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Sixties Tour flick worth watching

am maybe a week too late to be writing about this but regarding the Netflix, this has been done before. was a short film following the Tour in 1965. It is a very moving summary of the pleasure and pain of the race. Purists will love it, no commentator, just the atmosphere, car air horns, and crowds. The Tour has also become vastly more sophisticated over those 58 years. It certainly had me as a 20-year-old dreaming of being better than I was. If you remember the ’60s, look it up on YouTube.

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