Tour de France: who will win?

As the Grande Boucle began yesterday, let’s meet the cycling champions that the song loved more than the others.

And who will win? If you are over a certain age, it does something to hear the name Eddy Merckx pronounced, as here by the Belgian group Sttellla.

Every year, it’s the same: the Tour de France starts and the experts are asked who will win, to rejoice at the end, if the prediction was right. Because cycling is a sport that likes uncertainty on principle, but whose fans like fate to crown the best – and being the best in cycling is not circumstantial, it’s existential. Check with Laurent Jalabert, celebrated by Monsieur Martino and by Les Wampas.

In the second episode of These songs that make the news, broadcast this weekend, you hear excerpts from:

Sttellla, Eddie Merckx1998

Mr Martino, My Jalabert1997

The Wampas, Jalabert1998

Mr. Martino, My Jalabert1997

Gérard Courtois, Come on Hinault1980

Alexander and his orchestra (vocals Adrien Lamy), Well done Tonin1936

Ludwig Von 88, Louison Bobet for ever1987

Jean-Louis Murat, The Spanish Champion2011

Dick Annegarn, Augustin1990

Fred Chicken, Walking Indurain1996

André Verchuren, Long live Poulidor!1972

Kent, Sixty million Poulidors1996

Mr. Martino, My Jalabert1997

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