How To Use Hinault In A Sentence
- Hinault is the only rider ever to have finished either first or second in each Tour de France he finished.
- Not only would his name forever be mentioned alongside the greats of the sport—Merckx, Hinault, Indurain—but he was almost making it look easy. LANCE ARMSTRONG
- Of course, it was an American who later went on to win that Tour, as Greg LeMond battled with his own La Vie Claire teammate, Bernard Hinault, for much of the ensuing three weeks. Still rollin’: A conversation with Raul Alcala
- The Alpe d'Huez and the Stelvio are among the familiar names, but the authors also draw our attention to La Redoute, where Bernard Hinault permanently lost the feeling in two fingers in sub-zero conditions during the 1980 Liège-Bastogne-Liège classic, and the Croce d'Aune, the pass in the Dolomites where a mishap in 1927 inspired Tullio Campagnolo to invent the quick-release wheel, a boon to every subsequent rider. Roman Abramovich still playing his poker hand inside Court 26 | Richard Williams
- That race, fought out between Bernard Hinault and Joop Zoetemelk, was a classic, but 2011 has a different complexion even before it has begun. Tour de France 2011: Alberto Contador's rocky mountain way
- The Alpe d'Huez and the Stelvio are among the familiar names, but the authors also draw our attention to La Redoute, where Bernard Hinault permanently lost the feeling in two fingers in sub-zero conditions during the 1980 Liège-Bastogne-Liège classic, and the Croce d'Aune, the pass in the Dolomites where a mishap in 1927 inspired Tullio Campagnolo to invent the quick-release wheel, a boon to every subsequent rider. Roman Abramovich still playing his poker hand inside Court 26 | Richard Williams
- Richard Moore writes that nobody is quite sure who first started calling Hinault "Le Blaireau" "the Badger", but the name stuck to the man who would go on to win the Tour de France five times because, as an old team mate put it, "It suited him. Top stories from Times Online
- It was a knockout punch of which Indurain, Hinault or Merckx would have been proud.
- Sanchez for his part had finished on the podium three times since 2006 but was unable to pull off a repeat in the 104th edition of a race won by such luminaries as Fausto Coppi, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Sean Kelly. Philippe Gilbert wins Giro di Lombardia again
- More details will be revealed in a press conference on November 18 in Liège, with the presence of Eddy Merckx and Bernard Hinault. Tour returns to Liége for 2012 start
