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Decision on Vuelta participation to be made in week after Tour, says Gianetti

Advertisement In 1972 Molteni’s team time-trial win took their leader Eddy Merckx into yellow, setting the stage for his fourth straight Tour title Words: Giles Belbin Photography: L’Equipe When race officials at the 1972 Tour de France published the General Classification after Stage 3(b), Eddy Merckx was in yellow with an overall time of 15h 15min 21sec. Nothing strange about that, perhaps, other than the fact his time was now 20 seconds less than it had been at the end of the previous s...