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Alasdair Fotheringham

Club des Cinq: How Anquetil, Merckx, Hinault and Indurain won their fifth Tour de France, and the history that Tadej Pogačar seeks to emulate

Bernard Hinault poses with four yellow jerseys.

Right now you can't go far on any self-respecting sports website without seeing a story about how Tadej Pogačar's goal of capturing a fifth Tour de France would see him pull off one of the crowning achievements in the sport. And they're all right, of course.

But dig back in history, and it's fair to say that a rider joining the Club des Cinq – as the ultra exclusive, four-strong circle of five-time Tour winners is known in France – wasn't always the biggest story of the race. Far from it.

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