‘87 POWER GAMES
Jan 12, 2021
3 minutes
Images Offside Sports Photography/L’Equipe
s statements of geopolitics go, taking the Tour de France, an event described in the leftwing newspaper as a “gaudy monument to capitalism”, behind the Iron Curtain for the start of the 1987 Tour was a bold one. Nobody could have known that the Berlin Wall, its functional concrete tattiness the backdrop for dozens of pictures of bemused professional cyclists as they killed time before the race
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