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RE: Met and shook hands with Eddy Merckx at the Long Beach Bike Show back in the 80's...

I was standing at the finish line of the final stage of the 1975 Tour de France, when Bernard Thevenet beat Eddy Merckx, after a French fan leaned over and punched Merckx during a key mountain stage a few days earlier and he dropped from 1st place to 2nd.
Every time Merckx cycled (inches) past me on the circuit course on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, the French fans would shout "Pou-Pou!", a taunting reference to frequent 2nd and 3rd place finisher Raymond Poulidor, who never won the Tour.


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