Tour de France should climb Mont Ventoux in memory of late Brit Tom Simpson, who died 50 years ago – but the sport wants to forget

IT’S applicable that the Tour de France gained’t be heading up the impossibly gruelling gradients of Mont Ventoux this yr. In consequence, the world-well-known endurance race won"t cross the monument to one of Britain’s most exceptional sportsmen. Getty Pictures Tom Simpson tragically died 50 years ago on the slopes of Mont Ventoux whereas he was driving a mountain stage A person who perished there 50 years ago, collapsing and dying by means of warmth exhaustion due to dehydration, sickness, alcohol and amphetamine use. That is becoming as a result of Tom Simpson has been forgotten too typically throughout the half-century since his demise. Getty Pictures Tom Simpson was the first Brit ever to win the World Champion"s Rainbow Jersey in 1965 Getty Photographs Tom Simpson couldn"t be resuscitated regardless of the greatest efforts of medical employees on Ventoux And that may be a pity as a result of, with new drug scandals nonetheless steadily smearing sport, it seems we now have
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