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  1. Actually, you still can’t be fruit as an energy food. Bananas, for instance, are much more effective than gels for quick energy. (Dates are also good.) The only advantages for a gel is that it’s small, you can carry as much as you need, it comes in many flavors, and you don’t have to peel it. Ounce for ounce, though, you’re much better off with a banana.

  2. Awesome, thank you for uploading. Does anyone have any info on any other Louis Malle documentaries in full on youtube?

    Thanks

  3. Well, you are not quite right… At that time, there was no doping control, and even Anquetil said later that he was in excessive use of drugs. Today there is more dope control

  4. Wow, Mafac brakes (a few seconds before the very end)! I remember those from Peugeots in the 1970s!

  5. Who in the right mind would drink coffee or alcohol and still think of winning the race? And eating fruit when now we have pieces of super goo to give more energy in five seconds.

  6. True. Every generation seems to yearn for the days of “yore.” All forms of sport become increasing technical through the years…especially when people begin to realize how drinking a bottle of freaking wine during an endurance race won’t do much to help put you in the lead. Save the liquor for the celebrations and Sunday rides with friends 🙂

  7. doping was as much a reality back then than now… Less spoke about maybe…
    anyone who ever completes the tour de france is an incredible athlete wether it was 50 years ago or yesterday. one of the harder sport there is.

  8. Rik van Looy in the rainbow jersey???

    Lovely little film of the atmosphere sorrounding the TDF of days past!.Thank you very much for the upload

  9. ‘Mostly fruit, rice and carbohydrates’……..and stolen beer and champagne!! Yeahhhhh!!!!!!!

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