List of teams and cyclists in the 1975 Tour de France information
List of cyclists
There were 14 teams participating in the 1975 Tour de France, with 10 cyclists each:[1][2][3]
Molteni
Gan–Mercier
Kas
Jolly Ceramica
Super Ser
Peugeot
Bianchi
Gitane
Filotex
Flandria–Carpenter
Sporting–Lejeune
Miko–de Gribaldy
Frisol–GBC
Jobo–Sablière–Wolber
Eddy Merckx, who had won all five times that he participated, was again the big favourite. Merckx' first part of the season had been going well, winning Milan–San Remo, the Tour of Flanders and Liège–Bastogne–Liège.[4] If Merckx would win again, he would beat Jacques Anquetil and become the first cyclist to win the Tour six times. Merckx did not care about that record: "The idea doesn't interest me very much because then people would want me to go for a seventh and then an eighth".[4]
A few months before the race, Merckx was unsure if he would start the Tour. His race schedule had been very busy, and he thought to ride the Giro and the Tour in the same year would not work. Merckx preferred to ride the Tour, but his Italian team preferred the Giro.[5] Bernard Thévenet contracted shingles during the 1975 Vuelta a España, but recovered and won the Dauphiné Liberé.[2]
^"62ème Tour de France 1975" (in French). Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
^ abMcGann, Bill; McGann, Carol (2008). The Story of the Tour De France: 1965–2007. Dog Ear Publishing. pp. 88–93. ISBN 978-1-59858-608-4. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
^"Lista de Inscritos". El Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 26 June 1975. p. 19. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
^ abSidwells, Chris (17 June 2010). "Eddy Merckx magic moment – 1975 Tour de France". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
^"Deelname Merckx aan Tour de France is onzeker". De Krant van Toen (in Dutch). Leeuwarder Courant. 22 April 1975. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
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