Professional racing Henry Anglade

1 professional racing

1.1 1959 national championship
1.2 1965 national championship
1.3 general de gaulle
1.4 downhill race
1.5 doping

professional racing

henry anglade turned professional in 1957. in 1959, won dauphiné libéré, mountainous stage race on week; national road championship. came second in tour de suisse , in tour de france, behind federico bahamontes in front of jacques anquetil , roger rivière. in tour, anglade – riding regional centre-midi team – victim of tactics of anquetil, rivière , others in french national team. preferred see bahamontes take tour de france rather anglade, unpopular among french riders and, had won tour de france, have earned more anquetil , rivière in post-tour criteriums important part of riders incomes. bahamontes both spanish , poor rider in round-the-houses races , of little threat. on top of that, anquetil, rivière , many other french stars represented daniel dousset, 1 of 2 agents divided french cycling, whereas anglade represented other, roger piel. why anglade had been left out of national team ride regional one.

at stage finish in grenoble, dousset there meet fausto coppi, bahamontes sponsor, , riders in national team whom represented. Émile besson wrote in l humanité: dousset offered contracts criteriums shovel load after tour of spain. anglade s head, second in paris, had fallen. fans worked out going on , anquetil whistled , jeered entered parc des princes on last day. anglade said: ve got no regrets it. racing that. , anyway make principle live without regrets.

anglade not strongest of riders made lacked tactical sense. eloquent speaker , popular journalists. riders, however, disliked him perceived bossiness , gave him nickname napoleon, referred smallness.

anglade joined pelforth-sauvage-lejeune in 1963 , finished next year s tour de france in fourth place, behind anquetil, raymond poulidor , bahamontes. came fourth in 1965 race, behind felice gimondi, poulidor , gianni motta.

his health disturbed 1966 season , spent last season, 1967, team rider raymond poulidor. rode 10 tours de france , finished last.

1959 national championship

the 1959 national championship used car racing circuit @ monthléry. anglade in leading group 5 laps left. louison bobet leading chase. commissaires had got far clearing following cars out of way chasers regain leaders. anglade dropped of group, had eat, , set off alone when bobet , others on them. others hesitated , chasers eased when 2 groups came together. anglade convinced d won , eased 100m left raise hands in victory.

thought d won, said report, , sat salute crowd. l impudent! had barely crossed line when passed jean forestier , rené privat, had broken away , sprinting second place.

1965 national championship

the pelforth team met night before championship @ hotel near circuit. manager, maurice de muer, said: intending champion of france, raise hand. 4 put hands, including georges groussard , anglade. anglade said: right, s 3 many. 3 fancy jersey, consider adversaries. rest of no particular ambitions, ride me because m going french champion.

another pelforth rider, hubert ferrer, broke away alone 170 km. caught 30 km line. peloton tired chasing , repeated attacks. raymond delisle went away when ferrer caught. anglade caught him, 2 stayed while , anglade went away alone 5 laps go. said:

i knew behind me, jacques anquetil , raymond poulidor neutralising each other, decided keep peloton @ minute. realised had friend in announcer. hear loudspeakers right round course , when said 55 seconds , accelerated. when heard 1m 5s , eased bit recover. worked crossed line minute , 5 seconds ahead of poulidor , anquetil.

general de gaulle

anglade in french national jersey when race stopped unexpectedly @ colombey-les-deux-Églises greet charles de gaulle, president, in village. anglade said:

i had stopped relieve myself. coming through following cars when jacques goddet called me general on course. asked me imagine stopping? , strange question ask me, napoleon, given used fined if put foot down on road. said stop provided there no penalty. went front of race warn leaders, nencini, adriaenssens. in wood of la boisserie [de gaulle s estate] bodyguards alreafy across road, , stopped. general came down slope, greeted me first , nencini, telling him going win, , went , set off again. wondered why had spoken me first , later got answer. general vising lyon , 1 of invited. chef du protocole introduced me , general said 1 not introduce henry anglade . asked him why , said wearing our flag , respect [je vous devais bien ça].

it first time tour had stopped during stage.

downhill race

henry anglade s downhill race gastone nencini has become part of legend of cycling. anglade proud rider , nencini 1 of fastest down hills. reason follow nencini down mountains if have death wish, how raphaël géminiani put it. in trying follow nencini down mountain roger rivière missed bend, crashed on wall , broke spine.

anglade , nencini met @ col in dolomites during giro d italia. weather bad , snowstorm had forced 57 riders abandon day. anglade said:

i couldn t tolerate idea nencini best descender of peloton. said him, call blackboard man, ll descent , whoever comes second pays aperitifs evening. called ardoisier , asked him follow us. road of compressed earth. attacked drop flat out. let nencini take lead see how negotiated bends before attacking him. in end dropped though alone. @ bottom, had taken 32 seconds out of him, written on blackboard. tickled. had beaten nencini. next time saw him evening in hotel staying at. had bought me apéritif!

doping

anglade raced @ time when riders made of income in criterium races, paid start money prizes, followed tour de france. in 1967, in concern doping followed death of tom simpson in tour 4 months earlier, anglade said: ve driven 4,000km in 3 days, ve ridden 400km of race 6 hours in bed. think have done contenting myself drinking lemonade?