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Tour de France winner 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005.
Narrated by Phil Liggett, this sensational program captures one of sports most incredible achievements - Lance Armstrong's seven consecutive Tour de France victories.
Eddy Merckx dominated the sport of cycling for a decade from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s in a way that no one before or since has managed to do.
Using superb archival racing footage as well as exclusive interviews with Eddy Merckx himself and many of the great cyclists who rode with him, including Raymond Poulidor, Lucien van Impe and Bernard Thevenet.
The Tour de France has thrown up many legends over the years, but none more iconic to the French themselves than the legendary pair of Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault.
Gimondi and Pantani The Italians have always been passionate about the sport of cycling. This program looks at four of their greatest athletes and pays tribute to their exploits in the greatest cycle race of them all, the Tour de France. Gino 'The Pious' Bartali, a deeply religious man from Tuscany, famously won two Tour de France titles in 1938 and 1948. This ten year gap between victories remains the largest in the Tour's history.
