For each top classic, Nieuwsblad focuses on an extraordinary victory from the past. A victory with a tragic, remarkable or downright hilarious story. Today: Eddy Merckx, winner of the Tour of Flanders in 1975, after helping the police catch a thief just sixteen days earlier.
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With fake money, disguised agents and a cunning ambush: how cycling hero Eddy Merckx trapped a burglar just before his victory in the 1975 Tour of Flanders
