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If you had a time machine, which year of Tour De France would be your first?

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Old 07-17-19, 08:09 AM
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I'd go back to 1999, taking modern drug testing equipment with me, and nip in the bud the biggest blot to ever tarnish our sport.

While I never saw Merckx live at the TdF, I did see him at his peak, taking the Triple Crown of cycling by beating Poulidor in the final sprint of the 1974 World Championship road race.
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Originally Posted by jeirvine
1903. I'd live to watch some of those epic early stages, then afterwards, bop over to Austria and kill teenage Hitler.
Yep, I'd want to see how it all began, too. Might be fun to go back a little further and see the first Paris-Brest-Paris.

But haven't you read "Wikihistory"?
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