Cycling Within exactly one hundred days is the Tour de France in Brussels. A tribute to Eddy Merckx, who fifty years ago, the first of his five victories in the Tour. ‘The Cannibal’ was this morning for the first time celebrated, with a special Tour de Trance-Thalys in Brussels Zuid.
“Eddy is the greatest racing driver of all time. In the course, but beyond that, he is a great person,” said Tourbaas Christian Prudhomme to VTM. “He stands for the Tour, the yellow jersey and the race.”
“It is a great honor that the Tour in Brussels start”, sounded it again, with Merckx. “I think it’s a big party for the sport of cycling, the city and the cycling fans. It is 1958 since the Tour again in Brussels left.” All day there were festivities. So was the Eddy Merckx-square in Woluwe revealed.