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Bernard Hinault
Bernard Hinault won the Tour de France five times between 1978 and 1985, and remains the last French rider to win cycling's biggest race, a drought now stretching past four decades in a country where the Tour is the sport's single most important national event. Nicknamed "The Badger" for his combative, often confrontational racing style, Hinault wasn't just a grand tour specialist — he also won cycling's Giro d'Italia three times and the Vuelta a España twice, completing multiple career sweeps across all three of cycling's three-week grand tours, a level of versatility across different course profiles that few riders in the sport's history have matched. His 1985 Tour victory came while riding with a broken nose, sustained in a mid-race crash, and while managing a complicated internal team rivalry with young teammate Greg LeMond, whom Hinault had promised to help win the following year's Tour — a promise he kept in 1986, helping deliver the first American Tour de France title. Hinault retired in 1986 having won 10 grand tours total across his career, and his combativeness both on the bike and in disputes with race organizers and cycling's governing body — he once physically confronted protesting workers blocking a stage finish — made him one of the sport's most colorful, and most respected, champions of his era.
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Chris Froome
Chris Froome won the Tour de France four times between 2013 and 2017, anchoring Team Sky's dominant run through cycling's biggest race during a decade when British cycling, historically a minor presence at the Tour, became one of the sport's most powerful forces. Froome's climbing style, an unusually high cadence combined with an aerodynamically unconventional but highly efficient position on the bike, made him one of the most recognizable riders of his generation, and his ability to attack decisively in the mountains while also holding his own in time trials gave him a complete skill set across the race's different stage types. His 2018 Giro d'Italia victory included an 80-kilometer solo attack on the Colle delle Finestre, one of the boldest and most unexpected winning moves in modern grand tour history, turning what looked like a losing position into the overall race lead in a single stage. Froome's career was interrupted by a serious 2019 training crash that left him with life-threatening injuries, and while he never fully returned to his previous form afterward, his four Tour titles across a five-year span place him among the most successful grand tour riders of the 2010s, a decade largely defined by his and Team Sky's methodical dominance.
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