The 1975 tour and the triumph of Trentino, at the debut, in the Belgium of the cannibal: “On the podium they gave me the yellow jersey with his sponsor”
They both both of the sign of twins: Eddy was born on June 17, Francesco on 19, six years later. Another sign of their relationship, because Merckx and Moser gave days left in the history of cycling. “When I won the prologue on Charleroi on June 26th and took the first yellow jersey of the 1975 tour, I went to the podium and gave me the shirt with the sponsor Molteni of Merckx … it was ready.” No, nooo, it’s not mine, that’s not my team “. And then the adhesive arrived with the Filotex brand”. Francesco Moser is in his farm Willa Warth on the hills of Trento. Today he leaves for the tour, lilac destination, for the celebration of the 50 years of the white jersey of young people, who won him. A historic edition, 1975: introduction of the mountain polka dot shirt (first the Belgian Van Committee) and precisely the white one, the first time of the final arrival on the Elisi fields of Paris. We started from Charleroi, in Belgium, an hour from the Merckx house, and everything seemed to lead to the sixth triumph of the cannibal, more than Anquetil (Hinault and Indurain would arrive later), and instead … that 1975 turned into his defeat, starting with the opening prologue.