The Legends Of The Tour de France - special price on 4-DVD package

The greatest riders from Belgium, France, Italy and the USA

Cyclingnews has put together a four-DVD package of The Legends of the Tour de France for the special price of AUD$139. Produced by the leading UK documentary company Green Umbrella, in association with SBS-TV, this series covers legendary riders from Europe and the USA, including:

Belgium's Eddy Merckx - the five-time TdF winner is the only rider to ever secure every jersey category on offer in le Tour, an indication of his completeness as a cyclist. This DVD includes superb archival race footage from some of his incredible 525 professional race wins, including exclusive interviews with the 'Cannibal' himself, and many of his contemporaries, such as Bernard Thevent, Lucian Van Impe and Raymond Poulidor (DVD length 120 minutes);

The French duo of Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault - known as 'Monsieur Chrono' due to his unrivalled ability in the time trials, Jacques Anquetil was cycling's first five-time winner of the Tour de France. This DVD goes behind the legend of Anquetil, the rider who will quietly follow his contemporaries before striking them in the race of truth. His countryman, the fiesty Breton Bernard Hinault, won the Tour de France at his first attempt and was nicknamed 'the Badger' because of his fighting style. Hinault is second-only to Eddie Merckx with 10 Grand Tour victories and is the last Frenchman to have le Tour. This DVD includes highlights from their featured races, as well as interviews with France's other legends of le Tour, including Louison Bobet and Raymond Poulidor (DVD length - 120 minutes);

The Italians: Gino Bartali, Fausto Coppi, Felice Gimondi and enigmatic Marco Pantani - this DVD looks at four of the greatest Italian riders to have ever raced and won at the Tour de France, including Gino 'The Pious' Bartali (TdF winner '38 & '48), 'il Campionissimo' Fausto Coppi ('49, '52), then 'tha Aristocrat' Felice Gimondi ('65) and finally the enigmatic, tragic figure of Marco Pantani ('98). Italian cyclists traverse the greatest range of styles and personalities, and rarely, if ever, go about their racing in a quiet fashion. This DVD also includes archival footage from the early Tours de France as well as special interviews with Gimondi and and all their contemporaries, Raymond Poulidor, Charly Gaul, Jacques Goddet, Raphael Geminiani, Bernard Gaulthier and others (DVD length - 105 minutes);

The seven-time TdF winner, Lance Armstrong - the American who overcame life-threatening cancer to secure cycling's greatest prize seven times in a row in the suibject of this special documentary on arguably the Tour's greatest modern legend. Narrated by Phil Liggett, this DVD includes many scenes from some of his greatest stage victories at the Tour de France, as it follows his remarkable comeback performance in the 1999 Tour, the first of his seven consecutive victories (DVD length - 150 minutes).

So almost eight hours of incredible cycling documentaries and AUD$160 in value, your's for a short time only for AUD$139.

The individual DVDs or combinations thereof can also be purchased from the Cyclingnews store, as these package deals are strictly limited.