Tour de France 2025: Bernard Hinault, a beautiful memory and forty years of famine
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Greg LeMond (left) and Bernard Hinault (right), on the Tour de France, on the climb of Alpe d'Huez, in 1986. Patrick GUYOT / BEP/LE DAUPHINE LIBERE
The Tour de France begins Saturday, July 5th in Lille, for an all-French edition. The last Frenchman to win the Tour in 1985, Bernard Hinault left a major void by retiring a year later, a void that no Frenchman has managed to fill in four decades. This year again, the French are holding out few illusions, perhaps hoping for a brighter future.
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