Thread: Eddy Merckx: this much I know
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Old 06-29-13, 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted by JoeMan
195 races in a year? Today's peloton hasn't got a clue!
In the four seasons 1970-74 inclusive, he raced 521 times and won 207 of them. Remarkable. Racing so hard and so often almost certainly shortened his career, though.
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