his friend ben cornell decided to recreate the 1928 tour route. Le ride new movie retracing harry watsons ride in the. His film, le ride, documents the madcap journey he undertook with his riding partner ben cornell in 20. Opperman finished in a fine 18th place, 8 12 hours behind winner nicolas frantz. The procession helped dewaele recover and he began to ride well on the galibier.
Volume 1 if you enjoy it we hope you will consider purchasing the book, either print or electronic. The winner of the 1928 tour, nicolas frantz, in action. To this day, he is the only cyclist to have worn the yellow jersey from the first stage to the last. None of the touristesroutiers, who had a seperate and later start times in many of the stages, finished the 1928 tour the tours start was moved up to june 17 to. Coventry has said that the book is about trying to write about the war, trying to. From joining the bmc team to crossing the finish line, cadel evans. Maen ras ffordd 22 diwrnod, 20 cymal sydd fel arfer yn cael ei rhedeg dros lwybr o 3000 km. It consisted of 22 stages over 5,476 km, ridden at an average speed of 28. Cadel takes us through the process of recruiting the best riders, the training camps and the practice rides. In 16 of the stages the flat ones were run as team time trials and the touristesroutiers were started after the riders on teams, crushing their chances.
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