A moment in time Bahamontes loses yellow
As he went to bed on the eve of the final mountain stage of the 1963 Tour, Federico Bahamontes must have had mixed feelings. It was his 35th birthday and just hours earlier he had received the greatest of all presents when he pulled on the yellow jersey in Val d’Isère. But any joy felt at slipping on yellow would have been tempered with the knowledge that just three seconds separated him from Jacques Anquetil at the top of the GC.
Anquetil was targeting his third Tour win in succession and his fourth in total. Mindful of the
