My favourite story about Jacques Anquetil is not that he was dead keen about space and truly starstruck by Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin. It's the one about how a fortune teller predicted his death.
On the 5th July 1964, the Tour de France had reached its final rest day in the mountains of Andorra. Georges Groussard was in the Malliot Jaune but Anquetil was in control of the race.
Already a four-time Tour winner and with two more time-trials still to race, nothing was getting in the way of Maitre Jacques and that fifth yellow jersey.
Except, Monsieur Chrono happened to be deeply superstitious, as were most in the 1950s and 60s, and a daily French newspaper called France-Soir had printed a story about a fortune teller called Marcel Belline predicting Anquetil would die around the 13th day of the race.
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Belline, by the way, was famous for allegedly predicting Marilyn Monroe's death, the Suez crisis and the invention of a polio vaccination.
Anquetil's wife Janine did her best to hide the papers from her husband but he eventually found out and freaked out.
Next thing you know, he is locked in his room refusing to move. Janine and team manager Raphael Geminiani were scratching their heads wondering what to do. How do they make him leave his room?
Well Anquetil, being the bon vivant he was, eventually left his room under the promise of a large lamb barbecue meal and plenty of wine at a party hosted by Radio Andorra down the road.
He turned up the next day for the 186km stage from Andorra to Toulouse but was still sweating about his predicted death and, most likely, from the red wine he'd drunk the night before.
Dropped on the first climb of the day claiming indigestion, Geminiani handed Jacques a bottle of blanc de blanc champagne to sort the heartburn. Soon enough he was back up at the head of affairs.
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A week later, Anquetil rode into Paris to become the first rider to ever win five Tour de France yellow jerseys, still alive despite Belline's predictions.
With a story like that, who wouldn't want to ride a bike with Anquetil's face on it?
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