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Subtitled, "LeMond, Hinault & The Greatest Ever Tour De France". An examination of the 1986 Tour, in which a show-stopping rivalry between American Greg LeMond, and Frenchman Bernard Hinault, known as 'The Badger', had audiences gripped.
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The Tour de France is renowned for its chaos and drama. But no other Tour has quite compared to what played out in 1986. That year witnessed a show-stopping rivalry that had spectators across the world agog. Greg LeMond , a fresh-faced and mercurial youngster, dubbed 'L'Americain', was a naive Tour newbie.
