Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 79. Chapters: Eddy Merckx, Felice Gimondi, Jacques Anquetil, Alberto Contador, Charly Gaul, Fausto Coppi, Miguel Indurain, Ivan Basso, Laurent Fignon, Stephen Roche, Marco Pantani, Hugo Koblet, Bernard Hinault, Gilberto Simoni, Danilo Di Luca, Damiano Cunego, Denis Menchov, Gastone Nencini, Costante Girardengo, Alfredo Binda, Francesco Moser, Vittorio Adorni, Gianni Bugno, Stefano Garzelli, Giovanni Battaglin, Tony Rominger, Learco Guerra, Michel Pollentier, Giuseppe Saronni, Andrew Hampsten, Fiorenzo Magni, Ercole Baldini, Gosta Pettersson, Evgeni Berzin, Paolo Savoldelli, Pavel Tonkov, Roberto Visentini, Giovanni Brunero, Franco Chioccioli, Vasco Bergamaschi, Francesco Camusso, Giovanni Micheletto, Gianni Motta, Fausto Bertoglio, Ivan Gotti, Carlo Clerici, Antonio Pesenti, Franco Balmamion, Arnaldo Pambianco, Gaetano Belloni, Giovanni Valetti, Johan de Muynck, Eberardo Pavesi, Carlo Galetti, Luigi Ganna, Luigi Marchisio, Carlo Oriani, Alfonso Calzolari, Giuseppe Enrici. Excerpt: Edouard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx (Dutch pronunciation: ) (born 17 June 1945 in Meensel-Kiezegem), better known as Eddy Merckx, is a Belgian former professional cyclist. The French magazine Velo called him "the most accomplished rider that cycling has ever known." The American publication, VeloNews, called him the greatest and most successful cyclist of all time. He won the Tour de France five times, won all the monuments of cycling at least twice, with 19 monument victories in all, won the Giro d'Italia five times and the Vuelta a Espana once, won the world championship once as an amateur and three times as a professional, and broke the world hour record. Eddy Merckx was one of three children born to a couple who ran a grocery in the middle-class area of Sint-Pieters-Woluwe, near Brussels, Belgium. His brother and sister are twins. The family moved...