Hinault made a solo attack and finished 30 minutes ahead of his next rival. Hinault is widely considered to have been the last boss of the peloton or "le Patron". He successfully led a riders' strike in to protest split stages in the Tour, in which the riders had to ride a stage in the morning and another one in the afternoon.
He also imposed discipline and often cooperation among riders, once decreeing that "there will be no attacks today because tomorrow's stage will be difficult". He was respected for his stance on the side of the riders but was feared by many of them for his temperament. If he felt sllighted by another rider he would not hesitate to use his great strength to humiliate the offender. To his public, Hinault was often seen as arrogant, remote and frustratingly shy of publicity.
He once invited reporters to view a film of a recent victory, only to show them a pornographic film instead and have a laugh at their expense. After retiring from professional cycling in , Hinault returned to farming in his native Brittany and worked for the Tour de France race organisation, often appearing at stage finishes to greet the stage winners and jersey holders.
Hinault also won the season-long Super Prestige Pernod International competition four consecutive times up to , equalling Jacques Anquetil 's total. Categories : births French cyclists Tour de France winners Cyclists. Together with Stablinski entering Hinault into too many races, this led to conflicts between them.
During the spring classics season of , Hinault left the Tour of Flanders before it had even started, not wanting to risk his health in a rain- and cold-affected race on cobbled roads. This drew him a formal warning by Guimard for his conduct. Three weeks later, Hinault won Gent—Wevelgem in a solo effort after an attack 30 km 19 mi from the finish. On the descent, he misjudged a hairpin corner and crashed down the mountainside.
A tree saved him from falling far down, while his bike was lost. Hinault then climbed back onto the road, took a new bike and without showing any hesitation, continued on. Up the finishing climb in Grenoble, he briefly dismounted, still shocked from the near-death experience and pushed his bike for about 20 m 22 yd , before remounting and winning the stage eighty seconds ahead of Van Impe.
During his active career, Hinault was known as the patron of the field, meaning the rider with the highest authority.
In this role, Hinault would use his influence with race organisers, control the pace of the peloton, and allow or refuse other riders the chance to attack. His fellow riders stated that he, even though he did not talk much, was able to exert a high amount of certainty and therefore strength, which brought him respect and sometimes fear from his competitors.
To signal his authority, Hinault often symbolically rode at the front of the field, instead of in the slipstream of his teammates. Hinault described his own role as follows:. At the beginning of , the Gitane team was taken over by its parent company, the state-owned car manufacturer Renault, becoming Renault—Gitane—Campagnolo.
Hinault started the season with second place at Paris—Nice. Trailing Raymond Martin by more than two minutes before the final 22 km 14 mi time trial, he made up his significant deficit and won the event. Bernard Hinault Birthday Countdown 0 0 0. Let's check it out! Please check the article again after few days. Who is Bernard Hinault dating?
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You may read full biography about Bernard Hinault from Wikipedia. Nicolas Batum. Summer Naomi Smart. Celebrities Born in France. Barbara Gourdet Athletics Competitor. Pothin Poma Association Football Player. After Jean-Marie Leblanc took over the role as general director, Hinault was named the Tour's ambassador. Included in his duties was being present during podium ceremonies. During the podium for stage 3 of the Tour de France, a protester jumped on stage and disturbed proceedings.
Hinault leapt forward and shoved him off. He stepped down from the role after the Tour de France. The Historical Dictionary of Cycling describes him as "one of the best riders ever". Comparisons are often drawn with Eddy Merckx, against whom Hinault rode at the beginning of his career.
Hinault was nicknamed le blaireau in French, a term that can be translated into English as either "the shaving brush" or "the badger". According to Fotheringham, the nickname originates from Hinault's early training partners, Maurice Le Guilloux and Georges Talbourdet, who would use the term to tease the young rider. According to Hinault himself, the term in the first place was supposed to mean no more than "mate" or "buddy". However, Hinault later embraced the association with the wild animal.
In , he commented: "A badger is a beautiful thing. When it's hunted it goes into its sett and waits. When it comes out again, it attacks. That's the reason for my nickname. When I'm annoyed I go home, you don't see me for a month.
When I come out again, I win. Hinault never became a directeur sportif, leading a team, after his active career, as did many of his competitors. He was the selector of the French national team from to Hinault took a role as "patron" with the British Team Raleigh squad for the season.
He had, already in , announced that he would retire from cycling on his 32nd birthday, in November He aimed to win, showing a lot of effort in his preparation. However, he finished the race in 59th place. On 19 September, he won his last competitive race, a criterium in Angers, France. Hinault's retirement from professional cycling on 14 November was celebrated in Quessoy with a symbolic race of 3, riders, a concert and fireworks. A total of 15, people attended the event.
Together, they entered the Giro d'Italia. During the race, Hinault was met with hostility from the home crowd, who supported local rider Francesco Moser.
On the stage 12 time trial, Hinault took the pink jersey and opened the decisive gap to Moser, who would eventually finish second.
During the stage however, Hinault was spat at by spectators and almost knocked over, even though his team car rode behind him with the door opened the entire time to ensure that bystanders would have a harder time impeding him. Hinault won his third Giro with a margin of just over a minute. Conflict within the Renault team led to his leaving and joining La Vie Claire. With his new team, he raced the Tour de France, being savaged by Fignon.
He recovered the following year, winning another Giro-Tour double with the help of teammate Greg LeMond. In the Tour de France, he engaged in an intra-team rivalry with LeMond, who won his first of three Tours. Hinault retired shortly thereafter. As of he is the most recent French winner of the Tour de France.
After his cycling career, Hinault turned to farming, while fulfilling enforcement duties for the organisers of the Tour de France until By , the relationship between Hinault and Guimard had deteriorated to a point where the former described their relationship as "war". Hinault forced a choice on the Renault team to either release him or oust Guimard.
The team decided to stick with their directeur sportif, leading Hinault to search for a new team. As part of his connection with Tapie, Hinault also contributed to the development of the clipless pedal, created by Look, another company owned by Tapie. Hinault returned to the Giro in He looked set for victory after the first two weeks, having taken a significant lead after wins in the stage 3 time trial and stage 12 to Campitello Matese.
However, on stage 17 to Boario Terme, Guimard and the Renault team misjudged the toughness of the climb and Hinault lost the lead to Silvano Contini.
He hit back the next day, winning the stage to Montecampione, turning the race in his favour. Hinault never tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs during his professional career and was never implicated in any doping practices. He did, however, lead a riders' protest during a criterium race in Callac in against the sudden introduction of doping controls.
He was handed a one-month suspended ban and fined CHF 1,, though the penalty was never enforced. On stage 4 of the Vuelta, Fignon attacked and won, but Lejarreta, the defending champion, had followed him and gained time on Hinault. Hinault came back and took the lead the following day on the mountain stage to Castellar de n'Hug.
However, a day later, the Spanish teams jointly attacked and Lejarreta moved ahead of Hinault, who was 22 seconds down. At the uphill time trial at Balneario de Panticosa, he suffered and finished more than two minutes behind Lejarreta. Hinault joined forces with Kuiper and Saronni to attack on stage 10 to Soria, affected by crosswinds. He was in trouble again on stage 14, affected by returning pain in his knee; at one point he trailed his rivals by more than five minutes, but regained contact.
In the time trial around Valladolid on stage 15b, Hinault won, now just ten seconds behind Gorospe, the new leader in the general classification. The following day brought the last mountain stage and Renault put pressure on Gorospe from early on. Due to the tightly fought battle between Hinault and his Spanish competitors, the race is described on the Vuelta's website as "one of the most beautiful and spectacular" editions.
As was often the case, Hinault started the season slowly in , withdrawing from Paris—Nice. He then entered Paris—Roubaix, partly to prepare for the cobbled sections in the upcoming Tour de France, and finished fourth. Hinault wanted to abandon, as had many others, including all but one of his teammates. He was convinced to carry on until the feeding station at Bastogne, where the snow had turned into rain. Only 21 riders were left by this point. Hinault removed his rain cape and attacked, catching up to the leaders and carried on by himself, winning with a margin of almost ten minutes ahead of Kuiper.
The victory came at a price, as his right index and middle fingers took weeks to recover from frostbite, and caused him pain for several years. Hinault was however not always successful in his endeavours. During the Tour de France, he sought to remove the rule which excluded riders outside the time limit on each stage. He urged the riders to protest and ride slowly, but some did not follow his example, forcing Hinault to chase them down before he eventually left the race.
His enigmatic exit from the Tour created tensions with the press that would persist during the rest of his active career. By , debates about his personality started to appear more and more in the media. Particular interest was given to an alleged lack of panache during his Tour wins and his behaviour towards fans and officials, whom he treated with open disgust.
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