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<p>[QUOTE="Molokai, post: 45629, member: 2441"]Here are two legends of cycling - Eddy Merckx 'The Cannibal' and Fausto Coppi. If there is ever any consensus on such things as 'the best' and such, I suspect Merckx would top many lists. I have a book on Coppi with many photographs. Amazing that he was such a great rider - I've seen birds with bigger legs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Drugs have been around the sport for a long time and there has been drug testing since the 1960s. But generally, I think they were accepted as part of the sport. Jacques Anquetil said something to the effect of <i>"They expect us to do this on water alone?!"</i> Gino Bartali, a contemporary of Coppi's said he always got the hotel room close to Coppi when they raced. As Coppi left the room, Bartali would sneak in and go through the trash can. He said he could tell the type of race Coppi was planning to run on the type of drugs he was doing.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":inpain:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]7960[/ATTACH] </p><p>Eddy Merckx</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]7961[/ATTACH] </p><p>Fausto Coppi[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Molokai, post: 45629, member: 2441"]Here are two legends of cycling - Eddy Merckx 'The Cannibal' and Fausto Coppi. If there is ever any consensus on such things as 'the best' and such, I suspect Merckx would top many lists. I have a book on Coppi with many photographs. Amazing that he was such a great rider - I've seen birds with bigger legs. Drugs have been around the sport for a long time and there has been drug testing since the 1960s. But generally, I think they were accepted as part of the sport. Jacques Anquetil said something to the effect of [I]"They expect us to do this on water alone?!"[/I] Gino Bartali, a contemporary of Coppi's said he always got the hotel room close to Coppi when they raced. As Coppi left the room, Bartali would sneak in and go through the trash can. He said he could tell the type of race Coppi was planning to run on the type of drugs he was doing.:inpain: [ATTACH=full]7960[/ATTACH] Eddy Merckx [ATTACH=full]7961[/ATTACH] Fausto Coppi[/QUOTE]
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