Cycling Legends 03: Jacques Anquetil

Foreword by Sir Paul Smith - legendary fashion designer and lifelong cycling fanatic. Jacques Anquetil is one of the all-time greats. The first five-time Tour de France winner, the first to repeat Fausto Coppi’s Giro d’Italia-Tour double, the ultimate time triallist – a great champion but a mystery as a man. Anquetil was never what he seemed, Cycling Legends 03 Jacques Anquetil lifts the lid on the man as well as the sporting icon that was Jacques Anquetil. Using first-hand accounts from many who knew him best, we reveal the truth about the man who made his own rules. Uncompromising yet fragile, brave yet needy, logical but superstitious, Jacques Anquetil was complicated. The personification of 1960s style and culture, his friends were film and music stars, but he was a country boy who loved to be alone in nature. Maître Jacques, as he was called, is a puzzle solved by reading Cycling Legends 03 Jacques Anquetil.