Brian Robinson (cyclist)
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Brian Robinson was an English road bicycle racer of the 1950s and early 1960s. He was the first Briton to finish the Tour de France and the first to win a Tour stage. He won the 1961 Critérium du Daup
Robinson at the 1960 Tour de France
Louison Bobet
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Louis "Louison" Bobet was a French professional road racing cyclist. He was the first great French rider of the post-war period and the first rider to win the Tour de France in three successive years,
Brian Robinson (cyclist)
…the race winner, but managed to recover from eleventh to eighth. In 1957 he scored his first professional win, in the GP de la Ville de Nice, beating Louison Bobet by 50 seconds. Then he finished third in Milan–San Remo to Spain's Miguel Poblet, whose 29th birthday it was. Robinson crashed on wet cobbles early in…
Bobet at the 1951 Tour de France
Bobet at the 1954 Tour de France
Road named for the cycling great