Five legendary races, five stories. For a dip in the middle of the group. For an immersion alongside these pilots who wrote the legend of these great classics. Leafing through the pages of this beautiful work allows you to look at the history and evolution of these events, whose greatest champions now dream of being included in the list of winners of at least one of them.
Milan-San Remo, “the bewitching”, the Tour of Flanders, the “Tour des fous”, Paris-Roubaix, “the latest madness”, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, “not easy round trip! » and the Giro di Lombardia with the «perfume of number 5»: these are the five Monuments in question.
“Each one is particular, with specificities, that’s what complicates the task”, writes, in the preface to this book, Marc Madiot, CEO of Groupama-FDJ and double winner of Paris-Roubaix. “These are five strong brands, independent of each other but which, brought together for a few years under the name Monuments, form a sort of Grand Slam of cycling. »
A Grand Slam that only three riders have managed to conquer by winning these five one-day races: the Belgians Eddy Merckx, Roger de Vlaeminck and Rik Van Looy.
Events aside, these five classics are now staples of a season, almost as expected as the Grand Tours. This book pays them a well-deserved and successful tribute thanks to the passionate words of the journalists who have followed these Monuments illustrated by numerous and beautiful images from the photographic fund of The group. All supplemented by price lists and significant numbers of all editions.
