LUIS OCAÑA - Victory in the 1973 Tour de France. Vintage cycling

One of the best Spanish cyclists ever, he achieved victory in the Tour de France after great duels with the cannibal Eddy Merckx, being the second Spaniard to achieve it until the arrival of Miguel Indurain.

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In a 1873 Tour de France in which Merckx didn´t participate, depriving us of the great duel between the best cyclists in the world, Luis Ocaña was the great dominator from beginning to end of that edition.
Highlight his duels with "the Tarangu" in the mountain stages, especially on the peaks of Galibier, El Puy de Dome or Les Oerres

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[nielskjr]

Thank you very much👍
Excellent video!
Danish rider Leif Mortensen was a very important domestique for Ocana during the early 70's.

[flashgord]

Love to see video on this in more detail ty keep making these videos, can you make video on de rosa I had his daughter as a track racing coach in the 80s and would like see her father racing career they have bicycle made after him .

[Pitarolle]

We bought our house in Nogaro from his widow in 2002

[Avianthro]

Wow! Another awesome piece of story-telling with great clips from those good ol' days of yore. Yes, please do a video of the '71 TDF.

[craigmuranaka]

Great post. Ocana was truly dominant. I couldn’t tell whether he was on his titanium bike though

[juanjosevallejo]

A fantastic cyclist, with very bad luck

[taichihead]

Real Real Bikes!!! And real history. Cyclists today will be remembered for nothing except being skinny, drinking soya milk and riding bikes that look like a cross between a motorcycle and a mountain bike.