Paris-Roubaix recon 6 April, 1960

Cycling royalty Jacques Anquetil tells former rider and journalist Robert Chapatte about his thoughts on the upcoming Queen of the Classics.

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Four days later, the Frenchman would come in with the chase group in eighth place, ahead of Britain’s Tom Simpson. Simpson may have only sneaked into the top 10, but he’d made a name for himself that day as he’d been alone out front for much of the final hour of the race, the first bike race to be televised